From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 7 08:38:17 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C0266F6; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:38:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CC50066E3; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:38:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090507083814.CC50066E3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:38:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.1 Happy 22nd birthday! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 1. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 09:35:42 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Happy 22nd Birthday! If a dog seems to live 7 times faster than a human, how fast does an online seminar like Humanist age in our sight? How old do we Humanists feel? Like the 22 year-old clinging to the belief that he or she can do anything but beginning to suspect otherwise? Like the 154 year-old (22 * 7 = 154) who cannot behave properly? Like an ageless sage? A marvellous, wonderful celebration of Humanist's 21st birthday was staged by Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen at DH2008 almost a year ago, at which not a few digital grandees were to be seen drinking liberally to its health. (See the post-sauna http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/gallery/pages/IMG_4445.html and its unsteady sequels.) A few years back I recall making some claim or other about Humanist coming of age at 18, by which time few of its original members remained, many having grown too old or too busy with heavy matters of state to remain in this playpen of ideas and, as we say, information. Now we're 22. I sit here in my 109 year-old Victorian London house with the latest building project underway (a conservatory, and beautiful it will be once it is done...) marvelling at the dizzying speed with which Humanist's 22nd continuous year of existence has passed. Although it may be said that the handbasket headed for Hell continues its lamentable journey filled with most things we value, there are moments when the view (I am imagining, unaccountably, the view from a ski-lift or mountain-top) gives back blessings all out of proportion to the efforts invested in getting here. This ritual occasion, on 7 May every year when I send out a birthday message, allows me publically to notice them, or at least to notice that blessings are bestowed and then to let you fill in the details for yourself. And to all those (if there be any) who grumble objections at blessedness such as it is among digital humanists, I recommend Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), in which the perfect bureaucrat (spitting image of the one Turing used to help him think his way through the Entscheidungsproblem) gets up from his desk, shows us what's what and dies in a state of grace. This 7th May is special for Humanist because it marks the nearly seamless move to digitalhumanities.org and completely successful trial of the new automatic mechanisms designed for it by Malgosia Askanas (good job indeed) and funded by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (to which, to whom many thanks). As one member remarked, the move has been unremarkable because almost completely invisible; my reply was, that’s true craftsmanship. If all the gears are perfectly meshed, the changeover from messages numbered 22.xxx to 23.xxx today will have been automatic too. Previously this had to be done by hand. But the major improvements are those that make my life easier as editor in the day-to-day task of scooping up postings and posting them. What you observe (if that's the right word and I remain mindful of the gift) is a happier editor. This 7th May is special for me professionally as being in the midst of my efforts to unearth the wherewithal from which, I hope, a genuine history of literary computing will emerge. Those who have spent much time in archives will know what it means to be turning up loads of mundane stuff, which is all to the purpose, but from time to time unearthing a gem. My latest gems, for example, are Edmund Callis Berkeley's Giant Brains, or Machines that Think (New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1949); Martin Mann, "Want to Buy a Brain?", Popular Science Monthly, May 1949: 148-52; a warning against such use of language for computers, G. R. Stibitz, "A Note on 'Is' and 'Might Be' in Computers", Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation 4.31 (July): 168-9; and a doctoral dissertation covering the ground, David P. Julyk, "'The Trouble with Machines is People.' The Computer as Icon in Post-War America: 1946-1970" (Michigan, 2008). Then there's Rich Didday, Finite State Fantasies (Matrix, 1976), a comic book with a story, "Escape", about a teenage boy who retreats into his room, constructs a VR machine from a kit, hooks it to his television, builds a virtual world (an Eden, presumably, including a naked woman), then strips off his clothes, dives through the screen and flies off with her in a manner familiar to us from Second Life. And on the other side of the street is Walter M. Mathews and Kaye Reifers, "The Computer in Cartoons: A Retrospective from the Saturday Review", Communications of the ACM 27.11 (1984): 1114-9. These are gems because they help make a history from a catalogue of activities and achievements. All the stuff turned up serves as a reminder of how much we have forgotten. The gems (yes, including the comic books, wacko rants, hype and techno-enthusiasms some now would wish permanently forgotten) are gems because they speak to the rounded humanity of computing humanists now old, very old or dead who did more than prepare concordances for print or whatever else. They’re gems because they give us clues as to why certain things happened and others did not. They speak to the silences in the historical record. They illumine certain odd statements here and there. And they eventually, I hope, will amount to a “history of the present”, as Foucault said, i.e. a history that speaks to and helps us out with our current predicaments. Marvin Minsky said somewhere that science doesn’t need history – it just forges ahead. He’s a mischievous imp, and a very bright one. But Thomas Kuhn is, I think, more important for us at this point, esp in showing us what a difference an historical view of progressive disciplines can do for them. Before blowing out the candles, make a wish! Yours, with best wishes, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 7 08:40:39 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A136821; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:40:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B19E1680B; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:40:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090507084037.B19E1680B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:40:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.2 invitation to join the iSchools X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 2. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 09:39:34 -0500 From: Maeve Reilly Subject: Join the iSchools The iSchools (http://www.ischools.org) project represents a group of schools committed to the idea that expertise in all forms of information is required for progress in science, business, education, and culture. This expertise includes understanding of the uses and users of information, and of the nature of information itself, as well as information technologies and their applications. Criteria for being recognized as an iSchool are not rigid, but schools are expected to have substantial sponsored research activity (an average of $1 million in research expenditures per year over three years), engagement in educating future researchers (usually through a research-oriented doctoral program), and a commitment to progress in the information field. Schools that share that commitment and meet the baseline characteristics will be represented on ischools.org, if they are willing to provide some basic documentation, and they will be assessed a modest annual administrative fee, currently $500. For that fee, the school will be able to contribute brief descriptions of students, faculty, research, and academic programs, and have the opportunity to feed RSS-based news items to the iSchools newsfeed aggregator. Heads of these schools will also have the opportunity to participate in email discussions, periodic conference calls, and other collaborative activities. Leadership for the iSchools is provided by the iCaucus, which will include elected representatives from the iSchools. More information on the iSchools can be found at www.ischools.org http://www.ischools.org/site/charter/ If you direct a program that is interested in iSchools membership, please contact Maeve Reilly at mjreilly@illinois.edu . -- Maeve Reilly iSchools communications coordinator mjreilly@illinois.edu (217) 244-7316 ischools.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 7 08:42:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 342AC6916; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:42:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 476B0690C; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:42:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090507084233.476B0690C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:42:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.3 events: TEI; digital American lit; food and medicine X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 3. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (64) Subject: Amanda Gailey at the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship,21 May [2] From: James Cummings (47) Subject: TEI@Oxford Summer School 2009 -- now open for bookings! [3] From: "Prof. Hal Cook" (11) Subject: SYMPOSIUM: 'Food and Medicine 1650-1820', Wellcome Trust Centre London,22 May 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 09:24:10 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Amanda Gailey at the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, 21 May London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship Thursday, 21 May 2009, 17.30-19.30 Room 275, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN http://tinyurl.com/LondonSeminar/ Amanda Gailey (Georgia, U.S.), 'Digital American Literature: Some Problems and Prospects' In this paper I will discuss obstacles to the full integration of digital resources for American literature into research and the classroom. First is the strange relationship between the selective canon of print literature and the body of texts digitized by digital libraries and digital scholarly editions. On the one hand, digital scholarly editions in American literature tend to focus conservatively on highly canonical authors (such as Whitman and Dickinson), and foreground compositional histories by displaying manuscript drafts, applying markup that highlights authorial process, etc. This approach asserts an author-centered view of literature and has resulted in the digitization of minutiae by a few great authors while the major works of slightly less canonical authors (such as Poe) have been altogether neglected. Digital libraries, on the other hand, often aim to digitize large numbers of texts that are difficult to access, such as early American newspapers or out-of-print books. While these efforts uncover invaluable information and provide new insight into the history of American literature, they also generally contribute a body of dross: texts that individually are rarely important to research or teaching. The corpus of digitized American literature is emerging, then, as a strange hodgepodge of highly canonical writing, minutiae discarded by geniuses, and scads of obscure texts that have been and will continue to be fairly unimportant to the literary scholar and teacher. The second obstacle I will discuss is how XML-based digital libraries and editions are not yet poised to accommodate criticism and interpretation, which remains a predominantly print-based commodity. The general inability of XML to handle conflicting claims about a text gracefully, together with markup schemes concerned more with literary structures than with interpretive claims, encourages projects to adopt an editorial approach that, like Muzak, is as unlikely to offend as it is to enthrall. If the technology did not rule out the inclusion of conflicting interests in the text, though, contestable tagging would not severely limit the usability of the document and might seem a more viable possibility for projects directed by literary scholars. Throughout, I will address how these issues are unfolding in a project I co-edit, "Race and Children's Literature of the Gilded Age", which specifically addresses texts that have drifted from the canon (such as Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus tales), and how we have tried to develop editorial strategies that allow for more contentious claims about the texts. Amanda Gailey (PhD, University of Nebraska, 2006) is assistant professor of English at the University of Georgia, where she teaches humanities computing and American literature. She has worked on the Walt Whitman Archive and the Spenser Archive, and currently co-edits Race and Children's Literature of the Gilded Age, a digital archive that examines how adults wanted children to think about race during Reconstruction in the US. Her publications include essays in The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, The Emily Dickinson Journal, and the forthcoming American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age. She is working on a book that examines how print and digital editing have helped shape the canon of 19th century American literature. All are welcome. Refreshments provided. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 12:16:56 +0100 From: James Cummings Subject: TEI@Oxford Summer School 2009 -- now open for bookings! TEI@Oxford Summer School 2009 -- now open for bookings! The TEI@Oxford team is pleased to announce that we are now taking bookings for our annual summer school. Dates: Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July Venue: Oxford University Computing Services Full information and online booking: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/events/2009-07/ This five-day course combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for the encoding of digital text with hands-on practical exercises in their application. If you are a project manager, research assistant, or encoder working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of digital text, this course is for you. You should be generally computer literate (web, email, word-processors) for this course. You may already be broadly familiar with the idea of textual editing, perhaps (but not necessarily) with some experience of producing HTML web pages, or of traditional scholarly editing. You should be enthusiastic about the possibilities offered by digital technologies and keen to learn more. You should be prepared to get your hands dirty at the keyboard and you should not be afraid of a little technical jargon. At the end of the course we hope to have given you: 1. a good grounding in the theoretical issues underlying the use of text markup, XML in particular; 2. an understanding of the purpose and principles of the Text Encoding Initiative; 3. a survey of the full range of modules constituting the TEI's current Recommendations; 4. experience of how the TEI scheme can be customized for particular applications, and internationalized for different languages. 5. an introduction to some of the tools and methods in which TEI documents are published and processed Using OUCS' excellent teaching facilities, we will also provide you with practical experience in: * using online tools to build, verify, and document a TEI-conformant schema * using XML editing software to o create new encoded texts o standardize existing digital texts * using a variety of web-based and desktop tools to display and analyse TEI documents The course will be taught by the TEI@Oxford team: Lou Burnard, James Cummings, and Sebastian Rahtz, with the assistance of other invited TEI experts. -- Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 07:50:22 +0100 From: "Prof. Hal Cook" Subject: SYMPOSIUM: 'Food and Medicine 1650-1820', Wellcome Trust Centre London, 22 May 2009 'Food and Medicine 1650-1820' ALL-DAY SYMPOSIUM Friday 22 May 2009 from 1020 The Wellcome Building, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE (Fifth Floor) UK Registration required. To download the programme and registration form in pdf format, please click here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/downloads/EMM09-prog.pdf For information on our other events, please see: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/events/events Posted by Prof. Hal Cook, Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, h.cook@ucl.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 7 08:48:03 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 272E86B23; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:48:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AE36A6B16; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:48:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090507084801.AE36A6B16@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:48:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.4 new on WWW: TL Infobits for April X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 4. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 15:52:19 +0100 From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: TL Infobits -- April 2009 TL INFOBITS April 2009 No. 34 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. ...................................................................... Technology and Lifelong Learning Are Wikis on the Way Out? Physical and Virtual Learning Spaces Internet Literacy Handbook Updated World Digital Library Launches OECD Education Report Disruptions and Breaking Points in Scholarly Publishing Recommended Reading ...................................................................... TECHNOLOGY AND LIFELONG LEARNING "Most learning does not take place in formal educational programmes. Increasingly, technology is being used for learning -- both by young people of school age and older people inside and outside work, interacting with social networks -- and is greatly increasing in its power to do so. Yet we remain largely inept at responding to this at curriculum, pedagogical, administrative or financial levels. If this situation remains, then formal education is likely to become less relevant for the everyday lives and learning of many people. Of course, lifelong learning will not cease to be, but may be increasingly disconnected from the formal provision of education. However unpredictable the longterm nature of technological change, lifelong learning will be shaped by the increasing power and adaptability of the Web and the applications that it supports." "Technological Change, IFLL Thematic Paper 2," published by the Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning (IFLL), focuses on adult learning in the United Kingdom. However, much of its observations and conclusions are applicable, regardless of location: "[I]ndividuals [are] becoming producers of learning content, initiating an un-owned and untethered 'curriculum cloud'." "[L]earning through communities of interest [is] being self-defined rather than institutionally defined." "[I]nformation and knowledge access [will] become increasingly unconstrained by having to make choices about where to go, what to take, or what to bring at any given time." The report is available at http://www.niace.org.uk/lifelonglearninginquiry/docs/IFLL-TechnologicalChange.pdf The goal of the IFLL, established in 2007 and sponsored by the National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education (NIACE), is to offer "an authoritative and coherent strategic framework for lifelong learning in the UK." NIACE, founded in 1921, is "the main advocacy body for adult learning in England and Wales and probably the largest body devoted to adult education in the world." For more information, contact: NIACE, 20 Princess Road West, Leicester, LE1 6TP, UK; tel:+44 (0)116 204 4200/4201; fax: +44 (0)116 285 4514; email: enquiries@niace.org.uk; Web: http://www.niace.org.uk/ ...................................................................... ARE WIKIS ON THE WAY OUT? "Have wikis lost their mojo? Were they before their (Internet) time? Or have they been co-opted by the newer, shinier social networks?" In "Whither Wikis? The State of Collaborative Web Publishing" (LINUX INSIDER, April 29, 2009) Renay San Miguel asks if the usefulness of wikis has run its course. He speculates that the tool is too "nerdy," takes too much work, and requires too much oversight. The article is available at http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Whither-Wikis-The-State-of-Collaborative-Web-Publishing-66927.html ---- In response to San Miguel's argument, THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION asked the question "Have Wikis Run Out of Steam?" (April 30, 2009; http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3744/have-wikis-run-out-of-steam?). The resulting reader comments indicate that many college and university Instructors still continue to find wikis beneficial for their courses and students. ...................................................................... PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL LEARNING SPACES The first online-only edition of EDUCAUSE QUARTERLY (EQ)is devoted to learning spaces, both physical and virtual. Articles covering Internet tools in learning spaces include: "Virtual World Learning Spaces: Developing a Second Life Operating Room Simulation" by Stephanie Gerald and David M. Antonacci "'Where Do You Learn?': Tweeting to Inform Learning Space Development" by Elizabeth J. Aspden and Louise P. Thorpe The entire issue is available at http://www.educause.edu/eq/ The March/April 2009 issue of EDUCAUSE REVIEW (http://www.educause.edu/er/) provides a complement to EQ by focusing on the same theme. EDUCAUSE Quarterly [ISSN 1528-5324] is "an online, peer-reviewed, practitioner's journal from EDUCAUSE about managing and using information resources in higher education." Articles from current and back issues are available at http://www.educause.edu/pub/eq/ EDUCAUSE Review [ISSN 1527-6619], a bimonthly print magazine that explores developments in information technology and education, is also published by EDUCAUSE. Articles from current and back issues are available at http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/ EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. The current membership comprises more than 1,900 colleges, universities, and educational organizations, including 200 corporations, with 15,000 active members. EDUCAUSE has offices in Boulder, CO, and Washington, DC. Learn more about EDUCAUSE at http://www.educause.edu/ ...................................................................... INTERNET LITERACY HANDBOOK UPDATED THE INTERNET LITERACY HANDBOOK, compiled by Janice Richardson et al., was updated in December 2008. This third edition, aimed at parents, teachers, and students, contains a collection of Fact Sheets that provide brief, basic introductory explanations for a variety of Internet tools such as portals, email, social networks, and blogs. The Handbook is available at no cost online in HTML, Flash, or RTF formats, or it can be purchased in a hardcopy version. To access the Handbook go to http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/internetliteracy/hbk_EN.asp The Handbook is published by the Council of Europe, an organization of 47 member countries working to "promote awareness and encourage the development of Europe's cultural identity and diversity." For more information, contact: Council of Europe, Avenue de l'Europe, 67075 Strasbourg Cedex, France; tel: +33 (0)3 88 41 20 00; email: infopoint@coe.int; Web: http://www.coe.int/ ...................................................................... WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY LAUNCHES On April 21, 2009, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) opened the World Digital Library (WDL). The Library's mission is to make "available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world" for the use of educators, scholars, and the general public. The initial collection includes about 1,200 documents and their explanations from scholars in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. To explore the WDL, go to http://www.wdl.org/ ...................................................................... OECD EDUCATION REPORT In March 2009, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released the report "Education Today: The OECD Perspective." Based on OECD work since 2002, the report's content ranges from "student performance to educational spending and equity in education" and covers educational levels from early childhood through higher education and adult education. You can access the Handbook at http://www.oecd.org/document/57/0,3343,en_2649_33723_42440761_1_1_1_1,00.html The OECD, established in 1961, is an international organization that represents 30 member countries and collects economic and social data, monitors trends, analyzes and forecasts economic developments, and researches social changes or evolving patterns in trade, environment, agriculture, technology, taxation and more. For more information, contact: OECD, 2 rue Andre Pascal, F-75775 Paris Cedex 16, France; tel: +33 1.45.24.82.00; fax: +33 1.45.24.85.00; Web: http://www.oecd.org/ ...................................................................... DISRUPTIONS AND BREAKING POINTS IN SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING "Far from being a neutral conduit for knowledge, the publication system defines the social processes through which knowledge is made, and gives tangible form to knowledge." In "Signs of Epistemic Disruption: Transformations in the Knowledge System of the Academic Journal" (FIRST MONDAY, vol. 14, no. 4-6, April 2009), Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis provide an overview of the current state of scholarly journals and go on to discuss some of the "disruptive forces" and breaking points that are changing the scholarly journal. Some of these breaking points include -- the unsustainable costs and inefficiencies of traditional commercial publishing -- the credibility and accountability of the peer review system -- the flawed system of post-publication evaluation and impact analysis The paper is available at http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2309/2163 First Monday [ISSN 1396-0466] is an online, peer-reviewed journal whose aim is to publish original articles about the Internet and the global information infrastructure. It is published in cooperation with the University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information, contact: First Monday, c/o Edward Valauskas, Chief Editor, PO Box 87636, Chicago IL 60680-0636 USA; email: ejv@uic.edu; Web: http://firstmonday.org/ ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "What Is Not Available Online Is Not Worth Reading?" By Hamid R. Jamali WEBOLOGY, vol. 5, no. 4, December 2008 http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n4/a63.html "Based on a study of physicists and astronomers, this article shows that more scientists now assume that if articles are of enough quality and significance, they must be available online and vice versa. Though still in a low minority, a number of scientists believe that what is not available online is not worth the effort to obtain it." ...................................................................... INFOBITS RSS FEED To set up an RSS feed for Infobits, get the code at http://lists.unc.edu/read/rss?forum=infobits ...................................................................... _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 7 08:48:52 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 946626C3B; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:48:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 651866C33; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:48:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090507084850.651866C33@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:48:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.5 events: DH publication; geospatial methods X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 5. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Julia Flanders (43) Subject: digital humanities publication at the ALA [2] From: Shawn Day (48) Subject: DHO Workshop: Introduction to Geospatial Methods --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 08:34:17 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: digital humanities publication at the ALA In-Reply-To: <4A0128A4.8040506@mccarty.org.uk> Call for participation: please circulate The Association for Computers in the Humanities will be sponsoring an exhibit table on Digital Humanities Publication at the 2010 American Library Association midwinter meeting (January 15-18, 2010). We are seeking expressions of interest from interested digital humanities projects and publications who would like to have a presence at the ALA meeting but cannot afford an exhibit space on their own. This is an excellent opportunity to present your project to a very wide audience, and to participate in the ALA exhibit at low cost and with simple logistics. (Those who have been exhibitors at ALA before will know how much that is worth!) We hope the exhibit will be a showcase for diverse and important digital humanities work and publications. The total costs of the table (which is a "small press table") will be approximately $3000 (including internet and other services). These costs will be shared among the participating exhibitors based on level of presence (how much exhibit time you would like), project size, and ability to pay. The exhibit runs for three full days, and the table can accommodate two or three projects at a time, so in principle we have about 12-18 half-day slots, but we can also allocate time in other ways, depending on need. In addition, participants may leave brochures and other materials at the table for distribution. We expect to have someone staffing the booth at all times who will be able to answer general questions about ACH, digital humanities, and the projects being exhibited. We will also have at least one computer at the table at all times with links to all participating projects. If you are interested in participating, please send email to Julia_Flanders@brown.edu with the following information, by July 1, 2009: --The name of your project and a brief description of what you would be exhibiting --How much time would your project be able to have someone present at the table? (e.g. a half day, two full days, etc.) --What date(s) would you be interested in attending? (please indicate any specific constraints) Members of the ACH executive council will review the applications. Once we have an initial sense of the level of interest, we will contact applicants (by mid-July) to determine what the cost will be and give applicants an opportunity to confirm their participation. Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders President, ACH Director, Women Writers Project Brown University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 15:26:59 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: DHO Workshop: Introduction to Geospatial Methods In-Reply-To: <4A0128A4.8040506@mccarty.org.uk> Announcing a DHO Workshop: Introduction to Geospatial Methods for e- Humanities Research Date: 21 May 2009, 11:00-16:00 Venue: Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 To Register: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=picIc8t5QLI7fAtv_2bEN4bA_3d_3d Presenters: Mr Anthony Corns (Discovery Programme), Mr Shawn Day (Digital Humanities Observatory), and Dr Rob Sands (University College Dublin) In the very recent past, geospatial methods and the use of GIS in particular was limited to a very small group of scientists and researchers in the environmental sciences and remote sensing. In the past few years, humanities scholars have begun to adopt similar tools and methods and apply them to the areas of classics, languages, history, literature, the performing arts and others to visualise complex datasets or those of larger magnitudes. This visualisation has provided intriguing new perspectives for both analysis and presentation of research in the humanities. "An Introduction to Geospatial Methods for e-Humanities Research" is a workshop designed for researchers engaged with digital humanities projects. It will provide examples of how visualising textual, numerical, social data can aid in the analysis and presentation of humanities research. Led by Anthony Corns of the Discovery Programme, Rob Sands of the UCD School of Archaeology and Shawn Day from the Digital Humanities Observatory, the workshop will provide opportunities for learning through lecture, group discussion, and hands-on exercise. Specific topics will include the variety of formats and standards that exist for working with geospatial data as well as some of the more popular tools that are applicable for humanities researchers. This workshop is aimed at the absolute beginner, and there will be plenty of time scheduled for questions and discussion. Registration is required and a limited number of places are available. To register for this workshop, please visit: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=picIc8t5QLI7fAtv_2bEN4bA_3d_3d For more information on this workshop please visit: http://dho.ie/geospatial We look forward to seeing you on the 21st of May. --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2 IRELAND --- Tel: +353 1 2342441 --- shawn@shawnday.com --- http://dho.ie -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 8 05:02:03 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EC336777; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:02:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 414A06768; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:02:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090508050200.414A06768@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 05:02:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.6 Humanist's birthday X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 6. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 09:11:11 -0400 From: "Goldfield, Joel" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.1 Happy 22nd birthday! Thank you for reminiscing and for celebrating the future of Humanist, Willard! Could we create a "digital wall" where those Humanists who were at the original meeting in Columbia, South Carolina, twenty-two years ago could sign a "birthday card"? Regards, Joel Goldfield Fairfield University ________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org on behalf of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Thu 5/7/2009 4:38 AM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 1. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 09:35:42 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Happy 22nd Birthday! If a dog seems to live 7 times faster than a human, how fast does an online seminar like Humanist age in our sight? How old do we Humanists feel? Like the 22 year-old clinging to the belief that he or she can do anything but beginning to suspect otherwise? Like the 154 year-old (22 * 7 = 154) who cannot behave properly? Like an ageless sage? A marvellous, wonderful celebration of Humanist's 21st birthday was staged by Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen at DH2008 almost a year ago, at which not a few digital grandees were to be seen drinking liberally to its health. (See the post-sauna http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/gallery/pages/IMG_4445.html and its unsteady sequels.) A few years back I recall making some claim or other about Humanist coming of age at 18, by which time few of its original members remained, many having grown too old or too busy with heavy matters of state to remain in this playpen of ideas and, as we say, information. Now we're 22. I sit here in my 109 year-old Victorian London house with the latest building project underway (a conservatory, and beautiful it will be once it is done...) marvelling at the dizzying speed with which Humanist's 22nd continuous year of existence has passed. Although it may be said that the handbasket headed for Hell continues its lamentable journey filled with most things we value, there are moments when the view (I am imagining, unaccountably, the view from a ski-lift or mountain-top) gives back blessings all out of proportion to the efforts invested in getting here. This ritual occasion, on 7 May every year when I send out a birthday message, allows me publically to notice them, or at least to notice that blessings are bestowed and then to let you fill in the details for yourself. And to all those (if there be any) who grumble objections at blessedness such as it is among digital humanists, I recommend Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), in which the perfect bureaucrat (spitting image of the one Turing used to help him think his way through the Entscheidungsproblem) gets up from his desk, shows us what's what and dies in a state of grace. This 7th May is special for Humanist because it marks the nearly seamless move to digitalhumanities.org and completely successful trial of the new automatic mechanisms designed for it by Malgosia Askanas (good job indeed) and funded by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (to which, to whom many thanks). As one member remarked, the move has been unremarkable because almost completely invisible; my reply was, that's true craftsmanship. If all the gears are perfectly meshed, the changeover from messages numbered 22.xxx to 23.xxx today will have been automatic too. Previously this had to be done by hand. But the major improvements are those that make my life easier as editor in the day-to-day task of scooping up postings and posting them. What you observe (if that's the right word and I remain mindful of the gift) is a happier editor. This 7th May is special for me professionally as being in the midst of my efforts to unearth the wherewithal from which, I hope, a genuine history of literary computing will emerge. Those who have spent much time in archives will know what it means to be turning up loads of mundane stuff, which is all to the purpose, but from time to time unearthing a gem. My latest gems, for example, are Edmund Callis Berkeley's Giant Brains, or Machines that Think (New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1949); Martin Mann, "Want to Buy a Brain?", Popular Science Monthly, May 1949: 148-52; a warning against such use of language for computers, G. R. Stibitz, "A Note on 'Is' and 'Might Be' in Computers", Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation 4.31 (July): 168-9; and a doctoral dissertation covering the ground, David P. Julyk, "'The Trouble with Machines is People.' The Computer as Icon in Post-War America: 1946-1970" (Michigan, 2008). Then there's Rich Didday, Finite State Fantasies (Matrix, 1976), a comic book with a story, "Escape", about a teenage boy who retreats into his room, constructs a VR machine from a kit, hooks it to his television, builds a virtual world (an Eden, presumably, including a naked woman), then strips off his clothes, dives through the screen and flies off with her in a manner familiar to us from Second Life. And on the other side of the street is Walter M. Mathews and Kaye Reifers, "The Computer in Cartoons: A Retrospective from the Saturday Review", Communications of the ACM 27.11 (1984): 1114-9. These are gems because they help make a history from a catalogue of activities and achievements. All the stuff turned up serves as a reminder of how much we have forgotten. The gems (yes, including the comic books, wacko rants, hype and techno-enthusiasms some now would wish permanently forgotten) are gems because they speak to the rounded humanity of computing humanists now old, very old or dead who did more than prepare concordances for print or whatever else. They're gems because they give us clues as to why certain things happened and others did not. They speak to the silences in the historical record. They illumine certain odd statements here and there. And they eventually, I hope, will amount to a "history of the present", as Foucault said, i.e. a history that speaks to and helps us out with our current predicaments. Marvin Minsky said somewhere that science doesn't need history - it just forges ahead. He's a mischievous imp, and a very bright one. But Thomas Kuhn is, I think, more important for us at this point, esp in showing us what a difference an historical view of progressive disciplines can do for them. Before blowing out the candles, make a wish! Yours, with best wishes, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 8 05:02:54 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A902267D7; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:02:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D0C2067CE; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:02:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090508050252.D0C2067CE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 05:02:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.7 job at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, UVic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 7. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 14:57:05 -0700 From: ETCL University of Victoria Subject: ETCL Job Posting: Programmer Analyst / Developer Hello, all. The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria is looking for a full-time (35 hours per week) programmer analyst who can work in a variety of environments, may prefer Linux to others, and will enjoy an open-source environment, both technically and philosophically. You will work with a team to develop an online reading environment geared toward aiding professional readers. This reading environment requires innovative interface features for social networking, annotation tools, and more. The position will require knowledge of and experience with database architecture and design. Go to the ETCL website for further details < http://etcl.uvic.ca/2009/04/16/job-posting-programmer-analyst-developer-2/>. The ETCL team works on a variety of leading-edge research projects. Our lab suits self-motivated personalities; we encourage individual development and new ideas. Read more about us at http://etcl.uvic.ca . Salary for this position is competitive in the academic market and will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. The position’s contract is for a four-month or one-year term, renewable. Applications, comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees, may be sent electronically to < etcl.apply@gmail.com >. Applications will be received and reviewed until the position is filled. Thanks, Kim S. Webb Electronic Textual Cultures Lab University of Victoria web: http://etcl.uvic.ca/ email: uvic.etcl@gmail.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 8 05:04:14 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 908416853; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:04:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BAFDE684A; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:04:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090508050412.BAFDE684A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 05:04:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.8 Rosanne Potter? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 8. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 12:59:09 +0100 From: "Vander Viana" Subject: Rosane G. Potter's e-mail Dear list members, I have been trying to reach Rosane G. Potter, but the e-mail addresses I have do not seem to be operational any longer (sl.rgp@isumvs.bitnet; S1.RGP@isumvs.edu; rgpotter@iastate.edu). Would anyone happen to know a way of contacting her? Thanking you all in advance, Vander Viana _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 8 05:05:16 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42FB368AB; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:05:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6E7B468A2; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:05:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090508050514.6E7B468A2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 05:05:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.9 events: Seminar in Humanities Computing, 14 May X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 9. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 06:00:13 -0700 (PDT) From: tamara.lopez@kcl.ac.uk Subject: Seminar in Humanities Computing: 14 May, 1pm Harvey Quamen (University of Alberta) Digital + Humanities = Humanism 2.0 14 May (Thursday, 1 p.m.) CCH Seminar room, 26–29 Drury Lane For the past eight years, I’ve taught courses in both the University of Alberta’s Humanities Computing program and its English Department, introducing students to everything from cyberpunk novels to cultural theories of the Internet to database design and web scripting with Perl and PHP. Humanities students can be notoriously technophobic, and the student response to learning new technologies -- often as simple as web design, or the philosophy of open source software, or even just elementary XML -- has ranged from enthusiasm to downright vitriol. I’ll discuss several “case studies” of teaching the digital arts to Humanities students: 1) my own experiences teaching our Humanities Computing program’s course on database design and web scripting; 2) teaching XML to a graduate English course on “Editing Texts”; 3) teaching an undergraduate course on Internet Culture (in which I required my students to cite Wikipedia); and 4) being a technical editor for O’Reilly Press’s recent publication, Head First PHP & MySQL.. Over the years, I’ve accumulated some pedagogical rules of thumb that, with some hearty discussion, might eventually pass as an elementary set of “best practices.” I’ll end on a more philosophical point -- namely, that introducing digital technologies into our humanities courses does indeed change, wholly and radically, what we mean by the “humanities.”  The old humanism -- known by its emphasis on the discrete individual, on the progressive amelioration of society, on the sanctity of subjective experience -- cannot remain unchanged as our work increasingly embraces digital technologies. My suggestion is that the Humanities are evolving into something new and that the future success of our Digital Humanities programs may well depend upon our ability to teach our own awareness of that transformation alongside our new technologies.. ---- Harvey Quamen (PhD Penn State) specializes in science studies, cyberculture, and Modern and Postmodern literature. One of his works-in-progress, Becoming Artificial: H.G. Wells and the Scientific Discourses of Modernism, examines the early science fiction writer H.G. Wells as a crucial figure in the transformation of our conceptions of "artificiality" from nineteenth-century evolutionary theory to twentieth-century cyberculture and artificial intelligence. He is also working on a textbook that teaches the web technologies PHP and MySQL to humanities students. Other current interests include representations of science in popular culture, Internet Culture and web scripting languages. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College, London. Tamara Lopez ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL (UK), t: +44 (0)20 78481237 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 8 05:08:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E0F56988; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:08:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0C4946981; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:08:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090508050834.0C4946981@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 05:08:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.10 various: Wolfram-Alpha; trends in e-book publishing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 10. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (34) Subject: Wolfram-Alpha: Web-based numeric Question-Answering [2] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (24) Subject: Trends in e-book publishing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 11:36:14 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Wolfram-Alpha: Web-based numeric Question-Answering In-Reply-To: <20090507102115.aklcyrrdogks8k0w@webmail.utexas.edu> The first news story I read about this was so badly garbled by the reporter who didn't have a clue as to what was new about it that I almost discounted the whole project, but fortunately someone pointed me to Doug Lenat's excellent review of what Stephen Wolfram (creator of the Mathematica software) is about to go public with on the web. http://semanticuniverse.com/blogs-doug-lenat-i-was-positively-impressed-wolfram-alpha.html It's quite logical that automating the retrieval of numeric data answers from existing information on the web could be done. It is also quite logical that a computer can perform calculations over sets of numeric values quite easily i.e., we call it a spreadsheet). The time may have arrived when combining both tasks in one web-accessible software application will become available. So, we'll go from being able to find out how much taller the Eiffel Tower is than the Washington Monument by downloading the two Wikipedia articles, finding the heights and doing the math ourselves to just asking the question directly and having the answer computed for us. You can't store all the possible answers or questions---you have to be able to compute them. For example, suppose you wanted to know, "What man-made structure was the tallest on Earth for the longest period of time?" That's tricky as you'd need to know both the dates and heights for the tallest man-made structures, and then calculate the differences in their dates of existence. (My guess would be the Pyramids in Egypt?). But it could get harder if you specified yet another limit, say "What man-made structures were the tallest on Earth for more than 50 years?" Now, the playing field is leveled for modern construction and the work load is higher. Numeric questions are within the grasp of full automation far more readily than questions whose answers are entirely textual ("What fruits were known to colonists at Jamestown? or "Where were bananas available in the 17th century?) True numeric question answering may be about to appear (rather than (1) looking up the words and retrieving the best matching text pages (i.e., a browser search) or (2) looking for a match to a previously stored question string. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 10:21:15 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Trends in e-book publishing In-Reply-To: <48B32E4F.9050609@mccarty.org.uk> The introduction of the new Kindle DX has brought to light some background news about trends in the e-book publishing field. Here's an extract from a Christian Science Monitor news story that Humanist readers might find interesting: [From: http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/05/06/introducing-the-super-sized-kindle-dx/] The Christian Science Monitor By Chris Gaylord | 05.06.09 ..... "A e-book boom" Bezos admits that he still has a long way to go before fulfilling his dream of “every book ever printed in any language, all available in less than 60 seconds.” But Kindle has opened up a blossoming market for Amazon. The NYTimes notes that: “Today there are 275,000 books available for the device. On Amazon.com, 35 percent of sales of books that have a Kindle edition are sold in that format.” And yesterday the (Christian Science) Monitor reported that “The Association of American Publishers (AAP), the industry’s primary trade group, has tracked digital book sales since 2003, when wholesale revenues amounted to $20 million. By 2007, that number had ambled up to $67 million. But in 2008, the figure nearly doubled to some $113 million. This year is off to an equally heady start, says Ed McCoyd, director of digital policy for AAP, pointing to the whopping 173 percent jump in sales from January 2008.” _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 9 05:57:07 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF0D07E35; Sat, 9 May 2009 05:57:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B081D7E2D; Sat, 9 May 2009 05:57:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090509055705.B081D7E2D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 05:57:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.11 call for nominations, TEI-C Board & Council X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 11. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 00:28:48 +0100 From: Christian Wittern Subject: Call for nominations to TEI-C Board and TEI-C Council This message was originally submitted by cwittern@GMAIL.COM to the humanist list at LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the list, using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user support or consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it will be distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be removed automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your mail program. ----------------- Message requiring your approval (42 lines) ------------------ The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C) invites nominations for election to the TEI-C Board and Council. Nominations should be sent to the nomination committee at [nominations at tei-c.org] by July 1, 2009. Members of the nomination committee this year are Julia Flanders, Malte Rehbein and Christian Wittern (chair). The elections will take place via electronic voting prior to the annual Members' Meeting in November 2009. Self-nominations are welcome and common. All nominees should provide a brief statement of interest and biographical paragraph, and notice that, if elected, they will be willing to serve. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 16:06:02 +0100 From: saggion Subject: Brazil: STIL 2009 - Third and Last Call for Papers (extended deadline;invited speakers; publications) 7th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology STIL 2009 http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/stil09 September 7-11, 2009 São Carlos, Brazil Third and Last Call for Papers NEWS: extended deadline; invited speakers; publications STIL 2009 (formerly known as TIL - Workshop on Information and Human Language Technology) is the annual Language Technology event supported by the Brazilian Computer Society (http://www.sbc.org.br/) (SBC) and by the Brazilian Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing (http://www.nilc.icmc.usp.br/cepln/). The conference has a multidisciplinary nature and covers a broad spectrum of disciplines related to Human Language Technology, such as Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, and Information Science, among others. It aims at bringing together both academic and industry participants that work on those areas. STIL-2009 welcomes research work in human language technology in general (and not only Portuguese) in various fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Computer science: text mining, semantic web, information extraction,information retrieval, natural language interfaces, written and spokenlanguage processing, tagging, parsing, summarization, machine translation, writing tools, anaphora resolution, statistical language processing, NLP resources, applications and evaluation. * Linguistics: terminology, lexicology and lexicography, grammar formalisms,discourse analysis, ontologies, translation, corpus linguistics,psycholinguistics. * Information science: information filtering and retrieval, digital libraries,document and knowledge management, knowledge modelling. * Natural language understanding and generation. * Others: work on Philosophy or Human sciences in general, related to language processing. Call for Submissions: Papers can be written in English, Portuguese or Spanish. Simultaneous submission to other conferences is not allowed. Submissions will be accepted in PDF format only through the JEMS SBC system (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br). Authors should chose between full papers for oral presentation or short papers to be presented as posters, and should also indicate whether they accept their full paper to be reallocated as a poster should the reviewers recommend so. Full papers should describe complete work with significant results and cannot exceed 8 pages in length (including tables, pictures and references.) Short papers (posters) may describe ongoing research with partial results, software demos etc. and should not exceed 4 pages in length (including tables, pictures and references.) Paper formatting must follow the SBC guidelines available at http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?language=1&subject=60&content=downloads As papers will be blind-reviewed, they should not display any information regarding their authorship in the header or body of the text. Important Dates Papers/posters submission: *** 24 May 2009 *** Notification to the authors: 13 July 2009 Camera ready copy: 24 July 2009 * Invited Speakers: * Profa. Dra. Clarisse de Souza (PUC-Rio, Brazil) * Prof. Dr. Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge, UK) * Profa. Dra. Violeta Quental (PUC-Rio, Brazil) * The authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to a Special Issue of the Linguamática Journal. Program Committee Alexandre Agustini (PUCRS, Brazil) Laura Alonso (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentine) Sandra M. Aluísio (USP/ICMC, Brazil) Jason Baldridge (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Gladis Barcellos (UFSCar, Brazil) António Branco (UL, Portugal) Ariadne Carvalho (UNICAMP, Brazil) Helena de Medeiros Caseli (UFSCar, Brazil) Rove Chishman (UNISINOS, Brazil) Javier Couto (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay) Gustavo Crispino (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay) Iria da Cunha (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Valéria Feltrim (UEL/Londrina, Brazil) Ariani Di Felippo (UFSCar, Brazil) Maria José Finatto (UFRGS, Brazil) Marcelo Finger (USP/IME, Brazil) Sérgio Freitas (UFES, Brazil) Maria Fuentes Fort (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) Adam Funk (University of Sheffield, UK) Michel Gagnon (Ecole Polytechnique , Canada) Pablo Gamallo (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) Caroline Gasperin (USP/ICMC, Brazil) Claudine Gonçalves (UFES, Brazil) Marco Gonzalez (PUCRS, Brazil) Julio Gonzalo (UNED, Spain) Louise Guthrie (University of Sheffield, UK) Celso Antônio Kaestner (UTFPR/PR, Brazil) Tracy King (PARC, USA) Aldebaro Klautau (UFPA, Brazil) Valia Kordoni (DFKI, Germany) Stanley Loh (UCPEL, Brazil) José Gabriel Pereira Lopes (UNL, Portugal) Gabriel Infante Lopez (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentine) Maria Luiza Machado Campos (UFRJ, Brazil) Nuno Marques (UNL, Portugal) Palmira Marrafa (UL, Portugal) David Martinez (University of Melbourne Merbourne, Australia) Ronaldo Teixeira Martins (Mackenzie, Brazil) Diana Maynard (University of Sheffield, UK) Ruy Luiz Milidiu (PUC/Rio, Brazil) Jean-Luc Minel (Universite de Paris X, France) Paloma Moreda (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) Juan Manuel Torres Moreno (Universite d'Avignon, France) Daniel Nehme Muller (UFRGS, Brazil) Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Viviane Moreira Orengo (UFRGS, Brazil) Manuel Palomar (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) Ivandré Paraboni (USP/EACH, Brazil) Thierry Poibeau (Uviversite de Paris XIII, France) Carlos Augusto Prolo (PUCRS, Brazil) Paulo Quaresma (Univ. Évora, Portugal) Violeta Quental (PUC/Rio, Brazil) Antonio Ribeiro (European Railway Agency, France) Lucia Rino (UFSCar, Brazil) Horacio Rodriguez (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) João Luís Garcia Rosa (USP/ICMC, Brazil) Karin Kipper Schuler (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Thais Cristófaro Silva (UFMG, Brazil) Bento da Silva (UNESP, Brazil) Alberto F. de Souza (UFES, Brazil) Renato Rocha Souza (UFMG, Brazil) Lucia Specia (Xerox, France) Vera Strube de Lima (PUCRS, Brazil) Stella Tagnin (USP/FFLCH, Brazil) Diego Uribe (Instituto Tecnologico de la Laguna, Mexico) Jose Luis Vicedo (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) Renata Vieira (PUCRS, Brazil) Leo Wanner (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Leandro Wives (UFRGS, Brazil) Dina Wonsever (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay) Yi Zhang (DFKI, Germany) CONTACT INFORMATION You can contact us by emailing stil09-l@inf.ufrgs.br General Conference Chairs: Thiago A. S. Pardo (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) Program Co-Chairs: Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield, UK) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 12 04:58:16 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B9EDE18F; Tue, 12 May 2009 04:58:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1188FE17F; Tue, 12 May 2009 04:58:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090512045814.1188FE17F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 04:58:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.13 new projects: Hindu mss collection; music notation data model X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 13. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: renata lemos (93) Subject: parampara project [2] From: "Mayhood, Erin (elm8s)" (30) Subject: Digital Music Notation Data Model and Prototype Delivery System --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 12:11:06 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: parampara project *"Parampara" (Tradition) Project: .Condensing Knowledge and Time as e-Culture* ** *Arnab B. Chowdhury* is founder and CEO of Ninad http://www.ninad.biz/ ~ an e-Learning consulting and collaborating network that participated in the "Parampara" project. Ninad offers consulting services that are centered in Integrality. http://www.ninad.biz/ *A case study * A poet once said that memory is man's real possession; in nothing else is mankind so rich, or so poor. In the confines of the Institut Français de Pondicherry (IFP, www.ifpindia.org) and the Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), two French governmental research institutes, Indian and French researchers have been working hand-in-hand for over 30 years on a fascinating undertaking to create a database of one of the world's richest collection of manuscripts devoted to the "Saivasiddhanta", a Saiva religio-philosophical system written in verse - a prominent aspect of Hinduism. They are ensuring that India conserves a vital component of her rich cultural memory via e-Culture while synergising appropriate cultural pedagogy, knowledge management, communication design with smart ICT. * Project:* The manuscript collection of the IFP was initiated in 1955 under the auspices of IFP founder-director, Jean Filliozat. Bundles were brought back to the IFP from the private collections of priests and temples across South India. When the manuscripts themselves could not be obtained, transcripts in Devanagiri script (as in Hindi) were made. More than half the collection consists of Saiva manuscripts, comprising: - Approximately 60,000 texts preserved in 8,600 palm-leaf bundles. - 1,144 transcripts of manuscripts on paper. - Precisely 6,850 are in Sanskrit (of which approximately 60% are in Grantha script). - 1,200 in Tamil or Tamil and Sanskrit. - A few are in Tulu, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada (regional Indian languages). In addition to the Saiva materials, the wide range of subjects covered includes Astrology, Puranas (Mythology), Siddha Medicine, Veda, Epics, Belles Lettres and Tamil devotional literature. *Process:* The digitisation and transliteration project, aptly named "Parampara" (denoting 'tradition' in Sanskrit), got into full swing in 1997 and the entire collection is presently housed and being painstakingly catalogued at both the research institutes in air-conditioned conservation-chambers. Its first CDROM release is of a unique digital archiving system, published under the name "Parampara", co-produced by the IFP, EFEO and the Chennai-based AMM Foundation with a multi-lateral team of Indology scholars, media experts and information technologists. Currently a collaborative Indo-French project has been framed with National Mission for Manuscripts initiated by the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India. *Challenge: *The cataloguing process is a challenge on its own since each bundle of leaves may contain dozens of texts, and there are no headings, no word-breaks and no rubrication of titles or colophons. This requires not only a sound knowledge of the Saivasiddhanta system but also the ability to read handwritten scripts, in particular Grantha, a dying skill in Tamil Nadu (southern Indian state) today. Each folio is studied and the texts are identified. A descriptive form is filled out that describes each manuscript along with an English transliteration. These details are then entered into a database. As far as e-Culture is concerned, the challenge lay in reflecting the taxonomy of how the palm-leaf manuscripts and their content have been collated over millennia (6th century A.D onwards) onto a suitable taxonomy of a graphics-based database that is scalable with efficient access. In recent times, thanks to the help of the Muktabodha Indological Research Institute (India), a major part of the collection (namely all the transcripts) can now be downloaded online free of charge: ( http://muktalib.org/access_page.htm) *Technology:* From a software perspective, all images of manuscripts and books in the online digital library are made available in two formats, DjVu (http://djvu.org) and PDF. The DjVu format is ideal for the viewing of large books and manuscripts on the web and uses an encoding scheme called "wavelet" technology. Essentially this means that they are stored as mathematical formulas describing curves. This allows the page images to be zoomed with almost no loss of quality to 1200% and without getting the jagged edges (called "jaggies") that occur if the image is stored as a pattern of pixels. The PDF format is ideal for the downloading and disseminating of files of books or manuscripts because it is so universally available and known. The online database of the 210,000 pages of transcripts occupies 102 Gigabytes of storage and is hosted on a Linux Apache server. Additionally, this e-Culture application applies Open Source technologies such as PHP and MySQL. *Conclusion:* In all, we can see how ICT with a sincere pedagogical sensitivity towards culture, can help unravel and disseminate the cultural and research Knowledge-Value from the past to make it accessible, comprehensive; to transport it from the past to the present and ensure its future. *Appreciation:* The "Parampara" project is now a part of UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' program - an initiative to recognize the immense cultural significance of various sites worldwide. -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 19:30:57 +0100 From: "Mayhood, Erin (elm8s)" Subject: Digital Music Notation Data Model and Prototype Delivery System University of Virginia Library and University of Paderborn Receive Grant to Create a Digital Music Notation Data Model and Prototype Delivery System Contact: Erin Mayhood, Head Music Library, Old Cabell Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA (434) 924-7017, elm8s@virginia.edu Prof. Dr. Joachim Veit Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe, Arbeitsstelle Detmold Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar Detmold/Paderborn Gartenstraße 20, jveit@mail.uni-paderborn.de The University of Virginia Library and the University of Paderborn are pleased to announce the receipt of a grant jointly funded by the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V., DFG). The $77,065 grant will support the development of a music notation data model and encoding scheme for music scholars, publishers, and performers. In addition to the common notation functions of traditional facsimile, critical and performance editions, the encoding scheme will provide for the capture of a composition's textual variants and their origins. Textual matter, very important to the understanding of a composition in its historical and cultural contexts, will also be accommodated. The grant will support two workshops that will result in guidelines that can be widely used by libraries, museums, and individual scholars who engage in online research, teaching, and preservation of cultural objects. The international work group is made up of musicologists, specializing in notational styles from medieval to twenty-first century music, and technologists, with skills in music representation, schema design, optical music recognition, and software development. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) is the central, self-governing research funding organization that promotes research at universities and other publicly financed research institutions in Germany. The DFG serves all branches of science and the humanities by funding research projects and facilitating cooperation among researchers. The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. Any views, finding, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The expected completion date of the project is July 31st, 2010. About the U.Va. Library With 13 physical locations as well as the original Rotunda, the U.Va. Library contains more than five million books, 17 million manuscripts, rare books and archives, and rapidly-growing digital collections. The Library is a leader in developing collections, tools, and collaborations that foster scholarship at the University and worldwide. It is known in particular for its strength in American history and literature, as well as its innovation in digital technologies. About the University of Paderborn The University of Paderborn has a special focus on Computer Science, exemplified by its Heinz-Nixdorf Institute. Together with the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, the University conducts the Seminar for Musicology where, in 2004 and in cooperation with the Carl Maria von Weber Complete-Edition project, preliminary work was performed regarding digital critical editions of music. Its "Edirom" project (also DFG funded) has been developing platform-independent solutions for musical editions since 2006. Erin Mayhood Head, Music Library Old Cabell Hall University of Virginia PO Box 400175 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4175 elm8s@virginia.edu (434) 924-7017 (w) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 12 04:59:06 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A7BDE1DF; Tue, 12 May 2009 04:59:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 75056E1D0; Tue, 12 May 2009 04:59:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090512045905.75056E1D0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 04:59:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.14 events: language & automata theory; art history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 14. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Gardiner, Hazel" (26) Subject: CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) 2009 Conference Bursaries [2] From: "carlos.martin@urv.cat" (5) Subject: LATA 2010: bids for venue --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 07:46:36 +0100 From: "Gardiner, Hazel" Subject: CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) 2009 Conference Bursaries Hello Willard, A further announcement if you wouldn't mind circulating this to humanist. (incidentally I bought a copy of The Same and Not the Same - although I've not had a chance to look at it yet..) Best wishes Hazel CHArt is pleased to announce that we will be able to offer a small number of bursaries to assist doctoral students selected to present papers at the 2009 CHArt conference with their conference fees. The bursary scheme has been set up in memory of Helene Roberts. The Call for Papers is appended below (Deadline for submissions 30 May 2009) - CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS - OBJECT AND IDENTITY IN A DIGITAL AGE The CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference Thursday 12 - Friday 13 November 2009, Birkbeck, University of London We live in a time when our identities are increasingly fractured, networked, virtualised and distributed. The same appears to be true of our things. Objects are becoming more contingent, reconfigurable, distributable and immaterial. For the 25th anniversary CHArt conference we are looking for papers that engage with these questions in relation to art practice, production, consumption, representation and display. We are interested in new notions of the identity of the artist, including those involving collaboration and anonymity; new conceptions and ontologies of the art object, as processual, virtual, or hybrid; new means of consumption and reception, whether in galleries and museums, in public spaces, or over networks of broadcast and narrowcast; and the challenges these transformations bring to the display of art and to its curation and access. We also welcome papers looking at earlier parallel transformations such as, for example, those brought about by photography, or developments in printmaking. We welcome contributions from all sections of the CHArt community: art historians, artists, architects and architectural theorists and historians, curators, conservators, scientists, cultural and media theorists, archivists, technologists, educationalists and philosophers. Please email a three to four hundred word synopsis of the proposed paper with brief biographical information (no more than 200 words) of presenter/s by 30 May 2009 to Hazel Gardiner (hazel.gardiner@kcl.ac.uk). *Please note that submissions exceeding the stated word count will not be considered* Dr Charlie Gere Chair, CHArt CHArt (www.chart.ac.uk) c/o Centre for Computing in the Humanities Kings College, University of London 26 – 29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL - CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS – --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 19:23:12 +0100 From: "carlos.martin@urv.cat" Subject: LATA 2010: bids for venue The 4th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA 2010) is expected to take place on March 25-31, 2010. After three editions in Tarragona, the venue for LATA 2010 is sought throughout the globe. Those universities, institutes or departments that may be willing to host the conference are invited to express their interest to Carlos Martin-Vide at carlos.martin@urv.cat The deadline is May 25, 2009. The ones shortlisted will be asked to comment on a few organizational issues soon after the deadline. For background information, please visit http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 13 05:11:46 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D34A5EED7; Wed, 13 May 2009 05:11:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7FDECEEC7; Wed, 13 May 2009 05:11:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090513051144.7FDECEEC7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 05:11:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.15 happy 22nd Humanist X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 15. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 15:36:48 +0200 From: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.1 Happy 22nd birthday! In-Reply-To: <20090507083814.CC50066E3@woodward.joyent.us> Humanist Discussion Group skrev: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 1. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 09:35:42 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > > > If a dog seems to live 7 times faster than a human, how fast does an > online seminar like Humanist age in our sight? How old do we Humanists > feel? Like the 22 year-old clinging to the belief that he or she can do > anything but beginning to suspect otherwise? Like the 154 year-old (22 * > 7 = 154) who cannot behave properly? Like an ageless sage? > > A marvellous, wonderful celebration of Humanist's 21st birthday was > staged by Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen at DH2008 almost a year ago, at which > not a few digital grandees were to be seen drinking liberally to its > health. (See the post-sauna > http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/gallery/pages/IMG_4445.html and its > unsteady sequels.) Thank you very much Willard for Humanist. And thank you very much also for the Oulu photos. I scanned through all of them and there are many very good ones. Some of them could be used for posters for the ADHO! Espen Espen S. Ore National Library of Norway, Oslo _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 14 04:59:11 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C150516932; Thu, 14 May 2009 04:59:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9895E16920; Thu, 14 May 2009 04:59:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090514045910.9895E16920@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 04:59:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.16 Scholarly E-Pub Bibliography, ver 75 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 16. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 15:23:17 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 75, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 75 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,400 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition is now available as a paperback book. http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2008.htm For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries (http://tinyurl.com/5en4jt), see: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm A backup Digital Scholarship server is available at: http://digital-scholarship.com/ Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents Dedication * 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 (monthly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 http://digital-scholarship.org/sepw2/rss2/ (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 330 related Web sites) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm Annual PDF Editions The 2006, 2007, and 2008 annual PDF editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography are also available. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0007.201 Other Digital Scholarship Publications The following Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: (1) Author's Rights, Tout de Suite http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/authorrights.pdf (2) DigitalKoans (Weblog about digital copyright, digital curation, digital repositories, open access, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues) http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/rss2/ (3) Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm (4) Google Book Search Bibliography http://digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm (5) Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/irtoutsuite.pdf (6) Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals http://digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/cwbaileyprofile.htm _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 14 05:00:13 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8BCF169BF; Thu, 14 May 2009 05:00:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A8360169B0; Thu, 14 May 2009 05:00:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090514050011.A8360169B0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 05:00:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.17 events: metadata at the DHO, Dublin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 17. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:02:31 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: DHO Workshop: Metadata - Working with Data about Data This very popular workshop is being offered in May and registration is filling up quickly. To register for this workshop, please visit: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=floIcGU1cLaaoL3HOtyF5Q_3d_3d Date: 27 May 2009, 10:00 - 16:00 Venue: Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 Presenter: Ms Dot Porter, Metadata Manager (DHO) Metadata - "data about data" - is the backbone of any successful digital humanities project. With metadata, we describe the pieces that make up our projects (encoded texts, images, audio and video recordings) as well as describe how those pieces fit together. Metadata opens up possibilities for tracing relationships amongst different types of data both within a single project and amongst different projects. "Metadata: working with data about data" is a workshop designed to familiarize researchers engaged with digital humanities projects with the concept of metadata and to give them the opportunity to put those concepts into practice. Led by the DHO's Metadata Manager, Dot Porter, the workshop will provide opportunities for learning through lecture, group discussion, and hands-on exercise. Specific topics covered will include the DHO's metadata requirement, DHO-recommended metadata standards, and methods for mapping from input formats (e.g., Excel spreadsheets, Filemaker Pro database) to standard formats, as well as converting from one format to another. This workshop is aimed at the absolute beginner, and there will be plenty of time scheduled for questions and discussion. To register for this workshop, please visit: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=floIcGU1cLaaoL3HOtyF5Q_3d_3d Once you have registered, please download, complete, and bring with you to the workshop, the powerpoint template found on this page: http://dho.ie/node/97 --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2 IRELAND --- Tel: +353 1 2342441 --- shawn@shawnday.com --- http://dho.ie -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 15 05:03:52 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A2E114C8; Fri, 15 May 2009 05:03:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 29856113D7; Fri, 15 May 2009 05:03:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090515050351.29856113D7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 05:03:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.18 events: Knuth & Parshall at Greenwich; Methods for Modalities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 18. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Thomas Bolander (35) Subject: 2nd CFP: 6th workshop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-6) [2] From: Gerhard Brey (50) Subject: Knuth and Parshall at Greenwich --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 09:55:51 +0100 From: Thomas Bolander Subject: 2nd CFP: 6th workshop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-6) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 6th Workshop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-6) http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M6 Copenhagen, Denmark November 12-14, 2009 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, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. More information about the previous editions can be found at http://m4m.loria.fr/ M4M-6 will be preceded by a two-day mini-course aimed at preparing PhD students and other researchers for participation in the workshop. The mini-course is associated with the FIRST research school (http://first.dk). Paper Submissions ------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers in the following three categories. - Regular papers up to 15 pages, describing original 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. [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 00:30:58 +0100 From: Gerhard Brey Subject: Knuth and Parshall at Greenwich > From: Tony Mann > Date: 14 May 2009 21:32:03 BST > To: MERSENNE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > > > On Tuesday June 2nd, the University of Greenwich is pleased to > present an afternoon exploring the history of mathematics & > computing in the appropriate setting of the Old Royal Naval College > in Greenwich: > Donald Knuth: /"History of Computer Science versus History of > Mathematics"/ > Karen Parshall: /"Victorian Algebra"/ > > Don Knuth is a retired professor of Computer Science at Stanford > University, where he joined the faculty forty years ago. His multi- > volume work-in-progress entitled "The Art of Computer Programming" > has been translated into twelve languages. His software is used to > format the pages of most of the world's books and journals about > mathematics and physics. He tries to write computer programs that > are actually a pleasure to read. > > Karen Parshall is Professor of History and Mathematics at the > University of Virginia. She works on the history of science and > mathematics in America and the history of 19th- and 20th-century > algebra, and her research currently focuses on the life, times, and > mathematical work of the British mathematician, James Joseph > Sylvester. The organisers are grateful to the London Mathematical > Society for support for Professor Parshall's visit. > > Date: Tuesday 2nd June 2009, 2-4pm > Venue: Burnside Lecture Theatre, King William Court (KW315), > Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, London SE10 9LS > All welcome. Admission free. > > Further information from Tony Mann (A.Mann@gre.ac.uk) > Travel directions at http://www.gre.ac.uk/about/greenwich/greenwich > > -- > Tony Mann > Head of Department, Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences > University of Greenwich > Old Royal Naval College > Park Row, London > SE10 9LS > Phone: 020 8331 8709 Fax 020 8331 8665 > A.Mann@gre.ac.uk http://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~A.Mann/ > > University of Greenwich, a charity and company limited by guarantee, > registered in England (reg no. 986729). Registered Office: Old > Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich SE10 9LS. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun May 17 05:44:00 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8475881FE; Sun, 17 May 2009 05:44:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0FF7581F6; Sun, 17 May 2009 05:43:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090517054359.0FF7581F6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 05:43:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.19 events: textual studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 19. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 12:55:24 +0100 From: Alice Wood Subject: CTS symposium on Textual Studies, De Montfort University, 11th June Dear Colleagues, Just a preliminary notice that the annual CTS symposium will this year be held on 11th June. Fuller information will follow. The event is free, but it would be helpful if you could inform myself and Alice Wood (the co-organiser aliceruthwood@yahoo.co.uk) whether you will attend the symposium. I hope to see you on the 11th. Andrew 6th Annual Symposium on Textual Studies Centre for Textual Studies De Montfort University, Leicester, UK 11th June 2009 Speakers include: Tony Edwards (DMU): 'Disintegrating the Text: The Career of Otto Ege' Clare Hutton (Loughborough) ‘The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century’ Jim Mussell (Birmingham): ‘From textual codes to visual modes: the importance of the visual when digitizing journalism’ John Woolford: 'Tennyson's Day-Dreams' Henry Woudhuysen (UCL): 'Bibliography and the history of the book: a companionable view' Claire Squires (Oxford Brookes): tba Deborah Mutch (DMU) : tba Professor Andrew Thacker Department of English De Montfort University Leicester LE1 9BH Director, Centre for Textual Studies http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/ Co-Director, AHRC funded Modernist Magazines Project http://modmags.cts.dmu.ac.uk/ Editor, Literature & History _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun May 17 05:44:30 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65CD88314; Sun, 17 May 2009 05:44:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E76F88305; Sun, 17 May 2009 05:44:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090517054428.E76F88305@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 05:44:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.20 new on WWW: D-Lib for May/June X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 20. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 17:00:13 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The May/June 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine is nowavailable Greetings: The May/June 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains six articles, a commentary, one conference report, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features the Southern Methodist University Digital Collections, courtesy of Cindy Boeke, Southern Methodist University. The commentary is: Time Challenges - Challenging Times for Future Information Search Thomas Mestl, Olga Cerrato, Jon Ølnes, Per Myrseth, and Inger-Mette Gustavsen, Det Norske Veritas (DNV), Norway The articles include: EScience in Practice: Lessons from the Cornell Web Lab William Arms, Manuel Calimlim, and Lucia Walle, Cornell University Towards a Repository-enabled Scholar's Workbench: RepoMMan, REMAP and Hydra Richard Green, Consultant to the University of Hull; and Chris Awre, University of Hull, United Kingdom Evaluation of Digital Repository Software at the National Library of Medicine Jennifer L. Marill and Edward C. Luczak, National Library of Medicine NeoNote: Suggestions for a Global Shared Scholarly Annotation System Bradley Hemminger, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Fierce Urgency of Now: A Proactive, Pervasive Content Awareness Tool James E. Powell, Linn Marks Collins, and Mark L.B. Martinez, Los Alamos National Laboratory Unlocking Audio: Towards an Online Repository of Spoken Word Collections in Flanders Tom Evens and Laurence Hauttekeete, Ghent University, Belgium The Conference Report is: Developer Happiness Days: Takin' it to the Pub Carol Minton Morris, Cornell University; Ben O'Steen, Oxford University; and David Flanders, University of London D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina http://www.dlib.org.ar Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the May/June 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. There is a delay between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson Editor D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon May 18 04:42:01 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61BEF1C6D3; Mon, 18 May 2009 04:42:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 850BE1C6C3; Mon, 18 May 2009 04:41:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090518044159.850BE1C6C3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 04:41:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.21 numbers X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 21. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 15:33:08 +0100 From: { brad brace } Subject: Re: Call for Contributions - Numbers In-Reply-To: <2908216542688796925681@Jack-PC> (b) NUMERALS Charred Western Red Cedar 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Accidentally break forming additional fragments Take from all things their number and all shall perish The cessation of Time The consumption of ordering systems http://www.bbrace.net/burnt11.jpg http://www.bbrace.net/metaconstruct1984.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon May 18 04:43:16 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9CEF1C8E9; Mon, 18 May 2009 04:43:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 46C461C8E2; Mon, 18 May 2009 04:43:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090518044315.46C461C8E2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 04:43:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.22 computing in the Forum, "Who am I computing" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 22. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 21:37:07 -0400 From: Phillip Barron Subject: Willard McCarty on Who am I computing? For those of you who have not yet seen it, The Humanist's very own Willard McCarty is leading a fascinating conversation on computing and the humanities at *On the Human's Forum* — http://onthehuman.org/humannature/ Comments will be taken up until this Friday, at which time the conversation will close with a final post from Willard. Enjoy, phillip -- Phillip Barron pbarron@nhc.rtp.nc.us National Humanities Center 7 Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 19 05:02:48 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E455D293A; Tue, 19 May 2009 05:02:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8774B2932; Tue, 19 May 2009 05:02:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090519050247.8774B2932@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 05:02:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.23 new publication: ISR 34.1 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 23. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:01:42 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 34.1 Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Volume 34 Number 1 March 2009 www.isr-journal.org This issue is dedicated to the "To-day and To-morrow" series of publications edited by Charles Kay Ogden, 1923 to 1931. "The rationale for the To-day and To-morrow series was to combine the popularization of expert knowledge with futurology: as the title suggests, to lay out the current state of particular disciplines or subjects, and to consider their probable future developments. The scope of its futurology varied: those treating social trends tended to limit themselves to a few decades; those dealing with topics like evolution or cosmology needed to take a longer view.... Some thirty of the volumes were devoted to scientific or technological subjects, and these provide the focus for the essays comprising this issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews." (from the Introduction by Max Saunders and Brian Hurwitz) CONTENTS The To-day and To-morrow Series and the Popularization of Science: An Introduction Max Saunders and Brian Hurwitz 3 From Spiritualism to Syncretism: Twentieth-Century Pseudo-Science and the Quest for Wholeness Maurizio Ascari 9 Darwinism, Biology, and Mythology in the To-day and To-morrow Series, 1923–1929 Alison Wood 22 The Sexual Politics of Ectogenesis in the To-day and To-morrow Series Aline Ferreira 32 Robots, Clones and Clockwork Men: The Post-Human Perplex in Early Twentieth-Century Literature and Science Patrick Parrinder 57 ‘Science and Futurology in the To-Day and To-Morrow Series’: Matter, Consciousness, Time and Language Max Saunders 69 Aeolus: Futurism’s Flights of Fancy Clare Brant 80 Roger Money-Kyrle’s Aspasia: The Future of Amorality (1932) Neil Vickers 92 Feature Review Review — The To-day and To-morrow Series Elise Schraner 108 Essay Review Sixty Years of Science in Mainland China (Michael Sargent): G. Walden, China: A Wolf in the World?; S. Greenhalgh, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China; V. J. Carplus and X. W. Deng, Agricultural Biotechnology in China: Origins and Prospects. Book Reviews Siegfried Zielinski; translated by Gloria Custance, Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means (Julianne Nyhan); M.G. Kirschenbaum, Mechanisms. New Media and the Forensic Imagination (Bert Van Raemdonck) -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 19 05:03:19 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4AFB6E6A; Tue, 19 May 2009 05:03:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3922266D7; Tue, 19 May 2009 05:03:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090519050318.3922266D7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 05:03:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.24 events: high-performance computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 24. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:09:09 -0400 From: Stéfan_Sinclair Subject: Digital Humanities / High Performance Computing Session at Sharcnet Research Day 2009 Dear colleagues, Please note the following event that may be of interest to anyone near the University of Waterloo this coming Thursday. The even will also be broadcast via Sharcnet's AccessGrid (see information below the schedule or contact me directly if you're interested). Digital Humanities / High Performance Computing Session at Sharcnet Research Day 2009 Date Thursday May 21 2009 Time 11:30 - 17:00 Location Hosted at University of Waterloo, Room AL-105, and to be broadcast online over AccessGrid URL http://www.sharcnet.ca/Events/RDay2009/ Room AL-105, Chair: Stéfan Sinclair 11:30-12noon(EST), Ray Siemens, “Computation and the History of the Future of the Book” 12:10-12:30(EST), Stéfan Sinclair, “Web-based HPC: Oil and Water?” 3:40-4:05(EST), Miriam Pena-Pimentel, “Topic Maps in Philological and Cultural Analysis” 4:05-4:30(EST), Robert Hamilton, “Visualizing Words in the Brain: Using HPC to Analyze and Understand Brain Imaging Data” 4:30-4:55(EST), Juan Luis Suarez, “Virtual Laboratory for the Study of Cultural Dynamics” HPC in Digital Humanities Session at Research Day 2009 will be broadcast online over AccessGrid, The URL to SHARCNET venue server is https://agvs.sharcnet.ca:8000/Venues/default Other consortia can join the AG session. From outside of SHARCNET, do the following: 1) connect to SHARCNET AG Venue server using the URL listed above; 2) In the Venue Server window, click ‘Tools’ to use ‘Use Unicast’, then move mouse to Bridges to select ‘SHARCNET’; and 3) The AG session will be in ‘Seminars’ room. To go to the Seminars room, simple click ‘Seminars’ from the left side menu on the Venue window. Stéfan -- [Please do not reply to this message as I use this address for communication that is susceptible to spambots. My regular email address starts with my user handle sgs and uses the domain name mcmaster.ca] -- Dr. Stéfan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address: TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://stefansinclair.name/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 19 07:29:23 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1716579A; Tue, 19 May 2009 07:29:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C8CDC5787; Tue, 19 May 2009 07:29:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090519072921.C8CDC5787@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 07:29:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 25. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 08:06:12 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: servants as automata? I would be enormously grateful for any clues to the explicit characterization of human servants or slaves as automata or to attribution to them of characteristics proper to machines. Such would include passages in novels and depictions in drama as well as guidebooks to proper social behaviour. Scholarly opinions that this was the way servants were treated when people had them would also be welcome. It's clear that from the earliest times automata were made or imagined in the form of servants, but I am interested particularly in how human beings were seen as machines. Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 20 05:41:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2CD837A; Wed, 20 May 2009 05:41:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AAF298368; Wed, 20 May 2009 05:41:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090520054133.AAF298368@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 05:41:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.26 events: many, various & worthy X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 26. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kevin Kee (40) Subject: Registration Reminder - Interacting with Immersive Worlds Conference, June 15-16 [2] From: "Ray Siemens" (39) Subject: DHSI 2009 colloquium: "Next Wave: New Researchers and the Future ofthe Digital Humanities" [3] From: "list@ami-09.org" (64) Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] AmI-09: 3rd European Conference on AmbientIntelligence - 2nd Call for Contributions [4] From: Raffaella Bernardi (97) Subject: CfP: Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries 2009 (AT4DL 2009) [5] From: Stéfan_Sinclair (44) Subject: Digital Humanities / High Performance Computing Session at Sharcnet Research Day 2009 [6] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (66) Subject: Digital Classicist seminar programme --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 13:17:10 -0400 From: Kevin Kee Subject: Registration Reminder - Interacting with Immersive Worlds Conference, June 15-16 REGISTRATION REMINDER - INTERACTING WITH IMMERSIVE WORLDS CONFERENCE Interacting with Immersive Worlds An International Conference presented at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario JUNE 15-16, 2009 Register to attend at: www.brocku.ca/iasc/immersiveworlds Focusing on the growing cultural significance of interactive media, IWIW will feature academic papers organized along four streams: -Challenges at the Boundaries of Immersive Worlds features creative exploration and innovation in immersive media including ubiquitous computing, telepresence, interactive art and fiction, and alternate reality. -Critical Approaches to Immersion looks at analyses of the cultural and/or psychological impact of immersive worlds, as well as theories of interactivity. -Immersive Worlds in Education examines educational applications of immersive technologies. -Immersive Worlds in Entertainment examines entertainment applications of immersive technologies, such as computer games. The IWIW conference also features 4 keynote speakers: -Janet Murray, Director of Graduate Studies, School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology -Espen Aarseth, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communication, IT University of Denmark -Geoffrey Rockwell, Professor, Department of Philosophy and Humanities Computing, University of Alberta -Deborah Todd, Game Designer, Writer and Producer, and Author of Game Design: From Blue Sky to Green Light Visit the conference Web site at www.brocku.ca/iasc/immersiveworlds Organizing Committee: Jean Bridge, Centre for Digital Humanities, Brock University, jbridge@brocku.ca Martin Danahay, Department of English Language and Literature, Brock University, mdanahay@brocku.ca Denis Dyack, Silicon Knights, St. Catharines, Ontario, denis@siliconknights.com Barry Grant, Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, bgrant@brocku.ca David Hutchison, Faculty of Education, Brock University, davidh@brocku.ca Kevin Kee, Department of History, Brock University, kkee@brocku.ca John Mitterer, Department of Psychology, Brock University, jmitterer@brocku.ca Michael Winter, Department of Computer Science, Brock University, mwinter@brocku.ca Philip Wright, Information Technology Services, Brock University, philip.wright@brocku.ca --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 11:56:57 -0700 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: DHSI 2009 colloquium: "Next Wave: New Researchers and the Future ofthe Digital Humanities" -----Original Message----- From: cmleitch@gmail.com On Behalf Of Caroline Leitch This year, a new graduate student element is being added to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria. A number of graduate students attending the Institute will be participating in a colloquium entitled "Next Wave: New Researchers and the Future of the Digital Humanities". There will be presentations on many aspects of graduate student research in the digital humanities, such as electronic elements in the dissertation, the graduate student's role in established research projects, tool application and development, etc. The colloquium will take place over four morning sessions (June 9-12) from 8:30-9:30 in Harry Hickman 105. Each session will feature four graduate student presentations demonstrating the incorporation of some aspect of the digital humanities into their research. Each presentation will be informal, 5-10 minutes in length, with time for Q&A at session's end. Sessions are open to all DHSI attendees and interested members of the public. We are pleased to announce the presenters for the first DHSI Grad Colloquium: Trish Baer (U Victoria) Devin Becker (Indiana U) Tracy Boger (U Alberta) Alberto Campagnolo (King's College, London) Anne Cong-Huyen (UCSB) Kristin Crandall (UNB) Marc Fortin (Queens U) Elizabeth Lorang (U Nebraska-Lincoln) Piotr Organisciak (U Alberta) Lauralee Proudfoot (Trent) Jentery Sayers (U Washington) Kristine Smitka (U Alberta) Vanessa Steinroetter (U Nebraska-Lincoln) Meagan Timney (Dalhousie U) Elizabeth Vincelette (Old Dominion U) See the full schedule at: http://www.dhsi.org/home/schedule For more information, please contact Diane Jakacki or Cara Leitch . Visit us on the web at . --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 15:36:32 +0100 From: "list@ami-09.org" Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] AmI-09: 3rd European Conference on Ambient Intelligence - 2nd Call for Contributions 3rd European Conference on Ambient Intelligence AmI-09: Roots for the Future of Ambient Intelligence November 18th-21st, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ami-09.org 2nd Call for Contributions AmI-09 will bring keynotes, technical papers, workshops, industrial case studies, posters & demos and panels. As new categories this year we feature landscapes and ambient visions to review the current status and to look into the next decade of Ambient Intelligence. Prof. Emile Aarts (Philips Research) has agreed to be one of the AmI-09 keynote speakers. AmI-09 will feature a 10 years anniversary since the term Ambient Intelligence started to fly around. We explicitly intend to look back what has been achieved, review existing solutions and identify what will come. The conference should provide a forum to establish new roads for the future of Ambient Intelligence. Important Dates: Workshops: May 25th, 2009 Papers: June 8th, 2009 Short Papers: June 22nd , 2009 Posters & Demos: June 22nd , 2009 Landscapes: June 22nd, 2009 Industrial Case Studies: Oct 5th, 2009 Visions: Oct 5th, 2009 Please visit the conference website for more details on each submission category and potential conference topics: http://www.ami-09.org Conference Committee: Manfred Tscheligi, Boris de Ruyter (Conference Co-Chairs & Paper Co-Chairs) Panos Markopoulos, Reiner Wichert (Short Paper Co-Chairs) John Soldatos, Alexander Meschtscherjakov (Poster & Demo Co-Chairs) Emile Aarts, Albrecht Schmidt (Visions Co-Chairs) Cristina Buiza, Wolfgang Reitberger (Workshops Co-Chairs) Maddy Janse, Marianna Obrist (Industrial Case Study Co-Chairs) Norbert Streitz (Landscapes Chair) The conference is hosted and organized at the University of Salzburg, HCI & Usability Unit, ICT&S Center. For up to date information and further details please visit: http://www.ami-09.org We are looking forward to your contributions! Manfred Tscheligi Boris de Ruyter --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 19:07:12 +0100 From: Raffaella Bernardi Subject: CfP: Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries 2009 (AT4DL 2009) Workshop on Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries 2009 (AT4DL 2009) 8 September 2009, Trento (Italy) http://www.cacaoproject.eu/at4dl Submission deadline: 18 June 2009 *********************************************************************** AIM and SCOPE The fast growth of digital material is challenging for research in many disciplines. The EU has funded many projects to advance research in this field and facilitate end-user access to cultural and scientific heritage. The ENRICH, Europeana, CACAO, GAMA, NEEO and TELplus projects, funded by the eContentplus programme, have joined forces to organise a workshop as a satellite event of ICSD 2009 (http://www.icsd-conference.org/). The workshop aims to bring together stakeholders in order to present an overview of state-of-the-art systems in the field and identify open research problems that require further work. We invite submissions of extended abstracts describing running projects in the field of Digital Libraries. Research projects of any size are welcome, ranging from EU to PhD projects. Preference will be given to projects that will be able to demonstrate a functioning prototype. We also invite the submission of posters describing research in progress that will be on display during the workshop. We are particularly interested in the following topics: * Analysis of users' requirements and use of DL systems. * DL systems for supporting e-research. * Integration of Classification Systems, Subject Headings and IR methods. * Multi-modal indexing of DLs. * Language Technologies: cross document co-reference and temporal information extraction. * Linking and clustering data in DLs. * Ontology learning for DL systems. SUBMISSION Each extended abstract may consist of up to three (3) pages of content and one (1) extra page for references. Submissions should be made following the Author's Instructions for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submission/reviewing will be electronic, managed by the EasyChair system. The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF. The PDF file of the paper must be uploaded to the system by the submission deadline. See details at the workshop website: http://www.cacaoproject.eu/at4dl IMPORTANT DATES * Paper Submission: 18 June 2009 * Notification of Acceptance: 30 July 2009 * Camera Ready Deadline: 25 August 2009 WORKSHOP STRUCTURE: * In the morning, short presentations of accepted abstracts * In the afternoon, posters and demos time * Closing section with a general discussion PUBLICATIONS All the accepted abstracts and posters will be made available online before the Workshop as pre-prints published in "Bozen-Bolzano University Press" series and will be distributed on a CD at the time of the workshop. Following the workshop, it is planned to publish the full papers as post-proceedings in Springer LNCS, the publication of which is expected in early 2010. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Raffaella Bernardi, (CACAO, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) (co- chair) * Sally Chambers (TELplus-CACAO, The European Library) (co-chair) * Björn Gottfried, (GAMA, University of Bremen) (co-chair) * José Borbinha (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portgual) * Vittore Casarosa (ISTI CNR, Italy) * Carl Demeyere (NEEO, K.U. Leuven, Belgium) * Stefan Gradmann (Europeana, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) * Jakub Heller (ENRICH, Cross Czech a.s., Czech Republic) * Antoine Isaac (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) * Udo Kruschwitz (Essex University, UK) * Patrice Landry (MACS project, Swiss National Library, Switzerland) * Andreas Lattner (University of Frankfurt, Germany) * Mikolaj Leszczuk (AGH Krakow, Poland) * Bernardo Magnini (FBK, Italy) * Stefan Pletschacher (University of Salford, UK) * Massimo Poesio (University of Trento, Italy) * Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) * Pasquale Savino (ISTI-CNR, Italy) * Viliam Simko (CIANT, Prague, Czech Republic) * Massimo Zancanaro (FBK, Italy) If you have any questions, please contact the Co-Chairs of the Programme Committee by sending an email to: at4dl@inf.unibz.it --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:09:09 -0400 From: Stéfan_Sinclair Subject: Digital Humanities / High Performance Computing Session at Sharcnet Research Day 2009 Dear colleagues, Please note the following event that may be of interest to anyone near the University of Waterloo this coming Thursday. The even will also be broadcast via Sharcnet's AccessGrid (see information below the schedule or contact me directly if you're interested). Digital Humanities / High Performance Computing Session at Sharcnet Research Day 2009 Date Thursday May 21 2009 Time 11:30 - 17:00 Location Hosted at University of Waterloo, Room AL-105, and to be broadcast online over AccessGrid URL http://www.sharcnet.ca/Events/RDay2009/ Room AL-105, Chair: Stéfan Sinclair 11:30-12noon(EST), Ray Siemens, “Computation and the History of the Future of the Book” 12:10-12:30(EST), Stéfan Sinclair, “Web-based HPC: Oil and Water?” 3:40-4:05(EST), Miriam Pena-Pimentel, “Topic Maps in Philological and Cultural Analysis” 4:05-4:30(EST), Robert Hamilton, “Visualizing Words in the Brain: Using HPC to Analyze and Understand Brain Imaging Data” 4:30-4:55(EST), Juan Luis Suarez, “Virtual Laboratory for the Study of Cultural Dynamics” HPC in Digital Humanities Session at Research Day 2009 will be broadcast online over AccessGrid, The URL to SHARCNET venue server is https://agvs.sharcnet.ca:8000/Venues/default Other consortia can join the AG session. From outside of SHARCNET, do the following: 1) connect to SHARCNET AG Venue server using the URL listed above; 2) In the Venue Server window, click ‘Tools’ to use ‘Use Unicast’, then move mouse to Bridges to select ‘SHARCNET’; and 3) The AG session will be in ‘Seminars’ room. To go to the Seminars room, simple click ‘Seminars’ from the left side menu on the Venue window. Stéfan -- [Please do not reply to this message as I use this address for communication that is susceptible to spambots. My regular email address starts with my user handle sgs and uses the domain name mcmaster.ca] -- Dr. Stéfan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address: TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://stefansinclair.name/ --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:30:24 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Digital Classicist seminar programme Please find below the programme for the 2009 Digital Classicist seminar series, sponsored by the Institute for Classical Studies in London, and supported by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities and the Centre for e-Research (King's College London), and the British Library. *Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2009* Fridays at 16:30 in STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU (July 17th seminar in British Library, 96 Euston Rd, NW1 2DW) June 5 Bart Van Beek (Leuven) Onomastics and Name-extraction in Graeco-Egyptian Papyri June 12 Philip Murgatroyd (Birmingham) Starting out on the Journey to Manzikert: Agent-based modelling and Mediaeval warfare logistics June 19 Gregory Crane (Perseus Project, Tufts) No Unmediated Analysis: Digital services constrain and enable both traditional and novel tasks June 26 Marco Büchler & Annette Loos (Leipzig) Textual Re-use of Ancient Greek Texts: A case study on Plato’s works July 3 Roger Boyle & Kia Ng (Leeds) Extracting the Hidden: Paper Watermark Location and Identification July 10 Cristina Vertan (Hamburg) Teuchos: An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology July 17 Christine Pappelau (Berlin) *NB: in British Library* Roman Spolia in 3D: High Resolution Leica 3D Laser-scanner meets ancient building structures July 24 Elton Barker (Oxford) Herodotos Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive July 31 Leif Isaksen (Southampton) Linking Archaeological Data August 7 Alexandra Trachsel (Hamburg) An Online Edition of the Fragments of Demetrios of Skepsis ALL WELCOME We are inviting both students and established researchers involved in the application of the digital humanities to the study of the ancient world to come and introduce their work. The focus of this seminar series is the interdisciplinary and collaborative work that results at the interface of expertise in Classics or Archaeology and Computer Science. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 20 05:43:23 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E5E8434; Wed, 20 May 2009 05:43:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D331C8425; Wed, 20 May 2009 05:43:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090520054322.D331C8425@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 05:43:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.27 servants as automata X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 27. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (9) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? [2] From: DrWender@aol.com (7) Subject: Re: 23.25 // king as automaton [3] From: ksearsmi (9) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? [4] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (46) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 07:49:34 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? In-Reply-To: <20090519072921.C8CDC5787@woodward.joyent.us> Willard -- If you're interested generally in how human beings were seen as machines, there's quite a bit out there in the history of science and in relationship to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Golem stories are part of this tradition as well. But the more specific, "servants as automata" -- that's interesting, and I'm not sure. I don't recall anything off hand. I'll think it over a bit and if I come up with anything I'll email you. You don't have to post this to the list. Jim --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 08:50:06 EDT From: DrWender@aol.com Subject: Re: 23.25 // king as automaton In-Reply-To: <20090519072921.C8CDC5787@woodward.joyent.us> In einer eMail vom 19.5.2009 09:29:42 Westeuropäische Sommerzeit schreibt willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk: > I am interested particularly in how human beings > were seen as machines In the view of german philosophers at the beginning of the 19th century monarchy was theorized in a way that the king were a signature machine in the center of a totally technocratic administration... --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 09:36:11 -0500 From: ksearsmi Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? In-Reply-To: <20090519072921.C8CDC5787@woodward.joyent.us> In Jean Ingelow's Victorian fairy tale, Mopsa the Fairy, two women dressed in finery who serve horses that have been ill-treated in the mortal world turn out to be automata (full of gears). Jack, the hero, learns that the horses intend to fix him up as a wind-up too, so that he may also serve. Of course, he flees, as would any sensible boy. Kelly Searsmith Assistant Director, eDream edream.illinois.edu ksearsmi@ncsa.illinois.edu --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 08:15:34 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? In-Reply-To: <20090519072921.C8CDC5787@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, There is that amusing movie Sleeper with Woody Allen where he pretends to be one of the domestic servants to escape at one point. Best, Geoffrey R. On May 19, 2009, at 1:29 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 25. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 08:06:12 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > > > I would be enormously grateful for any clues to the explicit > characterization of human servants or slaves as automata or to > attribution to them of characteristics proper to machines. Such would > include passages in novels and depictions in drama as well as > guidebooks > to proper social behaviour. Scholarly opinions that this was the way > servants were treated when people had them would also be welcome. It's > clear that from the earliest times automata were made or imagined in > the > form of servants, but I am interested particularly in how human beings > were seen as machines. > > Many thanks. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 21 06:00:09 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35824E1F7; Thu, 21 May 2009 06:00:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 199B1E1EF; Thu, 21 May 2009 06:00:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090521060008.199B1E1EF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 06:00:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.28 servants as automata X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 28. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (24) Subject: why servants as automata [2] From: Neil Kelly (12) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.27 servants as automata [3] From: Steve Jones (14) Subject: servants as automata [4] From: "Rabkin, Eric" (169) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.27 servants as automata [5] From: Igor Kramberger (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 07:08:25 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: why servants as automata Thanks for the several leads so far. But let me clarify my query about servants as automata. It's clear from Victorian British practices (brilliantly represented in Robert Altman's Gosford Park and well documented in the scholarship) that servants are seen as a function of the household for which they work and so are de-personalized in various ways -- by giving of names not their own, by dress and by rules of conduct. What I am looking for, however, is the specific equating of servants with automatic machines. This is one half of the story. The other half is the identification of such machines, computers specifically, with the performance of drudgery, while humans are thus "liberated" to do what is considered higher or more noble work, or simply to think. The computer in this common imagining takes on the role of the servant. On the conceptual level all this is fairly straightforward. But I want to find people making an *explicit* connection between living human beings in menial roles and machines, automata, computers. Thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 10:51:36 +0200 From: Neil Kelly Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.27 servants as automata In-Reply-To: <20090520054322.D331C8425@woodward.joyent.us> >>> Regarding the representation of human servants as machines - there are many representations of soldiers as automata in film and literature - the military and civil service requirement that the individual act without fear of favor (administrative decisions preclude compassion) is caricatured as machine-like. Durenmatt's essay/short-story "The Winter War in Tibet" has soldiers with heavy prosthetic parts. Neil Kelly Schutzenrainstrasse.12 Aesch, 4147 Switzerland home: +41 (0)61 681 17 77 mobile: +41 (0)79 227 40 78 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 07:08:55 -0500 From: Steve Jones Subject: servants as automata In-Reply-To: <20090520054322.D331C8425@woodward.joyent.us> A parodic sketch from 1829 by Silver-Fork novelist T. H. Lister, "A Dialogue for the Year 2030," offers a steampunk science fictional view of the future, complete with mechanical hunting machines instead of horses--and an automaton "steam porter" at the door of a fashionable London Lady. http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/mws/lastman/2130.htm Steve _________ Steven E. Jones Professor of English Loyola University Chicago 773-508-2792 sjones1@luc.edu http://web.me.com/stevenjones1/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 09:59:25 -0400 From: "Rabkin, Eric" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.27 servants as automata In-Reply-To: <20090520054322.D331C8425@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, The whole field of puppetry plays at least unconsciously and sometimes consciously on the mechanical view of human beings. Bergson's notion (in _Le Rire_) that the joke arises from the imposition of the mechanical on the animate (as in a pratfall) points to a sudden rebalancing of that relationship more toward the mechanical. I take it, then, that you are not so much interested in the machine (mechanical) aspect of servants as in the more specifically automatic aspects of servants, as your header has it. The sorcerer's apprentice (and the golem et al), it seems to me, raises an important question: how do we define "automatic"? If free will is required for an automaton to be truly automatic, is an automaton still a machine? If the machine has no free will, then can it be viewed fully as an automaton? Example: I set my thermostat for a given temperature. Without my further attention, it turns the air conditioner and the furnace on and off as needed. Is the thermostat an automaton? It makes decisions on its own but has no free will. Is a roomba an automaton? Not only does it navigate around furniture, it knows when to recharge itself and does so. But while people would often call a roomba an automaton (and it is made by a company called iRobot), conceptually it is merely a complicated thermostat adjusting itself to predefined parameters. Is the talking mirror in "Snow White" an automaton? It is clearly an information servant, but we have reason to believe that its role in the story depends on its inability to lie. Is that restriction a consequence of its nature or its social status as a servant, something built in (no free will) or something constantly imposed by the ongoing situation? What is the difference between the ongoing situation being social (which makes a slave or servant a slave or servant) and asocial (like the ambient temperature changes activating the thermostat)? My guess is that at least a good chunk of the issue you're pursuing may be amenable to exploration of a narrower question: what is the relation between nature and culture in our understanding of free will? An excellent text in which to consider that is Asimov's _I, Robot_. An older, comic example is Plappa, the out-of-repair robot mathematics teacher in Zamyatin's _We_. That 1920 novel explores vividly the role of "fancy" or "imagination" (translations vary) in distinguishing a person (called a "Number" here and all Numbers are servants of the One State) from a machine. The question of nature versus culture here may arise in a problem that flows from the inherent and necessary ambiguity of natural language. Oracles say one thing but turn out to mean another which is equally well represented by the same phrasing. For example, "You will kill your father and marry your mother" obviates Oedipus' free will because "father" and "mother" have both natural meanings (contributing gametes) and cultural meanings (raising a child). Freed genies, as bound servants, grant wishes, but not necessarily wishes intended. As Susan Calvin discovers in _I, Robot_, when it comes to robots, the key problem is properly formulating the instructions. And this is true of dealings with servants. The more precise one must be ("take a slice of bread and toast it at level 4 and then spread one-quarter ounce of butter on it and then bring it to me on a blue plate" as opposed to "bring me breakfast tomorrow after I shower"), the less valuable the machine as servant. To put that another way, the less automatic, the less valuable. But at what point does automatism become free will and the servant escape the world of machines (no matter its etiology) altogether? Yours, Eric ---------------------------------------- Eric S. Rabkin Dept of English Univ of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003 www.umich.edu/~esrabkin --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 08:34:44 +0200 From: Igor Kramberger Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? In-Reply-To: <20090520054322.D331C8425@woodward.joyent.us> Good morning, perhaps this could be useful for your purpose: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Sandmann_(Hoffmann) Look for: Olimpia as a woman, but it is automata. Kind regards, -- Igor ----- Igor Kramberger, raziskovalec-urednik http://www.ff.uni-mb.si/index.php?page_id=81&person=89 Koro'ska cesta 63, SI-2000 Maribor pri Tom'si'c, Ulica Toma Brejca 11 a, SI-1241 Kamnik Slovenija, Evropa _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 21 06:01:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91D5EE311; Thu, 21 May 2009 06:01:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B7918E302; Thu, 21 May 2009 06:01:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090521060124.B7918E302@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 06:01:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.29 new on WWW: Ubiquity on design X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 29. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 05:18:31 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY - NEW ISSUE ALERT This Week in Ubiquity: May 19 - 25, 2009 Is Design the Preeminent Protagonist in User Experience? We are gradually learning that "user experience" is a critical factor in customer satisfaction and loyalty. A positive experience means a happy customer who returns again. Designers of software systems and web services have been digging deeply into how they might generate a positive user experience. They are moving beyond anecdotes about excellent examples of user experiences and are developing design principles. Phillip Tobias gives us a fascinating account of the emerging design principles that will generate satisfied and loyal users. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Rehbein, Malte" (23) Subject: Conf. Anouncement "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age",Munich, 3/4 July 2009 [2] From: Franca Garzotto (82) Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - ACM-SIGCHI IDC 2009: TheEight International Conference on Interaction Design and Children [3] From: Dot Porter (87) Subject: Fwd: EpiDoc Training Workshops --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 17:22:03 +0100 From: "Rehbein, Malte" Subject: Conf. Anouncement "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age", Munich, 3/4 July 2009 Dear colleagues, The Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) organises an international symposium on "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age" in Munich, 3/4 July 2009. Please find a brief description below and more information including the preliminary programme here: http://www.hgw.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/termine/tagung_kod_pal/index.html#programm. You are all very welcome to participate. Kind regards, Malte Rehbein, NUI Galway International Conference "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age", Munich, 3-4 July 2009 The conference will focus on the challenges and consequences of using IT and the internet for codicological and palaeographic research. The authors of some selected articles of an anthology to be published this summer by the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) will present and discuss their excellent research results with scholars and experts working on ancient books and manuscripts. The presentations will be given on current issues in the following fields: manuscript catalogues and descriptions, digitization of manuscripts, collaborative systems of research on manuscripts, codicological databases, manuscript catalogues, research based on digital resources, e-learning in palaeography, palaeographic databases (characters, scripts, scribes), (semi-) automatic recognition of scripts and scribes, digital tools for transcriptions, visions and prototypes of other digital tools. A panel discussion will be held with renowned exponents in the field of codicology and palaeography and contributors of cutting edge research to get an overview of the state of the art as well as to open up new perspectives of codicological and palaeographic research in the "digital age". The conference is open to the public. ---- Malte Rehbein M.A. Marie Curie Research Fellow Moore Institute National University of Ireland, Galway Mob.: +353 85 8144 685 Email: malte.rehbein@nuigalway.ie Web: http://www.denkstaette.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 09:34:38 +0100 From: Franca Garzotto Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - ACM-SIGCHI IDC 2009: TheEight International Conference on Interaction Design and Children IDC 2009 - The 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children In cooperation with ACM-SIGCHI Politecnico di Milano - Como Campus, Como, Italy June 3-5, 2009 ****** REGULAR REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MAY 25, 2009 ****** ****** FINAL PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE ****** www.idc09.polimi.it http://www.idc09.polimi.it/Program.html For young people today, technology is pervasive in many aspects of life. From childhood onwards, they learn and play using computers and other technological devices; as they grow, they build and maintain friendships using computers and mobile phones; they interact with one another virtually; and even find critical interpersonal support and therapy using computers, the web, and other technology-enhanced artifacts. The IDC 2009 conference will continue IDC's tradition of better understanding children's and youngsters' needs in relationship to technology, exploring how to create interactive products for and with them, and investigating how technology-mediated experiences affect their life. ICD 2009 will present and discuss the most innovative contributions to research, development, and practice in these areas, gathering the leading minds in the field. This conference builds on the successes and high standards of the previous IDC conferences (IDC 2008 in Chicago, USA, IDC 2007 in Aalborg, Denmark, IDC 2006 in Tampere, Finland, IDC 2005 in Boulder, USA, IDC 2004 in Maryland, USA, IDC 2003 in Preston, UK and IDC 2002 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands). The PROGRAM of IDC09 presents a complete spectrum of events and sessions, exploring all the themes of the conference, in all possible aspects: - 4 high level scientific WORKSHOPS (selected from a set of 12 proposals) will be held on June 3 and will offer a terrific opportunity to meet in the context of focused and interactive discussions, to investigate emerging topics, to move new fields forward and to build communities - Two prestigious KEYNOTE speakers - S. A. Barab (Indiana University, USA) and A. Druin (University of Maryland, USA) - will provide a broad perspective on issues of general interest and new visions in the IDC field - The different sessions on June 4 and 5 will include 17 outstanding FULL PAPERS (selected from a set of 53 submissions), 30 high-quality SHORT PAPERS (selected from a set of 82 submissions), and 14 exciting DEMOS (selected from a set of 20 submissions) - A PANEL will debate the issue of INTERACTION FOR CHILDREN in the context of MUSEUMS and SCIENCE CENTRES. - A SPECIAL SESSION is devoted to present the European Commission 2010 Research Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning, and the recently launched IFIP Special Interest Group on Interaction Design and Children. - The best ideas for interaction for children at pre-school, object of the international COMPETITION C4C (Como for Children), will be presented in the final session. Social events (a welcome cocktail on June 3, a Gala Dinner on the lake shores on June 4, and a closing reception at Villa del Grumello) will complement the scientific program and will be a chance for participants to meet and discuss in the context of a gorgeous informal setting, and to build future collaborations. We look forward to meeting you in Como! For detailed and up-to-date information about IDC 2009, please visit www.idc09.polimi.it or contact idc09.info@polimi.it --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 17:28:09 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: Fwd: EpiDoc Training Workshops In-Reply-To: <4A142DFB.1020308@kcl.ac.uk> Those on the list working with premodern texts may be interested in these workshops, led by one of the principal designers of EpiDoc (a TEI schema designed for encoding inscriptions, papyrus, and other early texts). ************************************************ *EpiDoc Training Sessions 2009* *London 20-24 July* *Rome 20-25 September* The EpiDoc community has been developing protocols for the publication of inscriptions, papyri, and other documentary Classical texts in TEI-compliant XML: for details see the community website at http://epidoc.sf.net. Over the last few years there has been increasing demand for training by scholars wishing to use EpiDoc. We are delighted to be able to announce two training workshops, which will be offered in 2009. Both will be led by Dr Gabriel Bodard. These sessions will benefit scholars working on Greek or Latin documents with an interest in developing skills in the markup, encoding, and exploitation of digital editions. Competence in Greek and/or Latin, and knowledge of the Leiden Conventions will be assumed; no particular computer skills are required. *London session,* 20-24 July 2009. This will take place at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, 26-29 Drury Lane. The cost of attendance will be £50 for students; £100 for employees of universities or other non-profit institutions; £200 for employees of commercial institutions. Those interested in enrolling should apply to Dr Bodard, gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk by 20 June 2009. We hope to be able to offer some follow-up internships after the session, to enable participants to consolidate their experience under supervision; please let us know if that would be of interest to you. *Rome session,* 20-25 September 2009. This will take place at the British School at Rome. Thanks to the generous support of the International Association of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, the British School and Terra Italia Onlus, attendance will be free. Those interested in enrolling should apply to Dr Silvia Orlandi, silvia.orlandi@uniroma1.it by 30 June 2009. *Practical matters* Both courses will run from Monday to Friday starting at 10.00 am and ending at 16.00 each day. Participants should bring a wireless-enabled laptop. You should acquire and install a copy of Oxygen (http://www.oxygenxml.com/download_oxygenxml_editor.html) *and* either an educational licence ($48) or a 30-day trial licence (free). Don’t worry if you don’t know how to use it! -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ ____________________________________ EpiDoc Collaborative for Epigraphic Documents in TEI XML http://epidoc.sf.net Markup List Archives: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/markup.html The Stoa Consortium: http://www.stoa.org/ -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 22 05:57:07 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1919B6287; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:57:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 441536263; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:57:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090522055705.441536263@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 05:57:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.31 servants as automata X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 31. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Jan Rybicki" (59) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? [2] From: John Levin (40) Subject: humans as automata [3] From: Devin Griffiths (209) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.28 servants as automata --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 08:35:44 +0200 From: "Jan Rybicki" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? In-Reply-To: <20090519072921.C8CDC5787@woodward.joyent.us> Sorry for the obvious reference, but Vonnegut does a little discussion of this in his Breakfast of Champions. He begins: "Actually, the sea pirates who had the most to do with the creation of the new government owned human slaves. They used human beings for machinery, and, even after slavery was eliminated, because it was so embarrassing, they and their descendants continued to think of ordinary human beings as machines." All the best, Jan Rybicki --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 11:35:24 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: humans as automata In-Reply-To: <20090519072921.C8CDC5787@woodward.joyent.us> Concerning the characterization of humans as machines, I don't know of anything as specific as the portrayal of servants or slaves as automata, but can offer some wider examples of the mechanical body and worker, and the identification of machines with drudgery. Considering the body as mechanical is an old idea, found in Descartes' dualism and elsewhere. The mind distinguished human from animal. "The soul of brutes .... but a meer machine, is the opinion publicly owned and declared of Des Cartes, Gassendus, Dr Willis and others" (John Ray, quoted in Jennings, Pandemonium.* Ray was opposing this view.) In the 18th century, La Mettrie wrote L'homme machine (The Man Machine); especially notable as rather than dehumanising the body, atheism and materialism turned him towards hedonism. In economics, the division of labour turns workers into parts of a machine: Adam Ferguson, 1783: "Thus we might say that perfection, as regards manufacture, consists in its being able to be dismissed from the mind, in such a manner that without an effort of the brain the workshop may be operated like a machine, of which the parts are men." (Quoted in Marx, Poverty of Philosophy.) Kay, 1832: "Whilst the engine runs the people must work - men, women and children are yoked together with iron and steam. The animal machine - breakable in the best case, subject to a thousand sources of suffering - is chained fast to the iron machine, which knows no suffering and weariness ...." (Quoted in Jennings, Pandemonium.*) Marx: "Machinery is misused in order to transform the worker .... into a part of a specialized machine." (Capital, penguin ed., p547) I suspect the man machine metaphor is often used in connection with the military: Foucault briefly talks of this in Discipline and Punish. Lang's film 'Metropolis' is, if my memory serves, fairly explicit in portraying the workers as robotic, mechanised slaves to the machine. The word robot comes from the Czech word robota, meaning "work, labor or serf labor, and figuratively "drudgery" or "hard work". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot#Etymology * OT: Humphrey Jennings' 'Pandemonium' seems to be out of print and not on the net. Given that it was an early hypertext, this is a terrible state of affairs. Hope this is of interest, John Levin -- John Levin http://www.technolalia.org/blog/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 05:58:09 -0500 From: Devin Griffiths Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.28 servants as automata Dear Willard, I'm not sure if this is helpful, but Dickens's character Pancks from Little Dorrit is an agent (a debt collector) for Mr. Casby, is explicitly figured as steam-powered, (huffing and puffing), and, initially at least, unable to make decisions or change course. I think Dickens had a human steam engine in mind, but perhaps this counts as automata. Of course, what's interesting about Pancks is how be becomes less machine-like over the novel. Best,Devin Griffiths Devin S. Griffiths Graduate Fellow, Rutgers University English Department, Murray Hall 510 George St. New Brunswick, NJ 08901 4702 Feagan Houston, TX 77007 (713) 882-7675 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 22 05:57:40 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08CE56396; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:57:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 212546381; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:57:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090522055738.212546381@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 05:57:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.32 education for sustainable development X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 32. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 11:49:13 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Consultation on "Education for Sustainable Development" Consultation on "Education for Sustainable Development" This consultation is sponsored by the E-Journal of Solidarity, Sustainability, and Nonviolence. You are cordially invited to participate. The agenda includes the eight educational priorities defined by UNESCO: 1. Gender equity 2. Human health 3. Environmental stewardship 4. Rural development 5. Cultural diversity 6. Human security 7. Sustainable urbanization 8. Sustainable consumption Version 1 of the consultation survey is online: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cDNoNGlfcDh6NmQ0NUFGTjhjampxVmc6MA.. I would be grateful if you forward this invitation to others who might be interest. Luis Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D. Editor, E-Journal of Solidarity, Sustainability, and Nonviolence http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisust.html This is a monthly, free subscription, open access e-journal. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 22 05:58:00 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F566423; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:58:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2987F641C; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:58:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090522055800.2987F641C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 05:58:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.33 new publications: LLC 24.2 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 33. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 06:49:31 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Literary and Linguistic Computing 24.2 Literary and Linguistic Computing 24.2 (June) Special Issue 'Selected papers from Digital Humanities 2008, University of Oulu, Finland, June 25-29 URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol24/issue2/index.dtl?etoc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen, Espen S. Ore, and Claire Warwick Intoduction ---------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ---------------------------------------------------------------- Arianna Ciula and Tamara Lopez Reflecting on a dual publication: Henry III Fine Rolls print and web Neal Audenaert and Richard Furuta Annotated Facsimile Editions: Defining macro-level structure for image-based electronic editions Jama S. Coartney and Susan L. Wiesner Performance as digital text: Capturing signals and secret messages in a media-rich experience Christian-Emil Ore and Oyvind Eide TEI and cultural heritage ontologies: Exchange of information? Stephanie A. Schlitz The TEI as luminol: Forensic philology in a digital age Brian L. Pytlik Zillig TEI Analytics: converting documents into a TEI format for cross-collection text analysis Georg Rehm, Oliver Schonefeld, Andreas Witt, Erhard Hinrichs, and Marga Reis Sustainability of annotated resources in linguistics: A web-platform for exploring, querying, and distributing linguistic corpora and other resources Claire Warwick, Claire Fisher, Melissa Terras, Mark Baker, Amanda Clarke, Mike Fulford, Matt Grove, Emma O'Riordan, and Mike Rains iTrench: A study of user reactions to the use of information technology in field archaeology Lynne Siemens 'It's a team if you use "reply all" ': An exploration of research teams in digital humanities environments ---------------------------------------------------------------- Review Article ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Van den Branden From Common Sense to Common Knowledge. And Vice Versa ---------------------------------------------------------------- Reviews ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lisa Spiro Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet. * Christine L. Borgman. John Nerbonne Errors and Intelligence in Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Parsers and Pedagogues. * Trude Heift and Mathias Schulze. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 22 05:58:40 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D598B669F; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:58:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 05B6B668A; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:58:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090522055839.05B6B668A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 05:58:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.34 events: visual arts & trade; Birds of a Feather; TEI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 34. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kayleigh Merritt (35) Subject: Call for Papers: Visual Arts & Global Trade in Early American Republic [2] From: Inke Conference (46) Subject: INKE 2009: Birds of a Feather Conference [3] From: Dan O'Donnell (82) Subject: Call for Bids: TEI Conference and Members Meeting, 2010 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 10:51:13 -0400 From: Kayleigh Merritt Subject: Call for Papers: Visual Arts & Global Trade in Early American Republic In-Reply-To: <54475820905210749h592a5c8cwad73644bed333184@mail.gmail.com> Call for Papers Visual Arts and Global Trade in Early American Republic Salem, Massachusetts Tentative Date: March 6, 2010 American participation in global trade increased dramatically during the Early Republic. American ships ventured beyond the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn to expand direct contact with China, India, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and other parts of the Pacific world. This trade brought widespread access to Asian arts and other visual materials and profoundly influenced American visual arts. While much of the literature on the arts of the Early Republic has focused on building nationalism in the wake of the Revolution, this conference investigates the state of early American internationalism. How did global trade contribute to knowledge and culture in the Early Republic, particularly in the arts? We invite papers and proposals that examine the impact of global trade from the 1780s to the 1840s on all aspects of visual art production: painting, sculpture, architecture, garden design, ceramics, furniture, silver, wallpaper, textiles, fashion, and other media. We also invite papers on the transmission of artistic ideas—through eyewitness accounts, illustrated books and prints, imported images and objects, museum collections, patronage, art markets, and other topics. Honoraria and travel support for speakers are available through a generous grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Organizing institutions include Salem State College, the Salem Maritime Historical Site (National Park Service), and the Salem Athenaeum. The conference will provide opportunities to tour Salem’s magnificent Federalist architecture and museum collections. To submit proposals for papers, please send an abstract (300 to 500 words) and a brief c.v. via email to pjohnston@salemstate.edu. Proposals may also be submitted by mail to Visual Arts and Global Trade conference, c/o Patricia Johnston, Art Department, Salem State College, 352 Lafayette Street, Salem MA 01970. Proposals must be received by July 15, 2009. Speakers should be willing to revise their papers for later publication. Text and visuals for presentations are due in December 2009. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 13:18:26 -0700 From: Inke Conference Subject: INKE 2009: Birds of a Feather Conference In-Reply-To: <54475820905210749h592a5c8cwad73644bed333184@mail.gmail.com> As a partner of INKE or a related discussion list I am forwarding to you our call for papers for a Birds of a Feather conference to be held at the University of Victoria on October 24 and 25. Please note that the submissions deadline for abstracts is June 1 to inke.conference@gmail.com. Thank you! Call for Papers: INKE 2009 Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age 23 and 24 October 2009, University of Victoria (http://www.uvic.ca) Proposals by 1 June 2009 to inke.conference@gmail.com Digital technology is fundamentally altering the way we relate to writing, reading, and the human record itself. The pace of that change has created a gap between core social/cultural practices that depend on stable reading and writing environments and the new kinds of digital artifacts--electronic books, being just one type of many--that must sustain those practices now and into the future. This conference explores research foundations pertinent to understanding those new practices and emerging media, specifically focusing on work leading toward [1] theorizing the transmission of culture in pre- and post-electronic media, [2] documenting the facets of how people experience information as readers and writers, [3] designing new kinds of interfaces and artifacts that afford new reading abilities, [4] conceptualizing the issues necessary to provide information to these new reading and communicative environments, and [5] reflection on interdisciplinary team research strategies pertinent to work in the area. We invite paper and poster/demonstration proposals that address these and other issues pertinent to research in the area to INKE 2009, to be held at the University of Victoria, 23-24 October 2009. Proposals should contain a title, an abstract (of approximately 250 words) plus list of works cited, and the names, affiliations, and website URLs of presenters; fuller papers will be solicited after acceptance of the proposal. Some funding is available to assist in graduate student travel to this event; if you wish to apply for this, please indicate this when submitting your proposal. *Please send your proposals before 1 June 2009 to inke.conference@gmail.com. * Proposals will be reviewed and participants contacted by 1 July 2009, and papers for publication in the conference volume will be due 15 August 2009. Conference details will be posted as they are available to http://www.inke.ca/inke2009, beginning 1 May 2009. Programme Committee: Ray Siemens (U Victoria), Stan Ruecker (U Alberta), Alan Galey (U Toronto), Richard Cunningham (Acadia U), Claire Warwick (U C London), Tassie Gniady (U Victoria, Coordinator). ------------------------------ Tassie Gniady INKE Project Manager University of Victoria tassieg@gmail.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 16:25:44 -0600 From: Dan O'Donnell Subject: Call for Bids: TEI Conference and Members Meeting, 2010 In-Reply-To: <54475820905210749h592a5c8cwad73644bed333184@mail.gmail.com> (also posted to the TEI News server: http://www.tei-c.org/News/index.xml#mm2010Call Please feel free to cross post) Call for Bids: TEI Conference and Members Meeting, 2010 The annual TEI Conference and Members' Meeting takes place every year in late October or early November. We are now seeking bids to host this event in 2010. The meeting this year (2009) will take place on November 11-15 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. The previous meetings have been: * London, England, November 6-8, 2008. hosted by King's College London. * College Park (MD), USA, October 31-November 3, 2007. Hosted by the University of Maryland. * 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 conference and 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 conference and meeting will be a four-day event (plus pre-conference workshops), with approximately 120 attendees. The three days of the main conference will include a mix of plenary lectures by invited speakers, round-table discussions, and conference-style sessions; there will also be a business meeting of the membership. The fourth day (Sunday) will be a closed session for members of the Board. Meetings of TEI Special Interest Groups (SIGs) may 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 guarantees direct costs of the conference and meeting up to a maximum of US$5200 with special provisions for funding attendance in excess of approximately 120 attendees. The conference organising committee is also expected to seek additional funds from local institutions, commercial sponsors, and other organisations. A conference registration fee is charged to assist the TEI in recovering its expenditure and ensure that it is able to underwrite the cost of future conferences. Bids should be sent to info@tei-c.org by no later than September 1, 2009, though institutions considering making a proposal are encouraged to contact chair of the TEI (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca ) much earlier in the process in order to discuss their ideas. Bids 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., ideas for a particular theme or focus). In submitting bids, local organisers are encouraged to be creative: the TEI is willing to work with hosts to reflect local interests and strengths. Further information about the requirements for the conference and members meeting may be found in our document on Hosting a Members Meeting http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/Meetings/meeting_hosting.xml and the Board's own Practices and Procedures http://www.tei-c.org/Board/procedures.xml#body.1_div.4 document. All bids will be reviewed by the TEI board, which makes the final decision. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) Founding Director, Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Chair, Electronic Editions Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America Vox: +1 403 329-2377 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 23 06:05:33 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED7A88AA; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:05:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4C1EC886C; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:05:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090523060531.4C1EC886C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 06:05:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.35 servants as automata X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 35. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 12:42:07 -0400 From: "Milde, Robert" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.31 servants as automata In-Reply-To: <20090522055705.441536263@woodward.joyent.us> The (in)famous portrayal of Topsy in _Uncle Tom's Cabin_ has a strong hint of the child slave ("the thing") as a mechanical wind-up doll, and also has a steam-engine image like Dickens. And, a few lines later, Topsy insists that she never had parents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Augustine, what in the world have you brought that thing here for?" "For you to educate, to be sure, and train in the way she should go. I thought she was rather a funny specimen in the Jim Crow line. Here, Topsy," he added, giving a whistle, as a man would to call the attention of a dog, "give us a song, now, and show us some of your dancing." The black, glassy eyes glittered with a kind of wicked drollery, and the thing struck up, in a clear shrill voice, an odd negro melody, to which she kept time with her hands and feet, spinning round, clapping her hands, knocking her knees together, in a wild, fantastic sort of time, and producing in her throat all those odd guttural sounds which distinguish the native music of her race; and finally, turning a summerset or two, and giving a prolonged closing note, as odd and unearthly as that of a steam-whistle, she came suddenly down on the carpet, and stood with her hands folded, and a most sanctimonious expression of meekness and solemnity over her face, only broken by the cunning glances which she shot askance from the corners of her eyes. -------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Milde Department of English & Theatre Eastern Kentucky University 859-622-3181 -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 23 06:08:48 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D58089CF; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:08:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EA06989C8; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:08:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: 23.36 postdocs at Umeå; PhD studentships at Liverpool From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090523060847.EA06989C8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 06:08:47 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 36. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Patrik Svensson" (31) Subject: Five postdoctoral fellowships at HUMlab, Umeå University [2] From: Carolyn Guertin (27) Subject: PhD Scholarship in Media Art Histories --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 21:13:29 +0200 From: "Patrik Svensson" Subject: Five postdoctoral fellowships at HUMlab, Umeå University Five international postdoctoral positions in the digital humanities are now available at HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden from September 1, 2009 or January 15, 2010. The call is open, but 1-3 positions may be allocated to the areas of "religion and the digital", "digital journalism", "architecture and the digital", "next generation digital humanities tools" and/or "visualization in the digital humanities". HUMlab is an internationally recognized center for the humanities and information technology. Much of the work takes place in a 5,300 square feet studio space at the center of the university and in different kinds of digital and hybrid environments. HUMlab is based on a double (or triple) affiliation model where much of the work is done in close collaboration with the humanities (or other) departments. HUMlab offers an open, friendly, creative and intellectually rich milieu for doing work in the humanities and information technology. The fellowships are for one year. Another year may be possible based on a review as well as the availability of funding. Collaboration is a central part of the ethos of HUMlab and among our strategic partners are Kulturverket (local award-winning culture organization), Lund University (the Humanities Laboratory), King's College London (Centre for Computing in the Humanities) and the University of California (UC Humanities Research Institute). Applicants will be expected to have a Ph.D. in a humanities discipline. In exceptional cases, other areas and backgrounds can be of interest as well. Applications should include a description of an envisioned postdoctoral year-long project. Please see http://blog.humlab.umu.se/postdocs for more information. Applications should be submitted electronically by June 18, 2009. We look forward to receiving your application. Patrik Svensson Director, HUMlab Umeå University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 20:33:16 +0100 From: Carolyn Guertin Subject: PhD Scholarship in Media Art Histories The deadline is very soon, but this might be of interest to people on the list. http://www.facebook.com/l/;http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/858826/ahrc-collaborative-doctoral-award-extended-programme-2009-2014 UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL Liverpool School of Architecture/F.A.C.T. (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Extended Programme 2009-2014 'New Media in a digital age: the role of new media in art, culture and society at the turn of the 21st century' The first of 3 full-time PhD studentships, beginning October 2009, concerned with the history of developments in new media, offers an exciting opportunity for a suitably qualified candidate able to take advantage of FACT's excellent digital resources while undertaking this research programme based in the School of Architecture. For further information and an application pack, contact Jan Martin, email: jmmartin@liv.ac.uk Deadline for applications: 29 May 2009 FACT FOUNDATION FOR ART AND CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY Arts & Humanities Research Council Heather Corcoran Curator FACT 88 Wood Street Liverpool, L1 4DQ t: + 44 (0)151 707 4425 f: + 44 (0)151 707 4445 http://www.facebook.com/l/;http://www.fact.co.uk -- Carolyn Guertin, PhD Director, eCreate Lab Department of English University of Texas at Arlington Website: https://mavspace.uta.edu/guertin/portfolio/ Email: carolyn.guertin@gmail.com Skype: carolyn_guertin _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 23 06:09:12 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 712548AE8; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:09:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D03B58A8D; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:09:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090523060910.D03B58A8D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 06:09:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.37 on Wikipedia X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 37. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 06:07:50 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Wikipedia Nearly everyone here, I'd suppose, will be (and, if not, should be) interested in David Runciman's "Like Boiling a Frog", rev. of The Wikipedia Revolution, by Andrew Lih, London Review of Books, 28 May 2009. The entirety of this long review is online, at http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n10/runc01_.html. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 23 06:10:29 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6A5D8BA0; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:10:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 684E28B64; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:10:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090523061028.684E28B64@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 06:10:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.38 Czech, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian NLP tools X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 38. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:13:00 +0100 From: "[TiP, Poland] Newsletter" Subject: Czech, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian Natural Language ProcessingTools Press Release, May, 21 TiP Ltd, Katowice Poland has announced release of updated versions of its NLP morphology based software tools. Developed in the scope of the multi-national European Projects taggers, lemmatizers and spellcheckers for Slavic Languages are now available to be included in third party applications. TiP specializes in development of linguistic components for incorporating into other applications. Depending on required functionality modules may be customized to fulfill specific needs. Application Programming Interface (API) delivered with the standard version provides necessary entry points to basic routines; it may be adjusted to fit into existing programs. More details - here. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 23 06:18:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A7198EBB; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:18:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3AFD18EAC; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:18:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090523061824.3AFD18EAC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 06:18:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.39 events: serious games; data ecosystems; text-grid X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 39. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Marc (40) Subject: Reminder: IEEE DEST 2009 Tutorials [2] From: Riccardo Berta (42) Subject: cfp: Serious Games and Cultural Heritage Workshop --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 18:35:23 +0200 From: Marc Subject: Reminder: IEEE DEST 2009 Tutorials Dear Colleagues, May I remind you of the two upcoming tutorials of interest to eHumanities scholars, to take place on May 31st in the context of the IEEE DEST conference in Istanbul: * TUTORIAL ** Data Ecosystems: Repositories in Digital Ecosystems ** Lecturers: ** Tobias Blanke - **King's College London, UK ** Mark Hedges - King's College London, UK * In this tutorial, Tobias and Mark will present the general model of repository applications and will demonstrate several systems that use these principles to enable exploration of large data sets. The tutorial will cover the state of the art in this rapidly growing area of research. Several real world applications will be presented, which take the first steps towards a data ecosystem for research and business. *TUTORIAL ** TextGrid ** Lecturer - **Marc Wilhelm Küster - University for Applied Sciences in Worms, Germany* This TextGrid tutorial will provide an overview on the infrastructure of the TextGrid ecosystem, followed by a hands-on introduction to the development of new agents, the integration of new data sources and the use and population of service registries. Not only will this tutorial be relevant to eHumanities researchers but also to other disciplines that want to study the practicalities of the design of a domain-specific digital ecosystem that is still part of a larger ecosystem of ecosystems. The tutorial is complemented by a special session on the role of Digital Ecosystems in the eHumanities. More details and registration under http://dest2009.debii.curtin.edu.au/ and in particular http://dest2009.debii.curtin.edu.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=29 Best regards, Marc Küster -- ------ Prof. Dr. Marc Wilhelm Küster University of Applied Sciences Worms Erenburgerstr. 19 D-67549 Worms --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 17:36:52 +0100 From: Riccardo Berta Subject: cfp: Serious Games and Cultural Heritage Workshop EXTENDED DEADLINE CALL FOR PAPER ***** WORKSHOP ***** Second Workshop on Serious Games in Cultural Heritage (SGCH) Submission Deadline: May 24, 2009 To participate please send a full paper to: segach@elios.unige.it Best selected papers will be considered for a special issue in the International Journal of Arts and Technology(IJART, www.inderscience.com/ijart ). In conjunction with VSMM 2009: 15th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia Vienna, Austria, September 9-12, 2009, http://www.vsmm2009.org/workshops-1/segach-1 ------------------------------------------------------- The "Serious Games in Cultural Heritage" (SGCH) workshop is intended to be a forum for the areas related with Serious Games applied to the Cultural Heritage (CH). The main objective of the workshop is the exploration of "engage yourself with the heritage" concept, in order to investigate new, compelling modalities of interacting with faithful representations of the CH and propose new areas of applications for Serious Games. The idea is to explore how to conveniently apply leading-the-edge entertainment technologies to the promotion and wide dissemination of contents and experiences related to the CH. The workshop areas of interest includes (but are not limited to): - Promotion of the cultural heritage through entertainment technologies - Serious games to promote knowledge and interaction with the cultural heritage - Virtual worlds with a cultural-heritage value - Living worlds - Online interaction with 3D reconstructions of the heritage - Serious games programming and design - Narrative related to cultural heritage (especially non-linear story-telling and interactive narrative) - Digital tools for increasing the interaction of the general public with the cultural heritage - Game Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Heritage - Cultural Computing - Cultural Knowledge Engineering - Cultural Heritage applications-games in mobile devices - Interactive Digital TV and Cultural Heritage - New interaction modalities with digital representations of the cultural heritage - Validation of the cultural appropriateness and usefulness of systems based on digital entertainment - Evaluation and assessment methodologies - User-centred design of cultural entertainment applications - Business models for serious games and, more generally, for cultural entertainment - Definition of user needs and stakeholder requirements for cultural entertainment projects - Tools, methodologies and practices to support participatory and contextual design of multidisciplinary teams in projects for the digital heritage -Case studies based on concrete experiences We are also organizing a book to provide a more comprehensive overview of the emerging field of Serious Game and Cultural Heritage. A selection of the papers of the workshop will be published in an extended form also in this book. [...] Riccardo Berta Research Fellow ELIOS Lab, Department of Biophsyisical and Electronic Engineering, University of Genoa Via Opera Pia 11a Genova, 16145 Italy _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon May 25 06:04:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6580864E; Mon, 25 May 2009 06:04:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 188C48630; Mon, 25 May 2009 06:04:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090525060424.188C48630@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 06:04:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.41 servants as automata X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 41. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 20:47:06 -0700 From: Ayhan Aytes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.35 servants as automata Dear Willard, Aristotle in Politics (1253b) defines servants as animate household instruments: "Property is a part of the household, and the art of acquiring property is a part of the art of managing the household; for no man can live well, or indeed live at all, unless he be provided with necessaries. And as in the arts which have a definite sphere the workers must have their own proper instruments for the accomplishment of their work, so it is in the management of a household. Now instruments are of various sorts; some are living, others lifeless; in the rudder, the pilot of a ship has a lifeless, in the look-out man, a living instrument; for in the arts the servant is a kind of instrument. Thus, too, a possession is an instrument for maintaining life. And so, in the arrangement of the family, a slave is a living possession, and property a number of such instruments; and the servant is himself an instrument which takes precedence of all other instruments. For if every instrument could accomplish its own work, obeying or anticipating the will of others, like the statues of Daedalus, or the tripods of Hephaestus, which, says the poet, "of their own accord entered the assembly of the Gods; " if, in like manner, the shuttle would weave and the plectrum touch the lyre without a hand to guide them, chief workmen would not want servants, nor masters slaves." (tr. Benjamin Jowett http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.1.one.html) It is necessary to note that both examples from the myths of Daedalus andHephaestus refer to automata-like beings. Ayhan Aytes Ph.D. Candidate University of California San Diego Department of Communication _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon May 25 06:06:03 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8104E9B64; Mon, 25 May 2009 06:06:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 095B09B49; Mon, 25 May 2009 06:06:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090525060602.095B09B49@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 06:06:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.42 1st European Summer School in "Culture & Technology" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 42. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 00:39:07 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: 1st European Summer School "Culture & Technology" We are happy to announce the 1. European Summer School „Culture & Technology, to take place at the University of Leipzig, Germany, July 27-31, 2009. http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ Funded by the University of Leipzig, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Summer School, which in its name links up consciously with an international video conferencing seminar which has been in place for two years now, is directed at an international audience. Students in their final year, graduates, postgraduates, doctoral students, postdocs, teachers, librarians and technical assistants from all over Europe who are involved in the theoretical, experimental or practical application of computational methods in the various areas of the Humanities, in libraries and archives, or wish to do so are the target audience of the courses. The Summer School addresses also expressively engineers and computer scientist who accept the challenge represented by the Arts and Humanities, who wish to obtain an insight into the application of, and work with, computational methods in the Humanities, and who wish to familiarise themselves with the special demands put on the soft- and hardware systems they develop by arts and humanities-related data. The Summer School takes place across a whole week. The intensive programme consists of workshops, lectures and project presentations. The Summer School will close with a round table discussion on the challenges presented by technological developments and by the integration of the Humanities and ICTs. Each workshop consists of a total of 15 sessions or 30 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 15. Applications for a place in a specific workshop will be made on the Portal of the Summer School. Preference will be given to young scholars of the Humanities who are planning, or are already involved with, a technology-based research project and describe this project in a qualified way. Young scholars of Engineering and Computer Sciences are expected to describe their specialities and interests in such a way that also non specialists can follow and that they support their expectations from the Summer School with good arguments. Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation to the Summer School, participants who have no possibility of applying for a refund from another institution can apply for a contribution to their travel and accommodation costs. Important dates: 31.05.2009 last day for the expression of interest by setting up a personal account with ConfTool 15.06.2009 last day for the submission of the application via ConfTool (accessible from the portal of the Summer School) 30.06.2009 communication of the selection process results 10.07.2009 last day for the payment of registration fees 27.07.2009 Summer School starts For further details, such as the schedule, planned workshops, venue, registration fees, accommodation ecc., see: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ Prof. Dr. Elisabeth BurrOrganizer of the European Summer School University of Leipzig elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de ---------- Univ.-Prof'in Dr. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut für Romanistik Philologische Fakultät Universität Leipzig Haus 1 / 3. Etage, Zi. 1307 Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig Tel. +49 (0)341 97 37413/37411 elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 26 05:39:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6E712CDB; Tue, 26 May 2009 05:39:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B09312CCA; Tue, 26 May 2009 05:39:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090526053925.1B09312CCA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 05:39:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.43 one or more problems with Humanist X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 43. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 06:24:47 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a problem? Dear colleagues, Apparently there are some problems with Humanist that may have begun between 23.39 and 23.41 -- 23.40 having vanished is, I suspect, either the first victim or an accomplice. First of all, at least one person here is getting Humanist as follows: >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 42. Centre for >> Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: >> humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 >> 00:39:07 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr >> >> Summer School "Culture & Technology" We are happy to announce the >> 1. European Summer School „Culture & Technology, to take place at >> the University of Leipzig, Germany, July 27-31, 2009. >> http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ Funded by the University >> of Leipzig, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Association for >> Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Summer School, which Does anyone else here see such a mess made of Humanist postings? Then, as far as I can see, since Humanist 23.40 the headers are no longer being centred. Please be patient while we investigate. Reports on the problem(s) would be welcome in the next day or so. Thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 27 05:02:13 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3480254E; Wed, 27 May 2009 05:02:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 55F6C253E; Wed, 27 May 2009 05:02:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090527050211.55F6C253E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 05:02:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.44 Wikipedia X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 44. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 11:22:16 +0200 From: "Hladnik, Miran" Subject: Re:[Humanist]Wikipedia Referring to the [Humanist] 23.37 post on Wikipedia (http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/pipermail/humanist/2009-May/000473.html), I am using the opportunity to point to my report on using Wikipedia and Wikisource in the university seminar (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Slovene_student_projects_in_Wikipedia_and_Wikisource); I would appreciate comments. --- Miran Hladnik _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 27 05:02:49 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98B88258A; Wed, 27 May 2009 05:02:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 74E322583; Wed, 27 May 2009 05:02:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090527050248.74E322583@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 05:02:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.45 job as RA at University College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 45. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 12:25:16 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Research Assistant in the use of Virtual Research Environments and Social Networking applications Dear Colleagues, Please circulate this job advertisement to anyone you think may be interested, thanks! Melissa Research Assistant in the use of Virtual Research Environments and Social Networking applications Applications are invited for the full-time post of Research Assistant in the UCL Department of Information Studies to work on LinkSphere: a joint research project with the University of Reading, funded by the JISC Virtual Research Environment 3 programme. The project will develop a virtual research environment which will allow cross-repository searching across various digital collections and archives, producing a useful user interface to various disparate digital collections. The project will study the way that social networking technologies are used by academics and how they might be integrated into a VRE. Development of the technologies will be undertaken at the University of Reading, with user analysis and usability from the team at UCL. 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, and with the wider academic community utilizing the system. We aim to discover how researchers are using advanced technology, virtual research environments, and web 2.0 and social networking applications. We wish to design the virtual research environment to ensure that the needs of both actual and potential users are represented. Further information on the LinkSphere project will be available shortly from the project website (https://linksphere.org/). The duration of this full-time appointment will be 1 October 2009 to 31 March 2011 and the salary will be at UCL Grade 6, spine point 24, £24,877 per annum plus £2,781 per annum London Allowance. Applications must be emailed to Kerstin Michaels, Departmental Administrator, UCL Department if Information Studies k.michaels@ucl.ac.uk in two PDF files:- 1. a covering letter, CV and contact details of three referees to be submitted together in one file called X_LinkSphere.pdf (where X is the applicant's surname). 2. the completed UCL form, including equal opportunities monitoring form, to be submitted as one file called X_UCL.pdf (where X is the applicant's surname). Interested candidates can also contact Dr Claire Warwick (c.warwick@ucl.ac.uk, tel: 020 7679 2548) or Dr Melissa Terras (m.terras@ucl.ac.uk, tel: 020 7679 7206). Further information, including the job description and UCL form, can be downloaded from: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/kerstin-michaels/vacancies/ Interviews will be held on Tuesday, 7 July 2009. UCL Taking Action For Equality. The closing date for applications is Wednesday, 10th June 2009. -- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE MBCS FHEA Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication Department of 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@ucl.ac.uk Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/melissa-terras/ Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ Digital Images for the Information Professional. Available now through all good bookshops, or from Ashgate at http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&pageSubject=324&title_id=8986&edition_id=9780 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 27 05:04:58 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A4C26EF; Wed, 27 May 2009 05:04:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CEF8B26E8; Wed, 27 May 2009 05:04:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090527050457.CEF8B26E8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 05:04:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.46 events: culture & technology; e-science; social sciences, arts, humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 46. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elisabeth Burr (78) Subject: 1st European Summer School "Culture & Technology" [2] From: "Dunn, Stuart" (28) Subject: FW: AHM2009: Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities [3] From: "Lauer, Gerhard" (79) Subject: CfP IEEE eScience Conference Oxford --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 00:39:07 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: 1st European Summer School "Culture & Technology" [This message is being re-sent for the benefit of those whose copy of it was mangled in yesterday's Humanist. -WM] We are happy to announce the 1. European Summer School „Culture & Technology“, to take place at the University of Leipzig, Germany, July 27-31, 2009. http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ Funded by the University of Leipzig, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Summer School, which in its name links up consciously with an international video conferencing seminar which has been in place for two years now, is directed at an international audience. Students in their final year, graduates, postgraduates, doctoral students, postdocs, teachers, librarians and technical assistants from all over Europe who are involved in the theoretical, experimental or practical application of computational methods in the various areas of the Humanities, in libraries and archives, or wish to do so are the target audience of the courses. The Summer School addresses also expressively engineers and computer scientist who accept the challenge represented by the Arts and Humanities, who wish to obtain an insight into the application of, and work with, computational methods in the Humanities, and who wish to familiarise themselves with the special demands put on the soft- and hardware systems they develop by arts and humanities-related data. The Summer School takes place across a whole week. The intensive programme consists of workshops, lectures and project presentations. The Summer School will close with a round table discussion on the challenges presented by technological developments and by the integration of the Humanities and ICTs. Each workshop consists of a total of 15 sessions or 30 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 15. Applications for a place in a specific workshop will be made on the Portal of the Summer School. Preference will be given to young scholars of the Humanities who are planning, or are already involved with, a technology-based research project and describe this project in a qualified way. Young scholars of Engineering and Computer Sciences are expected to describe their specialities and interests in such a way that also non specialists can follow and that they support their expectations from the Summer School with good arguments. Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation to the Summer School, participants who have no possibility of applying for a refund from another institution can apply for a contribution to their travel and accommodation costs. Important dates: 31.05.2009 last day for the expression of interest by setting up a personal account with ConfTool 15.06.2009 last day for the submission of the application via ConfTool (accessible from the portal of the Summer School) 30.06.2009 communication of the selection process results 10.07.2009 last day for the payment of registration fees 27.07.2009 Summer School starts For further details, such as the schedule, planned workshops, venue, registration fees, accommodation ecc., see: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr Organizer of the European Summer School University of Leipzig elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de ---------- Univ.-Prof'in Dr. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut für Romanistik Philologische Fakultät Universität Leipzig Haus 1 / 3. Etage, Zi. 1307 Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig Tel. +49 (0)341 97 37413/37411 elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:27:07 +0100 From: "Dunn, Stuart" Subject: FW: AHM2009: Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Apologies for cross-postings. UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2009 Past, Present and Future Monday 7th - Wednesday 9th December 2009, Oxford, UK http://www.allhands.org.uk/ Abstracts are invited for the 2009 All Hands Meeting theme, 'Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities'. Not least by virtue of their diversity of research orientations, methods and practices, the social science, arts and humanities present distinctive challenges for the exploitation of e-Infrastructure. In order to identify these challenges more clearly and determine how we might respond to them, we invite contributions from members of the social science, arts and humanities research communities with experience of, or interests in: 1) exploring, developing, and applying new, e-Infrastructure-enabled methods and practices to advance social science, arts and humanities research and practice; and 2) studying issues impacting on their wider take-up. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following: * Advances in social sciences, arts and humanities research and practice enabled by e-Infrastructure * Innovations in research methods, practices and tools in social science, arts and humanities * Computational methods which encourage and foster interdisciplinarity across the social sciences, arts and humanities * Challenges and solutions for the development of advanced research data infrastructure in social science, arts and humanities * Case studies of barriers and enablers in the adoption of e-Infrastructure in social science, arts and humanities Full details of the AHM conference, and instructions on how to submit an abstract, may be found at http://www.allhands.org.uk/. ----------------------- Dr Stuart Dunn Research Fellow Centre for e-Research King's College London www.ahessc.ac.uk/stuart-dunn Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 1989 stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk Centre for e-Research 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL UK Geohash: http://geohash.org/gcpvj1zm7yp1 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 11:05:51 +0200 From: "Lauer, Gerhard" Subject: CfP IEEE eScience Conference Oxford IEEE eScience Conference Oxford eHumanities Track Call for Papers Researchers in the Humanities have embraced digital technologies for decades and are continuing to do so in increasing numbers. Two workshops at earlier IEEE eScience conferences, along with numerous other events, have given interesting insights into these activities. However, advances in the digital humanities have been rather fragmented, and have been tailored to specific research questions and methodologies. In an attempt to connect the digital islands that have thus emerged, this event will focus on applications and infrastructures for re-usability, integration and interoperability of research data for e-Humanities, addressing such issues as the interoperability of existing tools to enable more complex workflows, and shared virtual research environments for typical work environments of Humanities scholars. A multiplicity of large initiatives have already started addressing the these issues, among them ANDS in Australia (http://ands.org.au/), Project Bamboo in the USA (http://projectbamboo.org/), as well as the ESFRI-projects CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu/) and DARIAH (http://www.dariah.eu/) in Europe, to name but a few. All these initiatives are facing the huge problem of fragmentation and heterogeneity in research in the Humanities, which has repercussions on formats and encodings for datasets, the ways of analyzing phenomena and the traditions of scholarly discourse. Not surprisingly these initiatives in particular try to get a deeper understanding of layers of abstractions required which might address the goal of harmonization on the one hand, without ignoring the specificities of the various Humanities disciplines on the other hand. This e-Humanities track aims to showcase projects that contribute to e-Humanities, whether by providing integrated and interoperable infrastructures, or by offering new types of applications making use of such infrastructures and connecting the digital islands. At the same time this track aims to trigger critical discussion and to move us forward in our goal to establish an international e-Humanities debate. Submission of papers is invited from all stakeholders: humanities researchers, technologists, as well as cultural heritage institutions and e-Humanities/e-Infrastructure researchers. Submission Papers submitted for presentation on the workshop should report original research that has not been published elsewhere. The submission guidelines can be found at the official conference web-site: http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee/call-for-papers. Acceptance and Publication All papers submitted for presentation in the workshop will be reviewed. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in pre-conference proceedings published by IEEE. Selected excellent work may be eligible for additional post-conference publication as extended papers in selected journals, such as FGCS. The organizers of the e-Humanities track are negotiating with publishers to take care that all accepted papers will be published in a suitable journal. Important dates Deadline for submission of papers: Friday, 31st July 2009 Notification of Acceptance: Tuesday 1st September 2009 Final submission of camera-ready papers: Friday 18th September 2009 Conference and Workshop: 9-11 December 2009 Organizers Chad Kainz Bamboo, Univ. Chicago Heike Neuroth DARIAH, SUB Göttingen Peter Wittenburg CLARIN, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen Martin Wynne CLARIN, Oxford Text Archive PC Jost Gippert, Gerhard Lauer, Fotis Iannides, Erhard Hinrichs, Heike Neuroth, Andreas Aschenbrenner, Claus Zinn, Gerhard Heyer, Peter Wittenburg (Germany), Paul Doorenbosch, Peter Doorn, Marc Kemps-Snijders (Netherlands), Nuria Bel (Spain), Nicoletta Calzolari (Italy), Chad Kainz, Sue Ellen Wright, Helen Dry, Neil Fraistaat (USA), Stelios Piperidis (Greece), Sheila Anderson, Tobias Blanke, Martin Wynne (UK), Bente Maegaard (Denmark), Marko Tadic (Croatia), Tamas Varadi (Hungary), Gerhard Budin (Austria), Bruna Franchetto (Brazil), Sven Strömquist (Sweden), Key-Sun Choi (Korea), Sadaoki Furui (Japan), Laurent Romary (France), Chu Ren Huang (China), Linda Barwick, Steven Bird (Australia), Susan Schreibman (Ireland) ------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer Seminar fuer Deutsche Philologie Kaete-Hamburger-Weg 3 D-37073 Goettingen Tel. +49-551-39 75 27 Fax +49-551-39 19 556 sekretariat.lauer@phil.uni-goettingen.de http://www.gerhardlauer.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 28 05:20:01 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D833D960C; Thu, 28 May 2009 05:20:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D26AA94FC; Thu, 28 May 2009 05:20:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090528052000.D26AA94FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 05:20:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.47 PhD studentship in textual studies; Summer Institute scholarships X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 47. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: siemens (10) Subject: Digital Humanities Summer Institute tuition scholarships [2] From: Willard McCarty (85) Subject: PhD studentship at CTS, De Montfort --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:33:41 +0100 From: siemens Subject: Digital Humanities Summer Institute tuition scholarships Tell your friends! (if you'd like to ;). Thanks to generous sponsorship, we're pleased to announce several new tuition scholarship spots, available in [5] Online Journal Publishing Using PKP's Open Journal Systems and [6] Using SEASR: The Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research. If you'd like to be considered for one of these spots, be in touch with us at institut@uvic.ca. http://www.dhsi.org/ All best, Ray --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 06:15:11 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: PhD studentship at CTS, De Montfort PHD STUDENTSHIP at the Centre for Textual Scholarship, De Montfort University, Leicester, www.cts.dmu.ac.uk Among the following general advertisement is a competitive PhD bursary with focus on 19-20C textual studies. Please enquire with Andrew Thacker, AThacker@DMU.AC.UK. ----- Up to seven fully funded sponsored PhD studentships are available to candidates. Each of the studentships is available for three years full-time study and provides a bursary of £13,290. Candidates should hold a good first degree (First Class, Upper-Second Class or equivalent) in a relevant subject area. Building on DMU’s excellent RAE outcomes, bursaries will be awarded to exceptional students who will work alongside experienced research teams in the following areas: Art and Design: Digital media Architecture and community cohesion Business & Law: Multinationals, regional governance and human resources Politics and policy of community cohesion Technology: Printable systems for electronic devices including biological sensors Intelligent sensor networks for assisted living Ethical implications of ICT in personal health monitoring Health and Life Sciences: Development of a sporicidal disinfectant to help combat hospital acquired infection Pharmaceutical manufacturing - roller compaction using on-line terahertz measurements Faculty of Humanities: Feminism and adaptations; Media discourse; Scholarly editing; British cinema - international connections; Oral history and ethnic minority experiences of consumption; Movement and modernity; ElectroAcoustic resources and pedagogy Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development: Festivals and sustainability Modelling of vegetation and it applications in green roofs, walls and urban spaces Post-occupancy evaluation of low-energy schools Institute of Creative Technologies: Creative uses of locative media Data interoperability in digital mapping Human factors in digital heritage Applications are welcome from citizens from the EU and those with overseas status. Please quote ref: DMU Studentships 2009 EPSRC SPONSORED PHD STUDENTSHIP One fully funded EPSRC sponsored PhD studentship is available to suitably qualified UK students. The studentship is available for three years full-time study and provides a bursary of £15,000 per annum. Candidates should hold a good first degree (First Class, Upper- Second or equivalent) in a relevant subject area. We would welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates to study in the following areas: • Real time web-based presentation of energy consumption for SMEs • The effects of open shop-fronts on carbon emissions and customer perceptions • The refurbishment of buildings to carbon neutral standards • Fabrication of Electronic Devices on Flexible Substrates • Evolutionary Computing for Data Mining • Visual Management Infrastructure Design for Sustaining Lean Improvements within the NHS For successful applicants who are a citizen of the EU but not resident in the UK, the studentship covers tuition fees ONLY. Applications from outside the EU are NOT eligible for funding under DTA EPSRC rules. Please quote ref: DTA Studentship 2009 Enquiries should in the first instance go to the Research Degrees Office, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH. Tel: (0116) 250 6309. www.dmu.ac.uk Applicants are requested to contact the office to receive an admission pack and will need to provide a full CV with two supporting references. Please email: researchstudents@dmu.ac.uk or call (0116) 250 6309 to receive further details. Note: Information on the regulations governing EPSRC Research Grants is available at: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/PostgraduateTraining/default.htm Closing date: 5 June 2009. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 28 05:20:27 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6A417379; Thu, 28 May 2009 05:20:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9C9FF736A; Thu, 28 May 2009 05:20:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090528052025.9C9FF736A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 05:20:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.48 problems with Humanist X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 48. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 06:17:20 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: problems with Humanist Thanks to those who reported problems. Those directly pertaining to Humanist are being investigated. The RSS feed is not, as this was a service offered, alas briefly, by someone else. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Galton, Antony" (93) Subject: FOIS2010 call for papers [2] From: Shawn Day (17) Subject: DHO Geospatial Methods Workshop Illuminates Place [3] From: Gerhard Brey (128) Subject: cfp: Michael Mahoney And The Histories of Computing(s); Pittsburgh, 18 Oct 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 10:42:10 +0100 From: "Galton, Antony" Subject: FOIS2010 call for papers +------------------------------------------+ | | | FOIS 2010 | | Sixth International Conference on | | Formal Ontology in Information Systems | | http://www.formalontology.org | | | | C A L L F O R P A P E R S | | | +------------------------------------------+ CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION The FOIS conference series began with the first meeting in Trento, Italy, in June 1998, which was followed by meetings in 2001, 2004, 2006, and 2008. The sixth FOIS conference will be held in Toronto, Canada, during 11-14 May 2010, and we are now calling for papers to be considered for inclusion in the conference. Ontology began life in ancient times as a fundamental part of philosophical enquiry concerned with the analysis and categorisation of what exists. In recent years, the subject has taken a practical turn with the advent of complex computerised information systems which are reliant on robust and coherent representations of their subject matter. The systematisation and elaboration of such representations and their associated reasoning techniques constitute the modern discipline of formal ontology, which is now being applied to such diverse domains as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, bioinformatics, GIS, knowledge engineering, information retrieval, and the Semantic Web. Researchers in all these areas are becoming increasingly aware of the need for serious engagement with ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations making up their respective domains of enquiry, to provide a solid foundation for their work. FOIS is intended to provide a meeting point for researchers from these and other disciplines with an interest in formal ontology, where both theoretical issues and concrete applications can be explored in a spirit of genuine interdisciplinarity. CONFERENCE ORGANISATION Conference chair: Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) Program chairs: Antony Galton (University of Exeter, UK) Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Local organisation: Chris Welty (IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY, USA) Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada) TOPICS COVERED We seek high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. While authors may focus on fairly narrow and specific issues, all papers should emphasize the relevance of the work described to formal ontology and to information systems. Papers that completely ignore one or the other of these aspects will be considered as lying outside the scope of the meeting. Topic areas of particular interest to the conference are: Foundational Issues * Kinds of entity: particulars vs universals, continuants vs occurrents, abstracta vs concreta, dependent vs independent, natural vs artificial * Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, subsumption, instantiation * Vagueness and granularity * Identity and change * Formal comparison among ontologies * Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, ...) * Ontology of biological reality (genes, proteins, cells, organisms, ...) * Ontology of artefacts, functions and roles * Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions and other mental attitudes; emotions, ...) * Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, ...) * Ontology of the information society (information, communication, meaning negotiation, ...) * Ontology and Natural Language Semantics, Ontology and Cognition Methodologies and Applications * Top-level vs application ontologies * Ontology integration and alignment; role of reference ontologies * Ontology-driven information systems design * Ontology-based application systems * Requirements engineering * Knowledge engineering * Knowledge management and organization * Knowledge representation; Qualitative modeling * Computational lexicons; Terminology * Information retrieval; Question-answering * Semantic web; Web services; Grid computing * Domain-specific ontologies, especially for: Linguistics, Geography, Law, Library science, Biomedical science, E-business, Enterprise integration, ... DEADLINES AND FURTHER INFORMATION Submissions: 23 October 2009 Notification of acceptance: 18 December 2009 Final camera-ready submission: 15 January 2010 Conference: 11-14 May 2010 Submitted papers should not exceed 5000 words (including bibliography). Details of the submission process, and formatting guidelines, will be provided on the conference web page at http://fois2010.mie.utoronto.ca. Proceedings will be published by IOS Press and available at the conference. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 17:34:44 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: DHO Geospatial Methods Workshop Illuminates Place The DHO, along with experts from the Discovery Programme and the UCD School of Archaeology, conducted an exciting workshop providing humanities scholars from throughout Ireland with an opportunity to meet, learn, discuss and share experiences in geospatial methods. The workshop featured lectures demonstrating real world application of geospatial techniques in the disciplines of archaeology, history, literary studies, and classics. During subsequent sessions, attendees were introduced to the various standards, tools, and issues in the field and attendees discussed how these could be applied to their own work. This oversubscribed event event provided Irish researchers with the foundations for adding a geospatial component to their research. It also provided the opportunity for attendees to expand their understanding of tools such as Google Earth, ESRI ArcGIS, Many-Eyes and Yahoo Pipes. The course materials are now available at the Geospatial Workshop event site (http://dho.ie/geospatial). --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:11:06 +0100 From: Gerhard Brey Subject: cfp: Michael Mahoney And The Histories of Computing(s); Pittsburgh, 18 Oct 2009 > From: James Sumner > Date: 27 May 2009 07:35:38 BST > To: mersenne@jiscmail.ac.uk > > Pittsburgh, 18 Oct 2009 > > (Crossposted from SIGCIS-Members. European and other international > perspectives are more than welcome.) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CALL FOR PAPERS > > Michael Mahoney And The Histories of Computing(s) > > SIGCIS History of Computing Workshop in Memory of Michael S. Mahoney > > Sunday, October 18, 2009, Hilton Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA > > The Society for the History of Technology's Special Interest Group > for Computers, Information and Society (SIGCIS - www.sigcis.org) > welcomes submissions for "Michael Mahoney And The Histories of > Computing(s)," a daylong workshop on the history of computing in > memory of historian Michael S. Mahoney. In keeping with Mahoney's > broad historical perspective, we encourage submissions not only > about computers themselves but also about the technologies and > knowledge systems into which computers have been embedded as well as > the societies in which they are used. Contributions directly related > to Mahoney's work are welcome but not required. > > The keynote speaker, William Aspray, will discuss Mahoney's > contribution to the development of the history of computing. > > The workshop will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on > Sunday, October 18, 2009. It will occur on the final day of the > annual SHOT meeting with sessions in the morning and afternoon. > > SHOT has reserved that day for SIG events and therefore the workshop > will not overlap scheduled sessions and most other SHOT functions. > It will be held at the same site as the SHOT meeting. > > SIGCIS encourages scholars of all levels and affiliations to > participate. > > Organized sessions and individual papers are both welcome. In > keeping with the conference theme contributions that address > historiographic issues or situate work within a particular history > of computing are particularly welcome. Individual contributions can > fit one of a variety of formats. > > 1. Traditional 20 to 25-minute presentations followed by a question > and answer session with the SIGCIS community. In this case a one- > page abstract (maximum 400 words) will be reviewed and included in > the electronic conference program. Abstracts should address the > paper's topic, argument, evidence used, and contribution to the > existing literature. A full version of the paper should be sent to > the session commentator at least a week prior to the meeting. > > 2. Dissertation proposals. We hope to include a dissertations in > progress session, in which individuals will present their ongoing > dissertation work and seek feedback from the history of computing > community. In this case submit an abstract of your dissertation > proposal. The full proposal will be included in the electronic > conference program if accepted. Participants will be encouraged to > read this prior to the session. You will have five to ten minutes to > introduce the material, leaving the bulk of time available for > discussion. > > 3. Works in progress. This is your chance to receive informal and > expert discussion of draft dissertation chapters, journal articles, > or book chapters. Submit a one-page abstract (maximum 400 words) > including discussion of the current state of the work and any > specific kinds of feedback you are seeking. If your proposal is > accepted you will need to supply the draft for discussion by 1 > October for inclusion in the electronic program for the workshop. > You will have five to ten minutes to introduce the material, leaving > the bulk of time available for discussion. > > 4. Proposals in other formats are also welcome. For example round > table discussions, demonstrations of software of interest to > historians of computing, or "author meets critics" sessions. > > SHOT presenters are encouraged to apply but must present material > significantly different from that presented in the main conference > program. > > Submission Procedures > > Individual submissions should be made at http://www.sigcis.org/?q=workshop09a > , and must include: > > 1. an abstract or dissertation proposal as described above. Paste > this text into the web submission form. > > 2. a one-page curriculum vitae, including current e-mail addresses > as a Microsoft Word or PDF document. Upload this via the web > submission system. Use the filename AuthorLastName_vita. For example > Smith_vita. > > Proposals for complete sessions should be made at http://www.sigcis.org/?q=workshop09b > , and must include: > > 1. The name of the session and the names, email addresses and > paper titles of the presenters, organizer, chair and commentator (if > applicable) > > 2. a one-page description (maximum 400 words) of the session that > explains how individual papers contribute to an overall theme > > 3. an abstract for each presenter in the form described above > > 4. for the each presenter and other participants (including > commentator if used) a one-page curriculum vitae. Compile as one > Word or PDF document and upload via the web submission system. > > Questions should be addressed to Joseph November > [november(at)sc.edu] who is serving as program committee chair for > the workshop. > > The deadline for proposals is June 22, 2009. Notifications will be > sent by June 29, 2009. If you are a graduate student seeking travel > funding please submit ASAP for expedited review because the SHOT > deadline for funding is June 1. > > Workshop Organizers > > Joseph November, Program Committee Chair > Jeffrey Tang, Local Arrangements Chair > Brent Jesiek, Internet Infrastructure > Thomas Haigh, SIG Chair _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 29 05:18:14 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B048467; Fri, 29 May 2009 05:18:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3FD1F845B; Fri, 29 May 2009 05:18:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090529051812.3FD1F845B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 05:18:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.50 automata and distraction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 50. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: renata lemos (28) Subject: in defense of distraction [2] From: "Sharon K. Goetz" (9) Subject: more on automata --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:28:49 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: in defense of distraction In Defense of DistractionTwitter, Adderall, lifehacking, mindful jogging, power browsing, Obama’s BlackBerry, and the benefits of overstimulation. - By Sam Anderson http://nymag.com/nymag/sam-anderson http://nymag.com/news/features/56793/ I. The Poverty of Attention I’m going to pause here, right at the beginning of my riveting article about attention, and ask you to please get all of your precious 21st-century distractions out of your system now. Check the score of the Mets game; text your sister that pun you just thought of about her roommate’s new pet lizard (“iguana hold yr hand LOL get it like Beatles”); refresh your work e-mail, your home e-mail, your school e-mail; upload pictures of yourself reading this paragraph to your “me reading magazine articles” Flickr photostream; and alert the fellow citizens of whatever Twittertopia you happen to frequent that you will be suspending your digital presence for the next twenty minutes or so (I know that seems drastic: Tell them you’re having an appendectomy or something and are about to lose consciousness). Good. Now: Count your breaths. Close your eyes. Do whatever it takes to get all of your neurons lined up in one direction. Above all, resist the urge to fixate on the picture, right over there, of that weird scrambled guy typing. Do not speculate on his ethnicity (German-Venezuelan?) or his backstory (Witness Protection Program?) or the size of his monitor. Go ahead and cover him with your hand if you need to. There. Doesn’t that feel better? Now it’s just you and me, tucked like fourteenth-century Zen masters into this sweet little nook of pure mental focus. (Seriously, stop looking at him. I’m over here.) -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:24:33 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: "Sharon K. Goetz" Subject: more on automata In-Reply-To: <20090528052000.D26AA94FC@woodward.joyent.us> Richard Garriott, probably best known for designing and publishing the Ultima computer games, has a collection of automata; the gaming blog Kotaku has a few pictures: http://kotaku.com/5271603/the-many-automata-of-richard-garriott/gallery I'm not convinced that each of the figures shown count as "automata" in the senses recently discussed on Humanist, but the pictures may be of interest nevertheless. Best, Sharon Goetz _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 29 05:19:02 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4BD8AE2; Fri, 29 May 2009 05:19:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EBC1E8632; Fri, 29 May 2009 05:18:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090529051859.EBC1E8632@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 05:18:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.51 postdoc in digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 51. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 14:41:21 -0700 From: ETCL University of Victoria Subject: Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities with a focus on Information Management (2009-10, renewable) Hello all-- The ETCL has a new job posting that may be of interest to you, or someone you know. You can read the posting on the ETCL website < http://etcl.uvic.ca/2009/05/28/job-posting-postdoctoral-fellow-in-digital-humanities-with-a-focus-on-information-management-2009-10-renewable/#more-323 >*. *The job ad is posted below, as well. Thanks! *Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities with a focus on Information Management (2009-10, renewable) *The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project seeks a post-doctoral fellow in digital humanities with expertise in information management. This position is based in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria. The successful candidate will work closely with team members at U Victoria, the Digital Humanities Observatory, U Toronto, U Montreal, Nipissing U, U Alberta, McMaster U, and beyond. The postdoctoral fellow will work with production-focused and experimental corpora, datastores, and analytical technologies, collaborating with those associated with INKE’s information management team and others, consulting with project stakeholders and potential stakeholders, and liaising with other INKE researchers located in North America and the UK. The successful candidate will have skills and aptitudes in humanities-oriented research, corpora, datastores, and computational analysis tools, including training or demonstrated experience working with a variety of digital humanities resources, including digital archives, scholarly editions, journals and monographs, and text analysis and visualization tools. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset. The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. Examples of technologies employed in related INKE projects are as follows: TEI P5; XML, XSLT, XSL and XHTML encoding; XQuery; eXist XML databases; JavaScript; Ruby on Rails; PHP; CSS; and web-based SQL database projects using PostgresSQL and mySQL. Experience in some or all of these areas and similar areas would be an asset, but is not a requirement, though aptitude with digital tools is required. Our current team members pride themselves on a passionate interest in both the humanities and their computational engagement. Our ideal candidate is someone with similar passions who can introduce the team to new ideas and provide new perspectives on existing digital humanities issues. The salary for this position is competitive in the Canadian context, and is governed in part by SSHRC practices. Applications comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees may be sent electronically to . The contract can begin as early as 1 September 2009; it is for a one-year term, with the possibility of renewal. Interviews are anticipated to take place in June at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, the Digital Humanities 2009 conference, and other venues at which INKE team members are present. Applications will be received and reviewed until the position is filled. * *Electronic Textual Cultures Lab University of Victoria web: http://etcl.uvic.ca/ email: uvic.etcl@gmail.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 29 05:20:53 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F0F0745A; Fri, 29 May 2009 05:20:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 33E77744A; Fri, 29 May 2009 05:20:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090529052051.33E77744A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 05:20:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.52 events: ESF Research cfp; computational creativity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 52. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ana Boa-Ventura (55) Subject: ICCC X - 1st International Conference on Computational Creativity -Lisbon, 7-9 January 2010 [2] From: Arianna Ciula (16) Subject: ESF Research Conferences 2011 - Call for Conference Proposals --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 01:10:35 -0500 From: Ana Boa-Ventura Subject: ICCC X - 1st International Conference on Computational Creativity -Lisbon, 7-9 January 2010 In-Reply-To: <20090528052337.3D713876F@woodward.joyent.us> CALL FOR PAPERS ICCC X - First International Conference on Computational Creativity Lisbon, Portugal - 7 - 9 January 2010 http://plone.dei.uc.pt:8888/icccx/ Original contributions are solicited in all areas related to Computational Creativity, including but not limited to: • computational paradigms for understanding creativity, including heuristic search, analogical reasoning, and re-representation; • metrics, frameworks and formalizations for the evaluation of creativity in computational systems; • perspectives on creativity, including philosophy of computational creativity, models of human behavior, intelligent systems, and creativity-support tools; • the role of creativity in learning, innovation, improvisation, and other pursuits; • factors that enhance creativity, including conflict, diversity, knowledge, intuition, reward structures, and technologies; • social aspects of creativity, including the relationship between individual and social creativity, diffusion of ideas, collaboration and creativity, formation of creative teams, and simulating creativity in social settings; • specific applications to music, language and the arts, to architecture and design, to scientific discovery, to education and to entertainment; • detailed system descriptions of creative systems, including engineering difficulties faced, example sessions and artefacts produced, and applications of the system. The conference will include traditional paper presentations, will showcase the application of computational creativity to the sciences, creative industries and arts, and will incorporate a "show and tell" session, which will be devoted to demonstrations of computational systems exhibiting behaviour which would be deemed creative in humans. In addition the conference will provide a forum for identifying trends and opportunities for research on [computational] creativity and promising practices concerning the development of creative computational systems. Important Dates September 21, 2009 Submission deadline October 30, 2009 Authors' Notification November 22, 2009 Deadline for final camera-ready copies Conference Organizers General Chair: Geraint A. Wiggins (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) Program Committee Chair: Dan Ventura (Brigham Young University, UT, USA) Local Organisation Chair: Amilcar Cardoso (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Publicity Chair: Simon Colton (Imperial College London, UK) Local Organization: Amilcar Cardoso (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Luís Macedo (University of Coimbra, Portugal) - Finance Paulo Pires (University of Coimbra, Portugal) - Sponsoring Jorge Ávila (University of Coimbra, Portugal) - Secretariate More information at: http://plone.dei.uc.pt:8888/icccx/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 18:22:48 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF Research Conferences 2011 - Call for Conference Proposals In-Reply-To: <20090528052337.3D713876F@woodward.joyent.us> From: Corinne Wininger - Le Moal Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 7:11 PM Dear All, We are pleased to inform you that the Call for Proposals for ESF Research Conferences to take place in 2011 is open and accessible online from www.esf.org/conferences/call. The deadline for submissions is 15th September 2009. Kind regards, Corinne Corinne Wininger Communications Officer - ESF Conferences Please note that I am not in the Office on Wednesdays European Science Foundation - Communications Unit 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, BP 90015 67080 Strasbourg Cedex, France Phone: +33 (0)388 76 21 50 Fax: +33 (0)388 76 71 80 clemoal@esf.org www.esf.org/conferences _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 29 08:40:45 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D72F924A; Fri, 29 May 2009 08:40:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5DB5C917C; Fri, 29 May 2009 08:40:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090529084043.5DB5C917C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 08:40:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.53 world-making and markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 53. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:39:23 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: world-making and markup Let's consider markup, for example, as a kind of world-making. Consider, then, Nelson Goodman's observation in Ways of Worldmaking (1978): > Truth, far from being a solemn and severe master, is a docile and > obedient servant. The scientist who supposes that he is > single-mindedly dedicated to the search for truth deceives himself. > He is unconcerned with the trivial truths he could grind out > endlessly; and he looks to the multifaceted and irregular results of > observations for little more than suggestions of overall structures > and significant generalizations. He seeks system, simplicity, scope; > and when satisfied on these scores he tailors truth to fit. He as > much decrees as discovers the laws he sets forth, as much designs as > discerns the patterns he delineates. (p. 18) One commonplace way around our undeniable ignoring of some aspects of the infinitely complex world is to claim that we are striking for the essence of whatever it is. We idealise the neuron as a binary device, for example, in order to get at the law-like essence of neural activity, its calculus. This works much less well for human artefacts, such as literary texts or paintings, of course, so what we digital humanists do these days (correct me if I am wrong) is to go for structural abstractions that are relatively safe from interpretative disagreement -- though textual editors such as Randy McLeod (alias Random Cloud et al) demonstrate otherwise, annoyingly but cogently. Is not the cost of sticking to what is safe confinement to the trivial aspects of a text, say, forcing one to derive the value of what one does from its utility to other people, who presumably will validate the work, or not. There's an ongoing debate centred on the ethics of engineering, and with it an argument that (to simplify) engineers do what they're told, getting their satisfactions from technical achievements. The use of the words "engineer" and "engineering" suggest that society as a whole doesn't think much of real engineers taking their back seat to the architects and designers. How many of us keep our world-making in mind, I wonder? How many of us who mark-up texts as scholars, rather than as people who work for scholars, do not think on some level that we're identifying *the* structure of it, *the* essence of what it has to say? How slippery is the slope from the fashionably plural but reified "ontologies" to the singular name of the *study* of what is (NOT the list)? In The Mechanization of the Mind: On the Origins of Cognitive Science (2000), Jean-Pierre Dupuy notes the parallel slide down another slippery slope. He notes that "As time went by, zealots and ideologues began to assert ever stronger and more imprecise versions of the Turing thesis" -- the assertion of the mathematical computability, by a Turing Machine, of every intuitively computable function. "It came to be presented as something *proven*" (p. 39), as a result of which rash predictions were made, by such luminaries as Herbert Simon (e.g., in 1965, "Machines will be capable, within twenty years, of any work that a man can do.") -- who went on to win the Nobel Prize in economics. Dupuy comments: "It is easy to mock vain and presumptuous predictions of this sort, which were to be scathingly refuted during the intervening years. But we should not be too harsh", he says forgivingly. "The Turing thesis, in spite (or rather because) of the ideological distortions to which it so readily lent itself, was what it took to rally the resources of energy and intelligence needed to bring about the birth of a mechanistic and materialistic science of mind" (39-40). Presuming that is a Good Thing, we have another out: essentially an ends-justify-means argument. But how unsatisfactory this is. Can we do better? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 30 06:39:27 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95C4FF9E7; Sat, 30 May 2009 06:39:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BC708F9DB; Sat, 30 May 2009 06:39:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090530063926.BC708F9DB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 06:39:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.54 world-making and markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 54. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 13:04:59 +0100 From: "Lopez, Tamara" Subject: world-making and markup Dear Willard, I don't think Dupuy's argument is quite as dire as you suggest.  Scholars need to have ways of talking about the texts, around the texts, and through them in the context of digital methods, and markup serves this purpose. The best terms in which I can state why I think this are in my notes to you of last week - namely that: In the introduction to "By whose standards? Standardization, stability and uniformity in the history of information and electrical technologies". Vol. 28, History of Technology, (Sumner and Gooday eds.), the editors note that standards are interesting because they help mediate the boundaries between humans and technologies (p.1), and they also contend that their highest value is in replacing "some process of negotiation, formerly ongoing and mutable, with a settled understanding." (p.3). The way these historians speak of standards, they sound quite different than your models: "temporary states in  a process of coming to know rather than fixed structures of knowledge" (your piece in the Blackwell companion). However, in the quote above, the editors are describing something of an ideal, because as they note some standards described in other essays 'succeed', while others, "undergo so much conceptual change that the question [of success] becomes...meaningless" (p.3).  These standards, like your models, have arcs, in which there are moments of stability, but also moments of mutability.  In the work to which you refer, Goodman suggests that this stasis, this settling on a World is necessary, because while "readiness to recognize alternative worlds may be liberating, and suggestive of new avenues of exploration, a willingness to welcome all worlds builds none.... provides us with no map of the motions of heavenly bodies...produces no scientific theory or philosophical system... paints no pictures." (I.6) Humanities scholars need handles, reifications, shared models- flawed and incomplete as they are. They will be wrong in how they characterise the significance of what they are achieving sometimes, but isn't that (part of) scholarship? I do wonder however, and maybe this is what you are getting at- do we know what world is being built? Is it the world that the scholars and digital humanists think we are building with markup, or is it something else? Do we know where the world we are building resides? Is it in the tags or is it in the software that processes the tags, or is it in the discussions about the tags that surround the texts around which our world is ostensibly centred? Goodman begins his text with: "This book does not run a straight course from beginning to end. It hunts; and in the hunting, it sometimes worries the same raccoon in different trees, or different raccoons in the same tree, or even what turns out to be no raccoon in any tree." (Foreward) Indeed. Tamara Tamara Lopez ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL (UK), t: +44 (0)20 78481237 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 30 06:41:02 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E5399B36; Sat, 30 May 2009 06:41:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6A5259B27; Sat, 30 May 2009 06:41:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090530064100.6A5259B27@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 06:41:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.55 Canada Research Chair at Saskatchewan X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 55. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 12:25:41 -0600 From: Brent Nelson Subject: Canada Research Chair in Digital Textuality (Tier 1) *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1243621546_2009-05-29_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_5663.2.pdf Dear Humanists, Feel free to circulate this advertisement widely. And please note that this position is not restricted to Canadian citizens. *Canada Research Chair in Digital Textuality (Tier 1)* To complement the University of Saskatchewan’s growing strengths in Digital Humanities, the Department of English is seeking applicants for a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in digital textuality. The Canada Research Chairs Program is part of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world's top countries for research and development. 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X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 56. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 10:50:47 -0400 From: "Jennifer Dekker" Subject: John Calvin Would anyone know of an on-line tool that is a concordance to the works of John Calvin? A professor requires a lemmatized concordance and would prefer it be available on-line, but if necessary could use one in CD form or in book form ... Thank you! Jennifer Jennifer Dekker Librarian / Bibliothécaire Bibliothèque Morisset Library jdekker@uottawa.ca Tél. | Tel.: 613 562-5800 ext. 3107 65 University Private Ottawa ON Canada K1N 6N5 www.uOttawa.ca Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa L'Université canadienne / Canada's university _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 30 06:42:16 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A441EF9D6; Sat, 30 May 2009 06:42:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C44C6F482; Sat, 30 May 2009 06:42:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090530064215.C44C6F482@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 06:42:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.57 events: TEI Summer School X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 57. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:29:39 +0100 From: James Cummings Subject: TEI Summer School: Time running out for 25% Discount! Just a reminder that there is a 25% discount if you pay before 1 June! ====== The TEI@Oxford team is pleased to announce that we are now taking bookings for our annual summer school. Dates: Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July Venue: Oxford University Computing Services Full information and online booking: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/events/2009-07/index.xml This five-day course combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for the encoding of digital text with hands-on practical exercises in their application. If you are a project manager, research assistant, or encoder working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of digital text or metadata, this course is for you. You should be generally computer literate (web, email, word-processors) for this course. You may already be broadly familiar with the idea of textual editing, perhaps (but not necessarily) with some experience of producing HTML web pages, or of traditional scholarly editing. You should be enthusiastic about the possibilities offered by digital technologies and keen to learn more. You should be prepared to get your hands dirty at the keyboard and you should not be afraid of a little technical jargon. At the end of the course we hope to have given you: 1. a good grounding in the theoretical issues underlying the use of text markup, XML in particular; 2. an understanding of the purpose and principles of the Text Encoding Initiative; 3. a survey of the full range of modules constituting the TEI's current Recommendations; 4. experience of how the TEI scheme can be customized for particular applications, and internationalized for different languages. 5. an introduction to some of the tools and methods in which TEI documents are published and processed Using OUCS' excellent teaching facilities, we will also provide you with practical experience in: * using online tools to build, verify, and document a TEI-conformant schema * using XML editing software to o create new encoded texts o standardize existing digital texts * using a variety of web-based and desktop tools to display and analyse TEI documents The course will be taught by the TEI@Oxford team: Lou Burnard, James Cummings, and Sebastian Rahtz, with the assistance of other invited TEI experts. -- Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 30 08:27:58 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF34F5342; Sat, 30 May 2009 08:27:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 865B05333; Sat, 30 May 2009 08:27:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090530082756.865B05333@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 08:27:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.58 mutual failures, wonderful rewards X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 58. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 09:26:53 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: mutual failures Reading around in what at first seemed a distant hinterland to the main action of literary computing in its early years, I ran into the thrilling work of Warren McCulloch and through him cybernetics. (Here I do not exaggerate; though McCulloch's work has been largely left to gather dust -- his collected works remain unavailable after their minor publisher fell into bankrupcy -- the intellectual passion and vision of his project are breathtaking.) Jean-Pierre Dupuy's history of the first wave of cybernetics, The Mechanization of the Mind (Aux origines des sciences cognitives), derives its inspiration largely from McCulloch, though this does not make Dupuy less critical of the failure of cybernetics to connect with, among others, people like us. It's that failure I want to note here. One cannot help but wonder about the lack of interest from the humanities at the time, esp from those who were, like us, involved with computing and so encountering strangers. Perhaps most of this can be explained simply by lack of opportunity, by the constraints of busy lives and so forth. But there are signs here and there in the literature (e.g. the complaints of Louis Milic, the reachings out of Margaret Masterman, the paranoia -- or should we call it justifiable fear -- of F. R. Leavis) more of refusals to stretch the mind rather than forbidding conditions. The pressures of professional life that reward keeping the head down are very real, as many of us know. But, still, at least from among the tenured class, from the professoriate, one would expect more curiosity. Even just that. Dupuy, in considering failures from the other side, from the cyberneticians, notes Norbert Wiener's early abandonment of any attempt to reach from physical to social systems and the poor showing from the social scientists involved in the project. What he says about the latter is indicative of the greater problem. "As for the others, Warren McCulloch included," he writes, "their training in the human and social sciences was not extensive enough to enable them to appreciate how much they might have profited from deeper exposure to these disciplines, still less to suspect the inspiration they might have taken from them." (156) Recently I found myself at an alumni/ae gathering put on here in London by my greatly respected and admired alma mater, Reed College. Us Reedies, young and old, were grouped around tables to discuss inter alia what we might change about the College. An idea that emerged from my table was to augment one of the two or three central features of Reed's pedagogy -- the mandatory 1st-year course in the humanities from Archaic Greece to the 17C -- with a strong emphasis on the sciences. I may be inclined to disagree with Dupuy's assessment of McCulloch's interdisciplinary depths, but I do think he is exactly right about the pernicious effects of enforced relocation to this or that disciplinary ghetto without first the kind of highly intense training that Reed's humanities programme gives. In my opinion Reed needs to extend this to the sciences, and so become even more intense (if that is possible), but the broader point is the important one here. THe risk-taking implied by the exercise of such curiosity is great, as risks in academia go. But what rewards! Can we afford not to be changed by them? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun May 31 06:49:49 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C61A60DB; Sun, 31 May 2009 06:49:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CB5E260C8; Sun, 31 May 2009 06:49:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090531064946.CB5E260C8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 06:49:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.59 world-making and markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 59. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 19:04:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Francois Lachance Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.53 world-making and markup In-Reply-To: <20090529084043.5DB5C917C@woodward.joyent.us> from "Humanist Willard, Of a Friday, you invited us to consider mark-up as a kind of world making (or rather markup as world-making). I am more tempted by an analogy of travel. Mark-up is way of traversing a world. I have in mind the now familiar adage that map is not territory. Of course, I am drawn to this via the distinction made in semantics between possible and actual worlds. And so I come back to the question you raise and mark it out for consideration: How many of us keep our world-making in mind, I wonder? How many of us who mark-up texts as scholars, rather than as people who work for scholars, do not think on some level that we're identifying *the* structure of it, *the* essence of what it has to say? How slippery is the slope from the fashionably plural but reified "ontologies" to the singular name of the *study* of what is (NOT the list)? Is this another way of asking the perhaps more technical question: can a given textual instance give rise to more than one possible world? And how am I to markup the parenthetical "NOT the list"? Is it to be read in apposition to the reified "ontologies" i.e. as a phrase synonymous? In which case, is this (contrasting a "what is" with a set of "maybes") a bit like the game of asking how many children had Lady Macbeth? Reading the evidence of what is not there is being sensitive not to the unsaid but to the what is shown. For example, a form of mark-up links the emphasized _the_ (2x) in the paragraph cited above (localized to the one sentence) with the _study_ (to be found in the next sentence) and both exert a pressure on the seemingly unmarked *the* in the shout-like "NOT _the_ list" (our emphasis on the _the_). The slope may be slippery and its sliding may very well be in its designation as _the_ slope. Trust a machine to read all the mark-up and you might miss what is not rendered in the enclosures. It is what is missed by machine translation (rendering) that makes rereading entertaining -- even of born-digital texts. To markup is an activity akin to re-reading and it produces mark-up that is the traces that bridge (hyphenate) spaces in a given world. Mark-up is inherently vectorial. To markup is to query magnitude and direction. The thing and the activity are potentially tied up in recursive loops. Which leads me to my question: are recursive structures necessary for world-making? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun May 31 06:53:58 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33044622B; Sun, 31 May 2009 06:53:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 319246224; Sun, 31 May 2009 06:53:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090531065357.319246224@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 06:53:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.62 postdoc in the history & future of the book X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 62. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 16:26:26 -0700 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in the History and Future of the Book (2009-10, renewable) [with apologies for x-posting] Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in the History and Future of the Book (2009-10, renewable) The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project seeks a post-doctoral fellow in digital humanities with expertise in textual studies. This position is based in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria. The successful candidate is anticipated to work closely with team members at U Victoria, U Toronto, Acadia U, U Saskatchewan, U Western Ontario, and beyond. The postdoctoral fellow will work with digital manifestations of historical textual features, collaborating with those associated with INKE's textual studies team and others, consulting with project stakeholders and potential stakeholders, and liaising with other INKE researchers located in North America and the UK. The successful candidate will have skills and aptitudes in humanities-oriented research, textual studies and book history/bibliography, including training or demonstrated experience working with a variety of digital humanities resources, including digital archives, scholarly editions, journals and monographs, and text analysis and visualization tools. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset. The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. Examples of technologies employed in related INKE projects are as follows: TEI P-5 ; XML, XSLT, XSL and XHTML encoding; XQuery; eXist XML databases; JavaScript; and Ruby on Rails. Experience in some or all technologies in use in INKE-related project and similar areas would be an asset, but is not a requirement, though aptitude with digital tools is required. Our current team members pride themselves on a passionate interest in both the humanities and their computational engagement. Our ideal candidate is someone with similar passions who can introduce the team to new ideas and provide new perspectives on existing digital humanities issues. The salary for this position is competitive in the Canadian context, and is governed in part by SSHRC practices. Applications comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees may be sent electronically to etcl-apply@gmail.com . The contract can begin as early as 1 September 2009; it is for a one-year term, with the possibility of renewal. Interviews are anticipated to take place in June at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, the Digital Humanities 2009 conference, and other venues at which INKE team members are present. Applications will be received and reviewed until the position is filled. http://etcl.uvic.ca/2009/05/30/job-posting-postdoctoral-fellow-in-the-histor y-and-future-of-the-book-2009-10/#more-328 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 1 06:45:24 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C6D294DF; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 06:45:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D44B294C3; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 06:45:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090601064521.D44B294C3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 06:45:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.63 new publication: Cognition & the Arts Abstracts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 63. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:40:21 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Cognition & the Arts Abstracts Cognition & the Arts Abstracts Vol 1, No 4: 1 June 2009 MARK TURNER, EDITOR Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University - Department of Cognitive Science mark.turner@case.edu Table of Contents Making Sense of (Non)Sense: Why Literature Counts Margaret H. Freeman, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts - MICA http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1400234 Fictive Motion in Milton Mark Bruhn, affiliation not provided to SSRN http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1291328 Foundations of Branding: Cognitive and Historical Andrew J. Sutter, Lyra Pacific Group, Sutter International Law Office http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1365885 Slave Artists as Powerful Reality Creators: Taking Responsibility and Rejecting Race Consciousness Kimberly Alderman, affiliation not provided to SSRN http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1349177 COGNITION & THE ARTS ABSTRACTS "Making Sense of (Non)Sense: Why Literature Counts" Free Download NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, Elzbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska, Grzegorz Szpila, eds., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 MARGARET H. FREEMAN, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts - MICA Email: freemamh@lavc.edu We can't help ourselves. We have, in Meir Sternberg's phrase, 'a rage for meaning.' Our brains are constructed in such a way that human cognition is a peculiar anomaly, existing in a never-ending dynamic tension that balances on the one hand the dangers of absolute objectivism and on the other the dangers of subjective relativism. Both positions reduce to failure in empathic understanding and moral action. In their extreme forms, absolute objectivism leads to rigidity of thought and a closing down of alternate perspectives; subjective relativism to indecisive waffling and inability to achieve closure. (In the United States, the Bush administration is a perfect example of the one, the current Democratic leadership a perfect example of the other.) The two main problems identified as the theme of this IALS volume explore the nature of this tension in human cognitive processing as expressed through the varied interpretations of literary texts. Rather than ask whether literary semantics should 'strive after an interpretation of all [literary] texts at all costs,' I ask why do we strive after interpretation in the first place, and what are the consequences of doing so? Rather than ask 'to what degree we are able to keep literary semantics autonomous,' I ask why would we want to, and what are the consequences of doing so? If we are, 'by any chance, fascinated by nonsense,' we need to ask what does nonsense 'mean'? Exploring these questions from a literary linguistic perspective sheds light on the role that literary experience plays, not merely in furthering our understanding of human cognitive processes but in developing and maintaining the dynamic tension of seeking coherence and meaning without falling into the swamps of absolute objectivism or the quicksands of subjective relativism. Literature, as is true of all the arts, resists as it reveals. It is, in the American philosopher Susanne K. Langer's words, the semblance of felt life, works of art images of the forms of feeling. In its attempts to model the forms of feeling in literary works, recent work in cognitive poetics traces the dynamic tensions that result from the embodied nature of the human mind and that are reflected in literary interpretation. "Fictive Motion in Milton" 9th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, & Language (CSDL9) MARK BRUHN, affiliation not provided to SSRN Email: mbruhn@regis.edu This paper analyzes two fictive motion (FM) constructions from Paradise Lost that can help to focus research concerning 1) the principles and processes supporting the selection and transformation of the spatial reference frame in FM constructions; 2) the functional differences between entrenched and novel FM conceptualizations; and 3) the cognitive subsystem(s) supporting veridicality assessments. Talmy suggests that the degree of subjectivity in experienced FM may correlate with the reference frame cued by the FM construction. In Milton's examples, the form is ambiguous, prompting a conceptual reframing from an intrinsic (or allocentric) to a relative (or egocentric) reference frame, or vice versa (Levinson). Milton's constructions thus provide crisp models for theoretical reflection and experimental design-along the lines of Richardson and Matlock, for example, with the hypothesis that eye movements correlate not merely with FM, but primarily with the reference frame in which FM is conceptualized. Because they also reverse the direction of FM, Milton's examples are genuinely novel FM constructions, soliciting processing functions that more entrenched constructions, through automatization, may bypass (Coulson and Oakley). Such novel examples could be crucial for understanding the extent to which entrenched FM conceptualizations do without productive functions. Because FM is typically a one-way affair, its reversal should generate conceptual conflict and thus a strong activation of the underlying functions, as well as their neural correlates. Milton's examples could likewise be revealing with respect to Talmy's hypotheses concerning the neural subsystems supporting visual perception and language, especially the notion that their image-schematic products are experienced as being less veridical...relative to the products of...other neural systems. Because Milton's constructions are bistable in terms of reference frame and FM-on either hand, there is a conflict of elements generated from the same schematic subsystem(s)-they to some degree complicate or frustrate veridicality assessments. The reconceptualizations (Langacker, Matlock) involved may therefore help to determine whether or not the veridicality subsystem inheres in the schematic subsystem(s) supporting the competing fictive representations. Specifically, fMRI scans targeting the left posterior middle temporal cortex during the construal of novel Milton-like FM constructions are predicted either to strengthen the findings of Wallentin et al., providing converging evidence for Talmy's hypothesis, or to restrict them to the case of automatized FM constructions. "Foundations of Branding: Cognitive and Historical" Free Download Nikkei Businesss Management, Winter 2008 ANDREW J. SUTTER, Lyra Pacific Group, Sutter International Law Office Email: ajsutter@lyrapacific.com If the value of a brand comes from the impression in a consumer's mind, can the trademark owner truly be said to own this value? And has this locus of the brand remained consistent throughout history? These questions are explored through a review of, first, the proceedings volume from an interdisciplinary trademark and branding symposium at Cambridge University, and then of a pair of books about Sixteenth Century Italian imprese. A slightly shorter version of this review appeared in Japanese in the "Branding" theme issue (Winter 2008) of Nikkei Business Management [Nikkei Bijinesu Manejimento] under the title " 'Monshou' kara himotoku burando no 'genten'" (Y. Sunada, trans.). "Slave Artists as Powerful Reality Creators: Taking Responsibility and Rejecting Race Consciousness" Free Download Thurgood Marshall Law Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2008 KIMBERLY ALDERMAN, affiliation not provided to SSRN Email: kimberly@lawyerbird.com This article critiques the race conscious thinking inherent in Critical Race Theory ("CRT") and offers an alternative to structuralism and determinism. It reviews the colonial origins of race consciousness, and argues that advocating race conscious remedies perpetuates the very racism CRT decries. The article focuses on powerful reality creators of the past to create a more empowering framework of individual responsibility and personal reality construction. The article makes a case study of David Drake, a slave potter from 1800s South Carolina. Slave artists like David Drake show us that, no matter how strong the forces of oppression, a marginalized individual has the authority and power to decide who he or she becomes. Solicitation of Abstracts A publication dedicated to the artful mind and its relationship to the full range of higher-order human cognition. All scientific approaches are welcome, including developmental, evolutionary, linguistic, and comparative. Cognition and the Arts construes artistic behavior broadly, to include not only the various recognized genres of the arts but also design, style, and performance, throughout the lifecourse. To submit your research to SSRN, log in to the SSRN User HeadQuarters, and click on the My Papers link on the left menu, and then click on Start New Submission at the top of the page. 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Distributed by: Cognitive Science Network (CSN), a division of Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP) and Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Advisory Board Cognition & the Arts HANNA DAMASIO Dana Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Dana and David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center, University of Southern California - Department: Neuroscience Psychology, Adjunct Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies DAVID FREEDBERG Director, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art, Columbia University - Department of Art History and Archaeology SEMIR ZEKI Professor of Neurobiology, Head, Wellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology, University College London -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 1 06:46:05 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CBCD955F; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 06:46:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0A6629558; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 06:46:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090601064604.0A6629558@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 06:46:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.64 events: Cultural Heritage Online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 64. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 09:03:58 +0100 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: CULTURAL HERITAGE on line From: Promozione FRD [mailto:promozione@rinascimento-digitale.it] Sent: May 28, 2009 6:52 AM To: promozione@rinascimento-digitale.it _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 2 04:45:23 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F789968C; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 04:45:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BB1959684; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 04:45:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090602044521.BB1959684@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 04:45:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.65 ACH mentoring programme at DH2009 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 65. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:53:32 -0400 From: Matt Zimmerman Subject: ACH mentoring programme at DH2009 To the Digital Humanities Community The following message is about the ACH mentoring activities at DH2009. Please read it and consider participating in it: Are you on the job market? Are you looking for general career advice in the Digital Humanities? Do you have valuable career advice to give? If so, I encourage you to participate in this year's ACH mentoring program. Each year the Association for Computers and the Humanities (www.ach.org) puts out a call to those who are looking for advice in beginning or advancing their careers in the Digital Humanities and those who can offer advice, or, even better, jobs! As in the past, the mentoring program is deliberately informal. After collecting names of mentors and mentess I then offer an introduction via email and the parties take it from there. Ideally you both will be attending the Digital Humanities Conference in College Park, MD this year so you can spend some time taking over coffee, but if not, no worries, a lot can be done over email. So, if you fall in to one of the above categories (mentor or mentee) please email at matt.zimmerman@gmail.com and let me know: 1. Whether you are looking to mentor or be mentored. 2. In what area(s) you feel you need help or could offer help (i.e. Libraries, Teaching, Technical) 3. If you will be attending the Digital Humanities 2009 conference in College Park, MD. Also remember our ACH jobs database at http://curlew.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ach/ where you can search for jobs if you are on the market and also post jobs if you are an employer with openings. Thanks so much for you help in continuing what has been a very beneficial program for all parties involved in the past years. Matt Zimmerman Chair, ACH Employment Committee. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 2 04:48:04 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D9539B31; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 04:48:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C1A5F9B27; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 04:48:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090602044802.C1A5F9B27@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 04:48:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.66 HASTAC Scholars 2009-10 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 66. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:04:44 -0400 From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu Subject: Nominations for 2009-10 HASTAC Scholars open today An announcement from HASTAC.org HASTAC SCHOLARS PROGRAM WELCOMES NOMINATIONS FOR 2009-2010 The HASTAC Scholars fellowship program recognizes graduate and undergraduate students who are engaged in innovative work across the areas of technology, the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences. The HASTAC Scholars act as the eyes and ears of HASTAC’s virtual network. In the wake of the crisis facing traditional news media, the HASTAC Scholars are Citizen Journalists exploring the next-generation possibilities for intellectual dialogue imaginable through digital technology. The HASTAC Scholars report on the work happening on their campuses and in their region to an international audience by blogging, tweeting, vlogging, podcasting and other forms of networking with the online HASTAC community and with their local communities. The Scholars also facilitate a series of discussion forums on www.hastac.org. Open to all, these expansive forums initiate rich insights and meaty exchanges on timely issues related to digital media and learning and the digital humanities more broadly. See www.hastac.org/scholars for more about the program. After an incredibly successful 2008-2009 pilot year for the HASTAC Scholars Program, the HASTAC Steering Committee has voted to expand the program for 2009-2010, and invites any HASTAC member who is faculty or staff at an institution of higher education to nominate a HASTAC Scholar. Here is how the nomination process and the program work: Nominations The official nomination form will be available online beginning June 1 (the link will be available via the HASTAC homepage at www.hastac.org). A complete nomination form will require the following information from both the Scholar/ nominee and the Mentor/nominator: * Name * Title/Year (ex. Associate Professor/4th Year Graduate Student/Senior) * Program/Department * Institution * Preferred E-mail Address * Mailing Address * Telephone Number * HASTAC User Name Additionally, the nominee will need to provide a brief bio paragraph of no more than 250 words that includes what and where they are studying. They may want to mention their dissertation or other research topic(s) if applicable, and should speak to their HASTAC-related interests and work. All nominations must be received by July 31, 2009. Requirements for Nominators Any HASTAC faculty or staff member at a post-secondary institution may nominate an undergraduate or graduate student to be a HASTAC Scholar. Making such a nomination puts the nominator in the official category of "mentor" and the Mentor will be responsible for the following: * Completing the online nomination form by July 31, 2009. * Subsidizing each HASTAC Scholar nominee with a $300 fellowship paid by the Mentor's institution. The payment process is entirely decentralized; the Mentor and the Scholar need to work out this procedure. * Checking in with their HASTAC Scholar(s) throughout the year, suggesting material/events to blog about or post on the HASTAC website, helping to promote the HASTAC Scholar within their institution. If more than 5 scholars are nominated from any one institution, then the Mentor (s) at that institution will be responsible for nominating a local HASTAC Scholars director to help guide this group in concert with the Director of the HASTAC Scholars Program. Requirements for HASTAC Scholars While HASTAC Scholars may be asked to meet face to face with a local cohort or do other work on their home campuses, their primary responsibility is to the HASTAC virtual community. HASTAC Scholars are expected to: * Represent their home institution on the HASTAC website by posting or reporting on any HASTAC-related events or work taking place on their campus. * Post to the HASTAC website on a weekly basis. These posts may take many forms: tweets, blogs, comments on blogs, vlogs, forum postings, etc. These posts may report on relevant HASTAC-type events on one's campus, in one's region, or in one's professional gatherings; can comment on new technologies or social networking sites or other relevant digital affordances; can provide critique or creative expression; or can speak to anything that advances the HASTAC mission: to ensure that humanistic and humane considerations are never far removed from technological advances; and to push education and learning to the forefront of digital innovation. * Contribute to HASTAC Scholar Discussion Forums. HASTAC Scholars will be invited to propose topics for and facilitate Forums that will occur approximately once a month. Collaborative forums are encouraged. Other scholars will contribute to these forums, will be asked to solicit responses from scholars in the field, and will be called upon to get the word out about the Forum. It is expected that not all scholars will have an opportunity to host a Forum but all should have an opportunity/ responsibility to participate in their colleagues' work. * Spread the word about HASTAC events. Scholars will be regularly asked to help get the word out about online discussions and other HASTAC events to their institutional communities. HASTAC@ As part of extending HASTAC programming into other professional conferences and events, HASTAC Scholars and Nominators will be notified of opportunities to arrange/participate in meet ups at various events throughout the year. For example, "HASTAC@ MLA" or "HASTAC@SXSW" might involve an opportunity to microblog or blog an event, to meet face to face with others, to arrange a formal presentation, etc. Inquiries For questions or concerns, please contact Erin Gentry Lamb, Director of the HASTAC Scholars Program, at erin.gentry@duke.edu. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 2 05:25:20 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 441BF8B5E; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 05:25:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ED1E68B4D; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 05:25:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090602052517.ED1E68B4D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 05:25:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.67 fear itself? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 67. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:22:23 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: fear itself In the course of my historial readings into what was happening with humanists and computers I am paying close attention to any expressions of anxiety which surface in the literature. I'm reading around quite widely, as far afield as, say, Time Magazine, the Globe and Mail (Toronto) and the New Yorker, with the conviction that humanist-researchers were also ordinary people, who not only read Goethe, Donne, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Mandelstam et al., listened to Bach, Debussy, went to art galleries etc etc but also read the newspaper, watched the television when that became widely available and so forth. I'm also convinced they had children, some of whom got interested in the digital computer kits of the 1950s and 60s, built electronic devices, studied calculus and physics and so forth. I am assuming that these humanists therefore knew what was going on, though perhaps in a vague sort of way, in other intellectual neighbourhoods than their own, that they were affected by the whole range of things being said in the popular media, and that the effects of all such influences had something to do with what they thought when they were being humanists. Expressions of anxiety relating to computing are not difficult to find. I'm paying attention to these because I suspect that these are telling clues to the cultural assimilation of computing, or more precisely, into what people thought was happening and why those who took an active role did what they did -- and did not do what they didn't do. For the purposes of this note, however, I want to fast-forward to our own time and ask about what fears are still troubling us as humanists. The ongoing "On the Human" project of the National Humanities Center (www.onthehuman.org, be there or be square) is sufficient to illustrate one bundle of fears that are very much alive -- of the sciences invading the humanities and taking possession, so it is alleged, of questions formerly only ours to deal with. Since there's simply no denying that computers are technoscientific instruments, we're affected professionally -- and, yet again, along with everyone else who thinks beyond the next beer and BBQ. I find it particularly curious that in the scholarly literature to this day, where one might expect to find open curiosity about the technoscience which the computer carries into our studies and libraries, one finds instead the garlic and crucifixes hung. So my question: is the oppositional relationship we still maintain with technoscience a healthy one? Is it a clue to a Gilgamesh-Enkidu relationship that will make us stronger? What is the fear all about? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 4 12:33:57 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3CEDEBCB; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:33:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D14E7EBC3; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:33:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090604123355.D14E7EBC3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:33:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.68 fear itself X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 68. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alan Liu (80) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.67 fear itself? [2] From: Haines Brown (105) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.67 fear itself? [3] From: Elijah Meeks (37) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.67 fear itself? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 03:32:29 -0700 From: Alan Liu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.67 fear itself? In-Reply-To: <20090602052517.ED1E68B4D@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I am hijacking your thread in what seems to me a necessary antithetical direction: As one of the participants in the National Humanities Center's "On the Human" project you mention (http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us/about/index.php), which began with its "Autonomy, Singularlity, Creativity" series ( http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us/asc/), I would say that what is also needed as an antithetical complement to your query about techno-computational anxieties among humanists is a project with a similar cast of participants titled "On the Humanist." My brief weeks at the NHC were cut short by a death in the family, so I was not able to share notes with you, Kate Hayles, and others during that first year of the NHC initiative as much as I would have liked. But what I saw indicated some non- or mis-comprehension about what humanists do and why they have anything new to say about the "human" relevant to folks from the cog-sci, neuro-psych, evolution-science, and other tremendously interesting science- or techno-oriented rethinkers of the human. There was similar non- or mis-comprehension at a brave but discordant conference I participated in some years ago on "rational choice theory and the humanities" at Stanford, where I was struck not just by the famous rational-choice theorist (whom I much admire) who denounced the humanists as not having a clue about rational choice, but perhaps even more forcibily by a friendly economist who sat down with me at lunch and after fifteen minutes of conversation finally smacked his forehead and said (approximately): "Now I get it. I didn't know that when you talk about 'the humanities' you are talking about humanities scholars in the university. I thought you were talking about things like literature, theater, art, and Shakespeare." Willard, I note that in your characterization of humanists as ordinary people who indulge in media and children, etc., there is an undecidable slide between the terms "humanist" and "humanist-researcher." I put it to you that from the point of view of many parts of society today, the "humanist-researcher" is a stitched-together Frankenstein's monster that is the mirror image of the more familiar, if now largely obsolete, Frankenstein complex about sci-tech. (Apple or Steve Job is the new Dr. Frankenstein. When was the last time you heard someone express horror as opposed to "cool!" about their iPhone?) While humanists may or may not be anxious about computational-tech (I'm seeing fewer who are, except in terms of their competence; this may be a non-issue), there are folks in other academic disciplines and in society at large who are anxious about the "humanist-researcher" monster. This monster has been stitched to the hulking creature of the modern research institution and its government-funded sci-tech emphasis (when was it, actually, that humanists acceded to calling what they do "research"?). The "humanist-researcher" monster is also allegedly politically correct, which is a way of characterizing the academic humanities as a Golem mechanized by a humanities-specific (and social-science-specific) program. There is some kind of "strange loop" problem at play here, as Douglas Hofstadter might say. Humanist-researchers are anxious about sci-tech-computation. But the rest of the world is anxious about humanist-researchers. (However, this is not to mention the interior frictions between "science" and "engineering" in the "sci-tech" formulation.) I have myself taken a page from your own Humanities Computing book, which I assign my students in my various "Literature+" courses. (See my article about these courses in Currents in Electronic Literacy, http://currents.cwrl.utexas.edu/Spring08/Liu). We humanist-researchers are going to have to open up our hoary notions of "interpretation" and "critique" so that they overlap with such notions as building and modeling (but also adaptation, translation, migration, performance, rendering, simulating, etc.) Only so will humanities-research seem less monstrous, more a partner, in the great sci-tech-computational adventure of our society. It is to be hoped that we can be a partner able to contribute value-added "humanist" emphases. By the way, since I became chair of my department, and thus enslaved to the great institution of humanities-research, I have been hindered in participating in Humanist discussions. Sorry to have been so silent in the company of your own tremendously fertile intellectual seed-thoughts for the Humanist list; and sorrier still that I will likely again be absent in future. --Alan Liu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:45:52 -0400 From: Haines Brown Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.67 fear itself? In-Reply-To: <20090602052517.ED1E68B4D@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, you ask such a broad and non-technical question that perhaps you will allow me to reply in kind. Let me start by saying that I personally do not feel the anxiety ("technoscience" vs. humanities) that you express. Although I taught history for thirty years and currently do research in history and theory, I also have a technoscience background and continue to some extent being a technogeek. So the first issue I must raise is whether such a gap or tension actually exists. I think it does, but in limited ways. For example, I encounter many a fellow historian who is technically sophisticated, who finds TeX a better way to produce papers than Word, who makes use of SQL databases, set up a WordPress site for papers, etc. Furthermore, much of the issue may reduce to a generation gap. My wife uses a computer, but is endlessly frustrated and frequently begs for help; my four year old g-grandchild has no problem at all using my wife's computer to play games on the Disney site. However, despite qualifications such as these, I suppose the tension you point to does exist, and it raises interesting issues. I'd like to mention two possibly contributing factors, one less speculative than the other. The first looks to inadequacies in our education. When we were exposed to the natural sciences, it was in the form of a now defunct positivism. We were told about the laboratory and the "scientific method" without any hint regarding the artificiality of the first and contentious nature of the second. What is really odd is that the broader implications of natural science that should be conveyed in general education is still couched in positivist terms, and I suspect there are reasons for this. The positivist outlook did indeed contradict that of the humanities, but it should no longer be taken seriously. The points so far relate to personal shortcomings and possible educational reform, but more interesting and less amenable to possible rectification would be any intrinsic contradictions between the humanities and the natural sciences, should they exist. I could go on at quite some length to argue that the conception of the world that prevails in the natural sciences today (among more reflective scientists and among philosophers of science who today are able to communicate much more effectively with the scientific community than in the past), is entirely compatible with that of historians (or at least reflective historians before the linguistic turn). That is, I believe that any possible gap or tension needs to be shown to be true rather than presumed and be articulated in specific terms that can be explored and debated. My other point is more controversial. As we know, anxiety about vague universal threats from the outside are likely to arise from inadequacies or insecurities coming from within. That is, I wonder if this tension or gap is might not be primarily an effect of historians having lost any legitimate or useful social function. Indeed, there seems a good deal of empirical evidence that the profession is in decline. My word "social" is important here because historic consciousness can satisfy a wide range of needs, and not all are in jeopardy. Historic consciousness can do useful things for the individual: it can be entertaining, it can expose one to the Other; it can stimulate the emotions (which, incidentally, may be a source of danger). There's no doubt that popular writers of history continue to enjoy success. Historic consciousness can also do useful things in terms of our personal relation to the past: we can acquire a richer definition of Self through a study of our roots; we acquire an attachment to nation and empire (which might help account for the persistence of positivism in our education because positivism systematically excludes outside factors such as social and moral values). But we are also social beings, and so what function can historic consciousness have for that aspect of our being? This becomes particularly important if our social existence contributes much more to the development of our capacities than our private existence. There are certainly precedents for an important social function for historic consciousness. With the development of class contradictions in the 19th century, we have spokesmen for the dominant class such as Lord Acton suggesting that historic conscious is a cornerstone of human liberty (I can't actually pin this down in Acton, and would appreciate being told where he says something to this effect), and Marx held much the same position regarding the emerging working class. For a variety of reasons, class consciousness atrophied in the 20th century, and so in place of the old class function of historic consciousness we instead see vague suggestions that an awareness of history fortifies a belief that history is an open ended process that in turn lends support to a confidence that we can shape our own future. This sounds good, at least until we begin to think about it critically. although I am unaware of anyone who has done so, except Nietzsche. I suspect the idea is really empty of any real content and might persist merely because of its ideological function, much as consumerism serves to convey the illusion of democracy, of having meaningful choices. In parallel with the history of print media from the 18th century until today's crisis, there seems to be a loss of social function in terms of our social existence as citizens. Just what is the social function of historic consciousness today? Has it atrophied because our sense of having some control over our future has declined? The position of North Americans in relation to the rest of the world is changing; our economy is not serving us well; detrimental environmental forces are at work over which we have little real control. Is this lack of confidence that we are in command of our future related to the growth of a critical skepticism in the profession that reduces historic consciousness to a highly privatized function that presumes a passive relation to the world? I do not wish to divert the thread away from the original question, but I suspect that when we look for the deeper reasons for the gap between natural science and the humanities, it is because the humanities, unlike the natural sciences, no longer supports the expectation that consciousness represents any significant force for change. I believe historic consciousness could perform that function, but not in its present form and not separated from real social forces. Haines Brown emeritus --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 07:44:49 -0700 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.67 fear itself? In-Reply-To: <20090602052517.ED1E68B4D@woodward.joyent.us> Do you not think it's a bit of a mistake to focus on the machine-like aspect of the computer? When we associate the computer with the host of electronic and digital equipment that has bubbled forth in the past half-century, we neglect, I think, a critical difference between early electronic devices and modern computers. While obviously computers are technological marvels and to understand the inner workings of the CPU, the frontside bus or I/O interface would require a depth of techincal training, the actual systems that run on these machines are based in a much more humanistic realm: Logic. When I studied logic in my undergraduate, it was not in the engineering or mathematics department, but in philosophy. Creating modern software is not an interaction with the machine--or to use your language, the technoscience aspect of the computer--but an interaction with a particularly formalized language and rhetoric, be it ActionScript, C++, R or PHP. When coders write about creating software, they speak in terms of linguistic precision and logical elegance. Electrical and mechanical engineers are not going to take over the humanities, just as they haven't taken over biology. But the pervasive and inclusive nature of software means that software engineering is different, and it's a bit of a misnomer to refer to it as engineering (You might as well, then, refer to every person skilled at creating complex works as an engineer--for instance, 18th Century French Language Engineers). It's a shame that many humanities scholars can only deal with software as a metaphor, and that we do little to distinguish it from hardware or even within itself. Elijah Meeks _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 6 15:28:40 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B419EFD00; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:28:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 95673FCEF; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:28:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090606152838.95673FCEF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:28:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.69 fear itself X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 69. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:17:03 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.68 fear itself In-Reply-To: <20090604123355.D14E7EBC3@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I wonder if your historical readings into the anxieties expressed at the interface of the humanities and computing uncovered a concern for property and economies. I ask because recently one of the major themes of such discussions, whether expressed as fear or hope, is sustainability. For example, in the Going Digital issue of IDEA+S The point is not to argue that openness is a panacea or to call for open everything. Rather, this phenomenon deserves our attention because of the important social and cultural ways in which it marks the turn to the digital, in particular, the way in which it opens up space along the continuum between public and private property. Gale Moore “The Phenomenon of Openness” (IDEA+S 4:2) http://www.ideasmag.artsci.utoronto.ca/issue4_2/moore.pdf In this article, Moore describes a publishing experiment (surrounding Yochai Benkler’s 2006 book, _The Wealth of Networks_) and then asks: “Would you still buy the book?” “Buying a book” is a simple act but a complex phenomenon: Consider book as product, book as experience. Or books as markers in an economy that supports institutions. I raise this here to inquire if some of the discourse regarding the impact of computers on the practice of humanities research is not also about pressures on a habitat of relations and modes of exchange. To what extent in your historical readings does the name “humanities” stand in for “culture of the book”? 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:25:14 -0400 From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu Subject: HASTAC is seeking a program coordinator; apply by June 10th An announcement from HASTAC.org HASTAC is looking for a Program Coordinator. Please forward to anyone who might be interested or apply yourself via the Requisition Number below. Position Title: Program Coordinator Requisition Number: 400303348 (to apply, visit hr.duke.edu, click "Jobs," and search by Requisition #400303348) Location: Duke University, Durham, NC Closing date: Please submit all resumes by June 10, 2009. This position is 40 hours a week (including full benefits) and is fully funded until June 30, 2011 and may be extended beyond that time contingent on grant funding opportunities and/or partnership opportunities with other units within Duke University. Description: * Manage and maintain all budgets, files, correspondence, grants, calendar, appointments, travel arrangements, agendas, meetings, weekly conference calls, compliance rules, and special requests for Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) Professor and HASTAC co-founder * Answer promptly and professionally all inquiries about organization and the Digital Media and Learning Competition (http:// www.dmlcompetition.net); make referrals, answer calls and e-mails for FHI Professor, HASTAC, and the Digital Media and Learning Competition * Master all university financial and grant reporting systems; maintain budgets for FHI Professor, HASTAC, Digital Media and Learning Competition, and any additional grants in compliance with sponsors' requirements * Plan events, coordinate activities, and maintain budgets for major public, university, and HASTAC events, both at Duke and off-site with partnering institutions and sponsors * Act as team communicator and networker for 11 member Digital Media and Learning Competition grant team, providing organizational, communications, and administrative support to Digital Media and Learning Competition Senior Program Coordinator and team; co-author periodic financial and narrative reports to sponsoring institutions * Author and edit correspondence for FHI Professor, proofread and correct articles, blog entries, book chapters; follow up on correspondence as requested * Consult with grant applicants and all others in person, by phone and e- mail; establish and implement communication system for project participants * Initiate plans for both live and online (webcast, podcast, and other forms of new media broadcasts) events, add and moderate information to website and online newsletter * Consult with HASTAC and Digital Media and Learning Competition grant team, including national and international competition winners, to develop and implement projects, secure travel, and resolve infrastructure, communication, and grant management issues * Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein Experience: * Work requires analytical, communications and organizational skills generally acquired through completion of a bachelor's degree program. * At least 1 year experience in administrative support, with significant budget oversight/accounting responsibilities is required; 3 years or more strongly preferred. 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To apply, visit hr.duke.edu, click "Jobs," and search by Requisition #400303348. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 6 15:30:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2F3AFE00; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:30:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BDA15FDEE; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:30:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090606153024.BDA15FDEE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:30:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.71 new on WWW: TL Infobits for May X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 71. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 19:58:48 +0100 From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: TL Infobits -- May 2009 TL INFOBITS May 2009 No. 35 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 and all back issues at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... Are Lower Grades Linked to Facebook Use? Learning in Virtual Worlds IP Policies and E-Learning New Journal on Higher Ed Information Literacy New Journal on Digital Culture Helping Computer-Literate Students Become Research-Literate Two Views of Online Instruction Recommended Reading ...................................................................... ARE LOWER GRADES LINKED TO FACEBOOK USE? When doctoral student Aryn Karpinski's unpublished study connecting students' heavy Facebook use and lower grades was presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association in April it created a "media sensation" both in the press and among academic blogs. Not everyone found her conclusions convincing. Three researchers attempted to replicate Karpinski's findings using three datasets: (1) a large sample of undergraduate students from the University of Illinois at Chicago, (2) a nationally representative cross sectional sample of American 14– to 22–year–olds, and (3) a longitudinal panel of American youth aged 14–23. They report (in "Facebook and Academic Performance: Reconciling a Media Sensation with Data," by Josh Pasek, Eian More, and Eszter Hargittai, FIRST MONDAY, vol. 14, no. 5, May 4, 2009) that "[i]n none of the samples do we find a robust negative relationship between Facebook use and grades. Indeed, if anything, Facebook use is more common among individuals with higher grades." The article is available at http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2498/2181 First Monday [ISSN 1396-0466] is an online, peer-reviewed journal whose aim is to publish original articles about the Internet and the global information infrastructure. It is published in cooperation with the University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information, contact: First Monday, c/o Edward Valauskas, Chief Editor, PO Box 87636, Chicago IL 60680-0636 USA; email: ejv@uic.edu; Web: http://firstmonday.org/ See also: "Study Finds Link between Facebook Use, Lower Grades in College" http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2009/05/facebook.html Poster of Karpinski's study http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/facebook2009.jpg ...................................................................... LEARNING IN VIRTUAL WORLDS "Virtual worlds as educational spaces--with their three-dimensional landscapes and customizable avatars--seem so similar to video games that educators may assume . . . that students will become as motivated by virtual worlds as they are by video games. However, these same similarities may also lead students to perceive virtual worlds as play spaces rather than as innovative educational environments. If students feel that learning opportunities offered in such spaces are not valid, they are likely to feel that they are not learning." -- Catheryn Cheal, "Student Perceptions of a Course Taught in Second Life" The June/July 2009 issue of INNOVATE (vol. 5, issue 5) focuses on the theme of virtual worlds and simulations in education. The papers reflect the maturing of the study of virtuality in education that grew out of early discussions and the formation of the League of Worlds, a conference whose mission is to "stimulate and disseminate research, analysis, theory, technical and curricular developments in the creative, educational, training-based and social use of role-playing, simulations and virtual worlds." The journal is available http://innovateonline.info/ 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@nova.edu; Web: http://innovateonline.info/ For more information about the League of Worlds, go to http://www.ubiqlab.org/low/ ...................................................................... IP POLICIES AND E-LEARNING "When we contrast the face-to-face learning environment with the online (e-learning) environment, nearly all assumptions about IP [intellectual property] and copyright are called into question. Virtually all materials that contribute to e-learning are (or can be) digitized, retained, archived, attributed and logged. This single fact raises questions about IP [intellectual property] ownership, responsibility, policies, and procedures that are newly on the table." In "Intellectual Property Policies, E-Learning, and Web 2.0: Intersections and Open Questions" (ECAR Research Bulletin, vol. 2009, issue 7, April 7, 2009), Veronica Diaz discusses how online learning has necessitated revising IP policies that were created for face-to-face instructional settings. She notes that higher education IP policies need to go beyond the assumption that "e-learning is contained within an institutional system" as Web 2.0 technologies and social networking expand the reach of the learning environment. The report is available online to members of ECAR subscribing institutions at http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ecar_so/erb/ERB0907.pdf To find out if your institution is a subscriber, go to http://www.educause.edu/ECARSubscribingOrganizations/957 ECAR (EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research) "provides timely research and analysis to help higher education leaders make better decisions about information technology. ECAR assembles leading scholars, practitioners, researchers, and analysts to focus on issues of critical importance to higher education, many of which carry increasingly complicated and consequential implications." For more information go to http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=4 ...................................................................... NEW JOURNAL COVERS HIGHER ED INFORMATION LITERACY The NORDIC JOURNAL OF INFORMATION LITERACY IN HIGHER EDUCATION, published by the University of Bergen, is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal created to encourage "research-based development of information literacy teaching within the educational programmes of universities and higher education colleges" and to establish "a forum for the investigation and discussion of connections between information literacy and general learning processes within subject-specific contexts." Papers in the inaugural issue include: "A New Conception of Information Literacy for the Digital Environment in Higher Education" by Sharon Markless To provide an information literacy (IL) framework for a virtual learning environment, the author considered the "relevant principles of learning, the place of student reflection when learning to be information literate, what IL in higher education (HE) should encompass, the importance of context in developing IL, and the influence of the digital environment, especially Web 2.0." "Google Scholar compared to Web of Science. A Literature Review" by Susanne Mikki According to the author, "Google Scholar is popular among faculty staff and students, but has been met with scepticism by library professionals and therefore not yet established as subject for teaching." In her paper, Mikki makes a case for including Google Scholar as a library resource by comparing it favorably with the more-highly-regarded Web of Science database. The journal is available at https://noril.uib.no/index.php/noril Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education (NORIL) [ISSN 1890-5900] is published biannually by the University of Bergen Library. For more information, contact: Anne Sissel Vedvik Tonning, University of Bergen Library, Psychology, Education and Health Library, PO Box 7808, N-5020 Bergen, Norway; tel: +47 55588621; fax: +47 55884740; email: anne.tonning@ub.uib.no; Web: https://noril.uib.no/index.php/noril ...................................................................... NEW JOURNAL ON DIGITAL CULTURE DIGITAL CULTURE & EDUCATION is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to analyzing the "impact of digital culture on identity, education, art, society, culture and narrative within social, political, economic, cultural and historical contexts." Readers can interact with the authors by posting online comments on the journal's website. Paper submissions can include scholarly reviews of books, conferences, exhibits, games, software, and hardware. Papers in the first issue include: "Revisiting Violent Videogames Research: Game Studies Perspectives on Aggression, Violence, Immersion, Interaction, and Textual Analysis" by Kyle Kontour, University of Colorado at Boulder "Look at Me! Look at Me! Self-representation and Self-exposure through Online Networks" by Kerry Mallan, Queensland University of Technology "Playing at Bullying: The Postmodern Ethic of Bully (Canis Canem Edit)" by Clare Bradford, Deakin University Digital Culture & Education (DCE) [ISSN 1836-8301] is published as an ongoing journal with content added to the journal's website as papers are accepted. For more information, contact: Christopher Walsh, Editor; email: editor@digitalcultureandeducation.com; Web: http://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/ ...................................................................... HELPING COMPUTER-LITERATE STUDENTS BECOME RESEARCH-LITERATE "While college students may be computer-literate, they are not, as a rule, research-literate. And there's a huge difference between the two." In "Not Enough Time in the Library" (THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, May 14, 2009), Todd Gilman, librarian for literature in English at Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library, offers faculty suggestions for partnering with their campus library staff to help their students become research-literate learners. Some of his tips include: -- have a librarian conduct a session on effective search strategies that help students "avoid frustration and wasted time." -- provide an assignment that applies what the students have learned in the session, one that will "incorporate a component that challenges students to evaluate the quality of information they find." -- schedule library tour that takes students beyond the study areas and into the reference and stack areas The article is available at http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2009/05/2009051401c.htm?utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en (Online access may require a subscription to the Chronicle.) The Chronicle of Higher Education [ISSN 0009-5982] is published weekly by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc., 1255 Twenty-third Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037 USA; tel: 202-466-1000; fax: 202-452-1033; Web: http://chronicle.com/ ...................................................................... TWO VIEWS OF ONLINE INSTRUCTION "The Excellent Inevitability of Online Courses" By Margaret Brooks THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION May 29, 2009 http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i38/38a06401.htm?utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en "Within our lifetimes, technology has fundamentally changed the way we get the news, make purchases, and communicate with others. The Internet provides a platform for learning about and interacting with the world. It should be no surprise that students line up for courses that make the best use of technologies that are so integral to their lives. It's not just the economy. It's not just the convenience. It's the integration of technology within society that's driving the development of online courses." "I'll Never Do It Again" By Elayne Clift THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, May 29, 2009 http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i38/38a03302.htm?utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en "I trained for it, I tried it, and I'll never do it again. While online teaching may be the wave of the future (although I desperately hope not), it is not for me. Perhaps I'm the old dog that resists new tricks. Maybe I am a technophobe. It might be that I'm plain old-fashioned. This much I can say with certainty: I have years of experience successfully teaching in collegiate classrooms, and online teaching doesn't compare." ...................................................................... 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@unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "How People are using Twitter during Conferences" By Wolfgang Reinhardt, et al. http://lamp.tu-graz.ac.at/~i203/ebner/publication/09_edumedia.pdf (Draft version. Originally published in: CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION COMPETENCIES ON THE WEB, Hornung-Prahauser, V., and M. Luckmann, (Ed.), pp. 145-56.) "Microblogging at conferences seems to be an additional way of discussing presented topics and exchanging additional information. It is not limited to the face-to-face audience or the location of the conference. Microblogging rather allows virtually anyone to actively participate in the thematic debates." ...................................................................... INFOBITS RSS FEED To set up an RSS feed for Infobits, get the code at http://lists.unc.edu/read/rss?forum=infobits _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 6 15:31:18 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29BEA110B2; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:31:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3BED7110AB; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:31:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090606153117.3BED7110AB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:31:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.72 DHO wins collaborative grant X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 72. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:23:35 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: DHO wins NEH grant with U.S. Collaborators A collaborative project between the Digital Humanities Observatory, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and Indiana University Bloomington has been selected to receive a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Resources program (research and development focus). The project, Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) will over two years develop a new web-based, modular, collaborative image markup tool for both manual and semi-automated linking between encoded text and image of text, and image annotation. Dot Porter, DHO's Metadata Manager, will lead the team at the DHO. TILE will be based primarily on the Ajax XML Encoder (AXE) developed by project co-PI Douglas Reside (MITH; http://www.mith2.umd.edu/research/?id=19). During the course of this project AXE will be extended to allow the following: *Semi-automated creation of links between transcriptions and images of the materials from which the transcriptions were made. Using a form of optical character recognition, our software will recognize words in a page image and link them to a pre-existing textual transcription. These links can then be checked, and if need be adjusted, by a human. * Annotation of any area of an image selected by the user with a controlled vocabulary (for example, the tool can be adjusted to allow only the annotations "damaged" or "illegible"). * Application of editorial annotations to any area of an image. * Support linking for non-horizontal, non-rectangular areas of source images. * Creation of links between different, non-contiguous areas of primary source images. For example: * captions and illustrations; * illustrations and textual descriptions; * analogous texts across different manuscripts The project is unusual in digital humanities tools development in that it is being designed from the start to support a wide variety of use cases. Several projects from the University of Indiana Bloomington, The University of Oregon and Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies are initial testbeds. In the second year of the project, the DHO will be seeking additional projects from the HSIS community to test the usability and functionality of the software; there will also be a small amount of funding available. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Vallee, Jean-Francois" (54) Subject: FILE LABO WORKSHOP SERIES 2009 [2] From: "Willard McCarty" (87) Subject: cfp: Philosophy for Science in Use [3] From: Susan Schreibman (53) Subject: DRHA Registration Open [4] From: Willard McCarty (3) Subject: CTS symposium on Textual Studies, De Montfort University, 11th June [5] From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" (65) Subject: events: Balisage 2009: The markup conference [6] From: iswc2009publicity (628) Subject: ISWC 2009: 2nd Call for Papers [7] From: "Vallee, Jean-Francois" (53) Subject: FILE LABO WORKSHOP SERIES 2009 [8] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (34) Subject: Seminar: Onomastics and Entity-Recognition in Graeco- Egyptian Papyri [9] From: Daniel Pitti (14) Subject: [IATH-Fellows] Rare Books and Manuscripts -- ALA preconference inCharlottesville, June 17-20 [10] From: OKELL E.R. (55) Subject: CFP Body, Mask & Space: The State of the Art - deadline 10th June -on behalf of Margaret Coldiron --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:34:27 -0400 From: "Vallee, Jean-Francois" Subject: FILE LABO WORKSHOP SERIES 2009 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1243996581_2009-06-03_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_12875.2.ms-tnef I received this from another list. I think it might be of interest to Humanists (especially the Lev Manovich workshop). Jean-François Vallée FILE LABO WORKSHOP SERIES 2009 >From now on FILE Labo will be part of the FILE Exhibition with a special space dedicated to a reflexive and practical view about the digital art media field. This initiative coincides with the foundation of workshops with important artists and theoreticians from the digital art and new media field inside the exhibition gallery of FILE 2009. The goal of bringing FILE Labo close to the visitors is show a unknown fact for most of the people that attend the Festival: the programming and the creation of the pieces are a hard work that involves a deep technological comprehension combined with a strong debate about the state of art and its contemporary developments. ++ WORKSHOPS: LOCATIVE MEDIA: THEORY AND PRACTICE Brett Stalbaum (UCSD) & Cicero Silva (Software Studies) 07/28 | 9am - 1pm The workshop will introduce basic concepts about locative media art. People will learn how to create content for cell/mobile phones using art & technology ideas and the walkingtools.net project as the feature to deploy the content. DATA VISUALIZATION José Luis de Vicente (Visualizar) & Irma Vilá (Visualizar) 07/29 | 9am - 1pm Workshop that will introduce the main concepts related to data visualization and also discuss the importance and the aesthetics of data processing and image generation. CULTURAL ANALYTICS Lev Manovich (UCSD/Software Studies) 07/30 & 31 | 9am - 1pm Today sciences, business, governments and other agencies rely on computer-based analysis and visualization of large data sets and data flows. They employ statistical data analysis, data mining, information visualization, scientific visualization, visual analytics, and simulation. We believe that it is time that we start applying these techniques to cultural data. The large data sets are already here – the result of the digitization efforts by museums, libraries, and companies over the last ten years (think of book scanning by Google and Amazon) and the explosive growth of newly available cultural content on the web. The workshop will provide the tools for the participants create their own analysis of the data and also to create their own visualization of the collected data. ++ LECTURERS: Brett Stalbaum : coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts Major at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and a walking artist. His latest project in locative media is the Walking Tools project at www.walkingtools.net . Cicero Silva : associate researcher at CRCA (Center for Research in Computing and the Arts) and coordinator of the Software Studies Initiative Brazil. Irma Vilá: digital media researcher and artist. José Luis de Vicente : writer and curator in the digital media and art & technology field. Since 2001 he is curator of ArtFutura, co nsidered the first art & technology festival in Spain. Nowadays he is working in research projects as “Visualizar” (Medialab Matadero Madrid) and “Atlas del Espacio Radielétrico”. He teaches Interaction Design and New Media culture and theory at several universities and Design Schools in Barcelona, mainly at Elisava School of Design Lev Manovich : recognized as one of the leading theorists of new media art and digital culture in the world, Manovich is the author of The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001), Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago University Press, 1993) as well as many articles which have been published in thirty countries. The Language of New Media has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Latvian, Korean, and Chinese. According to the reviewers, this book offers "the first rigorous and far reaching theorization of the subjec t" (CAA reviews); "it places [new media] within the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan" (Telepolis). Manovich frequently lectures on new media around the world, having delivered around two hundred in the U.S., South America, Europe and Asia since 1999. His latest book is Software Takes Command (SWS, 2009). Manovich is director of the Software Studies Initiative at CALIT2, UCSD. He has also been a visiting professor at California Institute of the Arts, UCLA, Art Center College of Design, University of Amsterdam, Stockholm University, University of Art and Design, Helsinki Cologne University, and a number of other institutions. ++ subscriptions (read carefully the terms and conditions) PORTUGUÊS FILE LABO WORKSHOP 2009 O FILE Labo começa a partir de agora a fazer parte das exposições do FILE, com um espaço dedicado à reflexão e produção de conteúdos na área de artes e mídias digitais. Essa iniciativa coincide com a criação de workshops com artistas e teóricos do campo da arte e da tecnologia, além de pesquisadores do campo da arte digital no espaço expositivo do Festival. O objetivo de trazer o FILE Labo para mais próximo dos visitantes e do público em geral é mostrar um fato até então desconhecido da maioria dos freqüentadores do FILE: a programação e a criação das obras é fruto de um árduo trabalho de manipulação tecnológica, aliada a uma profunda reflexão sobre o estado da arte e seus desdobramentos na contemporaneidade. ++ WORKSHOPS MÍDIAS LOCATIVAS: TEORIA E PRÁTICA com Brett Stalbaum (UCSD) e Cicero Silva (Software Studies) 28/07 | 9h - 13h O workshop introduzirá conceitos básicos sobre arte em mídias locativas. Os participantes aprenderão como criar conteúdo para celulares utilizando idéias advindas do campo da arte e da tecnologia. O conteúdo será lido e produzido com as ferramentas do sistema walkingtools.net . VISUALIZAÇÃO DE DADOS com José Luis de Vicente (Visualizar) e Irma Vilá (Visualizar) 29/07 | 9h - 13h Workshop que introduzirá conceitos fundamentais relacionados à visualização de dados e também discutirá a importância e a estética do processamento de dados e da geração de imagens. ANALÍTICA CULTURAL com Lev Manovich (UCSD/Software Studies) 30 e 31/07 | 9h - 13h Atualmente as ciências, negócios, governos e outras agências estão baseadas em análises computacionais e na visualização de grandes quantidades de dados e fluxos de informação. Empregam análise de dados estatísticos, visualização da informação e visualização científica, visualização analítica e simulação. Acreditamos que é tempo de aplicarmos essas técnicas aos dados culturais. Grande parte desse conjunto de dados culturais já está disponível: resultado dos esforços de digitalização realizadas por museus, livrarias e companhias ao longo dos últimoas dez anos (pense na digitalização de livros realizada pelo Google e pela Amazon) e no explosivo crescimento de conteúdos culturais disponibilizados na web. O workshop ensinará as ferramentas para os participantes criarem suas próprias análises dos dados e também ensinará como podemos criar visualizações a partir dos dados coletados. ++ PALESTRANTES: Brett Stalbaum : coordenador do curso Interdisciplinar em Computação e Artes na Universidade da Califórnia, San Diego (UCSD) e um artista andarilho. Seu último projeto na área de mídias locativas é o walkingtools em www.walkingtools.net . Cicero Silva : pesquisador associado ao CRCA e coordenador do grupo de Software Studies no Brasil. Irma Vilá: Artista e pesquisadora na área de mídias digitais. José Luis de Vicente : escritor, curador especializado em cultura digital, arte & tecnologia e criador do blog elástico.net. É especializado em sociedade, cultura e artes digitais. Desde 2001 é diretor do ArtFutura, o festival de arte & tecnologia mais antigo da Espanha. Formou parte da equipe do RESFEST, o festival itinerante de cinema digital (2002-2006) e desde 2004 faz parte do conselho de programação do SONAR, o festival de música avançada e arte multimídia de Barcelona, fazendo a curadoria, junto com Oscar Abril Ascaso e do Advanced Music, de suas três últimas exposições. Atualmente desenvolve diversos programas de pesquisa como o “Visualizar” (Medialab Matadero Madrid) ou o "Atlas del Espacio Radioeléctrico". É profesor de teoria dos meios interativos no mestrado de Digital Media na Escuela Elisava de Barcelona. Lev Manovich : é autor de Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), Black Box - White Cube (Merve Verlag Berlin, 2005) e The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001), que foi considerado como “a mais sugestiva e ampla história da mídia desde Marshall McLuhan”. É autor de mais de 90 artigos que foram reproduzidos mais de 300 vezes em vários países. Manovich é professor no Departamento de Artes Visuais da Universidade da Califórnia em San Diego (UCSD), Diretor do Grupo de Software Studies no California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CALIT2) e Pesquisador Visitante no Godsmith College (Londres) e no College of Fine Arts, Universidade of New South Wales (Sydney). Manovich tem sido requisitado para proferir palestras ao redor do mundo, tendo realizado até o momento mais de 270 conferências, palestras e workshops fora dos Estados Unidos nos últimos 10 anos. Editou recentemente o livro Software Takes Command (SWS, 2009). ++ inscreva-se (leia atentamente os termos e condições de participação) -- Cicero Silva coordinator / coordenador www.filelabo.com.br --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:27:23 +0100 (BST) From: "Willard McCarty" Subject: cfp: Philosophy for Science in Use ESF Research Conferences 2011 - Call for Proposals is now open Submission deadline: 15 September 2009 (midnight CET) More information at www.esf.org/conferences/call Contact: conferences-proposals@esf.org - Call for Applications - ESF-LiU Conference Philosophy for Science in Use Scandic Linköping Väst, Linköping, Sweden 28 September - 2 October 2009 www.esf.org/conferences/09272 Chaired by: Matthias Kaiser, National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology, NO & Nancy Cartwright, London School of Economics, UK This conference is to discuss how current philosophy of science can be brought more in line with the need to understand, analyze and contribute to scientific endeavours in its various practical and socially relevant uses. It follows a call from Philip Kitcher (in Science, Truth and Democracy, 2001) for aiming at a well-ordered science, i.e. a science that produces the right answers to the right questions in the right ways. Implicit in this call is the insight that value judgements are intertwined with methodological issues. Nancy Cartwright (in Philosophy of Science, 2006 vol.72, #5) has followed up by making the claim that epistemological warrants (evidence) are in large parts also use- and context-specific, contrary to the prevailing tradition in philosophy of science. Hitherto the major philosophical attention has been directed towards justifications of theoretical claims to establish stable unambiguous results, while the justificationary demands on contextual and specialized uses of theoretical insights has been largely neglected. However, it is also in regard to these uses of sciences that value dilemmas affect the practice of science in a very direct way, and where science needs to reflect on its social and ethical justification. The conference will ask for contributions that explore in greater detail philosophical aspects of science and evidence in practical use, and in particular contributions that can provide frameworks of analyses that move philosophy of science closer to policy issues of managing scientific knowledge. In general, the task of the conference is to discuss a re-orientation of current philosophy of science towards what Kitcher called well-ordered science. The conference specifically addresses young European researchers, both from within philosophy of science and related fields, and encourages them to participate and possibly present a poster on their current work. Invited Speakers will include (more speakers to be confirmed) · Nancy Cartwright - London School of Economics, UKEvidence, causal models and evidence-based policies – new insights · Matthias Kaiser - National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology (NENT), NO Evidence for precaution · Philip Kitcher - Columbia University, US Well-ordered science – the challenges for philosophy of science · Eleonora Montuschi - London School of Economics, UK On relevant evidence · Thomas Potthast - Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen, DE Hybrid judgements: integrating scientific and ethical evidence · Felix Reed-Tsochas - Saïd Business School, Oxford University, UK t.b.a. · Julian Reiss - Erasmus University, NL Causation for use · Matti Sintonen - Helsinki University, FI Understanding, explaining and prediciting · Jeroen van der Sluijs - Utrecht University, NL Knowledge quality asessment: tools for reflexive science Full conference programme and application form accessible online from www.esf.org/conferences/09272 Some grants available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and possibly part of the travel costs. Grant requests should be made by ticking appropriate field(s) in the paragraph "Grant application" of the application form. Closing date for applications: 12 July 2009 ESF Contact: Jean Kelly - jkelly@esf.org Kind regards,Corinne Wininger Communications Officer - ESF Conferences European Science Foundation - Communications Unit 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, BP 90015 67080 Strasbourg Cedex, France Phone: +33 (0)388 76 21 50 Fax: +33 (0)388 76 71 80 clemoal@esf.org www.esf.org/conferences --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:38:06 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: DRHA Registration Open REGISTRATION NOW OPEN www.dho.ie/drha2009 DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES (DRHA) 2009 CONFERENCE DYNAMIC NETWORKS OF KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE: CONTEXTS, CRISES, FUTURES 7 - 9 September 2009 Queens University Belfast The conference aims to establish new digital communities of knowledge exchange Keynote Speakers: PROFESSOR STEVE BENFORD (University of Nottingham) Trajectories Through Mixed Reality Performance DR ANDREW GREEN (National Library of Wales) Big Digitisation: Where Next? PROFESSOR JANE OHLMEYER (Trinity College, Dublin) MARIE WALLACE (IBM) Dealing with Dirty Data: Theory and Practice WORKSHOPS Three pre-conference workshops will take place across 5-6 September 2009. We are offering discounted places to those delegates who also register for the DRHA Conference on or before 31 July 2009. Please note workshops are limited to a maximum of 15 participants so book early to avoid disappointment. For more details visit www.dho.ie/drha2009/programme/workshops The conference will address the following themes: * the impact of data on scholarship and wider society * how innovations become mainstream through mutation and imitation * digitisation of scholarly editions and cultural heritage * digital representation of time, space and locality * digital preservation and sustainability * user engagement and social participation * the impact of narrative and design in the Arts and Humanities on ICT and vice versa * education and the digital humanities and arts ABOUT DRHA For more than a decade Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) has been a key UK meeting place for all those affected by the digitization of cultural heritage: the scholar creating or using an electronic edition; the teacher using digital resources as an aid to learning; the artist seeking to engage with digital technologies in new and creative contexts; the publisher finding new ways to reach new audiences; the librarian, curator or archivist wishing to improve both access to and conservation of the digital information that characterizes contemporary culture and scholarship; the information scientist seeking to apply new scientific and technical developments to the creation, exploitation and management of digital resources.the theory and practice of creating and documenting digital arts HOSTS This conference is co-hosted by Queen's University Belfast, the Royal Irish Academy, and Swansea University in partnership with the National Library of Wales. For more information visit the conference website: www.dho.ie/drha2009 -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:22:08 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: CTS symposium on Textual Studies, De Montfort University, 11th June Dear Colleagues, Please find [below] a full schedule for this year's CTS symposium to be held on the 11th June. There is no fee for participation in the event but those wishing to attend are asked to register their details via the CTS website: http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/index.php?q=conference_registration Any requests for further information may be addressed to either myself (aliceruthwood@yahoo.co.uk) or Andrew Thacker. We hope to see you on the 11th. Best Wishes, Alice Wood CTS SYMPOSIUM 11 June 2009 Clephan Building, De Montfort University, Leicester Programme 9.00-9.30 Registration and Coffee, Ground floor foyer 9.30-10.30 Lecture, Room 0.01 Chair: Takako Kato (Leicester) Tony Edwards (DMU), ‘Disintegrating the Text: The Career of Otto Ege’ 10.30-10.45 Refreshment Break, Room 0.03 10.45-12.45 Panel 1: Book History, Room 0.01 Chair: TBA Clare Hutton (Loughborough), ‘The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century’ Claire Squires (Oxford Brookes), ‘Not Waiting for Posterity, or the History of the Contemporary Book’ Henry Woudhuysen (UCL), ‘Bibliography and the History of the Book: A Companionable View’ 12.45-1.45 Lunch, Room 0.03 1.45-3.15 Panel 2: Periodicals, Room 0.01 Chair: Phil Cox (DMU) Jim Mussell (Birmingham), ‘From Textual Codes to Visual Modes: The Importance of the Visual when Digitizing Journalism’ Deborah Mutch (DMU), TBA Nick Hayward, Federico Meschini and Andrew Thacker (DMU), ‘The Modernist Magazines Project’ 3.15-3.30 Refreshment Break, Room 0.03 3.30-4.30 Lecture, Room 0.01 Chair: Joe Phelan (DMU) John Woolford (Sheffield), ‘Tennyson’s Day-Dreams’ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:13:42 -0600 From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" Subject: events: Balisage 2009: The markup conference Readers of Humanist may be interested in the announcement below and in the Balisage conference; this year's program includes meditations on the nature of documents by Allen Renear, a discussion of markup technology as a nomic game by Wendell Piez, and several reports on systems of markup for overlapping structures, a perennial favorite both at digital humanities conferences and at Balisage. I hope to see you in Montreal this August! --Michael Sperberg-McQueen Black Mesa Technologies LLC ................................................................ Balisage 2009 Program Announced [FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE] Rockville, Maryland. The organizing committee has released the program for "Balisage 2009: The Markup Conference" to be held in Montreal from 11 to 14 August, 2009. The program can be found in two forms: Schedule at a Glance: http://www.balisage.net/2009/At-A-Glance.html Detailed program: http://www.balisage.net/2009/Program.html Topics include: design of tools for writing XML and ways to hide XML from authors; XML processing pipelines; encoding multiple versions of documents, theory of document versioning, and change management in a complex XML environment; creating XSD schemas from UML; linking, namespaces, vocabularies, and a variety of XML-related specifications including Schematron, XSLT, XPath, & XForms and a host of others. Several slots have been left open for late-breaking news. Speakers from business and government include representatives of: Appolux, Mark Logic, Saxonica, National Archives and Records Adminstration, Mulberry Technologies, Electronic Commerce Connection, Black Mesa Technologies, Ramsey Systems, XML Solutions, Informing Healthcare (NHS Wales), Xerox Research Centre Europe, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Fujitsu America, Document Engineering Services, and Oracle. Speakers from the academic world include people from: Université de Montréal, W3C, University of Bergen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Bielefeld University, Technische Universität München, Institute for the German Language (Mannheim), University of Bologna, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Jacobs University Bremen , Université de Lyon , Queensland University of Technology, Acadia University, University of Warsaw, and University College Cork. Balisage 2009: The Markup Conference is produced by Mulberry Technologies, Inc. of Rockville, Maryland (http://www.mulberrytech.com/), sponsored by Mark Logic (http://www.marklogic.com), and co-sponsored by: - the World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org/) - the XML Guild (http://xmlguild.org/) - W3 Quebec (http://www.w3qc.org/) - OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, http://www.oasis-open.org/) - the TEI Consortium (http://www.tei-c.org/) - the Philadelphia XML Users Group (http://www.xmlphilly.org/) - the DC XML Users Group (http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/) -- ====================================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009 mailto:info@balisage.net August 11-14, 2009 http://www.balisage.net Processing XML Efficiently: August 10, 2009 Montreal, Canada ====================================================================== -- **************************************************************** * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies LLC * http://www.blackmesatech.com * http://cmsmcq.com/mib * http://balisage.net **************************************************************** --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 02:32:06 +0100 From: iswc2009publicity Subject: ISWC 2009: 2nd Call for Papers The 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) will be held 25 - 29 October, 2009, in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S. Invited speakers include Patrick Hayes, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Nova Spivack, Radar Networks and Tom Mitchell, Carnegie-Mellon University. ISWC is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented. As the Semantic Web is rapidly entering the mainstream, ISWC 2009 will pay particular attention to showcasing scalable and usable solutions, which bring semantic technologies to web users in authentic application settings. The tracks for ISWC 2009 include Research, Semantic Web in Use, Posters & Demonstrations, Industry, Doctorial Consortium, and Tutorials (Workshops is now closed). Calls for each of these tracks is below. The International Semantic Web Conference (IS WC) series is organized and managed by the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA ). See http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/ for full ISWC 20009 for conference details and http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/wiki/index.php/ISWC_2009_Calls for specifics on calls for papers. [...] --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:34:27 -0400 From: "Vallee, Jean-Francois" Subject: FILE LABO WORKSHOP SERIES 2009 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1243996581_2009-06-03_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_12875.2.ms-tnef I received this from another list. I think it might be of interest to Humanists (especially the Lev Manovich workshop). Jean-François Vallée FILE LABO WORKSHOP SERIES 2009 >From now on FILE Labo will be part of the FILE Exhibition with a special space dedicated to a reflexive and practical view about the digital art media field. This initiative coincides with the foundation of workshops with important artists and theoreticians from the digital art and new media field inside the exhibition gallery of FILE 2009. The goal of bringing FILE Labo close to the visitors is show a unknown fact for most of the people that attend the Festival: the programming and the creation of the pieces are a hard work that involves a deep technological comprehension combined with a strong debate about the state of art and its contemporary developments. ++ WORKSHOPS: LOCATIVE MEDIA: THEORY AND PRACTICE Brett Stalbaum (UCSD) & Cicero Silva (Software Studies) 07/28 | 9am - 1pm The workshop will introduce basic concepts about locative media art. People will learn how to create content for cell/mobile phones using art & technology ideas and the walkingtools.net project as the feature to deploy the content. DATA VISUALIZATION José Luis de Vicente (Visualizar) & Irma Vilá (Visualizar) 07/29 | 9am - 1pm Workshop that will introduce the main concepts related to data visualization and also discuss the importance and the aesthetics of data processing and image generation. CULTURAL ANALYTICS Lev Manovich (UCSD/Software Studies) 07/30 & 31 | 9am - 1pm Today sciences, business, governments and other agencies rely on computer-based analysis and visualization of large data sets and data flows. They employ statistical data analysis, data mining, information visualization, scientific visualization, visual analytics, and simulation. We believe that it is time that we start applying these techniques to cultural data. The large data sets are already here – the result of the digitization efforts by museums, libraries, and companies over the last ten years (think of book scanning by Google and Amazon) and the explosive growth of newly available cultural content on the web. The workshop will provide the tools for the participants create their own analysis of the data and also to create their own visualization of the collected data. ++ LECTURERS: Brett Stalbaum : coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts Major at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and a walking artist. His latest project in locative media is the Walking Tools project at www.walkingtools.net . Cicero Silva : associate researcher at CRCA (Center for Research in Computing and the Arts) and coordinator of the Software Studies Initiative Brazil. Irma Vilá: digital media researcher and artist. José Luis de Vicente : writer and curator in the digital media and art & technology field. Since 2001 he is curator of ArtFutura, co nsidered the first art & technology festival in Spain. Nowadays he is working in research projects as “Visualizar” (Medialab Matadero Madrid) and “Atlas del Espacio Radielétrico”. He teaches Interaction Design and New Media culture and theory at several universities and Design Schools in Barcelona, mainly at Elisava School of Design Lev Manovich : recognized as one of the leading theorists of new media art and digital culture in the world, Manovich is the author of The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001), Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago University Press, 1993) as well as many articles which have been published in thirty countries. The Language of New Media has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Latvian, Korean, and Chinese. According to the reviewers, this book offers "the first rigorous and far reaching theorization of the subjec t" (CAA reviews); "it places [new media] within the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan" (Telepolis). Manovich frequently lectures on new media around the world, having delivered around two hundred in the U.S., South America, Europe and Asia since 1999. His latest book is Software Takes Command (SWS, 2009). Manovich is director of the Software Studies Initiative at CALIT2, UCSD. He has also been a visiting professor at California Institute of the Arts, UCLA, Art Center College of Design, University of Amsterdam, Stockholm University, University of Art and Design, Helsinki Cologne University, and a number of other institutions. ++ subscriptions (read carefully the terms and conditions) PORTUGUÊS FILE LABO WORKSHOP 2009 O FILE Labo começa a partir de agora a fazer parte das exposições do FILE, com um espaço dedicado à reflexão e produção de conteúdos na área de artes e mídias digitais. Essa iniciativa coincide com a criação de workshops com artistas e teóricos do campo da arte e da tecnologia, além de pesquisadores do campo da arte digital no espaço expositivo do Festival. O objetivo de trazer o FILE Labo para mais próximo dos visitantes e do público em geral é mostrar um fato até então desconhecido da maioria dos freqüentadores do FILE: a programação e a criação das obras é fruto de um árduo trabalho de manipulação tecnológica, aliada a uma profunda reflexão sobre o estado da arte e seus desdobramentos na contemporaneidade. ++ WORKSHOPS MÍDIAS LOCATIVAS: TEORIA E PRÁTICA com Brett Stalbaum (UCSD) e Cicero Silva (Software Studies) 28/07 | 9h - 13h O workshop introduzirá conceitos básicos sobre arte em mídias locativas. Os participantes aprenderão como criar conteúdo para celulares utilizando idéias advindas do campo da arte e da tecnologia. O conteúdo será lido e produzido com as ferramentas do sistema walkingtools.net . VISUALIZAÇÃO DE DADOS com José Luis de Vicente (Visualizar) e Irma Vilá (Visualizar) 29/07 | 9h - 13h Workshop que introduzirá conceitos fundamentais relacionados à visualização de dados e também discutirá a importância e a estética do processamento de dados e da geração de imagens. ANALÍTICA CULTURAL com Lev Manovich (UCSD/Software Studies) 30 e 31/07 | 9h - 13h Atualmente as ciências, negócios, governos e outras agências estão baseadas em análises computacionais e na visualização de grandes quantidades de dados e fluxos de informação. Empregam análise de dados estatísticos, visualização da informação e visualização científica, visualização analítica e simulação. Acreditamos que é tempo de aplicarmos essas técnicas aos dados culturais. Grande parte desse conjunto de dados culturais já está disponível: resultado dos esforços de digitalização realizadas por museus, livrarias e companhias ao longo dos últimoas dez anos (pense na digitalização de livros realizada pelo Google e pela Amazon) e no explosivo crescimento de conteúdos culturais disponibilizados na web. O workshop ensinará as ferramentas para os participantes criarem suas próprias análises dos dados e também ensinará como podemos criar visualizações a partir dos dados coletados. ++ PALESTRANTES: Brett Stalbaum : coordenador do curso Interdisciplinar em Computação e Artes na Universidade da Califórnia, San Diego (UCSD) e um artista andarilho. Seu último projeto na área de mídias locativas é o walkingtools em www.walkingtools.net . Cicero Silva : pesquisador associado ao CRCA e coordenador do grupo de Software Studies no Brasil. Irma Vilá: Artista e pesquisadora na área de mídias digitais. José Luis de Vicente : escritor, curador especializado em cultura digital, arte & tecnologia e criador do blog elástico.net. É especializado em sociedade, cultura e artes digitais. Desde 2001 é diretor do ArtFutura, o festival de arte & tecnologia mais antigo da Espanha. Formou parte da equipe do RESFEST, o festival itinerante de cinema digital (2002-2006) e desde 2004 faz parte do conselho de programação do SONAR, o festival de música avançada e arte multimídia de Barcelona, fazendo a curadoria, junto com Oscar Abril Ascaso e do Advanced Music, de suas três últimas exposições. Atualmente desenvolve diversos programas de pesquisa como o “Visualizar” (Medialab Matadero Madrid) ou o "Atlas del Espacio Radioeléctrico". É profesor de teoria dos meios interativos no mestrado de Digital Media na Escuela Elisava de Barcelona. Lev Manovich : é autor de Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), Black Box - White Cube (Merve Verlag Berlin, 2005) e The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001), que foi considerado como “a mais sugestiva e ampla história da mídia desde Marshall McLuhan”. É autor de mais de 90 artigos que foram reproduzidos mais de 300 vezes em vários países. Manovich é professor no Departamento de Artes Visuais da Universidade da Califórnia em San Diego (UCSD), Diretor do Grupo de Software Studies no California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CALIT2) e Pesquisador Visitante no Godsmith College (Londres) e no College of Fine Arts, Universidade of New South Wales (Sydney). Manovich tem sido requisitado para proferir palestras ao redor do mundo, tendo realizado até o momento mais de 270 conferências, palestras e workshops fora dos Estados Unidos nos últimos 10 anos. Editou recentemente o livro Software Takes Command (SWS, 2009). ++ inscreva-se (leia atentamente os termos e condições de participação) -- Cicero Silva coordinator / coordenador www.filelabo.com.br --[8]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 07:55:45 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Seminar: Onomastics and Entity-Recognition in Graeco-Egyptian Papyri (Apologies for cross-posting--please circulate this announcement to anyone who may be interested.) Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Friday June 5th at 16:30 *Bart Van Beek (Leuven)* *Onomastics and Entity-Recognition in Graeco-Egyptian Papyri* Several research projects at the University of Leuven currently draw on the interdisciplinary platform ‘Trismegistos’ (www.trismegistos.org), which collects metadata about Greek, Latin, Egyptian and other ancient texts. For Greek papyri, we use the XML-encoded full-text corpus of the Duke Database of Documentary Papyri as a basis for data input and analysis. ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at , where fuller abstracts of all papers are available (and slides and audio will be posted after each event). -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ --[9]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:28:33 +0100 From: Daniel Pitti Subject: [IATH-Fellows] Rare Books and Manuscripts -- ALA preconference inCharlottesville, June 17-20 The Rare Book and Manuscript Section of the American Library Association is holding its 50th annual meeting in Charlottesville, June 17-20. For those interested in library special collections, this is a unique opportunity to meet with and hear from both local and visiting archivists, librarians, and scholars who specialize in rare books or manuscripts. For more details, please see http://www.rbms.info/conferences/preconferences/2009/ There are a number of talks that cover matters relevant to digital scholarship. It will also be a wonderful opportunity to cross paths with Terry Belanger and wish him well in his retirement. --[10]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:53:34 +0100 From: OKELL E.R. Subject: CFP Body, Mask & Space: The State of the Art - deadline 10th June -on behalf of Margaret Coldiron Please forward to any interested parties and send any inquiries to mcoldiron@mac.com CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE JUNE 10 Body, Mask and Space: The State of the Art An interdisciplinary conference at King's College London July 9-10, 2009 This conference is being organised by the AHRC-funded project "The Body and Mask in Ancient Theatre Space", a research collaboration between King's Visualisation Lab at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London and the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University. The project concerns ancient masked performance - specifically in terms of spatial environments, intercultural performance and perceptual experience. This conference will examine the work of the project to date (see below), addressing issues raised by this work from the following perspectives: Methodologies and Technologies of Mask making Applications of 3D technologies for art history, archaeology, theatre and performance studies Facial recognition and Principle Components Analysis-is a mask a face? The Mask and Body in Space: Directing and Performing for the Virtual World Theatre Historical Approaches to Masked Performance: Classical and Intercultural We invite scholars with interests in the areas of Classics, Archaeology, Theatre History, Masks, Performance, 3D and Digital Technologies to submit proposals for papers or presentations relating to these themes for inclusion in the conference. Proposals should consist of an abstract of up to 500 words and a brief biography; presentations should be no more than 20 minutes long. Please send proposals or enquiries to the conference organiser: Dr Margaret Coldiron (mcoldiron@mac.com) by 10 June. The work of the project to date Using leading-edge 3D technologies the AHRC-funded project "The Body and Mask in Ancient Theatre Space" addresses fundamental questions concerning the conditions and actualities of the ancient theatre: What can be inferred of the actor's technique and use of mask and body and how does their semiosis relate to other performance traditions and to constants of human perception? How can one productively integrate the study of practice and of the surviving iconography in this research process, and how can 3D technologies be brought to bear at their interface? How does perception of masks compare with that of living human faces, and how far can methodologies concerning visual perception inform an understanding of the ancient mask? How is perception of body and physical movement related to how the mask is "read"? The work of the project includes the creation of full-sized masks for performance based upon terracotta miniature artefacts, complemented by other sources of material evidence, and the use of 3D motion-capture and Chromakey video to record movements of performers and place them in virtually-realised ancient theatre spaces. In addition the research team is collaborating with artists from Asian and European mask theatre traditions whose insights into the use of masks help to illuminate expressive aspects of these ancient mask artefacts. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 15 03:30:01 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7F0148D1; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 806FB148C7; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:29:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090615032959.806FB148C7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:29:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.74 world-making and markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 74. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:22:47 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.59 world-making and markup Willard, There is in the book On the Origin of Objects by Brian Cantwell Smith a passage that has fascinated me and which relates to the thread on markup and world-making. It is a description that deserves to be read slowly. World-directedness takes many forms. [...] subjects (their experiences, representations, documents, intentions, thoughts, etc.) point or are directed towards the transcendent-but-immanent world that surrounds them. A symmetrically realist account per se supplies two of the requisite ingredients in this pointing: (i) the fact that subjects are in an enveloping world, which gives them a place to point from; and (ii) the fact that they are made of that same enveloping world, which gives them the wherewithal to point with. What a theory of intentionality needs to add is the far-from-obvious third ingredient: (iii) a way for subjects to orient towards that enveloping world, the world of which they are constituted and in which they live. What fascinates me is the way in which "from" is paired with "in" and "with" is paired with "made" and that "towards" remains unpaired. The trio of prepositions reminds me of the experience of modeling content or a way of writing in/with structured forms such as those offered by the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines. Marking from.... marking with... marking towards. In a very fundamental fashion, writing is about how to segment and how to align. Pick a point. From that point there stem a before and an after. Pick another point and observe that part of one point's after is part of another point's before and observe a between that emerges with its own before and its own after. Place a mark in a given space and with the given mark, place another mark [erasing is a type of marking] or stop. Now I see "towards" in Smith's phrase "orient towards" could be read sous rature. Peeking out of those italics is the phrase "a way for subjects to orient [...] that enveloping world" which gives a hint of agency to acts of world-directed intentionality. This where I want to graft story telling as a way of orienting a world. A way of connecting the actual to the possible. Smith does not extensively treat the ontological status of the hypothetical, the counterfactual, the fictional. Yet the trio of ingredients in the theory of intentionality he sketches can offer a topological insight into the relations between the actual and possible worlds. And allows us to nuance his assertion that “You can hardly cook for dinner something that is fictional [...] “ with the indication that with every cook hovers a hallucinatory body. You cannot eat a story but a story can within limits alleviate the pangs of hunger. You cannot drink a sonorous sequence but within limits a sonorous sequence can quench thirst. You cannot but imagine and that is different from and not the same as the list of things you can do with fictional things that is offered by Smith: "refer to it, wonder about it, or entertain it in a hypothetical". To be fair, one can hardly imagine without reference, wonder or entertainment. In, with, towards the virtual... In, with, towards the textual... In, with, towards the interactive... A story can eat you. [Mark-up is but a little bite.] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 15 03:31:57 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ABA414DC4; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:31:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1838814D3D; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:31:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: 23.75 digital humanities fellowships at HumLab, Umeå From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090615033156.1838814D3D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:31:56 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 75. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 09:30:02 +0100 From: Patrik Svensson Subject: Five international digital humanities fellowships at Umeå University (deadline June 18, 2009) Dear HUMlab friends, Many of you may already have seen the below announcement. Sorry about this late forward, but I would be very appreciative if you send it to any good candidates for international postdoctoral fellowships (five new ones advertised) at HUMlab. The application procedure is fairly simple (electronic and applicants do not need to send any publications etc.). The deadline is soon - June 18, 2009. Just a brief update: The new part of HUMlab was inaugurated on May 14, and the whole event (which is included an international symposium the following day) turned out really well. We had more than 100 participants including the heads of several national funding agencies, the county governor, international guests, the head of municipality of Umeå etc. This short video shows the new part of the space on the day before the event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2oUm3p-yJk. Among other things, the new part is equipped with 10 screens, one of which is a very large 4K resolution multitouch backprojection screen. The idea is to create a rich multiplex studio space for the humanities and information technology with excellent affordances for working with rich historical and cultural materials, art installations, physical computing and different kinds of exhibitions and projects. Also, the plans for the new creative campus have progressed considerably, and the new School of Architecture is currently being built. By the end of 2011, the campus will hopefully have been finished, including the new HUMlab-X. Best regards, Patrik ----------------------------------------------- Five international postdoctoral positions in the digital humanities are now available at HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden from September 1, 2009 or January 15, 2010. The call is open, but 1-3 positions may be allocated to the areas of "religion and the digital", "digital journalism", "architecture and the digital", "next generation digital humanities tools" and/or "visualization in the digital humanities". HUMlab is an internationally recognized center for the humanities and information technology. Much of the work takes place in a 5,300 square feet studio space at the center of the university and in different kinds of digital and hybrid environments. A new part of the lab was inaugurated on May 14, 2009. This video shows the new space the day before the event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2oUm3p-yJk. For archived seminars (which use the other part of the lab) please see http://stream.humlab.umu.se/. By the end of 2011, a new HUMlab-X on the Creative Campus (a 10-minute walk from the main campus) will be in place. HUMlab is based on a double (or triple) affiliation model where much of the work is done in close collaboration with the humanities (or other) departments. HUMlab offers an open, friendly, creative and intellectually rich milieu for doing work in the humanities and information technology. The fellowships are for one year. Another year may be possible based on a review as well as the availability of funding. Collaboration is a central part of the ethos of HUMlab and among our strategic partners are Kulturverket (local award-winning culture organization), Lund University (the Humanities Laboratory), King's College London (Centre for Computing in the Humanities) and the University of California (UC Humanities Research Institute). Applicants will be expected to have a Ph.D. in a humanities discipline. In exceptional cases, other areas and backgrounds can be of interest as well. Applications should include a description of an envisioned postdoctoral year-long project. Please see http://blog.humlab.umu.se/postdocs for more information. Applications should be submitted electronically by June 18, 2009. We look forward to receiving your application. Patrik Svensson Director, HUMlab Umeå University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 15 03:32:43 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BFC14F7A; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:32:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D9ED514F65; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:32:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090615033241.D9ED514F65@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:32:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.76 new Digital Humanities Manifesto X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 76. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:29:04 -0700 From: David Shepard Subject: Digital Humanities Manifesto Version 2.0 All, Version 2.0 of our Digital Humanities Manifesto, which was presented at the Mellon Digital Humanities Symposium, is now available in two different forms. A CommentPress version, which is open for comment, has now been posted at http://dev.cdh.ucla.edu/digitalhumanities/2009/05/29/the-digital-humanities-manifesto-20/, while the PDF version remains available at http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/. As before, we are actively seeking your critical engagement with the manifesto. Thanks, David _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 15 03:33:28 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D7711268E; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:33:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A1DD712683; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:33:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090615033326.A1DD712683@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:33:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.77 disabilities and publishing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 77. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 21:06:52 -0600 From: "George Kerscher" Subject: Persons with disabilities and future books Hello, Please consider persons with disabilities in your research. Three good links are: http://www.daisy.org --Which is the site for organizations developing standards for digital publishing. These are the libraries who currently provide accessible information. In Canada, the CNIB is an example. http://www.idpf.org --Which is the standards organization for commercial ebooks. Note that this is primarily focused on the mainstream, consideration is being made for persons with disabilities in the specifications; content is fully accessible. http://www.readingrights.org --Which is the coalition of orgs that are fighting to have TTS turned on for the Kindle and for other books in the future. Best George George Kerscher Ph.D. In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right. Secretary General, DAISY Consortium http://www.daisy.org Senior Officer, Accessible Technology Recording For the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) http://www.rfbd.org Chair Steering Council Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of the W3C http://www.w3c.org/wai Board Representative to the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) http://www.idpf.org Phone: +1 406/549-4687 Email: kerscher@montana.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 15 03:36:09 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB5AC12B2B; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:36:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 98A6612B24; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:36:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090615033608.98A6612B24@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:36:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.78 events: structured knowledge; jobs; summer school; deduction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 78. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elisabeth Burr (41) Subject: 2nd call for 1. European Summer School "Culture & Technology",27.-31.07.2009, University of Leipzig [2] From: Stéfan Sinclair (20) Subject: Special Jobs Event during the ACH Annual General Meeting at DH09 [3] From: Carsten Schuermann (85) Subject: CADE-22 - Call for Participation [4] From: Tania Tudorache (114) Subject: CFP: ISWC 2009 Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Managementand Linking of Structured Knowledge --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:37:14 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: 2nd call for 1. European Summer School "Culture & Technology",27.-31.07.2009, University of Leipzig Second call for the 1. European Summer School „Culture & Technology“, to take place at the University of Leipzig, Germany, July 27-31, 2009. All the necessary information can be found on the Web-Site of the Summer School: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/, which is available in German and English. Please, read the information carefully. Please note, that the application phase for the 1. European Summer School “Culture & Technology” will close the 15th of June 2009. Application is done by handing in a curriculum and a letter of motivation via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.net/esu2009/. Email-attachments are not accepted. During the Summer School there will be space for project presentation. If you would like to present a project, please register with ConfTool and submit a proposal. People who would like to stay in one of the guest houses of the University (see http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ESU_1/en/accommodation.html) are asked to contact the organizers at esu2009@uni-leipzig.de urgently as rooms cannot be reserved for very much longer. Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation we can offer a good number of scholarships. If you have any questions please contact the organizers at: esu2009@uni-leipzig.de. Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr Organizer of the European Summer School University of Leipzig ---------- Univ.-Prof'in Dr. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut für Romanistik Philologische Fakultät Universität Leipzig Haus 1 / 3. Etage, Zi. 1307 Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig Tel. +49 (0)341 97 37413/37411 http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:15:58 -0400 From: Stéfan Sinclair Subject: Special Jobs Event during the ACH Annual General Meeting at DH09 Dear colleagues who will be attending DH2009, Will you be in the academic job market in the next few months? Do you have an academic job to fill in the next few months? If you've answered yes to either of these questions and you'll be at Maryland for DH2009, then please contact me about a special Jobs Event during the ACH Annual General Meeting. Hope to hear from you, Stéfan -- [Please do not reply to this message as I use this address for communication that is susceptible to spambots. My regular email address starts with my user handle sgs and uses the domain name mcmaster.ca] -- Dr. Stéfan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address: TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://stefansinclair.name/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:40:05 +0100 From: Carsten Schuermann Subject: CADE-22 - Call for Participation CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CADE-22 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 2-7, 2009 http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/cade22/ CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all aspects of automated deduction. IMPORTANT DEADLINES: - Student awards: 16 June 2009 - Early Registration: 25 June 2009 PROGRAMME: The conference features - 3 invited talks - 32 contributed papers of which 5 are system papers - the presentation of the Herbrand Award to Deepak Kapur - a two-day programme of workshops, tutorials and meetings - 2 system competitions INVITED TALKS: - Konstantin Korovin (The University of Manchester) Instantiation-Based Automated Reasoning: From Theory to Practice - Martin Rinard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Integrated Reasoning and Proof Choice Point Selection in the Jahob System - Mechanisms for Program Survival - Mark Stickel (SRI International) Building Theorem Provers WORKSHOPS: - Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability (ADDCT) and The International Workshop on Unification (UNIF) - Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice (LFMTP) - Modules and Libraries for Proof Assistants (MLPA) - Proof Search in Type Theories (PSTT) - Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) TUTORIALS: - Hierarchical and Modular Reasoning in Complex Theories with Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans - Probabilistic Analysis Using a Theorem Prover with Osman Hasan and Sofiene Tahar - Precise, Automated and Scalable Verification of Systems Software Using SMT Solvers with Shuvendu K. Lahiri and Shaz Qadeer - Logics with Undefinedness with William M. Farmer SYSTEM COMPETITIONS: - The CADE ATP System Competition (CASC) - Satisfiability Modulo Theories Competition (SMT-COMP) MEETINGS: - The 6th TPTP Tea Party SOCIAL EVENTS: - Welcome reception at the McCord Museum of Canadian History - Squash tournament at McGill Sports Centre - Walking or biking tour excursion through Old Montreal - Conference banquet at the elegant Pointe-à-Callière, Montreal's Museum of Archeology and History at the Old Port MONTREAL: Montreal is an bustling, cosmopolitan and affordable city with a charming Francophone culture. It is easily accessible from the US, Europe and world-wide with direct flights to Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport (YUL) from all major cities. REGISTRATION: On-line registration is now open at: https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/registration/2009/cade/ The early registration deadline is June 25. Please refer to the conference website for registration, accommodation, travel and visa information. STUDENT AWARDS: Travel awards are available to enable selected students to attend the conference. Please refer to the conference website for details. The application deadline is June 16. SPONSORS: CADE-22 is supported by o The McGill School of Computer Science o McGill University Faculty of Science o Microsoft Research ORGANIZERS: o PC Chair: Renate Schmidt (The University of Manchester) o Conference Chair: Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) o Workshop & Tutorial Chair: Aaron Stump (The University of Iowa) o Publicity Chair: Carsten Schürmann (IT-Universitetet i København) o Local Organizers: Maja Frydrychowicz (McGill University) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) We look forward to seeing you in Montreal! --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:53:39 +0100 From: Tania Tudorache Subject: CFP: ISWC 2009 Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Managementand Linking of Structured Knowledge This message was originally submitted by tudorache@STANFORD.EDU to the humanist list at LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU. 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CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND DEMOS ==================================================================== Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge October 25, 2009 Collocated with ISWC-2009 Westfields Conference Center, near Washington, DC., USA Paper submission: 10 August 2009 http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/gc3/iswc-workshop/ ==================================================================== Objectives ----------- Many have argued that the next generation of the Web (Web 3.0) will grow out of an integration between Semantic Web and Social Web (Web 2.0) technologies.Can ontology management benefits from social web? Can Wikipidia be a style of collaborative ontology authoring? How to exploit user feedback for constructing structured knowledge? In these and many other questions lie the opportunity and the challenge to integrate knowledge bases approaches to social web ones. This integration involves several very different aspects of technology and social practice. Recent workshops and journal special issues have been devoted to methods for extracting ontologies and other structured knowledge from resources such as Wikipedia and other loosely structured data; or on using Semantic Web representations to describe the social structures and interactions in Web 2.0; or on mapping existing data using semantic technologies. In this workshop, we want to focus on another aspect of linkage between Social Web and Semantic Web techniques: collaborative and distributed methods for constructing and maintaining ontologies, terminologies, vocabularies, and mappings between them, throughout their entire life cycle. Topics of interest ------------------- They include (but are not limited to): - Collaborative creation and editing of structured knowledge - Collaborative creation of ontology mappings - Efficient methods for maintenance and evolution of structured knowledge that was created collaboratively - Individual and group incentives for collaborative knowledge construction and maintenance - Ontology repositories, knowledge bases, and their utility in the Social Web. - Metadata management - User interfaces for collaborative tools for creating structured knowledge - Inconsistency management and user-specific views of ontologies - Workflows for collaborative construction and linking of structured knowledge - Evaluation of collaborative tools: methods, metrics, and experimental reports Submission guidelines --------------------- Papers submitted to the workshop must follow the same submission guidelines of the ISWC'09 conference. Submissions must be in PDF format in Springer format (for instruction see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0) We solicit in this workshop two types of contributions: 1. Research papers analysing the process of collaborative construction, management and linkage of structured knowledge; the requirements for supporting technologies and the field of exploitation of such knowledge. Formatted papers must not be longer than 10 pages. 2. Demos papers describing relevant tools and prototypes. Formatted papers must not be longer than 2 pages. Important dates ---------------- Paper submission: 10 August 2009 Notification : 31 August 2009 Workshop : 25 October 2009 Organizing committee --------------------- Tania Tudorache (co-chair), Stanford University Gianluca Correndo (co-chair), University of Southampton Natasha Noy, Stanford University Harith Alani, University of Southampton Mark Greaves, Vulcan inc. Program Committee ------------------ Mathieu D'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, UK Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany Ken Baklawski, Northeastern University, US Simone Braun, FZI, Germany Raul Garcia Castro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Vinay Chaudhri, SRI international, USA Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA Jerome Euzenat, INRIA, France Sean Falconer, University of Victoria, Canada Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR, Italy John Graybeal, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA Martin Hepp, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software, USA Peter Mika, Yahoo Research, Spain Valentina Presutti, ISTC-CNR, Italy Marta Sabou, Knowledge Media Institute, UK Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK Gerd Stumme, Universität Kassel, Germany Giovanni Tummarello, DERI, Ireland Denny Vrandecic, AIFB, Germany Anna Zhdanova, FTW, Austria ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 16 04:03:52 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958731B92D; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:03:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8DE361B8F8; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:03:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090616040350.8DE361B8F8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:03:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.79 programming for poets? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 79. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:14:59 -0400 From: "Mark LeBlanc" Subject: programming for poets In-Reply-To: <4A35E31C.6020705@mccarty.org.uk> dear colleagues: help me ponder the need for teaching computer programming/scripting to students in the digital humanities; i am assuming the audience(s) is upper-level, under-graduate and graduate students who would benefit from a strong does of computational problem solving and algorithmic thinking as applied to texts; i am also assuming that a textbook project would be interdisciplinary, that is, *not* another programming book written with abstract pattern-matching problems but rather a book filled with the types of problems confronted by experimental groups that work in this space (cf. our previous work to teach biologists to program by focusing on examples relevant to their domain: ‘Perl for Exploring DNA’, Oxford, 2007); perhaps co-authored by problem domain? Questions (your wisdom greatly desired): (1) Is there a market/need for a textbook that teaches programming using examples from text analysis? If so, what do you consider the audience(s)? (2) We currently teach an introductory programming course for the humanities called ‘Computing for Poets’; do you teach such a course? If so, what language do you use? What text are you using? (3) perhaps this should be done online rather than thru a traditional publisher? thanks for pondering, Mark D. LeBlanc, Professor of Computer Science Wheaton College (Norton, MA, USA) http://cs.wheatoncollege.edu/mleblanc http://lexomics.wheatoncollege.edu Note: I know of these existing textbooks: * Practical Text Mining with Perl (Bilisoly, Wiley) -- quite good, but this does not teach a novice *how* to program; * Programming for Linguists: Perl for Language Researchers (Hammond, Wiley) – more can be done here; needs interdisciplinary influence * Natural Language Processing with Python (O’Reilly, 2009); i’m looking forward to this, however, O’Reilly books tend not to address the novice, especially the novice outside computing _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 16 04:04:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED511B9C7; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:04:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 49AD61B969; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:04:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090616040433.49AD61B969@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:04:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.80 events: storytelling; European Summer School X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 80. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elisabeth Burr (29) Subject: European Summer School Culture & Technology - Deadline extension [2] From: Ido Iurgel (28) Subject: CfP ICIDS 2009 - Interactive Storytelling. Extended deadline --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:25:16 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: European Summer School Culture & Technology - Deadline extension In-Reply-To: <20090615033326.A1DD712683@woodward.joyent.us> Deadline extension 1. European Summer School Culture & Technology, hosted by the University of Leipzig, Germany, July 27-31, 2009. http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ We are pleased to announce that following numerous requests the deadline for applications has been extended to the 30th of June 2009. Application is done by handing in a curriculum and a letter of motivation via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.net/esu2009/. Application by Email cannot be accepted. Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation we can offer a good number of bursaries. People who would like to stay in one of the guest houses of the University (see http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ESU_1/en/accommodation.html) are urged to make their choice via ConfTool as soon as possible as the number of rooms available is decreasing rapidly. All the necessary information can be found on the Web-Site of the Summer School which is available in German and English. Please, read the information carefully. Notwithstanding the extension of the deadline, the selection process starts the 16th of June as planned to give those who have already applied the chance to organize their journey. If you have any questions please contact the organizers at: esu2009@uni-leipzig.de. Elisabeth Burr Organizer of the European Summer School University of Leipzig --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:01:09 +0100 From: Ido Iurgel Subject: CfP ICIDS 2009 - Interactive Storytelling. Extended deadline In-Reply-To: <20090615033326.A1DD712683@woodward.joyent.us> ------------------------------------------------------------ Extended Submission Deadline July 6th, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS *** ICIDS -- Interactive Storytelling 2009 *** 2nd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 09-11 December 2009, Guimarães, Portugal http://www.icids2009.ccg.pt Extended Submission Deadline: July 6th, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------ ICIDS is the premier international conference on interactive digital storytelling. It was successfully launched in 2008, superseding the two previous European conference series, TIDSE ("Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling") and ICVS ("Virtual Storytelling – Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling"). While the venues of these events were traditionally bound to France and Germany, ICIDS is set to overcome also this geographical limitation. The fusion of the previous conferences was most successfully inaugurated in Erfurt, Germany, as ICIDS 2008. In a very inspiring and friendly atmosphere, over 100 international participants have enjoyed high-quality talks and worked together at creative and fruitful workshops, and there were plenty of delightful occasions that gathered the attendees for more informal exchange. ICIDS 2009 aims at setting forth the success of this new beginning. The venue will be the Centro Cultural Vila Flor, an excellent modern conference center that extends a historical palace, at walking distance from most hotels and from the city center of the historical city of Guimares, the birthplace of Portugal. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 17 08:03:55 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5872F1CEBF; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:03:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D8D6A1CEA9; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:03:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090617080353.D8D6A1CEA9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:03:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.81 programming for poets X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 81. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Thomas Crombez (57) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.79 programming for poets? [2] From: Doug Reside (18) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.79 programming for poets? [3] From: Stephen Ramsay (72) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.79 programming for poets? [4] From: Willard McCarty (61) Subject: programming for poets and students of poetry --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:11:00 +0200 From: Thomas Crombez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.79 programming for poets? In-Reply-To: <20090616040350.8DE361B8F8@woodward.joyent.us> In my experience, students from literature & linguistics are indifferent if not hostile to computer programming. However, that only makes the problem of finding a course that appeals to them even more interesting. First, I would chose the most elegant and simple language available -- as close to pseudo-code as possible. That's Python, in my opinion. (Although Processing would make an interesting candidate too -- for textbooks, see "Visualizing Data" by O'Reilly, and "Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists"). I believe that beginning a course with an interactive Python session, demonstrating the simple Python objects (strings, lists, dictionaries) and what you can do with them (e.g. compiling a wordcount dictionary from a digital string of text) can be very illuminating, even for absolute beginners. Maybe a good approach for a course like this would be to work your way through a number of interesting examples. In that way, students (even digibetes and digiphobes) learn to acknowledge the power of simple programming tools. For example, one could lead them through building a simple spell-checking script that contacts the Google API, or a script that crawls a website and indexes its contents, or a word-counting script ... A new kind of book (between textbook and cookbook) that does a very good job in this regard is "Programming Collective Intelligence" by Segaran, also from O'Reilly. That brings me to the question of textbooks. There's a beautiful online tutorial called "Programming for Historians" by William Turkel and Alan MacEachern, which is really suitable for everybody, including the absolute beginners. And it includes a lot of natural language processing, too. The NLTK book (which "Natural Language Processing with Python" will be based on) is also available online, and a very good resource, if more tailored to strictly linguistic aims. Is the title of your course by accident inspired on "Unix for Poets"? -- that's an interesting document that (I believe) can still be found online, also a very quick and nice introduction to programming for linguists, although it uses a toolset that is today most definitely outdated and (even if powerful in its own right) a little too abstruse for beginners (the typical Unix tools such as awk, sed, etcetera). As for Perl -- I know it's the language most popular among linguists, and although it's probably very powerful, it makes for incredibly ugly and unreadable code. As Larry Wall himself once said: "I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?'" Once you've compared that to a few lines of Python's pseudo-English, there's no going back. Best, Thomas Crombez website zombrec ••• flemish theatre reviews 1919-1939 corpustoneelkritiek.org ••• performance art register belgium is happening ••• corpus pieter t'jonck theatre and dance reviews ••• boek het antitheater van antonin artaud --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:14:47 -0400 From: Doug Reside Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.79 programming for poets? In-Reply-To: <20090616040350.8DE361B8F8@woodward.joyent.us> I teach such a course, but have mostly made up my own material. The course notes, created with little thought for design and still containing some errors, are at http://mith.info/eng428v Recently, though, students have expressed a desire for a paper text. I bet they still want an online component for copying and pasting code snippets, though. Doug --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:10:42 -0500 From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.79 programming for poets? In-Reply-To: <20090616040350.8DE361B8F8@woodward.joyent.us> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: help me ponder the need for teaching computer programming/scripting to > students in the digital humanities; I have taught a course like the one you describe for about seven years. The audience has varied a bit over the years, but mostly consists of students in English and History. > Questions (your wisdom greatly desired): > > (1) Is there a market/need for a textbook that teaches programming > using examples from text analysis? If so, what do you consider the > audience(s)? I think there will be a market as computing becomes more and more a part of general education (as I think it will). I've known plenty of humanities students who have taken courses in CS programs. Their biggest complaint is that all of the examples are oriented toward mathematics (compute the factorial, generate the Fibonacci sequence, etc.). I don't get the sense that this is a showstopper for them; they would simply prefer to encounter what they don't know with some mooring in what they already do. All of my examples and exercises use textual problems, and there's much greater emphasis on things like string types, XML, and regular expressions. Of course, you wouldn't be the first to propose this. There's a suprisingly long history of books entitled "[Some language] for Humanities Computing." The latest (and most innovative) in this genre is Bill Turkel's superb online monograph, *The Programming Historian* ( http://niche.uwo.ca/programming-historian/index.php/Main_Page). (2) We currently teach an introductory programming course for the > humanities called ‘Computing for Poets’; do you teach such a course? > If so, what language do you use? What text are you using? First, let me say that I hope your course is not literally called "Computing for Poets." If so, I think your faculty should consider the ways in which this title demeans your students' abilities and assists not only in the balkanization of the academy, but in the highly questionable -- if not, in some cases thoroughly essentialist -- idea that disciplines correspond to irrefragable elements of gender, race, personality type, or some other attribute. You would never dream of having a course called "Logic for Girls" or "Poetry for Frat Boys." Five minutes of considered thought on the subject should convince you that you are in similar territory. (I'm assuming that the course is not literally concerned with generative poetics -- a subject that is considerably older than computer science). Certainly, there is no reason to suppose that computing courses geared toward humanists (on analogy with the computing for biologists courses you suggest above) would have to be radically simplified. No one in my university's CS program will dispute the fact that my courses are considerably more advanced than the lower-division courses for majors in computer science. I use Ruby as the language and *Programming Ruby* as the book (I'm considering an alternative to the latter this summer). I like Ruby because it is easy to get started with it and it supports a number of different programming paradigms, but I think you could make a compelling case for any of the scripting languages (or even for the Lisp dialects). Some of my students have gone on to Java and a few have (for various reasons) gone on to C/C++. There are a handful of concepts in those languages that I am unable to illustrate with Ruby, but by the time I'm done with them, my more highly motivated students have acquired enough of the foundational concepts of computing to grasp whatever new thing is set before them. I also regularly point out the ways in which different languages handle different concepts -- in part, to reinforce the point that the concepts don't vary widely from language to language. When I first taught the course years ago, I had three (very nervous) English graduate students. Now I teach split-level courses to graduate and undergraduate students from a wide range of humanities disciplines, and every semester I end up having to turn people away. Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 http://lenz.unl.edu/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:59:45 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: programming for poets and students of poetry Mark LeBlanc's question about a course in programming for humanists is timely. I wouldn't call it "programming for poets" because in a U.S. context that tends to carry the pejorative implication of a watered-down course given for those without the inclination if not abilities to learn the subject. But it is worth reflecting on Margaret Masterman's attempts in the 1960s and 70s to persuade us that the computer is analogous to a new musical instrument, but for all creative artists, at the time poets in particular, to adapt for their purposes. Thus in the Times Literary Supplement for Thursday, 6 August 1964 (directly opposite an open letter in support of the publication of William Burroughs' Naked Lunch): > To some people a digital computer is a mark of doom: a symbol of > Man's increasing servitude to the Machine. To others it is a gigantic > multiple switch which, under favourable conditions, operates with the > speed of light, but which often, e.g. when it gets too hot, will not > operate at all. To others again it is a puzzle-solving work of the > most exhausting possible kind, punctuated by frustrations when the > programs fail or 'get bugs' -- which is normally. > > To all of those, however, the computer is undoubtedly Science. I want > to advocate a gayer and yet more creative use of it which is, by > definition, Art: a use which, in the hands of a master, might indeed > become Art itself. > > This use is making toy models of language.... (p. 690) For us students of poetry and other cultural artifacts I'd think one of the main things, if not the main thing, would be attention to examples. Those of us with mathematical training have no difficulty getting fascinated by abstract problems (e.g. "find all Canadian postal codes in the following list of addresses, separate these addresses from the rest and write them into a separate file"). But usually students in the humanities need to have the connection between such manipulation and their interest in real-world literary problems, say, made rather more obvious. This, then, raises the question of what such problems might look like -- not an easy task to answer. That's not all. If we want to make the case that must be made, we have to get beyond problem-solving to problematizing, from providing evidence for interpretation (that happens somewhere and somehow else) much closer to the interpretative act itself. In "The Computer in the Orwellian Year" (Reflections on America, 1984: An Orwellian Symposium, ed. Mulvhill), Joseph Weizenbaum argued that, > The computer [has] introduced the concept of "problem solving" > massively-into modern consciousness--not that it wasn't present > before, say, 1950. Of course it was. But the computer was hailed as > the great problem solver, the machine to which one gave one's > problem, an algorithm for solving problems and which, once the > start-button was pushed, produced a solution to one's problem.... (p. 131-2) If programming is to appeal intellectually to students of the humanities, then the image of computing, its con-figuration as that which can put an end to all questions one can pose to it, has to be put into the context of scholarly questioning. To return to Masterman's point: why would we want to make toy models of language? Wouldn't it be better to understand how the toy fails us, how language goes beyond our constructs? Isn't this the point of all theories of language, literature, indeed of anything at all, from the perspective of research? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 17 08:10:44 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 918FF1D1FD; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:10:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0EB821D1ED; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:10:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090617081043.0EB821D1ED@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:10:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.82 45th anniversary celebration in Cambridge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 82. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:08:27 +0100 From: John Dawson Subject: Literary & Linguistic Computing Centre 45th Anniversary University of Cambridge Computing Service Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre 45th Anniversary Celebration Friday 2 October 2009 You are invited to participate in this day of celebrations, which are to commemorate: --The 45th anniversary of the establishment of the Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre (LLCC) by Roy Wisbey at the University of Cambridge in 1964 -- John Dawson's 35-year service as Manager of the LLCC -- 20 years of the LLCC being part of the University Computing Service -- John Dawson's retirement on 9 October 2009 The event will be held at Downing College, Cambridge, in the West Lodge. An approximate timetable is as follows: -- 10:30-11:00 Gather for coffee and chat -- 11:00-11:20 Opening and introduction by Roy Wisbey -- 11:20-12:25 Talks by people associated with the LLCC -- 12:25-14:00 Lunch in Downing College -- 14:00-16:20 Talks by people associated with the LLCC -- 16:30-18:00 Party There will be a small charge of 20 GBP per person to cover the cost of lunch and refreshments. Please send a cheque (drawn on a British bank) for GBP 20, payable to R. J. Stibbs, with your postal address and details of any dietary requirements, to: Dr John Dawson Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre Raised Faculty Building Sidgwick Site Cambridge CB3 9DA UK If you wish to pay by credit card, the cost will be =A322 per person. Please email LLCC@ucs.cam.ac.uk to arrange this, giving your email address, full postal address, and your dietary requirements, and a PayPal invoice will be sent to you. Please send or arrange your payment by 13 September 2009. On receipt of your payment, a formal invitation will be sent to you with details of travel and parking. Note that no accommodation is arranged for this event; if you wish to stay overnight in Cambridge, please make your own arrangements (and bear in mind that Cambridge is a very popular tourist destination, so hotels and guesthouses are expensive and often full). If you have any questions, please email LLCC@ucs.cam.ac.uk John Dawson & Rosemary Rodd _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 17 08:24:12 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C7C1DC63; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:24:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 798711DC5B; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:24:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090617082411.798711DC5B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:24:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.83 on language X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 83. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:23:13 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: language The following for your florilegium. It is from the meditations of Kilgore Trout, one of the two main characters in Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions (1973), after a long conversation with a truck driver with whom he had hitched a ride: > Trout sat back and thought about the conversation. He shaped it into > a story, which he never got around to writing until he was an old, > old man. It was about a planet where the language kept turning into > pure music, because the creatures there were so enchanted by sounds. > Words became musical notes. Sentences became melodies. They were > useless as conveyors of information, because nobody knew or cared > what the meanings of words were anymore. > > So leaders in govemment and commerce, in order to function, had to > invent new and much uglier vocabularies and sentence structures all > the time, which would resist being transmuted to music. (Vintage, 2000, p. 110) Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 18 03:59:06 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 668BD1BEBB; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:59:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3AAE11BEAB; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:59:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090618035905.3AAE11BEAB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:59:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.84 on language X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 84. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sterling Fluharty (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.83 on language [2] From: Alan Liu (41) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.83 on language --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:22:30 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.83 on language In-Reply-To: <20090617082411.798711DC5B@woodward.joyent.us> Interesting, but definitely science fiction. Linguists tell me that typical human speech never sounds out of tune to a speaker of the same language. Sterling Fluharty Sent from my iPhone --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:59:47 -0700 From: Alan Liu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.83 on language In-Reply-To: <20090617082411.798711DC5B@woodward.joyent.us> One of the most interesting students in my recent digital humanities classes created a project that analyzed phrasal and syntax structures in Shakespeare's sonnets and mapped them over a musical tonal system--the hypothesis being that this would allow us to experiment with whether the human mind cognitively recognizes complex linguistic structures more quickly or deeply if those structures, ironically, are freed of language. An early, crude attempt at the acoustic modeling is online here: http://english149-w2008.pbworks.com/Textones, along with Shaun's good essay, "Textones: Tonal Models of Shakespearean Sonnets," http://english149-w2008.pbworks.com/Shaun-Sanders,-%22Textones:-Tonal-Models-of-Shakespearean-Sonnet%22. Shaun has since worked the project up into a senior thesis project with a much more advanced (but not yet online) acoustic modeling scheme (sensitive to complexities of phrasing). As a further experiment, he ran it on Hopkin's "Windhover" with interesting results--making me think that Hopkin's poetry naturally renders as music rather than language. Incidentally, one consistent result of many of the student projects in my Literature+ courses (which require students to take a literary work and use digital tools to do anything with it other than standard critical interpretation) is what might be called, for lack of a better phrase, a meta-aesthetic effect. This occurs when an aesthetic artifact is submitted to "data"-oriented analytical operations (e.g., text-analysis, graphing, etc.) that, when rendered, unexpectedly release a secondary aesthetic quality. Thus Shaun's recent, more advanced musical models of Shakespeare are quite haunting. So, too, there is a compelling meta-aesthetic effect in a short film produced by another group of students who mapped parts of speech in a short Borges story over a system of discrete film/camera techniques: http://english149-w2008.pbworks.com/Borges:%20An%20Exploration%20in%20Modeling I wonder if this meta-aesthetic effect of data modeling has been discussed by others? _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 18 04:04:56 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8FA91B27A; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:04:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0F0971B26B; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:04:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090618040455.0F0971B26B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:04:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.85 programming for poets X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 85. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:17:04 -0400 From: robert delius royar Subject: 23.79 programming for poets? In-Reply-To: <20090617080353.D8D6A1CEA9@woodward.joyent.us> Were I looking for such a course, I would wish it to teach me how to program my text editor using its e-lisp language. The editor I have used for the last 15 years is XEmacs. Before that for about two decades I used Emacs and micro-based versions. I believe that for a person who studies and works with text it is sensible to rely on a program that was designed to manipulate text in meaningful units. I believe such programs are analogous to spreadsheet programs for those who work with numbers. I would also want a robust and relatively simple, but mature language as an external processor. I depend on perl; it was easy to learn the basics, having gone through BASIC, Franz Lisp, and C before it. I maintain a small web site for a non-profit organization. I find that when I need it to create dynamic content, provide automated updates to databases, &c. that a perl application is either already available for it or something I can code for myself. I am constantly seeing break-in attempts for other popular web-enabled languages (notably PHP) which makes me wary of using those scripting languages and which makes me suspect that they may teach new programmers poor habits (certainly possible with perl). -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English, Morehead State University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 18 04:06:27 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CC661B33B; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:06:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7E5FF1B332; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:06:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090618040625.7E5FF1B332@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:06:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.86 postdoc in high-performance computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 86. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:50:23 -0400 From: Stéfan Sinclair Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities and High Performance Computing (HPC) Dear colleagues, I would be very grateful for your help in distributing this job ad to interested individuals and relevant lists. – Thanks, Stéfan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities and High Performance Computing (HPC) Applications are invited for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities and High Performance Computing (HPC), under the supervision of Dr. Stéfan Sinclair from Communications Studies and Multimedia at McMaster University. The focus of the research will be large-scale, on-demand text analysis, and especially the development of HPC modules that can operate in a web-based context. McMaster University is internationally recognized as a leader in digital humanities scholarship and tool development. This position is made possible in large part by Sharcnet, an HPC consortium in Ontario, as well as McMaster Libraries. The postdoctoral fellow will work closely with the supervisor (Sinclair), Sharcnet, and the Libraries. Successful candidates will have experience working on textually oriented projects, strong Java and system administration skills. We are seeking an individual who can bring strong interest and enthusiasm to an area of research ripe for innovation, and someone who will be able to integrate well into a larger team. Salary: $45,000 plus benefits By July 31, 2009, applicants should send a full Curriculum Vitae, letters from two referees and a cover letter highlighting their prior achievements and a brief summary of their statement of their interest and experience in this area. Electronic submissions will be accepted. Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact Sinclair as early as possible to express interest and to ask any questions. McMaster is committed to Employment Equity and welcomes applications from all qualified applicants, including women, members of visible minorities, Aboriginal persons, members of sexual minorities, and persons with disabilities. Dr. Stéfan Sinclair (sgs [at] mcmaster.ca) Communication Studies & Multimedia McMaster University 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, ON, L8S 4M2, Canada -- [Please do not reply to this message as I use this address for communication that is susceptible to spambots. My regular email address starts with my user handle sgs and uses the domain name mcmaster.ca] -- Dr. Stéfan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address: TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://stefansinclair.name/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 18 04:09:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 876021B556; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:09:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D1BA71B54D; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:09:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090618040907.D1BA71B54D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:09:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.87 research on text & maps? mss edn in TEI? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 87. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Oyvind Eide (52) Subject: Input for PhD project: Texts and maps [2] From: Marion Lamé (10) Subject: digital edition of manuscripts in TEI --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:56:00 +0200 From: Oyvind Eide Subject: Input for PhD project: Texts and maps A few weeks ago, I started a PhD project at Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. The project is titled "The area told as a story. An inquiry into the relationship between verbal and map-based expressions of geographical information." A short description of the project: "In modern European societies, maps are seen as the natural way to communicate about geography. This is different in other historical periods. In the project description I show some examples of historical periods in which maps are not used very much, although they are known. In my opinion, this lack of use is not based on a lack of cartographic tools or knowledge only. I think there are other reasons why people choose to use verbal texts to communicate about geography, reasons that may be difficult to see for people living in a modern map based society. In the proposed PhD project, I will look for such reasons by trying to find examples of verbal texts being superior to maps. The source material for the project will be a document from the 18th century: Major Schnitler's border examination protocols. The digitally available, TEI encoded textual version of this material will be used as the source for a database. This database will represent a model of the geographical information I read from the text. This model will be a version of the geographical information in the source text, expressed in a formal language. The model will also store contradictory facts if and when they exist. Possible contradiction can be found using rules of calculation that will be developed on top of the model. The model will be used to investigate my hypothesis by trying to express the information in the model as maps. Based on the results of this research, I will discuss the possible existence of geographical structures and features found in the model that can not be expressed on maps without significant loss of meaning. This way, I hope to gain new knowledge about how people express themselves in verbal texts about geography, as opposed to map based expressions. In the longer term, I hope this will help us understanding more about the reasons why some cultures are very map oriented, whereas others know about maps, but only use them in very limited areas." The project will have to cover several research fields, and could have covered even more. I will use Lessing's work on the relationship between poetry and painting (Laokoon, 1766), and I will use modeling as a tool. Anthropology, geography, history, narratology and linguistics are among the other areas relevant for this work. Maybe the question should be what is not relevant. In order to help me covering as much as possible of the research I should relate to, it would be most helpful if anyone has references to works, or research areas, addressing specifically the relationship (differences) between maps and verbal texts as means of expressing geographical information. It is probably best to do this off-list, then I will collect what I get in a single email to the list. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide PhD student Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:25:27 +0100 From: Marion Lamé Subject: digital edition of manuscripts in TEI In-Reply-To: <4A38B12F.50103@kcl.ac.uk> Hi everybody, Does anybody have a list a few projects (+ links) of digital manuscripts edition that are working with TEI (or adapted TEI) please? Best regards, Marion Lamé Carnet de recherche sur «Hypothèse»: «Épigraphie en réseau http://eer.hypotheses.org » http://eer.hypotheses.org (plateforme «Hypothèse http://hypotheses.org/ » du CLEO) Page web Centre Camille Julllian http://sites.univ-provence.fr/ccj/spip.php?article65 Digital Clacissist http://digitalclassicist.org/ , Projects page: Epigraphie en réseau = _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 18 04:09:54 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC2391B778; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:09:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 19DDD1B764; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:09:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090618040953.19DDD1B764@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:09:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.88 Twittering resistance X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 88. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:42:39 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Twittering resistance Students of online social networking may find the following story from the Washington Post useful. I've exerpted the first few paragraphs only. WM ------------------ Twitter Is a Player In Iran's Drama State Dept. Asked Site to Keep Running By Mike Musgrove Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 17, 2009 The State Department asked social-networking site Twitter to delay scheduled maintenance earlier this week to avoid disrupting communications among tech-savvy Iranian citizens as they took to the streets to protest Friday's reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The move illustrates the growing influence of online social-networking services as a communications media. Foreign news coverage of the unfolding drama, meanwhile, was limited by Iranian government restrictions barring journalists from "unauthorized" demonstrations. "One of the areas where people are able to get out the word is through Twitter," a senior State Department official said in a conversation with reporters, on condition of anonymity. "They announced they were going to shut down their system for maintenance and we asked them not to." A White House official said "this wasn't a directive from Secretary of State, but rather was a low-level contact from someone who often talks to Twitter staff." The official said Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted, according to news reports. "Twitter is simply a medium that all Iranians can use to communicate," the official said. [...] -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 18 04:11:51 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9B541B846; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:11:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4F9FC1B83F; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:11:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090618041150.4F9FC1B83F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:11:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.89 seminar in London on ancient texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 89. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:10:50 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Seminar: Linking and Querying Ancient Texts Digital Classicist/ICS seminar Friday June 19th at 16:30 STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU *Mark Hedges and Tobias Blanke (King’s College London)* *Linking and Querying Ancient Texts: A multi-database case study with epigraphic corpora* ALL WELCOME LaQuAT investigates technologies for providing integrated views across heterogeneous ancient documentary text collections, including relational databases with different schemas and an XML corpus. These structurally diverse datasets overlap geographically, chronologically, and prosopographically, and so a mechanism for querying an integrated set of them is of considerable potential value to the researcher. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html where audio and presentation slides will be uploaded a few days after the seminar. All seminars will also be discussed in the Digital Classicist forum at http://www.arts-humanities.net/digital_classicist -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 19 06:48:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96ED51D08E; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:48:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1F9321D038; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:48:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090619064824.1F9321D038@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:48:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.90 twittering resistance X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 90. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:16:23 -0500 From: William Allen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.88 Twittering resistance In-Reply-To: <20090618040953.19DDD1B764@woodward.joyent.us> The State Department diminution of Twitter's impact on the world stage is most likely a wish. The power of citizen-to-citizen and people-to people communication on important issues of the day have the power to move decision from state departments to people in the street. Given the poor performance of state departments in advancing issues important to human beings, I applaud the earlier decision and dismiss the later one. I follow with great interest Twitters' #iranelection. The entertainment media have no hold on the ground; Twitter is the only place for information--and yes, it is up to the reader to decipher what is happening. Thank goodness we have one medium close to the events. As one tweet told us today, "140 characters is a novel when you are being shot at." _____ William Allen Prof. Art History On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 88. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:42:39 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 19 06:48:56 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C45D1D103; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:48:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0FCFD1D0FC; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:48:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090619064856.0FCFD1D0FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:48:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.91 a "Turing Machine in brass"? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 91. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:38:22 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a Turing Machine in brass Hugh Kenner, in his magnificent book The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy, attributes to Alan Turing the remark that Babbage's Engine was "a Turing Machine in brass" (p. 152), or something to that effect. Does anyone here know where exactly Turing connected his abstract machine with his predecessor's metal one? Thanks. WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 19 06:49:27 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740121D21E; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:49:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F20E31D1BD; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:49:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090619064925.F20E31D1BD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:49:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.92 programming for poets X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 92. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:15:08 +0100 From: Harvey Quamen Subject: programming for digital humanists Hi all: I'm glad to hear that others have been thinking about ways to get humanities students to program more. I've been teaching such a course for the University of Alberta's Humanities Computing program for the last few years and am happy to share some ideas. Hope these can generate some good conversation. (Feel free to reply on- or off-list, but I'm on the road right now, so may be a bit slow in reply....) My course focuses on web delivery technologies -- specifically, a MySQL database with some kind of HTML + CSS front end. I use PHP as a scripting language, only because it's so readily available on various host servers. I like how PHP accommodates both old-style "procedural" programming as well as object-oriented coding. It's a language that accommodates the students as they grow. I'm more or less language- agnostic (and am leaning increasingly towards Ruby), although I used to teach Perl, but didn't really like the "line noise" it generates. Students have a hard time reading it. Students these days feel quite at home on the web, of course, and have some curiosity about how it works. Consequently, I find that web scripting is an easier sell than, say, text analysis or algorithms. The other popular draw is game design, and our computer science department offers such a course (open to non-computer-science majors, too!). I've eliminated almost all math from my web scripting course. Right away, I show the students examples of HTML and XML and convince them that computers today are all about texts, not numbers. (I often cite Danny Hillis's claim at the end of "The Pattern on the Stone" that -- bad paraphrase follows -- "if the original computer scientists labeled the two states X and Y, we'd say that computers do everything with texts, not numbers.") Consequently, about 90% of the built-in PHP functions I teach my students are string functions. I tell my students that they'll soon be able to "slice and dice" texts with ease, and that that skill will be foundational for the digital humanist scholar of the next few decades. For students who have "math phobia," this is welcome news. We spend a few beginning weeks on HTML + CSS (with some XML thrown in, depending on the audience and time), followed by about three weeks on MySQL (learning just enough SQL to squeak through) and then spend the remainder of the semester on PHP. We meet in a lab, so every student has a computer. Typically, I'll give a lecture explaining the concepts, then we'll do an in-class work-along exercise or two, and then I'll send them off with some homework. They have a weekly script to write, plus they have to do a certain number of "5-Minute Exercises" (10 for an "A," 8 for a "B," etc.) which emphasize the concepts they've been learning -- simple things like printing an array as an HTML table, or reading from a file or even doing a very simple web scrape. (Some are online but most are in a course packet.) My favourite exercise -- and one that gets them over the introductory hump, so to speak -- is checking to see if a set of strings are palindromes or not. Cruelly, I don't clue them in to some of the functions that would make that easier, so they solve it on their own and even start comparing their various algorithms' efficiency, though they don't quite have the vocabulary to do it. In the end, each student produces a message board to which visitors may post and read previous postings. Each student needs to add one self-chosen "special feature" to his or her board -- maybe having a membership login or allowing certain HTML in postings (via either a whitelist or a blacklist), or offering up different skins depending on user preference, etc. The scripting makes sense to them in this context as a problem-solving step, or as the "glue" that holds the web interface to the database. And since there isn't just one script, the students don't think in terms of a "killer app" but rather in a series of small, concrete, solvable scripting problems. It's been difficult to find a good textbook and even PHP + MySQL books are typically not pitched correctly for my students. Fortunately, O'Reilly has a great series for beginners called "Head First." I recently served as a technical editor for the "Head First PHP & MySQL" book and it has some terrific material in it, including chapters on some sophisticated stuff like regular expressions and programming to the YouTube API. It'll likely serve here on out as the textbook for my class. Have no fear -- I get no royalties from it ... :-( One year a few students banded together and we did a second semester of more advanced topics as an independent study. There, I covered some object-oriented concepts and we wrote some web scrapers. I have some online materials from the last course offering at . I'd be quite happy to help start collecting some resources -- even putting together an online wiki or something so we can share ideas. I'm on the road for another 10 days, though, so have no fear if I reply slowly. -- Harvey Quamen Humanities Computing University of Alberta _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 19 06:52:47 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 495361D31A; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:52:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EF66B1D313; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:52:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090619065245.EF66B1D313@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:52:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.93 new publications: JSP; DHQ; DDQ; Baudrillard Studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 93. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Gerry Coulter" (24) Subject: Baudrillard Studies (Volume 6-2, July 2009) is now on the web [2] From: Julia Flanders (79) Subject: DHQ issue 3.2, now available [3] From: "H.M. Gladney" (9) Subject: DDQ 8(2) is available 14 [4] From: UTP Journals (38) Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 40:4, June2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:27:28 -0400 From: "Gerry Coulter" Subject: Baudrillard Studies (Volume 6-2, July 2009) is now on the web Volume 6-2 (July, 2009) of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies) is now available on the Internet. IJBS is an open access publication of thougth and ideas which intersect with those of Jean Baudrillard. Volume 6-2 includes: Obitaries for J. G. Ballard, Harold Pinter, Betty Goodwin An Interview with Australian Baudrillard scholar Alan Cholodenko Selections from Baudrillard's book Radical Alterity (recently in English translation) Articles consider: Baudrillard and the media, hyperreality, and the Gulf War Book reviews include recent books on the arts and bodies and code. There is also a review essay considering Olafur Eliasson. http://www.ubishops.ca/BaudrillardStudies/vol-6_2/v6-2-index.html Gerry Coulter Founding Editor, IJBS http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:33:04 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: DHQ issue 3.2, now available I am very happy to announce that issue 3.2 of Digital Humanities Quarterly (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/) is now available. As we head towards the fourth anniversary of the journal's inception, I would like to thank the entire DHQ team for all of their hard work, creativity, and sense of adventure. Thanks as well are due to all those who have contributed to the reviewing and have given the authors such thoughtful feedback and advice. Finally, we all thank the authors for the excellent material they have enabled us to publish, and the journal's readers for their attention. Best wishes and thanks to all--Julia Julia Flanders Editor-in-chief, DHQ Brown University **************************************** Spring 2009: v3 n2 _______________________ Special Cluster: Done: Finishing Projects in the Digital Humanities Matthew G.Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland Large-Scale Humanities Computing Projects: Snakes Eating Tails, or Every End is a New Beginning? William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., University of Georgia It’s For Sale, So It Must Be Finished: Digital Projects in the Scholarly Publishing World David Sewell, University of Virginia Press Published Yet Never Done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in Digital Humanities Research Susan Brown, University of Guelph; Patricia Clements, University of Alberta; Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta; Stan Ruecker, University of Alberta; Jeffery Antoniuk, University of Alberta; Sharon Balazs, University of Alberta _______________________ Special Cluster: Data Mining Editor: Mark Olsen Words, Patterns and Documents: Experiments in Machine Learning and Text Analysis Shlomo Argamon, Linguistic Cognition Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology; Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago Vive la Différence! Text Mining Gender Difference in French Literature Shlomo Argamon, Linguistic Cognition Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology; Jean-Baptiste Goulain, Linguistic Cognition Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology; Russell Horton, Digital Library Development Center, University of Chicago; Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago Gender, Race, and Nationality in Black Drama, 1950-2006: Mining Differences in Language Use in Authors and their Characters Shlomo Argamon, Linguistic Cognition Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago; Charles Cooney, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago; Russell Horton, Digital Library Development Center, University of Chicago; Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago; Sterling Stein, Linguistic Cognition Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago; Robert Voyer, Powerset Mining Eighteenth Century Ontologies: Machine Learning and Knowledge Classification in the Encyclopédie Russell Horton, Digital Library Development Center, University of Chicago; Robert Morrissey, University of Chicago; Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago; Glenn Roe, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago; Robert Voyer, Text Minding: A Response to Gender, Race, and Nationality in Black Drama, 1850-2000: Mining Differences in Language Use in Authors and their Characters Sean Ross Meehan, Washington College, Chesterton, MD _______________________ Articles Communitizing Electronic Literature Scott Rettberg, The University of Bergen Dept. of Literary, Linguistic, and Aesthetic Studies Teaching and Learning from the U.S. South in Global Contexts: A Case Study of Southern Spaces and Southcomb Sarah Toton, Emory University; Stacey Martin, Emory University Designing Choreographies for the New Economy of Attention Eric Gordon, Emerson College; David Bogen, Rhode Island School of Design _______________________ Reviews A Review of Matthew Kirschenbaum, Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination Cambridge, MA and London, UK: MIT University Press, 2008 Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:41:02 +0100 From: "H.M. Gladney" Subject: DDQ 8(2) is available 14 The Digital Document Quarterly newsletter volume 8 number 2 is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_8_2.htm. Its table of contents is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq.htm#Y2009. The number of digital archiving and preservation publications seems to be decreasing We speculate that novel possibilities have been exhausted, and that practical implementations are slow to appear because of insufficient public interest. This DDQ number includes more reading recommendations than usual because I have encountered a great many interesting works. Best wishes, Henry H.M. Gladney, Ph.D., http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:23:40 +0100 From: UTP Journals Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 40:4, June2009 Now available at Journal of Scholarly Publishing Online Volume 40, Number 4 / June 2009 of Journal of Scholarly Publishing is now available at http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/mp27547344h1/. This issue contains: Why Books Still Matter JOHN DONATICH Motivations for Web-Based Scholarly Publishing: Do Scientists Recognize Open Availability as an Advantage? JI-HONG PARK Library Publishing as a New Model of Scholarly Communication http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m18104664798570k/ JINGFENG XIA How Scholars Credit Editors in Their Acknowledgements ROBERT BROWN The University of Minnesota Press PAM WERRE Writing a Series of Best-Selling Research Reference Books YAN PIAW CHUA Characterizing the Top Journals in Strategic Management: Orientation, Style, Originality, and Readability TERESA GARCI´A-MERINO, VALLE SANTOS-A´LVAREZ Online Review of Manuscripts: More haste, less speed? STEPHEN K. DONOVAN Reviews http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/8004768457475482/ Journal of Scholarly Publishing A must for anyone who crosses the scholarly publishing path – authors, editors, marketers and publishers of books and journals. For 36 years, the Journal of Scholarly Publishing has been the authoritative voice of academic publishing. The journal combines philosophical analysis with practical advice and aspires to explain, argue, discuss and question the large collection of new topics that continuously arise in the publishing field. The journal has also examined the future of scholarly publishing, scholarship on the web, digitalization, copyrights, editorial policies, computer applications, marketing and pricing models. For submissions information, please contact Journal of Scholarly Publishing University of Toronto Press - Journals Division 5201 Dufferin St., Toronto, ON Canada M3H 5T8 Tel: (416) 667-7810 Fax: (416) 667-7881 Fax Toll Free in North America 1-800-221-9985 email: journals@utpress.utoronto.ca http://www.utpjournals.com/jsp/jsp.html posted by T Hawkins, UTP Journals _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 19 06:54:31 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44DA11D44E; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:54:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 942111D444; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:54:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090619065429.942111D444@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:54:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.94 programming; language; mss in TEI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 94. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sterling Fluharty (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.83 on language [2] From: Devin Griffiths (17) Subject: RE: [Humanist] mss edn in TEI? [3] From: Michael Fraser (27) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.85 programming for poets --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:22:30 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.83 on language In-Reply-To: <20090617082411.798711DC5B@woodward.joyent.us> Interesting, but definitely science fiction. Linguists tell me that typical human speech never sounds out of tune to a speaker of the same language. Sterling Fluharty Sent from my iPhone On Jun 17, 2009, at 2:24 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 83. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:23:13 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:56:03 -0500 From: Devin Griffiths Subject: RE: [Humanist] mss edn in TEI? In-Reply-To: <20090617082411.798711DC5B@woodward.joyent.us> Off the top of my head, here are a few that are influential here in the states: The Women Writer's Project http://www.wwp.brown.edu/ The Dickinson Electronic Archives http://www.emilydickinson.org/index.html The MONK Project http://www.monkproject.org/ Hope that helps. Sincerely, Devin Griffiths --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:22:06 +0100 From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.85 programming for poets In-Reply-To: <20090618040455.0F0971B26B@woodward.joyent.us> Were I looking for such a course I would wish it to teach me how to write software code enwrapped in poetic form. How to communicate, through my code, beauty, rhythm, metre and a meaning deeper than the superficially functional. A quick google search finds http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/studentacm/codepoetry07/ (though alas the code was not required to have any functional purpose) and http://java.sun.com/features/2002/11/gabriel_qa.html , for example. I have seen single lines of perl with almost haiku-like properties in its elegance and concision. But poetic code is not just about form and structure, it's also about the imagery, emotion, and ambiguity conveyed in the choice of expressions even if the intended function is perfectly clear. Of course, most users never see the code, simply executing the compiled binary, so please also consider the implied reader of such poetry. All that source code in repositories like Sourceforge -- surely there are examples there of already 'found poetry'? Mike -- Dr Michael Fraser Head of Infrastructure Systems and Services Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 19 06:56:11 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E16091D4F4; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:56:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 797BB1D4E9; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:56:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090619065611.797BB1D4E9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:56:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.95 new software: Computer Aided Textual Markup and Analysis X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 95. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:45:54 +0200 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: CATMA 1.0 release - Tagger & Analyzer software for Windows 09:34 18.06.2009 Remember TACT? CATMA (Computer Aided Textual Markup and Analysis) is a new stand alone software with a focus on textual markup and analysis inspired by TACT's lean and transparent design and functionality. It was developed at the University of Hamburg as a tool for literary scholars, students and other parties with an interest in literary research. Emulating parts of the well known program "Usebase" (from the TACT suite) and extending these CATMA provides a variety of tagging and analyzing functionalities contained in its two components: the Tagger and the Analyzer. CATMA places a strong emphasis on usability and is designed for users with little experience in digital text analysis. CATMA key features include: • a visual interface to mark up and analyze texts • the ability to define analyses by the use of a basic query language • a set of predefined statistical and non-statistical analytical functions • a GUI that reflects the logical steps in a textual analysis workflow • a log and status component displaying the system processes • keyboard shortcuts and tooltips for better usability CATMA supports collaborative efforts by adhering to relevant standards (XML, TEI) and producing reusable output. CATMA 1.0 is a stable beta currently implemented for Windows only. CATMA 2.0 will be released towards August 2009 as a platform independent JAVA© version, including a TextGrid workbench interface. CATMA is now available for download at www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/catma Evelyn Gius, Marco Petris and Chris Meister from the CATMA development team will be present at the DH 2009 - feel free to contact us there, or via our website. ******************************* Jan Christoph Meister Professor für Neuere deutsche Literatur (Literaturtheorie, Textanalyse, Computerphilologie) Universität Hamburg Department SLM I - Institut für Germanistik II Von-Melle-Park 6 D-20146 Hamburg Mail: jan-c-meister@uni-hamburg.de Office: +49 - 40 - 42838 2972 Cell: +49 - 0172 40 865 41 Web: www.jcmeister.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 20 05:15:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A991021693; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:15:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6C41121682; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:15:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090620051534.6C41121682@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:15:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.96 programming for poets X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 96. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joris van Zundert (48) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.92 programming for poets [2] From: Martin Holmes (23) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.92 programming for poets --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:11:57 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.92 programming for poets In-Reply-To: <20090619064925.F20E31D1BD@woodward.joyent.us> Hi all, I'm quoting from Harvey Quamen's mail: I've eliminated almost all math from my web scripting course. Right >> away, I show the students examples of HTML and XML and convince them >> that computers today are all about texts, not numbers. (I often cite >> Danny Hillis's claim at the end of "The Pattern on the Stone" that -- >> bad paraphrase follows -- "if the original computer scientists labeled >> the two states X and Y, we'd say that computers do everything with >> texts, not numbers.") Consequently, about 90% of the built-in PHP >> functions I teach my students are string functions. I tell my students >> that they'll soon be able to "slice and dice" texts with ease, and >> that that skill will be foundational for the digital humanist scholar >> of the next few decades. For students who have "math phobia," this is >> welcome news. >> > Okay, I like that. That might be a neat way to lure in a number of my colleagues in the field into some computing. But what I wonder about: is it really a 'math phobia'? Sure, I know throwing in a series of numbers and statistics will set most of them running like mice from a cat. But also, I'd assume there's a more abstract 'phobia' involved; one for trying to describe and solve problems in a more formalized way. Addressing textual problems with computation does at some point involve trying to express those problem in the formal expressions of a computer language or model. I tend to find that much of my colleagues just don't like this kind of formalization (or any methodological formalization for that matter). It seems, to me, because they value the aesthetics of 'free text'. Which is why the maximum amount of formalization they seem to be willing to put up with, is the logic expressed through human language - which is ambiguous most of the time to say the least. XML of course is a neat trick here because it balances exactly on the borders between formalization and non-formalization. But once you start computing on strings with PHP or Ruby... So, I guess I'm just asking Harvey: any experience with your students that you might relate to such a more general 'phobia'? Kind regards, Joris On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:07:56 -0700 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.92 programming for poets In-Reply-To: <20090619064925.F20E31D1BD@woodward.joyent.us> Hi all, I'd like to put in a word for the much-maligned JavaScript as a first language for coders to learn. It's fairly simple, there's a ready-made IDE on every computer (Web browser + text editor), a good debugger (in Firefox), and no need to run a server on your computer, or connect to one. I use the usual combination of languages in my daily work, from XSLT to Object Pascal, but I always find it a great pleasure to get back to JavaScript. Its natural data target is the document (which humanists understand), and teaching it also leads naturally into other related, easy-to-learn languages such as XHTML and CSS. If I were teaching an introductory programming course for humanities students, I'd teach basic XHTML document construction, and move to document interactivity and manipulation through JavaScript. Then CSS, then (eventually) something like PHP, that requires server support. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (mholmes@uvic.ca) Half-Baked Software, Inc. (mholmes@halfbakedsoftware.com) martin@mholmes.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 20 05:19:16 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C1221743; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:19:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5C24221734; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:19:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090620051915.5C24221734@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:19:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.97 Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 97. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:14:45 +0100 From: david zeitlyn Subject: launch of JASO Online I am pleased to announce that JASO (Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford) has been relaunch as a free online journal Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford online with a new ISSN (2040-1876) and volume numbering to mark this. The intention is for the new version to exploit the flexibilities of web publication while maintaining a continuity with the precedent set by JASO. A retrospective conversion of the back issues is planned in due course. Notes for contributors and the first issue of JASOo is available from http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/publications/journal-of-the-anthropological-society/ correspondence about JASOo should be sent to jaso at anthro.ox.ac.uk on behalf of the editorial team davidz -- David Zeitlyn, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Marlowe Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NR, UK Tel. +44 (0)1227 823360 (Direct) Tel: +44 (0)1227 823942 (Office) Fax +44 (0)1227 827289 http://lucy.kent.ac.uk/dz/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 20 05:21:49 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A889A217E2; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:21:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C1205217D3; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:21:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090620052147.C1205217D3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:21:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.98 events: ambient intelligence X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 98. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:55:15 +0100 From: "list@ami-09.org" Subject: AmI-09: 3rd European Conference on Ambient Intelligence 3rd European Conference on Ambient Intelligence AmI-09: Roots for the Future of Ambient Intelligence November 18th-21st, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ami-09.org 4th Call for Contributions AmI-09 will bring keynotes, technical papers, workshops, industrial case studies, posters & demos and panels. As new categories this year we feature landscapes and ambient visions to review the current status and to look into the next decade of Ambient Intelligence. Prof. Emile Aarts (Philips Research) has agreed to be one of the AmI-09 keynote speakers. AmI-09 will feature a 10 years anniversary since the term Ambient Intelligence started to fly around. We explicitly intend to look back what has been achieved, review existing solutions and identify what will come. The conference should provide a forum to establish new roads for the future of Ambient Intelligence. We are working on special issues in dedicated ambient intelligence related journals for selected papers from the conference which will be invited to be published in an extended version after the conference. Please visit the website for updated information on this. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 22 05:51:47 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D9621FB6; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:51:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 356D721FA4; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:51:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090622055146.356D721FA4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:51:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.99 programming: the fear of it? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 99. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:01:57 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: why some fear programming I'd like to get us to pay more attention to the question of why students of the humanities often find programming less than attractive as a subject for study -- why the fear of doing it. I think that the beginnings of a useful response require us to recognise that fear is real psychologically and useful biologically but that our task is to investigate what it points to. How is the translation of programming into the interpretation of poetry involved? Presuming I can understand what a formalization of an essentially non-formalizable phenomenon is saying, I tend to react first by feeling intellectually claustrophobic, then (presuming I'm sufficiently alert) with curiosity for what lies beyond it. If the formalization is complete, then I lose interest in what, after all, has been shown to be routine, mechanizable. If I am being taught by someone who is clearly assuming that the non-formalizable residue is unimportant, then I'm apt to grow impatient and decide to spend my time elsewhere. I'm sure it's satisfying to make a parser that's 98.6% successful at handling "natural" language. But as a humanist I want to know about the 1.4% that cannot be handled. For me the appeal has to be that a particular skill in capturing things will help me get closer, sense more keenly the fleeting transcendence of these things. We say something is important or significant but fail to say what it imports or signifies. Similarly with the assertion that programming is a useful skill. For what, exactly, is it useful? If *all* we want is to finish our homework so we can go out to play at something else, then we should be devoted to that something else, no? If that something else proves on closer inspection or with real devotion to it to be boring, then the question is still about the fleeting something. What are we chasing or being chased by? Yours,WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 22 05:52:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C703621004; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:52:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DCE8421FF3; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:52:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090622055220.DCE8421FF3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:52:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.100 events: ubiquitous computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 100. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:59:39 +0100 From: "Artur R. Lugmayr" Subject: Academic MindTrek 2009 EXTENDED DEADLINE: shortpapers, poster presentations CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, AND WORKSHOPS Academic MindTrek 2009: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era Ambient Media *** Social Media *** Digital Games September 30th – 2nd October, 2009, Tampere, Finland confirmed speakers (more are to come): - Josephine Green, Senior Director of Trends and Strategy, Philips Design - Ignacio Correas, CEO, eBox Technologies - Peter Cheng, Open Source Camp, Hihoo.org; - Jani Penttinen, CTO, XIHA - Francesca Rosella, Co-Founder, Cute Circuit EXTENDED Submission Deadlines: - EXTENDED TILL 21st June 2009: submission of short papers (3-4 pages) - 30th June 2009: submission of poster presentations (1 page) - 15th June 2009: submissions of workshop papers for accepted papers http://www.mindtrek.org http://www.mindtrek.org/academic In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM and ACM SIGCHI Publications will be published in the ACM digital library Selected set of high-level contributions will published as book chapters or in journals [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 23 05:14:52 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCCDE1ED68; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:14:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7AB461ED55; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:14:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090623051451.7AB461ED55@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:14:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.101 programming: the fear of it X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 101. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (25) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.99 programming: the fear of it? [2] From: Joris van Zundert (54) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.99 programming: the fear of it? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:00:28 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.99 programming: the fear of it? In-Reply-To: <20090622055146.356D721FA4@woodward.joyent.us> I was an almost 4.0 undergrad student, Willard -- got As in math (up to first year calculus), the sciences, English, statistics, etc. Received one grade of B+ in four years of college. I'm not afraid of programming. It's just drudge work. Mental digging. There's some gratification to seeing an end product working well, but the sheer boredom leading up to that end product isn't worth it. I understand that those who love writing lines of code can see "poetic" qualities (broadly defined -- really, I suspect all that's really being referred to here is simplicity) in writing code, but this is all hidden to everyone but programmers checking the code. All that matters, really, is the functionality of the end product. An awkwardly written code supporting a stable system is more important than a poetically written code that crashes. Perhaps that's the problem with PCs. They have poets writing their code. So I wouldn't assume "fear" on the part of anyone uninterested in programming. Some of us feel we have more rewarding work to do. Jim R > I'd like to get us to pay more attention to the question of why students of > the humanities often find programming less than attractive as a subject for > study -- why the fear of doing it.  I think that the beginnings of a useful > response require us to recognise that fear is real psychologically and > useful biologically but that our task is to investigate what it points to. > How is the translation of programming into the interpretation of poetry > involved? > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:35:23 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.99 programming: the fear of it? In-Reply-To: <20090622055146.356D721FA4@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, But as a > humanist I want to know about the 1.4% that cannot be handled. For me the > appeal has to be that a particular skill in capturing things will help me > get closer, sense more keenly the fleeting transcendence of these things. > Totally agree. But I'd say formalization is not about just doing the homework of distinguishing between the 98.6% that's normal or regular or non significant and the 1.4% that's supposedly beyond formal comprehension. Formalization, I think, is a method (not more and not less) to get a focused grip on the properties of the object of study. Formalization allows one to build models; either by algorithm, statistics or if need be pen and paper - it's the formalization that's key, not specifically that it might be computable or not. The nice thing of a *formalized* model is that it's testably descriptive. So if I have a model that I think describes adequately a phenomenon of text, the formal part of it means that I can repetitively test the model by letting it be a description of another text that according to human reader judgment shows the same phenomenon. If the model holds (i.e. judges the same as the human reader) the model is still adequate. If not, we can refine the model (or ultimately design a new one) to obtain a model that apparently is a better descriptor of the phenomenon. That's all just basic model theory and Turing etc. Now, I'm certainly not suggesting that modeling should supplant our existing methods, not at all. I just think formalization and modeling are nice additional instruments that usher in repeated scientific testing, thereby allowing us to build descriptive models that we can iterate into adequate theories of textual phenomena. The nice thing being that the theory would be formally falsifiable as a general principle. That general principle then allows for evolving the model further until the point that it might even be descriptive of parts of that 1.4%. I think it would actually result in intellectual poverty if we just stopped at sort of 'grasping' the 1.4% with our intellects, just pondering on it in our research papers. I'd rather try to venture beyond: do we have methods that allow us to really explain what's happening within that 1.4%? I don't feel that's claustrophobic intellectually, I find it challenging. For the moment though we're not much further than some grammar parsing, some stylistic statistics and a faint hint of semantics of course. There's actually a huge intellectual challenge to be found here. Yes, it might be a different mode of intellectual challenge, specifically not one to everyone's liking. But an intellectual challenge nonetheless. Kind regards -- Joris _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 23 05:16:58 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACAF21EDE6; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:16:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DB4091EDDE; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:16:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090623051657.DB4091EDDE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:16:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.102 events: automated deduction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 102. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:50:11 +0100 From: Carsten Schuermann Subject: CADE-22 - Second Call for Participation CADE-22 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 2-7, 2009 http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/cade22/ PLEASE REGISTER NOW! The deadline for affordable hotel-style university accommodation is this week Thursday and the early registration deadline is coming Monday. IMPORTANT DEADLINES: - Hotel-style University 25 June 2009 (3 days from now) accommodation - Early Registration 30 June 2009 (8 days from now) CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all aspects of automated deduction. PROGRAMME: The conference features - 3 invited talks - 32 contributed papers of which 5 are system papers - the presentation of the Herbrand Award to Deepak Kapur - a two-day programme of workshops, tutorials and meetings - 2 system competitions INVITED TALKS: - Konstantin Korovin (The University of Manchester) Instantiation-Based Automated Reasoning: From Theory to Practice - Martin Rinard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Integrated Reasoning and Proof Choice Point Selection in the Jahob System - Mechanisms for Program Survival - Mark Stickel (SRI International) Building Theorem Provers WORKSHOPS: - Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability (ADDCT) and The International Workshop on Unification (UNIF) - Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice (LFMTP) - Modules and Libraries for Proof Assistants (MLPA) - Proof Search in Type Theories (PSTT) - Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) TUTORIALS: - Hierarchical and Modular Reasoning in Complex Theories with Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans - Probabilistic Analysis Using a Theorem Prover with Osman Hasan and Sofiene Tahar - Precise, Automated and Scalable Verification of Systems Software Using SMT Solvers with Shuvendu K. Lahiri and Shaz Qadeer - Logics with Undefinedness with William M. Farmer [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 24 07:29:56 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95BEC23ADF; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:29:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 958B623ACD; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:29:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090624072954.958B623ACD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:29:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.103 programming: the fear of it X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 103. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:03:58 -0500 From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.101 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090623051451.7AB461ED55@woodward.joyent.us> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > I was an almost 4.0 undergrad student, Willard -- got As in math (up > to first year calculus), the sciences, English, statistics, etc. > Received one grade of B+ in four years of college. I'm not afraid of > programming. It's just drudge work. Mental digging. There's some > gratification to seeing an end product working well, but the sheer > boredom leading up to that end product isn't worth it. > > I understand that those who love writing lines of code can see > "poetic" qualities (broadly defined -- really, I suspect all that's > really being referred to here is simplicity) in writing code, but this > is all hidden to everyone but programmers checking the code. All that > matters, really, is the functionality of the end product. An > awkwardly written code supporting a stable system is more important > than a poetically written code that crashes. As a fellow genius, I couldn't agree more. I have always been outstanding at everything I've ever done. I did get one B+ (in some gut course called "logical reasoning") but that's really it. But the object of my disdain is really English literature. It's drudge work. Mere mental digging. There's some gratification to finally getting the "information" from the book, but the sheer boredom leading up to that end point -- the extremely roundabout way in which most authors get to the point . . . It's just not worth it. I understand that those who love literature see "poetic" qualities (broadly defined -- really, I suspect all that's being referred to here is how easy it all is to understand), but this is hidden to everyone but copy editors. All that matters, really, is the information. Bad writing that supports a stable, unambiguous message is way more important that poetic language that ends up being obscure. So let me just close by saying that I couldn't agree more. Fear has nothing to do with the anti-intellectualism of our students. It's just that . . . well, it's all just so, you know . . . boring. Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 http://lenz.unl.edu/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 24 07:30:29 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB87E23BB4; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:30:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6547323BA3; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:30:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090624073028.6547323BA3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:30:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.104 events: digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 104. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Reimer, Torsten" (10) Subject: virtual DH conference [2] From: Dot Porter (23) Subject: Open Invitation to Association for Computers and the Humanities AGM --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:53:32 +0100 From: "Reimer, Torsten" Subject: virtual DH conference Dear Humanists, Those of you who could not make it to this year's Digital Humanities conference might be interested to hear that there is a lively virtual conference taking place on Twitter. Have a look at the conference page there http://twitter.com/dh09 and search for posts tagged as #dh09 to follow the debate. We are also doing some blogging on the conference on arts-humanities.net: http://www.arts-humanities.net/forumtopic/discussing_digital_humanities_09 Regards, Torsten -- Centre for e-Research, King's College London http://kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch/ http://www.arts-humanities.net --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:07:58 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Open Invitation to Association for Computers and the Humanities AGM In-Reply-To: <96f3df640906232059i7831b6dej4159c001dc67464f@mail.gmail.com> We warmly invite you all to attend the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the ACH, on Wednesday, June 24, from 1:00 to 2:00 in the Benjamin Banneker Room in the University of Maryland Stamp Student Union. The meeting takes place as part of the Digital Humanities 2009 Conference (complete conference schedule: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/dh09/?page_id=89). Please feel free to bring your lunch. The AGM will feature a roundtable discussion on the issue of jobs in the digital humanities, with time for followup discussion and a question and answer session. There will also be a short business meeting, reporting on the previous year's ACH work and activities ACH members, prospective members, and non-members are all welcome. Please join us for what we hope will be a lively discussion! -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)          Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444        Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie          Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 25 05:35:48 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E9B22F90; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:35:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D5B7E22F86; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:35:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090625053546.D5B7E22F86@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:35:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.105 events: Greek texts; masks; modelling; medieval studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 105. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: MOCA'09 (140) Subject: CfP: MOCA'09 - Fifth Workshop on Modelling of Objects, Components and Agents [2] From: Margaret Hoegg (68) Subject: cfp: Third International Margot Conference [3] From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" (19) Subject: BODY & MASKS Conference, Thursday 9th-Friday 10th July 2009 [4] From: "Mahony, Simon" (38) Subject: Seminar: Textual Re-use of Ancient Greek Texts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:43:02 +0100 From: MOCA'09 Subject: CfP: MOCA'09 - Fifth Workshop on Modelling of Objects, Components and Agents MOCA'09 Call for Papers Fifth International Workshop on Modelling of Objects, Components, and Agents http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/events/moca09/ Hamburg, Germany, 11th September 2009 organised by the "Theoretical Foundations of Informatics" Group at the University of Hamburg Contact e-mail: moca09@informatik.uni-hamburg.de __________________________________________________________________ The workshop is co-located with MATES 2009 The Seventh German conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies http://jadex.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/mates/bin/view/MATES/Home and CLIMA-X 2009 10th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems http://jadex.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/mates/bin/view/CLIMA/Home __________________________________________________________________ Important Dates: Deadline for submissions: July 17, 2009 Notification of acceptance: August 14, 2009 Deadline for final papers: August 28, 2009 Workshop: September 11, 2009 __________________________________________________________________ Scope Modelling is THE central task in informatics. Models are used to capture, analyse, understand, discuss, evaluate, specify, design, simulate, validate, test, verify and implement systems. Modelling needs an adequate repertoire of concepts, formalisms, languages, techniques and tools. This enables addressing distributed, concurrent and complex systems. Objects, components, and agents are fundamental units to organise models. They are also fundamental concepts of the modelling process. Even though software engineers intensively use models based on these fundamental units, and models are the subjects of theoretical research, the relations and potential mutual enhancements between theoretical and practical models have not been sufficiently investigated. There is still the need for better modelling languages, standards and tools. Important research areas are for example UML, BPEL, Petri nets, process algebras, or different kinds of logics. Application areas like business processes, (Web) services, production processes, organisation of systems, communication, cooperation, cooperation, ubiquity, mobility etc. will support the domain dependent modelling perspectives. Therefore, the workshop addresses all relations between theoretical foundations of models on the one hand and objects, components, and agents on the other hand with respect to modelling in general. The intention is to gather research and application directions to have a lively mutual exchange of ideas, knowledge, viewpoints, and experiences. The multiple perspectives on modelling and models in informatics are most welcome, since the presentation of them will lead to intensive discussions. Also the way objects, components, and agents are use to build architectures / general system structures and executing units / general system behaviours will provide new ideas for other areas. Therefore, we invite a wide variety of contributions, which will be reviewed by the PC-members who reflect important areas and perspectives for the Modelling of Objects, Components, and Agents (MOCA). __________________________________________________________________ [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:24:41 +0100 From: Margaret Hoegg Subject: cfp: Third International Margot Conference In-Reply-To: <7E39BB35B7F344958E223BD9286CCB43@QosmioC> THIRD INTERNATIONAL MARGOT CONFERENCE THE DIGITAL MIDDLE AGES: TEACHING AND RESEARCH JUNE 16-17, 2010 BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK, USA Proposals for complete sessions and individual presentations are currently being accepted for the Third International MARGOT Conference (Moyen Age et Renaissance Groupe de recherches – Ordinateurs et Textes) held at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York from June 16 to June 17, 2010. This conference is co-sponsored by the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. SCHOLARLY FOCUS During this two day conference, we will explore the use of digital resources in teaching and research in the Middle Ages. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in digital studies, on teaching and curricula matters, and on recent new and expected future developments in the field. Topics may include but are not limited to: - digital paleography - translation and dictionary projects - digital projects in the visual and performance arts (material culture, image annotation tools, paratextual information, etc.) - text corpora (creation of a corpus, search systems, etc.) - encoding of medieval manuscripts and printed texts (use of XML, TEI and extensions of these protocols) - management and preservation of digital resources - information design and modeling - the cultural impact of the new media - software studies - the role of digital humanities in academic curricula - funding and sustainability of long-term projects PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSAL: We welcome three types of submissions: 1. Demonstrations/showcasing of existing projects which will include discussion of their creation and implementation for research and/or teaching 2. Abstracts for regular paper presentations 3. Proposals for entire sessions (including the names, titles, and abstracts of three/ four presenters) Regular papers will last for 20 minutes, and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Project demonstrations will last for 30 minutes followed by 15 minutes of discussion. We ask participants to include the following information in their proposal: 1. Paper or Session title 2. Session type – Regular or Project Demonstration 3. 250 word abstract 4. Contact information and bio paragraph The Committee will look at all the proposals and their compatibility with the sessions that are planned. As far as possible, we will try to avoid parallel sessions. The language of the Colloquium will be English. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: The deadline for submitting your proposal is Friday, October 2, 2009. For information about the conference, including proposal submissions, registration, and accommodation, please go to www.barnard.edu/digitalmiddleages2010. The website will be updated periodically. For inquiries, please contact Prof. Laurie Postlewate: lpostlew@barnard.edu. We look forward to your participation. The Conference Committee: Christine McWebb (University of Waterloo) Laurie Postlewate (Barnard College, Columbia University) Delbert Russell (University of Waterloo) Helen Swift (St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University Regards, Christine McWebb Associate Professor Associate Chair Graduate Studies ML333 Department of French Studies University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada Fax: 1-519-725-0554 Phone: 1-519-888-4567x32465 e-mail: cmcwebb@uwaterloo.ca http://margot.uwaterloo.ca --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:04:38 +0100 From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" Subject: BODY & MASKS Conference, Thursday 9th-Friday 10th July 2009 In-Reply-To: <7E39BB35B7F344958E223BD9286CCB43@QosmioC> *** ANCIENT THEATRE *** MASKS *** 3D LASER-SCANNING *** MOTION CAPTURE *** VISUALISATION *** The Body and the Mask in Ancient Theatre Space: The State of the Art Two-day interdisciplinary conference, Thursday 9th – Friday 10th July 2009 King's College London, Strand Campus www.kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk/masks/july2009.html A conference organised by the project 'The Body and Mask in Ancient Theatre Space' funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project is a research collaboration between King's Visualisation Lab at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London and the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University. The project concerns ancient masked performance - specifically in terms of spatial environments, intercultural performance and perceptual experience. Using leading-edge 3D technologies it addresses fundamental questions concerning the conditions and actualities of the ancient theatre. Speakers: Drew Baker, Richard Beacham, Carlota Bérard-Knitlová, Martin Blazeby, Margaret Coldiron, Matthew Delbridge, Hugh Denard, Malcolm Knight, Fiona MacIntosh, Barbara May, Boris Rankow, Stuart Robson, David Saltz, James Shippen, Tiffany Strawson, James Sutherland, Michael Takeo Magruder, Chris Vervain and Richard Williams. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME AND BOOKING INFORMATION are available at http://www.kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk/masks/july2009.html ***Early booking discount available until 30 June 2009*** ----- Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel King's Visualisation Lab Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1421 anna.bentkowska@kcl.ac.uk --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:57:06 +0100 From: "Mahony, Simon" Subject: Seminar: Textual Re-use of Ancient Greek Texts In-Reply-To: <7E39BB35B7F344958E223BD9286CCB43@QosmioC> Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2009 Friday June 26th at 16:30 STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU *Marco Büchler & Annette Loos (Leipzig)* *Textual Re-use of Ancient Greek Texts: A case study on Plato’s works* ALL WELCOME We will discuss the technical realisation and efficiency of several dimensions of detecting citations and apply them in the field of the Plato's aftermath. Central parts of this presentation are graph based approaches. Based on substantial experience of an ongoing collaboration between researchers of Classical Studies and Computer Science we shall also reflect on the different approaches to working with text. A full abstract along with the series programme can be found at: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, Juan.Garces@bl.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html -- Simon Mahony Research Associate Digital Classicist Centre for Computing in the Humanities School of Arts and Humanities King's College London 26 - 29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2B_5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 25 05:36:51 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 601C022029; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:36:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B4E1D22019; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:36:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090625053649.B4E1D22019@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:36:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.106 programming: the fear of it X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 106. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.103 programming: the fear of it [2] From: Mark Wolff (39) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.103 programming: the fear of it --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:20:22 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.103 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090624072954.958B623ACD@woodward.joyent.us> Funny, but without content, and essentially meaningless as a response to my point, which was that it's possible for people to have -no- interest in programming, the ability to do it, and not be motivated by fear. I don't blame math people if they don't enjoy reading poetry. I see the value in programming and am reaping the benefits of it as I type this email. Actually writing it bores the hell out of me. Very sorry you can't understand other points of view, and no, writing good lines of code is not the same as writing a good poem. To much of it has really already been written. Jim R > So let me just close by saying that I couldn't agree more.  Fear has nothing > to do with the anti-intellectualism of our students.  It's just that . . . > well, it's all just so, you know . . . boring. > > Steve --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:42:31 -0400 From: Mark Wolff Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.103 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090624072954.958B623ACD@woodward.joyent.us> On Jun 24, 2009, at 3:29 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> All that matters, really, is the functionality of the end product. >> An >> awkwardly written code supporting a stable system is more important >> than a poetically written code that crashes. > > All that matters, really, is the information. Bad writing that > supports a > stable, unambiguous message is way more important that poetic > language that > ends up being obscure. As much as I appreciate Steve's satirical comment (that was satire, right?), I think there is an important distinction between poetry and code that stems from textual ambiguity. An interesting poem resists easy interpretation, but an interesting program has to at least provide instructions a machine can follow. Computers do not like ambiguity. What you do with the machine that follows the instructions can resist easy interpretation, but you don't need to be a programmer to do that. There can be interesting code that does not execute on a machine: it is interesting because it suggests a new way to do something. The potentiality of code is interesting, but that's different than code itself. Many people do not care about the potential of code (and should not have to): show them functional code and then they'll talk to you. Do we expect students of literature to be able to write poetry? Why do we expect (or hope) they can write code? Actually, I think students should learn both, because both involve disciplined thinking: if you can write a sonnet, you can write a program. Such practical skill makes you a better reader and user. mw -- Mark B. Wolff Modern and Classical Languages One Hartwick Drive Hartwick College Oneonta, NY 13820 (607) 431-4615 http://bumppo.hartwick.edu/~mark/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 26 05:14:41 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A22B7232C2; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:14:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AC5D223270; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:14:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090626051439.AC5D223270@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:14:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.107 programming: the fear of it X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 107. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (22) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.106 programming: the fear of it [2] From: Martin Holmes (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.106 programming: the fear of it [3] From: Alan Corre (26) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.103 programming: the fear of it --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:38:17 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.106 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090625053649.B4E1D22019@woodward.joyent.us> Yes, Mark's point is a very good one. Even students of poetry aren't necessarily able to write good poetry, but it does indeed help to try. I think most students of literature would be better students of literature if they had four years of calculus simply for the mental discipline that study imposes. That being said, I had fun with geometry and trig, hated Algebra, and was grateful to get out of calculus when I finally did. I'd like to emphasize that I don't think programming is an -inherently- boring activity, just an activity that is boring -to me- (at least on the low level I've attempted it). My main response was to the assumption that those who dislike programming or seek to avoid it are motivated by fear. I would say that when fear really is present, it's probably fear of a lack of mathematical competence proceeding largely from lack of recent practice. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:58:22 -0700 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.106 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090625053649.B4E1D22019@woodward.joyent.us> I'd just like to pick up one of Mark Wolff's comments: > An interesting poem resists > easy interpretation Poems that "resist" interpretation are not the better for it, surely? I usually think of poetry that is "hard" as flawed in that particular respect, although it may be rich in other aspects and reward the work put into reading it. The best poetry is surely both accessible and rich. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (mholmes@uvic.ca) Half-Baked Software, Inc. (mholmes@halfbakedsoftware.com) martin@mholmes.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:44:12 -0500 From: Alan Corre Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.103 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090625053649.B4E1D22019@woodward.joyent.us> I do not care for crossword puzzles, but I enjoy programming because apart from solving a problem you are left with a usable product. I also feel it encouraged me to think more logically, but I cannot prove that. I suspect however that the bulk of humanity does not, and will not ever, care for programming. I think two languages indicate this. COBOL was designed as a business language in which the boss could look at the program, and figure out what the programmer was up to. It did not work out that way. Programmers started abbreviating the commands in such a way that COBOL became full of gobbledygook just like other languages. I suspect too that the bosses were only interested in the end product anyway. Another example was Bill Atkinson's Hypercard for the Apple Computer, which has been described as "a software erector set." In 1990 I wrote a book of original Jewish children's stories with this medium which showed a book on the screen, and the child could turn the pages. I got a student to draw sets of pictures as illustrations, which I displayed in quick succession so that they were animated. It was published, and sold quite well. Black and white only in those days. But Apple stopped supporting Hypercard years ago. But this is just an introduction to a plug for my forthcoming (free!) e-book on Icon Programming for Humanists. In spite of it all, I am still an optimist. Stay tuned. Alan D. Corre Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee corre@uwm.edu http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 26 05:16:42 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91CBC2339B; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:16:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C289A2337B; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:16:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090626051640.C289A2337B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:16:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.108 poetry and cybernetics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 108. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:38:04 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: poet's encounter with cybernetics In-Reply-To: <20090531064946.CB5E260C8@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, Your interest in machine-human analogies and a mention of Charles Olson's "The Kingfishers" in an essay by Guy Davenport which mentions a link with Norbet Weiner's work on cybernetics has led me to send you this excerpt from the 1949 poem: [...] not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is / the law [...] Around an appearance, one common model, we grow up / many. [...] / We can be precise. The factors are / in the animal and/or the machine the factors are / communication and/or control, both involve / the message. And what is the message? The message is / a discrete or continuous sequence of measurable events distributed in time [...] / This very thing you are [...] I thought the parrallelism between communication/control and animal/machine might be of interest to your and the Humanist readers. Francois Lachance Scholar-at-large http://berneval.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 26 05:17:53 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E686623426; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:17:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 23E4B23417; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:17:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090626051752.23E4B23417@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:17:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.109 new on WWW: Ubiquity on writing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 109. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:24:48 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY - NEW ISSUE ALERT This Week in Ubiquity: June 23 - 29, 2009 How to Generate Reader Interest in What You Write by Phil Yaffe Who has not discovered to their dismay that no one wants to read their most carefully crafted, meritorious, compelling, and passionate writings? Think of all the proposals you have written that no one is interested in. Or the web pages, the blog posts, or the company brochures. Chances are, your failures are linked to an inability to connect with what your readers would be interested in reading. Our intrepid writer about writing, Phil Yaffe, offers some valuable insight into how to get people to read your stuff. He says you need to adopt the "expository writing challenge": that no one is interested in what you are inclined to write, therefore you must discover what they want to read. Only then you can get started, and only then you can succeed. Peter Denning Editor _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 26 05:18:59 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B4623493; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:18:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BEC0823481; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:18:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090626051857.BEC0823481@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:18:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.110 events: modelling; ethnography and language X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 110. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Mahony, Simon" (89) Subject: Conference: MODELLING HETEROGENEOUS DATA IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES [2] From: kcl - ldc (11) Subject: Registration now open - Exploration in Ethnography, Language and Communication, Friday 11th September, Aston University --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:08:35 +0100 From: "Mahony, Simon" Subject: Conference: MODELLING HETEROGENEOUS DATA IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES Forwarded from Cristina Vertan (Hamburg) Please forward as appropriate. Simon ----------------------------------------------- APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS * * * REMINDER Call for Papers - Deadline approaching MODELLING HETEROGENEOUS DATA IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES 8- 9 October 2009, university of Hamburg, Germany http://beta.teuchos.uni-hamburg.de/IT-Workshop Over the last few years a lot of effort went into collecting digital data relating to historical objects (manuscript digitisations, critical editions, watermark collections), and into making these available to specific scientific communities as well as to a broader public. Despite targeted standardisation actions, one of the major problems encountered was the heterogeneity of data to be modelled. This heterogeneity often steers researchers to local solutions which, in the longer term, are an obstacle to the integration of different repositories. Other prevalent problems include the impossibility of applying OCR software to hand-written texts and the difficulty of applying language technology methods and tools that are usually developed with modern languages in mind. The present workshop aims at discussing these problems and presenting solutions, and at bringing together researchers from different areas of the Digital Humanities. We are looking for original contributions describing completed work in one of the following areas: - models for heterogeneous data in repositories - semantic based information retrieval - text technology for historical languages - visualisation of heterogeneous data - image processing for accessing textual data in manuscripts - standards for data collection - digital edition - user scenarios Submissions should exceed 10 A4 pages - Please follow the llncs formatting -style. Formatting templates for Word and TEX are given below. - Submission should be ANONYMOUS. Please pay attention when converting to PDF that Author's name are not saved into the file. Please avoid to make excessive self citation. - Only PDF files are accepted. - Submissions should be sent no later than 28th june 2009 (GMT+1) via our conference management system under: http://www.conftool.net/workshop2009/ Any registration and announcement of a possible submission before this date will help us in setting up the review process. In case you need a few extra day after the deadline please contact Cristina Vertan at cristina.vertan@uni-hamburg.de Accepted papers will be published in a conference Volume Important Dates =========== - Papers due to 28th June 2009 - Notification of acceptance 30th July 2009 - Final papers due 23rd August 2009 - Workshop – 8th-9th October 2009 Programme Committee ================= Christian Brockmann (University of Hamburg) Gregory Crane (Tufts University Arts, Sciences and Engineering) Dieter Harlfinger (University of Hamburg) Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg) Fotis Jannidis (University of Würzburg) Steven Krauwer (University of Utrecht) Anke Lüdeling (Humbodt University, Berlin) Jan Cristoph Meister (University of Hamburg) Bernd Neumann (University of Hamburg) Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Athenns) Organisation Committee ================ Daniel Deckers (University of Hamburg) Lutz Koch (University of Hamburg) Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg) -- Simon Mahony Research Associate Digital Classicist Centre for Computing in the Humanities School of Arts and Humanities King's College London 26 - 29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2B_5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:42:36 +0100 From: kcl - ldc Subject: Registration now open - Exploration in Ethnography, Language and Communication, Friday 11th September, Aston University REGISTRATION NOW OPEN Second Annual Conference Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication: Focus on Data Friday 11th September 2009, Aston University This one-day conference will explore the possibilities and problems of employing ethnographically sensitive approaches to language and communication research across a wide range of disciplines and topics (including health, education, social and political processes, culture and identity). Plenary speakers are Professor Jan Blommaert (Department of Languages, University of Jyvaskyla) and Professor Martyn Hammersley (The Open University). Conference registrants are also invited to attend additional data-focused interactive workshops on the afternoon of Thursday 10th September (2pm - 5pm). Workshop facilitators include Professor Ben Rampton and Professor Celia Roberts (King’s College London), Dr Adam Lefstein, Dr Jeff Bezemer and Dr Carey Jewitt (Institute of Education University of London) and Dr. Sara Shaw (University College London / The Nuffield Trust). Registration for the conference is now open. A registration form and further details (including a draft programme and information on travel and accommodation) can be found at http://elc.ioe.ac.uk/aston.html. The one-day conference fee is £35, including a buffet lunch, tea and coffee, with a reduced rate of £15 for students. There will be a charge of £10 for the optional data-focused workshop. Places for the data workshop will be limited so early registration is advised. For further details and queries, please email explorations09@googlemail.com. The conference is organised by Dr. Fiona Copland ( School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University ), Dr. Julia Snell (Institute of Education University of London) and Dr. Sara Shaw (Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University College London / The Nuffield Trust). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 27 08:24:50 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8336A2630F; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:24:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F0407262FF; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:24:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090627082447.F0407262FF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:24:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.111 programming: fears and blocks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 111. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elijah Meeks (47) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.107 programming: the fear of it [2] From: Joris van Zundert (30) Subject: Programming and writer's block [3] From: James Rovira (29) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.107 programming: the fear of it --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:59:12 -0700 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.107 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090626051439.AC5D223270@woodward.joyent.us> I'm not quite sure what kind of software you guys are describing. There's a great deal of code out there that produces highly ambiguous, non-goal oriented results with or without user input and not as a result of flawed programming or design. It almost sounds as if the only software you've all had exposure to is linear business applications. It's a bit disingenuous to compare poetry to Microsoft Excel, you should be comparing poetry to something equally abstract and equally disentangled from stuffy business models, like NetHack. Otherwise, one might as well take a strange, quirky, random number-obsessed piece of software like NetHack and compare it to a John Deere manual and claim that software is obviously creative, metaphoric, weird and ground-breaking and that text is stuffy, linear and uninspired. It's the technical limitations that hamstrung software creators for so long that instilled this sense of "elegance" in programming to mean "efficiency". That and the large teams of software engineers taking part in collaborative efforts to produce code meant that the actual design and implementation of software grew ever more techne-oriented, but with the raw processing power of a modern computer and the ludicrously convenient new languages that continue to pop up (Which aren't nearly as "efficient" as programming in assembly, but who cares when you're running the software on your 2ghz laptop?) I think that the old barriers to entry for programming are fading away. I've written scads of strange, rambling pieces of software that serve no useful purpose and only exist as an attempt for me to approximate, whether to myself or others, some bit of poietic understanding. I've also processed raw data to produce numerical arguments in spatial and graphical form, and the two activities are as dissimilar as writing a novel and writing a technical paper. As for HyperCard, I fondly remember using it many years ago, and I'd recommend anyone that loved Hypercard look to vector graphics packages such as Inkscape to soon provide you with your animated toolkit. It's not there, yet, but given some time, it will be. Until then, you can make do with Flash, but ActionScript still requires some formal understanding of programming conventions. As I'm fond of pointing out, whenever you create animations in PowerPoint, you are coding, so we're all becoming coders slowly, it's just a matter of the literacy and the toolset meeting somewhere in between. Still, despite the primitive nature of modern programming languages, it would be a shame to point to the product of them all and lump them together. For a time, no one wrote stories in cuneiform, but that didn't mean that writing was only suitable to accounting and only interesting to accountants. Elijah Meeks PhD Candidate University of California, Merced emeeks@ucmerced.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:18:40 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Programming and writer's block In-Reply-To: <20090626051439.AC5D223270@woodward.joyent.us> Now that we have a thread that crosses the boundaries between Humanities/poetry and programming anyway, this might fit in for fun: +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | How To Get Out of Developer's Block? | | from the how-do-you-feel-about-get-out-of-developer's-block dept.| | posted by timothy on Thursday June 25, @19:08 (Programming) | | http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/25/2247216 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Midnight Thunder writes "I have spent the past six months working on a software project, and while I can come up with ideas, I just can't seem to sit down in front of the computer to code. I sit there and I just can't concentrate. I don't know whether this is akin to writer's block, but it feels like it. Have any other Slashdotters run into this and if so how did you get out of it? It is bothering me since the project has ground to a halt and I really want to get started again. I am the sole developer on the project, if that makes a difference." Discuss this story at: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/06/25/2247216 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Interestingly the not-that-funny-but-funny meant comments in the discussion show a complete cluelessness to genuine writer's block. Best -- Joris -- Mr. Joris J. van Zundert (MA) Huygens Institute IT R&D Team Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Contact information at http://snipurl.com/jvz_hi_en ---- A disclaimer is applicable to this e-mail, cf. http://snipurl.com/discl_en --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:10:25 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.107 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090626051439.AC5D223270@woodward.joyent.us> Martin -- Among those who study literature professionally, generally those poems which resist a single, readily grasped, clearly accessible meaning are the least interesting. Simplistic poetry that gets awards and attention usually does so because it's saying the right thing about the right topic -- it's politically correct somehow. A great deal of bad poetry gets published for this reason. Otherwise, poems generally need to be of a certain level of difficulty to merit study and attention. One reason for preference for difficulty is that a poem is usually not written simply to convey a single, clear idea -- if you want to do that, write prose -- but to convey a complex of ideas which interrelate values, mood, emotion, concepts, a phenomenology, and an environment in a very compact form which unites both the sound and rhythm of the words used with their meaning. Jim R > I'd just like to pick up one of Mark Wolff's comments: > >> An interesting poem resists >> easy interpretation > > Poems that "resist" interpretation are not the better for it, surely? I > usually think of poetry that is "hard" as flawed in that particular > respect, although it may be rich in other aspects and reward the work > put into reading it. The best poetry is surely both accessible and rich. > > Cheers, > Martin > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 27 08:25:41 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B708C26361; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:25:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7C67726353; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:25:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090627082540.7C67726353@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:25:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.112 open call for applications in the Humanities at ESF X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 112. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:46:56 +0100 From: Humanities Subject: Open Call for applications For wide dissemination: Call for applications in the Humanities at ESF We are pleased to inform you about the following open Calls in the Humanities: v The ‘Philosophy for Science in Use’ programme has now been published. Full information is available from www.esf.org/conferences/09272. Closing date for applications is the 12th of July. v The Call for Proposals for ESF Research Conferences to take place in 2011 is open and accessible online from www.esf.org/conferences/call. The deadline for submissions is 15th September 2009. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 27 08:26:30 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC9382641D; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:26:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F2C4526416; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:26:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090627082628.F2C4526416@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:26:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.113 new publication: Future of Learning Institutions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 113. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:10:45 -0400 From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu Subject: The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age report now available from MIT Press An announcement from HASTAC.org As we mentioned on the HASTAC blogs last week, you can now download or purchase a copy of the report entitled The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age, co-authored by Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg, with assistance from Zoe Marie Jones, our former colleague extraordinaire. Here are the details from MIT Press: Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg in an abridged version of their book- in-progress, The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age, argue that traditional institutions must adapt or risk a growing mismatch between how they teach and how this new generation learns. Forms and models of learning have evolved quickly and in fundamentally new directions. Yet how we teach, where we teach, who teaches, and who administers and serves have changed only around the edges. This report was made possible by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in connection with its grant making initiative on Digital Media and Learning. Key Findings Young people today are learning in new ways that are both collective and egalitarian. They are contributing to Wikipedia, commenting on blogs, teaching themselves programming and figuring out work-arounds to online video games. They follow links embedded in articles to build a deeper understanding. They comment on papers and ideas in an interactive and immediate exchange of ideas. All these acts are collaborative and democratic, and all occur amid a worldwide community of voices. Universities must recognize this new way of learning and adapt or risk becoming obsolete. The university model of teaching and learning relies on a hierarchy of expertise, disciplinary divides, restricted admission to those considered worthy, and a focused, solitary area of expertise. However, with participatory learning and digital media, these conventional modes of authority break down. Today's learning is interactive and without walls. Individuals learn anywhere, anytime, and with greater ease than ever before. Learning today blurs lines of expertise and tears down barriers to admission. While it has never been confined solely to the academy, today’s opportunities for independent learning have never been easier nor more diverse. The full The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age report is now available for free online from MIT Press. A print version of the report can also be ordered from the Press. For more information please visit the MIT Press website: mitpress.mit.edu To order print copies of this report, visit: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/ item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11841 ISBN: 978-0-262-51359-3 | Price: $14.00 To view the report online, visit: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/ Future_of_Learning.pdf The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning are available here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/browse/ browse.asp?btype=6&serid=178 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 29 06:00:03 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5B627426; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:00:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CD6FD2741E; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:00:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090629060001.CD6FD2741E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:00:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.114 programming: fears and blocks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 114. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.111 programming: fears and blocks [2] From: Ms Mary Dee Harris (8) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.107 programming: the fear of it --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:04:42 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.111 programming: fears and blocks In-Reply-To: <20090627082447.F0407262FF@woodward.joyent.us> Elijah -- can you get specific? What exactly are you talking about, and why would anyone use this except for personal projects? And is this code that someone shy of a professional programmer would conceivably write? We're talking about code for dummies (I mean, humanists): HTML, PHP, XML. Jim R > I'm not quite sure what kind of software you guys are describing. > There's a great deal of code out there that produces highly ambiguous, > non-goal oriented results with or without user input and not as a > result of flawed programming or design. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:33:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Ms Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.107 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090627082447.F0407262FF@woodward.joyent.us> I consider myself a humanist in some ways, despite having spent much of my career teaching Computer Science and now working in the tech industry designing software. I was trained in both literature and the sciences, however. I started out my career as an assembly language programming and moved into other languages along the way. I always found programming to be fascinating, in the sense that I was solving a puzzle. Much like a jigsaw puzzle requires lots of tiny, seemingly unrelated pieces to finally show the picture, writing a program requires putting together many tiny functional parts to create a working product. 'Boring' is the last word I would use to describe the process. Back in the late 1980s, I taught a course at Georgetown University called Literary Theory Using Computers. I didn't expect the students to learn programming so I gave them assignments to analyze texts with a common collation program of the day. I gave them lots of examples of how it worked and what to do with the results. Surprisingly to me, it was largely a disaster for the majority of undergraduate English majors. They had no concept of thinking through a process or analyzing the data. I could hardly understand the reports than many of them wrote because they were so disjointed and had so little correlation with the assignment. I learned from that experience that the average English major in that class (I will restrict my observation severely) had not learned logical thinking, in the sense that I knew it. I never had the opportunity to try that experiment again so I'm not sure how I could have led them into a better understanding of the process. And I must say that there were some in the class who did understand and enjoyed the approach. My conclusion is that some people get it and some don't! I'm sure that it has something to do with one's life experience and general education, as well as one's university courses. My family talked about science at the dinner table and read books. I found out at school that talking about science at dinner was not the norm, in my community, but I carried that tradition into my own family. I guess some of us think with both sides of our brains! Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. Chief Language Officer Catalis, Inc. Austin, Texas _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 30 06:07:17 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1263123ED2; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:07:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2BF0423EBE; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:07:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090630060715.2BF0423EBE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:07:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.115 programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 115. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elijah Meeks (63) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.114 programming: fears and blocks [2] From: Tamara Lopez (24) Subject: programming: another perspective on blocks [3] From: Martin Holmes (1) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.111 programming: fears and blocks [4] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (22) Subject: Code for coders --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:07:26 -0700 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.114 programming: fears and blocks In-Reply-To: <20090629060001.CD6FD2741E@woodward.joyent.us> I was specific. I pointed out NetHack, which is a 22-year old game, with freely available source code for perusal and is as strange, random and complex as any high gothic novel (You can check it out on Wikipedia, though the synopsis will only hint at the strangeness and subtlety of the gameplay). Games are analogous to fiction in writing, whereas operating systems, spreadsheets and metadata collation software is analogous to technical writing. So if you're looking for interesting coding, you should look to the right genre. I'm sure there are some great turns of phrase to be found in the corpus of lawnmower assembly manuals, but I don't think they're a good indication of the state of Western literature. Granted, most modern, big budget games are as interesting as big budget movies and books, but there's a real wealth of quirky, strangely programmed and functioning games out there. The art of writing a game, most especially the older and smaller games, with their connection to random numbers to represent chance, is clearly similar to the creation of prose and poetry. There are entire sections of code in some of these games that never get performed except under the most esoteric of circumstances, and there are interesting emergent properties of the interacting game world that capture the imagination of players and coders, regardless of user input. And yes, you can dip your feet into it with only a knowledge of XML or Perl. The game modification community has grown so large and the modification of games has grown so pervasive that many companies create specific entry points into modifying game content through creation of XML files or writing simple scripts. I'm not sure how you mean the question, "why would anyone use this except for personal projects?" though. What is the "use" of poetry or literature? How is a collection of the poetry of Emily Dickinson more useful than the aforementioned lawnmower manual? It's drudge work writing a lawnmower manual, or an academic paper, but we don't claim that therefore people shouldn't learn to write. If, however, one feels that the writing of literature is of value and its structures should be analyzed (And therefore understood to some meaningful extent) then it would seem the same would apply to creative software and there would be an incumbent need to be literate enough to analyze and understand it. You wouldn't blame a software engineer for not liking poetry, but you'd likely think him an idiot if he claimed poetry did not have the ability to pass along complex truths in the way that software does and therefore that he didn't need to learn how to read. This is a rather long and scattered response, but it's no longer clear to me your exact criticism. Is it that you think that low-level programming languages don't allow for the creation of nuanced, complex thought, or is it that you feel that code is goal-oriented and utilitarian or is it simply that software is inherently boring? I believe I've addressed the first two and, as for the third, I think that the all-pervasive nature of software militates against treating it as an ignorable subject. We have a basic expectation of literacy due to the pervasive nature of writing, and I think that we should have an equal expectation of software literacy. So, whereas Dr. McCarty's originally framed the question of software literacy (A term I've used without defining, but which I assume involves a working knowledge of creating software) in terms of fear, I feel it's more related to underestimating the scope and value of software as metaphor, creative work and tool. Elijah Meeks UC Merced > Elijah -- can you get specific?  What exactly are you talking about, > and why would anyone use this except for personal projects?  And is > this code that someone shy of a professional programmer would > conceivably write?  We're talking about code for dummies (I mean, > humanists): HTML, PHP, XML. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:40:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Tamara Lopez Subject: programming: another perspective on blocks In-Reply-To: <20090629060001.CD6FD2741E@woodward.joyent.us> Hi everyone, I've been reading this and the parent thread with great interest, and it has been wonderful to see voices popping up from distant Humanist lands to share their perspectives. It leaves me wondering though where the code got to in the discussion. It has been categorised, compared to, extemporised about, with attendant expressions of our own love, fear, and loathing toward languages and tools (by my lurking self too). However, I've not seen compelling examples of the structures themselves that make code and the doing of it scary (leaving aside the early number vs. string tributary) or worthy of love or loathing (ignoring the boredom tributary). We seem to me like birds on the shore - a little flapping here and some squawking there, while we settle back down to a comfortable (safe) distance from it.. But enough of my own squawking and pecking at the ground... Recently I was reading through Dijkstra's oral history at the CB Institute (http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/display.phtml?id=320), and several sections of it came back to me when I read Mary's notes about teaching literary theory with computers. In Djikstra's interview, the interviewer quotes an earlier series of papers or reports: Frana: You said “The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.” Dijkstra: Yes. Frana: And then, in another place, you said, to take a different tack, “As long as we regard computers primarily as tools we might grossly underestimate their significance. Their influence as tools might turn out to be but a ripple on the surface of our culture.” Are you talking here about the whole cybernetic gaze that they have lent to society? Have we become like - - do we think like our machines? Dijkstra: No, no no no. His perspective, he explains, was formed by working with a student who was taking an oral exam in which he had to talk through the design of a program to solve a problem. The student couldn't solve it, because the language he had been taught to program in (Fortran) didn't have the concepts required to build the recursive construct he had in mind. The influence of the language on his ability to speak about programming was stronger than his true understanding of the issue. In an earlier section of the interview, he says: "There is an enormous difference between one who is monolingual and someone who at least knows a second language well, because it makes you much more conscious about the phenomenon of language structure in general. You will discover that certain constructions in one language you just can’t translate." Dijkstra definitely advocated for a strong grounding in math and science for budding programmers, but here he is adressing the experience of wrestling with the work of programming that doesn't compute, and the importance it lends to the experience as a whole. He also suggests that in teaching a student the skills for abstraction necessary to solve a problem like the one described, more than logical skills are required, hinting at some relationship between effective abstraction and the power of language. Are we back to poetry yet? Tamara Tamara Lopez ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL (UK), t: +44 (0)20 78481237 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:02:08 -0700 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.111 programming: fears and blocks In-Reply-To: <20090627082447.F0407262FF@woodward.joyent.us> > From: James Rovira >Martin -- Among those > who study literature professionally, generally those poems which > resist a single, readily grasped, clearly accessible meaning are the > least interesting. Simplistic poetry that gets awards and attention > usually does so because it's saying the right thing about the right > topic -- it's politically correct somehow. A great deal of bad poetry > gets published for this reason. Otherwise, poems generally need to be > of a certain level of difficulty to merit study and attention. One > reason for preference for difficulty is that a poem is usually not > written simply to convey a single, clear idea -- if you want to do > that, write prose -- but to convey a complex of ideas which > interrelate values, mood, emotion, concepts, a phenomenology, and an > environment in a very compact form which unites both the sound and > rhythm of the words used with their meaning. Jim R Hi Jim, You've just captured perfectly why I stopped studying literature and became a common reader. I'll take Al Purdy or Larkin over Eliot and Pound any day. :-) Cheers, Martin >>> I'd just like to pick up one of Mark Wolff's comments: >>> >>>>> An interesting poem resists easy interpretation >>> >>> Poems that "resist" interpretation are not the better for it, >>> surely? I usually think of poetry that is "hard" as flawed in >>> that particular respect, although it may be rich in other aspects >>> and reward the work put into reading it. The best poetry is >>> surely both accessible and rich. >>> >>> Cheers, Martin >>> -- Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (mholmes@uvic.ca) Half-Baked Software, Inc. (mholmes@halfbakedsoftware.com) martin@mholmes.com --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:33:57 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Code for coders In-Reply-To: <20090531064946.CB5E260C8@woodward.joyent.us> Orthogonal to the thread on coding (fear, loathing and boring), I quote here from a posting by Wendell Piez reminds the TEI discussion list in a posting of July 31, 2006 [I]n view of the last exchange on editing software. You recall that one of the most tantalizing things we know (of the little we know) of the mysteries at Eleusis is that they involved not just what was said (ta legomena) but what was shown (ta deiknymena) and what was performed (ta dromena). http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0607&L=TEI-L&T=0&F=&S=&P=6967 I quote this snippet to suggest that the triplet "talk, show, do" forms the basis of what is taught and assessed in Humanities Computing. Whatever the degree and nature of coding/programming practice, it is important for students and teachers to be able to engage the uninitiated. Such an assertion makes sense if one is willing to grant that Humanities Computing is a bridging discipline. And furthermore grant that the performative has a place in this bridging. I suggest that the value of any given pedagogical activity is both intrinsic to the activity itself and extrinsic -- how the teaching and assessment of the activity leads to discourse with others. Francois Lachance Scholar-at-large http://berneval.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 30 06:11:17 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65C3923FD8; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:11:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6A42023FC9; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:11:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090630061115.6A42023FC9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:11:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.116 presenting computers to the public in the 1950s & 60s X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 116. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:58:23 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: presenting computers to the public Those interested in the early history of computing may enjoy three films collected by The Historical Archive, described at www.thehistoricalarchive.com/products/computers.html. The movie entitled "Logic by machine" (1965) features Richard W. Hamming and Earnest Nagel. "On Guard! The Story of SAGE" (1956) is as frightening as it should be. What particularly interests me in "The Information Machine" (1958) is the developmental story of humankind, from inability to cope with life, because of insufficient tools to handle information, to command of a complex urban world. A Whiggish history to be sure, but note what's left when the human is seen through the notion of information-processing. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 30 06:12:09 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ABA82A020; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:12:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E97552A018; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:12:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090630061207.E97552A018@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:12:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.117 last call: European Summer School X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 117. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:02:16 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Last call for 1. European Summer School "Culture &Technology", 27.-31.07.2009, University of Leipzig Last call for the 1. European Summer School „Culture & Technology“, to take place at the University of Leipzig, Germany, July 27-31, 2009. http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ Please note, that the application phase for the 1. European Summer School “Culture & Technology” will close the 30th of June 2009. Application is done by handing in a curriculum and a letter of motivation via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.net/esu2009/. Email-attachments are not accepted. During the Summer School there will be space for project presentation. If you would like to present a project, please register with ConfTool and submit a proposal. Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation we can offer a number of scholarships. If you have any questions please contact the organizers at: esu2009@uni-leipzig.de. Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr Organizer of the European Summer School University of Leipzig ---------- Univ.-Prof'in Dr. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut für Romanistik Philologische Fakultät Universität Leipzig Haus 1 / 3. Etage, Zi. 1307 Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig Tel. +49 (0)341 97 37413/37411 http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 30 10:41:19 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1C23216E3; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:41:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 27250216D2; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:41:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090630104117.27250216D2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:41:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.118 presenting computers: movies in the Internet Archive X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 118. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:49:18 +0900 From: Anthony Martin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.116 presenting computers to the public in the 1950s& 60s In-Reply-To: <20090630061115.6A42023FC9@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I notice that the films The Historical Archive are offering for sale are also available from the Internet Archive, for free download and use under a Creative Commons license. The Prelinger Archive, which includes these films, can be found at http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger It was difficult to tell the provenance from The Historical Archive website; perhaps they have better copies of the films? However, a quick browse of their other offerings seems to show that a lot of their products are also part of the Prelinger Archive. Best wishes Anthony Martin On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 116. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:58:23 +0100 >        From: Willard McCarty >         _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 30 10:43:10 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D5821764; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:43:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9C8B52175C; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:43:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090630104309.9C8B52175C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:43:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.119 reports of our death greatly exaggerated X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 119. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: David Golumbia (35) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.115 programming [2] From: James Rovira (69) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.115 programming [3] From: robert delius royar (14) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.115 programming --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:42:23 -0400 From: David Golumbia Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.115 programming In-Reply-To: <20090630060715.2BF0423EBE@woodward.joyent.us> I need to weigh in because, as I suspected, there appears to be a kind of figure-ground problem in the discussion between Elijah and Jim, one we see often in these sorts of discussions. Jim's point was that *code* cannot be ambiguous or fuzzy to work (with some very minor exceptions around the edges--"standoff markup" and the like, things rarely used in practice though sometimes dicussed in theory). I will soften his thesis even more: programming code tends strongly toward unambiguous structures and statements, because for the most part it must be interpreted or compiled and then run, and the interpreters and compilers will not accept *code* that is ambiguous. Elijah appears to be talking about *software* that can function in/handle ambiguous input and actions. I do not believe Jim was doubting that this exists; on the contrary, nearly every software program has "emergent properties," "strange behaviors" and so on, and most applications must be able to handle ambiguity of input (to some extent) if it's going to interact with human beings. Let me, then, reframe Jim's question: the challenge is to provide a significant snippet of code, say, a JavaScript function or isolated object from Java or C++ or so on, in which the operating part of the code is ambiguous (the compiler could produce multiple correct interpretations) or fuzzy (the compiler can produce no clearly correct interpretation), but the software can be compiled and run. Furthermore, because I am interested in tendencies and not so much in absolutes, the challenge is to proivde examples of such code that are regularly used in everyday applications. Personally, I do not know of compilers that can actually handle statments that are ambiguous at the level of the program--that is exactly one of the kinds of statements on which a compilers and interpreters are supposed to choke, and it would also violate the definition of the Turing machine out of which all computers are built (for which unambiguous *operations* -- not input -- are required)--but I am eager to learn. David --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:43:31 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.115 programming In-Reply-To: <20090630060715.2BF0423EBE@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks much for your response, Elijah. I would like particularly to focus upon this paragraph here: <> You answered my initial question about "esoteric" uses of coding through your description of types of lines of code in gaming programs. However, I don't completely believe your response, you seem to make some equivocations without being aware of them, and you seem to be confusing categories. First, since we're talking about someone who is primarily a humanist writing code to present works of art or literature in electronic formats, I don't think the probably millions of lines of sophisticated code necessary to make a video game work is quite equivalent. We're talking about something much smaller, simpler, and more straightforward. XML modifications to video game coding isn't quite the same either. Furthermore, being someone who has played these games before, I don't ever see the code itself. It's simply not necessary for me to do so. I only think about the code, in fact, when it fails. I don't care how sophisticated, elegant, or esoteric the code itself is. I do care than when I toggle right my character moves right and moves right immediately and consistently. This is your main point of either confusion or deliberate equivocation. When you read poetry, the lines of a poem are themselves what the reader interacts with. When you play a video game, the code itself is almost never what the player interacts with. In fact, the player should never be aware of the code that creates the visual appearance of the character and environment. The only coding involved by the user should be modifications (which you enter and then play), or issuing simply written commands that are part of game play. This is perhaps your silliest comment: <> Coding itself does not "pass along complex truths," and even if it did, no one would have access to these truths except programmers. Coding issues commands -to a machine-, which creates an interface with a user. Equating "coding" with "software" is a serious confusion of terms in this case. Software is the interface, coding is what makes it work. The interface itself may look no different from a literary product: every poem you read on a computer screen is there because of coding, but it's the poem, not the coding, that communicates complex truths. Now you may be calling the coding itself "complex truths" because it is complex (or can be), but it hardly communicates "truths" of any meaningful sort. If our entire world was a vast computer and our minds a system of computer codes, then yes, I -might- agree with you. But we don't live in the Matrix and the majority of people who are alive and have ever lived have no need of computers, much less coding, yet still manage to communicate meaningful truths to each other. I believe there could be a phenomenology of coding, in which programmers write in a "style" that reveals habits of thought, but again, the coding itself is not designed to do this. It's just designed to create a usable interface with a machine, not a person. I hope you're not confusing those two terms: machines and persons. Jim R --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:15:39 -0400 From: robert delius royar Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.115 programming In-Reply-To: <20090630060715.2BF0423EBE@woodward.joyent.us> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:07:26 -0700 Elijah Meeks wrote > There are entire > sections of code in some of these games that never get performed > except under the most esoteric of circumstances, and there are > interesting emergent properties of the interacting game world that > capture the imagination of players and coders, regardless of user > input. You might also look at the source (in C) for programs such as Lamda MOO and the whole MUD/MOO family. It provides an interpreter for designing interactive spaces and scenarios, so you may also find the language for creating objects and actions interesting. -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English, Morehead State University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 2 07:28:42 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 146462AC7B; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:28:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AB93E2AC67; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:28:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090702072839.AB93E2AC67@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:28:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.122 job at Oxford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 122. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:30:10 +0100 From: Michael Fraser Subject: Oxford University: IT Support Officer for the Online EgyptologicalBibliography The appended job opportunity may be of interest to you or colleagues. Mike -------- Original Message -------- Griffith Institute in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford Information Technology Support Officer for the Online Egyptological Bibliography University Grade: 8, stages 01–04, Salary in the range £36,532 – £39,920 per annum pro rata to 40%, 16-month fixed-term The Griffith Institute is seeking to appoint from late 2009 an ICT Officer to provide support for the Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB), which will be moved from Amsterdam to a server in Oxford in late 2009 and will be further developed and migrated to a new software platform over the next year. This is a major database project that involves integrating material from diverse sources, including other databases that are to be incorporated into the OEB, as well as designing new input and search modules for use in a Unicode-compliant system. The successful candidate will have a professional knowledge of database systems, including Microsoft Access and MySQL with complex SQL statements and queries, as well as web-based systems, notably ASP, PHP, internet technologies such as (X)HTML and JavaScript, and general web design. She or he will also manage integrity, security, and online subscriptions to the OEB. This is a challenging position that will suit particularly a specialist in computing for the humanities. Further particulars, including details on how to apply, should be obtained from www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/ or from the office of The Faculty Board Secretary, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, tel. 01865 288202, email orient@orinst.ox.ac.uk, to whom applications should be sent not later than Friday 24 July 2009 The University is an equal opportunities employer. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 2 07:34:15 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2212ADE4; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:34:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 808D42AD98; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:34:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090702073413.808D42AD98@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:34:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.123 new on WWW: TL Infobits for June X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 123. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:29:03 +0100 From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: TL Infobits -- June 2009 TL INFOBITS June 2009 No. 36 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 and all back issues at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... Educating the Net Generation Student Computer Skills: Perception and Reality New Online Journal on Instruction Critique of E-Learning in Blackboard Google Book Search Bibliography Recommended Reading ...................................................................... EDUCATING THE NET GENERATION "A number of authors have argued that students who are entering the higher education system have grown up in a digital culture that has fundamentally influenced their preferences and skills in a number of key areas related to education. It has also been proposed that today's university staff are ill equipped to educate this new generation of learners -- the Net Generation –- whose sophisticated use of emerging technologies is incompatible with current teaching practice." EDUCATING THE NET GENERATION: A HANDBOOK OF FINDINGS FOR PRACTICE AND POLICY (Australian Learning and Teaching Council, 2009, ISBN: 9780734040732) reports on a collaborative project that began in 2006, between staff at the University of Melbourne, the University of Wollongong, and Charles Sturt University. Some of the findings of the study included: "The rhetoric that university students are Digital Natives and university staff are Digital Immigrants is not supported." "[E]ven though young people's access to and use of computers and some information and communications technologies is high, they don't necessarily want or expect to use these technologies to support some activities, including learning." "The use of publishing and information sharing tools, such as wikis, blogs and photo sharing sites, positively impacted on many students' engagement with the subject material, their peers and the general learning community." "[M]any Web 2.0 technologies enable students to publicly publish and share content in forums hosted outside their university's infrastructure. This raises complex questions about academic integrity including issues of authorship, ownership, attribution and acknowledgement." The handbook is available at http://www.netgen.unimelb.edu.au/ The Australian Learning and Teaching Council works with 44 Australian higher education institutions "as a collaborative and supportive partner in change, providing access to a network of knowledge, ideas and people." For more information, contact: Australian Learning and Teaching Council, 4-12 Buckland St., Chippendale, Sydney NSW 2008 Australia; tel: 02 8667 8500; fax: 02 8667 8515; email info@altc.edu.au; Web: http://www.altc.edu.au/ ...................................................................... STUDENT COMPUTER SKILLS: PERCEPTION AND REALITY "The ubiquitous use of computers in homes and schools has aided the perception that more students are computer literate than past generations. There is a potential 'perfect storm' manifesting between students' perceived proficiency of computer application skills and the actual assessment of those skills." By administering survey and assessment instruments to over 200 business school students, researchers Donna M. Grant, Alisha D. Malloy, and Marianne C. Murphy compared students' perceived proficiencies in three computer skills areas -- word processing, presentation graphics, and spreadsheets -- with their demonstrated skills. Their research results showed "some differences in the students' perception of their word processing skills and actual performance, no difference in perception and performance for their presentation skills, and a significant difference in perception and performance for their spreadsheet skills. The study led to a redesign of an introductory business school course to remedy students' deficiencies. The paper, "A Comparison of Student Perceptions of their Computer Skills to their Actual Abilities" (JITE, vol. 8, 2009, pp. 141-60), is available at http://jite.org/documents/Vol8/JITEv8p141-160Grant428.pdf The peer-reviewed Journal of Information Technology Education (JITE) [ISSN 1539-3585 (online) 1547-9714 (print)] is published in print by subscription and online free of charge by the Informing Science Institute. For more information contact: Informing Science Institute, 131 Brookhill Court, Santa Rosa, California 95409 USA; tel: 707-531-4925; fax: 480-247-5724; Web: http://informingscience.org/ [Editor's note: At the time this article was written, the JITE website and this paper were accessible; at the time of this mailing, they are not. I have notified the JITE webmaster of the problem in the hope that the site will soon be back online.] ...................................................................... NEW ONLINE JOURNAL ON INSTRUCTION The first issue of the online peer-reviewed JOURNAL OF INSTRUCTIONAL PEDAGOGIES [ISSN: 1941-3394], published by the Academic and Business Research Institute, is available at http://aabri.com/jip.html Papers in this issue that are related to instructional technology and e-learning include: "Student Perceptions of How Technology Impacts the Quality of Instruction and Learning" by Thomas Davies, et al. "The Effects of Self-Regulated Learning Strategies and System Satisfaction Regarding Learner's Performance in E-Learning Environment" by Jong-Ki Lee "Student Performance in Online Quizzes as a Function of Time in Undergraduate Financial Management Courses" by Oliver Schnusenberg "Student Satisfaction in Web-enhanced Learning Environments" by Charles Hermans, et al. The Academic and Business Research Institute supports the research and publication needs of business and education faculty. For more information about the journal, contact: Raymond Papp, Editor; email: jip@aabri.com ...................................................................... CRITIQUE OF E-LEARNING IN BLACKBOARD "Just as utopic visions of the Internet predicted an egalitarian online world where information flowed freely and power became irrelevant, so did many proponents of online education, who viewed online classrooms as a way to free students and instructors from traditional power relationships . . ." In "A Critical Examination of Blackboard's E–Learning Environment" (FIRST MONDAY, vol. 14, no. 6, June 1, 2009), Stephanie J. Coopman, professor at San Jose State University, identifies the ways that the Blackboard 8.0 and Blackboard CE6 platforms "both constrain and facilitate instructor–student and student–student interaction." She argues that while the systems have improved the instructor's ability to track and measure student activity, this "creates a dangerously decontextualized, essentialized image of a class in which levels of 'participation' stand in for evidence of learning having taken place. Students are treated not as learners, as partners in an educational enterprise, but as users." The paper is available at http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2434/2202 First Monday [ISSN 1396-0466] is an online, peer-reviewed journal whose aim is to publish original articles about the Internet and the global information infrastructure. It is published in cooperation with the University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information, contact: First Monday, c/o Edward Valauskas, Chief Editor, PO Box 87636, Chicago IL 60680-0636 USA; email: ejv@uic.edu; Web: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/ ...................................................................... GOOGLE BOOK SEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY Charles W. Bailey, Jr. has just published the 4th version of the "Google Book Search Bibliography." "It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories." The bibliography is available at http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm Links to Bailey's other extensive publications, including "Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography" and the "Open Access Webliography," are available at http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. OASIS: Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook By Alma Swan and Leslie Chan http://www.openoasis.org/ "OASIS aims to provide an authoritative 'sourcebook' on Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it. The site highlights developments and initiatives from around the world, with links to diverse additional resources and case studies." _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 2 07:34:57 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE6F2AF9F; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:34:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D7B7B2AF90; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:34:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090702073455.D7B7B2AF90@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:34:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.124 events: watermarks; storytelling; codicology & palaeography X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 124. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ido Iurgel (13) Subject: cfp: ICIDS 2009 - Interactive Storytelling [2] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (31) Subject: Seminar: Paper Watermark Location and Identification [3] From: "Mahony, Simon" (30) Subject: Conference: "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age",Munich, Juli 3-4, 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:54:18 +0100 From: Ido Iurgel Subject: cfp: ICIDS 2009 - Interactive Storytelling *** ICIDS – Interactive Storytelling 2009 *** 2nd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 09-11 December 2009, Guimarães, Portugal http://www.icids2009.ccg.pt Extended Submission Deadline: July 6th, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------ ICIDS is the premier international conference on interactive digital storytelling. It was successfully launched in 2008, superseding the two previous European conference series, TIDSE ("Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling") and ICVS ("Virtual Storytelling – Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling"). While the venues of these events were traditionally bound to France and Germany, ICIDS is set to overcome also this geographical limitation. The fusion of the previous conferences was most successfully inaugurated in Erfurt, Germany, as ICIDS 2008. In a very inspiring and friendly atmosphere, over 100 international participants have enjoyed high-quality talks and worked together at creative and fruitful workshops, and there were plenty of delightful occasions that gathered the attendees for more informal exchange. ICIDS 2009 aims at setting forth the success of this new beginning. The venue will be the Centro Cultural Vila Flor, an excellent modern conference center that extends a historical palace, at walking distance from most hotels and from the city center of the historical city of Guimarães, the birthplace of Portugal. ***SCOPE*** Interactive entertainment, including novel forms of edutainment, therapy, and serious games, promises to become an ever more important market. Interactive Digital Storytelling provides access to social and human themes through stories, and promises to foster considerably the possibilities of interactive entertainment, computer games, and other interactive digital applications. ICIDS also identifies opportunities and addresses challenges for redefining the experience of narrative through interactive simulations of computer-generated story worlds. Interactive Storytelling thus promises a huge step forward for games, training, and learning, through the aims to enrich virtual characters with intelligent behavior, to allow collaboration of humans and machines in the creative process, and to combine narrative knowledge and user activity in interactive artifacts. In order to create novel applications, in which users play a significant role together with digital characters and other autonomous elements, new concepts for Human-Computer Interaction have to be developed. Knowledge for interface design and technology has to be garnered and integrated. Interactive Storytelling involves concepts from many aspects of Computer Science, above all from Artificial Intelligence, with topics such as narrative intelligence, automatic dialogue- and drama management, cognitive robotics and smart graphics. In order to process stories in real time, traditional storytelling needs to be formalized into computable models, by drawing from narratological studies, and by taking into account the characteristics of programming. Consequently, due to its technological complexity, it is currently hardly accessible for creators and end-users. There is a need for new authoring concepts and tools supporting the creation of dynamic story models, allowing for rich and meaningful interaction with the content. Finally, there is a need for theoretical foundations considering the integration of so far disjunctive approaches and cultures. [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:01:06 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Seminar: Paper Watermark Location and Identification Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar, Summer 2009 Friday July 3rd at 16:30 Note: STB 9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU *Roger Boyle & Kia Ng (Leeds)* *Extracting the Hidden: Paper Watermark Location and Identification* ALL WELCOME Watermark studies go back many years, but the advent of large digital repositories and advances in imaging present new opportunities. We present two attacks. Both use a back-lighting approach that delivers good quality, digitally-native images. We exhibit work on a wide range of images, and have uncovered hitherto unseen results. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html, where a longer abstract is available, and the audio and slides will be posted shortly after the event. Digital Classicist Podcast: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/seminar.xml -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:34:05 +0100 From: "Mahony, Simon" Subject: Conference: "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age",Munich, Juli 3-4, 2009 Just a short reminder for the International Conference on "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age", taking place in Munich 03.07.2009 - 04.07.2009 The conference will focus on the challenges and consequences of using IT and the internet for codicological and palaeographic research. The authors of some selected articles of an anthology to be published this summer by the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) will present and discuss their excellent research results with scholars and experts working on ancient books and manuscripts. The presentations will be given on current issues in the following fields: manuscript catalogues and descriptions, digitization of manuscripts, collaborative systems of research on manuscripts, codicological databases, manuscript catalogues, research based on digital resources, e-learning in palaeography, palaeographic databases (characters, scripts, scribes), (semi-) automatic recognition of scripts and scribes, digital tools for transcriptions, visions and prototypes of other digital tools. A panel discussion will be held with renowned exponents in the field of codicology and palaeography and contributors of cutting edge research to get an overview of the state of the art as well as to open up new perspectives of codicological and palaeographic research in the “digital age”. The conference is open to the public. There will be no fee for the audience. Further information is available here: http://www.hgw.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/termine/tagung_kod_pal Best, Torsten Schaßan - -- Torsten Schassan Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, D-38299 Wolfenbuettel Tel.: +49-5331-808-130, schassan {at} hab.de http://www.hab.de; http://www.hab.de/forschung/projekte/weiss64.htm _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 3 05:15:15 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF442EC86; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:15:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 253912EC33; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:15:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090703051513.253912EC33@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:15:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.125 programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 125. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:25:19 -0700 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.120 programming In-Reply-To: <20090702072632.9B28C2AB6E@woodward.joyent.us> I think the concern that I'm equivocating or confusing code with software comes from a basic prejudice on my part that the software user is interacting with code, that there is no difference between what the programmer wrote and what the user is interacting with, whether it went through a compiler or not. I think it becomes clear that we're living in different worlds based on the following statement: > Furthermore, being someone who has played these games before, I don't > ever see the code itself. It's simply not necessary for me to do so. > I only think about the code, in fact, when it fails. I don't care how > sophisticated, elegant, or esoteric the code itself is. I do care > than when I toggle right my character moves right and moves right > immediately and consistently. When you play a game, especially a game that is of interest to humanities scholars, such as Civilization, you see the code all the time. It's the same when you play a less complicated game (Like, I don't know, Arkenoid, which seems to be the example you're alluding to). Civilization or my previous example, Nethack, or Zork, or really any game that pretends to simulate an environment and beings in that environment does so by creating abstractions within the code that are often written in such a way so that events are declared by the coder to occur at random or partially randomized points. Since, obviously, you are not interacting with a virtual world that responds to your speech and actions, you see the code in interfaces, in abstactions of interactivity, in abstractions of combat, trade, movement, growth, death, et cetera. From this perspective, I see little to distinguish between code and software, whether you read that code in a line-by-line format or whether you interact with its expression in the software. You should be able to recognize bounding boxes and icons and do/while statements within code based simply on how the software responds. It doesn't matter whether the guys who programmed Nethack or Civilization did so in a way that was efficient, but that they provide elements that interact between other elements and the player in a compelling way. Now, granted, something like Arkenoid isn't going to have had much added by its programmers to foster emergent properties, and neither is Excel--so when coders claim that they wrote Excel in a sophisticated or elegant manner, they're just saying they made it run real smooth and you can get your work done. But content within games, especially larger and older games, has a randomized nature to it that is coded in from the beginning. I realize this doesn't fulfill David's requirement that the software compile ambiguous statements but I can't think of how we could make demands on code that we don't make on literature and poetry. The fostering of a randomized nature must be done, as David rightly pointed out, unambiguously (The various RAND operators, which generate random numbers, exist and are well-documented for every software language) but the resultant activity of the software, the order in which functions are called, the transformation of data, all of that is unpredictable enough, I would argue, to claim ambiguity. So, while nearly all software may have emergent properties, there is software that is created specifically to better foster those emergent properties. > First, since we're talking about someone who is primarily a humanist > writing code to present works of art or literature in electronic > formats, I don't think the probably millions of lines of sophisticated > code necessary to make a video game work is quite equivalent.  We're > talking about something much smaller, simpler, and more > straightforward.  XML modifications to video game coding isn't quite > the same either. Who are we talking about and when did we constrain that person's ability? I've written games in Flash over the course of an afternoon that were 2000 lines in length and contained randomized content. I wish I was bragging, but it's only because Flash and Actionscript have gotten so easy and so visually-oriented that anyone could do it. You could, too, if you didn't find it so boring. While there are multi-million dollar entertainment software projects that are absolutely huge, the barriers to individuals creating interesting software have significantly lowered. > Coding itself does not "pass along complex truths," and even if it > did, no one would have access to these truths except programmers. Isn't that a very good reason to better understand how programming works? Of course, if you understand how programming works, you don't always need to see the code to understand how the abstractions function. If you think it's just a giant black box, though, then it's magic. > Coding issues commands -to a machine-, which creates an interface with > a user. Equating "coding" with "software" is a serious confusion of > terms in this case.  Software is the interface, coding is what makes > it work.  The interface itself may look no different from a literary > product: every poem you read on a computer screen is there because of > coding, but it's the poem, not the coding, that communicates complex > truths. You seem to have a limited understanding of what software is capable of, and of what it is. > Now you may be calling the coding itself "complex truths" because it > is complex (or can be), but it hardly communicates "truths" of any > meaningful sort.  If our entire world was a vast computer and our > minds a system of computer codes, then yes, I -might- agree with you. > But we don't live in the Matrix and the majority of people who are > alive and have ever lived have no need of computers, much less coding, > yet still manage to communicate meaningful truths to each other. I believe you're rambling here, so I'll assume you didn't actually mean that a majority of people alive have no need of computers. I don't think anyone would argue that. I assume what you meant is that a majority of people have no need of computers (Amended to coding) to relay meaningful truths to each other. Sure, that's true. But that doesn't mean that coding can't relay meaningful truth, otherwise it would stand that in highly illiterate societies the written word also doesn't communicate meaningful truth. > I hope you're not confusing those two terms: machines and persons. Who knows, maybe I'm a hard determinist and I think we're all biological machines. Frankly, I think you're too quick to think others are confused. Elijah _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 3 05:18:24 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCEA12ED10; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:18:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4BD6D2ECFF; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:18:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090703051823.4BD6D2ECFF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:18:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.126 studentship in imaging X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 126. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:23:08 +0100 From: "K ( Pepi ) Vacharopoulou" Subject: [Fwd: 3D Imaging in Museums - PhD opportunity] With apologies for cross-postings Dear all, You may be interested in this opportunity for a PhD studentship at Kingston University to work on 3D reconstructions fo artefacts, buildings and/or landscapes at Fishbourne Roman Palace. Thank you very much. Kind regards, Kalliopi Vacharopoulou ----- CENTRE FOR EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE RESEARCH (CEESR) Title: 3D interactive technology and the museum visitor experience Project Outline: 3D visualisation of objects and physical phenomena linked to their geographical location and provenance is emerging alongside other application areas, for example urban design and street scene visualisation, as an area of applied research in GIS and associated 3D technologies. This PhD research would explore the use of 3D interactive technologies for enhancing the experience of visitors to museums, using Fishbourne Palace Museum as a case study and test bed. The project involves collaboration with members of the Media Studies group at Kingston University and with the Sussex Archaeological Trust through the Fishbourne Palace Museum. There are three core aspects to the research: • A technical evaluation of software tools capable of enabling visitors to click/touch on a display screen to explore interactively virtual objects representing ‘real-world’ objects that could not be disassembled and/or reconstructed (e.g. sarcophagi, temples and human remains). • Locating such virtual objects in their geographical and historical context using freely available mapping tool. • Volunteers recruited from the museum’s visitor base would participate in focus groups to evaluate prototype systems which would be used to inform the development of Beta demonstrator systems. The project’s central research question seeks to discover the extent to which 3D interactive technologies can be combined with GIS tools in a way that enhances the experience of visitors to museums and potentially to similar collections held in public buildings (e.g. art galleries). Candidates with experience of GIS interested in developing the 3D visualisation aspects of this technology in innovative ways are encouraged to apply. For further information or an informal discussion on the project, please contact: Professor Nigel Walford (020 8417 2512; N.Walford@kingston.ac.uk). Applications Studentships are full time (3 years for PhD subject to satisfactory progress and 1 year for MSc by Research) and include a stipend of £14,000 per annum and tuition fees for a Home/EU student (£3,500 per annum). Applicants eligible for overseas fees would have to cover the difference between the Home/EU tuition fee and the tuition fee for an overseas student (£10,350 per annum). The appointee will be expected to support teaching (maximum of 6 hours per week), which will be additionally funded. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 3 05:21:13 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 578F62EE8D; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:21:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A4A5A2EE86; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:21:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090703052112.A4A5A2EE86@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:21:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.127 editing medieval English laws; ESF research networking X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 127. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Jenny Benham" (31) Subject: Editing the Laws of Medieval England [2] From: Humanities (22) Subject: Launch of 2009 Call for Research Networking Programmes --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:04:33 +0100 From: "Jenny Benham" Subject: Editing the Laws of Medieval England Dear Colleague, The Early English Laws project is pleased to announce its next event: Editing the Medieval Laws of England Date: 24 October 2009 Location: Institute of Historical Research Description: The Institute of Historical Research, London, will be hosting a free one-day workshop which will bring together established academics and postgraduate students with an interest in early English laws. The workshop will facilitate discussion about editing the various legal codes, edicts, manuals and treatises composed in England before the issuing of Magna Carta in 1215. It aims to provide participants with an opportunity to share and discuss their ideas about methodology and issues such as digitisation and linguistics in a friendly, informal atmosphere. This event will offer project presentations and demonstrations as well as practical sessions on editing and presenting the laws in the digital age. Booking: Attendance is free, but places are limited and offered on a first come basis. For more information and/or to register contact Dr Jenny Benham , Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Kind regards, Dr Jenny Benham Project Officer EARLY ENGLISH LAWS Institute of Historical Research, University of London Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Direct line: 020 7862 8787 Email: jenny.benham@sas.ac.uk www.history.ac.uk http://www.history.ac.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:14:03 +0100 From: Humanities Subject: Launch of 2009 Call for Research Networking Programmes For wide dissemination: Call for applications ESF Research Networking Programmes - 2009 Call for Proposals An ESF Research Networking Programme is a networking activity bringing together nationally funded research activities for four to five years, to address a major scientific issue or a science-driven topic of research infrastructure, at the European level with the aim of advancing the frontiers of science. Key objectives include: * creating interdisciplinary fora; * sharing knowledge and expertise; * developing new techniques; * training young scientists. A successful Programme proposal must show high scientific quality and also demonstrate added value by being carried out at a European level rather than by individual research groups at the national level.. Proposals may be submitted in any scientific field. Deadline for receipt of proposals: 22 October 2009 (16:00 CET).. Full details at http://www.esf.org/programmes. _________________________________________ Valerie Allspach-Kiechel Senior Administrator, ESF Exploratory Workshops & Corporate Calls Corporate Science Operations Unit European Science Foundation 1, quai Lezay-Marnésia BP 90015 67080 Strasbourg Cedex, France Tel:+33 (0)388 76 71 36 Fax:+33 (0)388 37 05 32 vallspach@esf.org http://www.esf.org/workshops _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 4 09:37:18 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E936885D; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:37:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BC9BD884D; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:37:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090704093716.BC9BD884D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:37:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.128 programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 128. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joris van Zundert (77) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.120 programming [2] From: James Rovira (29) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.125 programming --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:11:21 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.120 programming In-Reply-To: <20090702072632.9B28C2AB6E@woodward.joyent.us> Hi all, JIm R. wrote: > Coding itself does not "pass along complex truths," and even if it > did, no one would have access to these truths except programmers. > Coding issues commands -to a machine-, which creates an interface with > a user. Equating "coding" with "software" is a serious confusion of > terms in this case. Software is the interface, coding is what makes > it work. The interface itself may look no different from a literary > product: every poem you read on a computer screen is there because of > coding, but it's the poem, not the coding, that communicates complex > truths. > Code is written in computer language. It's called computer *language*, because that's exactly what it is: language, semiotics, a bunch of signs to convey meaning. As with any other language you can make it stylish, raw, express dumbness or elegance. The one difference is that it has strict grammar. (You can expand vocabulary, no difference there: making a new word is just defining another function.) Strict grammar allows interpretation by a compiler or any other formal interpreter that may create worlds out of the code by visualization, gui etc. In those worlds anything can happen that we can imagine, because we can express that in code. Yes, also ambiguity and uncertainty can be *modeled*. They're approximations, simulations of ambiguity, but it would be hard, if not impossible, for humans to tell the difference when not knowing they were toying with a computer. This is what makes computer code/language a double treat to me. It may be poetry by itself for the initiated (like the beauty of an elegant equation may only be in the eye of the mathematician). As an interpreted language (by computers) it may convey or visualize poetry in other (human) languages, simulate worlds, allow for creative human human interaction, inspire, provoke thought... really anything. So, I'd say it's actually more 'powerful' than human language. I can see no logical reason why at least some parts of the complex truths Jim is talking about, shouldn't be exactly expressible by code. Apparently Jim would find that kind of expression boring, but that's really a question of taste, not of capabilities and functions of code. Just a thought. Cheers, Joris PS I 'True ambiguity' in software code exist, it's just not loved by coders generally because in the end code is about clearness and logic to construct and build. But yes, one can make a data class -bad idea, but that's another discussion- 'Circle'. That would be a highly ambiguous class. It might contain the names of users that I trust, or it might contain information on just a geometrical circle. I can imagine that this class would have a function '.rotate()'. If the class was to represent a 'bunch' of users, this would mean the order would change, if it was a geometrical circle, well you know the routine. The ambiguity could go as far as me as a coder only realizing that I was fooled when calling the function '.display()', only then it would become apparent to me that I was using a class that I didn't mean to use. Now, as said, generally coders don't like this sort of unclearnes, because it slows down there productiveness. So they would call the former 'CircleOfTrust', having functions like '.reorder()', '.in( user )', '.out( user )', etc. The order one would probably be 'CircleXY( x, y, r )'. And if you want to go *really* ambiguous: you can have the class CircleXY generate visual rectangles, which would only occur to the developers when users started to call in something strange was happening. The point of doing that (apart from questionable levels of fun) however, escapes me. PS II Hard core Informatics have been playing around with ambiguity/uncertainty down to the hardware level. The famous bit can only represent two values. But there are ways to hardwire uncertainty. One is that flipflops can have ambiguous state (neither 0 or 1, just 'uncertain'). As far as I know there's not a practical application for that yet - but I'm certainly no expert here. Other ambiguities come in play of course in quantum computing. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:37:39 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.125 programming In-Reply-To: <20090703051513.253912EC33@woodward.joyent.us> Yes, the following paragraph does get to a root difference in our outlooks: > I think the concern that I'm equivocating or confusing code with > software comes from a basic prejudice on my part that the software > user is interacting with code, that there is no difference between > what the programmer wrote and what the user is interacting with, > whether it went through a compiler or not. I agree the software user is interacting with code when using software. The point is that s/he is not usually interacting -directly- with code. Most software users know nothing about code and, as you say, the computer is a magic black box that just does things when you type or touch the screen. And yes, I probably am rambling, but I do mean this: <> The majority of people alive today do not live in fully industrialized countries, do not have computers, and probably never will. They all do have language, whether it is written or not. In the history of technology, written language was considered grossly subordinate to spoken language, writing inferior to speech, and really unnecessary to communicate meaningful truths. But the parallel you attempt to draw between coding and language on this point still doesn't work. We don't think in code. Our major philosophical, religious, and literary texts were not written in code. Our major works of art are not painted in code. Code itself does not communicate the truths these works communicate. It simply reproduces a visual equivalent of these works in electronic form. Saying code communicates meaningful truth is roughly equivalent to saying pens and paper communicate meaningful truth. Jim R _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 4 09:37:46 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E06F88C0; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:37:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 193F38891; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:37:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090704093745.193F38891@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:37:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.129 from 'as if' to 'is'? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 129. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:34:29 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: from 'as if' to 'is' At the beginning of his remarks leading off the 8th Macy Conference on Cybernetics, 23 March 1950, Ralph Gerard observed as follows: > It seems to me, in looking back over the history of this group, that > we started our discussions and sessions in the "as if" spirit. > Everyone was delighted to express any idea that came into his mind, > whether it seemed silly or certain or merely a stimulating guess that > would affect someone else. We explored possibilities for all sorts of > "ifs." Then, rather sharply it seemed to me, we began to talk in an > "is" idiom. We were saying much the same things, but now saying them > as if they were so. I remembered a definition of pregnancy: "the > result of taking seriously something poked at one in fun," and > wondered if we had become pregnant and were in some danger of > premature delivery. ("Some of the Problems Concerning Digital Notions > in the Central Nervous System", in Heinz von Foerster, Margaret Mead > and Hans Lukas Teuber, eds., Cybernetics: Circular Causal and > Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems (New York: > Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1951, p. 11) This slippage from 'as if' to 'is' must be among the most common conceptual errors we make. I wonder, given the essential instability of all computational models, are we any better off than we once were? I suppose not, actually, since the basic problem is not with the things we make but in how we look on them. Or does that computational instability feed back into our reasoning processes and so helps to keep them in motion? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 5 07:14:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C86F655B; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:14:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 15E03654A; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:14:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090705071423.15E03654A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:14:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.130 programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 130. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (57) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.128 programming [2] From: John Carlson (14) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.128 programming --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 10:19:29 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.128 programming In-Reply-To: <20090704093716.BC9BD884D@woodward.joyent.us> Joris -- thank you for the response. You said something very interesting that I'd like to address. But first, about this: <> Yes, you are absolutely right, and that is the position from which I started. I initially responded to a post implying that those who do not want to write code fear it. My response was that I don't fear it; I find it boring. But that's just my preference. I understand and respect that my math professor friend does not like poetry. My wife is a history person. She doesn't like poetry either. Most of the rest of what you say validates the points I've been making -- yes, you can write somewhat ambiguous code, but why? Now this was what I found particularly interesting: <> Do you really believe that programming code is not a human language? I would say you don't believe this. You do believe programming code is a human language (of course it is; it was created by human beings). But you speak of it in the sentence above as if it weren't because programming code is -not a language human beings use to speak to other human beings, but to machines-. So you speak as if programming code is a machine language, not a human language. Now, my question is, what difference does it make that programming code itself -can- communicate complex truths (about human existence) when the language is designed to talk to a -machine- that's only looking for a command to turn on or off a series of complex switches which can only occupy two positions, on and off? If a human being writes code, of course the code -can- communicate complex, meaningful truths to other human beings. My point is that code is not designed to do this, though. I think you run away with yourself a bit here: > This is what makes computer code/language a double treat to me. It may be > poetry by itself for the initiated (like the beauty of an elegant equation > may only be in the eye of the mathematician). As an interpreted language (by > computers) it may convey or visualize poetry in other (human) languages, > simulate worlds, allow for creative human human interaction, inspire, > provoke thought... really anything. So, I'd say it's actually more > 'powerful' than human language. as you elide the fact that computer code overlaps normal human spoken languages, and where it communicates meaningful human truth it must rely upon normal human spoken languages. Coding elements can add nuance to these normal human spoken languages, but cannot replace them. This is roughly equivalent to Wittgenstein including symbolic logic in his Tractatus. It supplements otherwise quite normal human speech, but does not replace it. What I envision from your paragraph above is an elegantly written string of code that is simultaneously functional for a machine and communicates meaningful human truth. My question is, how much of the thousands of billions of lines of code out there even begins to resemble this description? A millionth of one percent? And how often would anyone really want to write something like this? The best programmers usually aren't interested in poetry, and the best poets probably do fear programming. Thanks much for raising the level of this discussion by including direct reference to code elements and how they may be used. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:30:36 -0400 From: John Carlson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.128 programming In-Reply-To: <20090704093716.BC9BD884D@woodward.joyent.us> "But the parallel you attempt to draw between coding and language on this point still doesn't work. We don't think in code." First, all language is code; the images we produce (in mind or on canvas) are code, too. The reality is, we can't think except in code. Second, it seems to me that much of humanities computing is predicated on the notion to exploring one type of code (language) using another type of code (markup) can be enlighten us by either by revealing patterns and/or features that were previously obscure or focusing attention those things that remain obscure after translation - features that resist expression in a new code. -- John Ivor Carlson Digital Production Editor Yale University Press _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 5 07:14:53 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B35B65A1; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:14:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 642CA6591; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:14:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090705071451.642CA6591@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:14:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.131 from 'as if' to 'is' X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 131. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:21:47 -0700 From: "Gray Kochhar-Lindgren" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.129 from 'as if' to 'is'? In-Reply-To: <20090704093745.193F38891@woodward.joyent.us> Interesting question. For me, as a non-computationalist, the as-if gallops right through all of the as-ises as a kind of ontological principle. There could be no "is" without the "as-if," since the latter opens possibility. I tend to run this through the Kant (als-ob), Husserl, Derrida, Deleuze machine(s). Happy 4th! Gray Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, PhD Professor: Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Director: Center for University Studies and Programs University of Washington, Bothell Fulbright Scholar in General Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong America Center 2009-10 -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 2:38 AM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 5 08:13:49 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 631F86CF8; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 08:13:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx227.postini.com [64.18.2.180]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9F6BD6CE8 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 08:13:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([81.187.30.51]) (using TLSv1) by exprod7mx227.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:13:47 PDT Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.4]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MNMr1-00071b-H8 for humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:13:43 +0100 Message-ID: <4A5060AA.4010801@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:13:30 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Organization: King's College London User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Online seminar for digital humanities References: In-Reply-To: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:97.53101/99.90000 CV:99.9000 FC:95.5390 LC:95.5390 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) X-pstn-settings: 1 (0.1500:0.1500) cv gt3 gt2 gt1 r p m c X-pstn-addresses: from forward (user good) [69/3] Subject: [Humanist] Re: 23.131 from 'as if' to 'is' X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk, Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org No argument from me against Gray Kochhar-Lindgren's galloping as-if. But I ask again: does computing speed the journey, make it harder for us to think that one of the waystations is the end of the road? There's no question that we're incapable of construing some state of the machine as final (e.g. as if putting up a static website were basically the same as publishing a book on paper, however cheaper and less prestigious). But the physical characteristics of the form we use affect us; they constitute a difference that makes a difference. Is our grip on finality loosening as a result? Let me ask a further question. If our grip is loosening, then how now are we going wrong? Yours, WM Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 131. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:21:47 -0700 > From: "Gray Kochhar-Lindgren" > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.129 from 'as if' to 'is'? > In-Reply-To: <20090704093745.193F38891@woodward.joyent.us> > > Interesting question. For me, as a non-computationalist, the as-if gallops > right through all of the as-ises as a kind of ontological principle. There > could be no "is" without the "as-if," since the latter opens possibility. I > tend to run this through the Kant (als-ob), Husserl, Derrida, Deleuze > machine(s). > Happy 4th! > Gray > > Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, PhD > Professor: Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences > Director: Center for University Studies and Programs > University of Washington, Bothell > Fulbright Scholar in General Education > University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong America Center > 2009-10 > -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 6 09:02:27 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB07A1FC7E; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:02:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B54791FC76; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:02:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090706090225.B54791FC76@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:02:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.132 from 'as if' to 'is' X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 132. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Michael S. Hart" (69) Subject: Re: [Humanist] Re: 23.131 from 'as if' to 'is' [2] From: James Rovira (25) Subject: Re: [Humanist] Re: 23.131 from 'as if' to 'is' --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 04:35:08 -0800 (AKDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] Re: 23.131 from 'as if' to 'is' In-Reply-To: <4A5060AA.4010801@mccarty.org.uk> On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Willard McCarty wrote: > No argument from me against Gray Kochhar-Lindgren's galloping as-if. But I ask > again: does computing speed the journey, make it harder for us to think that > one of the waystations is the end of the road? > > There's no question that we're incapable of construing some state of the > machine as final (e.g. as if putting up a static website were basically the > same as publishing a book on paper, however cheaper and less prestigious). But > the physical characteristics of the form we use affect us; they constitute a > difference that makes a difference. Is our grip on finality loosening as a > result? > > Let me ask a further question. If our grip is loosening, then how now are we > going wrong? > > Yours, > WM As the inventor of eBooks I must heartily challenge "finality," as a goal in electronic publications, and I wish paper printing has less of an attachment to it as well, as I tire of reading a series of errors again and again in later editions, that should have been corrected if the publishers would make the effort. "A grip on finality" presumes perfection. "How now we are going wrong?" is presuming that finaily lacking is a wrong that should be corrected. In my own professional opinion, since that first eBook in 1971, I refused to engage Project Gutenberg in this behavior, with an elementary series of editions from 0.1 to 0.9 before the eBooks were even considered as finished in a "first edition." Yes, some people complained that the early works, done by hand, needed too many revisions to get them up to proper levels of an acceptable accuracy, but this is obviously true of any invented process as it gets started, and no one seems to complain that a "finality" doesn't exist when new versions of other items come. [Well, not "no one," but they are generally accepted.] Why, in this age when it would be so easy and simple to correct errors, add notes and commentaries, etc., should be not? What is this fixation on "finality" as a goal, in the face of a most absolute knowledge that our previous work is imperfect? There is absolutely no reason electronic editions should pass a standard set by paper editions, give the ease with which a host of readers can simply send in a note with an error, suggestion, or what have you. We would/shold/could get closer to perfection. However, I say it is hubris to say we have achieved it. Thanks!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Inventor of ebooks Recommended Books: Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury: For The Right Brain Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand: For The Left Brain [or both] Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson: To Understand The Internet The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster: Lesson of Life. . . If you ever do not get a prompt response, please resend, then keep resending, I won't mind getting several copies per week. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 09:24:34 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] Re: 23.131 from 'as if' to 'is' In-Reply-To: <4A5060AA.4010801@mccarty.org.uk> If a grip on finality is a bad thing, how can you possibly ask this question? How is it possible to "go wrong" so long as you continually change. So much of this discussion reminds me of Kierkegaard's critique of German Romanticism in On the Concept of Irony and Either/Or 1 and 2. In the former work, Kierkegaard compares Socratic irony to German Romantic irony. Socratic irony makes space for a self differentiated from her environment but is still oriented toward some notion of the "good" as an absolute. German Romantic irony is ironic for irony's own sake, so there is no sense of "finality" or even the remote possibility of it, just a series of waystations on a road that ultimately leads nowhere. Postmodern thinking tends to indistinguishable from the thinking of German Romantics as Kierkegaard described them. It's this fundamental assumption about finality vs. progress that needs to be questioned first. Jim R On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Willard McCarty wrote: > > Let me ask a further question. If our grip is loosening, then how now are we > going wrong? > > Yours, > WM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 6 09:02:54 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77221FD53; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:02:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4D3231FD42; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:02:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090706090252.4D3231FD42@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:02:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.133 hindsight on future gazing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 133. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:59:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Francois Lachance Subject: hindsight on future gazing Willard, You and the readers of Humanist might be intrigued by this passage in D.F. McKenzie's _Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts. Timewise it is a bit outside the period of the cybernetic-influenced discourse you have been examing. However it provides a neat formulation for the evolution of the application of computing power to text processing. It should also be remembered that it was not the sophistication of computing in its early stages which biased its use towards science, but its limited memory and therefore its inability to handle the complexity and range of verbal language as distinct from combinations of the numbers 0 to 9. Only as its memory systems have grown has the computer changed its nature from blackboard to book. It has at long last become literate and qualified to join other textual systems. In time, I suppose, as it now learns to speak, it will constitute an oral archive as well. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 6 09:03:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4001FD9D; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:03:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 09F271FD95; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:03:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090706090322.09F271FD95@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:03:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.134 programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 134. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 09:18:08 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.130 programming In-Reply-To: <20090705071423.15E03654A@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks for the response, John. Redefining the terms of the discussion does not invalidate my point, however. I could simply rephrase my statement to say that we do not think in one type of code (computer code) but do think in another type of code (human language). This is a response you may have anticipated. I tend to think in terms of a distinction between mathematics and verbal languages, and see computer code as a hybrid that largely follows math conventions. We use mathematics to talk to other human beings about physical interrelationships between material objects, computer code to talk to a machine (a computer), and verbal language to talk about everything else. Computer code provides the interface between the other two languages and a machine but does not provide the content of the other two languages, and when it may do so, it is very reliant upon these other two languages. We can read coding tendencies and draw conclusions about the person writing code, just like we can read complex mathematical equations and do the same, or look at how a building is designed, or was physically built, or how a transmission is repaired, and do the same. That we can make inferences from patterns of behavior in all these instances does not mean that, say, the act of repairing a transmission is inherently meaningful psychologically, all the more so since most of the time when we watch someone fix a car, we don't make these inferences. I usually infer how annoying it is to repair cars, but I'm probably just projecting onto others my own feelings. Jim R > "But the parallel you attempt to draw between coding and language on > this point still doesn't work.  We don't think in code." > > First, all language is code; the images we produce (in mind or on canvas) > are code, too. The reality is, we can't think except in code. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 6 09:04:07 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 213EB1FE35; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:04:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EE9841FE27; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:04:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090706090405.EE9841FE27@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:04:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.135 events: markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 135. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:40:14 -0400 From: B Tommie Usdin Subject: [ANN] Complete Balisage 2009 Program posted The complete Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009 program, including late-breaking news, has just been posted. * Detailed program: http://www.balisage.net/2009/Program.html * Schedule at a Glance: http://www.balisage.net/2009/At-A-Glance.html Balisage 2009 is the place to come to think about XML, and about markup. The Balisage program varies from the practical to the theoretical, with a little heresy mixed in: * Practical - pipelines - creating XML schemas from UML - editing tools - version control for XML documents - checking and validating XML documents * Real-world Uses of XML - healthcare - large humanities datasets - archives * Overlap and complex documents - TEI feature structures - encoding non-hierarchical structures in RDF - tagging and manipulating structures that are not well managed as trees * Proposed changes - to XML Namespaces - extensions to XPath * Theoretical - nature of documents - analysis of marked-up texts - the process of marking up documents * Future - XML in the browser - visual designers - XML and open data Balisage is the place for data modelers, software engineers, librarians, ontologists and taxonomists, document managers, standards developers, system architects, archivists, markup theoreticians and practitioners, and kindred spirits to talk with each other. Indulge your inner markup geek at Balisage 2009 this August in Montreal. -- ====================================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009 mailto:info@balisage.net August 11-14, 2009 http://www.balisage.net Processing XML Efficiently: August 10, 2009 Montreal, Canada ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 6 15:58:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27311ECA9; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:58:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1AF0E1EC99; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:58:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090706155824.1AF0E1EC99@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:58:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.136 events: humanities and computer science X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 136. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:57:11 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: InterFace 2009 InterFace 2009: International symposium to bring humanities and technology closer 9 — 10 July 2009 University of Southampton A symposium which will provide a forum through which researchers can learn about the latest developments in both technology and the humanities will be hosted by the University of Southampton [Wednesday and Thursday this week]. InterFace, the first annual international symposium aimed at improving the cross-fertilisation between technology and the humanities, which will be hosted by the University's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) and the School of Humanities on 9-10 July 2009, has invited delegates involved in both disciplines to come together to share ideas. The submissions, a third of which are from an international audience, will be presented in Lighting Talks and poster sessions and fall broadly into a number of themes One theme is hypermedia technology for traditional media, which looks at the technology needed to read ancient manuscripts, with a novel idea being the possibility of digitizing all the surviving materials for the early Gospel of St John in Latin. Another theme looks at automated and assistive translation and considers issues such as machine translations for the Classics and the difficulties of switching alphabets. 'The fact that we have themes like this from a large international audience challenges the Anglo-centricity of the World Wide Web,' said Leif Isaksen at ECS. 'We really need to seriously consider how all of this is used on a global level.' The underlying theme of InterFace generally is how society and technology influence each other and will be the subject of keynotes by Professor Dame Wendy Hall from ECS and Professor Willard McCarty from the Centre for Computing in Humanities at King’s College London. This theme will also address the convergence of technologies such as phones, computers and cameras, social networking and privacy, how students use this technology and the fact that elderly people tend to be excluded from these sites due to their inability to embrace the technology. 'We are delighted with the response we have had,' said Leif. 'It really hits a broad range of interesting synergies and should stimulate some interesting discussions.' http://www.interface09.org.uk [Note that summaries of the two keynote addresses are available on AlphaGalileo, www.alphagalileo.org/, under Events for 9 July.] -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 7 05:25:05 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90DAE1B382; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 05:25:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ACC721B35F; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 05:25:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090707052503.ACC721B35F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 05:25:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.137 programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 137. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: David Golumbia (64) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.134 programming [2] From: John Carlson (38) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.134 programming [3] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (23) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.134 programming --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 06:20:38 -0400 From: David Golumbia Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.134 programming In-Reply-To: <20090706090322.09F271FD95@woodward.joyent.us> Jim wrote: I could simply rephrase my statement to say that we do not think in one type > of code (computer > code) but do think in another type of code (human language). This is > a response you may have anticipated. > > I tend to think in terms of a distinction between mathematics and > verbal languages, and see computer code as a hybrid that largely > follows math conventions. > To build on what Jim says, because this happens to be a particular interest of mine, and while I won't go into great detail here, the entire idea that the mind or language functions via a "code" that is anything like a logical or mathematical language is just false (which is not to say that *some parts* of mind and language have code-like operations; of course they do. We can talk and think about math. We can talk in and think about logical notation, etc.). Cognitive scientists and linguists have been trying for more than 50 years to find such codes and they have failed, period, and there is broad scientific and especially linguistic consensus that this is a failed idea. I talk about this at some length in the 2-4th chapters of my book,* The Cultural Logic of Computation* (Harvard UP, 2009), and just because the issue keeps coming up, I have some more pointed work in progress addressing the history and cultural contexts of the view. And where did the view come from? Until the 1950s, programming languages were called "codes" and almost nobody (other than some hard-core computationalists) thought they were like human languages. The concern was that everyone but mathematicians were afraid of programming. At a conference at MIT in the 1950s Grace Hopper and others suggested replacing mathematical concepts with English words in some new higher-level languages (you know their names) and calling them "programming languages" so that fewer people would be afraid to use them (see earlier conversation). That didn't make them languages, and nobody in those rooms was looking into the characteristics of human languages in depth to make the comparison (and there were no linguists there). So to say as someone earlier did, and as many people do, "they are called languages and so they are languages" is to give an awful lot of power to a small group of people who were not, in fact, thinking about the question at all. Yet one hears it repeated over and over again, which really shows the power and function of human language and ideology to structure social relations. There are so many reasons the human languages and programming languages are not alike. I will give only a single philosophical argument, which i find especially convincing, although ymmv. Human languages can only be "interpreted" in context, and even then univocal interpretation is the exception, while the rule is ambiguity. That is, almost every utterance appears to be functioning at both more than one level and also at no particularly concrete "level." Do the exchanges in "small talk" in fact mean what they appear to refer to? A strong argument can be constructed that they "mean" things about the social relations between the talkers, and very little about the ostensive speech topics. Programming langauges can only be interpreted via the single direct reference of their terms, which cannot by definition, in that role, be interpreted ambiguously. English sentence, out of context: "go to the store." you may think you know its 'meaning,' but there is no "fact of the matter" about it, and without inserting it into context, you have no idea about its "real" function or meaning. I could place the sentence into a hundred different contexts that would radically change its function and import. Basic sentence: "Goto 14." One "interpretation": go to line 14. human beings can make other things out of it (making it function as human language), but in its role as a line of program, it has a single, unambiguous, univocal "interpretation" that is more like a Fregean "reference" than a "meaning." If the program fails to go to line 14 on reading this statement, it is in trouble. This is absolutely true regardless of the context of the sentence. David --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:21:02 -0400 From: John Carlson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.134 programming In-Reply-To: <20090706090322.09F271FD95@woodward.joyent.us> "I could simply rephrase my statement to say that we do not think in one type of code (computer code) but do think in another type of code (human language). This is a response you may have anticipated." Indeed - the second part of my response depends on the tensions exposed or created when moving between different types of code. I do object to the assumption, though, that some things should only be expressed in one type of code/language (very different from more useful observations about whether some things are easier to express in a particular code/language). Every mode of expression, or code, is flawed/limited in some manner - indeed, the quality of "indeterminacy" that provides the richness of meaning to poetic expression could be thought of as a flaw (assuming the transfer of information to be the primary purpose of communication). However, like many apparent limitations in code, this flaw has been turned into a feature over time. The very characteristics you see as limiting programmatic code should also be thought of as flaws with the potential to become features. Finally, I would add that it seems a bit odd to claim that computer code is distinct from "human language" - we're still the ones doing the talking, after all, even if the grammar seems foreign to you. Perhaps, though, my perspective is different because my primary interaction with programmatic code has been through markup languages like TEI XML. Such coding systems carry greater semantic weight than "hard" (true?) programming languages and could perhaps be seen as occupying an intermediary space between strictly linguistic and strictly programmatic code. However, if you can have a programmatic language with strong linguistic tendencies (or vice versa) that would also seem to imply that the hard distinctions you try to draw between different types of code are imaginary. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:42:52 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.134 programming I think the discussion of the difference between computer code and human language has gone off the tracks. The fundamental difference between computer code and human language is that computer code is meant to cause a machine to do something. The closest analogy in human language terms would be the commands of military leaders to their troops. The reason programming is appealing is that you get a chance to absolutely control the actions of a machine. Unlike in the case of human language, where under normal circumstances you can at best hope to sway judgement or influence opinion, in programming the code directly changes the behavior of the computer. Even in the analogy with military orders, you can't be certain that the orders will be carried out exactly as you intended. To describe this type of activity as 'boring' probably has more to do with the goals the programmer has for the code than the actual creation of the code. If you're programming a boring task, then the code may well be a boring thing to write. However, if the task you're programming the computer to perform involves arriving at a new display of information that can reveal hidden properties of data, especially text data, and the techniques being imployed are not certain to work (you can only see so far ahead, much as in a game of chess), then I would find it hard to describe the task of writing such code boring. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 7 05:28:50 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 874E01B49E; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 05:28:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 45E961B48F; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 05:28:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090707052848.45E961B48F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 05:28:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.138 events: storytelling X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0505575801==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============0505575801== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 138. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:36:20 +0100 From: Ido Iurgel Subject: ICIDS 2009 - INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING. Extended Submission Deadline: July 13th] *** ICIDS -- Interactive Storytelling 2009 *** 2nd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 09-11 December 2009, Guimares, Portugal http://www.icids2009.ccg.pt Extended Submission Deadline: July 13th, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------ ICIDS is the premier international conference on interactive digital storytelling. It was successfully launched in 2008, superseding the two previous European conference series, TIDSE ("Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling") and ICVS ("Virtual Storytelling -- Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling"). While the venues of these events were traditionally bound to France and Germany, ICIDS is set to overcome also this geographical limitation. The fusion of the previous conferences was most successfully inaugurated in Erfurt, Germany, as ICIDS 2008. In a very inspiring and friendly atmosphere, over 100 international participants have enjoyed high-quality talks and worked together at creative and fruitful workshops, and there were plenty of delightful occasions that gathered the attendees for more informal exchange. ICIDS 2009 aims at setting forth the success of this new beginning. The venue will be the Centro Cultural Vila Flor, an excellent modern conference center that extends a historical palace, at walking distance from most hotels and from the city center of the historical city of Guimarães, the birthplace of Portugal. ***SCOPE*** Interactive entertainment, including novel forms of edutainment, therapy, and serious games, promises to become an ever more important market. Interactive Digital Storytelling provides access to social and human themes through stories, and promises to foster considerably the possibilities of interactive entertainment, computer games, and other interactive digital applications. ICIDS also identifies opportunities and addresses challenges for redefining the experience of narrative through interactive simulations of computer-generated story worlds. Interactive Storytelling thus promises a huge step forward for games, training, and learning, through the aims to enrich virtual characters with intelligent behavior, to allow collaboration of humans and machines in the creative process, and to combine narrative knowledge and user activity in interactive artifacts. In order to create novel applications, in which users play a significant role together with digital characters and other autonomous elements, new concepts for Human-Computer Interaction have to be developed. Knowledge for interface design and technology has to be garnered and integrated. Interactive Storytelling involves concepts from many aspects of Computer Science, above all from Artificial Intelligence, with topics such as narrative intelligence, automatic dialogue- and drama management, cognitive robotics and smart graphics. In order to process stories in real time, traditional storytelling needs to be formalized into computable models, by drawing from narratological studies, and by taking into account the characteristics of programming. Consequently, due to its technological complexity, it is currently hardly accessible for creators and end-users. There is a need for new authoring concepts and tools supporting the creation of dynamic story models, allowing for rich and meaningful interaction with the content. Finally, there is a need for theoretical foundations considering the integration of so far disjunctive approaches and cultures. *** SUBMISSIONS *** We welcome research papers, case studies and demonstrations presenting new scientific results, innovative technologies, best practice showcases, or improvements to existing techniques and approaches in the multidisciplinary research field of interactive digital storytelling and its related application areas, e.g. games, virtual/online worlds, e-learning, edutainment, and entertainment. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elijah Meeks (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming [2] From: James Rovira (12) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming [3] From: John Carlson (23) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming [4] From: "Mark LeBlanc" (28) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming [5] From: Wendell Piez (39) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 00:51:50 -0700 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming In-Reply-To: <20090707052503.ACC721B35F@woodward.joyent.us> David, I find it rather a poor example to refer to the GOTO command as a sign of the draconian specificity of code, given that the GOTO command has been pilloried by the software community for well over a quarter century exactly because of its draconian specificity (Along with making unstructured code unreadable). To take your example into the modern age, any mediocre programmer could develop a go(Store) function and object that had any number of different values depending on where it was called and what the current state of the software. Quality programmers could even throw in fancy pathfinding, neural nets and some multiuser capability to really muddle things up. This discussion has been littered with archaic bits of software-ese, with GOTO, COBOL, FORTRAN and computing hardware/software from seventy years ago. I'd like to repeat a claim I made earlier on a different Humanist thread and say that lessons learned from how hardware and software worked in the 1950s-1970s (And maybe even 80s) have very little bearing on understanding modern coding and software functionality. Issues of processing power, storage, the rise of OO programming--it all adds up to a difference in kind from the world of cassette storage and 64k of memory. For those interested in reading early criticisms of the GOTO command, which perhaps may have some bearing on our current discussion, you can take a look at Edsger Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful". It is very short (Less than 3 pages), focuses on just the subject we're discussing, and was written in 1968. Wikipedia has a decent treatment of GOTO, and I'll avoid the obvious pun in favor of another: humanist.discussion_group($GOTO_Article, read, respond, make intellectual hay, 0); I tried to combine as much different programming syntax as possible, so as to appeal to the broadest audience, Elijah Meeks --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:21:15 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming In-Reply-To: <20090707052503.ACC721B35F@woodward.joyent.us> I also find it odd that computer code would be spoken of as if it weren't a human language, and said so in a previous post. Thanks much for this reply, amsler. > To describe this type of activity as 'boring' probably has more to do with > the goals the programmer has for the code than the actual creation of the > code. If you're programming a boring task, then the code may well be a > boring thing to write. Again, speaking purely out of personal preference, I always find coding boring, even when I find the product of coding quite interesting. But I've never gone very far with it. It doesn't amaze or shock me that others can find coding interesting. Jim R --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:06:34 -0400 From: John Carlson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming In-Reply-To: > <20090707052503.ACC721B35F@woodward.joyent.us > "English sentence, out of context: "go to the store." you may think you know its 'meaning,' but there is no "fact of the matter" about it, and without inserting it into context, you have no idea about its "real" function or meaning. I could place the sentence into a hundred different contexts that would radically change its function and import." David, Perhaps I'm being dense, but doesn't this illustrate language functioning as code? You're basically saying that these words act as signs and/or symbols representing some underlying reality and their meaning needs to be decoded within specific contexts (i.e., the environmental variables of an expression). Programming commands also represent an underlying reality and need to be interpreted in context by some processing entity to make sense (indeed, you make this point in your story about Grace Hopper). The underlying reality and processing entity's nature might change, but the basic activity of translation from an abstract representational system to an understanding of what those abstractions represent does not - in other words, there's a formal likeness even if specific functionality and grammars differ radically. --John Ivor Carlson Digital Production Editor Yale University Press --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:09:37 -0400 From: "Mark LeBlanc" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming In-Reply-To: <20090707052503.ACC721B35F@woodward.joyent.us> >If you're programming a boring task, then the code may well be a >boring thing to write. However, if the task you're programming the computer >to perform involves arriving at a new display of information that can reveal >hidden properties of data, especially text data, and the techniques >being imployed are not certain to work (you can only see so far ahead, >much as in a game of chess), then I would find it hard to describe the task of > writing such code boring. > thanks for this nice comment, refreshing; i have been cutting code (and teaching undergraduates from all disciplines to do the same) for over 20 years and i must say my new collaboration mining the anglo-saxon corpus is some of the most interesting and exciting work i've done (http://lexomics.wheatoncollege.edu); no, the code is not earth-shattering and our analyses are not complex, but writing code to help untangle the web of relationships in an old corpus brings this programmer to the lab with a skip in my step; mark --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:34:23 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming In-Reply-To: <20090707052503.ACC721B35F@woodward.joyent.us> Hi, David Golumbia writes: >Programming langauges can only be interpreted via the single direct >reference of their terms, which cannot by definition, in that role, be >interpreted ambiguously. > >English sentence, out of context: "go to the store." you may think you know >its 'meaning,' but there is no "fact of the matter" about it, and without >inserting it into context, you have no idea about its "real" function or >meaning. I could place the sentence into a hundred different contexts that >would radically change its function and import. > >Basic sentence: "Goto 14." One "interpretation": go to line 14. human beings >can make other things out of it (making it function as human language), but >in its role as a line of program, it has a single, unambiguous, univocal >"interpretation" that is more like a Fregean "reference" than a "meaning." >If the program fails to go to line 14 on reading this statement, it is in >trouble. This is absolutely true regardless of the context of the sentence. Item for debate: an externally specified, descriptive markup language such as TEI XML is more like "human language" and less like "code" ("programming language"), in the sense David describes. It becomes more like code (more like Fortran, Basic or XSLT) and less like human language (English, Latin or Chinese), if it ever does, only provisionally, when it is embedded in a single particular processing system -- a particular operational context. And its refusal to commit to any single such system -- its capacity to be recontextualized, with its significances adjusted or altered accordingly -- is intrinsic to its value and usefulness. Cheers, Wendell =========================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML =========================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 8 05:32:23 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF9561D68E; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:32:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 28F851D678; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:32:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090708053222.28F851D678@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:32:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.140 are we going somewhere? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 140. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:50:43 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: going somewhere? I recommend to anyone who is feeling bad about the condition of his or her discipline, especially the one we share, reading an article by the psychologist and cyberneticist Heinrich Klüver, "Psychology at the beginning of World War II: Meditations on the impending dismemberment of psychology written in 1942", Journal of Psychology 28 (1949): 383-410 (in JSTOR). In particular his declaration "that psychology has travelled many roads which led nowhere and that it is unique among the sciences in its treasures of *negative* information" (400). Considering Clifford Geertz's passionate description of the struggle to articulate theory in anthropology as well, I wonder if we cannot lay at the door of the positivist conception of science the sense that as one moves from the physical sciences to the humanities negative replaces positive information as one's greatest treasure? Or is the situation more complex, recalculated discipline by discipline? So let me ask, in what disciplines of the humanities is positive knowledge the point of the exercise? Klüver quotes "the greatest of English physicists" (whom he does not name -- Rutherford, perhaps?) "who, when asked what he thought of the respective contributions of speculation and experiment to his science, replied: 'The dogs bark, and the caravan moves on'" (385). That's a very old saying, it turns out. But I wonder further whether we're on that caravan or not? Yours,WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 8 05:33:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4997A1D6F9; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:33:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C86AE1D6F2; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:33:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090708053324.C86AE1D6F2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:33:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.141 archaeology of the present; twittering the digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 141. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: renata lemos (17) Subject: excavating now [2] From: renata lemos (151) Subject: digital humanities@twitter --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:53:35 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: excavating now CONTEMPORARY ARCHEOLOGIES: EXCAVATING NOW http://ow.ly/gFwe Automobile assembly lines. Nevada Peace Camps. Freeze-dried remains from Antarctic expeditions. The archaeology of tigers. With increasing frequency, archaeologists are transferring their toolkit from the study of the ancient world to research the contemporary one. This volume provides many examples of that, and more. "Contemporary archaeologies marry archaeology in the modern world with the archaeology of the modern world" according to the editors, who asked each author to present not only their research on an aspect of today's existence but also to reveal something about the role and practice of archaeology in the contemporary world. The resulting volume, using both traditional articles and experimental texts, challenges the reader to think of archaeology in new and innovative ways. (text from Left Coast Press) http://ow.ly/gFwe -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:57:23 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: digital humanities@twitter ... about why I believe this seminar should be expanded into the twittersphere:Real-time results for *digital humanities* 1. [image: Flag_money_normal] http://twitter.com/USGrants USGrants http://twitter.com/USGrants DFG/NEH Bilateral *Digital* *Humanities* Program: Enriching *Digital* Collections: Modification 0 http://ad.vu/fzrhabout 8 hours ago http://twitter.com/USGrants/statuses/2509068505 from twitterfeed http://twitterfeed.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@USGrants%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2509068505&in_reply_to=USGrants 2. [image: Fluharty_normal] http://twitter.com/PhDinHistory PhDinHistory http://twitter.com/PhDinHistory Should I be surprised that I can't seem to find anyone in the *digital* *humanities* who has gotten involved with the Berkman Center?about 12 hours ago http://twitter.com/PhDinHistory/statuses/2506257745 from Twitterrific http://twitterrific.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@PhDinHistory%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2506257745&in_reply_to=PhDinHistory 3. [image: N1246184620_30062270_385_normal] http://twitter.com/RilkeGal RilkeGal http://twitter.com/RilkeGal Good Read- *Digital* Literacy Centre: *Humanities*Visualization - http://tinyurl.com/lmjqerabout 13 hours ago http://twitter.com/RilkeGal/statuses/2505594711 from web http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@RilkeGal%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2505594711&in_reply_to=RilkeGal 4. [image: Image01_normal] http://twitter.com/ehvickery ehvickery http://twitter.com/ehvickery DHQ: *Digital* *Humanities* Quarterly: Designing Choreographies for the New Economy of Attentionhttp://tinyurl.com/q85yaqabout 21 hours ago http://twitter.com/ehvickery/statuses/2498355191 from diigo http://www.diigo.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@ehvickery%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2498355191&in_reply_to=ehvickery 5. [image: Jeff-drouin-bio_normal] http://twitter.com/jdrouin jdrouin http://twitter.com/jdrouin Important news in textual scholarship / *digital* *humanities*: the newly digitized codex sinaiticus MS:http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/.about 22 hours ago http://twitter.com/jdrouin/statuses/2498072027 from TwitterFox http://twitterfox.net/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@jdrouin%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2498072027&in_reply_to=jdrouin 6. [image: Caroline_stev_mary08_004_normal] http://twitter.com/ckrantz01 ckrantz01 http://twitter.com/ckrantz01 arts-*humanities*.net: *Digital* *Humanities* and Arts | eScience for ...: Gamera is a Optical Music Recognition softw..http://tinyurl.com/kntmyvabout 22 hours ago http://twitter.com/ckrantz01/statuses/2497849430 from twitterfeed http://twitterfeed.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@ckrantz01%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2497849430&in_reply_to=ckrantz01 7. [image: Ys2n_normal] http://twitter.com/ys2n ys2n http://twitter.com/ys2n @ClumberKim http://twitter.com/ClumberKim Starting Mon. I am Technical Director of SHANTI, promoting *Digital* *Humanities* at UVa. Probably territory familiar to you.1 day ago http://twitter.com/ys2n/statuses/2489633141 from Twitterrific http://twitterrific.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@ys2n%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2489633141&in_reply_to=ys2n 8. [image: Roger-sam-019-738408_normal] http://twitter.com/RogerSPress RogerSPress http://twitter.com/RogerSPress @dediaf http://twitter.com/dediaf That "*digital* *humanities*" is scarcely known points to my/our culture's ignorance. But XML is the fiberoptics betw tech & *humanities*1 day ago http://twitter.com/RogerSPress/statuses/2485678368 from TweetDeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@RogerSPress%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2485678368&in_reply_to=RogerSPress 9. [image: Ghw] http://twitter.com/georgeonline georgeonline http://twitter.com/georgeonline AP reading in Kentucky, *Digital* *Humanities*shenanigans in Fairfax, vacation in Vegas... now I still have 6 weeks or so until semester begins2 days ago http://twitter.com/georgeonline/statuses/2473205121 from Tweetie http://www.atebits.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@georgeonline%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2473205121&in_reply_to=georgeonline 10. [image: Guilloche_p-960_normal] http://twitter.com/rrichard09 rrichard09 http://twitter.com/rrichard09 Wonder why Stanley Katz did not speak at the Nobel digitization conference, http://bit.ly/lzY5W ? He's the expert in*digital* *humanities*2 days ago http://twitter.com/rrichard09/statuses/2473049043 from web http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@rrichard09%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2473049043&in_reply_to=rrichard09 11. [image: Imagelogo_normal] http://twitter.com/rihumanities rihumanities http://twitter.com/rihumanities #followfriday http://twitter.com/search?q=%23followfriday NEH Office of *Digital* *Humanities*:@brettbobley http://twitter.com/brettbobley @jenserventi http://twitter.com/jenserventi @jasonrhody http://twitter.com/jasonrhody 3 days ago http://twitter.com/rihumanities/statuses/2462370361 from TweetDeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@rihumanities%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2462370361&in_reply_to=rihumanities 12. [image: Outsidesquaresmall_normal] http://twitter.com/katharine_b katharine_b http://twitter.com/katharine_b Waiting for T. to get home from the airport. He's been in Nebraska at a *digital* *humanities* meeting this week.3 days ago http://twitter.com/katharine_b/statuses/2459672917 from web http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@katharine_b%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2459672917&in_reply_to=katharine_b 13. [image: Gt_1892_12_31_cover_normal] http://twitter.com/jimmussell jimmussell http://twitter.com/jimmussell Off to symposium in Cambridge on sustaining *digital*resources in the *humanities*. http://bit.ly/7wMzg . Lots of brilliant UK and Ireland bods.3 days ago http://twitter.com/jimmussell/statuses/2454224884 from web http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@jimmussell%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2454224884&in_reply_to=jimmussell 14. [image: Intutedots_bigger_normal] http://twitter.com/intute intute http://twitter.com/intute Cfp All-Hands extended till 10 July. E-science, e-research -*humanities* computing and *digital* arts anyone?http://bit.ly/LPoHd3 days ago http://twitter.com/intute/statuses/2453878593 from web http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@intute%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2453878593&in_reply_to=intute 15. [image: Boomario_normal] http://twitter.com/guidetohistory guidetohistory http://twitter.com/guidetohistory Interesting Article- Are you distracted? *Digital**humanities* article on the commodity of the info age, paying attention. http://bit.ly/sPI7G4 days ago http://twitter.com/guidetohistory/statuses/2446187943 from web http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@guidetohistory%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2446187943&in_reply_to=guidetohistory 16. [image: Photo_booth_normal] http://twitter.com/mrplough07 mrplough07 http://twitter.com/mrplough07 Are you distracted? *Digital* *humanities* article on the commodity of the info age, paying attention. http://bit.ly/sPI7G4 days ago http://twitter.com/mrplough07/statuses/2445316054 from Power Twitter http://83degrees.com/to/powertwitter http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@mrplough07%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2445316054&in_reply_to=mrplough07 17. [image: Jsr-20090701g_normal] http://twitter.com/jimrhiz jimrhiz http://twitter.com/jimrhiz RT @dancohen http://twitter.com/dancohen "Published Yet Never Done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in *Digital* *Humanities* Research" http://is.gd/1ltwt4 days ago http://twitter.com/jimrhiz/statuses/2443686529 from TwitterFon http://twitterfon.net/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@jimrhiz%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2443686529&in_reply_to=jimrhiz 18. [image: Riki_thompson_normal] http://twitter.com/rikithompson rikithompson http://twitter.com/rikithompson "Published Yet Never Done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in *Digital* *Humanities* Research"http://is.gd/1ltwt . Thx 2 @dancohen http://twitter.com/dancohen 4 days ago http://twitter.com/rikithompson/statuses/2439350440 from web http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@rikithompson%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2439350440&in_reply_to=rikithompson 19. [image: Pavel1_normal] http://twitter.com/placesense placesense http://twitter.com/placesense RT @dancohen http://twitter.com/dancohen : "Published Yet Never Done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in *Digital**Humanities* Research" http://is.gd/1ltwt4 days ago http://twitter.com/placesense/statuses/2437012963 from TweetDeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@placesense%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2437012963&in_reply_to=placesense 20. [image: Dan_cohen_orange_background_4_normal] http://twitter.com/dancohen dancohen http://twitter.com/dancohen Worth reading: "Published Yet Never Done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in *Digital** Humanities* Research" http://is.gd/1ltwt4 days ago http://twitter.com/dancohen/statuses/2436870070 from TweetDeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@dancohen%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2436870070&in_reply_to=dancohen more http://twitter.com/search?max_id=2512347658&page=2&q=digital+humanities&rpp=20 -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 8 05:35:02 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E81081D7D0; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:35:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 339DF1D7C9; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:35:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090708053501.339DF1D7C9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:35:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.142 events: classical philology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 142. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:34:08 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Seminar: Teuchos - An Online Knowledge-based Platformfor Classical Philology Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar Friday July 10th at 16:30 STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU *Cristina Vertan (Hamburg)* *Teuchos: An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology* The talk will describe the general architecture of a digital research environment for manuscript and textual studies (particularly those pertaining to ancient Greek and Byzantine texts), and discuss some questions of data representation and encoding in the framework of such an online research platform (Teuchos. Zentrum für Handschriften- und Textforschung). ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html where a fuller abstract can be found, and audio and slides will be uploaded after the event. Digital Classicist podcast: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/seminar.xml -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 9 05:23:33 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BD9E2A3A4; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:23:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E900C2A399; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:23:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090709052331.E900C2A399@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:23:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.143 programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 143. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:24:51 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.139 programming In-Reply-To: <20090708053146.C13AD1D634@woodward.joyent.us> Yes, it may refuse to commit, but is it still fun on a date? I think the language we use to talk about code in itself creates idea about the code that are extrinsic to the code. And our choice of language is a -choice-: a choice we may not be aware we're making, but still a choice. Does code functionally exist until it's been embedded in a single, particular processing system? Jim R > It becomes more like code (more like Fortran, Basic or XSLT) and less > like human language (English, Latin or Chinese), if it ever does, > only provisionally, when it is embedded in a single particular > processing system -- a particular operational context. > > And its refusal to commit to any single such system -- its capacity > to be recontextualized, with its significances adjusted or altered > accordingly -- is intrinsic to its value and usefulness. > > Cheers, > Wendell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 9 05:24:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C45AE2A44A; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:24:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 465622A438; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:24:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090709052421.465622A438@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:24:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.144 somewhere we are going X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 144. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 07:34:52 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.140 are we going somewhere? In-Reply-To: <20090708053222.28F851D678@woodward.joyent.us> But what if the digital revolution unveils that the traditional humanities has been littered with "negative information"? This quotation came to mind as I considered whether the traditional humanities and its digital practitioners are on the same "caravan": If you explore the potential of digital history and the problem of > abundance, you realize that it presents a very real challenge to analog > history and the close reading that has been at the heart of graduate work > and the monograph. Digital history and the abundance it tries to address > make many historical arguments seem anecdotal rather than comprehensive. > Hypotheses based on a limited number of examples, as many dissertations and > books still are, seem flimsier when you can scan millions of books at Google > to find counterexamples. I believe it will be possible to marry digital > techniques with close reading and traditional methods, but very soon it will > be perilous to ignore these new techniques ("Interchange: The Promise of > Digital History." Special issue, Journal of American History 95, no. 2 > (September 2008). Available at > http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/issues/952/interchange/index.html > .) Sterling Fluharty University of New Mexico _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 9 05:25:23 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06EC52A4C8; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:25:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ABE002A4C0; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:25:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090709052521.ABE002A4C0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:25:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.145 job in Dublin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 145. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:00:16 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: Fwd: Dublin-based programmer position available University of Dublin, Trinity College The Technical Infrastructure Programmer / Implementation Manager will be a key member of the libraries digitisation team, and will provide support and leadership with the planning, development and implementation of the Trinity College Digital Library Collections technical infrastructure. This position will provide programming and technical expertise to the development of an open source Fedora-based digital repository designed to provide new electronic access to the rare and unique Trinity College Library Special Collections and Library Research Resources while ensuring the long term preservation of these unique and valuable digital resources and assets. More information: http://www.tcd.ie/vacancies/CD_nonaca_DRIS_ProgAnlyst_June09.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 9 05:27:55 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2312D2A533; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:27:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D7C162A52B; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:27:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090709052753.D7C162A52B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:27:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.146 events: embodied interaction; language X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 146. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Takashi Matsumoto (60) Subject: cfp: TEI'10 - TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED, AND EMBODIEDINTERACTION [2] From: "Carlos.Areces@loria.fr" (100) Subject: ESSLLI 2010: Call for Course and Workshop Proposals --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:21:05 +0100 From: Takashi Matsumoto Subject: cfp: TEI'10 - TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED, AND EMBODIEDINTERACTION TEI'10 - THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED, AND EMBODIED INTERACTION January 25-27, 2010 MIT Media Lab - Cambridge, MA, USA http://tei-conf.org/ Submission Deadlines and Categories ----------------------------------- >> Note: different from last year << August 3, 2009: Papers August 3, 2009: Studios October 2, 2009: Explorations October 2, 2009: Student Consortium July 10, 2009: Submission opens January 25-27, 2010: TEI Conference at the MIT Media Lab Keynote speaker announced: Professor John Frazer ------------------------------------------------ We are pleased to announce that Professor John Frazer of Queensland University of Technology will be giving the opening keynote. Professor Frazer pioneered the use of computers in architecture, created of one of the first tangible construction kits for creating virtual models, and has been an inspiration for much work in our field. We are very excited to have him at TEI! Call for Contributions ---------------------- Computing is progressively moving beyond the desktop into new physical and social contexts. Key areas of innovation in this respect are tangible, embedded, and embodied interactions. These concerns include the interlinking of digital and physical worlds and the computational augmentation of everyday objects and environments. TEI 2010 will uphold the successful single-track tradition of previous TEI conferences. The new Studios, Explorations, and Graduate Student Consortium forums are aimed to further establish the TEI conference as a unique place for exchanging ideas and advancing the field of Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. Submission Topics ----------------- Appropriate topics for submission (in each of the four categories) include but are not limited to: - Novel tangible interfaces, embodied interfaces, or embedded interactive systems including: physical computing application, whole- body interfaces, gesture-based interfaces, and interactive surfaces - Provocative design work and interactive art - Embodied interaction, movement, and choreography of interaction - Programming paradigms and tools, toolkits, and software architectures - Novel enabling technologies (e.g. programmable matter and transitive materials) - Interactive and creative uses of sensors, actuators, electronics, and mechatronics - Design guidelines, methods, and processes - Applied design in the form of concept sketches, prototypes and products - Role of physicality for human perception, cognition and experience - The role of aesthetics in tangibles (e.g. decorative electronic wearables) - Novel applications areas and innovative solutions - Theoretical foundations, frameworks, and concepts - Philosophical, ethical, and social implications - Case studies and evaluations of working deployments - Usability and enjoyment - Teaching experiences, lessons learned, and best practices - Sustainability aspects of the design and use of tangible systems [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:13:20 +0100 From: "Carlos.Areces@loria.fr" Subject: ESSLLI 2010: Call for Course and Workshop Proposals 22nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2010, 9-20 August, 2010, University of Copenhagen, Denmark %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. For more information, visit the FoLLI website, as well as ESSLLI?2009 website: http://esslli2009.labri.fr/. The ESSLLI 2010 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 22nd annual Summer School on important topics of active research in the broad interdisciplinary area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science, and the cognitive sciences, structured within the 3 traditional ESSLLI streams: -Language and Computation -Language and Logic -Logic and Computation We also welcome proposals that do not exactly fit one of these categories. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: All proposals should be submitted, using a prescribed form that will be available soon on the ESSLLI 2010 website www.hum.ku.dk/esslli2010, through EasyChair on http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2010, not later than ******* Monday, September 7, 2009 ******* Proposers must hold PhD or equivalent degrees and should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that do not conform with these guidelines may not be considered. GUIDELINES FOR COURSE AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: ALL COURSES: Courses are given over one week (Monday-Friday) and consist of five 90 minutes sessions, one per day. Course proposals should give a brief overview of the topic and a tentative content and structure of the course, as well as state the course?s objectives and clearly specify prerequisites, if any. Lecturers who want to offer a long, two-week course, should submit two independent one-week courses (for example an introductory course in the first week of ESSLLI, and a more advanced course during the second). The ESSLLI program committee has the right to select only one of the two proposed courses. TIMETABLE FOR COURSE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Sep 7, 2009: Proposal Submission Deadline Oct 19, 2009: Notification Deadline Jun 30, 2010: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material by the ESSLLI?2010 local organizers FOUNDATIONAL COURSES: These are strictly elementary courses not assuming any background knowledge. They are intended for people who wish to get acquainted with the problems and techniques of areas new to them. Ideally, they should allow researchers from other fields to acquire the key competencies of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Foundational courses should require no special prerequisites, but may presuppose some experience with scientific methods and general appreciation of the field of the course. INTRODUCTORY COURSES: Introductory courses are central to the activities of the Summer School. They are intended to provide an introduction to the (interdisciplinary) field for students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to equip them with a good understanding of the course field's basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable experienced researchers from other fields to acquire the key competencies of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Introductory courses in, for instance, Language and Computation, can build on some knowledge of the component fields; e.g., an introductory course in computational linguistics should address an audience which is familiar with the basics of linguistics and computation. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the level of the course as compared to standard texts in the area (if any). ADVANCED COURSES: Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of advanced Masters or PhD students. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. WORKSHOPS: Workshops run over one week and consist of five 90-minutes sessions, one per day. The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work. Workshops should have a well defined theme, and workshop organizers should be specialists in the theme of the workshop. The proposals for workshops should justify the choice of topic, give an estimate of the number of attendants and expected submissions, and provide a list of at least 15 potential submitters working in the field of the workshop. The organizers are required to give a general introduction to the theme during the first session of the workshop. They are also responsible for the organization and program of the workshop including inviting the submission of papers, reviewing, expenses of invited speakers, etc. In particular, each workshop organizer will be responsible for sending out a Call for Papers for the workshop and to organize the selection of the submissions by the deadlines specified below. The call for workshop submissions must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the ESSLLI community and should indicate that all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 10 07:00:45 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE25031BC5; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:00:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 63BBC31B95; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:00:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090710070043.63BBC31B95@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:00:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.147 more of William Blake online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 147. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:01:54 -0400 (EDT) From: William S Shaw Subject: Update to the William Blake Archive 9 July 2009 The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of electronic editions of _The Song of Los_ copies C and E, from the Morgan Library and Museum and the Huntington Library and Art Gallery respectively. They join copies A and D from the British Museum and copy B from the Library of Congress, giving the Archive five of the six extant copies of this illuminated book. The eight plates of _The Song of Los_ were produced in 1795; all extant copies (A-F) were color printed in that year in a single pressrun. Divided into sections entitled "Africa" and "Asia," _The Song of Los_ is the last of Blake's "Continental Prophecies" (see also _America_ [1793] and _Europe_ [1794], exemplary printings of which are in the Archive). Blake abandons direct references to contemporary events to pursue the junctures among biblical narrative, the origins of law and religion, and his own developing mythology. Adam, Noah, Socrates, Brama, Los, Urizen, and several others represent both historical periods and states of consciousness. The loose narrative structure reaches towards a vision of universal history ending with apocalyptic resurrection. Plates 1, 2, 5, and 8 (frontispiece, title page, and full-page designs) are color printed drawings, executed on millboards and printed in the planographic manner of--and probably concurrent with--the twelve Large Color Printed Drawings of 1795, which are also in the Archive. Plates 3 and 4, which make up "Africa," and plates 6 and 7, which make up "Asia," were executed first, side by side on two oblong pieces of copper (plates 3/4, 6/7). Initially designed with double columns in landscape format, the texts of the poems were transformed into vertical pages by printing the oblong plates with one side masked. In copies C and E, plates 5 and 8 are differently arranged: 8 follows plate 1 and 5 is placed at the end in copy C; 8 follows plate 3 and 5 follows plate 6 in copy E. Like all the illuminated books in the Archive, the text and images of _The Song of Los_ copies C and E are fully searchable and are supported by our Inote and ImageSizer applications. With the Archive's Compare feature, users can easily juxtapose multiple impressions of any plate across the different copies of this or any of the other illuminated books. New protocols for transcription, which produce improved accuracy and fuller documentation in editors' notes, have been applied to all copies of _The Song of Los_ in the Archive. With the publication of these copies of _The Song of Los_, the Archive now contains fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of seventy copies of Blake's nineteen illuminated books in the context of full bibliographic information about each work, careful diplomatic transcriptions of all texts, detailed descriptions of all images, and extensive bibliographies. In addition to illuminated books, the Archive contains many important manuscripts and series of engravings, sketches, and water color drawings, including Blake's illustrations to Thomas Gray's _Poems_, water color and engraved illustrations to Dante's _Divine Comedy_, the large color printed drawings of 1795 and c. 1805, the Linnell and Butts sets of the _Book of Job_ water colors and the sketchbook containing drawings for the engraved illustrations to the _Book of Job_, the water color illustrations to Robert Blair's _The Grave_, and all nine of Blake's water color series illustrating the poetry of John Milton. As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no access restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the continuing support of the Library of Congress, and the cooperation of the international array of libraries and museums that have generously given us permission to reproduce works from their collections in the Archive. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors Ashley Reed, project manager, William Shaw, technical editor The William Blake Archive _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 10 07:52:30 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2DC131D14; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:52:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 215E131D0B; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:52:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090710075229.215E131D0B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:52:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.148 why dig? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 148. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:51:24 +0100 (BST) From: "Willard McCarty" Subject: digging into whatever The current international funding competition, Digging into Data (www.diggingintodata.org) stirs up in me a question that has been simmering for some time: what's the archaeological metaphor doing for us? Why is it to be found in so many different contexts? One thinks, of course, of Foucault, but The Order of Things has been around for quite some time. The text to be found on the Digging into Data site deepens (one might say) this question by describing a situation in which *breadth*, not depth, is at issue, and the strong tendency exerted by so much from so many disciplines is to drive research outward, not downward. I can understand in Siegfried Zielinski's Deep Time of the Media, for example, the usefulness of taking about digging down to an historical stratum, then going outward to reconstruct what was going on then. But so often the archaeological metaphor seems confused and confusing. Any ideas? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 11 07:10:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D5531DD9; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:10:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E4BD331D96; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:10:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090711071002.E4BD331D96@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:10:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.149 somewhere X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 149. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:48:44 -0500 From: Devin Griffiths Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.144 somewhere we are going Re: Sterling's comment. It makes more sense to talk about "positive" versus "negative" information in the context of psychology; early psychologists, particularly Freud, saw it as an empirical discipline like any other science. My concern is that, when applied to the humanities, this contrast forces us to frame study in an additive and progressive manner that does not reflect what humanitists do or how they think. Which is not to say that digital humanities won't cause a broad re-orientation of humanistic study, one which will likely embrace a more empirical and additive understanding of what it is we do, as Sterling suggests. But that will take an enormous amount of work -- a sea change in how humanists see themselves -- and I'm betting that this process will end up alienating the non-additive, non-empiricist mindset of earlier humanistic study. We'll go somewhere, but it will be harder to understand where we've been (as perhaps this discussion illustrates). Devin Griffiths Rutgers University -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:24 AM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 11 07:12:51 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 077AC31FDC; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:12:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A60AB31FCC; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:12:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090711071248.A60AB31FCC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:12:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.150 why dig X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 150. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: D.Zeitlyn (5) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.148 why dig? [2] From: Sterling Fluharty (33) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.148 why dig? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:59:34 +0100 From: D.Zeitlyn Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.148 why dig? In-Reply-To: <20090710075229.215E131D0B@woodward.joyent.us> Willard good question as ever. I would add to the mix the reminder that as well as being a philosopher of history R.G. Collingwood worked as a practical (field) archaeologist in the UK Lake District. What I find appealing about the metaphor is the way in which conclusions are reached on the basis of (sometimes) fragile/incomplete evidence but in ways which allow/encourage the connections between evidence and conclusions to be traced and discussed. best wishes davidz --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:59:55 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.148 why dig? I suspect this metaphor has something in common with the oral- and laboring traditions of academically-trained historians. If you spend enough time with them, you will hear them talking about mining footnotes and bibliographies and finding nuggets in the archives. This kinds of expressions rarely make it into print, but they reflect the sense that historians, through quite a bit of laborious sifting, are discovering sources that are relevant for their research. The significance may be that historians, like those who have mined for precious metals, can point with pride to the fruit of their extractive labors. I think this helps explain why historians do not feel a natural affinity for concepts like text mining. Once historians realize that text mining takes away the chance they have to work with their hands to find the proverbial needle in the haystack, since the computer does the sifting digitally, most historians lose interest in these algorithmic possibilities and return to their comfortable pattern of using the machine to direct and carry out their own searching and sorting of sources. So perhaps the NEH has shrewdly retained the digging metaphor in an attempt to make text mining more palatable to traditional historians who are accustomed to controlling and reaping the rewards of their own labor. Best wishes, Sterling Fluharty University of New Mexico _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 11 07:13:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1E2432036; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:13:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BD30232026; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:13:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090711071320.BD30232026@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:13:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.151 Graceful Degradation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 151. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:44:20 -0400 From: Bethany Nowviskie Subject: "Graceful Degradation" survey In-Reply-To: <20090710075229.215E131D0B@woodward.joyent.us> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Graceful Degradation: Managing Digital Humanities Projects in Times of Transition and Decline First announced at the Digital Humanities 2009 conference, the "Graceful Degradation" survey is now open at: http://graceful-degradation.questionpro.com/ This is a survey of the digital humanities community -- broadly conceived -- on project management in times of transition and decline, and what we see as the causes and outcomes of those times. We invite participation by anyone who has worked on a digital project in or related to the humanities. Decline is a pressing issue for digital scholarship because of the tendency of our projects to be open ended. One could argue that digital projects are, by nature, in a continual state of transition or decline. What happens when the funding runs out, or the original project staff move on or are replaced? What happens when intellectual property rests with a collaborator or an institution that does not wish to continue the work? How, individually and as a community, do we weather changes in technology, the patterns of academic research, the vagaries of our sponsoring institutions? "Graceful Degradation" is being conducted by Bethany Nowviskie of the University of Virginia Scholars' Lab in the United States and Dot Porter of the Digital Humanities Observatory in Ireland. The survey will run through September 2009, when initial results will be presented during a poster session at Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts in Belfast. Full summary results will be presented and published in summer 2010. All responses are held confidential, unless specific permission to identify people and projects has been granted. Participants will have the option to grant this permission at the end of the survey. We encourage your participation and look forward to sharing the results of the survey! Please contact degrade.gracefully@gmail.com if you have any questions. Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ ● http://uvasci.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 11 08:21:05 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F3243275A; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:21:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7DECA3274B; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:21:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090711082103.7DECA3274B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:21:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.153 experimental resonant thinking? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 153. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:19:17 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: experimental philosophy; thought as modelling In a luminous little book, somewhat deceptively entitled The Nature of Explanation (1943), Kenneth Craik says two things that I think are helpful to us. (O. L. Zangwill's brief biography of Craik is worth looking at, www.answers.com/topic/kenneth-john-william-craik.) The first is on the need for an "experimental philosophy", that is, a philosophy which works through and with experimental procedures, rather than (as he sees it) from a priori non-tautological statements. In 1943, he saw this style of philosophy emerging; whether philosophers now would recognize his description of it as conforming to what they do I'll leave to anyone here who can speak to the point. It would seem to me that much of what Hacking does is in this style, but again I'll call on a proper philospher to say. Anyhow, Craik argues the need for this philosophy based on experimental problems alive at the time, still alive now, that simply cannot be tackled within single disciplines. The kind that concern him lie between psychology and physiology, but the kind we deal with in the digital humanities certainly qualify as well, though we must struggle to get recognition for them in this light. The other thing that Craik talks about, for which he is still known, is his core argument about the nature of thought. In chapter 5 of his book, "Hypothesis on the nature of thought", he does a very fine job of saying what modelling is and then goes on to argue that "thought models, or parallels, reality -- that its essential feature is not 'the mind', 'the self', 'sense-data', nor propositions but symbolism, and that this symbolism is largely of the same kind as that which is familiar to us in mechanical devices which aid thought and calculation" (p. 57). Anyone who knows about the work of Warren McCulloch and about cybernetics will understand immediately how what he was saying (before being tragically killed in a bicycle accident in 1945 at the age of 31) chimes with McCulloch's ideas and anticipates in some sense the ideas Wiener developed. Anyhow, I think it is worth contemplating how the notion that thought models reality might shape our thinking on how computing relates to our artefacts of study. If, for example, a literary text is taken as input to such an internal modelling device, then we might ask what sort of external counterpart (a.k.a. software) would allow us to further the right kind of resonant understanding of that text? Comments? Yours, W -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 13 05:16:32 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9661A3273A; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:16:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2BC0B32729; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:16:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090713051631.2BC0B32729@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:16:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.154 experimental resonant thinking X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 154. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:09:15 -0500 From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.153 experimental resonant thinking? In-Reply-To: <20090711082103.7DECA3274B@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Willard, colleagues - as always, enjoying reading your musings and very much appreciate the many insights you pass along. one quick comment re. > > The first is on the need for an "experimental philosophy", that is, a > philosophy which works through and with experimental procedures, rather > than (as he sees it) from a priori non-tautological statements. In 1943, > he saw this style of philosophy emerging; whether philosophers now would > recognize his description of it as conforming to what they do I'll leave > to anyone here who can speak to the point. It would seem to me that much > of what Hacking does is in this style, but again I'll call on a proper > philospher to say. Anyhow, Craik argues the need for this philosophy > based on experimental problems alive at the time, still alive now, that > simply cannot be tackled within single disciplines. The kind that > concern him lie between psychology and physiology, but the kind we deal > with in the digital humanities certainly qualify as well, though we must > struggle to get recognition for them in this light. > As I suspect at least some HUMANIST readers are aware, this is more or less the notion of philosophy endorsed by at least many of the philosophers involved in what were originally the Computing and Philosophy (CAP) conferences in the United States, starting in 1986 - a movement of sorts that defines itself in terms of "the computational turn." I've described this briefly as "referring to ways in which computing technologies have given philosophers new kinds of laboratories for testing and refining classical debates and hypotheses" (Ess, "'Revolution? What Revolution?' Successes and Limits of Computing Technologies in Philosophy and Religion," in Susan Schreibman, Raymond George Siemens, John M. Unsworth (eds.), A Companion to Digital Humanities (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004), p. 133). For a somewhat more extensive overview, see Jon Dorbolo's "Distributing the Computational Turn," APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, Fall, 2000: http://www.apaonline.org/publications/newsletters/v00n1_Computers_13.aspx . Nicely enough, CAP has grown into IACAP - the International Association of Computing and Philosophy, which sponsors a lively and productive series of conferences in North America, Europe and Asia, with plans for additional conferences still elsewhere in the world, as the global growth and diffusion of ICTs thereby brings more and more philosophical traditions from around the world within these computational spheres of influence. A listing of conference topics might be useful: Artificial Intelligence / Cognitive Science Artificial Life / Computer Modeling in Biology Information and Computer Ethics Computer-Mediated Communication Culture and Society Distance Education and Electronic Pedagogy Electronic Publishing Logic Metaphysics (Distributed Processing, Emergent Properties, Formal Ontology, Network Structures, etc.) Online Resources for Philosophy Philosophy of Information Philosophy of Information Technology Robotics Virtual Reality (see http://www.ia-cap.org and related pages) "One of these days" - I think it would be instructive and fruitful for us to attempt to map out the epistemological and disciplinary territories and domains that make up "digital humanities," on the one hand, and the various philosophical topoi and approaches characteristic of IACAP, on the other. As I read Willard and occasionally other philosophically-minded contributors on this list, it is clear that there are important points in common, parallel and occasionally resonant interests, as well as important (but perhaps complimentary) differences. That is, while I'm sure there's some overlap between the membership of HUMANIST and the other mailing lists IACAP philosophers are likely to participate in - I've largely had the impression that the two domains are largely separate, the equivalent of two philosophical ships passing in the night, disconnected except for the occasional ship-to-ship transmission. Stated positively, so it seems to me that there is considerable room for more explicit dialogue and discussion between our otherwise largely separate provinces. Maybe a joint conference one of these days? In all events, continued gratitude to Willard and his cohorts who consistently throw out such interesting and suggestive philosophical lifelines. Cheers, Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Professor MSO (med særlige opgaver), 2009-2012 Department of Information and Media Studies Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark President, Association of Internet Researchers Co-editor, International Journal of Internet Research Ethics http://ijire.net/ Co-chair, CATaC conferences Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 13 05:17:29 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEB9C327C2; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:17:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 19DB2327B2; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:17:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090713051728.19DB2327B2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:17:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.155 why dig X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 155. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:26:29 -0400 From: "Holly C. Shulman" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.150 why dig In-Reply-To: <20090711071248.A60AB31FCC@woodward.joyent.us> I would like to add here a comment about documentary editors in the field of history and mining. I think on some level that is what the research connected to documentary editing is all about: digging into a document with a kind of depth and connectedness that is not always undertaken for history of the 19th and 20th century -- the information-rich areas of history. I would love to hear ideas from anyone out there for how they might wish to reap the benefits of these editions in ways that would bring data together through innovative techniques. Holly Shulman, Founding Director, Documents Compass and Editor, the Dolley Madison Digital Edition, University of Virginia _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 14 05:43:30 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B131F6AF; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:43:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 11C5B1F6A7; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:43:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090714054329.11C5B1F6A7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:43:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.156 new publication: ISR 34.2-3 on collaboration X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 156. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:40:55 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 34.2-3 I take great pleasure in announcing the publication of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 34.2-3, "Continuous Access to Cultural Heritage: Multidisciplinary collaborative research between computer science and heritage studies", guest-edited by Professor Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg, The Netherlands, http://ilk.uvt.nl/~antalb/). This issue documents the progress of Continuous Access to Cultural Heritage (CATCH, http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_5XSKYG_Eng), a Dutch project funded by the the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). CATCH is characterized by an intense and superbly organized collaboration between computer science and several disciplines of the humanities concerned with cultural heritage. In each article the researchers concerned describe their CATCH project and reflect on the nature and accomplishments of that collaboration. 1. Digital Discoveries in Museums, Libraries, and Archives: Computer Science Meets Cultural Heritage (Guest editorial) Antal van den Bosch, Jaap van den Herik, and Paul Doorenbosch pp. 129-138(10) 2. Cultivating Personalized Museum Tours Online and On-Site Wang, Yiwen; Stash, Natalia; Sambeek, Rody; Schuurmans, Yuri; Aroyo, Lora; Schreiber, Guus; Gorgels, Peter pp. 139-153(15) 3. Modelling Folksong Melodies Wiering, Frans; Veltkamp, Remco C.; Garbers, Jorg; Volk, Anja; van Kranenburg, Peter; Grijp, Louis P. pp. 154-171(18) 4. Automatic Annotation Suggestions for Audiovisual Archives: Evaluation Aspects Gazendam, Luit; Wartena, Christian; Malaise, Veronique; Schreiber, Guus; de Jong, Annemieke; Brugman, Hennie pp. 172-188(17) 5. Digital Support for Archaeology Boon, Paul; van Der Maaten, Laurens; Paijmans, Hans; Postma, Eric; Lange, Guus pp. 189-205(17) 6. Weaving a New Fabric of Natural History van den Bosch, Antal; Lendvai, Piroska; van Erp, Marieke; Hunt, Steve; van der Meij, Marian; Dekker, Rene pp. 206-223(18) 7. Where are the Search Engines for Handwritten Documents? van der Zant, Tijn; Schomaker, Lambert; Zinger, Svitlana; van Schie, Henny pp. 224-235(12) 8. Easy Listening: Spoken Document Retrieval in CHoral Heeren, Willemijn; van der Werff, Laurens; de Jong, Franciska; Ordelman, Roeland; Verschoor, Thijs; van Hessen, Arjan; Langelaar, Mies pp. 236-252(17) 9. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Unlocking Television Broadcast Archives Hollink, Laura; Schreiber, Guus; Huurnink, Bouke; van Liempt, Michiel; de Rijke, Maarten; Smeulders, Arnold; Oomen, Johan; de Jong, Annemieke pp. 253-267(15) 10. Information Retrieval in Cultural Heritage Koolen, Marijn; Kamps, Jaap; de Keijzer, Vincent pp. 268-284(17) 11. Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future Strathern, Marilyn pp. 285-286(2) -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 14 09:22:00 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED5632732; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:21:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 15C153272A; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:21:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:21:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 157. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:20:44 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: why so dull? Recently at a synmposium for the digital humanities a colleague remarked to me that she found a distressing number of conference papers at our gatherings to be dull -- competent yet lacking any sign of intellectual excitement or any provocation that would stir it up. I agreed, having witnessed the same dull reports-on-things-done, with ontologies, XML or whatever (or what another colleague, long gone off to make money by applying such things, used to call "me, my dog and my project" papers). We wondered why, and how the situation might be changed. This morning, as it happens, I was reading one of Jacob Bronowski's last lectures, "The Imaginative Mind in Science", in The Visionary Eye: Essays in the Arts, Literature, and Science (MIT Press, 1978). (Bronowski was a poet, literary critic, biologist, mathematician and gifted popularizer, whose work all by itself could form the basis for a good education; see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bronowski.) In this lecture Bronowski is considering the common experience of people who "do not find it as pleasurable to read a theorem as to read a poem", though they are capable of both. In other words, those who find science dull. > They have been taught science at school, they have tried from time to > time to keep up with it, but now they find that the processes of > scientific reasoning do not engage their deep interest. They may > still like to read about a new discovery, but they no longer follow > how it was made. > > "They no longer follow how it was made": that clause reveals to us > how it happens that people who want to be interested in science find > it dull. They gape at the discovery from the outside, and they may > find it strange or marvelous, but their finding is passive; they do > not enter and follow and relive the steps by which the new idea was > created. But no creative work in art or in science, truly exists for > us unless we ourselves help to recreate it.... > > It is not possible to appreciate the deep conceptions that science > has created, and the beautiful discoveries which express them, unless > we do something to recreate them for ourselves. This is a hard > saying, but it is true. If a theorem in science seems dull to you, > that is because you are not reading it with the same active sense of > participation which you bring to the reading of a poem. No poem comes > to you ready-made -- you have to help to remake it for yourself; and > no theorem comes to you ready-made either -- you have to help to > remake it for yourself. (23f) Where, my colleague asked a few days ago, is the questioning in these reports-on-things-done, the evidence that in asking questions of well-polished solutions an attempt to recreate something fundamental has turned up something new, anomalous, disturbing? I recall an anecdote told by the anthropologist Margaret Mead, who in May 1946 attended the first meeting of what later became the Macy Conferences on cybernetics. What made this meeting significant for the later development of cybernetics, and so human-computer interaction and much else, was a paper by the Mexican physiologist Arturo Rosenblueth, who presented a model that drew strong parallels between what organisms do and what certain analogous machines do. Steve Heims, in Constructing a Social Science for Postwar America: The Cybernetics Group, 1946-1953, quotes Mead on her reaction to this paper: "Mead later recalled the excitement it produced among the social scientists, with the comment, 'I had not noticed that I had broken one of my teeth until the Conference was over'" (15). Perhaps we humanists are a less excitable lot. Perhaps we never break our teeth. But it is worth considering how (and, of course, in Mead's case, historically why) excitement at such a level could be found in the work we do. It does seem to me that potential for it is *everywhere*. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 15 08:13:05 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D79B32E2E; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:13:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9DAD932E1D; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:13:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090715081303.9DAD932E1D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:13:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.158 beware empty subject-lines X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 158. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:12:25 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: empty subject lines Dear colleagues, Please be aware that at the moment any message to Humanist that comes with an empty subject-line cannot be processed through the software. I will ask that this (shall we say) feature is altered somehow, but for the moment, inspect your subject-lines before sending messages to Humanist. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 15 08:16:09 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E88EE321B4; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:16:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4B825321A2; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:16:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090715081607.4B825321A2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:16:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.159 dull and sharp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 159. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Claire Warwick (21) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? [2] From: Hartmut Krech (17) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? [3] From: James Rovira (20) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? [4] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (27) Subject: In defense of dullness [5] From: "David L. Hoover" (19) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? [6] From: "Gerry Coulter" (3) Subject: Conference Papers why so dull? [7] From: Sterling Fluharty (34) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:54:23 +0100 From: Claire Warwick Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? In-Reply-To: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> I think we all know the problem. What Susan Hockey used to call 'Me and my database' papers, or what I recently heard called the 'I done good!' talk. I think it's partly because they are just an easy option. It's simpler to talk about what your digital application does than to think about how it makes a contribution to intellectual debates in the area. However, speaking as the chair of this year's PC for DH 2009, I think it's a matter of making expectations clear. When we wrote the reviewer guidelines (which we encouraged all those submitting papers to read) we were careful to make it very clear that we expected analysis, reference to other literature, evaluation etc and not just a project report. As a result we received a large number of excellent submissions, and most of papers at DH were also of high quality in terms of their evaluative focus. For project reports we simply used the poster session. So I'd encourage anyone running any kind of DH conference or seminar politely to make their expectations clear. It seems to me that our community is perfectly capable of high level analytical thought, it just needs to be encouraged! Claire -- Claire Warwick MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab) Reader, UCL Department of Information Studies --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:15:16 +0200 From: Hartmut Krech Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? In-Reply-To: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> Impressive and deeply moving -- a scene from Jacob Bronowski's TV series "The Ascent of Man," filmed at Auschwitz a year before his death: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mIfatdNqBA&hl=de It very certainly has relevance for computer science and practice. Thank you. Hartmut Krech http://ww3.de/krech --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:44:16 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? In-Reply-To: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> I think this is a useful observation, but I don't think it's useful if we make it a broad generality -- so that we think most people are not interested in science because they've only been taught the findings and not the methods. Most people here in the US are required to take science with lab in both high school and college. We are taught the methods and how to follow them. Some people are more interested in people, some people are more interested in things, some people are more interested in concepts. Most people are most interested in people. Just follow magazine sales. The concept people and the thing people tend to be minorities, especially those who can follow their interests at any level of sophistication. Jim R >> "They no longer follow how it was made": that clause reveals to us >> how it happens that people who want to be interested in science find >> it dull. They gape at the discovery from the outside, and they may >> find it strange or marvelous, but their finding is passive; they do >> not enter and follow and relive the steps by which the new idea was >> created. But no creative work in art or in science, truly exists for >> us unless we ourselves help to recreate it.... --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:32:04 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: In defense of dullness In-Reply-To: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, A constant offering of presentations in the genre of "people, their dogs and their projects" may be less than entertaining. But isn't it part of the cost of the privilege of being an academic? The wheat fields of the plain may appear monotonous but from the correct perspective appear to possess the sublimity of waves. Sown a while ago was this remark: In _L'invention intellectuelle_ Judith Schlanger suggests that noise, the sheer mass of popularisation which the French call "vulgarisation" contributes to significant breakthroughs. Each rearticulation of current knowledge is a displacing repetition and affects however slightly the paths open and opening to thinkers. And I offer another bit from a review of _Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind_ by Patricia Meyer Spacks: Boredom raises a frightening spectre because "readers' capacity to declare themselves uninvolved threatens the writer's project as it menaces their own pleasure. Criticism, Spring, 1997 by Karen A. Weisman Paying attention, even a distracted attention, to the tedious is an important intellectual function full of its pleasure and danger. One danger: missing the moment of novelty due to the slipping of attention. Francois, Scholar-at-large http://berneval.blogspot.com --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:57:51 -0400 From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? In-Reply-To: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> Or, Rather, Not so dull. The DH2009 conference at the University of Maryland was anything but dull. I broke no teeth, but I do remember feeling, by 5:00 pm entirely spent from the high intellectual level of the presentations I attended. Though I can't speak for the conference as a whole, there was an extraordinary wealth of provocative and thought-provoking papers in the stylistics and authorship attribution thread of the conference. So, perhaps you've been attending the wrong papers... David Hoover --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:26:20 -0400 From: "Gerry Coulter" Subject: Conference Papers why so dull? In-Reply-To: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> I feel sorry for the woman -- good thing for her well being she has also not been reading this website the past 2 months Dull is dull, scientists have no monopoly on it. --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:08:28 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? In-Reply-To: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> I can't say I have ever seen someone break a tooth at a humanities conference. But it sure felt like a lot of humanists (myself included) cut their teeth at THATCamp last month. In fact, every tweet I saw coming out of THATCamp indicated that the participants were genuinely excited and engaged in the sessions. But perhaps it unfair to compare an "unconference" like THATCamp to the apparently dull conference you and your friend attended. ;-) On a more serious note, this and other recent posts have got me wondering about the extent to which the digital humanities wants or needs a scientific method and research method. At what point, if ever, will we become interested in carrying out experiments and publishing results that can be reproduced? Will our text mining ever lead us to test and compare algorithms? Will the peer review of code become a widespread practice in the digital humanities? Will we someday reach the point where our code becomes worthy of publication? Are digital humanists doing enough to help others understand how our projects are made? Is it enough to write open-source code that allows people to peer under its hood if traditional humanists still regard our digital tools as black boxes? How long will our digital tools and projects remain perceived as new discoveries and cutting-edge research, assuming they are now, if other people never have a hand in recreating them for themselves? Sterling Fluharty University of New Mexico _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 15 08:16:46 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F723259B; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:16:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0D3BA3258A; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:16:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090715081646.0D3BA3258A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:16:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.160 new publication: Informatica Umanistica 1 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 160. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:41:46 +0200 From: "Massimo Parodi - informatica umanistica" Subject: Informatica Umanistica n. 1 The first issue of the Italian review “Informatica Umanistica” is online. We need your best wishes. >From the presentation of the first issue: “The relationship between humanities and computers seems sometimes to pose a new form of the old problem: the relationship between the ‘two cultures’ (remembering Charles P. Snow). But perhaps the technological revolution of our years, for the first time, is also an humanistic revolution. It doesn’t compare anymore the logic of scientific knowledge with the rhetoric of the literary, philosophical or legal knowledge, the demonstration typical of the real knowledge with the argumentation typical on the contrary of the everyday human way of sharing ideas often uncertain, undefined, vague. It can teach the humanists to provide more order to their own ideas, to give more attention to the structure of their arguments, but, at the same time, it ought learn from humanists that order and structure are not technical data, merely formal elements; order and structure are theory, results of a choice, sometimes ideology, ultimately concepts deeply affected by literary, philosophical, legal thought. We interviewed some scholars and experts in various areas in which the computer science has become an important partner for the humanities and we have tried to organize the answers in ordered but especially problematic speeches.” http://www.ledonline.it/informatica-umanistica/ Massimo Parodi (Università degli Studi di Milano) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 15 08:17:51 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4101F3266D; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:17:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 639673265E; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:17:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090715081749.639673265E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:17:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.161 events: books online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 161. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:26:38 -0700 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: CFP: BooksOnline'09 Workshop ECDL 2009 Workshop: BooksOnline'09, October 2, 2009, Corfu, Greece, Call for papers - Deadline July 31, 2009 We would like to invite you to submit an extended abstract (max 2 pages) to the BooksOnline http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/events/booksonline09/ '09 Workshop, presenting your views and insights into important issues and opportunities around large collections of on-line books. Goals Building on the success of the First BooksOnline Workshop http://research.microsoft.com/booksonline08/ , organized at CIKM 2008 http://www.cikm2008.org/ , the BooksOnline'09 Workshop at ECDL 2009 aims to provide continuity and to ensure further progress in addressing challenges and exploring opportunities around large collections of digital books and complementary media. The workshop aims to foster the BooksOnline professional network and build support for joint initiatives in research, design, and technology. The objectives are to connect researchers and practitioners from libraries, archives, academia, publishers, and on-line services in order to facilitate discussion and promote collaboration around: * Key research and innovation issues, leveraging and extending the outcome of the BooksOnline'08 Workshop, * Proposals for projects and initiatives that the BooksOnline community could take forward, and * Strategies for project implementation and funding. The outcome of the workshop will comprise a set of formulated projects and dedicated committees that will facilitate progress over the following year. Future BooksOnline Workshops will follow the community progress and present an opportunity to share results, revisit the issues, and evolve the research and innovation agenda. Workshop Format The one day workshop will include selected project presentations and proposals for new initiatives, break-out sessions to brainstorm around proposals and implementation strategies, and a panel discussion to present and summarize the results of the break-out sessions. The day will start with a summary by the organizers, introducing projects and proposal that were submitted to the Workshop for discussion. Selected projects and proposals will be presented by the authors in more detail. The core activity will be the breakout sessions around the proposals for joint initiatives. We expect that the results of these sessions will include an outline of the implementation strategies, the mechanisms for managing the initiatives, and the plan for increasing visibility and creating relevant partnerships. The outcomes will be discussed during the panel session. All the relevant reports, proposals, and presentation abstract will be included in the workshop proceedings and distributed to the participants. A detailed workshop report will be published after the workshop. Participants will be invited to contribute to the post-workshop report by reviewing the organizers' write up and providing additional supporting material if needed. Topics of interest Participants of the BooskOnline'09 are invited to submit extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) describing pressing issues, opportunities for innovation, case studies of ongoing efforts, or ideas for initiatives involving digital books. Papers reflecting and expanding on the topics that have been identified through position papers and panel discussions during the First BooksOnline'08 Workshop are also welcome. These include, but are not limited to: * Fundamental issues: o Understanding new paradigms for books, social aspects of on-line book services, and contrasting evolutionary vs. revolutionary approach to innovation, paper vs. electronic media, digitized vs. born digital content. o Enabling business and research models, identifying collaboration strategies, fostering community driven innovation, identifying enabling technologies, and addressing legal issues. * Enriched digital collections: o Virtual learning environments and eBooks; eBooks in teaching; eBooks as integrated content, data, and media. o From books to discovery of knowledge; cross-referencing, sense making, and knowledge sharing; community interests and social context. * Usage scenarios and user expectations from digital book services: o Affordances of physical books and the difference from electronic media. o Social navigation and annotations; diverse user profiles and content types; searching, gathering, annotating, and authoring scenarios. o Personalization and context sensitivity; ubiquitous access; and emersion in the user experience. o Evaluating eBooks, interface and interaction designs for active reading, features for collection browsing, etc. * Content representation and discovery: o Indexing and content representation. o Scalability and interoperability; technologies for search, browsing, filtering, and information extraction. o Universal access across nations and cultures; translation of content and metadata. o Integration of complementary content and services. Paper Submission and participation Participants of the workshop are expected to contribute a 2 page extended abstract describing critical issues and challenges, current projects, or proposals for joint initiatives related to large digital book repositories. Submissions must be written in English, following the submission guidelines set by Springer: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 To submit a paper, please go to the BooksOnline'09 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=booksonline09 Easychair submission site. Please note that you may need to create an account in order to submit your paper. Contributions will be reviewed by the organizing and the programme committee. Authors of selected topics will be invited to give a presentation or facilitate a brainstorming session at the workshop. As with BooksOnline'08, we shall aim to attract researchers and practitioners from industry, libraries, and archives who can bring to the discussion the insights and experience of working with large digital book collections and services. Authors will be notified by August 17, 2009 of the outcome of the review process. Camera ready copies of accepted papers will be due by September 6, 2009. One author per accepted paper is required to register and attend the workshop. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 16 08:29:07 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8ACA31F63; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:29:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E489D31F5B; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:29:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090716082905.E489D31F5B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:29:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.162 dull and sharp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 162. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alan Corre (16) Subject: Re: Humanist 23.157 why so dull? [2] From: Paolo Rocchi (32) Subject: dull and sharp [3] From: Willard McCarty (68) Subject: dull --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:22:04 -0500 From: Alan Corre Subject: Re: Humanist 23.157 why so dull? My favorite English poet, Alexander Pope, does not give us much hope for abolishing dul(l)ness: In eldest time, ere mortals writ or read, Ere Pallas issued from the Thunderer's head, Dulness o'er all possessed her ancient right, Daughter of Chaos and eternal Night: Fate in their dotage this fair idiot gave, Gross as her sire, and as her mother grave, Laborious, heavy, busy, bold, and blind, She ruled, in native anarchy, the mind. Still her old empire to restore she tries, For, born a goddess, Dulness never dies... Alan D. Corre Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:07:51 +0200 From: Paolo Rocchi Subject: dull and sharp I find extraordinary Jim's remark: "Some people are more interested in people, Some people are more interested in things, Some people are more interested in concepts." My initial background stems from classical studies and I was convinced that culture was the ultimate authority in society. Unfortunately fashions changes and I find high-culture representatives more concerned on things than on tenets and knowledge. In particular 'utilitarism' seems overwhelming in computer science where wisdom and operations progress at different speeds. Hardware/software products have changed the life in the world but the inner nature of computing is still rather mysterious. The latest systems pervade firms and organizations but the principles of those machines date back to half a century ago: an incommensurable span of time respect to the rate of technology. Cultural movement in informatics turns out to be dramatically late in front of the feverish advance of technology, as a consequence ?They gape at the discovery from the outside, and they may find it strange or marvelous, but their finding is passive; they do not enter and follow and relive the steps by which the new idea was created?. I believe the responsibilities are of ?some [culture] people more interested in things' than in ideas and concepts. Yours. Paolo Rocchi IBM SWG Research and Development via Shanghai 53, 00144 ROMA phone: 39-6-5966-5213 fax : 39-6-5966-3618 url : http://www.edscuola.com/archivio/software/bit/eauthor.html --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:00:44 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: dull Another approach to the question. I quote from Walter Kintsch, Comprehension: A Paradigm for Cognition (Cambridge, 1998), page 2. The passage that follows doesn't address dullness, rather gives an example of something that misses the kind of opportunity which keeps technical discourse from being dull. > The terms *understanding* and *cognition* are not scientific terms but > are commonsense expressions. As with other such expressions, their > meaning is fuzzy and imprecise. To use them in scientific discourse, > we need to specify them more precisely without, however, doing undue > violence to common usage. First, understanding and comprehension are > used as synonyms here. The choice of one or the other term is thus > purely a matter of linguistic variation. Now Kintsch's basic question is hardly either dull or irrelevant to the concerns of people like us. Inter alia, he is saying, let's pay attention not to text-analysis (words on the page, as if they were sufficient) but to what happens in the mind when we read, between the time our eyes focus on the page and the time when we are aware of reading something or other. Nor is Kintsch an unskilled writer. But in the above paragraph he quickly brushes aside the concerns of the literary reader without even seeming to notice: he identifies the two terms he targets as "commonsense", hence "fuzzy" and "imprecise" -- attribution of those two qualities being by implication derogatory; accepts without question the idea that two quite different words can be simply "synonyms" (from another point of view a "commonsense" notion); and makes the choice between the words he targets "purely" (i.e., merely) a matter of "linguistic variation", i.e. of no particular significance. Now you might say that given his intended audience, all of this is unproblematic. Indeed, it is. But by jumping without pause from *as-if* to *is*, he leaps over the fullness of language to a denuded understanding of what language can do, in fact does. With a couple of sentences -- let's be demanding and ask for a whole paragraph -- he could have indicated to the majority, non-technical audience of people like me how to situate his own work into the much larger landscape of human discourse. Hence his book may seem quite DULL, e.g. to those who cannot forget they are lover-readers of poetry. Recently I had the misfortune of listening to a paradigmatically DULL academic performance -- not a paper, since the speaker had not written anything out but was merely speaking anecdotally off the top of her head. The clear intention of the performance was to exhibit to us how brilliant she thinks she is, how famous, how distinguished. The intention was, I'd say, not to communicate but to announce, to show off. Her words seemed like (small-denomination) coins thrown to the poor as her glittering carriage speeded past. In other cases I have listened to DULL papers in which the person in question was exhibiting not his or her narcissism and self-constructed superiority, rather how tightly the bolts had been fastened down in the object he or she had built, how smoothly it operated etc. Now it's hard to find fault with a beautifully made object -- who does not love well-made things? But is it asking too much to ask the maker to ponder if not merely to point out the questions raised by that object and the making of it? The opportunities for further research -- and why we should care? The tentativeness of it all? The interesting failures? The matters problematized that we assumed previously were unproblematic? These days I am paying much attention to what people in the early days of computing found fearful. Such fears provide very powerful clues for an understanding of what was happening at the time. Similarly, I'd think that what people find DULL might prove quite useful, if for no other reason than it gives the speaker/writer evidence of an opportunity missed, and so of an opportunity that next time might be grabbed. Comments? Yours,WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 16 08:30:42 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CA1A31FCC; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:30:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 03BD231FC4; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:30:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090716083041.03BD231FC4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:30:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.163 new publications: theses & dissertations; D-Lib for July/August X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 163. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 4 [2] From: Bonnie Wilson (66) Subject: The July/August 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine isnow available --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:01:19 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 4 The Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 4 is now available from Digital Scholarship. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, conference papers, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation (http://tinyurl.com/5en4jt) from the University of Houston Libraries, see the Digital Scholarship Publications Overview. (This document is especially useful if one of the mirrored Digital Scholarship servers is down.) http://digital-scholarship.com/cwb/dsoverviewx.htm http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverviewx.htm The following recent Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: (1) Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 4 http://digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Version 75 http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html (3) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition (Paperback) http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2008.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ A Brief Look Back at Twenty Years as an Internet Open Access Publisher http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/twentyyearsbrief.htm ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:01:22 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The July/August 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine isnow available Greetings: The July/August 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains three articles, seven 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 East Carolina University's Joyner Library Digital Collections, courtesy of Gretchen Gueguen, East Carolina University. The articles include: Measuring Mass Text Digitization Quality and Usefulness: Lessons Learned from Assessing the OCR Accuracy of the British Library's 19th Century Online Newspaper Archive Simon Tanner and Trevor Munoz, King's College London; and Pich Hemy Ros, Digital Divide Data 21st Century Shipping: Network Data Transfer to the Library of Congress Michael Ashenfelder, Library of Congress Semantic Integration of Collection Description: Combining CIDOC/CRM and Dublin Core Collections Application Profile Irene Lourdi and Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University; and Martin Doerr, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas The Conference and Workshop Reports are: Report on the 2009 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: Austin, Texas June 15-19, 2009 Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University JCDL 2009 Workshop Report: Lightweight User-Friendly Evaluation Knowledge for Digital Librarians Michael Khoo, Drexel University; George Buchanan, City University, London; and Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato Report on the First International Workshop on Innovation in Digital Preservation (InDP 2009) Frank McCown, Harding University; and Hannes Kulovits and Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology Interactive Visual Information Collections and Activity 2009 Frank Shipman, Texas A&M University Doing So Much More: The Fourth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR09) Carol Minton Morris, Cornell University ELPUB 2009 - Rethinking Electronic Publishing: Innovation in Communication Paradigms and Technologies Elena Giglia and Paola Galimberti, Universita degli Studi di Torino Report on the 2nd African Digital Scholarship and Curation Conference Martie van Deventer, South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR); and Heila Pienaar, University of Pretoria D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina http://www.dlib.org.ar Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the July/August 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. There is a delay between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson Editor D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 16 08:32:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3248932081; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:32:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7339A32071; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:32:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090716083233.7339A32071@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:32:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.164 events: Roman spolia in 3D; modelling X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 164. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (44) Subject: Seminar: Roman Spolia in 3D [2] From: MOCA-09 (141) Subject: CfP/deadline extension: MOCA'09 Modeling of Objects, Componentsand Agents --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:15:16 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Seminar: Roman Spolia in 3D Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar Friday July 17th at 16:30 British Library Centre for Conservation, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB *Christine Pappelau (Berlin)* *Roman Spolia in 3D: High Resolution Leica 3D Laser-scanner meets ancient building structures* ALL WELCOME Rome: a city with a long history to be read on the structures of its buildings. Precious materials were taken from ancient monuments and re-used for early Christian, medieval or Renaissance buildings. An high resolution laser scanner creates 3D models with exact measurements-- identification of spolia by newest scientific means. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html where a fuller abstract can be found, and the audio recording will be posted after the event. -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:49:48 +0100 From: MOCA-09 Subject: CfP/deadline extension: MOCA'09 Modeling of Objects, Componentsand Agents MOCA'09 Call for Papers Fifth International Workshop on Modelling of Objects, Components, and Agents http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/events/moca09/ Hamburg, Germany, 11th September 2009 organised by the "Theoretical Foundations of Informatics" Group at the University of Hamburg Contact e-mail: moca09@informatik.uni-hamburg.de __________________________________________________________________ The workshop is co-located with MATES 2009 The Seventh German conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies http://jadex.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/mates/bin/view/MATES/Home and CLIMA-X 2009 10th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems http://jadex.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/mates/bin/view/CLIMA/Home __________________________________________________________________ Important Dates: Deadline for submissions: July 22, 2009 Notification of acceptance: August 14, 2009 Deadline for final papers: August 28, 2009 Workshop: September 11, 2009 __________________________________________________________________ Scope Modelling is THE central task in informatics. Models are used to capture, analyse, understand, discuss, evaluate, specify, design, simulate, validate, test, verify and implement systems. Modelling needs an adequate repertoire of concepts, formalisms, languages, techniques and tools. This enables addressing distributed, concurrent and complex systems. Objects, components, and agents are fundamental units to organise models. They are also fundamental concepts of the modelling process. Even though software engineers intensively use models based on these fundamental units, and models are the subjects of theoretical research, the relations and potential mutual enhancements between theoretical and practical models have not been sufficiently investigated. There is still the need for better modelling languages, standards and tools. Important research areas are for example UML, BPEL, Petri nets, process algebras, or different kinds of logics. Application areas like business processes, (Web) services, production processes, organisation of systems, communication, cooperation, cooperation, ubiquity, mobility etc. will support the domain dependent modelling perspectives. Therefore, the workshop addresses all relations between theoretical foundations of models on the one hand and objects, components, and agents on the other hand with respect to modelling in general. The intention is to gather research and application directions to have a lively mutual exchange of ideas, knowledge, viewpoints, and experiences. The multiple perspectives on modelling and models in informatics are most welcome, since the presentation of them will lead to intensive discussions. Also the way objects, components, and agents are use to build architectures / general system structures and executing units / general system behaviours will provide new ideas for other areas. Therefore, we invite a wide variety of contributions, which will be reviewed by the PC-members who reflect important areas and perspectives for the Modelling of Objects, Components, and Agents (MOCA). [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 17 05:00:56 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B480E1FFB5; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:00:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A68D31FF9D; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:00:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090717050055.A68D31FF9D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:00:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.165 dull and sharp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 165. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:39:57 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.162 dull and sharp In-Reply-To: <20090716082905.E489D31F5B@woodward.joyent.us> Paulo: > I find extraordinary Jim's remark: > "Some people are more interested in people, > Some people are more interested in things, > Some people are more interested in concepts." > > My initial background stems from classical studies and I was convinced > that culture was the ultimate authority in society. Unfortunately fashions > changes and I find high-culture representatives more concerned on things > than on tenets and knowledge. Why do you find my remark extraordinary? I find it obvious and simplistic. Yes, if you've studied the classics, you will be studying the works of those who believed culture is the ultimate authority in society. But even then, that belief was probably not true of most people, just those educated enough to read and write. Jim R _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 17 05:03:07 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D932306E; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:03:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DA37023063; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:03:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090717050306.DA37023063@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:03:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.166 fears of computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 166. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:28:43 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.162 dull and sharp In-Reply-To: <20090716082905.E489D31F5B@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, Your last paragraph caught my attention. Are you saying that you are looking for someone who might be thought of as Michael Crichton's predecessor of the 1950s? Or is it not the fears expressed about computers in early science fiction that interests you? I have done some analysis of book sales in history to figure out when history became boring for the public. From what I can tell, history had a golden age in the 1950s and 1960s, and has become increasingly dull for the public since then. I hadn't considered whether there was a connection between the popularity of history and the heady days of early computing during those golden years. Perhaps you have some thoughts on the matter. Sterling Fluharty University of New Mexico _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 18 06:57:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC03A1ED47; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:57:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1A1951ED2C; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:57:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090718065720.1A1951ED2C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:57:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.167 at one with the machine X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 167. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:03:50 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: trying to repeat it We all know the philosopher George Santayana's famous statement, from The Life of Reason, vol 1, that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Clearly he had disasters in mind. But there are cases in which an historical exemplar begs to help us repeat in one area of human endeavour what happened earlier in another. Surely we in literary computing need all the help we can get. And that's my motivation for labouring to be historical. Here's an instance. In Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics (Johns Hopkins, 2002), David Mindell makes a very strong case for the historical complexities of human-machine interaction as this developed under conditions of warfare. In particular he shows how (as in the case of Sperry Gyroscope), > control systems reined in machinery, adding precision to bring > technological power into the range of human perception and reaction. > Aboard ships, the company's controls closed a feedback loop between > the gyrocompass and the ship's wheel, leaving the helmsman to adjust > its parameters, monitor its performance, or exchange control, > depending on the circumstances. In aircraft, Sperry established a > similar feedback loop between gyroscopic instruments and the > airplane's control surfaces. Here the human operator was a newer > breed, and automatic controls extended pilots' range by reducing > their fatigue. In both cases the military services valued the > regularity the feedback loops provided, and Sperry built automated > aiming systems around the stabilized vehicles. In antiaircraft fire > control, the human operators became part ofthe feedback loops, > amplifying and interpreting data at each stage in a complex > computation. (103) Thus in a report in 1942, Sperry declared, > There has come into being a whole new field of scientific accessories > to extend the functions and the skill of the operator far beyond his > own strength, endurance, and abilities.... The cyborgian argument must be a familiar one. It was certainly in public (as well as highly classified) circulation about that time, for example in the pages of Life Magazine in an article in 1944, "Mechanical Brains: Working in Metal Boxes, Computing Devices Aim Guns and Bombs with Inhuman Accuracy", which featured the startling drawings of Alfred Crimi, showing a human turret-gunner at one with his machine. (See the drawings held in the digital archive of the Hagley Museum and Library, http://tinyurl.com/nfm8ne.) Crimi also, as far as I can determine, did the famous drawing of Vannevar Bush's Memex as this appeared in Life the following year -- but don't hold me to this quite yet. (Anyone with further information on Crimi please comment!) In other words, we know that devices called at the time "computer" (devices were called that by 1930 at the latest) were doing for warfare what we often claim they are doing for scholarship. But the historical precedent isn't just a passive connection. It has bite. These devices were cybernetic systems long before Wiener called them that. As Mindell notes, in the 1930s "the 'computer' was neither the machine nor its human operators but rather the assemblage of the two" (98). Time we went back to the 1930s for our future? Comments? Yours,WM --Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 18 06:59:05 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B23441EDB6; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:59:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CE21A1ED9C; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:59:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090718065902.CE21A1ED9C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:59:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.168 ESF bursaries for TEI-2009 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 168. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:19:12 -0700 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: TEI-2009: European Science Foundation bursaries for emerging scholars The European Science Foundation (ESF) Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) is funding a bursary program to support the attendance of early career European researchers at the 2009 Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium. The TEI Conference program committee will use this funding to make up to six grants of at least €500 (reimbursed in US dollars). To be eligible for this funding you must be * an "emerging scholar," which is defined by the ESF as someone who has not been in an established position for more than five years, with exceptions for parental, medical, and national service leaves. The ESF notes that "students, post-doctorate researchers and lecturers within 5 years of appointment would be amongst those included in this definition." * actively participating in the conference: through workshop attendance or by present a paper, poster, or tool demo. * affiliated with one of the 80 member organisations of the ESF (see http://www.esf.org/about-us/80-member-organisations.html). If you think you fit these criteria and would like to apply for consideration for a bursary, please send a brief CV showing your career history, affiliation with an ESF member institution, and a short statement describing your planned involvement in the 2009 Conference and Members' Meeting and/or a pre-conference workshop to tei-meeting-2009@umich.edy by 31 August 2009. For more information, see http://www.lib.umich.edu/spo/teimeeting09/bursaries.html ____________ R.G. Siemens, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Ph.(250)721-7272 Fax.(250)721-6498 siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 18 07:00:58 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9964B1EE53; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:00:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5A39C1EE40; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:00:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090718070056.5A39C1EE40@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:00:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.169 publications: possible & actual X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 169. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Melissa Terras (18) Subject: Have you a book proposal regarding a subject in digital classics? [2] From: I-CHASS (2) Subject: Book co-authored by NCSA/ICHASS Alan Craig now available --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:38:18 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Have you a book proposal regarding a subject in digital classics? In-Reply-To: <96f3df640907160817p196bc280p61609bed321c521e@mail.gmail.com> Hi Everyone, An announcement from Gorgias Press (who are going to publish the DHQ volume on classics and cyberinfrastructure up as a book: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/1/index.html). They are starting up a new series on classics and computing, and are looking for new proposals, which may be of interest to some of you! best, Melissa --------------- Gorgias Press is expanding its interest in technology and classics and welcomes book proposals regarding digital classics research, for both monographs (including revised dissertations) and edited collections (based on conference sessions or otherwise). Proposals should be no more than 4 pages pdf and include contact details and a biography of the author(s), an overview of the topic and its importance, a brief description of all chapters, and a summation of how this text will relate to other texts in the field. This is an open call. Please send proposals to submissions@gorgiaspress.com. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:18:46 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: Book co-authored by NCSA/ICHASS Alan Craig now available In-Reply-To: <96f3df640907160817p196bc280p61609bed321c521e@mail.gmail.com> NCSA/ICHASS staffer Alan B. Craig has co-authored a book on virtual reality, "Developing Virtual Reality Applications," that is now available. The book, co-authored by William R. Sherman and Jeffrey D. Will, details several virtual reality applications and how they are used in a variety of fields. The authors examine what makes the applications workable and how principles and theories of virtual reality are applied. Craig, who has worked for NCSA for more than 20 years, is the associate director of human-computer interaction for the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS). Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) | National Center for Supercomputing Applications | 1205 W. Clark St., MC 257 | Urbana, IL 61820 | US _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 18 07:01:55 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C68C11EFD7; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:01:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B6071EFBB; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:01:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090718070154.1B6071EFBB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:01:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.170 events: Fall Institute X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 170. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:14:56 -0300 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: Fall Institute in Digital Libraries and Humanities Announcing: FIDLH 2009 – the second annual Fall Institute in Digital Libraries and Humanities FIDLH 2008 was held at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, September 25th, 26th, and 27th thanks to the support of the Electronic Text Centre at UNB Libraries http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts, the Digital Culture Observatory at Acadia University, and the University of New Brunswick and Acadia University. More than 30 librarians, library staff, humanists, and students attended FIDLH 2008, and all reported a very positive and collegial learning experience. FIDLH 2009 will be held at Acadia University, in Wolfville, NS, September 24th, 25th, and 26th. This year, as last the cost will be $300.00 per employed participant and $100.00 per student. Acadia’s Office of Graduate Studies and Research has offered to help defer the cost of student participation, so depending on the number of students who register student costs will be slightly or significantly less than the $100.00 posted rate. One day participation will also be available at a rate of $100.00. Each of the three days will begin with a plenary talk on a topic of interest to those in attendance, followed by a morning and an afternoon workshop in which participants will choose from among the following offerings: using the Open Journal Systems (OJS) for electronic journal management, XML encoding for journal articles, Data Conversion and Digital Imaging, Tools for Text Analysis, Concepts in Text Analysis, Designing and Implementing Usability Tests, and Using Computer Games in Teaching. Participants should plan to bring their own laptop or netbook computer. A limited number of laptops will be available to rent. Registration for FIDLH 2009 will open July 24, and is accessible through our website at http://etc.hil.unb.ca/fidlh2009/ We look forward to seeing you this fall in the beautiful Annapolis Valley. Richard Cunningham & Erik Moore Associate Professor, Director of the ETC English & Theatre UNB Libraries Director, ADCO Fredericton, NB E3B 5H5 Acadia University Wolfville, NS B4P 2R6 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 18 09:50:10 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65D681E561; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:50:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6E38D1E52A; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:50:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090718095003.6E38D1E52A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:50:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.171 new publications: Google Books or Great Books? Fate of the Disciplines X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 171. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (63) Subject: Critical Inquiry 35.4: The Fate of the Disciplines [2] From: Willard McCarty (13) Subject: books then and now --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:02:37 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Critical Inquiry 35.4: The Fate of the Disciplines Several here will be interested in the latest issue of Critical Inquiry 35.4 (Summer 2009), www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci/current, as follows: Introduction: Doctrines, Disciplines, Discourses, Departments James Chandler What Is a Discipline? Debating Disciplinarity Robert Post Critique, Dissent, Disciplinarity Judith Butler Case Studies I Science Studies Science Studies and the History of Science Lorraine Daston Postdisciplinary Liaisons: Science Studies and the Humanities Mario Biagioli Religious Studies Religious Reason and Secular Affect: An Incommensurable Divide? Saba Mahmood Saint Paul and the New Man Amy Hollywood Case Studies II Cinema Studies The Core and the Flow of Film Studies Dudley Andrew Carnivore or Chameleon: The Fate of Cinema Studies Gertrud Koch Philology Future Philology? The Fate of a Soft Science in a Hard World Sheldon Pollock The Double Fate of the Classics François Hartog The Disciplinary System The General Enters the Library: A Note on Disciplines and Complexity David E. Wellbery The Conflicts of the Faculty Marshall Sahlins The Disciplines and the Arts Project Statement Helen Mirra Art, Fate, and the Disciplines: Some Indicators W. J. T. Mitchell Counting (Art and Discipline) Bill Brown -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:48:08 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: books then and now Many here will be interested in Peter Green's review, "Google Books or Great Books? The enduring value of the Republic of Letters, in all its forms", Times Literary Supplement for 15 July, reviewing Anthony Grafton's Worlds Made by Words and Roger Martin's Racing Odysseus. See entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/, where the review is online in its entirety. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 19 06:30:54 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E840732722; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:30:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4F23932711; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:30:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090719063051.4F23932711@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:30:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.172 at one with the machine X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 172. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sterling Fluharty (18) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.167 at one with the machine [2] From: Sara Schmidt (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.167 at one with the machine -- Alfred D. Crimi --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:11:50 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.167 at one with the machine In-Reply-To: <20090718065720.1A1951ED2C@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, Have you read PW Singer's _Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and 21st Century Conflict_ (Penguin, 2009). You might find it interesting for your historical study. And it may raise some interesting philosophical questions for computing in the humanities. Sterling Fluharty University of New Mexico On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:26:13 +0100 From: Sara Schmidt Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.167 at one with the machine -- Alfred D. Crimi In-Reply-To: <20090718065720.1A1951ED2C@woodward.joyent.us> Footnote # 11 on the following google books page might be of interest: http://tiny.cc/dOtlc In addition, Crimi seems to have written at least two books... Crimi, Alfred D. Crimi: A Look Back--a Step Forward : My Life Story. Staten Island, N.Y.: Center for Migration Studies of New York, 1988. Crimi, Alfred D. Alfred D. Crimi. New York: Selected Artistis Galleries, 1960. Sara _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 19 06:31:38 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 324B932773; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:31:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 354473275D; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:31:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090719063136.354473275D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:31:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.173 dull and sharp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 173. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:11:31 +0200 From: Paolo Rocchi Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.165 dull and sharp In-Reply-To: <20090717050055.A68D31FF9D@woodward.joyent.us> >Paulo: > >> I find extraordinary Jim's remark: >> "Some people are more interested in people, >> Some people are more interested in things, >> Some people are more interested in concepts." >> >> My initial background stems from classical studies and I was convinced >> that culture was the ultimate authority in society. Unfortunately fashions >> changes and I find high-culture representatives more concerned on things >> than on tenets and knowledge. > >Why do you find my remark extraordinary? I find it obvious and simplistic. > >Yes, if you've studied the classics, you will be studying the works of >those who believed culture is the ultimate authority in society. But >even then, that belief was probably not true of most people, just >those educated enough to read and write. > >Jim R Hi Jim Recently Milan Zeleny (*) introduced a pretty scheme to illustrate the challenging pathway toward full scientific understanding. The scheme includes four steps: Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom (DIKW). Zeleny points out how *Data* is the set of measurements about an invention. Initial elaboration of those data generates *Information* that adds context to the invention. Scientists are able to describe the earliest discovery after the first two stages and to answer a question like "'What'?. Researchers become more aware of a find through successive studies, namely they gain *Knowledge* that is composed of the insights, the values and the judgments which make individuals capable of replying a query about the origins of the novel phenomenon (= 'How?'). *Wisdom*, the ultimate comprehension of a matter that answer a question like 'Why?', and is reached as long as scientists obtain the solid conceptualization of the entire context which rings the initial discovery. Whereas researchers made efforts to cover the entire pathway in the past centuries, present day researchers take two steps with ardor in order to obtain immediate return of investments. The third step is rather tardy and the fourth step involves a very few people. I find your aphorism may be used to sum up the sociological experience of those (like me) who work around the principles of computer science: - people more interested in people and in things, say over 99%, - people more interested in concepts, say less 1%. It is evident how the incomplete course DIKW - say the incomplete culture on computer systems - impairs the progress of technology and science as von Bertalanffy argued decades ago. And frequently we go around randomly. (*) Zeleny M. - Management Support Systems: Towards Integrated Knowledge -Management, Human Systems Management, 7(1), (1987). Yours. Paolo Rocchi IBM SWG Research and Development via Shanghai 53, 00144 ROMA phone: 39-6-5966-5213 fax : 39-6-5966-3618 IBM Italia S.p.A. Sede Legale: Circonvallazione Idroscalo - 20090 Segrate (MI) Cap. Soc. euro 400.001.359 C. F. e Reg. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:56:16 +0300 (EEST) From: dobreva@math.bas.bg Subject: Planets Training Event in Digital Preservation in Sofia, Bulgaria,16-18 September 2009 PLANETS TRAINING EVENT, SOFIA, BULGARIA, 16-18 SEPTEMBER 2009: BURSARY PLACES AVAILABLE Deadline for applications extended to Wednesday 29 July 2009 ‘Digital Preservation – The Planets Way’: Strategies for Central and Eastern Europe Outreach and training event organised by Planets project (http://www.planets-project.eu) Date: 16-18 September 2009 Venue: Arena di Serdica hotel, Sofia, Bulgaria Website: http://www.planets-project.eu/events/sofia-2009/ Contact: sofia-grants@planets-project.eu Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services) will host a three-day outreach and training event at the Arena di Serdica hotel in Sofia on 16-18 September 2009. The project has joined forces with the Central European Initiative to offer 15 bursary places to participants from nine countries to attend the event. Participants from Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine are eligible for this support. This will be the first major specialist digital preservation event targeted at information and preservation professionals from Eastern and Central Europe, and is designed for CEOs, Heads of IT, and preservation / curation / IT staff from collection, education, memory and heritage institutions across the Central and Eastern European region. ‘Digital Preservation – the Planets Way’ will explore the case for preservation of digital objects, the actions required, and the Planets solutions to the issues. The first day of the event will focus on the challenges of digital preservation and introduce the Planets tools and services. On days two and three delegates will gain hands-on experience of working with Planets and a scenario (sample collection) to develop a preservation plan and preserve digital objects. The event will include plenty of opportunity for discussion and the sharing of ideas and best practice. Lectures, workshops and discussions will be provided by distinguished experts from the EU: we anticipate the team of lecturers and workshop leaders will include specialists from the British Library, HATII at the University of Glasgow, National Archive of the Netherlands, Vienna University of Technology, University of Cologne, and the Austrian National Library. You can see full details about the bursary scheme at: http://www.planets-project.eu/events/sofia-2009/cei-bursary/. You should submit your completed application by 17:30 CET on Wednesday 29 July. If you have any questions about the scheme, please e-mail us at: sofia-grants@planets-project.eu. We hope you will join us to experience how the tools and methods developed by the Planets project can assist in developing and sustaining your long-term digital preservation strategy. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 19 06:43:06 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B37BD32978; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:43:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3E9B83295F; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:43:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090719064304.3E9B83295F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:43:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.175 at one with the machine (footnote) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 175. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:42:03 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: footnote to Crimi As it happens, James Nyce and Paul Kahn, in their essay "A Machine for the Mind: Vannevar Bush's Memex" (in their book, From Memex to Hypertext, 1991), did the homework on Crimi (pp. 58-9). As it happened Crimi was commissioned for the work by Allan McNab, Art Department, Life Magazine, not by Bush. In retrospect we can put Crimi's drawings of the gunner in the turret and of the innards of the Memex side by side, but the connection isn't a simple one. "A Machine for the Mind" makes that clear. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 21 08:31:27 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 416B032B7C; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:31:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 71E9632B73; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:31:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090721083125.71E9632B73@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:31:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.176 dull and sharp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 176. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:17:34 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.159 dull and sharp In-Reply-To: <20090715081607.4B825321A2@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Claire and all, I hope it doesn't surprise you if I say that I found lots on methodologies and analysis in the posters at DH2009, and I was rather upset to see them fragmented throughout the conference and relegated to the coffee breaks when people are busy doing what you go to conferences for: socialising. I think posters in the digital humanities community have become more and more important, and usually innovative and thoroughly planned, while papers - except for particularly inspiring talks and established branches of the DH archipelagos - claim to aim high but can indeed let down whom is longing for novelty beyond buzz words. Don't get me wrong: I expect a lot from this community...may be too much? Best, Arianna == Dr. Arianna Ciula Science Officer European Science Foundation Humanities Unit 1 quai Lezay Marnésia BP 90015 F-67080 Strasbourg France Email: aciula@esf.org Tel: +33 (0) 388767104 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 21 08:32:03 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9394832C0D; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:32:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AC01132BF9; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:32:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090721083202.AC01132BF9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:32:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.177 new text-analytic macros; transcription system X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 177. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "David L. Hoover" (17) Subject: Excel Text-Analysis [2] From: Willard McCarty (19) Subject: new transcription system --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:34:16 -0400 From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: Excel Text-Analysis As some of you already know, I've been developing some Excel spreadsheets and macros to perform text analysis. Partly to prepare for my text-analysis class at this summer's DHSI (http://www.dhsi.org/), I updated and improved my Delta Spreadsheets and my Zeta and Iota Spreadsheet. Since than, I have added some additional text-analysis spreadsheets. The spreadsheets, along with detailed instructions, are now freely available on a new web site at https://files.nyu.edu/dh3/public/The%20Excel%20Text-Analysis%20Pages.html Enjoy, David Hoover -- David L. Hoover, Professor of English, NYU 212-998-8832 http://homepages.nyu.edu/~dh3/ Most of her friends had an anxious, haggard look, . . . Basil Ransom wondered who they all were; he had a general idea they were mediums, communists, vegetarians. -- Henry James, The Bostonians (1886) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:28:28 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new transcription system Many here will be interested in State, developed by the Computational Perception and Learning Research Group in the Computer Languages and Systems Department at the Universitat Jaume I, in collaboration with the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. State "is a transcription system that integrates a series of tools with which images can be processed in order to remove noise and clean up the original image". "[T]he page structure can be detected, the text can be recognised and mistakes can be quickly and easily edited with interactive tools such as an electronic pen applied directly on the text." See http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=59622&CultureCode=en for more. Thanks to Dot Porter for alerting me to this. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 21 08:32:41 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C393F32C6C; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:32:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7DFE732C5B; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:32:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090721083239.7DFE732C5B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:32:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.178 events: DigitalWorld 2010 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 178. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:30:19 +0100 From: DigitalWorld 2010 Subject: 1st CfP: DigitalWorld 2010, February 10-15, 2010 / St. Maarten,Netherlands Antilles INVITATION Please consider to contribute and encourage your team members and fellow scientists to contribute to the following federated events. Thanks for forwarding the information on this Call for Submissions to those potentially interested to submit. ===== Call for Submissions ======= DigitalWorld 2010, February 10-15, 2010 - St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles DigitalWorld 2010 is a federated event focusing on advanced topics concerning all digital aspects in our society. Nowadays, most of the economic activities and business models are driven by the unprecedented evolution of theories and technologies. The impregnation of these achievements into our society is present everywhere, and it is only question of user education and business models optimization towards a digital society. Submission (full paper) deadline: September 10, 2009. Submissions must be electronically done using the "Submit a Paper" button on the entry page of each conference. For details on the each conference's topics, see the individual Call for Papers. Unpublished high quality contributions in terms of Regular papers and Posters or Work in Progress are welcome. Workshop proposals and Panel proposals on challenging topics are encouraged. All topics are open to both research and industry contributions: theories, systems, standards, projects, initiatives, commercial systems, studies, or visionary ideas. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA on-line Journals (http://www.iariajournals.org) and in the Journals mentioned on the conferences' sites. -- ICDS 2010, The Fourth International Conference on Digital Society http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICDS10.html -- CYBERLAWS 2010, The First International Conference on Technical and Legal Aspects of the e-Society http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CYBERLAWS10.html -- ICQNM 2010, The Fourth International Conference on Quantum, Nano and Micro Technologies http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICQNM10.html -- GEOProcessing 2010, The Second International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/GEOProcessing10.html -- eTELEMED 2010, The Second International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/eTELEMED10.html -- eKNOW 2010, The Second International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/eKNOW10.html -- eL&mL 2010, The Second International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/eLmL10.html -- ACHI 2010, The Third International Conferences on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ACHI10.html -------------------------------- IARIA Publicity Board DigitalWorld Advisory Committees _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 22 05:50:10 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C7B832633; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:50:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ACBFE32623; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:50:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090722055007.ACBFE32623@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:50:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.179 dull and sharp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 179. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:40:30 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.173 dull and sharp In-Reply-To: <20090719063136.354473275D@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks for the response, Paolo. I think your estimates are probably more correct than mine :) Do you think putting wisdom at the end of a process beginning with "data" is a move that can be questioned? What leads us to decide what constitutes data to begin with? Jim R _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 22 05:50:34 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7043B3266F; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:50:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 772683265C; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:50:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090722055032.772683265C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:50:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.180 Stibitz's Zeroth Generation? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 180. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:29:56 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Zeroth Generation Does anyone here know whether George R. Stibitz's memoirs, The Zeroth Generation, privately published in 1993, has been digitized -- or exists anywhere outside of the few N American libraries that admit to having a copy? Thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 22 05:51:01 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 544D3326D3; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:51:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A4E20326CB; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:51:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090722055100.A4E20326CB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:51:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.181 new publication: word and image X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 181. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:06:57 +0100 From: "Customer-services@rodopi.nl" Subject: New_publication: Elective Affinities Elective Affinities Testing Word and Image Relationships Edited by Catriona MacLeod, Véronique Plesch and Charlotte Schoell-Glass Amsterdam/New York, NY 2009. 421 pp. (Word & Image Interactions 6) ISBN: 978-90-420-2618-6 Paper ISBN: 978-90-420-2619-3 E-Book Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=WI+6 This volume presents the impressive range of scholarly affinities, approaches, and subjects that characterize today’s word and image studies. The essays, a selection of papers first presented in 2005 at the seventh international conference of the International Association of Word and Image Studies/Association Internationale pour l’Étude des Rapports entre Texte et Image that took place in Philadelphia, are case studies of the diverse configurations of the textual and the iconic. “Elective affinities” - a notion originally borrowed by Goethe for his 1809 novel of the same title from eighteenth-century chemistry - here refers to the active role of the two partners in the relationship of the pictorial and the verbal. Following the experimental modalities opened up by Goethe, the present volume is divided into three sections, which explore, respectively, how words and images can merge in harmony, engage in conflicts and contestations, and, finally, interact in an experimental way that self-consciously tests the boundaries and relations among verbal and visual arts. New perspectives on word and image relationships emerge, in periods, national traditions, works, and materials as different as (among many others) an installation by Marcel Duchamp and the manual accompanying it; the impact of artificial light sources on literature and art; nineteenth-century British illustrations of Native Americans; the contemporary comic book; a seventeenth-century Italian devotional manuscript uniting text, image, and music; Chinese body and performance art. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 22 05:51:49 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29073274A; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:51:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 30FCD32735; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:51:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090722055147.30FCD32735@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:51:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.182 DHO (Dublin): digital research database X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 182. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:23:25 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: DHO's Digital Research and Projects database launched The DHO's Digital Research and Projects database (DRAPIer) was launched at the Royal Irish Academy on 13 July 2009 during the first evening of the annual DHO Summer School . DRAPIer is a bibliographic database gathering together the rich and varied work being carried out by the Higher Education sector throughout the island of Ireland in the area of digital humanities. RIA Humanities Secretary Professor Jane Conroy introduced DRAPIer, hailing it as "a significant element in the concept conceived by the Humanities Serving Irish Society consortium." The database currently lists 30 projects from virtually all institutions across the island. Projects can be browsed by discipline, institution, temporal periods, geographic range, amongst others. It can also be browsed by methods used in creating the digital resource, such as text encoding or scanning; metadata formats, such as Dublin Core or TEI; and content types, such as images or audio recordings. The controlled vocabularies used by DRAPIer are based on those developed for ICT Guides and currently implemented by arts-humanities.net at the Centre for eResearch, King's College London. Refinement of the vocabularies is ongoing, and the DHO is actively contributing to this work. These fields provide a roadmap to the range of digital humanities activities in Ireland across disciplines, formats, and methodologies. It is also intended that DRAPIer be used as a resource: as the basis for future collaborations between projects; as a conduit for peer learning; and location that documents expertise in the area of digital humanities in Ireland. -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 22 05:52:39 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED0E3327C8; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:52:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 19E12327BF; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:52:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090722055237.19E12327BF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:52:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.183 events: language; geospatial scholarship; digital classics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 183. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bethany Nowviskie (37) Subject: Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship [2] From: Carlos Areces (26) Subject: cfp: ESSLLI 2010 Call for Course and Workshop Proposals [3] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (30) Subject: Digital Classicist seminar: Linking Archaeological Data --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:52:35 -0400 From: Bethany Nowviskie Subject: Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship The Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library is now accepting applications for an NEH-funded "Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship," to be held in Charlottesville, Virginia in November 2009 and May 2010. http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/geospatial/ This program will bring together humanities scholars, software developers, and librarians and other cultural heritage professionals to discuss and develop geospatial tools, content, methods, policies, and infrastructure, in the context of open source and open access. Thirty-one leading academics, developers, and higher-ed administrators serve on the faculty and advisory board of the Institute. The National Endowment for the Humanities will support travel, working meals, and lodging for 40 attendees as well as Institute faculty members. Special funding is available for graduate students. The University of Virginia Library will also fund up to 5 short-term scholar- and developer-in-residencies at the Scholars' Lab to complement the Institute's focus on humanities GIS. Three four-day Institute tracks are planned: 15-18 November 2009: Track 1: Stewardship (for library, museum, GIS and digital humanities center professionals) Track 2: Software (for Web developers, designers, systems administrators, and information scientists) 25-28 May 2010: Track 3: Scholarship (for humanities scholars, advanced graduate students, and post-docs) Application DEADLINES are September 1st (for Tracks 1 and 2) and December 1st (for Track 3). Special consideration will be given to those who apply as part of an institutional team, as the curriculum is designed to foster robust technical and social infrastructure, at a local level, for geospatial scholarship in the digital humanities. Apply to attend at the URL above, and please help distribute this message widely! Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ ● http://uvasci.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:49:51 +0100 From: Carlos Areces Subject: cfp: ESSLLI 2010 Call for Course and Workshop Proposals 22nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2010, 9-20 August, 2010, University of Copenhagen, Denmark %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. For more information, visit the FoLLI website, as well as ESSLLI’2009 website: http://esslli2009.labri.fr/. The ESSLLI 2010 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 22nd annual Summer School on important topics of active research in the broad interdisciplinary area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science, and the cognitive sciences, structured within the 3 traditional ESSLLI streams: -Language and Computation -Language and Logic -Logic and Computation We also welcome proposals that do not exactly fit one of these categories. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: All proposals should be submitted, using a prescribed form that will be available soon on the ESSLLI 2010 website www.hum.ku.dk/esslli2010, through EasyChair on http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2010, not later than ******* Monday, September 7, 2009 ******* Proposers must hold PhD or equivalent degrees and should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that do not conform with these guidelines may not be considered. [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:39:19 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Digital Classicist seminar: Linking Archaeological Data Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar Friday July 24th at 16:30 STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU *Leif Isaksen (Southampton)* *Linking Archaeological Data* The Port Networks Project, a joint venture between a wide range of archaeological institutions, is using innovative computational methods known as Semantic Web technologies in order to synthesise the large volume of excavation data available from harbour excavations around the Mediterranean. This presentation focuses on the human-computer interface. ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html where a fuller abstract is online, and audio recording and slideshow will be posted after the event. -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 25 08:19:05 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA09431DF7; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:19:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 04C1E31DEE; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:19:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090725081904.04C1E31DEE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:19:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.184 dull and sharp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 184. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Michael S. Hart" (3) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.179 dull and sharp [2] From: Melissa Terras (15) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 173. > > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > > > > > Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:11:31 +0200 > > From: Paolo Rocchi > > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.165 dull and sharp > > In-Reply-To: <20090717050055.A68D31FF9D@woodward.joyent.us> This sounds as if it is a reduction from Kipling's oft quoted: I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. which may have, in turn, been a reference to similarly quoted passages from the ancient Romans and Greeks. The point _I_ am making here is that the wider, not narrower, contextual points of view should be used, to include a reason why it was done when and by whom, which could include how the tools evolved, were learned, etc., to answer the question why it was done when it was, etc. Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg, Inventor of eBooks PS The "people, things, concepts" quote is great. Perhaps should be extended to stem from and through: Feeling, thought, idea, concept, model, prototype, product to the final stage of become part of our culture. > > > > >Paulo: > > > > > >> I find extraordinary Jim's remark: > > >> "Some people are more interested in people, > > >> Some people are more interested in things, > > >> Some people are more interested in concepts." > > >> > > >> My initial background stems from classical studies and I was convinced > > >> that culture was the ultimate authority in society. Unfortunately fashions > > >> changes and I find high-culture representatives more concerned on things > > >> than on tenets and knowledge. > > > > > >Why do you find my remark extraordinary? I find it obvious and simplistic. > > > > > >Yes, if you've studied the classics, you will be studying the works of > > >those who believed culture is the ultimate authority in society. But > > >even then, that belief was probably not true of most people, just > > >those educated enough to read and write. > > > > > >Jim R > > > > Hi Jim > > > > Recently Milan Zeleny (*) introduced a pretty scheme to illustrate the > > challenging pathway toward full scientific understanding. The scheme > > includes four steps: Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom (DIKW). > > Zeleny points out how *Data* is the set of measurements about an > > invention. Initial elaboration of those data generates *Information* that > > adds context to the invention. Scientists are able to describe the > > earliest discovery after the first two stages and to answer a question > > like "'What'?. Researchers become more aware of a find through successive > > studies, namely they gain *Knowledge* that is composed of the insights, > > the values and the judgments which make individuals capable of replying a > > query about the origins of the novel phenomenon (= 'How?'). *Wisdom*, the > > ultimate comprehension of a matter that answer a question like 'Why?', and > > is reached as long as scientists obtain the solid conceptualization of the > > entire context which rings the initial discovery. > > > > Whereas researchers made efforts to cover the entire pathway in the past > > centuries, present day researchers take two steps with ardor in order to > > obtain immediate return of investments. The third step is rather tardy and > > the fourth step involves a very few people. I find your aphorism may be > > used to sum up the sociological experience of those (like me) who work > > around the principles of computer science: > > - people more interested in people and in things, say over 99%, > > - people more interested in concepts, say less 1%. > > > > It is evident how the incomplete course DIKW - say the incomplete culture > > on computer systems - impairs the progress of technology and science as > > von Bertalanffy argued decades ago. And frequently we go around randomly. > > > > (*) Zeleny M. - Management Support Systems: Towards Integrated Knowledge > > -Management, Human Systems Management, 7(1), (1987). > > > > Yours. > > > > Paolo Rocchi > > > > IBM > > SWG Research and Development > > via Shanghai 53, 00144 ROMA > > phone: 39-6-5966-5213 > > fax : 39-6-5966-3618 > > > > IBM Italia S.p.A. > > Sede Legale: Circonvallazione Idroscalo - 20090 Segrate (MI) > > Cap. Soc. euro 400.001.359 > > C. F. e Reg. Imprese MI 01442240030 - Partita IVA 10914660153 > > Società soggetta all?attività di direzione e coordinamento di > > International Business Machines Corporation > > > > (Salvo che sia diversamente indicato sopra / Unless stated otherwise > > above) > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:51:49 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? In-Reply-To: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I broke my front tooth at SDH/SEMI 2006. just thought I would share that with you! (I noticed later in the hotel room)! m _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 25 08:20:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A738A31F18; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:20:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8FF5231F0F; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:20:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090725082007.8FF5231F0F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:20:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.185 IT support job at Oxford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 185. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:37:28 +0100 From: Michael Fraser Subject: IT Support Officer the Online Egyptological, Bibliography - deadline extended Please note that the deadline for applications for the following post has now been extended to 31st July. Griffith Institute in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford Information Technology Support Officer for the Online Egyptological Bibliography University Grade: 8, stages 01-04, Salary in the range £36,532 - £39,920 per annum pro rata to 40%, 16-month fixed-term The Griffith Institute is seeking to appoint from late 2009 an ICT Officer to provide support for the Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB), which will be moved from Amsterdam to a server in Oxford in late 2009 and will be further developed and migrated to a new software platform over the next year. This is a major database project that involves integrating material from diverse sources, including other databases that are to be incorporated into the OEB, as well as designing new input and search modules for use in a Unicode-compliant system. The successful candidate will have a professional knowledge of database systems, including Microsoft Access and MySQL with complex SQL statements and queries, as well as web-based systems, notably ASP, PHP, internet technologies such as (X)HTML and JavaScript, and general web design. She or he will also manage integrity, security, and online subscriptions to the OEB. This is a challenging position that will suit particularly a specialist in computing for the humanities. Further particulars, including details on how to apply, should be obtained from www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/ or from the office of The Faculty Board Secretary, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, tel. 01865 288202, email orient@orinst.ox.ac.uk, to whom applications should be sent not later than Friday 31st July 2009 The University is an equal opportunities employer. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 25 08:21:40 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4684D31F93; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:21:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DA4DE31F84; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:21:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090725082137.DA4DE31F84@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:21:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.186 what difference? digital editions? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 186. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Mueller (38) Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? [2] From: Peter Anderson (13) Subject: Digital editions/commentaries --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:13:03 +0100 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? In-Reply-To: <4A698E49020000CF000366C9@gvsu.edu> The other day I had a conversation with a colleague who in a friendly, but skeptical and pointed way asked whether all this digital stuff made an important difference. It is still a good question. In the domain of text-based scholarship, classical philology (broadly construed) is an important test case. It is the only discipline of substantial generic, linguistic, and diachronic scope of which it can be said that all or most of the relevant documents exist in fairly good and moderately interoperable form. There is no TLG or anything like it for English, German, or any other language. There is All of Old English and All of Old Norse, but those are boutique operations. Thus Classical philology on the face of it is a discipline where you could no longer blame the absence of a good enough cyber infrastructure for the lack of scholarly 'progress' (always a problematical word) or at least significant difference. If it has not mattered much in Classics, it is unlikely to matter much elsewhere. If there is good evidence about significant and worthwhile change in Classics, it has deep implications for other disciplines where the digital documentary infrastructure is still much more fragmentary. Where is that difference and what do we know about it? I don't think that significant change is necessarily measured in dramatic breakthroughs. It is more likely to happen in slow, subtle, and pervasive ways. But it ought to be measurable in some fashion. The TLG has now been around almost 30 years and for close to 20 years access to it has been within technical and financial reach of anybody who care. What difference has it made? What kinds of inquiry are possible now that were not practicable then? How do books and articles benefit from changed modes of access to the documentary base of classical philology? (I am not talking here about changed modes of access to secondary literature, because that is a phenomenon that applies with more or less equal force to all disciplines). I am inclined to believe that it has made a difference. But does anybody have evidence good enough to persuade my hard-nosed colleague that my belief is well grounded? --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:48:11 +0100 From: Peter Anderson Subject: Digital editions/commentaries In-Reply-To: <4A698E49020000CF000366C9@gvsu.edu> [This query forwarded from the Digital Classicist. --WM] Dear colleagues, I am a relative newcomer to the issues that many of you have been addressing for years, and so I am writing with no small measure of humility (or anxiety :) ). I'm in the planning stages of an xml edition and commentary (on Seneca's De Constantia Sapientis), working with a colleague in our school of computing, who will lend his expertise to construct the user interface. I have not yet found any projects that are yet working on establishing, for instance, tags for the different elements one would find in a "traditional" commentary; I can see that there are likely many existing descriptions from a range of other projects (e.g. variant readings). I am most interested in creating a wheel that other philologists will happily use and, of course, not recreating one where a good one exists. I shall be very grateful for any comments/wisdom, on or off list. Peter J Anderson Department of Classics 267 Lake Huron Hall Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI 616.331.3611 (office) 616.331.3775 (fax) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 25 08:26:18 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2AE430085; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:26:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C1CF930037; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:26:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090725082616.C1CF930037@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:26:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.188 events: resources; language; digital humanities; DH & CS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 188. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: saggion (233) Subject: Brazil: 7th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human LanguageTechnology - Call for Participation [2] From: Susan Schreibman (37) Subject: DRHA09 Registration now open [3] From: Shawn Day (13) Subject: DHO Summer School wins praise from participants [4] From: Mark Olsen (137) Subject: Announcement: DHCS 2009 Call for Papers and Publication of the 2008Proceedings --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:03:54 +0100 From: saggion Subject: Brazil: 7th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human LanguageTechnology - Call for Participation 7th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology STIL 2009 http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/stil09 September 8-11, 2009 São Carlos, Brazil First Call for Participation STIL 2009 (formerly known as TIL - Workshop on Information and Human Language Technology) is the annual Language Technology event supported by the Brazilian Computer Society (http://www.sbc.org.br/) (SBC) and by the Brazilian Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing (http://www.nilc.icmc.usp.br/cepln/). The conference has a multidisciplinary nature and covers a broad spectrum of disciplines related to Human Language Technology, such as Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, and Information Science, among others. It aims at bringing together both academic and industry participants that work on those areas. For all information about the conference (programme, registration, conference fees, accommodation, travel, etc.) please follow this link http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/stil09/. The list of accepted papers has been published at the conference web site and is listed below for your convenience. In addition, STIL 2009 includes the following Invited Talks and Tutorials, along with other activities. [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:01:06 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: DRHA09 Registration now open Registration for Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts 2009 (DRHA) at Queen's University Belfast, is now open http://dho.ie/drha2009 . The Programme Committee has assembled an extremely strong programme and we are very much looking forward to a stimulating conference. I want to draw your attention to two items on the DRHA09 Website: --Early bird registration ends 31 July. Fees are significantly reduced for those registering before 31 July. For further details, please see http://dho.ie/drha2009/registration --Pre-conference workshops. There are three pre-conference workshops. To register for the workshops at the discounted price, and to ensure a place, you must register by 31 July. For workshop descriptions, please see http://dho.ie/drha2009/programme/workshops for pricing please see http://dho.ie/drha2009/registration For questions about the programme or local arrangements, please use the conference feedback form at http://dho.ie/drha2009/contact -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 0491966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` Susan.Schreibman@gmail.com http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:32:24 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: DHO Summer School wins praise from participants Over 60 humanities scholars from around the world participated in the second annual DHO Summer School. Co-sponsored by NINES and 18th Connect, the Summer School featured master classes and lectures from Dr Paul Ell, Professor Hans Walter Gabler, Dr Aaron Quigley, and Dr Andrew Stauffer. Thought-provoking and intense workshop streams in text encoding, text transformation, data modelling, and data visualisation were led by subject matter experts. This year's Summer School had twice as many participants as last year expanding from two to four workshop strands. Workshop attendees enthusiastically joined in wide-ranging discussions and were quick to praise the effectiveness of the blend of lectures, group work, and hands-on components. Delegates remarked that there was a great mix of theory and information on resources for immediate use as well as inspiration for future directions. [http://dho.ie/sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/editor/images/spacer.gif]In the data visualisation strand, an enterprising participant collected feedback as a class project on fellow students' views of the summer school. Utilising a visualisation, it is immediately apparent that the word 'useful' is the most common, reflecting the widely-held view that the summer school provided an immediate application of knowledge. However the word 'others' is also prominent, reflecting the sense of community and informal learning that took place during the week. See the visualisation at: http://dho.ie/node/177#visualisation Lectures subjected a wide variety of topics to lively discourse. Drs Susan Schreibman and Laura Mandell introduced the Summer School and presented a highly interactive session on the nature, mutability, and centrality of digital objects to digital humanities research. Dr Aaron Quigley (University College Dublin) examined the potential of cutting edge visualisation techniques for data analysis in a talk focusing on the challenges faced by researchers using these tools. Dr Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia) provided a thoroughly engaging lecture that reconceptualised the nature of the archive in a digital age. Dr Paul Ell of Queen's University, Belfast, lectured on the challenge to sustainability that has faced digital projects over the past few years and generated fruitful discussion on ideas for the future. Professor Hans Walter Gabler (University of London) led the Summer School's signature master class in digital scholarly editions. This class also featured an illuminating demonstration, by Dr Luca Crispi, of the virtual Yeats exhibit which he co-curated at the National Library of Ireland. This master class sparked strong interest and allowed for in depth interaction between the audience and Professor Gabler. This year's Summer School featured two brilliant evening events. A wine reception on Monday night launched the DRAPIer portal of Irish research projects http://dho.ie/node/185 . On Wednesday night attendees were treated to a sparkling harp recital by Drs Emily and Benita Cullen that combined evocative performance with an illuminating lecture on the Celtic Harp as an Icon and Instrument. The Summer School this year was a resounding success and valuable feedback from attendees will make next year's even better. The 2010 Summer School will be held from 19 -23 July in Dublin. We look forward to seeing you there. There is a photo gallery from the Summer School Information on the Summer School programme, lectures, master class and workshop strands are available at the Summer School site http://dho.ie/ss2009 . --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:36:25 +0100 From: Mark Olsen Subject: Announcement: DHCS 2009 Call for Papers and Publication of the 2008Proceedings On behalf of the Program Committee of Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS), I am pleased to announce both the publication of the Proceedings of the 2008 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (http://jdhcs.uchicago.edu/) and our Call for Papers for the 2009 Colloquium, to be held at the Illinois Institute of Technology, November 14–16, 2009. I hope you will consider submitting a proposal for the 2009 Colloquium and I look forward to seeing you in Chicago. Please circulate this announcement widely. CALL FOR PAPERS2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) Critical Computing: Models and Challenges for Interdisciplinary Collaboration URL: http://dhcs.iit.edu Submission Deadline: August 30, 2009 Colloquium Dates: November 14 – 16, 2009 Location: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL The annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) was established to bring together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to advance the digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. The theme of this year's Chicago DHCS Colloquium is "Critical Computing". We will explore how research collaborations between computer scientists and humanists can be made most effective. * How can computation provide new critical tools for humanists? * How can humanities scholarship help us understand the real meaning and import of computational analysis of human artifacts? We invite presentation proposals from scholars, researchers and students on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the humanities and computer science. We welcome proposals for: * Paper presentations (20 minute talks) * Poster presentations (open session) * Software demonstrations (open session) * Panel discussions (60-90 minute session) * Performances * Pre-conference tutorials/workshops/seminars (1-4 hours) * Pre-conference “birds of a feather” technical meetings (1-4 hours) Last year's proceedings are available at: http://jdhcs.uchicago.edu Submission Format: Please submit a (2 page) proposal in PDF format via http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/DHCS2009. Graduate Student Travel Fund: A small number of travel grants will be available to assist graduate students presenting at the colloquium with travel expenses. More information about the application process will be available soon. Important Dates: Deadline for Submissions: Sunday, August 30 Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 14 Full Program Announcement: Thursday, September 24 Registration opens: Tuesday, September 29 Keynote Speakers: Prof. Vasant Honavar, professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University, is the founder and director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory and the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning & Discovery. His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics and computational biology, data mining, semantic web, and social informatics. Prof. Honavar's recent work focuses on information integration and knowledge discovery from diverse data sources, learning from biological and textual data, and modular ontologies. Other keynote speakers at DHCS-2009 will be announced shortly, once they are confirmed. Previous DHCS keynote speakers have included Gregory Crane, Stephen Downie, Oren Etzioni, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Lewis Lancaster, Ben Schneiderman, John Unsworth, and Martin Wattenberg. DHCS-2009 is sponsored by: Illinois Institute of Technology The University of Chicago Northwestern University Program Committee: * Prof. Shlomo Argamon, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology * Prof. Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago * Prof. Ophir Frieder, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology * Dr. Nazli Goharian, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology * Dr. Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library * Prof. Martin Mueller, Department of English and Classics, Northwestern University * Dr. Mark Olsen, Associate Director of the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago * Prof. Kathryn Riley, Humanities Department, Illinois Institute of Technology * Prof. Jason Salavon, Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago * Prof. Karl Stolley, Humanities Department, Illinois Institute of Technology * Prof. Wai Gen Yee, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology Preliminary Colloquium Schedule: Pre-conference: DHCS will begin with a half-day pre-conference session the afternoon of Saturday, November 14, offering introductory tutorials and/or seminars on topics such as text analysis/data-mining or GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications for the humanities. We also encourage colloquium attendees to use the pre-conference period for informal "birds of a feather" meetings on topics of common interest (e.g. "digital archaeology"). The formal DHCS colloquium program, on Sunday, November 15 and Monday, November 16, will consist of several 1-1/2 hour paper presentation sessions, three keynote addresses, and two 2 hour poster sessions. Generous time has been set aside for questions and follow-up discussions. There are no parallel sessions. For further details, please follow updates on the DHCS website. Contact Info: Please email dhcs2009@iit.edu for more information. Colloquium Website: http://dhcs.iit.edu Information about previous years' colloquiua is available at http://dhcs.uchicago.edu and http://dhcs.northwestern.edu. -- Mark Olsen ARTFL Project University of Chicago 773-702-8687 http://markvolsen.blogspot.com/ FAQ answer: My mother still calls me Marky Maypo or just Maypo, hence the handle. :-) http://www.homestatfarm.com/history_marky_maypo.php _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 26 07:34:53 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D1C024769; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:34:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2ABD124757; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:34:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090726073451.2ABD124757@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:34:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.190 making a difference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 190. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:29:32 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: making a difference > "An empirical proposition can be tested" (we say). But how? and > through what? What counts as its test? ... -- As if giving grounds > did not come to an end sometime. But the end is not an ungrounded > presupposition: it is an ungrounded way of acting. -- Ludwig > Wittgenstein, On certainty, ed. Anscombe and von Wright, 109-110 In Humanist 23.186 Martin Mueller relays a conversation with a colleague who wanted to know if all this digital stuff that we push on the world has made an important difference. Martin cited classical philology as a good test-case, perhaps the best we have for textual computing given the amount of work done for classicists and by classicists in the digital medium. He noted that there's no excuse easily cited to explain a negative answer: we have the resources and many tools; we've had the time to use and explore them. So what gives or has given? Martin is exercising a genre of questioning nearly as old as the activity being questioned: such callings-to-account began at least as early as 1962 -- not as prematurely as you might think -- and have recurred through the years many, many times. Tiresomely so, an impatient person would declare; curiously so, a more thoughtful person might. The answers have *never* been conclusive, but the questioning has not ceased. So is this questioning merely a nervous tic of a troubled field of enquiry? (One wonders, what field or discipline is not troubled these days?) A sign of a "degenerating research programme", to use Imre Lakatos' expression? A reminder that we really do need to develop our defensive rhetorical skills in the face of challenges? Or what? Let me ask another question instead: what exactly would serve as an acceptable, persuasive answer? What would be the kind of evidence we'd find conclusive? Martin wisely brushes aside the curiously recurrent claims to revolutionary effect. "I don't think", he says, "that significant change is necessarily measured in dramatic breakthroughs. It is more likely to happen in slow, subtle, and pervasive ways." Let's say, as I think too, that this is the case. Then what sort of studies would we need to bring these subtle ways of change to the fore? Histories in the sociology of knowledge, I'd think. Some of us have been saying for some time that what's happening in digital projects and departments needs to be studied sociologically, as the activities in scientific laboratories have been studied, by the likes of Steve Woolgar, Bruno Latour, Karin Knorr Cetina and others. We do need to know about the "epistemic culture" we've been creating and how we've been modifying the others. It seems the classicists would like to know whether they're different these days as a result. But sociological methods have their limits. Rather than get caught up solely in trying to measure whether a difference has been made, and if so what it is, I think we should simultaneously challenge the assumptions behind the statement that this difference "ought to be measurable in some fashion", as Martin says. Perhaps it can be measured. But is that the point, or the sole point? What difference has classics made to the world in the last 60 years? Do classicists, or scholars of any stripe, think that being evaluated by utilitarian measure is the right way to assess their worth to humanity? Are we so far gone down the downward path to the bottom line that we can think in no other way? What happened to wanting to know, to intellectual curiosity? What sort of conception of the human being are we left with if the only reason for opening the eyes is to find the food to feed the body? Or, worse perhaps, to feed someone else's and get a burp for thanks. This is not to say that the differences made by digital resources and tools are not important, even vital to know about. Part of the reason for needing to know about them is that they are hardly all positive differences. Some of them are seriously otherwise. Books such as Paul Edwards' The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (MIT, 1996) and David Golumba's The Cultural Logic of Computation (Harvard, 2009) -- read them tonight -- chime with Joseph Weizenbaum's darkest assessments and give more reason to pay attention to Langdon Winner's warnings. One of the big problems we have is that professionally, in our accounting of our reasons for being, we pay attention only to our own little gardens, as if we were not citizens of this or that country, as if what is reported on the 7 o'clock news has nothing to do with us, as if we don't have lives. So scholarly curiosity becomes something not even we understand and value, since we're so busy packaging deliverables for the Man. We then don't teach being curious to our students, who have been told to expect "transferrable skills", and so assess us in those terms. Is it any wonder that they, faced *at best* with the prospect of being like their parents, get restless, or worse? Yes, we in the digital humanities are useful to others. We know this. What effects our usefulness has had needs to be studied, because these effects, or certainly the important ones, are long-term, quietly progressing, subtle. But WHY do we do what we do -- rather than something else for which utilitarian arguments don't need to be made, like investment banking? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 27 07:54:02 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49EA327A8; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:54:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1F2F332779; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:54:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090727075400.1F2F332779@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:54:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 191. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (27) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.190 making a difference [2] From: Sterling Fluharty (77) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.190 making a difference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:20:48 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.190 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090726073451.2ABD124757@woodward.joyent.us> The "What have we accomplished" question could be approached by asking what would happen if the humanities had to stop using computers. What would be lost? The answer I reach is that apart from dropping out of the current world of communications and information retireval and dissemination technologies, not much. Oh, there are some works whose existence depends upon computers for their display and those would be gone, but the progress of humanities thought would survive intact. The fancy computational techniques for text analysis could still be done by hand, but would just be much slower. Concordances made a publishing appearance long before they were computer-generated (and the impact of computer generated concordances seems to have been to supress the publication of print concordances because they are so readily produced upon demand). So, what one arrives at is that the humanities is merely riding the wave of technology and not a force within that wave. The real question is 'so what'? Why does adaptation to the use of a contemporary technology have to have advanced the field? Do physicists worry about how 'cell phones' have advanced the state of the art in physics? Or, if you'd like the other question... What isn't the humanities doing that 'could' affect the progress of humanities thought? One of the favorite questions of the folks with supercomputers at their disposal is what could your field do with supercomputing capability? If you had access to free unlimited super-fast computation, free data storage, world-wide networks of lightening fast communications, all free, what would you do with it? --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:29:21 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.190 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090726073451.2ABD124757@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I find it curious that you would call investment banking unproblematically utilitarian. Perhaps you missed the New York Times article this past week about high-frequency trading on Wall Street. In fact, the topic of the article seems to fit quite nicely with Golumba's thesis about computers mostly benefiting those who already have power in society. I suppose someone could argue that the use of powerful computers to beat out small investors in the stock markets is a useful thing. Goldman Sachs would certainly agree with that position. But I think some of us would question that view and advocate for a more egalitarian utilitarianism. Maybe I have misunderstood you. In your usage, utilitarian apparently has a negative connotation. It seems that you worry about the humanities being measured by the bottom line. Putting a price tag on the humanities would be foolhardy, I hear you saying. Moreover, I think you are urging us to move beyond lower-level measures and instead become truly curious and reach our full potential. For me, utilitarian has an additional meaning. Simply put, I think we should measure the value of our work by its usefulness. As I see it, the things that are most valuable are the things that are wanted or needed by the largest numbers of people or that can make the largest difference in their lives. And since not everyone agrees on who should have the most right to use things of value, politics ensue. I could be wrong, but it sounds like you hope for the emergence of a scholarly culture that operates with one foot in academia and the other in real-world politics. For too long, you say, scholars have carefully but narrowly tended to the gardens of their disciplinary niches. By extension, our "academic" discussions have too often been hypothetical or theoretical with little expectation of producing an immediate or practical result. We have too often ignored, you say, how our scholarly work could or should connect with the headlines of the day. Your prescription for these problems is intellectual curiosity. The ways of looking beyond the blinders of our professions, of questioning the established ways of doing things and being truly innovative, should be taught and cherished. Merely teaching skills, you say, will never do much to make the world a better place. I really wonder if we can have it both ways. Some humanists have told me they already know what kind of work is most valuable, or what kinds of scholarship they should produce, and they don't need the public to tell them what would be most useful. I don't think the public is fooled; I believe they can tell when a humanist is being paternalistic. Other humanists seem to value the isolation afforded by the ivory tower. They probably see value in incubating ideas for a decade or so before they appear as a published monograph. This is starting to change as digital publication makes much of our work available to the masses. But somehow I doubt humanists will start soliciting input and feedback from the public at various stages of their scholarly projects. You say that digital humanists are slowly and subtly making new contributions to knowledge. I wonder if the public sees this as an excuse for not being more innovative. You claim that changes wrought by the digital humanities are pervasive. Perhaps they are, but I am not sure we can continue producing those kinds of changes without measuring the extent of their effect. Measurement can be a curious thing. Consider a famous story from psychology. At some point in the 1980s, the College Entrance Examination Board decided to survey the nearly one million college-bound students who would take the SAT that year. The premise was simple: Students were asked to compare their abilities with those of typical Americans their same age. The results were quite interesting. For instance, 60% said their ability to get along with others put them in the top 10%, 0% rated themselves below average, and 25% said they were in the top 1%. This has since been identified as the self-serving bias. So the question I would raise is the extent to which we can trust digital humanists to determine whether their work has been successful or made an important difference. Obviously, opinion polls have their weaknesses. But surely measuring can be made more scientific. So maybe what we need to develop is a metrics of usefulness. Maybe only then will we better grasp the past, present, and future worth of the humanities. Best wishes, Sterling FluhartyUniversity of New Mexico On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 190. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:29:32 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 28 06:00:57 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A34A328E8; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:00:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 82585328D6; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:00:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090728060054.82585328D6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:00:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.192 making a difference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 192. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (55) Subject: prying apart the differences made and possible [2] From: renata lemos (6) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference [3] From: "Holly C. Shulman" (30) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference [4] From: Wendell Piez (57) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.186 what difference? digital editions? [5] From: John Walsh (29) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference [6] From: "Mark LeBlanc" (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference [7] From: Melissa Terras (72) Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? [8] From: OKELL E.R. (26) Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? [9] From: Hugh Cayless (85) Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:48:13 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: prying apart the differences made and possible Sterling Fluharty, in the last Humanist, has kindly brought tools to bear on my last note, asking some questions and offering other possibilities on which I'd like to comment. I'll do so in the order given. I called investment banking unproblematically utilitarian actually meaning that in broad strokes we as a society do not question the usefulness of the profession when it is done as it is supposed to be done. The world needs banks and investments, no question. I mentioned it, of course, in contrast to the academic professions, at least those in the humanities, the usefulness of which isn't at all clear to a majority of our fellow citizens, or indeed to many of us. My ironical intent was I suppose painfully obvious; it was meant to suggest that public judgements about what is truly useful, for the good of all, can be quite mistaken. I did use "utilitarian" negatively. Perhaps I should more accurately have avoided the looser adjective for the more philosophically or doctrinally specific noun, utilitarianism. I was intending to suggest that once one drops into the opposition of useful to useless our game is lost. Unless you have the wit of Oscar Wilde, which I don't, alas. Of course one wants one's work to have effects in the world, to be appreciated and used by others. But as a formalized criterion, usefulness runs afoul of misunderstandings, fashions, ignorance and fear. Again I ask, with tongue somewhat in cheek, of what USE is classics, or history, or whatever? We all are asked to come up with explanations these days, prose for the undergraduate prospectus etc. An important exercise, I think. But the task of such prose is in my view to seize the question of usefulness and make it into a much better question, e.g. what are we that we find certain things useful, others useless? How might we find more of the world relevant to our humane uses -- by becoming more magnanimous, more imaginative? I didn't really mean to suggest that we need a foot in politics. I, for one, would make a very poor politician, as some of my colleagues here know quite well. Rather I meant to suggest that our job as intellectuals makes much more sense if we can hook into the world and/or see what we do as having long-term positive consequences for what's happening beyond our specialisms. (I really do think we can make a profound difference, as the history of educational reform suggests.) Like many here, I suppose, I wouldn't want the public (e.g. my neighbours or anyone else, for that matter) telling me what to do. I'm hired to educate as the skilled joiner is hired to make a window; if the window won't open or rattles in its frame, then governor should intervene, but not otherwise. As for metrics, I do recommend Thomas Kuhn's paper, "The function of measurement in modern physical science", in The Essential Tension (1977) as a tool with which to pry into our all too easy acceptance of the notion that measuring provides a theoretically unladen way of arriving at The Truth. I have great respect for the skills with numbers that are sometimes manifested in statistically based studies, e.g. in sociology. But it's a very, very tricky business. So, I ask my old question in a new way: if our usefulness is measured by our paymasters, how should it be done, if at all? Yours,WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:22:37 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090727075400.1F2F332779@woodward.joyent.us> > Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:20:48 -0500 > From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.190 making a difference > In-Reply-To: <20090726073451.2ABD124757@woodward.joyent.us> > > The "What have we accomplished" question could be approached by asking > what would happen if the humanities had to stop using computers. What > would be lost? > > The answer I reach is that apart from dropping out of the current > world of communications and information retireval and dissemination > technologies, not much. I´m sorry, but I couldn´t disagree more. What seems to be "not much" to you in fact is your own capability of spreading and discussing your ideas and getting live feedback from all over the world and the impact that has on the evolution of your own IDEAS - just like what is happening right now... This is definitely a MAJOR loss, if you took computers out of the equation. However this wouldn´t even be the true difference made by technology... this would be only a slight one. the real, important difference made by technology in the digital humanities field is that a technological society operates according to a technological logic, one that has infiltrated each and every social practice and milieu - particularly ours. so in fact, it is not a question of technological applications, which are (or may seem to be) indeed limited - but of technological IMPLICATIONS, which have and will continue to change our field of intellectual tecniques, just in the same way technology changes itself: fast, exponentially, convergently, pervasively. the reason why some of us have been complaining about how dull and boring a lot of the work being presented is lies in the fact that unfortunately 99% of the work has been focused on dry applications of technology, while very little work is focused on the wider implications of technology: the real interesting and fascinating stuff - but also the difficult, complicated stuff... to answer questions about what technologies are useful and how to make technologies useful to the field is easy. to answer questions about WHY technologies are or are not completely reshaping the field is something else entirely. renata lemos eletrocooperativa - são paulo, brazil puc sp, brazil --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:36:18 -0400 From: "Holly C. Shulman" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090727075400.1F2F332779@woodward.joyent.us> To weigh in on this subject, the previous remark from amsler: "The fancy computational techniques for text analysis could still be done by hand, but would just be much slower." This question of degree, it seems to me, can become large enough to verge on a question of kind. That is to say, the much slower could remain largely undone because it is so hard. Even before concordances, great Talmudic scholars could basically recite the basic tractates. And easily say what the most important 10 or 20 or 50 scholars had to say on any matter. So? Looking at this issue from the standpoint of a historian whose major digital humanities work has been done in the U.S. Early Republic, you have probably more than 300 volumes of paper editions of the founding fathers alone, not to mention other founders suc as John Jay. Then perhaps mix in women. At a certain point, if you want to know what they were all saying on a certain topic over a wide range of time the effort becomes intense. If you want to mix that in with insights that have been made in journal articles over the past 100 years, it becomes an even more difficult task. If you want to work in the 20th century, where evidence extends to sound and moving images, even more so. It seems to this scholar that the question of linking texts etc.(that have beeen well marked up etc.) lies at the heart of what digital can do for Humanities. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:43:13 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.186 what difference? digital editions? In-Reply-To: <20090725082137.DA4DE31F84@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard and HUMANIST, At 04:21 AM 7/25/2009, Martin Mueller writes, about digital classical scholarship (standing in for the inevitable wider question): >What difference has it made? What kinds of inquiry are possible now >that were not practicable then? How do books and articles benefit from >changed modes of access to the documentary base of classical >philology? (I am not talking here about changed modes of access to >secondary literature, because that is a phenomenon that applies with >more or less equal force to all disciplines). > >I am inclined to believe that it has made a difference. But does >anybody have evidence good enough to persuade my hard-nosed colleague >that my belief is well grounded? I agree that this is an important question to be asking. But I doubt we should know the answer, at least not yet. In order to clarify the question being asked, we need to consider what difference would count as a difference. The inevitable and well-worn comparison to the advent of print 500 years ago comes to mind. What difference did that make? How was that important? The answers to these questions may themselves be illuminating. Can we be sure that the 30 years Martin cites since the beginning of the TLG is an adequate time frame? Should we not be considering developments that will take much longer? One can certainly argue that the European Renaissance could only happen once. Yet just as its shape and direction were unimaginable to those in the midst of it, would we know what kind of renaissance was happening among us? That being said, any number of digital projects in the Classics show how deeply we are into a first phase. The outlines of the next one, I think, may become visible once we get the texts onto handheld devices, annotated with dynamic support for translation and morphological analysis (on the word, phrase and text level) that significantly changes the affordances for casual learning and reading of Greek and Latin in the original. On the other hand, even then I'm not sure we will see changes that are outwardly so dramatic, at least not in our lifetimes. Nor are the real changes necessarily going to be among the specialists. Audiences, one might hope, will both widen (as work becomes more accessible) and narrow (as niches become newly viable). Then too, the development of these resources may ultimately have more impact on the culture at large than within the Classics themselves, as technologies for Classical philology are then applied to other languages and literatures. Which is just what happened, arguably, the last time around. In other words, I think Martin's friendly interlocutor is looking in the wrong direction. It wasn't so much Philology that was changed by the Renaissance, although that happened, slowly but surely; it was also Philology -- amidst much, much more -- that changed everything else. Cheers, Wendell ========================================================= Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:58:37 -0400 From: John Walsh Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090727075400.1F2F332779@woodward.joyent.us> amsler@cs.utexas.edu wrote: > > The "What have we accomplished" question could be approached by asking > what would happen if the humanities had to stop using computers. What > would be lost? > > The answer I reach is that apart from dropping out of the current > world of communications and information retireval and dissemination > technologies, not much. I think the "what would be lost?" approach is an interesting way of looking at the problem, but I disagree with the conclusion "not much." Dropping out of the current communications and information dissemination infrastructure would result in an incalculable loss and not only remove practical tools from our tool set but also separate the humanities from a vast swath of our culture. The question could have been posed similarly a few hundred years ago: "what would happen if the humanities had to stop using printed books?" Certainly in retrospect few of us would say, "not much." As communications technologies and media change, it is important for the humanities not just to keep up but to help lead the way and take a critical look at how the changes will impact past, present, and future literature, classics, art, etc. John -- | John A. Walsh | Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science | Indiana University, 1320 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405 | www: http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/jawalsh/ | Voice:812-856-0707 Fax:812-856-2062 --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:43:44 -0400 From: "Mark LeBlanc" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090727075400.1F2F332779@woodward.joyent.us> >>The real question is 'so what'? [well, please interpret my reply as from someone from outside your discipline] so what? well, for one, as a computer scientist, i would not be listening in on this interesting thread; second, i would not be typing this from Newfoundland at the ISAS (International Society of Anglo-Saxonists) conference ... hanging out, sharing drinks and stories with scholars of ancient texts; they would not be listening to our research group share how as programmers and statisticians, we are amazed at the open questions asked of this corpus ... and how we can (in a modest way), do what John Burrows calls "playing the middle game" where (i) lots of scholarship occurs; (ii) we run experiments (the middle-game); and (iii) lots of scholarship must occur after; in short, without computers, we would miss these exciting multidisciplinary collaborations wandering in a sea of texts, mark --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:05:33 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? Hi everyone, I'd just like to chip in and say this is what the funding councils are calling "Evidence of Value" - and are asking us to show evidence for the value of digital humanities research. Its important, as funding cuts in this area (such as the withdrawal of funds for the AHDS) are based on the perceived lack of evidence of value. Unless we can articulate, as a community, the better/faster/more nature of digital, we will struggle even harder for funding in years to come. And no, I am not aware of any real quantitative research into the matter (save log analysis techniques, which are themselves not entirely transparent). It would be interesting to hear of anyone who knew of relevant research. Melissa Terras Martin Mueller wrote: > The other day I had a conversation with a colleague who in a friendly, > but skeptical and pointed way asked whether all this digital stuff made > an important difference. It is still a good question. In the domain of > text-based scholarship, classical philology (broadly construed) is an > important test case. It is the only discipline of substantial generic, > linguistic, and diachronic scope of which it can be said that all or > most of the relevant documents exist in fairly good and moderately > interoperable form. There is no TLG or anything like it for English, > German, or any other language. There is All of Old English and All of > Old Norse, but those are boutique operations. > > Thus Classical philology on the face of it is a discipline where you > could no longer blame the absence of a good enough cyber infrastructure > for the lack of scholarly 'progress' (always a problematical word) or at > least significant difference. If it has not mattered much in Classics, > it is unlikely to matter much elsewhere. If there is good evidence about > significant and worthwhile change in Classics, it has deep implications > for other disciplines where the digital documentary infrastructure is > still much more fragmentary. > > Where is that difference and what do we know about it? I don't think > that significant change is necessarily measured in dramatic > breakthroughs. It is more likely to happen in slow, subtle, and > pervasive ways. But it ought to be measurable in some fashion. The TLG > has now been around almost 30 years and for close to 20 years access to > it has been within technical and financial reach of anybody who care. > > What difference has it made? What kinds of inquiry are possible now that > were not practicable then? How do books and articles benefit from > changed modes of access to the documentary base of classical philology? > (I am not talking here about changed modes of access to secondary > literature, because that is a phenomenon that applies with more or less > equal force to all disciplines). > > I am inclined to believe that it has made a difference. But does anybody > have evidence good enough to persuade my hard-nosed colleague that my > belief is well grounded? > -- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication Department of 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@ucl.ac.uk Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/melissa-terras/ Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ Digital Images for the Information Professional. Available now through all good bookshops, or from Ashgate at http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&pageSubject=324&title_id=8986&edition_id=9780 --[8]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:45:04 +0100 From: OKELL E.R. Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? In-Reply-To: A<4A6D953D.5070305@ucl.ac.uk> While this is perhaps not exactly what you are looking for, the HCA Subject Centre conducted a survey of digital resource use in teaching in 2005-06. 71% of respondents thought that their teaching practice had altered as a result of having access to digital resources, which they defined as things like e-journals, email and websites (inc. Perseus and spin offs like Diogenes but also Diotima and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri as well as online bibliographies), but also included things like the TLG/PHI. So the availability of reliable digital resources affects a) the materials used in teaching and b) the methods used to deliver teaching materials. As teaching is increasingly closely linked to research the use of digital resources for research is itself creeping into teaching, especially on research methods/skills modules. Cary MacMahon's report on "Using and Sharing Online Resources in History, Classics and Archaeology" is available to download from the page http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/hca/themes/e-learning/resources (it's the link at the bottom of the top paragraph). The attitudes of classicists and multidisciplinary scholars (predominantly classics + history/archaeology or + both) towards such resources and to using such resources were very positive. Best, Eleanor --[9]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:45:32 +0100 From: Hugh Cayless Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? I'd say the jury is still out. While digital corpora have been widely available for a couple of decades, and they have made a difference, I'm not sure it's an overwhelming one. Before there were the TLG and PHI, there had been print concordances for many authors available for a very long time. Digital concordances are much faster, but they aren't necessarily qualitatively different than their predecessors. Classics made a lot of progress by brute force and discipline before digital, so perhaps it was less of a revolution than it might have been. I've been on the periphery of classical philology for a decade (building digital tools and datasets), so I can't speak with any authority about how it may have changed recently, and I began grad school in the age of the CD-ROM and left in the age of the web, so I don't have much to contrast it with. I can say that the PHI and TLG got a great deal of use in my day, while the hefty concordance of Ovid (for example) was rarely taken off the shelf. But searching and concordance-generation are only first steps. When I was writing my dissertation (on rhetorical tropes in Hellenistic through Augustan praise poetry), the digital tools didn't really help me all that much (though the ability to grab digital copies of texts was a great boon and saved me a lot of typing). If I were undertaking the same project today, I would probably be attempting to use text- mining and automated classification techniques, but back then I didn't have the skills—and to be honest, I don't know whether anyone in the department would have been capable of evaluating it. I expect there will be a point at which text mining and statistical methods really take off in popularity, especially in dealing with corpora like inscriptions and papyri that are large enough to warrant that kind of technique, and this will mark a real change in the character of (some) classical scholarship, but to this point, I think a lot of what has been done simply makes aspects of the old kinds of investigation easier. What I would *hope* to see change due to digital sources, but can't really distinguish from my limited perspective, is more cross-disciplinary studies, since it's far easier to find evidence outside a narrow area of focus now. I would also hope to see less naïveté, such as (to give an egregious example) discussions of the cultures of the ancient Black Sea region that rely heavily on Ovid and exclude the evidence of inscriptions and archaeology. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:10:53 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: politics and thought Let me here put a case from Paul N. Edwards, The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, and then question its causal extension into the world we know best. Discussing the use of computing in the Vietnam War, Edwards argues as follows: > The political purpose of the electronic battlefield was to build a > deadly version of what Shoshana ZubofF has called an "information > panopticon." Zuboff's panopticons are offices and factories whose > central information systems allow their managers to record every > employee's activity at microscopic levels of detail. By relying on > the recorded database and its statistics rather than personal > observation to judge employees, these systems "create the fantasy of > a world that is not only transparent but also shorn of the conflict > associated with subjective opinion." They reflect a desire for "light > without heat," knowledge without confrontation, power without > friction. Ideally, panoptic power is self-enforcing: people who know > their every act is "on the record" tend to do and say what they think > they are supposed to do and say. On the pseudo-panoptic battlefields > of the Vietnam War, soldiers subjected to panoptic control -- managed > by computers -- did exactly what workers in panoptic factories often > do: they faked the data and overrode the sensors. The Americans made > up body counts and fabricated statistics. The NVA tape-recorded truck > sounds and carried bags of urine to confuse the McNamara Line's > sensors. Crippled by its own "regime of truth," the system faltered > and was finally defeated.... > > Pure information, "light without heat," would illuminate future war. > In its bright and tightly focused beam, the army of the information > age would finally discover certainty in command, combat without > (American) casualties, total oversight, global remote control. > Political leaders could achieve the ideal ofAmerican antimilitarism: > an armed force that would function instantly and mechanically, > virtually replacing soldiers with machines. The globe itself would > become the ultimate panopticon, with American soldiers manning its > guard tower, in the final union of information technology with > closed-world politics. (pp. 144-5) Let's say for purposes of argument here that the above is an historically accurate account (as I believe it to be). But consider what he says in the next chapter. In discussing cybernetics, cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence, he argues "that the cyborg discourse generated by these theories was from the outset both profoundly practical and deeply linked to [the] closed-world discourse" of techno-war. "Cognitive theories, like computer technology, were first created to assist in mechanizing military tasks previously transformed by human beings." (p. 147) As stated this causal connection between military purposes and cognitive theories seems profoundly misleading. The intent may work for Norbert Wiener, but most of what he made so well known had been around for some time, as David Mindell shows, in Between Human and Machine. For others, as far as their conscious intentions are concerned, this is simply not true, e.g. Warren McCulloch, Walter Pitts, John von Neumann. True, they were Americans in the midst of war and were involved in the war-effort like almost everyone whose research came anywhere near usefulness by the military. But a causal connection? Isn't history, real history, far more complex than that? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 28 06:06:06 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C416E32A41; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:06:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EAD5332A32; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:06:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090728060603.EAD5332A32@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:06:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.194 survey on sustainable development X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 194. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:42:43 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: A reminder: ESD Survey Version 1.6 Following is a reminder concerning a survey on education for sustainable development, sent in the hope of getting more replies. But first an answer to the question, what is the connection with the digital humanities? The answer emerges from the following questions: 1. How can we show, via digital media, that humanity is at a turning point in its relationship to the human habitat? -- There are many excellent resources on this, with more emerging every day. 2. How can we motivate, via digital media, that citizens must support (via the democratic process) changes to the current system of economic incentives so as to remove/reduce incentives that lead to both short term gains and environmental damage, and replace them with a new system of economic incentives that lead to both short term well-being and long term sustainable development? -- There are practically no resources on this, and no prospects for more. We are seeking answers to question 2. In other words: We know that economic incentives work. We are researching for ways to redefine economic incentives so that they are more compatible with other goals such as human well-being (e.g., health of mind and body) as well as conservation of the human habitat. Most researchers are of the opinion that people will not change lifestyles and consumption priorities until they are hit in the pocketbook. If this is going to be the only way it works, it may be at the expense of much human suffering caused by environmental dislocations (e.g., global warming, climate change, etc.). Therefore, we need to learn how to use digital media to motivate/encourage people to support (thus making it politically viable) changing the current set of economic incentives to a new set on economic incentives pursuant to both short term well-being -- redefined as being more, not having more -- and the long term survivability of human civilization. And so the REMINDER. The survey on education for sustainable development (ESD) is online. Its objective is to gather an inventory of critical issuesthat frequently emerge in sustainable development. The eight UNESCO themes are as follows: 1. Education for gender equality 2. Education for health promotion 3. Education for environmental stewardship 4. Education for rural development 5. Education for cultural diversity 6. Education for peace and human security 7. Education for sustainable urbanization 8. Education for sustainable consumption The are 16 questions (2 questions per UNESCO theme) ... should take no more than 30 minutes ... this is the link .... http://tinyurl.com/movr9w Please forward this message to colleagues who might be interested. Take care, -- Luis Luis T. Gutierrez, PhD Editor, PelicanWeb Journal of Sustainable Development This is a monthly, free subscription, open access e-journal. http://pelicanweb.org ~ pelican@pelicanweb.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 28 06:07:06 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA4832AA9; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:07:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CC49632A97; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:07:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090728060702.CC49632A97@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:07:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.195 review of the Kindle X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 195. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:05:36 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Kindle reviewed Some here will be interested in the review of the e-book reader Kindle in The New Yorker for 3 August 2009, Nicholson Baker's "Annals of Reading: A New Page. Can the Kindle really improve on the book?" (pp. 24-30). He finds problems that in time, perhaps in subsequent versions of the Kindle, will be solved. For e-book reading he prefers the iPod Touch or iPhone. But in the end, late one evening, the prose he is reading on his Kindle, The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly, finally takes over and he forgets all about the device, with all its faults, extensively enumerated. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 28 06:08:56 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6896D32B45; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:08:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 23FF632B35; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:08:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090728060853.23FF632B35@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:08:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.196 events: Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 196. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:23:36 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Herodotos Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive (seminar) Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Friday July 31st at 16:30 STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU *Elton Barker (Oxford) & Leif Isaksen (Southampton)* *Herodotos Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive* ALL WELCOME HESTIA (the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive) is an interdisciplinary project that investigates the ways in which space is represented in Herodotus’ History, and that aims to capture the ‘deep’ topological structures of the text beyond the usual two-dimensional Cartesian maps of antiquity. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html for a fuller abstract; the audio recording will be posted at the same site shortly after the seminar. -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 29 05:15:04 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D462B1DD9A; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:15:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 32F2D1DD67; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:15:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090729051502.32F2D1DD67@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:15:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.197 making a difference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 197. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stephen Ramsay (51) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.192 making a difference [2] From: Tim Finney (27) Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:47:19 -0500 From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.192 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090728060054.82585328D6@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, > Again I ask, with tongue somewhat in cheek, of what USE is classics, or > history, or whatever? We all are asked to come up with explanations these > days, prose for the undergraduate prospectus etc. An important exercise, I > think. But the task of such prose is in my view to seize the question of > usefulness and make it into a much better question, e.g. what are we that > we > find certain things useful, others useless? How might we find more of the > world relevant to our humane uses -- by becoming more magnanimous, more > imaginative? I think many of my colleagues regard me as a kind of bomb-throwing radical, what with all this digital sorcery. But as I go on in this business, I find myself asking more and more what the purpose of humanistic study really is and arriving at startlingly traditional answers. There are many -- among them the redoubtable Stanley Fish -- who think "becoming more magnanimous" ("tolerance" would be the preferred term on my side of the Atlantic) is a deeply naive proposal for the project of humanist education, and that something like "pleasure" (the less serious half of Horace's maxim) comes closer to the mark. Even that is an astonishing claim in a field like mine (literary study) that hesitates to offer even the most basic apologia toward usefulness or definition. I am more and more convinced, though, that humanistic inquiry is a deeply ethical endeavor -- that it can and should lead to something that was once called "wisdom." Certainly, I believe that of the classroom. But I am also coming to believe that unless we put forth a basically ethical definition of what we do as researchers, we might well be doomed. The idea that the "liberal arts" so called would make you a more tolerant, compassionate, understanding individual -- that it would make you less prone to knee-jerk reactions and reductive generalizations -- is one that persisted for centuries, but it seems like an idea that embarrasses us today. That, at least, is the conclusion I draw from a yearly ritual in the U.S. in which the panels at the MLA are publicly mocked in the pages of prominent national magazines, and we respond with chilly silence. I suspect that our real response to such charges -- something like what I've briefly and tentatively outlined above -- feels a bit too conservative to us. But then I wonder *why* we regard such ideas as conservative, and not liberal in the positive, traditional sense. There are complex reasons for this feeling, of course -- quite legitimate ones that have to do with our legacy as an occupation of the wealthy and the leisured. But that doesn't itself make the idea of humanistic inquiry as an ethical endeavor illegitimate, and I, for one, would like to see this motive reclaimed by the academy. Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 http://lenz.unl.edu/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:33:34 +0100 From: Tim Finney Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? Dear Martin, Here is an (unfinished) example of something I would not like to try without the help of computers: http://purl.org/tfinney/ATV/ The analysis has brought new things to light; there has been an advance in knowledge that would not have been achieved without digital assistance. Best, Tim Finney > On Jul 24, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Martin Mueller wrote: > > > The other day I had a conversation with a colleague who in a > > friendly, but skeptical and pointed way asked whether all this > > digital stuff made an important difference. It is still a good > > question. In the domain of text-based scholarship, classical > > philology (broadly construed) is an important test case. It is the > > only discipline of substantial generic, linguistic, and diachronic > > scope of which it can be said that all or most of the relevant > > documents exist in fairly good and moderately interoperable form. > > There is no TLG or anything like it for English, German, or any > > other language. There is All of Old English and All of Old Norse, > > but those are boutique operations. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 29 05:16:27 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B6A1DE6E; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:16:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D84C01DE45; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:16:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090729051624.D84C01DE45@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:16:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.198 politics and thought X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 198. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:54:53 -0400 From: David Golumbia Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.193 politics and thought In-Reply-To: <20090728060531.CA5FC329E5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:10:53 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 29 05:24:50 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B861DFCE; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:24:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EB7611DFBC; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:24:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090729052448.EB7611DFBC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:24:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.199 on Grafton's dematerializing book X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 199. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:53:15 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: old smells, new glitter and many speculations It is not surprising for anything by Anthony Grafton to get attention, and for something by him that touches on the fate of the codex book in this our digital age to be taken without even the tiniest grain of salt. The piece in question is "Codex in Crisis: The Book Dematerializes", chapter 15 in Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern World (Harvard, 2009), recently reviewed in the TLS as previously announced here (TLS for 15 July, "Google Books or Great Books?"). Grafton's essay is definitely worth reading, and a great pleasure to read, but I find it curiously unsatisfying. Other reactions to it would be welcome. Grafton is no Luddite of any variety. He has and exhibits deepappreciation of the pleasures as well as the practical benefits of the great collections of books found in the great libraries, chosen and grouped with intelligence. At the same time he recognizes the enormous benefits, e.g. of making it possible for an impecunious postgraduate student to enjoy the kind of access to sources previously at the command of very, very few. He soberly predicts that libraries have to change to remain afloat. But, in my reading, that is where his vision stops. At the end of the essay he quotes Jonathan Barnes' withering "description of the siren song of the TLG" (from "Bagpipe Music", Topoi 25, 2006, 17-20): > Load it into your laptop, and you have instant access to virtually > the whole of Greek literature. You cut and paste snippets from > authors whose very names mean nothing to you. You affirm -- and > you're right -- that a particular word used here by Plato occurs 43 > times elsewhere in Greek literature. And you can write an article -- > or a book -- stuffed with prodigious learning. (There are similar > things available for Latin.)... The TLG is a lovely little resource > (I think that's the word) and I use her all the time. But she's > strumpet-tongued: she flatters and she deceives. "What an enormous > knowledge you have, my young cock -- why not let me make a real > scholar of you?" And the young cock crows on his dung-hill: he can > cite anything and construe nothing. Barnes is not making this up; such really happens, and Grafton acknowledges the seriousness of the problem. But the picture painted is incomplete, and so the obvious guidance on what to do about the trivilization of scholarship (continue to offer a real education in the classics, and hope?) is incomplete. After duly ringing the hands more can follow than saying "on the other hand", which tends to be Grafton's response. We could ask, for example, "what happens (positively as well as negatively) when people skim surfaces more than they plumb depths?" Then we can ask, "how do we train students to take advantage of the good and shun the bad consequences?" Very interesting and consequential answers follow from going beyond questions of mere access to sources one would have reached for had they been there to reach for. What *actually* happens in consequence of that which mindless string-searches turn up that one never would have thought to ask for? What new understandings and techniques of winnowing do we need? What old value-judgements, based on metaphors implying a truth beneath, need to be set adrift? But it is very difficult indeed to think anew. Just try saying that something scholarly is as we would all wish it to be *without* using metaphors of depth (e.g. deep understanding, profound thought etc). And if that doesn't sober you up, try acting on the opportunities of going wide rather than deep without being trivial. But wait: what now can we now mean by trivial (a word that echoes with the thunder of a previous cognitive shift)? Comments? Yours,WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 29 05:28:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 102541E104; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:28:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 506CB1E0F1; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:28:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090729052823.506CB1E0F1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:28:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.200 events: e-science; collaborative construction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 200. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mark Hedges (27) Subject: IEEE e-Science 2009 Call for papers deadline extension [2] From: Tania Tudorache (114) Subject: Last CFP: CK 2009 - Workshop on Collaborative Construction,Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge, collocated with ISWC 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:22:40 +0100 From: Mark Hedges Subject: IEEE e-Science 2009 Call for papers deadline extension ***IEEE eScience 2009 Submission Deadline Extended to 7th August 2009*** The fifth IEEE e-Science conference will be held in Oxford, UK from Dec 9-11. The following topics concerning e-Science are of interest, but not restrictive: 1.      Arts, Humanities and e-Social Science 2.      Bioinformatics and Health 3.      Physical Sciences and Engineering 4.      Climate & Earth Sciences 5.      Research Tools, Workflow and systems 6.      Digital Repositories and Data Management 7.      eScience Practice and Education Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines. Authors should submit a PDF or PostScript (level 2) file that will print on a PostScript printer. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the e-Science 2009 paper submission system It is expected that the proceedings will be published by the IEEE CS Press, USA and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. Important Dates +++++++++++++++ Papers Due: ***Friday 7th August 2009, 23:59 BST*** Notification of Acceptance: Tuesday 7th September 2009 Camera Ready Papers Due: Friday 18th September 2009 http://www.escience2009.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:15:23 +0100 From: Tania Tudorache Subject: Last CFP: CK 2009 - Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND DEMOS ========================================================== Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge October 25, 2009 Collocated with ISWC-2009 Westfields Conference Center, near Washington, DC., USA Paper submission: August 10, 2009 (13 days from today) http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/gc3/iswc-workshop/ ========================================================= Objectives ----------- Many have argued that the next generation of the Web (Web 3.0) will grow out of an integration between Semantic Web and Social Web (Web 2.0) technologies.Can ontology management benefits from social web? Can Wikipidia be a style of collaborative ontology authoring? How to exploit user feedback for constructing structured knowledge? In these and many other questions lie the opportunity and the challenge to integrate knowledge bases approaches to social web ones. This integration involves several very different aspects of technology and social practice. Recent workshops and journal special issues have been devoted to methods for extracting ontologies and other structured knowledge from resources such as Wikipedia and other loosely structured data; or on using Semantic Web representations to describe the social structures and interactions in Web 2.0; or on mapping existing data using semantic technologies. In this workshop, we want to focus on another aspect of linkage between Social Web and Semantic Web techniques: collaborative and distributed methods for constructing and maintaining ontologies, terminologies, vocabularies, and mappings between them, throughout their entire life cycle. Topics of interest ------------------- They include (but are not limited to): - Collaborative creation and editing of structured knowledge - Collaborative creation of ontology mappings - Efficient methods for maintenance and evolution of structured knowledge that was created collaboratively - Individual and group incentives for collaborative knowledge construction and maintenance - Ontology repositories, knowledge bases, and their utility in the Social Web. - Metadata management - User interfaces for collaborative tools for creating structured knowledge - Inconsistency management and user-specific views of ontologies - Workflows for collaborative construction and linking of structured knowledge - Evaluation of collaborative tools: methods, metrics, and experimental reports [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 29 05:35:16 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB0471E32F; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:35:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 34A1C1E326; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:35:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090729053514.34A1C1E326@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:35:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.201 politics and thought (2nd try) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 201. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:54:53 -0400 From: David Golumbia Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.193 politics and thought In-Reply-To: <20090728060531.CA5FC329E5@woodward.joyent.us> [The following is intended to replace the previously dispatched message from David Golumbia that somehow was radically truncated in processing. Apologies on behalf of unruly software. --WM] > > Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:10:53 +0100 > > From: Willard McCarty > > As stated this causal connection between military purposes and cognitive > > theories seems profoundly misleading. The intent may work for Norbert > > Wiener, but most of what he made so well known had been around for some > > time, as David Mindell shows, in Between Human and Machine. For others, > > as far as their conscious intentions are concerned, this is simply not > > true, e.g. Warren McCulloch, Walter Pitts, John von Neumann. True, they > > were Americans in the midst of war and were involved in the war-effort > > like almost everyone whose research came anywhere near usefulness by the > > military. But a causal connection? Isn't history, real history, far more > > complex than that? > > > > Comments? > > As a basic believer in the paradigm Edwards establishes, I don't see him making quite such airtight causal claims. First PE writes: cyborg discourse was "profoundly and practically linked to" the closed-world, cold-war view; second, that "cognitive theories ... were first created to assist in mechanizing military tasks". Claim 1 is contextual but not by itself causal; these discourses are linked. Some of the larger linking material/context, from the vantage of which I would want to examine the emergence of cognitive science, is profoundly shaped by and linked to US militarism and in particular the think tanks associated with those policies (see McCumber, *Time in the Ditch*, and Amadae, *Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy*, among others, for these histories). This is not to say that militarism was the only cause for, or even a direct cause of, the emergence of cognitive science or "cyborg discourse"; but the many direct (funding) and indirect (think tanks, theoretical schools) links are hard to gainsay. I agree that real history is very complex; I only read PE making the claim that this is part, probably a big part, of it. Claim 2 insists on an historical sequence that I don't know in precise enough detail to verify. But on my view above, the actual sequence doesn't matter a great deal; PE's point is that many of the same people and same worldviews are found in "closed-world" computer thinking of the 1950s and in explicit political projects of the day; I find the conjunction too significant to put aside. Just one of the figures you mention, von Neumann, is surely an example of the very close association between political and with computational thought, even if his theories of the brain were not necessarily developed for military purposes. Of course vN's more famous contribution to politics, game theory, certainly does reflect how close computational and political thinking can get, and how much both can be of real influence in world political events. -- David Golumbia dgolumbia@gmail.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 30 05:05:09 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0116A31627; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:05:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DA01B31615; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:05:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090730050505.DA01B31615@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:05:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.202 making a difference & the dematerializing book X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 202. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Mueller (156) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.199 on Grafton's dematerializing book [2] From: John Laudun (69) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.199 on Grafton's dematerializing book [3] From: Wendell Piez (80) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.197 making a difference [4] From: Wendell Piez (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.192 making a difference [5] From: Peter Batke (16) Subject: Grafton --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:22:41 -0500 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.199 on Grafton's dematerializing book In-Reply-To: <20090729052448.EB7611DFBC@woodward.joyent.us> I am struck by easily the metaphor of 'whoring after false gods' still comes to our minds and how it is always right in some ways and wrong in deeper ways. A sixteenth-century Italian, whose name I don't recall, said that 'the pen is a virgin, the printing press a whore'. Plato was more polite about the disadvantages of writing. But the point is always the same: a tool that makes something easier and faster is seen as a threat because it replaces hard-earned wisdom with easy knowledge. Similar arguments apply to statistics, perhaps with greater relevance. I dimly remember an exchange in the New York Review of Books in which Ian Hacking (I think) argued that people shouldn't use statistical procedures if they don't understand the math. And perhaps we will all be ruined by those new thoughtless and split-second trading tools ... But barring that event, Barnes' complaint is just another version of a very old cost/benefit calculus. When an invention lowers the time cost and difficulty of doing X, the benefits of doing X more easily and cheaply will be offset to some extent by using X recklessly or without understanding. What Barnes says about the TLG is just as true of the Liddell and Scott print dictionary or of the OED, as you can see by varying the quotation The {TLG|LSJ|OED} is a lovely little resource (I think that's the word) and I use her all the time. But she's strumpet-tongued: she flatters and she deceives. "What an enormous knowledge you have, my young cock -- why not let me make a real scholar of you?" And the young cock crows on his dung-hill: he can cite anything and construe nothing. Behind all this is the nightmare of mechanized learning. In Pope's Dunciad and Goethe's Faust there are funny and eloquent evocations of it. On the other hand, some of the people that Pope poked fun at look quite good in retrospect. And everybody, including Barnes, proves by his behaviour that the benefits exceed the costs: "I use her all the time". I won't go into the gender aspects of all this: ancilla, handmaid, handbook . . . If we were all virtuous and living by the motto of 'per aspera ad astra', every scholarly act would be the Heraclean choice of climbing the mountain without rain gear or ropes. In the late fifties I was very briefly employed by British Railroads, and my task was to add up the milk and chocolate sales from vending machines. When I showed up in the office I noticed an adding machine on the top of a bookshelf. I asked "why don't you use this?" I was told sternly that it would ruin our math skills to use this machine and that the office used it only to check results. That never struck me as a very plausible policy. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:24:55 -0500 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.199 on Grafton's dematerializing book In-Reply-To: <20090729052448.EB7611DFBC@woodward.joyent.us> Dear All, It strikes me that both the ongoing discussion about what difference digital makes and McCarty's wonderment about Grafton and company really are two facets of the same jewel at which we all seem to keep staring, mistaking it, if I may continue the metaphor for just a moment more, for the light which it refracts. (I'm going to return to this Gothic moment later.) The point of reading, it seems to me, is to engage in better and more diverse kinds of dialogue. Wisdom does not flow from books, but from conversations between people. Perhaps this reveals my own deep indebtedness to philosophers like Karl Jaspers but such an idea is found in folk philosophies around the world. (E.g., the rural Irish concern for the man who keeps too much to himself.) Here, digital does make a difference, even if only that difference is, as other posters have noted, once of making things happen more readily. Still, the chance conversation between the scholar and the ordinary citizen is much more likely to happen in a place where both can be, if not simultaneously, at least in a deferred fashion. For this, I look no further than my own research with rice farmers and meta shop workers who regularly check my blog and my Flickr account to see what I've been up to and to wonder why I forgot to interview so- and-so. (I really should.) In turn, they submit to me, and to others, there own photographs and videos from their own archives, greatly expanding the historical record as they do so. I am fairly certain that many, many of us share this active difference that the digital makes possible -- and by active difference I mean an orientation by action. Some of this is born out by the analysis that I am currently doing looking at the narratives collected by Project Bamboo from a variety of scholars sprinkled across the nation. So far, the common themes are really things people want to be able to do: access, search, digitize, manage, collaborate, preserve, compute. (It's interesting that compute really amounts to the smallest percentage of actions people wish to perform.) They want all these actions to be pervaded by two properties: annotated (metadata) and authentic (authorized). What's interesting about these actions is that under "collaborate" a number of the narratives/scenarios are really about opening up the scholarly convention not only to students but also to just regular people, who have their own ideas and practices. (And, to answer from a folklorist's perspective an earlier conversation about is a prototype a theory? Yes, from my own experience as a field researcher, most folks do not have theories about why they do what they do. They don't need to. It's embedded in the doing. It can be drawn out to some degree, but not directly.) So I don't mind if the book dematerializes. Let it go. The codex is a particular manifestation of a much longer-lived idea: that marks in the physical can lead to conversations that lead to ideas. (And, yes, this probably resembles Heideegger's sense of "aletheia," but I did warn you with a reference to Jaspers up front where this note was headed.) All of this reminds me of the construction binge our good Abbott Suger kicked off and put a whole lot of masons to work, all of whom had competing senses of what the right proportions were. The legacy of the ideas they carried in their head can be glimpsed in the architectural mess that is Chartres, among other cathedrals. The advantage we now enjoy is that many of those same workers carry smartphones and regularly check e-mail and our blog pages, if we but invite them. john -- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana – Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 337-482-5493 laudun@louisiana.edu http://johnlaudun.org/ ResearcherID: A-5742-2009 Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: johnlaudun --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:39:26 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.197 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090729051502.32F2D1DD67@woodward.joyent.us> Hi again, I agree with Steve Ramsay's latest post so much, I wish I had written it myself. But of course, I couldn't have, not sitting in the same place. In any case, among other things, he writes: >I am more and more convinced, though, that humanistic inquiry is a deeply >ethical endeavor -- that it can and should lead to something that was once >called "wisdom." Certainly, I believe that of the classroom. But I am also >coming to believe that unless we put forth a basically ethical definition of >what we do as researchers, we might well be doomed. The idea that the >"liberal arts" so called would make you a more tolerant, compassionate, >understanding individual -- that it would make you less prone to knee-jerk >reactions and reductive generalizations -- is one that persisted for >centuries, but it seems like an idea that embarrasses us today. > >That, at least, is the conclusion I draw from a yearly ritual in the U.S. in >which the panels at the MLA are publicly mocked in the pages of prominent >national magazines, and we respond with chilly silence. I suspect that our >real response to such charges -- something like what I've briefly and >tentatively outlined above -- feels a bit too conservative to us. But then >I wonder *why* we regard such ideas as conservative, and not liberal in the >positive, traditional sense. It seems to me there are three related problems here: 1. The problem of understanding and affirming ourselves and our work. 2. The PR problem -- what Melissa Terras referred to when asking how we justify ourselves to the boards and bureaucrats, and what Steve refers to when pointing to the perennial dance in the media (here in the US) between journalists and their erstwhile classmates who have gone on to deliver papers at MLA. 3. The problem of embarrassment, which both encompasses and complicates both of these. Because, of course, it is proper to be embarrassed by what one is most proud of. See, the thing is, I (and perhaps many readers here) actually concur with the journalists that MLA panels have a ridiculous aspect. On the other hand, what the journalists don't allow is how they also have a deeply serious aspect. Really, MLA papers, taken together or individually (and they are always ridiculed individually), are no more ridiculous than the collections that appear seasonally on Paris fashion runways. Probably less so. But popular culture tolerates and even celebrates haute couture, for all its ridiculousness. Why is this? Well, for one, the core of the fashion industry, being as wealthy as the inner precincts of any other self-sustaining economic activity (which the humanities, blessedly, are not and never have been), need apologize to no one in our material world. But for another, their lack of embarrassment is reflected in the media, who somehow seem to understand and acknowledge that for all its ridiculousness to those of us unschooled in fashion -- indeed, inseparably from it -- these people who design clothes and handbags and sunglasses are actually legislators, in Shelley's great sense of that term. They teach us what to see and feel, what to regard. They lead us to renewal and self-acceptance. Although these might be frivolous goals in themselves, we understand they are also prerequisites of more positive and series engagement: that for all its childishness, this is also vital and hopeful. To return to the problem of the digital humanities as such, these issues then fall into themselves like Russian dolls, as Steve and Melissa try to justify their work with the digital to colleagues inside a profession, the academic humanities, which itself looks for justification and affirmation without finding much and without the means to buy it. So how can we respond but with boldness, like a fashion model, wearing a ridiculous getup, stepping in front of the lights and cameras? To this end, I think we need to recognize and affirm the ethical dimension that Steve discusses: the humanities are educative of the heart as well as the mind, and of both together, as each educates the other. We start by practicing identity politics, but in the inquiry into what makes our nation or tribe distinctive, we discover what connects us with our world and makes us human. The digital aspects of our work need to be recognized as an extension and instrument of this project. Cheers, Wendell ======================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:48:06 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.192 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090728060054.82585328D6@woodward.joyent.us> Hi again, Something else occurred to me not long after I sent my latest. At 02:00 AM 7/28/2009, Melissa wrote: >I'd just like to chip in and say this is what the funding councils are >calling "Evidence of Value" - and are asking us to show evidence for the >value of digital humanities research. Its important, as funding cuts in >this area (such as the withdrawal of funds for the AHDS) are based on >the perceived lack of evidence of value. Unless we can articulate, as a >community, the better/faster/more nature of digital, we will struggle >even harder for funding in years to come. One of the interesting questions at the heart of these concerns is whether the humanities in general or DH in particular need to justify themselves in terms of commodifiable output, or whether anything can ever be justified on the grounds that it is a good idea and someone should be doing it. By "commodifiable output" I mean the implicit or explicit premise that something offers a "skill" or "knowledge" that might enable a student to do something "productive" such as build a bridge, try a case in court, sell hosiery, or end world hunger. This is a problem in the sciences too, isn't it? Cheers, Wendell ========================================================= Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:17:03 +0100 From: Peter Batke Subject: Grafton In-Reply-To: <20090728060054.82585328D6@woodward.joyent.us> Another New Yorker article ["Future Reading," by Anthony Grafton. New Yorker, November 5, 2007] by the star humanities Professor Anthony Grafton gives a rather ambiguous view of the Google book digitization project. One fact cannot be escaped, when Professor Grafton speaks, the humanist profession listens. Professor Grafton is also suspicious of the profit motive of Google and others. He is also very correctly concerned with the poorest societies and non-Western texts. He is concerned with the lack of balance between population and library books in India and the UK. 1100/36 vs. 60/116 - population/library books in millions. He is appropriately concerned with the rights of the authors of out of print books (1923 to the present, but easily extendable by another fifty years some time soon). No one should accuse modern humanists of a narrow focus. Professor Grafton does not believe in a trend towards universally accessible knowledge representation; he knows the raw materials of such a project too well. Since he can demonstrate an encyclopedic knowledge of the handling of information in the past and uncounted well documented problems, which he is not loath to share in detail, we can assume that he sees only problems and no solutions in Google's efforts. Of course Professor Grafton's work in the history of scholarship is first rate, as is his involvement with high profile digital projects, that is not the issue. The problem is one of past vs. future. A highly trained humanist, working with texts in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, etc. familiar with the development of the text tradition in the last 2000 years will not succumb to hyped vaporware. Computer scientists not so encumbered will attempt to make vapor coalesce into an alpha version at the low end of functionality; the future, after all stretches before us, and alphas become betas become Version 3.0. The highly trained humanist will appreciate, use and offer improvements on specific, high-quality digital humanities projects; however, we can not expect unqualified support for tentative beginnings. It is not unlike trying to persuade a traffic cop at a Broadway and 34th in the year 1900 that at some point electric signals will replace his (I am pretty sure about this pronoun, historically speaking) function. Clearly at some point the traffic of the city will be controlled electronically by engineers monitoring the grid from satellites, but try to convince the cop at the turn of the previous century. Yet there are some minor chinks in Professor Grafton's armor, not in his history of humanisms, or in his history of printing, if there are chinks there I would be the last to know, but in his demonstration of familiarity with electronic methods and work flow. Hands on familiarity with electronic files would have affected his discussion of questionable (read: faulty, incorrect) OCR. It would also not have let him refer to Gutenberg texts as hand-keyboarded when in fact most files represent cleaned OCR. Cleaning OCR is in fact the main task before us. The history of scholarship cannot be considered complete if the main problem of electronic representation of text is not recognized as the main tasks before us, today. There was a time when producing copies of Aristotle was the main task. Nevertheless, projects are mentioned, the balance between skepticism and informed critique is maintained. Professor Grafton's notion that the road through the digital is easy and the road through books is narrow and hard, which concludes his article seems weak and contrived, although I suspect it is intended to be inspirational. Perhaps it is aimed at a younger generation that is all digital, perhaps he knows the readers of the New Yorker well, fair enough, but there are many laborers in the field of digital humanities that are trying to widen the access to texts and to take away some of the boulders in the road left by generations of pedants who became stewards of our textual heritage. I believe that the Google founders, who have benefited from the best American universities have to offer and who optimized their educational experience and that of their co-workers, are simply not willing to see humanists disappear down a rabbit hole to perform mysterious rites with their texts. With very few exceptions, the high-resolution color image of a medieval manuscript on a laptop is a superior resource than the vellum lying on a varnished table. Electronic transcriptions of a manuscript tradition side-by-side in table format are superior to a printed "normal" text with variant readings in the footnotes. Photographing a 16th century folio and working with the color images of the 500 pages is far superior to trying to prop open the book on foam rubber wedges and hold down the pages with velvet bags of marbles. We can confidently expect libraries to keep busy and digitize their holdings and let us work with the images, OCR the text and clean it and let us develop data structures and statistical routines to organize textual communication. The smell of the parchment can be an entry in the metadata provided by the archivist if must be, I suspect it smelled differently in the 16th century. I am sure we can look forward to more star humanists entering the lists urged by the increased functionality of the hyper-vapor, to quote Professor Grafton: "It is hard to exaggerate what is already becoming possible month by month and what will become possible in the next few years." One might respond humbly: "It is hard to know what that means, Professor Grafton, but we assume you also Google." Peter Batke batke_p@hotmail.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 30 05:07:04 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39C77316AD; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:07:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 00F803169D; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:07:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090730050701.00F803169D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:07:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.203 politics and thought, continued X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 203. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:18:19 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: more on politics and thought Thanks to David Golumbia (whose book, The Cultural Logic of Computation, should, let me say, be sitting on your desk too) for his defense of Paul Edwards' central notion of the "discourse", to which I gave insufficient treatment in my previous note. In my usual style, my criticism was an attempt to bring an idea I am worrying to your attention, hoping for help with it. Golumbia is quite right: Edwards is deliberately trying to avoid anything as simplistic as a straight causal explanation. But still permit me to wonder about the causal force of things constituting a discourse, and by doing so to probe that which constitutes in our eyes an explanation. When I read some of the authors whose ideas get caught up in the powerful maelstrom of World War II -- how can we even begin to imagine what it was like then? -- what I get from their writings is the kind of desire to know, the hunger for knowledge, that started me off about the time that Senator McCarthy, in the paranoid wake of that war, was doing his worst. So I wonder, what does it mean, as Mindell writes, for so many people from so many different disciplines, all to be trying to see the human being as a machine? McCulloch is my favourite example because he was anything but "nature red in tooth and claw" in human form. Anything but an anal reductionist thirsting for central control. He was *curious* -- about why the mind is in the head, about what is a man that he should know a number, about many other aspects of the human, as he said. What does it mean for ideas, things and people to be found together? Am I wrong to hear hints if not declarations of "you are known by the company you keep" in the idea of discourse that Edwards uses? I can understand how it is that people get caught up in a discourse as in war, when it becomes cosmological, as behaviourism once was. Is that what we're talking about -- that bundle of stuff by which people get caught up? In "The Ontology of the Enemy" (Critical Inquiry 21, Autumn 1994), Peter Galison poses the question of relationship for the devices and designs of the time. In Image and Logic (1997) he speaks of the partial dis-encumberance of meaning that devices suffer as they pass from one cultural setting to another, say cybernetic devices invented to shoot down planes, then resurfacing in human-computer interaction research and in devices, such as the GUI. Others, us included, speak of "thing knowledge" and perhaps could speak of something less neutral which things carry with them. But what happens to these ideas about ideas and things when we look at them from the perspective of those who made them? Some of these people, such as Wiener, did want guns to destroy planes and worked very hard to make the guns better at their job. Others were working where they lived, necessarily enveloped in the culture of warfare but focused on ideas with a larger or at least different purpose. Ethically one might ask, how deeply are we implicated in all this? A biblical answer would be, root and branch, and this remains a useful answer to keep us in check, I suppose. But from an historical point of view, what appeals to me particularly is Mindell's or Mahoney's historiography, depicting strands or trajectories converging and diverging and demanding of us that we look out from where historical individuals were standing. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 30 05:11:27 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC88231787; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:11:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 114E33176E; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:11:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090730051122.114E33176E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:11:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.204 new publication: experimental literary education X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 204. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:47:30 +0100 From: eln2 Subject: ELN 47.1 "Experimental Literary Education" Spring/Summer 2009 English Language Notes 47.1 (Spring/Summer 2009) Special Issue: “Experimental Literary Education” Editor: Jeffrey C. Robinson ELN 47.1 (Spring/Summer 2009), a special issue on “Experimental Literary Education,” brings together twenty-four essays by nationally and internationally recognized scholars and writers reporting on a wide range of new possibilities for higher education in the literary arts. Some essays address the dramatic changes in aspects of “the field,” that imply a radical reshifting of educational experience; others assume such changes in detailed testimonials about learning activities within and beyond or in revised versions of the traditional classroom. And still others note reverberations of educational change at the institutional level in universities and colleges. From this collection emerges a call for a serious re-thinking of the paradigms governing literary education in the 21st century. There is, to our knowledge, no comparable intervention presently available; “Experimental Literary Education” ought to stimulate the imaginations of anyone deeply involved in literary education—from students, to administrators, to teachers. Jeffrey C. Robinson (special editor) jeffrey.c.robinson@colorado.edu 303-440-6923 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 30 05:14:36 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C69D3184F; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:14:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3250F31840; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:14:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090730051433.3250F31840@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:14:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.205 events: ontologies; publishing & editing; space/text X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 205. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Øyvind_Eide (18) Subject: TEI Ontologies SIG workshop [2] From: "Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au" (88) Subject: CFP: Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) [3] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (30) Subject: Herodotos Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive (seminar) [4] From: Peter Robinson (21) Subject: September workshops in: XML publishing, metadata, collaborativeediting --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:29:29 +0200 From: Øyvind_Eide Subject: TEI Ontologies SIG workshop Dear all, There will be a workshop organised by the TEI Ontologies SIG on November 9-11 in connection with the TEI annual meeting. The aim of the workshop is to develop guidelines for how to create TEI documents that easily may be mapped to ontologies. More information can be found on the webpage: http://www.edd.uio.no/tei/teiontsig/ws2009.html The workshop is supported by the TEI Consortium through the SIG Grant Fund, so we have some funding specific for this workshop. Please see the webpage for details. There is also a possibility for funding available for young European researchers. See http://www.lib.umich.edu/spo/teimeeting09/bursaries.html for details. Please send an email to oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no by August 1 if you are interested in participating in this workshop. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide and Christian-Emil Ore Workshop organisers --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:00:29 +0100 From: "Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au" Subject: CFP: Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) 5th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) 1 December 2009 Held in Conjunction with the 22nd Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09) University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~aow2009 AOW 2009 is the fifth in a series of workshops on ontologies held in the Australasian region. The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontology models and theories - Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Interoperability in ontologies - Ontologies and Multi-agent systems - Description logics for ontologies - Reasoning with ontologies - Ontology harvesting on the web - Ontology of agents and actions - Ontology visualisation - Ontology engineering and management - Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval - Ontology merging, alignment and integration - Web ontology languages - Formal concept analysis and ontologies - Ontologies for e-research - Linking open data - Significant ontology applications The proceedings of the four previous workshops were published as volumes in the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series (http://crpit.com/), and this will again be the case for AOW 2009. As with the previous workshops, we are investigating the possibility of extended versions of selected papers appearing in a special issue of a suitable journal. Submission information such as format etc. can be found on the CRPIT website: http://crpit.com/AuthorsSubmitting.html. The page limit is 10 pages. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 25 September 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 23 October 2009 Camera-ready copies due: 13 November 2009 AOW 2009: 1 December 2009 [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:54:28 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Herodotos Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive (seminar) Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Friday July 31st at 16:30 STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU *Elton Barker (Oxford) & Leif Isaksen (Southampton)* *Herodotos Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive* ALL WELCOME HESTIA (the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive) is an interdisciplinary project that investigates the ways in which space is represented in Herodotus’ History, and that aims to capture the ‘deep’ topological structures of the text beyond the usual two-dimensional Cartesian maps of antiquity. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html for a fuller abstract; the audio recording will be posted at the same site shortly after the seminar. -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:31:33 +0100 From: Peter Robinson Subject: September workshops in: XML publishing, metadata, collaborativeediting The Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editions, Birmingham, is hosting three workshops from September 22 to September 25 this year. Two are these are one day workshops: 1. Tuesday 22 September: ‘SDPublisher: a new and different XML publishing system’ This workshop will present a hands-on introduction to SDPublisher, the new XML publishing system developed by people associated with ITSEE and Scholarly Digital Editions: see www.sd-editions.com/SDPublisher. 2. Wednesday 23 September: ‘The Virtual Manuscript Room: linking resources and scholarship on the web’. This workshop will introduce the concepts behind the Virtual Manuscript Room project, and their implementation in the project, with particular emphasis on the use of metadata in the project to link together manuscript images, transcripts and resources related to them. More details of both workshops can be found at http://itsee.bham.ac.uk/vmr/ITSEEworkshops.htm. The third is a two day workshop, on the subject of "Tools for Collaborative Scholarly Editing over the Web", on Thursday 24 and Friday 25 September. The first day, "Actions: the State of the Art" on Thursday 24 September, will be open to all: in this, representatives of projects around the world will give presentations on what they have done, are doing, or plan to do, to develop tools for collaborative scholarly editing over the Web. The second day, 'Problems and Futures' on Friday 25 September, will be a series of discussions on, firstly, three key emerging problem areas (intellectual property/scholarly authority; sustainability and interoperability), and, secondly, on the possible shapes of scholarly editing in the world to come. Attendance at this second day will be by invitation only, with numbers restricted. More details of this workshop can be found at http://itsee.bham.ac.uk/vmr/toolscfp.htm. Attendance at all workshops is open to all (with the restriction to invitees for the Friday 25 September). We have funding from the JISC (the Virtual Manuscript Room) and from the European Science Foundation (through the InterEdition project) and so are able to offer the workshops without charge. We are interested in hearing from anyone who would like to present work they are doing in relation to collaborative editing tools on Thursday 24th, and from anyone who believes that they have something to contribute to the discussions on Friday 25th. Limited cheap accommodation is available close to the workshop venues (in the Orchard Learning Resource Centre, Selly Oak) for those who act quickly. We may be able to offer assistance with travel and accommodation, particularly to people giving presentations on Thursday 24th and taking part in the discussions on Friday 25th. To register, or learn more, please contact either Peter Robinson p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk (the workshops leader) or Richard Goode r.goode@bham.ac.uk (the workshops organizer). (Apologies for cross posting)... Peter Robinson Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing Elmfield House, Selly Oak Campus University of Birmingham Edgbaston B29 6LG P.M.Robinson@bham.ac.uk p. +44 (0)121 4158441, f. +44 (0) 121 415 8376 www.itsee.bham.ac.uk http://www.itsee.bham.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 31 05:08:48 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B97F33204; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:08:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 532BD331FC; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:08:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090731050846.532BD331FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:08:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.206 ELN special issue on experimental literary education X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 206. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:05:27 +0100 From: Jeffrey C Robinson Subject: "Experimental Literary Education" with Table of Contents [Following is a more complete account of ELN 47.1 than was given in Humanist 23.204. Clearly there are items of direct interest to many of us here. --WM] English Language Notes 47.1 (Spring/Summer 2009) Special Issue: “Experimental Literary Education” Editor: Jeffrey C. Robinson ELN 47.1 (Spring/Summer 2009), a special issue on “Experimental Literary Education,” brings together twenty-four essays by nationally and internationally recognized scholars and writers reporting on a wide range of new possibilities for higher education in the literary arts. Some essays address the dramatic changes in aspects of “the field,” that imply a radical reshifting of educational experience; others assume such changes in detailed testimonials about learning activities within and beyond or in revised versions of the traditional classroom. And still others note reverberations of educational change at the institutional level in universities and colleges. From this collection emerges a call for a serious re-thinking of the paradigms governing literary education in the 21st century. There is, to our knowledge, no comparable intervention presently available; “Experimental Literary Education” ought to stimulate the imaginations of anyone deeply involved in literary education—from students, to administrators, to teachers. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Experimental Literary Education Jeffrey C. Robinson, University of Colorado at Boulder I. The State of the Profession The Dream Department Lyn Hejinian, University of California, Berkeley Digital Humanities and Academic Change Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara What Can Race Theory and Queer Theory Teach Us about the State of Literary Studies? Marlon B. Ross, University of Virginia The State of the Profession: Work, the Humanities, and Transformation Melissa Mowry, St. John’s University Internationalizing the Curriculum: Nations, Languages, Religions Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University English Studies, Transnationalism, and Form William Keach, Brown University Uncertainty David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University II. Reports on Experiments in Literary Education Poverty, Representation, and the Expanded English Classroom Kate Crasson, Lehigh University Re-contextualizing Literary Education: A Multi-Variable Experiment in Learning and Performance Diana E. Henderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mapping Literature Courses with Google Docs and “the GRID” Lejla Kucukalic, Columbia University On Game Playing and the Uses of Uncertainty Eric S. Mallin, The University of Texas at Austin A Sotyl Thinge withouten Tonge and Teeth: Soul’s Dialogue with Body, and Literature’s Dialogue with Philosophy Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado at Boulder Elizabeth Robertson, University of Colorado at Boulder Teaching Unstable Animal Identities in Medieval Narrative Timea Szell, Barnard College “You May Have Changed My Life” Marjorie Curry Woods, The University of Texas at Austin Experimental What? Gerald Graff, University of Illinois at Chicago Sound and Song in Poetry: Music as a Form of Explication Elissa S. Guralnick, University of Colorado at Boulder Recitation Considered as a Fine Art Jerome McGann, University of Virginia An Aesthetic of Glimpses Elizabeth Robinson, Naropa University Biocultures Manifesto Lennard J. Davis, University of Illinois at Chicago David B. Morris, University of Virginia Tales from the Cutting-Room Floor Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Pomona College The Global Middle Ages: An Experiment in Collaborative Humanities, or Imagining the World, 500-1500 C. E. Geraldine Heng, The University of Texas at Austin Poetry and the Digital World Stephanie Strickland, Independent Scholar Designing Doctoral Education after Katrina Molly Anne Rothenberg, Tulane University Jeffrey C. Robinson Professor Emeritus of English Department of English University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0226 303-492-7381 jeffreycrobinson.com "Thinking is not worrying." Barbara Guest "Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them." Laura Riding _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 31 05:09:45 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BA2C332C8; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:09:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BFDB3332BC; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:09:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090731050943.BFDB3332BC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:09:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.207 events: automating genre classification X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 207. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:15:56 +0300 (EEST) From: dobreva@math.bas.bg Subject: workshop on Automated Document Genre Classification In-Reply-To: <20090728060603.EAD5332A32@woodward.joyent.us> DCC and Robert Gordon Joint Workshop: Automated Document Genre Classification - Supporting Digital Curation, Information Retrieval, and Knowledge Extraction 9 September 2009 Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/genre-classification-2009/ In co-operation with the International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) and Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and Robert Gordon University are holding a one day workshop on Automated Document Genre Classification. This workshop is intended as a brainstorming session for building a research agenda for automated genre classification, identification and recognition that will enhance and support work flows within: -Digital curation and preservation -Information management -Information seeking, search, and retrieval -Information extraction and knowledge discovery There is a lack of consensus in the genre classification research community on methods of genre taxonomy generation, evaluation, and applications of the study in existing systems. This event is intended to open up a discussion forum and identify: -How to constructively establish a useful genre taxonomy -How to integrate and apply genre classification within existing information systems -How to evaluate and consolidate its usefulness and effectiveness within these target systems. This workshop will bring together core people within genre classification research and the areas of research mentioned above to establish a research road map for bringing genre classification research to applicable maturity. Motivation The automation of metadata extraction is crucial to digital curation activities, as information deluge is likely to result in enormous costs in manual extraction. The organisation of documents into their genre classes that indicate the physical and conceptual structure of the text, could serve as a starting point for both automatic and manual extraction by narrowing down the possible areas within the text from which to extract the required information. Collection profiling is an important aspect of risk assessment and data audit within organisational collections. Each organisation focuses on document genres strongly associated to the activities and services central to the organisation: e.g. a research article as a part of experimental research at a research centre; a report as part of a news coverage in a newspaper corporation; a financial budget report as part of a business venture in a company. The identification of core document genres could form building blocks for defining criteria for identifying risks to the collection that are cognizant of procedural context of the organisation. Information retrieval techniques mostly rely on relevance measures calculated on the basis of the document's topical content. However, a document with the same topic may be created with different objectives and as part of different processes (e.g. research as opposed to product promotion) resulting in different levels of relevance, depth, usefulness, and reliability as a source of information. Genre classification (i.e. distinguishing an advertisement about a camera from a product review of the same camera) may be an effective method of supporting finer levels of granularity in relevance judgements. Tentative Programme The workshop will consist of four sessions. The first three sessions will comprise three presentations each from selected speakers, followed by discussion. The fourth session will take the format of open discussion. 09:00 – 09:30 Registration 09:30 – 11:00 Session I: Understanding genre classification — building a taxonomy 11:00 – 11:15 Coffee 11:15 – 12:45 Session II: Role of genre classification in existing information systems 12:45 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 15:30 Session III: Viability of evaluating the effectiveness and usefulness of genre classification 15:30 – 15:45 Coffee 15:45 – 16:45 Session IV: Building a research road map — open discussion and summary of previous sessions 16:45 – 17:00 Close Costs This event will cost £75.00. Registration Registration is available at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/genre-classification-2009/register Best regards, Joy Davidson DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) George Service House, 11 University Gardens, University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QJ Scotland Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592 Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788 http://www.dcc.ac.uk http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu british.editor@erpanet.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 31 08:11:07 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A562F32A1D; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:11:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1C07C32A11; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:11:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090731081105.1C07C32A11@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:11:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.208 making a difference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 208. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:08:11 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: closing down the world To repeat a bit: in the book that I have just finished reading, The Closed World, Paul N Edwards describes a "cyborg discourse" constituting "the entire field of signifying or meaningful practices" related to computing, "a way of knowledge, a background of assumptions and agreements about how reality is to be interpreted and expressed, supported by paradigmatic metaphors, techniques and technologies and potentially embodied in social institutions" (34). He argues persuasively that this discourse closed down, indeed sealed off the world of those committed to it. Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (a.k.a. Star Wars), publically proposed in 1983, supplies quite a good example. In June or July 1985 Brian Cantwell Smith (now at Toronto) read a paper, "The Limits of Correctness", to the Symposium on Unintended Nuclear War, Fifth Congress of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, in Budapest. In it he argues that the fundamental problem and danger is the very notion of correctness, that is, of the possibility that the world might be captured in a computational model of it. In other words, as many have warned, models are as dangerous as they are powerful: the good ones tend to seduce us into forgetting the difference in principle and practice between any model and the thing modelled. We slip down the slippery slope from "as if" to "is", many of us without feeling a thing. The history of computing, one might say, is a chronicle of models being mistaken for and replaced by that which they model, i.e. of the world being closed down by our mistaking constructions of it for reality. Our research, one might say, consists in defamiliarizing those constructions as soon as we ourselves make them. And that is the exit-door from the closed, boring world, is it not? In "Circular causality: The beginnings of an epistemology of responsibility", Heinz von Foerster looks back at activities in the decade from 1943-1953, during which -- WWII coming to its bloody end and the Cold War beginning) the Macy Conferences on cybernetics took place. (See Cybernetics/Kybernetik: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953, vol 1, ed. Claus Pias, Diaphanes, 2003, pp. 11-17). "It is the decade", he wrote, of a con-spiracy, a »breathing together«, amongst a score of curious, fearless, articulate, ingenious and pragmatic dreamers who conformed in letting diversity be their guide. I am fascinated by the stream of concepts and insights, of invented relations and of others discovered, of perceptions, thoughts and ideas, of questions unanswered and answered that poured forth from these people." He writes about arriving in New York in 1949 with very little English and some copies of a monograph he had written, which he then proceeded to send to obvious places in hopes of a job. He was summoned to Chicago, to the Department of Neuropsychiatry of the Medical School, where "I meet the man who wanted to know more: tall, lanky, a greyish beard, an inviting grin, and the eyes; eyes to support the Greek notion of vision: it is not the light that enters into, but sight that beams forth from the eyes, touching with joy what they see. I meet Warren McCulloch." (11-12) Now that is not a world closing down -- for that we must turn to his account of Vienna in the mid 1940s -- but a world opening up. The same people and same ideas are involved here as in Edwards' account of quite the opposite situation. Wherein lies the difference? Yours, WM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 1 05:48:05 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86CA33F4E; Sat, 1 Aug 2009 05:48:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A548933F32; Sat, 1 Aug 2009 05:48:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090801054802.A548933F32@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 05:48:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.209 a review of a book on the book X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 209. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:31:28 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Paul Duguid on the book & e-book Those who follow the polemic and argument about the future of the codex book, open publishing &c will be interested in Paul Duguid's review, of Gary Hall's Digitize this Book!, in the Times Literary Supplement for 31 July, "Saving paper". Unfortunately this isn't one of the articles the TLS has decided to let circulate freely. Yours,WM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 1 05:49:01 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CCDD33FC4; Sat, 1 Aug 2009 05:49:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C60D633FAC; Sat, 1 Aug 2009 05:48:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090801054857.C60D633FAC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 05:48:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.210 events: TEI-mss seminar; GIS workshop funding X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 210. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Schreibman (42) Subject: ESF funded bursaries for GIS workshop 5-6 Sept 2009 [2] From: Julia Flanders (63) Subject: TEI seminar on manuscript encoding: call for participation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:50:59 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: ESF funded bursaries for GIS workshop 5-6 Sept 2009 The DRHA Programme Committee is delighted to announce that the European Science Foundation (ESF) Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) has generously funded three bursaries for early stage researchers to attend the GIS pre-conference workshop (5-6 September 2009) of the DRHA 2009 conference . The bursaries will be awarded to a maximum of EUR 1000 each to cover workshop registration fees and accommodation at the Elms Residence (€600 with three nights accommodation), as well as a contribution towards travel and subsistence. If participants would like to use any excess funds up to EUR 1000 to attend the DRHA conference, registration will be made available at the postgraduate delegate rate. To apply for these fellowships, candidates must be: * an emerging scholar, which is defined by the ESF as someone who has not been in an established position for more than five years, with exceptions for parental, medical, and national service leaves. The ESF notes that ‘students, post-doctorate researchers and lecturers within 5 years of appointment would be amongst those included in this definition’. * you are affiliated to a an institution in a country in which ESF has a member organisation ' If you fit these criteria and would like to apply for consideration, please send no more than two pages that include the following: a brief CV showing your career history and current academic affiliation, how this workshop will intersect with your research, and a short statement describing any planned involvement in DRHA 2009 to susan.schreibman[AT]gmail.com and Paul.Ell[AT]qub.ac.uk by 15 August. -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:34:21 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: TEI seminar on manuscript encoding: call for participation Please note extended deadline! Applications are invited for participation in an advanced TEI seminar on manuscript encoding, being held at the University of Maryland, January 20-22, 2010, hosted by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Application deadline is August 10, 2009. Participants will be notified by September 1. This seminar assumes a basic familiarity with TEI, and provide an opportunity to explore manuscript encoding topics in more detail, in a collaborative workshop setting. We will focus on the detailed challenges of encoding manuscript materials, including editorial, transcriptional, and interpretive issues and the methods of representing these in TEI markup. This seminar is part of a series funded by the NEH and conducted by the Brown University Women Writers Project. They are intended to provide a more in-depth look at specific encoding problems and topics for people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are in the process of planning one. Each event will include a mix of presentations, discussion, case studies using participants' projects, hands-on practice, and individual consultation. The seminars will be strongly project-based: participants will present their projects to the group, discuss specific challenges and encoding strategies, develop encoding specifications and documentation, and create encoded sample documents and templates. We encourage project teams and collaborative groups to apply, although individuals are also welcome. A basic knowledge of the TEI Guidelines and some prior experience with text encoding will be assumed. Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant. For more information and to apply, please visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/ . The full seminar schedule is as follows: University of California, Santa Barbara Hosted by the English Broadside Ballad Archive and the Transliteracies Project September 14-16, 2009 This seminar is now full. University of Maryland, College Park Hosted by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities January 20-22, 2010 This workshop will focus on the encoding of manuscript materials. Application deadline (extended): August 10, 2009 Applicants will be notified by September 1. Brown University Hosted by the Center for Digital Scholarship April 8-10, 2010 This workshop will focus on the encoding of contextual information. Application deadline: November 1, 2009 Applicants will be notified by December 1. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Hosted by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities July 2010 (precise date and deadlines TBA) This workshop will focus on the encoding of manuscript materials. University at Buffalo Hosted by the Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo October 2010 (precise date and deadlines TBA) This workshop will focus on the encoding of manuscript materials. University of Maryland January 2011 (precise date and deadlines TBA) This workshop will focus on the encoding of contextual information. Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Brown University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Aug 2 07:44:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A911284D; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 07:44:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7B67412842; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 07:44:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090802074433.7B67412842@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 07:44:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.211 figures of the cybernetic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 211. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 20:26:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Francois Lachance Subject: Figures of the Cybernetic Willard, I was wondering if your explorations of the discourse of cybernetics and machine-human comparisons could benefit from the consideration of three figures: homeostasis, encoding and the supermarket. Below are some very sketchy notes. You might be able to trace the evidence for how the feedback mechanism as a pattern for describing human interaction with artefacts becomes deployed in more and more domains. How does it lead to a theory of reading? How does it influence the teaching of rhetoric and composition? Encoding and decoding are of course the beginning and end points of a communication chain as envisioned in information theory. But what I have in mind here is the Cold War fascination with the transmission of secrets. (*) The supermarket is a distribution machine concerned with the shelf life of products. By analogy it can become a figure for the evaluation of cultural wares. There is likely a relation of interdependence between these figures. A feedback mechanism usually involves the transmission of information from one modality to another, i.e. it relies on transcoding. If feedback required coding, coding requires standardization for which the supermarket is a suitable emblem. What I am attempting to suggest is that the man-machine discourse can be sifted by using three figures -- standardization, coding, feedback. I am willing to venture that the three are also associated with a range of values along a human-machine continuum (i.e. that standardization is construed as machinic and feedback as close to the human). (*) What got me thinking along these lines was an interesting example from World War II Vdiscs. The King Sisters produced a novelty item by recording a message at 33 1/2 and splicing it into a song to be played at 78 rpm thus supplying a "secret message". [source CBC radio November 1998 featuring the collection of Dr. Stephen Bedwell] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-largehttp://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Aug 2 07:54:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C26B612A5F; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 07:54:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3178512A58; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 07:54:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090802075407.3178512A58@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 07:54:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.212 events: text-analysis; music & art; creativity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 212. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patrick Juola (34) Subject: Announcing T-REX 2010 [2] From: Amilcar Cardoso (64) Subject: CfP: Computational Creativity 2010 [3] From: Amilcar Cardoso (61) Subject: EvoMUSART 2010: 8th European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 01:34:16 +0100 From: Patrick Juola Subject: Announcing T-REX 2010 Dear colleagues, ANNOUNCING T-REX 2010! TADA (the Text Analysis Developers' Alliance) and Duquesne University welcome your participation in T-REX 2010, the TADA Research Evaluation eXchange. Following the success of T-REX 2008 at Digital Humanities 2009 (University of Maryland), we are happy to continue the tradition of a multifaceted, multicategory "best ideas" forum for the development and exchange of ideas in the field of "text analysis" (broadly defined). We invite all interested participants to share in the next round and to help us expand our offerings. The only hard and fast rule at this point is : ''All participants must participate!'' T-REX is modelled after both competitions (such as TREC) as well as less formal idea exchanges(such as MIREX). We hope to stimulate creative competition and the exchange of ideas about questions such as what we can do with texts, how to do it best, and why we would want to do it in the first place. To do this, we hope to generate a set of collaborative "challenges" to which participants will submit ideas/solutions. All ideas will be "judged" by a panel of judges (to be determined); this judging may involve the actual running of code provided by participants or peer-review by volunteer experts. Entries judged to be the best will receive valuable Pittsburgh-themed prizes (such as bottles of Heinz products). At this stage, we are looking for participants (people willing to take part), sponsors (organizations and groups willing to support T-REX), challenge problems, and creative input in general. Please help support T-REX, text analysis, and the digital humanities. Simply go to the wiki at http://tada.mcmaster.ca/Main/TREX, register yourself, and start contributing! Patrick Juola TREX 2010 Organizer Duquesne University juola at mathcs dot duq edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:08:31 +0100 From: Amilcar Cardoso Subject: CfP: Computational Creativity 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY Lisbon, Portugal, 7-9 January 2009 ---> Submission deadline: 21 September website: http://creative-systems.dei.uc.pt/icccx Although it seems clear that creativity plays an important role in developing intelligent computational systems, it is less clear how to model, simulate, or evaluate creativity in such systems. In other words, it is often easier to recognize the presence and effect of creativity than to describe or prescribe it. The purpose of this conference is to facilitate the exchange of ideas on the topic of computational creativity in a cross-disciplinary setting. It will bring together people from AI, Cognitive Science and related areas such as Psychology, Philosophy and the Arts who research questions related to the notion of creativity as it relates to computational systems. This focus on creativity in the context of computational systems has the potential for increasing innovation in existing fields of research as well as for defining new fields of study, including 1. Artificially Creative Systems: development of computational systems that produce or simulate creativity. These systems may be inspired by human creativity or by the possibilities of artificial systems beyond human capabilities. 2. Computational Models of Human Creativity: construction of cognitive models of human creativity that can be the basis for computational creativity. 3. Computational Systems for Supporting Creativity: production of user interfaces, interaction design, decision support, and data modeling techniques that lead to the development of intelligent assistants that support the user in being more creative. -------------------------- Topics -------------------------- Original contributions are solicited in all areas related to Computational Creativity, including but not limited to: 1. computational paradigms for understanding creativity, including heuristic search, analogical reasoning, and re-representation; 2. metrics, frameworks and formalizations for the evaluation of creativity in computational systems; 3. perspectives on creativity, including philosophy of computational creativity, models of human behavior, intelligent systems, and creativity-support tools; 4. the role of creativity in learning, innovation, improvisation, and other pursuits; 5. factors that enhance creativity, including conflict, diversity, knowledge, intuition, reward structures, and technologies; 6. social aspects of creativity, including the relationship between individual and social creativity, diffusion of ideas, collaboration and creativity, formation of creative teams, and simulating creativity in social settings; 7. specific applications to music, language and the arts, to architecture and design, to scientific discovery, to education and to entertainment; 8. detailed system descriptions of creative systems, including engineering difficulties faced, example sessions and artefacts produced, and applications of the system. The conference will include traditional paper presentations, will showcase the application of computational creativity to the sciences, creative industries and arts, and will incorporate a "show and tell" session, which will be devoted to demonstrations of computational systems exhibiting behaviour which would be deemed creative in humans. In addition the conference will provide a forum for identifying trends and opportunities for research on [computational] creativity and promising practices concerning the development of creative computational systems. [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:06:34 +0100 From: Amilcar Cardoso Subject: EvoMUSART 2010: 8th European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design EvoMUSART 2010 8th European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design 7-9 April, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey http://www.evostar.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EvoMUSART 2010 is the eight workshop of the EvoNet working group on Evolutionary Music and Art. Following the success of previous events and the growth of interest in the field, the main goal of EvoMUSART 2010 is to bring together researchers who are using biologically inspired techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in this area. The workshop will be held from 7-9 April, 2010 in Istanbul, Turkey as part of the EvoStar event. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the workshop and included in the EvoWorkshops proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. EvoMUSART 2010 important dates are: Submission deadline: November 4, 2009 Conference: 7-9 April, 2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The papers should concern the use of bio-inspired techniques (Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Artificial Neural Networks, Swarm Intelligence, etc.) in the scope of the generation, analysis and interpretation of art, music, design, architecture and other artistic fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Generation o Biologically Inspired Design and Art-Making Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, objects, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.; o Biologically Inspired Sound-Generators and Music-Systems that create music, aggregate sound, or simulate instruments, voices, effects, etc; o Robotic Based Evolutionary Art and Music; o Other related generative techniques; - Theory o Computational Aesthetics, Emotional Response, Surprise, Novelty; o Representation techniques; o Comparative analysis and classification; o Validation methodologies; o New biologically inspired computation models in art, music and design; - Computer Aided Creativity o New ways of integrating users into evolutionary computation art and music frameworks; o Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biologically inspired art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these approaches; the resulting artifacts; o Collaborative distributed artificial art environments; - Automation o Techniques for automated fitness assignment; o Systems that exploit biologically inspired computation to analyze artistic objects and artifacts; [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Aug 3 08:17:14 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46FB432E09; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:17:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0377232DD4; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:17:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090803081712.0377232DD4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:17:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.213 new journal: Informatica Umanistica X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 213. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:13:27 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Informatica umanistica 1-2009 If one had to choose an historical place and time for the beginnings of humanities computing, it would be (and conventionally has been) Italy in the late 1940s, with the work of Fr Roberto Busa. The choice is an historiographical act, not an indisputable fact -- earlier work in machine translation, for example, demands attention, Edward Vanhoutte has pointed out. Indeed, as the scope of disciplines to be considered expands, choice is made more and more difficult, to the point that choosing becomes problematic. Nevertheless the Italian tradition in informatica umanistica remains, like Fr Busa himself, vital, vigorous, venerable and brilliant. For that reason alone the new Italian journal Informatica Umanistica, now in print and online at www.ledonline.it/informatica-umanistica/, is more than worth our attention. Its appearance is to be celebrated. Fortunately for those many of us whose Italian is not up to the task, Massimo Parodi's editorial, "Cercare di capire / Trying to understand", has been translated into English (by Philip Grew). In it Parodi considers the commonplace impatience with any systematic effort to *understand* our practice philosophically. As Richard Hamming and others have remarked for computer science, one can sympathize with the desire to stop arguing and just get on with *doing* it. But when we consider what tends to happen when "just doing it" rules -- uncritical adoption of technologies and amnesia of the reasons for doing, i.e. narrow focus on means to the detriment of ends, and in academia a social demotion to the level of mere service -- the impatience becomes much harder to maintain. Achieving a balance between practicing and theorizing isn't a simple matter and excluding either ultimately crippling. But now, as things are, esp in a methodologically orientated field that builds things and is institutionally fragile where it exists at all, the danger is that we will be forced to ignore critical, long-term thinking in order to devote resources to short-term projects. But since Parodi's editorial is online and provided bilingually, I'll let you spend your time reading his better argument. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London: staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Aug 3 08:18:49 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ECE832E9B; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:18:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 55C0932E8A; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:18:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090803081846.55C0932E8A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:18:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.214 events: XML Summer School X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 214. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 14:48:30 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: XML Summer School in Oxford, 20-25 Sept The XML Summer School returns this year at St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 20th-25th September. As always, it provides high quality technical XML training for every level of expertise, from the Hands-on Introduction through to special classes devoted to XSLT, Semantic Technologies, Open Source Applications, Web 2.0 and Web Services. The Summer School is also an opportunity to experience what life is like as a student at one of the world's oldest Universities. Classes are taught by some of the most renowned XML experts, including Eve Maler, Michael Kay, Jeni Tennison, Michael Sperberg McQueen, Norm Walsh and Bob DuCharme. Details are at http://www.xmlsummerschool.org/ ///Peter [Flynn] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 4 05:11:41 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC6F432D50; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:11:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 409BC32D37; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:11:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090804051139.409BC32D37@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:11:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.215 MA & funding for semantic web studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 215. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 00:00:39 +0100 From: Enrico Franconi Subject: Master's degree on "Semantic Web" - scholarships for Europeans *** Master's degree on "Semantic Web" - Computer Science *** http://www.semantic-web-academy.eu/msc/ The Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen- Bolzano (FUB), in Italy (at the heart of the Dolomites mountains in South-Tyrol), is launching a Master's degree on "Semantic Web" - a curriculum part of its Master of Science in Computer Science offer. The Semantic Web and its technology are increasingly becoming a central element of many activities in computer science. The main topics of the Master's degree on "Semantic Web" are the up-to-date technologies in the Semantic Web area. The goal of the Master's degree on "Semantic Web" is to build a new generation of Semantic Web experts, and up-skill the European workforce with ideas that point to the future. Students will be prepared for a future PhD, will come in contact with the international research community, and will be integrated into ongoing research projects; in addition, students will develop competence in foreign languages and international relationships, thereby improving their social skills. Students enrolled in the Semantic Web curriculum will be able to exploit synergies with the highly successful European Masters Program in Computational Logic http://www.computational-logic.eu and the European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies http://www.inf.unibz.it/mcs/lct which are run in parallel by the Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. LAST APPLICATION DEADLINE: - 21 AUGUST 2009: last deadline *only* for EUROPEAN students; http://www.unibz.it/en/inf/progs/mcs/admission/Pre_Enrolement_Master.html SCHOLARSHIPS: European citizens can apply to scholarships which are granted purely on the basis of the yearly income of the applicant and of her/his parents or husband/wife. This scholarship may amount up to more than 6,000 EUR per academic year, plus support on the accommodation and total reimbursement of the enrolment fees. European students may also get a LLP Socrates Erasmus scholarship for the second year of study abroad, which is 330 EUR per month. The IBM Center for Advanced Studies in Rome supports scholarships of up to 2,400 EUR to work on a research project or on the thesis at their labs in Rome. The BIT Mobility Programme supports students to do their project and/or their thesis with a scholarship (up to 500€ per month) at the nearby universities Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck (STI Innsbruck - with a large expertise on Semantic Web topics) or Università degli Studi di Trento. THE SEMANTIC WEB: Society is moving from being information-based to knowledge-based. Work is increasingly collaborative, and business and scientific endea- vours are conducted in a global networked way. Knowledge is no longer held locally but is globally distributed. Data and information is growing exponentially in all sectors of society. Communities generate, model, augment, exchange and transform information so the information pool rapidly changes its content and structure. Most of the major scientific aims to achieve an all inclusive information society, networked business and government depend on distributed knowledge- based systems. Knowledge is the object of this Master's degree on "Semantic Web". The Master's degree on "Semantic Web" will provide the technological basis for easier and efficient knowledge creation, sharing and exploitation: technologies at the heart of the knowledge economy. Although the World Wide Web has resulted in a revolution in informa- tion exchange among computer applications, it still cannot provide easy interoperation and information exchange. In the next generation of the Web (the Semantic Web), web resources will be more readily accessible by both human and computers with the added semantic information in a machine-understandable and machine-processable fashion. In this context, knowledge in the form of ontologies plays a pivotal role by providing a source of shared and precisely defined terms that can be understood and processed by machines. THE STUDY PROGRAMME: Applicants should have a Bachelor degree (Laurea) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant disciplines; special cases will be considered. The programme is a curriculum part of the Master in Computer Science, and it has various strengths that make it unique amongst Italian and European universities: * Curriculum taught entirely in English: The programme is open to the world and prepares the students to move on the international scene. * Possibility of a strongly research-oriented curriculum. * Possibility for project-based routes to obtain the degree and extensive lab facilities. * International student community. * Direct interaction with the local and international industry and research centres, with the possibility of practical and research internships that can lead to future employment. * Excellent scholarship opportunities and student accommodations. THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN-BOLZANO: The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, founded in 1997, boasts modern premises in the centre of Bozen-Bolzano. The environment is multi- lingual, South Tyrol being a region where three languages are spoken: German, Italian and Ladin. Studying in a multilingual area has shown that our students acquire the cutting edge needed in the international business world. Many of our teaching staff hails from abroad. Normal lectures are complemented with seminars, work placements and labora- tory work, which give our students a vocational as well as theoretical training, preparing them for their subsequent professional careers. Studying at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano means, first and foremost, being guided all the way through the student's educational career. Bozen-Bolzano, due to its enviable geographical position in the centre of the Dolomites, also offers our students a multitude of opportu- nities for spending their free-time. The city unites the traditional with the modern. Young people and fashionable shops throng the city centre where ancient mercantile buildings are an attractive backdrop to a city that is in continual growth. To the south there is the industrial and manufacturing area with prosperous small and medium- sized businesses active in every economic sector. Back in the 17th century Bozen-Bolzano was already a flourishing mercantile city that, thanks to its particular geographic position, functioned as a kind of bridge between northern and southern Europe. As a multilingual town and a cultural centre Bozen-Bolzano still has a lot to offer today. Its plethora of theatres, concerts with special programmes, cinemas and museums, combined with a series of trendy night spots that create local colour make Bozen-Bolzano a city that is beginning to cater for its increasingly demanding student population. And if you fancy a very special experience, go and visit the city's favourite and most famous resident - "Oetzi", the Ice Man of Similaun, housed in his very own refrigerated room in the recently opened archaeological museum. Bozen-Bolzano and its surroundings are an El Dorado for sports lovers: jogging on the grass alongside the River Talfer-Talvera, walks to Jenesien-S.Genesio and on the nearby Schlern-Sciliar plateau, excursions and mountain climbing in the Dolomites, swimming in the numerous nearby lakes and, last but not least, skiing and snowboarding in the surrounding ski areas. FURTHER INFORMATION: For any info please write to fub@semantic-web-academy.eu Master's degree on "Semantic Web" - Computer Science Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Piazza Università 1 I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy Phone: +39 0471 016 000 Fax: +39 0471 016 009 Email: fub@semantic-web-academy.eu Web site: http://www.semantic-web-academy.eu/msc/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 4 05:12:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B813D32DB0; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:12:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4949932DA6; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:12:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090804051224.4949932DA6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:12:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.216 blog for the TILE project X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 216. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 11:07:08 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Launch of TILE project blog In-Reply-To: <96f3df640908030804i7e52048ch42c1c1f84518076@mail.gmail.com> TILE: Text-Image Linking Environment is pleased to announce the launch of its public blog and informational site: http://tileproject.org Our first blog posting includes a description of anticipated TILE functionality. http://mith.info/tile/2009/07/20/welcome/ Upcoming posts will include an invitation to participate in user testing, as well as announcements of software as it becomes available. Visit often, or subscribe to the RSS feed for the latest news on TILE. http://mith.info/tile/feed/ TILE is a collaborative project between the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO), and Indiana University Bloomington, funded through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Resources program (research and development focus). Over two years TILE will develop a new web-based, modular, collaborative image markup tool for both manual and semi-automated linking between encoded text and image of text, and image annotation. The project is unusual in digital humanities tools development in that it is being designed from the start to support a wide variety of use cases. Several projects from the University of Indiana Bloomington, The University of Oregon and Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies are initial testbeds. In the second year of the project, TILE will turn to the user community for testing. If you are interested in participating, or in learning more about the project, please contact us at TILEPROJECT@listserv.heanet.ie. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)          Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444        Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie          Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 4 05:13:29 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB62532E5A; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:13:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B4D6432E52; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:13:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090804051326.B4D6432E52@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:13:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.217 events: doctoral consortium, KR2010 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 217. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 16:40:03 +0100 From: Joost Vennekens Subject: CFP KR 2010 Doctoral Consortium This message was originally submitted by joost.vennekens@CS.KULEUVEN.BE to the humanist list at LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the list, using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user support or consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it will be distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be removed automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your mail program. ----------------- Message requiring your approval (61 lines) ------------------ KR 2010 Doctoral Consortium http://kr.org/KR2010/ 1) Aims and Scope The Doctoral Consortium is a student mentoring program that introduces students to senior researchers with research similar interests. The aims of the consortium are: - to provide a forum for students to present their current research, and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers - to promote contacts among PhD students working in similar areas - to support students with information and advice on academic, research and industrial careers We encourage submissions from PhD students at any level, and from any topic area within Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Students accepted into the Doctoral Consortium may apply for some financial support for partly covering their KR-2010 conference travel expenses. Details will be announced later. 2) Application Applications must be submitted via our online submission site (see below). Each application must contain the following materials: - Thesis summary. A description of the problem being addressed, your motivation for addressing the problem, proposed plan of research, the progress to date (what you have already achieved and what remains to be done), and related work. It must be four pages maximum in double column format like the papers in previous KR proceedings. - Letter of recommendation. A letter from your thesis advisor that states that he/she supports your participation in the DC. The most preferred way of submission is to combine the thesis summary and letter of recommendation into a single PDF document. If you cannot do that, archive the two documents into a single zip file. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: ubiquity (14) Subject: UBIQUITY - NEW ISSUE ALERT [2] From: Carolyn Kotlas (180) Subject: TL Infobits -- July 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 17:27:44 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY - NEW ISSUE ALERT This Week in Ubiquity: August 4 - 10, 2009 In Search of the Real Network Science: An Interview with David Alderson http://www.acm.org/ubiquity Since Duncan Watts and Steve Strogatz published "Collective Dynamics of Small-World Networks" in Nature in 1998, there has been an explosion of interest in mathematical models of large networks, leading to numerous research papers and books. These works have given us new measures of large networks including hub nodes, broker nodes, connection path length, small-world phenomena, six degrees of separation, power laws of connectivity, and scale-free networks. The National Research Council carried out a study evaluating the emergence of a new area called "network science", which could provide the mathematics and experimental methods for characterizing, predicting, and designing networks. The new area has its share of controversies. An example is whether the power law distribution of number of nodes of given connectivity leads to valid conclusions for real networks. The power law distribution predicts that the network will have hubs - a few nodes with high connectivity - and has led to the claim that such networks are vulnerable to attacks against the hubs. The Internet has been reported to follow power law connectivity but its design resists hub failures. How might we explain this anomaly? 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NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue and all back issues at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... Are Online Students More Likely to Drop Out? College Students in 2020 Cellphones as Instructional Tools Ten Higher Education IT Issues for 2009 Being There for Online Students Insights from Learning Leaders Recommended Reading ...................................................................... ARE ONLINE STUDENTS MORE LIKELY TO DROP OUT? "The accelerated growth of online instruction has been accompanied by questions of quality in terms of outcomes. One measure of program quality and effectiveness is program completion rates. Although studies have shown the effectiveness of instruction in the online environment to be comparable to that of the traditional classroom environment, studies and anecdotal evidence indicate high attrition rates for online courses, often much higher than for campus courses." In "Attrition in Online and Campus Degree Programs" (OJDLA, vol. 12, no. 2, Summer 2009), East Carolina University researchers Belinda Patterson and Cheryl McFadden report on their study comparing online and face-to-face students in two graduate-level programs. The authors concluded that "attrition in online program formats remains an issue and challenge warranting the attention of educational leaders in program planning and development." They also believe that "[d]ropout seems to result from an interaction of many complex variables that are difficult to delineate and determine, particularly in online environments, hence making it difficult for one comprehensive theory of dropout to fully explain the phenomenon in all situations or settings." The paper is available at http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/summer122/patterson112.html The ONLINE JOURNAL OF DISTANCE LEARNING ADMINISTRATION (OJDLA) is a free, peer-reviewed quarterly electronic journal published by the Distance and Distributed Education Center, The State University of West Georgia, 1603 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30118 USA; email: distance@westga.edu; Web: http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ ...................................................................... COLLEGE STUDENTS IN 2020 "The College of 2020: Students" is the first of the Chronicle Research Services' three-part series of reports on what higher education will look like in 2020. The report addresses such questions as What will change in how students view higher education and how to get it? How will colleges have to change to address students' expectations? What will be the make-up of the student body? The complete report is available for purchase; a three-page Executive Summary is available at no cost online at http://research.chronicle.com/asset/TheCollegeof2020ExecutiveSummary.pdf?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en Chronicle Research Services is part of the company that publishers THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. For more information go to http://research.chronicle.com/ ...................................................................... CELLPHONES AS INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS "Cellphones have been called 'the new paper and pencil' or 'the new laptop,' and they could be in the hands of as many as 10 million to 15 million schoolchildren in the next few years." EDUCATION WEEK's webinar "Cellphones as Instructional Tools" makes a case for using cellphones as "mobile computers" that can be used for students' learning activities both in and outside the classroom. Although the presenters use examples from the K-12 educational environment, instructors in higher education may find the presentation of interest. A link to the archive of the webinar is available at http://www.edweek.org/ew/marketplace/webinars/webinars.html (Registration is required to access the broadcast; registration is free.) Education Week's webinars are sponsored by Editorial Projects in Education, the non-profit organization that founded The Chronicle of Higher Education. For more information, contact: Editorial Projects in Education Inc., Suite 100, 6935 Arlington Road, Bethesda, MD 20814-5233 USA; tel: 800-346-1834; Web: http://www.edweek.org/ See also: "50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom" Online Colleges, June 6, 2009 http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/06/08/50-ways-to-use-twitter-in-the-college-classroom/ ...................................................................... TEN HIGHER EDUCATION IT ISSUES FOR 2009 In December 2008, the tenth annual EDUCAUSE Current Survey asked participants to select the "five most-important IT issues out of a selection of thirty-one in each of four areas: (1) issues that are critical for strategic success; (2) issues that are expected to increase in significance; (3) issues that demand the greatest amount of the campus IT leader's time; and (4) issues that require the largest expenditures of human and fiscal resources." As for the previous six years, funding IT, administrative/ERP information systems, and security rank at the top of the list of college and university CIOs' concerns. This year, funding IT is the number one concern, reflecting the economic downturn that most institutions are experiencing. The survey results and other materials, including readings related to each of the ten issues, are available at http://www.educause.edu/2009IssuesResources EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. The current membership comprises more than 1,900 colleges, universities, and educational organizations, including 200 corporations, with 15,000 active members. EDUCAUSE has offices in Boulder, CO, and Washington, DC. Learn more about EDUCAUSE at http://www.educause.edu/ ................................................... BEING THERE FOR ONLINE STUDENTS "Instructors who are new to online teaching often fear that their courses will be impersonal and that connecting with their students will not be possible in an online environment. Online students also fear this 'missing instructor,' and feel isolated if they don't sense that others are out there sharing their learning journey." In "Increasing Instructor Presence in an Online Course" (EDUCATOR'S VOICE, vol. 10, no. 4, July 8, 2009), Gail E. Krovitz provides tips to help online instructors connect and stay connected with their students. Her suggestions include "paying attention to the frequency and tone of communication, having a strong presence in threaded discussions, providing feedback and expectations. . . ." Krovitz also recommends "increased instructor personalization" by posting instructor bios, pictures, voice recordings, and the use of first person in communications. The article is available at http://www.ecollege.com/Educators_Voice.learn Educator's Voice is published monthly by the eCollege Instructional Design Team. For more information contact eCollege, eCollege Building, 4900 S. Monaco Street, Denver, CO 80237 USA; tel: 888-884-7325; fax: 303-873-7449; Web: http://www.ecollege.com/ ...................................................................... INSIGHTS FROM LEARNING LEADERS "Today's learning leaders face more challenges than ever before. How do they deal with the economic and business climate we are all facing? How should they make decisions? How should they effectively interface with business leaders? How can they build (or re-build) a team for success? All of these questions have become even more critical and challenging." The LEARNING LEADER FIELDBOOK (The MASIE Center, 2009), edited by Bill Byron Concevitch ,is "designed to bring you insight into the worlds and daily realities of a prestigious group of learning leaders. We've captured their thoughts and some guiding principles and actions that they believe have aided their success." The book includes texts and podcasts from nine learning officers in corporate and government organizations. The book is available for free downloading at http://www.masie.com/fieldbook and, under a Creative Commons License, can be distributed and duplicated. The MASIE Center is an international e-lab and think tank located in Saratoga Springs, NY. The Center is dedicated to exploring the intersection of learning and technology. For more information, go to http://www.masie.com/ ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "The Impending Demise of the University" By Don Tapscott EDGE, June 4, 2009 http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/tapscott09/tapscott09_index.html "Universities are finally losing their monopoly on higher learning, as the web inexorably becomes the dominant infrastructure for knowledge serving both as a container and as a global platform for knowledge exchange between people. "Meanwhile on campus, there is fundamental challenge to the foundational modus operandi of the University -- the model of pedagogy. Specifically, there is a widening gap between the model of learning offered by many big universities and the natural way that young people who have grown up digital best learn." Responses/rebuttals to Tapscott's essay by Marc D. Hauser, Harvard University and James O'Donnell, Georgetown University http://www.edge.org/discourse/demise.html ...................................................................... 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:39:08 +0100 From: Lemaire Pascal Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? In-Reply-To: <1248831157.4845.25.camel@vostro.bcwanet.local> Hi everyone, I'm currently finishing my graduation paper for a MA in sciences and technologies of information and communication and my research topic is the use of new computer technologies in epigraphy and papyrology. My main conclusion on the topic raised here is that what's been built is a foundation, an infrastructure which is not yet fully complete but on which we can begin to build the tools that will be the real game changers. For example the greek and latin papyri have been digitized a long time ago and those resources are now the building blocks on which the papyrological navigator is built, a kind of mashup making a lot of informations comming from various projects availlable in a single place. I've also seen projects in various places where chronological and geographical data are used to display dynamically informations on a map and have an animation of the evolution of, for exemple, a personal name through the ages. It's been done both for medieval and classical research projects. But despite all this we still have to face some serious issues which we'll only be able to deal with if we do more new digitalisation projects and if we can overcome some publishers' refusals. For example the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri holds a lot of information but a lot of it is old, dated and obsolete and putting it up to date would take a massive amount of time and ressources. But solutions like a digitalisation of the Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten could help since it lists all new editions of already published texts and the new data could be added automaticaly to the Papyrological navigator's data and allow the researchers to always work on the latest edition of the texts. Otherwise we'll probably see an increase of mistakes based on the use of digitized but out of date ressources. But what I also see is a growing distance between those who use the digital ressources and those who don't due to either lack of skills or of ressources. In many universities with smaller staff you may find specialists working alone in their office without any support, even whole departments lacking any kind of IT staff to help them with their research. One may maybe go as far as saying that one of the main result of digital humanities is not a more widespread diffusion of knowledge but rather in the birth of a somewhat more exclusive group of researchers, those with the know-how and the resources. With increased books prices and tightening budgets this could really exclude some from the cutting edge of research and make them "second rate" not through lack of professionalism but due to economic exclusion. The answer for that would be to have more collaborations, more inter-university projects, more international projects with shared ressources but in order to promote those it is also needed to tell those not so computer litterate colleagues that such project do exist and have a real use and tell them where to go for more informations because they may simply not know that places like this mailing list exists. For example I myself became involved because, as an undergraduate student in classical history, an assistant came one day to ask me "how does one make a web site" because he wanted to put online his research. It is only by chance that we learned about TEI and then EpiDoc (which better suits our needs) and that we decided to go in this direction. No one we knew in the university was interested in thoses topics when we started and it is only now that computer use in historical and classical philologic researches is (very) slowly growing. Pascal Lemaire Université Libre de Bruxelles _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 6 05:06:48 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1BE31DE5E; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 05:06:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 529FD1DE3D; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 05:06:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090806050646.529FD1DE3D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 05:06:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.220 events: manuscript studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 220. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:43:29 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: Fwd: 2nd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age In-Reply-To: <96f3df640908050837i12289802xa4b79661cd4baa9@mail.gmail.com> [apologies for cross posting] I attended this last year and it was fabulous! Dot ************* 2nd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age October 30-31, 2009 Lex scripta: The Manuscript as Witness to the History of Law In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Biddle Law Library of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Libraries are pleased to announce the 2nd annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's symposium is dedicated to the history of handwritten law and legal documents in Western Europe and the Middle East up to the early modern period in honor of the 100th anniversary of the death of Henry Charles Lea, whose library containing a significant collection of works on ecclesiastical legal history was conveyed to the University in 1926. Nine speakers will present papers on various topics relating to the history of handwritten law and legal documents. The symposium will conclude with a panel of digital humanities scholars who will discuss specific  projects and issues related to the digitization of legal manuscripts and documents. Participants include:    * Jonathan E. Brockopp, Penn State University    * Hugh Cayless, New York University    * Simon Corcoran, Projet Volterra, University College London    * Gero Dolezalek, University of Aberdeen    * Abigail Firey, University of Kentucky    * Jessica Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania    * Kathleen E. Kennedy, Penn State University-Brandywine    * Susan L'Engle, Vatican Film Library, St. Louis University    * Kenneth Pennington, Catholic University    * Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania    * Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University    * Georg Vogeler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich    * Anders Winroth, Yale University The symposium will be held at the University of Pennsylvania and the Central Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia.  For locations, schedule, and program details: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium2_program.html Registration is $35 (Free to students with valid student ID).  To register: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium.html -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)          Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444        Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie          Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Aug 7 05:53:34 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF7934C1C; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 05:53:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 73EC534C14; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 05:53:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090807055332.73EC534C14@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 05:53:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.221 digital differences X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 221. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:09:49 +0100 From: "Joshua D. Sosin" Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? Pascal: You might be interested to read about the current Integrating Digital Papyrology project, which aims among other things to start building a bit of superstructure on top of the foundation that is more or less in place already: http://idp.atlantides.org/trac/idp/wiki/DDBDP (see link at bottom of page: http://www.duke.edu/~jds15/IDP2-FinalProposalRedacted.pdf). What you say about the BL is of course absolutely correct. Several papyrologists have talked for years about the value of a digitized BL. The online papyrological texteditor that we are building now will be able both to accommodate collaborative entry of existing BL entries as well as permitting (peer reviewed) proposal and introduction of corrections directly to the databank. But it will also allow the community of scholars to take direct control of bringing up to date the core data, which are, as you say, in places woefully out of date. All best wishes for what sounds like a stimulating thesis! Josh Sosin Lemaire Pascal wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm currently finishing my graduation paper for a MA in sciences and > technologies of information and communication and my research topic is > the use of new computer technologies in epigraphy and papyrology. My > main conclusion on the topic raised here is that what's been built is > a foundation, an infrastructure which is not yet fully complete but on > which we can begin to build the tools that will be the real game > changers. > > For exemple the greek and latin papyri have been digitized a long time > ago and those ressources are now the building blocks on which the > papyrological navigator is built, a kind of mashup making a lot of > informations comming from various projects availlable in a single > place. I've also seen projects in various places where chronological > and geographical data are used to display dynamicaly informations on a > map and have an animation of the evolution of, for exemple, a > personnal name through the ages. It's been done both for medieval and > classical research projects. > > But despite all this we still have to face some serious issues which > we'll only be able to deal with if we do more new digitalisation > projects and if we can overcome some publishers refusals. > > For exemple the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri holds a lot of > information but a lot of it is old, dated and obsolete and putting it > up to date would take a massive amount of time and ressources. But > solutions like a digitalisation of the /Berichtigungsliste der > griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten/ could help since it lists > all new editions of already published texts and the new data could be > added automaticaly to the Papyrological navigator's data and allow the > researchers to always work on the latest edition of the texts. > Otherwise we'll probably see an increase of mistakes based on the use > of digitized but out of date ressources. > > But what I also see is a growing distance between those who use the > digital ressources and those who don't due to either lack of skills or > of ressources. In many universities with smaller staff you may find > specialists working alone in their office without any support, even > whole departements lacking any kind of IT staff to help them with > their research. > > One may maybe go as far as saying that one of the main result of > digital humanities is not a more widespread diffusion of knowledge but > rather in the birth of a somewhat more exclusive group of researchers, > those with the know how and the ressources. With increased books > prices and tightening budgets this could really exclude some from the > cutting edge of research and make them "second rate" not through lack > of professionalism but due to economic exclusion. > > The answer for that would be to have more collaborations, more > inter-university projects, more international projects with shared > ressources but in order to promote those it is also needed to tell > those not so computer litterate colleagues that such project do exist > and have a real use and tell them where to go for more informations > because they may simply not know that places like this mailing list > exists. > > For exemple I myself became involved because, as an undergraduate > student in classical history, an assistant came one day to ask me "how > does one make a web site" because he wanted to put online his > research. It is only by chance that we learned about TEI and then > EpiDoc (which better suits our needs) and that we decided to go in > this direction. > > No one we knew in the university was interested in thoses topics when > we started and it is only now that computer use in historical and > classical philologic researches is (very) slowly growing. > > Pascal Lemaire > Université Libre de Bruxelles > -- Associate Professor, Classical Studies, Duke University Director of Undergraduate Studies Associate Editor, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies Co-Director, Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri www.duke.edu/~jds15 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Aug 7 05:57:44 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F3034D1C; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 05:57:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AB34334D0B; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 05:57:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090807055741.AB34334D0B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 05:57:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.222 events: art; web semantics; language; VR X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 222. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Robert W. Lindeman" (27) Subject: cfp: IEEE Virtual Reality 2010. [2] From: "Reimer, Torsten" (94) Subject: Web Semantics in Action: Web 3.0 in e-Science [3] From: Beryl Graham (78) Subject: CRUMB curating events in Belfast in August, Liverpool in September [4] From: "carlos.martin@urv.cat" (165) Subject: LATA 2010: call for papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 07:04:44 +0100 From: "Robert W. Lindeman" Subject: cfp: IEEE Virtual Reality 2010. In-Reply-To: <11f4a83e0908031929q6ac686a7i7f700fe9901e4af1@mail.gmail.com> *** Call for Participation *** IEEE Virtual Reality 2010 *** March 20-26, 2010 *** Waltham, MA, USA *** http://conferences.computer.org/vr/2010/ IEEE VR 2010 is the premier international conference and exhibition on virtual reality. You will find the brightest minds, the most innovative research, the leading companies, and the most stimulating discussions in the fields of virtual environments, augmented reality, 3D user interfaces, and haptics, all gathered March 20-26, 2010 in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA (just west of Boston). We invite you to submit your work, show your products, and join us for a fascinating week of presentations, exhibits, workshops, and special events. The greater Boston area is home to over 50 video-game companies. At this year's conference, we will promote the cross-fertilization of gaming and VR through several efforts. In addition to traditional VR topics, if your work lies at the intersection of VR and gaming, e.g., Serious Games for Education or Health, or MMO design and implementation, we look forward to your contributions. Once again, IEEE VR 2010 is pleased to be co-located with the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (http://conferences.computer.org/3dui/3dui2010/), which will share the opening weekend (March 20-21) with the VR Tutorials and Workshops, and the Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems (http://www.hapticssymposium.org/), which will follow VR on March 25-26. [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 14:47:40 +0100 From: "Reimer, Torsten" Subject: Web Semantics in Action: Web 3.0 in e-Science Chairs: - Annamaria Carusi, OeRC, University of Oxford - Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School and Massachussets General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease - M. Scott Marshall, University of Amsterdam, & co-chair of HCLS Semantic Web technologies have moved beyond the point of being promising futuristic technologies and demonstration projects, to being technologies in action in realistic contexts and conditions. Semantic Web applications are being developed for many aspects of scientific research, from experimental data management, discovery and retrieval, to analytic workflows, hypothesis development and testing, to research publishing and dissemination. This workshop intends to explore the questions that arise as Semantic Web applications are increasingly grounded within the actual lifecycle of scientific research, from observation and hypothesis formulation to publication, dissemination and criticism. We aim to bring together researchers across the disciplines, to discuss the use, development and embedding of these technologies in varied research domains and contexts. We will discuss the actuality of Semantic Web technologies in use and the emergent practices through which they are being developed and deployed. We aim to encourage vigorous discussion around aims, methods, applications and pragmatics. This workshop will look at the theoretical, methodological and pragmatic issues of grounding the development, deployment and evolution of ontologies and applications in Semantic e-Science in practical scientific problems and activity. How do we ground deductive Semantic Web information management and retrieval in the practical conditions of evolving sciences based on experiment, observation and induction? How do we bridge gaps and conflicts in approach between computer scientists developing research tools, and research practitioners using those tools? Is it possible to develop Semantic Web practices in e-Science that deal explicitly with hypothesis formulation, testing, challenge and refinement? Semantic Web applications have the potential to substantially accelerate research. Are all domains of research equally promising for the development of targeted semantic web applications? Are “semantic” domains defined by particular areas of research, by a particular form of scientific question, by discipline or sub-discipline or by particular aspects or stages of the scientific process? Are there types of enquiry which are intractable to the solutions offered by the Semantic Web, and if so, why? What are the specific challenges of Semantic Web applications in different disciplines, and how might Semantic Web applications shape and be shaped by them? The incorporation of semantic technologies with existing social web practices – "Web 3.0" – promises to change the scientific research, publication and discussion model we now have to a much more fluid, "higher-velocity" model. It also poses many questions for technologists and researchers alike. Can abstract and formal understandings of the underlying ontologies be supplemented or even replaced by more informal social conceptions of ontologies? What are the advantages and disadvantages of top-down or bottom-up development processes? What are best practices regarding user engagement and usability; what are the different roles of stakeholders in the process of development and deployment? What if any changes in scientific practice may be required to exploit the promise of semantic e-Science? Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following: * Semantic Web applications in use by researchers in specific domains with issues raised and lessons learned in practice; * Requirements engineering for Semantic Web; * Spectrum and evolutionary models of ontology development; * Relations in practice between taxonomies, vocabularies, and ontologies; formal versus informal ontologies; * Social studies of Semantic Web in action; * Activity theory and other HCI approaches as applied to Semantic Web. * Semantics of things, processes and discourse; * Formal approaches to ontology development in e-Science, and practical outcomes; * Research questions, methods and methodologies particularly suited or unsuited to being addressed by semantic web applications; * Semantics of Hypotheses, evidence and relationships; * Humanities and e-Social Science approaches and applications in Semantic Web. 500 word proposals are invited, on any one of these topics or a related topic. Proposals should reach us by September 1, 2009, and should be sent to annamaria.carusi@oerc.ox.ac.uk or tim_clark@harvard.edu. Programme Committee will include: Anita de Waard (Elsevier) William Hayes (Biogen Idec) Dave Randall (Manchester Metropolitan University) Simon Buckingham Shum (Open University / Knowledge Media Institute) David Shotton (University of Oxford) Susie Stephens (Johnson & Johnson) Mark Wilkinson (University of British Columbia) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:31:38 +0100 From: Beryl Graham Subject: CRUMB curating events in Belfast in August, Liverpool in September In-Reply-To: <11f4a83e0908031929q6ac686a7i7f700fe9901e4af1@mail.gmail.com> CRUMB announce two forthcoming events: 1. Workshops at ISEA in Belfast 27th-29th August. 2. Conference ‘Real-time: Showing Art in the Age of New Media’ in Liverpool 24th September. 1. THREE CRUMB WORKSHOPS at ISEA in Belfast 27th-29th August 2009 No booking necessary, further details from http://www.isea2009.org/ Open Bliss is a series of workshops illuminating new media art and the practice of curating hosted by CRUMB, the online resource for curators of new media art (www.crumbweb.org). CRUMB excels at creating informal, dialogical social settings for professional development, often involving a nice cup of tea. For ISEA09, each workshop will involve special guests. CRUMB Open Bliss Workshop 1: Participatory Practices Thursday 27th August 3:00pm-4:30pm at Interface, University of Ulster Will use the online and object-based Random Information Exchange project (http://ptechnic.org) in order to document a range of knowledge concerning participative art projects. CRUMB Open Bliss Workshop 2: Protective Zones Friday 28th August 3:00pm-4:30pm at the Linen Hall Library. It will take the form of a discussion of curating as working with/in (instead of ‘on’) 'zones of disturbance'. Is curating always creating a 'protective zone'? What about the equality of territories? A 'daily paper' will be produced. CRUMB Open Bliss Workshop 3: Local/Global Saturday 29th August 3:00pm-4:30pm at Golden Thread Gallery. Will take the form of a conversation between practicing curators, bringing together contemporary art and new media art concerning local, site-specific and global, networked practices. 2. REAL-TIME: SHOWING ART IN THE AGE OF NEW MEDIA One-day conference as part of the Abandon Normal Devices festival 23-27 September 2009 Thursday 24th September 2009. 9:30am-4:30pm. The Art and Design Academy, Liverpool John Moores University, Duckinfield Street, Off Brownlow Hill, Liverpool Showing time-based art is very different to showing art objects. But how is art which uses the Internet, interactivity, social systems, or real-time computing different from video, live art, or performance? Rather than progressing along a smooth curve of development, art practices ‘other’ than those traditionally supported by the mainstream often seem to lurch along a rollercoaster-like path from avant-gardism to hyperbole, rejection to appropriation. New and emerging forms of art, such as online art, can go from being cutting edge to out-of-fashion shockingly quickly, without ever establishing the longevity necessary to garner a critical vocabulary and appreciation around the work. Which histories, whether from the field of art or technology, could inform the life-cycle of 'art after new media'? Which histories might allow for a more reflective approach to newly emergent forms of art, and could help viewers with short-attention spans to see beyond the hype? This one-day conference aims to share the knowledge of those involved in exhibition practices beyond the object of art, and asks, should we abandon ‘normal’ curating practices, or adapt these modes to integrate ‘the new’? This event draws experts and researchers from the fields of art making, curating, history and criticism to confront the slippery question of time -- including the timelines of production, of showing, and of participation. Speakers and workshop leaders include: -Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York. -Gavin Wade, director of Eastside Projects in Birmingham. -Mark Nash, Head of Department of Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art (TBC). -Franz Thalmair, co-founder of CONT3XT.NET collaborative curatorial group in Vienna with Michael Kargl (aka carlos katastrofsky) and Sabine Hochrieser. -Kelli Dipple, Curator, Intermedia, at Tate Modern in London. Tickets £18.50/ £15.50 to be purchased from http://shop.fact.co.uk/ For updates of the programme check http://www.andfestival.co.uk For more info contact hello@andfestival.org.uk This event is a collaboration for AND between CRUMB the resource for curators of new media art, and Charlie Gere of University of Lancaster. CRUMB has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and Arts Council England. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:37:32 +0100 From: "carlos.martin@urv.cat" Subject: LATA 2010: call for papers 1st Call for Papers 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2010) Trier, Germany, May 24-28, 2010 http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2010/ ********************************************************************* 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 was developed at Rovira i Virgili University (the host of the previous three editions and co-organizer of this one) in the period 2002-2006, LATA 2010 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions 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: - algebraic language theory - algorithms on automata and words - automata and logic - automata for system analysis and programme verification - automata, concurrency and Petri nets - cellular automata - combinatorics on words - computability - computational complexity - computer linguistics - data and image compression - decidability questions on words and languages - descriptional complexity - DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing - document engineering - foundations of finite state technology - fuzzy and rough languages - grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional, unification, categorial, etc.) - grammars and automata architectures - grammatical inference and algorithmic learning - graphs and graph transformation - language varieties and semigroups - language-based cryptography - language-theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial life - neural networks - parallel and regulated rewriting - parsing - pattern matching and pattern recognition - patterns and codes - power series - quantum, chemical and optical computing - semantics - string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics - symbolic dynamics - term rewriting - text algorithms - text retrieval - transducers - trees, tree languages and tree machines - weighted machines [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 8 08:17:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB82349DA; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 08:17:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 79679349C5; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 08:17:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090808081719.79679349C5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 08:17:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.223 events: web semantics; collaborative knowing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 223. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Reimer, Torsten" (86) Subject: Web Semantics in Action: Web 3.0 in e-Science [2] From: Tania Tudorache (48) Subject: Deadline extension: ISWC Workshop on Collaborative Construction,Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge - CK 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 14:47:40 +0100 From: "Reimer, Torsten" Subject: Web Semantics in Action: Web 3.0 in e-Science Call for proposals: Workshop on Web Semantics in Action: Web 3.0 in e-Science Chairs: - Annamaria Carusi, OeRC, University of Oxford - Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School and Massachussets General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease - M. Scott Marshall, University of Amsterdam, & co-chair of HCLS Semantic Web technologies have moved beyond the point of being promising futuristic technologies and demonstration projects, to being technologies in action in realistic contexts and conditions. Semantic Web applications are being developed for many aspects of scientific research, from experimental data management, discovery and retrieval, to analytic workflows, hypothesis development and testing, to research publishing and dissemination. This workshop intends to explore the questions that arise as Semantic Web applications are increasingly grounded within the actual lifecycle of scientific research, from observation and hypothesis formulation to publication, dissemination and criticism. We aim to bring together researchers across the disciplines, to discuss the use, development and embedding of these technologies in varied research domains and contexts. We will discuss the actuality of Semantic Web technologies in use and the emergent practices through which they are being developed and deployed. We aim to encourage vigorous discussion around aims, methods, applications and pragmatics. This workshop will look at the theoretical, methodological and pragmatic issues of grounding the development, deployment and evolution of ontologies and applications in Semantic e-Science in practical scientific problems and activity. How do we ground deductive Semantic Web information management and retrieval in the practical conditions of evolving sciences based on experiment, observation and induction? How do we bridge gaps and conflicts in approach between computer scientists developing research tools, and research practitioners using those tools? Is it possible to develop Semantic Web practices in e-Science that deal explicitly with hypothesis formulation, testing, challenge and refinement? Semantic Web applications have the potential to substantially accelerate research. Are all domains of research equally promising for the development of targeted semantic web applications? Are “semantic” domains defined by particular areas of research, by a particular form of scientific question, by discipline or sub-discipline or by particular aspects or stages of the scientific process? Are there types of enquiry which are intractable to the solutions offered by the Semantic Web, and if so, why? What are the specific challenges of Semantic Web applications in different disciplines, and how might Semantic Web applications shape and be shaped by them? The incorporation of semantic technologies with existing social web practices – "Web 3.0" – promises to change the scientific research, publication and discussion model we now have to a much more fluid, "higher-velocity" model. It also poses many questions for technologists and researchers alike. Can abstract and formal understandings of the underlying ontologies be supplemented or even replaced by more informal social conceptions of ontologies? What are the advantages and disadvantages of top-down or bottom-up development processes? What are best practices regarding user engagement and usability; what are the different roles of stakeholders in the process of development and deployment? What if any changes in scientific practice may be required to exploit the promise of semantic e-Science? Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following: * Semantic Web applications in use by researchers in specific domains with issues raised and lessons learned in practice; * Requirements engineering for Semantic Web; * Spectrum and evolutionary models of ontology development; * Relations in practice between taxonomies, vocabularies, and ontologies; formal versus informal ontologies; * Social studies of Semantic Web in action; * Activity theory and other HCI approaches as applied to Semantic Web. * Semantics of things, processes and discourse; * Formal approaches to ontology development in e-Science, and practical outcomes; * Research questions, methods and methodologies particularly suited or unsuited to being addressed by semantic web applications; * Semantics of Hypotheses, evidence and relationships; * Humanities and e-Social Science approaches and applications in Semantic Web. 500 word proposals are invited, on any one of these topics or a related topic. Proposals should reach us by September 1, 2009, and should be sent to annamaria.carusi@oerc.ox.ac.uk or tim_clark@harvard.edu. Programme Committee will include: Anita de Waard (Elsevier) William Hayes (Biogen Idec) Dave Randall (Manchester Metropolitan University) Simon Buckingham Shum (Open University / Knowledge Media Institute) David Shotton (University of Oxford) Susie Stephens (Johnson & Johnson) Mark Wilkinson (University of British Columbia) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 22:09:39 +0100 From: Tania Tudorache Subject: Deadline extension: ISWC Workshop on Collaborative Construction,Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge - CK 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND DEMOS ========================================================= Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge October 25, 2009 Collocated with ISWC-2009 Westfields Conference Center, near Washington, DC., USA ******* DEADLINE EXTENSION TO: August 13, 2009 ******* http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/gc3/iswc-workshop/ ========================================================== Objectives ----------- Many have argued that the next generation of the Web (Web 3.0) will grow out of an integration between Semantic Web and Social Web (Web 2.0) technologies.Can ontology management benefits from social web? Can Wikipidia be a style of collaborative ontology authoring? How to exploit user feedback for constructing structured knowledge? In these and many other questions lie the opportunity and the challenge to integrate knowledge bases approaches to social web ones. This integration involves several very different aspects of technology and social practice. Recent workshops and journal special issues have been devoted to methods for extracting ontologies and other structured knowledge from resources such as Wikipedia and other loosely structured data; or on using Semantic Web representations to describe the social structures and interactions in Web 2.0; or on mapping existing data using semantic technologies. In this workshop, we want to focus on another aspect of linkage between Social Web and Semantic Web techniques: collaborative and distributed methods for constructing and maintaining ontologies, terminologies, vocabularies, and mappings between them, throughout their entire life cycle. Topics of interest ------------------- They include (but are not limited to): - Collaborative creation and editing of structured knowledge - Collaborative creation of ontology mappings - Efficient methods for maintenance and evolution of structured knowledge that was created collaboratively - Individual and group incentives for collaborative knowledge construction and maintenance - Ontology repositories, knowledge bases, and their utility in the Social Web. - Metadata management - User interfaces for collaborative tools for creating structured knowledge - Inconsistency management and user-specific views of ontologies - Workflows for collaborative construction and linking of structured knowledge - Evaluation of collaborative tools: methods, metrics, and experimental reports [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Aug 9 06:14:48 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DDD335C47; Sun, 9 Aug 2009 06:14:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2C39135C37; Sun, 9 Aug 2009 06:14:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090809061446.2C39135C37@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 06:14:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.224 events: geospatial computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 224. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:23:24 +0100 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: CfP: Geospatial computing workshop at 5th IEEE InternationalConference on e-Science With apologies for cross-postings Workshop at 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Oxford, UK, 9-11 December 2009 www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee/workshops/geospatial/ Geospatial computing for the arts, humanities and cultural heritage References to time and location pervade the human record, both past and present: an oft-quoted statistic is that some 80% of all online information is in some way georeferenced. It is unsurprising therefore that as researchers in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage become more fully engaged with e-infrastructures, their disciplines’ engagement with, and use of, spatial and temporal data gives rise to new and interesting research questions in this area. How, for example, can heterogeneous academic data resources which fall into the 80% of georeferenced information – including, for example, historical texts, archaeological databases or museum collections - be linked and cross-queried without dictating the research process or methods used? How can geo-temporal data be visualized, both geographically and non-geographically? What is the role of ‘virtual globes’ such as Google Earth as platforms for the expression of such data? What can digital tools and methods in geospatial computing contribute to the use and understanding of space and time in the practice-led arts, creative industries and galleries (e.g. for documenting performances or visitor pathways)? How can issues of scale that are common to both time and space be usefully explored in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage sectors? This workshop seeks contributions from which might further these, and similar, questions. Contributors might (not exhaustively) include: * Academics in the arts, humanities or cultural heritage who are making use of spatial and/or temporal data in their research * Researchers with relevant interests in HCI or related disciplines * Researchers, curators, practitioners etc. from outside the academic sector (e.g. museums and galleries) * Developers or information scientists working on geospatial or temporal tools or applications Short contributions (up to four pages, including images, references and notes), in IEEE format (see http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee/call-for-papers/formatting-guidelines) are invited. Deadlines are: September 25th: Submission of first drafts October 2nd: Notification of acceptance and reviewers' comments October 14th: Final submission of camera-ready papers Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geospatialworkshopieee09 Stuart Dunn (King's College London) Fredrik Palm (University of Umeå) Workshop co-chairs -- ----------------------- Dr Stuart Dunn Research Fellow Centre for e-Research King's College London www.ahessc.ac.uk/stuart-dunn Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 1989 stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk Centre for e-Research 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL UK Geohash: http://geohash.org/gcpvj1zm7yp1 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 11 07:19:46 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3C12340DD; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:19:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 173C0340C9; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:19:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090811071942.173C0340C9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:19:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.225 text-analytic macros X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 225. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:45:13 -0400 From: "Goldfield, Joel" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.177 new text-analytic macros; transcription system Cool, David. I'll try these as soon as I return from Germany mid-month. --Joel ________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org on behalf of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Tue 7/21/2009 4:32 AM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 11 07:21:36 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E013034159; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:21:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BB0DD34152; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:21:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090811072134.BB0DD34152@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:21:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.226 events: Fall Institute cancelled; cfp for textual scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 226. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Richard Cunningham (17) Subject: FIDLH 2009 cancellation [2] From: Christian Wittern (58) Subject: CFP International Symposium "New Directions in Textual Scholarship"(Saitama/Tokyo, Japan) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:54:26 -0300 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: FIDLH 2009 cancellation To Interested Readers of Humanist, I'm very sorry to inform you that we have had to cancel the Fall Institute for Digital Libraries and Humanities for 2009. The organizers have found that there are too many things working against the meeting as currently configured and scheduled. We plan to make this into a more formal, larger conference, with a call for papers and with workshops clearly demarcated (pre- / post-conference). We apologize for not being able to pull this particular rabbit out of our hat, but in the absence of applied for and hoped for financial support, the hat was simply too small to produce enough rabbit to feed this year's set of workshops. We intend to continue planning for and improving the configuration of FIDLH so that we will be able to offer Eastern Canada a viable local venue for discussing and improving our digital library and humanities projects and skills. With regrets, Richard Cunningham & Erik Moore Acadia University University of New Brunswick --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:01:16 +0900 From: Christian Wittern Subject: CFP International Symposium "New Directions in Textual Scholarship"(Saitama/Tokyo, Japan) CALL FOR PAPERS International Symposium "New Directions in Textual Scholarship" March 26, 2010 Saitama University, JAPAN March 27, 2010 Printing　Museum, Tokyo, JAPAN As a result of increasingly widespread use of the internet, the basis of research in the humanities has witnessed a dramatic shift from a dependence on primarily print-based research materials to a heavy reliance on digital resources. This poses a whole new set of problems that in turn necessitate a reassessment of the very foundations of textual scholarship. In discussions of these problems, numerous voices from the Anglo-American and German scholarly traditions have offered significant contributions and advanced the discourse in innovative new ways. Unfortunately, this crucial topic remains virtually absent from scholarly debates in Japan. It is therefore with great pleasure that we announce an upcoming international symposium dedicated to these issues, to be held over March 26 and 27 at Saitama University and the Printing Museum in Tokyo, Japan. As the first conference in Japan to address these key issues, we hope to stimulate a discussion that will not only convey the timeliness and energy of these debates to Japan, but moreover contribute to the advancement of textual scholarship in a global context. We are particularly honored to have keynote addresses by two of the most distinguished scholars of the field, Peter Shillingsburg and Bodo Plachta, each of whom has fundamentally informed the ongoing development of the Anglo-American and German traditions of textual scholarship. This conference is multi-lingual; the primary languages will be English, German, and Japanese. The Programme Committee invites submission of abstracts of between 500 and 750 words on the following aspects of humanities research, especially in relation to topics and/or issues pertaining to textual scholarship: * Globalization * Digitalization * Interdisciplinarity Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes in length. In addition to the abstract itself, parants should provide their name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation. The deadline for submission of papers to the Programme Committee is September 25, 2009. All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance during early November. Publication of a conference volume is also planned. Inquiries and proposals should be submitted electronically to the Programme Committee at: textjapan@gmail.com For conference updates and information, please consult our website: http://www.kyy.saitama-u.ac.jp/users/myojo/textjapantest/ Sincerely, Kiyoko Myojo kmyojo at mail dot saitama-u dot ac dot jp Faculty of Liberal Arts, Saitama University Fax: +81(0)48-858-3056 Christian Wittern wittern at kanji dot zinbun dot kyoto-u dot ac dot jp Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University Tel: +81(0)75-753-6966 -- Christian Wittern Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 11 08:45:10 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2738134B51; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:45:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 678E234B41; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:45:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090811084507.678E234B41@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:45:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.227 events: URL correction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 227. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:08:13 +0900 From: Christian Wittern Subject: CFP International Symposium,New Directions in Textual Scholarship(URL correction) Dear Humanists, There has been a mistake in the URL for the conference posted earlier. The correct URL is: http://www.kyy.saitama-u.ac.jp/users/myojo/textjapan/ Sorry for the confusion and thank you for your interest! Christian -- Christian Wittern Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 12 05:51:30 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFC0B34157; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:51:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 53D9334147; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:51:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090812055128.53D9334147@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:51:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.228 new publications: games & action; digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 228. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Mats Dahlström" (52) Subject: Human IT 10.1 - Games and action 2 [2] From: Willard McCarty (13) Subject: CLIR on the digital humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:10:14 +0200 From: "Mats Dahlström" Subject: Human IT 10.1 - Games and action 2 Dear all, A new issue (10.1) of Human IT is now available at http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//1-10/index.htm This issue marks the start of the 10th volume of Human IT, a journal that is now commencing its 13th calendar year. 9.3 was the first Human IT issue devoted to the theme of "Games and action". This (10.1) is the second and concluding issue on that theme, with Jonas Linderoth (Univ. of Gothenburg) acting as guest editor. Following a 2007 conference on computer games and action held in Gothenburg and a subsequent call for papers, Human IT received such a large amount of fine, reviewed and accepted articles that we decided to split the material in two issues. We are very happy to see the twin issues finally setting sail, and would like to thank all the authors, reviewers and Jonas Linderoth for excellent pieces of work and collaboration on this large project. Enjoy your reading! Table of contents: * Louise Madden Online Gaming and Embodied Subjectivities: Methods to Reach Women’s Social Story of Gaming (Refereed section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//1-10/lm.htm * Elisabet M. Nilsson & Gunilla Svingby Gaming as Actions: Students Playing a Mobile Educational Computer Game (Refereed section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//1-10/engs.htm * Ingrid Kjørstad Taming the Game: Children's Constructive Use of Social and Communicative Context When Playing Scary Computer Games (Refereed section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//1-10/ik.htm * Paul Pivec & Maja Pivec Immersed, but How? That Is the Question (Refereed section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//1-10/ppmp.htm * Luca Rossi Property Practices in "World of Warcraft" (Open section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//1-10/lr.htm * Maria Åresund & Staffan Björk The Importance of Being a Player (Refereed section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//1-10/masb.htm Human IT is a multi-disciplinary and scholarly journal with the goal of bringing forth new research and discussion about digital media as communicative, aesthetic, and ludic instruments. It is published by the University College of Borås. For more information, please contact human.it@hb.se Best wishes, Mats Dahlström, editor ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Mats Dahlström, associate professor Swedish School of Library and Information Science UC Borås / University of Gothenburg, Sweden Mats dot Dahlstrom at hb dot se ; +46 33 435 44 21 ; http://www.adm.hb.se/~mad/ ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:44:24 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: CLIR on the digital humanities Many here will be interested to know of the latest report published by the U.S. Council on Library and Information Resources (www.clir.org), "Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship" (CLIR Publication 145, www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub145/pub145.pdf). It contains chapters on the research agenda, digital philology, American studies, automated language processing, visualisation, art history, access to information and digital humanities centres. Read it tonight! Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London: staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 12 05:56:58 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D217C3421F; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:56:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 802E83420F; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:56:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090812055656.802E83420F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:56:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.229 events: LLCC's 45th; visual arts & trade X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 229. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Dawson (8) Subject: LLCC 45th Anniversary Celebration, 2 October 2009 [2] From: Kayleigh Merritt (34) Subject: Call for Papers: Visual Arts and Global Trade in the Early American Republic --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:22:47 +0100 From: John Dawson Subject: LLCC 45th Anniversary Celebration, 2 October 2009 [As announced in Humanist 22.483, the Literary & Linguistic Computing Centre of Cambridge is staging a celebration of its 45th year of operations and of John Dawson's retirement after 35 years there. --WM] Please see http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/jld1/llcc-celebration.html, which gives details about the LLCC 45th Anniversary Celebration. John Dawson --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:34:12 -0400 From: Kayleigh Merritt Subject: Call for Papers: Visual Arts and Global Trade in the Early American Republic Salem, Massachusetts Tentative Date: March 6, 2010 *Deadline Extended* American participation in global trade increased dramatically during the Early Republic. American ships ventured beyond the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn to expand direct contact with China, India, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and other parts of the Pacific world. This trade brought widespread access to Asian arts and other visual materials and profoundly influenced American visual arts. While much of the literature on the arts of the Early Republic has focused on building nationalism in the wake of the Revolution, this conference investigates the state of early American internationalism. How did global trade contribute to knowledge and culture in the Early Republic, particularly in the arts? We invite papers and proposals that examine the impact of global trade from the 1780s to the 1840s on all aspects of visual art production: painting, sculpture, architecture, garden design, ceramics, furniture, silver, wallpaper, textiles, fashion, and other media. We also invite papers on the transmission of artistic ideas—through eyewitness accounts, illustrated books and prints, imported images and objects, museum collections, patronage, art markets, and other topics. Honoraria and travel support for speakers are available through a generous grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Organizing institutions include Salem State College, the Salem Maritime Historical Site (National Park Service), and the Salem Athenaeum. The conference will provide opportunities to tour Salem’s magnificent Federalist architecture and museum collections. To submit proposals for papers, please send an abstract (300 to 500 words) and a brief c.v. via email to pjohnston@salemstate.edu. Proposals may also be submitted by mail to Visual Arts and Global Trade conference, c/o Patricia Johnston, Art Department, Salem State College, 352 Lafayette Street, Salem MA 01970. Proposals must be received by September 10, 2009. Speakers should be willing to revise their papers for later publication. Texts and visuals for the presentations are due in December 2009. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 18 05:11:34 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DC7535A44; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:11:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9178835A35; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:11:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090818051132.9178835A35@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:11:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.230 gene poetry and the artist's attitude X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 230. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: renata lemos (22) Subject: gene poetry [2] From: Willard McCarty (38) Subject: the artist's attitude --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:52:20 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: gene poetry The Poetry and Revolution of the Human Genome 8/11/2009 2:48:06 PM Researchers unlocking the secrets of our DNA may be sparking a new Romantic Age http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=22955 , Freeman Dyson writes for the *New York Review of Books*.* *The years between 1770 and 1830, often referred to as the Romantic Age, were characterized by an explosion of both scientific and artistic achievements. Dyson wonders if that billionaire technocrats—like Craig Venter, who led the charge to map the first human genome, and Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway—might play a role similar to “the lightened aristocrats of the eighteenth century.” What today's revolution lacks, according to Dyson, is poetry. “Poetry, the dominant art form in many human cultures from Homer to Byron, no longer dominates.” He suggests that biology could become today’s dominant art form, and that creating new kinds of plants and animals could combine art with science. at: http://ow.ly/jPFG -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:10:15 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the artist's attitude > Re-enactment has lived on the technological borders of pure science > for a long time -- the planetarium is an astronomer's reenactment of > the solar system, the model is an engineer's pre-enactment of his > structure, the wind tunnel is an aeronautical re-enactment of the > atmosphere -- but it has usually played a supporting role. If a > description is correct and accurate, re-enactments based upon it > should closely resemble the natural phenomenon that was described. > Now, however, re-enactment is emerging as a scientific alternative in > its own right. The development of modern computing machines, more than > anything else, has given scientists the tools required to re-enact, > or simulate, on a large scale, the processes they want to study. The > program for a computer that re-enacts a process is becoming just as > acceptable a theory of that process as would be the equations > describing it. There is still much that needs to be clarified in this > new application of the artist's ancient attitude, but clarification > will not lag far behind application. And as the understanding of > these complex systems grows, the need to distinguish between > introspectively derived and behaviorally derived concepts should > decline -- until eventually both our experience and our behavior will > be understood in the same terms. Then, and only then, will > psychologists have bridged the gap between the Image and Behavior. This is the concluding paragraph of a quite astonishing and beautifully written book: George A. Miller, Eugene Galanter and Karl H. Pribram, Plans and the Structure of Behavior (1960). Much has happened in psychology since then, as Donald Broadbent remarks in his Forward to a reprinting of the book 25 years later, and that is of course a considerably greater qualification today, at twice that distance in time. The problem of re-enactment, or simulation, in much of the humanities is, I'd say, a much greater problem, and so it makes sense that we'd be finding this statement fresh now with regards to our interpretative work. Note especially the reference to "the artist's ancient attitude" -- how much there is for us to ponder. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London: staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 18 05:12:33 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9514835AB4; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:12:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4881835AA3; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:12:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090818051230.4881835AA3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:12:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.231 short-visit grants X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 231. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:20:36 +0100 From: Humanities Subject: Call for applications for short visit grants ESF Humanities Unit For wide dissemination: Call for applications for short visit travel grants I have the pleasure to inform you that the European Science Foundation funded Research Networking Programme on EXPERIMENTAL PRAGMATICS IN EUROPE has opened a call for applications for short visit travel grants which can be found at the following link for more details: http://www.euro-xprag.org the deadline for application is September 15th, 2009 Decisions will be announced by October 1st 2009 Best regards Madelise Blumenroeder ***************************************** Madelise Blumenroeder Senior Administrator for Research Networking Programmes Humanities Unit mblumenroeder@esf.org European Science Foundation BP 90015 1, Quai Lezay Marnesia 67080 Strasbourg France Tel: + 33 3 88 76 71 51 http://www.esf.org/human _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 18 05:13:51 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F4C35B28; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:13:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EECA935B21; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:13:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090818051348.EECA935B21@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:13:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.232 audio workshop survey? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 232. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:51:59 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: RIA/DHO Audio Workshop Survey Request Audio Workshop Date: 19 October 2009 Venue: Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 [Note: this is a request to complete a survey, not a registration announcement. Registration for the workshop will commence in mid-September.] The RIA Library and the DHO are planning a one-day audio workshop on 19 October 2009 devoted to online audio web publication and archiving of audio files. The workshop is aimed both at those who are currently engaged in digital audio archival work as well as those who are interested in doing so. The main focus of the workshop will be the implementation of metadata within audio projects. The workshop will also provide an opportunity for those working in the area to meet and learn from each other and to explore current practices. To enable us to offer a workshop tailored to the needs of the participants we ask those of you who may be interested in attending to please complete the online survey linked below. The survey is anonymous, and as such attendance of the workshop is not dependent on your completing the survey, nor does completing the survey guarantee you a spot in the workshop. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=lfRzNpU3UBrXa7vK0wJExg_3d_3d The survey will be open through August 31. If you have questions or comments, please contact Eoghan O Raghallaigh (E.ORaghallaigh@ria.ie) or Dot Porter (d.porter@dho.ie) -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 18 05:15:34 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7F135BA0; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:15:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AE1ED35B99; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:15:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090818051531.AE1ED35B99@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:15:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.233 new publications: Historical Thesaurus; Human IT; African CS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 233. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: African Journal of Mathematics Computer Science Research (41) Subject: Call for Papers [2] From: "Jean Gilmour Anderson" (17) Subject: Historical Thesaurus of English coming soon [3] From: "Mats Dahlström" (49) Subject: Human IT 10.2 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:58:57 +0100 From: African Journal of Mathematics Computer Science Research Subject: Call for Papers *African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research* www.academicjournals.org/AJMCSR Introducing *‘‘**African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research (AJMCSR) ”*** * * Dear Colleague, The *African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research (AJMCSR)* is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published monthly by Academic Journals (http://www.academicjournals.org/AJMCSR ). AJMCSR is dedicated to increasing the depth of the subject across disciplines with the ultimate aim of expanding knowledge of the subject. *Call for Papers* AJMCSR will cover all areas of the subject. The journal welcomes thesubmission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence, and will publish: · Original articles in basic and applied research · Case studies · Critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays We invite you to submit your manuscript(s) to jmcsr@academicjournals.org , jmcsr.acadjourn@gmail.com for publication in the Monthly Issue. Our objective is to inform authors of the decision on their manuscript(s) within four weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a paper will normally be published in the next issue. Instruction for authors and other details are available on our website; http://www.academicjournals.org/AJMCSR/Instruction.htm AJMCSR is an Open Access Journal One key request of researchers across the world is unrestricted access to research publications. Open access gives a worldwide audience larger than that of any subscription-based journal and thus increases the visibility and impact of published works. It also enhances indexing, retrieval power and eliminates the need for permissions to reproduce and distribute content.JGRP is fully committed to the Open Access Initiative and will provide free access to all articles as soon as they are published. *PS: Pls. show interest by mailing **jmcsr@academicjournals.org** , ** jmcsr.acadjourn@gmail.com > ready soon.* Best regards, Tuoyo Mene,Editorial Assistant, For Prof. Mohamed Ali Toumi, Editor, African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research (AJMCSR) E-mail: jmcsr@academicjournals.org , jmcsr.acadjourn@gmail.com http://www.academicjournals.org/AJMCSR --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:48:08 +0100 From: "Jean Gilmour Anderson" Subject: Historical Thesaurus of English coming soon The Historical Thesaurus of English project at Glasgow University presents the vocabulary of English from Old English to the present arranged in semantic categories. It will be published in two volumes as the Historical Thesaurus of the OED by Oxford University Press on October 22, 2009. Further details (including a special introductory price) are available at http://www.oup.com/online/ht/ _______________________________________ Jean Anderson Resource Development Officer, SESLL http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/sesll/ Room 309a, 6 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QH J.Anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk +44 (0)141 330 4980 _______________________________________ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:05:23 +0200 From: "Mats Dahlström" Subject: Human IT 10.2 Dear all, A new issue (10.2) of Human IT is now available at http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//2-10/index.htm . Although properly speaking a non-thematic collection of articles, the contributions in this issue share a common interest in communicative practices. We have two articles on texting (Iversen and Balakrishnan), one on chatting (Otnes), and one on mediation between technology design and use (Iivari et al.). Together they provide diverse and invigorating examples of just how many different ways there are to use, study, and understand some of the latest forms of information and communication technologies (ICTs) that have come to permeate our lives and social interactions, such as the mobile phone, MSN Messenger, and the endless parade of information systems entering and exiting most of today’s organisations. The perspectives applied range from treating the ICTs and their uses as generators of text corpora; as tools for remediated conversations; as knowledge resources for technology design and development; and as characterised by gaps between communities and contexts that need to be bridged. Enjoy your reading! Table of contents: * Harald M. Iversen Tekstmeldinger som norskfaglig potensial: En tekstanalytisk og didaktisk tilnærming [Text Messages' Potential for Norwegian Classroom Teaching: A Textual Analytical and Didactical Approach] [Open section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//2-10/hmi.htm * Hildegunn Otnes Er nettsamtaler samtaler? En kommunikasjonsteoretisk drøfting av fenomenet chat [Are Internet Conversations Conversations? A Communication Theoretical Analysis of the Chat Phenomenon] [Refereed section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//2-10/ho.htm * Vimala Balakrishnan A Look into SMS Usage Patterns among Malaysian Youths [Open section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//2-10/vb.htm * Netta Iivari et al. Mediation between Design and Use: Revisiting Five Empirical Studies [Refereed section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//2-10/nihktmjssalseh.htm Human IT is a multi-disciplinary and scholarly journal with the goal of bringing forth new research and discussion about digital media as communicative, aesthetic, and ludic instruments. It is published by the University College of Borås. For more information, please contact human.it@hb.se Best wishes, Mats Dahlström and Veronica Johansson, editors _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 19 04:30:44 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67F803647D; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:30:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 86C0436475; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:30:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090819043042.86C0436475@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:30:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.234 fellowships at Stanford; CPU hours for supercomputing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 234. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Robert Barrick (16) Subject: Stanford Humanities Center 2010-2011 Fellowship Opportunities [2] From: I-CHASS (11) Subject: 2,000,000 CPU Hours to Humanities, Arts, and Social Science Projects --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:44:50 +0100 From: Robert Barrick Subject: Stanford Humanities Center 2010-2011 Fellowship Opportunities We would appreciate if you would share this information with colleagues or others who may be interested: Announcement of Faculty Fellowship Opportunities at the Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowships 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. Open to scholars from humanities departments as traditionally defined and to other scholars seriously interested in humanistic issues. Fellowship term: September 2010 - June 2011 Online application deadline: October 15, 2009 The online application for 2010-2011 faculty fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center is now available. Please visit http://shc.stanford.edu/ for complete information and a link to the online application. Applicants must have a PhD and will normally be at least three years beyond receipt of the degree by the start of the fellowship term. 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. How to Apply: To access the online application or for additional information, please see our website: http://shc.stanford.edu/ Questions? Please email shc-fellowships@stanford.edu or call (650) 723-3054. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:28:14 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: 2,000,000 CPU Hours to Humanities, Arts, and Social Science Projects Urbana, Illinois. The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) and the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville today announced that they are making available two million additional hours of supercomputing time to projects in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. This collaboration is an extension of a pilot program between I-CHASS and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana, Illinois, that recently saw the allocation of a total of one million CPU hours to a diverse group of projects at the leading-edge of humanities research. Supported projects included work in music information retrieval, analysis of aggregated census data, and state-of-the-art economic modeling. “At NICS, we are excited to be able to support the I-CHASS efforts with this contribution of computational resources,” said Phil Andrews, NICS Project Director. This new donation by NICS will increase the available resource to three million hours of supercomputing time. “I-CHASS is excited that supercomputing centers across the globe recognize the mutual beneficial synergies that the intersection of high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social science communities brings to knowledge discovery and scholarship,” said Kevin Franklin, executive director of I-CHASS. “Easy access to this type of resource allows scholars to apply advanced computing to their work and explore new paradigms of research.” Any humanities, arts, and social science scholar or collaborative research group may apply to this program for supercomputing resources to advance their computationally intensive work. Supported activities could include: * mining large textual and image datasets, morphological analysis, manipulations, and transformations. * analysis of geographical information systems data, maps, etc. * computationally demanding visualization, modeling, or pattern recognition and analysis. Selected researchers will be given access to NICS’s high-performance systems and allotments of up to 500,000 CPU hours. Resources will be available from January 2010 to December 2010, with the opportunity for successful projects to apply for a one-year renewal. Applications can be submitted online at the I-CHASS website starting September 15, 2009; applications are due November 1, 2009 and applicants will be notified by December 1, 2009. A complete description of the application process and required materials is available online at: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu/Guidelines.html. Before submitting a proposal, applicants are encouraged to consult with I-CHASS staff on the scope of the project, the computational readiness of their data and software, the humanities, arts, and social science content, and other matters to ensure the appropriateness of the proposal. To discuss your project with I-CHASS staff, email chass@ncsa.uiuc.edu or call 217-244-1988. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 19 04:32:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3391364D6; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:32:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A7C97364CF; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:32:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090819043220.A7C97364CF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:32:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.235 survey on digital media X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 235. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:54:01 +0100 From: Paradoxographer Subject: Survey for research project on digital communciation media Hello, Apologies if this is too removed from the purposes of the list; I am posting it on behalf of a colleague, Elizabeth Lomas, who is engaged in a trans-disciplinary research project on the use and management of records, information and data stored in communication systems. She is interested in engaging with as diverse a range of groups as possible, and given that most on this list are probably digital natives (or at least long-term immigrants!) you may be interested in taking part in the survey detailed below. Kind Regards, Rachel Hardiman ======================= Continued Communication is a Northumbria University led research project developing knowledge about the purposes and ways in which people currently use different forms of communication media. We would be really grateful with help completing and disseminating a survey which is at this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=INqEzhQ1Rk7KRwz36qwiBQ_3d_3d The results of this survey will be used to inform a communication best practice paper and additional papers on communication behaviors of different groups within society and business. The second part of the survey is an optional personality test (you need not complete this), which looks at communication traits such as extroversion etc. This will help inform us whether personality traits influence communication choices and also whether different professional roles are chosen by people with certain personality traits. This takes 10-15 minutes. You may opt to receive a copy of your personality profile. This will subsequently be retained anonymously and then destroyed at the end of the research. We know that you are busy and appreciate your time - it is possible to log in over time and fill in the survey. If you complete the survey you can opt to have your name entered in a prize draw for $100 in Amazon vouchers (which can be used from anywhere in the world). The reports of the Continued Communication project will be disseminated via a website that is being launched in Autumn 2009 at www.continuedcommunication.org. The survey closes on the 31 August 2009. If you do have any queries regarding the survey then please contact the Project Manager: Elizabeth Lomas Tel: ++44 (0)1582 762726 elizabeth.lomas@northumbria.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 19 04:33:11 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D69036527; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:33:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5C94136511; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:33:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090819043308.5C94136511@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:33:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.236 new Perseus & two events X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 236. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:36:51 +0100 From: Helma Dik Subject: new Perseus; DHCS Colloquium; TEI workshop Dear all, I am delighted to announce several items: -A new release of Perseus under PhiloLogic. Please update your bookmarks to read: http://perseus.uchicago.edu The new release features morphological and lemma searching in Greek and Latin. For more background, see http://perseus.uchicago.edu/about.html -Call for Papers, DHCS colloquium, November 14-16, 2009. This will the 4th annual Chicago colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, organized jointly by Northwestern, IIT, and Chicago - hosted at IIT this year. URL: http://dhcs.iit.edu Deadline for abstracts: August 30. We've just had confirmed that Stephen Wolfram of Wolfram Alpha will be one of the keynote speakers. -TEI 'After Encoding' workshop, November 11. Mark Olsen and I will do a full-day workshop on using PhiloLogic, PhiloLine and PhiloMine with TEI-encoded collections on Wednesday, November 11 at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as part of the TEI conference that weekend (yes, the Midwest is a happenin' place mid-November, who'd have thought..:-)). Note: this is for projects thinking about installing PhiloLogic as a/the basic search and retrieval database for a collection, not a how-to for end-users! In addition to presentations on the system and its extensions, participants will be walked through modifying basic Philologic loads and installing PhiloLine, the sequence alignment extension. With sufficient advance notice, we will do a basic load of people's TEI docs on a server at our end or help out with installation issues at their end. Since PhiloMine install (the textmining extension to PhiloLogic) is rather more involved, we cannot walk through an installation at the workshop, but can help troubleshoot installs ahead of time. Participants doing their own installation should not be completely new to the command line. Workshop URL: http://cybergreek.uchicago.edu/philotei.html Conference URL: http://www.lib.umich.edu/spo/teimeeting09 Yours with best wishes, Helma Dik Dept. of Classics University of Chicago _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 19 04:34:29 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B700436595; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:34:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AC92636588; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:34:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090819043427.AC92636588@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:34:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.237 events: digitization; geospace; DH & CS; text; Europe X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 237. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ray Siemens (120) Subject: Announcement: DHCS 2009 Call for Papers andPublication of the 2008 Proceedings [2] From: Lydia Horstman (47) Subject: CfP: Geospatial computing workshop at 5th IEEE InternationalConference on e-Science [3] From: Michael Day (49) Subject: Free workshop on OCR and Mass Digitisation, Bath, 24 September [4] From: Humanities (61) Subject: Call for papers final conference Inventing Europe [5] From: Barbara Bordalejo (70) Subject: cfp: New Directions in Textual Scholarship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:19:06 +0100 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Announcement: DHCS 2009 Call for Papers andPublication of the 2008 Proceedings From: Mark Olsen On behalf of the Program Committee of Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS), I am pleased to announce both the publication of the Proceedings of the 2008 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (http://jdhcs.uchicago.edu/) and our Call for Papers for the 2009 Colloquium, to be held at the Illinois Institute of Technology, November 14–16, 2009.   I hope you will consider submitting a proposal for the 2009 Colloquium and I look forward to seeing you in Chicago.  Please circulate this announcement widely.                           CALL FOR PAPERS 2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS)                         Critical Computing:      Models and Challenges for Interdisciplinary Collaboration                       URL: http://dhcs.iit.edu Submission Deadline: August 30, 2009 Colloquium Dates:    November 14 – 16, 2009 Location:            Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL The annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) was established to bring together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to advance the digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. The theme of this year's Chicago DHCS Colloquium is "Critical Computing".  We will explore how research collaborations between computer scientists and humanists can be made most effective. * How can computation provide new critical tools for humanists? * How can humanities scholarship help us understand the real meaning  and import of computational analysis of human artifacts? We invite presentation proposals from scholars, researchers and students on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the humanities and computer science. We welcome proposals for: * Paper presentations  (20 minute talks) * Poster presentations (open session) * Software demonstrations (open session) * Panel discussions (60-90 minute session) * Performances * Pre-conference tutorials/workshops/seminars (1-4 hours) * Pre-conference “birds of a feather” technical meetings (1-4 hours) Last year's proceedings are available at: http://jdhcs.uchicago.edu Submission Format: Please submit a (2 page) proposal in PDF format via http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/DHCS2009. Graduate Student Travel Fund: A small number of travel grants will be available to assist graduate students presenting at the colloquium with travel expenses. More information about the application process will be available soon. Important Dates: Deadline for Submissions:   Sunday, August 30 Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 14 Full Program Announcement:  Thursday, September 24 Registration opens:         Tuesday, September 29 Keynote Speakers: Prof. Vasant Honavar, professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University, is the founder and director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory and the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning & Discovery.  His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics and computational biology, data mining, semantic web, and social informatics. Prof. Honavar's recent work focuses on information integration and knowledge discovery from diverse data sources, learning from biological and textual data, and modular ontologies. Other keynote speakers at DHCS-2009 will be announced shortly, once they are confirmed.  Previous DHCS keynote speakers have included Gregory Crane, Stephen Downie, Oren Etzioni, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Lewis Lancaster, Ben Schneiderman, John Unsworth, and Martin Wattenberg. DHCS-2009 is sponsored by: Illinois Institute of Technology The University of Chicago Northwestern University Program Committee: * Prof. Shlomo Argamon, Computer Science Department, Illinois  Institute of Technology * Prof. Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago * Prof. Ophir Frieder, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute  of Technology * Dr. Nazli Goharian, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute  of Technology * Dr. Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near  East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library * Prof. Martin Mueller, Department of English and Classics,  Northwestern University * Dr. Mark Olsen, Associate Director of the ARTFL Project, University  of Chicago * Prof. Kathryn Riley, Humanities Department, Illinois Institute of  Technology * Prof. Jason Salavon, Department of Visual Arts, University of  Chicago * Prof. Karl Stolley, Humanities Department, Illinois Institute of  Technology * Prof. Wai Gen Yee, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute  of Technology Preliminary Colloquium Schedule: Pre-conference: DHCS will begin with a half-day pre-conference session the afternoon of Saturday, November 14, offering introductory tutorials and/or seminars on topics such as text analysis/data-mining or GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications for the humanities.  We also encourage colloquium attendees to use the pre-conference period for informal "birds of a feather" meetings on topics of common interest (e.g. "digital archaeology"). The formal DHCS colloquium program, on Sunday, November 15 and Monday, November 16, will consist of several 1-1/2 hour paper presentation sessions, three keynote addresses, and two 2 hour poster sessions. Generous time has been set aside for questions and follow-up discussions. There are no parallel sessions. For further details, please follow updates on the DHCS website. Contact Info: Please email dhcs2009@iit.edu for more information. Colloquium Website:  http://dhcs.iit.edu Information about previous years' colloquiua is available at http://dhcs.uchicago.edu and http://dhcs.northwestern.edu. -- Mark Olsen ARTFL Project University of Chicago 773-702-8687 http://markvolsen.blogspot.com/ FAQ answer: My mother still calls me Marky Maypo or just Maypo, hence the handle. :-) http://www.homestatfarm.com/history_marky_maypo.php --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:51:50 +0100 From: Lydia Horstman Subject: CfP: Geospatial computing workshop at 5th IEEE InternationalConference on e-Science With apologies for cross-postings Workshop at 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Oxford, UK, 9-11 December 2009 Geospatial computing for the arts, humanities and cultural heritage References to time and location pervade the human record, both past and present: an oft-quoted statistic is that some 80% of all online information is in some way georeferenced. It is unsurprising therefore that as researchers in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage become more fully engaged with e-infrastructures, their disciplines’ engagement with, and use of, spatial and temporal data gives rise to new and interesting research questions in this area. How, for example, can heterogeneous academic data resources which fall into the 80% of georeferenced information – including, for example, historical texts, archaeological databases or museum collections - be linked and cross-queried without dictating the research process or methods used? How can geo-temporal data be visualized, both geographically and non-geographically? What is the role of ‘virtual globes’ such as Google Earth as platforms for the expression of such data? What can digital tools and methods in geospatial computing contribute to the use and understanding of space and time in the practice-led arts, creative industries and galleries (e.g. for documenting performances or visitor pathways)? How can issues of scale that are common to both time and space be usefully explored in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage sectors? Further details: http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee/workshops/geospatial/ This workshop seeks contributions from which might further these, and similar, questions. Contributors might (not exhaustively) include: * Academics in the arts, humanities or cultural heritage who are making use of spatial and/or temporal data in their research * Researchers with relevant interests in HCI or related disciplines * Researchers, curators, practitioners etc. from outside the academic sector (e.g. museums and galleries) * Developers or information scientists working on geospatial or temporal tools or applications Short contributions (up to four pages, including images, references and notes), in IEEE format (see http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee/call-for-papers/formatting-guidelines) are invited. Deadlines are: September 25th: Submission of first drafts October 2nd: Notification of acceptance and reviewers' comments October 14th: Final submission of camera-ready papers Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geospatialworkshopieee09 Stuart Dunn (King's College London) Fredrik Palm (University of Umeå) Workshop co-chairs --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:03:49 +0100 From: Michael Day Subject: Free workshop on OCR and Mass Digitisation, Bath, 24 September *** Apologies for cross-posting *** Workshop: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for the mass digitisation of textual materials: Improving Access to Text 24 September 2009 - UKOLN, University of Bath - http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/ocr-2009/ FREE one-day workshop for * Collection holders in HE and Cultural Heritage organisations * Users of digitised content for teaching, learning and research This workshop is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as part of a series of workshops & seminars on "Achievements & Challenges in Digitisation & e-Content." More information on these can be found at: http://www.jisc.org.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/reports/workshops.aspx Summary ========= The workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to learn about the current state-of-the-art in the digitisation of historical texts, to look at improvements in digitisation techniques currently being explored in research projects such as the EU-funded IMPACT project, and to explore how Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is used in practical digitisation contexts and workflows. There will also be an opportunity for participants to investigate the opportunities and challenges of the scholarly use of what is an ever-increasing range of digitised content, supporting new interdisciplinary ways of exploring cultural and social history, philology, and the history of ideas. For further information and an online booking form, please go to: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/ocr-2009/ Places are limited and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. Workshop leaders ================= Each session will be led by a member of the international IMPACT (Improving Access to Text) project, a large-scale integrating project funded by the European Commission as part of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). One of the aims of the project is to develop tools that help improve OCR results for historical printed texts. The presenters are therefore well-placed to provide information and advice on the current state-of-the-art in text digitisation tools and techniques, and in particular on OCR technologies. For more information on the IMPACT project, see the project website at: http://www.impact-project.eu/ Michael Day ------------------------------------------------------------ Research Officer and Team Leader, Research and Development UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom Telephone: +44 (0)1225 383923 Fax: +44 (0)1225 386838 E-mail: m.day@ukoln.ac.uk Web: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:32:52 +0100 From: Humanities Subject: Call for papers final conference Inventing Europe ESF Humanities Unit For wide dissemination: Call for papers for the Closing ESF EUROCORES Inventing Europe Conference & 4th Tensions of Europe Plenary Conference June 17-20, 2010 at Sofia University (Bulgaria) Technology & East-West relations: Transfers, parallel histories, and the European laboratory Deadline paper abstracts: December 18, 2009 The European Science Foundation (ESF) and the Foundation for the History of Technology in the Netherlands are jointly organizing the final and closing conference of the ESF EUROCORES program Inventing Europe and the bi-annual conference of the Tensions of Europe network (ToE). Inventing Europe and ToE strive, through collaborative research and coordinating efforts, to promote studies of the interplay between technical change and European history. Instead of focusing on national histories, the emphasis of both initiatives is on transnational technological developments that have shaped and are shaping Europe. We encourage scholars from all disciplines who study subjects related to the overall conference theme or the Inventing Europe/Tensions of Europe intellectual agenda to submit abstracts for the research sessions, roundtables and research collaboration sessions. Overall Theme of the Conference The main theme of the conference applies to papers, which treat processes of circulation and appropriation of technologies between Eastern and Western Europe as an entry point into the contested practice of Europeanization. During the Cold War, for instance, Europe has been one of the central laboratories for the experimentation with ideological and political regimes, which deeply infected traditional paths of knowledge and technology transfer in Europe. While the history of the Cold War has mainly been told as a history of discontinuity and fragmentation, we would especially welcome papers and sections dealing with examples of successful co-operation or “hidden continuities” in inter-European technology transfer during the 20th century.. Despite the fact that the focus of the conference will be on the post-World War II period, we will welcome session proposals and individual papers referring to the practices of appropriation and circulation of ideas, skills and people in Europe from the mid-19th century onwards – thus from the period before the notions of Eastern and Western Europe were coined. This results from our conviction that one should look for the roots of the European integration and fragmentation in a “longue durée” perspective. General areas to be explored are: Changing times: Continuities and discontinuities in the transfers of knowledge and technology between Eastern and Western Europe from the mid-19th century to the present. Negotiating identities: spaces and places of co-operation or confrontation before, during, and after the Cold War. Parallel histories: alternative processes of European integration and fragmentation in Eastern and Western Europe. Blurred boundaries: spill-over effects and holes in the Iron Curtain Europe as a trading zone, a symbolic battle field, and the diplomatic playground for world hegemony. Chilling effects: Technologies at war & wartime technology Contested approaches: the merits and pitfalls of concepts like Americanization, Sovietisation, Westernization for European historiography. In addition, the program committee welcomes papers that want to contribute to the general Inventing Europe/Tensions of Europe intellectual agenda. This agenda treats technological change as an entry point into the contested practice of Europeanization. Five general areas to be explored are: Building Europe through Infrastructures, or, how Europe has been shaped by the material links of transnational infrastructure. Constructing European Ways of Knowing, or, how Europe became articulated through efforts to unite knowledge and practices on a European scale. Consuming Europe, or, how actors reworked consumer goods and artefacts for local, regional, national, European, and global use. Europe in the Global World, or, how Europe has been created through colonial, ex-colonial, trans-Atlantic, and other global exchanges. Synthetic methodological or historiographical explorations of the role of technology in transnational European history. Sessions formats The Program Committee welcomes proposals that address the overall conference themes in the following four formats: Individual paper proposals Research sessions with three papers based on original research, and an invited commentator. Because the conference encourages debate, appropriate time for discussion should be allocated to the commentators as well as the members of the audience. The papers will be pre-circulated to all conference participants. Conference participants are expected to have read the papers thus presentations should be brief. Roundtable sessions with an open agenda or one paper to start-off the discussion. The sessions will host no more than six discussants including the organizer and the chair. The organizer is responsible for preparing a dialogue paper to stimulate debate, and if relevant, supplementary material. Ideally, the dialogue paper will be a brief piece that poses a number of historical problems and/or questions related to the conference theme that will be addressed in the debate. While the organizer should propose discussants, the Program Committee may make additional suggestions. The chair may decide either to limit the conversation to invited roundtable discussants or to allow the audience to ask questions and enter the debate. Research collaboration sessions which are meant to present results of a specific project to the conference. The session could be paper based, but could also focus on a discussion of the framing and wider implications of the specific project. The Program Committee may make additional suggestions for commentators. Research sessions and research collaboration session will be allotted a minimum time slot of one and a half hours, and roundtable discussions one hour. Deadlines and Time-line The deadline for proposals is DECEMBER 18, 2009. The research session abstracts (maximum 600 words) should be submitted by the organizers together with the abstracts for the individual presentations (maximum 500 words each). To propose a roundtable, please submit a list of invited participants and an abstract (maximum 600 words). Note: When giving the proposal a digital file name, please include the organizer’s last name, and either RS for research session, RT for round table or RCS for Research Collaboration Session. So Fickers_RS for example. The abstracts should be sent to the Program Committee by email to TOE@tue.nl .. Please direct queries to the Program Committee Chair, Andreas Fickers (A.Fickers@maastrichtuniversity.nl ). The Program Committee will inform the session organizers about its decisions no later than February 15, 2010. Inventing Europe & Tensions of Europe programs are seeking to provide a contribution towards travel and/or accommodation costs for those who have no opportunity to participate otherwise. Papers and roundtable discussion texts must be submitted to the Program Committee by May 1, 2010 because they will be distributed to all conference participants before the conference on a CD and made available on the website. For the Program Committee for the Fourth Plenary Conference of Tensions of Europe, Andreas Fickers, Chair, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Helena Durnova, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic Valentina Fava, Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland Ivan Tchalakov, Plovdiv University & Institute of Sociology, BAS, Bulgaria Sponsors This conference is made possible by: European Science Foundation Foundation for the History of Technology Technical University Eindhoven University of Sofia Bulgarian Academy of Science ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:16:22 +0100 From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: cfp: New Directions in Textual Scholarship > CALL FOR PAPERS > > International Symposium "New Directions in Textual Scholarship" > > March 26, 2010 Saitama University, JAPAN > March 27, 2010 Printing Museum, Tokyo, JAPAN > > As a result of increasingly widespread use of the internet, the > basis of research in the humanities has witnessed a dramatic shift > from a dependence on primarily print-based research materials to a > heavy reliance on digital resources. This poses a whole new set of > problems that in turn necessitate a reassessment of the very > foundations of textual scholarship. In discussions of these > problems, numerous voices from the Anglo-American and German > scholarly traditions have offered significant contributions and > advanced the discourse in innovative new ways. Unfortunately, this > crucial topic remains virtually absent from scholarly debates in > Japan. > > It is therefore with great pleasure that we announce an upcoming > international symposium dedicated to these issues, to be held over > March 26 and 27 at Saitama University and the Printing Museum in > Tokyo, Japan. As the first conference in Japan to address these key > issues, we hope to stimulate a discussion that will not only convey > the timeliness and energy of these debates to Japan, but moreover > contribute to the advancement of textual scholarship in a global > context. We are particularly honored to have keynote addresses by > two of the most distinguished scholars of the field, Peter > Shillingsburg and Bodo Plachta, each of whom has fundamentally > informed the ongoing development of the Anglo-American and German > traditions of textual scholarship. This conference is multi- > lingual; the primary languages will be English, German, and Japanese. > > The Programme Committee invites submission of abstracts of between > 500 and 750 words on the following aspects of humanities research, > especially in relation to topics and/or issues pertaining to > textual scholarship: > > * Globalization > * Digitalization > * Interdisciplinarity > > Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes in length. In > addition to the abstract itself, participants should provide their > name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation. > > The deadline for submission of abstracts to the Programme Committee > is September 25, 2009. All submissions will be refereed. Presenters > will be notified of acceptance during early November. > > Publication of a conference volume is also planned. > > Inquiries and proposals should be submitted electronically to the > Programme Committee at: > textjapan@gmail.com > > For conference updates and information, please consult our website: > http://www.kyy.saitama-u.ac.jp/users/myojo/textjapan/ > > > Sincerely, > > Kiyoko Myojo > kmyojo@mail.saitama-u.ac.jp > Faculty of Liberal Arts, Saitama University > Fax: +81(0)48-858-3056 > > Christian Wittern > wittern@kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp > Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University > Tel: +81(0)75-753-6966 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 20 04:27:38 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CA4035EBA; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:27:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7E79035EA2; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:27:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090820042736.7E79035EA2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:27:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.238 the artist's attitude X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 238. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:27:46 -0700 From: Randy Radney Subject: [Humanist] 23.230 gene poetry and the artist's attitude In reference to your comment: ..."The problem of re-enactment, or simulation, in much of the humanities is, I'd say, a much greater problem, and so it makes sense that we'd be finding this statement fresh now with regards to our interpretative work."... I assume that the twin factors of choice and intentionality (especially when multiple individuals are engaged in group activities) supply cause for your claim that simulation is a 'greater problem' in the humanities. The context of human action (in my speciality, linguistics) can be simplified (as in, say, transformational- generative linguistic theory), but guarantees that such simplification has captured the essentials of context in a way that makes simulation genuine are hard to come by. One possibility (that many, admittedly, have rejected) is that Husserlian phenomenology in practice (i.e. as a method of observation regarding human experience) could provide the supplement to pre- enactment, re-enactment, and other abstractions of actual human experience for humanities scholars. If readers are unaware of phenomenology and would be interested in supplementing their humanities research using the phenomenological method, I would recommend the excellent introduction to phenomenology by Stewart and Mickunas, as well as Harry Reeder's (more practice-oriented) _Theory and Practice of Husserl's Phenomenology_. Regards, J. Randolph Radney, Ph. D. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:53:47 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY - NEW ISSUE ALERT This Week in Ubiquity: August 17-23, 09 Virtualizing the Datacenter Without Compromising Server Performance http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_10/v10i9_kamoun.html By Faouzi Kamoun Virtualization has become a hot topic. Cloud computing is the latest and most prominent application of this time-honored idea, which is almost as old as the computing field itself. The term "cloud" seems to have originated with someone's drawing of the Internet as a puffy cloud hiding many servers and connections. A user can receive a service from the cloud without ever knowing which machine (or machines) rendered the service, where it was located, or how many redundant copies of its data there are. The cloud realizes the old dream of a computer utility, first articulated at MIT in the early 1960s. One of the big concerns about the cloud is that it may assign many computational processes to one machine, thereby making that machine a bottleneck and giving poor response time. Faouzi Kamoun addresses this concern head on, and assures us that in most cases the virtualization used in the cloud and elsewhere improves performance. He also addresses a misconception made prominent in a Dilbert cartoon, when the boss said he wanted to virtualize the servers so as to save electricity. Peter Denning Editor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted (c)2009 by the ACM and the individual authors. To submit feedback about ACM Ubiquity, contact ubiquity@acm.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 20 04:30:27 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0854635FC2; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:30:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2664F35FB5; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:30:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090820043024.2664F35FB5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:30:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.240 events: handwriting & editing; mathematics & engineering methods X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 240. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dot Porter (43) Subject: CFP: Handwriting Recognition and Collaborative Editing [2] From: Jan Staudek (44) Subject: MEMICS 2009 - CFP - abstract registration Sep 7th --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:52:37 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: CFP: Handwriting Recognition and Collaborative Editing The Digital Medievalist Community of Practice (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) is sponsoring two sessions at the Forty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 7-10, 2009 (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/). See below for session names and descriptions. Please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF formats from the Congress website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF. Proposals must be submitted by September 15, 2009. Paper session: The state of the art in handwriting recognition and analysis for medieval documents Much work has been done towards automated analysis of handwritten documents, with a focus on handwriting recognition, in the last years, and some of the developments seen in OCR and layout recognition systems may be applicable to medieval studies. Further, the increasing interest in sophisticated linkages of text and image might be enhanced by developments in handwriting recognition and analysis. We welcome papers which report on work done or ongoing in these areas, or which seek to establish methodologies. Paper session: Collaborative tools and environments for medieval scholarship Many groups around the world are working to develop a new generation of collaborative tools and research environments, with potential wide applicability to medieval studies. This leads to questions about the nature of collaboration itself, and about useful models of collaboration. Reports form the coal face on collaborations which have, or have not, worked are welcome, as are demonstrations of tools and ruminations on the many faces of collaboration. Again, please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF formats from the Congress website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:20:55 +0100 From: Jan Staudek Subject: MEMICS 2009 - CFP - abstract registration Sep 7th 5th Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science MEMICS 2009 http://www.memics.cz November 13--15, 2009, Hotel Prestige, Znojmo, Czech Republic Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Deadlines: abstract registration: September 7, 2009 submissions: September 14, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The aim: To provide a forum for doctoral students interested in applications of mathematical and engineering methods in computer science with an emphasis on methods for developing reliable and secure computer systems. Topics: Submissions are invited especially in the following (though not exclusive) areas: software and hardware dependability, computer security, parallel and distributed computing, formal analysis and verification, simulation, testing and diagnostics, GRID computing, computer networks, modern hardware and its design, non-traditional computing architectures, quantum computing, and all related areas of theoretical computer science. Invited talks: Four invited talks by distinguished researchers from the different areas of interest of the workshop will be a part of the programme: * Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland): Automata for XML. * Michael Fellows (University of Newcastle, Australia): The Lost Continent of Polynomial Time: Meta-theorems About FPT Kernelization. * Günther Raidl (Vienna University of Technology, Austria): Combining Metaheuristics with Mathematical Programming Techniques for Solving Difficult Network Design Problems. * Andrey Rybalchenko (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany): Automated methods for proving program safety and liveness. Involvement: Students are invited to submit a regular paper or a presentation. A regular paper is a previously unpublished original work, not exceeding 8 pages in the LNCS style. A presentation reflects recent outstanding work that has been published (or is accepted) at a leading computer science conference or in a recognized scientific journal, and shall be submitted in the form of a one-page abstract which will also appear in the proceedings. Detailed instructions are available at the web page http://www.memics.cz/. The proceedings will be available at the workshop in printed form. Moreover, selected regular papers from MEMICS 2009 will be published in the External Workshops series of Dagstuhl DROPS, http://drops.dagstuhl.de/, and a further possibility of publishing some of the papers in an electronic journal is under negotiation. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Aug 21 05:46:07 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05A134BCB; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:46:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1E58C34BA4; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:46:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090821054605.1E58C34BA4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:46:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.241 new on WWW: the Panjab Digital Library X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 241. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:16:11 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Panjab Digital Library > Revealing the Invisible Heritage of Panjab > > For the first time ever a searchable collection of millions of rare > pages on the Sikhs and the region of Panjab has been made available. > Panjab Digital Library (PDL) will include texts of manuscripts, > books, magazines, newspapers and photographs and will be available to > anyone with Internet access at www.PanjabDigiLib.org. This launch was > made possible in part by The Nanakshahi Trust and the Sikh Research > Institute (SikhRI). > > PDL has been in development since 2003, charged with a mission to > select, collect, preserve, digitize and make accessible the > accumulated wisdom of Panjab. Texts were included without distinction > as to script, language, religion, nationality, or other human > condition. > > “Since long, preservation of heritage, research and education have > been a victim of apathy in Panjab; more so, in the last century. With > the launch of the online digital library, we have tried to fill some > of that gap. PDL is a humble offering to the community what it lost > 25 years ago,” said Harinder Singh, co-founder and executive director > of SikhRI who also serves on PDL board. “Scholars will be able to > access a wide variety of information concealed in the manuscripts and > other literature of the region with the click of a mouse sitting in > the comfort of their homes. This is essential to the growth of Sikh > and Panjab studies and its meaningful representation in the > fast-changing modern world.” > > Digitization technology brings with it untold benefits for heritage > preservation and access. Once a document has been properly digitized > it becomes immortal and can remain accessible long after the original > has ceased to exist. The option of digital access further aids in > preservation of originals through reduced need for physical handling. > The central digital archive which the PDL has developed over the last > six years allows for wide electronic access to the public and will > help the researcher to search, browse and sift through vast amounts > of data in seconds. > > According to Davinder Pal Singh, PDL’s co-founder and executive > director, “PDL will break many barriers which currently restrict a > conventional library. Information is decentralized, through its > shared storage and access model, thus enabling utilization of a > single resource concurrently by multiple users all over the world. On > a local note, assuming that every household will possibly have a > computer within the next ten years, PDL holds great promises for the > people of Panjab especially.” > > “To date, PDL has been instrumental in digitally preserving over 2.5 > million folios from 3,400 manuscripts, 2,200 books, 1,990 issues of > periodicals, 5,578 issues of newspapers, 3,152 photographs, 248,000 > legal documents and some 168 hours of video recordings,” commented > Gurvinder Singh, PDL’s US Coordinator. The current collection of data > amounts to about 15,000 GB of available information. > > Among others, major institutional collections digitized to date > include SGPC, DSGMC, Government Museum and Art Gallery Chandigarh, > Chief Khalsa Diwan, Panjab Languages Department, and Kurukshetra > University . Critical works of significant importance from the > personal collections of Prof. Pritam Singh, Dr. Man Singh Nirankari, > Dr. Kirpal Singh, Dr. Madanjit Kaur and Prof. Gurtej Singh are also > available at PDL. > > "PDL is the only non-profit, non-governmental organization to have > initiated a digitization project for the preservation and upkeep of > Panjab archives, and perhaps the only one in India ” said Gurnihal > Singh Pirzada Director, PDL’s board member. “PDL has undertaken > rigorous research and laid solid ground work in order to be in the > best possible position for this launch. Projects around the globe > were closely studied as models for establishing a successful > digitization project. Internationally recognized benchmarks were > referred to and complied with,” he further said. > > PDL is an ongoing project in its early stages and the collection will > grow substantially in coming years. New titles are being digitized > everyday and the Web site will be updated with new features and > titles on monthly basis. PDL staff will be adding at least 50,000 > pages per week to the Web site’s collection. > > Contact Person: Davinder Pal Singh davinder.singh@panjabdigilib.org | > +91-98141 13 -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Aug 21 05:46:59 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B736D34C4F; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:46:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C55A434C3E; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:46:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090821054656.C55A434C3E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:46:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 242. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:45:04 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: boredom comes with maturity? Dear colleagues, Here's a question for you. It came to me while I was gazing at the announcement of the Panjab Digital Library and another announcement, of a printed publication containing nothing directly, or even indirectly as far as I could tell, about computing. I found myself questioning the decision to circulate the former but not the latter. Have we reached the point, I wonder, at which the once new is now so commonplace that it's no longer interesting? Of course someone who is already interested in Panjab literature and culture will want to know about this digital library, but failing that interest, and immediate evidence that the makers have done something technically and/or formally new, is it something you'd like to see? Please note: I am not asking for personal likes and dislikes, which are not the business of this group. I'm asking, rather, about a possible stage of development that we may have reached, a kind of maturity, in which to be noticed formally a digital object has to possess certain properties reflecting a degree of technical progress. Some time ago there was a comment about conference papers in the digital humanities being less than riveting, being (I think it was) rather more reports from the factory floor than intellectual wake-up calls. Since I think that staying awake is important, I am paying rather alot of attention to this latest jolt. In his paper for the Hixon Symposium (1948), "Why the Mind is in the Head", Warren McCulloch expressed it this way: > When we run to catch a baseball we run not toward it but toward the > place where it will be when we get there to grab it. This requires > prediction.... The earmark of every predictive circuit is that if it > has operated long uniformly it will persist in activity, or > overshoot; otherwise it could not project regularities from the known > past onto the unknown future. That is what, as a scientist, I dread > most, for as our memories become stored, we become creatures of our > yesterdays – mere has-beens in a changing world. This leaves no room > for learning. We're not running to catch baseballs, but we are developing, quite successfully, habitual behaviours and standard products. While I do take the argument about standards etc., I worry about research in this utilitarian age sunk to its bottom line. I worry about what happens when one reaches a promised land, buys a house in suburbia and settles in. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Aug 23 05:47:09 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E82E37FC4; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:47:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C1E4237FBC; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:47:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090823054708.C1E4237FBC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:47:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.243 at the BBQ X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 243. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (32) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ [2] From: Wendell Piez (102) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ [3] From: Alan Galey (103) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:02:05 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ In-Reply-To: <20090821054656.C55A434C3E@woodward.joyent.us> Williard -- Digital humanities is never about computing. It's about the product of computing -- what we can do with these texts, and how accessible we can make these texts, now that they have been digitized. In other words, it's about the dissemination of the text, and what that dissemination allows us to do with it. Much more time is involved in doing word searches in physical books than in digitized ones, so digitizing a book facilitates, say, word studies. But if the material qualities of the work itself are an object of study, as in the case of William Blake's illuminated books, then digitizing it still does not provide a substitute for the physical presence of the text. If a digitized version of Blake's illuminated books came out that was in highly detailed and closely rendered 3D, so that I could zoom in and rotate the image 360 degrees, front to back, to see the depth of impressions, gouge marks left on the paper, the texture left by the practice of color printing, etc....that'd really be something. Otherwise, it's just another flat image of a Blake print -- same thing I'd get in a reproduction of the print in a book, by the way -- and to get the rest of it I need to see the originals. So, no,for most people, why talk about computing at all beyond telling us about the texts now made more widely available and the functionality of their presentation? If I were involved in digitizing texts at the moment and could learn a few tricks to increase speed and simplicity, the details would matter then. Jim R > Have we reached the point, I wonder, at which the once new is now so > commonplace that it's no longer interesting? Of course someone who is > already interested in Panjab literature and culture will want to know > about this digital library, but failing that interest, and immediate > evidence that the makers have done something technically and/or formally > new, is it something you'd like to see? > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:35:12 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ In-Reply-To: <20090821054656.C55A434C3E@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, At 01:46 AM 8/21/2009, you wrote: >... I found myself questioning the decision to >circulate the former but not the latter. Have we >reached the point, I wonder, at which the once >new is now so commonplace that it's no longer >interesting? Of course someone who is already >interested in Panjab literature and culture will >want to know about this digital library, but >failing that interest, and immediate evidence >that the makers have done something technically >and/or formally new, is it something you'd like to see? Subject to your excellent judgement and discretion, yes, by all means. I don't take technical progress to be the only sort of progress worth notice on HUMANIST. >... Since I think that staying awake is >important, I am paying rather alot of attention >to this latest jolt. In his paper for the Hixon >Symposium (1948), "Why the Mind is in the Head", >Warren McCulloch expressed it this way: > When >we run to catch a baseball we run not toward it >but toward the > place where it will be when we >get there to grab it. This requires > >prediction.... The earmark of every predictive >circuit is that if it > has operated long >uniformly it will persist in activity, or > >overshoot; otherwise it could not project >regularities from the known > past onto the >unknown future. That is what, as a scientist, I >dread > most, for as our memories become stored, >we become creatures of our > yesterdays ­ mere >hhas-beens in a changing world. This leaves no >room > for learning. We're not running to catch >baseballs, but we are developing, quite >successfully, habitual behaviours and standard >products. While I do take the argument about >standards etc., I worry about research in this >utilitarian age sunk to its bottom line. I worry >about what happens when one reaches a promised >land, buys a house in suburbia and settles in. Comments? What's to worry? Either you want the nice house, or you don't. Maybe you think you don't, but then discover you do. Maybe the idea that settling in should be avoided is just a prejudice and a habit, formed in an earlier time, and not appropriate to the present. I am reminded of an observation by the biologist Bernd Heinrich in one of his amazing books about ravens, namely that young ravens are very curious creatures, but old ones are quite the opposite. This shift from curiosity to stodginess is the result of a fine adaptation in adaptability. It is beneficial to young ravens to be curious since they discover new things and new opportunities. But once a raven has grown into its environment, as long as that environment does not change more quickly than the raven does, it becomes counter-adaptive for it to continue in curiosity, since the chances of finding truly new opportunities diminish compared to the risks. (Ravens are interesting creatures because they are very smart and very curious, like us, but their life span is enough shorter than ours that we can observe, in a foreshortened time frame, what may happen to us.) To be curious when young is good for a species that seeks to inhabit new niches. But one can subsist very comfortably in an old niche, if the niche remains viable. And what's wrong with that? In view of this, I suggest our question shouldn't be how do we avoid stodginess and continue in curiosity. We approve of curiosity because we enjoy it, and its rewards. But deprive us of those rewards and burn us a few times instead, and we might rather have that house in suburbia. Rather, we should ask how do we fit our curiosity to the changeability of our world, to assure the rewards of curiosity continue to be worth its risks, and reduce the risks of stodginess? And the world is changing. Maybe there's nothing technically "new" in yet another digital library initiative. But there may be something remarkably new in that fact, even at the same time as you do us all a service to alert us to something potentially very interesting -- and surely quite new -- to its own proper constituency. It might even make a few of us more curious about matters Panjabi. In short, don't fret. I appreciate why you are restless. But your curiosity and your graciousness -- and not just regarding technical matters -- have served you well: please continue in them. In the meantime, it's when things seem to slow into utilitarian age that revolutions start brewing. Cheers, Wendell ========================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:20:42 -0400 From: Alan Galey Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ In-Reply-To: <20090821054656.C55A434C3E@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Your question seems to be about how we define or categorize the qualities we value. I agree that we've reached the point of maturity you describe, though I'd use the less teleological metaphor of equilibrium (one can lose one's balance again). Perhaps it's a sign of the field's equilibrium that it's becoming harder, not easier, to do digital humanities work that stands out somehow. It's no longer innovative simply to be a humanist with a digital project that meets defined goals -- there has to be some kind of surplus or surprise in the research process. Maybe that's been the case all along. Either way, I've found myself putting it this way in conversations about future research directions: we shouldn't support digital humanities research, categorically speaking; rather, we should support *good* digital humanities research -- or, better still, we should simply support good research, recognizing that it comes in many forms, digital and otherwise. That distinction also involves reclaiming the word "good" from the admin-speak that's replaced it with "excellent," which is usually defined tautologically if at all. One still has to define "good," but putting it this way at least makes the definition contestable. About categories and innovation: maybe you've heard the apocryphal story about Duke Ellington being asked by an interviewer how he'd define jazz -- this was back when jazz was considered the progressive music of the day. Supposedly Duke's reply was something like "there are only two kinds of music: good and bad. I play both kinds." Best, Alan _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Aug 23 05:49:02 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB302D02C; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:49:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 167B42D025; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:49:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090823054900.167B42D025@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:49:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.244 new publications: Writing Systems Research; LLC 24.3 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 244. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:28:58 +0100 From: "oxfordjournals-mailer@alerts.stanford.edu" Subject: Lit Linguist Computing Table of Contents for September 2009; Vol.24, No. 3 *************************ANNOUNCEMENT**************************** Call for papers: Writing Systems Research (WSR) WSR is an innovative new title from Oxford Journals launching in 2009. It is concerned with empirical approaches to writing systems based on the analysis of written data and on experiments. The editors invite research-based contributions from relevant fields such as applied linguistics, psychology, computing and education. To read the full call for papers go to http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3366/1 *************************ANNOUNCEMENT**************************** Lit Linguist Computing -- Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: September 2009; Vol. 24, No. 3 URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol24/issue3/index.dtl?etoc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sebastian Rahtz and Susan Schreibman Introduction Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 249-251; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp014. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/24/3/249?etoc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ---------------------------------------------------------------- Fotis Jannidis TEI in a crystal ball Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 253-265; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp015. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/253?etoc Andrea Zielinski, Wolfgang Pempe, Peter Gietz, Martin Haase, Stefan Funk, and Christian Simon TEI documents in the grid Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 267-279; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp016. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/267?etoc Christian Wittern, Arianna Ciula, and Conal Tuohy The making of TEI P5 Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 281-296; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp017. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/281?etoc Melissa Terras, Ron Van den Branden, and Edward Vanhoutte Teaching TEI: The Need for TEI by Example Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 297-306; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp018. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/297?etoc James Cummings Converting Saint Paul: A new TEI P5 edition of The Conversion of Saint Paul using stand-off methodology Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 307-317; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp019. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/307?etoc Malte Rehbein Reconstructing the textual evolution of a medieval manuscript Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 319-327; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp020. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/319?etoc Luigi Siciliano and Viviana Salardi The digital edition of the Statuta comunis Vicentie of 1264 Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 329-338; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp021. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/329?etoc Stephanie A. Schlitz and Garrick S. Bodine The TEIViewer: Facilitating the transition from XML to web display Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 339-346; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp022. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/339?etoc Peter Boot Towards a TEI-based encoding scheme for the annotation of parallel texts Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 347-361; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp023. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/347?etoc Andreas Witt, Georg Rehm, Erhard Hinrichs, Timm Lehmberg, and Jens Stegmann SusTEInability of linguistic resources through feature structures Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 363-372; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp024. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/363?etoc _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Aug 23 05:54:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E732D0DC; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:54:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B156D2D0D5; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:54:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090823055423.B156D2D0D5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:54:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.245 events: geospatial scholarship; science in use X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 245. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joseph Gilbert (18) Subject: Reminder: Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship [2] From: Corinne Wininger - Le Moal (40) Subject: ESF-LIU Conference on 'Philosophy for Science in Use' --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:05:16 -0400 From: Joseph Gilbert Subject: Reminder: Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship Reminder: DEADLINES for the Scholars' Lab/ NEH Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship are fast approaching: Tracks 1 & 2 (Stewardship & Software, to be held November 15-18, 2009), deadline: September 1st Track 3 (Scholarship, to be held May 25-28, 2010), deadline: December 1st To learn more about the Institute and to apply for funding to attend, please visit: http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/geospatial/ *** IMPORTANT NOTE: If you applied between August 13 and August 21 you should confirm that we have received your application by emailing us at nehgisinstitute@collab.itc.virginia.edu *** -- Joseph Gilbert Head, Scholars' Lab Digital Research & Scholarship University of Virginia Library 434.243.2324 | joegilbert@virginia.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:45:57 +0200 From: Corinne Wininger - Le Moal Subject: ESF-LIU Conference on 'Philosophy for Science in Use' Final Call for Applications/Papers - Closing date: 31 August 2009 PHILOSOPHY FOR SCIENCE IN USE ESF-LiU Conference Scandic Linköping Väst, Linköping, Sweden 28 September - 2 October 2009 Chaired by: Matthias Kaiser, National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology, NO & Nancy Cartwright, London School of Economics, UK http://www.esf.org/conferences/09272 This conference is to discuss how current philosophy of science can be brought more in line with the need to understand, analyze and contribute to scientific endeavours in its various practical and socially relevant uses. It follows a call from Philip Kitcher (in Science, Truth and Democracy, 2001) for aiming at a well-ordered science, i.e. a science that produces the right answers to the right questions in the right ways. Implicit in this call is the insight that value judgements are intertwined with methodological issues. Nancy Cartwright (in Philosophy of Science, 2006 vol.72, #5) has followed up by making the claim that epistemological warrants (evidence) are in large parts also use- and context-specific, contrary to the prevailing tradition in philosophy of science. Hitherto the major philosophical attention has been directed towards justifications of theoretical claims to establish stable unambiguous results, while the justificationary demands on contextual and specialized uses of theoretical insights has been largely neglected. However, it is also in regard to these uses of sciences that value dilemmas affect the practice of science in a very direct way, and where science needs to reflect on its social and ethical justification. The conference will ask for contributions that explore in greater detail philosophical aspects of science and evidence in practical use, and in particular contributions that can provide frameworks of analyses that move philosophy of science closer to policy issues of managing scientific knowledge. In general, the task of the conference is to discuss a re-orientation of current philosophy of science towards what Kitcher called well-ordered science. The conference specifically addresses young European researchers, both from within philosophy of science and related fields, and encourages them to participate and possibly present a poster on their current work. Invited Speakers will include: . Nancy Cartwright - London School of Economics, UK Evidence, causal models and evidence-based policies - new insights . Matthias Kaiser - NENT, NO Evidence for precaution . Philip Kitcher - Columbia University, US Well-ordered science - the challenges for philosophy of science . Eleonora Montuschi - London School of Economics, UK On relevant evidence . Thomas Potthast - Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen, DE Hybrid judgements: integrating scientific and ethical evidence . Felix Reed-Tsochas - Saïd Business School, Oxford University, UK Moving between ecological and organisational models . Julian Reiss - Erasmus University, NL Causation for use . Matti Sintonen - Helsinki University, FI Understanding, explaining and prediciting . Jeroen van der Sluijs - Utrecht University, NL Knowledge quality asessment: tools for reflexive science Full conference programme and application form accessible online from http://www.esf.org/conferences/09272 A good number of grants are available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and possibly part of the travel costs. Grant requests should be made by ticking appropriate field(s) in the paragraph "Grant application" of the application form. Closing date for applications: 31 August 2009 ESF Contact for further information: Jean Kelly - jkelly@esf.org European Science Foundation - Communications Unit 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, BP 90015 67080 Strasbourg Cedex, France Phone: +33 (0)388 76 21 50 Fax: +33 (0)388 76 71 80 clemoal@esf.org www.esf.org/conferences http://www.esf.org/conferences _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Aug 23 06:04:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D70D32D244; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:04:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A52E42D22F; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:04:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090823060430.A52E42D22F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:04:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.246 EAC-CPF schema and tag library X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 246. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:09:59 +0100 From: Daniel Pitti Subject: EAC-CPF Final Draft Announcement The SAA EAC Working Group is pleased to announce the release of the EAC-CPF schema and tag library. The EAC-CPF site is hosted by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in partnership with the Bundesarchiv and is accessible at: http://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ This release consists of a "final draft" version of the EAC-CPF schema and Tag Library. The final draft version is being released to provide the international archival community an opportunity to test the schema and review the Tag Library in order to provide corrections, comments, and suggestions for considering to the EACWG before the final release. The final draft version of EAC-CPF is available for review for 75 days (deadline October 30th, 2009), and the final version is scheduled to be released on November 15th, 2009. Please take the time to test the schema, review the Tag Library, and provide the EACWG with your findings. The final draft version of the EAC-CPF should be used for REVIEW PURPOSES ONLY. The Tag Library and examples are working draft documents and thus NOT NORMATIVE. The schema will continue to be revised to fix errors and inconstancies, and to refine controlled constraints on some elements and attributes. No major structural changes are anticipated. Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Aug 24 05:36:37 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A38CB374F3; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:36:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A446B374E3; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:36:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090824053634.A446B374E3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:36:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.247 at the BBQ X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 247. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Randy Radney (61) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ [2] From: Willard McCarty (30) Subject: clever raven [3] From: Willard McCarty (42) Subject: patience and impatience --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:25:41 -0700 From: Randy Radney Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ In my (actual) experience, the sort of events that best keep us from mature-boredom are in the category of "terrifying changes". In my case the perfect job and location (not suburbia, but then, I'm a bit of a "farm boy", myself) were reached, Canadian citizenship (finally!) obtained, and all was well (if a bit predictable). Suddenly, the university I was working for decided to cancel the online classes I was teaching, the local university decided that my doctorate in humanities was not suitable certification to teach any of the (English, Anthropology, Sociology, etc.) courses it offers, and the economy "went south" (or went west, for those of you in the UK). After sending my CV everywhere I was willing to move to, I decided to start a small business offering face-to-face educational support for local people taking online courses at university. The learning curve has been steep, but boredom is very much a thing of the past. (I'm trying to keep a record of some of my reflections and thoughts as this business develops at http://thelearningcoach.blogspot.com) Regards, J. Randolph Radney, Ph. D. Paradox Educational Services bclearningcoach@me.com "Get the Education You Want in the Community You Love" On 20 Aug 2009, at 22:46, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 242. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:45:04 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: boredom comes with maturity? . . . >> > > We're not running to catch baseballs, but we are developing, quite > successfully, habitual behaviours and standard products. While I do > take > the argument about standards etc., I worry about research in this > utilitarian age sunk to its bottom line. I worry about what happens > when > one reaches a promised land, buys a house in suburbia and settles in. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:36:58 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: clever raven Clever raven, curious when young and acquiring the programming to survive and make more ravens, just truckin' along when old, waiting to die -- or contemplating existence in ravenish quietude, perhaps. But we're talking about humans here, and so a distinction I'd introduce between the peripheral and the central. Northrop Frye's (very Canadian, one might say) solution was to make his own life as uninteresting to an observer as possible so all his energies could go where they went. Or as my partner said earlier today, with reference to our exciting, largely working-class neighbourhood, "I want everything middle-class and boring so that I can do my work". It's that work -- and the disciplinary field where where it finds its society -- that needs the never-ending curiosity and for which being settled in, suburban, all standardized and conformant is spiritually fatal. To get back to the raven as a guide to our mental life. I give you Norbert Wiener's comparison of the human to the great apes. "It has frequently been observed", he writes in The Human Use of Human Beings, "that man is a neoteinic form: that is, if we compare man with the great apes, his closest relatives, we find that mature man in hair, head, shape, body proportions, bony structure, muscles, and so on, is more like the newborn ape than the adult ape. Among the animals, man is a Peter Pan who never grows up" (1954: 58). And so the Paradise within us, happier far than (we know, thanks to Freud et al and to ruthless introspection) actual childhood actually was? Yours, PP (alias WM) -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:19:49 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: patience and impatience We have before reflected on our quite understandable impatience that after all these years since Busa met IBM (1949-2009) we are still mostly playing our own games in a corner of the room, largely ignored by the Major Players. So I offer some bracing solace from the clinical psychiatrist Henry W. Brosin, who in 1948 at the Hixon Symposium was asked to summarize and comment on the papers given there (by John von Neumann, Warren McCulloch and others). Looking over the contributions from the areas of inter alia mathematics and formal logic, neuropsychiatry, primate biology, psychology and medicine, he saw no philosophical differences that would stand in the way of their forming a coherent way of talking about the one subject on which these diverse fields were convergent. "At least we are often talking to the same point," he said. "However, this isn't enough. We must learn a common vocabulary by living and working together. Reading and experimenting in isolation are inadequate. It may take a century for men working at the molecular and neuronal levels to become thoroughly and intimately acquainted with the world view of a person whose days and nights are steeped in the concepts of man as a social unity" (Cerebral Mechanisms in Behavior. The Hixon Symposium, ed. Jeffress, p. 291). The solace - we're still 40 years shy of that century - is bracing not only because the gap of silence or at least inadequate vocabulary between the interpretative humanities and such sciences is so much wider than the one he envisioned. It's more bracing because Brosin was thinking in terms of people such as von Neumann and McCulloch, who were wholly dedicated to asking the hardest of questions they could imagine -- indeed, being employed and supported to do exactly that. So few of us are thus employed, and so perhaps it's not surprising that question-asking in their mode seems rather thin on the ground. Of course it's hardly surprising that people whose work happened to coincide with the well-funded purposes of warfare would be given the keys to the city and allowed to wander in and out as they wished. But then (as Jim O'Donnell says) we're a cheap date. The real problem, it seems to me, is our conception of what we're here for. Without the focus of McCulloch and von Neumann, 40 years will find us more or less in the same place. Comments? Yours,WM --Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Aug 24 05:37:43 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 871AE37546; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:37:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5BC913753E; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:37:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090824053742.5BC913753E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:37:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.248 events: DH & CS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 248. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:42:00 -0500 From: Shlomo Argamon Subject: FINAL CFP: Digital Humanities and Computer Science 2009 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) Critical Computing: Models and Challenges for Interdisciplinary Collaboration URL: http://dhcs.iit.edu Submission Deadline: August 30, 2009 Colloquium Dates: November 14 – 16, 2009 Location: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL The annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) was established to bring together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to advance the digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. We invite presentation proposals from scholars, researchers and students on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the humanities and computer science. Last year's proceedings can be downloaded from http://jdhcs.uchicago.edu 2009 Keynote Speakers: * Stephen Wolfram (http://www.stephenwolfram.com/), the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica, and author of A New Kind of Science. * Vasant Honavar (http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~honavar/), professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University and director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory and the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning & Discovery. * Roger B. Dannenberg (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rbd/), Associate Research Professor of Computer Science and Art at Carnegie Mellon University and fellow of the Studio for Creative Inquiry. Submission Format: Please submit a (2 page) proposal in PDF format via http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/DHCS2009. Important Dates: Deadline for Submissions: Sunday, August 30 Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 14 Full Program Announcement: Thursday, September 24 Registration opens: Tuesday, September 29 Contact: Email: dhcs2009@iit.edu Website: http://dhcs.iit.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 25 07:22:30 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83D23370E7; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:22:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4C411370DF; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:22:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090825072228.4C411370DF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:22:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.249 saying everything that needs to be said? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 249. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:16:58 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: saying everything that needs to be said The following is from John von Neumann, "The General and Logical Theory of Automata", in Cerebral Mechanisms in Behavior. The Hixon Symposium, ed. Lloyd A. Jeffress (1951), pp. 33-4, more specifically in the discussion that followed his paper. Possibly very few here are interested in the theory von Neumann argued we don't have, and not at all in neurophysiology. I quote von Neumann's comment, rather, for its much broader suggestiveness toward a theory of textual computing. Think, in particular, about markup. > The first task that arises in dealing with any problem -- more > specifically, with any function of the central nervous system -- is > to formulate it unambiguously, to put it into words, in a rigorous > sense. If a very complicated system -- like the central nervous > system -- is involved, there arises the additional task of doing this > "formulating," this "putting into words," with a number of words > within reasonable limits -- for example, that can be read in a > lifetime. This is the place where the real difficulty lies. > > In other words, I think that it is quite likely that one may give a > purely descriptive account of the outwardly visible functions of the > central nervous system in a humanly possible time. This may be 10 or > 20 years -- which is long, but not prohibitively long. Then, on the > basis of the results of McCulloch and Pitts, one could draw within > plausible time limitations a fictitious "nervous network" that can > carry out all these functions. I suspect, however, that it will turn > out to be much larger than the one that we actually possess. It is > possible that it will prove to be too large to fit into the physical > universe. What then? Haven't we lost the true problem in the process? > > Thus the problem might better be viewed, not as one of imitating the > functions of the central nervous system with just any kind of > network, but rather as one of doing this with a network that will fit > into the actual volume of the human brain. Or, better still, with one > that can be kept going with our actual metabolistic "power supply" > facilities, and that can be set up and organized by our actual > genetic control facilities.... > > The problem, then, is not this: How does the central nervous system > effect any one, particular thing? It is rather: How does it do all > the things that it can do, in their full complexity? What are the > principles of its organization? How does it avoid really serious, > that is, lethal, malfunctions over periods that seem to average many > decades? When you drive the problem of markup to its breaking point, isn't a similar realisation to be had -- that the real question is being missed. What do you suppose is that question? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 25 07:24:11 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83FAA37172; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:24:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 797D937161; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:24:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090825072408.797D937161@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:24:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.250 Calling all text encoders! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 250. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:51:58 +0000 From: "John G. Keating" Subject: Calling all Text Encoders! Colleagues, As part of our ongoing efforts to understand text encoding, we are embarking on a small case study that will investigate different approaches to encoding a single text (a guestbook from a historically significant estate house located in Ireland). We would like to invite text encoders to participate in the study, by volunteering to encode 5 sample pages from the text. All encoders will receive the same sample. Participants will have the freedom to encode the text using any XML- based approach that they consider to be appropriate. We are happy to answer any questions about the text to help you with your encoding. Following submission of your encoding, you will be invited to complete a short questionnaire. All encodings and questionnaire responses will be fully anonymised. Ideally we would like to have participants return their encodings prior to 15 September 2009. We plan to disseminate the results of the study to the text encoding community as soon as possible after this date. Please email myself (john.keating@nuim.ie) or Aja Teehan (aja.teehan@nuim.ie) for a preview page if you are interested in participating. If you know someone who would like to participate, please forward this message. Best wishes, Aja Teehan and John Keating. Dr. John G. Keating, Associate DirectorAn Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, IRELAND Email: john.keating@nuim.ie Tel: +353 1 708 3854 FAX: +353 1 708 4797 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 26 05:14:07 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16574346F0; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:14:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E0ADF346DA; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:14:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090826051405.E0ADF346DA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:14:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.251 saying everything X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 251. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:13:39 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.249 saying everything that needs to be said? In-Reply-To: <20090825072228.4C411370DF@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Your latest post asking about cognition, computation and markup certainly requires a response. First, von Neumann's statement of his premises: At 03:22 AM 8/25/2009, you wrote: > > The first task that arises in dealing with any problem -- more > > specifically, with any function of the central nervous system -- is > > to formulate it unambiguously, to put it into words, in a rigorous > > sense. ... but I simply don't think that's true. It is true in very narrow circumstances, maybe. It's true to a large extent in my own work, where in order to perform a set of logical operations on sets of abstract symbols, those operations and their organization must be formulated unambiguously. But if it were generally true, I don't see how any of us could get out of bed in the morning. The problem of applying muscle power to neck, back and legs would be intractable. Nor is it necessary to suppose that the brain must have a functionally complete and unambiguous model of the body, when it has the body itself (as well, perhaps, as an incomplete and ambiguous model of it). I am afraid that von Neumann's generalization is based on a false assumption that problem-solving in the world must be like the application of logical algorithms to abstract information processing. As a counter, I would offer the work of Andy Clark, whose amazing book Being There: Putting Brain, Body and World Together Again (1997), effectively refutes this entire premise and suggests many other ways that minds (both "natural" and "artificial") might proceed to work with the world, which do not entail such impossible notions as complete and unambiguous problem specification. I can't paraphrase the work adequately here. But the Wikipedia page on Clark does offer a suggestive account. ... > > The problem, then, is not this: How does the central nervous system > > effect any one, particular thing? It is rather: How does it do all > > the things that it can do, in their full complexity? What are the > > principles of its organization? How does it avoid really serious, > > that is, lethal, malfunctions over periods that seem to average many > > decades? > >When you drive the problem of markup to its breaking point, isn't a >similar realisation to be had -- that the real question is being missed. >What do you suppose is that question? I think the question is not how do we fully specify a problem and avoid ambiguity, but rather, how do we take advantage of the ambiguity that is inevitable and cultivate the ambiguity that is useful? The answer lies somewhere in the neighborhood of "feedback" and in the recognition that while markup has logical dimensions especially in its application, the correct locus for a comprehensive account of markup is not in logic but in rhetoric. Cheers, Wendell Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 26 05:14:54 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F483476F; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:14:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D37C534728; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:14:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090826051451.D37C534728@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:14:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.252 events: interfaces; final DH & CS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 252. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shlomo Argamon (40) Subject: FINAL CFP: Digital Humanities and Computer Science 2009 [2] From: Li CHEN (79) Subject: cfp: 2010 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'10) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:42:00 -0500 From: Shlomo Argamon Subject: FINAL CFP: Digital Humanities and Computer Science 2009 In-Reply-To: <20090823054708.C1E4237FBC@woodward.joyent.us> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) Critical Computing: Models and Challenges for Interdisciplinary Collaboration URL: http://dhcs.iit.edu Submission Deadline: August 30, 2009 Colloquium Dates: November 14 – 16, 2009 Location: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL The annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) was established to bring together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to advance the digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. We invite presentation proposals from scholars, researchers and students on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the humanities and computer science. Last year's proceedings can be downloaded from http://jdhcs.uchicago.edu 2009 Keynote Speakers: * Stephen Wolfram (http://www.stephenwolfram.com/), the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica, and author of A New Kind of Science. * Vasant Honavar (http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~honavar/), professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University and director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory and the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning & Discovery. * Roger B. Dannenberg (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rbd/), Associate Research Professor of Computer Science and Art at Carnegie Mellon University and fellow of the Studio for Creative Inquiry. Submission Format: Please submit a (2 page) proposal in PDF format via http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/DHCS2009. Important Dates: Deadline for Submissions: Sunday, August 30 Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 14 Full Program Announcement: Thursday, September 24 Registration opens: Tuesday, September 29 Contact: Email: dhcs2009@iit.edu Website: http://dhcs.iit.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:15:18 +0100 From: Li CHEN Subject: cfp: 2010 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'10) In-Reply-To: <20090823054708.C1E4237FBC@woodward.joyent.us> CALL FOR PAPERS IUI 2010: ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 7-10 February, 2010 Hong Kong, China http://www.iuiconf.org/ * *Paper Submission Deadline: September 25, 2009 ************************************************************ We are very pleased to invite you once again to participate in 2010 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. IUI 2010 is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. IUI is where the community of people interested in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. We're also very interested in contributions from related fields, such as psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, the arts, etc.. ************************************************************ IMPORTANT DATES Long & Short Paper submissions: Friday, 25 Sept. 2009, 11:59pm US PDT Long paper review notification: Monday, 2 November 2009 Rebuttal process starts Long paper rebuttals due: Monday, 9 November 2009 Rebuttal process ends Long and Short Paper final notification: Friday, 23 November 2009 Long & Short Paper camera-ready due: Friday, 11 December 2009 ************************************************************ Why submit to IUI? Unlike traditional AI, our focus is not so much to make the computer smart all by itself, but to make the interaction between computers and people smarter. Unlike traditional HCI, we're more willing to consider solutions that involve large amounts of knowledge, heuristics, and emerging technologies such as natural language understanding or gesture recognition. The IUI conference gives you a chance to present and to see work in an intimate, focused, no-nonsense event. It is large enough to be diverse and lively (we expect around 200 people), but small enough to avoid the circus-like atmosphere of conferences with thousands of people. The vast majority of the attendees are actively involved with conceiving and developing cutting-edge interfaces leading to a high and fast impact of research results presented at IUI. It brings together people from academics, industry, and nonprofits. As an ACM conference, papers appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. There will also be a journal publication path for selected papers. It's a single track conference, so you don't have to miss anything. And it's always in a beautiful place! ************************************************************ TOPICS OF INTEREST IUI topics include, but are not limited to: Processing of user input Processing and integration of multimodal input Natural language and speech processing Gesture and handwriting processing Generation of system output Smart visualization tools Intelligent generation of multimedia presentations Generation of situation-specific output (e.g., on mobile devices, wall-size displays, multi-touch screens, meeting accessibility criteria) Ubiquitous computing Intelligent interfaces for ubiquitous computing Smart environments Help intelligent assistants for complex tasks Support for collaboration in multiuser environments Intelligent information and knowledge management Novel, intelligent interaction system Affective, social and aesthetic interfaces User-adaptivity in interactive systems Personalization and recommender systems Modeling and prediction of user behavior Planning and plan recognition IUI design Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation Proactive and agent-based paradigms for user interaction Example-based and demonstration-based interfaces User studies User studies concerning intelligent interfaces Evaluation methods and evaluations of implemented intelligent user interfaces [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 27 05:24:34 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A671D335BB; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:24:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 037AA335B2; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:24:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090827052433.037AA335B2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:24:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.253 jobs: pre- & postdocs; fellowship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 253. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Julia Flanders (22) Subject: Fellowship in Digital Community History: applications welcome [2] From: "Brey, Gerhard Andreas" (52) Subject: Predoctoral Fellowship at the MPI for the History of Science, Berlin [3] From: Ray Siemens (41) Subject: Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:53:23 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Fellowship in Digital Community History: applications welcome Fellowship in Digital Community History - please forward to interested students and colleagues Brown University’s Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage are seeking individuals to apply for a fellowship to direct the digital aspects of the Fox Point Community History Project. The digital fellow will work with faculty and staff in both the CDS and JNBC as well as other Brown faculty and students undertaking related work to develop an online public history resource that incorporates oral history, primary documents (photographs, letters, clippings), geospatial data, documentary film, statistical data and other materials. This multidimensional, interactive framework will provide avenues for both scholarly and public engagement. This fellowship is contingent upon funding from the NEH Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers program (http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fdhc.html Interested individuals should provide a 2 page curriculum vitae as well as a statement of interest that provides an overview of relevant experience by September 5. Please submit applications and/or any questions to Patrick Yott, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship, at Patrick_Yott@brown.edu. More information at http://proteus.brown.edu/jnbc/819 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:28:06 +0100 From: "Brey, Gerhard Andreas" Subject: Predoctoral Fellowship at the MPI for the History of Science, Berlin > From: Jochen Schneider > Date: 26 August 2009 12:47:19 BST > To: Mersenne > Subject: Predoctoral Fellowship at the MPI for the History of > Science, Berlin > > The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Dept I (Prof. > Dr. Jürgen Renn), announces a two-year doctoral scholarship (with a > one-year renewal option) for an outstanding graduate student. > Applicants should submit a project proposal that addresses issues > raised in the context of the Archimedes Project. For more information: > > http://archimedes2.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/archimedes_templates > > This project consists of two main elements: an extensive corpus of > digitized sources on the history of mechanics and a series of > sophisticated computer tools that allow scholars to pursue research > requiring the thoughtful evaluation of large bodies of source > materials. Projects of interest may address technical terminology, > the historical reconstruction of lines of transmission, or similar > inquiries. We also welcome project proposals that relate to the > database on machine drawings (dmd) developed at our Institute. For > more information: > > http://dmd.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/home > > Applications may be submitted in German or English. The fellowship > should start preferably at the beginning of 2010. The monthly > stipend is 1365 € or 50% of the E13 (TVÖD) salary for research > scholars. > > Applicants should send the following materials by October 31, 2009: > > 1. Curriculum vitae > 2. A project outline (ca. 750 words) explaining how the digital > resources mentioned above will be employed in the candidate’s > doctoral thesis. > 3. List of publications, if applicable > > to > Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte > Abt. Personal - Predoc I > Boltzmannstr. 22 > 14195 Berlin > Germany > > or by e-mail to Ms. Claudia Paaß, Head of Administration: paass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de > > The Max Planck Society is committed to employing more handicapped > people and especially encourages them to apply. The Max Planck > Society seeks to increase the number of women in areas of under- > representation. Applications from women are especially welcome. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:04:38 +0100 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities with a focus on Information Management (2009-10, renewable) [Note: This position has re-opened. Please feel free to pass this message on to any suitable candidates.] The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project seeks a post-doctoral fellow in digital humanities with expertise in information management. This position is based in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria. The successful candidate will work closely with team members at U Victoria, the Digital Humanities Observatory, U Toronto, U Montreal, Nipissing U, U Alberta, McMaster U, and beyond. The postdoctoral fellow will work with production-focused and experimental corpora, datastores, and analytical technologies, collaborating with those associated with INKE's information management team and others, consulting with project stakeholders and potential stakeholders, and liaising with other INKE researchers located in North America and the UK. The successful candidate will have skills and aptitudes in humanities-oriented research, corpora, datastores, and computational analysis tools, including training or demonstrated experience working with a variety of digital humanities resources, including digital archives, scholarly editions, journals and monographs, and text analysis and visualization tools. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset. The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. Examples of technologies employed in related INKE projects are as follows: TEI P5; XML, XSLT, XSL and XHTML encoding; XQuery; eXist XML databases; JavaScript; Ruby on Rails; PHP; CSS; and web-based SQL database projects using PostgresSQL and mySQL. Experience in some or all of these areas and similar areas would be an asset, but is not a requirement, though aptitude with digital tools is required. Our current team members pride themselves on a passionate interest in both the humanities and their computational engagement. Our ideal candidate is someone with similar passions who can introduce the team to new ideas and provide new perspectives on existing digital humanities issues. The salary for this position is competitive in the Canadian context, and is governed in part by SSHRC practices. Applications comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees may be sent electronically to etcl.apply@gmail.com . The contract can begin as early as Fall 2009; it is for a one-year term, with the possibility of renewal. Applications will be received and reviewed until the position is filled. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 27 05:26:05 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E2A33657; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:26:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F3A1F3364E; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:26:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090827052603.F3A1F3364E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:26:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.254 books for a DH library? collaborative landscape? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 254. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elisabeth Burr (18) Subject: Digital Humanities - building up a library [2] From: "Bellamy, Craig" (32) Subject: Survey: Virtual Research Environment Collaborative Landscape Study --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:43:34 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Digital Humanities - building up a library Dear Humanists, if money was suddenly available how much would you be able to spend on printed Digital Humanities books? Which books would you buy? Your help is much appreciated. Elisabeth Burr ---------- Univ.-Prof'in Dr. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut für Romanistik Philologische Fakultät Universität Leipzig Haus 1 / 3. Etage, Zi. 1307 Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig Tel. +49 (0)341 97 37413/37411 http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:05:37 +0100 From: "Bellamy, Craig" Subject: Survey: Virtual Research Environment Collaborative Landscape Study With apologies for cross-postings. We invite you to participate in the VRE Collaborative Landscape Study project that is one of several studies commissioned by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to research on-line research collaboration in Virtual Research Environments (VREs). The focus of our study is to scope developments in VREs around the world and set them in relation to the activities in the UK. The study aims to stimulate debate about the benefits of research collaboration facilitated by Virtual Research Environments so as to assist the JISC to provide services and strategies to support it. The project is being undertaken by the Centre for e-Research at King’s College London and the Oxford e-Research Centre at the University of Oxford. What is a VRE? "...a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is an an online framework of collaborative tools and resources that allow researchers to share and re-use data, combine services, and undertake tasks to promote new collaborative research practices...." If you are a user, developer, or provide technical support for VREs, your input would be most welcome . http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/kcl/vrelandscape -- Dr Craig Bellamy Digital Humanist Centre for eResearch (CeRch) King's College, London ----- 26 - 29 Drury Lane 3rd Floor King's College London LONDON, WC2B 5RL Phone: 020 7848 1976 http://www.arts-humanities.net/project _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 29 07:11:52 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D80636065; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:11:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E0D4136053; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:11:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090829071149.E0D4136053@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:11:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.255 saying everything X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 255. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:06:07 -0400 From: David Golumbia Subject: Re: saying everything my favorite topics again, combined in a new way i think by two especially thoughtful commentators...i can't resist. first, Willard quotes some really fascinating statements of von Neumann, whose subtlety on these topics has rarely been matched even today: > >The first task that arises in dealing with any problem -- more > > specifically, with any function of the central nervous system -- is > > to formulate it unambiguously, to put it into words, in a rigorous > > sense. If a very complicated system -- like the central nervous > > system -- is involved, there arises the additional task of doing this > > "formulating," this "putting into words," with a number of words > > within reasonable limits -- for example, that can be read in a > > lifetime. This is the place where the real difficulty lies. > > > > In other words, I think that it is quite likely that one may give a > > purely descriptive account of the outwardly visible functions of the > > central nervous system in a humanly possible time. Unless I'm misreading, von Neumann's point is not what is happening IN the nervous system--it is providing a rigorous model of the operations of the nervous system, presumably based on the neural network results of McCulloch & Pitts (see the word "imitating" below) > >I suspect, however, that it will turn > > out to be much larger than the one that we actually possess. It is > > possible that it will prove to be too large to fit into the physical > > universe. What then? Haven't we lost the true problem in the process? Here is vN's first remarkably prescient comment, in my opinion. The rough computational approach to cognitive problems--to break it down into its 'most atomic' ingredients and then use combinatorial rules to implement a system of 'grammar'--entails an *explosion* of description because everything is not merely a pointer, but a "labeled" pointer--in Sausserian terms, a signified plus a signifer plus a 2nd-level signifier pointing at the first. And as you start to process these entities you end up adding 3rd-order labels, etc... Clearly the brain is not doing this--and in this rough sense but one I find consonant with other of vN's writing, the brain is not a computer, at least not in the typical sense of the word "computer." > > Thus the problem might better be viewed, not as one of imitating the > > functions of the central nervous system with just any kind of > > network, but rather as one of doing this with a network that will fit > > into the actual volume of the human brain. Or, better still, with one > > that can be kept going with our actual metabolistic "power supply" > > facilities, and that can be set up and organized by our actual > > genetic control facilities.... > > > > The problem, then, is How does the brain do all > > the things that it can do, in their full complexity? What are the > > principles of its organization? How does it avoid really serious, > > that is, lethal, malfunctions over periods that seem to average many > > decades? > > When you drive the problem of markup to its breaking point, isn't a > similar realisation to be had -- that the real question is being missed. > What do you suppose is that question? I'm not sure I know what you mean by "the problem of markup" here, Willard, but I'm inferring it's something like this: when approached with any sort of digital object, but particularly a textual object, what is our "ultimate" goal in marking it up? what are "all" the elements we need to mark up--what is the general schema according to which we do it? i have been posed this problem by people who should know better in the form: here is a poem on a page, now "mark it up." there is no comprehensive answer to this question. markup is not doing what language is doing, even if we believe cognition is using language altogether (which i find doubtful). the brain does not need to markup everything in the linguistic environment to "use" it, because that causes a computational explosion. So then Wendell replies: > Dear Willard, > > I am afraid that von Neumann's generalization is based on a false > assumption that problem-solving in the world must be like the > application of logical algorithms to abstract information processing. exactly--except that I hope vN's point is exactly yours, and even further, which is evident from other of vN's writing, that the brain is largely analog--that the abstract info processing model doesn't look like it's what the brain is doing "in reality," even if it can mimic many cognitive operations. > As a counter, I would offer the work of Andy Clark, whose amazing > book Being There: Putting Brain, Body and World Together Again > (1997), effectively refutes this entire premise and suggests many > other ways that minds (both "natural" and "artificial") might proceed > to work with the world, which do not entail such impossible notions > as complete and unambiguous problem specification. I can't paraphrase > the work adequately here. But the Wikipedia page on Clark does offer > a suggestive account. i could not agree more. note that Clark is a connectionist, deeply aware of and invested in research about and using technology, and in fact has a very recent and wonderful (maybe his best) book, Supersizing the Mind (Oxford 2008) which goes into an amazing amount of detail about technical augmentation of the mind, the very real and material ways in which "the mind" continues to reach outside of our heads, while completley resisting the Kurzweilian (and imo almost entirely inchoate) belief in the brain-as-computer, with its bizarre and (imo self-contradictory) consequence of "uploading ourselves." > I think the question is not how do we fully specify a problem and > avoid ambiguity, but rather, how do we take advantage of the > ambiguity that is inevitable and cultivate the ambiguity that is > useful? The answer lies somewhere in the neighborhood of "feedback" > and in the recognition that while markup has logical dimensions > especially in its application, the correct locus for a comprehensive > account of markup is not in logic but in rhetoric. so back to the "markup problem." i'll suggest that there is no problem, in a Wittgensteinian sense. markup is a kind of language game--a game with a set of rules, meaningful only with regard to the set of rules being invoked, and in that sense domain-, context- and use-specific. "mark up this poem to go in our archive of 18c English lyric": done and done--and relevant to the way we use language, but probably not to the way the actual neurons work "mark up this poem": give me a break David _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 29 07:20:24 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8718E36142; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:20:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EDFCA36131; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:20:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090829072021.EDFCA36131@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:20:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.256 events: ontology; iSchools; perception X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 256. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Maeve Reilly (78) Subject: Call for Participation, iSchools Conference, Feb. 3-6, 2010 [2] From: "Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au" (34) Subject: CFP #2: Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) [3] From: Claudia Knauber (31) Subject: cfp: Interdisciplinary Workshop on perception --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:13:29 -0500 From: Maeve Reilly Subject: Call for Participation, iSchools Conference, Feb. 3-6, 2010 Please forward widely. The Fifth Annual iConference, Feb. 3-6, 2010 at the University of Illinois, brings together scholars, professionals and students who come from diverse backgrounds and share interests in working at the nexus of people, information and technology. The 2010 iConference theme addresses iMPACTS. As the Obama administration brings new potential for our field to affect change, particularly through investments in education, broadband and scientific research, it also is providing a moment for critical reflection on the impacts of the iSchool movement (research, teaching, profession, industry and service) within and outside our community. In this theme, we thus consider such questions as: What are the broad impacts (actual and potential) of the iSchool movement? How can impact be defined, identified, measured and communicated to key audiences? This Call for Participation solicits contributions that reflect on the core activities of the iSchool community, including research, design, methods and epistemologies, educational practices and engagement between the iSchools and wider constituencies both in the United States and abroad. Contributions are also solicited that reflect more broadly on complex interrelationships among people, information and technology in the iSociety, particularly those focusing on public and private sector settings. With invited speakers, paper and poster sessions, roundtables, wildcard sessions, workshops and ample opportunities for conversations and connections, the iConference celebrates and engages our multidisciplinary and diverse research communities drawing on the interest and expertise of people across disciplinary and organizational boundaries. Sessions will feature completed and early cutting-edge work. The iConference will also include a doctoral student workshop and a mentoring session for untenured faculty and post-doctoral researchers. In addition to the conference theme, areas of interest include (but are not limited to): * IT infrastructure development and sustainability in the home, organizations, communities, society; * Diversity in the iSociety: inclusion of underrepresented groups—women, youth, the aging, people with disabilities, indigenous communities, racial and ethnic minorities, etc.; * Information behavior: theoretical, empirical and methodological advances in everyday life settings, eScience and eResearch, information literacy, etc.; * Information management: life cycle, personal information management, digital asset management, technologies of remembering and forgetting; * Digital libraries: preserving digital information, information quality, security and privacy; * Information organization: metadata, ontologies, the Semantic Web, social tagging; and/or * eGovernment: information policy, economics, ethics, law, technologies of privacy and trust; * Critical reflection on the impacts of the iSchool movement (research, teaching, profession, industry and service) within and outside of our community. Research Track The Associate Deans for Research of the iSchools are coordinating a special research track on "measuring research impact." The difficulty associated with measuring the impact of research efforts is not limited to information science. The key is to distinguish indicators/measures of outcomes and impacts from indicators/measures of inputs or resources expended. Papers submitted in this track could discuss: * Conceptual and theoretical to empirical and data driven research impacts; * Overview of the micro level (impact of individual researchers and contributions) to the meso (impact of individual communities or schools) to the macro (the impact of the iCaucus or the whole of information science research); and/or * The philosophy of measurement to the practical issues of conveying the significance of information science research to non-scientists. Example topics include: * Measuring and comparing the methods and effectiveness of cross-, inter-, or trans-disciplinary research with research within a particular discipline; * Bibliometric measures of impact; * Indicators of scholarly impact; and * Indicators of professional, social and policy impacts. Submission information and more at ischools.org. -- Maeve Reilly iSchools communications coordinator mjreilly@illinois.edu (217) 244-7316 ischools.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:02:12 +0100 From: "Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au" Subject: CFP #2: Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) In-Reply-To: 5th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) 1 December 2009 Held in Conjunction with the 22nd Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09) University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~aow2009 AOW 2009 is the fifth in a series of workshops on ontologies held in the Australasian region. The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontology models and theories - Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Interoperability in ontologies - Ontologies and Multi-agent systems - Description logics for ontologies - Reasoning with ontologies - Ontology harvesting on the web - Ontology of agents and actions - Ontology visualisation - Ontology engineering and management - Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval - Ontology merging, alignment and integration - Web ontology languages - Formal concept analysis and ontologies - Ontologies for e-research - Linking open data - Significant ontology applications The proceedings of the four previous workshops were published as volumes in the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series (http://crpit.com/), and this will again be the case for AOW 2009. As with the previous workshops, we are investigating the possibility of extended versions of selected papers appearing in a special issue of a suitable journal. [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:35:45 +0100 From: Claudia Knauber Subject: cfp: Interdisciplinary Workshop on perception In-Reply-To: CALL FOR POSTERS Interdisciplinary Workshop “Knowledge and Performance in the Perception of Objects and Living Beings” Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld October 29-31, 2009 at Bielefeld University The philosophical conceptions of perception and cognition have undergone a critical transformation in recent debates. Perception is no longer thought to be a pure “input mechanism” enabling the mind to make rational judgments on the nature of things. Rather, its integral relation to action and higher cognition has become the focus of investigation, keeping pace with new developments in cognition research. The conference aims to clarify the mutual relations between perceptual experience, prior knowledge, and action capacities. Talks will be given by experts from the fields of philosophy of mind, cognitive science, psychology, and computer science. Invited speakers: Prof. Dr. Dana Ballard (University of Texas) Prof. Dr. Moshe Bar (Harvard Medical School) Prof. Dr. Gary Bente (Universität zu Köln) Prof. Dr. Axel Cleeremans (Universität Brüssel) Prof. Dr. Andreas K. Engel (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf) Prof. Dr. Manfred Fahle (Universität Bremen/London) Dr. Frank Hofmann (Universität Tübingen) Prof. Dr. Albert Newen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Pachérie (Institut Jean-Nicod) Prof. Dr. Stephen Palmer (University of California) Ulrike Pompe, M.A. (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Prof. Susanna Siegel, Ph.D. (Harvard University) Prof. Dr. Dr. Kai Vogeley (Universitätsklinikum Köln) Prof. Dr. Oliver T. Wolf (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) We welcome POSTER submissions. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference as well as at a designated poster session. Please send an extended abstract (600 words max.) or finished Poster (PDF) via email to Ulrike.Pompe@rub.de. If you are going to present an empirical study please send in addition to the abstract two to three power point slides displaying the central results of the study. Deadline for submission is September 25 2009. Acceptance will be announced by October 1 2009. Selected contributors can ask for support (accommodation) by the ZiF. If you are interested in participating, please register until September, 15 2009 via email to: Marina.Hoffmann@uni-bielefeld.de The organizers, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen Prof. Dr. Gary Bente Prof. Dr. Dr. Kai Vogeley Ulrike Pompe, M.A. v _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 1 05:10:57 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E31337DA6; Tue, 1 Sep 2009 05:10:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8A7F137D80; Tue, 1 Sep 2009 05:10:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090901051051.8A7F137D80@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 05:10:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.257 job at Michigan X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 257. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:39:51 -0500 From: Sara Schmidt Subject: Assistant Professor, Digital Environments, University of Michigan Program in American Culture Assistant Professor, Digital Environments University of Michigan Program in American Culture Ann Arbor DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS. As part of a cluster hire that involves similar hires in the Departments of English and Communication Studies, and the School of Information, the Program in American Culture (AC) at the University of Michigan invites applications for a tenure-track university-year assistant professorship in “Digital Environments” beginning September 1, 2010. Scholars examining all aspects of digital media are encouraged to apply. AC is interested in how new technologies and information cultures intersect with questions of migration, immigration, class, community, identity, political democracy, social networking, race, gender, projections of American power, and/or citizenship. Ph.D. required prior to employment. Candidates should send a letter of application and a placement dossier consisting of a curriculum vitae, writing sample, and at least three letters of recommendation in addition to a statement of teaching philosophy and experience, evidence of teaching excellence, and a statement of current and future research plans. Applications should be addressed to Chair, Digital Environments Search Committee, c/o Mary Freiman, Program in American Culture, 505 S. State Street, 3727 Haven Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045. Screening of applications will begin October 15, 2009 with plans to conduct interviews at the American Studies Association annual meeting in November 2009. Women and minority applicants are especially encouraged to apply. The University of Michigan is supportive of the needs of dual career couples and is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Contact Info: Applications should be addressed to: Chair, Digital Environments Search Committee c/o Mary Freiman UMich Program in American Culture 505 S. State Street 3727 Haven Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 2 05:02:10 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CFB33623E; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:02:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E5FAC36228; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:02:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090902050206.E5FAC36228@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:02:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.258 saying everything X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 258. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 18:34:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Francois Lachance Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.249 saying everything that needs to be said? Willard Inspired by John von Neumann you invite us to meditate on the activity of marking up as a path towards a theory of textual computing: When you drive the problem of markup to its breaking point, isn't a similar realisation to be had -- that the real question is being missed. What do you suppose is that question? In approaching this question, would we benefit from a history of the types of markup and the ways document instances are validated. [COCOA Markup, SGML and DTDs, XML and schema]? The succession of types of markup represent different ways of reading. They also make different demands on memory. It would be interesting to trace the succession of various types of markup with the technical advances in available memory to process text. However, I am suggesting a different tack that need not lead us into the shoals of techno-determinism. I am suggesting that markup prepares the way for an emulation of human reading with all its contingencies and vagaries. The time of reading has, in narratological studies, been approached as a difference between narrating time and narrated time. The narrating time has been measured in pages and lines. Other measurements are possible based on other ways of segmenting a document instance. Markup provides the segmenting. The machine can then be instructed to process the segments in the context of a uniform unfolding of time. However as theorists have recognized, the Lesetempo of actual readers does not unfold uniformly. Reading time is composed of starts and halting and variable speeds. It is possible through markup to incorporate processing instructions into a document instance. Through such processing instructions one can cause the appropriate program to select a variable that affects the speed of traversal for a given set of segments. Consider this if you will as a design for trip wires. Of course such behaviour can be achieved as part of the processing software and not through markup or in the document instance. The advantage of using the processing instruction in the markup is that we are given a human-readable trace -- the markup acts like pseudo-code. I raise this example because markup is usually considered as a description of a textual instance. The resources for embedding processing instructions provide an opportunity for commenting upon the traversal of a given description. In a sense then any markup whether it is an explicit processing instruction or not is about a hoped for processing. The question then becomes can we align the markup and the machine to create surprise. The aim of markup is not simply to create a description and invoke a predictable processing. It can be used to model the contingent. For more on machines, emulation and how instructions and descriptions are isomorphic , see Linkname: Sense: Emulations URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/S4.HTM -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-largehttp://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 2 05:05:23 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F7C536326; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:05:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AFD0B3631E; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:05:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090902050521.AFD0B3631E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:05:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.259 postdoc in language technologies at CELCT X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 259. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 08:02:04 +0100 From: Ido Dagan Subject: FW: Post-doc grants at CELCT FYI – CELCT is the major evaluation center for language technologies in Europe. I had very good experience with them in running the textual entailment challenges. Ido Dagan ________________________________ From: Oliviero Stock [mailto:stock@fbk.eu] Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 7:52 PM To: Ido Dagan; Shuly Wintner Cc: Emanuele PiantaVeronica Giordano (CELCT secretary) - e-mail: vegiordani@celct.it _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 2 05:06:17 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29837363B8; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:06:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9EC56363B0; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:06:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090902050614.9EC56363B0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:06:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.260 beliefs behind method? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 260. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:28:09 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: belief behind method The following is from Soshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (New York: Basic Books, 1984), p. 423: > Behind every method lies a belief. Researchers must have a theory of > reality and of how that reality might surrender itself to their > knowledge-seeking efforts. These epistemological fundamentals are > subject to debate but not to ultimate proof. Each epistemology > implies a set of methods uniquely suited to it, and these methods > will render the qualities of data that reflect a researcher's > assessment of what is vital. I believe that researchers ought to > indicate something about their beliefs, so that readers can have > access to the intellectual choices that are embedded in the research > effort. So what are our epistemologically relevant beliefs about the objects we study? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 2 05:07:51 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0369436472; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:07:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EE2FB36445; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:07:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090902050748.EE2FB36445@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:07:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.261 cfp: special issue on interactive experiences X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 261. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 19:27:19 +0100 From: Teresa Romão Subject: cfp: IJART Special Issue on "Interactive Experiences in Multimedia and Augmented Environments" International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART) Call For papers Special Issue on: "Interactive Experiences in Multimedia and Augmented Environments" (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1232) Guest Editors: Prof. Teresa Romão and Prof. Nuno Correia, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Novel interaction techniques and devices provide users with new experiences, which may have impact on their feelings, behaviors, knowledge acquisition process, performance and/or enjoyment. Innovative multimedia and augmented reality environments push the user interface beyond the digital into new physical and social contexts, affording a variety of dynamic, context-dependent and also subjective user experiences. Currently, there is an immense interest in user experience (UX) in academia and industry. This special issue invites contributions which report original interactive experiences in multimedia and augmented reality environments. Subject Coverage This special issue aims at publishing papers that provide a clear and comprehensive view of the state of the art in interactive experiences in multimedia and augmented environments. The main topics covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to the following areas of study: • User experience design and evaluation • Digital games and entertainment • Tangible interfaces • Augmented reality applications • Smart objects • Digital art and storytelling • Mobile and ubiquitous computing • Persuasive technologies • New output modalities, devices and interactions Deadline for full paper submission: 4 November, 2009 Review results returned to authors: 20 February, 2010 Deadline for camera-ready papers: 20 April, 2010 Editors and Notes You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to the following: Prof. Dr. Teresa Romão Department of Computer Sciences Faculty of Sciences and Technology New University of Lisbon Quinta da Torre 2829-516 Caparica Portugal Tel: +351 212948536 E-mail: tir@di.fct.unl.pt Prof. Dr Nuno Correia Department of Computer Sciences Faculty of Sciences and Technology New University of Lisbon Quinta da Torre 2829-516 Caparica Portugal Tel: +351 212948536 E-mail: nmc@di.fct.unl.pt with a copy to: Editorial Office E-mail: editorial@inderscience.com Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editor _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 2 05:08:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5091A364FE; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:08:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A6D0E364AA; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:08:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090902050818.A6D0E364AA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:08:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.262 events: LLCC at 45 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 262. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stan Ruecker (91) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ [2] From: Willard McCarty (55) Subject: where's the fire? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:28:27 -0600 From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ In-Reply-To: <20090821054656.C55A434C3E@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I sometimes turn for solace, as I'm sure others do, to Lewis Thomas, who so cleverly brought public attention to any number of useful insights in the 1970s. I'd like to quote him here on the subject of the rightful business of science, which I realize is not quite what we all think of ourselves as doing, but nonetheless it has a certain inspirational quality, especially if you read it, as I did, by substituting "digital humanities" wherever he says "science." "The essential wildness of science as a manifestation of human behavior is not generally perceived. As we extract new things of value from it, we also keep discovering parts of the activity that seem in need of better control, more efficiency, less unpredictability. We’d like to pay less for it and get our money’s worth on some more orderly, businesslike schedule…. It needs thinking about. There is an almost ungovernable, biologic mechanism at work in scientific behavior at its best, and this should not be overlooked. The difficulties are more conspicuous when the problems are very hard and complicated and the facts not yet in. Solutions cannot be arrived at for problems of this sort until the science has been lifted through a preliminary, turbulent zone of outright astonishment. Therefore, what must be planned for, in the laboratories engaged in the work, is the totally unforeseeable. If it is centrally organized, the system must be designed primarily for the elicitation of disbelief and the celebration of surprise." Thomas, Lewis. “Natural Science” in *The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher.* NY: Penguin Books Ltd, 1974. p. 100. yrs, Stan Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 242. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:45:04 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: boredom comes with maturity? > > Dear colleagues, > > Here's a question for you. It came to me while I was gazing at the > announcement of the Panjab Digital Library and another announcement, of > a printed publication containing nothing directly, or even indirectly as > far as I could tell, about computing. I found myself questioning the > decision to circulate the former but not the latter. > > Have we reached the point, I wonder, at which the once new is now so > commonplace that it's no longer interesting? Of course someone who is > already interested in Panjab literature and culture will want to know > about this digital library, but failing that interest, and immediate > evidence that the makers have done something technically and/or formally > new, is it something you'd like to see? > > Please note: I am not asking for personal likes and dislikes, which are > not the business of this group. I'm asking, rather, about a possible > stage of development that we may have reached, a kind of maturity, in > which to be noticed formally a digital object has to possess certain > properties reflecting a degree of technical progress. Some time ago > there was a comment about conference papers in the digital humanities > being less than riveting, being (I think it was) rather more reports > from the factory floor than intellectual wake-up calls. Since I think > that staying awake is important, I am paying rather alot of attention to > this latest jolt. > > In his paper for the Hixon Symposium (1948), "Why the Mind is in the > Head", Warren McCulloch expressed it this way: > >> When we run to catch a baseball we run not toward it but toward the >> place where it will be when we get there to grab it. This requires >> prediction.... The earmark of every predictive circuit is that if it >> has operated long uniformly it will persist in activity, or >> overshoot; otherwise it could not project regularities from the known >> past onto the unknown future. That is what, as a scientist, I dread >> most, for as our memories become stored, we become creatures of our >> yesterdays – mere has-beens in a changing world. This leaves no room >> for learning. > > We're not running to catch baseballs, but we are developing, quite > successfully, habitual behaviours and standard products. While I do take > the argument about standards etc., I worry about research in this > utilitarian age sunk to its bottom line. I worry about what happens when > one reaches a promised land, buys a house in suburbia and settles in. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:41:22 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: where's the fire? In-Reply-To: <20090821054656.C55A434C3E@woodward.joyent.us> Dear colleagues, You may recall some time back an assertion I reported to you that our conference papers are dull, lacking in the zip-zap of fundamental questioning. Since then, from three other, separate sources I have heard similar things. Most recently it was from a member of a national committee deliberating on what to do about our sort of work officially, i.e. how to begin concerted efforts in it. This assertion I take more seriously because a committee of government, with funding I would suppose, is poised to act but is questioning how to do so, what flavour to support from those on offer or dreamt of. The particular statement of discontent I received had reached the point of discriminating between (a) work that comprises merely implementation of pre-existing stuff in service of research interests coming from elsewhere, and (b) genuine research, i.e. into the unknown, for purposes originating with the researcher him-/herself -- recognizing that the self in question may be plural and so collaboratively constituted. It seemed to be the judgement of this committee that what usually gets done in our shop is of the first rather than the second kind, and so the committee in question was looking in the direction of computer science for inspiration. My response was to make a further distinction between what's done in CS and what's done in humanities computing, which is to say, I argued that the latter exists and does genuine research. You may well regard the analysis on which I report to have mistaken what we mostly do for what we are attempting to be seen not to do. In that, more charitable case, there's something seriously wrong with how we represent our work. How is it that someone could think all we're doing is to put in a day's labour on the assembly line? What are we doing wrong, or not doing? My own guess is that we're falling down by failing to communicate the genuine research we're doing in such a way that it can be understood *as research*. We don't sport the label of a *science*, and so no one will come to what we do with a flattering assumption about it. There may also be a problem for us with the label that seems now to have taken over, i.e. "digital humanities". It comfortably convers anything a humanist does involving digital stuff, most of which isn't research except in the field of application, if there. So blanketing everything we do is a thick, muffling carpet of trivial applications dressed up in trendy colours. It certainly doesn't help that yet again we're told that since quite soon everything in the humanities will be digital, the term is more or less tautological and us specialists are reaching our point of professional obsolescence -- though some will continue to be needed to do the XML equivalent of fix the printer. What can we point to that is both intellectually exciting and not the property of computer science? How would you attract an intellectually exciting person who wanted to do his or her own research (as opposed to get a job doing someone else's)? Have we forgotten what it is to be ourselves excited by the radiant energy of our primary materials? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 3 05:01:55 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 171B238451; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 05:01:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F22FD38441; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 05:01:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090903050152.F22FD38441@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 05:01:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.264 BBQ and fire X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 264. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Øyvind_Eide (45) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.263 the BBQ and the fire,or the joy of negative entropy [2] From: Sterling Fluharty (229) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.263 the BBQ and the fire, or the joy of negative entropy [3] From: Shane Landrum (82) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.263 the BBQ and the fire, or the joy of negative entropy --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 08:18:51 +0200 From: Øyvind_Eide Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.263 the BBQ and the fire,or the joy of negative entropy > -- > [2 > ]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:41:22 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: where's the fire? > In-Reply-To: <20090821054656.C55A434C3E@woodward.joyent.us> > > Dear colleagues, > [...] > There may also be a problem for us with the label that seems now to > have > taken over, i.e. "digital humanities". It comfortably convers > anything a > humanist does involving digital stuff, most of which isn't research > except in the field of application, if there. So blanketing everything > we do is a thick, muffling carpet of trivial applications dressed up > in > trendy colours. It certainly doesn't help that yet again we're told > that > since quite soon everything in the humanities will be digital, the > term > is more or less tautological and us specialists are reaching our point > of professional obsolescence -- though some will continue to be needed > to do the XML equivalent of fix the printer. > > What can we point to that is both intellectually exciting and not the > property of computer science? How would you attract an intellectually > exciting person who wanted to do his or her own research (as opposed > to > get a job doing someone else's)? Have we forgotten what it is to be > ourselves excited by the radiant energy of our primary materials? I sometimes wonder about my arguments for doing my work in Digital Humanities and not somewhere else. I build computer tools to help me doing my research, but if I needed wooden tools to assist me, I would make them as well. Would I then call my research Wooden Humanities? Or starting from the term Humanities Computing, Humanities Carpentry? Maybe what I am doing is cross-thematic or general humanities research. Because that does not exits in the organisations relevant to me, or in my mind, I go where I find a structure for it - Humanities Computing. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 08:44:13 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.263 the BBQ and the fire, or the joy of negative entropy Willard, I suspect the work of scholars in computer science counts of "research" for two reasons: 1) it follows a long tradition of abstract, logical, and mathematical theorizing, and 2) it is often an interdisciplinary enterprise that transforms and extends the methodologies of the disciplines it engages. If scholars in the digital humanities or humanities computing wish to have their work similarly counted as research, they need to either stress the theoretical nature of their research and/or actually create new methodologies for humanistic disciplines. And I don't believe the pursuit of applications needs to be perceived as a weakness in DH/HC. It seems to me that there exists a healthy synergy between the production of applications and the pursuit of theoretical inquiry in CS. CS didn't vanish or lose its identity when large numbers of mathematicians, economists, physicists, linguists, and cognitive scientists incorporated computational methods into their research. DH/HC has a chance to stick around if it sets its own research agenda and becomes the pacesetter in the humanities. Some disciplines (like education and math) spend a lot of their time serving other disciplines; I don't think CS is beholden to other disciplines and I am not sure how wise it is for DH/HC to serve the interests of the traditional humanities overlords. Best wishes, Sterling Fluharty University of New Mexico --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:03:08 -0400 From: Shane Landrum Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.263 the BBQ and the fire, or the joy of negative entropy Willard wrote: > What can we point to that is both intellectually exciting and not the > property of computer science? How would you attract an intellectually > exciting person who wanted to do his or her own research (as opposed to > get a job doing someone else's)? Have we forgotten what it is to be > ourselves excited by the radiant energy of our primary materials? I can hardly generalize about such questions, but a personal narrative (by way of introduction) may shed some light on your question. Probably like many on this list, I have an unusual background for a humanities Ph.D.: an undergraduate double-major in computer science and American studies. After half a decade of being a software engineer in the early dot-com boom (c.1998-2004), I went for a history Ph.D. partially because of reasons you mention: I wanted to do my own work rather than be someone else's tool of production. Also, I love working with primary sources-—particularly the letters and personal-papers collections that are staples of US women's/gender/sexuality history. I'm currently finishing a dissertation that straddles a bunch of historical subfields-- legal/political history, women/gender/sexuality, public health, history of technology. My use of fulltext searching in newspaper archives lets me answer some hard and interesting questions. If the research funding I've received is any indication, people find the project "intellectually exciting." I think I'm a kind of person that "digital humanities" as a specialty/community wants to attract, but I'm a latecomer for a few different reasons: 1) Scarcity of available formal training or mentoring. In graduate school, I've received excellent training within my discipline. On the other hand, "digital methods for historians" isn't something one can just take a class in anywhere, and I wasn't in a position to pick and choose a graduate program just because of the program's (or a single faculty member's) reputation for doing interesting digital-methods work. Like most technologists, I can RTFM all day long if I need to know how software works, but autodidacticism has its limits. 2) Limited time/funding for digital work at the graduate level. I'd love to be doing more digitally-intensive work with my sources-—in particular, a major publicly-accessible collection of women's history materials which I use extensively-—but I'm busy trying to write a dissertation in a limited time with limited funding. Most of my digital materials are photographs of archival materials--largely letters and government documents. I've spent substantial time developing my own ways of filing and adding rudimentary metadata to thousands of JPGs and PDFs. Mostly, I've made things up as I go along, because nothing I've found online has offered more than generalized suggestions. This issue-—how to manage gigabytes of personal photographs of archival materials-- is something that trips up *every single historian* I've talked to about it. The Center for History and New Media at GMU is doing some amazing work, but Zotero isn't the right tool for everything. Consumer-level photo management software (affordable by graduate students) isn't either. My Americanist-historian peers are comfortable with a whole range of online archival materials-- with metadata and search systems built by someone else-- but we don't have easy access to training or best-practices descriptions on how to build our own metadata-based filing systems. For the intellectual questions I want to ask about my sources, tags aren't good enough. I'd happily build a tool that does what I think I want in this regard, but there's only so much time in a day. 3) The spectre of tenure lurking in the distance. Students at top graduate programs usually want to aim for tenure-track faculty positions, which are scarce to begin with. Once we get a position, the three pillars of tenure--teaching, research, and service-- don't leave much room for spending 20 hours a week hacking on software tools. (I could make an argument that open-source software development is a valid form of service, but it's not as visible within a department as sitting on a faculty committee.) I can't imagine any faculty member having time to teach even 2 classes, work on her own humanities-discipline research, and participate in a community-run software project to any substantial degree. (At least not with any degree of work-life balance, but that's already an issue with faculty careers.) If there are alternative career paths that are specific to the digital humanities--positions which combine technology/toolsmithing with one's own research-— then graduate students and undergraduates need to know about them far enough in advance to seek training in both a humanities discipline and computer science. Also, the opportunities need to be there in enough quantity to be visible on H-Net and other major jobs lists. Otherwise, I think, Willard's "intellectually exciting" people will tend to fall out of the digital humanities pipeline, whether towards private-sector software engineering or towards a more traditional humanities faculty path. Shane Landrum Ph.D. Candidate, American History, Brandeis University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 4 08:22:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF30A374E1; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:22:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 793B8374D2; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:22:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090904082207.793B8374D2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:22:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.265 BBQ and fire X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 265. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:03:38 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.264 BBQ and fire In-Reply-To: <20090903050152.F22FD38441@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard and HUMANIST, This thread reflects a familiar anxiety that afflicts this list like a bad knee. But I think to critique the label as problematic (be it "digital humanities", "humanities computing" or anything else you might imagine) misses the point that *any* label will be problematic as long as it is burdened with the task of justifying one's work, in a label, to those who are skeptical of it. For that, any label will do, or none, since what passes for justification is not in the label itself or what it ("literally") denotes, but in the aura it brings with it. A glamorous aura can be useful and I suppose we all want to be glamorous. But it is treacherous. Ten or more years ago, I decided that the institutional suspicion of "digital humanities" (or "humanities computing" as it then was) had nothing to do with what we were doing, the legitimacy or interest of it or lack thereof. It was (is) simply a structural problem. In a system where resources (budgets, faculty lines) are constrained and the organization is pyramidal (more pawns than knights, only one king), win/win games are hard to find, and discriminations have to be made: there will always be someone who is not hired or whose work isn't supported. But since to discuss this is taboo, reasons have to be offered for excluding someone or something. If the something is at all threatening to the status quo, there's a reason to find a reason. And by its nature, any pursuit will be threatening that threatens disciplinary boundaries (raising questions of integrity and control), or that calls on talents or skills or interests different from those that a discipline has hitherto cultivated. To the digitally uneasy academic, to say "digital humanities is important" is to suggest that what he does may be less so, and there's a threat. On the other hand, to say to a theory-steeped literary critic that archives might be interesting, or pedagogy, or close reading, or anything at all that falls outside the domain of her theory-making, might also be to make a threat despite oneself, even allowing that there is also theory of archives and pedagogy and close reading. So it's not really about "digital humanities" at all. Accordingly, and not looking forward to a career trying to find common ground with those who thought of me as a threat, I dealt with this by finding a line of work where it wasn't an issue, where I didn't have to run a gauntlet of justifying myself constantly and at intervals. The consulting business is sustainable only because (and as long as) there are organizations out there to whom our work is valuable enough that they are willing to pay us up front to do it. The work is justified before I'm ever hired. So I don't have to fight those battles. Note that this doesn't mean that the problem isn't there. It just alters the structure of the calculation, putting the question "is the work worth it" up front. The gauntlet is still there: it's just that the client and I get through it mostly before I ever hear about it. There is usually a bidding process, but after that we're done, and by the time the work itself starts we are committed together to its success. I still face the problem of defining work that is both valuable to others and interesting and satisfying to me, but fortunately that hasn't proven to be very difficult. You see, much as academics might doubt it, the work of "digital humanities" is actually both very valuable and very interesting in the world at large, especially when you reduce confusion and placate anxieties by taking the label off. Now, I don't believe this solution is available within the academic context, which is structured as it's structured. On the other hand, it does suggest something about the outlines of the problem. I think that if a dean or a tenure committee is asking "is the work of Assistant Professor X worth it?", the battle is already lost. There's little or nothing Prof X can do, since it amounts to a popularity contest, and the very possibility that the answer is "no" hangs in the air. And of course the same thing is true of casual conversations in the hallways about projects or research initiatives. Accordingly, the solution to Prof X's problem is not to have an answer to the question "why is your work important?". The question must already have been answered, and the dean and the tenure committee should *already know* the work is important. How Prof X brings that about is less a matter of influencing the dean or faculty directly, than it is of bringing about change in the intellectual climate and culture such that the dean and faculty are already convinced, first, that the work is complementary and consistent with their own commitments and goals, not a threat or even a diversion, and secondly, that it has a constituency, and is valued by the interests that they themselves serve. It won't raise doubts among those themselves answer to, but instead will strengthen them. Ideally, of course, this is done by having made a commitment long ago that has created such a constituency. "Let's have a department where we study English novels and poetry." A label like "digital humanities" can be a rallying point for a sort of PR campaign, but the point isn't ultimately PR: it's a problem of demonstrating value and of including people in such a way that they become that constituency. Indeed, if the effort is treated like PR, it is likely to run its course, and any label will eventually become a liability. This year's fashion is next year's object of satire. Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 4 08:23:12 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427B737543; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:23:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3839F37531; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:23:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090904082309.3839F37531@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:23:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.266 new on WWW: on arts-humanities.net X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 266. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:42:13 +0100 From: "Reimer, Torsten" Subject: new on arts-humanities.net arts-humanities.net is an online hub for research and teaching in the digital arts and humanities. It enables members to locate information, promote their research and discuss ideas. Join over a thousand individual members, a dozen expert centres and various projects. http://www.arts-humanities.net/ arts-humanities.net gives you access to a wide range of resources, including an extensive catalogue of digital arts and humanities projects; a calendar of workshops, conferences and other events; a taxonomy of research methods for creating digital resources; and other materials such as a bibliography, case studies and briefing papers. Registered members can use the site to feature their own research; blog and discuss issues with others; and search a directory of over 1,100 members. We also provide customisable email updates on new content and news from the community. FEATURED: EVENTS CALENDAR The events calendar lists about 100 upcoming events related to the digital arts and humanities. You can also access an archive of several hundred past events. We provide a RSS feeds and an iCal feed that you can plug directly into your calendar or website. http://www.arts-humanities.net/events http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/ical/ FEATURED PROJECT Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica (IRCyr) The project aims to assemble an online corpus of all the material gathered by Prof Joyce Reynolds during her numerous visits to Libya. The project consists in the digitisation of some 2000 inscriptions from Roman Cyrenaica, nearly a third of which have never previously been published. The new corpus will be presented as a series of documents; but it will also link to an online map of Roman Cyrenaica, being prepared as part of the Pleiades project http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/inscriptions_roman_cyrenaica_ircyr OTHER NEW PROJECTS Integrating Digital Papyrology (IDP) http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/integrating_digital_papyrology_idp Inscriptions of Aphrodisias http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/inscriptions_aphrodisias NEW USER GROUPS Digital Classicist The Digital Classicist is a community interested in the application of innovative digital digital methods to research on the ancient world. http://www.arts-humanities.net/digital_classicist Social Software in the Digital Humanities A group that discusses the theoretical and practical application of social software within the digital humanities. http://www.arts-humanities.net/deliberative_humanism_social_software_digital_humanities FORUM / DISCUSSIONS DRHA 2009 meet and greet Meet some of the delegates of the DRHA 2009 conference and learn about their interests, projects and activities. http://www.arts-humanities.net/forumtopic/drha_2009_meet_greet Discussing Digital Humanities 2009 A live-blog from the DH09 conference in June 2009. http://www.arts-humanities.net/forumtopic/discussing_digital_humanities_09 arts-humanities.net is hosted by the Centre for e-Research at King's College London and is developed in collaboration with several groups and projects, including the UK Network of Expert Centres. It is funded by the JISC. -- Dr. Torsten Reimer Development Manager http://www.arts-humanities.net Centre for e-Research, King's College London http://kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch/ +44 (0)20 7848 2019 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 4 08:24:33 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1389A375F6; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:24:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 82A28375EE; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:24:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090904082430.82A28375EE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:24:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.267 events: handwriting & editing; transforming culture X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 267. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dot Porter (43) Subject: Kzoo 2010: CFP Handwriting Recognition and Collaborative Editing [2] From: Ivo Volt (87) Subject: Transforming culture in the digital age: CFP --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:39:04 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: Kzoo 2010: CFP Handwriting Recognition and Collaborative Editing *FINAL REMINDER, DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 15* The Digital Medievalist Community of Practice (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) is sponsoring two sessions at the Forty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 7-10, 2009. See below for session names and descriptions. Please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF formats from the Congress website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF. Proposals must be submitted by September 15, 2009. Paper session: The state of the art in handwriting recognition and analysis for medieval documents Much work has been done towards automated analysis of handwritten documents, with a focus on handwriting recognition, in the last years, and some of the developments seen in OCR and layout recognition systems may be applicable to medieval studies. Further, the increasing interest in sophisticated linkages of text and image might be enhanced by developments in handwriting recognition and analysis. We welcome papers which report on work done or ongoing in these areas, or which seek to establish methodologies. Paper session: Collaborative tools and environments for medieval scholarship Many groups around the world are working to develop a new generation of collaborative tools and research environments, with potential wide applicability to medieval studies. This leads to questions about the nature of collaboration itself, and about useful models of collaboration. Reports form the coal face on collaborations which have, or have not, worked are welcome, as are demonstrations of tools and ruminations on the many faces of collaboration. Again, please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF formats from the Congress website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:15:12 +0100 From: Ivo Volt Subject: Transforming culture in the digital age: CFP Dear list, I pass on the CFP for an international conference that will take place in April 2010. I hope at least some of you find this inreresting. I'm not one of the organizers, so please refer to the conference home page for any further information. Best regards, Ivo Volt University of Tartu, Estonia ---------------------------------- Transforming culture in the digital age Call for papers Tartu, Estonia, 14-16 April, 2010 http://www.transforminculture.eu Increasingly, we see new forms of culture being born in the variety of online environments. Users have become producers taking over production of online content and traditional hierarchies of users and producers are collapsing. At the same time, traditional memory institutions like museums, archives, libraries and acknowledged artists struggle to make sense of the transformations that are coming together with new technologies. In this interdisciplinary conference we aim to look at the questions as how such developments influence culture - how is culture transformed in the digital age with a specific focus on the intersection of individuals and institutions. We hope to look at the notion of culture and transformations of the cultural heritage through a variety of disciplines ranging from arts and history to heritage studies and from museum studies to sociology and from media and literature studies to archival studies. The conference calls for variety of people both researchers and practitioners to discuss and analyze how digital culture is produced and consumed both in traditional and new forms. CONFERENCE THEMES I ROLE OF INDIVIDUAL IN THE CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION 1. Changing User · User, consumer, creator, producer? · User as a creator of the content · Role of the user in the heritage world · Cultural participation · Using globalised content · Global or local user practices? · Digital libraries and user preferences · User in the archives: practices and expectations · Museum collections in the hand of the visitor 2. Re-Mediating Personal Memory · New forms of storytelling and expression · Blogging your own history · Digital photos and videos as part of self · Re-imaging self in the digital age II CULTURAL MEMORY AND MEMORY INSTITUTIONS 3. Rewriting Cultural Memory · Rewriting the histories of arts · Changing hierarchies: canon, centre and periphery · New cultural history and the reception strategies · Role of the audiovisual archives · Archive as a creator of the content of memory · Digital resources of the cultural memory 4. Cultural Heritage · Questioning and interpreting the concept of heritage · From national to global: collections as a determining power · Collecting heritage today · The role and the future of the original · Future perspectives on different memory institutions · Making digital content available · Cultural heritage and Web 2.0 strategy III LANGUAGE OF ART 5. Digital Literature · The perspectives of digital literature · Hypertext and cybertext theory · Author and the cyberspace · Reader and the cyberspace · Electronic poetry and electronic narratives · Blogging and literature · Fan culture in Internet · Creating new canons: questioning the borders of literature 6. Digital Art · Digital creativity · Immaterial art and real artists · Creativity in surveillance environment · Artworks between locations · New media art and problems of reception · Digital art and authorship · New media art education For participating: please submit a 500-word abstract with the name and institutional affiliation of the speaker (mailing address & email address) through conference website. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 5 07:35:38 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3318E38CF6; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:35:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 231E338CE4; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:35:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090905073535.231E338CE4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:35:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.268 BBQ and fire X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 268. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:21:15 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.265 BBQ and fire In-Reply-To: <20090904082207.793B8374D2@woodward.joyent.us> I agree with your final paragraph, Wendell, but don't with much of what leads up to it. Budgets for the study of humanities are already in place. They're being cut, but they're there. And yes, it's perfectly legitimate to ask if a professor's work is "worth it." That's what the tenure review process is for. An answer of "no" is sometimes possible and, sometimes, required. Hiring someone doesn't mean you're obligated to grant him/her tenure, so it doesn't mean your obligated to accept every proposal. Here, as elsewhere, asking for -additional- budget money requires that the request be justified within the context of the institution's goals, mission, strengths, etc. I agree that digital humanities is a good thing. That does not mean every single institution needs to directly fund its development just because someone has an idea. Jim R > A label like "digital humanities" can be a rallying point for a sort > of PR campaign, but the point isn't ultimately PR: it's a problem of > demonstrating value and of including people in such a way that they > become that constituency. Indeed, if the effort is treated like PR, > it is likely to run its course, and any label will eventually become > a liability. This year's fashion is next year's object of satire. > > Cheers, > Wendell > > ====================================================================== > Wendell Piez                            mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com > Mulberry Technologies, Inc.                http://www.mulberrytech.com > 17 West Jefferson Street                    Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 > Suite 207                                          Phone: 301/315-9631 > Rockville, MD  20850                                 Fax: 301/315-8285 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >   Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML -- James Rovira Tiffin University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 5 07:36:41 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C5D38D66; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:36:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7770D38D5D; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:36:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090905073639.7770D38D5D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:36:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.269 new on WWW: TL Infobits for August X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 269. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 19:46:01 +0100 From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: TL Infobits -- August 2009 TL INFOBITS August 2009 No. 38 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 and all back issues at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... Report on Online Education Study Teaching with Web 2.0 Tools Mashups Study Finds that Online Education Beats the Classroom Future of Scholarly Publishing Recommended Reading ...................................................................... REPORT ON ONLINE EDUCATION STUDY "More than one-third of public university faculty have taught an online course while more than one-half have recommended an online course to students . . . . In addition, nearly 64 percent of faculty said it takes 'somewhat more' or 'a lot more' effort to teach online compared to a face-to-face course. However, a large majority of faculty cited student needs as a primary motivator for teaching online, most commonly citing 'meet student needs for flexible access' or the 'best way to reach particular students' as the reason they choose to teach online courses." The two-part report, "Online Learning as a Strategic Asset," published by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, summarizes the results of the APLU-Sloan National Commission on Online Learning Benchmarking Study conducted in 2008 and 2009 that surveyed 45 public institutions across the U.S. The study was "designed to illuminate how public institutions develop and implement the key organizational strategies, processes, and procedures that contribute to successful and robust online learning initiatives." Volume I: "A Resource for Campus Leaders" reports the results of 231 interviews conducted with administrators, faculty, and students on online learning programs and initiatives. http://www.aplu.org/NetCommunity/Document.Doc?id=1877 Volume II: "The Paradox of Faculty Voices: Views and Experiences with Online Learning" reports on the results of a survey of over 10,700 faculty respondents which included a mix of tenure and non-tenure track, full- and part-time, and those who have and those who have not taught online. http://www.aplu.org/NetCommunity/Document.Doc?id=1879 The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU), formerly the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), was founded in 1887 and represents 186 public research universities in the United States. For more information, contact: APLU, 1307 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20005-4722 USA; tel: 202-478-6040; fax: 202-478-6046; Web: http://www.aplu.org/ Articles providing an overview and summary of the study: "Strong Faculty Engagement in Online Learning APLU Reports" A PUBLIC VOICE: APLU'S ONLINE NEWSLETTER, August 31, 2009 http://www.aplu.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1347 "Going For Distance" INSIDE HIGHER ED, August 31, 2009 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/31/survey "Professors Embrace Online Courses Despite Qualms About Quality" THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, August 31, 2009 http://chronicle.com/article/Professors-Embrace-Online/48235/ ...................................................................... TEACHING WITH WEB 2.0 TOOLS MASHUPS "It would be foolish to ignore the tremendous opportunities the Social Web offers to education. Societal growth is profoundly dependent upon the success of teaching and learning. Societies are founded on the propagation and dissemination of knowledge, and formal learning has become the prime gateway to knowledge. Teachers should therefore continue to explore new and dynamic ways of providing excellent pedagogical opportunities, with emerging social software tools assuming greater importance." In "Learning Space Mashups: Combining Web 2.0 Tools to Create Collaborative and Reflective Learning Spaces" (FUTURE INTERNET, vol. 1, no. 1, 2009, pp. 3-13), Steve Wheeler reports on two studies "where tools [wikis and blogs] used for different pedagogical purposes were brought together in combinations to create even more dynamic and interactive experiences for learners." Students in the studies viewed the wiki as a community collaboration space and the blog as their personal reflective space. Wheeler argues that, despite the differences in the two tools, such "mashups" of Web 2.0 tools warrant further research. The paper is available at http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/1/1/3/pdf Future Internet [ISSN 1999-5903], a quarterly Open Access journal on Internet technologies and the information society, is published by Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI). For more information, contact: Future Internet Editorial Office, Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Kandererstrasse 25, CH - 4057, Basel, Switzerland; tel: +41 61 683 77 34; fax: +41 61 302 89 18; email: futureinternet@mdpi.org; Web: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet ...................................................................... STUDY FINDS THAT ONLINE EDUCATION BEATS THE CLASSROOM "Earlier studies of distance learning concluded that these technologies were not significantly different from regular classroom learning in terms of effectiveness. Policy-makers reasoned that if online instruction is no worse than traditional instruction in terms of student outcomes, then online education initiatives could be justified on the basis of cost efficiency or need to provide access to learners in settings where face-to-face instruction is not feasible. The question of the relative efficacy of online and face-to-face instruction needs to be revisited, however, in light of today’s online learning applications, which can take advantage of a wide range of Web resources, including not only multimedia but also Web-based applications and new collaboration technologies." The U.S. Department of Education's report, "Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies" (2009), provides a summary of a literature search of more than a thousand empirical studies of online learning published from 1996 through July 2008. Analysis of these studies found that "on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction." The report is available at http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf As a publication of the U.S. government, the report is in the public domain; authorization to reproduce this report in whole or in part is granted. ...................................................................... FUTURE OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING In 2006, the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) created a task force to assist in "exploring issues related to scholarly journal publishing in [U.S.] humanities and social science (HSS) associations." Each of the eight collaborating associations selected a representative journal for detailed review. Among the study's findings was that "a shift to an entirely new funding model in the pure form of Open Access (author/producer pays) in which the costs of publishing research articles in journals are paid for by authors or a funding agency, and readers have access free online, is not currently a sustainable option for any of this group of journals based on the costs provided." The report of the study, "The Future of Scholarly Journals Publishing Among Social Science and Humanities Associations," is available at http://www.nhalliance.org/bm~doc/hssreport.pdf Founded in 1981, the National Humanities Alliance is a non-profit organization to "advance national humanities policy in the areas of research, education, preservation and public programs." For more information, contact: National Humanities Alliance, 21 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036 USA; tel: 202-296-4994; fax: 202-872-0884; Web: http://www.nhalliance.org/ See also: "Reinventing Academic Publishing Online. Part I: Rigor, Relevance and Practice" by Brian Whitworth and Rob Friedman FIRST MONDAY, vol. 14, no. 8, August 3, 2009 http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2609/2248 "While current computing practice abounds with innovations like online auctions, blogs, wikis, twitter, social networks and online social games, few if any genuinely new theories have taken root in the corresponding 'top' academic journals. Those creating computing progress increasingly see these journals as unreadable, outdated and irrelevant. Yet as technology practice creates, technology theory is if anything becoming even more conforming and less relevant. We attribute this to the erroneous assumption that research rigor is excellence, a myth contradicted by the scientific method itself. Excess rigor supports the demands of appointment, grant and promotion committees, but is drying up the wells of academic inspiration." ...................................................................... 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@unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "Perishing Without Publishing" By Rob Weir INSIDE HIGHER ED, August 12, 2009 http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/instant_mentor/weir11 "As one who has served (and is serving) as an associate editor for actual paper journals, let me share some bad practice observations that could sandbag your career -- and this advice almost all applies to any online peer-reviewed journal too." -- Rob Weir "How to Generate Reader Interest in What You Write" By Philip Yaffe UBIQUITY, June 23 - 29, 2009 http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_10/v10i7_yaffe.html " Unfortunately, most would-be authors cling to the myth that if they just put in enough effort, people will automatically want to read what they write." -- Philip Yaffe ...................................................................... INFOBITS RSS FEED To set up an RSS feed for Infobits, get the code at http://lists.unc.edu/read/rss?forum=infobits [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 5 07:50:41 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 139EE38F3D; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:50:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B2CB38F2D; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:50:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090905075039.1B2CB38F2D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:50:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.270 events: NEH Summer Institute on networking X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 270. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:30:07 -0700 From: Annelie Rugg Subject: NEH Institute at UCLA, Summer 2010 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1252099819_2009-09-04_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_19865.2.octet-stream Dear Humanists, I am attaching an announcement and call for applications for "Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities", a summer 2010 institute to be hosted by UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) and Center for Digital Humanities (CDH). This is an NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities. Deadline for applications is November 5, 2009. For more information email: hum2010@ipam.ucla.edu. Sincerely, Annelie Rugg -- Annelie Rugg, Ph.D. Director/Humanities CIO UCLA Center for Digital Humanities [To get to the document to which the above URL points, you have two choices: (1) use this URL to download the file, then rename it with a .pdf extension and go from there; OR (2) simply go to http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/hum2010/. I recommend the latter. --WM] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Sep 6 08:07:05 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0893A38ED4; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 08:07:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BB73238EC8; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 08:07:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090906080702.BB73238EC8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 08:07:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.271 BBQ and fire (on the knee) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 271. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:06:06 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: not a bad knee In reply to Wendell's Humanist 23.269: my point about which label we use amounts to the argument that words have meaning, and that words which say what something is, i.e. categorise it, affect how we think about it. In its strong form, the argument I am making says that such a label indeed constitutes what the labelled thing becomes for us. This is not to say that the label is the only reality, rather that has a very powerful shaping influence, and that if those influenced are the ones creating it through what they do, then what that label says is what the labelled thing is. I am put in mind of Laura Otis' very useful book, Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century, in which she argues convincingly along with Tim Lenoir that the metaphors scientists used to understand neurophysiology in the 19C, > are not simplified translations used to communicate complex or > abstract ideas to the public, nor are they decorative rhetorical > figures added to engage readers. As can be seen by studying > comparisons between organic and technological communications systems, > metaphors do not "express" scientist' ideas; they *are* the ideas. (2001: 47f) So, the question I am asking is, what do we think we are conjuring with our words? Is the conjured practice strain to leap beyond what is currently possible, or is it compromised down to a poor second-best? I agree wholeheartedly with Wendell about the politics, about the threat (and what we do IS a threat to the impoverished thing we have) and about how reactions are handled by the reactionaries. That's as always has been. But what worries me far more is our own compromising with ourselves. Desiring better is problematic to be sure, but so is making do. Wendell's solution is fascinating, admirable (if I may say so), fortunate, fitting by virtue of no small amount of wisdom -- but not mine. I'm where that doesn't work because my world isn't structured that way, as he says. Unfortunately the battle is often lost just as he describes: a candidate for tenure loses a popularity contest. Or wins it but is scarred for life. Or what may be worst, the candidate conforms so convincingly for so long that he or she becomes something less than once was. But this doesn't always happen. There are survivors one can admire, indeed many of them. What I think all this amounts to in our particular circumstance is the duty on those who have survived one way or another -- e.g., Wendell's way, my way -- to imagine, reflect and argue to the best of our abilities in public. And, of course, to do the best work we can, writing, coding, designing and so forth. But also yammering on in places like this, repeatedly. I maintain (as the quality of Wendell's contribution demonstrates) that such yammering isn't the Bad Knee of Humanist but the very function that got it going in the first place and has sustained it for quite a long time. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 7 05:44:11 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3295E38234; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:44:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7E32938225; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:44:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090907054408.7E32938225@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:44:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.272 thanks for input: education for sustainable development X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 272. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:29:03 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Essay on integral human development I want to say "thank you" for all the responses received to the survey on education for sustainable development (ESD). There is a consensus that the exclusion of women from roles of religious authority is an obstacle to the integral human development of both men and women. Consider the evidence: PelicanWeb Journal of Sustainable Development ~ September 2009 http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv05n09page1.html In brief, this article includes: * Section 1, a brief progress report on the ESD surveys. * Section 2, clarification of sustainable development terminology. * Section 3, an essay on integral human development. * Section 4, an overview of sustainable development indicators * Section 5, an essay on religious traditions and human development. * Section 6, a review of survey-based evidence. * Section 7, a review of recent scholarly research. * Section 8, a review of some real life examples. * Section 9, suggestions for prayer, study, and action. I look forward to continue this research and would be grateful to receive additional feedback. Sincerely, Luis Luis T. Gutierrez, PhD Editor, PelicanWeb Journal of Sustainable Development http://pelicanweb.org ~ pelican@pelicanweb.org A monthly, free subscription, open access e-journal. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 7 05:45:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 302AD3828D; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:45:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1918A38284; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:45:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090907054524.1918A38284@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:45:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.273 new publication: TEI in LLC X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 273. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:01:56 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Proceedings of the TEI MM 2007 published Colleagues -- we are delighted to announce that the proceedings of the 2007 TEI MM has been published by L&LC. It is a rich and varied collection of articles that show the range and complexity of research in the TEI community. The full volume is available at http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl The issue contains articles by keynote speakers Fotis Jannidis and Melissa Terras (co-authored with Ron Van den Branden, and Edward Vanhoutte). The full TOC is listed below: Fotis Jannidis: TEI in a crystal ball Andrea Zielinski, Wolfgang Pempe, Peter Gietz, Martin Haase, Stefan Funk, and Christian Simon: TEI documents in the grid Christian Wittern, Arianna Ciula, and Conal Tuohy: The making of TEI P5 Melissa Terras, Ron Van den Branden, and Edward Vanhoutte: Teaching TEI: The Need for TEI by Example James Cummings: Converting Saint Paul: A new TEI P5 edition of The Conversion of Saint Paul using stand-off methodology Malte Rehbein: Reconstructing the textual evolution of a medieval manuscript Luigi Siciliano and Viviana Salardi: The digital edition of the Statuta comunis Vicentie of 1264 Stephanie A. Schlitz and Garrick S. Bodine: The TEIViewer: Facilitating the transition from XML to web display Peter Boot: Towards a TEI-based encoding scheme for the annotation of parallel texts Andreas Witt, Georg Rehm, Erhard Hinrichs, Timm Lehmberg, and Jens Stegmann: SusTEInability of linguistic resources through feature structures -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 7 05:46:18 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8411382E7; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:46:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 587E5382DE; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:46:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090907054617.587E5382DE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:46:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.274 visions of virtual history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 274. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 10:17:30 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: virtual history World Center For Arts, Cultures & Technology http://johnmarkscientistpolymath.blogspot.com/2008/12/world-center-for-arts-cultures.html A complete 3D reconstruction of each person in tele-immersion will be presented at each and every pavilion theme according to each civilization, or nationality at various locations in the world by using multi telepresence cameras that take rapid, sequential shots of the same object, continuously performing distance calculations, and projecting them into high-end, computer-simulated environment to replicate real-time images and movement. As a result, visitors and audiences at The World Center for Arts, Cultures & Technology will be able to physically shake hands with Christopher Columbus, Winston Churchil, Copernicus, Goethe or whomever they like depending on whatever they select for their cultural insights from the Center's super-computer database. http://ow.ly/oc3O -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 7 05:47:24 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A850E3834F; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:47:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BF9533833F; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:47:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090907054722.BF9533833F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:47:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.275 events: NEH Institute on networking X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 275. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:19:03 +0100 From: "Tangherlini, Timothy" Subject: NEH Summer Institute ANNOUNCEMENT: "Networks and Network Analysis for Humanities". Call for Applications. Applications are currently being accepted for an NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities at UCLA, August 15-27, 2010. Applications must be submitted online no later than November 5, 2009. For more information, and for the online application, please visit http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/hum2010 In recent years, attention has been drawn in both the academic and popular press to the ubiquity of networks in everyday life, from communications networks to investment networks to power transmission networks to social networks. As a result of this increasing awareness, the study of the different types of networks that link us together, and the analysis of the structure of those networks has risen to greater and greater prominence not only in the mathematical and social sciences but also in the Humanities. Despite this increasing awareness of the importance of networks for theoretical advances in the Humanities, there is a considerable gap between recognizing in the broadest strokes the existence of these complex, dynamic systems and the very hard work of the consistent application of rigorous theoretically sound methods to the study of networks. Computational tools for the discovery and analysis of networks offer the promise of bridging this gap; unfortunately, many of these tools are as complex to work with as the underlying data itself. A main goal of this institute is to teach Humanities scholars some of the most accessible of these techniques. In broadest terms, the topics to be addressed in the Institute are: (a) the science of networks and networks in Humanistic inquiry (b) preparing and cleaning Humanities data for network analysis (c) internal networks in Humanistic data: networks of characters, networks of texts, networks of language (d) external networks in Humanistic data: networks of influence, networks of production, networks of reception. Timothy R. Tangherlini Professor / Director NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities "Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities" August 15-27, 2010 at UCLA neh2010@humnet.ucla.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 8 05:22:54 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14FA739267; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:22:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 683DF3925E; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:22:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090908052252.683DF3925E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:22:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.276 an ethical problem X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 276. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:55:17 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an ethical problem Allow me to pass on to you, below, quite a long quotation, from the end of the Introduction to Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Cambridge MA: The Technology Press, 1947), pp. 36-9. I find it very moving, and although many of our social conditions have changed, and our predicaments are somewhat different, I also find myself wanting to be in a seminar in which this text was under sustained discussion. Comments are, as usual, most welcome. WM ----- > It has long been clear to me that the modern ultra-rapid computing > machine was in principle an ideal central nervous system to an > apparatus for automatic control.... > > Long before Nagasaki and the public awareness of the atomic bomb, it > had occurred to me that we were here in the presence of another > social potentiality of unheard-of importance for good and for evil. > The automatic factory, the assembly-line without human agents, are > only so far ahead of us as is limited by our willingness to put such > a degree of effort into their engineering as was spent, for example, > in the development of the technique of radar in the second world war. > > I have said that this new development has unbounded possibilities for > good and for evil. For one thing, it makes the metaphorical dominance > of the machines, as imagined by Samuel Butler, a most immediate and > non-metaphorical problem. It gives the human race a new and most > effective collection of mechanical slaves to perform its labor. Such > mechanical labor has most of the economic properties of slave labor, > although, unlike slave labor, it does not involve the direct > demoralizing effects of human cruelty. However, any labor that > accepts the conditions of competition with slave labor, accepts the > conditions of slave labor, and is essentially slave labor. The key > word of this statement is competition. It may very well be a good > thing for humanity to have the machine remove from it the need of > menial and disagreeable tasks; or it may not. I do not know. It > cannot be good for these new potentialities to be assessed in the > terms of the market, of the money they save.... > > Perhaps I may clarify the historical background of the present > situation if I say that the first industrial revolution, the > revolution of the «dark satanic mills», was the devaluation of the > human arm by the competition of machinery. There is no rate of pay at > which a United States pick-and shovel laborer can live which is low > enough to compete with the work of a steam shovel as an excavator. > The modern industrial revolution is similarly bound to devalue the > human brain at least in its simpler and more routine decisions.... > [T]aking the second revolution as accomplished, the average human > being of mediocre attainments or less has nothing to sell that it is > worth anyone's money to buy. > > The answer, of course, is to have a society based on human values > other than buying or selling.... > > Those of us who have contributed to the new science of cybenetics > thus stand in a moral position which is, to say the least, not very > comfortable. We have contributed to the initiation of a new science > which, as I have said, embraces technical developments with great > possibilities for good and for evil. We can only hand it over into > the world that exists about us, and this is the world of Belsen and > Hiroshima. We do not even have the choice of suppressing these new > technical developments. They belong to the age, and the most any of > us can do by suppression is to put the development of the subject > into the hands of the most irresponsible and most venal of our > engineers. The best we can do is to see that a large public > understands the trend and the bearing of the present work, and to > confine our personal efforts to those fields, such as physiology and > psychology, most remote from war and exploitation. As we have seen, > there are those who hope that the good of a better understanding of > man and society which is offered by this new field of work may > anticipate and outweigh the incidental contribution we are making to > the concentration of power (which is always concentrated by its very > conditions of existence, in the hands of the most unscrupulous). I > write in 1947, and I am compelled to say that it is a very slight > hope. Norbert Wiener, Instituto Nacional de Cardologia, Cuidad de Mexico, November 1947. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 8 05:26:28 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75A7A392DD; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:26:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BEDA0392CE; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:26:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090908052625.BEDA0392CE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:26:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.277 events: the past's digital presence; XML X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 277. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Peter Flynn (14) Subject: XML Summer School [2] From: Sara Schmidt (41) Subject: Re: CFP for a Graduate Student Symposium at Yale --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 23:42:02 +0100 From: Peter Flynn Subject: XML Summer School For those who may have been away and missed the earlier announcements, the XML Summer School returns this year at St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 20th-25th September. As always, it provides high quality technical XML training for every level of expertise, from the Hands-on Introduction through to special classes devoted to XSLT, Semantic Technologies, Open Source Applications, Web 2.0 and Web Services. The Summer School is also an opportunity to experience what life is like as a student at one of the world's oldest Universities. Classes are taught by some of the most renowned XML experts, including Eve Maler, Michael Kay, Jeni Tennison, Michael Sperberg McQueen, Norm Walsh and Bob DuCharme. Details are at http://www.xmlsummerschool.org/ ///Peter --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 22:14:56 -0500 From: Sara Schmidt Subject: Re: CFP for a Graduate Student Symposium at Yale http://digitalhumanities.yale.edu/pdp/ Call For Papers The Past’s Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities A Graduate Student Symposium at Yale University February 19th and 20th, 2010 How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with pre-digital sources in the humanities? If the “medium is the message,” then how does the message change when primary sources are translated into digital media? What kinds of new research opportunities do databases unlock and what do they make obsolete? What is the future of the rare book and manuscript library and its use? What biases are inherent in the widespread use of digitized material? How can we correct for them? Amidst numerous benefits in accessibility, cost, and convenience, what concerns have been overlooked? We invite graduate students to submit paper proposals for an interdisciplinary symposium that will address how databases and other digital technologies are making an impact on our research in the humanities. The graduate student panels will be moderated by a Yale faculty member or library curator with a panel respondent. The two-day conference will take place February 19th and 20th, 2010, at Yale University. Keynote Speaker: Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania Colloquium Guest Speaker: Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor, University of Chicago Potential paper topics include: * The Future of the History of the Book* Public Humanities * Determining Irrelevance in the Archive * Defining the Key-Word * The Material Object in Archival Research * Local Knowledge, Global Access * Digital Afterlives * Foucault, Derrida, and the Archive * Database Access Across the Profession * Mapping and Map-Based Platforms * Interactive Research Please email a one-page proposal along with a C.V. to pdp@yale.edu. Deadline for submissions is September 10th, 2009. Accepted panelists will be notified by October 1st, 2009. We ask that all graduate-student panelists pre-circulate their paper among their panels by January 20th, 2010. Please contact Molly Farrell and Heather Klemann at pdp@yale.edu with any additional inquiries. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 9 05:01:07 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8FC338D00; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:01:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EC0B038CEE; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:01:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090909050103.EC0B038CEE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:01:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.278 ethics and profession X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 278. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: renata lemos (123) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.276 an ethical problem [2] From: Wendell Piez (45) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.271 BBQ and fire (on the knee) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 08:27:37 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.276 an ethical problem In-Reply-To: <20090908052252.683DF3925E@woodward.joyent.us> dear willard, I believe that the scenario described by wiener would be what jamais cascio is calling *robonomics*. below are links to his articles on possible futures, which are very related to wiener´s ideas: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/jamais-cascio/open-future/three-possible-economic-models-part-1 http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/jamais-cascio/open-future/three-possible-economic-models-part-ii I find it very interesting, and not as pessimistic as wiener´s position. best regards, -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 276. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:55:17 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: an ethical problem > > > Allow me to pass on to you, below, quite a long quotation, from the end > of the Introduction to Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics, or Control and > Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Cambridge MA: The > Technology Press, 1947), pp. 36-9. I find it very moving, and although > many of our social conditions have changed, and our predicaments are > somewhat different, I also find myself wanting to be in a seminar in > which this text was under sustained discussion. > > Comments are, as usual, most welcome. > > WM > > ----- > > It has long been clear to me that the modern ultra-rapid computing > > machine was in principle an ideal central nervous system to an > > apparatus for automatic control.... > > > > Long before Nagasaki and the public awareness of the atomic bomb, it > > had occurred to me that we were here in the presence of another > > social potentiality of unheard-of importance for good and for evil. > > The automatic factory, the assembly-line without human agents, are > > only so far ahead of us as is limited by our willingness to put such > > a degree of effort into their engineering as was spent, for example, > > in the development of the technique of radar in the second world war. > > > > I have said that this new development has unbounded possibilities for > > good and for evil. For one thing, it makes the metaphorical dominance > > of the machines, as imagined by Samuel Butler, a most immediate and > > non-metaphorical problem. It gives the human race a new and most > > effective collection of mechanical slaves to perform its labor. Such > > mechanical labor has most of the economic properties of slave labor, > > although, unlike slave labor, it does not involve the direct > > demoralizing effects of human cruelty. However, any labor that > > accepts the conditions of competition with slave labor, accepts the > > conditions of slave labor, and is essentially slave labor. The key > > word of this statement is competition. It may very well be a good > > thing for humanity to have the machine remove from it the need of > > menial and disagreeable tasks; or it may not. I do not know. It > > cannot be good for these new potentialities to be assessed in the > > terms of the market, of the money they save.... > > > > Perhaps I may clarify the historical background of the present > > situation if I say that the first industrial revolution, the > > revolution of the «dark satanic mills», was the devaluation of the > > human arm by the competition of machinery. There is no rate of pay at > > which a United States pick-and shovel laborer can live which is low > > enough to compete with the work of a steam shovel as an excavator. > > The modern industrial revolution is similarly bound to devalue the > > human brain at least in its simpler and more routine decisions.... > > [T]aking the second revolution as accomplished, the average human > > being of mediocre attainments or less has nothing to sell that it is > > worth anyone's money to buy. > > > > The answer, of course, is to have a society based on human values > > other than buying or selling.... > > > > Those of us who have contributed to the new science of cybenetics > > thus stand in a moral position which is, to say the least, not very > > comfortable. We have contributed to the initiation of a new science > > which, as I have said, embraces technical developments with great > > possibilities for good and for evil. We can only hand it over into > > the world that exists about us, and this is the world of Belsen and > > Hiroshima. We do not even have the choice of suppressing these new > > technical developments. They belong to the age, and the most any of > > us can do by suppression is to put the development of the subject > > into the hands of the most irresponsible and most venal of our > > engineers. The best we can do is to see that a large public > > understands the trend and the bearing of the present work, and to > > confine our personal efforts to those fields, such as physiology and > > psychology, most remote from war and exploitation. As we have seen, > > there are those who hope that the good of a better understanding of > > man and society which is offered by this new field of work may > > anticipate and outweigh the incidental contribution we are making to > > the concentration of power (which is always concentrated by its very > > conditions of existence, in the hands of the most unscrupulous). I > > write in 1947, and I am compelled to say that it is a very slight > > hope. > > Norbert Wiener, Instituto Nacional de Cardologia, Cuidad de Mexico, > November 1947. > > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:01:51 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.271 BBQ and fire (on the knee) In-Reply-To: <20090906080702.BB73238EC8@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I'm sorry I touched a sore spot by describing our preoccupation with the label as like a bad knee. Please understand that I don't think a bad knee has to be a bad thing! :-) It just hurts sometimes, is all. Of course you are right that the label conjures something. But the nature of conjuring is that one doesn't really quite control whatever spirit one calls up. Indeed, that's the idea. In the best case, the name you use inspires listeners to project their own positive feelings onto what you are naming. You can't do this by controlling either the language or them, or not absolutely: rhetoric is not a science but an art. (To the extent it's a science, I think it's a dark one and likely to be very pernicious.) In fact, I think the best label raises as many questions as it offers answers. That's part of the reason I think "digital humanities" has gained traction. I mean, no label is a good one, for reasons you have suggested, but any label is better than none, isn't it, if one is to distinguish something? (Keep in mind how many names have started as insults and ended as boasts.) And can't I say this while concurring that the label matters, and that there are times when the metaphor becomes the thing? Personally, I think "digital humanities" was an improvement over "humanities computing", if only because: * It's vaguer, which befits the field better as it grows into interests that used to be inconceivable; * It avoids the term "computer", to which many of our humanistic peers had developed an allergy; * It allows not just for the application of computers to humanities, but for the application of humanistic study to digital/computational/technological culture and media, and I regard this combination as a very fruitful synergy. This isn't to say that I think "digital humanities" is perfect. But I don't think that any name is perfect until it becomes so, which requires time and the growth or building of the thing -- in this case, that constituency I was writing about. Cheers, Wendell =========================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML =========================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 9 05:03:48 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCE5638D86; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:03:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 580C438D76; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:03:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090909050345.580C438D76@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:03:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.279 on learning X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 279. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:01:23 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: learning Here is a typically inspirational passage from an after-dinner speech by Warren McCulloch -- multi-authored, but his is the voice speaking -- "The Fun of Failures", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 156.0 (April 1969): 963-8, most of which I find head-breakingly difficult to follow. But the first bit, an anecdote about Norbert Wiener and commentary on it, is not. > A quarter of a century ago, when a handful of us hazarded time and > reputation on guesses about the behavior of closed loops, including > computers, none of us dreamed of the proliferation of these ideas, > which Norbert Wiener christened "Cybernetics." He and I guessed that > his book would sell about one thousand copies in the first year, and > John Wiley & Sons took a chance on what turned out to be a best > seller. Like us, the gods must have loved Norbert, for he died > between lectures on two new themes. He taught his students how to > build theories and invent new theorems; many of whom have said, "He > taught me my business." One day, he came splayfoot and triumphant > from one of his inspiring lectures, but stopped abruptly in the hall, > took his cigar from his mouth, and with a look of astonishment said, > "My God! I’ve proved too much. There are no prime numbers," and > returned to the blackboard before his students had departed, to try > to find his mistake. They did. Such was the teacher who considered > the proofs of theorems in the textbooks "a way of hiding how > mathematics is made." Our proofs are afterthoughts and have little to > do with the art of conjecture and discovery. Teaching and learning > are not what Donald MacKay calls competitive monologue, but dialogue > in which each exposes the inadequacies of his map of the world for > his partner to complete or correct. (963) Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 9 05:05:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C24338E19; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:05:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 738B338E07; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:05:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090909050531.738B338E07@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:05:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.280 professorship at Darmstadt X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 280. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:27:54 +0200 From: Sabine Bartsch Subject: Professorship in Humanities Computing (W3) at TU Darmstadt The Department of German at the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Technische Universität Darmstadt invites applications for a vacant Professorship in Humanities Computing (W3) (ID-No. 295) The prospective postholder is expected to teach courses in German linguistics or literary studies as well as humanities computing at undergraduate and graduate level (Bachelor/Master of Arts Germanistik, Master of Arts Linguistic and Literary Computing, teaching degrees). The postholder must have research interests and a proven track record of excellent research in at least two of the following areas: • Text technology • History and theory of literature and media • Text linguistics • Media and communication (e.g. Conceptual History "Metaphern- und Begriffsgeschichte") • Digital editions Formal requirements are the Habilitation ("Second book") or equivalent qualification and an excellent record of teaching at university level. Postholders are expected to actively engage in cooperative interdisciplinary research within the faculty of History and Social Science as well as the natural sciences and engineering disciplines. They should have a record of attracting external research funding. The position is tenured with a remuneration package commensurate with experience and qualifications, following the German "W-Besoldung". The regulations for employment are specified under §§ 70 and 71 HHG (Hessisches Hochschulgesetz). Candidates who already hold a civil servant status (Beamtenverhältnis) can be reappointed under the same status. Nonpermanent contracts can be made permanent after positive evaluation. The Technische Univesität Darmstadt intends to increase the number of female faculty members and encourages female candidates to apply. In case of equal qualifications severely disabled applicants will be given preference. Applications referring to the Identification Number (ID-No. 295) (including a CV, list of publications, copies of relevant diplomas, a record of teaching activities and scientific accomplishments) are to be sent to the Dean of the Faculty of History and Social Science, Prof. Dr. Rudi Schmiede, Residenzschloss 64293 Darmstadt. Deadline for applications: October 8th, 2009 Official URLs of this text: German: http://www1.tu-darmstadt.de/pvw/dez_iii/stellen/295.tud English: http://www1.tu-darmstadt.de/pvw/dez_iii/stellen/295englisch.tud -- Dr. Sabine Bartsch Technische Universität Darmstadt Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft - Englische Linguistik Hochschulstr. 1 64289 Darmstadt Fon: +49-6151-16 4570 Fax: +49-6151-16 3694 http://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?id=bartsch _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 9 05:06:23 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FEAF38ED2; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:06:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C1A8F38ECA; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:06:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090909050620.C1A8F38ECA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:06:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.281 events: talks at MITH X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 281. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 23:13:39 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: fall 2009 talks at MITH MITH's fall 2009 Digital Dialogues schedule is out! We're looking forward to another great semester of talks, and as always we welcome any and all colleagues, either from the DC area or (if you're just passing through) beyond. Matt Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Digital Dialogues Schedule Fall 2009 Tuesdays @12:30-1:45 in MITH’s Conference Room B0135 McKeldin Library, U. Maryland (unless otherwise noted) 9.15 Rachel Donahue (iSchool), “A Glance at the Current State of Videogame Preservation” 9.29 Zita Nunes (English and Comparative Literature), “The Harlem Renaissance in Second Life” 10.6 Brad Pasanek (Virginia), "A Dictionary, a Database, and a Desultory Reader: Metaphors for the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Literature" 10.13 Sayeed Choudhury (Johns Hopkins), "An Abundant Humanities Library" 10.20 If/Then 101: Teaching Programming at Maryland (Roundtable led by Doug Reside) Mon 10.26 Bruce Sterling (location and time TBA) 10.27 Mark Sample (George Mason), "The Open Source Professor: Teaching, Research, and Transparency" 11/3 The Great Ebook Throwdown (with Ben Bederson, Nick Chen, and Matt Kirschenbaum) Wed 11/11 Greg Crane (Tufts), "From the First Year Through Tenure: New Pathways for Humanities in a Digital Age” (time TBA) 11/17 Jennifer Fleeger (Catholic), "Archiving America: The Vitaphone, the DVD, and Warner Bros. (re)Store Jazz History" All talks are free and open to the public! -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ http://mechanisms-book.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 10 05:21:06 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D12B3394E3; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:21:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7AE36394D4; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:21:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090910052104.7AE36394D4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:21:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.282 EEBO usage poll X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 282. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:54:17 -0400 From: "McCollough, Aaron" Subject: Usage Poll for EEBO full-text users Dear Members of the Humanist Discussion Group- My name is Aaron McCollough, and I am the new Project Outreach Librarian for the Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership. I'm writing to ask those of you who have used EEBO's full-text searching tools in your work as a scholar or a student to take a brief online poll. Since research in the humanities is typically a fairly solitary business, and research methods are often under-discussed, the impact of resources like EEBO-TCP can be a challenge to measure. I'm hoping the poll will offer me (and others) a glimpse of how the tools produced by EEBO-TCP are being used now that the project has reached it's most significant landmark to date (25,000 converted texts). As EEBO-TCP forges ahead with its second phase (converting the remaining 44,000 unique monographs in the EEBO image collection), I am aiming to build more community around the array of projects currently using TCP texts. I'm also looking for new ways of thinking about the research possibilities opened by an ever-growing database of books. I've set this poll up through surveymonkey.com, a standard tool for usage and usability studies of all sorts. The questions are simple and open-ended (boxes for name, position, institution, email address, comments on EEBO texts in research, in teaching, in learning, identification of publications or projects that have benefited from EEBO texts, and 'other comments' box). The more specific you can be the better, obviously, but none of the poll's categories is required. If you'd prefer to answer the questions with a direct email to me, that would also be welcome. (amccollo@umich.edu) I'm excited to learn what people are working on. I hope you will consider participating. The survey is located at the following address: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UscIZ611wnI40iWeziicww_3d_3d Sincerely- Aaron -- Dr. Aaron McCollough Text Creation Partnership (TCP) Outreach Librarian University of Michigan 300 Hatcher North 920 North University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205 (734) 615-0038 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 10 05:22:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B80B339549; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:22:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 52EE73953C; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:22:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090910052205.52EE73953C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:22:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.283 cfp: Digital Human Faces X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 283. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:05:12 +0100 From: Catherine Pelachaud Subject: special issue IEEE CG&A - Digital Human Faces: fromCreation to Emotion Special Issue on Digitial Human Faces: From Creation to Emotion /IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications /Submission deadline: 23 Nov. 2009 Target publication date: July/Aug. 2010 Faces are an important vector of communication. Through facial expressions, gaze behaviors, and head movements, faces convey information on not only a person’s emotional state and attitude but also discursive, pragmatic, and syntactic elements. The expressions result from subtle muscular contractions and wrinkle formation, and we perceive them through the complex filter of subsurface scattering and other nontrivial light reflections. Lately, there has been much interest in modeling 3D faces and their expressions. Research has covered automatic or interactive generation of 3D geometry as well as rendering and animation techniques. This research has numerous applications. One type of application involves the creation and animation of virtual actors in films and video games. New rendering techniques ensure highly realistic skin models. Motion capture with or without markers is applied to animate the body and the face. The quality can be precise enough to capture real actor performances as well as the slightest movements in emotional expressions. Another type of application involves the creation of autonomous agents—in particular, /embodied conversational agents/ (ECAs), autonomous entities with communicative and emotional capabilities. ECAs serve as Web assistants, pedagogical agents, or even companions. Researchers have proposed models to specify and control ECA behavior. This special issue will broadly cover domains linked to 3D faces and their creation, rendering, and animation. In particular, it aims to gather excellent work from the computer graphics and ECA communities. Possible topics include, but aren’t limited to, the following: * /Facial animation/. * /Face and performance capture/ (marker based or markerless). * /Geometric modeling of faces/ (automatic or interactive). * /Face and skin rendering techniques/ (subsurface scattering and real-time methods). * /Expressing emotion/. How do you go beyond the expression of the six basic emotions? How do you represent the large palette of facial expressions of emotions? How do you model dynamic expressions? How do you model the expression of empathy? * /Complex expressions/. Expressions can arise from the blending of emotions such as the superposition of emotions or the masking of one emotion by another. Expressions can simultaneously convey different messages. * /Communicative expressions/. Faces don’t solely portray emotions; they convey a variety of communicative functions such as visual prosody and performative functions. How do you model and represent such expressions? How do you capture subtle variations in the production of them? How do you model mechanisms that are synchronous with speech? * /Social signals/. Communication is socially embedded. Agents and virtual actors must be socially aware. People often use smiles and eyebrow flashes to signal their attitude toward others. How do you model facial social signals? Submission Guidelines Articles should be no more than 8,000 words, with each figure counting as 200 words. Cite only the 12 most relevant references, and consider providing technical background in sidebars for nonexpert readers. Color images are preferable and should be limited to 10. Visit /CG&A/ style and length guidelines at www.computer.org/cga/author.html http://www.computer.org/cga/author.html . Please submit your article using the online manuscript submission service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. When uploading your article, select the appropriate special-issue title under the category “Manuscript Type.” Also include complete contact information for all authors. If you have any questions about submitting your article, contact the peer review coordinator at cga-ma@computer.org . Questions? Please direct any correspondence before submission to the guest editors: * Catherine Pelachaud, catherine.pelachaud@telecom-paristech.fr * Tamy Boubekeur, tamy.boubekeur@telecom-paristech.fr -- ---------------------------------------------------------- CNRS - LTCI UMR 5141 Institut TELECOM - TELECOM ParisTech 37 rue Dareau 75014 Paris FRANCE tel: +33 (0)1 45 81 75 93 http://www.tsi.enst.fr/~pelachau catherine.pelachaud@telecom-paristech.fr ---------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 10 05:23:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05528395E2; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:23:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3FBF5395BB; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:23:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090910052325.3FBF5395BB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:23:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.284 new on WWW: e-pub bibliography; arts & humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 284. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 76, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography [2] From: Lydia Horstman (60) Subject: New on arts-humanities.net: Digital Arts & Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 01:57:26 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 76, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 76 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,480 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition is available as a paperback book from Amazon and other sources. http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2008.htm For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries (http://tinyurl.com/5en4jt), see: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm A backup Digital Scholarship server is available at: http://digital-scholarship.com/ Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents Dedication 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 (monthly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 http://digital-scholarship.org/sepw2/rss2/ (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 330 related Web sites) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm Other Digital Scholarship Publications The following Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: (1) Author's Rights, Tout de Suite http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/authorrights.pdf (2) DigitalKoans (Weblog about digital copyright, digital curation, digital repositories, open access, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues) http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/rss2/ http://twitter.com/DigitalKoans (3) Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 4 (6/29/2009) http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm (4) Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 4 (7/15/2009) http://digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm (5) Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/irtoutsuite.pdf (6) Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals http://digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ A Brief Look Back at Twenty Years as an Internet Open Access Publisher http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/twentyyearsbrief.htm ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 12:33:02 +0100 From: Lydia Horstman Subject: New on arts-humanities.net: Digital Arts & Humanities With apologies for cross-posting. This round-up of the latest news from arts-humanities.net, an online hub for research and teaching in the digital arts and humanities, might be of interest to readers. arts-humanities.net enables members to locate information, promote their research and discuss ideas. http://www.arts-humanities.net/ arts-humanities.net gives you access to a wide range of resources, including an extensive catalogue of digital arts and humanities projects; a calendar of workshops, conferences and other events; a taxonomy of research methods for creating digital resources; and other materials such as a bibliography, case studies and briefing papers. Registered members can use the site to feature their own research; blog and discuss issues with others; and search a directory of over 1,100 members. We also provide customisable email updates on new content and news from the community. FEATURED: EVENTS CALENDAR The events calendar lists about 100 upcoming events related to the digital arts and humanities. You can also access an archive of several hundred past events. We provide a RSS feeds and an iCal feed that you can plug directly into your calendar or website. http://www.arts-humanities.net/events http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/ical/ FEATURED PROJECT Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica (IRCyr) The project aims to assemble an online corpus of all the material gathered by Prof Joyce Reynolds during her numerous visits to Libya. The project consists in the digitisation of some 2000 inscriptions from Roman Cyrenaica, nearly a third of which have never previously been published. The new corpus will be presented as a series of documents; but it will also link to an online map of Roman Cyrenaica, being prepared as part of the Pleiades project. http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/inscriptions_roman_cyrenaica_ircyr OTHER NEW PROJECTS Integrating Digital Papyrology (IDP) http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/integrating_digital_papyrology_idp Inscriptions of Aphrodisias http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/inscriptions_aphrodisias NEW USER GROUPS Digital Classicist The Digital Classicist is a community interested in the application of innovative digital digital methods to research on the ancient world. http://www.arts-humanities.net/digital_classicist Social Software in the Digital Humanities A group that discusses the theoretical and practical application of social software within the digital humanities. http://www.arts-humanities.net/deliberative_humanism_social_software_digital_humanities FORUM / DISCUSSIONS DRHA 2009 meet and greet Meet some of the delegates of the DRHA 2009 conference and learn about their interests, projects and activities. http://www.arts-humanities.net/forumtopic/drha_2009_meet_greet Discussing Digital Humanities 2009 A live-blog from the DH09 conference in June 2009. http://www.arts-humanities.net/forumtopic/discussing_digital_humanities_09 arts-humanities.net is hosted by the Centre for e-Research at King's College London and is developed in collaboration with several groups and projects, including the UK Network of Expert Centres. 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For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 10 05:24:03 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3D9B39649; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:24:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 554D63962F; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:24:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090910052402.554D63962F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:24:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.285 network of digital humanities centres X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 285. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:51:25 -0400 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: centerNet: cyberinfrastructure for the digital humanities We are pleased to announce that the centerNet steering committee has received a Digital Humanities Start Up Grant from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities to help it develop a robust and sustainable organizational infrastructure and to run a World Summit of digital humanities centers directors and funders this July in London, immediately preceding DH 2010. centerNet currently has over 200 members from centers across the globe. The grant will enable it to play a larger role on the world stage beginning with the Summit, which is intended to facilitate collaborations on a global level among centers, among funders, and between both groups--with the ultimate goals of building international cyberinfrastructure for the digital humanities and developing centerNet regional affiliate groups in other parts of the world. More information about the Summit and centerNet's other new initiatives will be forthcoming on this list. The co-chairs of the centerNet steering committee, Katherine Walter (CDRH, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Neil Fraistat (MITH, University of Maryland) are co-principal investigators for the grant. Other members of the steering committee are Dan Cohen (CHNM, George Mason University); Julia Flanders (Brown University Women Writers Project); Matt Kirschenbaum (MITH); Dean Rehberger (Matrix, Michigan State University); Geoffrey Rockwell (TAPoR, University of Alberta); Raymond Siemens (SDH/SEMI, University of Victoria, British Columbia); and John M. Unsworth (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). Neil Fraistat -- Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.rc.umd.edu/nfraistat/home/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 10 05:27:14 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C8039701; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:27:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 643A9396EE; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:27:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090910052711.643A9396EE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:27:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.286 events: social implications; graduate student colloquium X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 286. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "institut@uvic.ca" (46) Subject: cfp: DHSI 2010 Graduate Student Colloquium [2] From: Katina Michael (41) Subject: cfp: IEEE ISTAS 2010 : The Social Implications of EmergingTechnologies (NSW, Australia) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:54:19 +0100 From: "institut@uvic.ca" Subject: cfp: DHSI 2010 Graduate Student Colloquium Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2010 Graduate Student Colloquium June 8-11, 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS: The DHSI will be sponsoring its second annual graduate student colloquium in June 2010. Graduate students attending the Institute are invited to participate in the 2010 colloquium entitled "Making Connections: Emerging Scholars in the Digital Humanities." Abstracts are now being accepted for presentations focusing on all aspects of graduate student research in the digital humanities, including, but not limited to, the graduate student's role in personal and institutional research projects, tool application and development, perspectives on digital humanities implications for their own research and pedagogy, etc. The colloquium begins on the second day of the Summer Institute and takes place over four days (Tuesday through Friday) during morning sessions prior to the start of classes. Three graduate students will present at each session. Presentations will be informal and strictly limited to ten (10) minutes per presenter, with time for Q&A reserved at session's end. The sessions will be open to all DHSI attendees. We invite 300 word proposals for these presentations. Successful abstracts for the 2010 colloquium will focus on the individual student's role in digital humanities research and application, as opposed to general issues pertaining to digital humanities. Presenters must currently be enrolled as MA or PhD students in an accredited graduate program, or currently hold a post-doctoral fellowship in an academic program focused on digital humanities work. Please send abstracts to . Deadline for submissions is November 27, 2009. All who have submitted an abstract will be notified by mid-December 2009. For more information, contact Cara Leitch or Diane Jakacki . ABOUT THE DHSI: The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies and how they are influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate students from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond. During the DHSI, we share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to our teaching, research, dissemination and preservation. This year's Summer Institute will be held June 7-11, 2010. For more information and to register for courses see www.dhsi.org. REGISTRATION: In recent years, courses have filled up quickly. We encourage students interested in attending the DHSI to register early. SCHOLARSHIPS: All those whose work is accepted for presentation at the 2010 Graduate Student Colloquium will receive a tuition scholarship. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 17:18:29 +0100 From: Katina Michael Subject: cfp: IEEE ISTAS 2010 : The Social Implications of EmergingTechnologies (NSW, Australia) 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 2010) THEME: “Social Implications of Emerging Technologies” When: Jun 7, 2010 - Jun 9, 2010 Where: Wollongong, NSW, Australia Submission Deadline: Nov 13, 2009 Notification Due: Feb 26, 2010 Final Version Due: Mar 26, 2010 link: http://ieeessit.org/uploaded_documents/ISTAS10CFP.pdf ISTAS’10 will be held at the University of Wollongong The IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) is an annual international forum sponsored by the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT). ISTAS`10 in Wollongong, NSW, Australia, will bring together participants sharing research, projects, and ideas about: Automatic Identification Automatic identification technologies including biometrics (DNA), RFID Surveillance, dataveillance, sousveillance, anti-surveillance, uberveillance National security, emergency response, border control, e-tollways, e-passports Location-Based Services Geographic information systems, digital mapping, geotagging, street view, CCTV Location-based services, global positioning systems (GPS), tracking, monitoring Social Networking Social networking applications, blogs, glogs, cyberstalking, collaboration Data collection, data merging, data matching, data mining, disclosure Mobile comms, wearable computing, ubiquity, context-aware applications Nanotechnology Microchip implants, biomedical solutions, diagnostics, drug delivery Nanotechnology, bionics, transhumanism, artificial intelligence, robots, cyborgs Privacy, Security & Human Rights Cyberethics, privacy, data protection, trust, control, consent, transborder flows Security, law enforcement, covert/overt policing, laws, regulations, public policy Social implications, registers, human rights, intellectual property, social equity Additional papers on other traditional fields of interest to SSIT also are welcome. ISTAS ‘10 will be a multi-disciplinary event for engineers, scientists, researchers in the social sciences, arts/law and humanities, and decision makers in the public and private sectors. Important Dates Abstract submission (200 words) October 2, 2009 Full/Short paper submission (5000/2000 words): November 13, 2009 Author notification: February 26, 2010 Final camera-ready copy: March 26, 2010 All submissions to Katina Michael at: katina@uow.edu.au. For more information visit: www.ieeessit.org or www.uow.edu.au http://www.uow.edu.au . Sponsored by the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology Organizing Committee and Program Committee Chairs: Dr. Holly Tootell and Dr. Katina Michael, School of Information Systems and Technology, Faculty of Informatics, University of Wollongong. * Wollongong is less than an hour away from Sydney by car/train/bus. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 11 06:11:59 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C4563A93F; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:11:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1A7F03A933; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:11:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090911061156.1A7F03A933@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:11:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.287 studentships for gaming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 287. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:15:19 +0100 From: "Georgios N. Yannakakis" Subject: PhD Scholarships - Center for Computer Games Research, ITU Fall 2009 call for PhD scholarships at the Center for Computer Games Research (http://game.itu.dk/), IT University of Copenhagen. Further info: http://www1.itu.dk/sw487.asp and http://www1.itu.dk/graphics/ITU-library/Intranet/Personale/Stillingsopslag/VIP/Stillingsopslag%202009/FINAL_PhD%20call_fall%202009.pdf Areas of research interest include : - computational intelligence (CI) and games - game artificial intelligence (AI) and AI, CI approaches to topics including (but not limited to): - player (user) modeling - human game interaction - affective modeling - multimodal interaction - procedural game content -- Georgios N. Yannakakis Associate Professor IT University of Copenhagen Tel. +45 7218 5078 Fax. +45 7218 5001 Email: yannakakis@itu.dk Web: http://www.itu.dk/~yannakakis/ Addr. Room 4B05, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, DK-2300 Copenhagen S _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 11 06:14:29 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A08833AA02; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:14:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B0ECE3A9FB; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:14:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090911061426.B0ECE3A9FB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:14:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.288 how we keep becoming different? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 288. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:08:41 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: how we keep becoming different? I've asked this question before, but let me try again from a slightly different angle: who has studied historical challenges to human identity? One of these, or a whole series of them, happened when human-like creatures were discovered, e.g. the orangoutan and other great apes, leading to a frightened or at least nervous attempt to draw a line in the biological sand, and to worry the notion of a "missing link". Darwin's arguments come in the wake of this nervousness and made the refiguration of human identity an irresistible force. Freud's work did much the same psychologically. Laura Otis, in her book Networking, says that "perhaps because of the popularity of automata", Babbage et others took great pains to distinguish them from the human brain. As I've noted before, when digital computing began to emerge in the mid 20C, we see a very similar nervous defensiveness, often accompanied by energetic attempts to define the purpose of the new machines as servants for the performance of drudgery, i.e. distinguished in principle from the higher powers of human thought. Of course there was, and remains, drudgery, from which liberation is hard for us to see as anything but good. But to say that anything or anyone is *for* drudgery is a different matter. We all (I assume...) clean house, but (I suppose) few of us would like to be told we're housecleaners by nature. One way of handling the Darwinian and Freudian revelations, along with the Copernican et al., is to talk about blows to the human ego, Man (as in all of the writings until very recently) successively displaced from successively lower perches. This is a popular line of argument, and it often gives strong moral force to those arguing for the superiority of scientific method. But this argument does assume that "human" is one objective thing from which layers of pretense have been stripped, rather than, say, a self-made construct that from time to time needs to be reconstructed. What I'm asking about, in order to throw light on computing's effects on us, are those historical moments of reconstruction, considered historically, i.e. from the perspective of those who found themselves in need of a new suit of psycho-cultural clothing. Katherine Hayles' How We Became Posthuman is relevant to this sort of questioning, but I am specifically after historical analyses with a focus on such reconstructions (if that's a fair metaphor) prior to the one we're currently in the midst of. Thanks for any suggestions. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 11 06:15:32 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB7B93AA69; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:15:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 55E0C3AA62; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:15:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090911061529.55E0C3AA62@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:15:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.289 events: Museums and the Web X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 289. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:13:09 +0100 From: j trant Subject: Museums and the Web 2010: CFP: Sept 30 Deadline MW2010 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Deadline September 30, 2009 Museums and the Web 2010 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 13-17, 2010 Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/ Museums and the Web explores the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, MW reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Our community has been meeting since 1997, imagining, tracking, analyzing, and influencing the role museums play on the Web. * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * 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. The bibliography of past MW papers (all on-line since 1997) can be searched at http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum/ * PROPOSAL FORM * On-line proposal submission is required. Use the form at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/papers/mw2010.proposalForm.html Please co-ordinate your proposals with your collaborators. Multiple proposals about the same project will not be accepted. Proposals are peer-reviewed individually by an International Program Committee; full sessions are rarely accepted. Proposals for sessions should be submitted as individual papers with a covering note. The committee may choose to accept some papers and not others. *SESSION FORMATS * MW sessions vary in format - from formal Papers to informal Birds of a Feather lunches, and from structured Professional Forums to timely Unconference Sessions. Find the best format for your idea, by reviewing the session formats at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/sessions/sessionFormats.html * DEADLINES * Proposals due September 30, 2009 - for papers, mini-workshops + professional forums (written paper required by Jan. 31, 2010) Proposals due December 31, 2009 - for demonstrations (written paper optional) * PROGRAM SUGGESTIONS * The Museums and the Web program is built from the ground up, from your proposals. Add your ideas to the on-line discussion at http://conference.archimuse.com/forum/ideas_mw2010_program * NEED FURTHER DETAILS? * Review the MW2010 Call for Participation on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/call.html Contact the MW2010 Conference Co-Chairs David Bearman + Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics mw2010@archimuse.com We hope to see you in Denver. jennifer and David -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2010 produced by April 13-17, 2010, Denver, Colordo Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2010@archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 12 08:09:29 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C218423D; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:09:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF6A84234; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:09:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090912080926.CF6A84234@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:09:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.290 becoming different X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 290. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:01:15 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.288 how we keep becoming different? In-Reply-To: <20090911061426.B0ECE3A9FB@woodward.joyent.us> Well, my book _Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety_ forthcoming from Continuum in late Spring 2010, addresses these questions somewhat. These ideas are much older than Darwin and Freud, of course, both having adapted longstanding traditions and restated them for their time. The two major currents here are panentheism, as we might find in hermetic thought -- the universe as a vast, growing, evolving organism of which human beings are a part -- and the classical model of human personality in which a human being is a synthesis of body, soul, and spirit. Being a synthesis, we are subject to constant reconfiguration of the constituent parts of the self, each reconfiguration producing a different kind of self. Belief in the soul did not necessarily mean belief in a fixed self or nature, really, until after the Reformation. So any author writing within either of these traditions will emphasize change, transformation, etc. I argue that Blake and Kierkegaard especially did so because they lived at the cusp of a transition from monarchy to democracy, felt they were witnessing the dominance of artifice over nature, and lived in the middle of a battle between two rival scientific phenomenologies (mechanical and organic, the former proceeding from Newtonian science and the latter a new permutation of hermeticism). Both scientific phenomenologies were religious in nature in their respective times and places. Darwin's and Freud's innovation was to combine mechanical and organic models within strictly materialist and empirical presuppositions. Jim R . What I'm asking about, in order to throw light on > computing's effects on us, are those historical moments of > reconstruction, considered historically, i.e. from the perspective of > those who found themselves in need of a new suit of psycho-cultural > clothing. Katherine Hayles' How We Became Posthuman is relevant to this > sort of questioning, but I am specifically after historical analyses > with a focus on such reconstructions (if that's a fair metaphor) prior > to the one we're currently in the midst of. > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > Yours, > WM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 12 08:09:58 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 391474293; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:09:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 028664278; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:09:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090912080955.028664278@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:09:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.291 usage rights for images? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 291. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:35:45 -0400 From: "Markus Wust" Subject: Recording usage rights for images in digital projects Dear list members, a project that I am working on (http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu) is using many images provided to us by third parties (other institutions, private contributors, etc.). I wanted to ask those of you who are (or have been involved) with similar projects about how you are handling the management of rights, i.e., keeping track of who provided the images, any restrictions they have imposed on image usage, etc. What tools are you using (spreadsheets, databases, ...) and are you using any specific encoding standards to records this information (e.g., METSRights)? Thank you, Markus Wust Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian NCSU Libraries _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 12 08:10:31 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65FEE42F2; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:10:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0810342DE; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:10:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090912081030.0810342DE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:10:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.292 events: Graduate Student Colloquium X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 292. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:46:29 +0100 From: "institut@uvic.ca" Subject: cfp: DHSI 2010 Graduate Student Colloquium [Updated to clarify eligibility for this conference. Potential presenters should be enrolled in a PhD or MA program, or hold a post-doctoral fellowship, at the time of abstract submission. We welcome abstracts from current students who will graduate before June 2010.] Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2010 Graduate Student Colloquium June 8-11, 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS: The DHSI will be sponsoring its second annual graduate student colloquium in June 2010. Graduate students attending the Institute are invited to participate in the 2010 colloquium entitled "Making Connections: Emerging Scholars in the Digital Humanities." Abstracts are now being accepted for presentations focusing on all aspects of graduate student research in the digital humanities, including, but not limited to, the graduate student's role in personal and institutional research projects, tool application and development, perspectives on digital humanities implications for their own research and pedagogy, etc. The colloquium begins on the second day of the Summer Institute and takes place over four days (Tuesday through Friday) during morning sessions prior to the start of classes. Three graduate students will present at each session. Presentations will be informal and strictly limited to ten (10) minutes per presenter, with time for Q&A reserved at session's end. The sessions will be open to all DHSI attendees. We invite 300 word proposals for these presentations. Successful abstracts for the 2010 colloquium will focus on the individual student's role in digital humanities research and application, as opposed to general issues pertaining to digital humanities. Potential presenters should be enrolled in a PhD or MA program, or hold a post-doctoral fellowship, at the time of abstract submission. We welcome abstracts from current students who will graduate before June 2010. Please send abstracts to . Deadline for submissions is November 27, 2009. All who have submitted an abstract will be notified by mid-December 2009. For more information, contact Cara Leitch or Diane Jakacki . ABOUT THE DHSI: The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies and how they are influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate students from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond. During the DHSI, we share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to our teaching, research, dissemination and preservation. This year's Summer Institute will be held June 7-11, 2010. For more information and to register for courses see www.dhsi.org. REGISTRATION: In recent years, courses have filled up quickly. We encourage students interested in attending the DHSI to register early. SCHOLARSHIPS: All those whose work is accepted for presentation at the Graduate Student Colloquium will receive a tuition scholarship. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 14 05:02:45 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4BA38AE7; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:02:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 911C438AD5; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:02:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090914050242.911C438AD5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:02:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.293 becoming different X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 293. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:38:47 -0500 From: "Devin S. Griffiths" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.290 becoming different Dear Willard, It's probably obvious, but in the Victorian period, you could do well to look at Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy, which struggles with cultural transformation and definition vis a vis the past, particularly in response to technological change and mechanization, or, at an earlier period, but in much the same spirit, Carlyle's Signs of the Times. Best, Devin Griffiths ----- Original Message ----- From: Humanist Discussion Group Date: Saturday, September 12, 2009 3:09 am _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 14 05:04:57 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6594C38BA2; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:04:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C181638B97; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:04:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090914050454.C181638B97@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:04:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.294 PhD studentships at Bolzano X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 294. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:06:33 +0100 From: Diego Calvanese Subject: Call for PhD positions at KRDB Centre, Free Univ. Bolzano CALL FOR PhD POSITIONS - DEADLINE October 23, 2009 6 fully funded PhD positions at the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/ Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy ==================================================== The Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB), Italy, offers an opening for 14 positions for its 3-year PhD program. Some of these positions have a PhD studentship, others have a research contract. *** 2 PhD positions with studentship, and 4 PhD positions with a research contract are offered by the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data. *** The application deadline is Oct. 23, 2009. For information about the PhD program, the studentship, and the application, please visit http://www.unibz.it/en/inf/progs/phdcs/default.html and click on "PhD Course 25th cycle". Additional information about the PhD program at FUB is at http://www.unibz.it/en/public/research/phd/default.html . A PhD studentship as well as a PhD research contract amounts roughly to 51,000 Euro over the three years of the PhD. Substantial extra funding is available for participation in international conferences, schools, and workshops. The faculty of Computer Science and its PhD program are entirely based on the English language. RESEARCH TOPICS The KRDB Research Centre http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/ invites applicants to get in touch with the research group as soon as possible (see CONTACT PERSON below), in order to have a better understanding of the possible research activities in which the applicants may be involved. Relevant research topics in the centre are the following: * Logics for Knowledge Representation * Intelligent Access to Databases * Controlled Natural Language * Temporal Aspects in Data and Knowledge * Advanced Database Technologies The topics require good knowledge of Logic, Foundations of Databases, some knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, and of Knowledge Representation. Other research topics are listed in the personal web pages of the members of the KRDB Research Centre, see http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/staff.php . CONTACT PERSON To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre, send an email to: Prof. Diego Calvanese Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano via della Mostra, 4 I-39100 Bolzano, Italy Email: calvanese@inf.unibz.it Phone: +39-0471-016-160 Fax: +39-0471-016-009 To get in touch with the current PhD students, see . _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 14 05:06:05 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE39338C58; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:06:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F188738C10; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:06:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090914050602.F188738C10@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:06:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.295 new publication: textology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 295. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:25:10 +0100 From: RAM-Verlag Subject: Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 3 Just published ( Juli 2009 ) Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 3: "Aspects of Word Frequencies" 195 pages ISBN: 978-3-9802659-6-6 Published by: RAM-Verlag ( www.ram-verlag.de ) Authors: Ioan-Iovitz Popescu, Jan Macutek, Gabriel Altmann The book contains analyses of selected themes concerning textology. It consists of nine chapters treating problems of text theory, sampling, homogeneity, h-point, arc length, hapax legomena, diversity and nominal style and presents a new view of Zipf´s law as well as some new aspects of language typology associated with word-form frequencies. RAM-Verlag Jutta Richter-Altmann Medienverlag Stüttinghauser Ringstr. 44 58515 Lüdenscheid Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 2351/ 973070 Fax: +49 (0) 2351/ 973071 Mail: RAM-Verlag@t-online.de Web: www.ram-verlag.de http://www.ram-verlag.de/ Steuer-Nr.: 332/5002/0548 Mwst/VAT/TVA/ ID no.: DE 125 809 989 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 14 05:07:16 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2F0438CC1; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:07:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 046F138CAF; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:07:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090914050713.046F138CAF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:07:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.296 new on WWW: Google Book Search Bibliography X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 296. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:48:34 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 5 Version 5 of the Google Book Search Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm This bibliography presents selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Book Search. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation (http://tinyurl.com/5en4jt) from the University of Houston Libraries, see Digital Scholarship Publications Overview. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm The following recent Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: (1) Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 4 (7/15/2009) http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition (7/10/2009) http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2008.htm (3) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Version 76 (9/8/2009) http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ A Brief Look Back at Twenty Years as an Internet Open Access Publisher http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/twentyyearsbrief.htm _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 15 05:27:06 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8291B302AF; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:27:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AF493302A6; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:27:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090915052703.AF493302A6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:27:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.297 on peer-review X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 297. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:15:38 +0100 From: Bryn Mawr Classical Review Subject: from the BMCR: O'Donnell on Lamont, How Professors Think [The following book-review will, I suspect, interest many here. Although the conclusions at which the author of the book arrives may not be terribly surprising to anyone doing academic work outside the older disciplines, it is certainly better to have a careful study to hand than merely one's own hunches. And it is very good indeed to have a review of this study by such a distinguished member of Humanist. Allow me, however, to question as well as to recommend and to praise. How many of us here have given up applying for grants because of the prejudices built into the reviewing system? --WM] Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.09.42 ________________________________ Michèle Lamont, How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. 330. ISBN 9780674032668. $27.95. ________________________________ Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell, Georgetown University (provost@georgetown.edu) Word count: 732 words As a reasonable and thoughtful academic of some experience, I judge that I am a skilled reviewer of other people's work, well able to take into account my own biases and render a fair and objective judgment for the benefit of the profession whenever I am called upon to do so. I am wrong. Those of you who entertain similar opinions of yourselves are equally wrong. Not, I am happy to say, disastrously wrong, but certainly wrong enough to be embarrassing and a source of concern for us all. Michèle Lamont is a sociologist and Faculty Advisor on Development and Diversity at Harvard, melding in this book her professional skill and her administrative concern. The title and subtitle of the book rather overstate what the book delivers, which is a shame inasmuch as it might leave a reader disappointed with a study that does not in fact disappoint. What Lamont has done is study in detail the workings of peer review panels (the limitation is important, inasmuch as an entirely separate study would be needed of the ways journal and university press peer reviewing work, when the reviewers work alone and not in groups) for a group of important funding agencies in the humanities and social sciences: the American Council of Learned Societies, the Society of Fellows at "a top research university" (Lamont is at Harvard, recall), the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and an unnamed foundation in the social sciences. She did detailed interviews with program officers, panelists, and program chairs. The findings will be variously striking to various readers. For example, she teases out well the cultures of some representative disciplines: English, History, Anthropology, and Political Science. The historians come across phlegmatic, the literature scholars edgy and uncertain, and the anthropologists curiously isolated: but no summary in one or two adjectives is a fair representation of her discussion. She is perhaps best, though, on the way reviewers bring to the table a host of judgments, expectations, and anecdotes that are not to be found in the folders they read, but that strongly influence their judgment. A sociologist admits, for example, that a good proposal on the table gets a better judgment because of the institution from which it comes. That institution is strong in that field, so this is more likely to be good work than if it came from (the sociologist's patronizing words) "some tiny little hole-in-the-wall college" (227). One grid that many bring with them has much to be said for it: "significance" and "originality" stand high on the list of things that reviewers seek in proposals, and I think I can live with that. But Lamont identifies as well a curious overlay of ethical inquiry and judgment: "humility," "determination", and "authenticity" are judged well, while "cultural ease" and "elegance" score points as well. How many of these categories are screens for finding "people like us" is a difficult question with no ultimate resolution. For there is, on the one hand, some relationship between the recognized quality of the institution and the work that is likely to be done there, given the effort and resources that go into recruitment and selection of students and faculty; on the other hand, a bias that intrudes between the particular qualifications of the scholar and the merit of the proposal runs a real risk of unfairness. The book that has resulted from these inquiries is not lively reading, but worth serious attention. At the same time, it will not be widely read or easily digested by many. Lamont's best prescription for improving the quality of the work that is done by many conscientious people is to raise the issue and focus the attention of scholars on their own practices and expectations. "Know thyself" remains good advice. An administrator reading the volume thinks about ways in which the unacknowledged forces that influence judgment can be made part of broader discussion, the better to improve the quality of judgment within institutions and beyond their walls. The topic deserves to remain open and remain the subject of continuing discussion. Table of Contents: 1. Opening the black box of peer review 2. How panels work 3. On disciplinary cultures 4. Pragmatic fairness: customary rules of deliberation 5. Recognizing various kinds of excellence 6. Considering interdisciplinarity and diversity 7. Implications in the United States and abroad. BMCR, Bryn Mawr College, 101 N. Merion Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 15 05:28:06 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6025730329; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:28:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C5D9C30316; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:28:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090915052802.C5D9C30316@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:28:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.298 events: storytelling; medieval editing; happenings at the DHO; editing Ulysses X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 298. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Bonnett (21) Subject: cfp: Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association [2] From: Shawn Day (48) Subject: DHO Autumn 2009 Event Schedule [3] From: Wim Van-Mierlo (13) Subject: Colloquium on editing Ulysses - CFP [4] From: Dot Porter (44) Subject: FINAL CFP: Collaborative Editing and Handwriting Recognition inmedieval studies, Kzoo 2010 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:50:23 +0100 From: John Bonnett Subject: cfp: Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association Hello, For those who are interested, the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association generally runs at the same time as the annual meeting of SDH-SEMI, and presents an added opportunity to present a paper during the Congress. If anyone is interested in proposing a panel for the Concordia conference, the Canadian Committee for History and Computing would be happy to sponsor it. Contact myself (jbonnett@brocku.ca) or Kevin Kee (kkee@brocku.ca), and we will submit the panel proposal on your behalf and indicate that we are sponsoring it. Please note that the deadline for proposals is much earlier than it is for SDH-SEMI, 30 October 2009. With best wishes, -- John Bonnett LE FRANÇAIS SUIT Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association Concordia University 2010 “TELLING STORIES/STORYTELLING” Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of communication. In telling stories about the past, historians, novelists, playwrights, teachers, museum curators, film makers, artists, illustrators, musicians, and public historians (to name just a few) engage in the task of making sense of “histories” that are often violent, always contradictory, and endlessly fascinating. These stories matter; for what is being told, how it is being told, and what is being left unsaid shapes our sense of place, community and nation, indeed our very sense of self. What was the place of stories and storytelling in the past? To whom were these stories told, and why? Whose stories were they? How do people construct stories about themselves and others? In what voice are these stories being told? How are stories passed through the generations? Which narrative conventions govern the process of storytelling? How does storytelling draw lines of inclusion and exclusion? What is the relationship between storytelling and collective memory? How does audience shape what is said and not said? How do we as historians tell stories about the past and to whom? In which ways can stories of the past be told in art, documentary media and practice, performance, museum exhibition, classroom pedagogy, and other digital environments? When, and how, can the act of “telling stories” become a catalyst for political action and social change? The 2010 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association invites proposals in French and English from a broad range of disciplines and projects. In keeping with the Congress theme for 2010 “Connected Understanding/Savoir branché,” we are interested in connecting scholars working in different fields and in exploring the ties between university researchers and public audiences beyond the academic world. Panel proposals for sessions that forge connections between disciplines are particularly welcome, as are proposals that embrace unconventional ways of “telling stories” about the past (such as historical displays, performances, storytelling circles, audioscapes, and memoryscapes) or bring together scholars at different stages of their careers. You are invited to submit a 250-350 word proposal and a one-page curriculum vitae. In your submission, please indicate if you are proposing an individual presentation or a panel session, or intend to communicate your research findings in another way. We welcome session proposals, but do reserve the right to break up panels. Prospective presenters are encouraged to become members of the CHA. Please submit your proposal at shc_cha@alcor.concordia.ca. The deadline for submissions is Friday, 30 October 2009. For further information, please contact Barbara Lorenzkowski, Co-Programme Chair, 2010 Annual Meeting of the CHA at shc_cha@alcor.concordia.ca. (In the preliminary schedule of the Congress 2010, the CHA has been scheduled to meet from Sunday, 30 May to Tuesday, 1st June. The final conference dates will be posted on the CHA website by early October.) Congrès annuel de la Société historique du Canada Université Concordia 2010 « RACONTER DES HISTOIRES / L’ART DE CONTER » Raconter des histoires est un des plus anciens modes de communication. En racontant des histoires sur le passé, les historiens, les romanciers, les dramaturges, les enseignants, les conservateurs de musée, les cinéastes, les artistes, les illustrateurs, les musiciens, et les historiens publics, pour n’en nommer que quelques-uns, participent tous à la tâche de donner du sens aux « histoires » qui sont parfois violentes, toujours contradictoires et qui n’en finissent pas de nous fasciner. Ces histoires ont de l’importance car, ce qu’elles racontent, comment elles sont racontées, et ce qui est non-dit, définissent notre place dans le temps, notre sentiment de communauté, notre appartenance nationale et même notre identité proprement dite. Quelle place réservait-on aux histoires et à l’art de conter dans le passé? A qui racontait-on ces histoires et pourquoi? A qui appartenaient-elles? Comment les gens construisent-ils des histoires d’eux-mêmes et des autres? Quelle tonalité leur donne t’on? Comment transmet-on une histoire d’une génération à l’autre? Quelles conventions narratives dictent l’approche par laquelle on se raconte? Comment ces histoires déterminent-elles les normes d’inclusion et d’exclusion? Quel rapport y a-t-il entre le fait de se raconter et la mémoire collective? Comment l’auditoire transforme-t-elle ce qui est dit et ce qui est laissé sous silence? Nous, historiens, comment et à qui racontons-nous les histoires du passé? Quelles méthodes pourraient être utilisées afin de raconter les histoires du passé par le biais des arts, de la pratique médiatique du documentaire, de la performance, des expositions de musée, de la pédagogie scolaire, et de tout autre moyen digital? Quand et comment est-ce-que raconter des histoires devient-il un catalyseur d’action politique et de changement social? Les organisateurs du congrès 2010 de la Société historique du Canada lancent une invitation à ceux qui sont impliqués dans une variété de projets dans diverses disciplines, en français et en anglais, à nous soumettre leurs idées. En accord avec le thème du congrès pour 2010 « Connected Understanding /Savoir branché », nous cherchons à créer des connections entre les érudits qui travaillent dans divers domaines et à explorer les liens entre les chercheurs universitaires et le grand publique au-delà du milieu académique. Nous apprécierions particulièrement les soumissions pour des ateliers de discussions qui formeraient de nouvelles connections entre les diverses disciplines, celles qui offriraient des moyens moins conventionnels de raconter les histoires du passé (tel que les expositions, les performances, les cercles de raconteurs, des montages audio et numériques) et celles qui rassembleraient les érudits qui en seraient à divers stades dans leur carrière. Vous êtes invité à envoyer une soumission de 250 à 300 mots et un curriculum vitae d’une page. Veuillez indiquer sur votre soumission s’il s’agit d’une présentation individuelle, d’un sujet pour un atelier de discussion ou si vous avez l’intention de présenter les conclusions de vos recherches d’une autre façon. Bien que nous apprécions toutes les soumissions, nous nous réservons le droit de restructurer les groupes de discussions. Nous encourageons ceux qui voudraient faire une présentation à s’enregistrer comme membre de la SHC. Veuillez soumettre votre proposition au shc_cha@alcor.concordia.ca. La date de tombée pour les soumissions est le 30 octobre 2009. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez contacter Barbara Lorenzkowski, coprésidente de la programmation du Congrès annuel 2010 de la Société historique du Canada au shc_cha@alcor.concordia.ca. (Le programme préliminaire du Congrès 2010 indique que la Réunion annuelle de la SHC aura lieu du dimanche 30 mai au mardi 1 juin. Les dates exactes de la réunion seront affichées sur le Web de la SHA au début du mois d’octobre.) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:42:02 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: DHO Autumn 2009 Event Schedule The Digital Humanities Observatory is pleased to announce its Autumn 2009 Event Series. Please browse to http://dho.ie/events for more information on the following lectures, workshops and symposia. Where registration is required or recommended, a link will be available on our event pages when registration opens. We hope to see you out at any of these events. Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at: http://dho.ie/contact The Digital Humanities Observatory Autumn Event Schedule October 5 DHO Digital Humanities Symposium Location: St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin Time: 16:00 - 17:30 This symposium will explore current trends in digital humanities research within Ireland and abroad. The symposium will demonstrate the role of the Digital Humanities Observatory and ways that it can assist digital humanities scholarship. Current digital projects will be showcased and challenges shared to encourage discussion. ******************************** October 14 Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Science and the IRCHSS DARIAH Steering Committee Present: Digital Humanities - New Frontiers In conjunction with Dublin Innovation Week, the IRCHSS presents Professor Tony Hey, Corporate Vice-President of Research, Microsoft followed by a panel discussion with Professor Martin Curley, Director, Intel Labs Europe and Dr. MArie Wallace, Senior Development Manager, IBM. There will also be a poster session and presentations from Irish higher-education digital humanities projects. This is a ticket-only event. Please contact Maria O'Brien (mobrien@irchss.ie) to register. ******************************** October 16 Innovation Week Dublin: Recreating Research, Art and Education in Shared Virtual Worlds Location: Dublin City Council, Wood Quay, Dublin Time: 15:00 - 17:00 This thought-provoking lecture by Dr Hugh Denard of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London will explore how Shared Virtual Environments are stimulating innovative research, educational and artistic practice, engendering new kinds of interactions, engaging new audiences and posing new challenges. This talk will be presented as part of Innovation Week Dublin and will be simultaneously presented in Second Life. ******************************** October 19 Digital Workshop: Audio Digitisation and Metadata Location: Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Time: 10:00 - 16:00 The RIA Library and the DHO offer a one-day audio workshop devoted to online audio web publication and the archiving of audio files. The workshop is aimed at those currently engaged in digital audio archival work and those interested in doing so. It focuses on the implementation of metadata within audio projects. ******************************** November 5 DHO Workshop: Using Databases for Humanities Research Location: Trinity College Dublin Time: 9:30 - 15:30 Humanities scholarship increasingly relies on the gathering and analysis of large amounts of data. Choosing the most appropriate means to contextualise, organise and store data is a key challenge facing digital humanities researchers today. This workshop will provide an introduction to the concepts, techniques and technology for using the entity-relationship model to organise and manage humanities research data. Participants will gain a basic understanding of data architecture and management principles. ******************************** November 12 NIVAL Symposium in Conjunction with IVARO and the DHO: Art and Design, Digitisation and Intellectual Property Symposium Location: NCAD, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8 Time: 10:15 - 17:00 This seminar will explore issues surrounding the acquisition, retention and dissemination of art and design digital content, which is within the copyright term, by archives, libraries and repositories, and its use in teaching, learning and research. It will provide a forum where the practical requirements of artists and designers and the wider research community can be explored by bringing together a group of experts in the field of intellectual property in the Irish context . Digital Humanities Observatory Regus Pembroke House, 30 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2 +353 1 234 2518 Fax +353 1 234 2400 In most cases advance registration is required. Please see the DHO website for more details on these and other upcoming events -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:50:10 +0100 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: Colloquium on editing Ulysses - CFP The Institute of English Studies (University of London) is hosting “Ulysses: 25 Years of the Critical and Synoptic Edition – a One-Day Colloquium” on Friday, 6 November 2009. Confirmed speakers include Hans Walter Gabler, J.C.C. Mays, Luca Crispi and Alistair McLeery. If anyone is interested in giving a paper at this event, they should send their suggestions to me off-list at wim.van-mierlo@sas.ac.uk. The purpose of the colloquium is to evaluate the 25 years since the publication of this edition, which was heralded as a radically new. What has been the effect of its editorial rationales on textual scholarship? Has the edition lived up to its reputation? What has been the effect on the (non-)appearance of other editions by John Kidd, Danis Rose, Jeri Johnson? Speakers are encouraged to address in the first instance the editorial aspects of Gabler’s three-volume edition but any other aspect of the textual, bibliographical and book-historical makeup of James Joyce’s Ulysses can be discussed as well. For more information about the colloquium, and on how to register, please visit the Institute website at ies.sas.ac.uk/events, where details will be posted shortly. Wim Dr Wim Van Mierlo Lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English Literature Institute of English Studies University of London Senate House, Rm 237 Malet Street London WC1E 7HU http://ies.sas.ac.uk --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:44:46 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: FINAL CFP: Collaborative Editing and Handwriting Recognition inmedieval studies, Kzoo 2010 In-Reply-To: <96f3df640909140242y59c4676bx1edd0e5e4ba79d07@mail.gmail.com> **We are still looking for papers for both sessions, please respond ASAP if you are interested in participating in either session** The Digital Medievalist Community of Practice (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) is sponsoring two sessions at the Forty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 7-10, 2009. See below for session names and descriptions. Please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF formats from the Congress website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF. Proposals must be submitted by September 15, 2009. Paper session: The state of the art in handwriting recognition and analysis for medieval documents Much work has been done towards automated analysis of handwritten documents, with a focus on handwriting recognition, in the last years, and some of the developments seen in OCR and layout recognition systems may be applicable to medieval studies.  Further, the increasing interest in sophisticated linkages of text and image might be enhanced by developments in handwriting recognition and analysis. We welcome papers which report on work done or ongoing in these areas, or which seek to establish methodologies. Paper session: Collaborative tools and environments for medieval scholarship Many groups around the world are working to develop a new generation of collaborative tools and research environments, with potential wide applicability to medieval studies.  This leads to questions about the nature of collaboration itself, and about useful models of collaboration.  Reports form the coal face on collaborations which have, or have not, worked are welcome, as are demonstrations of tools and ruminations on the many faces of collaboration. Again, please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF formats from the Congress website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)          Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444        Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie          Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 16 05:23:00 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 964362F393; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:23:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BDB2C2F380; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:22:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090916052256.BDB2C2F380@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:22:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.299 announcements: I-CHASS awards; HASTAC doings X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 299. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: hastac-web@duke.edu (71) Subject: Look what's happening at HASTAC.org! [2] From: I-CHASS (14) Subject: Peter Bajcsy and I-CHASS Awarded Two NSF Grants --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:48:19 -0400 From: hastac-web@duke.edu Subject: Look what's happening at HASTAC.org! /NancyKimberly has sent you a group e-mail from HASTAC./ *If you haven't been to www.hastac.org [1] recently, here's what you're missing: * --Over 100 HASTAC Scholars and other HASTAC network members blogging and posting information about the latest in their research and region. [2] And informed commentary too. --Progress reports by Digital Media and Learning Competition Winners [3] from around the globe. --Information about jobs, fellowships, [4] conferences, [5]publications across many fields, in and outside the academy --and more. Our energetic community (nearly 3000 strong) is making www.hastac.org [6] the place to post and find information. Any network member can post. Browsers welcome! * * * A sampling of recent blog posts on www.hastac.org [7]: Breakthrough on Open Access [8] How to Crowdsource Grading [9] Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite? [10] Respecting and Perspectivizing the Humanities [11] Interactive Audience Measurement [12] Digital Storage as Environmental Nightmare? [13] Viral Sounds [14] New Project: A Script for Distant Reading [15] Organizing Playpower Volunteers Around Open Technology [16] Facebooking Your Way In and Out of Tenure [17] The Highs and Lows of Social Media for Children [18] Reasons Facebook Beat MySpace [19] The President and the "YouTube Age" [20] Five Computer Skills for the Aspiring Digital Humanist [21] In Your Dreams: Timothy Burke's 21st Century College [22] Linux, Learning, and Sugar Kids [23] Reactions to Emergence [24] A Blog-o-festo: The Engaged Humanities Scholar as Public Intellectual [25] I Want a Wingnut Alert --And One for Moonbats Too [26] [1] http://www.hastac.org [2] http://www.hastac.org/blog [3] http://www.hastac.org/dml-competitions/2009 [4] http://www.hastac.org/news_opportunities [5] http://www.hastac.org/events [6] http://www.hastac.org [7] http://www.hastac.org [8] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/breakthrough-open-access [9] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/how-crowdsource-grading [10] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/gerrycanavan/it-ok-be-luddite [11] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/michaelkramer/respecting-and-perspectivizing-humanities [12] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/etussey/interactive-audience-measurement [13] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/lisa-klarr/digital-storage-environmental-nightmare [14] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/matt-straus/viral-sounds [15] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/jed/new-project-script-distant-reading [16] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/jeremydouglass/organizing-playpower-volunteers-around-open-technology [17] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/gerrycanavan/facebooking-your-way-and-out-tenure [18] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/juneahn/highs-and-lows-social-media-children [19] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/michael-widner/reasons-facebook-beat-myspace [20] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/mikenutt/president-and-youtube-age [21] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/visconti/five-computer-skills-aspiring-digital-humanist [22] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/michaelkramer/your-dreams-timothy-burkes-21st-century-college [23] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/michael-widner/linux-learning-and-sugar-kids [24] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/harrisonhastac/reactions-emergence [25] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/michaelkramer/blog-o-festo-engaged-humanities-scholar-public-intellectual [26] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/i-want-wingnut-alert-and-one-moonbats-too -- [1] http://HASTAC.org/user --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:02:07 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: Peter Bajcsy and I-CHASS Awarded Two NSF Grants [http://hosting.bronto.com/9193/public/i-chass-logo.png] The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) is pleased to announce that two projects have been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation. The projects are led by the principal investigator, Dr. Peter Bajcsy, I-CHASS’s Associate Director for Data Analytics and Pattern Recognition and a Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and co-principal investigators, Dr. Anne D. Hedeman, professor of Art and History in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Dr. Kevin Franklin, the Executive Director of I-CHASS, and Dr. Karen Fresco, associate professor in French and Medieval Studies at UIUC. Awarded $128,381, the Virtual Vellum project is a collaboration between I-CHASS, NCSA, the Art History, French and Medieval Studies programs at the University of Illinois, the Worldwide Universities Network, and the United Kingdom’s University of Sheffield. The team of scholars and researchers are working together to develop cyber tools for analyzing the visual imagery embedded in several early manuscripts of Jean Froissart's Chronicles, which have been successfully digitalized and mounted on the web, and to develop cyber tools for analyzing the visual imagery embedded in these manuscripts. Their goal is to provide insight into both the construction of these specific Froissart manuscripts, and more broadly, the functioning of the medieval Parisian book trade. They will make the tools developed available on a website shared by NCSA and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois, with Virtual Vellum at the University of Sheffield, and with the Worldwide Universities Network. The project team will be working with collaborators Dr. Peter Ainsworth and Dr. Michael Meredith from the University of Sheffield to establish a unique cross-Atlantic resource for the community of humanists. Funding of $24,845 has also been awarded for I-CHASS to host a workshop on Imaging and Image Analyses. Designed to facilitate education, training and information exchange among multiple scientific disciplines, this workshop will bring together representatives from academic institutions in the United States and abroad. Humanists, social scientists, and artists will be paired with computer scientists at the workshop in order to present complementary views on topics related to imaging and image analyses of historical objects. The intent of the workshop is to examine the process of going from actual physical objects to digital objects made available via the Internet and the related process of enabling computer assisted learning over large digital collections for education and research. The overarching goal of the workshop will be to understand the challenges associated with imaging and image analyses that are inherent in this process, as well as solutions, needs and opportunities for further research. ________________________________ This email was sent to willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk by Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) National Center for Supercomputing Applications | Urbana Forward to a friend | Manage Preferences | Unsubscribe [http://appstatic.bronto.com/poweredby.gif] ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:54:24 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: September/October 2009 issue of D-LibMagazine is now available Greetings: The September/October 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains five articles, two 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 Volunteer Voices, courtesy of Kenneth Middleton, Middle Tennessee State University, and Tiffani Conner, Lincoln Memorial University. The articles include: Establishing Trust in a Chain of Preservation: The TRAC Checklist Applied to a Data Staging Repository (DataStaR) Gail Steinhart and Dianne Dietrich, Cornell University; and Ann Green, Yale University Subject-based Information Retrieval within Digital Libraries Employing LCSHs Ioannis Papadakis and Michalis Stefanidakis, University of Ionio; and Konstantinos Kyprianos and Rosa Mavropodi, University of Piraeus Analysing Selection for Digitisation: Current Practices and Common Incentives Bart Ooghe, Heritage Cell Waasland; and Dries Moreels, Flemish Theatre Institute (BE) OA Network: An Integrative Open Access Infrastructure for Germany Uwe Mueller, Robin Malitz, and Peter Schirmbacher, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin; and Thomas Severiens, Universitat Osnabruck Curriculum for Digital Libraries: An Analytical Study of Indian LIS Curricula R.S.R.Varalakshmi, Andhra University The Conference and Workshop Reports are: Report on OAI 6: CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, Geneva 17-19 June 2009 Elena Giglia, University of Turin Purple Cows and Fringy Propositions: The Edinburgh Repository Fringe Festival 2009 Carol Minton Morris, Cornell University D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina http://www.dlib.org.ar Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the September/October 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. There is a delay between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson Editor D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 16 05:26:15 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B31212F48B; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:26:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ED1F22F477; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:26:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090916052611.ED1F22F477@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:26:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.301 "Graceful Degradation" survey X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 301. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:29:03 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: "Graceful Degradation" survey - reminder SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Graceful Degradation: Managing Digital Humanities Projects in Times of Transition and Decline First announced at the Digital Humanities 2009 conference and presented at Digital Humanities in the Resources and Arts conference, the "Graceful Degradation" survey is now open through the end of September at: http://graceful-degradation.questionpro.com/ This is a survey of the digital humanities community -- broadly conceived -- on project management in times of transition and decline, and what we see as the causes and outcomes of those times. We invite participation by anyone who has worked on a digital project in or related to the humanities. Decline is a pressing issue for digital scholarship because of the tendency of our projects to be open ended. One could argue that digital projects are, by nature, in a continual state of transition or decline. What happens when the funding runs out, or the original project staff move on or are replaced? What happens when intellectual property rests with a collaborator or an institution that does not wish to continue the work? How, individually and as a community, do we weather changes in technology, the patterns of academic research, the vagaries of our sponsoring institutions? "Graceful Degradation" is being conducted by Bethany Nowviskie of the University of Virginia Scholars' Lab in the United States and Dot Porter of the Digital Humanities Observatory in Ireland. The survey will run through September 2009. Full summary results will be presented and published in summer 2010. All responses are held confidential, unless specific permission to identify people and projects has been granted. Participants will have the option to grant this permission at the end of the survey. We encourage your participation and look forward to sharing the results of the survey! Please contact degrade.gracefully@gmail.com if you have any questions. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 16 05:57:06 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B3322F731; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:57:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EA6542F729; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:57:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090916055704.EA6542F729@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:57:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.302 fears and desires X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 302. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:56:22 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: fears and desires Some here may have read earlier this year an attention-grabbing story in the New York Times, for 26 July, "Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man", www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/science/26robot.html. It reports on a conference of AI folks, held at the Asilomar conference site in California, in February 2009, a preliminary report of which may be found on the AAAI site, www.aaai.org/Organization/Panel/panel-note.pdf. Whatever else one may say about this, the mere fact that it would happen is significant. I ran across the report of this event thanks to Pamela McCorduck, whose book, Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence (1979; rev edn 2003), is very much worth the candle -- not only for the transcripts of interviews she held with some of the major figures in AI all those years ago but also for the balance she strikes between documentary and reflective writing. Her chapters entitled "Us and Them" (8) and "L'Affaire Dreyfus" (9) shed more light than most attempts I've encountered to deal with people's fears and articles of faith concerning what computing machines are capable of. That the fears are not generational, not an artefact of the time when machines were first coming into public view and getting so thoroughly involved in the Cold War, is strongly suggested by the Asilomar event. I'd say we have simply dozed off in our comfortable chairs with our warm laptops silently at the ready. The polarization among smart people as well as not so smart, between those who wave the garlic and those who embrace the faith, makes me wonder what happened to true agnosticism. Must we commit to advance? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 18 05:49:39 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B60F43AE66; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:49:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DB83C3AE58; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:49:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090918054936.DB83C3AE58@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:49:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.303 fears and desires X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 303. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sterling Fluharty (85) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.302 fears and desires [2] From: renata lemos (68) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.302 fears and desires --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:24:53 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.302 fears and desires In-Reply-To: <20090916055704.EA6542F729@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, In light of your recent discoveries, are you exploring popular culture for evidence of how fears of and faith in intelligent machines have been fueled throughout and since the cold war? Why should scientists and the public be agnostic about the goals of artificial intelligence? Is the pace of technological advancement over the last century not reason enough to expect that scientists are moving closer to making machines intelligent? Or should we be skeptical when scientists put their faith in hypotheses which are not yet based on observable phenomenon? What is the difference between ambivalence and agnosticism when it comes to evaluating the hopes and dreams of the artificial intelligence community? Lastly, can we afford to remain armchair digital humanists when the well being, if not the very lives, of some humans may be at stake? Best wishes, Sterling Fluharty University of New Mexico --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:23:50 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.302 fears and desires In-Reply-To: <20090916055704.EA6542F729@woodward.joyent.us> agnosticism is sounding buddhist to me! : ) On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 302. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:56:22 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: fears and desires > > Some here may have read earlier this year an attention-grabbing story in > the New York Times, for 26 July, "Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart > Man", www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/science/26robot.html. It reports on a > conference of AI folks, held at the Asilomar conference site in > California, in February 2009, a preliminary report of which may be found > on the AAAI site, www.aaai.org/Organization/Panel/panel-note.pdf. > Whatever else one may say about this, the mere fact that it would happen > is significant. > > I ran across the report of this event thanks to Pamela McCorduck, whose > book, Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and > Prospects of Artificial Intelligence (1979; rev edn 2003), is very much > worth the candle -- not only for the transcripts of interviews she held > with some of the major figures in AI all those years ago but also for > the balance she strikes between documentary and reflective writing. Her > chapters entitled "Us and Them" (8) and "L'Affaire Dreyfus" (9) shed > more light than most attempts I've encountered to deal with people's > fears and articles of faith concerning what computing machines are > capable of. > > That the fears are not generational, not an artefact of the time when > machines were first coming into public view and getting so thoroughly > involved in the Cold War, is strongly suggested by the Asilomar event. > I'd say we have simply dozed off in our comfortable chairs with our warm > laptops silently at the ready. > > The polarization among smart people as well as not so smart, between > those who wave the garlic and those who embrace the faith, makes me > wonder what happened to true agnosticism. Must we commit to advance? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/%7Ewmccarty/ > ; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. > -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 18 05:50:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E26F3AEFE; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:50:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8F3363AEF6; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:50:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090918055023.8F3363AEF6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:50:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.304 usage rights for images X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 304. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:49:19 -0500 From: William Allen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.291 usage rights for images? In-Reply-To: <20090912080955.028664278@woodward.joyent.us> I use PhotoShop and the Bridge function allows lengthy annotation; even has a special block for copyright notice. Were I doing your project that is what I would use. In Windows file browser I think that you can see the exif information for an image (usually name of camera, date, etc.) but I think that you may add information of your own. My Mac "Finder" has a place to add a Spotlight comment. These are ways of putting information with or inside the image file. For a publishing project a database or spreadsheet might be easier to use. The challenge would be to have precise location/file name information for each image. _____ William Allen Prof. Art History On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 291. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:35:45 -0400 > From: "Markus Wust" > Subject: Recording usage rights for images in digital projects > > > Dear list members, > > a project that I am working on (http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu) is using > many images provided to us by third parties (other institutions, private > contributors, etc.). I wanted to ask those of you who are (or have been > involved) with similar projects about how you are handling the management of > rights, i.e., keeping track of who provided the images, any restrictions > they have imposed on image usage, etc. What tools are you using > (spreadsheets, databases, ...) and are you using any specific encoding > standards to records this information (e.g., METSRights)? > > Thank you, > Markus Wust > Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian > NCSU Libraries > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 18 05:52:34 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D0AB3AF9A; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:52:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 42B493AF93; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:52:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090918055233.42B493AF93@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:52:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.305 new publications: communicating knowledge; vision X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 305. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "GLIMPSE | the art + science of seeing" (54) Subject: GLIMPSE vols 2.1 and 2.2, "China Vision, Parts I and II" now available [2] From: "Gentleman, Sarah" (19) Subject: Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:58:33 -0700 From: "GLIMPSE | the art + science of seeing" Subject: GLIMPSE vols 2.1 and 2.2, "China Vision, Parts I and II" now available GLIMPSE vols 2.1 and 2.2, "China Vision, Parts I and II" are now available at http://www.glimpsejournal.com GLIMPSE is a quarterly, interdisciplinary journal that examines the functions, processes, and effects of vision and its implications for being, knowing, and constructing our world(s). Each theme-focused issue features articles, visual essays,interviews, and reviews spanning the physical sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. "China Vision, Part II" vol 2.2, summer 2009 -The Dandelion School Transformation Project: A Conversation with Lily Yeh -Politically and Geographically Colorful: Revolution, Regime and Color in China, by Han-Teng Liao, D.Phil. candidate -What Will Happen Next? Envisioning a Personal Future in China, Dr. Charles Stafford -Myth and Modernity, Mary Ting, artist -Retro(spect): On Chinese Divination by Dissecting Written Characters, by J.J.M de Groot -Situ Panchen, 1700-1774: Tibetan Encampment Revivalist Painter, Glimpse interviews Dr. David Jackson -Seeing History: Rediscovering the Art of Tibet Through Modern Imaging Technology, by Dr. Chandra Reedy -(Re)View:"Mahjong" at the Peabody Essex Museum (art exhibit), by Lauren Cross -(Re)Views: "Not One Less" and "Green Snakes" (films), by Ivy Moylan "China Vision, Part I" vol 2.1, spring 2009 -Between Text and Image: The Ambiguity of Chinese Written Characters, by Dr. Yuehping Yen -Are Chinese Characters Modern Enough? An Essay on Their Role Online, by Han-Teng Liao, D.Phil. candidate -Retro(spect): Chinese Magic Mirrors in "Chinese Art, Volume I" (1914), Dr. S.W. Bushell -Harvesting Cosmic Spectra: China's Large Area Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), by M. Hurst with C. Arcabascio and N. Giroux -East Meets West, by Yang Liu, graphic designer -Show Me the Yuan, Dr. Alan Baumler -Design for Commerce: Chinese Label Art for Common Goods, by Andrew Cahan, collector -Desire of the Other: Perceptions of Beauty in Modern China, by Dr. William Jankowiak and Dr. Peter Gray -(Re)View: "Chinese Ghost Story" and "Frozen" (films), by Andy Hughes -Chinatown, Boston, MA, 1993, Anthony Owens, photographer ________________________________________ Contribute your work Upcoming issues: o Visions (due 10.15.09) o Cartography (due 11.15.09) o http://www.glimpsejournal.com/contribute.html --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:05:39 +0100 From: "Gentleman, Sarah" Subject: Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings A new report Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings published by the Research Information Network (RIN) and JISC shows how researchers are concerned by what they perceive as mixed messages about the channels they should use to communicate their research findings. The report highlights the need for more consistent and effective guidance from funders and higher educational institutions. If they wish to encourage researchers to disseminate their work through a variety of channels as well as in high-status journals, they must give stronger and more positive messages about how those channels will be valued when it comes to assessing researchers’ performance they must give stronger and more positive messages about how those channels will be valued when it comes to assessing researchers’ performance. The rise in investment in research over the last ten years has been accompanied by an increasing emphasis on measuring, assessing and evaluating research, its outputs and impact. Commissioned by the RIN in conjunction with JISC, this report investigates how researchers’ perceptions of how they are being assessed affects their decisions on when, where and how to publish and disseminate their findings. It demonstrates the significant variations between researchers in different disciplines not only in the dissemination channels they use, but also in their patterns of collaboration (and how they acknowledge the contributions that members of a team have made), and in how they decide cite the work of others. All these patterns of behaviour are changing, in part as a result of technological developments. And there are signs that the citation practices, for example, of younger researchers are different from those of their more senior colleagues. But the readiness with which outputs in the form of scholarly journal articles can be assessed and measured has underpinned their increasing dominance over all other forms of publication and dissemination. Researchers’ perceptions and understanding of the messages they receive from funders and from universities may often be mistaken, but they influence what researchers publish and how, and they give rise to real concerns. Many researchers see a damaging tension between their desire to communicate via channels which enable them to reach and influence their intended audiences – often beyond academia – as rapidly as possible, and the pressures to publish in high-status journals. Changes in assessment procedures, whether via the Research Excellence Framework (REF) or from other sources, will change researchers’ behaviour further. Many are already considering citing their colleagues’ work more often. The report provides important evidence for funders and policy makers, as well as for the research community, in the continuing consultations about the future mechanisms for assessing research performance. It also shows that it is necessary for this to be an ongoing process to keep monitoring the changes in technology and research practices. It is important that changes in those mechanisms are based on a detailed understanding of both the behaviours and the motivations of researchers across the full range of disciplines and subjects. The report and a briefing are available at www.rin.ac.uk/communicating-knowledge A short podcast interviewing Michael Jubb, Director of the RIN and Neil Jacobs, Programme Manager Information Environment at JISC is also available at www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/09/podcast88communicatingknowledge.aspx ------------ Sarah Gentleman Communications Officer Research Information Network 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB telephone: 020 7412 7241 Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/research_inform RIN Facebook group http://en-gb.facebook.com/pages/City-of-London-United-Kingdom/Research-Information-Network/29441497954 email: sarah.gentleman@rin.ac.uk website: www.rin.ac.uk Listen to our podcasts at www.rin.ac.uk/podcasts _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 18 05:54:56 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB433A034; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:54:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AFB2E3A027; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:54:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090918055454.AFB2E3A027@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:54:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.306 events: language; ontology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 306. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au" (99) Subject: Final CFP: Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009): Papers due 25September 2009 [2] From: Carlos Areces (103) Subject: Call for Bids, ESSLLI 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:47:28 +0100 From: "Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au" Subject: Final CFP: Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009): Papers due 25September 2009 5th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) 1 December 2009 Held in Conjunction with the 22nd Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09) University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~aow2009 AOW 2009 is the fifth in a series of workshops on ontologies held in the Australasian region. The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontology models and theories - Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Interoperability in ontologies - Ontologies and Multi-agent systems - Description logics for ontologies - Reasoning with ontologies - Ontology harvesting on the web - Ontology of agents and actions - Ontology visualisation - Ontology engineering and management - Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval - Ontology merging, alignment and integration - Web ontology languages - Formal concept analysis and ontologies - Ontologies for e-research - Linking open data - Significant ontology applications The proceedings of the four previous workshops were published as volumes in the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series (http://crpit.com/), and this will again be the case for AOW 2009. As with the previous workshops, we are investigating the possibility of extended versions of selected papers appearing in a special issue of a suitable journal. Submission information such as format etc. can be found on the CRPIT website: http://crpit.com/AuthorsSubmitting.html. The page limit is 10 pages. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 25 September 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 23 October 2009 Camera-ready copies due: 13 November 2009 AOW 2009: 1 December 2009 [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:41:30 +0100 From: Carlos Areces Subject: Call for Bids, ESSLLI 2011 ************************************************ * Call for Bids to Host the 23-th ESSLLI, 2011 * ************************************************ www.folli.org/ The Association for Logic, Language and Computation (FoLLI) and the ESSLLI Standing Committee invite proposals to host the 23-nd European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI), to be held in August 2011. *** The ESSLLI Summer School *** ESSLLI is a summer school which takes place two weeks in the summer, every year since 1989. The school hosts approximately 50 courses at both introductory and advanced level, and convokes around 500 participants each year from all over the world. The main focus of the program of the summer schools is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Courses, both introductory and advanced, cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Workshops are also organized, providing opportunities for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront of research, as well as a series of invited lectures. Detailed information about the ESSLLI organization can be found in the ESSLLI general guide, and the organizing and program committee guides. The guides can be obtained via the Standing Committee secretary. *** Submission Procedure *** At this time we seek draft proposals from prospective bidders. Based on an evaluation of the draft proposals, promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection procedure. The ESSLLI Standing Committee (SC), in consultation with the management board of FoLLI, will finally select the site, the organizing committee, and the program committee, and supervise the subsequent organization. *** Draft Proposals *** Draft proposals should identify a target site, date and organizing team with a chair who will be responsible for the overal organization. The organization committee is responsible for all matters having to do with the practical organization. Draft proposals should at least include information on: -> Location (accessibility; school venue; accommodation and facilities) -> Proposed dates and organizing team -> Endorsement by hosting organization -> Local Language, Logic, and Computation community -> Meeting and accommodation venues; audiovisual equipment -> Catering and reception facilities; social program opportunities -> Budget estimates [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Sep 20 08:18:29 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B8703BB74; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:18:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D7A3F3BB58; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:18:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090920081826.D7A3F3BB58@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:18:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.307 new on WWW: TextGrid Newsletter X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 307. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:22:48 +0100 From: "Neuroth, Heike" Subject: TextGrid Newsletter 06 *** English version below *** Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, liebe Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer des TextGrid Summits, wir freuen uns Ihnen heute den neuen TextGrid-Newsletter präsentieren zu können: http://www.textgrid.de/newsletter.html TextGrid startet mit neuen Fachcommunities in eine zweite Projektphase bis Mai 2012. In diesem Newsletter möchten wir Sie sowohl über den TextGrid Summit und die Veröffentlichung der TextGridLab Beta informieren, als auch einen Ausblick auf die kommende Projektlaufzeit geben, die am 1. Juni 2009 begonnen hat. Diese Ausgabe enthält Informationen zu folgenden Themen: * Zweite Projektphase von TextGrid bewilligt * Rückblick TextGrid Summit * TextGridLab Beta Release * Kooperationen * Veranstaltungsberichte * Aktuelle Veröffentlichungen Der Newsletter wird von den TextGrid-Partnern kooperativ erstellt. Sie können ihn auf der TextGrid-Homepage unter http://www.textgrid.de/newsletter/abonnieren.html abonnieren, bzw. sich davon abmelden. Dort haben Sie auch Zugriff auf alle früheren Newsletter (http://www.textgrid.de/newsletter/archiv.html). Freundliche Grüße, Heike Neuroth ********************************** Dear Colleagues, dear participants of the TextGrid Summit, today, we are pleased to present you the sixth TextGrid Newsletter: http://www.textgrid.de/en/newsletter.html TextGrid has just begun a second project phase through May 2012 with new interdisciplinary communities. In this Newsletter we want to inform you about the TextGrid Summit and the release of our software TextGridLab Beta, as well as to give you a preview on the new project phase which has started on June 1 2009. In this edition you will find information on the following topics: * Second project phase of TextGrid funded * A Look Back at the TextGrid Summit * TextGridLab Beta Release * Cooperation * Latest Events * Recent Publications The newsletter is a joint effort of all TextGrid partners. You can subscribe to it on the TextGrid website (http://www.textgrid.de/en/newsletter/subscribe.html). This page also contains an archive of past newsletters (http://www.textgrid.de/en/newsletter/archive.html). Sincerely, Heike Neuroth _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Sep 20 08:31:27 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC5A3A256; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:31:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 18E213A247; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:31:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090920083124.18E213A247@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:31:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.309 "digital" = "hot"? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 309. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:28:51 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: "digital" = "hot"? Recently, while walking up the local high road (main street) of the working-class suburban London village where I live, I spotted a sign that reads as follows: DIGITAL CAMERAS DIGITAL BATTERIES DIGITAL MEDIA A photo of this sign is, of course, already in the Dictionary of Words in the Wild, as http://ra.tapor.ualberta.ca/~dictionary/show/4634. But I draw your attention to it for philological reasons, for the middle phrase, "digital batteries". Ok, we do know what this actually means in technically defensible terms, i.e. "batteries for digital devices". But that is not what it actually says. As far as I know, batteries cannot be digital, and in any case, if they were, the folks in this neighbourhood wouldn't have a clue. What I sense is the use of "digital" as a transcendental virtue, synonymous with "hot", say, in the vernacular sense. Are there other occurrences anyone here has noticed of "digital" being used in that way? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 21 05:51:07 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42E493BA35; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:51:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8004E3BA23; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:51:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090921055104.8004E3BA23@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:51:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.310 digital/hot X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 310. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:15:04 -0500 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.309 "digital" = "hot"? > folks in this neighbourhood wouldn't have a clue Really? Really? Have we really come no distance at all in humanistic work that we still manage to cast dispersions on people we don't even know? I would have thought that digital humanities, which at its best opens up possibilities for a larger, more inclusive study of human meaning-making, would be the first to trample over the usual stereotypes about working-class this or rural that. I recognize that the term "digital humanities" is an awkwardly pitched tent that includes within its flaps not only what was/is humanities computing but also the various emergences of digital media in humanities research and communications. For this reason, I would hope that we would recognize at least the utility, cum expediency, of being inclusive if not the principled reason for being so. As I continue my own work into a group of men who invented an amphibious folk boat 25 years ago, I spend a lot of time thinking about tools, their uses, and their meanings. I had hoped that all these discussions about tools and prototypes as theories would have opened up our own imaginations to thinking about how tools create possibilities, offer the possibility for revising a worldview. It seems, in our own case, that our tools and our discussions about them have failed us. Our world seems no larger than it was before. -- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 laudun@louisiana.edu http://johnlaudun.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 22 05:58:50 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B963B0A6; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:58:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E66163B097; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:58:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090922055848.E66163B097@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:58:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.311 digital hot X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 311. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (46) Subject: digital/hot [2] From: Peter Organisciak (66) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.310 digital/hot --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:32:27 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital/hot Thanks to John Laudun for pointing out that my remarks could be read as insensitive if not inhumane. Hence my apologies for what they might seem to imply about an attitude toward the people here. What I intended to say as groundwork for the question I asked about the current meaning of "digital" was that in this particular village (which has been working-class since the great change in population that followed the coming of the railroad in the late 19C), socio-economic conditions are as good as one could get in this country to study commonly accepted meanings of words. The chances that anyone here would read signs with the peculiar mindset I take myself to have are as close to nil as possible. I know the people who run the camera and photocopy shop whose sign I referred to, and they, being asked, had no idea what I was going on about. I daresay that if a linguist were to stroll about in central London looking for the multiple connotations of words on signs, he or she would be hard pressed to find anyone who had a clue. Right now I am wondering about how little clue my colleagues will have when I tell them about the Dictionary in a formal lecture I am due to give in the early Spring.... "Working class" is a commonly accepted term in these parts for an evident and not by any means always negative designation of how the folks here sort demographically. It was very interesting for me to discover on moving to this village 12 years ago how comfortable, indeed proud some of my neighbours were with that social designation. I expected quite otherwise. Life, it seems, is more complex than one thinks, or at least as I tend to think until corrected. So, this is a great place to study language in the mode of the Dictionary of Words in the Wild. And collecting for that Dictionary opens one's eyes to the relation between location and demography, for the appeals made to what various kinds of people desire. Advertising in Heathrow, for example, plays on a different scale of wants by means of much more consciously sophisticated language and graphics -- the designers responsible are, I would suppose, the best in the business. But the most interesting environment by far (at least to my taste) is the one I live in. In terms of the density of words it is far more literate than the posh neighbourhoods of the West End. (What, exactly, do we mean by literate?) For us digital humanists what's interesting is the world of others' words we are now able to construct. The words ARE others', the construction is the photographers'. So the philosophical problem framing this activity and the study that comes from it grows rapidly more interesting too. So what about "digital"? Yours,WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:26:18 -0600 From: Peter Organisciak Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.310 digital/hot In-Reply-To: <20090921055104.8004E3BA23@woodward.joyent.us> John, I appreciate your passionate defense of the general population. However, it seems to be a bit misplaced in this context. The main question is whether "digital" has become an empty buzzword, intended to make the product it precedes sound more exciting. Willard's aside that there is, in fact, no such thing as "digital batteries" seems more to be proof of the throwaway nature of the word than a slanderous rumination on whether said imaginary product would be recognized by the general populace. (Of course, if there were such a thing, then the awareness that Willard and I lack would be telling...) Peter Organisciak On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 310. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:15:04 -0500 > From: John Laudun > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.309 "digital" = "hot"? > > > > folks in this neighbourhood wouldn't have a clue > > Really? Really? Have we really come no distance at all in humanistic > work that we still manage to cast dispersions on people we don't even > know? I would have thought that digital humanities, which at its best > opens up possibilities for a larger, more inclusive study of human > meaning-making, would be the first to trample over the usual > stereotypes about working-class this or rural that. I recognize that > the term "digital humanities" is an awkwardly pitched tent that > includes within its flaps not only what was/is humanities computing > but also the various emergences of digital media in humanities > research and communications. For this reason, I would hope that we > would recognize at least the utility, cum expediency, of being > inclusive if not the principled reason for being so. As I continue my > own work into a group of men who invented an amphibious folk boat 25 > years ago, I spend a lot of time thinking about tools, their uses, and > their meanings. I had hoped that all these discussions about tools and > prototypes as theories would have opened up our own imaginations to > thinking about how tools create possibilities, offer the possibility > for revising a worldview. It seems, in our own case, that our tools > and our discussions about them have failed us. Our world seems no > larger than it was before. > > -- > John Laudun > Department of English > University of Louisiana > Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 > laudun@louisiana.edu > http://johnlaudun.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: > http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 22 06:00:46 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15B3F3B119; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:00:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CCF143B10C; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:00:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090922060043.CCF143B10C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:00:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.312 why ideas don't catch on X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 312. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:26:06 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: why ideas don't catch on Reviewing the crucial transition in the history of AI between comparing two sets of hardware (brain vs computer) to comparing to sets of functions (thinking vs information processing), Pamela McCorduck considers why the information processing model didn't catch on in the U.K. until the mid 1960s: > That's a curiosity, for it might seem now that the information > processing model for formalizing intelligent behavior had been > anticipated by workers in the 1940s, and was just waiting to be > seized by anyone with open eyes. Indeed, how was this approach to be > avoided? Those concerned were open-eyed people -- the Ratio Club in > London, the Teleological Society, and the Macy meetings in the United > States -- all devoted to the mathematical analysis of the nervous > system (and as Wiener notes, you cannot study the nervous system > without studying the mind), and the digital computer was at hand, a > medium for realizing all those formalisms shimmering with promise. > Surely psychologists and physiologists sang hosannas to celebrate the > possibility of a scientific solution to the mind-body problem and, > metaphorically speaking, hoisted to their shoulders these heroic > pioneers. She concludes, > No. Science is a human institution, and things don't work that way. > While some did leap at the new ideas and wanted to apply them to > everything under the sun, the evidence of the scientific journals is > that the new thinking was a long time being adopted, and that in fact > cybernetics had all but disappeared as a field by the time its > contributions were coming to be widely applied. (Machines Who Think, p. 68) I certainly hope that we don't all disappear by the time our ideas and institutional structures are widely adopted. But there is here a useful caution, that just because the ideas don't catch on does not mean that the fault lies with them! We pride ourselves with work which fundamentally changes things (or so we believe, and say). It's not surprising, I suppose, that there should be considerable resistance, esp from those who have the most to lose. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 23 05:00:59 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4C873B65F; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:00:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 674EB3B63B; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:00:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090923050055.674EB3B63B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:00:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.313 digital hot X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 313. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: robert delius royar (35) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.311 digital hot [2] From: Wendell Piez (14) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.311 digital hot --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:23:00 -0400 From: robert delius royar Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.311 digital hot In-Reply-To: <20090922055848.E66163B097@woodward.joyent.us> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:26:18 -0600 Peter Organisciak wrote > > Willard's aside that there is, in fact, no > such thing as "digital batteries" seems more to be proof of the throwaway > nature of the word than a slanderous rumination on whether said imaginary > product would be recognized by the general populace. > > (Of course, if there were such a thing, then the awareness that Willard and > I lack would be telling...) Perhaps there is or will be. A Google search for "digital batteries" turned up the following (among 37,000+ hits): http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009APS..MARY27013H Digital Batteries Hubler, Alfred American Physical Society, 2009 APS March Meeting, March 16-20, 2009, abstract #Y27.013 The energy density in conventional capacitors is limited by sparking. We present nano-capacitor arrays, where - like in laser diodes and quantum wells [1] - quantization prevents dielectric breakthrough. We show that the energy density and the power/weight ratio are very high, possibly larger than in hydrogen [2]. Digital batteries are a potential clean energy source for cars, laptops, and mobile devices. The technology is related to flash drives. However, because of the high energy density, safety is a concern. Digital batteries can be easily and safely charged and discharged. In the discharged state they pose no danger. Even if a charged digital battery were to explode, it would produce no radioactive waste, no long-term radiation, and probably could be designed to produce no noxious chemicals. We discuss methodologies to prevent shorts and other measures to make digital batteries safe. [1] H. Higuraskh, A. Toriumi, F. Yamaguchi, K. Kawamura, A. Hubler, Correlation Tunnel Device, U. S. Patent No. 5,679,961 (1997) [2] Alfred Hubler, http://server10.how-why.com/blog/ -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English, Morehead State University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:46:38 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.311 digital hot In-Reply-To: <20090922055848.E66163B097@woodward.joyent.us> Hi, I'm not even sure there's no such thing as a "digital battery", and I was trained to be an "English professor". Cheers, Wendell ======================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 23 05:02:31 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 265773B6CC; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:02:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1BB843B6C3; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:02:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090923050227.1BB843B6C3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:02:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.314 resistance to new ideas X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 314. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joris van Zundert (102) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.312 why ideas don't catch on [2] From: Willard McCarty (23) Subject: more on resistance to new ideas --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:34:51 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.312 why ideas don't catch on In-Reply-To: <20090922060043.CCF143B10C@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Maybe somewhat over provocative put: I thought this was kind of standard practice in academia? Isn't the whole sluggish peer system intended to stop good ideas from getting adopted unless welcomed by establishment - certainly in our field where the concept of 'proof' is still a hazardous contemplative area to go? I have a rather Darwinian take on this: if ideas fit a particular context they will eventually be adopted and maybe even practiced. So ideas that find large response might not actually be the best ideas (depending on your viewpoints and interests), but they certainly are most fitting their environment. The nice addition then is (in Darwinian sense) that ideas don't necessarily go extinct when not meeting their proper context immediately. Like seeds they may only be activated after numerous years. Until their time comes they just wait with everlasting patience on the paper of some journal in some forgotten corner of some library. And for all other practical purposes, until the survival of the fittest idea shows what actually is usable and of value, anyone doing research should regard his ideas as fundamentally brilliant to further the discussion. Best -- Joris -- Mr. Joris J. van Zundert (MA) Huygens Institute IT R&D Team Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Contact information at http://snipurl.com/jvz_hi_en --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:13:26 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: more on resistance to new ideas In-Reply-To: <20090922060043.CCF143B10C@woodward.joyent.us> Nothing particularly new, or surprising, but perhaps useful just the same: more from Pamela McCorduck, specifically addressing the resistance to AI, and so to new ideas in science, but applicable quite generally. > What moves [science], what opens the universe for us, is a dogged > pursuit by committed individuals of a hunch, a theory, a feeling. If > this hunch runs against the prevailing beliefs, the theoretician can > expect skepticism, even such penalties as being removed from > committees or denied funds or a job. If lucky, our theoretician can > at least expect attack. If unlucky, he or she will be ignored > altogether. It takes an astonishing strength of personality or an > unusual disregard for social approbation to be original in science, > or anywhere else. More often than not, an astonishing strength of > personality is a pain to put up with. As a consequence, scientific > arguments transform themselves into feuds that are painful, comical, > unedifying, but scientifically energizing. (Machines Who Think, p. 172) Where are our feuds? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 23 05:06:18 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 666423B78F; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:06:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 92A1C3B77E; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:06:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090923050614.92A1C3B77E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:06:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.315 events: democratizing knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 315. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:34:35 -0400 From: hastac-web@duke.edu Subject: Join HASTAC Scholars' forum on Democratizing Knowledge /NancyKimberly has sent you a group e-mail from HASTAC./ Dear colleagues, Many of you are perfect examples of, and experts on, our newest HASTAC Scholars' forum: Democratizing Knowledge (to see the first posts, scroll down). Public scholarship, community collaboration, action research, civically engaged pedagogy -- I know the HASTAC community would love to hear from you. Here's the link: http://www.hastac.org/forums/hastac-scholars-discussions/democratizing-k... [1] Organizations like HASTAC [2], Imagining America [3], the Obermann Graduate Institute for Public Engagement at the University of Iowa [4], the Center for Teaching at the University of Iowa [5], and the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington [6] aim to democratize knowledge to reach out to "publics," share academic discoveries, and invite an array of audiences to participate in knowledge production.  Of course, emerging technologies and media offer the potential to widen even further the reach of public scholarship and the breadth of community partnerships. More specifically, in the context of the digital humanities, democratizing knowledge often refers to making scholarship public, to opening access to university resources and research through, for example, the creation and preservation of digital archives and journals. For scholars, these projects afford rich possibilities for deep collaborative work that is ongoing and historically absent from the humanities' scholarly paradigm. Yet practitioners of the digital humanities can also democratize knowledge by collaborating with their community partners to produce public scholarship, often through action research, experiential learning, and civically engaged pedagogy, all of which ultimately re-situate and reformulate expertise. According to Teresa Mangum (faculty at University of Iowa and co-director of the Obermann Institute on Public Engagement), as with new information technologies, public scholarship can radically redefine who finds, owns, and gives knowledge.  Put this way, the goal is for practitioners to forward research and pedagogy while serving the community in a way that is a truly reciprocal partnership. With democratizing knowledge and the digital humanities in mind, we are interested in learning more about people's varying experiences in (and theories on) the use of emerging technologies and media to make scholarship public and/or produce public scholarship. We invite you to join us as we discuss + The requirements, terms, goals, practices and hopes for public scholarship or engaging with public(s) vary depending on the project and groups interacting. What are your best practices for developing and implementing projects with your community? + What are the benefits and risks to consider when developing community-driven or joint academic-community projects? + How are terms like "democracy," "public," and "scholarship" mobilized in digital humanities projects, for whom, and to what effects? What are the assumptions, definitions, and desires attached to each of these terms? + How do community partnerships affect perceptions and deployments of expertise? Does the notion of "the expert" change or collapse?" + How do you evaluate different forms of technology for your public knowledge projects? Have some forms of technology been more useful or productive than others? Best, Nancy Kimberly HASTAC Project Manager [1] http://www.hastac.org/forums/hastac-scholars-discussions/democratizing-knowledge-digital-humanities [2] http://www.hastac.org [3] http://www.imaginingamerica.org/ [4] http://www.uiowa.edu/obermann/ [5] http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Ecenteach/ [6] http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/index.php -- HASTAC Announcements are sent to all members of HASTAC.org. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alan Sondheim (93) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.313 digital hot [2] From: Willard McCarty (11) Subject: batteries digitalized --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:48:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.313 digital hot Just want to point out that many batteries have electronics in them that, among other things, often register the degree of discharge; these are made specifically for digital devices, and I've heard them referred to as digital batteries accordingly. - Alan == current text file: http://www.alansondheim.org/qg.txt sondheim mail-text archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org sondheimat gmail.com, panix.com == --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:26:46 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: batteries digitalized I stand corrected on the electronics of modern batteries, even as I use one of them. I was still thinking in the manner of Volta, of the battery I made from blotting paper and a couple of coins when I was very young. So, the linguistic situation is even more interesting than I had supposed. Here is an interesting question about context: what tells us which meaning of "digital" (zeroes & ones vs hot) in any given instance? Certainly not the transcribed words. Yours,WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 24 05:22:47 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB9DB3CB28; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:22:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D56DA3CB11; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:22:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090924052245.D56DA3CB11@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:22:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.317 student bursaries? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 317. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:12:29 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Student bursaries? Hi Everyone, Over at ACH, we're trying to collate a list of bursaries that are available for students/young schoalrs to help them attend events in Digital Humanities events. For example - the student bursaries available from ADHO to go to the Digital Humanities Conferences - the bursaries available to attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at Victoria Are there any others out there that we should know of? Any pointers gratefully received! Melissa -- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication Department of 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@ucl.ac.uk Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/melissa-terras/ Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ Digital Images for the Information Professional. Available now through all good bookshops, or from Ashgate at http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&pageSubject=324&title_id=8986&edition_id=9780 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 24 05:24:06 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC99A3CBC6; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:24:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7DB0E3CBBE; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:24:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090924052404.7DB0E3CBBE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:24:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.318 recommendations for field laser scanners? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 318. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:11:51 +0100 From: Dan O'Donnell Subject: Field Laser Scanning Hi all, For a grant application, I need to submit quotes on field laser scanning. We need to scan the Bewcastle, Ruthwell, and perhaps Brussels crosses to a very high degree of detail. Ruthwell is in a church, Bewcastle exposed in a field, and Brussels in a cathedral treasury. Ruthwell and Bewcastle are stone and around 15 feet tall; Brussels is partially gilt, and a couple of feet tall at most. We may use a different technique on Brussels. In the past we've used Archaeoptics, but my understanding is that they are now defunct. We also have had quotes from the CNS in Pisa. Does anybody have other recommendations? Obviously vendors in the U.K. would be obvious choices, but our experience is that the travel costs are not the largest part of the expense and that vendors on the continent can compete with British vendors quite well. I greatly appreciate any suggestions! -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/) Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Vox: +1 403 329-2377 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 26 07:43:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB4E83CFFE; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:43:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4FCF13CFE7; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:43:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090926074322.4FCF13CFE7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:43:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.319 student bursaries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 319. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Wendell Piez (34) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.317 student bursaries? [2] From: Wilhelm Ott (78) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.317 student bursaries? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:35:58 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.317 student bursaries? In-Reply-To: <20090924052245.D56DA3CB11@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Melissa, This year for the first time, the Balisage conference offered student awards, which went a significant way to covering the conference registrations of the winners. Three awards were given, and the program was popular both with attendees and sponsors, so it is (highly) likely it will happen again, possibly at a higher level of support. See the Balisage web site at http://balisage.net/. Unfortunately, no details about the awards program are there at the moment, while they are being settled for next year. (I can give you more details off list). Cheers, Wendell At 01:22 AM 9/24/2009, you wrote: >Hi Everyone, > >Over at ACH, we're trying to collate a list of bursaries that are available >for students/young schoalrs to help them attend events in Digital Humanities >events. For example >- the student bursaries available from ADHO to go to the Digital >Humanities Conferences >- the bursaries available to attend the Digital Humanities Summer >Institute at Victoria > >Are there any others out there that we should know of? Any pointers >gratefully received! =========================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:09:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilhelm Ott Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.317 student bursaries? In-Reply-To: <20090924052245.D56DA3CB11@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Melissa, the International TUSTEP User ITUG group offers bursaries for students wishing to attend TUSTEP courses or ITUG meetings / conferences. See www.itug.de/stipendien.html Best Wilhelm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ott phone: +49-7071-987656 Universitaet Tuebingen fax: +49-7071-987622 c/o Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung e-mail: wilhelm.ott@uni-tuebingen.de Waechterstrasse 76 D-72074 Tuebingen _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 26 07:47:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606803B0E7; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:47:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 10CB33B0D4; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:47:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090926074706.10CB33B0D4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:47:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.320 claiming interdisciplinarity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 320. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:39:02 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: claiming interdisciplinarity Those here who are engaged with the interdisciplinary activities of humanities computing may, like me, be concerned with the fact that the term "interdisciplinary" is used with such abandon that it is in danger of becoming useless to describe what in fact happens in our work. In many contexts it seems to have become nothing more than a "phatic" expression -- defined by Bernard Malinowski to mean "a type of speech in which ties of union are created by a mere exchange of words", or more plainly, "trivial or purely formal verbal contact" (OED). It is used, to borrow Peter Galison's expression, as a transcendental virtue. Hence I read with great interest the following note in the newsletter of The Leverhulme Trust, for September 2007, from the Director, Professor Sir Richard Brook. (Those unfamiliar with the Trust might take a look at www.leverhulme.ac.uk/.) I quote the Director's Note in full because I suspect it will be useful to some here and does need wider circulation. The original text may be found online at the above site. > Among the criteria used by the Trust in its selection of the research > proposals which it chooses to support is ‘the extent to which the > proposal moves beyond incremental development with a single > discipline’. Friends of the Trust may be tempted to ask themselves > ‘why this convoluted terminology?’. Here it must be admitted that the > origin lies in a compulsion to avoid the increasingly common > ‘interdisciplinary’ reflex. The use of this word in academic circles > has now become that of the universal prestigious attribute, i.e., > everyone sees it as a desirable quality but everyone sees fit to > claim it. (I have for many years questioned audiences with a view to > identifying ‘single discipline researchers’; no-one has come forward > to represent this role.) In bids to the Trust and in interviews with > applicants, the attribute of interdisciplinarity is almost invariably > advanced; on scrutiny, however, it tends to have taken on a somewhat > fractal character. It can be genuinely generous linking such sectors > as archaeology, climate and politics; it can be alarmingly fastidious > involving parallel work on two organic molecules. This elasticity of > difference has greatly softened the value of the term (somewhat as in > the case of ‘excellence’?). > > Nonetheless, the ambition to bring to the understanding of a complex > and intellectually fascinating theme all those aspects of our culture > which are needed for progress retains its validity. There is no doubt > that the applicant who has gathered in the set of skills which is > required by the character of a research problem for its comprehensive > exploration wins the greatest of respect from the Trustees. The > applicants who, by repeated emphasis on their own interdisciplinarity > tend to reveal the extent to which they are daunted by supposed > frontiers, are encouraged to reflect on the Trust’s criterion and ‘to > ask themselves an honest question’. > > Richard Brook For other reasons I have recently been asking myself from where the push toward thoughtless claims to "interdisciplinarity" (and to its mate "collaboration") are coming. If, as seems, we are being encouraged, even rewarded for irresponsible use of language, indeed of terms that *can* have real meaning but are used to sex up work that is in fact not genuinely interdisciplinary, then who is pushing? I am reminded of a scrap of an interview I heard on the BBC years ago, of someone who must have been reasonably high up in one of the British universities, who asked this same question about the push toward vocational training. He related work he had done with prominent businessmen in the U.K. to determine what sort of graduates they wanted. He said he was told in no uncertain terms that they did not want universities to be engaging in job-training, at which, the businessmen said, universities are ill-suited. One businessman he quoted (as representative of the lot) said that universities should do what they are good at by nature -- train students to think critically -- and let the business-world do the training for business. "Why", the interviewee asked, "when we are given this answer every time we ask, do we persist in attempting to train students for jobs in the commercial sector?" Indeed, why? Wcan be glad that at least one funding body sees through the false claims, is asking for thoughtful honesty and rewarding its expression. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Sep 27 06:48:07 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F073C01A; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:48:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E0E4D3C00A; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:48:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090927064803.E0E4D3C00A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:48:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.321 student bursaries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 321. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:27:41 +0200 From: Bernie Frischer Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.319 student bursaries In-Reply-To: <20090926074322.4FCF13CFE7@woodward.joyent.us> Computer Applications to Archaeology (CAA) offers bursaries to students and other participants to attend its annual meetings. See www.caa2009.org. Next year's meeting will take place in April in Granada, Spain. -Bernard Frischer, Chair CAA 2009 Scientific Committee Bernard Frischer www.frischerconsulting.com/frischer 130 Terrell Road East Charlottesville, Virginia home tel.: +1-434-971-1435 cell: +1-310-266-0183 ------------------------------- Via F. Ozanam 75 00152 Rome Italy Italian cell: +39-349-473-6590 Rome tel.: +39-06-537-3951 --------------------------------- Skype: bernard.frischer _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Sep 27 06:50:21 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED13C3C108; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:50:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5B8C53C0EC; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:50:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090927065017.5B8C53C0EC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:50:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.322 claiming interdisciplinarity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 322. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Gerry Coulter (8) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.320 claiming interdisciplinarity [2] From: Sterling Fluharty (162) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.320 claiming interdisciplinarity --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:07:35 -0400 From: Gerry Coulter Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.320 claiming interdisciplinarity Re: claiming interdisciplinarity It has always been an odd and somewhat useless term as most if not all research is driven by questions which may be claimed by many disciplines. "Discipline" now there's an interesting word to describe academe. Perhaps, given the police-like qualities of many who like the concept "discipline(s)" we may come to look upon "interdisciplinary" as a kind of academic INTERPOL --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:40:27 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.320 claiming interdisciplinarity In-Reply-To: <20090926074706.10CB33B0D4@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, This article provides a useful interview, particularly the section titled "Barriers": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinarity What appears below are my own thoughts mixed in with what you will find in the above link. I agree that a lot of scholars claim their work is interdisciplinary, often because they are trying to boost the status of their discipline and win the favor of deans and other administrators who control the purse strings in higher education. More often than not this results in the kind of cosmetic interdisciplinary work we are all familiar with, where scholars exploit a few methods from closely-related discipline to improve their own scholarship and serve the interests of their home discipline. Unfortunately, some observers fail to notice that serious interdisciplinary work does happen when teams tackle some of the most complex human problems. In those cases, team members must be fluent in more than one discipline, able to translate between disciplinary perspectives, and committed to creating new knowledge that any one discipline on its own could produce. The methodologies developed within Bioinformatics stand out as a good example of this process in recent history. The unfortunate truth is that traditional disciplines frequently become jealous when a certain sector of interdisciplinary work begins to outstrip the birthing disciplines in terms of producing valuable knowledge and cutting edge research. Particularly during times of recession, the traditional disciplines will claim they deserve the majority of available funding because of the numbers of students taking their courses and therefore they lobby for funding cuts in interdisciplinary programs. Some interdisciplinary fields survive this competition by carving out a nonthreatening existence on the margins of the existing disciplines. Others, like Bioinformatics and Neuroscience, succeed at navigating the politics of higher education and become new disciplines so that they can control funding and faculty appointments. What remains to be seen is what path the digital humanities will take. Will our appropriation of methodologies from other disciplines facilitate work that is interdisciplinary in name only? Will some digital humanists obtain an additional degree in computer science and join truly interdisciplinary teams? At what point will traditional humanists feel threatened by the new methodologies and new kinds of knowledge coming out of the best work in the digital humanities? Now that the digital humanities have their own office in the NEH, how long will it take for traditional humanists to become jealous of their success? Will traditional humanists reassert themselves, for the sake of protecting department budgets that serve student needs, and oppose increased funding for work in the digital humanities? And if the history of higher education offers any prediction of what will happen, will digital humanists be forced to form their own discipline? Or will any attempt at disciplinary genesis for the digital humanities fail because the range of practitioners in the field represent vastly different home disciplines, unlike in the above examples where scholars needed to bridge the differences between only a couple of disciplines? Best wishes, Sterling Fluharty University of New Mexico _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Sep 27 06:52:06 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BD53C1C2; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:52:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9B7FF3C1B3; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:52:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090927065202.9B7FF3C1B3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:52:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.323 events: digital text & scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 323. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (137) Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, Autumn 2009 [2] From: Christian Wittern (14) Subject: CFP "New Directions in Textual Scholarship": deadline extended --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:52:01 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, Autumn 2009 Following is the programme for the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship for October through December 2009. For more information, e.g. about location and the overall nature of the Seminar, see www.tinyurl.com/LondonSeminar/. Proposals for seminars in the Spring are welcome. WM ----- 08 October 2009 (Thursday) Venue: Room 275 (Stewart House) Time: 17:30 - 19:30 Speaker: Ray Siemens, 'Imagining a History for the Future of the Book' No form of human knowledge passes into a new medium unchanged. Digital technology is fundamentally altering the way we relate to writing, reading, and the human record itself. The pace of that change has created a gap between core cultural and social practices that depend on stable reading and writing environments, and the new kinds of digital artifacts - electronic books, being just one type of many - that must sustain those practices into the future. This paper will discuss work toward bridging this gap by theorizing the transmission of culture in pre- and post-electronic media, by documenting the facets of how people experience information as readers and writers, by designing new kinds of interfaces and artifacts that afford readers new abilities and by sharing those designs in online prototypes that implement new knowledge environments for researchers and the public. At a time when the human record is entering the electronic medium in a world connected by the Internet, this research concern is important to all facets of society. It was addressed initially by consultations held under the title “Implementing the New Knowledge Machine: Human Computer Interaction and the Electronic Book”; these consultations drew together researchers and representative stake-holding research partners comprising interdisciplinary expertise from over 90 fields and sub-fields ranging from philosophy and cultural studies to visual communication design and robotics. They concluded that chief among the reasons for the limitations currently found in electronic books and documents is the fact that they are still predominantly modelled on print-based textual forms, with research and development of such digital materials chiefly focusing on mimicking the look and feel of print - an approach founded importing critical and textual models from print without understanding them fully. Hence, such work fails to capitalize on the technical possibilities of cybernetic simulation (following McGann 2001). To achieve all the benefits of computation in these digital artifacts, our work suggested that research in this area must begin with a re-conception of core critical and textual models from the following perspectives: [1] the evolution of reading and writing technologies from antiquity to the present; [2] the mechanics and pragmatics associated with written forms of knowledge; [3] strategies of reading and organization within those forms; and [4] the computational possibilities latent in written forms and manifest in emerging technology. My talk will discuss this project, and the work that has emanated from it since our establishment as a developmental cluster. This paper represents the work of a research team consisting of some 35 researchers from Canada, the USA, and the UK, across 20 institutions, working with 21 research partners ranging from scholarly groups and academic publishers to libraries and software/hardware manufacturers; the theoretical and conceptual foundations of this work were laid in 2005, and a 7-year funded work-cycle began in 2009. Ray Siemens (web.uvic.ca/~siemens/) is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria with appointment also in Computer Science. The editor of several Renaissance texts, Siemens is also the founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies; he has authored numerous articles on the intersection of literary studies and computational methods and is the co-editor of several book collections on humanities computing topics, among them Blackwell's Companion to Digital Humanities (with Susan Schreibman and John Unsworth) and Companion to Digital Literary Studies (with Susan Schreibman ). He is director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (www.dhsi.org) and the INKE project. ----- 12 November 2009 (Thursday) Venue: Room 275 (Stewart House) Time: 17:30 - 19:30 Speakers: Zuzana Husarova, 'Reading Digital Fiction' Digital fiction, which denotes a work produced by digital media in which the author offers a fictional world, is not a totally new type of digital literary art. It is attested by numerous online writings in a wide variety of languages, also by a broad scale of research approaches providing tools for reflecting on digital fiction. After the previous tendencies to consider hypertext as a realization of poststructuralist textual theory, present day theoretical research on digital fiction is concerned mostly with the concepts of cybertext, materiality, code, intermedial relations, the aesthetics of new media and multimedia. The problematic materiality of digital literature may be taken into consideration if we approach the work not from the perspective of “transparent immediacy” but with Katherine Hayles’ notion of “technotext” – a literary work with strong correlation between the technology and the verbal constructions. Such text responds to the technological possibilities at the author’s disposal, making an irreversible change to the author’s creative praxis. This talk addresses those qualities of digital fiction which make it digital by nature. I argue that its narrative is characteristically fragmented, multilinear, interactive, performative, dynamic, intermedial and ludic. I argue further that these qualities reflect the society within which the fiction is written, that they get „transcribed“ into the creation and reception of the literary work of art and also determine the way the art is produced and read. According to Joost Raessens, digital technology advances the „ludification of culture”, the inclination towards the ludic attitude. It also, however, brings to bear a diversity of media on storytelling and provides means for producing the most intensive experience in the shortest possible time. ----- 08 December 2009 (Tuesday) Venue: Room 275 (Stewart House) Time: 17:30 - 19:30 Speakers: Paul Arthur, 'History's Digital Future' Digital history spans disciplines and can take many forms. New modes of publication, new methods for doing research, and new channels of communication are making historical research richer, more relevant and more widely accessible. Many applications of computer based research and publication are natural extensions of the established techniques for researching and writing history. Others are consciously experimental. Although computer technology started to revolutionize the discipline of history many decades ago, genres and formats for recording and presenting history using digital media are not well established. Are new technologies and methodologies fundamentally changing how we interpret the past? If so, in what ways? Dr Paul Arthur (paul.arthur@anu.edu.au) is a Research Fellow at the Australia Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, and an Adjunct Research Fellow of the Research School of Humanities, Australian National University. He has held various visiting fellowships, including to the Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, USA, the National Museum of Australia (2007), the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University (2006), and through the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2004). In 2004 he was Helen and John S. Best Research Fellow at the American Geographical Society Library and an Associate of the Center for 21st Century Studies, at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (USA). Dr Arthur's research focuses on how new technologies are transforming the way history is recorded and studied. He was drawn to the digital history field after completing a PhD in eighteenth century literary history at The University of Western Australia. Prior to taking up a position at Curtin University he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Murdoch University. He has published widely on digital humanities topics and also on Australian cultural history. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:12:42 +0200 From: Christian Wittern Subject: CFP "New Directions in Textual Scholarship": deadline extended CFP "New Directions in Textual Scholarship": deadline extended The deadline of the call for papers for the International Symposium "New Directions in Textual Scholarship" to be held March 2010 in Saitama/Tokyo, Japan has been extended until September 30, 2009 (23:59 JST). Proposals arriving later than this can not be considered. For more information about the symposium and the call for papers, please visit http://www.kyy.saitama-u.ac.jp/users/myojo/textjapan/cfp.html. For the program committee Christian Wittern, Kyoto University Kiyoko Myojo, Saitama University -- Christian Wittern Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 28 05:27:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97A83A917; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:27:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B7C593A90C; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:27:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090928052720.B7C593A90C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:27:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.324 claiming interdisciplinarity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 324. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:08:03 -0300 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.322 claiming interdisciplinarity Willard, I'd like to use Sterling Fluharty's thoughtful response to your invitation to think about interdisciplinarity, Willard, as an opportunity to enter into the conversation, but with a bit of trepidation because I fear I'll really simply be venting my frustration toward a particularly obstreperous colleague. Sterling asks "Will some digital humanists obtain an additional degree in computer science and join truly interdisciplinary teams?" and "At what point will traditional humanists feel threatened by the new methodologies and new kinds of knowledge coming out of the best work in the digital humanities?" I'm a little envious of those who have not already encountered people representative of the second question, and am sceptical of the value implied by the first half of the first question. Gerry Coulter is right, I think, in calling attention to "discipline" as it functions in the development of academic researchers, teachers, scholars. The point of any practice is surely to embed it to the level of pseudo- instinct in her or him who practices, so that she or he will respond to any situation (new knowledge, in the case of academia) in a manner that conforms with best practice. Swerving to avoid an object on the road, for example, rather than hammering the breaks and causing a pile- up. In an academic example, when the English scholar encounters a law text, she or he reads it in accordance with the way she or he has been disciplined to read texts. A lawyer will read the same text in accordance with her or his disciplinary practice, and the two are distinct. Thus, the English scholar who claims to be interdisciplinary because she or he reads texts usually read within another discipline is exactly the person Richard Brook suggested needs to take a long hard look at her- or himself. I think "join[ing] truly interdisciplinary teams" is the only legitimate way to work in an interdisciplinary fashion. The discipline into which one's ways of thinking are made to conform will always trump other ways of thinking about whatever content one approaches, won't they? So as a single thoughtful entity I can approach a problem as a philosopher or as a historian, as an English scholar or an archivist, etc., but the best an individual will be able to do is to inform her or his primary mode of thought, primary discipline, with secondary influences from another. Surely it will require a computer scientist to argue forcefully in favour of that disciplinary perspective in the face of the English scholar's disciplinary perspective, and vice versa, to produce a result that is equitably informed by both disciplines. We ought not fool ourselves into believing that since we have obtained an additional degree we our now able to split ourselves into two sufficiently independent entities to produce genuinely interdisciplinary work. I think the team, made up of individuals who swerve instinctively toward the computer science solution rather than the anthropological solution, etc., is a basic requirement of any work to be considered interdisciplinary. Cheers, Richard Acadia University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 29 05:46:45 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 304E73D94A; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:46:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 177183D93B; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:46:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090929054642.177183D93B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:46:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.325 claiming interdisciplinarity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 325. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:00:14 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: being plural The question Richard Cunningham raises via assertion, of whether anyone trained in discipline X can wholly think his or her way into discipline Y, gets down to cases and probabilities, I'd think. Northrop Frye, in a version of the Medieval "centrum ubique" argument, spoke of starting with a structure that could expand into other structures. Thomas Kuhn spoke of the wrenching agony of switching among the three disciplines in which he worked (physics, history, philosophy), of their incommesurability. Frye was always a literary critic, but he could stand on another's ground -- as a student I was convinced anyone's, anytime, though he would never have made that claim. Kuhn (one who knew him well once said) was always really a philosopher, and wanted to be regarded that way. I wonder, however, what profit there is in dealing with the question of whether X can become Y. The point for the work we do, I'd think, is to become agile in moving in and out of various disciplines, to expand, to improve what we begin with. Sometimes the work we set out to do will involve others who are proper representatives of disciplines Y, Z and W etc. Sometimes, for purposes of our own, we'll play all the parts. I've always tried to test the results when I do that against colleagues who know those disciplines from the inside. I don't mind being told I have a strong accent, but I do want to be understood in foreign parts. The point, I'd think, is in the process, the travelling around, not in achieving total indistinguishability from the natives. For someone full-time in humanities computing, though, this would seem to mean at our stage of development a home-base stocked mostly with others' goods, its aesthetics a matter of arrangement. Like my bookshelves, whose principle of organization I have never yet been able to get straight. But it does seem clear to me that the richness and depth of the collection is due to the mixture of borrowed subjects (not borrowed books, I hasten to add). The virtue of multiple cohesibilities rather than of singular coherence? Yours,WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 29 05:47:21 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DC633D9F1; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:47:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DA00F3D9EA; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:47:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090929054719.DA00F3D9EA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:47:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.326 honest AI can teach us X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 326. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:16:07 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the humour of honesty Many here will enjoy a long-ago article in the ACM SIGART ("special interest group for artificial intelligence") Bulletin 57, April 1976, Drew McDermott's "Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity", in which he calls the then already maturing field of AI to account for its sloppy thinking. It's salutory as well as enjoyable because it gives a fine example of honesty within a field that is readily transferrable to our own. McDermott goes on at length, for example, about mnemonics, like UNDERSTAND or PROBLEM SOLVER, by which the programmer "is (until proven innocent) merely begging the question. He may mislead a lot of people, most prominently himself, and enrage a lot of others." "When you say (GOAL ...),", he notes, "you can just feel the enormous power at your fingertips. It is, of course, an illusion." I am particularly fond of his concluding suggestion regarding research in AI: > The standard for such research should be a partial success, but AI as > a field is starving for a few carefully documented failures. Anyone > can think of several theses that could be improved stylistically and > substantively by being rephrased as reports on failures. I can learn > more by just being told why a technique won't work than by being made > to read between the lines. Where are our "carefully documented failures"? Have we been so seduced by a naive notion of progress and so browbeaten by the imperative to get grants that we have hidden them? Yours,WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 29 05:48:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE653DA6C; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:48:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 37F803DA3B; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:48:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090929054820.37F803DA3B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:48:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.327 events: museums and the web X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 327. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:58:44 +0100 From: j trant Subject: MW2010 CFP: Deadline Wed. Sept 30, 2009 MW2010 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Deadline September 30, 2009 Museums and the Web 2010 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 13-17, 2010 Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/ Don't miss this chance to present your best work at the premiere international conference devoted to culture, heritage, art, and science on-line: Museums and the Web. Taking an international perspective, MW reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Our community has been meeting since 1997, imagining, tracking, analyzing, and influencing the role museums play on the Web. PROPOSALS ARE DUE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2009. Submit your proposal using our on-line form at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/papers/mw2010.proposalForm.html We're open to proposals on on any topic related to museums and their communities creating, facilitating, or delivering culture, science or heritage on-line. Proposals for MW are peer-reviewed by an International Program Committee. Full details about MW2010 can be found on the conference web site at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/ We hope to see you in Denver, jennifer and David -- ------------ Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2010 produced by April 13-17, 2010, Denver, Colordo Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2010@archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 30 05:00:54 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBCFD357B2; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:00:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 12F09357A3; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:00:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090930050049.12F09357A3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:00:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.328 events: inscribed surfaces X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 328. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:41:28 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Object, Artefact and Script: digital approaches to inscribed surfaces We should like to let you know about a two-day seminar, 'Object, Artifact and Script: digital approaches to inscribed surfaces', to be held at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh on (Thursday and Friday) 8-9 October, 2009. (Programme will be posted at http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1014/ .) The event description follows: The text upon an object is both evidence for and part of its form and therefore its function; just as the construction and purpose of an object gives context to and aids in the interpretation of text. Indeed, the form of an object effects the placement and design of text and decoration upon it. Non-verbal decorations drawn or painted on an object fall somewhere between (2-D) text and (3-D) physical object: like the text they are added by the scribe or artist, they have semantic (if not verbal) connotation, and are often taken out of the material context of the object; like the object, however, they are considered as artistic and visual content, and are hard to digitize meaningfully. Nevertheless they sometimes come closest to crossing the artificial boundary and may be studied by both philologists and archaeologists. Text may also be constrained by the placement of decoration on a surface, or vice versa. This conference will bring together scholars from a variety of fields who study objects and texts side by side to discuss the ways in which advanced computer science methods can enhance both their own work and the nature of their collaborations with other researchers working on the same objects. Methods to be considered will include (but need not be restricted to): * Linking/connecting text and images of objects within digital editions/projects, or making object description an intrinsic part of a text edition; * Advanced imaging (3D surface scanning, multi-spectral imaging, non-invasive volumetric scanning, stereographic/photogrammetric imaging) to bring lost or damaged text/engraving out of objects; * Automated text/character analysis; identification of text fields/columns/lines; * Reconstruction and visualization of damaged, unclear or complex text-bearing objects; * Digital placing of objects in historical and archaeological contexts to highlight textual/non-textual features. If you are interested in attending this event, please register on the eSI website, and confirmation will be sent you as soon as possible. Regards, Gabriel Bodard Stuart Dunn -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 30 05:01:30 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02FF135807; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:01:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5155D357ED; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:01:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090930050121.5155D357ED@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:01:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.329 claiming interdisciplinarity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 329. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:35:37 +0100 From: "Helena Barbas" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.325 claiming interdisciplinarity In-Reply-To: <20090929054642.177183D93B@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard et al. I could not resist to send you a quote from Deleuze/Guatari: (ATPC 23). I do agree in particular with your beautiful metaphor: . For my part, I envisage my experience in AI fields as an anthropologist, or better, as the old sixteenth century Portuguese used to call their translators, a - a tongue. The most important thing, in my perspective, is not to do what they can do better than us, but to understand the possibilities that their work offers to ours; find the bridges; and, knowing what they can or are doing, we will be better equipped to know what else to ask, and how to ask them. And who needs coherence having the ? Regards Helena -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sent: 29 September 2009 06:47 To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 1 04:11:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 194CB3A23F; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:11:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C73D93A235; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:11:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091001041105.C73D93A235@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:11:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.330 jobs: asst director at MITH; sys-admin & webmaster X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 330. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Neil Fraistat (60) Subject: Job at MITH [2] From: Tom Elliott (131) Subject: job: ISAW web master / systems administrator --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:42:26 -0400 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: Job at MITH Dear all, The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is seeking to hire an Assistant Director to join our management team, which currently consists of Matt Kirschenbaum, Doug Reside, and me. Made possible by a major Challenge Grant from the NEH, MITH was founded in 1999 by the University of Maryland's College of Arts and Humanities, Libraries, and Office of Information Technology. In the ten years since its founding, MITH has become internationally recognized as one of the leading digital humanities centers in the world. MITH is generously supported by the University administration and enjoys productive collaborations with allied campus units, including the University Libraries, the College of Information Science, and the Human Computer Interaction Lab. Geographically situated within the Washington DC Beltway, MITH is perfectly positioned for its frequent collaborations with the world-class libraries, museums, and cultural institutions in the metropolitan area, but our partnerships have also extended around the world. Recent projects include a collaboration with several major libraries in the U.K. and the United States to create an online archive of all extant pre-1642 quartos of Shakespeare’s plays and participation on a national research team charged by the Library of Congress with the preservation of virtual worlds (e.g. Adventure, DOOM, and Second Life). This latter project is part of MITH’s larger focus on the preservation of born digital creative work, also represented by our hosting of the Electronic Literature Organization and the Deena Larsen Collection--one of the world’s largest publicly held collections of electronic literature. The Assistant Director will bear primary responsibility for project management and oversight of all MITH projects, including creation of deadlines for all deliverables and project tracking; the supervision of MITH’s development team, which includes programmers, web designers, graduate assistants, and interns; and computer programming services, data, and application architecture design and modeling for MITH projects. We are therefore seeking a web programmer experienced with web scripting languages (JavaScript, PHP, Ruby) and with some knowledge of compiled languages (Java, C++). Ability to work with Unix/Linux based applications is required, and preference will be given to candidates with database and XML expertise. Strong organizational and project management skills are also mandatory, as are excellent communication skills. A humanities background is especially desirable. Bachelor’s degree required; MA, MLS, or Ph.D. preferred. The Assistant Director is a full-time, 12-month staff position at the University. Salary is commensurate with experience, ranging from $51,304-$64,131. The University also offers a competitive benefits package. To apply, please send a letter of application, CV, and contact information for three references to Doug Reside, Search Chair, via email: dreside@umd.edu. For best consideration, apply by close of business on October 9, 2009. The University of Maryland actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, gender, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, national origin, or political affiliation. Women and Minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Best, Neil -- Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.rc.umd.edu/nfraistat/home/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:40:29 +0100 From: Tom Elliott Subject: job: ISAW web master / systems administrator Dear friends: We have an immediate opening in New York for a full-time systems administrator / web master at the Institute. Job description and application instructions: http://www.nyucareers.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=51252 Position Summary: Design, develop, program and manage websites, databases, departmental servers and other computing and office automation systems for the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW). Formulate policies, establish priorities, independently resolve routine and non-routine technical matters; provide technical analysis, user support and oversee repairs/upgrades for the full range of ISAW's computing and office automation needs; manage administrative and technical functions for the Institute; collaborate with central Information Technology Services and other university departments to ensure a complete, up-to-date and smoothly functioning IT infrastructure. Provide direct IT support for events and other special requirements. Qualifications/Required Education Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, computer engineering or a closely related field. Preferred Education Master's degree in computer science, information science, computer engineering or a closely related field. Required Experience Four years of relevant experience and/or combination of education. Must include administration of Macintosh servers, website creation and maintenance, and design, deployment and management of databases. Preferred Experience Customization and administration of Plone-based web applications. Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Macintosh and PC network and systems administration. XHTML+CSS, Filemaker Pro plus one or more of the following programming skills: Python, SQL, JavaScript/AJAX. Ability to communicate policies and procedures to a diverse population at all levels. Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of information technology applications in complex networked/on-line system environments. Ability to make decisions independently and without direct supervision. Ability to work cooperatively as a member of an interdisciplinary team, communicate effectively and persuasively to senior IT and administrative management, and represent the Institute in internal and external interactions. Excellent organizational, interpersonal and problem-solving skills. Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Management of a major website re-engineering or information systems development project. Experience as a consultant working with clients to identify IT needs and developing a system responsive to those needs. Projected Position Start Date 10-15-2009 Principal Duties: 1. Modify, maintain and update all ISAW websites and web applications including the Institute's legacy website, as well as existing "minisites" for excavations, exhibitions, conferences and other ISAW-related projects. Train staff how to update sites and monitor results for quality and technical integrity. Plan for and implement upgrades and technology transitions to ensure all web assets remain functional and accessible, and reflect positively on the Institute's public image. Adapt existing or create new minisites for ISAW projects, excavations, exhibitions and conferences. 2. Collaborate with staff and leadership across the Institute to design, develop, program, deploy and administer a next-generation content management system, events management system and associated web application. Collaborate with Digital Projects staff in directing subcontractors working on programming and design tasks to support the effort, evaluate their work, communicate effectiveness to leadership and ensure on-time project completion. Manage the migration of content from the legacy website to the new system and the decommissioning of the legacy website. Assume primary responsibility for the systems administration, software upgrade and maintenance of the new site and associated systems. 3. Perform system and network administration duties for Macintosh server (file sharing and centralized backup services) and Apple and PC laptop and desktop computers. Ensure security, performance and optimal uptime of all systems. Ensure availability of network, internet access, printing and other services for guests as appropriate. Monitor and analyze system performance and resource usage to identify areas for improvement and potential economies. 4. Support the computing and office automation needs of staff, faculty, students, visiting scholars and other guests in accordance with Institute policy. Establish a help desk system and associated process for request submission and task management. Train personnel on its use and monitor it to provide quick and effective response to all tickets. Handle inquiries and requests in a congenial, professional and efficient manner. Assess nature and complexity of requests, responding to inquiries and resolving problems immediately whenever possible. Promptly report conflicts or other difficulties to the Administrative Director and Associate Director for Digital Programs. Provide "how-to" guides and other training and reference materials via internal web pages, emails and other means. 5. Ensure efficient and innovative flow and processing of information throughout the faculty and administrative staff and offices (to include non-local affiliates). Train staff in use of database and web applications for information management. Identify bottlenecks, research appropriate solutions and communicate recommendations to management. Design, develop, program, install and configure databases and web applications to support information management and processing. Maintain and improve software and hardware for scanning and desktop publishing functions. Administer email lists. 6. Manage inventory, procurement and proper operation of computer and office automation hardware, software, licenses and associated supplies. Oversee supply closet, retain keys and authorize access to supply closet. Respond to requests about office equipment. Schedule both regular and emergency maintenance of shared equipment (fax, copy machines, printers, etc.) as appropriate. Maintain inventory database in a complete and up-to-date fashion. Track expenditures and report to Administrative Director on budget concerns and major purchases. 7. Serve as liaison between ISAW and ITS, Telecomm, Asset Management and other University departments, as well as external service vendors to ensure that installations, upgrades, repairs and policy changes are implemented in a timely manner and perform as expected. 8. Ensure the smooth, professional and on-time execution of ISAW public and internal events (e.g., lectures) by conducting routine checks and preventative maintenance on all required audio-visual systems, laptops, projectors and the like; by ensuring all systems are set up in advance of each event; by liaising with presenters in advance to ensure their slides are properly prepared for presentation and loaded on appropriate machines; and by attending (or ensuring a subordinate attends) all appropriate events to assist in the event of difficulties. Smooth functioning of technology at these events, and ready access to technical assistance, is highly visible and has a significant impact on ISAW's reputation. 9. Supervise staff; identify and prioritize assignments to ensure deadlines are met and review work for accuracy. -- Tom Elliott Associate Director for Digital Programs Institute for the Study of the Ancient World New York University http://homepages.nyu.edu/~te20/ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 1 04:12:48 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B3B23A3EC; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:12:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DCD6A3A3C6; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:12:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091001041246.DCD6A3A3C6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:12:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.331 Turing in 2012 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 331. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:05:43 +0100 From: S Barry Cooper Subject: 2012 - THE ALAN TURING YEAR 2012 - THE ALAN TURING YEAR: June 23, 2012, is the Centenary of Alan Turing's birth. During his relatively brief life, Turing made a unique impact on the history of computing, computer science, artificial intelligence, developmental biology, and the mathematical theory of computability. 2012 will be a year-long celebration of Turing's life and scientific impact, with a number of major events taking place throughout the year. Most of these will be linked to places with special significance in Turings life, such as Cambridge, Manchester and Bletchley Park. If you would like to be included in the Turing Centenary email list, please go to: http://www.turingcentenary.eu/ and enter your email address in the panel provided. _______________________________________________________________ ALAN TURING YEAR http://www.turingcentenary.eu _________________ Prof S Barry Cooper Tel: UK: (0113) 343 5165, Int: +44 113 343 5165 School of Mathematics Fax: UK: (0113) 343 5090, Int: +44 113 3435090 University of Leeds Email: pmt6sbc@leeds.ac.uk, Mobile: 07590602104 Leeds LS2 9JT Home tel: (0113) 278 2586, Int: +44 113 2782586 U.K. WWW: http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/~pmt6sbc _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 1 04:39:13 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 986E73A697; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:39:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 003CF3A688; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:39:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091001043911.003CF3A688@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:39:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.332 claiming interdisciplinarity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 332. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:31:13 -0600 From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.329 claiming interdisciplinarity In-Reply-To: <20090930050121.5155D357ED@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, If you had asked me what I thought about interdisciplinarity at any point up until a week ago, I would have had a simple answer: a project is interdisciplinary if it requires researchers from more than one discipline. It would therefore not be possible to claim your work is interdisciplinary if you aren't working with other people who aren't in your discipline. It would not be possible, for instance, to say your project is interdisciplinary if you work alone. So in my mind, "interdisciplinary" and "multidisciplinary" were basically synonyms, and my assumption was that one person could not simultaneously sit in two chairs at the research project table. However, I've recently begun thinking about research areas where a discipline simply hasn't been established yet. Nanotechnology might be an example. In this case, "interdisciplinary" is perhaps a bit more like "interstitial." Even if one person is doing the work, the project falls between the cracks of established disciplines. For this latter kind of work, I'd like to take a page, in fact, the title page, from Thomas More's book Utopia, which I seem to recall is a pun on "no place" and "good place", and propose the related term "eudisciplinary." yrs, Stan _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 1 04:40:05 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDE253A6DA; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:40:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F240C3A6D3; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:40:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091001044002.F240C3A6D3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:40:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.333 events: new kinds of PhD X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 333. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:37:07 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: ESRC Seminar series: New forms of doctorate Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:50:31 +0100 From: Craig Bellamy Economic and Social Research Council (U.K.) research seminar series New forms of doctorate: the influence of multimodality and e-learning on the nature and format of doctoral theses in education and the social sciences (http://newdoctorates.blogspot.com). Seminar 4 17 November 2009 10am - 4pm London Knowledge Lab 23-29 Emerald Street London WC1N 3QS 1. Richard Andrews, Stephen Boyd-Davis, Jude England, Erik Borg Universities of London, Middlesex, Coventry and the British Library Guidance for HEIs in the UK and internationally on regulations and procedures for the creation, supervision, examination and archiving of digital/multimodal theses and dissertations – the first draft 2. Anton Franks Institute of Education, University of London Performance, practice and research: modes of interrogating and presenting concepts and affects in the performing arts 3. Caroline Haythornthwaite University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Visiting Leverhulme Professor, Institute of Education Challenges and opportunities for doctoral work in an e-learning context 4. Sophia Diamantopoulou Mapping meanings on children's drawings: A multimodal approach Attendance is free Coffee, lunch and tea included To book a place contact: Richard Sheldrake on r.sheldrake@ioe.ac.uk -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 1 05:34:09 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC1D63B8F2; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 05:34:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7BA3B3B8EB; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 05:34:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091001053406.7BA3B3B8EB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 05:34:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.334 working X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 334. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:27:06 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: working Years ago, somehow, I ran into a famous study by the oral historian Studs Terkel, Working: People talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do (New York: The New Press, 1972, rpt 2004). I recall being quite moved by (as a reporter for the New York Times wrote) "the extraordinary dreams of ordinary people", such as a fireman's, talking about what motivated him. Recently, reading Pamela McCorduck's Machines Who Think, I came across a reference to it in her discussion of people's reactions to AI. So I've returned to it to see what's there, again after all this time. Let me quote here a very small sample, from a transcript of an interviewwith a labourer: > I'm a dying breed. A labourer. Strictly muscle work... pick it up, > put it down, pick it up, put it down.... You can't take pride any > more. You remember when a guy could point to a house he built, how > many logs he stacked. He built it, and he was proud of it. I don't > really think I could be proud if a contractor built a home for me. I > would be tempted to get in there and kick the carpenter in the ass > (laughs), and take the saw away from him. 'Cause I would have to be > part of it, you know. (p. xxxi) There's much in the remainder of the interview that keeps one from getting nostalgic about a world of noble labour passing away, and scattered throughout the book are comments about automation and computers. For example, this same man, Mike Lefevre, comments a bit further on, > Automation? Depends on how it's applied. It frightens me if it puts > me out on the street. It doesn't frighten me if it shortens my work > week.... Machines can either liberate man or enslave 'im, because > they're pretty neutral. It's man who has the bias to put the thing > one place or another. (p. xxxiii) The remarks on automation are of particular interest to me. But I mention the book, and this interview in particular, because of what Lefevre says about wanting to be able to take pride in his work. It seems to me that amidst all the high-level matters we consider with respect to computing we might pay more attention to the appeal computing has to this very same want. I suspect many of us have it, and may already be taking pride in cooking, joinery, sewing or whatever of the kind, or somewhat more abstractly, in crafting a fine edition, getting the words just right and so on. Or in designing and putting into place an institutional structure that allows others to have work they can take pride in. I wonder, then, if rather than, or in addition to, the appeal of the practical side of the digital humanities to the possibility of usefulness elsewhere ("transferrable skills"), we might profitably stress what a fine thing it is to make something and then take pride in it. To this day I take pleasure, sometimes conscious, in a bookshelf I designed and built 20 years ago. It's, in a sense, part of me. What about the pleasures in programming? In following a research projectthrough to its conclusion, beholding the structure of it? This isn't itself research (unless you're a participant-observing social scientist), but it's strong motivation to do research, and to keep doing it despite the contrary ways of the world. Here also is a connection with the arts, no? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Oct 2 05:50:31 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 527083A0CE; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 05:50:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 26E863A0C4; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 05:50:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091002055028.26E863A0C4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 05:50:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.335 working X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 335. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:23:02 +0100 From: "Lopez, Tamara" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.334 working In-Reply-To: Hi Willard, Many years ago, when I was a girl and still performing, I was in a play called Chekhov in Yalta- a biographical sketch of Chekhov that gently satirizes the playwright by portraying the characters of his life like those of his most famous works. A clever piece and a good way for students to play with Chekhov without butchering the real thing - I was the playwright's sister Masha (think Sonya from Uncle Vanya). Anyhow, your post reminded me of one night during the run of this play when the actors were warming up on stage before curtain. As you may know, this is a time when an actor stomps around and feels the boards, plays with the voice and stretches the body. This time is particularly important when the show is being performed in a new house, because it is an opportunity for an actor to be himself in the space, to confront anxieties, to calibrate, etc. On the night I mention we were in a new house, and the company spontaneously began to sing together during this time. It was the holiday season, and I believe it was a standard Christmas carol that we we sang - completely unrelated to the play we were working on. I've no doubt that for observers, the moment was as cringe inducing as it is in the retelling, but I know for certain that for each of us, the moment was something quite different. It was something we made, something we earned, and maybe was the defining point of the whole experience - a moment when our bodies and minds and spirits were so closely aligned from months of working together that we knit for a few bars into a single, clear instrument. I think it was made more special by the fact that it was not given to the audience, but was instead a private moment that we claimed for ourselves. The show was not a great success - my crowning glory came in a performance during which I tripped and dropped a tray of filled champagne glasses all over the stage. Is theatre art? Is programming creative? I don't know if everyone agrees on either point. In any case, I reckon that that moment is one of my bookcases. Tamara Lopez ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL (UK), t: +44 (0)20 78481237 ----- Original Message ---- > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 334. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:27:06 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: working > > Years ago, somehow, I ran into a famous study by the oral historian Studs > Terkel, Working: People talk about what they do all day and how they feel > about what they do (New York: The New Press, 1972, rpt 2004). I recall being > quite moved by (as a reporter for the New York Times wrote) "the > extraordinary dreams of ordinary people", such as a fireman's, talking about > what motivated him. Recently, reading Pamela McCorduck's Machines Who Think, > I came across a reference to it in her discussion of people's reactions to > AI. So I've returned to it to see what's there, again after all this time. > > Let me quote here a very small sample, from a transcript of an interviewwith a > labourer: > > > I'm a dying breed. A labourer. Strictly muscle work... pick it up, > > put it down, pick it up, put it down.... You can't take pride any > > more. You remember when a guy could point to a house he built, how > > many logs he stacked. He built it, and he was proud of it. I don't > > really think I could be proud if a contractor built a home for me. I > > would be tempted to get in there and kick the carpenter in the ass > > (laughs), and take the saw away from him. 'Cause I would have to be > > part of it, you know. (p. xxxi) > > There's much in the remainder of the interview that keeps one from > getting nostalgic about a world of noble labour passing away, and > scattered throughout the book are comments about automation and > computers. For example, this same man, Mike Lefevre, comments a bit > further on, > > > Automation? Depends on how it's applied. It frightens me if it puts > > me out on the street. It doesn't frighten me if it shortens my work > > week.... Machines can either liberate man or enslave 'im, because > > they're pretty neutral. It's man who has the bias to put the thing > > one place or another. (p. xxxiii) > > The remarks on automation are of particular interest to me. But I mention > the book, and this interview in particular, because of what Lefevre says > about wanting to be able to take pride in his work. It seems to me that > amidst all the high-level matters we consider with respect to computing we > might pay more attention to the appeal computing has to this very same want. > I suspect many of us have it, and may already be taking pride in cooking, > joinery, sewing or whatever of the kind, or somewhat more abstractly, in > crafting a fine edition, getting the words just right and so on. Or in > designing and putting into place an institutional structure that allows > others to have work they can take pride in. > > I wonder, then, if rather than, or in addition to, the appeal of the > practical side of the digital humanities to the possibility of usefulness > elsewhere ("transferrable skills"), we might profitably stress what a fine > thing it is to make something and then take pride in it. To this day I take > pleasure, sometimes conscious, in a bookshelf I designed and built 20 years > ago. It's, in a sense, part of me. > > What about the pleasures in programming? In following a research projectthrough > to its conclusion, beholding the structure of it? This isn't > itself research (unless you're a participant-observing social > scientist), but it's strong motivation to do research, and to keep doing > it despite the contrary ways of the world. > > Here also is a connection with the arts, no? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Oct 2 05:50:58 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3ADB3A15B; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 05:50:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 013EC3A12E; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 05:50:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091002055056.013EC3A12E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 05:50:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.336 a model of interest? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 336. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 14:20:57 +0100 From: Thomas Bolander Subject: a model of interest? [The following call for participants is for a subject-area that, I suspect, is immediately attractive only to a small percentage of those here, if that. But in reading the message I thought that the design might be of considerably greater interest to outsiders like me: a gathering intended as preparation for a subsequent event. Has this been tried in the digital humanities? --WM] Call for Participation FIRST PhD Autumn School on Modal Logic IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark November 10-11 2009 The goal of the Autumn School on Modal Logic is to prepare PhD students and other researchers for participation in the sixth workshop Methods for Modalities (M4M-6) which takes place November 12-14 2009 in Copenhagen. The workshop Methods for Modalities aims to bring together researchers interested in developing proof tools and decision methods based on modal logics. Here the term "modal logics" is conceived broadly, including description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. The first M4M workshop took place in Amsterdam in 1999. Since then, M4M workshops have taken place in 2001 (Amsterdam), 2003 (Nancy), 2005 (Berlin), and 2007 (Paris). See for more information on the workshop series, in particular, see why modal logic is important for computer science. A goal of having M4M in Denmark is to strengthen Danish research in reasoning methods for modal logics, which is a growing area of foundational and increasingly computational importance. The Autumn School on Modal Logic is open to anyone interested. The intended participants will have a general background in theoretical computer science, but wish to obtain more concrete knowledge on modal logic and its computational aspects. Besides a working knowledge of English, prerequisites are a basic knowledge of logic and mathematics that is usually covered in undergraduate classes on discrete mathematics. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Oct 2 12:57:59 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A172F38330; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:57:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4B4573831C; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:57:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091002125756.4B4573831C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:57:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.337 the invisible middle X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 337. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:51:51 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the invisible middle Those here who are familiar with the history of work in artificial intelligence will already know of Professor Sir James Lighthill's report on the field commissioned by the U.K. Science Research Council in 1972, basically for advice on what to do about supporting this work. (Lighthill was at the time Lucasian Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cambridge, i.e. Stephen Hawking's predecessor; his biography is in the DNB.) After receiving this report, the Council put it together with a primary response from Professor N. S. Sutherland (Experimental Psychology, Sussex) and commentaries from Dr R. M. Needham and Professors H. C. Longuet-Higgins and D. Michie. A fascinating document altogether. It was published as Artificial Intelligence: a paper symposium (London: Science Research Council, 1973). What's especially interesting and relevant to us is how Lighthill's partitioning of the work he reviews in effect excludes that which Sutherland and others subsequently have regarded as the core of AI. In consequence of this exclusion Lighthill is able to argue that the amalgam of activities called "artificial intelligence" lacks genuine coherence. Lighthill divides the work into three categories. Category A is advanced automation ranging from industrial and military applications to scientific and mathematical, with the aim of replacing human work in specific areas. Category C is research into central nervous system phenomena, both neurobiological and psychological. Although both have to some degree disappointed expectations, he says, progress in them is typical for scientific research as a whole. By Category B he denotes a bridging activity whose ambition is to make out of results from A and C an artificially intelligent simulacra, i.e. a robots. There, he argues, the disappointments are far more widespread and severe. Unsurprisingly he invokes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but he also, rather more gratuitously, cites an argument then floating about that robot-building is driven by a male desire for parthenogenesis. He dismisses this argument, but still he mentions it. Both Frankensteinian and parthenogenic resonances constitute interesting lines of research to follow, but in context they seem to be there in order to help cut the scientific ground out from under Category B altogether. In sum A and C, which already belong to well-established fields, seem to him best at home in those fields and in process of separating for the purpose. B he implies should be abandoned. Sutherland's critique and Longuet-Higgins' commentary are very insightful. Sutherland argues for B as research basic to all parts of AI. He argues that the disparity between wild forecasts and actual achievements, however much we may be annoyed by that wildness, points to the complexity of what humans do and how they do it. He argues essentially negatively for the scientific value of forecasting which falls short of actuality, since this is part of finding out with computing how intelligent behaviour is done. Longuet-Higgins praises the value of Lighthill's searching questions into the justification of doing AI, but like Sutherland he argues the scientific case. The problem with AI he fingers is the bluntly technological appeal -- the utilitarian appeal to applicability -- then commonly made, and still made. Research into something so challenging as human intelligence cannot, he suggests, be defended by pointing to practical fruits, realisation of which is too far out of reach. Anyhow those fruits, insofar as they can be realised, are the business of the fields of application to worry about; they are fruits for them. I suggest an analogy between Lighthill's partitioning of AI and the structure which places humanities computing proper between computer science on the one side and the increasingly digital humanities on the other. The problem isn't structural in either case. Rather it's the inability to see what the mediating activity is all about, indeed its essential role in doing something genuinely new by tackling our fundamental ignorance about fundamental things. In our realm that inability is analogously the result of construing basic research in terms of its deliverables: what humanities computing can do for digital history, digital literary studies, digital libraries et al. This suggests (does it not?) that Realpolitik aside, as long as the research agenda is set for humanities computing wholly by those humanities for their own ends, what happens will be not only weak but also vulnerable to the next Lighthill. Comments? Yours,WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 3 07:08:59 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 179C23C0CE; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:08:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 42E803C0BF; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:08:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091003070856.42E803C0BF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:08:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.338 the invisible middle X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 338. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 19:34:14 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.337 the invisible middle In-Reply-To: <20091002125756.4B4573831C@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, Your continuing comparisons between HC/DH and AI have got me wondering a few things: Should we be concerned with how AI is potentially incompatible with the humanities? Isn't AI primarily intent on replicating mathematical and scientific genius? Aren't the humanities focused on a wide range of things that make us human, as opposed to just our intelligence? Should we find parallels between the fact that advances in AI are taken for granted when they become mainstream and the predictions that the "digital" in "digital humanities" will become redundant in the near future because its methods will be widely adopted? Or will we find that making "wild forecasts" is what helps inspire advances in theory and research in both realms? Should we criticize AI for setting its sights on modeling the intelligence of sole humans and praise DH/HC for amplifying and combining the abilities of researchers? Which is better positioned to overcome the foibles of human reasoning and tap into the wisdom of the crowd? Is DH/HC little more than the mixture of computer science with the traditional humanities? Does your discussion of Category C suggest that HC/DH may have something to learn from cognitive science? Does your mention of digital libraries mean that information science could be an important aspect of DH/HC? Best wishes, Sterling Fluharty University of New Mexico On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 337. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:51:51 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: the invisible middle > > > Those here who are familiar with the history of work in artificial > intelligence will already know of Professor Sir James Lighthill's report on > the field commissioned by the U.K. Science Research Council in 1972, > basically for advice on what to do about supporting this work. (Lighthill > was at the time Lucasian Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cambridge, > i.e. > Stephen Hawking's predecessor; his biography is in the DNB.) After > receiving > this report, the Council put it together with a primary response from > Professor N. S. Sutherland (Experimental Psychology, Sussex) and > commentaries from Dr R. M. Needham and Professors H. C. Longuet-Higgins and > D. Michie. A fascinating document altogether. It was published as > Artificial > Intelligence: a paper symposium (London: Science Research Council, 1973). > > What's especially interesting and relevant to us is how Lighthill's > partitioning of the work he reviews in effect excludes that which > Sutherland > and others subsequently have regarded as the core of AI. In consequence of > this exclusion Lighthill is able to argue that the amalgam of activities > called "artificial intelligence" lacks genuine coherence. > > Lighthill divides the work into three categories. Category A is advanced > automation ranging from industrial and military applications to scientific > and mathematical, with the aim of replacing human work in specific areas. > Category C is research into central nervous system phenomena, both > neurobiological and psychological. Although both have to some degree > disappointed expectations, he says, progress in them is typical for > scientific research as a whole. By Category B he denotes a bridging > activity > whose ambition is to make out of results from A and C an artificially > intelligent simulacra, i.e. a robots. There, he argues, the disappointments > are far more widespread and severe. Unsurprisingly he invokes Mary > Shelley's > Frankenstein, but he also, rather more gratuitously, cites an argument then > floating about that robot-building is driven by a male desire for > parthenogenesis. He dismisses this argument, but still he mentions it. Both > Frankensteinian and parthenogenic resonances constitute interesting lines > of > research to follow, but in context they seem to be there in order to help > cut the scientific ground out from under Category B altogether. > > In sum A and C, which already belong to well-established fields, seem to > him > best at home in those fields and in process of separating for the purpose. > B > he implies should be abandoned. > > Sutherland's critique and Longuet-Higgins' commentary are very insightful. > Sutherland argues for B as research basic to all parts of AI. He argues > that > the disparity between wild forecasts and actual achievements, however much > we may be annoyed by that wildness, points to the complexity of what humans > do and how they do it. He argues essentially negatively for the scientific > value of forecasting which falls short of actuality, since this is part of > finding out with computing how intelligent behaviour is done. > Longuet-Higgins praises the value of Lighthill's searching questions into > the justification of doing AI, but like Sutherland he argues the scientific > case. The problem with AI he fingers is the bluntly technological appeal -- > the utilitarian appeal to applicability -- then commonly made, and still > made. Research into something so challenging as human intelligence cannot, > he suggests, be defended by pointing to practical fruits, realisation of > which is too far out of reach. Anyhow those fruits, insofar as they can be > realised, are the business of the fields of application to worry about; > they > are fruits for them. > > I suggest an analogy between Lighthill's partitioning of AI and the > structure which places humanities computing proper between computer science > on the one side and the increasingly digital humanities on the other. The > problem isn't structural in either case. Rather it's the inability to see > what the mediating activity is all about, indeed its essential role in > doing > something genuinely new by tackling our fundamental ignorance about > fundamental things. In our realm that inability is analogously the result > of > construing basic research in terms of its deliverables: what humanities > computing can do for digital history, digital literary studies, digital > libraries et al. This suggests (does it not?) that Realpolitik aside, as > long as the research agenda is set for humanities computing wholly by those > humanities for their own ends, what happens will be not only weak but also > vulnerable to the next Lighthill. > > Comments? > > Yours,WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/%7Ewmccarty/ > ; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: > http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 3 07:09:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA3F3C102; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:09:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 867E03C0EB; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:09:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091003070920.867E03C0EB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:09:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.339 sound recordings of Gk drama? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 339. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 09:47:52 +0100 From: "Roueche, Charlotte" Subject: sound recordings of Greek drama? I'm looking for sound recordings of Greek drama - specifically the Persae, but others would be of interest. Is there any site offering these? Many thanks Charlotte ---------------------------- Professor Charlotte Roueché Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies/Department of Classics King's College London WC2R 2LS direct tel. + 44 20.7848 2515 fax + 44 20.7848 2545 charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/bmgs/staff/roueche.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 3 07:09:44 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4661A3C131; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:09:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4E82B3C129; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:09:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091003070942.4E82B3C129@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:09:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.340 interviews at HASTAC X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 340. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:57:46 -0400 From: hastac-web@duke.edu Subject: New interviews at HASTAC In case you haven't checked in at hastac.org lately, I wanted to let you know about some exciting new things on the site. In their first forum of the year, Democratizing Knowledge, the HASTAC Scholars have been swapping questions, concerns, ideologies, and ideas about making scholarship public and opening access to university resources and research. As part of this, HASTAC Scholar Bridget Draxler, a 4th-year PhD candidate at the University of Iowa, has interviewed Theo van Rensburg Lindzter, Diretor of the M-Ubuntu Project, one of the 2009 winners of the Digital Media and Learning Competition. You can see their full interview here at http://www.hastac.org/blogs/bridget-draxler/interview-theo-van-rensburg-... [1] and you can find out more about M-Ubuntu at http://www.hastac.org/projects/m-ubuntu-teachers-building-m-literacy-col... [2]. This interview is representative of precisely the kind of collaboration and cross-disciplinary conversation that is at the very heart of HASTAC. With so many shared interests, questions, and concerns, and differences in opinions, cultures, and experiences, these conversations are bound to take many interesting directions. Check it out and add your voice to the mix. [1] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/bridget-draxler/interview-theo-van-rensburg-lindzter-m-ubuntu-project [2] http://www.hastac.org/projects/m-ubuntu-teachers-building-m-literacy-collaboratory _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 3 07:10:07 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE2E3C179; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:10:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9A4E43C165; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:10:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091003071005.9A4E43C165@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:10:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.341 events: archaeological computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 341. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 08:38:40 +0100 From: "Dunn, Stuart" Subject: archaeological computing cfp: CAA UK Dear All, The Institute of Archaeology at University College London and the CAA UK Chapter committee would like to invite you to submit a paper or poster presentation for the CAA UK Chapter conference 2010. The conference is to be held at the Institute of Archaeology, London on the 19th - 20th February 2010. We welcome submissions on any topic within the sphere of archaeological computing, but this year we particularly encourage papers that address the following topical themes: * *The 3 R's - Reusability, Repeatability and Robustness* - This can be in relation to many different areas such as quantitative modeling, ABM, spatial modeling, practical examples of data reuse, mash-ups, etc. * *Mobility* - This can include submissions on any type of computer- based mobility studies including (but not limited to) settlement patterns, linguistic mobility, temporal mobility, visitor movement, animal movement etc. Other themes of long-standing interest to researchers and practitioners include: * *Archaeological computing methods and techniques within the Cultural Resource Management (CRM) environment* - Submissions on current computing practice and method are particularly welcome from commercial archaeology companies, museum professionals, heritage managers, local authority officers or other bodies working within CRM. * *Pattern recognition* - Finding patterns within archaeological data, site patterning, image recognition, etc. * *Theory within Archaeological Computing* - The application of archaeological theory within the computing environment e.g post- processual approaches to archaeological computing. The papers should be 20 minutes in duration. Please send abstracts of up to 300 words to: caauk@ucl.ac.uk - the deadline is the 27th November 2009. For more information please visit http://www.ucl.ac.uk/caauk/. Any queries please email caauk@ucl.ac.uk. Feel free to post and cross-post to anyone you think might be interested! Stuart Eve Institute of Archaeology, UCL Andrew Bevan Lecturer UCL Institute of Archaeology 31-34 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PY tel. +44 (0)20 7679 1528 info. www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~tcrnahb/ http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/%7Etcrnahb/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Oct 4 08:31:07 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52D0938310; Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:31:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5034B382FC; Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:31:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091004083104.5034B382FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:31:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.342 the invisible middle X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 342. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (49) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.338 the invisible middle [2] From: Willard McCarty (54) Subject: motivations and reactions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:00:12 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.338 the invisible middle In-Reply-To: <20091003070856.42E803C0BF@woodward.joyent.us> "Isn't AI primarily intent on replicating mathematical and scientific genius?" I think that's an old-fashioned view of what AI is about these days. AI has taken on emotional communication and the recognition that it will be necessary for computer interfaces to both read faces/voices for their emotional content as well as express information back to human beings with emotional content in it. The first rush of expectations that people had for AI was based on a view that human beings did things using their intellect. I think that has largely been disproved. Human beings are the culmination of a billion years of evolutionary development that worked out tasks such as vision, hearing, movement, reaction to physical stimuli, etc. These tasks are actually much harder than intellectual tasks because not only didn't we 'invent' them, but because we don't understand how we perform them. I guess it is fair to ask whether the humanities has suffered from some of the same sort of delusional thinking as AI did in the early days. That the role of the computer in performing intellectual tasks would provide great advances in the humanities while ignoring how much of the humanities depended not on critical thinking but on the biological aspects of being a living being--none of which we 'understand' how we perform at the prerequisite level for machine emulation. The problem is actually even worse than that. Even if we *did* understand how we performed many tasks, we lack the computer hardware to replicate those abilities. I.e., we're talking about hardware at the level of molecular machines to replicate human sensory capabilities. It is not surprising that when we do manage to create some new computer ability to replicate a human ability, it typically doesn't involve using the same biological or molecular components used to perform the task in living organisms. I.e., we invent or discover a wholly new mechanism to perform the task using physics and inorganic chemical processes. (I think it's a really deep question to ask why, if these capabilities exist, nature didn't choose to use them.) So, the question for humanities computing is to first separate out the non-critical thinking components of tasks from the critical thinking aspects. The tasks done by critical thinking are directly mappable to computer programs; but the other non-critical thinking components are not. Then, the next part is hard. One has to invent a means to use the existing hardware that civilization knows how to build to perform aspects of biological capabilities we *think* we have an idea how to perform; recognizing that the idea is likely to be only partially comparable to the real biological process. I think there is hope here. Some remarkable hardware exists today and new capabilities come along every year. It does suggest there is a new discipline to be created... something like 'humanities robotics' in which humanists working with engineers attempt to create machines that can express an emotional response to sensory data. A robot with an aesthetic sense? A robot with moral understanding and the ability to distinguish right from wrong? --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:03:38 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: motivations and reactions Sterling Fluharty's questions on AI and the humanities provoke some of my own. In looking across the history of AI it's not surprising to discover that an impression of a singular goal quickly resolves into a more diverse and far more interesting range of visions and motivations. There are to be sure examples of those who would replicate the human, or rather make a superhuman artificial being. (Hence Seymour Paper's "superhuman human fallacy", namely, in Pamela McCorduck's version, the idea that "that machines can't be said to 'think' unless they show superhuman skills".) This dream is so old that it's not surprising to find it dreamt anew, and in some forms we all can be glad have not been realised. And it's not surprising to find it the darling of the popular press, such as Time Magazine and Life Magazine, and the nightmare of others, from earliest days. T.S. Eliot's commentary on this sort of thing in "The Dry Salvages" comes to mind: > To communicate with Mars, converse with spirits, > To report the behaviour of the sea monster, > Describe the horoscope, haruspicate or scry, > Observe disease in signatures, evoke > Biography from the wrinkles of the palm > And tragedy from fingers; release omens > By sortilege, or tea leaves, riddle the inevitable > With playing cards, fiddle with pentagrams > Or barbituric acids, or dissect > The recurrent image into pre-conscious terrors— > To explore the womb, or tomb, or dreams; all these are usual > Pastimes and drugs, and features of the press.... I suspect that from a distance -- here a strong argument for interdisciplinary awareness -- what happens is that (with some help) we humanists select from AI what most pricks us on, and make a monolith of that. Our fears conjure themselves, and have particular success with AI because of the basic question it is asking, which I take to be this: can we understand the human better by attempting to make it? I suspect that this question hardens via the old doctrine of "verum factum" -- that which is true is that which can be made, i.e. we discover the truth about something by modelling it successfully -- into the notion that the human can only be what can (eventually) be replicated. Then, by the Real Soon Now Principle, this becomes the notion that whatever we cannot make Real Soon Now, which will be to hand *very* soon if only we get the next large grant, is only some fuzzy bit of emotional fantasy. All this matters, especially to us, I think, because the questioning within AI is deeply interesting from the perspective of the humanities. And as Robert Amsler suggests, if humanities computing is to get anywhere as a field of research (as opposed to implementation, with novel decorations from time to time) it needs to pay attention, indeed to strike up conversations with the folks in AI. We want intelligent rather than stupid machines, no? Better tools rather than worse ones? I keep wondering, why the fear? What does this fear point to? As more than one wise person has said, show me your monsters and I will show you who you are. What do the humanities have to say about the dream of the superhuman? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Oct 4 08:31:32 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 473283834B; Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:31:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 61F2238341; Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:31:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091004083130.61F2238341@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:31:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.343 computing and the arts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 343. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:46:48 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: humanities computing and the arts Some of us here have from time to time, or more steadily, walked the bridge between humanities computing and the arts, and the crafts, or been where the distinction vanishes. In the latest issue of the London Review of Books, for 8 October 2009, the English artist Bridget Riley, in "At the End of My Pencil", provides a way into the sort of thinking and talking which seems just right for the territory. I quote here from the first two paragraphs of her article, though the whole of it is online (www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n19/print/rile03_.html): > For me, drawing is an inquiry, a way of finding out – the first thing > that I discover is that I do not know. This is alarming even to the > point of momentary panic. Only experience reassures me that this > encounter with my own ignorance – with the unknown – is my chosen and > particular task, and provided I can make the required effort the > rewards may reach the unimaginable. It is as though there is an eye > at the end of my pencil, which tries, independently of my personal > general-purpose eye, to penetrate a kind of obscuring veil or > thickness. To break down this thickness, this deadening opacity, to > elicit some particle of clarity or insight, is what I want to do. > > The strange thing is that the information I am looking for is, of > course, there all the time and as present to one’s naked eye, so to > speak, as it ever will be. But to get the essentials down there on my > sheet of paper so that I can recover and see again what I have just > seen, that is what I have to push towards. What it amounts to is that > while drawing I am watching and simultaneously recording myself > looking, discovering things that on the one hand are staring me in > the face and on the other I have not yet really seen. It is this > effort ‘to clarify’ that makes drawing particularly useful and it is > in this way that I assimilate experience and find new ground. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Oct 5 05:19:30 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61EAB3BDE0; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 05:19:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 17AEB3BDD3; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 05:19:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091005051926.17AEB3BDD3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 05:19:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.346 claiming interdisciplinarity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 346. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:33:18 -0400 From: Fraser Shein Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.322 claiming interdisciplinarity In-Reply-To: <20091004083104.5034B382FC@woodward.joyent.us> RE Claiming Interdisciplinary Willard, As someone with a wide background and who has worked on many teams that claim to be interdisciplinary, as they involve people from many various core disciplines, but with many shared experiences, I offer the following opinion. Unless one has a split personality and zigzags between each personality, one would expect that any individual would have a single cohesive perspective derived from whatever experiences that have had, whether these are from differing "disciplines" or not, and this is their discipline. Thus, interdisciplinary should only be applied to more than one person. Then, since everyone will have their unique perspective based on their experiences, any combination of more than one person is, in fact, interdisciplinary. Sincerely, Fraser Shein Bloorview Kids Rehab University of Toronto _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Oct 5 05:20:32 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2BCD3BE49; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 05:20:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0EF8D3BE35; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 05:20:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091005052025.0EF8D3BE35@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 05:20:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.347 the invisible middle X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 347. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (58) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.342 the invisible middle [2] From: Sterling Fluharty (198) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.342 the invisible middle --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 09:24:00 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.342 the invisible middle In-Reply-To: <20091004083104.5034B382FC@woodward.joyent.us> A moment of shameless self-promotion: my forthcoming book, Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety (Continuum, June 2010) attempts to answer this very question, Willard. It doesn't directly address AI, but asks the question, "Why do we persistently imagine that if human beings were to create an independent intelligence that it would result rebel against us, usually with apocalyptic results?" What first made me ask this question was watching the first Matrix film (AI is related after all) and realizing it's another of very many retellings of the Frankenstein story. I then looked a little further back from Frankenstein and realized Blake's Urizen is the ur-fallen Creator -- the embodiment of Victor Frankenstein's phenomenology, not just a person who possesses it. I use Kierkegaard to provide a definition of anxiety which I then apply to Blake's creation narratives, and justify the application of Kierkegaard to Blake on the basis of a shared intellectual history and similar social and political histories. Socially and historically, both Blake's England and Kierkegaard's Denmark were in the process of transitioning from monarchy to democracy, with simultaneous affinity for both, and were experiencing deep and interrelated tensions between science and religion and between nature and artifice. Simultaneous attractions and repulsions to the same object is Kierkegaard's fundamental idea behind anxiety. My tentative answer to this question lies in the nature of the cultural tensions themselves. Each of them posit a very different conception of the human proceeding from the Enlightenment and Enlightenment science. So there's a very real sense that we human beings are ourselves being recreated. Therefore, these accounts in which a human being creates a highly intelligent life form and has it turn against him (or against the entire human race) are really not about fears of technology itself. Rather, it is a form of mythological expression, in which the internal is made external, so that these creation anxiety narratives represent our fears of how we ourselves are being recreated by technology and other social changes. We don't really fear the external thing we are creating, but fear how we ourselves are being recreated by ourselves, and externalize those fears in the form of creation anxiety narratives. As we get closer to actually achieving some of these technologies, fears heighten. But I think the whole debate is misconceived. We don't understand human intelligence enough to know if we've replicated it, and many people who study human intelligence don't believe even human intelligence is anything but fully determined by social and other environmental factors. All we can do is create a machine that resembles the human brain in some of its functions and see what it does, and hope that sheds some light upon how our own minds work. I don't know that it will until we can grow an organic brain like our own. Seems to me that we would be comparing two fundamentally unlike objects. But, we can try. Jim R > > I keep wondering, why the fear? What does this fear point to? As more > than one wise person has said, show me your monsters and I will show you > who you are. What do the humanities have to say about the dream of the > superhuman? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 10:38:34 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.342 the invisible middle In-Reply-To: <20091004083104.5034B382FC@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard and Amsler, Thanks for the thoughtful and intriguing responses. A few more questions: Now that computers can "read" the emotion in our faces and voices, does this mean that many humanists have mistakenly assumed that the expression and content of human emotions are social constructions? How many humanists would be willing to alter their models of imagination and freedom of expression once they learn that it is impossible to use grammatical language without obeying Zipf's law? If humanists have a tradition of studying environmental forces and influences, beyond the control of individuals, that shape the unfolding of history, does this mean DH/HC will ultimately find AI unsatisfactory because it attempts to model humans in isolation? Is HC/DH developing theories of how and why humanist practice requires more than just "critical thinking skills," so that we will be able to partner with AI and point out where their modeling of human thought and behavior has fallen short? Will DH/HC attempt to emulate the biological and psychological processes at work during humanist practice, or will we find it not necessary to incorporate things like positive emotions, curiosity, sleep, mental images, or even neurotransmitters like dopamine when extending our computational models of the humanities? Can the humanities find common ground with AI in the pursuit of consciousness, since the former is interested in critical self-reflection and the latter seeks a computational mind that is aware of itself? Will HC/DH follow the lead of AI and complicate theories of subjective aesthetics, long valued within the humanities, by developing algorithms that find underlying patterns in judgments of beauty such as symmetry? How much difference is there between the penchant for useful applications in AI and the humanist goal of fostering a sense of civic duty? If the superhuman in AI so far means developing computers that always beat humans at logical games like chess, how likely is it that the superhuman goal in DH/HC could be creating programs or bots that find solutions to debates over truth and meaning that no unaided human could ever produce? Best wishes, Sterling Fluharty University of New Mexico _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Oct 5 05:22:33 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C18E3BEC1; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 05:22:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 06FD83BEB2; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 05:22:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091005052230.06FD83BEB2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 05:22:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.348 events: semantic ambient media X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 348. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 19:53:37 +0100 From: "Artur R. Lugmayr" Subject: cfp: SAME 2009 - 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience SAME 2009 - 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience Salzburg, 18th-21st November 2009 in conjunction with AmI-09 !!! SUBMISSION OF 2-4 PAGE POSITION PAPERS UNTIL THE 19th OCTOBER 2009 !!! More information on: http://namu.cs.tut.fi/same2009/ and http://www.ami-09.org/ * Submissions are expected to be 2-4 pages position papers according the paper format of AmI-09: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 * Please send your submissions via email to lartur@acm.org * More information on the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008: http://namu.cs.tut.fi/acmmm2008/same2008/index.html * Best contributions will be compiled to a special issue following up the workshop * Check also the Ambient Media Association (AMEA): www.ambientmediaassociation.org and http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/forum/node/3 Description of the Workshop The medium is the message! And the message was literacy, media democracy and music charts. Mostly one single distinguishable media such as TV, the Web, the radio, or books transmitted the message. No in the age of ubiquitous and pervasive computing, where information flows through a plethora of distributed interlinked media what is the message ambient media will tell us? What means semantic in this context? Which experiences will it open to us? What is content in the age of ambient media? Ambient media are embedded throughout the natural environment of the consumer in his home, in his car, in restaurants, and on his mobile device. Predominant sample services are smart wallpapers in homes, location based services, RFID based entertainment services for children, or intelligent homes. The distribution of the medium throughout the natural environment implies a paradigm change of how to think about content. Until recently, content was identified as single entities to information a video stream, audio stream, TV broadcast. However, in the age of ambient media, the notion of content extends from the single entity thinking towards a plethora of sensor networks, smart devices, personalized services, and media embedded in the natural environment of the user. The consumer actively participates and co-designs contextual media experience One example is e.g. location based information. Initiatives as the smart Web considering location based tagging for web-pages underline this development. This multidisciplinary workshop aims to address the challenges: ? how to select, compose, and generate ambient content? ? how to present ambient content? ? how to re-use ambient content and learning experiences? ? what are the characteristics of ambient media, its content, and technology? ? how can collaborative, participatory, or social media service better supported and extended? ? and what are ambient media in terms of story-telling, interactive, and art? [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 6 08:11:14 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D2053C184; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:11:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 985FD3C17C; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:11:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091006081111.985FD3C17C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:11:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.349 sound recordings of Greek drama X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 349. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:06:03 +0100 From: Virginia Knight Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.339 sound recordings of Gk drama? In-Reply-To: <20091003070920.867E03C0EB@woodward.joyent.us> I suggest looking at Oxford's Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman drama: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/. Their database holds information on recordings of classical drama. The help page http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ASP/help.htm#evidence also lists other relevant catalogues, suppliers and bibliographies which might help your search. Virginia Knight --On 03 October 2009 07:09 +0000 Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 339. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 09:47:52 +0100 > From: "Roueche, Charlotte" > Subject: sound recordings of Greek drama? > > > I'm looking for sound recordings of Greek drama - specifically the > Persae, but others would be of interest. Is there any site offering > these? > > Many thanks > > Charlotte > ---------------------------- > Professor Charlotte Roueché > Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies/Department of Classics > King's College > London WC2R 2LS > direct tel. + 44 20.7848 2515 > fax + 44 20.7848 2545 > charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk > http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/bmgs/staff/roueche.html > ---------------------- Virginia Knight, Institute for Learning and Research Technology Tel: +44 (0)117 331 4369 Fax: +44 (0)117 331 4396 University of Bristol, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HH Virginia.Knight@bristol.ac.uk Official homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/aboutus/staff?search=cmvhk Personal homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~cmvhk/virginia.html ILRT homepage: http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 6 08:37:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F0D3C516; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:37:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 210673C4FB; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:37:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091006083724.210673C4FB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:37:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.350 claiming interdisciplinarity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 350. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Michael S. Hart" (9) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.346 claiming interdisciplinarity [2] From: Willard McCarty (27) Subject: impossible! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 05:18:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.346 claiming interdisciplinarity In-Reply-To: <20091005051926.17AEB3BDD3@woodward.joyent.us> Marvin Minsky, sometimes regarded as the smartest person alive, in the following quotation very solidly supports ideas/ideals a person might well regard as "individual interdisciplnarity:" "You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way." Having only one point of view seems very narrow minded when viewed in the context of those who have more than one. There are plenty of examples available. Michael S. Hart --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:35:05 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: impossible! In-Reply-To: <20091005051926.17AEB3BDD3@woodward.joyent.us> I confess to sadness but not surprise when someone in effect says, "achieving X is impossible, therefore we should not try". But I will even dispute that when X = interdisciplinary work, done by one person, it is impossible. As George Steiner is to his three principal languages (German, French, English) so are some with respect to disciplines. But my point really is, to follow the analogy, that just because your linguistic abilities are not up to Steiner's doesn't mean that learning German, say, is without merit. I know there are many here who will agree, even with some ferocity, about languages other than one's native tongue. My point really is, to reach for another, quite nearby analogy, that social anthropology is possible. We know from the writings of people like Geertz and Dening how difficult it is, but possible, and how rewarding. I agree that we're each of us trapped to some degree inside our own skins. But as Geertz remarked that's where the social anthropology begins, at that boundary. We are trapped, perhaps, to some degree by our native discipline, but if reaching out is impossible, then there's no point whatever to doing what we do. That we in fact do it must then be some kind of cruel hoax. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 6 08:38:58 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5443B3C599; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:38:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 39F8B3C592; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:38:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091006083856.39F8B3C592@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:38:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.351 new on WWW: spatial technologies; Heidegger X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 351. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" (15) Subject: Report from the 2009 SCI Institute (Spatial Technologies and the Humanities) [2] From: renata lemos (6) Subject: heidegger 2 twitter --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 12:20:43 -0400 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: Report from the 2009 SCI Institute (Spatial Technologies and the Humanities) Dear colleagues -- "Spatial Technologies and the Humanities," the report from the 2009 Scholarly Communication Institute (SCI) at the University of Virginia, is now available at: http://www.uvasci.org/current-institute/summary/ The focus of this year’s institute was on spatial technologies and methodologies—the specific modes of working they favor, the scholarly practices they enhance, and the infrastructure they demand to achieve scale and significance. Written by the Institute’s director, Abby Smith Rumsey, the report explores how uses of digital spatial technologies by humanities scholars are affecting the production of knowledge. It also addresses the technical and organizational infrastructures that should be in place to support the growth of spatial knowledge, identifying critical gaps between the existing scholarly communication infrastructure and that required to sustain the new scholarship. The report concludes by identifying specific actions to be taken by professional societies and humanities centers, by university administrators and CIOs, by scholars and publishers, and by funders to catalyze the growth of spatial humanities. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Scholarly Communication Institute began in 2003 to provide an opportunity for scholars and leaders in scholarly disciplines and societies, academic librarians, information technologists, and higher education administrators to design, test, and implement strategies that advance the humanities through innovative information technologies. The Institute convenes each summer at the University of Virginia Library. Scholarly Communication Institutes 1-4 focused on the promotion of digital scholarship and its supporting infrastructure in digital humanities (SCI 1 and 3); and in selected academic disciplines (Practical Ethics in SCI 2 and Architectural History in SCI 4). SCI 5 took a broad look at visual studies; and SCI 6 focused on humanities centers as sites of innovation, collaboration, and interdisciplinary exploration. For more background on the Scholarly Communication Institute, see http://uvasci.org/. I am happy to answer questions about the Institute, and we also invite public comment on "Spatial Technologies and the Humanities" at: http://uvasci.digress.it/ Best regards, Bethany Nowviskie Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ ● http://uvasci.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:42:31 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: heidegger 2 twitter Heidegger 2 Twitter http://ow.ly/sNGE -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 6 08:39:43 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AC1B3C632; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:39:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 93BC63C61E; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:39:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091006083942.93BC63C61E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:39:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.352 the invisible middle X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 352. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:58:32 +1300 From: Siobhan King Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.347 the invisible middle In-Reply-To: <20091005052025.0EF8D3BE35@woodward.joyent.us> >> "Why do we persistently imagine that if human beings were to create an independent intelligence that it would result rebel against us, usually with apocalyptic results?" Hmmm, the sort of thing that makes us take a good hard look at our children perhaps? >>Seems to me that we would be comparing two fundamentally unlike objects. But, we can try. I'm with you on that one. I think that some of the anxiety springs from how unlike organic thought AI might be, lacking emotions (like Terminator) or morality (like in the Matrix) or appreciation of the essence of humanity or its value (like in I Robot or again the Matrix) Sounds interesting. -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Monday, 5 October 2009 6:20 p.m. To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Oct 7 06:07:40 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB5163DA4C; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:07:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A63603DA3D; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:07:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091007060737.A63603DA3D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:07:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.353 the invisible middle X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 353. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (14) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.352 the invisible middle [2] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.347 the invisible middle [3] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.347 the invisible middle --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:01:54 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.352 the invisible middle In-Reply-To: <20091006083942.93BC63C61E@woodward.joyent.us> >>> "Why do we persistently imagine that if human beings were to create an independent intelligence that it would result rebel against us, usually with apocalyptic results?" > > Hmmm, the sort of thing that makes us take a good hard look at our children perhaps? Ha...yes, and as a parent with more than one child, I completely appreciate this answer. But many, many people regularly imagine having children without imagining apocalyptic results. They only face apocalyptic results AFTER the fact. So I tend to distinguish these creation anxiety narratives from, say, the Oedipus story, in which the parents were unique victims of fate, and stories about the Golem or Pygmalion, in which Divine assistance (and by extension, approval) is required for the creation of a new life. Narratives about technological creations are about a being we create all on our own, sometimes in defiance of the Divine. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:33:59 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.347 the invisible middle In-Reply-To: <20091005052025.0EF8D3BE35@woodward.joyent.us> Quoting Humanist Discussion Group : > "Why do we persistently imagine that if human > beings were to create an independent intelligence that it would > rebel against us, usually with apocalyptic results?" I think we feel this way not because we feel intelligent computers would change who we are, but because we believe they would become who we are. I.e., we believe other people aren't to be trusted and hence the creation of an artificial 'other person' would imbue it with the same motives we distrust in in others and ourselves--the quest for power and control. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:47:37 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.347 the invisible middle In-Reply-To: <20091005052025.0EF8D3BE35@woodward.joyent.us> I would offer this hopeful view of the future creation of artificial intelligences. What we need to do is create artificial intelligences that embody our aspirations for the best of human qualities. That is, beings capable of greater generosity, greater self-less-ness, greater appreciation, greater empathy, indeed greater humanity than we expect of the average person. We have an opportunity to create intelligent beings who could serve as our own role models of how we would like to behave. It is curious. I seem to have specified the creation of artificial intelligences as 'angels' to counteract the prevailing view of the creation of artificial intelligences as some sort of 'demons' that pervades much current science fiction. How would be go about creating an angel? _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Oct 7 06:08:11 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71BD3DA8E; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:08:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5F78D3DA7F; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:08:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091007060809.5F78D3DA7F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:08:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.354 cfp: Digital Humanities 2010 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 354. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 23:12:40 -0500 From: Sara Schmidt Subject: Re: Digital Humanities 2010 CFP We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Digital Humanities 2010 Conference. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2010 Call for Papers Abstract Deadline: Oct. 31, 2009 Proposals must be submitted electronically using the system which will be available at the conference web site from October 8th. Presentations may be any of the following: • Single papers (abstract max of 1500 words) • Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 500 words) • Posters (abstract max of 1500 words) Call for Papers Announcement The International Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and problems in humanities research and teaching. We welcome submissions in all areas of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in humanities computing, and on recent developments. Suitable subjects for proposals include, for example, * text analysis, corpora, language processing, language learning * IT in librarianship and documentation * computer-based research in cultural and historical studies * computing applications for the arts, architecture and music * research issues such as: information design and modelling; the cultural impact of the new media * the role of digital humanities in academic curricula The special theme of the 2010 conference is cultural heritage old and new. The range of topics covered is reflected in the journals of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press, and the Digital Humanities Quarterly, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ The deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the Programme Committee is Oct. 31th, 2009. All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance February 24, 2010. The electronic submission form will be available at the conference site from October 8th, 2009 (which will be linked from http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/papers/call.html) Anyone who has previously used the ConfTool system to submit proposals or reviews or to register for a Digital Humanities conference should use their existing account rather than setting up a new one. If anyone has forgotten their user name and/or password please contact dh2010 at digitalhumanities.org. See below for full details on submitting proposals. Proposals for (non-refereed, or vendor) demos and for pre-conference tutorials and workshops should be made to the local conference organizer as early as possible. For more information on the conference in general please visit the DH2010 web site. http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/ Types of Proposals Proposals to the Programme Committee may be of three types: (1) papers, (2) poster presentations and/or software demonstrations, and (3) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission must be specified in the proposal. Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. 1) Papers Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe original, unpublished work: preferably completed research with substantial results, but also the development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical or critical discussions. Individual papers have 20 min. for presentation and 10 for questions. Proposals concerning new computing methodologies should show how the methodologies are applied to humanities research, and should critically assess the application. Those concerning a particular application should compare earlier traditional and computational approaches and should also assess the new methodologies. References are naturally required. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible. 2) Poster Presentations and Software Demonstrations Poster sessions showcase some of the most important and innovative work being done in humanities computing. Poster presentations may include technology and project demonstrations. Hence the term poster/demo to refer to different possible combinations of printed and computer based presentations. 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 also apply, but posters/demos may be more suitable way for late-breaking work, or work in progress. 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. Poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than talks. Poster presenters can present their work and exchange ideas one-on-one and in detail with those most deeply interested. Presenters will have about two square meters of board space for display and may also wish to provide handouts. Posters remain on display throughout the conference, and are the sole focus of separate dedicated poster sessions. Additional times may be available for software or project demonstrations. As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters 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 proposal should include 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. All speakers are required to register for the conference and to participate in the session. Focused sessions should have added value when compared to the set of the individual papers. or A panel of four to six speakers. The proposal is an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how discussion will be organized, the names and affiliations of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. All speakers are required to register for the conference and to participate in the session. International Programme Committee Elisabeth Burr Richard Cunningham Jan-Christoph Meister Elli Mylonas Brent Nelson John Nerbonne (Chair) Bethany Noviskie Jan Rybicki John Walsh -- Digital Humanities 2010 https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Oct 7 06:14:01 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 939903DBA8; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:14:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 89DC63DB96; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:13:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091007061358.89DC63DB96@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:13:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.355 the invisible middle (continued) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 355. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Siobhan King (9) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.347 the invisible middle [2] From: "Borovsky, Zoe" (10) Subject: FW: [Humanist] 23.342 the invisible middle --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:58:32 +1300 From: Siobhan King Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.347 the invisible middle In-Reply-To: <20091005052025.0EF8D3BE35@woodward.joyent.us> >> "Why do we persistently imagine that if human beings were to create an independent intelligence that it would result rebel against us, usually with apocalyptic results?" Hmmm, the sort of thing that makes us take a good hard look at our children perhaps? >>Seems to me that we would be comparing two fundamentally unlike objects. But, we can try. I'm with you on that one. I think that some of the anxiety springs from how unlike organic thought AI might be, lacking emotions (like Terminator) or morality (like in the Matrix) or appreciation of the essence of humanity or its value (like in I Robot or again the Matrix) Sounds interesting. -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Monday, 5 October 2009 6:20 p.m. To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.orgUniversity of New Mexico --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 09:14:24 -0700 From: "Borovsky, Zoe" Subject: FW: [Humanist] 23.342 the invisible middle In-Reply-To: <20091005052025.0EF8D3BE35@woodward.joyent.us> I would love to work with you on monster stories! A recent find--the archive of animation. I realize you're looking for servants who are machine-like, but I'm fascinated with these illustrations. http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/02/media-artzybasheffs-machinalia.html Quote from the blog: In his introduction to the section titled "Machinalia" in his book As I See, Boris Artzybasheff says, "I am thrilled by machinery's force, precision and willingness to work at any task, no matter how arduous or monotonous it may be. I would rather watch a thousand ton dredge dig a canal than see it done by a thousand spent slaves lashed into submission. I like machines." Fondly, --zoe -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 1:31 AM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Oct 7 06:22:33 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D50C03DDB4; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:22:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C6D623DDA1; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:22:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091007062231.C6D623DDA1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:22:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.356 events: audio; virtual work; labour X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 356. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dot Porter (23) Subject: Registration open for Audio Digitisation and Metadata Workshop [2] From: Ray Siemens (21) Subject: Conference Announcement - Digital Labour:Workers, Authors, Citizens [3] From: Shawn Day (16) Subject: DHO Lecture: Recreating Research, Art and Education in Shared Virtual Worlds --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 09:15:57 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: Registration open for Audio Digitisation and Metadata Workshop Registration is now open for the RIA/DHO sponsored Audio Digtisation and Metadata workshop, scheduled for 19 October 2009, 10:00-16:00, in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. Register here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=PxW72lCdKEi88ezI2KDt0A_3d_3d Spaces will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, so please register early. The RIA Library and the DHO offer a one-day audio workshop devoted to online audio web publication and archiving of audio files. The workshop is aimed at those currently engaged in digital audio archival work and those interested in doing so. This workshop focuses on the implementation of metadata within audio projects. It will also provide an opportunity for those working in the area to meet and learn from each other and to explore current practices. For more information, visit the workshop site here: http://dho.ie/node/193 -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:57:38 +0100 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Conference Announcement - Digital Labour:Workers, Authors, Citizens From: Mirela Nicoleta Parau > ‘Digital Labour: Workers, Authors, Citizens’ A conference hosted by the Digital Labour Group, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, October 16-18, 2009, London, Ontario, Canada. We are happy to announce that our conference website is now open. Please visit us at http://conferences.fims.uwo.ca/digitallabour/ for information on the conference, registration, travel and accommodation. Register by September 1st for a 20% early registration discount. Fees are additionally discounted for graduate students. ‘Digital Labour: Workers, Authors, Citizens’ addresses the implications of digital labour as they are emerging in practice, politics, policy, culture, and theoretical enquiry. As workers, as authors, and as citizens, we are increasingly summoned and disciplined by new digital technologies that define the workplace and produce ever more complex regimes of surveillance and control. At the same time, new possibilities for agency and new spaces for collectivity are borne from these multiplying digital innovations. This conference aims to explore this social dialectic, with a specific focus on new forms of labour. The changing conditions of digital capitalism often blur distinctions between workers, authors and citizens more than they clarify them. Digital workers, for example, are often authors of content for the increasingly convergent and synergistic end markets of entertainment capitalism – but authors whose rights as such have been thoroughly alienated. Citizens are often compelled to construct their identities in such a way as to produce the flexible and entrepreneurial selves demanded by the heavily consumer-oriented ‘experience and attention economies’ of digitalized post-Fordism. How might we come to understand the breakdown of distinctions between labour and creativity, work and authorship, value and productive excess in the new digital economy? What is labour in an era where participation in the cultural industries is the preferred conduit to autonomy and self-valorization? What struggles do information and entertainment workers and workers in an increasingly digitalized manufacturing sector share as social understandings of labour, alienation and authorship continue to morph according to the changing fashions of heavily fetishized technologies? What might recent theorizing on the infinitely malleable ‘post-Fordist image worker’ tell us about the nature of affective ties to states and other political formations in the twenty-first century? Union activists will assist academic specialists in assessing these and other crucial questions. Two panels will include representatives from the Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA), the Writers Guild of Canada (WGC), and the Canadian Media Guild (CMG). Other guild confirmation is pending. Academic participants include: Keynote – Ursula Huws (London Metropolitan University and Analytica Social and Economic Research): “On the Cybertariat: Digital Labour, Social Relations and the Workplace” Keynote – Vincent Mosco (Department of Sociology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario): “Knowledge Labour: Work in Progress” Catherine McKercher (School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa) Catherine Fisk (School of Law, University of California at Irvine) David Hesmondhalgh (Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds) Brian Holmes (activist and cultural critic, Paris) Barry King (School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology) Andrea Fumagalli (Department of Political Economy and Quantitative Methods, University of Pavia) Dorothy Kidd (Department of Media Studies, University of San Francisco) Vicki Mayer (Communication Department, Tulane University, New Orleans) Helen Kennedy (Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds). The Digital Labour Conference Organizing Committee: Jonathan Burston, Edward Comor, James Compton, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Alison Hearn, Ajit Pyati, Sandra Smeltzer, Matt Stahl, Sam Trosow. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 23:07:32 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: DHO Lecture: Recreating Research, Art and Education in Shared Virtual Worlds DHO Lecture: Recreating Research, Art and Education in Shared Virtual Worlds Venue: Dublin City Council Auditorium, Wood Quay, Dublin 2 Date: 16 October 2009, 15:00 - 17:00 As part of Innovation Week Dublin, the DHO in conjunction with Architecture Ireland is pleased to present Dr Hugh Denard, from King's College London's Visualisation Lab. He will discuss how Virtual World technologies such as Second Life are both transforming our experiences and understandings of the human past and, at the same time, posing new challenges. From the interpretation of an ancient Roman shipwreck by European graduate students to an intercontinental recreation of a Japanese Noh performance; from a study of the neoclassical roots of the Globe Theatre to the virtual enactment of a Cornish-language drama in its original medieval setting; and from "mixed reality" conferencing to "between worlds" New Media artworks, the presentation will both demonstrate how early adopters are exploring and exploiting the potential of Virtual Worlds and suggest the shape of innovations to come. Although registration is not required, spaces are limited and we would appreciate those attending complete a brief registration form available at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=9quvizAj8YhBiFmheJntPg_3d_3d More information and a map are available at the Dublin Innovation website at: http://www.innovationdublin.ie/index.php/fri/recreating_research_art_and_education_in_shared_virtual_worlds/ or at the DHO events list at: http://dho.ie/innovationweek This talk will be presented as part of Innovation Week Dublin and will be simultaneously presented in Second Life. To attend the Second Life presentation, you can teleport to the virtual auditorium at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Digital%20Humanities/130/9/37 If you have any further questions, please contact s.day@dho.ie We look forward to seeing you there. Best regards, Shawn Day _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Oct 7 06:23:19 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E88D3DE01; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:23:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C3FEB3DDEA; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:23:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091007062317.C3FEB3DDEA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:23:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.357 funding for collaborative transatlantic research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 357. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:37:57 +0100 From: Humboldt Foundation Subject: Collaborative Transatlantic Research (deadline 31 October) Transatlantic Cooperation in Research (TransCoop) Funding for Collaborative Research for Scholars in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Economics, and Law As the October 31 deadline for fall TransCoop applications approaches, we invite you to share this information with anyone who may be interested and eligible to apply. Thank you in advance for your continued support of the program. More Information Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, TransCoop Program . The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation supports transatlantic research cooperation between German, American and/or Canadian scholars in the humanities, social sciences, economics, and law. Joint research initiatives can receive up to 55,000 EUR over a three-year period. Funding Information Funds can be used: * to finance short-term research visits lasting up to three months. * to organize conferences and workshops. * for material, equipment and printing costs. * for a limited amount of research assistance. Up to fifteen percent of the TransCoop funds granted can be earmarked for the German partner institution and used as an administrative lump-sum. U.S. or Canadian sources must match funds from the TransCoop Program. Application Information Applications should be submitted jointly by at least one German and one U.S. and/or Canadian scholar. A Ph.D. is required of both applicants. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (66) Subject: angelology [2] From: "Clark, Stephen" (7) Subject: AI demons (was invisible middle) [3] From: Wendell Piez (58) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.353 the invisible middle --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:53:11 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: angelology Bob Amsler's post in Humanist 23.353, on aiming at the best of the human in artificial intelligence research, deserves more than I can give it, but I will try. He says, > What we need to do is create artificial intelligences > that embody our aspirations for the best of human qualities. That is, > beings capable of greater generosity, greater self-less-ness, greater > appreciation, greater empathy, indeed greater humanity than we expect > of the average person. We have an opportunity to create intelligent > beings who could serve as our own role models of how we would like to > behave. > > It is curious. I seem to have specified the creation of artificial > intelligences as 'angels' to counteract the prevailing view of the > creation of artificial intelligences as some sort of 'demons' that > pervades much current science fiction. How would be go about creating > an angel? I have three thoughts, the first on an unstated meta-aim, the second on an opportunity for research in the humanities, the third on a very difficult related problem I am having, or which is having me. The kind of AI research I think is most attractive to the humanities, indeed shares the common aim of these disciplines, dwells on the questioning byproduct of attempting to make artificial intelligences -- which notices, for example, that such attempts raise the question of what intelligence is and provide means for sharpening it. Sometimes it seems a pity that an historian or philosopher, say, is not part of the research project and so could not only help with the questioning but also benefit from it. As Katherine Hayles shows repeatedly and brilliantly in How We Became Posthuman (1999), dealing with analogies between human and machine can result in a refiguring of both, and so itself pose a problem to which we must be alert. But at least the best of us is up to that job, I think. We can make analogies, test their strength and then move on. The meta-aim I'd like to see more attention given to, on both sides of the house, is the questioning, the byproduct, that all-important "hem of a quantum garment", as Jerry McGann says. So to my second thought. Here, reading Amsler's post, a medieval intellectual historian should get quite exercised on the question of angelology and reach, say, for Henry Mayr-Harting's 1997 inaugural at Oxford, published as Perceptions of Angels in History (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998). What are we doing when we imagine, as now, angels? How does our activity now differ from what was going on then? How is it the same? How could we do angelology better, profit from it more? I have difficulty imagining a collaborative grant proposal that would be funded to include a Mayr-Harting alongside a Minsky, but wouldn't that be something? My third thought. Let's say an intellectual historian got interested in angelology from the Ottonian Europe to Obama's America. How would this be written so as to strike a middle course between accident and determinism? (This question definitely veers off from artificial angelology to a central problem of historiography.) Recently I have read two very good books -- Paul Edwards' Closed World and Hayles' How We Became Posthuman -- both of which leave me with the sense of stories well told, with a prodigious amount of careful scholarship and penetrating insight, but told so as to be more coherent than life is. And then there are others, such as David Mindell's Between Human and Machine, that don't leave me with a haunting sense of claustrophobia. At the same time as I feel that claustrophobia I am very grateful indeed for the books in question. But I wonder about how to do as good a job without the closure. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:41:45 +0100 From: "Clark, Stephen" Subject: AI demons (was invisible middle) First: it's not true that science fiction is dominated by the AI as Demon myth. There have been plenty of AI angels, from Asimov's Multivac and his robots to John C.Wright's Golden Transcendence. And some that are just other creatures, with a different physical base (see Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress). Second: the chief fear has been of angels rather than demons! That is, we fear that they will act for our own good - as they conceive it - rather than for what we actually want, and our freedom to try and get it. See Jack Williamson's The Humanoids - and some of Asimov's own later work, especially as it has been amplified by Gregory Benford & co in the second Foundation trilogy. Third: one serious problem - and it's one that has been an issue in theology as well - is that AIs won't have any experience themselves of pain and helplessness, and will therefore be unable to understand what our experience is like. This is explored a little in Rudy Rucker's Software. Prof Stephen R.L.Clark University of Liverpool http://www.liv.ac.uk/info/staff/A639849 http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~srlclark/srlc.htm --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:09:43 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.353 the invisible middle In-Reply-To: <20091007060737.A63603DA3D@woodward.joyent.us> Willard and HUMANIST, At 02:07 AM 10/7/2009, you sent: >--[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:47:37 -0500 > From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.347 the invisible middle > >I would offer this hopeful view of the future creation of artificial >intelligences. What we need to do is create artificial intelligences >that embody our aspirations for the best of human qualities. That is, >beings capable of greater generosity, greater self-less-ness, greater >appreciation, greater empathy, indeed greater humanity than we expect >of the average person. We have an opportunity to create intelligent >beings who could serve as our own role models of how we would like to >behave. > >It is curious. I seem to have specified the creation of artificial >intelligences as 'angels' to counteract the prevailing view of the >creation of artificial intelligences as some sort of 'demons' that >pervades much current science fiction. How would be go about creating >an angel? What a great response. It's especially interesting given the context. As indicated by the citations that started this thread, the quest for AI is usually not proposed with the intention of creating intelligence only for its own sake. At least in part (and apart from any notion of usefulness), it is a research project based on the idea that in order to create an artificial intelligence, we have to develop our understanding of what an intelligence is and how it works. Making an AI by accident, as in some dystopian fantasies in which we wake up to discover the phone system or the orbital defense network has awakened while we were sleeping (like SkyNet in Terminator, also cited in this thread), doesn't count. Even if it's already happened. What are computer viruses if not the network's way of exploiting human psychology to immunize itself against breakdown? By enabling us to send spam, and viruses, and virus alerts, the Internet causes us to devote more energy and resources to itself and its (and our) weaknesses. So, does creating an angel by accident count? Or do we have to understand what it is to be an angel before we can create an angel of any real use to us? After all, there are already angels -- at least of some variety, or at least I think so -- but somehow they don't ultimately manage to rescue us from ourselves. Maybe that's because in order to be rescued by angels -- in order to recognize them or make them or be made angels by them -- we need to discover and realize our own angelic capacities. And if we can accomplish that, we may not need the machines, except as instruments upon which we can play praises to our own and their creation. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:05:13 -0400 (EDT) From: William S Shaw Subject: Update to the William Blake Archive 7 October 2009 The William Blake Archive http://www.blakearchive.org is pleased to announce the publication of an electronic edition of Blake's ten monochrome wash drawings illustrating Mary Wollstonecraft's _Original Stories from Real Life_ and the first and second editions of the book containing Blake's six engravings of his designs. The designs and inscribed texts in all three series are fully searchable and are supported by our Inote and ImageSizer applications. In 1788, Joseph Johnson published the first edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's morally instructive narrative for children, _Original Stories from Real Life; with Conversations, Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness_. A few years later, Johnson decided to issue a new edition, for which he commissioned Blake to prepare a series of illustrations. Blake's extant drawings, now in the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress, are datable to c. 1791. In addition to these ten designs, Blake must have executed at least one further drawing as a preliminary for his fifth plate; this drawing is untraced. Six designs were selected for publication in the 1791 edition of Wollstonecraft's book; Blake engraved the designs himself. The first and second states of Blake's plates appear variously in copies of the 1791 edition. The second edition to contain Blake's plates was published by Johnson in 1796; it contains the third (final) states of Blake's plates. The copy of the 1791 edition now in the Archive is from the Huntington Library; it contains the second states of the plates. The copy of the 1796 edition in the Archive is from the Essick collection and contains the third (final) states of the plates. Modern interpreters of the illustrations have detected a pictorial critique of Wollstonecraft's stories. Blake appears to have found her morality too calculating, rationalistic, and rigid. He represents Wollstonecraft's spokesperson, Mrs. Mason, as a domineering presence. From Blake's perspective, Mason's acts of charity are excessively condescending and tend to reinforce the underlying social conditions that create disparities between wealth and poverty. As Blake wrote in "The Human Abstract," "Pity would be no more, / If we did not make somebody Poor." With this publication, the Archive adds a new set of scholarly tools. These tools, known collectively as our Related Works system, are designed to show relationships among works and individual objects in the Archive. They function at two levels. First, work index pages now include active links to related materials in the Archive (for example, a set of preliminary sketches for a group of engravings). Second, the Show Me menu on object view pages now includes Related Works in the Archive. Like the work-level menu, this list includes active links to the related objects and is meant to allow study of the related materials side-by-side. The Wollstonecraft illustrations are the first publication in the Archive to use this feature. As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no access restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the cooperation of the international array of libraries and museums that have generously given us permission to reproduce works from their collections in the Archive. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors Ashley Reed, project manager, William Shaw, technical editor The William Blake Archive http://www.blakearchive.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 8 05:53:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 041F43C89E; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 05:53:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 83E7D3C895; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 05:53:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091008055332.83E7D3C895@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 05:53:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.360 events: DH & CS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 360. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:45:39 -0500 From: Shlomo Argamon Subject: Call For Participation: Digital Humanities and Computer Science CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Critical Computing: Models and Challenges for Interdisciplinary Collaboration 2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science November 14-16, 2009 Illinois Institute of Technology Hermann Hall, 3241 S Federal St. McCormick-Tribune Campus Center, 3201 S State St. Chicago, IL http://dhcs.iit.edu The annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to advance interdisciplinary collaborations between the digital humanists and computer scientists, advancing the area as a field of intellectual inquiry and identifying new directions and perspectives for future research. Such collaborative research poses both problems and opportunities: * How can computation provide new critical and interpretative tools for humanists? * How can humanities scholarship help us understand the meaning and import of computational analysis of human artifacts? Program: http://dhcs.iit.edu/program.html Registration: http://dhcs.iit.edu/registration.html INVITED SPEAKERS: * Stephen Wolfram, founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica, and author of A New Kind of Science. * Vasant Honavar, professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University, and founding director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory and the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning & Discovery. * Roger B. Dannenberg, Associate Research Professor of Computer Science and Art at Carnegie Mellon University, and fellow of the Studio for Creative Inquiry. BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER WORKSHOP SESSIONS: November 14, 2009: 1:00-5:00 Location: Illinois Institute of Technology McCormick Tribune Campus Center 3201 S. State St., Chicago, IL 60616 As we did last year, we invite participants to organize workshops and informal, "birds-of-a-feather" workshop meetings on the day before the colloquium’s regular paper and poster sessions. We envision the pre-colloquium being used for seminars and/or tutorials on topics that will feature in the colloquium's paper presentations as well as more informal exchanges on topics of common interest (e.g. "digital archaeology"). You may wish to consult last year's BoF schedule: http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/dhcs2008/schedule/pre-colloquium/ for some examples. If you are interested in organizing a session, please contact Mark Olsen (markymaypo57 at gmail dawt com) with a title, brief synopsis, and preferred time slot which we will post on the colloquium site. TRAVEL GRANTS FOR STUDENTS: We are very pleased to be able to offer $500 towards travel expenses to three graduate students who wish to participate in DHCS 2009. Please see http://dhcs.iit.edu/student_travel.html for more information. DHCS 2009 SPONSORED BY: * Illinois Institute of Technology * The University of Chicago * Northwestern University MORE INFORMATION: For more information or to register, visit http://dhcs.iit.edu or email dhcs2009 at iit dot edu. -- Shlomo Argamon Associate Professor of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 60616 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 8 06:04:15 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC92A3CA5B; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 06:04:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CAB683CA4E; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 06:04:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091008060412.CAB683CA4E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 06:04:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.361 more events: methods; things digital; modal logic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 361. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Carlos Areces (141) Subject: CFP: Advances in Modal Logic 2010 [2] From: DigitalWorld 2010 (51) Subject: Deadline extension: October 12: DigitalWorld 2010 || February10-15, 2010 - St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles [3] From: Thomas Bolander (123) Subject: Call for participation: Methods for Modalities 6 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 08:28:46 +0100 From: Carlos Areces Subject: CFP: Advances in Modal Logic 2010 AiML-2010: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 8-TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MODAL LOGIC MOSCOW, AUGUST 25-29, 2010 http://aiml10.mi.ras.ru/ Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting the state of the art in modal logic and its various applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. Information about the AiML series can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net http://www.aiml.net . AiML-2010 is the eighth conference in the series. TOPICS We invite submission on all aspects of modal logics, including: - history of modal logic - philosophy of modal logic - applications of modal logic - computational aspects of modal logic + complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics + modal and temporal logic programming + model checking + theorem proving for modal logics - theoretical aspects of modal logic + algebraic and categorical perspectives on modal logic + coalgebraic modal logic + completeness and canonicity + correspondence and duality theory + many-dimensional modal logics + modal fixed point logics + model theory of modal logic + proof theory of modal logic - specific instances and variations of modal logic + description logics + dynamic logics and other process logics + epistemic and deontic logics + modal logics for agent-based systems + modal logic and game theory + modal logic and grammar formalisms + provability and interpretability logics + spatial and temporal logics + hybrid logic + intuitionistic logic + substructural logics [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 03:01:45 +0100 From: DigitalWorld 2010 Subject: Deadline extension: October 12: DigitalWorld 2010 || February10-15, 2010 - St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles INVITATION Please consider to contribute and encourage your team members and fellow scientists to contribute to the following federated events. The submission deadline has now been moved to October 12, 2009. Publisher: CPS ( see: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps ) Archived: IEEE CSDL (Computer Science Digital Library) and IEEE Xplore Submitted for indexing: Elsevier's EI Compendex Database, EI?s Engineering Information Index Other indexes are being considered: INSPEC, DBLP, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index Thanks for forwarding the information on this Call for Submissions to those potentially interested to submit. ===== Call for Submissions ======= DigitalWorld 2010, February 10-15, 2010 - St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles DigitalWorld 2010 is a federated event focusing on advanced topics concerning all digital aspects in our society. Nowadays, most of the economic activities and business models are driven by the unprecedented evolution of theories and technologies. The impregnation of these achievements into our society is present everywhere, and it is only question of user education and business models optimization towards a digital society. Submission (full paper) deadline: October 12, 2009. Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Publisher: CPS ( see: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps ) Archived: IEEE CSDL (Computer Science Digital Library) and IEEE Xplore [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:22:15 +0100 From: Thomas Bolander Subject: Call for participation: Methods for Modalities 6 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 6th Workshop on METHODS FOR MODALITIES (M4M-6) http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M6 Copenhagen, Denmark November 12-14, 2009 NOTE: The deadline for early registration is October 19 ======================================================= 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. More information about the previous editions can be found at http://m4m.loria.fr/ Autumn School ------------- M4M-6 will be preceded by a two-day mini-course called "Autumn School on Modal Logic" aimed at preparing PhD students and other researchers for participation in the workshop. The autumn school will be taught by Carlos Areces, Patrick Blackburn, Valentin Goranko, Renate Schmidt, and Carsten Schürmann. Consult the autumn school home page for further information: http://hylocore.ruc.dk/m4m6school.html The autumn school is associated with the FIRST research school (http://first.dk). [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 10 03:47:51 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF4CC3BDA1; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:47:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 82B613BD93; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:47:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091010034749.82B613BD93@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:47:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.362 angels & demons X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 362. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 09:01:08 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.358 angels & demons, or the invisible middle In-Reply-To: <20091008055135.967003C7ED@woodward.joyent.us> I may have missed some responses, but did anyone in fact say that science fiction was dominated "by the AI as Demon myth." The AI as demon is certainly widespread (Frankenstein, various film adaptations of Frankenstein (perhaps 30?), R.U.R., Metropolis, I, Robot, Terminator series, the Matrix series, Stealth (Frankenplane!), with some variations in which the good AI brings out the demon in humanity (AI, Bicentennial Man), but I honestly don't know if it predominates or not. The demon in man creating a bad AI is part of the AI as demon myth. I think Wendell Piez's response is a good one, but will only occur when we begin to think of ourselves as angels first, yes. We don't have a good track record with that. For the time being, AI is a machine like any other, and will undoubtedly cause some unexpected results as well as mirror both the intended and unintended consequences of its creators. Jim R _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 10 03:50:48 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12EC53BE1A; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:50:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B69CB3BE0E; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:50:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091010035042.B69CB3BE0E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:50:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.363 claiming interdisciplinarity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 363. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 14:59:29 -0300 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.350 claiming interdisciplinarity In-Reply-To: <20091006083724.210673C4FB@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, Our conversation about interdisciplinarity seems to have taken on some unfortunate absolutist tenors, and to the extent I may have contributed to taking the conversation in that direction, I regret it and apologize. As I implied in my first note, I know someone who is convinced what she does is absolutely interdisciplinary. But what she does looks to me and many others (I know of no one who sees her work the way she does herself) like someone with an advanced degree in one discipline reading texts from another discipline and then treating them in a way wholly familiar to her home discipline and unrecognized and unrecognizable to inmates of the other discipline. She strikes me now, as she struck me a week ago, as the paradigm Sir Richard Brook must have had in mind when he encouraged such people "to ask themselves an honest question." The person of whom I was thinking and am now writing is, I must acknowledge, an extreme example, and as such likely to lead me to make absolutist assertions. Nonetheless, I think it likely that interdisciplinarity is best fostered in an environment within which no discipline is assured supremacy. By that I mean that two people, one paid to do the work of and manifest the principles of one discipline and the other the same for another discipline would seem to me the minimum requirement for the best interdisciplinary work. I suppose an individual can do interdisciplinary work, but I can't bring myself to believe that one person disciplined to read in accordance with one discipline can read the texts of another discipline and reach as many or as varied questions, implications, and conclusions as can two people, one from each discipline. There will of course be variations even in this weak formulation, e.g. one driven individual will quite often out perform two lazy people. But if we assume all involved are doing their best and working equally hard, then I think the two people will provide a more nuanced record of their encounter with the text, the object, the subject, etc. than will the one person. I suspect my unwillingness to let go of the need for more than one person for interdisciplinary work stems from my belief that the concept of discipline is real, and forceful. It takes as much time and effort as it does to earn a PhD because the mind has to disciplined into encountering the world in a certain way. For example, a medical doctor looks at a red splotch on a person's leg and sees a rash (which she sees as an example of ______ _____, a Latin name I don't know, even for the sake of example), while a psychologist looks at the same red patch and sees the reason for the depressive patient's recent down turn, while the artist sees the same thing and is inspired to paint something she's never painted before. Without the time invested to discipline the mind, the MD-painter might be replaced inadvertently by the painter-MD, and while the world would have new art the sufferer might not be relieved. I think "discipline" came to be the word that describes our endeavours precisely because a way of thinking is instilled, i.e. we are disciplined to think in such a way, that drives out all other reactions. Only subsequently can a different reaction, a different thought, be brought to bear on the item of study. So while I admit a different way of looking at things can be achieved by even a disciplined thinker, I believe the word "discipline" becomes less meaningful--and interdisciplinary along with it--if disciplines fail to render a mode of thought about the world as something close to instinct in the disciplined thinker. I say all this without moral approbation. It may be good or it may be bad to be disciplined the way academic disciplines work on us. But I believe they do work on us, and often in less-than-fully-conscious ways. With apologies for the length, Richard On 6-Oct-09, at 5:37 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 350. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: "Michael S. Hart" > (9) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.346 claiming interdisciplinarity > > [2] From: Willard McCarty > (27) > Subject: impossible! > > > -- > [1 > ]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 05:18:20 -0700 (PDT) > From: "Michael S. Hart" > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.346 claiming interdisciplinarity > In-Reply-To: <20091005051926.17AEB3BDD3@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Marvin Minsky, sometimes regarded as the smartest person alive, > in the following quotation very solidly supports ideas/ideals a > person might well regard as "individual interdisciplnarity:" > > "You don't understand anything > until you learn it more than one way." > > Having only one point of view seems very narrow minded when > viewed in the context of those who have more than one. > > There are plenty of examples available. > > Michael S. Hart > > > > -- > [2 > ]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:35:05 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: impossible! > In-Reply-To: <20091005051926.17AEB3BDD3@woodward.joyent.us> > > I confess to sadness but not surprise when someone in effect says, > "achieving X is impossible, therefore we should not try". But I will > even dispute that when X = interdisciplinary work, done by one person, > it is impossible. As George Steiner is to his three principal > languages > (German, French, English) so are some with respect to disciplines. But > my point really is, to follow the analogy, that just because your > linguistic abilities are not up to Steiner's doesn't mean that > learning > German, say, is without merit. I know there are many here who will > agree, even with some ferocity, about languages other than one's > native > tongue. My point really is, to reach for another, quite nearby > analogy, > that social anthropology is possible. We know from the writings of > people like Geertz and Dening how difficult it is, but possible, and > how > rewarding. > > I agree that we're each of us trapped to some degree inside our own > skins. But as Geertz remarked that's where the social anthropology > begins, at that boundary. We are trapped, perhaps, to some degree by > our > native discipline, but if reaching out is impossible, then there's no > point whatever to doing what we do. That we in fact do it must then be > some kind of cruel hoax. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. ------------- Richard Cunningham Associate Professor, English & Theatre Director, Acadia Media Centre Acadia University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 10 03:51:57 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4EE13BE87; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:51:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DDE113BE70; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:51:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091010035154.DDE113BE70@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:51:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.364 job at UVic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 364. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 02:16:41 -0700 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Position: Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities and Renaissance Studies (Victoria, Canada; 30 Nov 2009 application deadline) [please redistribute; apologies for cross-posting] * Digital Humanities and Renaissance Studies The Department of English at the University of Victoria invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in the area of Digital Humanities and Renaissance Studies (mailing deadline: 30 November 2009). The appointment will be effective 1 July 2010. The successful candidate will be expected to take a leading role in the teaching of Digital Humanities within the Department at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, while also contributing to a strong Renaissance team, the largest in the UVic English Department. * Essential and Desirable Criteria for the Post Qualifications and Experience: Essential: A doctoral degree in a relevant area, or evidence that a doctoral degree in a relevant area is near to completion; a strong research plan. Desirable: Publications in either or both of the stipulated fields; teaching experience in higher education. Knowledge/Skills/Competences: Essential: Ability to practice digital humanities techniques to a high level; ability to teach undergraduate and graduate courses; ability to supervise MA and PhD students; ability to undertake research of an international standard; ability to contribute to the administrative tasks and committee work of the department; good organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills; capacity to work to and meet deadlines. Desirable: Ability to contribute to the Digital Humanities research cluster; the ability to support the Internet Shakespeare Editions; the ability to support the department's work in Renaissance studies. * Digital Humanities and Renaissance Studies at UVic Digital Humanities and Renaissance Studies are two of the strongest areas within the Department of English. Digital Humanities is one of the nine research clusters within the Department, led by its Canada Research Chair, Professor Ray Siemens. Aligned with digital humanists across the faculty, UVic has hosted several important Digital Humanities gatherings in the past several years, including ACH/ALLC in 2005 and TEI in 2006. Its Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, in association with the faculty's Humanities Computing and Media Centre, hosts the annual international Digital Humanities Summer Institute and events related to its place as a node of the Canadian Text Analysis Portal for Research. The multi-institutional SSHRC MCRI project Implementing New Knowledge Environments has its home in the department (35 researchers across 21 national and international institutions), as does the Map of Early Modern London and the Internet Shakespeare Editions. The department currently has nine faculty members in the extended early modern period, split between four medievalists (Iain Higgins, Allan Mitchell, John Tucker and Adrienne Williams-Boyarin) and five Renaissance specialists (Janelle Jenstad, Erin Kelly, Gary Kuchar, Ray Siemens and Richard van Oort). * Application Instructions Letters of application, curriculum vitae including all university transcripts, writing sample, and confidential letters from three referees should be sent by 30 November 2009, to: Dr. Robert Miles, Chair Department of English University of Victoria PO Box 3070 STN CSC Victoria, BC V8W 3W1, Canada Phone: (250) 721-7236 Fax: (250) 721-6498 Email: english@uvic.ca Website: english.uvic.ca The University of Victoria is an equity employer and encourages applications from women, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, Aboriginal Peoples, people of all sexual orientations and genders, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of the University. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 10 03:53:36 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1723BEE4; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:53:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9AFB23BED2; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:53:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091010035333.9AFB23BED2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:53:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.365 new on WWW: van Gogh's letters X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 365. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:12:36 +0200 From: pboot Subject: A new edition of Vincent van Gogh's letters Dear all, Some of you may be interested in the new digital edition of all extant letters from and to Vincent van Gogh that we launched yesterday, available free of charge at http://www.vangoghletters.org. The edition is based on fifteen years of research. For each of the 902 letters the site gives a transcription of the original Dutch or French, a translation into English, a full (zoomable) facsimile, comprehensive annotation, and illustrations (about 2000 in all) of the works of art discussed in the letters. Editorial procedures are explained under 'About this edition' (http://www.vangoghletters.org/vg/about_1.html). Information about the accompanying six-volume book edition is available at http://www.vangoghletters.org/vg/bookedition.html. One of the more interesting aspects of this project is that even though the integral scholarly output of the project is accessible online, we still expect that the book edition will sell. The experience of reading a book and using a website are, we believe, sufficiently different to make book and site complementary rather than competing products. We hope you enjoy the edition. Peter Boot _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 10 03:54:33 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2B6D3BF41; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:54:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B0BA93BF2E; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:54:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091010035430.B0BA93BF2E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:54:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.366 some books of interest X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 366. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:44:42 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: some books A newletter from the publisher John Benjamins has put the following titles before my eyes: Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein, eds. Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre (2009) Rosamund Moon, ed. Words, Grammar, Text: Revisiting the Work of John Sinclair (2009). Originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12.2 (2007). Silvie Mellet, ed. New Approaches in Text Linguistics (2009). There would be more titles here, but I had to draw a line somewhere. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London: staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 10 03:55:42 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B363BF9A; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:55:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DC9FD3BF80; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:55:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091010035539.DC9FD3BF80@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:55:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.367 events: contemporary history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 367. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:55:53 +0200 From: Frédéric Clavert Subject: Contemporary history in the digital age Dear List members, please find below the program of our Symposium "Contemporary history in the digital age". Best regards, Frédéric Clavert > Mercredi 14 octobre 2009 Pré-session (15h00, CVCE, Sanem) > Jeudi 15 octobre 2009 (Bâtiment Jean Monnet, Plateau Du Kirchberg, Luxembourg) - 9h – 10 h – Session d’introduction + Rolf Tarrach (Recteur de l’Université du Luxembourg) + Marianne Backes (Directrice du Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe) + René Leboutte (Directeur d’études du Master en Histoire européenne contemporaine à l’Université du Luxembourg) - 10h00 – 11h00 – Keynote : Gino Roncaglia - 11h30 – 13h00 – Ressources et outils (1) – Président : Philippe Rygiel + Andreas Bagias (CARDOC) - Organisation et exploitation des archives du Parlement Européen dans un environnement électronique + Annick Batard (Paris XIII) - La presse écrite généraliste française sous l’emprise du web : une ressource de l’histoire culturelle contemporaine? + Eva Deak (Central European University) - Study, store and share unpublished primary sources: the example of the Parallel Archive - 14h00 – 16h00 – Ressources et outils (2) – Président : David Bodenhamer + Aurore François (Université Catholique de Louvain) - Le portail Just-His.be. Un agrégateur de ressources sur l’histoire sociopolitique de l’administration de la justice en Belgique (1795 - 2005) + Stefan Halikowski-Smith (Swansea University) - European National Libraries and Digitization in History + Genaro Oliveira (University of Auckland) - How image editing software and Web development tools currently available on personal computers can be used as interactive/multimedia narrative resources contributing new ways to the writing and communicating of History + Patrick Peccatte (Soft Experience) - Une plate-forme collaborative pour la redocumentarisation d’un fonds photographique historique - 16h30 – 18h00 – Méthodes et écritures (1) – Président : René Leboutte + Tsuriel Rashi (Lifshitz College of Education) et Isaac Hershkovitz (Bar-Ilan University) - The Media Memory Agenda and the Struggle against Holocaust Deniers + Gerben Zaagsma (University College London) - Contemporary European Jewish history on the internet + Olivier Le Deuff (Lyon 3) - Nouveaux outils et science : l’archéologie pour faire « sens » > Vendredi 16 octobre 2009 (Bâtiment Jean Monnet, Plateau Du Kirchberg, Luxembourg) - 9h00 – 10h00 – Keynote : Marin Dacos - 10h30 – 12h30 – Méthodes et écritures (2) – Président : Serge Noiret + Tito Menzani (Università di Bologna) - When the web is useful for scientific output. The case of Italian historiography on the cooperative movement + Stéphane Pouyllau (CN2SV) / Alain Michel (Université d’Évry) - L’atelier C5 de Renault-Billancourt à l’ère digitale : nouvelle histoire d’une chaîne de 1922 + Philippe Rygiel (Paris I) - La diffusion du savoir historique à l’âge du web 2.0. La « valorisation » de l’enquête « Histoire et mémoire de l’immigration en régions » + David Bodenhamer (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis) - The Spatialization of History: A New Web Paradigm Comparison - 13h30 – 15h30 – Environnement numérique (1) + Paul Arthur (Umeå University) - Digital History in Australia and New Zealand: An International Comparison + Marie-Pierre Besnard (IUT de Saint-Lô) - Renouveler l’expérience muséale à l’heure du Web : le e-musée + Cristina Blanco Sio-Lopez (CVCE) & Milagros García Pérez (Biblioteca Municipal de Estudios Locales) - Interacting localities: The case of the BMEL and its projects on collaborative online library systems for the study of Contemporary History + Gregory Miura (Bordeaux 3/OMNSH) - L’archéologie du web, science auxiliaire d’une histoire du temps présent - 15h45 – 18h00 – Environnement numérique (2) – Présidente : Marianne Backes + Richard Hacken (Brigham Young University) - Online Primary Documentation of Contemporary History: Trends and Changes in the Past Twelve Years + Élodie Nowinski (IEP de Paris) - Last nite Deezer saved my class + Enrica Salvatori (Università di Pisa) - Listening, watching, living and (at the end) learning history: in and out the web > Docteur en Histoire contemporaine «Hjalmar Schacht, financier et diplomate» mailto:frederic@clavert.net http://www.clavert.net/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 13 05:06:38 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A93503E12A; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:06:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C4C9F3E11C; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:06:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091013050636.C4C9F3E11C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:06:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.368 job at the MPIWG Berlin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 368. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 20:19:41 +0100 From: Gerhard Brey Subject: Three-year Position MPIWG _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 13 05:10:47 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5953E409; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:10:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 570053E3F4; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:10:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091013051044.570053E3F4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:10:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.369 events: methods in libraries; inaugurals; cultural attitudes; bioinformatics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 369. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "QQML2010 Conference" (27) Subject: Invitation,Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries InternationalConference (QQML2010) Abstract/Paper submission and SpecialSession and Workshop Proposals [2] From: "Lavagnino, John" (40) Subject: CCH Seminar: Thomas Schlitt, Bioinformatics and the Humanities, 15October [3] From: "catac@it.murdoch.edu.au" (28) Subject: Call for Papers - CATaC'10 - Vancouver, Canada [4] From: "Roueche, Charlotte" (14) Subject: Invitation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:03:35 +0300 From: "QQML2010 Conference" Subject: Invitation, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries InternationalConference (QQML2010) Abstract/Paper submission and SpecialSession and Workshop Proposals You are kindly invited to participate in the 2nd Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2010), Chania, Crete, Greece, 25-28 of May, 2010. QQML2010 was decided by the QQML Committee and announced during the closing ceremony of the previous QQML2009 Conference. The proceedings of QQML2010 will be published by an international publisher, while selected papers are to be published by the International journals: Decision Support System Technology, Library Management, and Performance Measurement and Metrics. The previous QQML2009 proceedings volume titled: "Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries: Theory and Applications" will be published by World Scientific and it will be distributed during the forthcoming QQML2010 International Conference. QQML2010 is organized under the umbrella of ASMDA International Society organising conferences on data analysis from 1981. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods (QQM) are proved more and more popular tools for Librarians, because of their usefulness to the everyday professional life. QQM aim to the assessment and improvement of the services, to the measurement of the functional effectiveness and efficiency. QQM are the mean to make decisions on fund allocation and financial alternatives. Librarians use also QQM in order to determine why and when their users appreciate their services. This is the start point of the innovation involvement and the ongoing procedure of the excellent performance. Systematic development of quality management in libraries requires a detailed framework, including the quality management standards, the measurement indicators, the self-appraisal schedules and the operational rules. These standards are practice-oriented tools and a benchmarking result. Their basic function is to express responsibly the customer (library user) -supplier (library services) relationship and provide a systematic approach to the continuous change onto excellence. The indoor and outdoor relationships of libraries are dependent of their communication and marketing capabilities, challenges, opportunities and implementation programmes. The Conference will attend library professionals: professors, administrators, technologists, museum scientists, archivists, decision makers and managers. For your papers, please follow precisely the given Template following the format and instructions from the conference website at: http://www.isast.org. If you propose a Special Session including 4-6 papers, the papers will be included into the book as a Specific Chapter under the title of the special session. Special Session or Workshop (2 or more sessions) proposals should have the session title, the name and affiliation of the organizer and a brief description (5-10 lines). You may upload the Abstract/Paper Template and formulate your paper according to the instructions at: http://www.isast.org/abstractpaperregister.html Please submit your paper in MS Word format as an email attachment to secretariat@isast.org You can also submit your Abstract electronically by using the facilities of the conference website at: http://www.isast.org/abstractpaperregister.html For workshop proposals or presentations regarding your Library or your Organisation please contact Dr. Anthi Katsirikou at anthi@asmda.com Kind regards On behalf of the Conference Committee Dr. Anthi Katsirikou, Conference Co-Chair University of Piraeus Library, Deputy Director Head, European Documentation Center Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals anthi@asmda.com ; secretariat@isast.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:11:13 +0100 From: "Lavagnino, John" Subject: CCH Seminar: Thomas Schlitt, Bioinformatics and the Humanities, 15 October The Centre for Computing in the Humanities is pleased to announce its next seminar, on Thursday October 15 at 5:30 PM, in the CCH seminar room at 26 Drury Lane. Thomas Schlitt, Bioinformatics and the Humanities Bioinformatics, or Computational Biology, “… is the application of information technology to the field of molecular biology” (Wikipedia). A little over two years ago the King’s College Center for Bioinformatics was established; while this topic might sound very exotic for researchers in the humanities, I would like to present some aspects of bioinformatics that are common with analyses performed in the humanities—for example, the alignment of sequences (texts) and the analysis of error propagation in repeated copying of sequences (texts). I hope to create some interdisciplinary interests and possibly stimulate potential collaborations. Dr Thomas Schlitt is a Lecturer in Bioinformatics at the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetic based at Tower Wing on the Guy’s Campus at King’s College London. He studied Biology in Germany; he subsequently moved to the UK to do his PhD and stayed. After a spell as St Edmund’s College/European Bioinformatics Institute/British Antarctic Survey Research Fellow in Bioinformatics he joined King’s in 2006. His main research interests are in the analysis of biological networks. See http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/cch/about/events/seminarschlitt.html for further details. -- Dr John Lavagnino Reader in Digital Humanities Centre for Computing in the Humanities and Department of English King's College London 26–29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL +44 20 7848 2453 www.lavagnino.org.uk General Editor, The Oxford Middleton http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198185697 http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198185703 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:45:40 +0100 From: "catac@it.murdoch.edu.au" Subject: Call for Papers - CATaC'10 - Vancouver, Canada On behalf of the Local and Program Chairs, and the CATaC Executive Committee, we are very pleased to pass on to you the Call for Papers for CATaC (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication) 2010, “Diffusion 2.0: Computing, mobility, and the next generations”. Venue: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Dates: 15-18 June 2010 CATaC’10 will feature keynote addresses by Dr Linc Kesler (First Nations Studies, The University of British Columbia) and Dr John Willinsky (Stanford University School of Education). The CATaC conference series provides a premier international forum for current research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations and discussions, and in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference theme. Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values and practices) and short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results) are invited. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to: - Mobile technologies in developing countries - New layers of imaging and texting interactions fostering and/or threatening cultural diversity - Theoretical and practical approaches to analyzing "culture" - Impact of mobile technologies on privacy and surveillance - Gender, sexuality and identity issues in social networks - Cultural diversity in e-learning and/or m-learning Both short (3-5 pages) and long (10-15 pages) original papers are sought. See “submissions” on the conference website - http://www.catacconference.org - for information about submitting papers and formatting guidelines. The conference web site also provides further details regarding accommodations, submission procedures, etc. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to welcoming you to Vancouver in 2010! Local Co-Chair: Leah Macfadyen (UBC) Local Co-Chair: Kenneth Reeder (UBC) Program Chair: Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna) Executive Committee: Lorna Heaton (Université de Montréal, Canada) Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo, Norway) Fay Sudweeks (Co-Chair, CATaC) Charles Ess (Co-Chair, CATaC) --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:40:14 +0100 From: "Roueche, Charlotte" Subject: Invitation You are cordially invited to a triple-decker inaugural lecture at King's College London: "Decoding Pasts, Building Futures" Richard Beacham, Professor of Digital Culture, Charlotte Roueché, Professor of Late Antique & Byzantine Studies, & Harold Short, Professor of Digital Humanities CCH & Classics/Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies Friday 23 October 2009 17.30 Edmond J. Safra Theatre, Strand Campus Tea will be served from 16.45, and the lecture will be followed by a reception, with a chance to visit the Arts and Humanities Research Fair http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/week/arts/pastfuture.html Enquiries/responses to cch@kcl.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 13 05:52:47 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AE843E836; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:52:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B7FA73E828; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:52:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091013055243.B7FA73E828@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:52:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.370 job at the MPIWG Berlin (2nd try) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 370. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:49:32 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: 3-year position at the MPIWG Berlin [An unsuccessful attempt was made to publish the following notice as Humanist 23.368. --WM] The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Department II; Director: Prof. Lorraine Daston) seeks an outstanding junior scholar for a three-year position (to begin no later than 1 September 2010) as Research Fellow in conjunction with the research project The Sciences of the Archive (http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/DeptII_Daston-SciencesOfTheArchives/index_html) Candidates should hold a doctorate in the history of science or related field at the time the position begins and show evidence of scholarly promise in the form of publications or other achievements. A previous postdoctoral position is desirable but not essential. Research projects may concern any culture or historical period (including the present). Although projects must have a history of science component, both the human and natural sciences are included under that rubric and additional relevant disciplinary perspectives are welcome. Research projects within the following three main areas are especially encouraged: - Archival technologies and the development of datapower since the 17th Century - Scientific archives with superhuman timescales (e.g. astronomy, geology, paleoanthropology) - Scientific archives and issues of endangerment and extinction. The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is an international and interdisciplinary research institute (http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/index.html). The colloquium language is English; it is expected that candidates will be able to present their own work and discuss that of others fluently in that language. Applications may however be submitted in German, English, or French. The position is primarily devoted to research, with no teaching and minimal administrative duties. It is ranked at the BAT IIA level in the German system, which roughly corresponds to that of Lecturer in Britain, Assistant Professor in North America, and Maître de conférences in France. Salary is set by both the position’s rank and individual factors; please address specific questions to Ms. Claudia Paass (paass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de). Candidates are requested to submit a curriculum vitae (including list of publications), a research proposal on a topic related to the project (750 words maximum), and names and addresses (preferably including email) of three referees who may be contacted and asked to submit letters if the candidate is among the finalists for the position to Max-Planck-Institut für WissenschaftsgeschichteAbt. Personal/WiMi II Archives Boltzmannstr. 22 14195 Berlin Germany (Electronic submission is also possible: paass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de) by December 15, 2009. Finalists for the position will be informed by January 15, 2010 and asked to come for an interview during the week of January 25, 2010 (travel expenses covered by the Institute). For questions concerning the research project and Department II, please contact Dr. Fernando Vidal (vidal@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de); for administrative questions concerning the position and the Institute, please contact Mr. Jochen Schneider (jsr@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de). Scholars of all nationalities are welcome to apply; applications from women are especially welcomed. The Max Planck Society is committed to employing more handicapped individuals and encourages them to apply. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Oct 14 06:39:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819313E223; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:39:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7F7363E21B; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:39:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091014063924.7F7363E21B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:39:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.371 postdoc at UT Dallas X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 371. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:15:04 -0500 From: "Jessica C. Murphy" Subject: Job Posting: Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at UTDallas Please see the website for full job posting and application instructions: http://provost.utdallas.edu/facultyjobs/welcome/jobdetail/paz090920 For more information about the School of Arts and Humanities: http://ah.utdallas.edu The University of Texas at Dallas seeks applications for postdoctoral fellows in support of its research programs in Arts and Humanities, including but not limited to digital content design and development, game design, translation studies, and the cultural impact of developments in science and technology. The School specifically invites applications for a post-doctoral fellow in Digital Humanities to support the activities of the Center for Values in Medicine, Science and Technology. Candidates should hold a PhD in a humanities-related field, have a commitment to working in an interdisciplinary humanities environment, be familiar with the most recent work in the Digital Humanities, and have strong grant writing skills and a basic understanding of project management. The appointment will last from January 2010 through August 2011. The primary responsibility of the fellow will be in helping faculty to organize and improve existing projects as well as develop future research. While expertise in a particular coding or scripting language (PHP, Ruby on Rails, CSS, XML, SQL databases) is not a prerequisite, basic literacy and familiarity with these tools is necessary. The School of Arts and Humanities engages postdoctoral fellows to engage in extramural research in support of existing research programs and to assist in mentoring promising graduate students at all levels of expertise. Successful candidates may also engage in independent research projects. Some fellows may also be required to teach primarily at the main campus, although some courses may be taught at other locations throughout the Metroplex. Courses are offered between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. and may include lecture, laboratory, seminar, and distance education formats, among others. The University of Texas at Dallas is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, citizenship status, Vietnam era or special disabled veteran’s status, or sexual orientation. UT Dallas strongly encourages applications from candidates who would enhance the diversity of the University’s faculty and administration. Review of applicants will occur as specific needs dictate. Indication of gender and ethnicity for affirmative action statistical purposes is requested as part of the application. Official transcripts must be submitted to the Faculty Records Office prior to the first day of official employment for those applicants selected to teach at the University. Please note that should you choose to apply for more than one position across school or departmental lines, you will need to submit a separate application for each position. Applications submitted for this position will be valid through August 2010, at which time all application materials will be archived and new positions will be posted for the new academic year. Curriculum vitae, a letter of application with a summary of research history, research interests and descriptions of educational background and teaching experience, and at least three letters of reference should be submitted via the online application form. ********************************** Jessica C. Murphy Assistant Professor School of Arts & Humanities The University of Texas at Dallas 800 West Campbell Road Mail Station JO31 Richardson, TX 75080 jessica.c.murphy@utdallas.edu jessica.c.murphy@gmail.com AY 2009-2010 Office: JO 5.108 Phone: 972-883-2767 http://jcmurphy.wordpress.com/ *********************************** _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 15 05:49:10 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F183D793; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:49:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D43B03D78A; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:49:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091015054907.D43B03D78A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:49:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.372 jobs in Bergen X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 372. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Matthew Kirschenbaum (37) Subject: post-doctoral position with Software Studies, UCSD + University of Bergen [2] From: Knut Hofland (41) Subject: JOB: Research positions available at Unifob AKSIS in Bergen,Norway --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:13:37 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: post-doctoral position with Software Studies, UCSD + University of Bergen ==== Information and application: https://secure.jobbnorge.no/Job.aspx?jobid=61657 Note: if you get a page in Norwegian, click on "English" at the bottom of the page to switch to English version ==== On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Lev Manovich wrote: > Dear Colleagues > > > University of Bergen announced a 2 year Post-doc position in > collaboration with my Software Studies group at UCSD: > > The post-doc will divide her/his time between Bergen and San Diego and > will work closely with me and others in my lab on Cultural Analytics > projects. > Cultural Analytics is a new methodology for cultural / media research > which uses information visualization and quantitative data analysis: > > lab.softwarestudies.com/2008/09/cultural-analytics.html > ww.flickr.com/photos/culturevis/ > > Both technical people who understand cultural issues and cultural > types who can do tech are welcome to apply. > > > Information and application: > > https://secure.jobbnorge.no/Job.aspx?jobid=61657 > > > best, > > Lev --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:16:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Knut Hofland Subject: JOB: Research positions available at Unifob AKSIS in Bergen,Norway Research positions available at Unifob AKSIS in Bergen, Norway Unifob (www.unifob.uib.no) is a research company with over 500 research staff from more than 30 nations and a turnover of NOK 450 million (ca. 50 million Euro). Unifob's majority owner is the University of Bergen. Unifob conducts R&D in the areas of health, language and information technology, marine biology, environment, climate, petroleum, and the social sciences. Unifob AKSIS, with its 30 employees, is the smallest of the nine R&D departments. AKSIS' current research areas (computational and corpus linguistics, language testing, electronic publishing, digital media, and e-learning) have evolved over more than 30 years through projects and cooperation with national and international research institutions. We are now expanding our activities and announce several new positions in ICT and its creative use, e.g., data mining, gaming, Web 2.0, education, linguistics, health, mobile applications, and HCI. We encourage interdisciplinary work and are ideally looking for candidates who envisage working at the intersection with our current research areas. Candidates - with minimum 3 years of experience in academia or industry after completion of a PhD, - with a proven research record, - with experience in project management, and - with an interest in building up and leading a research group to international level are invited to apply. Engagements can be full or part-time and are initially limited to two years. Relocation within the first two years is not required. Working language is English or Norwegian. We offer a competitive salary, extensive social benefits, a cooperative and international working environment, and we're located near the prize winning fjords of Western Norway. Positions remain open until filled. For more information please consult www.aksis.uib.no or contact Research Director Dr. Eli Hagen (eli.hagen@aksis.uib.no, +47 55 58 29 48). Please send application (cover letter, CV, and publication list) electronically to post@aksis.uib.no. (published October 2009) -- Knut Hofland, | Knut.Hofland@aksis.uib.no special consultant, | http://www.aksis.uib.no UNIFOB Aksis, | Phone: +47 5558 9463 Allegt. 27, N-5007 Bergen, Norway | Fax: +47 5558 9470 //:: In November 2009, Unifob will change its name to Uni Research and Unifob AKSIS will change to Uni Digital. Unifob AKSIS is a department of the research company Unifob. Unifob AKSIS conducts R&D in computational linguistics, language testing, electronic publishing, digital media, and technology-enhanced learning. ::// _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 15 05:55:21 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8397C3D848; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:55:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2CB0B3D840; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:55:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091015055519.2CB0B3D840@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:55:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.373 how big is the Greco-Roman world? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 373. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:17:14 +0100 From: Paradoxographer Subject: How much server space would the Classical world occupy? [The following query has circulated via the Digital Classicist and there generated some comment. I pass it on as a specific instance of a question Michael Lesk and others have asked about "information" in general. My inclination is to wonder about better questions one might ask, specifically what would be left out if one had *all* of the relevant data? --WM] Hello, Perhaps the list can help me out with the following question. Has anyone ever calculated how much server / disc storage space (in gigabytes, terabytes, etc) the extant residue of the Graeco-Roman world would occupy? I suppose this would have to be limited to textual (including epigraphic) material, there being potentially no limit to the number of photographs, drawings, plans etc that could be produced ... I'm curious to know how the volume compares with that of current annually created digital information / publications. Kind Regards, Rachel Hardiman. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 15 05:56:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B2B53D8A6; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:56:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 227773D89C; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:56:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091015055606.227773D89C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:56:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.374 new publication: interactive experiences X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 374. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:23:52 +0100 From: Teresa_Romão Subject: cfp: IJART Special Issue on: "Interactive Experiences in Multimedia and Augmented Environments" International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART) Call For papers Special Issue on: "Interactive Experiences in Multimedia and Augmented Environments" (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1232) Deadline for full paper submission: 4 November, 2009 Guest Editors: Prof. Teresa Romão and Prof. Nuno Correia, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Novel interaction techniques and devices provide users with new experiences, which may have impact on their feelings, behaviors, knowledge acquisition process, performance and/or enjoyment. Innovative multimedia and augmented reality environments push the user interface beyond the digital into new physical and social contexts, affording a variety of dynamic, context-dependent and also subjective user experiences. Currently, there is an immense interest in user experience (UX) in academia and industry. This special issue invites contributions which report original interactive experiences in multimedia and augmented reality environments. Subject Coverage This special issue aims at publishing papers that provide a clear and comprehensive view of the state of the art in interactive experiences in multimedia and augmented environments. The main topics covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to the following areas of study: • User experience design and evaluation • Digital games and entertainment • Tangible interfaces • Augmented reality applications • Smart objects • Digital art and storytelling • Mobile and ubiquitous computing • Persuasive technologies • New output modalities, devices and interactions Deadline for full paper submission: 4 November, 2009 Review results returned to authors: 20 February, 2010 Deadline for camera-ready papers: 20 April, 2010 Editors and Notes You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to the following: Prof. Dr. Teresa Romão Department of Computer Sciences Faculty of Sciences and Technology New University of Lisbon Quinta da Torre 2829-516 Caparica Portugal Tel: +351 212948536 E-mail: tir@di.fct.unl.pt Prof. Dr Nuno Correia Department of Computer Sciences Faculty of Sciences and Technology New University of Lisbon Quinta da Torre 2829-516 Caparica Portugal Tel: +351 212948536 E-mail: nmc@di.fct.unl.pt with a copy to: Editorial Office E-mail: editorial@inderscience.com Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editor _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 15 05:57:03 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A9A3D8FF; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:57:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 339163D8F0; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:57:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091015055702.339163D8F0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:57:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.375 text-mining at Stanford? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 375. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:22:57 +0100 From: Jockers Matthew Subject: Possible Text Mining Opportunity at Stanford Friends, As I'm sure many of you already know, Stanford has been closely involved with Google's book scanning project, and we (Stanford) are currently preparing a proposal for the creation of a text mining / analysis Center on campus. The core assets of the proposed Center would include all of the Google data (approx. 30 million books) plus all of our Highwire data and all of our licensed content. We see a wide range of research opportunities for this collection, and we are envisioning a Center that would offer various levels of interaction with scholars. In particular we envision a "tiered" service model that would, on one hand, allow technically challenged researchers to work with Center staff in formulating research questions and, on the other, an opportunity for more technically advanced scholars to write their own algorithms and run them on the corpus. We are imagining the Center as both a resource and as a physical place, a place that will offer support to both internal and external scholars and graduate students. We are looking at creating fellowship opportunities and post docs as well as other ways of encouraging and supporting scholarship. I am writing to you specifically because I think this will be something you are interested in but also because at this stage of the proposal we are looking for some external validation that this corpus would be of value and that the research it would support would inspire new questions and new knowledge. I have already polled our Stanford faculty, and the response (especially in the humanities and social sciences) has been very enthusiastic. My hope is that you might be able to send a few words (at most a short paragraph) that I could add to a section of our proposal that is titled "Scholarly Interest and Research Potential". Hope you are all well and getting your abstracts polished for London in 2010. Matt -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 15 05:58:48 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B2863D962; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:58:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ED6DE3D952; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:58:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091015055845.ED6DE3D952@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:58:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.376 events: NLP; virtual re-creations of research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 376. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CICLing-2010)" (36) Subject: CFP: CICLing 2010 - Natural Language Processing - Romania - Springer LNCS [2] From: Shawn Day (22) Subject: Join the DHO in Second Life for Recreating Research, Art andEducation in Shared Virtual Worlds --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:12:48 +0100 From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CICLing-2010)" Subject: CFP: CICLing 2010 - Natural Language Processing - Romania -Springer LNCS CICLing 2010 11th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics; post-conf event: Promise 2010 workshop Iasi, Romania March 21-27, 2010 www.CICLing.org/2010 PUBLICATION: LNCS: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, poster session: special issue of a journal KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Nicoletta Calzolari, James Pustejovsky, Hans Uszkoreit, Shuly Wintner TOURS: Medieval castles (including Dracula castle), painted monasteries, salt-mine, possibly winery, bison reservation, Red Lake, and more. AWARDS: Best paper, best student paper, best presentation, best poster. SUBMISSION DEADLINES: November 16: registration of tentative abstract, November 23: uploading of full papers (contact us for late submissions) TOPICS: All topics related with computational linguistics, natural language processing, human language technologies, information retrieval, etc. See complete CFP and contact on www.CICLing.org/2010 This message is sent in good faith of its usefulness for you as an NLP researcher. If this is an error, kindly let me know. Alexander Gelbukh www.Gelbukh.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:48:46 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Join the DHO in Second Life for Recreating Research, Art andEducation in Shared Virtual Worlds DHO Lecture: Recreating Research, Art and Education in Shared Virtual Worlds Venue: Dublin City Council Auditorium, Wood Quay, Dublin 2 and In Second Life : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Digital%20Humanities/130/9/37 Date: 16 October 2009, 15:00 - 17:00 Even if you can't join us at the exciting new Dublin City Wood Quay Conference Hall, please join us for this event in Second LIfe. As part of Innovation Week Dublin, the DHO in conjunction with Architecture Ireland is pleased to present Dr Hugh Denard, from King's College London's Visualisation Lab. He will discuss how Virtual World technologies such as Second Life are both transforming our experiences and understandings of the human past and, at the same time, posing new challenges. From the interpretation of an ancient Roman shipwreck by European graduate students to an intercontinental recreation of a Japanese Noh performance; from a study of the neoclassical roots of the Globe Theatre to the virtual enactment of a Cornish-language drama in its original medieval setting; and from "mixed reality" conferencing to "between worlds" New Media artworks, the presentation will both demonstrate how early adopters are exploring and exploiting the potential of Virtual Worlds and suggest the shape of innovations to come. Although registration is not required, spaces are limited and we would appreciate those attending complete a brief registration form available at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=9quvizAj8YhBiFmheJntPg_3d_3d More information and a map are available at the Dublin Innovation website at: http://www.innovationdublin.ie/index.php/fri/recreating_research_art_and_education_in_shared_virtual_worlds/ or at the DHO events list at: http://dho.ie/innovationweek This talk will be presented as part of Innovation Week Dublin and will be simultaneously presented in Second Life. To attend the Second Life presentation, you can teleport to the virtual auditorium at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Digital%20Humanities/130/9/37 If you have any further questions, please contact s.day@dho.ie We look forward to seeing you there. Best regards, Shawn Day ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 17 08:06:15 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F9503E35A; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:06:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C78183E346; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:06:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091017080613.C78183E346@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:06:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.377 who sustains what for whom, and how? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 377. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:56:13 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: who sustains for whom? Francois Lachance has written asking me to excavate an old posting and try out the question I asked in it, five years ago, once again with a somewhat different emphasis. The old posting is Humanist 17.759, on the sustainability of digital academic resources. Then I asked, >> To the extent I hear what urban planners are talking about these days, I've >> noticed the term "sustainability". This, it seems to me, bespeaks more >> wisdom than "innovation". Sustainability concerns should also be high on >> the agenda of those who deal with electronic resources. Beyond the >> technical questions (which are hard ones, to be sure) is the one I'd like >> to raise here: how do we keep things such as the Stanford Encyclopedia of >> Philosophy going financially and editorially? Francois writes, > I am asking for the reposting because it touches upon a theme which has run through the recent > explorations of the early discourse and reception of cybernetics: for whom does the scientist/scholar work? > (it's a corollary of with whom...) Another way of asking this question is to ask the epistemological question: what is knowledge in relation to these resources? Much of the talk that happens in relation to their construction implies that knowledge is like bricks, cumulative and stable, and that to know something is to possess one or more of these representative objects, or share its possession. The metaphor doesn't work very well of course, not least because to know something does not diminish the knowledge of someone else who also knows it. Much of our disciplinary/departmental organization seems to orbit this bad metaphor. Since knowledge cannot be possessed like a brick or even shared like one, then do we say that knowing is the point? If so, then what do we work to sustain, and how do we sustain it? What does this say about that which we call the digital library? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 17 08:06:51 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C06C43E3EE; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:06:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DA90C3E3D9; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:06:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091017080650.DA90C3E3D9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:06:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.378 publication on logical methods in CS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 378. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:33:51 +0100 From: MYV Subject: FIVE YEARS OF LOGICAL METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Dear Colleague: We would like to bring the community up to date on the journal Logical Methods in Computer Science www.lmcs-online.org We started this fully refereed, open access, free electronic journal in January 2005, intending to create a high-level platform for publications in all theoretical and practical areas in computer science involving logical methods, taken in a broad sense. We are now on Issue 3 of Volume 5 (there are four issues a year). So far, we have received more than 350 submissions of which we have published 162. In addition to individual submissions, our journal publishes special issues, e.g., of selected papers of high-level international conferences such as LICS, IJCAR, CAV, CSL, and RTA. We are continuing actively to develop the journal. For example, we accept survey articles, and are developing `live' surveys, which can be continually updated as knowledge progresses. In another direction, we are considering allowing authors to provide additional material of an expository nature, such as slides and videos, to enable them to interest a wider spectrum of readers in their contribution. The journal is an overlay of CoRR, the computer science repository of arXiv. There are no fees for authors nor for readers. Every paper is refereed by two or more referees, and high standards are applied. The editorial board consists of about sixty top specialists in all areas of logic in computer science. The journal is covered by Mathematical Reviews, the ISI Web of Knowledge, and the DBLP Database. We welcome your comments and suggestions, and we seek your contributions! For more information please consult our web pages: www.lmcs-online.org Yours, Editor-in-Chief: Dana S. Scott Managing Editors: Benjamin C. Pierce Gordon D. Plotkin Moshe Y. Vardi Executive Editors: Jiri Adamek Stefan Milius _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 17 08:07:28 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F813E466; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:07:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B17793E451; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:07:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091017080724.B17793E451@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:07:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.379 new on WWW: Ubiquity; IT guidelines X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 379. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Orla Mulholland (6) Subject: German Archaeological Institute IT guidelines [2] From: ubiquity (7) Subject: Ubiquity -- New Issue Alert --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:19:05 +0000 From: Orla Mulholland Subject: German Archaeological Institute IT guidelines In-Reply-To: <4AD6EAEC.7060308@oucs.ox.ac.uk> Dear all, List members may be interested to know that the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) has issued guidelines on minimum standards in the use of IT in archaeological research, with attention to interoperability, preservation and feasibility, among other things. These standards are now binding on all projects wholly or partly funded by the DAI; as the DAI is one of the biggest players in classical archaeological research, the guidelines may well come to have an influence beyond the institute's own projects. The guidelines are available at http://www.dainst.de/index_892d6521bb1f14a113030017f0000011_de.html Best wishes, Orla --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:29:22 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity -- New Issue Alert In-Reply-To: <4AD6EAEC.7060308@oucs.ox.ac.uk> This Week in Ubiquity: October 13-20, 2009 Are Militaries Lagging Their Non-State Enemies in use of Internet? An Interview with Chris Anderson The increasing number of cyber attacks on military networks and servers has raised the question of what the global defense community is doing to safeguard military systems and protect the larger global Internet. Ubiquity's editor, Peter Denning, interviewed Chris Gunderson, who served in the U.S. Navy from 1973 to 2004 and became an expert in "network centric" warfare, on this question and in particular on how military philosophy must change to adapt to the rise of information networks. See: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_10/v10i10_gunderson.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 17 08:08:05 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA4E3E4CA; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:08:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6D9713E4B8; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:08:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091017080802.6D9713E4B8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:08:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.380 programme in cyberactivity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 380. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:33:55 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: V Forinves Program Announcement V Forinves Program Announcement Discovery and Innovation Through Cyberactivity - Costa Rica (CR-DIC) The Costa Rican National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICIT), in association with the Costa Rica-United States of America Foundation (CRUSA), the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, and under the auspices of the Advanced Research and Technology Collaboratory for the Americas (ARTCA) are pleased to announce Discovery and Innovation Through Cyberactivity - Costa Rica (CR-DIC) to the international scientific and research community. This initiative will facilitate revolutionary research through innovation and advances in computational thinking that is applied to different areas of the sciences and humanities. We therefore invite scholars from different disciplines to collaborate in the development of cutting-edge research that takes full and innovative advantage of computational advances and has the potential to have a broad impact upon society. Thematic areas: 1. From data to knowledge: proposals that improve cognition and generate new knowledge from a wealth of digital data. 2. Understanding complexity in natural, artificial systems, and social systems: proposals that lead to fundamental insights on systems comprising multiple interacting elements. 3. Development of virtual organizations: proposals that facilitate discovery and innovation by connecting people through the use of virtual communication tools and that overcome institutional, geographical and cultural boundaries. Priority will be given to initiatives that encourage collaborative research between American countries. Eligible Organizations: Nonprofit, non-academic organizations: Independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, professional associations and similar organizations in Costa Rica that are associated with research and duly registered with the Science and Technology Registry of CONICIT. Public, non-profit universities and university institutes: Accredited in Costa Rica with facilities in the country, acting on behalf of the research organization. These organizations must be duly registered with the Science and Technology Registry of CONICIT. Proposals must be submitted online at www.artcaonline.org in the period between October 5 and November 11, 2009. The official announcement for this call for proposals was held on Monday, October 5 at the facilities of CONICIT in Zapote. More information is available at www.artcaonline.org or www.conicit.go.cr [http://hosting.bronto.com/9193/public/logo_conicit.jpg][http://hosting.bronto.com/9193/public/logo_crusa-1.jpg][http://hosting.bronto.com/9193/public/ncsa_logo.png][http://hosting.bronto.com/9193/public/ARTCA_Logo.jpg] Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) | National Center for Supercomputing Applications | 1205 W. Clark St., MC 257 | Urbana, IL 61820 | US _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 17 10:58:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FBCA3F776; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:58:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 154163F768; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:58:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091017105823.154163F768@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:58:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.381 boundaries of the human? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 381. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:53:28 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: boundaries of the human In How We Became Posthuman, Katherine Hayles opens Chapter 4 with the following sentence: > Of all the implications that first-wave cybernetics conveyed, perhaps > none was more disturbing and potentially revolutionary than the idea > that the boundaries of the human subject are constructed rather than > given. (p. 84) She hints at the history of this "revolutionary" notion by citing Gregory Bateson's use of the metaphor of the blind man's cane, a favourite of the phenomenologists, e.g. Merleau-Ponty and Polanyi, and related to Heidegger's argument in Sein und Zeit. But surely there is an earlier history of the idea. The experience is as primordial as homo faber's, not just as old as cane-using blind people's. My question is this. How is it that human beings would have greeted this notion as so disturbing, so revolutionary? My guess is that the separation of people whose social mandate is to think and write from those whose mandate is to carry out skilled (or even unskilled) manual labour is responsible. Who has best written about this? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Oct 19 05:34:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90FEA3FFF3; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:34:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2B3523FFE4; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:34:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091019053416.2B3523FFE4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:34:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.382 boundaries of the human X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 382. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: renata lemos (75) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.381 boundaries of the human? [2] From: James Rovira (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.381 boundaries of the human? [3] From: Susan Brown (21) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.381 boundaries of the human? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:34:49 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.381 boundaries of the human? In-Reply-To: <20091017105823.154163F768@woodward.joyent.us> dear willard, i really enjoyed this post. i think an answer to your question might be found on sloterdijk´s rules for the human zoo: Rules for the Human Zoo: a response to the Letter on Humanism Peter Sloterdijk (translated by Mary Varney Rorty) Abstract. Rules for the Human Zoo, also known as the Elmauer Rede, originally appeared in 1999 in the newspaper Die Zeit and was subsequently published by Suhrkamp in 2001. (...) Humanism has claimed, according to Sloterdijk, that it is “reading the right books” which “calms the inner beast”. It is the great books, the “thick letters” from one great thinker to another, that provide the “model presented by the wise”, which enables “the care of man by man”. At the present, Sloterdijk argues, we appear to have been abandoned by the wise. It is no longer the humanist but the archivist who bothers to look up the old, thick letters. Humanism thus gives way to archivism. http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=dst3 and if "humanism gives way to archivism", then what does post-humanism dwell into? i look forward to reading your thoughts regarding this. best, renata lemos On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 381. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:53:28 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: boundaries of the human > > In How We Became Posthuman, Katherine Hayles opens Chapter 4 with the > following sentence: > > > Of all the implications that first-wave cybernetics conveyed, perhaps > > none was more disturbing and potentially revolutionary than the idea > > that the boundaries of the human subject are constructed rather than > > given. (p. 84) > > She hints at the history of this "revolutionary" notion by citing > Gregory Bateson's use of the metaphor of the blind man's cane, a > favourite of the phenomenologists, e.g. Merleau-Ponty and Polanyi, and > related to Heidegger's argument in Sein und Zeit. But surely there is an > earlier history of the idea. The experience is as primordial as homo > faber's, not just as old as cane-using blind people's. > > My question is this. How is it that human beings would have greeted this > notion as so disturbing, so revolutionary? My guess is that the > separation of people whose social mandate is to think and write from > those whose mandate is to carry out skilled (or even unskilled) manual > labour is responsible. Who has best written about this? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:35:27 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.381 boundaries of the human? In-Reply-To: <20091017105823.154163F768@woodward.joyent.us> Gad...she wasn't serious, was she? This idea goes back to Plato. Kierkegaard restated Plato's position in a very sophisticated form. Freud beat it into our heads most recently. How is she using the phrase, "boundaries of the human subject"? Jim R > In How We Became Posthuman, Katherine Hayles opens Chapter 4 with the > following sentence: > >> Of all the implications that first-wave cybernetics conveyed, perhaps >> none was more disturbing and potentially revolutionary than the idea >> that the boundaries of the human subject are constructed rather than >> given. (p. 84) > --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:40:26 -0400 From: Susan Brown Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.381 boundaries of the human? In-Reply-To: <20091017105823.154163F768@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, It seems to me that Stephen Jay Gould writes quite brilliantly in one of his essays about the need to make this distinction as having had a shaping influence on evolutionary theory. I'm afraid I don't recall which essay or collection, though perhaps it was _The Mismeasure of Man_. All the best, Susan Susan Brown sbrown@uoguelph.ca Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > My question is this. How is it that human beings would have greeted this > notion as so disturbing, so revolutionary? My guess is that the > separation of people whose social mandate is to think and write from > those whose mandate is to carry out skilled (or even unskilled) manual > labour is responsible. Who has best written about this? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Oct 19 05:35:41 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC8513E062; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:35:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5BE503E052; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:35:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091019053536.5BE503E052@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:35:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.383 new on WWW: Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 1 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 383. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:33:45 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 1 To celebrate Open Access Week, Digital Scholarship (http://digital-scholarship.org/) is releasing version one of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. This bibliography presents over 620 selected English-language articles, books, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding institutional repositories. Although institutional repositories intersect with a number of open access and scholarly communication topics, this bibliography only includes works that are primarily about institutional repositories. http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html Most sources have been published between 2000 and the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. Table of Contents 1 General 2 Country and Regional Institutional Repository Surveys 3 Multiple-Institution Repositories 4 Specific Institutional Repositories 5 Institutional Repository Digital Preservation Issues 6 Institutional Repository Library Issues 7 Institutional Repository Metadata Issues 8 Institutional Repository Open Access Policies 9 Institutional Repository R&D Projects 10 Institutional Repository Research Studies 11 Institutional Repository Software Appendix A. About the Author -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://bit.ly/Z6HFx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 20 05:21:45 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2741D3EAD4; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:21:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B83CF3EAC0; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:21:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091020052141.B83CF3EAC0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:21:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.384 boundaries of the hand X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 384. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:54:50 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: boundaries of the human hand Thanks to Renata Lemos, James Rovira and Susan Brown for the suggestions for further reading. Gould comes closest to what I had in mind. But, sitting here with my line in the water, the fish I was hoping would be named was someone who relatively recently has written about the embodied knowledge of the artist/craftsman, say, who knows in experience that the boundary which begins with the hand extends to the edge of whatever tool. I'd like to know historically when this primaeval insight was spoken, how it was developed under what cultural conditions, or if it was not spoken, what kept it silent. What interests me about Hayles' statement is that the cyberneticists should have greeted the artist/craftsman's basic experience as revolutionary. Of course then as now (even more so now?) scholars and scientists seldom, I'd think, learn to make things with their hands in a way that would lead them to realise the boundary-shift implicit in skilled tool-use. In other words, cybernetics would seem basically a surfacing and formalizing of something as old as sentient life. Why was the historical question not asked then? Interaction design, as with Engelbart's mouse, has certainly brought us to the point of having digital tools to hand which approach the extensive capabilities of a chisel. I would think that we need to connect with all the thinking we can get along these lines. Suggestions? Thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 20 05:23:23 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F06A53EB8C; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:23:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 183993EB7D; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:23:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091020052320.183993EB7D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:23:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.385 HASTAC Scholars X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 385. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:00:58 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: 2009-2010 HASTAC Scholars Announced The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS) is delighted to announce the 2009-2010 University of Illinois Humanities, Arts, Sciences, Technology, Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC: www.hastac.org) Scholars. The HASTAC Scholars fellowship program recognizes graduate and undergraduate students who are engaged in innovative work across the areas of technology, the arts, the humanities, and the sciences that have been nominated by University of Illinois faculty. The University of Illinois 2009-2010 Scholars are: Derek Attig, Department of History Patrick Berry, Department of English Amber Buck, Department of English Steven Doran, Institute for Communications Research Damian Duffy, Graduate School of Library and Information Science Bonnie Fortune, School of Art & Design Mark Fredrickson, Department of Political Science Jennifer Guiliano, Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Andrew Jones, Department of History Michelle Kleehammer, Department of History Jeffrey Kolar, School of Fine and Applied Arts Ryuta Komaki, Institute for Communications Research Jenni Lieberman, Department of English Fengge Liu, Department of Landscape Architecture Safiya Noble, Graduate School of Library and Information Science Samuel Oehlert, Department of History Sarah Roberts, Graduate School of Library and Information Science Karen Rodriguez’G, Department of History Pongsakorn "Tum" Suppakitpaisarn, Department of Landscape Architecture Michael Verderame, Department of English Scholars act as the eyes and ears of HASTAC’s virtual network, bringing the work happening on the University of Illinois campus and in their disciplines to international attention. The Scholars will spend the year as part of a virtual community of students creating, reporting on, blogging, vlogging, and podcasting events and scholarship for an international audience on the HASTAC website. Scholars will work together to facilitate the growth of digital disciplines on the Illinois campus via outreach and development efforts. To learn more about the HASTAC Scholars program and to read the on-going blogs and efforts of the University of Illinois scholars, please visit: http://www.hastac.org/scholars _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Oct 21 05:19:38 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2D463EDAE; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:19:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1AA273ED9C; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:19:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091021051935.1AA273ED9C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:19:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.386 boundaries of the hand X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 386. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Judith Musick (77) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.384 boundaries of the hand [2] From: Igor Kramberger (31) Subject: Re: boundaries of the human hand [3] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (27) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.384 boundaries of the hand [4] From: John Laudun (53) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.384 boundaries of the hand [5] From: Wendell Piez (86) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.381 boundaries of the human? [6] From: "Hayler, Matthew" (7) Subject: r.e.: boundaries of the human hand --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:39:40 -0700 From: Judith Musick Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.384 boundaries of the hand In-Reply-To: <20091020052141.B83CF3EAC0@woodward.joyent.us> This question has intrigued me for years Willard. I will try to gather some of my thoughts on the matter and pass them on to you for your personal amusement. One observation in the meantime: People going to the doctor with complaints about pain in or dysfunction of their hand are inclined to claim how important this is because "I use my hands all the time, every day." More later, Judith Judith L. Musick, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate Wired Humanities Projects 1236 University of Oregon Eugene OR 97403-1236 (541) 346-5099 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:00:12 +0200 From: Igor Kramberger Subject: Re: boundaries of the human hand In-Reply-To: <20091020052141.B83CF3EAC0@woodward.joyent.us> Good morning, Willard wrote: > But, sitting here with my line in the water, the fish I was hoping > would be named was someone who relatively recently has written > about the embodied knowledge of the artist/craftsman, say, who > knows in experience that the boundary which begins with the hand > extends to the edge of whatever tool. I'd like to know historically > when this primaeval insight was spoken, how it was developed under > what cultural conditions, or if it was not spoken, what kept it > silent. First, there was a lecture given by Marcel Mauss about body and its capabilities. It was a suggestion for a world wide research of the topic. It is included in this book in English translation: http://www.amazon.com/Techniques-Technology-Civilization-Marcel-Mauss/dp/1571816623/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256021447&sr=1-23 Second, I would suggest to read the book from Andre Leroi-Gourhan: Gesture and Speech (English translation): http://www.amazon.com/Gesture-Speech-October-Andr%C3%83%C2%A9-Leroi-Gourhan/dp/0262121735/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256021637&sr=1-5 And quite a different approach can be found in this book by Siegfried Giedion: Mechanization Takes Command: http://www.amazon.com/Mechanization-Contribution-Civilization-Philosophical-Implications/dp/B001AVTKHC/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256021839&sr=1-4 I hope that you will get your fish. Kind regards, -- Igor ----- Igor Kramberger, raziskovalec-urednik http://www.ff.uni-mb.si/index.php?page_id=81&person=89 Koro'ska cesta 63, SI-2000 Maribor pri Tom'si'c, Ulica Toma Brejca 11 a, SI-1241 Kamnik Slovenija, Evropa --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:17:20 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.384 boundaries of the hand In-Reply-To: <20091020052141.B83CF3EAC0@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, Regarding the boundaries of the human hand and development of digital tools, you and the subscribers to Humanist might be interested in the reporting around a new musical instrument: the eigenharp. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8294355.stm The reporting I have noticed references to other electronic instruments. Of course, dozens of electronic instruments have come and gone over the years. Some - like the theremin or Mellotron - have been around for decades and are still in use today. Many others are gathering dust at the back of recording studios. In an age when complex music-making applications are being made for mobile phones, isn't there a danger that technology might overtake the Eigenharp? "No," says Lambert. "More likely our decision to make the software for the instrument run on a separate computer will pay off - we are already looking at porting the software perhaps into the PlayStation or Wii." Lambert points out that many artists no longer make a living from record sales alone. Live tours have become a major source of revenue. He is upbeat about the response from a wide range of performers, including those working in classical music, rock and electronica. I draw your attention to this because of how the themes interlock. The backwards glance to instruments-past leads to the question of deployment in the near future. The discourse surrounging the arrival of the Eigenharp serves to indicate that at the nexus of the hand and the tool (instrument) is also a whole social framework. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:37:10 -0500 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.384 boundaries of the hand In-Reply-To: <20091020052141.B83CF3EAC0@woodward.joyent.us> Dear All: I am less familiar with the intellectual history of cybernetics, cognitive studies, and humanities computing than everyone else here, but I am fairly familiar with discourses about the crafts and craftsmen, which are almost always invoked -- often in a romanticized/ idealized fashion -- during moments of transition. For something of a history of this, see T. J. Jackson Lears' "No Place of Grace" for an account of public idylls about craftsmanship that occurred during the rise of the professional class in the early to mid-twentieth century. Certainly Richard Sennett's "The Craftsman" is one such text in our own time, but it is not limited to humanists. In a recent Harvard Business Review, Gary Pisano and Willy Shih argue that "Restoring American Competitiveness" (the title of the article) amounts to not letting go manufacturing, that one of the great errors of the MBA generation, itself a product of Harvard n'est-ce pas?, is that it could see the work of the metaphorical hand of business, manufacturing, as distinct from the metaphorical mind of business, research and development. They argue that some of the great innovations of recent decades have been a result of the two remaining intertwined. (Their favorite example is Toyota's patent portfolio on battery technology, which resulted from a series of process improvements that allowed them to rethink the product itself.) The idea has traveled so far in our own time that Matthew Crawford in "Shop Class as Soulcraft" argues that it is the professional class that now has reason to worry -- because so much of its work is now available also for outsourcing, e.g. radiological services now performed in the Phillipines -- and that it is the trades which are secure. Humans are not going to stop pooping any time soon, and thus a plumber will always have a local job. john laudun --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:05:56 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.381 boundaries of the human? In-Reply-To: <20091017105823.154163F768@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, At 06:58 AM 10/17/2009, you wrote: >In How We Became Posthuman, Katherine Hayles opens Chapter 4 with the >following sentence: > > > Of all the implications that first-wave cybernetics conveyed, perhaps > > none was more disturbing and potentially revolutionary than the idea > > that the boundaries of the human subject are constructed rather than > > given. (p. 84) > >She hints at the history of this "revolutionary" notion by citing >Gregory Bateson's use of the metaphor of the blind man's cane, a >favourite of the phenomenologists, e.g. Merleau-Ponty and Polanyi, and >related to Heidegger's argument in Sein und Zeit. But surely there is an >earlier history of the idea. The experience is as primordial as homo >faber's, not just as old as cane-using blind people's. Yes, there's an earlier history. This discussion has been at the core of Buddhist metaphysics and psychology, at least, for millennia. Indeed, in the West this "new" idea might be traced to the East, through nineteenth-century thinkers such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche -- albeit not untainted by the fallacy, as the Buddhists consider it, of nihilism. >My question is this. How is it that human beings would have greeted this >notion as so disturbing, so revolutionary? Buddhist traditions have a few things to say about that too. The disturbance is not simply an intellectual one. >My guess is that the separation of people whose social mandate is to >think and write from those whose mandate is to carry out skilled (or >even unskilled) manual labour is responsible. Who has best written about this? Do you wonder if this separation is responsible for the insight, or for why it's considered disturbing? How far back do you date this separation? In the West, are the Desert Fathers, or precursors including Diogenes the Dog Philosopher, too far? I wonder if they would have been so disturbed. You go on to clarify (in 23.384): >the fish I was hoping would be named was someone who relatively >recently has written about the embodied knowledge of the >artist/craftsman, say, who knows in experience that the boundary >which begins with the hand extends to the edge of whatever tool. I'd >like to know historically when this primaeval insight was spoken, >how it was developed under what cultural conditions, or if it >was not spoken, what kept it silent. I don't think this book has been written, though the materials are there. >What interests me about Hayles' statement is that the cyberneticists >should have greeted the artist/craftsman's basic experience as >revolutionary. Of course then as now (even more so now?) scholars >and scientists seldom, I'd think, learn to make things with their >hands in a way that would lead them to realise the boundary-shift >implicit in skilled tool-use. In other words, cybernetics would seem >basically a surfacing and formalizing of something as old as >sentient life. Why was the historical question not asked then? You imply that cyberneticists considered as revolutionary an insight as old and inevitable as handwork, and yet if an insight is not formally expressed and presented as such, does it constitute an insight for the cyberneticist's purposes? That is, okay, a reflective person chopping firewood may have always known that the boundaries between self, axe, wood, and fire, are not so certain. But if to say so has been, in the face of Christian or Cartesian orthodoxy, taboo, then what has the cyberneticist had to work with? Again, I stress that we should take care not to overgeneralize, and suppose that because an idea has been unthinkable, or rare, or suppressed, in our world, it must always have been so across the globe. However learned they were, the cyberneticists did not, after all, have access to the whole of human thought: their educations exposed them to only so much. (And if ideas from the East had already, by their time, been long veiled in the West by self-serving Western ideologies regarding them, that too is about the West.) So the question, why didn't the cyberneticists wonder how new this idea was, is really not about the idea, but about them and their culture. My answer (hazarding a guess) is that they were a smart bunch, and like many smart people, did not imagine there was ever anyone else as smart, or maybe only as lucky, as themselves. (Although I would make an exception for Bateson.) Yet maybe the perennial philosophy is actually new -- every year -- and the cyberneticists were right to consider it so. Cheers, Wendell ======================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================== --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:25:01 +0100 From: "Hayler, Matthew" Subject: r.e.: boundaries of the human hand In-Reply-To: <20091017105823.154163F768@woodward.joyent.us> Hi, This is the first time I've replied to the list so please forgive me if I should have sent this email elsewhere. Further to your discussion I thought that Frank Wilson's The Hand (http://bit.ly/37ZLhA) might be of some use, particularly his discussion of craftsmen becoming 'at one' with their tools in much the same way as generations of apes became at one with the branches which supported their transit. I've found his discussion of 'secondary heuristics' (a term he borrows from Henry Plotkin - http://bit.ly/4ayS51) to be particularly elucidating to my understanding of the importance of tactility to texts, something which I discuss a little in this post - http://bit.ly/1GnCyG - which may also be of interest. Thanks for the always thought-provoking discussions Best _Matt Hayler http://4oh4-wordsnotfound.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Oct 21 05:22:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8667A3EE35; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:22:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 283BB3EE2E; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:22:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091021052233.283BB3EE2E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:22:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.387 postdoc, job, studentship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 387. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dot Porter (3) Subject: Fwd: PhD Scholarship - 19thc periodicals [2] From: ETCL University of Victoria (50) Subject: Job Posting in the ETCL: Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Textual Studies and Digital Humanities (2010-2011) [3] From: James Opp (51) Subject: Job Ad in Digital Humanities - Carleton University --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:37:31 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: Fwd: PhD Scholarship - 19thc periodicals This PhD scholarship may be of interest to some on Humanist. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sydney Shep Date: Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:53 PM Subject: PhD Scholarship - 19thc periodicals To: SHARP-L@listserv.indiana.edu Greetings all: I have recently been awarded a three-year Marsden Fund grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand to continue my work on 19thc typographical journals and global communication networks. Part of the grant includes a PhD scholarship. We are eager to recruit internationally and the application and start-up dates are flexible to take account of different academic calendars. The successful candidate will be working with a team consisting of myself, plus two research assistants and a computer programmer based at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre. Follow this link for more information: http://www.fis.org.nz/BreakOut/vuw/schols.phtml?detail+500377 Please don't hesitate to contact me directly for further information about the research programme and this PhD scholarship. And do share this message widely. cheers and thanks Sydney Dr Sydney J Shep Senior Lecturer in Print & Book Culture : : The Printer Wai-te-ata Press : : Te Whare Ta O Wai-te-ata Victoria University of Wellington PO Box 600, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND Email: sydney.shep@vuw.ac.nz Phone: +64-4-463-5784 fax: +64-4-463-5446 internet: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/wtapress/ The Print History Project: http://www.nzetc.org/projects/php/ Editor, SHARP News http://www.sharpweb.org Executive Committee, Ako Aotearoa Academy of Tertiary Teaching Excellence http://akoaotearoa.ac.nz/academy --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:33:16 -0700 From: ETCL University of Victoria Subject: Job Posting in the ETCL: Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Textual Studies and Digital Humanities (2010-2011) Hello, The ETCL has a new job posting that may be of interest to you, or someone you know. You can read the posting on the ETCL website < http://etcl.uvic.ca/2009/10/20/job-posting-postdoctoral-fellow-in-early-modern-textual-studies-and-digital-humanities-2010-11/ *The job ad is posted below, as well. Thanks! --- *Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Textual Studies and Digital Humanities (2010-11)* The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory (ETCL http://etcl.uvic.ca/ ) at the University of Victoria has an exciting postdoctoral opportunity for a candidate with a background in early modern literary and textual studies, expertise in computing, and an interest in the digital humanities field. The postdoctoral fellow will be key in the development of a professional reading environment designed to respond to the needs of those working with early modern books and manuscripts. Source material for this work will be derived from our work on the *Devonshire Manuscript* (BL Add MS 17,492) and our ongoing work with professional reading environments in number of related projects. The successful candidate will have skills and aptitudes in early modern research, textual studies, and scholarly editing in a digital humanities context, including training or demonstrated experience working with TEI XML and digital editions. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset. The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. Examples of technologies employed in related ETCL projects are as follows: TEI P5; XML, XSLT, XSL and XHTML encoding; XQuery; eXist XML databases; JavaScript; Ruby on Rails; PHP; CSS; and web-based SQL database projects using PostgresSQL and mySQL. Experience in some or all of these areas would be an asset, but is not a requirement, though aptitude with digital tools is required. Our current team members pride themselves on a passionate interest in both the humanities and their computation engagement. Our ideal candidate is someone with similar passions who can introduce the team to new ideas and provide new perspectives on existing digital humanities issues. Salary for this position is competitive in the Canadian context, and is governed in part by SSHRC practices; combined with an optional supplement for teaching, the annual salary for this position is expected to be approximately $52,000. Applications, comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees, may be sent electronically to < etcl.apply@gmail.com http://etcl%2Eapply@gmail.com/ >. Applications will be received and reviewed until the position is filled; the position can begin as early as January 2010. --- Electronic Textual Cultures Lab University of Victoria web: http://etcl.uvic.ca/ email: uvic.etcl@gmail.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:01:39 -0400 (EDT) From: James Opp Subject: Job Ad in Digital Humanities - Carleton University Hi, The job ad below for a position in the Digital Humanities might be of interest for the Humanities Discussion Group (or other relevant parties). Thanks, James Opp Department of History Carleton University ... APPOINTMENT IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES HISTORY - CARLETON UNIVERSITY The Department of History at Carleton University invites applications for an entry-level tenure-track position in the Digital Humanities at the rank of Assistant Professor. The candidate should be an historian whose research engages innovative theoretical and methodological approaches. Place and periodization are open. Candidates should possess a Ph.D. in history or a related field, a strong commitment to scholarship reflected in publications, an active research profile, and demonstrated excellence and innovation in teaching. The successful candidate will be expected to teach in both undergraduate and graduate programs, including our Public History MA program. We welcome candidates who, in addition to teaching in their own field, could contribute to our core curriculum offerings in historical theory and methods. The successful applicant will also be expected to develop a program of research leading to significant peer-reviewed publications, and to contribute effectively to academic life in the department and in the university. Applications, including a curriculum vitae, one article- or chapter-length writing sample, a statement of teaching philosophy or a teaching portfolio, and three letters of reference, should be sent to: Professor James D. Miller, Chair Department of History Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada. The deadline for receipt of applications is January 15, 2010. Candidates may learn more about the Department by visiting its Web site at www.carleton.ca/ history/ or by contacting the Chair at james_miller@carleton.ca Carleton University is strongly committed to fostering diversity within its community as a source of excellence, cultural enrichment, and social strength. We welcome those who would contribute to the further diversification of our faculty and its scholarship including, but not limited to, women, visible minorities, Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply but applications from Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Contact Info: Professor James D. Miller, Chair Department of History Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada. Website:http://www.carleton.ca/history/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Oct 21 05:26:19 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 480533EF39; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:26:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D39663EF26; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:26:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091021052615.D39663EF26@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:26:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.388 lectures, distinguished and inaugural X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 388. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (30) Subject: HII Distinguished Guest Lecture - Professor Sally Wyatt(Maastricht) [2] From: Willard McCarty (15) Subject: inaugural lecture --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:54:06 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: HII Distinguished Guest Lecture - Professor Sally Wyatt(Maastricht) From: Valerie Norton > Date: 20 October 2009 14:29:10 GMT+01:00 Dear Colleagues, You are cordially invited to attend the next lecture in the UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland’s Distinguished Guest Lecture Series which has been co-organised by with the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) Speaker: Professor Sally Wyatt http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/staff/sally-wyatt/ (Digital Cultures in Development, University of Maastricht & Maastricht Virtual Knowledge Studio) Digitising humanities and social sciences: promises, paradoxes and problems Tuesday, 17 November 2009 5pm Room H204, second floor, UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland (building number 43, grid reference F9 on the UCD Campus Map) Chair: Dr Marc Caball ________________________________ Sally Wyatt is Professor of 'digital cultures in development', Maastricht University, and senior research fellow with the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, KNAW. Her background is in economics (BA McGill, 1976; MA Sussex, 1979) and science and technology studies (PhD Maastricht, 1998). She has more than 25 years experience in teaching and research about technology policy and about the relationship between technological and social change, focusing particularly on issues of social exclusion and inequality. She has worked at the Universities of Sussex, Brighton, East London and Amsterdam as well as at the British Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). She co-ordinates PhD training in the Dutch Research School for Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC) (with Els Rommes, Radboud University). She was President of EASST (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology) between 2001-4. Recently, she has worked on the internet and social exclusion and the ways in which people incorporate the internet into their practices for finding health information. Together with Andrew Webster, she is editor of a new book series, Health, Technology and Society (Palgrave Macmillan). ________________________________ Best, Valerie Valerie Norton Institute Manager UCD Humanities Institute Belfield, Dublin 4 T: +353 1 716 4690 F: +353 1 716 4691 hii@ucd.ie www.ucd.ie/hii http://www.ucd.ie/hii --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2 IRELAND --- Tel: +353 1 2342441 --- shawn@shawnday.com --- http://dho.ie -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:14:47 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: inaugural lecture Inaugural Lecture: Decoding Pasts, Building Futures Inaugural lecture by Richard Beacham, Charlotte Roueche and Harold Short 17:30, Friday 23rd October 2009, Great Hall, Strand, King's College London Two professors of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Harold Short and Richard Beacham, along with a professor in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Charlotte Roueché, are to give a joint inaugural lecture as part of Arts and Humanities Week at King's College London. For further details and information on how to book a place, please see: www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/week/arts/pastfuture.html. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Oct 23 07:29:18 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C31B3E372; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:29:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9C3AF3E35E; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:29:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091023072914.9C3AF3E35E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:29:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.389 metaphors, roles, constructions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 389. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:48:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Francois Lachance Subject: Metaphors, Roles, Disciplinary constructions Willard In an effort to enrich the discussions about disciplinary activity in the 21st century, I turn to a book published late in the last century: _Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors_ edited by Mark Stefik. Stefik presents four metaphors: digital library (The Keeper of Knowledge) electronic mail (Communicator) electronic marketplace (Trader) digital world (Adventurer) I wonder how these map out, if they do, onto the various roles assumed by the players who sustain and publicize the work of humanities computing. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Oct 23 07:32:15 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5DCC3E479; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:32:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1D4D63E469; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:32:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091023073211.1D4D63E469@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:32:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.390 MacKay's three questions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 390. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:27:52 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: MacKay's three questions One of the most gifted writers among those involved with computing in the early years was Donald MacCrimmon MacKay, a physicist who taught at King's College London for a time and then went off to found the Department of Communication and Neuroscience at Keele. He gave the 1986 Gifford Lectures at Glasgow. These are summarized at www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1992/PSCF3-92Thorson.html and were published as Behind the Eye, edited by Valerie MacKay, Basil Blackwell Ltd., Oxford, 1991. The book is a treasure. After spending half the book on the neurophysiology of vision, MacKay turns to computing explicitly. He notes that in comparing the brain with machines, specifically artificial agents, one can ask three sorts of questions (pp. 164-7): 1. How closely the brain resembles existing mechanisms we have built for whatever purposes. He finds doing this -- putting the brain on a Procrustean bed to stretch or hack it to fit -- quite boring (though I'd say it's interesting that people do this -- and they do do this quite a bit); 2. How far can we go to design a machine to fit the functioning of the brain and body? Here we turn to the digital computer, he notes. We get an answer that is at first quite exciting, then turns rather dull, orbiting Turing's thesis: "it seems to promise unlimited scope for the powers of digital symbol processing machines. When you think twice about it, though, it's a bit dull", he comments, as you find yourself in an unending loop adding ever more bits to the logical process to take care of this or that circumstance. And meanwhile, he notes, "the really interesting things about human behaviour -- inventiveness; falling in love; sensing whether someone is sincere, prejudiced, fair-minded; or making judgements whether they are well-informed, generous or wise" -- all these run ahead of whatever test we have, likely always in principle to escape any test we might write. 3. How far can we go in writing rules for the principles of organization of human behaviour? This is the question he finds most interesting, the question of theoretical psychology or artificial intelligence. "What is aimed at here", he writes, "is not mere external imitation of behaviour but internal imitation or replication of the principles on which human behaviour is organized." This is an empirical question, which must proceed in the sciences "by trying to build hypothetical templates." All of the above, as noted, are comparisons. That much seems inescapable. The second we call "modelling", in which one starts with behaviour (of a person, of an artefact) and tries to get close to it, learning meanwhile from the failures to do that. The third, I would suppose, is best called "simulation", in which one starts with a procedural abstraction encoded into a heuristic machine of some sort and lets it do what it will (to some degree unpredictably) do. Fair? It seems to me that we (or at least I) have been stuck at the second question for quite a long time, at best. Not surprising, I suppose, given that the artefact is our thing, our idol. But what if we took the processes of dealing with an artefact, such as a text, devised a template from these processes and let it go. What might we learn from this? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Oct 25 08:11:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95FFE3FED2; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:11:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3FA693FEC0; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:11:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091025081124.3FA693FEC0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:11:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.391 undergrad programmes in digital humanities? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 391. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:11:01 -0400 From: Tanya Clement Subject: undergraduate programs in Digital Humanities I am doing some research on undergraduate programs in the Digital Humanities and would like to compile an updated list of existing programs. Though McCarty and Kirschenbaum's list of "Institutional models for humanities computing" at http://www.allc.org/imhc/ is extensive, I am interested in an updated account of specifically undergraduate programs that have a Digital Humanities *inflected* curriculum -- that is, programs which may or may not be called Digital Humanities but reflect--among other topics--some of the basic digital methodologies, topics of research, and disciplines that concern the DH community. Certainly, this is a broad definition, but my request, in part, is to create a range of initial responses from the field before conducting a more formal survey. Any responses from the humanist list would be much appreciated. thank you, Tanya Tanya Clement, PhD Associate Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC) Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) The University of Maryland, College Park tclement[at]umd.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Oct 25 08:12:49 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6227F3FF3B; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:12:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 033213FF2B; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:12:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091025081247.033213FF2B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:12:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.392 events: 25 years of Ulysses edn X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 392. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:16:02 +0100 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: 25 Years Critical and Synoptic Edition of Ulysses - a One-Day Colloquium Members of the list might be interested in a colloquium on 6 November at the Institute of English Studies (University of London) in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Hans Walter Gabler’s Critical and Synoptic Edition of Ulysses. I have attached the programme: please post/forward, as appropriate. For more information and registration, please visit the website at http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/list/ies_whatson. Wim Dr Wim Van Mierlo Lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English Literature Institute of English Studies University of London Senate House, Rm 237 Malet Street London WC1E 7HU http://ies.sas.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Oct 26 06:13:56 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192F63F060; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:13:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7EE433F04D; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:13:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091026061349.7EE433F04D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:13:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.393 undergrad programmes X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 393. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:34:43 -0500 From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.391 undergrad programmes in digital humanities? In-Reply-To: <20091025081124.3FA693FEC0@woodward.joyent.us> Tanya, Univ. of Illinois has an undergraduate informatics minor that could be digital-humanities-inflected, depending on the interests of the student. GSLIS is in the process of proposing an undergraduate major, as well--that program should be enrolling students next year. More information on the minor at http://www.informatics.illinois.edu/ John On Oct 25, 2009, at 3:11 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 391. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:11:01 -0400 > From: Tanya Clement > Subject: undergraduate programs in Digital Humanities > > I am doing some research on undergraduate programs in the Digital > Humanities and would like to compile an updated list of existing > programs. Though McCarty and Kirschenbaum's list of "Institutional > models for humanities computing" at http://www.allc.org/imhc/ is > extensive, I am interested in an updated account of specifically > undergraduate programs that have a Digital Humanities *inflected* > curriculum -- that is, programs which may or may not be called Digital > Humanities but reflect--among other topics--some of the basic digital > methodologies, topics of research, and disciplines that concern the DH > community. Certainly, this is a broad definition, but my request, in > part, is to create a range of initial responses from the field before > conducting a more formal survey. > > Any responses from the humanist list would be much appreciated. > > thank you, > Tanya > > Tanya Clement, PhD > Associate Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC) > Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) > The University of Maryland, College Park > tclement[at]umd.edu > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Oct 26 06:16:50 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 379173F19F; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:16:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1E8633F193; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:16:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091026061645.1E8633F193@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:16:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.394 events: human choice X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 394. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:55:23 +0000 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: IFIP-HCC9 Human Choice and Computers (WCC) > 9th IFIP Human Choice and Computers International Conference > (IFIP-TC9-HCC9) > > Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre > 20-23 September 2010, Brisbane, Australia www.wcc2010.org > > > HCC is the flagship Conference of TC9. A short summary of the eight > previous conferences and the list of their Proceedings can be found > on the TC9 website at: http://www.ifiptc9.org/ > > HCC9 is divided into 4 main tracks: > 1. Ethics and ICT Governance > 2. Virtual Technologies and Social Shaping > 3. Surveillance and Privacy > 4. ICT and Sustainable Development > > Each of them is presented with their possible topics to be developed: > > Track 1: Ethics and ICT Governance > > Governance is an old word that goes back to Plato. The concept > disappeared for a while, and was replaced by ideas like government, > and government policy. Governance has now returned to the scene. > Today, it focuses on issues like participative democracy and > transparency. [White Paper, 2001] > The state is no longer a unique partner in regulating systems. Other > actors take part at the local, regional, national, and international > levels. New means of regulating scientific, technical, and other > subsystems, and new ways of communicating, are possible among a > variety of actors and subsystems. > Internet governance has been a highly debated issue throughout the > early part of the first decade of the twenty-first century, > particularly at the World Summit on Information Systems (WSIS), held > in Geneva in 2003 and in Tunis 2005. The proposal of the Working > Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) was adopted in Tunis. It put > forward a multistakeholder approach to Internet governance. [WGIG, > 2005] Stakeholder engagement has since become increasingly strong. > These debates raised other questions, particularly with regard to > the role of business as a stakeholder. If the word “government” > seems familiar, “civil society” and the “private sector” are perhaps > less well defined. “Civil society” can be defined rather simply in > the spirit of Habermas, the philosopher. Or, it may be subject to > more extensive definitions that can open up discussions on precisely > which kinds of organisations should be among the participants in > civil society, and the extent to which business, business > associations, and business systems are or should be involved. > [Weerts, 2004; Civil Society Centre - LSE, 2007] > Everyone knows that the private sector indicates primarily the > business sector. Indeed, the business sector is often represented in > official circles that make decisions about the Internet. Examples > include the National and International Chamber of Commerce, the > Davos Economic Forum, and the GBDe (Global Business dialogue on > Electronic commerce, http://www.gbd-e.org/). > Ethics, and particularly the “Ethics of Computing”, are certainly > fields worth deepening. IFIP’s SIG9.2.2 has been working in this > domain for almost 20 years. The group has produced various books and > monographs on the ethics of computing. Yet it recognises that > current literature and guidelines could be enhanced and expanded. > The main goal of the HCC9 track on Ethics and ICT Governance is to > offer a forum to make this new field of the ethics of computing, and > its research and practice. The track will include papers on these > and other subjects: > > ICT governance: overviewing the research > - Concepts of governance: from theory to practice > - Ethics of computing: concepts and schools > - Ethics and ICT governance > - ICT ethics: governance models > - Research on ICT ethics governance: results of current research > > Ethics and ICT governance: evaluating its practice > - Ethical governance: specific challenges > - Ethical governance: new and developing fields of applications > (eAccessibility, eGovernment, eHealth, eSustainability) > - Gender and Diversity - an ethical issue > - Regulation as an ethical democratic issue of governance > - Evaluation of the effectiveness of current governance policies > - Application of suitable governance arrangements > - Evaluation of viability of suggested governance policies > - Ethical tools for ICT governance > > ICT governance: assessing its institutions and technical components > - Internet governance and ICANN > - The Internet Governance Forum (its role, strengths, and limits). > - Challenges posed by the Internet of Things > - Cybersecurity for people and nations > - Technical norms: ipv6, and various protocols > > Track 2: Virtual Technologies and Social Shaping > > Following on the recent (April 2009) International Working > Conference of IFIP 9.5 Working Group on Virtuality and Society: > "Images of Virtuality" at Athens University of Economics and > Business, Greece, this conference is part of the TC9-HCC9) of the > IFIP World Computer Congress, in Brisbane, Australia, September 2010 http://www.wcc2010.org/ > . > This track will focus on the feedback loops between virtual > technologies and the social groups who use them, how each shape the > other and are in turn shaped by them. > Social shaping, the sociology of technology, science studies and > other approaches of cultural studies to the phenomenon of the > information society, driven by such classics as those of Bijker and > Law and Mackenzie and Wajcman from the 1990s, are arguably now ready > for a fresh look, in the context of virtual environments and global > social networking and gaming communities. The intervening years have > additionally seen an explosion of digital and media arts > interpretations, and explorations of the impact of virtual > technologies upon society, and the social use of such technologies > upon their design, and the entrepreneurial trajectories of their > appearance in the global market. > Virtual technologies, crucially, have moved very decisively from the > workplace – whether corporate or home office - and into the domestic > sphere, into our living rooms, playrooms, our kitchens, and our > bedrooms. Here the relationship between virtual technologies and > society, and the mutual shaping processes each undergo, are ripe for > fresh study, insight, and exploration. > The Virtuality and Society Working Group sub-track of the Human > Choice and Computers track of the World Computer Congress therefore > invites research and work-in-progress papers that address the > choices faced by an information society permeated by ubiquitous > virtual technologies. > > Relevant topics and themes include, but are not limited to: > > - Discussing issues of responsive and iterative user-centred design, > usability, accessibility, and the ‘permanent beta’ of virtual systems > - Discussing the impact of virtual technologies within the domestic > sphere and the changes to such technologies developed out of use-cases > - Exploring new (e-, or v-) research methodologies and techniques on > inquiring into social action in the context of virtuality > - Identifying challenging social, ethical, and political issues of > socialization in virtuality > - Discussing the role of electronic and digital arts and media in > the shaping of virtual technologies and their uses > - Discussing the role of digital gaming and massive multiplayer role- > playing games in the shaping of virtual technologies and their uses > - Discussing virtual spaces and the role of place in virtual > technologies, and how the domestic as well as the work and civic > spaces of the information society are shaped by, and in turn shape > such technologies > - Identifying opportunities and challenges for education, > governance, and entrepreneurship in virtual worlds > - Discussing emerging issues of e-policy and e-quality of life > specifically implicated by virtual technologies > - Exploring social histories and philosophies that deepen our > understanding of term virtuality, and of the relationship between > virtual technologies and society and the mutual shaping processes > between them. > > Track 3: Surveillance and Privacy > > New technical and legal developments pose greater and greater > privacy dilemmas. Governments have in the recent years increasingly > established and legalised surveillance schemes in form of data > retention, communication interception or CCTVs for the reason of > fighting terrorism or serious crimes. Surveillance Monitoring of > individuals is also a threat in the private sector: Private > organisations are for instance increasingly using profiling and data > mining techniques for targeted marketing, analysing customer buying > predictions or social sorting. Work place monitoring practices allow > surveillance of employees. Emerging pervasive computing > technologies, where individuals are usually unaware of a constant > data collection and processing in their surroundings, will even > heighten the problem that individuals are effectively losing control > over their personal spheres. At a global scale, Google Earth and > other corporate virtual globes may have dramatic consequences for > the tracking and sorting of individuals. With CCTV, the controlling > power of surveillance is in few hands. With live, high resolution > imagery feeds from space in the near future, massive surveillance > may soon be available to everybody, a development whose consequences > we do not yet grasp. New means of surveillance are also enabled by > social networks, in which individuals are publishing many intimate > personal details about themselves and others. Such social networks > are today already frequently analysed by employers, marketing > industry, law enforcement or social engineering. > > The aim of this conference track is to discuss and analyse such > privacy risks of surveillance for humans and society as well as > countermeasures for protecting the individuals’ rights to > informational self-determination from multi-disciplinary perspectives. > > We are therefore especially inviting the submissions of papers > addressing privacy aspects in relation to topics such as (but not > limited to): > - Surveillance technologies > - Corporate virtual globes (Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth) > - Profiling & data mining > - Ambient Intelligence, RFID > - GPS, Location-Based Services > - Social Network Analysis > - ID cards > - Biometrics > - Data sharing > - Visual surveillance > - Workplace monitoring > - Communication interception > - Data retention > - Anonymity & Pseudonymity > - Privacy-enhancing technologies > - Privacy-enhancing Identity Management > > Track 4: ICT and Sustainable Development > > Information and Communication Technologies are perceived both as > enablers of technological and societal change towards sustainable > development and as drivers of increasing energy and materials > consumption, thus leading us away from the goal of sustainable > development. > This conference will therefore include a track of 20 contributions > on the relationship between ICT and Sustainable Development, > entitled "Sustain IT", with the aim of reconciling future > Information and Communication Technologies with sustainable > development (SD). > In order to cover the full range of the complex relationship between > ICT and SD and to stimulate an interdisciplinary discourse on “ICT > for SD”, we invite herewith researchers working on various aspects > of this issue to contribute to this WCC10 track. We will break down > the issue into the following three topics. > > ICT hardware and SD > > - What are the qualities and quantities of the material and energy > flows caused by the life cycle of ICT hardware and how can we assess > their relevance for SD? > - What are the environmental and social implications of electronic > waste (e-waste) tracks rising in industrialized countries and > emerging economies? > - What are the environmental and social implications of a growing > demand for scarce chemical elements as they are increasingly used in > ICT production? > - What are sound methodologies to assess the energy demand of ICT > infrastructures and services? > - What innovations are necessary to reduce the life-cycle wide > material and energy demand of ICT services, e.g. in the field of > "Green IT"? > > ICT applications and SD > > - What are the potentials to apply ICT for energy efficiency in > production and consumption, and what are the conditions for > realizing these potentials? > - What are the potentials to apply ICT for materials efficiency or > resource productivity, and what are the conditions for realizing > these potentials? > - What ICT applications have the potential to contribute to the > reduction of greenhouse gas emissions or to the adaption to climate > change? > - Which methodology can be used to assess optimization, substitution > and induction effects of ICT with regard to resource-intensive > processes? > - How can we link organizational, regional, national and global > perspectives in using ICT to support SD? > - What is the relationship between “ICT for development” and “ICT > for sustainable development”? > > ICT-enabled structural change towards SD > > - What is the role of ICT in sustainable production and consumption, > resource productivity or economic dematerialization (decoupling > total material consumption from GDP)? > - How can we better understand rebound effects of ICT-induced > efficiency gains and under what conditions can they be avoided? > - What is the relationship between conceptions of the “the > information society” and SD? > - Is ICT going to bring about a “third industrial revolution”, and > how is this perspective related to SD? > - What economic frameworks and conditions, including trade and tax > regimes, are needed to enable ICT-supported structural change > towards SD? > - What is the relationship between ICT, GDP growth and measures of > progress beyond GDP (human development indicator, indicators for > wellbeing, quality of life or happiness)? > - What are the most relevant research questions in sustainability > science regarding the role of ICT? > > > Programme Committee Chairs > > > HCC9 Chairs: > Jacques Berleur, Namur University, Belgium > Magda Hercheui, Westminster Business School and London School of > Economics, United Kingdom > > Track 1: Ethics and ICT Governance > Jacques Berleur, Namur University, Belgium > Philippe Goujon, Namur University, Belgium > Diane Whitehouse, The Castlegate Consultancy, UK > > Track 2: Virtual Technologies and Social Shaping > David Kreps, Salford Business School, Salford University, UK > Martin Warnke, Computer Science & Culture, Leuphana University, > Lueneburg, Deutschland. > Claus Pias, University of Vienna, Austria > > Track 3: Surveillance and Privacy > Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Yola Georgiadou, > International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth > Observation (ITC) > Track 4: ICT and Sustainable Development > Lorenz M. Hilty, Empa, Switzerland > Magda Hercheui, Westminster Business School and London School of > Economics, United Kingdom > [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 27 08:13:16 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1403C64D; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:13:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D42213C63B; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:13:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091027081313.D42213C63B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:13:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.395 undergrad programmes X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 395. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Stephen Woodruff" (24) Subject: undergrad programme titles [2] From: "Brett D. Hirsch" (101) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.393 undergrad programmes --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:47:23 -0000 From: "Stephen Woodruff" Subject: undergrad programme titles In-Reply-To: <20091025081124.3FA693FEC0@woodward.joyent.us> We are agonising over our degree and programme name, so when responding to Tanya's question (below) about existence, could you also list the name(s) you give your programme, degree or option? We currently call our undergraduate joint degree programme Arts & Media Informatics and find that (a) a lot of potential students don't know the word Informatics and (b) quite a few seize on 'media' and assume we mean either journalism or art & design. Most students taking our course in their first year stay with us for the 4-year degree, even if they initially saw us as a fill-in option from some other programme. Our problem is getting them in the first place: when reading the course catalogue they skip over unfamiliar subjects that have no presence in the school curriculum. many thanks, Stephen Woodruff Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland/UK --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:27:58 -0700 From: "Brett D. Hirsch" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.393 undergrad programmes In-Reply-To: <20091026061349.7EE433F04D@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Tanya, The University of Victoria (British Columbia) has just launched two undergraduate courses in digital humanities. They will eventually serve as the foundation of a major and minor in digital humanities. For more information, see the course websites: http://chou.hcmc.uvic.ca/huma150/ http://chou.hcmc.uvic.ca/huma250/ I've also been compiling a list of digital-humanities-inflected courses (undergraduate and graduate). The list is too long to politely attach to this message, so I'll email it to you directly. I'll eventually get around to putting it up as a wiki on my site for others to add to. Would that be useful? Best wishes, Brett. -- Brett D. Hirsch Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Adjunct Assistant Professor of English University of Victoria, B.C., Canada http://www.notwithoutmustard.net/ Co-editor, Shakespeare http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17450918.asp _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 27 08:14:02 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A4E3C68A; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:14:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5F52C3C682; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:14:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091027081400.5F52C3C682@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:14:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.396 new publications: LLC 24.4; Abductive Cognition X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 396. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (28) Subject: Literary and Linguistic Computing 24.4 [2] From: Willard McCarty (13) Subject: new book on abduction --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:09:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Literary and Linguistic Computing 24.4 Literary and Linguistic Computing 24.4 (December 2009) http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/ Oliver Hellwig, "A chronometric approach to Indian alchemical literature" Martin Hilpert and Stefan Th. Gries, "Assessing frequency changes in multistage diachronic corpora: Applications for historical corpus linguistics and the study of language acquisition" Thomas Merriam, "Untangling the derivatives: points for clarification in the findings of the Shakespeare Clinic" Teemu Roos and Tuomas Heikkila, "Evaluating methods for computer-assisted stemmatology using artificial benchmark data sets" Alexandre Sotov, "Lexical Diversity in a Literary Genre: A Corpus Study of the Rgveda" Istvan Varga, Shoichi Yokoyama, and Chikara Hashimoto, "Dictionary generation for less-frequent language pairs using WordNet" David L. Hoover and Shervin Hess, "An exercise in non-ideal authorship attribution: the mysterious Maria Ward" ---------------------------------------------------------------- Reviews ---------------------------------------------------------------- Rene van Horik, Digital Images for the Information Professional.: Melissa M. Terras. Mary Tripp, Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction: Consciousness and the Posthuman." William S. Haney. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:11:34 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new book on abduction Lorenzo Magnani ABDUCTIVE COGNITION The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning Series: Cognitive Systems Monographs, Vol. 3 XXIV, 536 p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-03630-9 Springer, Heidelberg/Berlin, 2009 http://www.springer.com/engineering/book/978-3-642-03630-9 -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 27 08:14:57 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86E063C709; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:14:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A298F3C6F3; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:14:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091027081454.A298F3C6F3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:14:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.397 events: procrastination at the PhD-level X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 397. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:20:03 +0000 From: "Price, Anna" Subject: The Power of Procrastination - A PhD comics talk: 3 November 2009 DATE: 5.30pm Tuesday 3rd November 2009 LOCATION: New Hunt's House Lecture Theatre 1, Guy's Campus Jorge Cham, creator of the popular comic strip 'Piled Higher and Deeper' (PhD comics) and regular contributor to Times Higher Education, is giving a humorous talk entitled 'The Power of Procrastination'. Using his comic strips, he will discuss life (or the lack thereof!) in academia. ABOUT THE TALK A recent survey by U.C. Berkeley found that 95% of all graduate students feel overwhelmed, and over 67% have felt seriously depressed at some point in their careers. In this talk, Jorge Cham recounts his experiences bringing humour into the lives of stressed out academics, examines the source of their anxieties and explores the guilt, the myth, and the power of procrastination. The talk will be followed by a drinks reception and book signing. Please register for the talk at the Graduate School website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/school/events/comic.html For more details see Jorge's website at: www.phdcomics.com. If you have any questions please contact: anna.price@kcl.ac.uk, 020 7848 3914. With Regards, Anna Dr. Anna Price Researcher Development Adviser The Graduate School King's College London Room 5.7, Waterloo Bridge Wing Franklin-Wilkins Building 150 Stamford Street LONDON SE1 9NH Tel: 0207 848 3914 anna.price@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/school/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Oct 30 06:51:32 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A74E3E033; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:51:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F09AE3E020; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:51:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091030065128.F09AE3E020@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:51:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.398 undergrad programmes X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 398. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:22:33 +0000 From: "Jessop, Martyn" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.395 undergrad programmes In-Reply-To: <20091027081313.D42213C63B@woodward.joyent.us> Tanya, Sadly the 'xxxxx with Digital Humanities' minor at King's College London has been closed down and we now concentrate on MA and PhD level teaching. We still operate 'standalone' modules in digital humanities for 1st and 2nd year students but it is no longer possible to obtain a BA Minor in Digital Humanities. There is a strong possibility that these modules will be made compulsory modules of other programmes which may allow a resurgence of digital humanities teaching at undergraduate level at King's - we'll have to wait and see. Regards Martyn _________________________________________ Martyn Jessop, Director of Teaching, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Phone: 0207 848 2470 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Oct 30 06:54:02 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E51E83E0C2; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:54:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E26563E0B9; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:53:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091030065359.E26563E0B9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:53:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.399 jobs and a prize X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 399. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Ray Siemens" (46) Subject: Call for Nominations for the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize [2] From: "Toton, Sarah" (25) Subject: Post Doc Position at Emory University [3] From: Elli Mylonas (40) Subject: position available in digital Sanskrit library project --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:54:01 -0700 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Call for Nominations for the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize Call for Nominations for the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize The Antonio Zampolli Prize is an award of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO). Now in its inaugural year, the prize will be given every three years to honour an outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. It is presented by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) on behalf of its constituent organizations: the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI). The prize is named in honour of the late Professor Antonio Zampolli (1937-2003), who was one of the founding members of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) in 1973, and ALLC President 1983-2003. He was a major figure in the development of literary and linguistic computing from the 1960s, and an enthusiastic supporter of the joint international conferences of ALLC and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), which were initiated in 1989. He was also a prime mover in the Text Encoding Initiative, both in the initial 11-year project, and in the establishment of the TEI Consortium. The Zampolli Prize is given to recognise a single outstanding output in the digital humanities by any scholar or scholars at any stage in their career. The output must involve the innovative use of information and communications technologies and may take the form of published research and/or the development of research-related tools or resources. The award will be made on the basis of the output's importance as a contribution to the digital humanities, taking into account the significance both of its use of information and communication technologies and of its actual or potential contribution to the advancement of humanities research. The first Antonio Zampolli Prize will be given at the Digital Humanities 2011 conference, which will be held at Stanford University. The Award Committee invites nominations for this award. Nominations may be made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing and neither nominee nor nominator need be a member of ACH, ALLC or SDH/SEMI. Nominators should give an account of the nominee's work and the reasons it is felt to be an outstanding contribution to the field. A list of bibliographic references to the nominee's work is required. Nominations should be sent no later than 15 February 2010, to the Chair of the Antonio Zampolli Prize Committee: Ray Siemens, siemens@uvic.ca University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Email submissions are preferred. Members of the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize Committee: Ray Siemens (Chair) Jean Anderson, Chuck Bush, Matt Jockers, Øyvind Eide Marilyn Deegan, Julia Flanders, Christian Vandendorpe John Nerbonne, Harold Short, John Walsh --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:40:10 -0400 From: "Toton, Sarah" Subject: Post Doc Position at Emory University Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Emory University Libraries Emory University Libraries invites applications for a 12-month postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on a digital scholarship planning grant funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This project will pursue the further development of Emory's Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC) and explore the evolving structural role of research libraries in the digital scholarship domain. A new organizational model, as envisioned by Emory through DiSC, will address the four foci of digital scholarship: scholarly communications, research resources, pedagogy, and ethics. Emory and its team of advisors will assess the intellectual, organizational, operational, and financial implications of this new model of scholarly research and production. At the end of this planning grant, the Emory Libraries will propose new directions for research libraries in providing models for supporting, facilitating, and sustaining digital scholarship. At the end of the year, the Fellow will have gained sufficient experience and insight to guide the development of a new digital scholarship program at another institution. Responsibilities: The Research Fellow will assist the Principal Investigator (PI) with outreach and collaboration with faculty, coordinating Advisory Group communication and participation, event planning, and organizing site visits to peer institutions. The Fellow will support the PI in collecting and analyzing data and feedback on digital scholarship models and organizations and engage in documentation and reporting. The Fellow will actively engage in the process of course and curriculum development for the digital scholarship and media studies certificate program lead by the Emory University Libraries and the Graduate School's Institute for Liberal Arts. This position reports to the PI and the director of the DiSC, and works within the EUL Digital Systems Division. Qualifications: Required: Experience with digital scholarship projects and initiatives, advanced humanities research experience, subject expertise, and strong written and verbal communication skills. Must have successfully defended the dissertation. Recommended: Experience with collaborative projects, experience with managing project timelines and budget. Applications: Please send letter describing interest and background along with resume via e-mail to Kerri-Ann Ferguson at kfergu3@emory.edu and addressed to: Dr. Joan Smith, Chief Technology Strategist, Emory University Libraries. Completed applications are due by November 20, 2009. Further information about the fellowship is available on the EUL website at http://web.library.emory.edu/services/hr/PostDocResearchFellow1.html. Any questions about the fellowship may be directed to Sarah Toton, Digital Scholarship Strategist, at stoton@emory.edu. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:21:44 -0400 From: Elli Mylonas Subject: position available in digital Sanskrit library project Dear Colleagues, Please bring the following to the attention of qualified applicants: Brown University seeks a post-doctoral research associate or doctoral research assistant to to work in a digital Sanskrit library project. The position requires advanced training in Sanskrit, academic research skills, and competence in working with XML and TeX. The Sanskrit Library is a collaborative project to make the heritage texts of India accessible on the web. The project is building a digital Sanskrit library by integrating texts, linguistic software, and digital Sanskrit lexical sources. This year the project is making digital images of manuscripts of the Mahabharata and Bhagavatapurana housed at Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania and linking them with the corresponding machine-readable texts. Extending the scope of linguistic software to these digital images serves as a pilot project to demonstrate the feasibility of doing so with manuscript images generally. One qualification that will be of particular value is a high degree of competence in working with TeX and the ability to set up a environment to reproduce the print-ready copy of a nearly completed book typeset with TeX on a different machine. This will involve locating and collecting scattered packages used in order to produce the print-ready copy properly from the existing TeX file. The existing version of the book was produced using the virtual terminal command-line TeX command and ran TeX (Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)) under the Unix operating system on a Mac G4. Brown University is an equal-opportunity employer. Women and minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Please let me know of your interest by sending a resumé to me at the address below, preferably by email. Yours, Peter Scharf ********************************************************* Peter M. Scharf (401) 863-2720 office Department of Classics (401) 863-2123 dept. Brown University PO Box 1856 (401) 863-7484 fax Providence, RI 02912 Scharf@brown.edu http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Classics/people/facultypage.php?id=10044 http://sanskritlibrary.org/ ********************************************************* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Oct 30 06:54:36 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15CB03E111; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:54:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 44DBD3E101; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:54:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091030065434.44DBD3E101@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:54:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.400 preservation of MOOs? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 400. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:29:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Francois Lachance Subject: Preserving Digital Culture : MOOs in particular Willard, I wonder if subscribers to Humanist would know about any efforts to preserve MOOs. LinguaMOO a few years ago went off-line. In lieu of a requiem, allow me to quote from an evocative piece called "Mirage" A glimmering of sunlight, a candle in the rain, Just enjoy my company, I don't want to give you pain. Like alfvar or faerie, I have no heart to give. I cannot truly love you, for I do not truly live. attributed to Stardancer at LambdaMOO (last logged-in in 2000) Eerie and fitting as we approach All Hallows Eve. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Oct 30 06:56:24 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1F63E19C; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:56:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EA78A3E18C; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:56:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091030065621.EA78A3E18C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:56:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.401 new on WWW: Ubiquity on military defense X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 401. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:29:22 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity -- New Issue Alert This Week in Ubiquity: October 13-20,2009 Are Militaries Lagging Their Non-State Enemies in use of Internet? An Interview with Chris Gunderson The increasing number of cyber attacks on military networks and servers has raised the question of what the global defense community is doing to safeguard military systems and protect the larger global Internet. Ubiquity's editor, Peter Denning, interviewed Chris Gunderson, who served in the U.S. Navy from 1973 to 2004 and became an expert in "network centric" warfare, on this question and in particular on how military philosophy must change to adapt to the rise of information networks. See: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_10/v10i10_gunderson.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted (c)2009 by the ACM and the individual authors. To submit feedback about ACM Ubiquity, contact ubiquity@acm.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Oct 30 06:58:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E03B43E200; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:58:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 656463E1E6; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:58:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091030065824.656463E1E6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:58:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.402 DH2010 deadline extended; new centre at UC Irvine X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 402. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sara Schmidt (27) Subject: DH2010: Digital Humanities 2010 deadline extended to November 15th 2009 [2] From: hastac-web@duke.edu (72) Subject: New Center at UC Irvine to Seed Research and Collaboration on Digital Media and Learning --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:51:05 -0500 From: Sara Schmidt Subject: DH2010: Digital Humanities 2010 deadline extended to November 15th 2009 The deadline for proposals for Digital Humanities 2010 has been extended until 12 Midnight GMT on Sunday 15 November. We do not expect that there will be any further deadline extensions beyond this date. Please note that if you have not used the online submission system, conftool, before it may be useful to familiarise yourself with it in good time. It is possible to input your details before uploading a paper, and you can also withdraw a contribution if you are unhappy with it, so you do not have to wait until everything is ready to begin the process. This should help to avoid last minute submission problems, since we can provide only limited support for users of the system. If you have any queries about submissions, please contact dh2010 at digitalhumanites.org (and cc saschmidt2010 at gmail.com ), as soon as possible. Sara Schmidt On behalf of the Digital Humanities 2010 Programme Committee Elisabeth Burr Richard Cunningham Jan-Christoph Meister Elli Mylonas Brent Nelson John Nerbonne Bethany Noviskie Jan Rybicki John Walsh -- Digital Humanities 2010 https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:06:33 -0400 From: hastac-web@duke.edu Subject: New Center at UC Irvine to Seed Research and Collaboration on Digital Media and Learning (IRVINE, CA, Oct. 27, 2009) -- Digital media and the Internet are transforming how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life.  A newly-created Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the University of California-Irvine will provide a international center to nurture exploration of and build evidence around the impact of digital media on young people's learning and its potential for transforming education. Funded through a $2.97 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Center was announced today at a national forum at Google headquarter that brought together leading thinkers around the challenge of reasserting American global leadership in education. "Global digital media are rapidly becoming a driving force in globalization, scientific advances, and the intersection - and sometimes clash - of cultures," said David Theo Goldberg, director of the UC Humanities Research Institute and co-director of the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub. "Every day new questions arise about the ability of traditional systems and institutions to prepare both young people and life-long learners for the social, economic and political demands of a complex and networked new century." Through study of how youth are using digital media, researchers will seek to understand the implications inherent in how this generation of youth - unlike any previous one - is embracing the online world to access information, socialize, and engage in public life. Research is expected to help schools, libraries, museums and other institutions engaged in teaching and learning better prepare students for the 21st century workforce. "We're at the very early stages of this phenomenon where youth and kids are learning so much more outside of the classroom via the Web and social networking," said Mizuko Ito, University of California, Irvine researcher and co-director of the Research Hub.  "If we don't tap into the learning revolution that is going on today, I'm very concerned we're going to have many kids being left behind." With a physical office at UC Irvine and a new virtual destination -- www.dmlcentral.net [1] -- the Center will support emerging research on digital media and learning by hosting international conferences, facilitating workshops and working groups, and bringing together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, industry leaders and others working on related projects. It will also house related research initiatives of the MacArthur Foundation's digital media and learning initiative.  Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the nonprofit research group FutureLab are partnering with UC Irvine on Hub activities. "At this time of extraordinary transformation, it is critical to harness and coordinate research that provides insight into the impact and applications of digital media for learning," said Connie Yowell, director of MacArthur's education grantmaking. "MacArthur has long been committed to improving public education in the U.S., and we see the emerging research and practices in the field of digital media and learning as holding the potential to transform the way we prepare our young people to be engaged citizens and to compete in the 21st century workforce." Two MacArthur initiatives are already active at the Hub. They are bringing together researchers and practitioners to explore 1) the transformation of learning and assessment in the 21st century and 2) the unprecedented ways in which technology is enabling youth to participate in the political and public sphere. These investigative efforts, lead by Mizuko Ito and Mills College professor and researcher Joseph Kahne, respectively, are major initiatives of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the system-wide UC research center for the humanities and social sciences, based at UC Irvine. More information about the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub can be found at www.dmlcentral.net [2]. *About the MacArthur Foundation* The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, the Foundation works to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society. In 2006, MacArthur launched its digital media and learning initiative to explore how digital media are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize and participate in civic life and what that means for their learning in the 21st century. More information is available at www.macfound.org/education [3]. [1] http://www.dmlcentral.net [2] http://www.dmlcentral.net [3] http://www.macfound.org/education _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Oct 30 06:59:49 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3112A3E25F; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:59:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 14A003E257; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:59:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091030065948.14A003E257@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:59:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.403 events: GIS, digital futures X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 403. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sara Schmidt (52) Subject: GIS in the humanities: A free workshop and questionnaire [2] From: "Tanner, Simon" (65) Subject: DIGITAL FUTURES ACADEMY 2010 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:08:09 -0500 From: Sara Schmidt Subject: GIS in the humanities: A free workshop and questionnaire In-Reply-To: *GIS in the Humanities:* *A questionnaire and free workshop on Spatial Literacy in Research and Teaching* *Questionnaire:* Available from http://www.hgis.org.uk/splint/ until 30th Nov.* Workshop: * Wednesday 16th December, 2009 at the University of Leicester, UK. See: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/heahistory/events/gis_workshop/gis Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and other spatial technologies such as GPS and virtual globes are becoming increasingly used within disciplines such as history, archaeology, literary studies, religious studies and classics. This free workshop, sponsored by Spatial Literacy in Teaching (SPLINT) and the Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology, will provide a basic introduction to GIS as an approach to humanities research and as a technology. The workshop is aimed at a broad audience including post-graduate or masters students, members of academic staff, and holders of major grants and those intending to apply for them. Professionals in other relevant sectors interested in finding out about GIS applications are also welcome. We also particularly welcome participation from people who teach GIS or who teach in humanities disciplines and would like to include spatial technologies in their curriculum. * Applying *: Places are limited and the deadline for registration is 3rd December 2009. * Costs *: The workshop is free of charge though there will be a charge of £20 (to cover catering and materials) in the case of cancellations after 9.00pm 3rd December 2009. * Travel Support *: Some funding is available to support delegates’ travel expenses. Please contact Janet Carter, SPLINT Administrator (*jc115@le.ac.uk*) for further details before the registration deadline.* Further information *: Contact Ian Gregory (*I.Gregory@lancaster.ac.uk*) or Janet Carter, SPLINT Administrator (*jc115@le.ac.uk*). * What can you offer us? * We request your participation in a brief survey to help us gauge the use of spatial technologies by historians and other humanists, as well as to understand whether and how spatial concepts are making their way into teaching and research in the humanities. We estimate the survey will take no more than 15 minutes to complete and your participation will be treated in the strictest confidence. The tallied results will be used for a project report/white paper and a journal article. To help us with this please fill in our online questionnaire at: http://www.hgis.org.uk/splint. We will share the results at the workshop. The survey closes on November 30. If you have any questions, please contact Ian Gregory, Lancaster University (* i.gregory@lancaster.ac.uk*). * REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP *http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/heahistory/events/gis_workshop/gis --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:02:54 +0000 From: "Tanner, Simon" Subject: DIGITAL FUTURES ACADEMY 2010 In-Reply-To: DIGITAL FUTURES ACADEMY 2010 We are are pleased to announce the Digital Futures Academy 5 day training event: Digital Futures Academy: Sydney, Australia. 1st - 5th February 2010 Digital Futures Academy: from digitization to delivery, London,UK 19th - 23rd April 2010 Book early as places are limited and early bird discounts are available! http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/ Led by international experts, Digital Futures focuses on the creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and memory institutions. Lasting 5 days, Digital Futures is aimed at managers and other practitioners from the library, museum, heritage, media and cultural sectors looking to understand the strategic and management issues involved in developing digital resources from digitisation to delivery. Digital Futures will cover the following core areas: o Planning and management o Fund raising o Understanding the audience o Metadata - introduction and implementation o Copyright and intellectual property o Sustainability o Financial issues o Visual and image based resource creation and delivery o Implementing digital resources o Digital preservation Sydney highlights: There will be visits to the State Library, NSW and the Powerhouse Museum to see behind the scenes and receive expert presentations. London highlights: The visits will be tot he National Gallery and The National Archives to see behind the scenes and gain expert advice and presentations. Digital Futures aims for no more than 25-30 delegates and every delegate will have the opportunity to also spend one-to-one time with a Digital Futures leader to discuss issues specific to them. Digital Futures will issue a certificate of achievement to each delegate. The Digital Futures leaders are: * Simon Tanner - Director of King's Digital Consultancy Services, King's College London http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/ * Tom Clareson - Director for New Initiatives, Lyrasis http://www.lyrasis.org/ The leaders have over 30 years of experience in the digital realm between them. Other experts will be invited to speak in their areas of expertise. What past delegates say about Digital Futures: * "Excellent - I would recommend DF to anyone anticipating a digitization program" * "The team was exceptionally knowledgeable, friendly and personable." * "Excellent, informative and enjoyable. Thank you." * "A really useful course and great fun too!" Digital Futures is run by King's Digital Consultancy Services and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London working in co-operation with Lyrasis, USA. Digital Futures Australasia is made possible with the co-operation of the Library of the University of Technology, Sydney. -- Simon Tanner Director, King's Digital Consultancy Services, King's College London, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)7887 691716 or Admin: +44 (0)20 7848 2861 Email: simon.tanner@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 31 08:40:14 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E97C833453; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:40:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 33F6133448; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:40:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091031084012.33F6133448@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:40:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.404 digital preservation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 404. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:54:23 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.400 preservation of MOOs? In-Reply-To: <20091030065434.44DBD3E101@woodward.joyent.us> Francois, While we don't have any MOOs in our current case set, you might be interested in the Preserving Virtual Worlds project: http://pvw.illinois.edu/pvw/ MOOs and MUDs are the natural transition between text-based interactive fiction and the MMORPGs of today. It's likely we'll tackle them at some point, in a future round of funding. Matt On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 400. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:29:04 -0400 (EDT) >        From: Francois Lachance >        Subject: Preserving Digital Culture : MOOs in particular > > Willard, > > I wonder if subscribers to Humanist would know about any efforts to preserve MOOs. > > LinguaMOO a few years ago went off-line. > > In lieu of a requiem, allow me to quote > > from an evocative piece called "Mirage" > >     A glimmering of sunlight, a candle in the rain, >     Just enjoy my company, I don't want to give you pain. >     Like alfvar or faerie, I have no heart to give. >     I cannot truly love you, for I do not truly live. > > attributed to Stardancer at LambdaMOO (last logged-in in 2000) > > Eerie and fitting as we approach All Hallows Eve. > > -- > Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php > -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC, a new Living/Learning Program in the Honors College) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 31 08:41:04 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F9B7334E6; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:41:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4A953334DE; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:41:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091031084102.4A953334DE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:41:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.405 call for Zampolli nominations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 405. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:54:01 -0700 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Call for Nominations for the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize Call for Nominations for the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize The Antonio Zampolli Prize is an award of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO). Now in its inaugural year, the prize will be given every three years to honour an outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. It is presented by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) on behalf of its constituent organizations: the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI). The prize is named in honour of the late Professor Antonio Zampolli (1937-2003), who was one of the founding members of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) in 1973, and ALLC President 1983-2003. He was a major figure in the development of literary and linguistic computing from the 1960s, and an enthusiastic supporter of the joint international conferences of ALLC and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), which were initiated in 1989. He was also a prime mover in the Text Encoding Initiative, both in the initial 11-year project, and in the establishment of the TEI Consortium. The Zampolli Prize is given to recognise a single outstanding output in the digital humanities by any scholar or scholars at any stage in their career. The output must involve the innovative use of information and communications technologies and may take the form of published research and/or the development of research-related tools or resources. The award will be made on the basis of the output's importance as a contribution to the digital humanities, taking into account the significance both of its use of information and communication technologies and of its actual or potential contribution to the advancement of humanities research. The first Antonio Zampolli Prize will be given at the Digital Humanities 2011 conference, which will be held at Stanford University. The Award Committee invites nominations for this award. Nominations may be made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing and neither nominee nor nominator need be a member of ACH, ALLC or SDH/SEMI. Nominators should give an account of the nominee's work and the reasons it is felt to be an outstanding contribution to the field. A list of bibliographic references to the nominee's work is required. Nominations should be sent no later than 15 February 2010, to the Chair of the Antonio Zampolli Prize Committee: Ray Siemens, siemens@uvic.ca University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Email submissions are preferred. Members of the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize Committee: Ray Siemens (Chair) Jean Anderson, Chuck Bush, Matt Jockers, Øyvind Eide Marilyn Deegan, Julia Flanders, Christian Vandendorpe John Nerbonne, Harold Short, John Walsh _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 31 08:42:09 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62EC233550; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:42:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9E97D33541; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:42:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091031084206.9E97D33541@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:42:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.406 events: media theory; DH2010 extension & plenary X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 406. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sara Schmidt (116) Subject: Re: DH2010 extension of deadline and announcement of a plenary speaker [2] From: Ray Siemens (33) Subject: cfp: Media Transatlantic: Media Theory in North America and German-Speaking Europe --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:29:46 -0500 From: Sara Schmidt Subject: Re: DH2010 extension of deadline and announcement of a plenary speaker We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Digital Humanities 2010 Conference. Due to many requests, we are also extending the submissions deadline to Nov. 15, 2009 New! Melissa Terras will address the conference in a plenary invited talk. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2010 Call for Papers !Revised! Abstract Deadline: Nov. 15, 2009 Proposals must be submitted electronically using the system which will be available at the conference web site from October 8th. Presentations may be any of the following: * Single papers (abstract max of 1500 words) * Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 500 words) * Posters (abstract max of 1500 words) Call for Papers Announcement The International Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and problems in humanities research and teaching. We welcome submissions in all areas of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in humanities computing, and on recent developments. Suitable subjects for proposals include, for example, * text analysis, corpora, language processing, language learning * IT in librarianship and documentation * computer-based research in cultural and historical studies * computing applications for the arts, architecture and music * research issues such as: information design and modelling; the cultural impact of the new media * the role of digital humanities in academic curricula The special theme of the 2010 conference is cultural heritage old and new. The range of topics covered is reflected in the journals of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press, and the Digital Humanities Quarterly, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ The deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the Programme Committee is Nov. 15th, 2009. All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance February 24, 2010. The electronic submission form will be available at the conference site from October 8th, 2009 (which will be linked from http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/papers/call.html) Anyone who has previously used the ConfTool system to submit proposals or reviews or to register for a Digital Humanities conference should use their existing account rather than setting up a new one. If anyone has forgotten their user name and/or password please contact dh2010 at digitalhumanities.org. See below for full details on submitting proposals. Proposals for (non-refereed, or vendor) demos and for pre-conference tutorials and workshops should be made to the local conference organizer as early as possible. For more information on the conference in general please visit the DH2010 web site. http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/ Types of Proposals Proposals to the Programme Committee may be of three types: (1) papers, (2) poster presentations and/or software demonstrations, and (3) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission must be specified in the proposal. Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. 1) Papers Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe original, unpublished work: preferably completed research with substantial results, but also the development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical or critical discussions. Individual papers have 20 min. for presentation and 10 for questions. Proposals concerning new computing methodologies should show how the methodologies are applied to humanities research, and should critically assess the application. Those concerning a particular application should compare earlier traditional and computational approaches and should also assess the new methodologies. References are naturally required. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible. 2) Poster Presentations and Software Demonstrations Poster sessions showcase some of the most important and innovative work being done in humanities computing. Poster presentations may include technology and project demonstrations. Hence the term poster/demo to refer to different possible combinations of printed and computer based presentations. 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 also apply, but posters/demos may be more suitable way for late-breaking work, or work in progress. 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. Poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than talks. Poster presenters can present their work and exchange ideas one-on-one and in detail with those most deeply interested. Presenters will have about two square meters of board space for display and may also wish to provide handouts. Posters remain on display throughout the conference, and are the sole focus of separate dedicated poster sessions. Additional times may be available for software or project demonstrations. As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters 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 proposal should include 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. All speakers are required to register for the conference and to participate in the session. Focused sessions should have added value when compared to the set of the individual papers. or A panel of four to six speakers. The proposal is an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how discussion will be organized, the names and affiliations of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. All speakers are required to register for the conference and to participate in the session. International Programme Committee Elisabeth Burr Richard Cunningham Jan-Christoph Meister Elli Mylonas Brent Nelson John Nerbonne (Chair) Bethany Noviskie Jan Rybicki John Walsh --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:19:17 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: cfp: Media Transatlantic: Media Theory in North America and German-Speaking Europe Announcement - Media Transatlantic: Media Theory in North America and German-Speaking Europe (Please feel free to post elsewhere as appropriate; apologies in advance for cross-postings) April 8-10, 2010; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Proposals due: Nov. 27, 2010 Website: http://www.mediatrans.ca Ubiquitous and indispensible, media technologies have taken on an epistemological or even ontological significance: we learn what we know, and we become what we are, through print, TV, digital, mobile and other communications. “No part of the world, no human activity,” as Sonia Livingstone says, “is untouched…. Societies worldwide are being reshaped, for better or for worse, by changes in the global media and information environment.” Seeing media as a lens or even as an a priori condition for understanding historical, social and cultural change has become increasingly prevalent and urgent on both sides of the Atlantic. However, with some notable exceptions, this work has been developing independently, producing a wide-ranging if fruitful heterogeneity. On the one side are the interdisciplinary and theoretically-engaged Medienwissenschaften (media studies), and on the other, work developing out of the Toronto school and a variety of theoretical and disciplinary traditions. The purpose of this conference is to deepen and expand transatlantic dialogue between North America and German-speaking Europe (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) in the area of media theory -- and to provide an opportunity for developing connections to other contexts as well. Areas of research and scholarship relevant to this dialogue include communication, philosophy, media literacy, and literary and cultural studies. Confirmed Keynotes: - Kim Sawchuk (Concordia) - Katherine Hayles (Chicago) - Sybille Krämer (Berlin) - Dieter Mersch (Potsdam) - Hartmut Winkler (Paderborn) - Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (Vancouver) This conference invites papers, in English, focusing on such issues as: - Recent developments in media theory in North America and central Europe, for example: - Media and materiality - The construction of “mediality” in theory and practice - Media and the (post)human - The “mediatic turn” as milestone or misnomer - The foundational contributions of McLuhan, Innis and the Toronto School, of Flusser, Luhmann, and others - Media as means of socialization and education - Towards a philosophy of media - (Inter)disciplinary implications of media-theoretical developments Abstracts should be submitted using the form provided on the conference Website: http://www.mediatrans.ca/submit.html Cordially, Norm Friesen Canada Research Chair in E-Learning Practices Thompson Rivers University +1 250 852 6256 http://learningspaces.org/n/ New Book - Re-Thinking E-Learning Research (http://elearn.tru.ca) ____________ R.G. Siemens, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Ph.(250)721-7272 Fax.(250)721-6498 siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 2 07:55:46 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 922024072D; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:55:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CADA240708; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:55:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091102075543.CADA240708@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:55:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 407. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:54:26 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: devices prior to uses I'm interested in collecting a few examples of devices, physical or otherwise, that were invented prior to any practical application, or invented for one purpose but found eventually to have another. Also I would like to know about visionary inventions, by which I mean those inventions whose eventual application was envisioned but which at the time could not be realised. Thanks for any suggestions. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 2 07:56:43 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0529D40781; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:56:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 02DA140771; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:56:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091102075640.02DA140771@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:56:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.408 events: digital diasporas X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 408. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:38:22 -0500 From: Scott Kushner Subject: CFP -- Digital Diasporas: Distances, Cultures, and Languages (ACLA 2010, April 1-4, New Orleans) CALL FOR PAPERS Digital Diasporas: Distances Cultures, and Languages American Comparative Literature Association 2010 Meeting April 1-4, 2010, New Orleans, La. Despite the continued existence of the book, the newspaper, and the scholarly journal, digital humanists are confronted with the sneaking suspicion that the internet is somehow different, a vast new space that mixes up our identities, our politics, and our languages. Networked texts give comparative literature the opportunity to ask: what exactly are we comparing? What kind of a diaspora is it when we can simultaneously be here, there, everywhere, and nowhere? Who is spreading out, where are they spreading to and from, and what might organize their itineraries? Finally, how do these texts, spaces, subjects, movements, and cultures coexist with and modify earlier media regimes? This seminar will address aspects of internet culture that cross, crush, redefine, and/or reinforce borders; that eradicate and/or extend notions of distance; that legitimate, destabilize, and/or invent linguistic practices. Potential topics include (but are certainly not limited to) blogs, Twitter feeds, YouTube, Facebook, SMS and mobile telephony, listservs, MMORPGs, lurkers, activists, hacking, art, affinity groups, citizenship, affect, nationality, gender, race, class, geographies, histories, literacies. Work representing all theoretical inclinations is welcome. Submit 250-word abstracts by November 13 at http://www.acla.org/acla2010. Be sure to select the Digital Diasporas seminar when submitting. Please contact Scott Kushner (scott.kushner@gmail.com) with any questions. Please distribute this CFP to any colleagues who might be interested. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 3 07:55:19 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 433233F9C6; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 07:55:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 39A593F98D; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 07:55:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091103075515.39A593F98D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 07:55:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.409 devices prior to uses X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 409. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Rafael_Peñaloza (46) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? [2] From: "dennis c.l." (45) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? [3] From: Igor Kramberger (20) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? [4] From: "Rabkin, Eric" (57) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? [5] From: Susan Brown (30) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? [6] From: Øyvind_Eide (50) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? [7] From: Fred Moody (49) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? [8] From: Francois Lachance (26) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? [9] From: Ian Johnson (82) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:08:39 +0100 From: Rafael_Peñaloza Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? In-Reply-To: <20091102075543.CADA240708@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, This might not be what you are looking for, but my first thought when reading your request was the _parachute_. The modern parachute, as far as I recall, was invented during the 18th century, a long time before airplanes (although, of course, there were other uses for the device). Cheers, Rafael Penaloza On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 407. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:54:26 +0000 >        From: Willard McCarty >        Subject: devices prior to uses > > I'm interested in collecting a few examples of devices, physical or > otherwise, that were invented prior to any practical application, or > invented for one purpose but found eventually to have another. Also I > would like to know about visionary inventions, by which I mean those > inventions whose eventual application was envisioned but which at the > time could not be realised. > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > Yours, > WM > -- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 06:58:00 -0200 From: "dennis c.l." Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? In-Reply-To: <20091102075543.CADA240708@woodward.joyent.us> How about communication satellites by Arthur C. Clark. http://lakdiva.org/clarke/1945ww/ yours dennis cintra leite --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:46:24 +0100 From: Igor Kramberger Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? In-Reply-To: <20091102075543.CADA240708@woodward.joyent.us> Good morning, Willard wrote: > I'm interested in collecting a few examples of devices, physical or > otherwise, [...] or invented for one purpose but found eventually > to have another. Phone was invented with the intention to help hearing impaired, but today they have the most difficulties to use it. > Also I would like to know about visionary inventions, by which I > mean those inventions whose eventual application was envisioned but > which at the time could not be realised. Beside the Ted Nelson's Xanadu server? His idea of hypertext. Kind regards, -- Igor ----- Igor Kramberger, raziskovalec-urednik http://www.ff.uni-mb.si/index.php?page_id=81&person=89 Koro'ska cesta 63, SI-2000 Maribor pri Tom'si'c, Ulica Toma Brejca 11 a, SI-1241 Kamnik Slovenija, Evropa --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:51:02 -0500 From: "Rabkin, Eric" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? In-Reply-To: <20091102075543.CADA240708@woodward.joyent.us> Lots of drugs, Willard; quite famously Viagra and, of course, aspirin as a cardiac treatment. Lasers were not invented with bar codes or CDs in mind. Computers, of course, were not intended initially for communication or visualization purposes but only for numerical computation. Photographic film was not intended to show--as do X-rays--the invisible. And microscopes were not invented for medical uses. What a stimulating question! Have fun. Eric ---------------------------------------- Eric S. Rabkin Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Department of English University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003 www.umich.edu/~esrabkin --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:35:00 -0500 From: Susan Brown Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? In-Reply-To: <20091102075543.CADA240708@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Willard, I understand that post-it notes were invented at 3M from a failed attempt to create a good glue. I have just heard this, however: I don't have a source to offer. All the best, Susan --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:52:05 +0100 From: Øyvind_Eide Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? In-Reply-To: <20091102075543.CADA240708@woodward.joyent.us> What about boolean algebra? It was not developed by Boole with the digital computer as a foreseen practical application, one would think? Subversive use would be similar to this, like the small whistles used by phreakers to fool the telephone system. There are also several quite interesting examples of "pseudo- subversive" use, one of them being the Norwegian extract-of-malt brand Moss, which always had advertisements in the Oslo metro that "It is illegal to brew bear from Moss extract-of-malt. You eat Moss extract- of-malt for your good health!" making it clear for anyone who did not know that you can indeed brew beer from it. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:36:14 -0800 From: Fred Moody Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? In-Reply-To: <20091102075543.CADA240708@woodward.joyent.us> Not sure this is what you had in mind, but Viagra was one of those things...originally developed to increase blood supply to the heart. Fred Moody fred.moody@rice.edu Editor-in-Chief Rice University Press rup.rice.edu 9759 NE Pine St. Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-2113 Voice: 206-855-0933 Cell: 206-601-1992 Google Voice: 206-801-0352 --[8]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:18:52 -0500 (EST) From: Francois Lachance Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? In-Reply-To: <20091102075543.CADA240708@woodward.joyent.us> from "Humanist Willard, You mentioned that you "would like to know about visionary inventions, by which I mean those inventions whose eventual application was envisioned but which at the time could not be realised." Edited and translated by Shelagh and Jonathan Routh, Leonardo's Kitchen Notebooks provides this amusing example for your collection of devices in advance of their time. "On an Alternative to Filthy Tablecloths" Upon inspection of My Lord Lodovico's tablecloths once his guests have departed the dining hall I find myself surveying a scene of such utter mess and depravation -- resembling nothing so much as the aftermath of a battlefield [...] to discover an alternative. I have one already. I have in mind that everyone at table should be given their own cloth which, after soiling with their filthy hands and knives, they can fold over so as not to desecrate the appearance of the table with their filths. And our editors kindly supply the report from the Florentine Ambassador to Milan on the result of the introduction of individual cloths: And this last eve he produced at table his solution to it [the problem of the filthy tablecloth] and which was an individual cloth placed on the table in front of each guest and which he was meant to sully rather than the tablecloth. But, to Master Leonardo's agitation, none knew who to use it or what to do with it. Some went to sit on it. Some to blow their noses in it. Some to throw playfully at each other. Yet others to wrap up viands and secrete them to their pouch or pocket. And after the meal was finished, and the main tablecloth dirtied as ever before, Master Leonardo confided to me his his despair his invention would ne[v]er catch on. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance --[9]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:08:36 +0000 From: Ian Johnson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? In-Reply-To: <20091102075543.CADA240708@woodward.joyent.us> Intesting and I am sure you will find many examples. The steam engine (originally for pumpiong water out of mines I think, also used as an oscillating platform for moving up and down in a mine) Radar valves, now used in microwaves, lasers and many other types of valves and solid state devices. Velcro (more of a blossoming), the internet (ditto) ======================================================== Ian Johnson [johnson@acl.arts.usyd.edu.au] Skype: ian.johnson222 Director, Archaeological Computing Laboratory Deputy Director, Digital Innovation Unit Senior Research Fellow, Archaeology ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I will be in France from 20 Sep - 30 Oct 2009, but online every day. This email and Skype are the best ways of contacting me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Australia: Archaeological Computing Laboratory http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/ Digital Innovation Unit in the Humanities and Social Sciences http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/digitalinnovation Room 310 - 314, F09 Madsen Building, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 +61 (0)2 9351 2552 (direct) ..3142, ..8981 (msg) 3644 (fax) +61 (0)402 389 190 mobile France: Esparoutis, St Cybranet 24250 +33 (0)5 53 28 39 24 fixed +33 (0)6 37 18 93 42 mobile Email: johnson@acl.arts.usyd.edu.au Project URLS: Rethinking Timelines: http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/timelines TimeMap: http://www.TimeMap.net Associate of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative http://www.ecai.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 3 07:57:07 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25BB43FA40; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 07:57:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9877F3FA35; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 07:57:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091103075700.9877F3FA35@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 07:57:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.410 War poets in 2nd Life X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 410. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:44:38 +0000 From: Alun Edwards Subject: War Poets Exhibition in Second Life War Poets Exhibition in Second Life This immersive experience created by the University of Oxford attempts to demonstrate how effective it can be to expose items from a research project (the JISC-funded First World War Poetry Digital Archive) in their context. In the three-dimensional virtual world Second Life you can see items from the collection, hear interviews with veterans from the Great War, and watch contemporary film footage as you explore the area - a training camp, communication trench, a dressing-station, a front-line trench on the Western Front - as well as listen to readings of the poetry of the First World War. Video taster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALkq-6aLo_A Further information: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/secondlife Visit the exhibition in Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Frideswide/219/199/646/ Press release copied below for further information: Virtual Literature: An Immersive Experience of the Poetry of World War One With Armistice fast approaching an Oxford University team has taken an unusual approach in ensuring that people continue to learn about the First World War. The First World War Poetry Digital Archive and the Learning Technologies Group at the University of Oxford have collaborated on an exciting new project in the 3D virtual world Second Life. The team believes this is the first time anything of its type has been done on Second Life. Second Life is a three-dimensional virtual world where users can interact with each other through avatars (3D versions of themselves) called 'residents'. These can travel the world, socialize, visit museums or attend events, concerts and lectures to name just a few activities. This project has seen the Second Life environment modelled to simulate areas of the Western Front 1914-18. Into this environment a range of digitised archival materials from the major poets of the First World War (such as poetry manuscripts, letters and diaries), including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg and Vera Brittain, along with contextual primary source materials have been imported. These materials have been supplemented with new interpretative content and a spectrum interactive tools and tutorials, streaming video and audio effects. Visitors to the model are given a unique immersive experience where they can explore a training camp, dressing station, a trench network and No Man's Land. The terrain is waterlogged and difficult to navigate, rife with rats and littered with poppies. Moving nearer to the front line the clamour of shell blasts and artillery fire becomes louder and louder. As visitors explore the simulation, they can listen to the voices of veterans recounting their experiences of the War, watch original film footage from the time, and learn about life on the Western Front. Within this context they can encounter some of the most powerful poetry in English literature by handling the original manuscripts, turning the pages of the poet's war diaries and letters, and listening to readings. At the end the visitor is teleported out of the trenches to a teaching area. Here they are asked to consider the memory of the war, and to confront their own prejudices and stereotypes - was the war really all about trenches, mud, and rats, or are their other aspects to it that we now need to consider? Should it only be remembered as mass slaughter, a gross act of futility, or more a collective act of unparalleled heroism that ended ultimately in a victory for Britain and its allies? Dr Stuart Lee, Lecturer of English at Oxford University, said: "Attempting to form the context of a particular piece of literature is a key critical approach in the discipline, which normally involves studying secondary material, or in rare case, site visits. By piloting the use of Second Life, the First World War Poetry Archive is approaching this in an innovative way. More importantly it is showing how new technologies (virtual worlds) can be utilised to provide more interesting access to key research and teaching resources." The artefacts have been drawn from the highly successful First World War Poetry Digital Archive (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit), launched in 2008 to mark the 90th Anniversary of Armistice. By placing them in an online virtual model the project aims to make the collection more useful and engaging to a range of different user groups across UK education sectors, research communities and heritage industry. Kate Lindsay, Project Manager, said: "Virtual worlds create opportunities to do things that are impossible in real museums. By simulating parts of the Western Front, we can embed an entire exhibition's worth of content within in the space. This can be further enhanced by placing digital versions of real archival materials and narratives along the paths that visitors take. The result is an immersive and personal experience. It's not 'real' but it does offer possibilities for understanding a part of history that is now beyond human memory." For photos or interviews contact Katie Samuel in The University of Oxford Press Office on Katie.Samuel@admin.ox.ac.uk or 01865 270046. Notes to editors * For more information visit www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/secondlife * The sim can be found on the Frideswide Island in Second Life at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Frideswide/219/199/646/ * The project has been made possible through the JISC Digitisation Programme which has enabled a range of heritage and scholarly resources of national importance to be shared with new audiences. JISC receives funding from the Higher Education Funding Councils for England and Wales and directs this to projects which promote the use of technology in learning, teaching and research. With best wishes, Ally __ Alun Edwards : alun.edwards@oucs.ox.ac.uk Intute, based at the University of Oxford www.intute.ac.uk First World War Poetry Digital Archive www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit Address: University of Oxford, OUCS, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, OX26NN _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 3 08:05:30 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E8A3FC65; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:05:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 92DBC3FC53; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:05:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091103080525.92DBC3FC53@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:05:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.411 events numerous, various & interesting X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 411. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" (19) Subject: Upcoming deadline: Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship [2] From: jeremy hunsinger (44) Subject: [Catac] call for panelists: Discourses of Legitimation inKnowledge, Cultural and Information Policy [3] From: Faith Lawrence (30) Subject: Art and Design, Digitisation and Intellectual Property Symposium [4] From: Emma Jane O'Riordan (39) Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] VERA Winter Workshop: 2nd December 2009 [5] From: Faith Lawrence (49) Subject: Fwd: Announcing the Launch of DHO Forums [6] From: I-CHASS (55) Subject: HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations [7] From: Ángeles_Hernández-Barahona (62) Subject: RV:_CALL_FOR_PAPERS._ARQUEOLÓGICA_2.0_2010,_16_- _19_June._Seville._Spain --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:29:55 -0500 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: Upcoming deadline: Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship The Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library is now accepting applications for TRACK THREE of our NEH-funded "Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship," to be held in Charlottesville, Virginia, 25-28 May 2010. http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/geospatial/ This program will bring together humanities scholars, software developers, and librarians and other cultural heritage professionals to discuss and develop geospatial tools, content, methods, policies, and infrastructure, in the context of open source and open access. Thirty-one leading scholars, developers, and higher-ed administrators serve on the faculty and advisory board of the Institute. The National Endowment for the Humanities will support tuition, lodging costs, some meals, and up to $800 in travel expenses for attendees and Institute faculty members. Special funding is available for graduate students. The University of Virginia Library will also fund up to 5 short-term scholar- and developer-in-residencies at the Scholars' Lab to complement the Institute's focus on humanities GIS. Three four-day Institute tracks are planned: 15-18 November 2009: Track 1: Stewardship (for library, museum, GIS and digital humanities center professionals) Track 2: Software (for Web developers, designers, systems administrators, and information scientists) **all slots in Tracks 1 and 2 are now filled** 25-28 May 2010: Track 3: Scholarship (primarily for humanities scholars, advanced graduate students, and post-docs) Application DEADLINE for Track 3 is December 1st. Special consideration will be given to those who apply as part of an institutional team already represented in Tracks 1 and 2, as the curriculum is designed to foster robust technical and social infrastructure, at a local level, for geospatial scholarship in the digital humanities. Slots are available, however, for solo participants, and we encourage applicants at all skill levels and at all stages in the development of their geospatial digital projects. The curriculum for Track 3 will be refined with participant needs and interests in mind. Apply to attend at the URL above, and please help us to distribute this message widely! Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ ● http://uvasci.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:55:16 +0000 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: call for panelists: Discourses of Legitimation in Knowledge, Cultural and Information Policy Distribute as appropriate: I'm putting a panel for Interpretive Policy Analysis: Politic, Legitimacy and Power in Grenoble France July 23-25 2010 http://www.ipa2010-grenoble.fr/ Keynotes this year are: Bruno Latour, Frank Fischer, Bruno Jobert, Patrick Le Galés and Vivien Schmidt. I need 200-300 word proposals from the panelists. I need the proposals by 18 November 2009. The topic of the panel will will be: Discourses of Legitimation in Knowledge and Cultural Policy. I am looking for at least 3 more participants for the panel. The idea is that in using interpretive methods, we find certain discourses that aim to legitimize certain policies related to knowledge and cultural policy in our society. The papers should describe these discourses so that in the panel we can present them and discuss the similarities and differences. For my perspective, I tend to be most closely allied with Habermasian and Lyotardian issues of legitimation and the issues of justification described by Boltanski and Thévenot in On Justification. However, any model of a discourse that legitimizes, justifies a policy will be considered for the panel. I'd like to see papers for the panel of around 20-30 pages eventually, but the panel will minimally need to have presentations of 15-20 minutes. If I get the papers, I'll try to get them placed in a journal special issue or similar project. Jeremy Hunsinger Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail / - against microsoft attachments http://wiki.tmttlt.com http://www.tmttlt.com You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:45:23 +0000 From: Faith Lawrence Subject: Art and Design, Digitisation and Intellectual Property Symposium The DHO is proud to announce that registration is now open for the Art and Design, Digitisation and Intellectual Property Symposium being held at the National College of Art and Design on Thursday 12 November 2009. This event, organised by the National Irish Visual Arts Library in association with the Digital Humanities Observatory and the Irish Visual Artists Rights Organisation, aims to clarify issues surrounding the acquisition, retention and dissemination of art and design digital content, which is within the copyright term, by archives, libraries and repositories, and its use in teaching, learning and research. The Symposium will bring together experts in the field of intellectual property as it applies to the Irish context and other areas to provide a forum wherein the practical requirements of artists and designers and the wider research community may be considered. For further information on the event and registration instructions see the event page at http://dho.ie/ipworkshop/ -- K. Faith Lawrence, PhD Digital Humanities Specialist Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Email: f.lawrence@ria.ie / f.lawrence@dho.ie Phone: +353 (0) 1 234 2443 http://dho.ie http://ria.ie --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:55:32 +0000 From: Emma Jane O'Riordan Subject: VERA Winter Workshop: 2nd December 2009 *apologies for cross-posting* Third VERA Winter Workshop – Wednesday 2nd December 2009 "Digital field recording and publication in archaeology" The VERA project invites you to a workshop entitled "Digital field recording and publication in archaeology" to be held in the Archaeology Department of the University of Reading on Wednesday 2nd December 2009. The JISC funded Virtual Research Environment for Archaeology (VERA) project ran from July 2007 to March 2009 (http://vera.rdg.ac.uk). Its overall aims where to enhance the documenting and archiving of archaeological data, create a Web portal that would provided enhanced tools for the VRE users and then to develop and test utilities that would help encapsulate the working practices of current research archaeologists unfamiliar with virtual research environments. The aim of this third workshop is to show what the project has achieved during its lifetime. This included three seasons of excavation at Silchester, digital data capture, and further development of the IADB. We also hope to discuss more broadly the future of Virtual Research Environments and Archaeology. The day will begin with coffee around 10am with talks scheduled to finish at around 4:30pm. More details, including a timetable and directions to the university, can be found on the VERA website at: http://vera.rdg.ac.uk/events/winter_workshop_3.php Places are limited and priority will be given to all current IADB users, but there will also be places for other archaeologists interested in the VERA project, so please get in touch by the 25th November if you are interested! Please also forward this to anyone else who might be interested. I look forward to hearing from you. Regards, Emma -- Emma Jane O'Riordan Research Assistant, Silchester Town Life Project Department of Archaeology University of Reading Whiteknights Reading Berkshire, RG6 6AY 0118 378 7564 e.oriordan@reading.ac.uk http://www.silchester.rdg.ac.uk --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:18:34 +0000 From: Faith Lawrence Subject: Fwd: Announcing the Launch of DHO Forums We are delighted to announce that the DHO Forums are open. This resource on the DHO Portal provides an area where academics, researchers and anyone with related interests can gather together and share their knowledge and experience. As part of the DHO's ongoing commitment to support the digital humanities community the DHO has created a new, user-driven area on the DHO Portal. This includes a forum dedicated to the theory, best practices, and practicalities of digital humanities research - want to discuss what software is available or what standards are applicable to your project? Curious how other people have dealt with a problem or who are working in a similar area? The 'Tools, Methods, Standards' forum is the place for you. Alternatively, if you are looking to take a break for a moment, the 'General Discussion' forum area is devoted to allowing people across the island of Ireland, and in the global community, to get to know each other in a friendly environment. Here you can catch up with the people you met at the Spring and Summer Schools, or generally find out what's going on in the community. To post on the forum you need to register for a DHO account if you do not already have one. We invite you to join us at http://dho.ie/forum. Thanks, Faith -- K. Faith Lawrence, PhD Digital Humanities Specialist Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Email: f.lawrence@ria.ie / f.lawrence@dho.ie Phone: +353 (0) 1 234 2443 http://dho.ie http://ria.ie -- K. Faith Lawrence, PhD Digital Humanities Specialist Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Email: f.lawrence@ria.ie / f.lawrence@dho.ie Phone: +353 (0) 1 234 2443 http://dho.ie http://ria.ie --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:18:16 +0000 From: I-CHASS Subject: HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations HASTAC is delighted to announce the HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations Conference. Held April 15-17, 2010 and hosted by the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) at the University of Illinois, HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations will be a free, entirely virtual event held in a multiplicity of digital spaces instigated from sites across the globe. This year's event will focus on grand challenges and global innovations in the form of technologies, research, teaching, and inquiry that can be leveraged across personal, physical, geographical, institutional, disciplinary, and organizational boundaries. HASTAC 2010 seeks to ask: what are the influence(s) of virtual spaces that can transcend boundaries to impact global innovations? How will the next generation of digital technologies alter personal, physical, geographical, institutional, disciplinary, and organizational boundaries? What are the grand challenges in humanities, arts, and sciences that will shape the next generation of global innovation? In the spirit of including digital innovators from across the globe, HASTAC 2010 will feature keynote events hosted at research centers from across the globe during the conference. Confirmed “virtual hub” participants include: * Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (GAUG, Germany) * King’s College London (KCL, UK) * Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC, Brazil) * The Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Fusionopolis (Singapore) * El Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnología (CeNAT, Costa Rica) * National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA, USA) * Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC, USA) * The Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University (CCT, USA) * The Center for Computational Sciences University of Kentucky (CCS, USA) * The National University Community Research Institute (NUCRI, USA) * Duke University (DU, USA) * The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC, USA) * The Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California (IML, USA) * The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI, USA). To foster innovation in research, HASTAC 2010 will feature special sessions on: * Young scholars where undergraduate and graduate students can present works in progress and receive support and feedback from the HASTAC community. * Disciplinary pedagogy where participants can explore the meaning of “global innovation” with the teaching of digital humanities, arts, and sciences. HASTAC 2010 Conference submissions will be accepted MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2009 through FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2009. Submission guidelines for the GENERAL CONFERENCE: Individually: Individual Participants will be required to submit the following information: 1) complete contact information including valid phone, e-mail, and institutional affiliation; 2) curriculum vita/resume; 3) a one-page abstract of the work they would like to present that must discuss its relationship to the conference theme; 3) a brief explanation of the technology they would like to use for the conference that clearly specifies their experience with that technology and a discussion of any support that may be required for their presentation; Panel/Group Presentations: Panel/Group Participants will be required to submit the following information: 1) complete contact information including valid phone, e-mail, and institutional affiliation for all participants; 2) curriculum vita/resume for all participants; 3) a one-page abstract of the work they would like to present that must discuss its relationship to the conference theme; 4) identification of the panel/group organizer who will be required to facilitate the panel/group involvement; 5) a brief explanation of the technology they would like to use for the conference that clearly specifies their experience with that technology and a discussion of any support that may be required for their presentation; Electronic submissions will be accepted from MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2009 through FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2009. Upon closing of the submission window, all submissions will be reviewed by the domain committees and invitations to participate will be issued (no later than JANUARY 29, 2010). Criteria for acceptance are: 1) the “innovative” nature of the proposal; 2) the proposal’s relevancy to global issues in technological inquiry; 3) the proposal’s argument in relation to a grand challenge; 4) the qualifications of the presenter(s) Upon acceptance to the conference, presenters will be provided with clear guidelines regarding the technological support provided by the conference and production standards related to submitting their content. Accepted presenters should be prepared to assume financial and technological liability for their presentation and to be available for consultation in the weeks prior. While HASTAC 2010 will not subsidize individual or group presentations, HASTAC 2010 would be delighted to aid presenters in securing funding from their local institutions via a letter of support. Key dates: Abstract submissions due: Dec. 18, 2009 Notification of participants: Jan. 29, 2010 Conference: April 15-17, 2010 Points of Contact Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1205 W. Clark St., MC-257 Urbana, Illinois 61820 guiliano@illinois.edu with HASTAC 2010 in the Subject Line More information will be made available at http://ichass.illinois.edu/hastac2010 --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:25:41 +0000 From: Ángeles_Hernández-Barahona Subject: cfp: ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0 2010 2nd International Meeting on Graphic Archaeology and Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0 www.arqueologiavirtual.com Cultural Center of Villa, La Rinconada Roman City of Itálica 17-24 June 2009 Seville. Spain On behalf of the Organisation Comittee of the 2nd International Meeting on Graphic Archaeology and Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0, it is a pleasure to invite colleagues from all over the World to come to La Rinconada, Seville, Spain, from 16th to 19th June, 2010. This will be the second International meeting held in Spain, where researchers from Archaeology and Graphics fields will work together on Virtual Archaeology, concerning all its posibilities. The participation of well-known researchers on this field will shape a very interesting meeting. ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0 will analize both the present and future of reconstruction and computer aided render techniques, applied to archaeological heritage and culture. The main aim is to offer an updated overview about the Archeology of XXI Century: research and development on virtual archaeology, performed and planned projects, new render techniques, development of innovative methods and procedures. Besides, it is also important to provide both the scientific community and the related companies with a suitable meeting point, in order to share the latest research projects and professional frameworks. Thus, ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0 is the place to exchange ideas and information, as well as seek for cooperation and chances of participation in common projects. The official languages are Spanish, English and Italian. Scientific communications and lectures can be held in any of those three languages. Simultaneous translation into Spanish and English will be provided at all sessions. CALL FOR PAPERS Participants from any discipline are encouraged to contribute in order to create an open forum for knowledge exchange and a fertile environment for discussion relating to the topic of Graphic Archaeology and Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation. Researchers or practitioners are invited to submit papers on original work from within archaeology although contributions are particularly encouraged from other disciplines which address and inform key issues in the context of the following sub-themes: Virtual reconstruction or virtual anastilosys of archaeological heritage Virtual and zoomed reality applied to Archaeology 3D digitalization of archaeological heritage CAD tools on virtual Archaeology. Render techniques Archaeological visualization Applied theory of virtual archaeology Virtual Archaeology and museums. Virtual museums and visits The communications abstracts must fit within 120 text rows, in English or Spanish, including pictures and images. The complete communication paper will be submitted according to the indications set up by the Scientific Committee, in maximum 6 DIN A4 pages, keeping to the previously delivered document template. Posters accepted by the Scientific Committee shall be submitted in digital format with a real A1 size. Abstracts and posters must be submitted to the Secretary by the following email address. The deadline is 1st febrery 2010 [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 4 07:01:29 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C2643E655; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:01:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E36823E63F; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:01:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091104070118.E36823E63F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:01:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.412 devices prior to uses X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 412. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:27:18 -0500 From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.409 devices prior to uses In-Reply-To: <20091103075515.39A593F98D@woodward.joyent.us> 1) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, designed as part of early 20th century attempts to study atoms, then biochemistry, then adapted to medical use in the 1960s-70s, esp. to detection of cancerous tissue by integrating with computer calculations of tomography (see Raymond Damadian, MRI, 1971). 2) Generally, many computer programs. A program is usually designed in response to a specific problem, but then adapted, sometimes happily, sometimes not, to other uses. Frequently, those other uses then reshape the design and intentions of the original program, with legacy issues causing trouble. (word processing: print to wysiwyg to desktop publishing and now we deal with all those artifacts of coding when trying to use a word processor to create web pages; the web: sharing structured documents to making documents 'pretty' to the constant struggle between the two; spreadsheets used as databases; standalone applications retooled as collaborative applications; etc.) - Hope ---------------- hope.greenberg@uvm.edu, Academic Computing, Univ. of Vermont _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 5 07:36:46 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7702339CE9; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:36:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EAD0A39CD8; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:36:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091105073644.EAD0A39CD8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:36:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.413 devices prior to uses X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 413. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stan Ruecker (54) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.412 devices prior to uses [2] From: Willard McCarty (35) Subject: inventions and uses --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:17:39 -0700 From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.412 devices prior to uses In-Reply-To: <20091104070118.E36823E63F@woodward.joyent.us> In episode 6, part 4 of his Connections series, James Burke describes how Volta's "malaria pistol" was invented in 1776 to test for bad air. The user would draw a sample of air into the glass cylinder, and if it could be electrically ignited to expel a cork in a small explosion, then the air contained methane. Elsewhere, people were learning about bacteria, so the bad air theory was on the way out. But the malaria pistol, according to Burke, became an inspiration for the internal combustion engine. http://www.mahalo.com/james-burke-connections-episode-6 yrs, Stan --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:17:35 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: inventions and uses In-Reply-To: <20091104070118.E36823E63F@woodward.joyent.us> Perhaps it's clear why I asked the questions about devices before uses. In the still dominant model of how computing fits into the institutional humanities, it's for use dictated by pre-conceived application in the particular discipline of origin. Is that correct? Of course there are surprises along the way -- the initiator finds he or she can do unanticipated things which turn out to be useful for whatever scholarly problem. But the conceptual flowchart of authority, from which authority is kept as is, looks usually to be one-way. Evidence has been offered, and much more could be, to the effect that the intellectual spark that ignites the fire doesn't have a single, stable place in that flowchart. Indeed, the flowchart lies. Is it a necessary lie? Must fire always be stolen from Old Nobodaddy? What bothers me about this flowcharted actuality is the position of passivity in which it places what we do. In a collaborative enterprise such as we are engaged in, is it possible for each party to be the initiator, as a norm to get his or her own research done? In the physical sciences (for which the Manhattan Project is a fine example) is it more the case that one can find something of interest in a larger collaborative enterprise? Perhaps. But even so, physicists in large projects do complain about the social-organizational overhead. Always what one needs is uninterrupted time, or rather the ability to time interruptions oneself. Again, a matter of authority. The circumstances for this would seem historically to demand prosperity. That surely is beyond our control. But in addition there's the understanding that what we value most requires a certain generosity of mind, an imagination in part administrative, to come into being. That we can certainly do something about. Comments? Yours,WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 5 07:37:06 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8775F39D20; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:37:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 438B639D0F; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:37:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091105073705.438B639D0F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:37:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.414 regeneration through radio X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 414. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 20:34:22 -0500 (EST) From: Francois Lachance Subject: Regeneration through Radio (metaphors) Willard, It may seem odd but I find myself in my readings of late turning up passages that could supply a typology of roles for the various players involved in humanities computing. The latest of these is a passage in Allen S. Weiss _Phantasmic Radio_ which is unrelated to typologies, humanist or otherwise. It is yet very suggestive. In the passage from the preface to his book, Weiss signals the importance of "a momentous yet aesthetically unheralded event: the creation of the first feedback in electrical circuitry." He continues: On 31 January 1913, Edwin H. Armstrong had notarized his diagram of the first regenerative circuit, an invention which was to be the basis of radio transmission. his discovery was that the audion (vacuum tube) could be used not only as a detector of electrical waves but also, through regeneration or feedback, as a signal amplifier. Furthermore, as a generator of continuously oscillating electromagnetic waves, it could be used as a transmitter. It is simple to read off of this: detection, amplification and transmission. And see therein three possible activities of/for the scholar of the twenty first century. Detection and transmission seem obvious descriptions of the work of the scholar. Amplification less so. Yet is not part of the work of the scholar to amplify what has been detected and transmitted i.e. boost the signal? --Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 5 07:38:36 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5927839D7C; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:38:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1FCEB39D65; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:38:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: 23.415 new journal: Digital Studies / Le champ numérique From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091105073834.1FCEB39D65@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:38:34 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 415. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:12:44 -0800 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Digital Studies / Le champ numérique ** Announcing Digital Studies / Le champ numérique ** - Journal at: www.digitalstudies.org - Flyer at: http://bit.ly/iPTkt Digital Studies / Le champ numérique (ISSN 1918-3666) is a refereed academic journal, publishing three times a year and serving as a formal arena for scholarly activity and as an academic resource for researchers in the digital humanities. DS/CN is published by the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour létude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI), an organisation affiliated with the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) through the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO). Work published in DS/CN reflects the values of this community and the interdisciplinary diversity of those who comprise it, with particular emphasis on emerging digital humanities methodology and its application, on the engagement of that work in pertinent disciplinary contexts, and on multilinguality and complementarity with other ADHO publications (among them the journals Literary and Linguistic Computing, and Digital Humanities Quarterly). Similarly, our publication technology, policies and practices will strive to promote and reflect the community’s best emergent and longstanding practices. DS/CN invites contributions relating to work carried out in the digital humanities, broadly construed. In its open, thematic, and conference volumes DS/CN publishes academic articles, scholarly notes, working papers, field synopses, larger reviews, and well-documented opinion pieces. DS/CN privileges publications which explicitly demonstrate an awareness of interdisciplinary context(s) and a history of pertinent academic engagement. - Submissions via www.digitalstudies.org -------------- Editorial Team Ray Siemens (Editor, U Victoria), Michael Eberle-Sinatra (Editor, U Montréal), Bill Winder (Editor, Working Papers, U British Columbia), Dominic Forest (Managing Editor, U Montréal), Jeff Smith (Managing Editor, U Saskatchewan), Kirsten C Uszkalo (Managing Editor, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Christian Vandendorpe (Founding Editor, U Ottawa); Serina Patterson, Karin Armstrong, and Anne Correia (Technical Editors, ETCL–U Victoria) National Advisory Board William Barker (U King’s College, Halifax), John Bonnett (Brock U), Margaret Conrad (U New Brunswick), Richard Cunningham (Acadia U), Teresa Dobson (U British Columbia), Dean Irvine (Dalhousie U), Ian Lancashire (U Toronto), Yin Liu (U Saskatchewan), John Lutz (U Victoria), Christine McWebb (U Waterloo), Dan O'Donnell (U Lethbridge), Geoffrey Rockwell (U Alberta), Stan Ruecker (U Alberta), Jean-Michel Salaün (U Montréal), Stéfan Sinclair (McMaster U) International Advisory Board Elisabeth Burr (U Leipzig), Dan Cohen (George Mason U), Hugh Craig (U Newcastle), Marilyn Deegan (Kings College London), Johanna Drucker (UC Los Angeles), Julia Flanders (Brown U), Charles Forceville (U Amsterdam), Liliane Gallet-Blanchard (U Paris IV – Sorbonne), Carolyn Guertin (U Texas Arlington), David L Hoover (New York U), Edward van Houtte (Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature), John Lavagnino (King’s College London), Alan Liu (UC Santa Barbara), Laura Mandell (Miami U), Lev Manovich (UC San Diego), Jan Christoph Meister (U Hamburg), Martin Mueller (Northwestern U), Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen (U Oulu), Espen Ore (U Oslo), Ken Price (U Nebraska), Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 5 07:57:17 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A5ED39F1F; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:57:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1D54E39F02; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:57:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091105075715.1D54E39F02@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:57:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.416 events: spatial literacy; language X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 416. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Paolo Battino (19) Subject: GIS in the Humanities: A questionnaire and free workshop on Spatial Literacy in Research and Teaching [2] From: "carlos.martin@urv.cat" (175) Subject: LATA 2010: last call for papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:43:44 +0000 From: Paolo Battino Subject: GIS in the Humanities: A questionnaire and free workshop on Spatial Literacy in Research and Teaching -From James Wilson GIS in the Humanities: A questionnaire and free workshop on Spatial Literacy in Research and Teaching Questionnaire: Available from http://www.hgis.org.uk/splint/ until 30th Nov. Workshop: Wednesday 16th December, 2009 at the University of Leicester, UK. See: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/heahistory/events/gis_workshop/gis Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and other spatial technologies such as GPS and virtual globes are becoming increasingly used within disciplines such as history, archaeology, literary studies, religious studies and classics. This free workshop, sponsored by Spatial Literacy in Teaching (SPLINT) and the Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology, will provide a basic introduction to GIS as an approach to humanities research and as a technology. The workshop is aimed at a broad audience including post-graduate or masters students, members of academic staff, and holders of major grants and those intending to apply for them. Professionals in other relevant sectors interested in finding out about GIS applications are also welcome. We also particularly welcome participation from people who teach GIS or who teach in humanities disciplines and would like to include spatial technologies in their curriculum. Applying: Places are limited and the deadline for registration is 3rd December 2009. Costs: The workshop is free of charge though there will be a charge of £20 (to cover catering and materials) in the case of cancellations after 9.00pm 3rd December 2009. Travel Support: Some funding is available to support delegates’ travel expenses.　 Please contact Janet Carter, SPLINT Administrator ( jc115@le.ac.uk) for further details before the registration deadline. Further information: Contact Ian Gregory (I.Gregory@lancaster.ac.uk) or Janet Carter, SPLINT Administrator (jc115@le.ac.uk). What can you offer us? We request your participation in a brief survey to help us gauge the use of spatial technologies by historians and other humanists, as well as to understand whether and how spatial concepts are making their way into teaching and research in the humanities. We estimate the survey will take no more than 15 minutes to complete and your participation will be treated in the strictest confidence. The tallied results will be used for a project report/white paper and a journal article. To help us with this please fill in our online questionnaire at: http://www.hgis.org.uk/splint. We will share the results at the workshop. The survey closes on November 30. If you have any questions, please contact Ian Gregory, Lancaster University (i.gregory@lancaster.ac.uk). REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/heahistory/events/gis_workshop/gis --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:10:33 +0000 From: "carlos.martin@urv.cat" Subject: LATA 2010: last call for papers Last Call for Papers 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2010) Trier, Germany, May 24-28, 2010 http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2010/ Deadline: December 3 Please notice that the deadline is firm and will not be extended ! ======================================================== 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 was developed at Rovira i Virgili University (the host of the previous three editions and co-organizer of this one) in the period 2002-2006, LATA 2010 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions 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: - algebraic language theory - algorithms on automata and words - automata and logic - automata for system analysis and programme verification - automata, concurrency and Petri nets - cellular automata - combinatorics on words - computability - computational complexity - computer linguistics - data and image compression - decidability questions on words and languages - descriptional complexity - DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing - document engineering - foundations of finite state technology - fuzzy and rough languages - grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional, unification, categorial, etc.) - grammars and automata architectures - grammatical inference and algorithmic learning - graphs and graph transformation - language varieties and semigroups - language-based cryptography - language-theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial life - neural networks - parallel and regulated rewriting - parsing - pattern matching and pattern recognition - patterns and codes - power series - quantum, chemical and optical computing - semantics - string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics - symbolic dynamics - term rewriting - text algorithms - text retrieval - transducers - trees, tree languages and tree machines - weighted machines STRUCTURE: LATA 2010 will consist of: - 3 invited talks - 2 invited tutorials - refereed contributions - open sessions for discussion in specific subfields, on open problems, or on professional issues (if requested by the participants) INVITED SPEAKERS: John Brzozowski (Waterloo), Complexity in Convex Languages Alexander Clark (London), Three Learnable Models for the Description of Language Lauri Karttunen (Palo Alto), to be announced (tutorial) Borivoj Melichar (Prague), Arbology: Trees and Pushdown Automata Anca Muscholl (Bordeaux), Communicating Automata (tutorial) [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 6 06:11:33 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1BCA408C7; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:11:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B8151408B4; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:11:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091106061130.B8151408B4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:11:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.417 devices, MOOs and radio X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 417. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Neven Jovanovic (22) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.414 regeneration through radio [2] From: "Maurizio Lana" (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? [3] From: "Cogdill, Sharon E." (9) Subject: Preservation of MOOs --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:18:39 +0100 From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.414 regeneration through radio In-Reply-To: <20091105073705.438B639D0F@woodward.joyent.us> Francois, with less than elementary knowledge of electronics, I see not three, but four activities in the passage you quoted (Willard also hinted at it in choosing the title). Activity coming immediately after detection --- in parallel with it? --- would be regeneration, i. e. interpretation. So we select, and find meaning, and amplify it enough --- making it the center of our research, I guess --- to be transmitted towards other "receivers". Now, how does it fit into institutional models and flowcharts which seem to be the backbone of the neighbouring thread on devices and uses? Are the four activities compartmentalized? Should they be? Neven > > > On 31 January 1913, Edwin H. Armstrong had notarized his diagram of the > first regenerative circuit, an invention which was to be the basis of radio > transmission. his discovery was that the audion (vacuum tube) could be used > not only as a detector of electrical waves but also, through regeneration or > feedback, as a signal amplifier. Furthermore, as a generator of continuously > oscillating electromagnetic waves, it could be used as a transmitter. > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:31:05 +0100 From: "Maurizio Lana" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.407 devices prior to uses? In-Reply-To: <20091102075543.CADA240708@woodward.joyent.us> >I'm interested in collecting a few examples of devices, [...] >invented for one purpose but found eventually to have another. Also [...] >those inventions whose eventual application was envisioned but which at the >time could not be realised. one should mention, one after the other, * the memex by vannevar bush (envisioned but not realised; an evolutionary line could go from mememx to NLS and ARC, to Alto and PARC, and to the personal computer: this way it is an invention invented prior to its application which in fact is a true and existing one ) * the oNLineSystem by englebart (in 1968 when watching its presentation many thought of is as a fake! that is: it was light years forward by its times) and it never got industrially developed * (Xanadu was already mentioned, but the discussion about it and its place in the territory non only delimited, but also created, by your inquiry could go far away...) ciao! maurizio ------- La Repubblica promuove lo sviluppo della cultura e la ricerca scientifica e tecnica. La Repubblica detta le norme generali sull'istruzione ed istituisce scuole statali per tutti gli ordini e gradi. (Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana, art. 9 e 33) ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università del Piemonte Orientale via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:27:37 -0600 From: "Cogdill, Sharon E." Subject: Preservation of MOOs In-Reply-To: <20091102075543.CADA240708@woodward.joyent.us> Francois Lachance asked if we knew of any efforts to preserve MOOs, and then Matthew Kirschenbaum mentioned the Preserving Virtual Worlds project at http://pvw.illinois.edu/pvw/ I forwarded Francois' original query to techrhet, a list for the computers and writing community, many members of which were very active in MUDs and MOOs at one point. The resulting conversation was interesting and tinged, I must say, with affectionate nostalgia. Some MOOs still exist, and people still hang out in them, I think. Michael Day, rhetorician at Northern Illinois University, has preserved MediaMOO. He says the old addresses still work. Susan Antlitz says this in response to Michael: ------ Forwarded Message From: Susan E Antlitz Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:16:00 -0600 To: Subject: Re: [techrhet] FW: [Humanist] 23.400 preservation of MOOs? Yes, and in addition, there is even a set of rooms that new users can build from (The city of New Media 'across the sea' from historic mediamoo, with a ship one can take to sail between the two). The idea is to preserve the historic parts of the MOO from long ago, but to also have a way for people to revive the MOO if they would like to. I wonder if the original poster on the other list was referring to MOOseums, or to general attempts to continue the technology. I know there are MOOs that are still actively used, like Acadiana. Susan ------End of Forwarded Message At my asking for permission to forward their replies to humanist, Michael says: ------ Forwarded Message From: Michael Day Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:03:57 -0600 To: Subject: Re: [techrhet] FW: [Humanist] 23.404 digital preservation Sure, fine with me. Some years ago, the Electronic Literature Organization put out a call for digital artifacts that should be preserved, and I submitted MediaMOO. I never received any kind of reply... I guess all that creative energy that went into describing the Media Lab, TV studio, tunnels, and gardens doesn't qualify as literature to that group. The original address, the Georgia Tech address, and the NIU address all still work. In order, these are purple-crayon.media.mit.edu 8888 mediamoo.cc.gatech.edu 8888 mediamoo.engl.niu.edu 8888 But there are a lot of MOOs still around that I still use, including Lambda, Arcadiana, Bay, and Down. Do you want addresses for these as well? Mday ------End of Forwarded Message _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 6 06:13:14 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F5640921; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:13:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3175040919; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:13:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091106061311.3175040919@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:13:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.418 PhD fellowships in the history of computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 418. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:02:45 +0000 From: "Tolmie, Julie" Subject: History of Computing PhD fellowships From: Matthew Fuller Date: 4 November 2009 11:29:15 GMT To: "news-l@lists.nodel.org" _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 6 06:15:33 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AEEE40995; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:15:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 115274097F; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:15:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091106061529.115274097F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:15:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.419 New Technologies and Renaissance Studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 419. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:08:13 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: New Technologies and Renaissance Studies _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 6 06:17:16 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 183A640A09; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:17:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 17EDF409FE; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:17:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091106061713.17EDF409FE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:17:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.420 new on WWW: Ubiquity; Early English Laws X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 420. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Jenny Benham" (22) Subject: Early English Laws website launch [2] From: ubiquity (20) Subject: This Week in Ubiquity: Invisible Computers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:47:58 -0000 From: "Jenny Benham" Subject: Early English Laws website launch Early English Laws announcement The project team are delighted to announce that the Early English Laws http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk/ website is now live. This three-year, AHRC-funded project (a collaboration with King's College London) will publish new editions and translations of all English legal codes, edicts and treatises produced up to c.1215. Kind regards, Jenny Dr Jenny Benham Project Officer EARLY ENGLISH LAWS Institute of Historical Research, University of London Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Direct line: 020 7862 8787 Email: jenny.benham@sas.ac.uk www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk www.history.ac.uk http://www.history.ac.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:16:35 +0000 From: ubiquity Subject: This Week in Ubiquity: Invisible Computers This week in Ubiquity: November 5, 2009 - November 12, 2009 UBIQUITY CLASSICS: Reflections on Challenges to the Goal of Invisible Computing http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i17_tripathi.html By Arun Kumar Tripathi Computing seems to be everywhere. But where exactly are all the computers doing that computing? They are hidden away, just out of sight, within films, games, cars, clouds, mobile phones, and much more. Getting computers to be hidden and stay hidden is a major design challenge. It took many years to get to our current point, and will undoubtedly take many more years to perfect and refine. In May 2005, Arun Tripathi reflected on this challenge. His words are as relevant today as they were then. See: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i17_tripathi.html Peter Denning Editor _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 6 08:22:14 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BEDF407C6; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:22:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EFAFA407B6; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:22:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091106082210.EFAFA407B6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:22:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.422 New Technologies and Renaissance Studies (again) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 422. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:16:51 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: New Technologies and Renaissance Studies [Apologies that the following was rudely truncated by Humanist's software earlier this morning. --WM] > Subject: New Technologies and Renaissance Studies > Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:55:07 -0500 > From: William R.Bowen New Technologies and Renaissance Studies, edited by William R. Bowen and Raymond G. Siemems, is now available in print (http://acmrs.org/publications/mrts/renstu.html) and online (http://www.itergateway.org/mrts.htm#ntmrs). The volume is the first in a new series entitled, New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. As Willard McCarty so rightly notes in the opening article to this volume, “wherever one looks, computing seems to be at or near the epicentres of disturbance.” Most certainly, near the forefront of any examination of disciplinary pursuits in the academy today, among the many and very important issues being addressed one will inevitably nd the role of computing and its integration into, and perhaps revolutionizing of, central methodological approaches. Published by Iter and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the series New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies addresses this context from both broad and narrow perspectives, with anticipated discussions rooted in literature, art history, musicology, culture, and more in the medieval and Renaissance periods. Articles in this volume cover such topics as the digital reconstruction and re-presentation of archival materials, the adaptation of text encoding systems to address the concerns of manuscript studies, the pedagogical opportunities presented by the electronic medium, and well beyond. Table of Contents Contents Preface Being Reborn: The Humanities, Computing and Styles of Scientic Reasoning Willard McCarty A Pragmatics of Re-Conception? (A Response to Willard McCarty, “Being Reborn: The Humanities, Computing and Styles of Scientic Reasoning”) Raymond G. Siemens Digital Still Images and Renaissance Studies (with a Short Section on Digital Video) Michael Greenhalgh Renaissance Studies and New Technologies: A Collection of “Electronic Texts” David L. Gants and R. Carter Hailey Electronic Sound Susan Forscher Weiss and Ichiro Fujinaga Iter: Building an Eective Knowledge Base William R. Bowen ACLS Humanities E-Book Project Eileen Gardiner and Ronald G. Musto EMLS: A Case Study in the Development of an Academic Ejournal Lisa Hopkins, Raymond G. Siemens, and Matthew Steggle Creating a Website for Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe Peter M. Lukehart Reading and Teaching Shakespeare in the Virtual Library Rebecca Bushnell Performers on the Road: Tracking Their Tours with the REED Patrons and Performances Website Sally-Beth MacLean and Alan Somerset The Perdita Project: Women’s Writing, Manuscript Studies and XML Tagging Jonathan Gibson Encoding Renaissance Electronic Texts Ian Lancashire The Devil is in the Details: An Electronic Edition of the Devonshire MS (British Library Additional MS 17,492), its Encoding and Prototyping Raymond G. Siemens, Karin Armstrong, and Barbara Bond Coincidental Technologies: Moving Parts in Early Modern Books and in Early Hypertext Richard Cunningham The Exploration and Development of Tools for Active Reading and Electronic Texts Stephanie F. Thomas Orders within North America: Cornell University Press Services PO Box 6525 Ithaca, NY 14851 FAX: (800) 688-2877 (U.S. Only) PH: (800) 666-2211; (607) 277-2211 EMAIL: orderbook@cupserv.org European Orders: NBN International Estover Road, Plymouth PL6 7PZ, United Kingdom TEL: +44 (0) 1752 202301 FAX: + 44 (0) 1752 202333 EMAIL: orders@nbninternational.com -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 6 08:22:28 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19C4407F4; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:22:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1173E407E1; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:22:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091106082225.1173E407E1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:22:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.421 PhD fellowships in the history of computing (again) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 421. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:19:18 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: PhD fellowship in the history of computing [Apologies that this, too, was rudely truncated earlier. --WM] > From: Matthew Fuller > Date: 4 November 2009 11:29:15 GMT > To: "news-l@lists.nodel.org" > Subject: [node-l] History of Computing PhDfellowships The Adelle and Erwin Tomash Fellowship in the History of Information Technology The Charles Babbage Institute is accepting applications for the 2010-2011 Adelle and Erwin Tomash Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship will be awarded to a graduate student for doctoral dissertation research in the history of computing. The fellowship may be held at the recipient's home academic institution, the Charles Babbage Institute, or any other location with appropriate research facilities. The stipend is $14,000. It is intended for students who have completed all requirements for the doctoral degree except the research and writing of the dissertation. Preference will be given to applicants indicating a need to use CBI materials, planning research in residence at CBI, and willing to make a brief presentation of their research findings to CBI staff. Questions pertaining to collection content and access can be directed to R. Arvid Nelsen, CBI Archivist, at nels0307@umn.edu. Tomash Fellowship recipients must remain students in good standing throughout the term of their fellowship, but there is no restriction on holding other fellowships, scholarships, or awards concurrent to the Tomash Fellowship. To Apply: Applicants should send to CBI a curriculum vitae and a five-page (single-spaced) statement and justification of the research project including a discussion of methods, research materials, evidence of faculty support for the project, and bibliography (bibliography does not count toward page count). Applicants should also arrange for three letters of reference and certified copies of graduate school transcripts to be sent directly to CBI. Materials must be postmarked no later than January 15, 2010. Charles Babbage Institute: Tomash Fellowship 211 Andersen Library University of Minnesota 222 - 21st Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 Please direct questions about the Tomash Fellowship to Jeffrey Yost, CBI Associate Director, yostx003@umn.edu, 612.624.5050 Jeffrey R. Yost Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota 222 21st Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 Email: yostx003@umn.edu Visit the website at http://www.cbi.umn.edu/research/tfellowship.html _________________________________ Dr. Matthew Fuller David Gee Reader in Digital Media Centre for Cultural Studies Goldsmiths College University of London New Cross London SE14 6NW e: m.fuller@gold.ac.uk t: +44 (0)20 7919 7206 w: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cultural-studies/staff/m-fuller.php _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Nov 8 08:18:18 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD19F41F79; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:18:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 85BF941F69; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:18:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091108081814.85BF941F69@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:18:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.423 embracing static X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 423. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:27:39 -0500 (EST) From: Francois Lachance Subject: Embracing Static In-Reply-To: <20091106061130.B8151408B4@woodward.joyent.us> from "Humanist Neven, You may be amused to learn that Weiss concludes his paragraph on the significance of 1913 with a reminder that "Radio was created -- and with it, an unfortunate electronic side-effect was first heard, that of static." I am likely the source of the noise that entered the thread. I introduced a word absent from the proposed analogy when I chose as a subject line Regeneration through Radio (metaphors) which Willard in a moderating move presented under the rubric [Humanist] 23.414 regeneration through radio My intent was not to introduce another activity but point to the possible common telos of radio-like activities. That said, I am a great believer in the generative power of noise, static and other such sources of randomness. I found it interesting that you would position "regeneration" after "detection" though you also wonder if the activities may not be placed in parallel. It is only in reading your message that I realize that implicit in the theme of regeneration is that of cutting or wounding. I am not suggesting that "detection" i.e. the reception of a signal is by any means an act of violence. (or that you implied that it was). What strikes me as worthy of theorizing is the notion of interpretation as a form of regeneration for in some quarters interpretation is a doing violence to a text (every reading is a misreading) -- in a sense a parsing is a cutting. Remarkable that at an unconscious level the scholar by being open to the signal of the Other (acting as a detector) is open to receiving some quantum of violence (having the text of the Self re-arranged by the Other). The use of "violence" above may be another introduction of static. Still reading radio metaphors is dangerous stuff. Well, slightly dangerous and only dangerous in a metaphorical sense. However, very close reading of any metaphor _is_ an engagement with a static bearing device. Scholars at some point need not shy away from "static" either in listening to it or having it flare up at the edges of their discourse. It is said that in more charitable times, universities (and other institutions) housed resident lunatics -- whose very presence humbled those who could not hear what they did. But I digress. For ease of the reader, allow me to quote in toto the message that prompted the above mixture of signal and static. > From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.414 regeneration through radio > In-Reply-To: <20091105073705.438B639D0F at woodward.joyent.us> Francois, with less than elementary knowledge of electronics, I see not three, but four activities in the passage you quoted (Willard also hinted at it in choosing the title). Activity coming immediately after detection --- in parallel with it? --- would be regeneration, i. e. interpretation. So we select, and find meaning, and amplify it enough --- making it the center of our research, I guess --- to be transmitted towards other "receivers". Now, how does it fit into institutional models and flowcharts which seem to be the backbone of the neighbouring thread on devices and uses? Are the four activities compartmentalized? Should they be? Neven > > > On 31 January 1913, Edwin H. Armstrong had notarized his diagram of the > first regenerative circuit, an invention which was to be the basis of radio > transmission. his discovery was that the audion (vacuum tube) could be used > not only as a detector of electrical waves but also, through regeneration or > feedback, as a signal amplifier. Furthermore, as a generator of continuously > oscillating electromagnetic waves, it could be used as a transmitter. > -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance http://berneval.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Nov 8 08:18:52 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF5141FA9; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:18:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B6AA241FA1; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:18:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091108081849.B6AA241FA1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:18:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.424 new on WWW: PelicanWeb for 11/09 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 424. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:30:30 -0500 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: PelicanWeb Journal of Sustainable Development ~ November 2009 For your consideration: PelicanWeb Journal of Sustainable Development ~ November 2009 http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv05n11page1.html Section 1. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Section 2. Integral Human Development (IHD) Section 3. ESD/IHD and the Gender Continuum Section 4. ESD/IHD and the End of Patriarchy Section 5. ESD/IHD and the Culture of Solidarity Section 6. ESD/IHD and the Culture of Sustainability Section 7. ESD/IHD and the Role of Technology Section 8. Progress Report on the 2009 Surveys Section 9. The Tripod of Prayer, Study, and Action This is Part 8 of the series on "Education for Sustainable Development." Sincerely, Luis Luis T. Gutierrez, PhD Editor, PelicanWeb Journal of Sustainable Development Home: pelicanweb.org ~ Email: pelican@pelicanweb.org A monthly, free subscription, open access e-journal. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Nov 8 08:19:37 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A29E841FE7; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:19:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8F26441FE0; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:19:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091108081934.8F26441FE0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:19:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.425 events: DHCS 2009 & HASTAC 2010 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 425. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: hastac-web@duke.edu (127) Subject: HASTAC 2010 [2] From: Shlomo Argamon (46) Subject: FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: DHCS 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:04:46 -0500 From: hastac-web@duke.edu Subject: HASTAC 2010 HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations Conference HASTAC is delighted to announce the HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations Conference. We want to extend an invitation to all of our HASTAC Scholars, DML Winners and all members to please think about how you can participate in our next conference. Below is the information on how to participate as an individual, a group, a panel. Please read and consider being an active participant. Remember: HASTAC is what you ma Held April 15-17, 2010 and hosted by the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at the University of Illinois, HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations will be a free, entirely virtual event held in a multiplicity of digital spaces instigated from sites across the globe. This years’ event will focus on grand challenges and global innovations in the form of technologies, research, teaching, and inquiry that can be leveraged across personal, physical, geographical, institutional, disciplinary, and organizational boundaries. HASTAC 2010 seeks to ask: what are the influence(s) of virtual spaces that can transcend boundaries to impact global innovations? How will the next generation of digital technologies alter personal, physical, geographical, institutional, disciplinary, and organizational boundaries? What are the grand challenges in humanities, arts, and sciences that will shape the next generation of global innovation? In the spirit of including digital innovators from across the globe, HASTAC 2010 will feature keynote events hosted at research centers from across the globe during the conference. Confirmed “virtual hub” participants include: >• Georg-August-Universität Göttingen [1] (GAUG, Germany) >• King’s College London [2] (KCL, UK) >• Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica [3] (LNCC, Brazil) >• The Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Fusionopolis [4] (Singapore) >• El Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnología [5] (CeNAT, Costa Rica) >• National Center for Supercomputing Applications [6] (NCSA, USA) >• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center [7] (PSC, USA) >• The Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University >[8] (CCT, USA) >• The Center for Computational Sciences University of Kentucky [9] (CCS, >USA) >• The National University Community Research Institute [10] (NUCRI, USA) >• The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University [11] (FHI, >USA) >• The Texas Advanced Computing Center [12] (TACC, USA) >• The Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California >[13] (IML, USA) >• The University of California Humanities Research Institute [14] (UCHRI, >USA) >• The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities [15] (MITH, >USA). > To foster innovation in research, HASTAC 2010 will feature special sessions on: >• Young scholars where undergraduate and graduate students can present >works in progress and >receive support and feedback from the HASTAC community. >• Disciplinary pedagogy where participants can explore the meaning of >“global innovation” with the teaching of digital humanities, arts, and >sciences. > HASTAC 2010 Conference submissions will be accepted WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2009 through FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2009. *Submission guidelines for the GENERAL CONFERENCE: *Individually: Individual Participants will be required to submit the following information:1) complete contact information including valid phone, e-mail, and institutional affiliation; 2) curriculum vita/resume; 3) a one-page abstract of the work they would like to present that must discuss its relationship to the conference theme; 3) a brief explanation of the technology they would like to use for the conference that clearly specifies their experience with that technology and a discussion of any support that may be required for their presentation; *Panel/Group Presentations: *Panel/Group Participants will be required to submit the following information: 1) complete contact information including valid phone, e-mail, and institutional affiliation for all participants; 2) curriculum vita/resume for all participants; 3) a one-page abstract of the work they would like to present that must discuss its relationship to the conference theme; 4) identification of the panel/group organizer who will be required to facilitate the panel/group involvement; 5) a brief explanation of the technology they would like to use for the conference that clearly specifies their experience with that technology and a discussion of any support that may be required for their presentation; Electronic submissions will be accepted from WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2009 through FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2009. Upon closing of the submission window, all submissions will be reviewed by the domain committees and invitations to participate will be issued (no later than JANUARY 29, 2010). Criteria for acceptance are: 1) the “innovative” nature of the proposal; 2) the proposal’s relevancy to global issues in technological inquiry; 3) the proposal’s argument in relation to a grand challenge; 4) the qualifications of the presenter(s) Upon acceptance to the conference, presenters will be provided with clear guidelines regarding the technological support provided by the conference and production standards related to submitting their content. Accepted presenters should be prepared to assume financial and technological liability for their presentation and to be available for consultation in the weeks prior. While HASTAC 2010 will not subsidize individual or group presentations, HASTAC 2010 would be delighted to aid presenters in securing funding from their local institutions via a letter of support. *Key dates:* Abstract submissions due: Dec. 18, 2009 Notification of participants: Jan. 29, 2010 Conference: April 15-17, 2010 *Points of Contact:* Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1205 W. Clark St., MC-257 Urbana, Illinois 61820 guiliano@illinois.edu [16] with HASTAC 2010 in the Subject Line More information will be made available at http://ichass.illinois.edu/hastac2010 [17]    [1] http://www.uni-goettingen.de/ [2] http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ [3] http://www.lncc.br/ [4] http://www.fusionopolis.a-star.edu.sg/ [5] http://www.cenat.ac.cr [6] http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/ [7] http://www.psc.edu/ [8] http://www.cct.lsu.edu/home [9] https://www.ccs.uky.edu/ [10] http://nucri.nu.edu/ [11] http://fhi.duke.edu/ [12] http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/ [13] http://cinema.usc.edu/programs/iml/ [14] http://www.uchri.org/ [15] http://mith.umd.edu/ [16] mailto:guiliano@illinois.edu [17] http://ichass.illinois.edu/hastac2010 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:52:02 -0600 From: Shlomo Argamon Subject: FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: DHCS 2009 FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Critical Computing: Models and Challenges for Interdisciplinary Collaboration 2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science http://dhcs.iit.edu November 14-16, 2009 Illinois Institute of Technology Hermann Hall, 3241 S Federal St. McCormick-Tribune Campus Center, 3201 S State St. Chicago, IL 60616 The annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to advance interdisciplinary collaborations between the digital humanists and computer scientists, advancing the area as a field of intellectual inquiry and identifying new directions and perspectives for future research. Program: http://dhcs.iit.edu/fullprogram.html Registration: http://dhcs.iit.edu/registration.html Please register by Wednesday, November 11, as space is limited. INVITED SPEAKERS: * Stephen Wolfram: What Can Be Made Computable in the Humanities? Dr. Wolfram is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science. * Vasant Honavar: Humanities as Information Sciences Dr. Honavar is professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University, and founding director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory and the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning & Discovery. * Roger B. Dannenberg: The Music Technology Revolution Dr. Dannenberg is associate research professor of Computer Science and Art at Carnegie Mellon University, and fellow of the Studio for Creative Inquiry. SPONSORED BY: * Illinois Institute of Technology * The University of Chicago * Northwestern University MORE INFORMATION: For more information or to register, visit http://dhcs.iit.edu or email dhcs2009 at iit dot edu. -- Shlomo Argamon Associate Professor of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 60616 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 9 06:24:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E540404C0; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 06:24:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0827A404B0; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 06:24:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091109062405.0827A404B0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 06:24:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.426 embracing static X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 426. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:57:53 +0000 From: "Clark, Stephen" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.423 embracing static In-Reply-To: <20091108081814.85BF941F69@woodward.joyent.us> Francois Lachance said: "I am a great believer in the generative power of noise, static and other such sources of randomness." I thought I remembered a short story by Asimov, called "Noise", in which a group of scientists are fed what turns out to be faked imagery of an anti-gravity machine, together with random bits of background information. They manage, under this challenge, to invent an anti-gravity machine..... The moral being as Francois suggests. Actually, it seems to have been a short story by one Bill Wesley, called "Crash Program" in a magazine called Future Science Fiction, December 1958. But I think the plot was as I remember (see http://interactions.acm.org/content/?p=1291). There seems to be no online information about Wesley: is this perhaps an Asimov pseudonym (just seeking to vindicate my memory!)? Stephen Clark Liverpool _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 9 06:25:00 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E097340563; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 06:24:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4D6764054C; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 06:24:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091109062455.4D6764054C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 06:24:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.427 events: libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 427. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 12:11:59 -0500 (EST) From: "marija dalbello" Subject: Libraries in the Digital Age /LIDA/ 2010 Call for Participation The annual international conference and course LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Zadar, Croatia, 24 – 28 May 2010 University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia (http://www.unizd.hr/) Full information at: http://www.ffos.hr/lida/ Email: lida@ffos.hr The annual international conference Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) addresses the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital world. Each year a different and ‘hot’ theme is addressed, divided in two parts; the first part covering research and development and the second part addressing 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 2010 Part I: DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP: support by digital libraries Contributions (types described below) are invited covering the following topics: * Research, practices, and values related to digital scholarship, including conceptual frameworks that emerged * Contemporary nature of the scholarly information and communication environment in general and as involving digital libraries in particular * Developments in digital humanities * Navigating shifting patterns of scholarly communication * The impact digital libraries have on digital scholarship and on education in various fields, and vice versa; the impact of digital scholarship on digital libraries * Studies on how faculty, researchers, and students make use of digital scholarly resources for their research or in education * Practices that emerged in libraries related to support of digital scholarship, such as resource/collection building, digitization, preservation, access, services and others; * International aspects of digital libraries with related trends in globalization and cooperative opportunities for support of digital scholarship; * Research and discussions on general questions: How are we to understand new forms of scholarship and scholarly works in their own right? How are we to respond in digital libraries? What are the opportunities and challenges? Part II: DIGITAL NATIVES: challenges & innovations in reaching out to digital born generations Contributions (types described below) are invited covering the following topics: * Research and discussions on general questions: who are these digital natives? How they are different from older generations – or digital immigrants – and what is the world they’re creating going to look like? * The impact of digital natives on libraries; * Digital libraries and social networks on the Web; * The cultural and technological challenges faced by digital libraries in serving digital natives; * Examples of library services specifically aimed at digital natives * Efforts by libraries to help people that are more digital immigrants to become more digitally natives * Role of libraries in e-learning and education in general * Is the future of libraries closely associated with how successfully they meet the demands of digital users? 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 in published Proceedings 2. Posters: short graphic presentations on research, studies, advances, examples, practices, or preliminary work that will be presented in a special poster session. 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. 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. 5. PhD Forum: short presentations by PhD students, particularly as related to their dissertation; help and responses by a panel of educators. Instructions for submissions are at LIDA site http://www.ffos.hr/lida/ Deadlines: For papers (an extended abstract) and workshops (a short proposal): 15 January 2010. Acceptance by 10 February 2010. For demonstrations (a proposal) and posters (an extended abstract): 1 February 2010. Acceptance by 15 February 2010. Final submission for all accepted papers and posters: 15 March 2010. Conference contact information Conference co-directors: TATJANA APARAC-JELUSIC, Department of Library and Information Science University of Zadar; Zadar, Croatia; taparac@unizd.hr TEFKO SARACEVIC, School of Communication and Information; Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA tefkos@rutgers.edu Program chairs: For Theme I: VITTORE CASAROSA, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy, casarosa@isti.cnr.it For Theme II: GARY MARCHIONINI, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, march@ils.unc.edu Venue Zadar is one of the enchanting cities on the Adriatic coast, rich in history. It still preserves a very old network of narrow and charming city streets, as well as a Roman forum dating back to the first century CE. In addition, Zadar region encompasses many natural beauties, most prominent among them is the Kornati National Park, the most unusual and indented set of close to a 100 small islands in the Mediterranean For Zadar see http://www.zadar.hr/English/Default.aspx. For Croatia see http://www.croatia.hr/ -- Marija Dalbello Associate Professor School of Communication and Information 4 Huntington Street Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1071 Voice: 732.932.7500 / 8215 FAX: 732.932.6916 Internet: dalbello@rutgers.edu http://www.rutgers.edu/~dalbello _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 10 06:35:32 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 418E93FA52; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:35:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 708F03FA41; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:35:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091110063529.708F03FA41@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:35:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.428 job in Cologne X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 428. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:31:43 +0100 From: Patrick Sahle Subject: Job Posting: Fellows in Digital Humanities (VRE on Averroes;Cologne, Germany) In-Reply-To: <20091017080724.B17793E451@woodward.joyent.us> Hello all, the Thomas Institute at the University of Cologne (Germany) is looking for two or more research associates in a newly funded project "Digital Averroes Research Environment" (DARE). One of the the positions might best be described as "Information Manager". Please see the complete announcement at http://www.dare.uni-koeln.de/stellen/index.php and note that German language skills (beyond understanding the job advertisement) are not a precondition. Best, Patrick Lecturer in Humanities IT (50%) Cologne Center for eHumanities (50%) University of Cologne, Germany Universitätsstraße 22, D-50923 Köln, +49 - (0)221 - 470 1750 ----- Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing / Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik: http://www.i-d-e.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 10 06:36:23 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C740B3FA97; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:36:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4D0583FA85; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:36:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091110063619.4D0583FA85@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:36:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.429 new on WWW: Siegfried Sassoon X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 429. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:06:26 +0000 From: Alun Edwards Subject: Siegfried Sassoon collection online The First World War Poetry Archive is pleased to announce that the Siegfried Sassoon collection is now live at: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/sassoon This draws from collections at Oxford, Cambridge, New York Public Library, and the Harry Ransom Center. The primary focus is on manuscript variants of Sassoon's 'war poetry' contained in the collections 'The Old Huntsman', 'Counter-Attack', and 'Picture Show'. You are free to use the images for educational purposes (see http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/permitteduse.html). In effect this represents the last collection that will be going live, as part of the project. The funding for this two-year initiative came from the Joint Information Systems Committee as part of their Digitisation Programme. Please feel free to pass this on, __ Alun Edwards : alun.edwards@oucs.ox.ac.uk Intute, based at the University of Oxford www.intute.ac.uk First World War Poetry Digital Archive www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit Address: University of Oxford, OUCS, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, OX26NN _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 10 06:41:01 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A69C3FB2B; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:41:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5E8A43FB20; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:40:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091110064058.5E8A43FB20@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:40:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.430 events: mss studies; libraries; DHSI; Greg Crane X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 430. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Matthew Kirschenbaum (45) Subject: Greg Crane at MITH [2] From: "Ray Siemens" (53) Subject: Graduate Student Colloquium,Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2010 (June 8-11, 2010) [3] From: Dot Porter (64) Subject: CFP: Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age II --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:23:43 -0500 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: Greg Crane at MITH For anyone in the Washington DC area this week: Wednesday, November 11, 3:30-4:45 MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135 University of Maryland, College Park “From the First Year Through Tenure: New Pathways for Humanities in a Digital Age” by GREG CRANE Classical studies offers one particular, but potentially powerful, window onto possibilities for the humanities. A growing, international body of classicists are dedicated not simply to creating digital tools but to reimagining the field against the opportunities and challenges of the digital world in which we already live. On the one hand, we are beginning to see new possibilities for research that were not feasible with the tools of print culture. At the same time, and perhaps even more importantly, we are seeing a reorganization of who can participate and what they can contribute. We can see the possibility of a truly global field emerging, with implications far beyond the traditional bounds of classical studies. GREG CRANE is currently a Professor of Classics, as well as Editor-in-Chief of the Perseus Project at Tufts University.  He has written two books on Thucydides; The Blinded Eye & The Ancient Simplicity, and is currently conducting preliminary research for a planned book on Cicero.  He is particularly interested in the extent to which broadcast media such as the World Wide Web not only enhance the work of professional researchers and students in formal degree programs but create new audiences outside academia for cultural materials. His current research focuses on "computational humanities" and how this new field can help to democratize information without compromising intellectual rigor. Coming up @ MITH 11/17: Jennifer Fleeger (Catholic), “Archiving America: The Vitaphone, the DVD, and Warner Bros. (re)store Jazz History” View MITH’s complete Digital Dialogue schedule here: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/programs/mith_speakers_fall_2009.pdf All talks are free and open to the public! Contact: Neil Fraistat, Director, MITH (www.mith.umd.edu, mith@umd.edu, 5-8927) -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC, a new Living/Learning Program in the Honors College) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:27:08 -0800 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Graduate Student Colloquium, Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2010 (June 8-11, 2010) Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2010 Graduate Student Colloquium June 8-11, 2010 [Deadline has been extended to December 11, 2009.] CALL FOR PAPERS: The DHSI will be sponsoring its second annual graduate student colloquium in June 2010. Graduate students attending the Institute are invited to participate in the 2010 colloquium entitled "Making Connections: Emerging Scholars in the Digital Humanities." Abstracts are now being accepted for presentations focusing on all aspects of graduate student research in the digital humanities, including, but not limited to, the graduate student's role in personal and institutional research projects, tool application and development, perspectives on digital humanities implications for their own research and pedagogy, etc. The colloquium begins on the second day of the Summer Institute and takes place over four days (Tuesday through Friday) during morning sessions prior to the start of classes. Three graduate students will present at each session. Presentations will be informal and strictly limited to ten (10) minutes per presenter, with time for Q&A reserved at session's end. The sessions will be open to all DHSI attendees. We invite 300 word proposals for these presentations. Successful abstracts for the 2010 colloquium will focus on the individual student's role in digital humanities research and application, as opposed to general issues pertaining to digital humanities. Potential presenters should be enrolled in a PhD or MA program, or hold a post-doctoral fellowship, at the time of abstract submission. We welcome abstracts from current students who will graduate before June 2010. Please send abstracts to cmleitch@uvic.ca . Deadline for submissions is December 11, 2009. All who have submitted an abstract will be notified by late-December 2009. For more information, contact Cara Leitch or Diane Jakacki . ABOUT THE DHSI: The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies and how they are influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate students from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond. During the DHSI, we share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to our teaching, research, dissemination and preservation. This year's Summer Institute will be held June 7-11, 2010. For more information and to register for courses see www.dhsi.org . REGISTRATION: In recent years, courses have filled up quickly. We encourage students interested in attending the DHSI to register early. SCHOLARSHIPS: All those whose work is accepted for presentation at the 2010 Graduate Student Colloquium will receive a tuition scholarship. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:53:33 +0000 From: Dot Porter Subject: CFP: Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age II >From Franz Fischer: Full CFP: http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften-2/kodikologie-und-palaographie-im-digitalen-zeitalter-ii/cfp-en It is only a year since the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE: http://www.i-d-e.de/) undertook an initiative entitled “Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age”. Yet its first results have already been written up and published: in July 2009, the anthology “Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age” (http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften-2/kodikologie-und-palaographie-im-digitalen-zeitalter) was launched at an international symposium in Munich (http://www.i-d-e.de/events-des-ide/internationale-tagung-kodikologie-und-palaographie-im-digitalen-zeitalter-codicology-and-paleography-in-the-digital-age-munchen/tagungsbericht-kodikologie-und-palaographie-im-digitalen-zeitalter). Here, experts from all over the world met as a community to share their knowledge, interests and concerns regarding digital issues in the various fields of manuscript research. The feedback on both the anthology and the conference has been remarkably positive, not least from experts who are less acquainted with digital methods. For the first time, widely dispersed, cutting-edge research in the field of computer-aided codicology and palaeography can be surveyed and assessed as a whole phenomenon. Yet, despite the fact that the anthology gives a broad insight into theory and practice, some relevant subjects and questions have not been covered. For this reason the IDE plans to publish a second volume of “Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age”. The following questions in particular should now be addressed: * To what extent can quantitative approaches and the analysis of codicological databases be complemented by a systematic analysis of digital manuscript facsimiles? * How can manuscript-related research in the history of arts or in musicology be supported by digital tools and methodology? * How successfully can methods from the sciences be applied to the analysis of manuscripts (e.g. DNA analysis of parchment)? * How can electronic manuscript-catalogues and virtual libraries be brought together by means of comprehensive portals and hybrid research environments in order, for example, to facilitate exhaustive semantic studies? * How can existing digital tools for palaeographic transcription be promoted and improved? How can the range of applications be expanded? How can philological analysis and further use in literary studies be enhanced? * How can questions about the history of script be addressed by digital methods? * How can digital resources best supplement the originals, in the context of restoration and preservation? How can archives, libraries and museums take advantage of the opportunities, for public benefit? * To what extent are software-generated answers to codicological and palaeographic questions sustainable, verifiable and reliable? Contributions which explore these and similar subjects (cf. previous CfP: http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften-2/kodikologie-und-palaographie-im-digitalen-zeitalter/cfp-palaeography-en) are most welcome and can be submitted in English, French, German or Italian. Again, the launch of the volume will be accompanied by an international symposium. Proposals of not more than 500 words should be sent by 30 November 2009 to kpdz-ii@ide.de. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 12 06:43:24 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7AD540426; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:43:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 31ABD4040F; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:43:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091112064322.31ABD4040F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:43:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.431 jobs at Michigan X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 431. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:43:40 -0600 From: Sara Schmidt Subject: 3 Faculty positions at School of Information at the University of Michigan *Information Science:* The School of Information at the University of Michigan seeks three (3) outstanding faculty candidates. One targeted position is in Digital Environments. For that position, we seek someone whose research and teaching interests are at the intersection of digital arts and humanities, digital literacies, and social computing. Research foci should involve arts and humanities scholarship, scholars, or content and can be in a variety of areas, such as (but not limited to) virtual collaboration, credibility, and/or digital curation. This position is at the assistant professor level. A second targeted position is in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D). For that position, we seek someone with research and teaching interests including some combination of information system design, computer-supported cooperative work, environmental informatics, communication studies, development policy and sociology, anthropology, and/or a related field applicable to the design and study of information systems for developing-world contexts. This position is at the assistant professor level. For the third position, we aspire to establish and reinforce areas of excellence and seek faculty whose research interests complement and extend our existing strengths. This position is open rank. We encourage you to learn more about the School, its mission, and its activities at http://www.si.umich.edu. Detailed information on the three positions and how to apply may be found at: http://www.si.umich.edu/about-SI/faculty-postings.htm. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until positions are filled; however, candidates for assistant professor positions are strongly encouraged to complete applications by November 25, 2009. All candidates should have completed or be nearing completion of a Ph.D. in a relevant field, and be committed to working in an interdisciplinary environment. The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity, affirmative action educator and employer. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 13 10:46:53 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C2DF419A8; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:46:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EA45B4197B; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:46:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091113104651.EA45B4197B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:46:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.432 process/product? models for tenure & promotion? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 432. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (33) Subject: process and product? [2] From: Alan Liu (5) Subject: Fwd: Digital Humanities Projects in Tenure/Promotion --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:39:29 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: process and product? I am wondering about when we think of process and when of product. To take an extreme example, one can sit in a dry riverbed, looking at the stones and plants, and imagine (see imaginatively) the rocks and boulders there, as well as the trees, shrubs and darting lizards, all in motion at various speeds. The way that the water over millennia has shaped the rocks does help, of course. The shapes of the trees and grasses are traces of motion which evoke kinaesthetic knowledge, if I may call it that. To take an example at the other extreme, we can speak of a very brief event, such as a nuclear interaction, thanks to the noun "event" perhaps more than anything else, as a product, a thing. But I am asking about the in-between. I am asking not idly but because the two ways of looking are for computing very much in competition with each other, and how we consider them consequential for representing our work to ourselves and to others. Do we associate what we do with things like bridges or processes like dance or musical performance? For a number of reasons, I'd suppose, doing the former is easier: things stick around, have a prominent "thud factor" (the sound that the book makes when hitting the dean's desk). I'd also suppose that associating our work with the latter, though risky, would push it in all manner of interesting new-to-us (or perhaps just to me) directions. It would also draw more attention than is often given to the psychological moment, to the dynamics of what we clumsily call "interaction". If I may detain you for a moment longer -- I'd think that programming as choreography or more generally as performance would be primarily associated with making research tools like legos rather than research products like whole applications. Which, of course, gets us back to John Unsworth's "primitives". Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London: staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:46:45 +0000 From: Alan Liu Subject: Fwd: Digital Humanities Projects in Tenure/Promotion In-Reply-To: <4AF92C45020000A40004102B@hermes.cwu.edu> Dear friends, The following is from Chris Schedler, now teaching at Central Washington U. Chris was one of the first people interested in new media/digital humanities issues to come out of our program here at UCSB. He is collecting some models of institutional policies for promotion and tenure that are friendly to, or that otherwise explicitly recognize, digital scholarship. Do you know of any such implemented institutional policies that would serve as good models? (I am aware of the MLA guidelines: http://www.mla.org/guidelines_evaluation_digital) --Thanks, Alan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christopher Schedler > Date: Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:03 AM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 13 10:47:36 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1E541A0E; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:47:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C59A4419FB; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:47:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091113104733.C59A4419FB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:47:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.433 new text-analysis tool; CHAIN X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 433. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Lydia Horstman (66) Subject: Coalition of Humanities and Arts: Infrastructures and Networks (CHAIN) [2] From: Peter Organisciak (12) Subject: Seeking feedback on text analysis tool --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:01:16 +0000 From: Lydia Horstman Subject: Coalition of Humanities and Arts: Infrastructures and Networks (CHAIN) A meeting was held at King's College, London, on 26th and 27th October 2009, between representatives of the following networks, infrastructure projects, and planning initiatives working with digital technologies in the Arts and Humanities: * arts-humanities.net (http://www.arts-humanities.net/) * ADHO - Association of Digital Humanities Organisations (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/) * CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu/) * centerNet (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/centernet/) * DARIAH (http://www.dariah.eu/) * NoC - Network of Expert Centres in Great Britain and Ireland (http://www.arts-humanities.net/noc/) * Project Bamboo (http://projectbamboo.org/) * TextGrid (http://www.textgrid.de/) We identified the current fragmented environment where researchers operate in separate areas with often mutually incompatible technologies as a barrier to fully exploiting the transformative role that these technologies can potentially play. We resolved that our present, proposed, and future activities are interdependent and complementary and should be oriented towards working together to overcome barriers, and to create a shared environment where technology services can interoperate and be sustained, thus enabling new forms of research in the Humanities. In order to achieve these goals we agreed to form the Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks – CHAIN. CHAIN will act as a forum forareas of shared interest to its participants, including: * advocacy for an improved digital research infrastructure for the Humanities; * development of sustainable business models; * promotion of technical interoperability of resources, tools and services; * promotion of good practice and relevant technical standards; * development of a shared service infrastructure; * coordinating approaches to legal and ethical issues; * interactions with other relevant computing infrastructure initiatives; * widening the geographical scope of our coalition. CHAIN will promote an open culture where experiences, including successes and failures, can be shared and discussed, in order to support and promote the use of digital technologies in research in the Humanities. Sheila Anderson, King's College London (DARIAH) Andreas Aschenbrenner, State and University Library Göttingen (TextGrid, DARIAH) David Greenbaum, University of California, Berkeley (Project Bamboo) Seth Denbo, King's College, London (DARIAH) Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland (centerNet) Chad Kainz, University of Chicago (Project Bamboo) Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University (CLARIN) Lorna Hughes, King's College London (ADHO, NoC) Tobias Blanke, King's College London (DARIAH) Torsten Reimer, King's College London (arts-humanities.net) David Robey, University of Oxford (NoC) Harold Short, King's College London (ADHO) Katherine Walter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (centerNet) Peter Wittenburg, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (CLARIN) Martin Wynne, University of Oxford (CLARIN, DARIAH) For further information: http://www.arts-humanities.net/blog/torsten_reimer/coalition_humanities_arts_infrastructures_networks_chain -- Lydia Horstman Communications and Administrative Officer Centre for e-Research King's College London 3rd Floor, 26 - 29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: 020 7848 2689 Fax: 020 7848 1989 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:57:40 -0700 From: Peter Organisciak Subject: Seeking feedback on text analysis tool In-Reply-To: <6e39bcbc0911031428v1bec0cb2u72d5151e3f34a111@mail.gmail.com> Dear all, TAToo (Text Analysis for me Too) is a new Flash widget that one can embed in web pages and blogs to call basic text analysis tools. Currently we include a word cloud, words frequencies, collocates, and concordances. We think it's ready for release, so we're looking for feedback from the Humanist community. Help us iron out any wrinkles! Find more information and generate your own TAToo at http://tada.mcmaster.ca/Main/FlashTAT. We'd love to hear what you think and especially, hear of any bugs that you find. Send feedback to Peter at organisc@ualberta.ca. Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker, Peter Organisciak _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 13 10:49:24 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B69041AA8; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:49:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 007FA41AA0; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:49:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091113104922.007FA41AA0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:49:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.434 events: London Seminars; SDH/SEMI & ACCUTE X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 434. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michael Eberle-Sinatra (42) Subject: Join Session SDH/SEMI and ACCUTE, 31 May-2 June 2010, Montreal [2] From: Willard McCarty (94) Subject: London Seminars for November and December --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:03:23 -0500 From: Michael Eberle-Sinatra Subject: Join Session SDH/SEMI and ACCUTE, 31 May-2 June 2010, Montreal [apologies for cross-posting this reminder] Joint Session SDH/SEMI and ACCUTE, 31 May-2 June 2010, Montreal 'Digging into Data' and English Studies Organizer: Michael Eberle-Sinatra (Universit=E9 de Montr=E9al) The recent competition 'Digging into Data Challenge' (sponsored by = SSHRC-NEH-NSF-JISC) states: "The idea behind the Digging into Data = Challenge is to answer the question 'what do you do with a million = books?' Or a million pages of newspaper? Or a million photographs of = artwork? That is, how does the notion of scale affect humanities and = social science research?". This special session invites proposals from = editors of print and electronic editions, and users of small-scale and = large-scale SSH electronic projects, to discuss the impact of recent = technological changes on the way research and teaching are done in = Canada and beyond. Please send your 700-word proposal (or 8-10 page double-spaced paper), a = 100-word abstract, a 50-word biographical statement to = michael.eberle.sinatra@umontreal.ca by 20 November 2009. Note: You must be a current ACCUTE member (http://www.accute.ca/) or a = member of SDH/SEMI (http://www.sdh-semi.org/) to submit to this session. ** SDH/SEMI has some additional funds available to encourage graduate = student participation ** ----------------------------------- Dr. Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Associate Professor http://web.mac.com/meberlesinatra ----------------------------------- - President 'Synergies' http://www.synergiescanada.org - President (French) 'Society of Digital Humanities' = http://www.sdh-semi.org - Founding Editor 'Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net' (RaVoN) = http://www.ravon.umontreal.ca - Secretary-Treasurer 'Canadian Association of Learned Journals' = http://www.calj-acrs.ca/ - Project Leader FQRSC-funded team 'Technologies, Media, and = Representations in Nineteenth-Century France and England' = http://www.technologiesmedia19.org ----------------------------------- Departement d'etudes anglaises Universite de Montreal CP 6128, Station Centre-ville Montreal, Quebec H3C3J7 - Canada Tel: (514) 343-6149 - Fax: (514) 343-6443 ----------------------------------- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:38:56 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminars for November and December Due to still mysterious but now apparently fixed problems with my e-mail, the following was not sent out in time for the first of the following two seminars in the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, the last for 2009. Please accept my apologies for advertising the first after its fine performance! Like the first, the second is to take place in Stewart House, directions to which may be obtained from www.tinyurl.com/LondonSeminar/ (note that the second of these is on a Tuesday rather than the usual Thursday). All are welcome. Refreshments are provided in the spirit of "vino pro veritate". Zuzana Husárová on 'Reading Digital Fiction' 12 November 2009 (Thursday) Room 275 (Stewart House) 17:30 - 19:30 Digital fiction, which denotes a work produced by digital media in which the author offers a fictional world, is not a totally new type of digital literary art. It is attested by numerous online writings in a wide variety of languages, also by a broad scale of research approaches providing tools for reflecting on digital fiction. After the previous tendencies to consider hypertext as a realization of poststructuralist textual theory, present day theoretical research on digital fiction is concerned mostly with the concepts of cybertext, materiality, code, intermedial relations, the aesthetics of new media and multimedia. The problematic materiality of digital literature may be taken into consideration if we approach the work not from the perspective of “transparent immediacy” but with Katherine Hayles’ notion of “technotext” – a literary work with strong correlation between the technology and the verbal constructions. Such text responds to the technological possibilities at the author’s disposal, making an irreversible change to the author’s creative praxis. This talk addresses those qualities of digital fiction which make it digital by nature. I argue that its narrative is characteristically fragmented, multilinear, interactive, performative, dynamic, intermedial and ludic. I argue further that these qualities reflect the society within which the fiction is written, that they get „transcribed“ into the creation and reception of the literary work of art and also determine the way the art is produced and read. According to Joost Raessens, digital technology advances the „ludification of culture”, the inclination towards the ludic attitude. It also, however, brings to bear a diversity of media on storytelling and provides means for producing the most intensive experience in the shortest possible time. Dr. Zuzana Husárová is Slovak postdoctoral research associate. She obtained her Mgr. (MA) from English Language and Literature at University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia. She completed the PhD thesis at the Institute of World Literature at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia, on Interactive Media. Digital Fiction, defended in August 2009, concentrates on the theory of digital fiction and the issues of multilinear writing in interactive media as well as analyses four digital fiction pieces from the Anglophone area. Her research interests include inter/transmedial narrative, digital art, interdisciplinary literary theory, theory of digital fiction, multilinear writing, ergodic literature, postmodern literature, cybertext theory, materiality of the digital literature, techno-aesthetics, playful aspect of culture, performativity of digital sign, intermedial relations, etc. She is a visiting research associate at Kingston College and King's College London. ----- Paul Arthur, 'History's Digital Future' 08 December 2009 (Tuesday) Room 275 (Stewart House) 17:30 - 19:30 Digital history spans disciplines and can take many forms. New modes of publication, new methods for doing research, and new channels of communication are making historical research richer, more relevant and more widely accessible. Many applications of computer based research and publication are natural extensions of the established techniques for researching and writing history. Others are consciously experimental. Although computer technology started to revolutionize the discipline of history many decades ago, genres and formats for recording and presenting history using digital media are not well established. Are new technologies and methodologies fundamentally changing how we interpret the past? If so, in what ways? Dr Paul Arthur (paul.arthur@anu.edu.au) is a Research Fellow at the Australia Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, and an Adjunct Research Fellow of the Research School of Humanities, Australian National University. He has held various visiting fellowships, including to the Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, USA, the National Museum of Australia (2007), the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University (2006), and through the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2004). In 2004 he was Helen and John S. Best Research Fellow at the American Geographical Society Library and an Associate of the Center for 21st Century Studies, at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (USA). Dr Arthur's research focuses on how new technologies are transforming the way history is recorded and studied. He was drawn to the digital history field after completing a PhD in eighteenth century literary history at The University of Western Australia. Prior to taking up a position at Curtin University he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Murdoch University. He has published widely on digital humanities topics and also on Australian cultural history. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 14 07:28:06 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9AE642D27; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:28:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 523DD42D0F; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:28:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091114072802.523DD42D0F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:28:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.435 being critical of critical thinking X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 435. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:04:08 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: critical thinking Anyone here who has been attracted by the idea and techniques of "critical thinking" would do well to read Douglas D. Noble, "Mental materiel: The militarization of learning and intelligence in US education", in Cyborg Worlds: the military information society, ed. Les Levidow and Kevin Robins (London: Free Association Books, 1989), pp. 13-42. "Mental materiel" offers another form of the poisoned-chalice argument that ties computing together with the militarisation of American society during the Cold War. It traces the "critical thinking" movement back to the mechanisation of mind and person for which militarised computing is held responsible. While not wanting to give an unqualified yes or no to this argument, I can see the connections for which Noble argues. I guess what I question is the quality of those connections. More and more as I think about how things, ideas and people are connected historically I wonder about this quality -- about the difference, if you will, between outright paranoia and a world that appears to me not at all chaotic nor deterministic but probabilistic. What I think all this has to do with computing is in our understanding better what computing has to do with the culture in which it has surfaced. The utilitarian argument ("the computer is useful") is so trite, so dull, so incapable of supporting for long the professional activity we would like to see given a better place in the sun. The principle of reprocity that governs human relations says we need to be useful for sure, but to attract the sort of students we want as well as keep ourselves alive intellectually I'd think we need to offer something with a real bite to it. What has that bite? Not a totally paranoid vision, though the thrill of the threat of it is a start. Comments? Yours,WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 14 07:29:15 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9B742D83; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:29:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BEC7F42D70; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:29:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091114072911.BEC7F42D70@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:29:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.436 new journal in library & info science X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 436. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:36:41 +0000 From: ijlis journal Subject: Call for Papers INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE www.academicjournals.org/IJLIS http://www.academicjournals.org/JAT Introducing ‘‘International Journal of Library and Information Science” Dear Colleague, The International Journal of Library and Information Science (IJLIS) is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published that will be monthly by Academic Journals (http://www.academicjournals.org/IJLIS). IJLIS is dedicated to increasing the depth of the subject across disciplines with the ultimate aim of expanding knowledge of the subject. Call for Papers IJLIS will cover all areas of the subject. The journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence, and will publish: · Original articles in basic and applied research · Case studies · Critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays We invite you to submit your manuscript(s) to Ijlis.journal@gmail.com for publication in the Maiden Issue (April 2009). Our objective is to inform authors of the decision on their manuscript(s) within four weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a paper will normally be published in the next issue. Instruction for authors and other details are available on our website; http://www.academicjournals.org/IJLIS/Instruction.htm http://www.academicjournals.org/JAT/Instruction.htm IJLIS is an Open Access Journal One key request of researchers across the world is unrestricted access to research publications. 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Best regards, Emeje Cynthia Editorial Assistant International Journal of Library and Information Science (IJLIS) E-mail: Ijlis.journal@gmail.com www.academicjournals.org/IJLIS http://www.academicjournals.org/JAT _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 16 08:06:33 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1DCF41686; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:06:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4B28941675; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:06:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091116080630.4B28941675@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:06:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.437 process/product X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 437. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:51:15 +0100 From: Øyvind Eide Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.432 process/product? models for tenure & promotion? In-Reply-To: <20091113104651.EA45B4197B@woodward.joyent.us> Two comments, or observations, based on very broad, very simplified views on the history of the world. One long-term: From oral cultures to written cultures, from written cultures to secondary orality (Ong). The first one verb/event oriented, the second one noun/thing oriented, the third one both? And one short-term: From databases (in cultural heritage, as elsewhere) mainly concerned with things (collection databases representing objects and attributes of them) towards event-oriented modelling (e.g. CIDOC-CRM). Kind regards, Øyvind Eide Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo Den 13. nov.. 2009 kl. 11.46 skrev Humanist Discussion Group: > -- > [1 > ]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:39:29 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: process and product? > > > I am wondering about when we think of process and when of product. > To take > an extreme example, one can sit in a dry riverbed, looking at the > stones and > plants, and imagine (see imaginatively) the rocks and boulders > there, as > well as the trees, shrubs and darting lizards, all in motion at > various > speeds. The way that the water over millennia has shaped the rocks > does > help, of course. The shapes of the trees and grasses are traces of > motion > which evoke kinaesthetic knowledge, if I may call it that. To take an > example at the other extreme, we can speak of a very brief event, > such as a > nuclear interaction, thanks to the noun "event" perhaps more than > anything > else, as a product, a thing. But I am asking about the in-between. > > I am asking not idly but because the two ways of looking are for > computing > very much in competition with each other, and how we consider them > consequential for representing our work to ourselves and to others. > Do we > associate what we do with things like bridges or processes like > dance or > musical performance? For a number of reasons, I'd suppose, doing the > former > is easier: things stick around, have a prominent "thud factor" (the > sound > that the book makes when hitting the dean's desk). I'd also suppose > that > associating our work with the latter, though risky, would push it in > all > manner of interesting new-to-us (or perhaps just to me) directions. > It would > also draw more attention than is often given to the psychological > moment, to > the dynamics of what we clumsily call "interaction". > > If I may detain you for a moment longer -- I'd think that > programming as > choreography or more generally as performance would be primarily > associated > with making research tools like legos rather than research products > like > whole applications. Which, of course, gets us back to John Unsworth's > "primitives". > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London: staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 16 08:08:00 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD4624170A; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:08:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3D0B741701; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:07:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091116080758.3D0B741701@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:07:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.438 jobs at Maryland X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 438. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:06:16 -0500 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: jobs at Maryland Digital Humanities, Media and Cultures Cluster Search American Studies, Art Studio, Communication, Women’s Studies University of Maryland, College Park The College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park, invites applications for two tenure-track positions in Digital Humanities, Media and Cultures at the rank of Assistant Professor or beginning Associate Professor to start August 15, 2010. Successful applicants will have their tenure homes in one or more of the following departments: American Studies, Art Studio, Communication, or Women’s Studies. See below for preferred areas of expertise in each field. This cluster hire is part of the College’s expanding interdisciplinary program in digital humanities, media and cultures (www.arhu.umd.edu/positions/digitalhumanities). The University of Maryland, College Park, is a “Top 20” ranked major public research university, located in the Washington DC/Baltimore metroplex, five miles from the District of Columbia, with its concentrated cultural, artistic, research, and public policy resources. As the flagship university, the University of Maryland’s academic programs are sought after as partners for a wide variety of initiatives with such cultural institutions as the Smithsonian, the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the galleries and theatres of the nation’s capital. The University of Maryland is home to the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (www.mith.umd.edu), an “applied think tank” for innovative, cross-disciplinary research and teaching, with major ongoing projects funded by NEH, the IMLS, Mellon, NSF and others. MITH’s international reputation makes the university a world center for research in digital humanities, media, and cultures. Other campus opportunities for faculty in digital humanities, media and cultures include the new, innovative undergraduate honors program in Digital Cultures and Creativity (dcc.umd.edu), the new collaboratory in the Department of Art History, recently renovated facilities for digital media in the Department of Art, and thriving collaborations with faculty in the iSchool, the university libraries, the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, and the Department of Computer Science. All candidates must have a Ph.D., MFA or equivalent terminal degree in a relevant field at the time of appointment and clear evidence of the ability to establish a strong, active research or creative program and to mentor graduate students successfully. Teaching experience at the university level is required. The successful candidate will have an interest in working with other faculty to develop the College’s research and teaching in digital humanities, media and cultures. A willingness to direct the new Digital Cultures and Creativity Honors Program (dcc.umd.edu), and to lead that program forward in developing an imaginative undergraduate curriculum is strongly desired. Administrative experience and an ability to produce scholarly or creative work in digital media are also desirable. The successful candidate for a position in the Department of American Studies (http://www.amst.umd.edu/) will demonstrate strong theoretical and methodological skills in digital humanities, media and/or cultures, with particular emphasis on linking technologies and their cultural meanings within and across diverse communities. Areas of research and teaching may focus on how new technologies and information cultures intersect with questions about dimensions of difference and identity, community, immigration, and citizenship. The successful candidate for a position in the Department of Art (http://www.art.umd.edu/) will possess distinction as a contemporary critical media theorist or an established track record as a prominent media artist, with research interests at the intersection of networked media and contemporary art-making practice. Candidates should have expertise in new media theory, social networking as it pertains to contemporary art practice, interactive media, and information design. The successful candidate will be expected to teach lecture courses at the undergraduate level in media theory and studio courses in open source practices and data visualization. The successful candidate for a position in the Department of Communication (http://www.comm.umd.edu/) will teach and conduct research in strategic communication with expertise in the role of digital media in changing the forms, processes of organizational and societal communication, and the impact of digital media on organizations and society. Participating in highly ranked graduate and undergraduate communication programs, the ideal candidate will contribute research and teaching expertise in the use of digital media applications in the strategic communication field. The successful candidate for a position in the Women’s Studies Department (http://www.womensstudies.umd.edu/) will have expertise in gender and race as impacted by computers, the internet, artificial intelligence, and/or virtual worlds. Areas of research and teaching might include digital culture, digital performance studies, games and learning, social media, the feminist technoscience research and critique concerning access to technology infrastructures. For best consideration, interested candidates should apply by December 15, 2009. Please send a letter of application detailing scholarly/creative work and teaching experience and interests; a CV; three letters of recommendation; and a sample of research or creative activity. The search committee welcomes examples of research or creative activity in digital formats (CD/DVD preferred or url). Professor Elizabeth Loizeaux, Chair Digital Humanities, Media and Cultures Search Committee University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities 1102 Francis Scott Key Hall College Park, MD 20742-7315 Questions regarding this announcement may be addressed to Professor Loizeaux at 301.405.5646 or arhudigitalsearch@umd.edu. Information about the college is available on its website at www.arhu.umd.edu. The University of Maryland is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Salary is commensurate with experience. -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC, a new Living/Learning Program in the Honors College) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 17 06:26:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 573C943F1B; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:26:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E11C843F0B; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:26:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091117062631.E11C843F0B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:26:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.439 search for Dean of Humanities at UVic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 439. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:05:13 -0800 From: Martin Holmes Subject: University of Victoria Dean of Humanities search Hi all, Apologies for cross-posting. The University of Victoria is currently conducting a search for a new Dean of Humanities to succeed Dr Andrew Rippin next year. In view of UVic's strong support for digital humanities, some readers of this list may be interested in the position. The details are available here: http://web.uvic.ca/vpac/recruiting/search_dean%20of%20humanities09.htm Best regards, Martin -- Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (mholmes@uvic.ca) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 17 06:27:36 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078A043F58; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:27:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EC29A43F47; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:27:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091117062731.EC29A43F47@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:27:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.440 new on WWW: Parliament Rolls of Medieval England X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 440. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:45:08 -0000 From: "Emily Morrell" Subject: Announcement for Digital Humanities - Parliament Rolls of Medieval England Parliament Rolls of Medieval England British History Online at the Institute of Historical Research (http://www.british-history.ac.uk) would like to announce an important new addition to its premium content section: the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/prome). This source consists of scholarly descriptions of every parliament held in England between 1275 and 1504. It covers 10 monarchs, from Edward I to Henry VII (since no parliament was held in the reign of Edward V, he is not included). The rolls for some of these parliaments, particularly the earlier ones, do not survive, but where they are extant have been fully transcribed; supplementary material about the business of the parliament is given in an appendix. Opposite the original text, which may be in Latin, Anglo-Norman, or Middle English, is a modern English translation. To make PROME easier to use, the text and translation have been put into tables, so that the corresponding paragraphs are simple to locate. This new content is available to current subscribers at no extra cost. Subscription details can be found at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/subscribe.aspx. Emily Morrell Publications Manager School of Advanced Study University of London Senate House (Rm 265) Malet Street London WC1E 7HU http://www.sas.ac.uk emily.morrell@sas.ac.uk Tel 020 7862 8655 Fax 020 7862 8657 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 17 06:28:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C81FF43F92; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:28:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 811F343F88; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:28:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091117062806.811F343F88@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:28:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.441 events: the perils of print X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 441. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:12:47 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: The Perils of Print Culture The Perils of Print Culture A conference to be held at Trinity College Dublin, 10-12 September 2010 Organised by Dr Jason McElligott and Dr Eve Patten Over the past twenty years the study of print culture has become prominent in the disciplines of history, literary studies and languages. The study of print culture has many advantages, but there is a growing sense among advanced practitioners that scholars need to fine-tune or calibrate their understanding of this burgeoning field of enquiry. Papers presented at this conference will encourage scholars to think more systematically about the conceptual, methodological and technological problems associated with the study of print culture. They will encompass a wide range of chronological periods, geographical locations and genres of print. The topics under consideration will include, but not be limited to: - The tensions between the contrasting views of print as an agent of social change and social cohesion. - Case-studies of the ways in which print can create inaccurate, distorted, or anachronistic accounts of the past. - The usefulness (or otherwise) of theoretical models in the study of print culture. - The peculiarities of serial publication (newspapers and magazines) and the relevance of print-culture theory to the study of journalism history. - The role of over-arching non-theoretical models (such as that put forward by William St. Clair in The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period). - The specific problems of interdisciplinary work in print culture. - The precise definition(s) of print culture across a range of literary, historical and political source materials. - The changing nature of print culture over time, and the differences between print culture in urban and rural settings, in different regions within the same country and between different countries. - The opportunities created by (and limitations of) electronic resources for academic researchers. - Desirable future directions in electronic resource provision. - The future of the library in the digital age. Proposals (max. 300 words) for papers of 30 minutes duration should be sent to the conference organisers at perilsofprintculture@gmail.com by Friday 11 December 2009. Conference website at: http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/news/initiative-funding/print-culture.php --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2 IRELAND --- 53.335373,-6.254219 --- Tel: +353 1 2342441 --- shawn@shawnday.com --- http://dho.ie -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 18 06:29:20 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 502823C00E; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:29:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 29D9D3BFF9; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:29:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091118062918.29D9D3BFF9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:29:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.442 process/product & critical thinking X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 442. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Craig Bellamy (69) Subject: being critical of critical thinking [2] From: Wendell Piez (46) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.432 process/product? models for tenure & promotion? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:13:09 +0000 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: being critical of critical thinking In-Reply-To: <20091114072802.523DD42D0F@woodward.joyent.us> > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: critical thinking > > What I think all this has to do with computing is in our understanding > better what computing has to do with the culture in which it has surfaced. > The utilitarian argument ("the computer is useful") is so trite, so dull, so > incapable of supporting for long the professional activity we would like to > see given a better place in the sun. The principle of reprocity that governs > human relations says we need to be useful for sure, but to attract the sort > of students we want as well as keep ourselves alive intellectually I'd think > we need to offer something with a real bite to it. What has that bite? Not a > totally paranoid vision, though the thrill of the threat of it is a start. > Dear Willard and Humanist, This is an interesting arguments and given the institutional arrangements of the Digital Humanities, they aren't going to be resolved quickly. I think where we find ourselves in the Digital Humanities is wedged somewhere between a contemporary version of CP Snow's Two Cultures argument. But rather than wedged between 'Science' and 'Humanities' we find ourselves stuck somewhere between highly skilled technical labour and academic labour. They are both two very valuable and different cultures with divergent approaches to work, merit, aspiration, and research significance. This division is especially problematic in the UK context given the history of the class system where working class kids went to technical school and middle class kids were given the opportunity to become academics. This of course changed significantly with mass tertiary education and the rise of the Polytechnics. And in recent years, 'pragmatism' (or even utilitarianism) in the UK has taken a decisively hegemonic and political role in the middle classes spurred on by excessive London 'City' culture and a somewhat pragmatic anti-intellectual elite. The Banking sector in that country was after all merely there to perform a service function, but somehow managed through 'service innovation' to create a bloated self-serving industry that not only rewarded itself for its own mediocrity, but subsumed the more productive and innovative components of the British economy. I know that I am making a polemical leap here (and it is on purpose), but I am worried that we in our own small way are making the same mistakes in the Digital Humanities. We are for instance, allowing simplistic understandings of concepts such as 'infrastructure' to distract us away from perhaps more significant research endeavors. For example one of the recent posts on Humanist announced yet another layer on the Infrastructure spaghetti-portfolio called CHAIN (Collation of Humanities and Arts Infrastructure Networks). http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/pipermail/humanist/2009-November/000860.html If networks such as this are to attract and sustain academic attention, they must also be only be open to academic critique so that they may be embedded within real academic research culture and critical concerns (beyond the 'practical' debates) . Although good infrastructure is not entirely without merit, I worry that in this instance the group is crudely undifferentiated and lacks clear theoretical and technical underpinnings and achievable goals. At least one of the 'infrastructure' projects listed is an otherwise pedestrian off-the-shelf installation of Drupal but is placed beside a massive iterative design project that consists of 60 universities worldwide! One of the networks I am not sure actually exists, and another doesn't deal with technical standards at all as far as I am aware. The vision of this group is far too grandiose and nebulous and although dialogue is always good, at these times of diminished resources, we also need to concentrate all our academic energies on deeper and more significant understanding of the human condition so that we may find more achievable ways to understand it. all the best, Craig Independent Scholar Berlin craigbellamy.net --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:28:57 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.432 process/product? models for tenure & promotion? In-Reply-To: <20091113104651.EA45B4197B@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, At 05:46 AM 11/13/2009, you wrote: >Do we associate what we do with things like bridges or processes >like dance or musical performance? For a number of reasons, I'd >suppose, doing the former is easier: things stick around, have a >prominent "thud factor" (the sound that the book makes when hitting >the dean's desk). I'd also suppose that associating our work with >the latter, though risky, would push it in all manner of interesting >new-to-us (or perhaps just to me) directions. It would also draw >more attention than is often given to the psychological moment, to >the dynamics of what we clumsily call "interaction". > >If I may detain you for a moment longer -- I'd think that >programming as choreography or more generally as performance would >be primarily associated with making research tools like legos rather >than research products like whole applications. Which, of course, >gets us back to John Unsworth's "primitives". As so often, I find your questions refreshing partly because they provoke me to contrast (I hope usefully) what academics do with what other intellectual laborers do. In the world where I spend most of my professional time, there is a necessary focus on products, because that's what people are paying for (the thud of the book on the desk). And yet at the same time, the closer we get to the work, the more principals on all sides (designers, builders, contractors, clients) understand that any product is also a process, and indeed that any product of value is in its way a *living* process, involving its creators, developers and users in a dynamic and evolving set of relationships. Hence the importance in my business of education, training, and development approaches that have one foot in inquiry and (dare I say) skepticism even while the other is firmly planted in standards and methods. So, certainly, yes, programming as choreography and performance, and research tools like legos. Yet, the best way to show off your legos is also to show how you build skyscrapers and spaceships and robots with them. Cheers, Wendell ========================================================= Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 18 06:30:59 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 630023C079; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:30:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ACB833C070; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:30:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091118063055.ACB833C070@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:30:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.443 inaccessible ideas & thinkable thoughts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 443. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:28:14 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: inaccessible ideas and thinkable thoughts I wonder if anyone here is familiar with Thinking Machines: The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence (Blackwell, 1987), by the British philosopher Vernon Pratt (Cardiff, then Lancaster). It seems to me to do an extraordinarily fine job historiographically in dealing with ideas we can barely if at all understand because the wherewithal to think them is gone, e.g. the medieval idea of "form", and with the complex interrelations between technological ideas and things which cannot rightly be understood if we treat them as milestones on the same path. This book is also valuable for his analysis of ideas in the history of artificial intelligence that made others thinkable. In addition he wrote The Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Methuen, 1978), with a fine chapter on "Man as a machine". Does anyone here know about this fellow? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 18 06:32:28 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 946983C0E6; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:32:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2C2623C0D4; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:32:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091118063225.2C2623C0D4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:32:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.444 events: encoding context X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 444. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:00:46 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Extended deadline: Advanced TEI seminar in encoding contextual information Please note extended deadline; please circulate. Applications are invited for participation in an advanced TEI seminar on encoding contextual information, being held at Brown University, April 8-10, 2010, hosted by the Center for Digital Scholarship and the Women Writers Project. Application deadline is December 15, 2009. Participants will be notified in early January. For more information and to apply, please visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/. This seminar assumes a basic familiarity with TEI, and provide an opportunity to explore contextual encoding topics in more detail, in a collaborative workshop setting. We will focus on TEI methods for formalizing and representing information about context: named entities such as people and places, thematic analysis and keywords, text classification, glossaries and annotations. This seminar is part of a series funded by the NEH and conducted by the Brown University Women Writers Project. They are intended to provide a more in-depth look at specific encoding problems and topics for people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are in the process of planning one. Each event will include a mix of presentations, discussion, case studies using participants' projects, hands-on practice, and individual consultation. The seminars will be strongly project-based: participants will present their projects to the group, discuss specific challenges and encoding strategies, develop encoding specifications and documentation, and create encoded sample documents and templates. We encourage project teams and collaborative groups to apply, although individuals are also welcome. A basic knowledge of the TEI Guidelines and some prior experience with text encoding will be assumed. Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant. The full upcoming schedule is as follows: Brown University Hosted by the Center for Digital Scholarship April 8-10, 2010 This workshop will focus on the encoding of contextual information. Application deadline: December 15, 2009 Applicants will be notified by January 8. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Hosted by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities July 2010 (precise date and deadlines TBA) This workshop will focus on the encoding of manuscript materials. University at Buffalo Hosted by the Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo October 2010 (precise date and deadlines TBA) This workshop will focus on the encoding of manuscript materials. University of Maryland January 2011 (precise date and deadlines TBA) This workshop will focus on the encoding of contextual information. Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Brown University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 18 06:35:53 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD633C18E; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:35:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5DE443C17C; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:35:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091118063551.5DE443C17C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:35:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.445 do we intertwingle? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 445. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:49:55 +0000 From: "Tanner, Simon" Subject: intertwingle Hi, Has anyone written about Digital Humanities as a whole in such a way as to address Ted Nelson's intertwingularity concept and whether/how it applies? Thanks, Simon -- Simon Tanner Director, King's Digital Consultancy Services, King's College London, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)7887 691716 or Admin: +44 (0)20 7848 2861 Email: simon.tanner@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 19 06:16:30 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E9943216; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:16:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F2F64431E3; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:16:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091119061626.F2F64431E3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:16:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.446 jobs in Worms & Trier X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 446. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:22:20 +0100 From: Marc Subject: Job postings for DFG funded typesetting tool for academic texts Dear Colleagues, The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) funds a joint project of the University of Applied Sciences Worms (Germany) and the University Trier (Germany) for the development of a typesetting module for (primarily) humanist texts. We will jointly develop a typesetting system for XML-based texts with complex layout requirements that meets the stringent requirements for the typesetting of (potentially heavily multilingual) academic texts (e.g. critical editions). The end user will work directly with semantically annotated data, without having to use explicit layouting instructions. Based on a WYSIWYG user interface (to be integrated into the TextGrid Lab, cf. http://www.textgrid.de) the system will support end users in the development of style-sheets for the rule-based formatting of their texts and will master the production of PDF (including PDF-A for longterm archiving). For this work we look for two motivated research assistants with a strong skill set in software architecture and development, one primarily focussing on the design and development of the core typesetting system itself (based in Worms) and one primarily looking at the end user interface (based in Trier). You can find the full details of the call under http://www.budabe.eu/print_stellenausschreibung.pdf (in German) We are looking forward to your applications! Best regards, Marc Küster -- ------ Prof. Dr. Marc Wilhelm Küster FH Worms - University of Applied Sciences Fachbereich Informatik/Telekommunikation Erenburgerstraße 19 * D-67549 Worms http://people.fh-worms.de/~kuester http://www.budabe.eu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 19 06:17:21 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 992A043285; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:17:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EEB6D43275; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:17:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091119061718.EEB6D43275@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:17:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.447 new on WWW: redesigned TCP website X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 447. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:42:36 -0500 From: "McCollough, Aaron" Subject: New EEBO-TCP Website Dear Humanists- This is just a note to inform you that the Text Creation Partnership has completely redesigned its website: http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp Here are some things you can expect from the new site: * a new, more streamlined presentation of information * regularly updated TCP "spotlights" on project milestones and related projects in research and scholarly application * reviews of recently encoded texts * fun with early modern print I would like to encourage you to visit the site regularly, as we aim for it to be a place of encounter between students and scholars working in Early Modern fields of study, especially those interested in the role of digital archives in those fields. Kind regards- Dr. Aaron McCollough Text Creation Partnership Project Outreach Librarian _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 19 06:17:47 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0255432C3; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:17:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C288A432AE; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:17:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091119061745.C288A432AE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:17:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.448 HASTAC on grading X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 448. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:01:56 -0500 From: hastac-web@duke.edu Subject: Grading 2.0: Evaluation in the Digital Age! Wow! Our HASTAC Scholars are at it again! Their newest forum on evaluation in the digital age has been up for less than 24 hours and there are already 65 comments! Check it out and join the conversation. http://www.hastac.org/scholars [1] *Are current grading and assessment techniques keeping up with how students learn and what they need to know? How can digital media be used to develop new grading and assessment strategies?* The latest HASTAC Scholars Forum is up and running, and this time we're exploring the possibilities of new evaluation and assessment strategies in light of what digital media can now offer, the kinds of skills and knowledge students need, and the ever-changing landscape of education and academia. What's your strategy for grading today? *Grading 2.0: Evaluation in the Digital Age* recognizes that, as the educational and cultural climate changes in response to new technologies for creating and sharing information, educators have begun to ask if the current framework for assessing student work, standardized testing, and grading is incompatible with the way these students should be learning and the skills they need to acquire to compete in the information age. Many would agree that its time to expand the current notion of assessment and create new metrics, rubrics, and methods of measurement in order to ensure that all elements of the learning process are keeping pace with the ever-evolving world in which we live. This new framework for assessment might build off of currently accepted strategies and pedagogy, but also take into account new ideas about what learners should know to be successful and confident in all of their endeavors. *How do we better align grading and assessment techniques so that they are more in line with how students learn today?* The traditional 'teach to the test' evaluation paradigm continues to produce a classroom experience that focuses on specifically 'testable' results. That testing paradigm is also disconnected from all of the creative, production, remixing, and networking skills that students are developing through their everyday engagement with new media. Another issue is that the traditional assessment system tends to measure students individually and via multiple-choice and written-response questions. As teaching practices evolve to include more team-based projects that involve the use of smart tools to solve problems or communicate ideas, it will become increasingly difficult to assess students in the traditional ways. Furthermore, current widely-used tests are not designed to gauge how well students apply their knowledge to new situations.   *In addition, how can digital media be used to develop new grading and assessment strategies?* There is clearly a great amount of interest in developing new technologies, and new forms of pedagogy, to better reflect grading, peer interaction and learning in the digital age -- we look forward to hearing your thoughts! *We will be covering a wide range of topics, including:* Technology & Assessment Assignments & Pedagogy Can everything be graded? Assessing the assessment strategies Current strategies and experiments Please help us think through these questions, experiments and strategies by logging on now: http://www.hastac.org/scholars [2]. Please note that you must be a member of the HASTAC community to participate. Everyone is welcome to join - simply register here (http://www.hastac.org/user/register [3]). We look forward to hearing from you! The HASTAC Scholar forum hosts: *Dixie Ching* Doctoral Student, Educational Communication & Technology New York University *John Jones * Assistant Instructor University of Texas at Austin *Matthew R. Straus* Statistics/Math Major Duke University HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) is an online community of over 3,000 scholars, designers and technologists who are interested in discussing socially important issues related to digital technology. -------------------- Fiona Barnett Director, HASTAC Scholars Ph.D. candidate Literature Program and Women's Studies Duke University fiona.barnett@duke.edu [4] [1] http://www.hastac.org/scholars [2] http://www.hastac.org/scholars [3] http://www.hastac.org/user/register [4] mailto:fiona.barnett@duke.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 19 06:18:46 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0474243326; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:18:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2DE2443311; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:18:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091119061843.2DE2443311@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:18:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.449 events: open data & visualisation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 449. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:46:58 -0600 From: Ana Boa-Ventura Subject: Visualizar'09 - an interesting approach Dear Humanists, Visualizar'09 is currently taking place at Medialab-Prado in Madrid (Nov12- 27). The workshop follows an innovative and gripping call for proposals put out by José Luis de Vicente (member of Bestiario), in which applicants were asked to submit large public data sets that they are working with (or want to work with) from their research organizations. Project tutors are working with the participants in the return of data to the public domain in visually compelling, impacting and actionable ways. These tutors include members of the outstanding SF-based “Stamen” and Barcelona/Lisbon based “Bestiario” teams. The workshop follows an international conference with the same focus: the intersection of the open data movement and information visualization This is how Ben Cerveny (Stamen facilitator at Visualizar’09) described the approach on a personal email now made public:) “[…] we encouraged applicants to do research on which datasets in their field of interest had already been released into the public domain. In some cases, we accepted people into the workshop who work for agencies that have generated large amounts of data that they are interested in making public, but do not yet understand the full legal and technical process. We will most likely be producing a document based on the workshop which outlines some of the process recommendations for approaching public institutions [from the inside or the outside] about opening up datasources”. If you are against the privatization of (the type of) data that by definition should have no owner, and against the intellectual property of facts, stay tuned for the results of Visualizar’09. Ana Boa-Ventura Doctoral candidate, University of Texas at Austin The Global Middle Ages http://www.laits.utexas.edu/gma/mappamundi/ Personal page: http://www.ana-morphosis.org (in progress) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 19 11:59:02 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06FD243974; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:59:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8DAC343964; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:59:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091119115900.8DAC343964@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:59:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.450 NB: impact and text X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 450. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:57:44 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the impact of impact, and the fate of texts Dear colleagues, Many here will be interested in Stefan Collini's "Impact on the humanities: Researchers must take a stand now or be judged and rewarded as salesmen", in the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) for 13 November, with comments following, at entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6915986.ece, and the correspondence that follows in the TLS for 20 November, esp the letter from Philip Davis (Liverpool). Collini's piece is likely to disappear very soon, since the issue following is published. Note also in the TLS for 20 November a fine piece by Jerome McGann, "Our textual history: Digital copying of poetry and prose raises questions beyond accuracy alone", pp. 13-15. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 23 07:34:39 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 133403A488; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:34:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0AE5B3A465; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:34:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091123073436.0AE5B3A465@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:34:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.451 playing with PDF guts? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 451. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:48:55 -0500 From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Playing with PDF guts? Dear Humanists, I had a feeling of having asked this question here before, but can't find it in my email archives; please forgive any duplication. I'm having a persistent desire to semantically encode text embedded in PDF files, particularly OCR'd files. There's got to be a... layer?... in that format where it's just the text. Or perhaps text with styling. I'd like to get to that layer, be able to *see* it, and then figure out how to (for example) encode it in XML, the old-fashioned way,* TEI-like or similar. I figure that the encoding would then need to be in a different layer, or part, of the file, but don't actually know what its structure is, and so will stop talking. Haven't found any applications that do the allowing me to see just the text part. Googling "pdf structure" and "pdf guts" yields discouraging results. Acrobat... I can't find any features helpful in this quest. Any tool-oriented advice? Further, if this were possible, is it something you or scholars you know would be interested in using? Many thanks in advance, -Vika *Feels kind of homey to call anything digital humanists do old-fashioned. -- Vika Zafrin Digital Collections and Computing Support Librarian Boston University School of Theology 745 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 617.353.1317 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 23 07:43:50 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE9F3A6AD; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:43:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 334493A69C; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:43:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091123074347.334493A69C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:43:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.452 nlnet grants; academia.edu feature X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 452. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Richard Price (15) Subject: New Academia.edu feature for Humanist [2] From: Willard McCarty (17) Subject: nlnet --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:06:59 -0800 From: Richard Price Subject: New Academia.edu feature for Humanist Dear Humanist members, I wanted to tell the list about a new feature on Academia.edu. Academia.edu launched 12 months ago and now helps 300,000 academics a month answer the question 'who's researching what?' We have built a dedicated page on Academia.edu for the Humanist mailing list: http://lists.academia.edu/See-members-of-Humanist This page will show you fellow members already on Academia.edu. You can see their papers, research interests, and other information. Visit the link below, sign up with Academia.edu, and share your research interests with fellow members of Humanist. http://lists.academia.edu/See-members-of-Humanist Richard Dr. Richard Price, post-doc, Philosophy Dept, Oxford University. Founder of Academia.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:42:09 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: nlnet Some here will be interested, I expect, in the nlnet Foundation, www.nlnet.nl, which "financially supports organizations and people that contribute to an open information society". At an academic function in the Netherlands recently, I happened to meet nlnet's Director of Strategy, Michiel Leenaars, who explained at some length his organization's enthusiasm for supporting individuals on relatively modest grants to carry out projects of their own devising. As he said, they don't promise income at the level of Microsoft or Google, but they do allow successful applicants to build what they want to build. Does anyone here have experience of nlnet? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 23 07:48:04 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B6D3A739; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:48:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 57C033A72A; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:48:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091123074802.57C033A72A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:48:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.454 events: who am I? web services; workshops at DH2010 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 454. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: Humanist Discussion Group Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 453. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Bradley, John" (29) Subject: DH2010: expressions of interest in giving a workshop [2] From: Charles Ess (78) Subject: Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:38:07 +0000 From: "Bradley, John" Subject: DH2010: expressions of interest in giving a workshop Pre-conference workshops at DH2010 Expressions of Interest and Proposals ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As in previous years, the days 3-6 July, before the DH2010 conference (7-11 July at King's College London) have been set aside for community-run workshops. One can reach a diverse and committed body of participants in the Digital Humanities at DH2010. Do you or your project have a workshop up your sleeve that would interest this Digital Humanities community? Half- or one-day slots are available for workshops, which need to be self-organized and self-funding. KCL can provide space for the workshop at no or low cost, so it is likely that the costs per participant would be low. We would like to receive proposals for such workshops. In your full proposal (total 500-800 words), please include: (1) a brief description of the workshop programme, the project or community out of which it arises, and the trainers who will run the workshop,and its proposed length; (2) what is the demand for this workshop, and who do you expect the audience to be? What minimum number of attendees would be needed for you to do the workshop? (3) what funding is available or will you seek to help to support the costs of this workshop (for instance, travel for trainers, lunch or refreshments for participants, as applicable)? A few groups have already expressed interest in running workshops, and we have been talking informally with them. If you have ideas that is not yet fully formed, we would be delighted to e-speak to you about them before you submit a proposal. The closing date for full proposals will be 31 December 2009. Please send them via email to either of us. John Bradley (john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk) and Gabriel Bodard (gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:36:01 +0100 From: Charles Ess Subject: Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <20091119115900.8DAC343964@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Humanists, with the usual apologies for cross-posting and duplication, and request that you forward this to potentially interested colleagues: Workshop: Who Am I Online? University of Aarhus, Kalovig Centre, Denmark 10-11 May 2010 Organisers: Charles Ess (Drury/Aarhus) Luciano Floridi (Hertfordshire/Oxford) 1st Call For Papers (Deadline: 31 March 2010) As time and technology progress, how we interact with the world and each other becomes increasingly complex and articulated. The quantity and diversity of information in our environment, and the ease with which we can access that information and integrate it into our daily lives, have increased exponentially over the past decade. For many of us, the environment with which we interact has changed to make possible entirely new ways of working with information and being with others. Interest in these topics has recently been amplified by the advent of the so-called "Web 2.0", a (continuing) expansion of interactive venues such as social networking, blogging and microblogging such as Twitter, and "pro/sumer" activities in which consumers of media content such as music and videos are simultaneously its producers. Psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists - including those whose research is gathered under the general domain of computer-mediated communication (CMC) - have for some time been interested in the ways in which such changes in our informational environment might affect us and our self-conceptions. The relevance of new technologies to our lives has attracted academic attention in large part because it appears to raise questions about how new kinds of interactions with others and our environment might alter, shape or otherwise affect our self-conceptions, our thoughts and other aspects of our cognitive, emotional and moral lives. And the project of ascertaining which properties of ourselves and our activities make essential contributions to our moral and mental lives and personhood is one in which philosophers are traditionally engaged. Yet these topics have, thus far, been relatively neglected by philosophers. This is especially strange when considered alongside the emphasis in recent philosophy of mind on the essential contributions that the embedding environment and our modes of interaction with it can make to our mental lives. If it¹s possible that our informational environment and our capacities for interaction with it can constitutively shape our mentality and our moral conduct, we should consider whether radical changes in that environment and its interactive affordances may have implications for the character of our mental and moral lives, and perhaps for the sorts of persons we are. There is already significant evidence that such changes are upon us in both what we used to call the Western and Eastern worlds - most obviously, as apparent changes in self-conception are affiliated with dramatically changing understandings and expectations of Œprivacy,¹ especially informational or online privacy. So, what implications do new informational environments and affordances have for philosophical and ethical views of personal identity? And what light, if any, can existing philosophical work on personal identity shine on the conceptual issues that arise when talking and thinking about agents, environments and interactions that span or blur the real/virtual and online/offline divides? The workshop will address these issues. We welcome proposals for papers dealing with the construction of personal identities online. Please submit extended abstracts (between 1000 and 1500 words all included, preferably in MS Word format) for papers suitable for 40-minute presentations to Dave Ward (D.Ward2@herts.ac.uk) by 31 March 2010. Bursaries: a number of bursaries for graduate students presenting papers will be available, on a competitive basis, to contribute to travel and accommodation expenses. Publication: successful submissions will be selected for publication. Series: the workshop is part of a series of meetings organized as part of the AHRC-funded project ³The Construction of Personal Identities Online². More information about the project is available here: http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/grants/pio/index.html - charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 24 06:30:12 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71BF63C2BA; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:30:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 299FA3C2B2; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:30:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091124063009.299FA3C2B2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:30:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.455 into the entrails of PDF X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 455. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Thomas Crombez (60) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.451 playing with PDF guts? [2] From: Richard Lewis (60) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.451 playing with PDF guts? [3] From: Elli Mylonas (73) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.451 playing with PDF guts? [4] From: Stéfan Sinclair (31) Subject: Re: Playing with PDF guts? [5] From: Hugh Cayless (66) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.451 playing with PDF guts? [6] From: James Smith (62) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.451 playing with PDF guts? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:46:14 +0100 From: Thomas Crombez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.451 playing with PDF guts? In-Reply-To: <20091123073436.0AE5B3A465@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Vika, if you know a little Python scripting (or are willing to learn it, it's quite fun and very accessible) you could look into the text layer of your pdf files using the module pyPdf (see http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/). It lets you 'grab' and modify pages, page numbers, text contents... from pdf files. A workflow specifically for editing text may be found here: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/511465/ Best, Thomas Crombez On 23-nov-2009, at 08:34, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 451. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:48:55 -0500 > From: Vika Zafrin > Subject: Playing with PDF guts? > > > Dear Humanists, > > I had a feeling of having asked this question here before, but can't find it > in my email archives; please forgive any duplication. > > I'm having a persistent desire to semantically encode text embedded in PDF > files, particularly OCR'd files. There's got to be a... layer?... in that > format where it's just the text. Or perhaps text with styling. I'd like to > get to that layer, be able to *see* it, and then figure out how to (for > example) encode it in XML, the old-fashioned way,* TEI-like or similar. I > figure that the encoding would then need to be in a different layer, or > part, of the file, but don't actually know what its structure is, and so > will stop talking. > > Haven't found any applications that do the allowing me to see just the text > part. Googling "pdf structure" and "pdf guts" yields discouraging results. > Acrobat... I can't find any features helpful in this quest. > > Any tool-oriented advice? Further, if this were possible, is it something > you or scholars you know would be interested in using? > > Many thanks in advance, > -Vika > > *Feels kind of homey to call anything digital humanists do old-fashioned. > > -- > Vika Zafrin > Digital Collections and Computing Support Librarian > Boston University School of Theology > 745 Commonwealth Avenue > Boston, MA 02215 > 617.353.1317 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:33:38 +0000 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.451 playing with PDF guts? In-Reply-To: <20091123073436.0AE5B3A465@woodward.joyent.us> I don't know any of the details of how PDFs work, and so can't help you with encoding information in them. But the XPDF package includes several useful tools for extracting text from PDF files *where the text is available*. http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ As I understand it, you're right in your description of the PDF file format as being layered. It's quite possible (and JSTOR scans provide a good example) for a PDF to contain both a picture of some text, along with real encoded text. And my prefered PDF viewer (Evince) seems to suggest that the encoded text may include some layout information as Evince is able to search for and highlight strings in JSTOR PDFs. Also, pdftk provides some similar facilities to XPDF. http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ Both packages available on POSIX and non-POSIX platforms. Where the PDF is just an image of the text, I've had some success with http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ . I scripted the extraction of PNG images of each page of the PDFs and the passing of those images to OCRopus to generate HTML which includes layout information. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:13:01 -0500 From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.451 playing with PDF guts? In-Reply-To: <20091123073436.0AE5B3A465@woodward.joyent.us> Vika: http://pdfbox.apache.org/ It's a java library. --elli [Elli Mylonas Center for Digital Scholarship Brown University Library] --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:55:01 -0500 From: Stéfan_Sinclair Subject: Re: Playing with PDF guts? In-Reply-To: <20091123073436.0AE5B3A465@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Vika, You ask about working with the text and structure of PDF. I think you have in mind modifying the file and saving changes back into the PDF, but if it can be useful to you to just extract the text, Voyeur Tools can help (though of course there are many other solutions for just ripping text out of PDFs): 1) go to http://voyeurtools.org/ and add your PDF text(s) (see the "Loading Texts" video at http://hermeneuti.ca/voyeur for more info) 2) click on the "Corpus" tab in the panel on the right 3) click on the document you wish to export 4) click the export icon (the little diskette in the same Corpus panel) 5) choose DHQAuthor (XML) Your mileage will vary, but theoretically you should get somewhat useful paragraphs at least. I'm not sure why I've only put DHQAuthor for now, but I'll add HTML and text (and maybe simple TEI) for the next release. There are no doubt easier and faster ways to extract text from PDF, but there may not be any others that allow you to do some text analysis while you're at it ;-) Stéfan -- [Please do not reply to this message as I use this address for communication that is susceptible to spambots. My regular email address starts with my user handle sgs and uses the domain name mcmaster.ca] -- Dr. Stéfan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address: TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://stefansinclair.name/ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:09:40 -0500 From: Hugh Cayless Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.451 playing with PDF guts? In-Reply-To: <20091123073436.0AE5B3A465@woodward.joyent.us> PDF is a swamp. There are loads of tools for working with it, you just need to know what you're getting into and watch where you step. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PDF_software has a list of tools. I've personally used ghostscript (http://www.ghostscript.com/), Xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/), iText (http://www.lowagie.com/iText/), and PDFBox (http://pdfbox.apache.org/) to mess around with PDFs. One thing to consider is that PDF is (not surprisingly) page-oriented, which means your encoded text would probably need to be too. There are other considerations with PDF text: the text in a PDF may be displayed, in which case each character has a glyph, which is what's actually painted on the screen (if you're lucky, each glyph has a character, but let's not go there); or it may be hidden, and what's displayed on the page is an image, with uncorrected OCR as part of the page object for searching purposes. The latter can be used in pretty sophisticated ways, and I don't have a deep understanding of it. Information about PDF can be found here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/. The PDF spec itself is 1310 pages, which may help explain why your search results were discouraging. Hope this helps, Hugh /** * Hugh A. Cayless, Ph.D. * NYU Digital Library Technology Services * http://papyri.info */ --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:58:56 -0600 From: James Smith Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.451 playing with PDF guts? In-Reply-To: <20091123073436.0AE5B3A465@woodward.joyent.us> There are several low-level options, but PDF in general is not as simple as a TEI document. It seems to share more personality with TeX/LaTeX. If you want to use a library to manage PDF file content, then I think wikipedia has a good enough description of how PDF documents are structured: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF . There are some libraries for manipulating PDF documents. In Perl, PDF::API2 seems to be the most recent effort: http://search.cpan.org/~areibens/PDF-API2/ . That's the one I'd try first if creating something in Perl. The Ruby libraries seem to be focused on creating PDF documents instead of reading them. Not sure what's available in Python, Java, or other languages/platforms. If nothing else, looking at the Wikipedia article and the general abilities that the libraries make available might help you know if it is possible to embed a semantic encoding within a PDF document. My initial reaction is that it might not be possible, or, if it is possible, it won't be accessible without special code in PDF readers (or encoding it in a way that will work with current readers -- something that might be outside the scope of the PDF specification). -- Jim _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 24 06:31:17 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 152813C319; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:31:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CD43F3C304; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:31:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091124063114.CD43F3C304@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:31:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.456 jobs: PhD studentship; asst profs X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 456. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Sturm, J.A." (36) Subject: job: PhD position in Design Research on Physical and Social Play [2] From: "pasquier@sfu.ca" (5) Subject: Assistant Professor (2 positions available): School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University. --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:43:15 +0000 From: "Sturm, J.A." Subject: job: PhD position in Design Research on Physical and Social Play The Eindhoven University of Technology and Fontys University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands seek candidates for a PhD position in "Design Research on physical and social play" - The PLAYfit project - This PhD is part of a collaborative nationally funded project called 'PLAYfit' which aims to create playful solutions that stimulate secondary school students to be more physically active. The main goal of the project is to explore whether and how teenagers can be activated by translating aspects of gaming into physical concepts. The PhD candidate will work on the design, development and validation of a physical gaming environment that is tailored to the needs and motivations of secondary school children. The project is a collaboration between the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and the Fontys University of Applied Sciences (Fontys Hogeschool). The PhD student is jointly supervised by the User-Centred Engineering Group of the Department of Industrial Design, TU/e and the Serious Games lectorate of the Fontys Hogeschool. Other stakeholders in the project are the Physical Activity and Health lectorate of the Fontys Hogeschool and various companies. The project will follow a user centred design approach in which various stakeholders, such as secondary school students, gaming experts and physical education teachers will be involved in all stages. The project will have a strong focus on validation of the concepts through design research and field studies especially with a view to develop generalizable knowledge about how to structure and facilitate this type of co-development process. The PhD candidate will be participating in education, e.g. by supervising student projects on topics related to the PLAYfit project. Requirements - A Master in Industrial Design, Information Sciences, Media Studies, with a strong background in human-computer interaction and/or gaming. - Affinity with the topics of persuasion and tangible or graphical user interfaces are valued. - Also valued is prior experience with design research and with setting up and executing user tests. - Excellent social and communicative skills and affinity with teaching are expected. - The candidate should be fluent in Dutch; good knowledge of English is required. Appointment and Salary The appointment is for 4 years, starting January 1, 2010, subject to finalizing funding arrangements. As an employee of the university you will receive a competitive salary as well as excellent employment conditions (including excellent sport facilities and child care). The research in this project must be concluded with writing a PhD thesis. A salary is offered starting at EUR 2,042 per month (gross) in the first year and increasing up to EUR 2,492 per month (gross) in the last year. Moreover 8% bonus share (holiday supplement) and 8.3% bonus share (end-of-the-year allowance) are provided annually. Assistance for finding accommodation can be provided. The PhD position will be carried out within the research group User-Centered Engineering (Industrial Design, TU/e) and the lectorate Serious Game Design (Fontys Hogeschool). About TU/e Industrial Design TU/e is one of Europe's leading research universities. The Eindhoven area, in the southern part of the Netherlands, is one of Europe's top 'innovation ecosystems', with many high-tech companies and institutes, such as Philips, ASML, NXP, DAF, OCE, and TNO. TU/e is closely intertwined with many of these companies and institutes, and research at TU/e is characterized by a combination of academic excellence and industrial relevance. The department of Industrial Design of the TU/e, founded in 2001, is a department with about 500 students, both Bachelor and Master, and around 150 staff members. With a strong emphasis on research the ID department focuses on the design of intelligent products, systems, services and networks. These innovative products enable people to interact with their environment in an optimal and flexible way. The User-Centered Engineering group focuses on advancing the understanding of the user experience and developing innovative concepts for the interaction of humans with intelligent systems, for example in the domain of play and collaboration. About Fontys University of Applied Sciences: Fontys University of Applied Sciences offers more than 200 Bachelor programs, some 40 Master programs, PhD opportunities and non-degree courses in the following sectors: Fine Arts, Management, Education, Health Care and Social Studies, Transportation and Logistics, Applied Science and Technology. It is the largest educational institute in West Brabant. The lectorate Serious Game Design is part of Fontys School of ICT, with about 1900 students and 200 staff and offers education in Game Design for around 300 students. Its research focuses on gaming, open-ended play and curiosity-driven interaction for education and sports especially in smart environments (Ambient Intelligence). Information Further information about the project, including a full project description, can be obtained from: - Dr. Ben Schouten, Lector Serious Game Design, phone: +31 (0)87 787 7742, e-mail: ben.schouten@fontys.nl - Dr. ir. Tilde Bekker / Dr. Janienke Sturm, Dept. of Industrial Design, phone: +31 (0)40 247 5239 / 5298, e-mail: M.M.Bekker@tue.nl / J.Sturm@tue.nl General information about the organization and the hiring process can be requested from: - Ms. Julma Braat, personnel department Dept. of Industrial Design, phone: +31 (0)40 247 5883, e-mail: j.a.c.l.braat@tue.nl - Mr. Robbert Pas, personnel department School of ICT, phone: +31 (0)87 787 0184, e-mail: r.pas@fontys.nl Application Applications are due November 23, 2009. Please send a written application or e-mail, including a letter explaining your specific interest in the project and extensive curriculum vitae, to the following address: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Department of Industrial Design Attn. Ms. J.A.C.L. Braat, room HG 3.93 P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands Or by e-mail to: j.a.c.l.braat@tue.nl Please include vacancy code V51.077 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:41:17 +0000 From: "pasquier@sfu.ca" Subject: Assistant Professor (2 positions available): School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University. In-Reply-To: <1165743443.2524971257300365060.JavaMail.root@jaguar7.sfu.ca> The School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) is accepting applications for two assistant professors. Details online: http://www.siat.sfu.ca/careers/faculty/312/ Best, -- Philippe Pasquier Assistant Professor School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. http://www.sfu.ca/pasquier _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 24 06:32:45 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C60A3C37F; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:32:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D21B23C377; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:32:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091124063242.D21B23C377@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:32:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.457 events: TEI in Cologne in 3 days X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 457. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:59:41 +0100 From: Patrick Sahle Subject: Workshop: Putting the TEI to Work. Cologne (Germany), 27.11.09 Dear Humanists The Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH; currently in the process of being formally established), in cooperation with ENRICH (http://enrich.manuscriptorium.com/) proudly announces a digital humanities event for next Friday: What: Workshop: Putting the TEI to Work. Usage and Processing of Text Encoding Initiative Data. When: Friday, 11/21/2009, 09:00-17:00 Where: Conference room, University- und City Library Cologne. Room 407 (4th floor). How to get there: http://www.ub.uni-koeln.de/bibliothek/kontakt/index_ger.html Program: 09:00-09:15 Manfred Thaller (Cologne) - Introduction 09:15-10:45 Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford) - TEI: Creating a Resource 11:00-12:30 Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford) - TEI: Using a Resource 13:30-14:00 Karl Märker (Munich) - Typographie - Inhalt – Metadaten. Struktur- und Volltexterfassung mit TEI an der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek 14:00-14:30 Torsten Schassan (Wolfenbüttel) - Metadaten für Alle(s) - Die Verwendung der TEI an der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel 14:45-15:15 Christiane Fritze, Alexander Czmiel, Oliver Duntze (Berlin) - TEI-Anwendung an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften am Beispiel von Telota und DTA (Deutsches Textarchiv) 15:15-15:45 Florian Willems (Cologne) - Embedding Object Data in TEI Documents - Challenges and Solutions 16:00-16:30 Julianne Nyhan (Trier) - Teaching and Leaching TEI: an Introduction to the Forthcoming TEI-Education Journal 16:30-17:00 Final discussion The workshop is open to the public. Best regards, Patrick Sahle Lecturer in Humanities IT (50%) Cologne Center for eHumanities (50%) University of Cologne, Germany Universitätsstraße 22, D-50923 Köln, +49 - (0)221 - 470 1750 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing / Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik: http://www.i-d-e.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 25 08:21:00 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742AC3B137; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:21:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B2D6E3B123; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:20:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091125082058.B2D6E3B123@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:20:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.458 scholarly editions survey X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 458. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:48:47 +0000 From: Bert Van Raemdonck Subject: USER: Using Scholarly Editions for Reseach [The following has been forwarded from The list of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and the Society for Textual Scholarship , which you might consider joining. --WM] Dear ESTS members, Textual scholars – particularly those who are editing letters or working with correspondence, but others as well – may be interested to participate in the USER project. USER is a research project about Using Scholarly Editions for Research. The current USER survey deals with digital archives and editions of correpondence. It is part of a PhD research project that involves a digital archive and edition of the correspondence regarding the Flemish literary journal Van Nu en Straks. The research is coordinated by the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB-KANTL), in collaboration with Ghent University. The USER survey consists of 31 questions. Depending on your answers, it will take you 8 to 16 minutes. Visit the USER page on the CTB website for an introduction and to participate: http://www.kantl.be/ctb/USER/ [An earlier version of the survey was in Dutch. Those who have already participated in the Dutch version, please ignore this message.] More information on USER and the 'Van Nu en Straks' archive and edition at USER@kantl.be or please contact Bert Van Raemdonck Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies Koningstraat 18 9000 Gent Belgium bert.vanraemdonck@kantl.be ++32(0)9 265 93 51 -- Bert Van Raemdonck bert.vanraemdonck@kantl.be Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - CTB (KANTL) Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature Koningstraat 18 / 9000 Gent / België tel: (+32) (0)9 265 93 50 / fax: (+32) (0)9 265 93 49 http://www.kantl.be/ctb/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/staff/bert.htm Universiteit Gent http://www.nederlandseliteratuur.ugent.be/doctoraatsbursalen/Bert _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 25 08:21:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A697A3B17D; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:21:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7DA883B174; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:21:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091125082133.7DA883B174@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:21:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.459 new publication: quantitative linguistics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 459. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:14:13 +0000 From: RAM-Verlag Subject: Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 4; "Problems in QantitativeLinguistics 2" Just published ( Oktober 2009 ) Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 4: "Problems in Quantitative Linguistics 2" 145 pages ISBN: 978-3-9802659-7-3 Published by: RAM-Verlag ( www.ram-verlag.de ) Authors: Reinhard Köhler, Gabriel Altmann The book is a collection of tasks - both old and new - whose solution would be a valuable contribution to quantitative linguistics. There are both empirical tasks, e.g. application of a conjectured function to new data, and theoretical ones, e.g. derivation of some hypothesized regularity. The problems are taken from phonology, grammar, semantics, lexicology, textology, typology, universals, synergetics, philosophy of science, pragmatics and from the boundaries between disciplines. The tasks are suitable for exams, teaching, dissertations and scientific research. The series introduces a new genre in scientific literature. Contents: See http://www.ram-verlag.de/, Books. RAM-Verlag Jutta Richter-Altmann Medienverlag Stüttinghauser Ringstr. 44 58515 Lüdenscheid Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 2351/ 973070 Fax: +49 (0) 2351/ 973071 Mail: RAM-Verlag@t-online.de Web: www.ram-verlag.de http://www.ram-verlag.de/ Steuer-Nr.: 332/5002/0548 Mwst/VAT/TVA/ ID no.: DE 125 809 989 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 25 08:22:05 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 162203B1F7; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:22:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7445F3B1E5; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:22:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091125082202.7445F3B1E5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:22:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.460 events: grand challenges conference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 460. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:18:00 -0500 From: hastac-web@duke.edu Subject: HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations Conference HASTAC is delighted to announce the HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations Conference. Held April 15-17, 2010 and hosted by the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at the University of Illinois, HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations will be a free, entirely virtual event held in a multiplicity of digital spaces instigated from sites across the globe. This years event will focus on grand challenges and global innovations in the form of technologies, research, teaching, and inquiry that can be leveraged across personal, physical, geographical, institutional, disciplinary, and organizational boundaries.  HASTAC 2010 seeks to ask: what are the influence(s) of virtual spaces that can transcend boundaries to impact global innovations?  How will the next generation of digital technologies alter personal, physical, geographical, institutional, disciplinary, and organizational boundaries?  What are the grand challenges in humanities, arts, and sciences that will shape the next generation of global innovation? In the spirit of including digital innovators from across the globe, HASTAC 2010 will feature:        Keynote events hosted at research centers from across the globe during the conference.  Confirmed virtual hub participants include: Georg-August-Universitt Gttingen [1] (GAUG, Germany), Kings College London [2](KCL, UK),  Laboratrio Nacional de Computao Cientfica [3] (LNCC, Brazil), the Advanced Digital Sciences Center [4], Fusionopolis [5](Singapore), El Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnologa [6] (CeNAT, Costa Rica), National Center for Supercomputing Applications [7](NCSA, USA), Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center [8] (PSC, USA), the Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University [9](CCT, USA), the Center for Computational Sciences University of Kentucky [10] (CCS, USA), the National University Community Research Institute [11](NUCRI, USA), Duke University [12] (DU, USA), the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute [13](FHI, USA), the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities [14] (MITH, USA), the Texas Advanced Computing Center [15] (TACC, USA), the Institute for Multimedia Literacy [16], University of Southern California [17] (IML, USA), the University of California Humanities Research Institute [18] (UCHRI, USA).   To foster innovation in research, HASTAC 2010 will feature special sessions on:        Young scholars where undergraduate and graduate students can present works in progress and receive support and feedback from the HASTAC community.        Disciplinary pedagogy where participants can explore the meaning of global innovation with the teaching of digital humanities, arts, and sciences. HASTAC 2010 Conference submissions will be accepted MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2009 through FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2009. Submission guidelines for the General Conference are available at: http://www.chass.illinois.edu [19] Key dates: Abstract submissions due: Dec. 18, 2009 Notification of participants: Jan. 29, 2010 Conference: April 15-17, 2010 Points of Contact Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1205 W. Clark St., MC-257 Urbana, Illinois 61820 guiliano@illinois.edu [20] with HASTAC 2010 in the Subject Line [1] http://www.uni-goettingen.de/ [2] http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ [3] http://www.lncc.br/ [4] http://www.adsc.illinois.edu/ [5] http://www.fusionopolis.a-star.edu.sg/ [6] http://www.cenat.ac.cr/ [7] http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/ [8] http://www.psc.edu/ [9] http://www.cct.lsu.edu/home [10] https://www.ccs.uky.edu/ [11] http://nucri.nu.edu/ [12] http://www.duke.edu/ [13] http://fhi.duke.edu/ [14] http://mith.umd.edu/ [15] http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/ [16] http://cinema.usc.edu/programs/institute-for-multimedia-literacy/ [17] http://cinema.usc.edu/programs/institute-for-multimedia-literacy/ [18] http://www.uchri.org/ [19] http://www.chass.illinois.edu/ [20] mailto:guiliano@illinois.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 26 06:55:18 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A92A4256F; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:55:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A431F4255E; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:55:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091126065516.A431F4255E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:55:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.461 jobs: Sanskrit DL at Brown; digital humanities at UCL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 461. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Claire Warwick (15) Subject: jobs at UCL [2] From: Elli Mylonas (38) Subject: Position: Sanskrit DL assistant (repost) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:23:00 +0000 From: Claire Warwick Subject: jobs at UCL Dear Humanists, We are pleased to announce vacancies for a number of posts at UCL. These are all part time but we are happy to consider applications to combine two of them into one full time post. Please see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/kerstin-michaels/vacancies/ for details. Please note that ideally we would like people to start in January, but are wiling to be flexible for the right candidate/s if necessary. If you'd like any more information about any of these, please do contact myself or Melissa. Best wishes, Claire -- Claire Warwick MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab) Reader in Digital Humanities Director UCL Centre for Digital Humanities --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:54:20 -0500 From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Position: Sanskrit DL assistant (repost) The digital Sanskrit library in the Department of Classics at Brown University seeks a post-doctoral research associate for one year to assist in an NEH-funded project entitled, "Enhancing Access to Primary Cultural Heritage Materials of India." The position carries a stipend of $25,000 for one year. The Sanskrit Library is a collaborative project to make the heritage texts of India accessible on the web. The project is building a digital Sanskrit library by integrating texts, linguistic software, and digital Sanskrit lexical sources. This year the project is making digital images of manuscripts of the Mahābhārata and Bhāgavatapurāṇa housed at Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania, cataloguing them, and linking them with the corresponding machine-readable texts. Extending the scope of linguistic software to these digital images serves as a pilot project to demonstrate the feasibility of doing so with manuscript images generally. The research associate will work with the project director, software engineer, and student assistants on the following tasks: --to mark manuscript page boundaries in machine-readable texts --to develop word-spotting and automated text-image alignment techniques --to develop conduits for simultaneous print, PDF, and html publication of the catalogue and other documents. The position requires advanced training in Sanskrit, academic research skills, and expertise in XML. Desirable additionally are some or all of the following: competence in the text-encoding initiative (TEI) standards, XSLT, HTML, CSS, TeX, Java, user-interface design, Perl, PhP, and server administration. The applicant is expected to be creative and to able to work individually as well as to collaborate with technical personnel. Brown University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Apply by sending a resumé, a description of your relevant experience with links to products produced, a clear indication of your role and responsibility in their production (whether you are exclusively responsible or the manner and extent of your responsibility), and the names and contact information of three references to the project director (Peter Scharf) via email (scharf@brown.edu) with the subject heading, "Sanskrit Library Assistant," by 1 December 2009. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 26 06:56:14 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54AE2425A6; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:56:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 469034259F; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:56:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091126065613.469034259F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:56:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.462 nanotechnology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 462. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:35:11 -0200 From: renata lemos Subject: techno-de(con)struction of humanism quotation: "The birth of nanotechnology as a scientific discipline provokes the hyperreal collapse of humanistic discourse, puncturing the fragile membrane between real and simulation, science and science fiction, organism and machine, and heralding metamorphic futures and cyborganic discontinuities. In both its speculative-theoretical and applied-engineering modes, nanotechnology unbuilds those constructions of human thought, as well as those forms of human embodiment, based on the security of presence and stability—terrorizing presentist humanism from the vantage point of an already inevitable future. As Jacques Derrida has repeatedly suggested, the deconstruction of metaphysical structures allows us to “pass beyond man and humanism, the name of man being the name of that being who, throughout the history of metaphysics or of ontotheology—in other words, throughout his entire history—has dreamed of full presence, the reassuring foundation, the origin and the end of play. Critiquing humanism from within while simultaneously stepping radically outside the domain defined by humanism opens a subject position other than that implanted between essence and eschatology—which is the position of the human, for the “name of man has always been inscribed in metaphysics between these two ends. With a similar agenda, Michel Foucault has argued for the historic boundaries of humanism, depicting an epistemic closure marking the end of man as an entity: “As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.” The intellectual breakdown of humanism is advanced through the collision between human flesh and postmodern technologies, where the relational interface mediates the emergence of new posthuman haptic spaces—machinic, virtual, material, and meaty—as Paul Virilio, Brian Massumi, N. Katherine Hayles, and the contributors to this volume have suggested. I argue that nanotechnology participates in the *techno-de(con)struction of humanism*, forcing us to think otherwise through its ambiguous hyperreal status and its narratives of corporeal reconfiguration from beyond the temporal horizon, fabricating new fields of embodiment and facilitating our becoming posthuman by envisioning a future where the world and the body have been made into the stuff of science fiction dreams" in: Colin Milburn. Nanotechnology in the Age of Posthuman Engineering: Science Fiction as Science. Configurations, 2002, 10:261–295. The Johns Hopkins University Press. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 26 06:57:01 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658BE425EF; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:57:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 734EF425DC; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:56:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091126065659.734EF425DC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:56:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.463 DH2010 RSS-feed X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 463. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:40:55 +0000 From: Elena Pierazzo Subject: RSS Feed on Digital Humanities 2010 website Dear all, A new RSS feed service is now available from the Digital Humanities 2010 website (http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010). Please subscribe the service at http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/news/news.xml. The feed will be available also from the 'News' section of the website: http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/news/news.html. Stay updated! London 2010 is just few months away. Best, Elena -- Dr Elena Pierazzo Research Associate Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Phone: 0207-848-1949 Fax: 0207-848-2980 elena.pierazzo@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 26 06:57:47 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D12A42636; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:57:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2E86942623; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:57:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091126065746.2E86942623@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:57:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.464 events: open source tools for MT X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 464. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:06:28 +0100 From: MT Marathon 2010 Organising Committee Subject: Final Call for Papers for the Open Source Convention held at the Machine Translation Marathon 2010 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN SOURCE TOOLS FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION The Fourth Machine Translation Marathon, which will take place 25–30 January 2010 in Dublin, Ireland, is hosting an Open Source Convention to advance the state of the art in machine translation. The MT Marathon is organised by the National Centre for Language Technology and the Centre for Next Generation Localisation at Dublin City University on behalf of the EuroMatrixPlus Consortium. We invite developers of open source tools to present their work and submit a paper of up to 10 pages that (a) describes the underlying methodology and (b) includes instructions how to use the tools. We are looking for stand-alone tools and extensions of existing tools, such as the Moses open source systems. Accepted papers will be presented during the MT Marathon and published as a special issue of the Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics (http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml). Possible Topics: • training of machine translation models • machine translation decoders • tuning of machine translation systems • evaluation of machine translation • visualization, annotation or debugging tools • tools for human translators • interfaces for web-based services or APIs • extensions of existing tools • other tools for machine translation This is the second time that the MT Marathon will host the Open Source Convention. The papers from last year are available online: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml-91-100.html Papers will be reviewed by two reviewers appointed by the program committee. Important Dates: Deadline for paper submission: strictly December 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance: December 7, 2009 Camera-ready paper due: December 14, 2009 Presentations: January 25–30, 2010 (at the MT Marathon in Dublin) A preliminary program for the MT Marathon is now available at http://MTMarathon2010.info/web/Program.html For the submission guidelines and requirements, please visit the MT Marathon website: http://MTMarathon2010.info Please note, that the camera-ready versions will only be accepted in the Xe(La)TeX format described on the website (i.e. MS Word and other formats or a PDF without source files will not be accepted). We also invite all interested parties to submit short descriptions of open-source projects that fit within the format of the MT Marathon and can be accomplished within five days. For submission, please visit http://MTMarathon2010.info/web/Projects.html The proposed projects may focus on anything from the development of new tools to the modification or extension of existing open-source tools. These projects will run during the MT Marathon and will be undertaken by the participants. Program Committee: Philipp Koehn Chris Callison-Burch Ventsislav Zhechev _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 27 10:30:31 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AF50457F3; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:30:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9A899457EB; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:30:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091127103029.9A899457EB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:30:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.465 new publication: Critical Inquiry 36.1 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 465. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:11:40 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Critical Inquiry Members of Humanist will likely be interested in some articles in the latest Critical Inquiry, 36.1 (Autumn 2009): Mark Seltzer, "Parlor Games: The Apriorization of the Media" Franco Moretti, "Style, Inc. Reflections on Seven Thousand Titles (British Novels, 1740-1850)" Katie Trumpeter, "Critical Response: I. Paratext and Genre System: A Response to Franco Moretti" Franco Moretti, "Critical Response: II. 'Relatively Blunt'" See http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci/current. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 28 09:10:58 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B056044B00; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:10:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A86FA44AD0; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:10:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091128091056.A86FA44AD0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:10:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.466 new on WWW: Roman digital collections X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 466. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:35:24 +0100 From: Alessandra Giovenco Subject: BSR Digital Collections Online The British School at Rome Library & Archive is pleased to announce the launch of a new website: www.bsrdigitalcollections.it In July 2007, the Getty Foundation awarded a second generous grant to the British School at Rome Archive (BSR) to support the arrangement and description of part of the John Bryan Ward-Perkins photographic collection. As a result of this 2-year project, a website of the BSR digital collections was created to present not only the photographic material (Photographs) but also other types of resources which follow into different categories: Maps, Prints, Documents, Postcards, Drawings, Paintings and Manuscripts. The majority of the digital images displayed on this website are represented by the photographs catalogued during the second Getty Foundation funded project. Enjoy it! Sincerely, Alessandra Giovenco _____________________________ Alessandra Giovenco Archivist Historic & Photographic Archive The British School at Rome Via Gramsci, 61 00197-Rome email: a.giovenco@bsrome.it website: www.bsrome.it Tel./Fax: +39 06 32649377 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 28 09:12:17 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18DC54501F; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:12:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B614A4500E; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:12:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091128091215.B614A4500E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:12:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.467 events: global design X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 467. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:04:37 +0000 From: Jose Abdelnour-Nocera Subject: cfp: IWIPS Growing Global Design Communities - London 2010 9th International Workshop of Internationalisation of Products and Systems www.iwips2010.org London, England, 7 - 10 July 2010 to be held in Thames Valley University. IWIPS 2010 committee is seeking submissions on the topics of localization and globalization, with an emphasis on this year's theme: Growing Global Design Communities. The objective of the 2010 theme is to focus on the impact of international design teams on the design, evaluation, and development of products and systems.  IWIPS invites several types of submissions, including papers, case studies, research-in-progress and tutorials.  All submissions are due 15 February 2010, unless indicated otherwise. Accepted submissions (except tutorials) will be published in the IWIPS 2010 proceedings. Suggested Topics for Submissions As the world's economy recovers from the downturn, the need increases for effective, efficient, and socially responsible strategies for supporting global design communities. Strategies that address both business and human issues are of great importance. Topics of interest for IWIPS 2010 include, but are not limited to the following: Cross-cultural issues in IT design User centric strategies for economic and community development IT projects Revised models for global IT off-shoring, outsourcing and distributed resources Sociotechnical design and evaluation frameworks Methods for software localization / globalization Designing for trust Dealing with intercultural issues in participatory design The impact of Social Networks and other CMC tools across cultural boundaries Interactions between culture and user-centred design Managing geographically dispersed  multicultural design communities Localising usability evaluation and requirements gathering techniques Submission Types Papers - Papers are formal reports of completed research, organized on a modified APA model. The length of the paper should be no more than 10 pages in the proceedings format. Case Studies - Case studies are structured descriptions of the lessons learned in applied design, evaluation, or development of products or systems within industry. The length of case studies should be between 4 to 8 pages in the proceedings format. Research-in-Progress - Research-in-Progress briefs should provide a description of the background, procedures and methodology, anticipated results, and preliminary findings (if any) of ongoing research or applied product design, evaluation or development. The length of the Research-in-Progress brief should be 6 to 10 pages in the proceedings format. (Graduate students are encouraged to submit a brief based on their theses or dissertations.) Tutorials - A tutorial is a comprehensive delivery, in an interactive and applied style of a core set of internationalisation or localisation skills methodologies or procedures. Tutorials should be interactive and applied in the nature of their delivery. Initial proposals should be 3 to 5 pages in length and do not have to be submitted in the proceedings format. The final submission will be between 15 to 30 pages, in the proceedings format, due on 15th of April 2010. Important Dates Papers, case studies, and research-in-progress briefs Submission deadline 15 February 2010 Notification to authors 15 March 2010 Camera ready copies of papers 5 April 2010 Tutorials Initial proposal 15 January 2010 Final submissions 15 April 2010 More info on http://www.iwips2010.org/calls.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Nov 29 09:49:18 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5884F458AA; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:49:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B3F52454DA; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:49:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091129094916.B3F52454DA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:49:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.468 PhD in Digital Humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 468. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:44:14 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: PhD in Digital Humanities PhD in Digital Humanities Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) at King's College London offers a doctoral programme leading to the degree of PhD in Digital Humanities. Typically the degree involves a joint arrangement between CCH and another department in the School of Arts and Humanities at King's, on occasion involving the School of Social Science and Public Policy. Some students are also jointly in the Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication (LDC), which is our cross-disciplinary home for linguistics. The PhD degree may be taken on a full-time or part-time basis. It involves research only, with no required coursework and no qualifying examination. Normally students are registered in the MPhil programme initially and after 9 months to a year (twice that for part-time students) convert to the PhD on presentation of work judged to be at the doctoral level. The degree may take a maximum of four years full-time, eight years part-time. Full-time residence is not an absolute requirement. Currently there are 10 students in the programme, 2 in joint programmes with History, 1 with German, 1 Portuguese, 1 Byzantine and Modern Greek, 1 Computer Science, 1 LDC and 3 in CCH only. 3 of the 10 are part-time. 3 are British, 5 are from elsewhere in the EU (Lithuania, Portugal, Greece, Czech Republic, Italy), 1 from Norway, 1 from the US. All have enrolled within the last three years. In terms of traditional disciplinary focus, projects range from ancient and early modern prosopography, the stylistics of Renaissance dramatic literature and 17-19C social networking to the vocabulary of 19C political speeches, translation of 20C American novels, phenomenology of self and the structure of secondary literature in classics. These projects involve relational database design, text-analysis (including stylometry), online communications, computational linguistics, software modelling and hardware design. In all cases dissertations must reflect critically on the effects and implications of computing for the disciplines involved, and vice versa. In most cases projects entail a major practical component. For funding opportunities see www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/funding/database/. Many potential applicants find the problem of funding to be quite serious. You are well advised to begin looking for sources quite early. Application may be made at any time. The brief amount of time permitted for the degree and its exclusive focus on research mean that admission is judged mostly on the basis of a research proposal, which must persuade the department that the applicant is capable and adequately prepared; that the topic is worth pursuing; that the research can be brought to a satisfactory conclusion within the permitted time; and that the proposed work can be supported intellectually within King's. Application therefore usually begins in pre-application, by iterating the proposal in consultation with the department until it is judged fit. Admission also depends on previous degrees, recommendations and a high degree of competence in written and spoken English. Enquiries may be made by writing to Professor Willard McCarty, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 30 06:33:02 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E544D3E5A6; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:33:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5314A3E59B; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:33:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091130063300.5314A3E59B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:33:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.469 filtering out unwanted messages X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 469. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:32:11 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: unwanted messages Dear colleagues, The amount of spam sent to Humanist has reached the level at which I am moved to engage the automatic filters provided by the list-processing software we use. To date these filters have not been used. If, starting now, you notice that any message you send does not get posted, please let me know. I have no idea how good these filters are at weeding out only what we do not want, so I do need you to be particularly alert to the fate of your own postings for the next little while. Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 30 07:02:05 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 986593E9B2; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:02:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 04F9E3E99E; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:02:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091130070204.04F9E3E99E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:02:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.470 taking a stand, having a view? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 470. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:00:55 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a discipline with a view The English literary critic I. A. Richards regarded philosophy as "the over-all name nowadays of the diplomatic agency which endeavors to keep studies in some touch with one another" and deployed a philosophical perspective to argue against the dream of "intellectual world conquest", for example on the part of linguistics and behaviourism ("Communication between Men: The Meaning of Language", in Cybernetics/Kybernetik, ed. Pias). In the first essay published in Speculative Instruments (1955), "Notes toward an agreement between literary criticism and some of the sciences", he writes in this diplomatic mode to consider the objections each side has against the other. What interests me in particular are not the objections as such but his standing point from the outside the disciplines. We in humanities computing have just such a perspective by virtue of our transdisciplinary methodological concerns. Hence my interest in others who have shared similar vantage points. Who else has written in this way? Writings on the abstract idea of interdisciplinarity go on tiresomely at great length about what it is, distinguishing it from multidisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity etc etc. Our concern, it seems to me, is how actually to *do* it, and I think that we get further than Richards' diplomacy aims to do. But his standing point does provide the first step. So, again my question: who else has written like this? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 1 06:39:24 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E723EA0B; Tue, 1 Dec 2009 06:39:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 713283E9E1; Tue, 1 Dec 2009 06:39:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091201063922.713283E9E1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 06:39:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.471 filtering out unwanted messages X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 471. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:02:16 +0100 From: Paolo Rocchi Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.469 filtering out unwanted messages In-Reply-To: Hi Willard I suggest you the following remedy to filter spamming and delimiter the number of incoming email : Senders must place the acronym HDG in the 'Subject' field of each emailed message. All the emails that do not exhibit this acronym will be discarded. Consider that this system needs a period of 3-6 months to run perfectly. If you will introduce this method, you will not need any further supports: tools, software products etc. Your. Paolo RocchiIBM SWG Research and Development via Shanghai 53, 00144 ROMA phone: 39-6-5966-5213 fax : 39-6-5966-3618 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 1 06:41:04 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B11673EB56; Tue, 1 Dec 2009 06:41:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 50DEB3EB41; Tue, 1 Dec 2009 06:41:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091201064103.50DEB3EB41@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 06:41:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.472 what mind and text are X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 472. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:55:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: what mind & text are At the end of his quite remarkable book, Thinking Machines: The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence (1987), Vernon Pratt observes that, "We currently set great store by the very aspects of our mentality that lend themselves to replacement by machine" (245). He points to the quizz champion and the lightning reasoner as our (? then) examples of human mental achievement, and he notes those kinds of mentality we push to the periphery, "notably what psychologists call 'affect'". Affect requires an anti-formalist approach to dealing with symbols, as does the study of material culture and all those things for which we now use the term "embodiment". He concludes as follows: > What I myself envisage is less the computer reaching some kind of > limit in its emulation of thinking as we currently picture it to > ourselves, than our taking a fresh look at the picture, partly in the > light of those things that the machine becomes able to do for us, and > then changing our ideas about which aspects of thinking or mentality > are truly important - that is, about what thinking is. Calculating > has already, perhaps, been demoted as not at all distinctive of human > thought. Logical reasoning from known facts and principles could > easily go the same way, as the expert system becomes a familiar > desktop aid. But it is only insofar as we regard calculation and > reasoning as central to human thinking that machines will seem > capable of thought in general. Recall from the periphery those > aspects of mentality that resist the representational construal, and > success for the brain project seems more doubtful than distant. Similarly one could say that the formalist programme in the analysis of text -- its manipulation as an operation distinguishable from reading -- has all these years yielded as its best fruit our attention to the question of what text is. (It clearly cannot be only what we have programmed our computers to do, or have any rational hope of programming them to do.) >From one point of view the question of what text is might seem mostly to have surfaced elsewhere than in the specifically digital humanities, e.g. among textual editors and literary theorists. But to say that the text-analytic subculture has once again been sidelined, as it was when the corpus linguists took off with interactive concording, is to miss a very big and very important point: that a humanities computing which pays attention exclusively to the action which no one else claims, or only to the strictly technological-"practical" aspects of the humanities, is badly misconceived. I'd argue that our attention must take in much more than the sort of thing which appears in our specialist journals and in our standard sort of conference paper. It's not just a question of wider scope, to pick up phenomena throughout the disciplines and show, sort and deal in their commonalities, but inferential depth. If, that is, we regard the surfacings of the question of text, in textual editing, literary theory, linguistics and text-analysis, as not only coeval but also cognate, then we have begun to do more than tend shop. We have begun to ask the sort of questions which make us of as well as in the humanities. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 1 06:41:34 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A186D3EC89; Tue, 1 Dec 2009 06:41:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CDDA83EBD9; Tue, 1 Dec 2009 06:41:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091201064132.CDDA83EBD9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 06:41:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.473 Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 34.4 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 473. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:35:10 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 34.4 Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 34.4 (December 2010) http://maney.co.uk/index.php/journals/isr/ http://www.isr-journal.org/ 1. Editorial McCarty, Willard 287-289(3) 2. Managing Multidisciplinarity: Lessons from SUBR:IM Catney, Philip; Lerner, David N. 290-308(19) 3. Thinking Outside the Box: Interdisciplinary Integration of Teaching and Research on an Environment and Development Study Programme Oksen, Peter; Magid, Jakob; de Neergaard, Andreas 309-326(18) 4. Large-scale Research and the Goal of Health: Doable Problem Construction in 'New' Nutrition Science Penders, Bart; Horstman, Klasien; Vos, Rein 327-344(18) 5. Biodiversity and Nature Conservation: Some Common Arguments and Alternative Views Vieira, A.V. 345-349(5) 6. On Intelligence in Cells: The Case for Whole Cell Biology Ford, Brian J. 350-365(16) 7. Principles of Lightweight Structures in the Sculptural Conceptions of Naum Gabo Neurohr, Theresa; Pasini, Damiano 366-380(15) -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 1 06:44:19 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B843501C; Tue, 1 Dec 2009 06:44:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7B8FC3EF71; Tue, 1 Dec 2009 06:44:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091201064418.7B8FC3EF71@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 06:44:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.474 events: summer institute; computability X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 474. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ray Siemens (20) Subject: [DHSI] DHSI 2010, Registration Update [2] From: S B Cooper (10) Subject: Computability in Europe --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 02:23:48 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: [DHSI] DHSI 2010, Registration Update A quick note to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute community to provide an update on registration for DHSI 2010. As we enter December, we've got about 60 spots accounted for - with two of our courses pretty much at capacity (here, we're looking at ways to accommodate more). If you're hoping to join us, and have your sights set on a particular course, we'd welcome hearing from you sooner rather than later so that we can ensure that you have a spot in the course of your preference. Please visit http://www.dhsi.org/courses to register. (We expect to announce our scholarship program in January 2010.) All best, Ray www.dhsi.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:15:55 +0000 From: S B Cooper Subject: COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2010 - Second call for papers Second call for papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2010: Programs, Proofs, Processes Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal June 30 to July 4, 2010 http://www.cie2010.uac.pt/ Deadline for submissions: 20 JANUARY 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computability in Europe provides the largest international conference dealing with the full spectrum of computability-related research. CiE 2010 in the Azores is the sixth conference of the Series, held in a geographically unique and dramatic location, Europe's most Westerly outpost. The theme of CiE 2010 - "Programs, Proofs, Processes" - points to the usual CiE synergy of Computer Science, Mathematics and Logic, with important computability-theoretic connections to science and the real universe. TUTORIALS: Jeffrey Bub (Information, Computation and Physics), Bruno Codenotti (Computational Game Theory). INVITED SPEAKERS: Eric Allender, Jose L. Balcazar, Shafi Goldwasser, Denis Hirschfeldt, Seth Lloyd, Sara Negri, Toniann Pitassi, and Ronald de Wolf. SPECIAL SESSIONS on: Biological Computing, organizers: Paola Bonizzoni, Krishna Narayanan Invited speakers: Giancarlo Mauri, Natasha Jonoska, Stephane Vialette, Yasubumi Sakakibara Computational Complexity, organizers: Luis Antunes, Alan Selman Invited speakers: Eric Allender, Christian Glasser, John Hitchcock, Rahul Santhanam Computability of the Physical, organizers: Barry Cooper, Cris Calude Invited speakers: Giuseppe Longo, Yuri Manin, Cris Moore, David Wolpert Proof Theory and Computation, organizers: Martin Hyland, Fernando Ferreira Invited speakers: Thorsten Altenkirch, Samuel Mimram, Paulo Oliva, Lutz Strassburger Reasoning and Computation from Leibniz to Boole, organizers: Benedikt Loewe, Guglielmo Tamburrini Confirmed speakers: Volker Peckhaus, Olga Pombo, Sara Uckelman Web Algorithms and Computation, organizers: Martin Olsen, Thomas Erlebach Confirmed speaker: Debora Donato [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 2 05:59:01 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F2AD41798; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 05:59:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 853DE41781; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 05:58:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091202055859.853DE41781@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 05:58:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.475 filtering out unwanted messages X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 475. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:09:36 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.471 filtering out unwanted messages In-Reply-To: <20091201063922.713283E9E1@woodward.joyent.us> At 07.39 01/12/2009, you wrote: >I suggest you the following remedy to filter spamming and delimiter the >number of incoming email : Senders must place the acronym HDG in the >'Subject' field of each emailed message. All the emails that do not exhibit >this acronym will be discarded. Consider that this system needs a period of >3-6 months to run perfectly. If you will introduce this method, you will not >need any further supports: tools, software products etc. so that HDG is the marker of the legitimate origin of the message. the spammer(s) could do the same but it would be too difficult and fatigating compared to the number of people reached, isn't it? but: the spam problem is that the spam messages arrive with their "[Humanist] xx.xxx ..." string at the start of the subject? if so, the HDG marker too could be forged and then should be changed regularly, it seems to me. maurizio ------- La Repubblica promuove lo sviluppo della cultura e la ricerca scientifica e tecnica. La Repubblica detta le norme generali sull'istruzione ed istituisce scuole statali per tutti gli ordini e gradi. (Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana, art. 9 e 33) ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università del Piemonte Orientale via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 2 06:00:12 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C016417F8; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:00:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E10E4417E6; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:00:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091202060009.E10E4417E6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:00:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.476 new publications: DHQ 3.3; Darnton on megabooks; Rudan's history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 476. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (11) Subject: Google's millions of books [2] From: Willard McCarty (11) Subject: Rudan's history [3] From: Julia Flanders (71) Subject: DHQ issue 3.3 now available --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:12:57 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Google's millions of books The Princeton historian Robert Darnton has published an article in The New York Review of Books on the court case brought by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers against Google, "Google and the New Digital Future", 56.20 (17 December 2009). See http://www.nybooks.com/. WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:01:16 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Rudan's history Some here will be interested in John W Rudan's The History of Computing at Cornell, available online at http://hdl.handle.net/1813/82, from the eCommons@Cornell. Thanks to John Lavagnino for pointing this out to me. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:00:29 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: DHQ issue 3.3 now available We're very happy to announce the publication of the new issue of DHQ: DHQ 3.3 Table of Contents ============================ Special Cluster: "Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present, and Future" Guest editors: Amy Earhart and Maura Ives Introduction Amy Earhart, Texas A&M University; Maura Ives, Texas A&M University Articles: The Ends of Editing Peter M. W. Robinson, University of Birmingham Picture Problems: X-Editing Images 1992-2010 Morris Eaves, University of Rochester Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What's in a Name? Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln How Literary Works Exist: Convenient Scholarly Editions Peter Shillingsburg, Loyola University Chicago The Productive Unease of 21st-century Digital Scholarship Julia Flanders, Brown University Posters: Reinventing the Classroom Edition: Paradise Lost Book IX Flash Audiotext Olin Bjork, Georgia Institute of Technology Mapping Concord: Google Maps and the 19th-Century Concord Digital Archive Amy Earhart, Texas A&M University May the Text Rise up to Meet You: New Ways of Reading Old Manuscripts Eugene Lyman, University of Rhode Island The Poetess Archive Database Laura Mandell, Miami University of Ohio Simulated Visuals: Some Rhetorical and Ethical Implications Aimee Roundtree, University of Houston-Downtown Cervantes Project: The Digital Quixote Iconography Collection Eduardo Urbina, Texas A&M University; Richard Furuta, Texas A&M University; Steven E. Smith, Texas A&M University Over Uncle Tom's Dead Body: Publication Context and Textual Variation in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin Wesley Raabe, Kent State University =============================== Articles The Radical Historicity of Everything: Exploring Shakespearean Identity with Web 2.0 Katheryn Giglio, University of Central Florida (English Department); John Venecek, University of Central Florida Libraries XML, Interoperability and the Social Construction of Markup Languages: The Library Example Jerome McDonough, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Humanities Computing as Digital Humanities Patrik Svensson, Umeå University Avatari: Disruption and Imago in Video Games Philip Sandifer, University of Florida Designing Data Mining Droplets: New Interface Objects for the Humanities Scholar Stan Ruecker, University of Alberta, Canada; Milena Radzikowska, Mount Royal College, Canada; Stéfan Sinclair, McMaster University, Canada _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 2 06:02:21 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC43F41878; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:02:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DEDB141862; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:02:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091202060219.DEDB141862@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:02:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.477 new on WWW: Intute's Advent calendar X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 477. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 07:52:35 +0000 From: Alun Edwards Subject: Online Advent Calendar Intute launches the online Advent Calendar today: see http://www.intute.ac.uk/blog/2009/12/01/online-advent-calendar-launches/ Follow Intute's postings, daily, on user-generated-content of interest for an academic audience http://www.intute.ac.uk/blog/category/advent-calender-2009/ Best wishes, Ally __ Alun Edwards : alun.edwards@oucs.ox.ac.uk Intute, based at the University of Oxford www.intute.ac.uk First World War Poetry Digital Archive www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit Address: University of Oxford, OUCS, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, OX26NN _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 2 12:12:42 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 062E94318B; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:12:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0BCCF43179; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:12:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091202121240.0BCCF43179@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:12:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.478 a course in interdisciplinary studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 478. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:02:37 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: interdisciplinary studies For Spring term 2010, January through March, I am teaching a course, "Exploring Disciplines", for the Graduate School, King's College London, to a pilot group of 20 students. Although it is open only to postgraduates at King's, I imagine it might be of interest more generally and might generate some discussion. I have created a temporary and quite rudimentary website for it, at staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ExploringDisciplines/, to be replaced, when time allows, by something more official. As you may know, I've argued here and there that the methodological perspective afforded us by computing is inherently interdisciplinary. To do humanities computing means in some sense and to some degree to enter other disciplines as a participant-observer. This may involve collaborative work but not necessarily. And, I'd venture to say, that for the theoretical side, to do humanities computing means to do interdisciplinarity. There's no way not to go looking for help once you get interested in figuring out what's going on beyond the stage of making lists and chronologies. But there's a problem. If you've looked at the literature on interdisciplinarity you'll be quite familiar with its strong tendency obsessively to orbit the question of what it *is* and e.g. to distinguish the term from "multidisciplinarity", "transdisciplinarity" and so on ad nauseam. I think this is a mistake. I think a far better question is, how does one do it, and do it well? Can we discern something like a method? a strategy? an approach? Some here will know that Stanley Fish, in typical style, once levelled his guns at the very idea, and that others have too. For a equally strong view see R. C. Lewontin, "Facts and the Factitious in Natural Science", Critical Inquiry 18.1 (1991): 140-53. My answer is that the productive aim I think is essential -- and not just to us in these days of shifting disciplinary sands -- is, again, to make the effort as well as possible, not to reach some admittedly impossible God-like state at which one's mind is the centre that is everywhere with circumference nowhere. Gillian Beer's question, "how thoroughly interdisciplinary is it possible to be?", is an excellent one. Hic sunt dracones -- but, as in the fairy tale, great rewards too. "Exploring Disciplines" is an attempt to teach some skills toward getting started. Comments most welcome on the as yet untried curriculum. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 2 12:13:16 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B2F43205; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:13:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1E12D431D5; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:13:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091202121315.1E12D431D5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:13:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.479 MLA award! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 479. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:20:02 +0000 From: "Short, Harold" Subject: Gary Taylor of Florida State University and John Lavagnino of King's College London to Receive MLA Prize MLA AWARDS PRIZE FOR A DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARLY EDITION TO GARY TAYLOR AND JOHN LAVAGNINO FOR THOMAS MIDDLETON: THE COLLECTED WORKS AND ITS COMPANION VOLUME, THOMAS MIDDLETON AND EARLY MODERN TEXTUAL CULTURE; SALLY BUSHELL, JAMES A. BUTLER, AND MICHAEL C. JAYE RECEIVE HONORABLE MENTION New York, NY - 1 December 2009 - The Modern Language Association of America has announced the winner of the eighth Modern Language Association Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition. The prize will be presented to Gary Taylor, of Florida State University, and John Lavagnino, of King's College London, for Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works and its companion volume Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture, published by Oxford University Press. Honorable mention was given to Sally Bushell, of Lancaster University, James A. Butler, of La Salle University, and Michael C. Jaye, of Rutgers University, for their edition of William Wordsworth's The Excursion, published by Cornell University Press. The MLA Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition was established by the MLA Executive Council in 1994 in response to a proposal from the association's Committee on Scholarly Editions. The inaugural prize was presented in 1995 to Edgar M. Branch and Harriet Elinor Smith. In 1997, the prize was awarded to Joseph Donohue. In 1999, the award was given to Brenda Dunn-Lardeau, and the committee chose to name a finalist, Bruce E. Graver. In 2001, the award was presented to Michael Rudick, and in 2003 it went to Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, with an honorable mention going to Margaret Jane Kidnie. In 2005, it went to John Miles Foley, with Lynda Pratt, Tim Fulford, and Daniel John Sanjiv Roberts and Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat receiving honorable mentions. The most recent award was presented in 2007 to Roger Lonsdale, with honorable mentions going to Christopher S. Mackay and Daniel Paul O'Donnell. Awarded each odd-numbered year since 1995, the prize is one of eighteen awards that will be presented on 28 December 2009 during the association's annual convention, held this year in Philadelphia. The members of the selection committee were April Alliston (Princeton Univ.); David Hult (Univ. of California, Berkeley); and Leah S. Marcus (Vanderbilt Univ.), chair. The committee's citation for the winning book reads: This monumental two-volume set affords the writings of Thomas Middleton the sustained and respectful editorial attention that to date has been offered, among early modern dramatists, only to William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. The Collected Works presents accessible texts of all of Middleton's writings and introductions aimed at specialists and general readers. The companion volume offers a wealth of ancillary materials. With this stupendous work of scholarship that is at once meticulous, engaging, and innovative, Gary Taylor, John Lavagnino, and their associate and contributing editors do in two volumes what many collected editions require a multitude of tomes to achieve. The work sets the bar high for subsequent collected editions in its field and will remain the definitive Middleton for a long time to come. Gary Taylor is George Matthew Edgar Professor of English and director of the History of Text Technologies program at Florida State University. A general editor of the 1986 and 2005 The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Taylor founded and edits two series published by Palgrave: Signs of Race and History of Text Technologies. Taylor's Moment by Moment by Shakespeare won a Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book. His other books include Reinventing Shakespeare, Cultural Selection, and Castration. Taylor has received NEH, Folger, and Guggenheim fellowships. John Lavagnino studied physics at Harvard University and American literature at Brandeis University, where he wrote his dissertation on Vladimir Nabokov. He has worked in atmospheric science at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and in digital publishing for numerous organizations; at present he is reader in digital humanities at King's College London and is working on the digital Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700. The committee's citation for the honorable mention reads: This is an elegant, astonishingly thorough and splendidly straightforward critical edition of Wordsworth's The Excursion. Whereas the most recent published edition of the work is based on the 1850 edition, Sally Bushell, James A. Butler, and Michael C. Jaye have chosen to base their edition on the corrected second issue of the first edition, printed in 1814. They have produced a meticulous account of the complex textual tradition, including both manuscript and print witnesses spanning several decades. In addition to a detailed yet transparent apparatus accompanying the reading text, they include transcriptions of all manuscripts preceding the 1814 publication, along with representative photographic reproductions. This handsomely produced volume provides a complete yet readily accessible collection of materials that will be an invaluable resource for scholars working on this text in the future. Sally Bushell has a BA from Royal Holloway College, London University, an MA from the University of York, and a doctorate from the University of Cambridge, Queens College. She is senior lecturer and codirector of the Wordsworth Centre at Lancaster University. She is the author of Re-reading The Excursion. Her most recent work seeks to connect textual criticism and literary criticism through the study of draft materials, and her book on this subject is entitled Text as Process: Creative Composition in Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Dickinson. James A. Butler is a professor of English at La Salle University, where he also serves as director of the Honors Program, director of Undergraduate Research, and curator of the Wister Family Special Collection. He received his MA and PhD from Cornell University. He served as assistant editor (1979-2000) and associate editor (2000-07) of the Cornell Wordsworth series. He is the author of Charles Willson Peale's "Belfield": A History of a National Historic Landmark; coeditor of Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems, 1797-1800, by William Wordsworth; and editor of Romney and Other New Works about Philadelphia, by Owen Wister, and The Ruined Cottage and The Pedlar, by William Wordsworth. Michael C. Jaye is professor emeritus at Rutgers University, Newark. He received his MA and PhD from New York University. He is the coeditor of Literature and the Urban Experience: Essays on the City and Literature and The Evidence of the Imagination: Studies of Interactions between Life and Art in English Romantic Literature. From 1981 to 1990, Jaye was the director and principal curator of the National Humanities Project's William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism, a museum exhibition at the New York Public Library, Indiana University, and the Chicago Historical Society. William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism, which he coauthored, was the winner of the College Art Association of America's Alfred H. Barr Award as best catalog in any language. The MLA, the largest and one of the oldest American learned societies in the humanities (est. 1883), exists to advance literary and linguistic studies. The 30,000 members of the association come from all fifty states and the District of Columbia, as well as from Canada, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. PMLA, the flagship journal of the association, has published distinguished scholarly articles for over one hundred years. Approximately 9,500 members of the MLA and its allied and affiliate organizations attend the association's annual convention each December. The MLA is a constituent of the American Council of Learned Societies and the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures. The MLA Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition is awarded under the auspices of the MLA's Committee on Honors and Awards. Other awards sponsored by the committee are the William Riley Parker Prize; the James Russell Lowell Prize; the MLA Prize for a First Book; the Howard R. Marraro Prize; the Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize; the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize; the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars; the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize; the Morton N. Cohen Award; the MLA Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography; the Lois Roth Award; the William Sanders Scarborough Prize; the Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies; the MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies; and the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prizes for Comparative Literary Studies, for French and Francophone Studies, for Italian Studies, for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures, for a Translation of a Literary Work, for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, and for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies. Professor Harold Short, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London, 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2739 * Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 Web: www.kcl.ac.uk/cch http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 4 09:08:21 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE723F0BC; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:08:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D574E3EFBD; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:08:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091204090819.D574E3EFBD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:08:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.480 filtering out unwanted messages X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 480. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:55:06 -0500 From: malgosia askanas Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.475 filtering out unwanted messages In-Reply-To: <20091202055859.853DE41781@woodward.joyent.us> No. Spamers are not going to use "HDG", because spammers don't subscribe to lists, don't look at the list rules, and don't reply to list messages. They just spam random publicly-known addresses, randomly. However, it seems to me that instituting a convention like a subject marker is not going to do Willard much good, because (1) people will occasionally forget to put in the marker, and (2) I believe that Willard wants to receive occasional announcements from outside the list. So even if he institutes the marker, he will never be able to just automatically discard the mail that doesn't have it - so what's the point of instituting it? He will still have to continue worryong about the false positives in the spam filter. -malgosia Maurizio Lana wrote: >At 07.39 01/12/2009, you wrote: >>I suggest you the following remedy to filter spamming and delimiter the >>number of incoming email : Senders must place the acronym HDG in the >>'Subject' field of each emailed message. All the emails that do not exhibit >>this acronym will be discarded. Consider that this system needs a period of >>3-6 months to run perfectly. If you will introduce this method, you will not >>need any further supports: tools, software products etc. > >so that HDG is the marker of the legitimate >origin of the message. the spammer(s) could do >the same but it would be too difficult and >fatigating compared to the number of people reached, isn't it? > >but: the spam problem is that the spam messages >arrive with their "[Humanist] xx.xxx ..." string at the start of the subject? >if so, the HDG marker too could be forged and >then should be changed regularly, it seems to me. > >maurizio _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 4 09:09:02 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7324A3F1E2; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:09:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2A0963F1B2; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:09:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091204090901.2A0963F1B2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:09:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.481 jobs in Worms & Trier X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 481. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 06:23:20 +0100 From: Marc Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.446 jobs in Worms & Trier In-Reply-To: <20091119061626.F2F64431E3@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Colleagues, Following requests we have extended the deadline for these job postings to *December 31st, 2009* and added an English version of the call. You can find updated versions under http://www.budabe.eu/print_stellenausschreibung.pdf (in German) and http://www.budabe.de/print_stellenausschreibung_en.pdf (in English) Applications can, of course, also be sent in English. Best regards, Marc Küster 2009/11/19 Humanist Discussion Group : >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 446. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:22:20 +0100 >        From: Marc >        Subject: Job postings for DFG funded typesetting tool for academic texts > > Dear Colleagues, > > The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) funds a joint project of the > University of Applied Sciences Worms (Germany) and the University > Trier (Germany) for the development of a typesetting module for > (primarily) humanist texts. > > We will jointly develop a typesetting system for XML-based texts with > complex layout requirements that meets the stringent requirements for > the typesetting of (potentially heavily multilingual) academic texts > (e.g. critical editions). The end user will work directly with > semantically annotated data, without having to use explicit layouting > instructions. > > Based on a WYSIWYG user interface (to be integrated into the TextGrid > Lab, cf. http://www.textgrid.de) the system will support end users in > the development of style-sheets for the rule-based formatting of their > texts and will master the production of PDF (including PDF-A for > longterm archiving). > > For this work we look for two motivated research assistants with a > strong skill set in software architecture and development, one > primarily focussing on the design and development of the core > typesetting system itself (based in Worms) and one primarily looking > at the end user interface (based in Trier). > > You can find the full details of the call under > http://www.budabe.eu/print_stellenausschreibung.pdf (in German) > > We are looking forward to your applications! > > Best regards, > > Marc Küster > > -- > ------ > Prof. Dr. Marc Wilhelm Küster > FH Worms - University of Applied Sciences > Fachbereich Informatik/Telekommunikation > Erenburgerstraße 19 * D-67549 Worms > http://people.fh-worms.de/~kuester > http://www.budabe.eu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 4 09:09:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EBFF3F236; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:09:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 429C63F224; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:09:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091204090921.429C63F224@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:09:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.482 new on WWW: Deena Larsen Collection X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 482. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:19:41 -0500 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: announcing the Deena Larsen Collection The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is very pleased to announce the release of a new Web site showcasing the Deena Larsen Collection we house and maintain: http://www.mith.umd.edu/larsen/ Deena Larsen, whose best-known works include the hypertexts Marble Springs and Samplers (both published by Eastgate Systems), has been active in the creative electronic writing community nearly since its inception in the early 1980s. She has also been a collector and de facto archivist for that community, amassing what she has described as electronic literature's "Great Library of Alexandria." In May 2007 she gave MITH the extraordinary gift of her personal collection of early-era computers, software, and digital files. The collection includes not only Deena’s own extensive literary output, but original and sometimes unpublished material by nearly every author in her circle, effectively making it a cross-section of electronic writing during its key formative years (roughly 1985-1995). The hardware in the collection consists of five Mac Classics, two Mac SEs, and a Mac Plus, and associated accessories; the physical media includes some 800 diskettes, as well as nearly 100 CD-ROMs and Zip disks. The collection also contains manuscripts, newspaper clippings, books, comics, manuals, notebooks, syllabi, catalogs, brochures, posters, conference proceedings, and ephemera. According to Matthew Kirschenbaum, Associate Director of MITH and Associate Professor of English at Maryland, "The arrival of Deena’s collection at MITH furnishes us with invaluable source material which will further our in-house research in digital curation and preservation, as well as function as a unique resource for the growing number of researchers interested in early hypertext and electronic literature." The site, built with Omeka, was designed by Amanda Visconti of the University of Michigan under the auspicies of the IMLS-funded Digital Humanities Model Internship program, which places iSchool students in working digital humanities centers. Kari Kraus, director of the program and Assistant Professor in Maryland's iSchool and English department, comments: "Amanda's work is a great example of the kind of collaboration and mutual exchange we're working to promote." With this announcement we are also opening the collection to scholars on a limited basis. Researchers interested in visiting Maryland to work with the Larsen materials on site should write to us at mith@umd.edu. -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC, a new Living/Learning Program in the Honors College) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 5 08:58:46 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FDB3357C0; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:58:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AABCB35778; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:58:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091205085845.AABCB35778@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:58:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.483 filtering out unwanted messages X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 483. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:47:23 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.480 filtering out unwanted messages In-Reply-To: <20091204090819.D574E3EFBD@woodward.joyent.us> At 04:08 AM 12/4/2009, malgosia wrote: >No. Spamers are not going to use "HDG", because spammers don't >subscribe to lists, don't look at the list rules, and don't reply to >list messages. They just spam random publicly-known addresses, >randomly. However, it seems to me that instituting a convention like >a subject marker is not going to do Willard much good, because (1) >people will occasionally forget to put in the marker, and (2) I >believe that Willard wants to receive occasional announcements from >outside the list. So even if he institutes the marker, he will never >be able to just automatically discard the mail that doesn't have it - >so what's the point of instituting it? He will still have to >continue worryong about the false positives in the spam filter. Indeed. If there is a spam filter, there will be false positives. Only Willard can determine whether the labor of filtering by hand outweighs the risks of automation. (His occasional missives to the effect of "things have been chaotic: let me know if your message has been dropped" is effectively a feedback mechanism to control the false positives in the hand-filtering method.) An in-between approach might be for Willard to enlist the support of an apprentice whose primary job would be to mind the filters -- perhaps filtering by hand until she or he is confident that the patterns are well understood and robotic assistance would be helpful. Anything doubtful could be passed along for Willard to make a judgement call. Such an apprenticeship would offer valuable experience, but it would have to be a person with the right combination of competencies and tact, and there would probably also have to be some kind of remuneration to make it feasible. Willard performs a labor of love: that isn't the kind of thing that can fairly be asked for. I believe that a real solution to this problem would spread across the Internet very rapidly. We are much more likely to hear of a good new approach than we are to invent one. :-) Cheers, Wendell ======================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 5 08:59:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2164E35882; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:59:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0A37F35862; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:59:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091205085907.0A37F35862@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:59:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.484 job in the ESF X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 484. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:47:49 +0000 From: Humanities Subject: Job announcement For wide dissemination: ESF Humanities Unit invites applications for an Administrator in charge of the Scientific Publications Project in the Humanities. Please send your application (cover letter + CV in English) by 9 December 2009 to jobs@esf.org quoting the following reference identifier HUM-PP-ADMIN. Interviews will be held in Strasbourg on 15 December 2009. ESF welcomes applications from disabled candidates. ESF premises are fully equipped for disabled access. We encourage both men and women with relevant qualifications to apply. For further information about ESF see www..esf.org http://www.esf.org . _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 5 08:59:38 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF8B3593C; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:59:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4399A35930; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:59:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091205085937.4399A35930@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:59:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.485 URGENT: residence in Germany needed X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 485. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:54:30 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: residence in Germany urgently needed Dear colleagues, A colleague of ours, now retired, urgently needs to locate a place to rent in Germany, in the vicinity of Leipzig, Zwickau or even München, for a period of 3 months or perhaps more, to do research on Schumann. He is wanting to get located before Christmas -- THIS Christmas. Anyone knowing of such a thing please get in touch with Christian Koch, ckoch@oberlin.edu, as soon as possible. Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 5 09:00:14 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B36035A0C; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 09:00:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 071B1359F4; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 09:00:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091205090012.071B1359F4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 09:00:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.486 events: semantics in archaeology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 486. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 12:56:02 +0000 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: CAA 2010 Session Call for Papers - Semantic Infrastructures in Archaeology Dear All For those of you working in Semantic Web-related fields, Keith May and I will be chairing the following session at the forthcoming CAA 2010 conference in Granada, Spain, 6-9 April. We do hope you will consider submitting a paper (but please note that the deadline is December 15th!). Best wishes Leif Semantic infrastructures in Archaeology A previous Semantic Web Session at *CAA 2009, Williamsburg *('The Semantic Web: 2nd Generation Applications') demonstrated that there is now a thriving Semantic Web community in the archaeological sector with a track record of interesting and highly varied projects. RDF and canonical URI thesauri are increasingly being seen as viable methods for interoperability. However, there are as yet few examples of true interoperability between separate Semantic approaches, let alone the ‘serendipitous’ discovery which such technologies promise. It is also not yet clear how microproviders – academic data curators without large IT budgets – can make data available, how the mainstream archaeological community can fully interact with it, or what the theoretical bases of analysing aggregate data are. This session will be a showcase for the latest developments in the Archaeological Semantic Web, especially those which utilise W3C Recommendations such as RDF(S), OWL, SKOS and SPARQL. It will place specific emphasis on examples and techniques that demonstrate interactions and data-sharing between separate research groups and institutions. Validation of previous research and prototype systems is also relevant, as are theoretical papers which address the challenges of integrating, and working with integrated heterogeneous data. Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Linked Data repositories - Implementing SKOS Thesauri - The CIDOC-CRM - Legacy data integration - Ontology mapping and alignment - Spatial and temporal semantics - Overcoming barriers to uptake and improving user experience - Stable web dissemination - Co-reference - Visualization and interfaces - Theoretical implications of utilizing ‘Open World’ data. - Incorporating/repurposing semantic data from outside the archaeological domain. The target audience will be those with some exposure to the field so a reasonably high level of technical knowledge is expected and very general overviews are unnecessary (one will be given at the introduction to the session). Technical demonstrations are welcome. The session will conclude with time for general discussion and debate. *Please note that there is also a complementary session entitled 'Reference Collections on the Web', and we encourage papers related to the topics of establishing web-based typologies and thesauri to submit to that session instead.* *Chairs: * - Leif Isaksen, University of Southampton - Keith May, English Heritage _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 5 09:39:30 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC8935F49; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 09:39:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C674035F0F; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 09:39:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091205093928.C674035F0F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 09:39:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.487 computing shyness and awkwardness X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 487. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:38:46 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: computing shyness and awkwardness A colleague is doing research into qualities of shyness and awkwardness in prose. He has speculated that, > what you would need is an > ungrammaticality index, something which measures the text's waywardness or > reticence - this could be in terms of repetitions, conditional or > interrogative forms, suspended or withheld information. Repetitions can be caught, also conditional and interrogative forms, rather easily, I would think. How about other indicators of waywardness and retincence? Has anyone worked on the computational end of problems like this? He has asked me in general if anyone has anything that can measure ethnic idiolects of English. All suggestions most welcome. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Dec 6 08:17:38 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DCD13DAED; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 08:17:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8891B3DAD7; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 08:17:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091206081736.8891B3DAD7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 08:17:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.488 residence in Germany; unwanted messages X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 488. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (14) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.483 filtering out unwanted messages [2] From: Gerry Coulter (5) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.485 URGENT: residence in Germany needed --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 09:57:35 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.483 filtering out unwanted messages In-Reply-To: <20091205085845.AABCB35778@woodward.joyent.us> I think, for practical purposes, what Willard suggests below is all that our dear moderator can be expected to do: Notify us that he's turned on an automatic spam filter and instruct us to contact him if one of our messages don't get posted to the list. List moderation is a thankless volunteer job and no one's full time employment. Jim R > If there is a spam filter, there will be false positives. Only > Willard can determine whether the labor of filtering by hand > outweighs the risks of automation. (His occasional missives to the > effect of "things have been chaotic: let me know if your message has > been dropped" is effectively a feedback mechanism to control the > false positives in the hand-filtering method.) > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 12:25:22 -0500 From: Gerry Coulter Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.485 URGENT: residence in Germany needed In-Reply-To: <20091205085937.4399A35930@woodward.joyent.us> Your best bet will be to check out sabbatical homes .com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Dec 6 08:17:57 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4623DB65; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 08:17:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 617B13DB53; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 08:17:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091206081755.617B13DB53@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 08:17:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.489 jobs in Dublin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 489. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 12:21:55 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: two positions with 1641 Depositions Project TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN IRCHSS Research Assistants for the ‘1641 Depositions Project’ History Department, School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin Salary: €28,765 (incl. PRSI @10.75%; employer’s pension at 20%) Duration: 11 months A full-time (40 hours per week) vacancy has arisen for two motivated and well-organised Research Assistants (one a historian and the other a software developer) to work on the ‘1641 Depositions Project’. These posts are funded by the IRCHSS under its Research Development Initiative and forms part of a wider initiative involving IBM LanguageWare. The Research Assistants will divide their time between IBM and Trinity College Dublin, where they will work with the ‘1641 Depositions’ team. This IRCHSS RDI project will explore how a computer environment can be created in which humanities researchers can work collaboratively to interrogate a body of noisy digital data, the 1641 Depositions, in ways not currently possible, by exploiting effective language technology developed by IBM LanguageWare. The successful humanities applicant should hold a Ph.D. in History and enjoy excellent paleographic and technical skills. S/he should also have demonstrated an interest in research process transformation through the application of new and innovative social collaborative software. The successful technology applicant should hold a Bachelors Degree (or higher) in a scientific or computer science discipline. S/he should have demonstrated expertise in java programming, databases, XML, and have a strong understanding of modern web technologies. The ideal candidate will be an out of the box thinker, innovative, and motivated by the creation of transformative technology. A flair for user interface design and visualization techniques is a definite plus. Further general information can be obtained from Professor Jane H. Ohlmeyer, ohlmeyej@tcd.ie or Marie Wallace, marie.wallace@ie.ibm.com Letters of application together with a curriculum vitae together with the names and contact details (email addresses if possible) of two referees should be sent to: Mr. Martin Swannell Recruitment Executive Staff Office House No. 4 Trinity College Dublin 2 Tel +353 1 896 8489 For applications via email (which is the preferred method) martin.swannell@tcd.ie The closing date for applications is noon on Monday 14 December 2009. Interviews will be held on 18 December 2009. Trinity College Dublin is an equal opportunities employer. -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Dec 7 06:38:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C2F73B025; Mon, 7 Dec 2009 06:38:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7A7FB3CF35; Mon, 7 Dec 2009 06:38:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091207063825.7A7FB3CF35@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 06:38:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.490 shyness and awkwardness X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 490. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:30:08 -0600 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.487 computing shyness and awkwardness I know linguists use the concept "repair" to discuss some of what's being investigated here. Some of it is covered in "Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse,"a volume edited by Jane Hill and Judith Irvine. Hill has a delightful essay in there on the way a speaker struggles to articulate a narrative of responsibility. The woman involved is not, if I recall correctly, a native speaker of English. On 2009-12-05, at 03:39 , Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > A colleague is doing research into qualities of shyness and awkwardness > in prose. He has speculated that, > >> what you would need is an >> ungrammaticality index, something which measures the text's waywardness or >> reticence - this could be in terms of repetitions, conditional or >> interrogative forms, suspended or withheld information. > > Repetitions can be caught, also conditional and interrogative forms, > rather easily, I would think. How about other indicators of waywardness > and retincence? Has anyone worked on the computational end of problems > like this? _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 8 06:15:17 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D665935CD9; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 06:15:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6DB8835CC9; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 06:15:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091208061516.6DB8835CC9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 06:15:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.491 events: DHO Summer School X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 491. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 10:04:47 +0000 From: Emily Cullen Subject: DHO Summer School 2010 2010 DHO Summer School in conjunction with NINES and the EpiDoc Collaborative 28 June – 2 July 2010 http://dho.ie/ss2010 The third annual Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) Summer School will take place in Dublin from 28 June to 2 July 2010. Following the highly successful 2009 Summer School, next year’s event will see the expansion of popular workshop strands such as: * A Practical Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative * Data Visualisation for the Humanities * An Introduction to EpiDoc Markup and Editing Tools * The One to Many Text: Text Transformations with XSLT The Summer School will feature lectures by Dr. Hugh Denard (King's College London Visualisation Lab) and Dr Ian Gregory (University of Lancaster). Workshop facilitators include Dr Gabriel Bodard (King's College London), Dr James Cowey (University of Heidelberg), Professor Laura Mandell (Miami University of Ohio), Dr Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory), Justin Tonra (NUI, Galway) and Dana Wheeles (University of Virginia). Major workshop strands will be conducted over four days allowing delegates to choose a mini-workshop on Wednesday from one of the following offerings: * Geospatial Methods for Humanities Research * Using Digital Resources for Irish Research and Teaching * Visualising Space, Time and Events: Using Virtual Worlds for Humanities Research * Finding the Concepts In the Chaos - Building Relationships With Data Models * Planning Digital Scholarly Resources: A Primer The introduction of the one-day mini-workshops allows people to choose to attend a single-day event only at a reduced cost. On Wednesday afternoon following the mini-workshops, Summer School staff, lecturers and facilitators will be available for private consultations. Please note that the DHO Summer School takes place immediately before the annual Digital Humanities 2010 conference in London. Visit our DHO Summer School website (www.dho.ie/ss2010 http://www.dho.ie/ss2010 ) for updates and announcements. Registration will open on 15th of January. Please direct any questions to Shawn Day (s.day@dho.ie) or Emily Cullen (e.cullen@dho.ie). We look forward to seeing you in Dublin. -- Emily Cullen, Ph.D., Programme Co-ordinator Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: +353(0)1-2342442 Fax:+353(0)1-2342400 E-mail: e.cullen@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://dho.ie/ -- -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 9 06:54:58 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A073CDC1; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 06:54:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 388EB3CDAA; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 06:54:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091209065457.388EB3CDAA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 06:54:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.492 events: digital storytelling at HASTAC X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 492. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 00:35:46 -0600 From: Ana Boa-Ventura Subject: Storytelling Dear all, If your research intersects with digital storytelling, please join us this week in the Hastac Scholars forum on the same topic: http://www.hastac.org/forums/hastac-scholars-discussions/digital-storytelling You can also video blog the Seesmic videos embedded in the forum. For video replies you must have a (free) registration in Seesmic and go do it from http://seesmic.tv/hastacscholars Videos by guest speakers: Joe Lambert (Director / co-Founder, Center for Digital Storytelling, Berkeley), Mariana Kz (Museum of the Person, S. Paulo, Brazil) and Biagio Arobba (Rosebud Sioux tribe landbase), a teraGrid Pathways Fellow. See you there! Ana Boa-Ventura, Hastac scholar _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 10 06:53:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D063F3FB81; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:53:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BF85E3FA7B; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:53:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091210065306.BF85E3FA7B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:53:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.493 job at Maynooth, Ireland X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1898940628==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============1898940628== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 493. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:50:42 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: job opportunity with An Foras Feasa *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1260427853_2009-12-10_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_11453.2.pdf NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, MAYNOOTH MAYNOOTH, CO. KILDARE AN FORAS FEASA FULL-TIME IRCHSS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE (CONTRACT POST - ELEVEN MONTHS) IRCHSS FUNDING Sponsored by the IRCHSS (Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences) Research Development Initiative Strand 5 (Targeted Co-fund Initiatives) and Intel (Ireland) Ltd., this project will focus on delivering a Universal Learning Environment for Digital Humanities Education. The aim of this project is to enhance the development of distance-based digital humanities education, through the building of a component (or software tool) that can be deployed in current and future Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). The project partners include An Foras Feasa, Intel and the Irish Film Institute. Specifically, it will (1) deliver an online digital humanities module entitled ‘Culture and Politics in Twentieth-Century Ireland’, based on the Amharc Éireann newsreels and associated materials from the Irish Film Archive; (2) provide an online software tool to access, engage and manipulate the digital objects relating to this archive; (3) enable the utilisation of this component from a variety of current, popular VLEs including Intel’s Skoool.ie project, Moodle (used widely at third level) and An Foras Feasa’s collaborative writing environment (CWE). AN FORAS FEASA An Foras Feasa: the Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions (AFF) is a consortium of four institutions (NUIM, DCU, SPCD and DKIT), with combined expertise in the fields of humanities, technology, education, multilingualism and identity formation. In 2007 AFF secured €5.8m under PRTLI Cycle 4. AFF has identified four key research priorities for 2007-2010: ICT Innovation and Digital Humanities; Multiculturalism and Multilingualism: Textual Analysis and Linguistic Change; Ireland and Europe: History, Literature and Cultural Politics of Migration; Cultural Heritage and Social Capital in a Global Context. AFF’s distinctiveness, nationally and internationally, lies in its sponsoring of transformational research in models and theories at the interface of Humanities and ICT, as well as implementation and dissemination; it has developed research of international significance in the fields of hyperspectral text recovery and encoding of historical documents. THE CANDIDATE This is an excellent opportunity for a Java/XML developer to work in a stimulating, challenging research environment using the latest leading edge Java innovations and Open Source technologies. The successful software engineer must have the ability and willingness to take ownership of the project, design and progress it through to development, test and delivery. The ideal candidate will be an adept problem solver and have at least two years industrial experience in the design and development of J2EE, Web Application (all tiers), and XML development, with a first class or upper-second class degree in Computer Science or a related discipline. The post of full-time Research Associate, with a Software Engineering role, includes a full range of duties, which will include: • Work on a major component-based software life cycle development – a Universal Learning Environment for Digital Humanities Education; designing, development, troubleshooting, debugging and implementing software. • User Interface component development using Java, JSP, AJAX, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, CSS, FLEX; Production of software specifications based on UML. • Metadata development of XML schemas for document and media encoding; addressing localisation issues. Integration of software modules in Virtual Learning Environments. Deployment and management of Fedora Commons repositories. • Pattern-based (MVC, Struts, JBOSS) web application development using web technologies (JSF, JSP, Servlet), web services and integration technologies (SOAP, XML, JMF), persistence and databases (eXist-db, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and security management; Apache/Tomcat in a Unix/Linux/OS X environment. • Integration of several software components and understanding interdependencies and relationships. • Providing technical advice and liaising with relevant Humanities scholars, researchers and academic departments within the institution and Project Partners. • Maintaining the Project Website, ensuring that information is kept up to date, and managing general publicity for the Institute’s e-activities. • Other project-related software-development tasks as may be required from time to time by the Principal Investigator. Candidates for the post must have proven industrial track record in product delivery of digital humanities solutions in applicable time frame and providing updates to project management. It is essential that the candidate have fluency in J2EE, Web Application (all tiers), and XML development. Knowledge and experience of working with at least one of the following metadata related technologies would be essential: Fedora Object XML (FOXML), Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) for interoperable online metadata standards, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), an application-independent interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting. An experience of working in a third level institution would be advantageous. The ideal candidate must be highly motivated, have proven ability to work well in an industrial team environment and perform under pressure. Candidates must have excellent communication skills and the ability to work on their own initiative in a challenging environment. Salary: €24,000 (11 months) Applications with full C.V., together with the names, addresses, fax and telephone numbers of two referees, should be forwarded to the Dr. John Keating (Associate Director), An Foras Feasa, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, E-mail: john.keating@nuim.ie so as to arrive not later than 5.00 pm on 14th December 2010. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --===============1898940628== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php --===============1898940628==-- From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 10 06:53:57 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 016643FD8A; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:53:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A01193FC79; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:53:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091210065355.A01193FC79@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:53:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.494 I-CHASS award X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 494. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 21:42:04 +0000 From: I-CHASS Subject: I-CHASS Collaboration Recipient of Digging into Data Challenge Award The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) is pleased to announce that Digging into Image Data to Answer Authorship Related Questions has been an awarded funding through the Digging Into Data (DID) Challenge, as posted at www.diggingintodata.org The DID Challenge seeks to promote innovative humanities and social science research that relies on the analysis of large-scale datasets and is an initiative jointly sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, and the United Kingdom’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Digging into Image Data to Answer Authorship Related Questions is an international collaboration between researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) funded by NSF, Michigan State University (MSU) funded by NEH, and the University of Sheffield funded by JISC. The effort is supported by key participants from the Alliance for American Quilts. Led at I-CHASS by Dr. Peter Bajcsy, Associate Director for Data Analytics and Pattern Recognition and a Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the project uses advanced computational techniques to explore the authorship of three different datasets of visual works—15th century manuscripts, 17th and 18th century maps, and 19th and 20th century quilts—and to answer such questions as how visual and production styles reflect regional tastes or historical moments, how traumatic historical events manifest in cultural production, and how artifacts reflect and influence relationships between cultural groups. The UIUC project’s co-Principal Investigators are Anne D. Hedeman of the University of Illinois, and I-CHASS Executive Director Kevin Franklin. The collaborating sites are led by Dr. Dean Rehberger of Michigan State University, and Dr. Peter Ainsworth of the University of Sheffield. * * * Founded in 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I-CHASS charts new ground in high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social sciences by creating both learning environments and spaces for digital discovery. I-CHASS presents path-breaking research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social sciences. For more information on I-CHASS, please visit: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 10 06:54:59 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 752033F041; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:54:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9D2B33FFF1; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:54:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091210065458.9D2B33FFF1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:54:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.495 events: NLP for the social sciences X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 495. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:38:38 +0000 From: Horacio Saggion Subject: CFP (final deadline) - Natural Language Processing for the Social Sciences (Argentina) 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Tools Applied to Discourse Analysis in Psychology Instituto de Altos Estudios en Psicologia y Ciencias Sociales Buenos Aires, Argentina May 10th - 14th, 2010 Call for Abstracts for a special session on NLP for the Social Sciences In recent years, the field of natural language processing (NLP) has experienced a renewed interest in the analysis of non "factual" discourse, which is characterised by the presence of affective language, sentiments, opinions, feelings, believes, and manifestations of emotional states, and which is charged with subjectivity. There are not only interesting theoretical issues which deserve scientific study such as what makes a discourse subjective, or how to discriminate between emotional states in text or speech, but also practical applications (e.g., dialogue systems, question answering, summarization, extraction) may benefit from those studies. Thus, we are calling for contributions which will bring together the areas of Natural Language Processing and the Social Sciences. Main Topics: * Natural Language Processing in Psychology * Electronic Language Resources for the Social Sciences (e.g., dictionaries, lexicons, grammars) * Natural Language Processing of non-factual Discourse * Natural Language Processing in the analysis of Political Discourse * Automatic Analysis of Emotional Discourse * Automatic Detection of Sentiments and Opinions * Other topics related to the study and application of NLP to psychology and more generally the social sciences Format of submission: At this stage we are soliciting abstracts (in pdf) of between 1000-1500 words. The abstract should include: * Title * Authors and affiliations * Contact e-mail * 1000-1500 words (about 4 pages) including text, figures, and tables * References Language of the abstract: English or Spanish Detailed submission instructions will be specified together with notifications to the authors. Workshop Dates: 10th May - 14th May 2010. Submission date: 4th January 2010 Notification to the Authors (accept/reject letters): 26 February 2010 Camera Ready Copy: 26 March 2010 Where to submit your contribution: Send your pdf abstract by e-mail to Dr. Horacio Saggion (at http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~saggion you will find the address where to send your contribution). The subject of your e-mail should be "NLP4PSYCHO abstract". You will receive acknowledgment of reception of your contributions within two days of submission. Organizer: Horacio Saggion Programme Committee * Laura Alonso y Alemani (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina) * Jose Alvarez (Universidad Austral, Argentina) * John Atkinson (Universidad de Concepcion, Chile) * Javier Couto (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay) * Ariadne Carvalho (UNICAMP, Brazil) * Iria da Cunha (Universidad de Avignon/Universidad Pompeu Fabra, France/Spain) * Gabriel Infante-Lopez (Uiversidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina) * David Martinez (University of Melbourne, Australia) * Diego Molla-Aliod (Macquarie University, Australia) * Gerardo Sierra Martinez (UNAM, Mexico) * Paloma Moreda (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) * Juan-Manuel Torres Moreno (Universidad de Avignon, France) * Rogelio Nazar (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) * Thiago Pardo (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) * Rene Venegas (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile) * Aline Villavicencio (Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) * Maria das Gracas Volpe Nunes (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) * Dina Wonsever (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay) * Mãity Siqueira (UFRGS, Brazil) * Vera Lucia Strube de Lima (UPRGS, Brazil) * Manuel Palomar (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) * Jose Luis Vicedo (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 10 09:50:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15B963F72E; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:50:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 48DC73F725; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:50:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091210095033.48DC73F725@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:50:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.496 cfp: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 496. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:49:20 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Interdisciplinary Science Reviews www.isr-journal.org OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ISR is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that aims to set contemporary and historical developments in the sciences and technology into their wider social and cultural context and to illuminate their interrelations with the humanities and arts. Originally its concern was primarily with interrelations among the sciences, but for the past many years it has moved steadily toward the study of interdisciplinary exchanges and views among all the disciplines. Ideally ISR looks for articles which will gain the respect of specialists but which appeal to intelligent non-specialists from across the disciplines. It actively explores the differing trajectories of the disciplines and practices in its purview, to clarify what each is attempting to do in its own terms, so that constructive dialogue across them is strengthened. It focuses whenever possible on conceptual bridge-building and collaborative research that nevertheless respect disciplinary variation. ISR manifests interdisciplinarity rather than discusses the abstract idea. This is a call for submissions on any topic to an open issue currently scheduled for December 2011, with final materials due in September of that year, first drafts by late Spring. Interested individuals should write to me with a title and abstract of what you might submit. ISR publishes mostly commissioned rather than open issues, such as the one for which this call is being made. For a list of forthcoming issues, see www.isr-journal.org/forthcoming.html; for past issues, maney.co.uk/index.php/journals/isr/. Willard McCarty Editor, ISR staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 11 06:10:45 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64F6440641; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:10:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F1A654062C; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:10:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091211061043.F1A654062C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:10:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.497 thinking aids, Socratic questions and AI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 497. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (25) Subject: thinking aids and AI? [2] From: Willard McCarty (31) Subject: Socratic AI --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:27:54 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: thinking aids and AI? At the very end of his masterful survey, "Steps toward artificial intelligence" (in Feigenbaum and Feldman, Computers and Thought, 1963), Marvin Minsky ownes up to considering only problem-solving programs, such as the work for which Newell and Simon were famous and on the basis of which predictions concerning the success of AI were made in those early years. Minsky then comments as follows: > ... as this is written, we are at last beginning to see vigorous > activity in the direction of constructing usable time-sharing or > multiprogramming computing systems. With these systems, it will at > last become economical to match human beings in real time with really > large machines. This means that we can work toward programming what > will be, in effect, "thinking aids." In the years to come, we expect > that these man-machine systems will share, and perhaps for a time be > dominant, in our advance toward the development of "artificial > intelligence." (p. 450) Who in AI has followed up on the relationship between such "thinking aids", for which the resonance of human and machine is dead-centre, and ideas of artificial intelligence? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:45:46 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Socratic AI Another bit of Minsky, from "Steps toward artificial intelligence" (in Feigenbaum and Feldman, Computers and Thought, 1963). After consideration of how a machine might be built or taught to infer inductively from current data, Minsky plays Socrates as with the slave boy: > If a creature can answer a question about a hypothetical experiment, > without actually performing that experiment, then the answer must > have been obtained from some submachine inside the creature. The > output of that submachine (representing a correct answer) as well as > the input (representing the question) must be coded descriptions of > the corresponding external events or event classes. Seen through this > pair of encoding and decoding channels, the internal submachine acts > like the environment, and so it has the character of a "model." The > inductive inference problem may then be regarded as the problem of > constructing such a model. Fascinating parallel, suggesting of course that we begin not with propositional logic and problems of managerial decision-making but with the mental life of children. But I wonder. Doesn't this raise the question of what the child begins with that the machine does not? I'd assume that developmental psychologists would affirm what familiarity with young babies strongly suggests, that no tabula rasa could be responsible for such a gaze, such behaviour. I'm not necessarily suggesting hardwired proto-language or anything else, but certainly a "poverty of the stimulus". Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 11 06:11:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F52E40897; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:11:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 56DC240882; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:11:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091211061124.56DC240882@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:11:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.498 an old IBM manual? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 498. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:15:22 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an old IBM manual Does anyone here have access to R. V. Andree, Programming the IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Computer and Data Processing Machine (New York: Holt, 1958)? In digital form? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 11 06:12:31 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBC1F4097E; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:12:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8B5DE4096B; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:12:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091211061230.8B5DE4096B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:12:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.499 cfp: new journal for library & info science X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 499. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:27:19 -0600 (CST) From: rasmith@tamu.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.497 thinking aids, Socratic questions and AI In-Reply-To: <20091211061043.F1A654062C@woodward.joyent.us> From: Humanist Discussion Group _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Dec 13 09:59:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E2B408DE; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:59:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9C579408D5; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:59:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091213095920.9C579408D5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:59:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.501 accidentally creative monkeys X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 501. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:52:51 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: accidentally creative monkeys Many here will be entertained if not informed by Jim Reeds' compilation, "The Parable of the Monkeys, a.k.a. The Topos of the Monkeys and the Typewriters", at www.angelfire.com/in/hypnosonic/Parable_of_the_Monkeys.html. In case you're wondering: this parable, in the second-oldest version collected by Reeds from Sir Arthur Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World (1929), occurs in a discussion of artificial intelligence in B. V. Boden, ed., Faster than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines (1953), p. 317. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Dec 14 06:12:16 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9DA427CA; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:12:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C8CB942777; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:12:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091214061214.C8CB942777@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:12:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.502 creative monkeys; IBM 650 manual X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 502. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Armin Wagner (40) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.501 accidentally creative monkeys [2] From: Zachary E Chandler (13) Subject: Programming the IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Computer and Data ProcessingMachine (1958) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:01:05 +0100 From: Armin Wagner Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.501 accidentally creative monkeys In-Reply-To: <20091213095920.9C579408D5@woodward.joyent.us> The oldest form known to me is a poem/fable by Daniel Wilhelm Triller (1695-1782) called "Der Affe, ein seltsamer Buchdrucker, und ein Eremit". The monkey does not succeed in his attempt to create any meaningful text: "Waste one hundred years or more, still no wise word comes to the fore." Triller uses the parable to argue in favor of "intelligent design". Here's a Google Books link: http://bit.ly/5oDKNQ best, Armin Wagner TU Vienna Am 13.12.2009 um 10:59 schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 501. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:52:51 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: accidentally creative monkeys > > > Many here will be entertained if not informed by Jim Reeds' compilation, > "The Parable of the Monkeys, a.k.a. The Topos of the Monkeys and the > Typewriters", at > www.angelfire.com/in/hypnosonic/Parable_of_the_Monkeys.html. > > In case you're wondering: this parable, in the second-oldest version collected by Reeds from Sir Arthur Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World (1929), occurs in a discussion of artificial intelligence in B. V. Boden, ed., Faster than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines (1953), p. 317. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:09:09 -0800 (PST) From: Zachary E Chandler Subject: Programming the IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Computer and Data Processing Machine (1958) In-Reply-To: <20091213095920.9C579408D5@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, To answer your question, Stanford has 2 copies in remote storage, neither are digital. Good Luck, Zach -- ================================================ Zachary Chandler Academic Technology Specialist Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Academic Computing, SULAIR Stanford University http://ats.stanford.edu http://dlcl.stanford.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Dec 14 06:13:30 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C196428A7; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:13:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 88B8F428A0; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:13:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091214061328.88B8F428A0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:13:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.503 events: HASTAC recognition X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 503. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:00:41 +0000 From: I-CHASS Subject: HASTAC Awardees to be recognized at the White House FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, DURHAM, N.C.: HASTAC/MACARTHUR FOUNDATION DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING COMPETITION TO PARTICIPATE IN WHITE HOUSE SCIENCE-EDUCATION EFFORT HASTAC is playing a major role in the new White House campaign to encourage students to pursue science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The third-annual Digital Media and Learning Competition will award $2 million in support of participatory learning experiences that incorporate STEM principles. The competition launches Dec. 14 and winners will be announced in spring 2010. The competition, funded by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, will be administered by a network of educators and digital innovators called HASTAC (the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). HASTAC was founded and is primarily operated at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University and the University of California Humanities Research Institute at the University of California, Irvine. "Lifting American students from the middle to the top of the pack in STEM achievement over the next decade will not be attained by government alone," said President Obama at an event today (Monday, Nov. 23, 2009) announcing the Educate to Innovate campaign. "I applaud the substantial commitments made today by the leaders of companies, universities, foundations, non-profits and organizations representing millions of scientists, engineers and teachers from across the country." Dukes Cathy N. Davidson, who along with David Theo Goldberg of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, are the co-founders of HASTAC, said, "We are proud that an interdisciplinary humanities-inspired network like HASTAC has a leadership role in administering the Digital Media and Learning Competition. We are honored to be so central to President Obama's vision for education in the 21st century. We welcome a new era of literacy that extends across all of the human, social and natural sciences, and we are inspired by this opportunity for innovation in education." Awards will be given in two categories: -- 21st Century Learning Lab Designers will receive awards for learning environments and digital media-based experiences that allow young people to grapple with social challenges through STEM-based activities. Digital media of any type (social networks, games, virtual worlds, mobile devices or others) may be used. Proposals are also encouraged for curricula or other experiences that link or connect to any video game, especially, but not limited to, Sony's LittleBigPlanet(TM) on PlayStation(R)3. -- Game Changers awards recognize creative new games or additions to Sony's LittleBigPlanet(TM). These games and game expansions should offer young people engaging game play experiences that incorporate principles of science, technology, engineering and math. As part of their prize, awardees will receive special consultation support on everything from technology development to management training. Winners will be invited to showcase their work at a conference that will include venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, educators and policy makers seeking the best ideas about digital learning. "MacArthur is pleased to team with Sony and National Lab Day to encourage the next generation of innovators to focus on science, technology, engineering and math. Digital media, including games, are the learning labs of the future and this open competition encourages people to consider creative new ways to use digital media to create learning environments that are engaging, immersive and participatory," said Connie Yowell, MacArthur's Director of Education. "This competition will help ensure that the new and highly engaging approaches to science, technology, engineering, and math find their way into schools, libraries, museums, and other spaces for learning." _ _ _ _ The HASTAC competition is supported by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to the University of California, in collaboration with Duke University. The University of California Humanities Research Institute and Duke's John Hope Franklin Center are the principal administering bodies for the grant on behalf of HASTAC. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 15 09:17:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E40342435; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:17:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AEEB542422; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:17:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091215091706.AEEB542422@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:17:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.504 computers as morons X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 504. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:32:58 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: computers as morons Thanks to Zach Chandler (Stanford) for locating copies of R.V. Andree, Programming the IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Computer and Data Processing Machine (New York: Holt, 1958) -- though alas undigitised, hence un-downloadable. I am in pursuit of this manual for a specific reason and should have explained. In response to the general fright in the 1950s that computers (a.k.a. "electronic brains") would take over, it is alleged that IBMers, presumably under instruction, began calling computers "morons", repeating if not reinventing Ada Lovelace's argument that a computer can only do what it is instructed to do. I am keenly interested in discovering evidence of the use of "moron" -- or any similar term -- to characterise the computer by disparaging its (alleged or exhibited) potential for intelligent behaviour. Andree's manual is said to contain such a usage (Paul Armer, in "Attitudes toward intelligent machines", Computers and Thought, ed Feigenbaum and Feldman, p. 394, who quotes Andree but does not give a page-number). My interest is in the fear that computers provoked, less because of their association with the Cold War than their perceived threat to human identity. All help and hints greatly appreciated. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 15 09:18:15 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6829F424AD; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:18:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E25514247C; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:18:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091215091813.E25514247C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:18:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.505 new on WWW: e-pub bibliography, version 77 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 505. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:24:11 +0000 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 77, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 77 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,620 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition is available as a paperback book and as a Kindle e-book. http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2008.htm Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents Dedication 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 and User Authentication* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies* Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics The following recent Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: (1) Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 4 (7/15/2009) http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm (2) Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 5 (9/14/2009) http://digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm (3) Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 1 (10/19/2009) http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://bit.ly/Z6HFx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 16 06:36:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF1D40868; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:36:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 75EFC40852; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:36:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091216063633.75EFC40852@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:36:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.506 computers as morons X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 506. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michael Fraser (35) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.504 computers as morons [2] From: Thomas Crombez (56) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.504 computers as morons [3] From: Willard McCarty (43) Subject: the legions of morons --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:08:56 +0000 From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.504 computers as morons In-Reply-To: <20091215091706.AEEB542422@woodward.joyent.us> Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > My interest is in the fear that computers provoked, less because of their > association with the Cold War than their perceived threat to human identity. > All help and hints greatly appreciated. I have a book entitled The Beast of Business: A record of computer atrocities (ed. Harvey Matusow), London, 1968. (see http://www.ibiblio.org/mal/MO/matusow/beastofbiz.html ). On page 47 there is an entry: "Man -v- Machine We hear that the staff of the IBM office in Tokyo have put up a sign: MAN -- SLOW, SLOVENLY, BRILLIANT IBM -- FAST, ACCURATE, STUPID" It may be of passing interest to readers that my copy of the book was previously owned by Vivien Greene ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivien_Greene ), presented to her by the author, and with an entry referring to her on page 36, "Mrs V. Greene, of Oxford, received a telephone bill for £89. This was far in excess of the total she'd been billed for the past two years. She went to the local telephone office, and was informed that it was a computer error and, had she not questioned it and paid the full £89, the computerised accounts department would have accepted the money and not questioned it. Just another example of how mechanised-computerised fraud -- by mistake -- can be accomplished within the law. We don't know of any countries today which have laws to prosecute fraud committed by computer error." Michael -- Dr Michael Fraser Head of Infrastructure Systems and Services Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:01:50 +0100 From: Thomas Crombez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.504 computers as morons In-Reply-To: <20091215091706.AEEB542422@woodward.joyent.us> This search query does return a variety of nice quotations on computers literally described as "morons": http://bit.ly/8Q1b9r (It's a search on Google Book Search for works published between 1950 and 1960, featuring the words "computer" and "morons".) Best, Thomas Crombez --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:34:32 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the legions of morons In-Reply-To: <20091215091706.AEEB542422@woodward.joyent.us> It can be good to have more than the few words that Google books will often give you. An example for machine as "moron" is Roger Nett and Stanley A. Hetzler, An Introduction to Electronic Data Processing (Glencoe IL: The Free Press, 1959), available on the Internet Archive -- praises for which be -- from which I extract the following: > Machine traits are: low comprehension, high retention, extreme > reliability, and tremendous speed. The use of superlatives here to > describe these traits is not exaggerative. Since speed becomes in > practice the equivalent of number, the machine might be, and has > sometimes been, equated to legions -- an army, if you will -- of > lowgrade morons whose conceptualization is entirely literal, who > remember as long as is necessary or as you desire them to, whose > loyalty and subservience is complete, who require no holidays, no > spurious incentives, no morale programs, pensions, not even gratitude > for past service, and who seemingly never tire of doing elementary > repetitive tasks such as typing, accounting, bookkeeping, arithmetic, > filling in forms, and the like. In about all these respects the > machine may be seen to be the exact opposite of nature's loftiest > creature, the intellligent human being, who becomes bored with the > petty and repetitious, who is unreliable, who wanders from the task > for the most trivial reasons, who gets out of humor, who forgets, who > requires constant incentives and rewards, who improvises on his own > even when to do so is impertinent to the objectives being undertaken, > and who in summary (let's face it) is unsuitable to most forms of > industry as the latter are ideally and practically conceived in our > times. It becomes apparent in retrospect that the only excuse we > might ever have had for employing him to do many of civilization's > more literal and repetitious tasks was the absence of something more > efficient with which to replace him! > > It is not the purpose of this volume to explore further the > ramifications of the above statements of fact.... Who would ever have expected such an outpouring of imaginative prose in a book with such a title? Can you not just see the legion of robots marching into the industrial future? Reminds me of Ridley Scott's Apple advert announcing the arrival of the Mac. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 16 06:37:21 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A2740A2F; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:37:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6A16B40A22; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:37:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091216063719.6A16B40A22@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:37:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.507 goodbye to Gerd X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1367985084==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============1367985084== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 507. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:30:35 +0100 From: Gerd Willée Subject: unsubscribe dear willard, as i am retired now since one and a half year (being quite happy about this fact) i do not see any more sense in being a member in the humanist list. therefore herewith i want to UNSUBSCRIBE. the past years it was quite interesting in following the discussions within the list. thank you all. yours gerd willée -- Dr. Gerd Willée IfK - Universität Bonn Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-53115 Bonn +49 (0)228 - 73 56 20 privat: Moltkeplatz 3 D-53173 Bonn skrupel - wort, das außer gebrauch gerät, da es eine idee birgt, die nicht mehr existiert (ambrose bierce) --===============1367985084== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php --===============1367985084==-- From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 16 06:38:21 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C216240D6C; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:38:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A3AD340D64; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:38:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091216063820.A3AD340D64@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:38:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.508 events: Pisa Training School X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 508. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:27:11 +0100 From: Francesca Di Donato Subject: Pisa Spring Training School Call for participation - Apologies for cross posting -------------------- *Spring Training School - University of Pisa, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Political and Social Sciences, in cooperation with COST A32* Open Scholarly Communities on the Web: Theory and Practice Pisa (Italy), 22-26 March 2010 Facoltà di Scienze politiche Via Serafini, 3 56126 Pisa Presentation: The international training school “Open Scholarly Communities on the Web: Theory and Practice” is a new learning course promoted by the Faculty of Political Sciencies of the University of Pisa in collaboration with the European Action COST A32. The course, targeted to doctoral students, PhDs and young researchers, aims at providing the participants with the knowledge required to effectively use the Web as a scholarly research and publishing tool. The school will deal with the following topics: finding relevant information; understanding legal terms and conditions of Web resources; using licenses; writing, publishing and archiving scholarly content; developing and managing scholarly web communities on the Web. Eligibility: The training school is targeted to young researchers, doctoral and post-doctoral students in the area of the Humanities and Social Sciencies. Familiarity with PCs is required. The school is open to a maximum of 20 participants, 12 of which will be selected among the COST A32 member institutions. A selection committee will consider all applications based on the eligibility and curriculum vitae. Certificate of Attendance: A certificate of participation will be issued at the end of the course, which grants 4 ECTS/CFU . Application Deadlines: Application requests complete with CV must be e-mailed to Francesca Di Donato at between November 16th and December 31th 2009. Important Dates: 16 November- 31 Dec. 2009: Applications 31 January 2010: Notification of acceptance 22-26 March 2009: Pisa Spring Training School Location: University of Pisa - Faculty of Political Sciences, v. Serafini, 3 56126 Pisa (Italy) More infos: http://qsg.barbz.org/index.php? option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=13 ---------------- Dr. Francesca Di Donato Faculty of Political Sciences - University of Pisa http://www.sp.unipi.it/hp/didonato/ v. Serafini, 3 56126 Pisa - Italy _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 18 06:18:29 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59D4645215; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:18:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7006945205; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:18:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091218061827.7006945205@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:18:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.509 accidentally creative monkeys X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 509. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alan Galey (44) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.501 accidentally creative monkeys [2] From: Alan Galey (101) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.502 creative monkeys; IBM 650 manual --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:00:14 -0500 From: Alan Galey Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.501 accidentally creative monkeys In-Reply-To: <20091213095920.9C579408D5@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, On that note, Humanist's readers may also enjoy Terry Butler's article "Monkeying Around with Text" in the current issue of Text Technology: http://texttechnology.mcmaster.ca/current_content.html Cheers, Alan http://texttechnology.mcmaster.ca/current_content.html --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:23:45 -0500 From: Alan Galey Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.502 creative monkeys; IBM 650 manual In-Reply-To: <20091214061214.C8CB942777@woodward.joyent.us> Does anyone know at what point in history Shakespeare became the typical target for the typing monkeys to hit? Jim Reeds's list gives James Jeans in 1930 as his first example, in which Jeans indicates he originally heard the parable with the British Museum as the example. I'd be grateful to hear about any earlier instances of Shakespeare as the test-case. All best, Alan On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 502. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > >  [1]   From:    Armin Wagner                      (40) >        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.501 accidentally creative monkeys > >  [2]   From:    Zachary E Chandler                (13) >        Subject: Programming the IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Computer and Data >                ProcessingMachine (1958) > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ >        Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:01:05 +0100 >        From: Armin Wagner >        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.501 accidentally creative monkeys >        In-Reply-To: <20091213095920.9C579408D5@woodward.joyent.us> > > The oldest form known to me is a poem/fable by Daniel Wilhelm Triller (1695-1782) called "Der Affe, ein seltsamer Buchdrucker, und ein Eremit". The monkey does not succeed in his attempt to create any meaningful text: "Waste one hundred years or more, still no wise word comes to the fore." Triller uses the parable to argue in favor of "intelligent design". > > Here's a Google Books link: http://bit.ly/5oDKNQ > > best, > Armin Wagner > > TU Vienna > > Am 13.12.2009 um 10:59 schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > >>                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 501. >>         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >>                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >>                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >>        Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:52:51 +0000 >>        From: Willard McCarty >>        Subject: accidentally creative monkeys >> >> >> Many here will be entertained if not informed by Jim Reeds' compilation, >> "The Parable of the Monkeys, a.k.a. The Topos of the Monkeys and the >> Typewriters", at >> www.angelfire.com/in/hypnosonic/Parable_of_the_Monkeys.html. >> >> In case you're wondering: this parable, in the second-oldest version collected by Reeds from Sir Arthur Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World (1929), occurs in a discussion of artificial intelligence in B. V. Boden, ed., Faster than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines (1953), p. 317. >> >> Yours, >> WM >> -- >> Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, >> King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; >> Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; >> Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ >        Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:09:09 -0800 (PST) >        From: Zachary E Chandler >        Subject: Programming the IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Computer and Data Processing Machine (1958) >        In-Reply-To: <20091213095920.9C579408D5@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Dear Willard, > > To answer your question, Stanford has 2 copies in remote storage, neither are digital. > > Good Luck, > Zach > > -- > ================================================ > Zachary Chandler > Academic Technology Specialist > Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages > Academic Computing, SULAIR > Stanford University > http://ats.stanford.edu > http://dlcl.stanford.edu > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 18 06:19:59 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E21B4527C; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:19:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 77DD14526D; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:19:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091218061957.77DD14526D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:19:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.510 new on WWW: TL Infobits for the year's end X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 510. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:06:09 +0000 From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: TL Infobits -- November/December 2009 TL INFOBITS November/December 2009 No. 41 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 and all back issues at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... Message from Editor Note Regarding Reprinting Student Engagement Survey Released Persuading Students to Adopt Technologies Search Engine Use by Faculty and Students Research on Serious Games EDUCAUSE's Top-Ten IT Issues Revisited Scholarly Publishing Bibliography Updated Recommended Reading ...................................................................... MESSAGE FROM EDITOR This is the final issue of TL Infobits. Back issues are available at http://its.unc.edu/TeachingAndLearning/publications/tlinfobits/index.htm and will be included in the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill archives for permanent preservation. Producing this newsletter has been a rewarding professional and personal experience for me, and I thank my subscribers for the support and encouragement that I have received from them over the years. -- Carolyn Kotlas, Infobits Editor carolynkotlas@yahoo.com ...................................................................... NOTE REGARDING REPRINTING Recently the Copyright Clearing Center sent us a royalty check for giving reprint rights for an article in Infobits. It has never been the policy of the organizations that sponsored Infobits to require fees for granting reprint permission. All that we have ever requested is that Infobits be cited as the source of the reprinted article. At this time, there are no plans to remove the back issues from their website in case you need to reprint any of the content. If you have any questions regarding the use of Infobits content, feel free to contact me and I will direct your query to the appropriate office. -- Carolyn Kotlas ...................................................................... STUDENT ENGAGEMENT SURVEY RELEASED In November, the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research released "Assessment for Improvement: Tracking Student Engagement over Time," the report on the tenth annual National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). In 2009, over 640 baccalaureate-granting colleges and universities participated in the survey. Some of the findings related to information technology include: Students and faculty most often used computer technologies for: -- Postings of announcements, assignments, or course readings -- Online lecture notes/slides -- Posting grades They were least like to use them for or were familiar with: -- Videoconferencing or Internet phone chat -- Video games, simulations, or virtual worlds -- Blogs -- Student response systems -- Online portfolios The survey results are available at http://nsse.iub.edu/NSSE_2009_Results/pdf/NSSE_AR_2009.pdf See also: "Do College Student Surveys Have Any Validity?" Paper presented at the 2009 meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education By Stephen R. Porter, Iowa State University http://srporter.public.iastate.edu/surveys/porter_ashe_2009.pdf Porter believes that NSSE "fails to meet basic standards for validity and reliability, and recommend[s] that higher education researchers initiate a new research agenda to develop valid college student surveys." Also see articles on Porter's paper: "Engaged or Confused?" By Scott Jaschik INSIDE HIGHER ED, November 9, 2009 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/11/09/porter "Researcher Harpoons the 'Nessie' Survey of Students" By Peter Schmidt THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, November 7, 2009 http://chronicle.com/article/Researcher-Harpoons-the/49088/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=eng ...................................................................... PERSUADING STUDENTS TO ADOPT TECHNOLOGIES "Explaining a need shared by your students is one of the most commonly used strategies for motivating people. If a teacher can convince the student that a need exists, it is relatively easy to propose a solution that will meet the need. Even if a solution does not exist, people will be motivated to act, believe, or change their values and attitudes if a true need has been illustrated." In "Infomercials Inform Online Learning?" {ECOLLEGE: EDUCATOR'S VOICE, vol. 10, no. 6, November 19, 2009), Jeff D. Borden discusses persuading students to make time for incorporating new technologies into their schedules. Using what he believes is "the best, modern day example of persuasion in action," he takes examples from infomercials to suggest strategies to motivate students to adopt new tools that will enhance their learning activities. The article is available at http://www.ecollege.com/Educators_Voice.learn Educator's Voice is published monthly by Pearson eCollege. For more information contact eCollege, eCollege Building, 4900 S. Monaco Street, Denver, CO 80237 USA; tel: 888-884-7325; fax: 303-873-7449; Web: http://www.ecollege.com/ ...................................................................... SEARCH ENGINE USE BY FACULTY AND STUDENTS In "Search Engine Use Behavior of Students and Faculty: User Perceptions and Implications for Future Research" (FIRST MONDAY, vol. 14, no. 12, December 7, 2009), Oya Y. Rieger, librarian at Cornell University, reports on research that examined the use of Web search engines in support of learning, teaching, and research. While faculty and students view them as "taken–for–granted background tools," users have several concerns "about the information management challenges associated with having access to large and diverse corpuses of digital information." The paper is available at http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2716/2385 First Monday [ISSN 1396-0466] is an online, peer-reviewed journal whose aim is to publish original articles about the Internet and the global information infrastructure. It is published in cooperation with the University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information, contact: First Monday, c/o Edward Valauskas, Chief Editor, PO Box 87636, Chicago IL 60680-0636 USA; email: ejv@uic.edu; Web: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/ ...................................................................... RESEARCH ON SERIOUS GAMES "We have plenty of empirical studies about simulations over the last 25 years. We know simulations work. We know simulations improve performance. We know simulations improve learning. Yet, I challenge anyone to show me a literature review of empirical studies about game-based learning. There are none. We are charging head-long into game-based learning without knowing if it works or not. We need studies." In "Do Serious Games Work? Results from Three Studies" (ELEARN MAGAZINE, December 1, 2009), Richard Blunt reports on studies that set out to answer the challenge that Jan Cannon-Bowers issued at the Training 2006 Conference and Expo. The studies found that, "at least in some circumstances, the application of serious games significantly increases learning" but "[t]he potential of using serious games to create new expectations of learning and performance achievements remains to be proven." The paper is available at http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=research&article=9-1 eLearn Magazine [ISSN: 1535-394X] is published by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 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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. "Pedagogy a Poor Second in Promotions" By Rebecca Attwood TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION, December 10, 2009 http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk//story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=409511&c=2 "Universities stand accused of hypocrisy this week over their claims to value teaching, after a major study of promotions policy and practice found that many are still failing to reward academics for leadership in pedagogy. "Research by the Higher Education Academy and the University of Leicester's 'Genie' Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning examines the promotion policies of 104 UK universities. "It states that the use of teaching criteria is inconsistent, often absent and not always applied even if included." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2009, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning. All rights reserved. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:20:54 +0000 From: Thomas Bolander Subject: CFP: International Workshop on Hybrid Logic and Applications (HyLo2010) FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic and Applications (HyLo 2010) Affiliated with LICS 2010 July 10, 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland ******************************************************************* Scope ----- Hybrid logic is an extension of modal logic which allows us to refer explicitly to states of the model in the syntax of formulas. This extra capability, very natural in the realm of temporal logics, where one usually wants to refer to specific times, has been shown very effective in other domains too. Although they date back to the late 1960s, and have been sporadically investigated ever since, it was 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, with the usefulness of the additional expressive power. For example, when reasoning about time one often wants to build up a series of assertions about what happens at a particular instant, and standard modal formalisms do not allow this. What is less obvious is that the route hybrid logic takes to overcome this problem (the basic mechanism being to add nominals - atomic symbols true at a unique point - together with extra modalities to exploit them) often actually improves the 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 simply not available in modal logic. That is, hybridization - adding nominals and related apparatus - seems a fairly reliable way of curing many known weaknesses in modal logic. Hybrid logic is now a mature field with significant impact on a range of other fields, including - description logic, - applied modal logics, - temporal logic, - memory logics, - memoryful logics, - reactive logic, - labelled deduction, and - feature logic. The topic of the HyLo workshop of 2010 is hybrid logic and its applications, for instance within the fields mentioned above. The scope is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery like nominals, satisfaction operators, and the downarrow binder but, more generally, extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic and applications, for example the LICS-affiliated HyLo 2002 (http://floc02.diku.dk/HYLO) and HyLo 2006 (http://hylomol.ruc.dk/HyLo2006) which both were held as part of FLoC. Submissions ----------- Please use the HyLo 2010 submission page to submit papers (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=hylo2010). Papers should not exceed 15 pages including references. The revised versions of accepted papers will be published online in a volume of Elsevier Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). A preliminary version of the proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. Authors are invited to submit papers in the following two categories: - Regular papers describing original research. - Presentation-only papers describing work recently published or submitted. The presentation-only papers will be included in the preliminary proceedings, but not in the final proceedings in ENTCS. One author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. Authors are strongly encouraged to prepare their submissions according to the ENTCS guidelines (http://www.entcs.org). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:27:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: solstitial greetings & Christmas cheer Dear colleagues, This is my Christmas message for 2009, too late to salute Hanukkah, way too late for Eid, at the Solstice, but entirely, I hope, welcome. Last weekend, here in East London, my sabbaticalized partner and I hosted two friends who set out the day after Christmas (which we and the Canadians still call Boxing Day), on their way back to the heat and light of Queensland. The thought of what they actually will go back to relativizes my notions of Christmas more than I can comprehend. One day, perhaps, I'll experience the same and become an expatriot to my favourite time of year as I already am to my geographical origins. So far my trips Downunder have not been Yuletide ones. So for the moment I must leave to colleagues in the Southern Hemisphere the task of translating my Northern Hemispheric sentiments, written out here with cold hands, into something that makes better sense to them, such as prawns and champagne. Endings. One is Infobits, which Carolyn Kotlas has been nurturing and tending for many years. Infobits said its last to the world on Humanist 18 December. Farewell to it, and many thanks to Carolyn for all her work! You will have noticed (perhaps by not noticing the negative signs) the plain and quiet tidiness of Infobits, well formed, well formatted. Some of you will remember the days when the term "clearinghouse" was often used to describe the primitive means we had then of distributing news about what was going on with computing in the humanities. The metaphor of the clearinghouse was a good one, in that it accurately summoned the image of things strewn about everywhere. For me the word summoned department store sales (accompanying my auntie when I was too young to object), in the days when a "sale" meant queueing up in front of the shop, then rushing through the door when it was opened, all elbows and shoves, pawing through stacks of clothing until something was found, paying and leaving the shop at least pretending to be triumphant. Then, all those years ago, was perhaps some excuse for sloppiness in how the news about computing was circulated, via e-mail, but the sloppiness bothered me nonetheless. It seemed to me to connote the work of "rude mechanicals", which is what my kind was then assumed to be. Hence the sloppiness became an inspiration for attention to detail of all sorts in Humanist. What's remarkable now, despite the passage of many years, is how little some people still seem to care about formatting, how little attention is paid to all the details of presentation, how little to things that will likely, or even might possibly, annoy recipients. Infobits is even more of a loss to us because it provided such a good example of what you can do quite simply when you care about communicating with others. And again a farewell to our colleague Gerd Willeé, whose membership in Humanist goes back longer than I can recall, and who for many years taught students in Bonn what computing and language have to do with each other. But 'tis the season to be jolly, yes? One source of jollity for me is cooking, and so I have my eyes glued e.g. to Jamie Oliver's Christmas programmes, and Delia Smith's and one or two others. New ideas, the play of genuine culinary imagination as well as demonstration of good ideas from the past. (Thanks to Delia, there's a Christmas pudding, the first of my making, slowly maturing in the chilly dark for Christmas dinner in the warmth and light.) For those who teach students about web design, the online sites which correspond to such delightful programmes provide very good examples of how NOT to design pages. More of the clearinghouse style, I'm afraid. When I studied graphic art many years ago I was taught that the visual language of bargains and, more generally, of stuff for those configured as proles, should use the visual rhetoric of crowding and noise -- just like those department stores during a sale; that the visual language for posh establishments consisted of quiet, simple designs, loads of white-space, quietly elegant typography etc. Perhaps that is why the presentation of food for the Common Man and Woman in the hands of the web designers becomes such a noisy, rebarbative mess. Or perhaps it's just stupidity and ignorance? Jolly, jolly, jolly. Write on the blackboard (if I can find one) 100 times, "I am going to be jolly henceforth!" Anyhow, my apologies for forgetting what season it is. Beginnings in the new year? Plenty of them for me personally -- new teaching, new students, new places, new books to read -- and, I hope, new ideas, or old ones made new, indeed, everything made new. An inaugural lecture this February, to which anyone within range of London is invited. For Humanist I trust the only thing new, apart from new members, will be in renewal. A steady ticking away toward its third decade (in 2017, good wishes and prayers welcome). By which time I very much hope that computing has moved under the skin of scholarship and much beyond the crude state of the institutional accommodations we now make for it in most parts of the world. Rebirth, emergent from the Solstice with the return of light, means of course casting off the dark, the dead, the used-up, the shown-to-be-wrong. How difficult this can be, especially perhaps with concepts. For example, in "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", Alan Turing notes that the idea of a "discrete-state machine" is just that, an idealization, a fiction: > Strictly speaking there are no such machines. Everything really moves > continuously. But there are many kinds of machines which can > profitably be *thought of* as discrete-state machines. For instance > in considering the switches for a lighting system it is a convenient > fiction that a switch must be definitely on or definitely off. There > must be intermediate positions, but for most purposes we can forget > about them. (Feigenbaum and Feldman, Computers and Thought, p. 17) Why didn't Turing's simple observation have more influence, my colleague John Lavagnino asks? I wonder if it doesn't get down to our seeming inability to carry the burden of keeping an as-if venture from solidifying into an assumed truth. We say, let us pretend that X is the case (e.g., that behaviour is all there is for psychology to work with) so as to see where it leads. And then, before you know it, we're accepting X as a dead fact. Factum (which is, after all, "that which has been made") becomes datum, and the darkness descends. In the same vein I wonder about the old saw that the machine does only what you tell it to do -- and so leads to the notion that computers are "high-speed morons", as in the recent thread on Humanist. Turing, in the same article, quotes Lady Lovelace's version of this saw, then goes on to quote Douglas Hartree, Calculating Instruments and Machines (1949): "it did not seem that the machines constructed or projected at the time" had the property of thinking (in some sense) independently. Turing points to Hartree's crucial "did not seem", commenting magnanimously that "the evidence available to Lady Lovelace did not encourage her to believe that they had it" (p. 26). By the early 1960s it was clear to some that new evidence was forcing us to think again. Thus Herbert Simon, in The New Science of Management Decision (1960, p. 25): "This statement -- that computers can only do what they are programmed to do -- is intuitively obvious, indubitably true, and supports none of the implications that are commonly drawn from it". Simon throws the question back at the basal circuitry of biological entities such as ourselves, to its "program". I don't go where he goes with this challenge, but it is one worthy of us to respond to, don't you think? Consider where this leaves the "high-speed moron" trope, still used to this day as if it were a simple fact. Allow me -- like the little boy with his guitar at the very end of Marcel Camus' film Black Orpheus (1959) -- to try to bring back the light with an argument, rather than a song, as he does: that the moron-trope is psychological rear-guard action in fear of thrilling possibilities for refiguring our idea of the human. (Quick! It's gaining on us!) And if that doesn't grab you at this darkest moment of the year, consider its implications for software design, away from the knowledge jukeboxes we make to the powerfully resonant tool as intimately present in what we do as a pen or chisel. .... But let's leave any response we might wish to make, to implement, until the new year, and for now celebrate in a warm and cozy darkness -- unless, of course, you're far enough south of here (but not too far south) to make a cool evening outdoors, with your prawns and champagne, a far more welcome thought. In any case, happy solsticial celebrations to you all, and all the best for the New Year 2010! Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Dec 21 09:40:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D5CF3B923; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:40:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8421C3B916; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:40:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091221094023.8421C3B916@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:40:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.513 job in London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 513. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:14:48 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: online publishing manager post in London *Online Publishing Projects Manager http://jobs.ac.uk/job/AAL311/ * Earthscan Ltd London South Bank University http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAL311/online-publishing-projects-manager/ -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Dec 21 09:41:20 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A44A3B99B; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:41:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 22B453B990; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:41:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091221094119.22B453B990@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:41:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.514 events: computational stylistics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 514. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:25:13 +0000 From: Carl Vogel Subject: CFP -- Computational Stylistics at ESSLLI2010 -- March 15, 2010Deadline CALL FOR PAPERS -- StylisticsMMX European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2010 (ESSLLI 2010 Workshop): Computational Stylistics: Beyond concordances and grammar checkers Methods of automatic text classification have been applied widely and extensively, ranging in category granularity and with respect to both solely internal properties of texts and text-external variables. Coarse-grained categories include binary distinctions such as spam vs. non-spam and three-way sentiment analysis of positive, negative or neutral, and at the other extreme, fine grained categories might derive from authorship attribution tasks or translation re-ranking in machine translation. Recent studies have sought to relate internal linguistic features of texts with external variables, such as author gender or scores on personality indices. Approaches driven by statistics amassed over corpora are compatible with (and informed by) precision analyses over selected texts, as practiced widely in the digital humanities and some approaches to discourse representation theory. Neither the "macro" level analysis supplied by corpus linguistics nor the "micro" level analysis of individual texts is in any way new. However, the potential for their interaction, and for assessing supra-lexical linguistic features of texts within stylistic analysis is growing. The aim of this workshop is to highlight current work that advances and applies computational stylistics. Papers sought for presentation will address any of the topics related to the theme of the workshop, including: - relations between demographic and linguistic variables - reliability and validity of complexity and other indices - plot structure analysis - sentiment, theme and semantic relation analysis - dramatis personae analysis - tracking stylistic change - cross-cultural variations in effects Each of ten to fifteen presentations will have a tutorial element situating the problem and hypotheses explored, as well as spelling out the methods of analysis, followed by the main substance of the research findings. Thus, the workshop proposes pedagogical value appropriate to ESSLLI, at the same time as recording recent research advances. TIMELINE: Call for Papers -- November 15, 2009 Submission Deadline -- March 15, 2010 Notice of Acceptance or Rejection -- April 15, 2010 Final Submissions -- May 15, 2010 ESSLLI2010 -- August 9-20, 2010 FORMATTING and SUBMISSION DETAILS: Final versions will be formatted using LaTeX via a style sheet made available here: http://www.cs.tcd.ie/research_groups/clg/StylisticsMMX Submit pdf of full papers not exceeding 12 pages (inclusive of bibliography and appendices) in 11 point text via EasyChair to: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stylisticsmm10 IMPORTANT NOTE: Authors of accepted papers to ESSLLI workshops must register as participants in the whole of ESSLLI, even if they intend to participate in only the week of ESSLLI in which the workshop is scheduled. Traditionally, presenters of papers accepted to workshops have been allowed to register with fees set at the student early-registration rate. Program Committee: Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp Patrick Juola, Duquesne University Fionn Murtagh, Royal Holloway, University of London Harold Somers, Dublin City University/University of Manchester Sarah Rauchas, Goldsmiths, University of London Joseph Rudman, Carnegie Mellon University Carl Vogel [Chair], Trinity College Dublin _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 22 09:04:02 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFB523B069; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:04:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3CE233B055; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:04:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091222090401.3CE233B055@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:04:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.515 solstitial sparks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 515. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:27:53 -0500 (EST) From: Francois Lachance Subject: Solstice greetings and a few sparks In-Reply-To: from "Willard McCarty" at Jun 26, 2009 06:31:13 AM Willard, I don't know if you are still collecting interesting passages about the artisan and technology. This excerpt from a work of fiction might amuse you. >From the perspective of an assassin comes this mediation on the design of tools, from William Gibson's novel All Tomorrow's Parties.
The handles of a craftsman's tools bespeak an absolute simplicity, the plainest forms affording the greatest range of possibilities for the user's hand.
The which is overdesigned, to highly specific, anticipates outcome; the anticipation of outcome guarantees, if not failure, the absence of grace.
I am inclined to agree if not for the odd perspective that this reflection is filtered through the point of view of an assassin. Though given the at one time current appellation of "killer app" the figure of the assassin might be an appropriate figure in some circles to hold against a massive commercial onslaught. :) All the best in the year ahead. -- I am wondering if you will get around to considering the "feeling machine" via the essay by Paul Ziff "The Feelings of Robots" (ANALYSIS, Vol. 19, no. 3 (Jan., 1959) is reprinted in his _Philosophic Turnings_ (1966) and is apparently widely discussed. The problem of reconciling logic and feeling is of course a popular trope in the Star Trek franchise. I look forward to more of your postings to Humanist and wish you all the best for 2010. Francois -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 22 09:04:47 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06AD43B0CA; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:04:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 62F933B0C1; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:04:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091222090446.62F933B0C1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:04:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.516 new publication: Scholarly Publishing on search engines &c X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 516. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:58:05 +0000 From: UTP Journals Subject: Journal of Scholarly Publishing 41:2 January 2010 [In the following see esp. Jöran Beel, Bela Gipp, Erik Eilde, "Academic Search Engine Optimization ". --WM] Now available at Journal of Scholarly Publishing Online Journal of Scholarly Publishing Volume 41, Number 2 / January 2010 is now available at http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/n82724057467/. This issue contains: Publishing as a Vocation Irving Louis Horowitz Abstract: ‘Publishing as a Vocation’ relates a series of policy decisions and episodes that exemplify the politics of publishing. The emphasis is on case studies that confront scholarly publishers with the political, community, and ideological forces that each must confront in quotidian ways. The essay, written in the spirit of Max Weber's ‘Science as a Vocation,’ is non-judgemental, but making it clear that manuscript decisions extend far beyond the quality of the works accepted, rejected, or cancelled in a volatile academic and intellectual setting. It is hoped for, rather than argued, that once these extrinsic parameters are confronted, the nature of the service to the professional worlds being served can be understood, and perhaps significantly improved in a new publishing context. Judging Journal Prices Colin Day Abstract: Journal prices have long been a matter of controversy. Lacking has been any objective information on costs that could be used to judge whether price increases have been justified by rising costs. Using a rare, publicly available set of data for the American Economic Review, the premier journal in economics, this article normalizes costs for number of issues per annum, number of pages per issue, and print quantities per issue to construct an index for the costs of producing this journal. It shows that costs have in fact increased more slowly than the general rate of inflation and argues that the cost experience of this journal provides a reference point for academic journals generally. Launching a New Academic Journal: Twenty Years Later Charles C. Fischer Abstract: This article is a retrospective, examining two decades of my tenure as editor-in-chief of a prominent management journal—my successes, failures, and lessons learned. The article offers insights and suggestions for those launching a new journal and those new to editing a journal. Some of the ideas presented may also be of interest to the experienced editor, such as the use of an administrative fee instead of a submission fee and a new twist on page fees. The guiding theme is that of the editor as a servant leader. Academic Search Engine Optimization Jöran Beel, Bela Gipp, Erik Eilde Abstract: This article introduces and discusses the concept of academic search engine optimization (ASEO). Based on three recently conducted studies, guidelines are provided on how to optimize scholarly literature for academic search engines in general, and for Google Scholar in particular. In addition, we briefly discuss the risk of researchers' illegitimately ‘over-optimizing’ their articles. Sticker Shock and Looming Tsunami Philippe C. Baveye Abstract: Recession is currently causing a resurgence of the academic serials crisis. Profit-mongering by commercial publishers is once again denounced as the key driver of the crisis. However, a critical analysis of institutional and bibliometric data does not reveal excessive corporate greed in recent years; instead, it suggests that the present hurdles stem largely from years of inadequate budget allocations to academic libraries and from a publishing frenzy fuelled by simplistic methods of evaluating faculty productivity. To prevent what is likely to be the publishing equivalent of a tsunami in the next few years, universities and research institutions urgently need to re-emphasize quality over quantity in the publishing process, and they must find ways to include peer-reviewing efficiency among their criteria for productivity and impact. Achieving these goals will require concerted efforts by researchers, librarians, and publishers. Observations on an Emergent Specialization Jean-Pierre V.M. Hérubel Abstract: The historical profession and its attendant scholarship are composed of different specializations and sub-disciplines. Among these, political, economic, and social history are well known. Recently, historical research has encompassed such fields as environmental, gender, and ethnic history to complement such diverse specialties as history of science, history of technology, and history of exploration. In the past twenty years, cultural history has emerged in France, with characteristics that have engaged newly honed orientations toward the historical examination of cultural production and cultural objects, if not processes. Informed by philosophical and historiographic analysis, as well as by interdisciplinary interventions in historical research and scholarship, contemporary French cultural history focuses on the history of publishing, scholarship, mass media and spectacles, libraries, and museums, as well as opera and music. Not confined to these, contemporary French cultural history privileges specialization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French phenomena, in the main, but its historiographic innovation and publication extend to an international audience. This cursory and exploratory essay attempts to situate contemporary French cultural history as a specialization and as a vector in the contemporary historiographic landscape. Marginalia William W. Savage, Jr. Reviews Journal of Scholarly Publishing A must for anyone who crosses the scholarly publishing path – authors, editors, marketers and publishers of books and journals. For 36 years, the Journal of Scholarly Publishing has been the authoritative voice of academic publishing. The journal combines philosophical analysis with practical advice and aspires to explain, argue, discuss and question the large collection of new topics that continuously arise in the publishing field. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:24:18 +0100 From: "Felix Lohmeier" Subject: TextGrid Newsletter: Collection of Humanities Texts Dear Colleagues, Regarding the acquisition of the comprehensive collection of texts from the online library zeno.org and the cooperation with Wikimedia and Creative Commons, we would like to provide you with information about recent developments in the TextGrid Project in a special issue of our newsletter: http://www.textgrid.de/newsletter.html Best wishes for the holiday season and a Happy New Year 2010! Sincerely, Felix Lohmeier -- Felix Lohmeier Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen Abteilung Forschung & Entwicklung (FE) Papendiek 14 37073 Göttingen Tel: +49 551 39 12238 Fax: +49 551 39 3856 lohmeier@sub.uni-goettingen.de http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 22 09:07:41 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE743B2A3; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:07:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2B8E83B29B; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:07:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091222090740.2B8E83B29B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:07:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.518 events: MLA sessions; dialog X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 518. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Arianna Ciula (21) Subject: ESF EUROCORES LogICCC: Dialogical Aspects of Obligationes (Leeds,July 2010) [2] From: John Lavagnino (24) Subject: Digital-humanities sessions at the MLA --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:50:15 +0100 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF EUROCORES LogICCC: Dialogical Aspects of Obligationes (Leeds,July 2010) Dear all, This is to inform you that the ESF EUROCORES programme 'Modelling Intelligent Interaction - Logic in the Humanities, Social and Computational Sciences' (LogICCC - http://www.esf.org/logic) is supporting the session 'Dialogical Aspects of Obligationes' organised by Sara Uckelman and Benedikt Löwe (University of Amsterdam) at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds in 2010 (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/index.html). During this session, logicians and medievalists will be approaching the puzzling disputational framework of obligations by using contemporary research in dialogical logic and dialogue modelling. To learn more about the use of modern logic for medievalists and about the general EUROCORES funding scheme of the ESF during the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, visit: . Session 302, 12 July, 16:30-18:00, followed by a reception . EUROCORES desk, 12-13 July, in the exhibition hall This event (leaflet available at http://www.esf.org/activities/eurocores/running-programmes/logiccc/events.html), as part of the ESF EUROCORES Programme LogICCC is supported by funds from AKA, DASTI, DFG, FCT, FWF, FNRS, GACR, ISF, MICINN, NWO, NZZ, TÜBITAK, VR. Kind regards, Arianna Ciula == Dr. Arianna Ciula Science Officer European Science Foundation Humanities Unit 1 quai Lezay Marnésia BP 90015 F-67080 Strasbourg France Email: aciula@esf.org Tel: +33 (0) 388767104 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:30:26 +0000 From: John Lavagnino Subject: Digital-humanities sessions at the MLA Some Humanist readers may be attending this year's Modern Language Association convention in Philadelphia, starting on December 27. Among the thousands of talks there are a number on digital humanities and related subjects, and to help those interested in finding them, the Association for Computers and the Humanities has compiled a guide. It's based on the convention program, but our list is much longer than the MLA's official list of digital sessions, as they only include those for which digital humanities is the main focus. The guide is available at: http://www.ach.org/mla/mla09/guide.html The amount of digital-humanities activity has gone down a bit since last year--- but this seems to be the first year with MLA talks about Facebook. John -- Dr John Lavagnino Reader in Digital Humanities Centre for Computing in the Humanities and Department of English King's College London 26–29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL +44 20 7848 2453 www.lavagnino.org.uk General Editor, The Oxford Middleton http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198185697 http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198185703 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 26 09:02:19 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75022432C1; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:02:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 102F243259; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:02:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091226090218.102F243259@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:02:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.519 useful without being used? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 519. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:13:12 -0500 (EST) From: Francois Lachance Subject: Tools and memories Willard Once Again: The Criminal Element and Tool Appreciation Max Brand The False Rider (a western novel) describes a safecracker or lock picker and the tools of the trade ... He did not need most of those tools for the delicate task which was in his hands now, but he had laid out a great portion of them around him. They inspired him with the recollection of many another knotty problem in the past which, he, unaided had solved. A similar case could be made with the cook or chef in relation to a batterie de cuisine. Is it also the case of the computing humanist or scholar that the tools may lie unused but useful? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 26 09:03:03 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A48543855; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:03:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 17DFB43845; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:03:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20091226090302.17DFB43845@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:03:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.520 new on WWW: update to the Blake Archive X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1604293110==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============1604293110== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 520. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:34:48 -0500 (EST) From: William S Shaw Subject: Update to the William Blake Archive 20 December 2009 The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the republication of electronic editions of the Thomas Butts and John Linnell series of Blake's water color illustrations of the Book of Job and the sketchbook of preliminary pencil drawings for his Job engravings. These three series were previously published in our Preview mode, one that provides all the features of the Archive except Image Search and Inote (which provides detailed descriptions of Blake's images). With this republication, those functions now become available, along with our new Related Works feature giving access to related materials through active links on the work index pages and the Show Me menu on the object view pages. Blake's Job engravings have been previously published with Image Search and Inote capabilities. With this republication, the Archive now includes fully searchable reproductions of all four series of Job designs, among Blake's greatest achievements as a visual artist. Thus, characters pictured in the designs, such as Bildad, Eliphaz, and of course Job's wife, can be searched and located in all four series. The Archive's Image Search menu also includes a great many lesser motifs, figure types, postures and gestures. In coming months, we will publish similarly updated versions of other works presently in Preview mode, including Blake's nine series of water colors illustrating the poetry of John Milton. The Archive recently added a new set of scholarly tools that should prove particularly useful when studying Blake's Job designs. These tools, known collectively as our Related Works system, are designed to show relationships among works and individual objects in the Archive. They function at two levels. First, work index pages now include active links to related materials in the Archive. Thus, researchers can move easily from any given Job series to any other series. Second, the Show Me menu on object view pages now includes Related Works in the Archive. Like the work-level menu, this list includes active links to related designs and is meant to allow study of the related materials side by side. For example, researchers can move quickly from Blake's engraving of Behemoth and Leviathan to its drawing in the sketchbook and study how Blake developed his design from preliminary sketch to finished engraving. As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no access restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the cooperation of the international array of libraries and museums that have generously given us permission to reproduce works from their collections in the Archive. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors Ashley Reed, project manager, William Shaw, technical editor
 The William Blake Archive
 --===============1604293110== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php --===============1604293110==-- From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 26 09:03:28 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E10D44285; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:03:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7FCA843D1D; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:03:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091226090327.7FCA843D1D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:03:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.521 events: description logics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 521. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:28:27 +0000 From: David Toman Subject: Description Logics 2010: 2nd call for papers 23rd International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2010) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Waterloo, Ontario, Canada http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/dl2010/ The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. The workshop is the premier forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in the academia and industry, who are interested in description logics and their applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: January 26th, 2010 Acceptance notification: March 9th, 2010 Camera ready copies: March 30th, 2010 Early registration: March 30th, 2010 Workshop: May 4 to May 7th ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [... and for those, like me, who need a description of what "description logic" actually means, see the Wikipedia entry, which traces this beast back to 1985. --WM] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Dec 27 09:39:32 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95F946A71; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:39:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 84FE046A69; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:39:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091227093931.84FE046A69@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:39:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.522 uedful without being used X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 522. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (58) Subject: useful without being used [2] From: Elijah Meeks (83) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.519 useful without being used? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:03:28 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: useful without being used Francois Lachance has asked in Humanist 23.519 if the mere presence of unused tools is consequential. You could of course cite the good feeling of having your tools nearby, and perhaps bring this sense to mind by imagining that suddenly everything not applicable to a given job would vanish utterly, or that only the strictly relevant tools would ever be present. There's the deep sense of satisfaction from being surrounded by your books, even from seeing your gigabyte-sized collection of digitized articles and notes, knowing it's there for use, even if most of it never gets used. It isn't random, it's a consciously-made collection. There's the appreciative sense of the depth of resources in a large research library -- knowing that whatever obscure 19C German doctoral dissertation you might ever need to look at will be there. I suppose we can compare that sense of expansive possibility, and what it allows to happen, to the situation some of us cannot alleviate because we are simply too far from a major library and without funded access to major online collections, of being unable to reach for much of anything. My favourite story somewhat along those lines is Erich Auerbach's. He was a refugee in Istanbul during WWII, where he wrote his masterwork Mimesis (1946), famously without his books. (He had been a professor at Marburg, surrounded by books and in a position of privilege with respect to resources for scholarly work, it is true.) His case suggests an argument for not turning to a fine library or other sort of repository of resources, or not being able to, though obviously one can take such an argument too far quite easily. This turning to a reliance on what's in one's head, away from the library, happens in the course of research anyhow -- one must stop reading and note-taking in order to write. But I suppose the point for us here, or at least one of them, is the relationship between what is at hand, even if not in hand, and the work that gets done. As online resources become more and more extensive (an assumption here, I know, but let's make it), what happens to the kind of work that gets done? The knee-jerk reaction is, the work gets better, more accurate etc. But clearly that's a wholly inadequate answer. Put it this way: what happens when, because of those extensive online resources, referring to what others have said becomes easier than thinking entirely for oneself, perhaps quite inadequately? What happens as you are more and more confronted by evidence that whatever it is you're working on, in whatever your field of training, is also being worked on, though in other ways, in other fields? Note that for us at the same time as these resources are multiplying temptations to continue looking elsewhere, for others' words and thoughts, other changes are afoot. What happens, then, as the conditions of academic research become, as it seems they are, less and less favourable to extensive and contemplative projects, by offering fewer and fewer chances for uninterrupted stretches of time? What happens to research if the norm becomes face-to-face collaboration, in teams, as in the laboratory sciences, when the default condition of many, esp in the early stages of their careers, no longer allows them to work on problems of their own choosing? The advice I give is, learn to adapt; be as agile and as aware of your options as possible. Have as many tools to hand as you can have, as many ways of acting as possible. In each case figure out how under the circumstances you can do what is in you to do. Comments? Yours,WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:55:56 -0800 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.519 useful without being used? In-Reply-To: <20091226090218.102F243259@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I think you have hit on the head one of the enduring values of software in that it epitomizes technicity. Even without using the various tools and countless pieces of code, the mere existence of the various techniques for storing and processing knowledge presents us with inspiration for dealing with knowledge, even if we never implement said tools or code. My uncle brags about the countless books in his library that he's never read, pointing out their value simply in the engaging titles they have, and I think it's the same way I look at various tools for spatial and statistical analysis that may have no bearing on the particular problem I may be dealing with simply because they are, at their heart, methods of organizing knowledge. I've been struck lately at the various different manners in which arrays are used to organize data in different coding languages and even without using some of the more intricate multidimensional arrays and array-like data types, it sharpens my understanding of how the same basic data can be structured differently (more elegantly or probably more optimally for utilizing computing resources) and feeds into my development of different structures for processing and storing the fuzzy humanities knowledge I deal with. At their most intuitive, such as the arrays in Actionscript (the programming language for Flash) they're simply buckets that I can use to throw in various, arbitrarily grouped objects, to call the individual attributes from depending on what I'm looking for. But while practically useful, I find the multidimensionality to be theoretically worth its weight in gold (given that they don't weigh anything, though, that may prove to be a poor metaphor). I think this is the case with every tool and method, it just becomes more firm (and therefore more technic) in the digital field where logic is made so explicit. I wonder, though, how much it constrains us, given that as always we are humanities scholars dealing with tools and methods created by engineers for much less complex transactions. If all we have is a hammer, then all our humanities problems may end up being treated like nails. Elijah Meeks Digital Humanities Specialist Academic Computing Services Stanford University On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 519. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:13:12 -0500 (EST) > From: Francois Lachance > Subject: Tools and memories > > > Willard > > Once Again: The Criminal Element and Tool Appreciation > Max Brand The False Rider (a western novel) describes a safecracker or lock > picker and the tools of the trade ... > > > He did not need most of those tools for the delicate task which was in his > hands now, but he had laid out a great portion of them around him. They > inspired him with the recollection of many another knotty problem in the > past which, he, unaided had solved. > > > A similar case could be made with the cook or chef in relation to a > batterie de cuisine. > > Is it also the case of the computing humanist or scholar that the tools may > lie unused but useful? > > -- > > Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/%7Elachance > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: > http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Dec 28 08:08:20 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8EA548E95; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:08:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2DB5648E8D; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:08:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091228080819.2DB5648E8D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:08:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.523 useful without being used X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 523. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:18:33 +1100 From: "Ken Friedman" Subject: Not using tools in a fruitful way In-Reply-To: <20091227093931.84FE046A69@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, There are two important points in your note, and both converge on the issue and context of time. First, working surrounded by books gives you a sense of layered time. This is not merely the fact that one takes a position in the archaeological development of thought in a field, but that one works in an extended time that never ends. Surrounded by the tools of thought, one also lives in a world that always exists NOW, with words and ideas emerging in an ever-developing present that permits us to enter into dialogue with Soren Kierkegaard or Ralph Waldo Emerson, Paul Ricoeur or Niels Bohr. David Hume is here and so is Hannah Arendt, together with their critics and their students. Some of the books in my library were written by friends, and even friends that live far away or left the world are here with me. The second thought involves the time we are for work, or the time that young researchers have.The lack of unencumbered, unbudgeted time makes me uncomfortable. I was lucky not to get a university job for many years -- I paid the price in having to make a living in a hundred different ways, but the price I paid meant freedom to think, freedom to grow, and freedom not to publish. As a dean, I am obliged to balance two sets of needs -- the need to allow young researchers to develop and to grow, and the need of my university to do well in all the different sets of measures for which we must account to the government that funds us. And then there is the time I no longer have, since a dean's life is a life that obliges me to serve others as my first responsibility. There is a certain luxury to surplus -- learning is always wasteful to some degree, and tools and time are often most useful when not used. The problem, of course, is to know when some is not using tools in a fruitful way as against those many instances where the failure to use tools is simply another form of waste. Yours, Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS Professor Dean Swinburne Design Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia Willard McCarty wrote: --snip-- Note that for us at the same time as these resources are multiplying temptations to continue looking elsewhere, for others' words and thoughts, other changes are afoot. What happens, then, as the conditions of academic research become, as it seems they are, less and less favourable to extensive and contemplative projects, by offering fewer and fewer chances for uninterrupted stretches of time? What happens to research if the norm becomes face-to-face collaboration, in teams, as in the laboratory sciences, when the default condition of many, esp in the early stages of their careers, no longer allows them to work on problems of their own choosing? The advice I give is, learn to adapt; be as agile and as aware of your options as possible. Have as many tools to hand as you can have, as many ways of acting as possible. In each case figure out how under the circumstances you can do what is in you to do. Comments? --snip-- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Dec 28 08:09:04 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C5648EDC; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:09:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 806C048ECD; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:09:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091228080902.806C048ECD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:09:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.524 material culture of texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 524. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:59:33 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Centre for Material Texts Many here will be keenly interested in the newly established Centre for Material Texts, Faculty of English, Cambridge (http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/). Much of what we talk about, and more about which we should be talking, is in the sights of this Centre. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 30 06:58:18 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F1A5496C4; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:58:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A0C8749614; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:58:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091230065816.A0C8749614@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:58:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.525 cfp on identity technologies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 525. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:49:44 -0500 From: Susan Brown Subject: CFP for book collection on Identity Technologies CALL FOR PAPERS Book Collection: Identity Technologies: producing online selves Deadline: June 15, 2010 The popularity of social networking sites, user-generated content, wireless technologies and games has engendered a rapid proliferation of identities and ways to imagine, produce and consume them. As a result, the internet has become central to how many of its users understand intimacy, communication and community. We contend that this phenomenon is nothing new. Online and offline forms of identity have the potential to act genealogically, challenging our ideas about utopian approaches to the internet as a place without history, bodies or politics. How then can we understand what identity means online and why it is so important to so many internet users that they have a digital existence? For us, answers to this question do not have to take the form of utopian ideas about internet identities, time and space, but should admit that issues about internet identity are inevitably embedded in concerns about the production of discourse and about the material conditions of internet access, surveillance and use. In this essay collection, we hope to gather together investigations into a whole host of questions raised by the popularity and power of identity technologies. What kinds of selves are generated online? How do memory and narrative, key elements of autobiography, exist and persist in various forms of online subjectivity? How is identity related to virtual time and space? How do we account for the role of recreation and entertainment in communicating an online self? How do we describe and analyze the relationship between hardware and software design and the identities they occasion and transmit? Is it possible to resist the hail of ITs (internet technologies)? What is the relationship between identity politics and ITs? We aim to bring together emerging ideas about identity and online life from the fields of cultural studies, new media studies and auto/biography studies in order to explore what online identity is and what it might mean. Please submit a completed essay by June 15, 2010. Essays must be 4000-6000 words in Chicago B style with 12-point font. Essays must be written in English, but they do not have to be about the anglophone, western version of the internet. The collection will be published in digital and paper form with a university press.¨We welcome submissions which include--but are not limited to--the following topics theorizing online identity questions of pedagogy research methods youth cultures and emerging identities social networking virtual lives online desires collaboration biography and technology work shopping hardware and software publicity and privacy regulation identity theft personal video cyberbodies and cyberspaces avatars internet surveillance archives viruses and "going viral" deception and authenticity activism Send one copy each of your submission as an electronic attachment to: Anna Poletti, Charles Sturt University Julie Rak, University of Alberta X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059FF49739; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:00:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0CDAE4972A; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:00:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091230070049.0CDAE4972A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:00:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.526 the next big thing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 526. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:56:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the next big thing Most here will be somewhat stirred, though perhaps in more than one way, by the news in William Pannapacker's "The MLA and the Digital Humanities", Chronicle of Higher Education, 29 December, chronicle.com/blogPost/The-MLAthe-Digital/19468/. This is news of great attention to the digital humanities at the MLA this year. Some of us have been around long enough to remember the thinly attended, and very few, sessions at this monster of a conference, and the status of pariah, more or less, which dogged one's steps then. So for the digital humanities to be rumoured to be "the next big thing" may cause those who remember the Bad Old Days to pinch ourselves in disbelief. Years of experience in observing academic fandom at the MLA suggests to me that a deeply ambiguous reaction may serve scholarship better in the long term than unqualified joy or satisfaction. Yesterday, alongside the news of the digital humanities' arrival, I came across the website of The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, www.singinst.org, and suffered an immediate recoil from what appears to me to be the real Hollywood of the academy, beside which any welcoming of the digital humanities as the next big thing is very small beer indeed. So I ask, is this what we'd count as success? Sure, it's good no longer to have to skulk around in gatherings of the glitterati, to find oneself sitting uncomfortably on the edge of a bed in a suite of a so-called luxury hotel and be interviewed for a rather poor job by an arrogant academic whom one wouldn't consider inviting for an interview if the tables were turned. It's better, though only in some ways, to be popular than to be quite unpopular. But let me offer a different criterion for success: simply to be accepted as one of the community, to sit at the table among equals and talk, then to go back home to a department of the digital humanities, with its students, programmes, seminars and so on, and get on with educating and being educated. A slow cooking of substantial ideas and projects rather than a flash in the pan. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 31 07:09:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F03B44585A; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:09:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0537A4584A; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:09:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091231070934.0537A4584A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:09:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.527 the next big thing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 527. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kathy Harris (109) Subject: Re: [Bulk] [Humanist] 23.526 the next big thing [2] From: Dennis Moser (8) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.526 the next big thing [3] From: Sterling Fluharty (91) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.526 the next big thing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:41:40 -0500 From: Kathy Harris Subject: Re: [Bulk] [Humanist] 23.526 the next big thing In-Reply-To: <20091230070049.0CDAE4972A@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, thank you for bringing up this article. I've been attending MLA this week and am intrigued by the DH panels and the ensuing discussions surrounding this "emerging" discipline. In fact, we just left a spirited discussion about the parameters of Digital Humanities, in the end asking questions about fracturing and splintering the field based on sub-disciplines and programming languages (!). Part of DH is also driven by institutional policy and (let's face it) a willing department. The Chronicle article said something about DH scholars, who are tenure-track faculty, sweeping DH under the rug until tenure has been achieved -- in other words, it's too dangerous to perform while job security is on the line. I take issue with this; there are many faculty who are doing Digital Humanities (however he/she wants to define it) and pushing back on some of the traditional standards for tenure & promotion. Indeed, I commented today that as a tt faculty at a teaching institute, I actually have MUCH more leeway to experiment with Digital Humanities projects than my friends at research-oriented institutes! No one solved any problems for DH at this MLA. But, we did see more discussion (less Internet connection in the sessions, though). We're not at the beginning of DH, but we are now certainly at a point where, say, one of our own wins every major book award that's possible. Though some feel disenfranchised from DH, isn't there now a mainstream conversation to be had now that we're in the door, so to speak? Can't we begin to look at digital art production as valuable to envisioning new research collaborations and questions? Can we think up news way to collaborate across institutional boundaries and funding structures? Can we include more pedagogical praxis in our projects? I, for one, was excited to hear and see both the good and the bad about Digital Humanities. Someone said tonight "It's good to be the new 'kid.'" All best, Kathy Harris ************************** Dr. Katherine D. Harris Editor, Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/ Assistant Professor Department of English & Comparative Literature San Jose State University One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192-0090 Email: katherine.harris@sjsu.edu Phone: 408.924.4475 On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 526. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:56:07 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: the next big thing > > Most here will be somewhat stirred, though perhaps in more than one way, > by the news in William Pannapacker's "The MLA and the Digital > Humanities", Chronicle of Higher Education, 29 December, > chronicle.com/blogPost/The-MLAthe-Digital/19468/. This is news of great > attention to the digital humanities at the MLA this year. Some of us > have been around long enough to remember the thinly attended, and very > few, sessions at this monster of a conference, and the status of pariah, > more or less, which dogged one's steps then. So for the digital > humanities to be rumoured to be "the next big thing" may cause those who > remember the Bad Old Days to pinch ourselves in disbelief. > > Years of experience in observing academic fandom at the MLA suggests to > me that a deeply ambiguous reaction may serve scholarship better in the > long term than unqualified joy or satisfaction. Yesterday, alongside the > news of the digital humanities' arrival, I came across the website of > The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, www.singinst.org, > and suffered an immediate recoil from what appears to me to be the real > Hollywood of the academy, beside which any welcoming of the digital > humanities as the next big thing is very small beer indeed. So I ask, is > this what we'd count as success? > > Sure, it's good no longer to have to skulk around in gatherings of the > glitterati, to find oneself sitting uncomfortably on the edge of a bed > in a suite of a so-called luxury hotel and be interviewed for a rather > poor job by an arrogant academic whom one wouldn't consider inviting for > an interview if the tables were turned. It's better, though only in some > ways, to be popular than to be quite unpopular. But let me offer a > different criterion for success: simply to be accepted as one of the > community, to sit at the table among equals and talk, then to go back > home to a department of the digital humanities, with its students, > programmes, seminars and so on, and get on with educating and being > educated. A slow cooking of substantial ideas and projects rather than a > flash in the pan. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/%7Ewmccarty/ > ; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:17:19 -0700 (MST) From: Dennis Moser Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.526 the next big thing In-Reply-To: <20091230070049.0CDAE4972A@woodward.joyent.us> Upon reading the measured prose below and its concern about being a flash in the pain (I've been closely following the postings of Dan Cohen and Amanda French about the MLA), my first thoughts were to quote Neil Young: "It's better to burn out than to fade away, My, my, hey, hey..." Best to all, Dennis Moser --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:36:20 -0700 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.526 the next big thing In-Reply-To: <20091230070049.0CDAE4972A@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, What does it say about our society that the phrase "next big thing" gained currency with the advent of the World Wide Web? To what extent have we conflated changes that result from the recently rapid pace of technological innovation with those that have always resulted from new trends and fashions? Did you see this article in the New York Times that introduced many of us to the Singularity Institute? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/weekinreview/24markoff.html Should we be more satisfied if our blending of scholarship and technology is recognized by fellow academics than if it is reported by journalists? Should we adopt the stance of skepticism towards the apparent embrace of the digital humanities, since the pattern in academia is to obsess over new trends for a while, eventually discover their shortcomings, and then finally add a few of their useful methods to our scholarly toolkits? How inclusive is this imagined academic community you mentioned? When did academics start talking about topics, trends, or individuals being "popular" in a way where it didn't matter what the general public thought? Should we be satisfied with the "slow cooking of substantial ideas" because we trust academics, no matter how many trendy detours they take, to eventually figure out how to stay relevant and keep pace with larger changes in society? Sincerely, Sterling Fluharty _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 31 07:11:50 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582D445A61; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:11:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 22BD1459F3; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:11:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091231071149.22BD1459F3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:11:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.528 AI and other kinds of intelligence X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 528. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:41:34 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: AI and other kinds In 1984 William M. Chace, then a professor of English at Stanford, later the President of Emory, gave a lecture at a conference on artificial intelligence that was published in AI Magazine 5.4, "Intelligence, Artificial and Otherwise". The lecture concludes with a meditation on the possibility of a bridge between AI and the disciplines of the humanities. This is what he says: > ... I do not believe the bridge can so easily be built. The world of > science, of which the energies and fascination of artificial > intelligence is one small part, is a world virtually closed to > everyone save highly-trained experts and their students, some of them > at Stanford. With each new real development in scientific knowledge, > the lay person is left further behind. With each passing day, science > really does augment its own storehouse of knowledge, and it, does so > with the help of highly sophisticated vocabularies inaccessible to > almost everyone else. Not, to grasp that fact is to pretend that > science is less than it is, and thus to vulgarize and patronize > science. > > Things are otherwise in the "humanities," so-called, and in the arts > in general. Although I have colleagues who dcspair of the > embarrassment my remarks might cause, I have come before you to claim > that the arts-literature, music, painting, and so forth-really have > very little that is "new" or inaccessible or technically arcane to > say to you. Its techniques might bc difficult to grasp, but its > "message" rarely is. Art is nothing if not a reminder of those truths > you already knew. It is a solace, or a pang of guilty awareness, or a > delight. It makes you recognize, with dramatic clarity, the meaning > of it all. It startles and arrests you, and then pleases you by > confirming your deepest intuitions. Thus art’s pleasure. > > In being so radically different an enterprise from scientific > investigation, art seeks no cozy liaison with anything else. Nor > would our time be well spent were we to try to force that liaison. We > should learn to tolerate, with benign sympathy, the diffcrcnt ways in > which the human mind can work. And that tolerance should permit us to > recognize that, only a very small handful of experts really > understand how computers work. Some of them are with you today. They > will, I assume, continue their work of designing programs of ever > greater sophistication and power. The aim of their enterprise will be > to develop more complex programs and procedures so that the rest of > us, in employing computers for our tasks, can afford to be no rnore > conscious of the computer than we are of the pencil or the telephone. > After all, more people today are dealing with computers in an > intuitive and natural manner because programmers have written > software that makes it less necessary for users to know what the > machine is actually doing. And I call this ignorance on our part > useful and welcome. The computer is, when all is said and done, a > tool, no more than a tool, and it is our tool. We will use it after > craftsmen have made it available to us. So it was once with the > hammer, cannon and the knife; so once it was with the automobile, the > radio and the airplane. Originally objects of awe, curiosity, and > even terror--we have exerted our full authority over them all. So now > it is with the digital computer. We will, certainly in the 21st > century, claim it is one more man-made instrument that we have > controlled and demystified. > > I leave you with the simple assertion that Frankensteinian monsters > exist in books, not in life. Science has yet to create very few > autonomous forces with which we cannot reckon. Perhaps nuclear energy > is one, but computing power and artificial intelligence are not. In > sum, kind listeners, I find that human beings, in all their mystery > and ineptitude, are not about to be replaced. In saying that and in > reminding you that we are both mysterious and inept, I think I am > leaving you with both good news and bad news. Once again, the just-a-tool escape clause. And I always wonder, has the man ever used a hand-tool with knowing skill? Sure, the woodcarver doesn't necessarily need to know how to make his or her chisels. But would any such skilled person ever treat those chisels as "just" tools? Exactly what is being denied or dismissed? Comment? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 31 07:19:21 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD0145F3E; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:19:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0472745F36; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:19:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20091231071921.0472745F36@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:19:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.529 new DDQ issue; cfp for Archeomatica X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 529. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Gabriel BODARD (38) Subject: cfp: 2010. Archeomatica, Cultural Heritage Technologies [2] From: Henry Gladney (4) Subject: DDQ 8(4) is available --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:21:10 +0000 From: Gabriel BODARD Subject: cfp: 2010. Archeomatica, Cultural Heritage Technologies Call for Papers 2010 Archeomatica, Cultural Heritage Technologies Issues 1-2-3-4 / 2010 http://www.archeomatica.it/call-for-papers CALL FOR PAPERS Archeomatica is a new, multidisciplinary journal, printed in Italy, devoted to the presentation and the dissemination of advanced methodologies, emerging technologies and techniques for the knowledge, documentation, safeguard, conservation and exploitation of cultural heritage. The journal aims to publish papers of significant and lasting value written by scientists, conservators and archaeologists involved on this field with the diffusion of specific new methodologies and experimental results. Archeomatica will also emphasize fruitful discussion on the best up-to-date scientific applications and exchanging ideas and findings related to any aspect of the cultural heritage sector. Archeomatica is intended also to be a primary source of multidisciplinary and divulgatia information for the sector of cultural heritage. The journal is divided in three sections: Documentazione (Survey and documentation), Rivelazioni (Analysis, diagnostics and monitoring), Restauro (Materials and intervention techniques). The issues are also published on line at the website www. archeomatica.it Archeomatica invites submissions of high-quality papers and interdisciplinary works for the next issues in all areas related to science and technology in cultural heritage, particularly on recent developments. If you are interested please submit an original paper to paper-submission@archeomatica.it Questo indirizzo e-mail è protetto dallo spam bot. Abilita Javascript per vederlo. The papers will be subject to review by the scientific board after which they are accepted or rejected in order to maintain quality. Applicants will be notified by email as to their acceptance. Topics and trends relevant to the Archeomatica Issues include, but are not limited to, the following: Methodologies and analytical techniques for the characterization andfor the evaluation of the preservation state of historical masterpieces [...] December 27, 2009Renzo Carlucci Editor dir@archeomatica.it --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:46:51 +0000 From: Henry Gladney Subject: DDQ 8(4) is available Digital Document Quarterly newsletter volume 8 number 4 is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_8_4.htm. Its table of contents is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq.htm#Y2009. Its dominant content is two comments on reading Immanuel Kant. In addition it includes squibs on practical matters reading recommendations for Waugh's The House of Wittgenstein, Kraus's Dicta and Contradicta, and Everdell's The First Moderns. Wishing you a Happy New Year, Henry H.M. Gladney, Ph.D. http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ (408)867-5454 (my study) (408)867-3933 (home) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 2 07:42:41 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F57144971; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 07:42:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5253E448FA; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 07:42:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100102074240.5253E448FA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 07:42:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.530 AI and other kinds of intelligence X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 530. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:03:14 -0800 (PST) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.528 AI and other kinds of intelligence > Comment? OK, very quickly. Willard, I've got little ( presumably less than you, anyway ) problem with chisels or hammers ;  but more with ideas ( forecasts ) like :  ". . . to be no more con- scious of the computer than we are of the pencil or the telephone". ( When are we ever gonna get *there* ? ;  he was speaking twenty-five years ago, and it's not just a usability thing either. )  Also a problem with the suggestion that such is "the aim of their [ the experts' ] enterprise" ;  *do they* look at it that way ?  Oh well, he *was* ( only ) a profes- sor of English and university president :-). I also wonder how many good theoretical physicists ( for example ) would not claim that much -- even all ? -- of what Chace attributes to art in the passage "Art is nothing if not . . .. Thus art’s pleasure.", in the second paragraph of your quoted excerpt, applies, as well, to their own fields. > Exactly what is being denied or dismissed? The notion that most any of us could develop a reasonably good grasp of how a pencil *really* works, should we be inclined actually to inquire into the matter ? ;-) Anyway, : Happy Sylvester, Silvester, New Year or whatever, to all list-followers -- however they may ( or may not ) celebrate it. - Laval Hunsucker   Antwerpen, België --- On Thu, 12/31/09, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: From: Humanist Discussion Group _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 2 07:43:31 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B769C44A9B; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 07:43:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 26EEF44A89; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 07:43:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100102074330.26EEF44A89@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 07:43:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.531 job at Dumbarton Oaks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 531. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:37:23 +0000 From: Charlotte Roueche Subject: Job in Washington D.C. Position Description Title: Post-Doctoral Associate in Byzantine Sigillography and Numismatics, Dumbarton Oaks Location: DUMBARTON OAKS Supervisors: Director of Byzantine Studies and the Museum Director Function: Assists the Director of Byzantine Studies and the Museum Director in the preparation of the catalog (electronic and POD) of the Dumbarton Oaks collection of Byzantine seals, and the database of coins Duties and Responsibilities: Under the direction of the Director of Byzantine Studies and the Museum Director 1. Coordinates and conducts research on electronic database systems for coins and seals, participating in the assessment and preparation stages for setting up an open-access coins and seals database, assisting the process of international consultation; supervises data entry by interns where appropriate. 2. Coordinates and supports the work of the scholars working on the seals to an agreed plan, providing them with access, materials, scans etc, contributing himself/herself to the cataloging of seals. 3. Coordinates with the museum staff on new photography of the objects and provides liaison with Publications department to produce the catalog volumes; on request prepares contributions to exhibition catalogs and projects inside and outside Dumbarton Oaks; facilitates and supports the seals- and coins-related research of fellows . 4. Supports the work of the Advisors for Byzantine Sigillography and Numismatics, arranging meetings as required, contributing knowledge and expertise, and some administrative work. Qualifications: PhD in Byzantine Studies with a specialization in sigillography and/or numismatics, with experience of working in both; scholarly publications in the field. High degree of proficiency in Greek required; proficiency in other languages desired. Demonstrated expertise in MS Office and database experience is essential; familiarity with graphics programs is desired; experience in scholarly (electronic) publishing and in museum work is also desired. Excellent written and oral communication skills, superb organizational abilities, keen attention to detail, and ability to meet deadlines are essential. Term: This position is for one year, with the possibility of renewal for up to three years, to be determined annually. This is a benefits- eligible position with an annual salary of $43,000. As an associate at Dumbarton Oaks, the incumbent would have access to the outstanding resources of the Dumbarton Oaks Library, and become part of the larger scholarly community of research scholars in residence at Dumbarton Oaks. To apply: Submit resume by Monday 2 February 2010 to: The Director of Human Resources Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 1703 32nd Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Via e-mail: jobs2009@doaks.org ---------------------------- Professor Charlotte Roueché Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies/Department of Classics King's College London WC2R 2LS direct tel. + 44 20.7848 2515 fax + 44 20.7848 2545 charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/bmgs/staff/roueche.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 4 08:29:05 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3433144BA5; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 08:29:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DE3CD44B52; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 08:29:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100104082902.DE3CD44B52@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 08:29:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.532 a timeline X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 532. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 00:21:49 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Timeline for Emerging Network Culture Ran across the following very interesting timeline by Mark C. Taylor by chance tonight: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/taylor/ -- James Rovira Tiffin University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 4 09:29:44 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BDEA43493; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:29:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 507124348A; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:29:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100104092942.507124348A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:29:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.533 events: computing in the arts & humanities; music info retrieval X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 533. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: David M.Berry (53) Subject: CFP: The Computational Turn (with website) [2] From: Remco Veltkamp (135) Subject: cfp: ISMIR 2010 - 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 00:51:06 +0000 From: David M.Berry Subject: CFP: The Computational Turn (with website) In-Reply-To: <865811EA-CD35-4F24-A135-C07D1EDE01FA@swansea.ac.uk> CFP: The Computational Turn http://www.thecomputationalturn.com/ SWANSEA UNIVERSITY http://sites.google.com/site/dmberry/home/location 9TH MARCH 2010 Keynote: N. Katherine Hayles (Professor of Literature at Duke University). Keynote: Lev Manovich http://www.manovich.net/ (Professor, Visual Arts Department, UCSD). The application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities are resulting in new approaches and methodologies for the study of traditional and new corpuses of Arts and Humanities materials. This new 'computational turn' takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g. Moretti). This one-day workshop aims to discuss the implications and applications of what Lev Manovich has called 'Cultural Analytics' and the question of finding patterns using algorthmic techniques. Some of the most startling approaches transform understandings of texts by use of network analysis (e.g. graph theory), database/XML encodings (which flatten structures), or merely provide new quantitative techniques for looking at various media forms, such as media and film, and (re)presenting them visually, aurally or haptically. Within this field there are important debates about the contrast between narrative against database techniques, pattern-matching versus hermeneutic reading, and the statistical paradigm (using a sample) versus the data mining paradigm. Additionally, new forms of collaboration within the Arts and Humanities are emerging which use team-based approaches as opposed to the traditional lone-scholar. This requires the ability to create and manage modular Arts and Humanities research teams through the organisational structures provided by technology and digital communications (e.g. Big Humanities), together with techniques for collaborating in an interdisciplinary way with other disciplines such as computer science (e.g. hard interdisciplinarity versus soft interdisciplinarity). Papers are encouraged in the following areas: - Distant versus Close Reading - Database Structure versus Argument - Data mining/Text mining/Patterns - Pattern as a new epistemological object - Hermeneutics and the Data Stream - Geospatial techniques - Big Humanities - Digital Humanities versus Traditional Humanities - Tool Building - Free Culture/Open Source Arts and Humanities - Collaboration, Assemblages and Alliances - Language and Code (software studies) - Information visualization in the Humanities - Philosophical and theoretical reflections on the computational turn + Participation Requirements + Workshop participants are requested to submit a position paper (approx. 2000-5000 words) about the computational turn in Arts and Humanities, philosophical/theoretical reflections on the computational turn, research focus or research questions related to computational approaches, proposals for academic practice with algorithmic/visualisation techniques, proposals for new research methods with regard to Arts and Humanities or specific case studies (if applicable) and findings to date. Position papers will be published in a workshop PDF and website for discussion and some of the participants will be invited to present their paper at the workshop. Deadline for Position papers: February 10, 2010 Submit papers to: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tct2010 Workshop funded by The Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict, Power, Empire, Swansea University. TheResearch Institute in the Arts and Humanities http://www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/riah/ (RIAH) at Swansea University. + References + Clement, Tanya E. (2008) ‘A thing not beginning and not ending’: using digital tools to distant-read Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 23.3 (2008): 361. Clement, Tanya, Steger, Sara, Unsworth, John, Uszkalo, Kirsten (2008) How Not to Read a Million Books. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/hownot2read.html Council on Library and Information Resources and The National Endowment for the Humanities (2009) Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub145/pub145.pdf Hayles, N. Katherine (2009) RFID: Human Agency and Meaning in Information-Intensive Environments. Theory, Culture and Society 26.2/3 (2009): 1-24. Hayles, N. Katherine (2009) How We Think: The Transforming Power of Digital Technologies. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://hdl.handle.net/1853/27680 Kittler, Fredrich (1997) Literature, Media, Information Systems. London: Routledge. Krakauer, David C. (2007) The Quest for Patterns in Meta-History. Santa Fe Institute Bulletin. Winter 2007. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://www.intelros.ru/pdf/SFI_Bulletin/Quest.pdf Latour, Bruno (2007) Reassembling the Social. London: Oxford University Press. Manovich, Lev (2002) The Language of New Media. MIT Press. Manovich, Lev (2007) White paper: Cultural Analytics: Analysis and Visualizations of Large Cultural Data Sets, May 2007. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://softwarestudies.com/cultural_analytics/cultural_analytics_2008.doc McLemee, Scott (2006) Literature to Infinity. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee193 Moretti, Franco (2005) Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History. London: Verso. Robinson, Peter (2006) Electronic Textual Editing: The Canterbury Tales and other Medieval Texts. Electronic Textual Editing. Modern Language Association of America. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/robinson.xml Schreibman, Susan, Siemens, Ray & Unsworth, John (2007) A Companion to Digital Humanities. London: WileyBlackwell. Organised by Dr David M. Berry, Department of Political and Cultural Studies, Swansea University. d.m.berry@swansea.ac.uk --- Dr David M. Berry Department of Political and Cultural Studies School of Arts and Humanities Swansea University. Swansea SA2 8PP Wales, UK Tel: 01792 602633 Web: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/Arts/berryd/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 22:28:50 +0000 From: Remco Veltkamp Subject: cfp: ISMIR 2010 - 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference In-Reply-To: <865811EA-CD35-4F24-A135-C07D1EDE01FA@swansea.ac.uk> 1st Call for Papers and Tutorials ISMIR 2010 - 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference 9-13 August 2010, Utrecht University, The Netherlands http://ismir2010.ismir.net/ Submission Deadline: Wednesday, 10 March 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Introduction* The 11th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2010, will be held at the Utrecht University, The Netherlands, from Monday, August 9 to Friday, August 13 2010. The annual ISMIR Conference is the premier international forum for those working on organizing and accessing digital musical material. The ISMIR conferences reflect the tremendous recent growth of available music-related data and the consequent need to search within it to retrieve music and musical information efficiently and effectively. Music Information Retrieval (MIR) concerns are of interest to academia, industry, entertainment, and education. ISMIR therefore aims to provide a place for the exchange and discussion of MIR issues, developments and results, by bringing together researchers and developers, educators and librarians, students and professional users, working in fields that contribute to MIR's multidisciplinary domain. It is increasingly realised in the MIR community that music only becomes music by its processing by the human mind, and that studying the human processing of music is a key issue in innovative MIR research. Therefore, papers on musical cognition and perception that contribute to the human understanding and experience of music are especially welcomed. *New Special Paper Category* New this year, ISMIR 2010 is soliciting a special category of papers: State-of-the-Art Reports (STARs). Unlike regular papers which should focus in detail on specific aspects of MIR research, STAR papers will provide a state-of-the-art overview of a broader MIR problem area. Only a few STAR papers will be selected. A STAR paper will be presented in an oral presentation. *Topics* ISMIR solicits contributions to the field of music information retrieval (MIR), including, but not limited to, the following topics as they relate to MIR and beyond: music perception and cognition musical knowledge and meaning content-based querying and retrieval automatic classification music recommendation and playlist generation fingerprinting and digital rights management score following, audio alignment, and music synchronization transcription and annotation music summarisation music structure analysis optical music recognition music signal processing libraries, archives and digital collections database systems, indexing and query languages text and web mining compression and streaming modification and transformation of music data evaluation of MIR systems knowledge representation, social tags, and metadata melody and motives harmony, chords and tonality rhythm, beat, tempo and form timbre, instrumentation and voice genre, style and mood performance analysis similarity metrics computational musicology user interfaces and user models emotion and aesthetics applications of MIR to the performing arts and multimedia social, legal, ethical and business issues methodological issues and philosophical foundations *Paper submission* * Formatting submission instructions will be made available at http://ismir2010.ismir.net/ * Submission instructions for regular papers will be made available at http://ismir2010.ismir.net/, while STAR papers should be emailed to ismir2010-stars@ismir.net * Submission must consist of original contributions (not previously published and not currently being considered for publication elsewhere). * Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages long, STARs no longer than 12 pages. * All papers will be peer-reviewed according to their quality in terms of novelty, technical content, and presentation. * The reviewing process of regular papers will be double blind: the reviewers remain hidden to the authors, and the authors must remain hidden to the reviewers. * All accepted regular papers can be presented as a poster. * From the accepted papers, a selection will be chosen for oral presentations as well. * Authors of accepted papers will be asked to provide camera-ready copies of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. * For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the ISMIR 2010 conference prior to submission of the camera-ready version. We will seek opportunities to publish selected papers in one or more suitable journal special issues. *Call for tutorials* It is the goal of the ISMIR 2010 Tutorial Program to offer conference attendees and local participants a stimulating and informative selection of introductory or in-depth tutorials reflecting current topics in MIR. These tutorials will be presented by subject matter experts and will reflect the high academic and research standards of the ISMIR 2010 conference. We encourage submissions of tutorial proposals on all topics in the general areas of music information retrieval, especially tutorials bridging these areas, or presenting new perspectives in these areas. However, tutorials on musical cognition and perception that contribute to the human understanding and experience of music, or that make creative use of MIR research, will receive particular attention. Tutorials will be held Monday, August 9, 2010 (the day preceding the main conference). Tutorial day will consist of parallel sessions of half-day tutorials each concentrating on a single topic and lasting approximately 3 hours, including a break. Tutorial proposals should be emailed to ismir2010-tutorials@ismir.net as PDF files containing a 1-2 page abstract including: * an outline of the tutorial content, * the intended and expected audience, * short biography of the presenter(s), * whether the tutorial has been give before or elsewhere, and * any special requirements. Presenters are strongly encouraged to include aural music examples in their tutorial presentations (preferably using copyright-free or copyright-cleared examples). Tutorial presenters are expected to create substantial supporting materials for distribution to participants. *Important Dates* * Call for papers and tutorials: December 2009 * Submission deadline (regular papers, STARS, tutorials): March 10, 2010 * Notification of Acceptance: April 28, 2010 *Organization* General Chair: Frans Wiering, Utrecht University Program Chairs: J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Remco Veltkamp, Utrecht University Tutorial Chair: Steffen Pauws, Philips Research _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 5 08:56:10 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D4F45D52; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:56:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 016F245D3C; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:56:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100105085608.016F245D3C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:56:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.534 the next big thing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 534. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:47:53 -0800 From: Richard Heinzkill Subject: "digital humanities" at MLA meeting Thought list subscribers might find this part of an article in Chronicle of Higher Education (accessed Jan 4, 2020) on MLA meeting interesting.-------Richard Heinzkill, University of Oregon Library. ====================================================== Old School, New School It was also interesting to see, during the convention and after, a debate among the Twitter crowd about the label "digital humanities" and whether it was accurate or useful and how to get humanists, digital and otherwise, to talk more (or more usefully) to one another. A catchall phrase comes in handy—it's hard to imagine the NEH's establishing an Office of Cool Scholarship Done With Digital Tools—but it doesn't do justice to the very different kinds of work done under that label. Maybe the term is just a place holder, and the day is not far off when people won't feel the need to make a distinction between the humanities and the digital humanities. To this observer at least, the 2009 MLA did highlight how social media are being deployed by scholars, even if they are (temporarily) a minority. It will be interesting to see, when the next MLA rolls around, in January of 2011, how many more outside the digital-humanities crowd have added social media to their scholarly-communication arsenal. Such attention to the digital world obscures the fact that the digital humanities are still a relatively small part of what happens at the MLA, even if they make some of the liveliest and most visible contributions. MLA 2009 had no shortage of old-school panels devoted to authors and genres and literary traditions. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 5 08:57:04 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B2045E1F; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:57:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C87AC45E0E; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:57:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100105085702.C87AC45E0E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:57:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.535 events: cultural & activity research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 535. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:19:13 +0200 From: "Lily Diaz" Subject: Conference on Cultural and Activity Research FISCAR 2010 http://www.iscar.org/fi/5NC/ Deadline for abstracts: January 31, 2010 We invite researchers, specialists, and students in the fields of art, design, education, health care and other professional activities to participate in the Nordic Conference on Activity Theory and the Fourth Finnish Conference on Cultural and Activity Research (FISCAR10). The conference is seeking proposals on variety of perspectives on social creativity, designing and activity. The sub-themes of the conference are the following: Design as an activity ● Collaborative nature of design process, participatory design, and co-configuration ● Representation and play as design activities ● Social creativity, new technologies and artifacts ● Inclusive design as societal activity Theory and methodology for research on creativity and design ● Central theoretical ideas in Activity Theory and Sociocultural Theories ● Methodologies of developmental interventions ● Ethnography of change ● Discourse and activity Design and creativity in diverse forms of communities ● On-line and virtual communities ● Social simulation and emergence ● Social movements ● Ethnic and cultural diversity Design and creativity in educational activities ● Social creativity in education ● Educational interventions and practice-developing research ● Inclusive education ● Education and social media Design and creativity in work activities ● Spaces for innovation and knowledge-creation ● Design of new organizational forms ● Creativity in interventions at work ● Historically new forms of work Digitalization of culture ● Media as a research field ● Digital media and digital social networks ● Inclusive digitalization ● Digitalization of work Design and creativity in heath care and social services ● Work-based methods and tools of occupational health service ● Multi-actor collaborations in improving work-related wellbeing ● Design of system of social support ● Enhancing client agency and creativity Please see our web pages for more information. With best regards and best wishes for the new year, Lily Díaz Professor Aalto University School of Art and Design, Media Lab _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 6 08:47:13 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45021449ED; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:47:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1123A449D9; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:47:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100106084711.1123A449D9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:47:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.536 the next big thing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 536. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 09:29:14 -0800 From: "Bleck, Bradley" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.534 the next big thing In-Reply-To: <20100105085608.016F245D3C@woodward.joyent.us> It may not be the next big thing, but for those interested in the digital humanities, or whatever we might call what we do, there are certainly more panels at the Conference on College Composition and Communication dealing with this issue. I think compositionists are a somewhat ahead of many in the humanities on this. They meet in late March in Louisville, Kentucky this year. There is also the Computers and Writing conference, held this year at Purdue University May 20-23. Much of what gets looked at in these forums is applicable beyond the writing classroom. Bradley Bleck English Department Spokane Falls CC http://biketoworkspokane.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 6 08:47:38 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E2044A3E; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:47:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6BE6544A36; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:47:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100106084736.6BE6544A36@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:47:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.537 Java job at Europeana X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 537. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:40:08 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Java Developer to work for Europeana Europeana is currently looking for Java Developer. The full job description can be found here: http://version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-project/jobs For further information on the role please contact Bram van der Werf , Technical Director. If you would like to apply for this position, please send your resume and cover letter to jobs.edlf@kb.nl , with the reference no. JD-01 0110 as subject or send it by mail to: *Europeana* c/o the Koninklijke Bibliotheek National Library of the Netherlands PO Box 90407 2509 LK The Hague The Netherlands *Final acceptance date for application:* 27 February 2010 If you have any questions or comments regarding this position or the recruitment process, please do not reply to this email address, but send your email to jobs.edlf@kb.nl . Thank you very much for your cooperation. Kind regards, Martina Schoberova EDL Foundation - Europeana www.europeana.eu http://www.europeana.eu Phone: +31 (0)70 31 40 670 Email: martina.schoberova@kb.nl Europeana - Think Culture _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 6 08:48:39 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E5A144C03; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:48:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1A89544BEE; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:48:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100106084837.1A89544BEE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:48:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.538 news: HASTAC/MacArthur competition; programme closure X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 538. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: hastac-web@duke.edu (63) Subject: Deadline Extended for 2010 HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition [2] From: beadav@aol.com (28) Subject: Mellon closes down Mackie's program --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 13:08:03 -0500 From: hastac-web@duke.edu Subject: Deadline Extended for 2010 HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition Happy New Year! Here at the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition headquarters, we are increasingly excited as the opening of the online application system draws closer. We can't wait to see the ideas you have percolating and the many innovative ways you are reimagining learning! To give you some additional time to shine up those initial applications and get them ready for prime time, we are happy to announce that we have extended the Competition timeline. This means that the online application system will now open and begin accepting applications on January 15th. The due date for preliminary applications has been extended until January 22nd, while resubmitted final first round applications (taking into consideration any public feedback/comments received) will be due no later than February 15th. Please check out the revised timeline here: http://www.dmlcompetition.net/timeline.php [1] and feel free to email us dml@hri.uci.edu [2] with any questions. I have included below a revised call for the 2010 HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition with the new submission deadlines. Please help us get the word out by spreading it through your networks. We look forward to seeing your applications on January 15th! Best, Digital Media and Learning Competition   **With apologies for cross-posting** ---PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY--- *DEADLINE EXTENDED--Application system to open January 15th* /*****To allow applicants more time to develop their initial applications, the Competition timeline has been extended by one week. The online application system will now open and begin accepting applications on January 15th /. The due date for preliminary applications has been extended until *January 22nd*, while resubmitted final first round applications (taking into consideration any public feedback/comments received) will be due by *February 15th*. Please reference the revised timeline here:http://www.dmlcompetition.net/timeline.php [3] ***** The theme of this year's Competition is Reimagining Learning and there are two types of awards: 21st Century Learning Lab Designers and Game Changers. Aligned with National Lab Day as part of the White House's Educate to Innovate Initiative, the 21st Century Learning Lab Designer awards will range from $30,000-$200,000. Awards will be made for learning environments and digital media-based experiences that allow young people to grapple with social challenges through activities based on the social nature, contexts, and ideas of science, technology, engineering and math. The Game Changers category—undertaken in cooperation with Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA) and Electronic Arts (EA), Entertainment Software Assocation, and the Information Technology Industry Council—will award amounts ranging from $5,000-$50,000 for creative levels designed with either LittleBigPlanet™ or Spore™ Galactic Adventures that offer young people engaging game play experiences and that incorporate and leverage principles of science, technology, engineering and math for learning. Each category will include several Best in Class awards selected by expert judges, as well as a People’s Choice Award selected by the general public. The online application system will open on January 15 and will include three rounds of submissions, with public comment at each stage. Please see www.dmlcompetition.net [4] for all details. www.hastac.org [5] www.dmlcompetition.net [6] www.twitter.com/dmlComp [7] [1] http://www.dmlcompetition.net/timeline.php [2] mailto:dml@hri.uci.edu [3] http://www.dmlcompetition.net/timeline.php [4] http://www.dmlcompetition.net/ [5] http://www.hastac.org/ [6] http://www.dmlcompetition.net/ [7] http://www.twitter.com/dmlComp --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 16:14:44 EST From: beadav@aol.com Subject: Mellon closes down Mackie's program The Chronicle of Higher Education January 05, 2010, 12:00 PM ET In Potential Blow to Open-Source Software, Mellon Foundation Closes Grant Program By Marc Parry The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is closing a grant program that financed a series of high-profile university software projects, leaving some worried about a vacuum of support for open-source ventures. Mellon’s decade-old Research in Information Technology program, or RIT, helped bankroll a catalog of freely available software that includes Sakai, a course-management system used by Stanford University and the University of Michigan; Kuali, a financial-management program recently rolled out at Colorado State University; and Zotero, a program for managing research sources used by millions. Now the foundation plans to eliminate the RIT program as a stand-alone entity, a move that was scheduled to take effect Monday, according to a December letter to grantees obtained by The Chronicle. Mellon described the change as part of an effort to "consolidate resources" and concentrate on core program areas like the liberal arts, scholarly communications, and museums. RIT will merge into the Scholarly Communications program, which will manage its existing grants. Ira H. Fuchs, RIT’s founder, says his position has been eliminated, as has that of Christopher J. Mackie, RIT’s associate program officer. “It might lead to a reduction in funding for people that want to build large-scale open-source software programs for education,” says David Wiley, an associate professor of instructional psychology and technology at Brigham Young University who reported the changes on his blog last month. Don Waters, Mellon’s program officer for Scholarly Communications and the author of the December letter, did not return a phone call by deadline. Asked what the move would mean for the future, Mr. Fuchs says, "I think that remains to be determined. The honest answer is I don’t know." RIT spent some $50-million or $60-million since it was established in 2000, according to Mr. Fuchs. One longtime Mellon grantee, Bradley C. Wheeler of Indiana University at Bloomington, says the investments “will prove transformative for higher education.” Had Mellon not stepped in to help set up Sakai, colleges choosing course-management systems would face a “highly monopolistic pricing situation,” he says. The closure shouldn’t be read as a sign of the foundation divorcing itself from technology, adds Mr. Wheeler, vice president for information technology at Bloomington and chairman of Kuali's board. Indeed, the Scholarly Communications division will be renamed to explicitly reflect that “technology-based grantmaking is part of its mandate,” according to Mr. Waters's letter. “I do see Mellon refocusing its IT investments more closely to what they view as the core scholarship of the academy,” says Mr. Wheeler. “That means things that have to do with research and education, more so than things like administrative systems.” Mellon invested $2.4-million in Sakai, but the founding four universities put in an even greater amount toward the software-development collaboration, Mr. Wheeler notes. The Kuali Foundation's various projects have received more than $6.4-million from Mellon. The financial-software project is "economically viable on its own," Mr. Wheeler says, with a dozen sustaining investors who contribute the equivalent of about $125,000 a year. But while Mr. Wheeler was ready to declare victory, one outside observer was more cautious. "I would tactfully say these are still early stage," says Kenneth C. Green, founding director of the Campus Computing Project, noting that Sakai is gaining traction while the Kuali projects are less far along. "The story's not over." In the small world of foundations that finance higher-ed technology, especially open-education projects, the story is all about one word right now: transition. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the dominant source of foundation money for open-education content projects, also went through major personnel changes, Mr. Wiley notes. And the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is closing its online-education grant program. Prof. Richard C. Beacham, FRSA Director, King's Visualisation Lab, www.kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk King's College London, 26 - 29 Drury Lane, London, WC2B 5RL E-mail: Richard.Beacham@kcl.ac.uk OR beadav@aol.com 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network www.viznet.ac.uk/3dvisa/ Theatron 3 http://cms.cch.kcl.ac.uk/theatron/ The London Charter www.londoncharter.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 6 08:51:18 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC5E44E73; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:51:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B11044E61; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:51:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100106085116.1B11044E61@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:51:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.539 London Seminar 14 January X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 539. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:02:37 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, 14/1/2010 London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 14 January 2010 (Thursday) Room 275 (Stewart House), Bloomsbury, London 17:30 - 19:30 Helena Barbas, 'Interactive Fiction – narratives without memory' In mobile narratives – as in any kind of interactive fiction – creativity lies in the (physical or virtual) route taken by the user and is a consequence of the several nodes/links she chooses to navigate. From this user’s agency emerges a new relationship between the literary concepts of story and discourse that interferes with the normal structure of plot and the technical traditional artifices to create suspense (the bifurcation). Immersed in the story – as a character/avatar, narrator/drama-manager – the user inhabits the diegesis. Real time and space turn into a stage where the fiction takes place. Reality becomes hybrid or enhanced; the users’ perception of time and space is altered. However, in fictional terms, this interferes with the literary ruses to deal with time (flashback/flash-forward). As all the events are transposed to the present, the «now» of the user experience, this kind of story has no memory. The absence of narrative memory is one of the theoretical issues resulting from the practical experience with the InStory project (2006), specifically the creation of an interactive fiction for web mobile devices (pda). This project will be used as a case study for the questioning of other narratological issues, namely the concepts of author, character and plot. Also, it allows proposing some clarifications concerning the digital concepts of interaction, creativity, the role of the word in mixed realities, and the relationship between IF and games. As future work will be presented PlatoMundi-A voyage with Er, an adventure/quest browser immersive, multiplayer, 3D MMORPG serious video game, with basis on Plato’s «Myth of Er» as narrated in Book X of the Republic (612a-621d). ----- Helena Barbas (1951) is Professor-Lecturer of the Department of Portuguese Studies – Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (F.C.S.H. – U.N.L.). She holds a MA (1990) and a PhD (1998) in Comparative Literature – Literature and the Arts. In 2003, she attended the Master of Applied Artificial Intelligence at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (F.C.T. - U.N.L.), and became a researcher for CENTRIA in 2005. She gained her “Habilitation” (2008) in Literature and Cyberarts. Helena authored books and several essays, translated theoretical texts, novels, drama and poetry. She has collaborated with diverse newspapers, magazines and with national TV cultural programs. She writes literary reviews for the national weekly broadsheet «Expresso». Professor Barbas’ present research interests are multimedia storytelling, IF, avatars, the usage of AI decision models and agents behaviour and serious games. She was a member of the InStory Project team. Presently she is preparing a project on serious games, PlatoMundi, aiming to introduce e-learning and ethical issues in game playing. See http://www2.fcsh.unl.pt/docentes/hbarbas/ for more. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 6 08:59:44 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A2DA43364; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:59:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6AA3C4335A; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:59:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100106085943.6AA3C4335A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:59:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.540 new publication: what to do about research data X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 540. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:58:48 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: report on research data Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age, Committee on Ensuring the Utility and Integrity of Research Data in a Digital Age, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) http://www.nap.edu/ (under Best Sellers) Press release ------------- Report Offers Principles for Maintaining the Integrity And Accessibility of Research Data WASHINGTON -- Though digital technologies and high-speed communications have significantly expanded the capabilities of scientists -- allowing them to analyze and share vast amounts of data -- these technologies are also raising difficult questions for researchers, institutions, and journals. Because digital data can be manipulated more easily than other forms, they are particularly susceptible to distortion. Questions about how to maintain the data generated, who should have access, and who pays to store and maintain them can be controversial. Maintaining the integrity and accessibility of research data in a rapidly evolving digital age will take the collective efforts of universities and other research institutions, journals, agencies, and individual scientists, says a new report from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine, which recommends principles to guide these stakeholders in generating, sharing, and maintaining scientific data. Research institutions need to ensure that every investigator receives appropriate training in conducting research and managing data responsibly, the report says. And these institutions, along with professional societies, journals, and research sponsors, should develop and disseminate standards for ensuring the integrity of research data and update specific data-management guidelines to account for new technologies. After an investigation by the Journal of Cell Biology revealed that a significant number of images submitted to them had been inappropriately manipulated, for example, the journal issued guidelines on acceptable and unacceptable ways to alter images. Ultimately, though, researchers themselves are responsible for ensuring the integrity of their research data, said the committee that wrote the report. The report recommends that researchers -- both publicly and privately funded -- make the data and methods underlying their reported results public in a timely manner, except in unusual cases where there is a compelling reason not to do so, such as concern about national security or health privacy. In such cases, researchers should publicly explain why data are being withheld. But the default position should be that data will be shared -- a practice that allows data and conclusions to be verified, contributes to further scientific advances, and allows the development of beneficial goods and services. Research data can be valuable for many years after they are generated -- for verifying results and generating new findings -- but maintaining high-quality and reliable databases can be costly, the report observes. Researchers should establish data-management plans at the beginning of each research project that provide for the stewardship of data, and research sponsors should recognize that financial support for data professionals is an appropriate part of supporting research. Professional societies should provide investigators with guidance about which data should be saved for the long term and which can be discarded. The report was sponsored by the National Research Council, U.S. Department of Agriculture, NASA, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Energy, Eli Lilly and Co., Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Nature Publishing Group, the Rockefeller University Press, New England Journal of Medicine, American Chemical Society, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, and IEEE. The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council make up the National Academies. They are independent, nonprofit institutions that provide science, technology, and health policy advice under an 1863 congressional charter. Copies of Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age are available from the National Academies Press; tel. 202-334-3313 or 1-800-624-6242 or on the Internet at http://www.nap.edu. Reporters may obtain a copy from the Office of News and Public Information (contacts listed above). [ This news release and report are available at http://national-academies.org ] NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy Committee on Ensuring the Utility and Integrity of Research Data in a Digital Age -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 7 08:16:43 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 755EB3F9AB; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:16:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 42DF73F998; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:16:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100107081641.42DF73F998@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:16:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.541 the next big thing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 541. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:14:58 -0600 From: Patricia Galloway Subject: the next big thing In-Reply-To: A little belatedly, I'll point out that when I first started going to the Society of American Archivists meetings in the late 1990s, digital archiving was very much in the corner; now it constitutes much of the program at this largest meeting for the archives discipline in the US. So when digital humanists have things to save, the archives will be there; and when digital humanists want to work with digital texts and other media, hopefully they will already be safe and available. In other words, the infrastructure is being built, as a result of government and business needs and with the participation of major libraries and collecting archives. And with funding from IMLS, we are beginning to send digital archives and digital library graduate students to digital humanities centers for internships to begin making these connections real--see: http://www.ischooldh.org/ Pat Galloway School of Information University of Texas at Austin _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 7 08:17:51 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B5E3FA30; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:17:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 432833FA19; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:17:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100107081749.432833FA19@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:17:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.542 finding software? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 542. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:48:30 +0000 From: John Levin Subject: Finding software Hi All, In the course of my MA in Digital Humanities at CCH @ Kings, I'm spending too much time trying to find suitable software for my work. I'm thinking of advanced applications, e.g. for textual analysis and map making, than more general tasks like text editing. Further, it's also finding reliable, supported software. Evaluating apps takes time, and testing software only to discard it as inadequate wastes it. Google hasn't been useful in this respect. There doesn't seem to be a (web-based) catalogue of software suitable for digital humanities. http://www.arts-humanities.net/tools is one such catalogue, but contains only 23 entries, and those items are a mish mash (various adobe apps, apache and sister projects, some languages, etc.) (Apparently, this is going to be relaunched soon, and does have the merit of being based on what digihum projects actually use.) TEI has a wiki http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Category:Tools but I find it difficult to navigate, incomplete, and again, a bit of a mishmash. There are various general catalogues for different platforms (versiontracker for windows/osx; many for linux apps) - they're useful, but aren't specifically orientated for digital humanities. Do people think that more organised, better maintained catalogue would be useful? Or have I overlooked one? Or, to put it another way: How do you find the software you use for your digital humanities projects? Best, John Levin --John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 7 08:20:02 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8DC93FB0C; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:20:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6BB1A3FB03; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:19:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100107081959.6BB1A3FB03@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:19:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.543 a correction & an announcement X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 543. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Christopher J. Mackie" (11) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.538 - "Mellon closes down Mackie's program" [2] From: I-CHASS (19) Subject: I-CHASS and NCSA Project Awarded Funding from NSF --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 18:51:00 -0500 From: "Christopher J. Mackie" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.538 - "Mellon closes down Mackie's program" In-Reply-To: <20100106084837.1A89544BEE@woodward.joyent.us> Richard (and Willard and colleagues); My sincere thanks for thinking of me in the alert regarding Mellon's decision regarding the RIT program, but in the interests of accuracy I must note that, as the _Chronicle_ article mentions, the Program in Research in Information Technology was founded and led by Ira Fuchs, as whose Associate Program Officer I was privileged to serve from 2006 until this past Monday. Perhaps Ira will be no more excited than I am about appearing in this particular headline, but I think it is important that he be accorded full credit for his leadership and the many contributions he has made (and I expect will continue to make) to the digital humanities and to computing in general. All best, --Chris Christopher J. Mackie The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation +1 212.838.8400 (office: GMT - 5:00) +1 609.933.1877 (mobile) +1 646.274.6351 (fax) cjm@mellon.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 19:59:48 +0000 From: I-CHASS Subject: I-CHASS and NCSA Project Awarded Funding from NSF The Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is pleased to announce that the project GroupScope: Instrumenting Research on Interaction Networks in Complex Social Contexts has been awarded funding by the Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation Initiative of the National Science Foundation. Marshall Scott Poole, Director of I-CHASS, is the PI of this project along with co-PIs David Forsyth and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson of the University of Illinois, Noshir Contractor of Northwestern University, and Feniosky Pena-Mora of Columbia University. Peter Bacjsy, Associate Director of Image Analysis for I-CHASS, Alex Yahja, Assistant Director of Modeling for I-CHASS, and Dorothy Espelage, School of Education, are research scientists for this project. Many of the most important functions in society are undertaken by large groups or teams. Emergency response, product development, health care, education, and economic activity are pursued in the context of large, dynamic, interacting networks of groups. Theory and research on such networks of groups is much less developed than research on isolated small groups or formal organizations. A major challenge for research on networks of groups is the difficulties that accompany the collection and analysis of the huge bodies of high resolution, high volume, observational data necessary to study these large, dynamic networks of groups. The goal of this project is to address this challenge by applying advanced computing applications to capture, manage, annotate and analyze these massive observational sets of video, audio, and other data. The resulting data analysis system, GroupScope, will enable breakthrough research into social interaction in large, dynamic groups to be conducted much more quickly and with much higher reliability than was previously possible. It will do this by automating as many functions as possible to the highest degree possible, including managing huge volumes of video, audio, and sensor data, transcription, parsing audio for critical discourse events, annotation and indexing of video streams, and coding interaction. These first pass analyses can then be supplemented by human analysts (and their analyses in turn will feed into machine learning that will improve the computerized analysis). GroupScope will be developed with the collaboration of social scientists studying emergency response teams, children’s playground behavior, distributed teams, and product development teams. When developed, GroupScope will be deployed in a cyberenvironment, a Web 2.0 based cyberinfrastructure that enables a community of researchers to collaborate on common problems. The cyberenvironment will enable multiple researchers to analyze and code the same group data for both small groups and large dynamic groups and networks. Multiple analyses and codings working from diverse perspectives will enable discovery of previously unsuspected relationships among different levels and layers of human interaction. They can also be linked to survey responses from participants, enabling linkage to the realm of perceptions and traits. Many of the most fundamental advances in science have come through the development of new instruments, such as more powerful telescopes or microscopes that can allow scientists to view molecules. In the same way GroupScope will shed light on the workings of critical functions performed by real world groups such as emergency response units, health care teams, stock exchanges, and military units. GroupScope will also have applications in the training of those working in multi-team systems, such as first responders to disasters. It can be used to record and “grade” training sessions, giving participants feedback on both strengths and weaknesses of their approaches. NSF has supported the four-year GroupScope project with a grant of $1.95 million. Preliminary development of GroupScope was generously supported by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and by the Critical Initiatives for Research and Scholarship Program of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Illinois. * * * Founded in 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I-CHASS charts new ground in high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social sciences by creating both learning environments and spaces for digital discovery. I-CHASS presents path-breaking research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social sciences. For more information on I-CHASS, please visit: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 7 08:22:03 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830D63FBB0; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:22:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8A2173FB9F; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:22:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100107082201.8A2173FB9F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:22:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.544 events: musical, lexicographical, linguistic, archaeological & connected X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 544. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (55) Subject: TCC 2010: Apr 20-22, Call for Papers & Presentation [2] From: Michael Hancher (26) Subject: call for proposals: The Dictionary in Print and in the Cloud [3] From: "Pasin, Michele" (39) Subject: livecoding at the anatomy museum [4] From: "[IMCSIT] News Service" (37) Subject: Computational Linguistics - Applications (CLA'10) Preliminary Announcement [5] From: Gisela Eberhardt (66) Subject: cfp: Workshop on Methods for the History of Archaeology --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:58:23 -0500 (EST) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: TCC 2010: Apr 20-22, Call for Papers & Presentation TCC 2010 (Apr 20-22): Call for Papers & Presentations 15th Annual TCC WORLDWIDE ONLINE CONFERENCE April 20-22, 2010 Pre-conference dates: April 7-8, 2010 Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow ~ Communication, Community, Ubiquitous Learning, Mobility and Best Choices ~ Submission deadline: January 15, 2010 Homepage: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu CALL FOR PROPOSALS TCC 2010 invites faculty, support staff, librarians, counselors, student affairs professionals, students, administrators, and educational consultants to submit proposals for papers and general sessions. THEME Since the first TCC Online Conference, the Internet has evolved into a global workspace for communication, collaboration, and community. People, technologies, services, and perspectives have converged on a single platform. The Internet has changed the teaching profession. How do faculty communicate, collaborate, innovate to produce useful student learning outcomes that differs from the past? College students place high priority on using mobile smart phones and engaging online social communities daily. What can we learn from our students? How do we build on our students' expertise in digital media, personal publishing, and social networking? Web 2.0 will continue to evolve. What effective practices have emerged in online learning? How do we assess student learning? How will smart mobile devices be adapted for learning? What is the institutional affect of virtual worlds such as Second Life? TOPICS TCC invites papers and general sessions on the continuing progress of distance learning, virtual communities, collaborative learning, social networking, and best choices for instructional technologies such as: - Retrospectives and personal experiences with the evolution of learning technologies - Perspectives and applications of Web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning - Technology applications that facilitate communication, collaboration, sharing, and social networking - Building and sustaining learning communities - Instructional applications in virtual worlds (Second Life, etc.) - Distance learning including mobile learning - Ubiquitous and lifelong learning - Open content and open source - E-portfolios and other assessment tools - Student orientation and preparation - Student success and assessment strategies in online learning - Student services online (tutoring, advising, mentoring, career planning, technology support, help desk, etc.) - Online learning resources (library, learning centers, etc.) - Online, hybrid, blended or other modes of technology enhanced learning - Professional development for faculty and staff - Accessibility for seniors and persons with disabilities - Gender equity, digital divide, intercultural understanding, and open access - Managing information technology and change in educational institutions - Institutional planning and pedagogy catalyzed by technology advances - Global learning, ubiquitous learning, and intercultural communication - The status of educational technology around the world - Other topics related to online learning and the application of educational technologies --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:48:16 -0600 From: Michael Hancher Subject: call for proposals: The Dictionary in Print and in the Cloud Call for proposals for possible Special Session at the Modern Language Association convention, Los Angeles, January 6-9, 2011. Benedict Anderson's "philological-lexicographic revolution" and after. Cultural standardization and fixity in the regime of print-capitalism; implications of fluid lexicographical practice and access online. In _Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism_ (1983) Benedict Anderson closely identified the standardizing effects of lexicography with what he called "print-capitalism," itself linked to "the origins of national consciousness." Anderson's schematic references to "the lexicographical revolution in Europe" invite exemplification and critique. Also, in recent decades the lexicographical revolution has moved from print to cyberspace and the cloud. What do projects like dictionary.com, Wiktionary, le-dictionnaire.com, and DWDS, as well as Google's "define:" function, imply about communities constructed by "the dictionary" online today? Abstracts of proposed 15- or 20-minute presentations on either topic or both are welcome by March 15; please send them to mh@umn.edu. In March I'll organize a panel for the MLA program committee to consider. The committee reports its decisions in May. Given sufficient interest I may edit a group of such papers for publication; therefore I invite proposals also from people who will not attend the MLA convention. Michael Hancher Professor of English, University of Minnesota President, Dictionary Society of North America ( http://www.dictionarysociety.com ) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:50:20 +0000 From: "Pasin, Michele" Subject: livecoding at the anatomy museum +++MUSICAL LIVECODING AT THE ANATOMY MUSEUM+++ Date: Thursday January 14th 2010, 7pm to 9pm circa. Venue: The Anatomy Museum, King's College London Website: http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~mpasin/events/livecoding/ Performers include: Thor Magnusson, University of Sussex, UK Michele Pasin, Kings College, UK Andrew Brown, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Yee King, University of Sussex, UK Alex McLean, Goldsmith University, UK Why this event? The purpose of this event is to let people know about a new and exciting development in computer music research, livecoding. Several London-based researchers in this area will perform a short piece using livecoding techniques, thus helping the audience get a hang on this new and cross-disciplinary approach to music creation. What is Livecoding? Algorithmic composition is the technique of using algorithms to create music. Algorithms (or, at the very least, formal sets of rules) have been used to compose music for centuries; the procedures used to plot voice- leading in Western counterpoint, for example, can often be reduced to algorithmic determinacy. The term is usually reserved, however, for the use of formal procedures to make music without human intervention, either through the introduction of chance procedures or the use of computers. Live coding (sometimes known as 'interactive programming', 'on-the-fly programming', 'just in time programming') is the name given to the process of writing software in realtime as part of a performance. Historically, similar techniques were used to produce early computer art, but recently it has been explored as a more rigorous alternative to laptop DJs who, live coders often feel, lack the charisma and pizzazz of musicians performing live. ____________________________ Dr. Michele Pasin, Research Associate Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College, London http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~mpasin/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 16:05:46 +0000 From: "[IMCSIT] News Service" Subject: Computational Linguistics - Applications (CLA'10) Preliminary Announcement Computational Linguistics - Applications (CLA'10) Wisła, Poland, October 18-20, 2010 http://CLA2010.imcsit.org ________________________________ If you have your account at Facebook you can also join a group: HERE. ________________________________ Workshop Goals The Computational Linguistics - Applications Workshop was created in 2008 in response to the fast-paced progress in the area. Traditionally, computational linguistics was limited to the scientists specialized in the processing of a natural language by computers. Scientific approaches and practical techniques come from linguistics, computer science, psychology, and mathematics. Nowadays, there is a number of practical applications available. These applications are sometimes developed by smart yet NLP-untrained developers who solve the problems using sophisticated heuristics. Computational Linguistics needs to be applied to make the full use of the Internet. There is a definite need for software that can handle unstructured text to allow search for information on the web. According to the European Commission, Human Language Technologies are one of the key research areas for the upcoming years. The priority aim of the research in this area is to enable users to communicate with the computer in their native language. CLA'10 Workshop is a place where the parties meet to exchange views and ideas with a benefit to all involved. The Workshop will focus on practical outcome of modeling human language use and the applications needed to improve human-machine interaction. Paper Topics This call is for papers that present research and developments on all aspects of Natural Language Processing used in real-life applications, such as (this list is not exhaustive): * information retrieval * extraction of linguistic knowledge from text corpora * semantic ontologies in computer linguistics * lexical resources * machine translation and translation aids * ambiguity resolution * text classification * corpus-based language modeling * POS-tagging * parsing issues * proofing tools * dialogue systems * machine learning methods applied to language processing * ontology and taxonomy evaluation * opinion mining * question answering * sentiment analysis * speech and audio processing * text summarization * use of NLP techniques in practical applications [...] CLA - where science meets reality ! --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:48:34 +0000 From: Gisela Eberhardt Subject: cfp: Workshop on Methods for the History of Archaeology Workshop: New historiographical approaches to archaeological research Organisers: Gisela Eberhardt (Excellence Cluster Topoi, CSG V, Berlin); Fabian Link (Uni-versity of Basel, Department of History) Place and date: 10.09.2010-11.09.2010, Free University Berlin, Topoi Building Dahlem Deadline: 02.03.2010 Recent developments in the historiography of the sciences have led to the call for a revised history of archaeology and a move away from hagiography and presentations of scientific processes as an inevitable progression. Historians of archaeology are beginning to utilize ap-proved and new historiographical concepts and tools to trace how archaeological knowledge has been produced and to reflect on the historical conditions and contexts under which this knowledge has been generated (e. g. research network “Archives of European Archaeology (AREA)”). For instance, recent studies have questioned the continuity of scientific concepts in archaeology (Andresen, Podgorny), discussed the influence on archaeological research of biographical aspects and social dynamics (Kaeser, Gillberg & Jensen), and explored strategies of visualization in archaeology (Klamm). However, a powerful arsenal of concepts and me-thods for the study of knowledge generation in archaeology is still lacking. This workshop aims at broadening the spectrum of available historiographical frameworks, concepts, and methods for novel histories of archaeological research. We ask for contributions that examine episodes from the history of archaeology in light of recent historiographical ap-proaches to other scientific fields. The aim is to adapt and modify these approaches to fit our specific needs. Possible topics include: A) the impact on archaeological research processes of social dynamics. Contributions may examine - scientists’ biographies (along the line of the recent revival of biographical research, see e. g. Söderqvist) - scientific groups (communities, networks, institutions etc) or the relations between science and culture (e. g. museumvisitors or readership, see Secord, Nyhart and Yanni, among others) Authors providing fruitful inspiration here might also be Pierre Bourdieu (“field-and-habitus-theory”) or Ludwik Fleck. Microhistory and prosopography might turn out to be methodolog-ically useful as well. B) the nature and role of archaeological practice(s), i. e. the “science in action” (Latour). Contributions may examine - practices of surveys and excavations and the formation of rules and standards for archaeo-logical work - practices of inspecting, assessing and interpreting (features, artefacts etc.) - the history of tools (in the widest sense), e.g. with regard to changes that occurred in IT - the coming into being and passing away of scientific objects. Ian Hacking, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Lorraine Daston, and Peter Galison, among others, pro-vide frameworks for the study of the development of scientific practices, instruments, and objects. C) the ways in which results of archaeological research are presented and the possible influ-ence of such presentations on archaeological knowledge as well as on further archaeological research. Contributions may examine and compare verbal and visual presentation- in communications to peer audiences - in unpublished documents - in communications to popular audiences Again, borrowing from the historiography of the sciences is obvious, e.g. from David Good-ing’s analysis of the structure of reports of experiments or from Martin J. Rudwick’s studies of the development of a “visual language” for geology. An inspiring entry point to this area can be found in Begriffsgeschichte (history of terminology) (see e. g. the recent editions by Eggers & Rothe and Müller & Schmieder; see also recent works on discourse analysis in his-torical research by Sarasin and Landwehr). Other themes and approaches are very welcome. The workshop especially addresses junior scientists and researchers. Initially we request abstracts in the order of 500 words (to: fabian.link@unibas.ch or gisela.eberhardt@oleco.net). Once the abstract is accepted, contributors are requested to pro-duce a text of about five pages in length, which will be circulated to the other participants a month before the workshop is held. Abstract Deadline: March 2nd, 2010 Conference languages: English, German ---- Contact: Fabian Link Department of History, University of Basel Hirschgässlein 21, 4051 Basel, Switzerland Tel.: +41 (0) 61 295 96 66 E-mail: fabian.link @unibas.ch _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 8 06:16:01 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7746A3C6EA; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:16:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 520423C6E1; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:16:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100108061600.520423C6E1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:16:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.545 finding software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 545. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ian Johnson (79) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.542 finding software? [2] From: Alan Liu (72) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.542 finding software? [3] From: Chad Curtis (81) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.542 finding software? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 20:16:09 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Johnson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.542 finding software? In-Reply-To: <20100107081749.432833FA19@woodward.joyent.us> http://echo.gmu.edu/toolcenter-wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/ and a rather grab-bag list at: http://heuristscholar.org/heurist/?w=all&q=tag:tools+tag:software Ian Johnson > Hi All, > > In the course of my MA in Digital Humanities at CCH @ Kings, I'm spending > too much time trying to find suitable software for my work. > > I'm thinking of advanced applications, e.g. for textual analysis and map > making, than more general tasks like text editing. Further, it's also > finding reliable, supported software. Evaluating apps takes time, and > testing software only to discard it as inadequate wastes it. > > Google hasn't been useful in this respect. > > There doesn't seem to be a (web-based) catalogue of software suitable for > digital humanities. > > http://www.arts-humanities.net/tools is one such catalogue, but contains > only 23 entries, and those items are a mish mash (various adobe apps, apache > and sister projects, some languages, etc.) (Apparently, this is going to be > relaunched soon, and does have the merit of being based on what digihum > projects actually use.) > > TEI has a wiki http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Category:Tools but I find it > difficult to navigate, incomplete, and again, a bit of a mishmash. > > There are various general catalogues for different platforms (versiontracker > for windows/osx; many for linux apps) - they're useful, but aren't > specifically orientated for digital humanities. > > Do people think that more organised, better maintained catalogue would be > useful? Or have I overlooked one? > > Or, to put it another way: > > How do you find the software you use for your digital humanities projects? > > Best, > > John Levin > > --John Levin > http://www.anterotesis.com Ian Johnson [johnson@acl.arts.usyd.edu.au] Skype: ian.johnson222 Director, Archaeological Computing Laboratory Deputy Director, Digital Innovation Unit Senior Research Fellow, Archaeology Australia: Archaeological Computing Laboratory http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/ Digital Innovation Unit in the Humanities and Social Sciences http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/digitalinnovation Room 310 - 314, F09 Madsen Building, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 +61 (0)2 9351 2552 (direct) ..3142, ..8981 (msg) 3644 (fax) +61 (0)402 389 190 mobile France: (mid April - early July 2010) Esparoutis, St Cybranet 24250 +33 (0)6 37 18 93 42 mobile Email: johnson@acl.arts.usyd.edu.au Project URLS: Rethinking Timelines: http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/timelines TimeMap: http://www.TimeMap.net Associate of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative http://www.ecai.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 02:39:15 -0800 From: Alan Liu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.542 finding software? In-Reply-To: <20100107081749.432833FA19@woodward.joyent.us> Lisa Spiro's excellent DIRT (Digital Research Tools): http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:03:21 -0500 From: Chad Curtis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.542 finding software? In-Reply-To: <20100107081749.432833FA19@woodward.joyent.us> Hi: This is one of the better indexes I have found: http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/Text-Analysis-Tools The main wiki page has more categories useful for DH. Chad Curtis Librarian for Literary Studies and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities New York University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 8 06:16:58 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABDD43C774; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:16:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 283523C761; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:16:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100108061657.283523C761@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:16:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.546 postdoc at Aalto (Finland) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 546. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:34:40 +0200 From: "Lily Diaz" Subject: post-doctoral position Post-doctoral position 1.8.2010-31.12.2012: Experimental interfaces and interaction design Aalto University is created through a merger between the Helsinki School of Economics, the University of Art and Design Helsinki and the Helsinki University of Technology, which will start operating on the 1st of January 2010. www.aalto.fi Media Lab of Aalto University School of Art and Design The Media Lab Helsinki http://mlab.taik.fi in the School of Art and Design of the new Aalto University is a part of the new Department of Media. Much of the world’s leading research and development in the broad field of new media, and within Media Labs, is characterized by work in the areas of physical computing and/or tangible user interfaces. The Media Lab Helsinki is characterized by its commitment towards the development of new formats and genres in art and design. In the digital media, these genres find their immediate form of expression in the interaction of the human agent with the digital matter through the interface. Post doc researcher on experimental interfaces and interaction design In the Media Lab Helsinki we’re now opening the call for a post- doctoral position 1.8.2010-31.12.2012. Area of research is experimental interfaces and interaction design. The area of research is dual thematic that includes on the one hand research and development of physical and tangible interfaces and on the other knowledge and experience with artistic forms of interaction implemented for instance, in the areas of sound/sonic interaction, dance and theater. Responsibilities The purpose of the work of the post-doctoral researcher is to support and further develop the research areas consistent with the department’s research profile. The work of the post-doctoral researcher includes both research as well as teaching and tutoring related to the field of research. In addition to this post-doctoral researchers may be required to undertake other tasks related to research and education. Media Lab’s New Media education includes two MA programs – (1) MA in New Media and (2) MA in Sound in New Media, as well as studies leading to the doctoral degree. The new post-doctoral researcher is expected to strengthen the programs by providing more solid research foundation – including design and artistic practice – benefiting the education. Qualifications Applicants who have completed their doctoral studies quickly and successfully will be favored. In filling the position special emphasis will be given to the scientific quality of earlier research, art and/ or design practice, international experience, as well as a research plan which is convincing and which corresponds well to the department’s needs. The chosen person should have completed their doctoral studies before the start of the post-doctoral period. The task requires fluent skills in the use of English language. According to the multi-disciplinary nature of the Media Lab Helsinki and its operations it is expected that the applicants possess multiple skills that include computation, research, design and artistic methodologies, knowledge of new media theory as well as artistic and/ or design activities. Compensation Compensations will be paid according to the new salary system at Finnish universities. Researcher positions are on faculty demand level 5-6. In addition, a personal supplementary compensation of maximum 48 % will be paid. In the beginning the salary will be 2.993-3.556 euros / month. Applications The application documents, including the application, applicant’s CV and a portfolio, a research plan and other selected certificates are expected to be delivered to the address kirjaamo@taik.fi (subject: post doc: experimental interfaces and interaction design) or to Kirjaamo, Aalto University, School of Art and Design, p.o.box 31000, 00076 Aalto, by 2.3.2010 at 15 Finnish time. Further information Profes _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 8 06:22:01 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BDD33C82F; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:22:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B11913C827; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:21:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100108062159.B11913C827@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:21:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.547 new publication series & prize X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 547. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 14:12:24 -0500 From: "Dwyer, Thomas" Subject: U Mich Digital Humanities Series and UM/HASTAC Publication Prize Announcement: University of Michigan Series in Digital Humanities & the Michigan Publishing/HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize The University of Michigan Press and the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) are pleased to announce the launch of The University of Michigan Series in Digital Humanities@digitalculturebooks and the UM/ HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize. The series editors are Julie Thompson Klein (Wayne State University), Tara McPherson (University of Sothern California) and Tom Finholt (University of Michigan). The series advisory board members are Cathy Davidson (Duke University), Sidonie Smith (University of Michigan), Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan), Wendy Chun (Brown University), and Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Pomona College). The series will provide a forum for ground-breaking and benchmark work in digital humanities, forwarding the exploration of the intersections of computers and the disciplines of the arts and humanities, the professions of education and of library and information science, and the fields of media and communications studies, and cultural studies. The purpose of the University of Michigan Digital Humanities Series is to feature rigorous research that advances understanding of the nature and implications of the changing relationship between humanities and digital technologies. Books, monographs, and experimental formats that define and display current practices, emergent trends, and future directions will receive priority. Together, they will illuminate the varied disciplinary and professional forms, broad multidisciplinary scope, interdisciplinary dynamics, and transdisciplinary potential of the field. Works for the series and submissions to be considered for the UM/HASTAC Prize will further the following goals: * to break new ground by defining and assessing current and emerging methodological and theoretical approaches; * to benchmark best practices and projects through analysis of their nature, quality, and impact; * to present leading scholarship on the changing relationship of humanities and technology; * to feature best work from leading networks, communities of practice, and innovative practitioners; * to examine key thematics and problematics of the field; * to define and examine innovative approaches to digital teaching and learning. For more information about this series, or to submit a proposal please contact the Acquiring Editor: Tom Dwyer - thdwyer@umich.edu 2009 Notice for the University of Michigan Press/HASTAC Publication Prize for Notable Work in the Digital Humanities In conjunction with the launch of the UM Series in Digital Humanities, the University of Michigan and the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) are pleased to announce the UM Press/HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize. The prize will be awarded for an innovative and important project that displays a critical and rigorous engagement in the field of Digital Humanities. Eligible projects will be peer reviewed with the winner determined by the HASTAC Steering Committee, the general editors and the advisory board of the University of Michigan Press Series in Digital Humanities. The series editors are Julie Thompson Klein (Wayne State University), Tara McPherson (University of Southern California) and Tom Finholt (University of Michigan). The series advisory board members are Cathy Davidson (Duke University), Sidonie Smith (University of Michigan), Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan), Wendy Chun (Brown University), and Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Pomona College). For initial consideration, authors should provide a prospectus of the completed manuscript or emergent work describing its goals, intended audience, and significance, as well as a C.V. and sample material in a PDF. Final determination by the prize committee will be based on a review of a completed manuscript or a detailed prospectus, work plan, and sample material for projects. Submissions will be excepted for review immediately. The prize recipient will be announced on the HASTAC and UM Press websites. The winning submission will be published by the University of Michigan Press in the UM Digital Humanities Series under the digitalculturebooks imprint in print and digital formats. For questions, please contact the UM Press Acquiring Editor, Tom Dwyer: thdwyer@umich.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 8 06:29:50 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 974893CA42; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:29:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 55D563CA2E; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:29:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100108062949.55D563CA2E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:29:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.548 watch Kevin Franklin! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 548. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 17:59:40 +0000 From: I-CHASS Subject: HPCwire names Kevin Franklin one to watch in 2010 Kevin Franklin, executive director of the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS), has been named one of the 12 top people to watch in 2010 by HPCwire. The list recognizes individuals who contribute to the advancement of high-performance computing technology and the use of HPC. HPCwire calls Franklin "that rare individual who can straddle the divide between technology and the human condition" and credits his efforts to "bridge the chasm between the technologist and the humanist." Read more at HPCwire's website. * * * Founded in 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I-CHASS charts new ground in high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social sciences by creating both learning environments and spaces for digital discovery. I-CHASS presents path-breaking research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social sciences. For more information on I-CHASS, please visit: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 8 06:31:19 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA6A3CB3F; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:31:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 034233CB2E; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:31:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100108063118.034233CB2E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:31:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.549 events: Dictionary in Print & Cloud; logic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 549. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Geoff Sutcliffe (30) Subject: LPAR-16 deadline extended [2] From: Michael Hancher (26) Subject: cfp: The Dictionary in Print and in the Cloud --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 05:22:43 +0000 From: Geoff Sutcliffe Subject: LPAR-16 deadline extended CALL FOR PAPERS LPAR-16 16th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning April 25 - May 1, 2010 Dakar, Senegal http://www.lpar.net/lpar-16/ ============================================ SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 13th JANUARY ============================================ The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning, computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 16th edition will be held in Dakar, Senegal. Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal semantics of programming languages. At the other, it drives billions of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is in itself a powerful programming paradigm but it is also the quintessential specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems to networked infrastructures. Logical techniques link implementation and specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a central role in Computer Science education. [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:04:27 -0600 From: Michael Hancher Subject: cfp: The Dictionary in Print and in the Cloud Call for proposals for possible Special Session at the Modern Language Association convention, Los Angeles, January 6-9, 2011. Benedict Anderson's "philological-lexicographic revolution" and after. Cultural standardization and fixity in the regime of print-capitalism; implications of fluid lexicographical practice and access online. In _Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism_ (1983) Benedict Anderson closely identified the standardizing effects of lexicography with what he called "print-capitalism," itself linked to "the origins of national consciousness." Anderson's schematic references to "the lexicographical revolution in Europe" invite exemplification and critique. Also, in recent decades the lexicographical revolution has moved from print to cyberspace and the cloud. What do projects like dictionary.com, Wiktionary, le-dictionnaire.com, and DWDS, as well as Google's "define:" function, imply about communities constructed by "the dictionary" online today? Abstracts of proposed 15- or 20-minute presentations on either topic or both are welcome by March 15; please send them to mh@umn.edu. In March I'll organize a panel for the MLA program committee to consider. The committee reports its decisions in May. Given sufficient interest I may edit a group of such papers for publication; therefore I invite proposals also from people who will not attend the MLA convention. Michael Hancher Professor of English, University of Minnesota President, Dictionary Society of North America (http://www.dictionarysociety.com ) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 8 06:43:13 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D7973CF75; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:43:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6CBD53CF68; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:43:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100108064312.6CBD53CF68@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:43:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.550 innovative use of the medium X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 550. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:41:25 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: innovative use of the online medium Fugitives taunt their pursuers on the Internet, Facebook, MySpace By Monica Hesse Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 7, 2010; C01 Craig "Lazie" Lynch was hanging out in someone's kitchen, half-naked and wrapped in a Christmas garland, gleefully holding a turkey while flipping an entirely different kind of bird. He was supposed to be in jail. In the past two weeks, this little paradox has made him a folk hero to thousands of people around the world. He stands for something. Or he's a raging idiot. The story so far: Lynch, a 28-year-old Brit, was serving a seven-year sentence for burglary at a low-security prison outside of Suffolk, England. He escaped in September 2009. Police issued a public appeal for tips to his whereabouts; in late December someone informed the local paper that his whereabouts were completely transparent. On Lynch's recently updated Facebook page, he was complaining about the weather, feasting on a venison steak and "thinkin, which lucky girl will be my first of 2010!!" After news of his Facebooking became public but failed to lead to an arrest, Lynch decided to go for broke and act like a complete jerk. "I had a funny feelin that my door was going to come off this mornin," he wrote in one smug post guaranteed to torque law enforcement officials everywhere. "Then I remembered the [police] are thick as [dung]. And went back to sleep." He posted the Christmas turkey photo, plus another in which he held a placard encouraging people who spotted him to dial 999, the British equivalent of 911. "We've got ongoing queries to locate him," Suffolk police spokeswoman Anne-Marie Breach says wearily. "We're asking for information on where he actually, physically is," not just what his virtual updates might imply. After Facebook apparently shut down Lynch's personal profile last week, fan sites began springing up, one run by someone claiming to have been in touch with Lynch. It gained more than 40,000 members worldwide before Facebook removed it on Monday. A replacement group has already acquired more than 2,000 followers. A Facebook spokesman declined to comment on the site's actions, citing the ongoing investigation. "Fugitives since, what, Jesse James have been chiding their pursuers," writes Bryan Burrough, who has written several books about American criminals, via e-mail. You had Bonnie and Clyde leaving behind written odes to their exploits, the Zodiac killer sending missives to San Francisco newspapers. "What is genuinely fascinating now is that, while for years a crook might chide a cop in a phone call or handwritten note, they can now do it for all the world to see." As with all things on the Internet, the elimination of the middle man makes the story infinitely more personal. Imagine the follower count that would exist for Bonnie Parker's Twitter feed. The fascination with fugitives "lies in our devotion to live by workaday rules," Burrough says. "Don't cut in line. Please the boss. . . . We all do this, to some degree of frustration, and thus we tend to live vicariously through the exploits of those like Dillinger or even Lynch." Usually when a fugitive's acts become public on social networking sites it's because of stupidity, as in the case of Jonathan Parker, who paused in the middle of allegedly robbing a Pennsylvania home to check his Facebook account, then forgot to log out when he left the burgled house. Or Joseph Wade Northington, nabbed for a South Carolina bank robbery when officials were alerted to a MySpace message reading, "On tha run from robbin a bank Love all of yall." Or Maxi Sopo, who fled to Mexico after allegedly committing bank fraud, then bragged about the party scene there to his friends on Facebook, which included a former Department of Justice official. Cases of deliberate nanny-nanny-boo-booing via technology are rare, according to FBI spokesman Jason Pack. But those are the ones that acquire mythic status. Take the New Zealand couple who received an accidental credit of $10 million New Zealand to their bank account. Instead of returning it, the two took the money and ran to Hong Kong with family members who blithely sent status updates about the trip while police pleaded for their return. Facebook group "Run, Leo, Run" was promptly founded in their honor. Or take "barefoot burglar" Colton Harris-Moore, a Washington state teen whose suspected thefts have escalated from cars to private aircraft (they say he hot-wires them), and who has taunted police by leaving behind notes and a self-portrait on a digital camera (he's cute). T-shirts reading "Fly, Colton, Fly" were promptly created in his honor. As for Lynch's devoted fans . . . "I see it as where maybe Craig is trying to make a movement about something," writes Nikki Skouby-Bigby via e-mail. Skouby-Bigby is a Missouri mom who administers one of Lynch's Facebook fan pages. "But I don't think he's ever said, and I know everyone wants to know why. . . . He seems like a man that is serious about what he's trying to prove and not just to be out acting crazy." Lynch's fans write speculative fan fiction about his whereabouts, claiming to have spotted him at football games, hanging out with singer George Michael, riding mechanical bulls at bars. They specialize in fantasy futures for Lynch that contain more freedom than his real future likely will. "It's tough man," writes a fan named Jose Lorente. "You will be running your whole life, at least that makes you to live in present time always, and not sleeping like almost all of us." Azaria Jagger, who has blogged about Lynch on Gawker.com, has another piece of advice: "Just don't pull a gun or anything when they come to get you, because then we'll all feel like jerks for cheering you on." -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 8 08:51:48 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 862823B650; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:51:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0615A3B61E; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:51:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100108085147.0615A3B61E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:51:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.551 postdoc at Aalto (Finland) -- further information X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 551. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:23:53 +0200 From: "Lily Diaz" Subject: further information about Aalto post-doc position [Somehow in the posting earlier this morning crucial information was cut. Apologies. This information is as follows. --WM] Inquires should be addressed to: Professor Philip Dean (philip.dean@taik.fi) http://mlab.taik.fi With best regards, and best wishes for the new year, Lily Díaz Professor, Media Lab Aalto University School of Art and Design _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 10 09:45:36 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D8D145A27; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:45:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6D10245A1A; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:45:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100110094535.6D10245A1A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:45:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.552 finding software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 552. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 05:57:22 -0800 From: Jockers Matthew Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.542 finding software? In-Reply-To: <20100107081749.432833FA19@woodward.joyent.us> Have you not seen Lisa Spiro's very fine collection of tools at the Digital Research Tools (DIRT) wiki? http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/ -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 10 09:46:45 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A64E245AC6; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:46:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8745C45AB6; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:46:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100110094643.8745C45AB6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:46:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.553 job at Teeside X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 553. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 16:14:05 +0000 From: "Cavazza, Marc" Subject: Job Opportunities at Teesside University As part of the final phase of two PF6 Projects (COMPANIONS and CALLAS) and of follow-up investment from the University, the School and the Digitial Futures Institute offers several 12 month positions (Research Fellows and Research Associates) in the field of Multimodal Interfaces and Intelligent Media. Details can be found at: http://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/jobs/jobdetails.cfm?jobid=3249 http://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/jobs/jobdetails.cfm?jobid=3250 Group web site: http://ive.scm.tees.ac.uk/ Informal enquiries on these vacancies should be directed to Professor Marc Cavazza via e-mail: m.o.cavazza@tees.ac.uk. Closing date: 18 January 2010 (12.00pm) In addition, the Group can offer funding for short-term visiting positions (< 6 months) in specific areas, via several schemes. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 10 09:48:28 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A65B45B08; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:48:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3D2AE45B00; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:48:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100110094827.3D2AE45B00@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:48:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.554 new publication: Glottometrics 19 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 554. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 10:21:41 +0000 From: RAM-Verlag Subject: Glottometrics 19, 2009 If you are interested in Glottometrics 19, 2009, please click here: http://www.ram-verlag.de/ . Glottometrics 19, 2009 is available as: Printed edition: EUR 30.00 plus PP CD edition: EUR 15.00 plus PP Internet (download PDF-file): 7.50 EUR. If you have any questions,do not hesitate to contact me. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Christian Wittern (12) Subject: Registration for conference New Directions in Textual Scholarship now open [2] From: Cyril Brom (119) Subject: 2nd Call For Papers: Remembering Who We Are - Human Memory for Artificial Agents, at AISB 2010 [3] From: Emily Cullen (21) Subject: DHO event at University College Cork, 14th/15th January [4] From: S B Cooper (65) Subject: CiE 2010 - Final Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:06:14 +0900 From: Christian Wittern Subject: Registration for conference New Directions in Textual Scholarship now open This is just a short note to inform you that registration is now open[1] for the international conference "New Directions in Textual Scholarship", to be held March 25 to 27 in Saitama and Tokyo, Japan. More information about the conference and the accepted speakers can be found on the website. We hope to see you all in Japan come March! On behalf of the program committee and the organizing team, Christian Wittern [1] http://www.kyy.saitama-u.ac.jp/users/myojo/textjapan/registration.html -- Christian Wittern Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 16:18:39 +0000 From: Cyril Brom Subject: 2nd Call For Papers: Remembering Who We Are - Human Memory for Artificial Agents, at AISB 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS REMEMBERING WHO WE ARE – HUMAN MEMORY FOR ARTIFICIAL AGENTS A one day symposium on 29th March 2010 In conjunction with the AISB 2010 Convention (http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb10/AISB2010.html) De Montfort University, Leicester The symposium is supported by the European FP7 Project LIREC (http://www.lirec.eu/) Memory gives us identity, shapes our personality and drives our reactions to different situations in life. We actively create expectations, track the fulfilment of these expectations and dynamically modify our memory when new experiences demand it. Yet up to date, many important social aspects of human memory (for instance, emotional memory and episodic memory) to artificial intelligent agents have not been given much attention. The challenge might lie in the amount of memories one can have in a life time. Take a narrative agent for example, how can we generate a lifetime’s worth of memories for this agent? Can we easily record human experiences for this purpose? What trust and privacy issues will this entail? On the other hand, without this type of memory, can the agent generate believable life stories given that it is what colors our lives in retrospect? For an agent that continuously interacts with users or other agents, how can we design it with the capability to generate memories worth remembering in its lifetime? How can the agent record experiences of others during interaction? Can the agent maintain its relationship with others without any information about its past experiences with them? Artificial agent researchers have been constantly coming up with computational cognitive models inspired by the human brain to create characters that are more natural, believable and behave in human plausible ways. However, memory components in these models are usually oversimplified. Memory components which have been widely accepted and modelled are the long-term memory including procedural and declarative memories, the short-term memory and the sensory memory. What about the more ‘socially-aware’ memory which allows us to be effectively involved in social interactions and which fundamentally supports the creation of our life stories including the significance of events and their emotional impact? It is important to review artificial agents without this kind of memory particularly those designed for social interactions, and reflect on the effects of this shortcoming. Additionally, many existing models do not take into consideration the bio-mechanisms of human memory operations such as those involved in retrieval and forgetting processes. The most commonly adopted approach to forgetting is decay but the human brain performs other processes such as generalisation, reconstruction and repression to list a few. This symposium offers an opportunity for interdisciplinary discussions on human-like memory for artificial agents including organisational structures and mechanisms. We hope to bring together memory researchers, psychologists, computer scientists and neurologists to discuss issues on memory modelling, memory data collection and application to achieve a better understanding of which, when and how human-like memory can contribute to artificial agents modelling. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Role of memory in artificial agents * Type of memory and application * Memory and emotion modelling * Human-agent/human-robot interaction history * Effective memory data collection * Privacy issues related to data collection * Bio-inspiration to memory modelling * Memory mechanisms for encoding, storage and retrieval * Memory influence on reasoning and decision-making * Modelling forgetting in episodic memory * Ethological aspects of memory * Spatial memory Submission We are seeking submissions of original papers (up to 8 pages) that fit well with the symposium theme and topics. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rwwa10). You will have to register with EasyChair if you do not already have an account. Please submit your paper in PDF format (according to the AISB 2010 formatting guidelines - templates available on the AISB 2010 convention website). All submissions will be peer reviewed. Authors of accepted contributions will be asked to prepare the final versions (up to 8 pages) for inclusion in the symposium proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper will be required to register and attend the symposium to present their work. Important Dates * 15th January 2010: Submission deadline of full-length paper * 8th February 2010: Notification for paper acceptance * 1st March 2010: Submission of camera-ready final papers * 29th March 2010: Symposium Program Committee Cyril Brom, Charles University Prague Sibylle Enz, University of Bamberg Stan Franklin, The University of Memphis Wan Ching Ho, University of Hertfordshire (co-chair) Mei Yii Lim, Heriot-Watt University (co-chair) Andrew Nuxoll, University of Portland Alexei Samsonovich, George Mason University Holger Schultheis, University of Bremen Dan Tecuci, University of Texas Patricia A. Vargas, Heriot-Watt University Official Website http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~myl/AISBRWWA.html Contact Dr. Mei Yii Lim Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, EH14 4AS, UK Email: M.Lim@hw.ac.uk Homepage: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~myl/ Tel: (44) 131 4514162 Fax: (44) 131 4513327 Dr. Wan Ching Ho STRI, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK Email: W.C.Ho@herts.ac.uk Homepage: http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqwch/ Tel: (44) 170 7285111 Fax: (44) 170 7284185 -- Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. -- Cyril Brom Charles University in Prague Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Department of Software and Computer Science Education http://ksvi.mff.cuni.cz/~brom/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 11:18:39 +0000 From: Emily Cullen Subject: DHO event at University College Cork, 14th/15th January The DHO is delighted to announce a two-day digital humanities event run in conjunction with University College Cork. The symposia and workshops will take place on Thursday 14th and Friday 15th January at U.C.C. The first day will be devoted to digital project management and include hands-on sessions with some of the tools available for researchers. The second day will provide an introduction into markup, metadata and encoding principles, followed by a more focused afternoon workshop on TEI. Led by the DHO's Visiting Metadata Manager, Kevin Hawkins, and Digital Humanities Specialist, Dr. K Faith Lawrence, this event offers attendees a change to gain an introduction to some of the fundamental principles and issues faced by digital humanities projects and researchers. While attendance is free and open to anyone, the afternoon sessions have limited places and registration is required. Places are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis so prompt action is recommended. For more information and instructions on how to register, please see the event page at http://dho.ie/node/667 -- Emily Cullen, Ph.D., Programme Co-ordinator Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: +353(0)1-2342442 Fax:+353(0)1-2342400 E-mail: e.cullen@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://dho.ie/ -- -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 13:57:08 +0000 From: S B Cooper Subject: CiE 2010 - Final Call for Papers Final call for papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2010: Programs, Proofs, Processes Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal June 30 to July 4, 2010 http://www.cie2010.uac.pt/ Deadline for submissions: 20 JANUARY 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computability in Europe provides the largest international conference dealing with the full spectrum of computability-related research. CiE 2010 in the Azores is the sixth conference of the Series, held in a geographically unique and dramatic location, Europe's most Westerly outpost. The theme of CiE 2010 - "Programs, Proofs, Processes" - points to the usual CiE synergy of Computer Science, Mathematics and Logic, with important computability-theoretic connections to science and the real universe. TUTORIALS: Jeffrey Bub (Information, Computation and Physics), Bruno Codenotti (Computational Game Theory). INVITED SPEAKERS: Eric Allender, Jose L. Balcazar, Shafi Goldwasser, Denis Hirschfeldt, Seth Lloyd, Sara Negri, Toniann Pitassi, and Ronald de Wolf. SPECIAL SESSIONS on: Biological Computing, organizers: Paola Bonizzoni, Krishna Narayanan Invited speakers: Giancarlo Mauri, Natasha Jonoska, Stephane Vialette, Yasubumi Sakakibara Computational Complexity, organizers: Luis Antunes, Alan Selman Invited speakers: Eric Allender, Christian Glasser, John Hitchcock, Rahul Santhanam Computability of the Physical, organizers: Barry Cooper, Cris Calude Invited speakers: Giuseppe Longo, Yuri Manin, Cris Moore, David Wolpert Proof Theory and Computation, organizers: Martin Hyland, Fernando Ferreira Invited speakers: Thorsten Altenkirch, Samuel Mimram, Paulo Oliva, Lutz Strassburger Reasoning and Computation from Leibniz to Boole, organizers: Benedikt Loewe, Guglielmo Tamburrini Confirmed speakers: Volker Peckhaus, Olga Pombo, Sara Uckelman Web Algorithms and Computation, organizers: Martin Olsen, Thomas Erlebach Confirmed speaker: Debora Donato SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO MARIAN POUR-EL: Ning Zhong. CiE serves as an interdisciplinary forum for research in all aspects of computability and foundations of computer science, as well as the interplay of these theoretical areas with practical issues in computer science and with other disciplines such as biology, mathematics, philosophy, or physics. Formal systems, attendant proofs, and the possibility of their computer generation and manipulation (for instance, into programs) have been changing a whole spectrum of disciplines. The conference will address not only the more established lines of research of Computational Complexity and the interplay between Proofs and Computation, but also novel views that rely on physical and biological processes and models to find new ways of tackling computations and improving their efficiency. We particularly invite papers that build bridges between different parts of the research community. Since women are underrepresented in mathematics and computer science, we emphatically encourage submissions by female authors. The Elsevier Foundation is supporting the CiE conference series in the programme "Increasing representation of female researchers in the computability community". This programme will allow us to fund child-care support, a mentoring system for young female researchers, and also a small number of grants for junior female researchers (see below). The dates around the submission process are as follows: Submission Deadline: 20 January 2010 Notification to Authors: 18 March 2010 Deadline for Final Version: 8 April 2010 [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 11 06:21:11 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83A9D4428E; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:21:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E88984427A; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:21:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100111062109.E88984427A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:21:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.556 new on WWW: Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 2 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 556. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:44:36 +0000 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 2 Version two of the Institutional Repository Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship: http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html The Institutional Repository Bibliography presents over 700 selected English-language articles, books, technical reports, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding institutional repositories. This version significantly expands coverage of technical reports and adds a search function (Google index update for version two may take a few days). Most sources have been published between 2000 and the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories for published articles. The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections marked with an asterisk): 1 General* 2 Country and Regional Institutional Repository Surveys* 3 Multiple-Institution Repositories* 4 Specific Institutional Repositories* 5 Institutional Repository Digital Preservation Issues* 6 Institutional Repository Library Issues* 7 Institutional Repository Metadata Issues* 8 Institutional Repository Open Access Policies* 9 Institutional Repository R&D Projects* 10 Institutional Repository Research Studies* 11 Institutional Repository Software* Appendix A. 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Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://bit.ly/Z6HFx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 11 06:22:55 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C0D444AD; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:22:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DF88A444A0; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:22:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100111062253.DF88A444A0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:22:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.557 stylometric study wins X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 557. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:10:16 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: prize-winning computational analysis of Agatha Christie's novels U of T research tops N.Y. Times' 2009 Ideas list: Analysis shows that Agatha Christie likely suffered from Alzheimer's By Elaine Smith, posted Wednesday, December 16, 2009 University of Toronto News www.news.utoronto.ca/arts/u-of-t-research-tops-ny-times-2009-ideas-list.html ----- Research by U of T professors Ian Lancashire and Graeme Hirst has garnered top spot in the N.Y. Times' 9th Annual Year in Ideas. Lancashire, a professor of English, and Hirst, a computer scientist, provide evidence that famed mystery novelist Agatha Christie suffered from Alzheimer's-related dementia during the final years of her life. It's a conclusion some of her biographers have reached, but the U of T duo offers proof. The pair digitized 14 of her novels and used textual analysis software to determine the richness and size of the vocabulary used, as well as phrases often repeated and an increase in the use of indefinite words, an indicator of the disease. Their results, published in a paper titled Vocabulary Changes in Agatha Christie's Mysteries as an Indication of Dementia, were statistically significant. They showed that her final two books use a much smaller vocabulary than her earlier works, with differences as large as 31 per cent. Other later works compared with her last two volumes also show a much richer vocabulary. "This publicity -- and the honour it bestows -- reflects a hope that an aging society has for ways to detect Alzheimer's disease, a human scourge, earlier than possible now," said Lancashire. "People in all walks of life can understand, and even become conscious of, a change in their personal language. People have a horde of e-mail or blog entries now that go back some years. The simple vocabulary measures used in the poster, the graph and the brief paper can be grasped and applied by anyone, privately, non-invasively. The findings astonished me when I found them two years ago. If the N.Y. Times recognition brings more medical researchers to study language, I'll be delighted. Lancashire said the New York Times publicity is also a recognition of the value of interdisciplinary research and the role the humanities have to play in such projects. "At Toronto, the N.Y.Times notice highlights the deep strength of this university in interdisciplinary research. Even English professors may have a role to play in practical research of broad public interest. I could not have presented and interpreted my findings properly without the collaboration of Graeme Hirst in computational linguistics and Regina Jokel at Baycrest. I am so fortunate to work in a team now with these colleagues and Graeme's student Xuan Le." Lancashire and Hirst plan to continue their textual analysis work, examining the writings of mystery novelist P.D. James, who continues to be prolific as she ages, and mystery writers such as Ross MacDonald, who is known to have suffered from Alzheimer's disease. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 11 06:44:36 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD9144A41; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:44:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 12D4B44A31; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:44:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100111064435.12D4B44A31@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:44:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.558 events: digital humanities at Yale X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 558. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:42:43 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: The Past's Digital Presence The Past's Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities Yale University 19-20 February 2010 http://digitalhumanities.yale.edu/pdp/ How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with pre-digital sources in the humanities? If the “medium is the message,” then how does the message change when primary sources are translated into digital media? What kinds of new research opportunities do databases unlock and what do they make obsolete? What is the future of the rare book and manuscript library and its use? What biases are inherent in the widespread use of digitized material? How can we correct for them? Amidst numerous benefits in accessibility, cost, and convenience, what concerns have been overlooked? Keynote Speaker: Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania Colloquium Speaker: Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor, University of Chicago Closing Roundtable Rolena Adorno, Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish, Yale University Edward Ayers, President, University of Richmond Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King’s College London George Miles, Curator, Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 11 09:14:15 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2045B44C01; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:14:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1403B44BED; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:14:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100111091413.1403B44BED@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:14:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.559 why history? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 559. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:13:09 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: why history? I am looking for strongly positive statements about the value of studying and writing history. I'd prefer something far more positive than Santayana's “Those who ignore history are compelled unknowingly to relive it”, from Reason in Common Sense (1905: 284), to counterbalance Stephen Daedalus' “History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake”, Ulysses I, and Karl Marx's "The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living [wie ein Alp auf dem Gehirne der Lebenden],” The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852). Any suggestions? Thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 12 06:32:58 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04EE724C24; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:32:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E2C6524C14; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:32:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100112063256.E2C6524C14@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:32:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.560 why history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 560. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Igor Kramberger (14) Subject: Re: why history? [2] From: renata lemos (8) Subject: why history? [3] From: "Brian A. Bremen" (56) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.559 why history? [4] From: Todd Lawson (86) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.559 why history? [5] From: "Helena Barbas" (7) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.559 why history? [6] From: "Rabkin, Eric" (60) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.559 why history? [7] From: "Bleck, Bradley" (11) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.559 why history? [8] From: Sterling Fluharty (50) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.559 why history? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:24:16 +0100 From: Igor Kramberger Subject: Re: why history? Good morning, I would suggest to read some of the studies published in this book: Reinhart Koselleck, Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought.) http://www.amazon.com/Futures-Past-Semantics-Historical-Contemporary/dp/0231127715/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263201655&sr=1-4 Kind regards, -- Igor ----- Igor Kramberger, raziskovalec-urednik http://www.ff.uni-mb.si/index.php?page_id=81&person=89 Koro'ska cesta 63, SI-2000 Maribor pri Tom'si'c, Ulica Toma Brejca 11 a, SI-1241 Kamnik Slovenija, Evropa --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:48:45 -0200 From: renata lemos Subject: why history? RT @longnow Seminar: "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World" with Wade Davis - 1/13/10. Tickets available: http://bit.ly/4xViqb http://bit.ly/4xViqb http://twitter.com/longnow -- renata lemos http://www.renatalemos.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:54:48 -0600 From: "Brian A. Bremen" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.559 why history? In-Reply-To: <20100111091413.1403B44BED@woodward.joyent.us> Napoleon Bonaparte said: "What is history but a fable agreed upon?" not overly positive, but interesting. cheers, brian Brian A. Bremen Associate Professor English Department 1 University Station, B5000 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-0195 Office: Parlin 127 email: bremen@uts.cc.utexas.edu Phone: 512-471-7842 Fax: 512-471-4909 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:06:39 -0500 From: Todd Lawson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.559 why history? In-Reply-To: <20100111091413.1403B44BED@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I copy herewith two excerpts that speak to the great question. With the first I obviously carry coals to Newcastle. Please forgive. Happy New Year! Todd I It would perhaps be difficult to prove completely the axiom that objects do not cease to exist when we have stopped looking at them. Yet it is hard to see how we could maintain a consistent sense of reality without assuming it, and everyone does so assume it in practice and would even assert it as the first article of common sense. For some reason it is more difficult to understand that events do not necessarily cease to exist when we have stopped experiencing them, and those who would assert, as an equally obvious fact, that all things do not dissolve in time any more than they do in space are very rare. Frye. FS[1969].247 II Because it has not had to confront the problems raised by what we call the 'historical consciousness', philosophical thought in Islam moves in two counter yet complementary directions: issuing from the Origin (mabda'), and returning [ma'ad) to the Origin, issue and return both taking place in a vertical dimension. Forms are thought of as being in space rather than in time. Our thinkers perceive the world not as 'evolving' in a horizontal and rectilinear direction, but as ascending: the past is not behind us but 'beneath our feet'. From this axis stem the meanings of the divine Revelations [...]. Henry Corbin. History of Islamic Philosophy. Translated by Liadain Sherrard with the assistance of Philip Sherrard. London, 1993 [originally published as Histoire de la philosophie islamique. Paris, 1964 (p.18) &1986 (pp. 25-6) for the French.] *************************B. Todd Lawson, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Islamic Thought Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations University of Toronto Bancroft Hall 4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1 Canada Telephone +4169783080 http://toddlawson.ca --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:40:09 -0000 From: "Helena Barbas" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.559 why history? In-Reply-To: <20100111091413.1403B44BED@woodward.joyent.us> -From my literary bias I can recall two books: «What is History?» (1961) - E. Hallett Carr: «The belief in a hard core of historical facts existing objectively and independently of the interpretation of the historian is a preposterous fallacy, but one which it is very hard to eradicate» and «By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation.» Followed by the «Nouvelle Histoire» group, namely Paul Veyne - «Comment on écrit l'histoire: essai d'épistémologie» (1970) - roughly: «History is a narrative of events, and all the rest results from this fact.» and «History is a narration just like the novel, it selects, simplifies and reorganizes its events.» The resulting problematic is summarized in Peter Brooke's preface to «New Perspectives on Historical Writing» (1992) - http://www.kowa.euv-frankfurt-o.de/iba_european_history/iba_european_history_text_p_burke_new_history.PDF In spite of all this, it seems that history writing is till more useful (and serious) than just writing novels. Best regards Helena Barbas --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:17:12 -0500 From: "Rabkin, Eric" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.559 why history? In-Reply-To: <20100111091413.1403B44BED@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, in Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote," a fictional essayist analyzes a line from the fictional eponymous writer that begins "...truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor." The analysis that follows is, to me, paradigmatic of the way this great story problematizes knowledge. I found a pdf of it online at http://www.vahidnab.com/menard.pdf. Enjoy! Eric ---------------------------------------- Eric S. Rabkin Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Department of English University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003 www.umich.edu/~esrabkin --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:21:24 -0800 From: "Bleck, Bradley" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.559 why history? In-Reply-To: <20100111091413.1403B44BED@woodward.joyent.us> Not sure if this qualifies as strongly positive, or even about history, but In Nature, Emerson writes in the introduction that "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. [Hence, the connection to history that I'm seeing. BB] Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" It would seem that we can't have this original relationship without knowledge of the previous relationships, so, a call of sorts to understand the value of studying history. Bradley Bleck English Department Spokane Falls CC http://bleckblog.org http://biketoworkspokane.org --[8]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:14:41 -0500 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.559 why history? In-Reply-To: <20100111091413.1403B44BED@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, You might find this useful: http://www.historians.org/pubs/free/WhyStudyHistory.htm Best wishes, Sterling Fluharty On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 559. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:13:09 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: why history? > > I am looking for strongly positive statements about the value of > studying and writing history. I'd prefer something far more positive > than Santayana's “Those who ignore history are compelled unknowingly to > relive it”, from Reason in Common Sense (1905: 284), to counterbalance > Stephen Daedalus' “History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to > awake”, Ulysses I, and Karl Marx's "The tradition of all the dead > generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living [wie ein > Alp auf dem Gehirne der Lebenden],” The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis > Bonaparte (1852). > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 12 06:35:24 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C0524C98; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:35:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4DDAC24C8E; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:35:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100112063523.4DDAC24C8E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:35:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.561 more on the stylometry of Christie's dementia X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 561. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:33:21 -0800 From: "Dr. Katherine D. Harris" Subject: Using Digital Tools to Discover Author's Dementia In-Reply-To: <37b656b91001111130m4ac8449dleccd30d6eda3bf50@mail.gmail.com> [Here follows a second, somewhat different notice of the attention given to the Lancashire and Hirst project. --WM] Dear All, Here's an interesting tidbit about the use of digital tools to attribute dementia and Alzheimer's to Agatha Christie's later novels. This research has been circulating all over Canadian and British news outlets as well as through health organizations. The primary author's poster & paper are available here (scroll down some): http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ian/ *************** Did Agatha Christie, who wrote several dozen mystery novels during her 53-year career, suffer from Alzheimer's-related dementia? Though some of her biographers have suspected as much, actual evidence was advanced in March by a research team led by Ian Lancashire and Graeme Hirst, professors at the University of Toronto, in a paper called "Vocabulary Changes in Agatha Christie's Mysteries as an Indication of Dementia." The professors digitized 14 Christie novels (and included two more available in the Gutenberg online text archive), and then, with the aid of textual-analysis software, analyzed them for "vocabulary size and richness," an increase in repeated phrases (like "all sorts of") and an uptick in indefinite words ("anything," "something") — linguistic indicators of the cognitive deficits typical of Alzheimer's disease. The results were statistically significant; Christie's lexicon decreased with age, while both the number of vague words she employed and phrases she repeated increased. Her penultimate novel, "Elephants Can Remember," exhibits a "staggering drop in vocabulary" — of 31 percent — when compared with "Destination Unknown," a novel she wrote 18 years earlier. For Agatha Christie fans, the findings may be proof of a truth they have long recognized: the author's final two books, written in her early 80s, do not hold up against her earlier ones. Christie's body of work lends itself to such analysis because it spans the bulk of an adult life, from age 28, when Christie wrote her first novel, to age 82, when she wrote her last. Still, Hirst cautions, "the question is not early style versus late style, but the late style of someone who is elderly but healthy versus the late style of someone who is elderly but not cognitively healthy." To contextualize their evidence, Lancashire and Hirst plan to analyze the work of P.D. James, a still-healthy writer who has continued to publish into her 80s, as well as the writings of authors like Ross Macdonald who are known to have had Alzheimer's. AMANDA FORTINI http://www.nytimes.com/projects/magazine/ideas/2009/ ************************** Dr. Katherine D. Harris Editor, Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/ Assistant Professor Department of English & Comparative Literature San Jose State University One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192-0090 Email: katherine.harris@sjsu.edu Phone: 408.924.4475 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 12 06:36:01 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C94B24CF7; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:36:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BDB2124CE1; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:35:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100112063559.BDB2124CE1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:35:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.562 events: DH lecture series at TAMU X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 562. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:49:23 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: DH lecture series, Glasscock Center, Texas A&M The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research Texas A&M University Digital Humanities Lecture Series, Spring 2010 glasscock.tamu.edu/Programs_Activities/digitalhumanitieslectures.htm 16 February, Tuesday, 4 p.m. Evans Library, Room 204E Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College, London "The pasts, present and futures of the digital humanities" 26 February, Friday, 4 p.m. Geren Auditorium, Architecture Building Bernard Frischer, Professor of Art History and Classics, University of Virginia and Director of the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory "'Rome Reborn': A Case Study in Digital Documentation and Publication" -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 13 06:09:18 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD4145780; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:09:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1E1304576D; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:09:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100113060916.1E1304576D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:09:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.563 why history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 563. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (9) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.560 why history [2] From: John Lavagnino (13) Subject: Re: Why history? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:28:14 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.560 why history In-Reply-To: <20100112063256.E2C6524C14@woodward.joyent.us> >From Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript: "The historian seeks to reach the greatest possible certainty, and the historian is not in any contradiction, because he is not in passion; at most he has the research scholar's objective passion. As a research scholar, he belongs to a major endeavor from generation to generation; it is at all times objectively and scientifically important for him to come as close to certainty as possible, but it is not subjectively important to him." (p. 575, Hongs' translation, 1992) Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:09:34 +0000 From: John Lavagnino Subject: Re: Why history? In-Reply-To: <20100112063256.E2C6524C14@woodward.joyent.us> Carl Becker's "Everyman His Own Historian" is still worth reading: with its clever strategy of talking about how everybody is a historian: http://www.historians.org/info/AHA_history/clbecker.htm John -- Dr John Lavagnino Reader in Digital Humanities Centre for Computing in the Humanities and Department of English King's College London 26–29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL +44 20 7848 2453 www.lavagnino.org.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 13 06:13:18 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404AA4589B; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:13:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0563945889; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:13:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100113061317.0563945889@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:13:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.564 finding software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 564. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:49:57 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Finding Software On the subject of lists of tools: There are actually a number of places where you can discover tools. Others have sent links to some of the lists out there, mentioning for example DIRT. I have maintained a list of lists at: http://tada.mcmaster.ca/view/Main/TaAbout#Lists_of_Tools What strikes me, however, is how often I hear people calling for a definitive list of tools despite the existence of well maintained finding aides like intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk/) that everyone should know about. I want to propose that the problem is not what we think it is - that the perfect list of tools will not solve the problem of discovery and that we will find there are always more lists cropping up. Some possible reasons for saying this are: - The people who want to find tools don't know what they are called and those who create them don't know what to call them. A "Collocation" tool might be useful, but would someone new to humanities computing know it was what they wanted? For that matter, it isn't even clear that the word tool is right. - People always prefer to ask someone knowledgeable (or pose a question on HUMANIST) rather than find a resource and comb through it. Saves time and is more convivial. - Those who create lists do so for a purpose and then stop maintaining them (with a few exceptions that will cease to be maintained if not funded.) Most lists are therefore more about what someone wanted to keep track of at a particular time. - Those who create tools will contribute information to lists for a while and then get bored and stop maintaining the information. This is especially true when you have many lists you have to update every time your tool changes. - Tools off a list are fairly useless without a lot of context. Finding one on a list and adapting it to your needs is rarely how researchers do things. - What people want from a list is an absence. We want to show is that there isn't already the tool we imagined because that justifies the funding to build it. Too much information would spoil the fun. - The creation of lists is itself an interesting act worthy of study. The list has its own rhetorical structure and can be a tool for defining who/what is in and what is out. There will always be another list as long as there are ambitions. Best, Geoffrey Rockwell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 13 06:15:05 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 060CD45969; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:15:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E4F6345957; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:15:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100113061502.E4F6345957@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:15:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.565 events: linguistic annotation, mss encoding, mobility X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 565. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Julia Flanders (53) Subject: call for participation: TEI seminar on manuscript encoding [2] From: Charles Ess (74) Subject: CATaC'10 second CFP [3] From: Nianwen Xue (138) Subject: Call for Papers: the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW IV) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:17:26 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: call for participation: TEI seminar on manuscript encoding Applications are invited for participation in an advanced TEI seminar on manuscript encoding, being held at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, July 21-23, 2010, hosted by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. Application deadline is March 1, 2010. Participants will be notified by March 12. This seminar assumes a basic familiarity with TEI, and provide an opportunity to explore manuscript encoding topics in more detail, in a collaborative workshop setting. We will focus on the detailed challenges of encoding manuscript materials, including editorial, transcriptional, and interpretive issues and the methods of representing these in TEI markup. This seminar is part of a series funded by the NEH and conducted by the Brown University Women Writers Project. They are intended to provide a more in-depth look at specific encoding problems and topics for people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are in the process of planning one. Each event will include a mix of presentations, discussion, case studies using participants' projects, hands-on practice, and individual consultation. The seminars will be strongly project-based: participants will present their projects to the group, discuss specific challenges and encoding strategies, develop encoding specifications and documentation, and create encoded sample documents and templates. We encourage project teams and collaborative groups to apply, although individuals are also welcome. A basic knowledge of the TEI Guidelines and some prior experience with text encoding will be assumed. Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant. For more information and to apply, please visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/ . The rest of the seminar schedule is as follows: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Hosted by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities July 21-23, 2010 Application deadline: March 1, 2010 This workshop will focus on the encoding of manuscript materials. University at Buffalo Hosted by the Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo October 2010 (precise date TBA) Application deadline: May 17, 2010 This workshop will focus on the encoding of manuscript materials. University of Maryland January 2011 (precise date TBA) Application deadline: September 6, 2010 This workshop will focus on the encoding of contextual information. Brown University Hosted by the Center for Digital Scholarship April 28-30, 2011 Application deadline: December 1, 2010 This workshop will focus on the encoding of contextual information. Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Brown University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:39:46 +0100 From: Charles Ess Subject: CATaC'10 second CFP In-Reply-To: <20100112063559.BDB2124CE1@woodward.joyent.us> Dear HUMANISTs, It is with particular pleasure that I forward to you the second CFP for CATaC'10 - please distribute to potentially interested students and colleagues! - charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 == diffusion 2.0: computing, mobility, and the next generations On behalf of the Local and Program Chairs, and the CATaC Executive Committee, we are very pleased to announce the (second) Call for Papers for CATaC 2010, “Diffusion 2.0: Computing, mobility, and the next generations”. (Please see for further details regarding accommodations, venue, and more about visiting Vancouver.) PLEASE NOTE: extended submissions deadline - February 18th 2010. See the Submissions page http://blogs.ubc.ca/catac/submissions/ for dates, formatting requirements, and link to our OCS submissions site. VENUE: The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada DATES: 15-18 June 2010 CATaC 20’10 will feature keynote addresses by Dr Linc Kesler (First Nations Studies, The University of British Columbia) and Dr John Willinsky (Stanford University School of Education). The biennial CATaC conference series provides a premier international forum for current research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations and discussions, and in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference theme. Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values and practices) and short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results) are invited. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to: Mobile technologies in developing countries New layers of imaging and texting interactions fostering and/or threatening cultural diversity Theoretical and practical approaches to analyzing “culture” Impact of mobile technologies on privacy and surveillance Gender, sexuality and identity issues in social networks Cultural diversity in e-learning and/or m-learning Both short (3-5 pages) and long (10-15 pages) original papers are sought. See submissions for information about submitting papers and formatting guidelines. You may also purchase the conference proceedings from previous conferences by visiting the Proceedings page. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to welcoming you to Vancouver in 2010! Local Co-Chair: Leah Macfadyen (UBC) Local Co-Chair: Kenneth Reeder (UBC) Program Chair: Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna) Executive Committee: Lorna Heaton (Université de Montréal, Canada) Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo, Norway) Fay Sudweeks (Co-Chair, CATaC) Charles Ess (Co-Chair, CATaC) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:41:17 +0000 From: Nianwen Xue Subject: Call for Papers: the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW IV) In-Reply-To: <1280411680.492181263313742728.JavaMail.root@zimbra-store-4.unet.brandeis.edu> This message was originally submitted by xuen@BRANDEIS.EDU to the humanist list at LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the list, using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user support or consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it will be distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be removed automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your mail program. ---------------- Message requiring your approval (144 lines) ------------------ ********************* First Call for Papers ********************* The Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW IV) Held in conjunction with ACL-2010 Uppsala, Sweden 15-16 July 2010 http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~clp/LAW4 Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods for statistical natural language processing. The Fourth LAW will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including the creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, etc. As in the past, the LAW will serve as a venue for annotation researchers to work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability of annotation information and software. Specifically, the goals of this workshop include: (1) The exchange and propagation of research results with respect to the annotation, manipulation and exploitation of corpora, taking into account different applications and theoretical investigations in the field of language technology and research; (2) Working towards the harmonization and interoperability from the perspective of the increasingly large number of tools and frameworks that support the creation, instantiation, manipulation, querying, and exploitation of annotated resources; (3) Pushing the frontier of linguistic annotation and of human language technology by extending the range of linguistic phenomena for which reliable annotation techniques exist. (4) Working towards a consensus on all issues crucial to the advancement of the field of corpus annotation. We invite submissions of long papers and posters, and demonstrations relating to any aspect of the linguistic annotation. Long papers should reflect work in an advanced state, but posters may describe more preliminary work and pilot studies. Posters and proposals for a system demonstration are to be submitted in the form of a short paper. A demonstration proposal should provide an overview of the system to be demonstrated, including functionality, supported input/output formats or structures, supported languages and modalities, etc. Accepted proposals will also appear in the proceedings and are intended to provide background for the demonstration. Papers are invited to address issues in all aspects of linguistic annotation, including but not limited to: Annotation schemes: • New and innovative annotation schemes • Comparison of annotation schemes Annotation procedures: • Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation • Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated data Annotation software and frameworks: • Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation • Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks • Using games and “human computation” (e.g., Mechanical Turk) for annotation Annotation evaluation: • Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies • Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representation Annotation access and use: • Representation formats/structures for merged annotations of different phenomena, and means to explore/manipulate them • Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena Annotation guidelines and standards: • Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and documentation of annotation schemes • Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and languages The special themes for LAW IV are: • Demands on annotation for machine-learning purposes, such as the size and composition of annotated corpora, the granularity of the linguistic categories that are amenable to supervised machine learning • Annotation of text transcripts of informal modalities: spoken language, blogs, correspondence, etc. • Annotation of figurative language (metaphor, metonymy, etc.) Submissions --------------- Long paper submissions should not exceed 8 pages in length. Posters and demo descriptions should not exceed 4 pages. Format requirements are the same as for full papers of ACL 2010. See http://acl2010.org/authors.html for style files. Submission will be electronic, using the Workshop's submission webpage at START: https://www.softconf.com/acl2010/LAW/ Please indicate on the front page: - long paper, poster, or demonstration proposal; - all applicable paper categories from the following list (indicate multiple categories if appropriate): annotation frameworks and/or physical formats, annotation scheme design (on linguistic grounds), annotation tools and systems, corpus annotation, syntax, semantics, predicate-argument structure, morphology, anaphora, discourse, opinion/sentiment, annotation for machine learning, informal modalities, figurative languages; - language(s) your work applies to, as well as those you plan to handle in the future. If your work is language independent, indicate this as well; - any non-standard equipment needed for your paper or demonstration. All papers must be written and presented in English. Reviewing ------------- The reviewing of the papers will be blind. The paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-citations and other references (e.g. to projects, corpora, or software) that could reveal the author's identity should be avoided. For example, instead of "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", write "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Important Dates ------------------- Papers due: April 5, 2010 Acceptance/rejection notification: May 6, 2010 Camera-ready final version due: May 16, 2010 Workshop Dates: July 15-16, 2010 Organizers ------------- Nancy Ide (Vassar College) Adam Meyers (New York University) Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Antonio Pareja-Lora (SIC, UCM / OEG, UPM) Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies) Manfred Stede (Universität Potsdam) Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University) Program Committee ----------------- co-chairs: Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University) Massimo Poesio (University of Trento) Program committee Members: Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC/CNR) Steve Cassidy (Macquarie University) Tomaz Erjavec (Josef Stefan Institute) Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin) Alex Chengyu Fang (City University of Hong Kong) Chu‐Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Nancy Ide (Vassar College) Richard Johansson (University of Trento) Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) Sandra Kubler (Indiana University) Seth Kulick (University of Pennsylvania) Adam Meyers (New York University) Eleni Miltsakaki (University of Pennsylvania) Martha Palmer (University of Colorado) Antonio Pareja‐Lora (SIC, UCM / OEG, UPM) Rebecca J. Passonneau (Columbia University) Marta Recasens Potau (Universitat de Barcelona) Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies) Rashmi Prasad (University of Pennsylvania) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University) Arndt Riester (IMS Universität Stuttgart) Kepa Rodriguez (University of Trento) Anna Rumshisky (Brandeis University) Manfred Stede (Universität Potsdam) Marc Verhagen (Brandeis University) Theresa Wilson (University of Edinburgh) Andreas Witt (Universität Tübingen) ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 14 06:12:58 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48B1A46726; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:12:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5D62F46714; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:12:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100114061256.5D62F46714@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:12:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.566 finding software, or perhaps not X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 566. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:34:48 +0000 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.564 finding software In-Reply-To: <20100113061317.0563945889@woodward.joyent.us> At Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:13:17 +0000 (GMT), Geoffrey Rockwell wrote: > On the subject of lists of tools: > > There are actually a number of places where you can discover tools. > Others have sent links to some of the lists out there, mentioning for > example DIRT. I have maintained a list of lists at: > > http://tada.mcmaster.ca/view/Main/TaAbout#Lists_of_Tools > > What strikes me, however, is how often I hear people calling for a > definitive list of tools despite the existence of well maintained > finding aides like intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk/) that everyone > should know about. I want to propose that the problem is not what we > think it is - that the perfect list of tools will not solve the > problem of discovery and that we will find there are always more lists > cropping up. > It may also be the case that people don't really want tools at all. And that most tools that have been provided aren't up to the job. (Of course, someone will find an exception to this sweeping generalisation in a tool for their home discipline.) But I'm increasingly of the opinion that end user application style software is not really what scholars who are serious about exploring the possibilities of using technology to enhance their research or open new avenues of research require. Rather, I'm beginning to feel that a good grounding in programming, a simple, expressive language, and good provision of libraries for abstracting over data encodings and difficult algorithms required in each discipline will be much more conducive to interesting computational scholarship. The things that make computational scholarship interesting can't, I think, be packaged up in an end user application. Like scholarship conducted in any paradigm, computational scholarship is interesting and worthwhile when it's exploratory. But the restrictions of an end user application seriously stiffle any possibility for exploration. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +----------------------------------------------+ | Support open access to scholarship | | http://freeculture.org/ http://www.doaj.org/ | +----------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 14 06:14:44 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A9D24678F; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:14:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2F00346780; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:14:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100114061442.2F00346780@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:14:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.567 why history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0157132955==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============0157132955== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 567. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:09:48 -0500 From: "Geoffrey C. Bowker" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.563 why history Hi folks, I like this one from Braudel - it's pretty much as true today as it was 64 years ago: "Surely history need not simply be condemned to the study of well-walled gardens? If it is, will it not fail in one of its present tasks, of responding to the agonizing problems of the hour and of keeping in touch with the human sciences, which are at once so young and so imperialistic? Can there be any humanism at the present time, in 1946, without an ambitious history, conscious of its duties and its great powers? 'It is the fear of History, of history on the grand scale, which has killed History,' wrote Edmond Faral in 1942. May it be reborn!" pp. 4-5 of _On History_ by Fernand Braudel take care, geof Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 563. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: James Rovira (9) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.560 why history > > [2] From: John Lavagnino (13) > Subject: Re: Why history? > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:28:14 -0500 > From: James Rovira > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.560 why history > In-Reply-To: <20100112063256.E2C6524C14@woodward.joyent.us> > > > >From Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript: > > "The historian seeks to reach the greatest possible certainty, and the > historian is not in any contradiction, because he is not in passion; at most > he has the research scholar's objective passion. As a research scholar, he > belongs to a major endeavor from generation to generation; it is at all > times objectively and scientifically important for him to come as close to > certainty as possible, but it is not subjectively important to him." (p. > 575, Hongs' translation, 1992) > > Jim R > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:09:34 +0000 > From: John Lavagnino > Subject: Re: Why history? > In-Reply-To: <20100112063256.E2C6524C14@woodward.joyent.us> > > Carl Becker's "Everyman His Own Historian" is still worth reading: with > its clever strategy of talking about how everybody is a historian: > > http://www.historians.org/info/AHA_history/clbecker.htm > > John > > --Boundary_(ID_2OwyGyyRbT4o6adlmIBs7Q) Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Hi folks,

I like this one from Braudel - it's pretty much as true today as it was 64 years ago:

"Surely history need not simply be condemned to the study of well-walled gardens?  If it is, will it not fail in one of its present tasks, of responding to the agonizing problems of the hour and of keeping in touch with the human sciences, which are at once so young and so imperialistic?  Can there be any humanism at the present time, in 1946, without an ambitious history, conscious of its duties and its great powers?  'It is the fear of History, of history on the grand scale, which has killed History,' wrote Edmond Faral in 1942.  May it be reborn!"  pp. 4-5 of On History by Fernand Braudel



take care,

geof



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  [1]   From:    James Rovira <jamesrovira@gmail.com>                       (9)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.560 why history

  [2]   From:    John Lavagnino <John.Lavagnino@kcl.ac.uk>                 (13)
        Subject: Re: Why history?

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        Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:28:14 -0500
        From: James Rovira <jamesrovira@gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.560 why history
        In-Reply-To: <20100112063256.E2C6524C14@woodward.joyent.us>

>From Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript:

"The historian seeks to reach the greatest possible certainty, and the
historian is not in any contradiction, because he is not in passion; at most
he has the research scholar's objective passion.  As a research scholar, he
belongs to a major endeavor from generation to generation; it is at all
times objectively and scientifically important for him to come as close to
certainty as possible, but it is not subjectively important to him." (p.
575, Hongs' translation, 1992)

Jim R

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        Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:09:34 +0000
        From: John Lavagnino <John.Lavagnino@kcl.ac.uk>
        Subject: Re: Why history?
        In-Reply-To: <20100112063256.E2C6524C14@woodward.joyent.us>

Carl Becker's "Everyman His Own Historian" is still worth reading: with 
its clever strategy of talking about how everybody is a historian:

http://www.historians.org/info/AHA_history/clbecker.htm

John
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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:54:07 +0100 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF Call for Proposals for the European Collaborative Research Projects (ECRP) scheme in the Social Sciences The European Science Foundation has published a Call for Proposals for the European Collaborative Research Projects (ECRP) scheme in the Social Sciences. The responsive-mode ECRP scheme supports investigator-driven, international collaborative research in all fields of the social sciences in 19 countries in Europe. The Social Sciences Unit at the ESF would be pleased if you would circulate this announcement within your institution or among your personal or professional networks. ------ European Collaborative Research Projects (ECRP) in the Social Sciences Website: http://www.esf.org/ecrp Launch of call: 12 January 2010 Deadline for submission of proposals: 10 March 2010, 16.00 CET For general inquiries about the ECRP scheme, please contact: Ms. Sarah Moore, email: ecrp@esf.org The European Science Foundation (ESF) provides a platform for its Member Organisations to advance European research and explore new directions for research at the European level. Established in 1974 as an independent non-governmental organisation, the ESF currently serves 79 Member Organisations across 30 countries. 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia * BP 90015 67080 Strasbourg cedex * France Tel: +33 (0)3 88 76 71 00 * Fax: +33 (0)3 88 37 05 32 www.esf.org/social http://www.esf.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 15 08:40:27 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 117D746728; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:40:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 97F0D4669F; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:40:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100115084025.97F0D4669F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:40:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.569 finding software, or perhaps not X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 569. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alan Corre (29) Subject: Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 566 [2] From: Jockers Matthew (78) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.566 finding software, or perhaps not [3] From: Amanda Gailey (42) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.566 finding software, or perhaps not [4] From: Martin Mueller (46) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.566 finding software, or perhaps not --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:04:05 -0600 From: Alan Corre Subject: Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 566 In response to the comment of Richard Lewis: "The things that make computational scholarship interesting can't, I think, be packaged up in an end user application…" I should like to quote from the preface to my book *Icon Programming for Humanists* (1990): "The Icon programming language is a good choice for those whose main interest is the written word. It is structured so that it emphasizes proper programming principles, yet it does not carry the philosophy of structuring to the lengths of Pascal. It strikes a reasonable balance between structure and freedom, between being a disciplinarian like Pascal and an easygoing but perhaps overindulgent friend like SNOBOL-4, the unstructured ancestor of Icon. It has excellent facilities for handling strings of characters, which is the essence of this type of programming; flexible structures such as lists, tables, and sets; and useful built-in sort capabilities…All these features add up to making Icon the language of choice for humanistic programming." I have prepared an updated second edition of this book, including two entirely new chapters on employing Unicode and on the Text Encoding Initiative. New programs include examples in Russian, Tamil, and Hebrew to demonstrate its usefulness for non-Roman script languages. The manuscript has passed between me and the editor, Clinton Jeffery, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Idaho, several times, and the final redaction is now in his hands. It will initially appear as an e-book, and the price will be right, namely $0.00. You can get a peek at the cover at https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/corre/public/Humanist_Cover.jpg God willing, before the end of the year, you should be able to look inside. Alan D. Corre Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee USA --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:50:28 -0800 From: Jockers Matthew Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.566 finding software, or perhaps not In-Reply-To: <20100114061256.5D62F46714@woodward.joyent.us> Richard makes a number of very good points here. I wonder if our "tool-building" efforts have been a bit misdirected in favor of GUIs and web-based applications. We might learn from the NLP-oriented linguists, statisticians, and others (including even the Drupal community) who have moved in the direction of open-source solutions and user-contributed modules. Two such "tools" that I use daily include R (the stats package) and NLTK (the Python-based Natural Language Toolkit). Both R and NLTK are just programming languages for which a number of methods/functions/tools/packages have been developed to address the sorts of challenges those communities encounter. Many (perhaps most) of these methods/functions/tools/packages were developed not because some programmer thought to himself, "hmm, I bet the folks could use a ____ tool." But rather because some researcher needed to overcome a particular challenge in order to complete some research goal. Some modules in R and NLTK and other such "apps" are hardly ever used, others are bread and butter. Though I do send newbies to the wonderfully easy to understand projects such as Tapor, I find I require a more malleable workbench. Thoughts? -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:19:36 -0600 From: Amanda Gailey Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.566 finding software, or perhaps not In-Reply-To: <20100114061256.5D62F46714@woodward.joyent.us> Richard, I find your thoughts on this intriguing, and you articulate something that has given me pause about tool-building. Largely--with exceptions, of course--tool-building seems to benefit the builder more than the imagined end-users, who don't engage the materials as the builder did and don't have the cognitive benefit of working through the problem-solving process. (I think the same is true of text encoding.) In some ways these perhaps are not *tools* at all--repurposable implements like hammers--but performances, which other people can mimic in their own contexts but without the freshness, authenticity, excitement, or risk of the original. If all this is true, I don't know that it should diminish the place of tool-building within digital humanities, but ask us to think about it as a different kind of activity than how it is often cast. Amanda > It may also be the case that people don't really want tools at > all. And that most tools that have been provided aren't up to the > job. (Of course, someone will find an exception to this sweeping > generalisation in a tool for their home discipline.) > > But I'm increasingly of the opinion that end user application style > software is not really what scholars who are serious about exploring > the possibilities of using technology to enhance their research or > open new avenues of research require. Rather, I'm beginning to feel > that a good grounding in programming, a simple, expressive language, > and good provision of libraries for abstracting over data encodings > and difficult algorithms required in each discipline will be much more > conducive to interesting computational scholarship. > > The things that make computational scholarship interesting can't, I > think, be packaged up in an end user application. Like scholarship > conducted in any paradigm, computational scholarship is interesting > and worthwhile when it's exploratory. But the restrictions of an end > user application seriously stiffle any possibility for exploration. -- Amanda Gailey Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska 202 Andrews Hall Lincoln, NE 68588 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:53:21 -0600 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.566 finding software, or perhaps not In-Reply-To: <20100114061256.5D62F46714@woodward.joyent.us> > > > But I'm increasingly of the opinion that end user application style > software is not really what scholars who are serious about exploring > the possibilities of using technology to enhance their research or > open new avenues of research require. Rather, I'm beginning to feel > that a good grounding in programming, a simple, expressive language, > and good provision of libraries for abstracting over data encodings > and difficult algorithms required in each discipline will be much more > conducive to interesting computational scholarship. > > The things that make computational scholarship interesting can't, I > think, be packaged up in an end user application. Like scholarship > conducted in any paradigm, computational scholarship is interesting > and worthwhile when it's exploratory. But the restrictions of an end > user application seriously stiffle any possibility for exploration. > -- Richard Lewis' comment raises a central problem, even though his conclusion may be a little too pessimistic. I have from time to time warned about the Devil User-Friendly. It takes a little while to learn how to ride a bicycle, not to speak of learning how to play the violin. But people think that you should be able to perform all manner of complex computational operation by just pushing a button, or at most two. This is possible if the complex operations serve goals that have been previously and narrowly defined. But that is not what happens in research, where you constantly adjust your goals and methods as you go along. However gifted you are as an interface designer, you will never be able to anticipate all the things that users will want to do. Applications designed for business or entertainment can hone in on the half dozen most popular or useful operations and perfect them. But that is not a plausible model for research. On the other hand, Richard Lewis may state the opposition in somewhat too stark terms. In Ellen Ullman's splendid book 'Closer to Machine' there is a page where she contrasts Microsoft Word as a program that makes users stupid with Microsoft Excel as a program that encourages ingenious data exploration. You don't need to be a programmer to do interesting things with Excel, but you do need to think about your data, and more is involved than pushing buttons. There is not much software in the Humanities that operates at an Excel level. There is also very little work on maintaining and delivering data in formats that support post-processing and encourage users to pick up data manipulation skills that can be learned in days or fewer weeks than can be counted on the fingers of one hand. As a result, we live in an either-or world. On the one hand, there are the hackers, often with experience that stretches back into their teens and skill levels that are virtually impossible to replicate once you're twenty. Somewhere in this world there may be a person who started playing the piano at 20 and played the Appassionata at speed at 23. But there aren't too many of them. And it may be the same with programming skills. On the other hand, there are the users and the interface designers who believe that humanities computing operations must follow a 'thirty-second model': if it takes more than 30 seconds to formulate the commands for an operation or wait for its results, FORGET IT. Not much good will come from such an approach. Somewhere between these extremes is an 80/20 solution where you start from more realistic, i.e. higher expectations of what users need to bring to the table but also do your best to lower the time and expertise cost of working with digital data. I remember reading in some manual of the R language that performing a statistical operation is often simpler than wrangling the data into shape. But R the last time I looked at it didn't have a built-in or black box routine for importing Excel data -- a small but striking example of an unnecessary obstacle. So I agree with Richard Lewis that "the things that make computational scholarship interesting can't, I think, be packaged up in an end user application." But there are still a lot of things that can be done to lower the entry barriers for scholarly and exploratory analysis of primary humanities data in digital form. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 15 08:45:03 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9789946835; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:45:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4EFC946824; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:45:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100115084501.4EFC946824@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:45:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.570 why history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 570. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (21) Subject: Re: why history [2] From: "Brian A. Bremen" (105) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.567 why history --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:00:09 -0500 (EST) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: why history In-Reply-To: <20100114061442.2F00346780@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, History writing teaches us the gentle art of sorting. Or so one gathers from the concluding words from an interview with American poet Edward Sanders in New Letters, Volume 76, Number 1 I've learned, is that historians are not a violent group, but they're contentious. Each point in history can be debated. There's a fact blizzard, an unbelievable amount of facts in the timelines of history. There's an unbelievable number, trillions of factional units one can choose. Then your own taste and your own abilities, your own historical outlook, your own politics, your own ethics, your own set of what's right and wrong, your own beliefs about the goodness or badness of something, your upbringing, your belief in spirituality and the afterlife, your non-belief in spirituality and the afterlife, your education, and everything comes into play as you choose to pluck the heart of your verse with all those possible notes. So in writing my history, I reject a lot of stuff. I agonize about this stuff. You have to say no. Like when you're selecting poems for a book. You're always breaking the hearts of your poems, if they were alive, when you don't put them in a book. It's the same way with history. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:45:09 -0600 From: "Brian A. Bremen" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.567 why history In-Reply-To: <20100114061442.2F00346780@woodward.joyent.us> I can't believe I almost forgot my very favorite- Kenneth Burke's, "The Conversation of History": Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before. You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally's assistance. However, the discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress. Kenneth Burke, The Philosophy of Literary Form (1941) Cheers, Brian Brian A. 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This may include some database work and online development requiring more advanced web site coding (php, java mysql, javascript, JSP and CSS) -- Accurate coding of XHTML and CSS in a fast paced environment. -- Edits content of web pages. -- Creates unique content for web pages (various digital formats). -- Ensures design and content meet project requirements (mobile users, desktop users, browser compatibility, accessibility needs, etc) . -- Takes necessary steps to ensure that out-of-date web pages are updated or removed. Project Coordination (20%) -- Meeting with project leaders to determine project scope and its technical requirements -- Creating a technical project plan and timeline -- Keeping detailed notes on project meetings and tracking work/tasks -- Regular reporting to project leaders -- Identifying and initiating related project needs as they may arise. Support Work (10%) -- Provides training and subsequent support to those requiring assistance to access and update project data, their web sites, and access/use software applications related to their project. The position is based in Edmonton, Alberta. For further information regarding this position, please contact Mr. Rory McGreal at (780) 675-6821 or via email: rory@athabascau.ca Please view and apply for the position at the following URL: https://athabascau.hua.hrsmart.com/ats/js_job_details.php?reqid=3D612 -- Darren James Harkness webmaster@staticred.net "Ever Tried? Ever Failed? No Matter. Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better." 96 Samuel Beckett. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 15 08:49:08 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75B6C46924; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:49:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7B1394691A; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:49:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100115084907.7B1394691A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:49:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.572 new publication: Pelican Journal for January X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 572. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:15:04 -0500 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Pelican Journal of Sustainable Development - January 2010 Happy new year and happy new decade! Pelican Journal of Sustainable Development - January 2010 http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n01page1.html This issue is a directory of selected online resources on sustainable development and related issues. The directory is minimally annotated and compiles links to research and data resources under the following categories: 1. Population and Human Development 2. Cultural, Social, and Security Issues 3. Financial, Economic, and Political Issues 4. Ecological Resources and Ecosystem Services 5. Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy 6. Pollution, Climate Change, and Environmental Management 7. Land, Agriculture, Food Supply, and Water Supply 8. Current State of the Planet and Human Civilization 9. Transition from Consumerism to Sustainability This issue also includes a supplement: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n01supplement.html 1. Suggestions for Prayer, Study, and Action 2. Recent News, Publications, and Tools 3. Climate Interactive Scoreboard (Courtesy of the Climate Institute) 4. Carbon Dioxide Calculator (Courtesy of Carbonify and Michael Bloch) 5. Education for Sustainable Development 2009 Surveys 6. Catherine of Siena Virtual College (Winter Courses) 7. Open Source Framework for Sustainability 8. International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (WCC 2011) 9. The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic (Courtesy of Spirit Quest) Invited papers this month: Institutional Trappings, by Alan Fox http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n01page2alanfox.html Durable Economics, by Barry Brooks http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n01page3barrybrooks.html Bridging the Gulf: Education as Implementation, by Catherine King http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n01page4catherineking.html It Is Time for the Churches to Declare Jubilee, by Britt Johnston http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n01page5brittjohnston.html Sincerely, Luis Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D. The Pelican Web Editor, PelicanWeb Journal of Sustainable Development _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 15 08:50:44 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E1784699E; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:50:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E1CD446995; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:50:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100115085042.E1CD446995@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:50:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.573 events: inaugural lecture; summer seminar X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 573. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (20) Subject: inaugural lecture 2 February at King's College London [2] From: Sean Latham (40) Subject: NEH Summer Seminar: Magazine Modernism --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:38:17 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: inaugural lecture 2 February at King's College London Inaugural Lecture Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, 2 February, 17.00, Great Hall, Strand Campus, King's College London 'Attending from and to the Machine' Abstract Though a graybeard verging on his institutional retirement, I celebrate the role of computing in inaugurating investigations, my own and those of others, into what we do not know but are curious to find out. I celebrate computing as one of our most potent speculative instruments, for its enabling of competent hands to force us all to rethink what we trusted that we knew. Like generations of our wiser predecessors, I celebrate learning for its own sake, but by other means than they had. I celebrate our responsibilities to those whom we teach, not merely to prepare them for the world as it is but more to open up, with the help of computing, "the alternativeness of human possibility". -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:32:10 -0600 From: Sean Latham Subject: NEH Summer Seminar: Magazine Modernism Dear Humanist Discussion Members, Given the intersection with some aspects of the digital humanities, I thought this NEH seminar might be of some interest to the list¹s readers: I¹d like to invite you to consider applying for "Magazine Modernism", a Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The seminar will be directed by Sean Latham and hosted at the University of Tulsa from 12 July to 6 August 2010. This broad-ranging, interdisciplinary seminar will bring together modernist scholars and digital humanists to explore the emerging field of periodical studies. As a group, the seminar will explore the this vigorous new intellectual field that thrives both within and between the disciplines of literature, history, art, print culture, and sociology. At the same time, we will experiment with cutting-edge tools in the digital humanities. Throughout the seminar, you will have access to McFarlin Library¹s renowned Special Collections as well as the Modernist Journals Project, the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, and the James Joyce Quarterly. Drawing on these resources, you¹ll be able to pursue interdisciplinary research and pedagogical projects of your own choosing using a diverse array of primary print and digital materials. In intensive seminar sessions, we¹ll draw on one another¹s unique strengths while also working with the expert scholars, teachers, and archivists who will be on hand. By the seminar¹s end, you¹ll will emerge with new ideas for teaching and research on magazines and with a richer sense of modernism¹s rise in the English-speaking world. Information about the seminar (including a schedule of events and speakers) as well as eligibility requirements can be found online at http://www.utulsa.edu/jjq/MagazineSeminar/program.html . Participants will receive generous stipends designed to defray the costs of housing, travel, and research while in residence. For the first time, some slots in the seminar will be specifically set aside for graduate students whose research intersects with the seminar¹s topic. For more information or if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at . And please do share this message anyone you know who might be interested. The deadline for application is 2 March 2010. Regards, Sean Latham Professor of English Director, Modernist Journals Project Editor, James Joyce Quarterly University of Tulsa _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 17 09:42:42 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78FDC31777; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:42:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AC9CB31766; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:42:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100117094240.AC9CB31766@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:42:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.574 finding software, or perhaps not X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 574. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Brown (125) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.569 finding software, or perhaps not [2] From: Virginia Knight (27) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.564 finding software --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:06:01 -0500 From: Susan Brown Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.569 finding software, or perhaps not In-Reply-To: <20100115084025.97F0D4669F@woodward.joyent.us> I find this an extremely interesting thread, not least because I am just now teaching a graduate course in digital textuality, outside of a dedicated DH program, for the first time, and am faced with the question of how to get people who are keen and curious but for the most part untrained technically up and running with projects that will allow them to see the potential of DH tools for their future work. It's one thing to read about what others have done, and another to try something that connects with your own research and get some interesting results. I think that having tools that can help such people is essential, in order to help those who are " serious about exploring the possibilities of using technology" take the first step, and also for helping DH methods to push out further into the disciplines. No, these students won't be able to do the kinds of highly sophisticated analysis that someone like Matt can engage in, but I hope that they will leave the course excited about the possibilities and keen to learn more (including, perhaps, some programming), rather than discouraged at having encountered tools that are not--yes--user- friendly enough that students can, first of all, grasp them well enough to get them to work on their stuff and, secondly, transparent enough in how they work that the methodological implications can be grasped without a background in statistics. I don't think we want anything as stupid-making as MS Word, and I agree strongly with Martin that we need some software systems that have enough flexibility in terms of application and good enough interfaces that they really do offer people a way to get started without their having to take on faith that once they invest a year or two to learn some programming they will be able to use computers to aid in their research. What, after all, is the point of investing all that the time in standards-compliant digital materials if we are not aiming to make it possible for others to repurpose, for example, those lovely TEI-encoded texts to other ends? If we do not strive for this, we will leave the DH community isolated and its relevance always questionable from beyond that group of techies, because others will not have the chance to experience what computational techniques can do for their own inquiries. This would be a great pity both for DH and for the mainstream humanities disciplines. We need, as Martin suggests, to be aiming towards a spectrum of tools that would allow people to move from the simple ones that provide instant gratification but not a great deal of analysis, through those that require a little more investment of time and effort but that still seem doable from a novice perspective and that really do provide some serious analytical purchase, to those that require the kind of lengthy (and early?) training that the more cutting-edge work undoubtedly does. I think there will always be research trajectories that demand a lengthy process of training and practice similar to that of learning to play a musical instrument, but I think we should be working to provide a range of accessible and well-documented applications (I think of TAPoR recipes here) that help people move from making toast (30 seconds), to sauces, to (pace _Julie and Julia_) deboning a duck. cheers, Susan On 15-Jan-10, at 3:40 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:53:21 -0600 > From: Martin Mueller > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.566 finding software, or perhaps not > In-Reply-To: <20100114061256.5D62F46714@woodward.joyent.us> > - > > Richard Lewis' comment raises a central problem, even though his > conclusion may be a little too pessimistic. I have from time to time > warned about the Devil User-Friendly. It takes a little while to > learn how to ride a bicycle, not to speak of learning how to play > the violin. But people think that you should be able to perform all > manner of complex computational operation by just pushing a button, > or at most two. > > This is possible if the complex operations serve goals that have > been previously and narrowly defined. But that is not what happens > in research, where you constantly adjust your goals and methods as > you go along. However gifted you are as an interface designer, you > will never be able to anticipate all the things that users will want > to do. Applications designed for business or entertainment can hone > in on the half dozen most popular or useful operations and perfect > them. But that is not a plausible model for research. > > On the other hand, Richard Lewis may state the opposition in > somewhat too stark terms. In Ellen Ullman's splendid book 'Closer to > Machine' there is a page where she contrasts Microsoft Word as a > program that makes users stupid with Microsoft Excel as a program > that encourages ingenious data exploration. You don't need to be a > programmer to do interesting things with Excel, but you do need to > think about your data, and more is involved than pushing buttons. > > There is not much software in the Humanities that operates at an > Excel level. There is also very little work on maintaining and > delivering data in formats that support post-processing and > encourage users to pick up data manipulation skills that can be > learned in days or fewer weeks than can be counted on the fingers of > one hand. As a result, we live in an either-or world. > > On the one hand, there are the hackers, often with experience that > stretches back into their teens and skill levels that are virtually > impossible to replicate once you're twenty. Somewhere in this world > there may be a person who started playing the piano at 20 and played > the Appassionata at speed at 23. But there aren't too many of them. > And it may be the same with programming skills. > > On the other hand, there are the users and the interface designers > who believe that humanities computing operations must follow a > 'thirty-second model': if it takes more than 30 seconds to formulate > the commands for an operation or wait for its results, FORGET IT. > Not much good will come from such an approach. > > Somewhere between these extremes is an 80/20 solution where you > start from more realistic, i.e. higher expectations of what users > need to bring to the table but also do your best to lower the time > and expertise cost of working with digital data. I remember reading > in some manual of the R language that performing a statistical > operation is often simpler than wrangling the data into shape. But > R the last time I looked at it didn't have a built-in or black box > routine for importing Excel data -- a small but striking example of > an unnecessary obstacle. > > So I agree with Richard Lewis that "the things that make > computational scholarship interesting can't, I think, be packaged up > in an end user application." But there are still a lot of things > that can be done to lower the entry barriers for scholarly and > exploratory analysis of primary humanities data in digital form. __________________________________________________________ Susan Brown Professor, School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph Visiting Professor, English and Film Studies, University of Alberta sbrown@uoguelph.ca / susan.brown@ualberta.ca --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:31:27 +0000 From: Virginia Knight Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.564 finding software In-Reply-To: <20100113061317.0563945889@woodward.joyent.us> It's good to see an appreciative user of Intute drawing the list's attention to it. However, I'm sorry to say that JISC is cutting funding for Intute from August 2010. 'After this date, Intute will still be available but with minimal maintenance.' It is likely that certain parts of Intute such as the Virtual Training Suite will continue, but unless alternative funding is found there will be no further additions to the database of resources after that point. http://www.intute.ac.uk/blog/2009/12/16/jisc-announces-intute-funding-cut/ Virginia Knight ---------------------- Dr. Virginia Knight, Senior Technical Researcher Institute for Learning and Research Technology Tel: +44 (0)117 331 4369 Fax: +44 (0)117 331 4396 University of Bristol, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HH Virginia.Knight@bristol.ac.uk Official homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/aboutus/staff?search=cmvhk Personal homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~cmvhk/virginia.html ILRT homepage: http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 17 09:44:15 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F1AD31802; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:44:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 65472317FB; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:44:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100117094414.65472317FB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:44:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.575 why history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 575. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:46:46 -0500 From: Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1 Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.567 why history In-Reply-To: <20100114061442.2F00346780@woodward.joyent.us> Russell Jacoby in The Last Intellectuals (1987) makes a strong case that the post WWII expansion of the university in the U.S. killed much of any public intellectual life. An implication might be that once historiography was securely embedded in academia, it no longer required justification, such as any possible utility of historic consciousness. Is this the reason why what one would think would be the most important issue in historiography is largely ignored these days? So perhaps a cynical response to the original query is that a justification for the study of history is either no longer needed or is impossible. Does historiography come down to just showing and saying, to a narcistic establishing of one's relation to something else and an objectification of self? Not persuaded of this, I here offer a comment or two because there was not the outpouring of replies one would expect when the justification of what we do is brought into question. Am I to conclude from the thinness of this response that the question is best ignored? It seems difficult not to address it in Western (Eurocentric) terms, perhaps because the West couched the issue in such a contradictory way that it has remained problematic. For example, one might argue, following a hint of Georg Iggers, that the inheritance of the Enlightenment was a contradiction between a French (rationalist) conception of history and the German (historicist) conception. The former sees history as governed by necessity in the sense of a coherence or regularity, and so historic consciousness conveys knowledge of the necessities to which we must trim our sails. Santayana's aphorism about not forgetting the past presumes the historical process is governed by rules that should inform action in the present. Iggers nicely defines the "historicist" conception that prevailed in Germany until WWII, but it seems clear that behind it is the assumption that history is an emergent process rather than the closed system of the French conception. Here historical outcomes are the effect of contingencies rather than of the past, and so they cannot be explained by reference to rules or laws, but only intuited as something that transcends the determination of circumstance. It strikes me that neither pole can be defended on its own, and we must somehow transcend the Enlightenment conceptual contradiction. This is probably what is involved in the concern of contemporary science for the "explanation" of emergent processes. There is a hint in the literature that a reductionist explanation must include in the definition of an initial state non-local factors ("unobservables"). For example, Arthur Koestler's "holon" and David Bohm's "implicate order". A more recent example is Jaegon Kim's studies of the relation of mind and world. The usual approach in the social sciences has been a functionalist explanation, but people now tend to reject it as implicitly teleological. Another approach is the suggestion that historic consciousness refers to a way to see things as processes. For example, Theodor Schieder, "The Role of Historical Consciousness in Political Action", History and Theory 17 (1978), 1-18. Unfortunately, neither Schieder nor anyone else that I am aware of has provided a cogent argument as to just what this means. I made a very preliminary stab at it in _Critical Studies in History_ (http://sites.google.com/site/historytheory/02Brown120308.pdf). I have the feeling that historic consciousness is a project yet to be realized. Haines Brown Central Connecticut State University, Emeritus _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 17 09:44:35 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4DD431829; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:44:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8910531821; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:44:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100117094433.8910531821@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:44:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.576 lists and curating? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 576. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:09:31 -0500 (EST) From: Francois Lachance Subject: Lists and curating Willard, Geoffrey Rockwell recently invited us to consider the activity of list making. The question arose in the context of lists of software and the thread, as it often does, went off into the direction of the fabrication of tools. I would like to take up Geoffrey's invitation in the context of list making per se and argue that the humble list should be an important "genre" in the universe of scholarship. First allow me to begin via a tangent and to quote Aldous Huxley at the beginning of Heaven and Hell. He argues for the work of gathering which I take to be a species of list making (or vice versa). However lowly, the work of the collector must be done, before we can proceed to the higher scientific tasks of classification, analysis, experiment and theory making. I am reminded of the memes that circulate often among blogs, memes that call for the generation of lists. In observing such list creation behaviour one comes to understand a list as an itinerary. A list maker is in a sense a map maker. Huxley's is a fitting beginning to an essay about the transporting properties of art. As humble as it may be, list making is an exercise in judgement (choices are to be made) and it is also an exercise in communicating results (annotations aim to guide the reader of the list). Lists are not only generated by human beings they are also beasts of the machines that mine the WWW. In a saturated world of creativity lists can be tedious. They can also guide one to marvellous experiences. I leave you with one example (and in so doing begin a list) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAKAGMtZ6BM A mashup called "Meta presentation" posted to YouTube by someone going under the handle zzthex. It's a mashup of lectures given at UC Berkeley with as accompanying music Grace by Bobby McFerrin and Yo-Yo Ma. I found it by searching for "Robin Blaser" who is a poet featured in the mashup. Most importantly for the audience of Humanist is not that I wish to make the case for data mining YouTube but that judicious use of metadata allows neat stuff to be found. It's a lesson to impart with some exercises in list making. Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 17 09:47:38 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71311318D4; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:47:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2DAEA318CD; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:47:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100117094737.2DAEA318CD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:47:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.577 events: digital humanities at the ALA X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 577. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:41:45 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Digital Humanities at ALA midwinter meeting Come join the ACH at "Showcasing Digital Humanities", table 2628 in the vendor exhibits at the ALA [American Library Association] midwinter meeting! The exhibition starts in the evening on Friday, January 15, and runs through Monday, January 18 at the Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts. We'll be demonstrating projects and publications from a range of leading digital humanities centers and organizations including: Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska- Lincoln Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Indiana University Library MITH, University of Maryland NINES, University of Virginia Society of Architectural Historians University of Chicago University of North Carolina University Press of Virginia For a full list, please visit http://www.ach.org/ala2010.html If you're planning to be at ALA, please stop by and say hello! Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders President, ACH Director, Women Writers Project Brown University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 19 06:14:22 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C387C4669F; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:14:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 658284668E; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:14:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100119061420.658284668E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:14:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.578 tools and lists X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 578. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (28) Subject: teaching beginners [2] From: Sterling Fluharty (105) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.576 lists and curating? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:04:29 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: teaching beginners Like Susan Brown (in Humanist 23.574) I particularly favour very simple, off-the-shelf tools that give a beginner some insight into computing. For a number of years I have been teaching a course at MA-level called "Corpus-analysis of text". Almost all of the students I get are at or very close to beginner's level -- otherwise, as you'd expect, quite bright and sophisticated, but not adept with tools. The aim of this course is (borrowing a phrase from Ian Hacking) to "clear a space" for the literary computing by considering what nearby fields do with computers and text -- i.e. computer science (computational linguistics, natural language processing), lexicography and corpus linguistics -- then to ask what's not being done from a literary perspective that might be done. To get them started I have them use Michael Barlow's Monoconc, which any moderately intelligent person can learn in about 10 minutes. There's another reason I stick to the simplest of tools. It's not just that these beginners would be stumped by Perl or Python, say, it's that their attention would be diverted from the intersection of the literary problem with computing to tool-making itself. For them I want the struggle to be focused on that intersection and with a specific literary problem. I want them to get very frustrated with what elegant Monoconc cannot do. I want them not to be seduced by the problem-solving paradigm, which does so much damage to our cause. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:43:54 -0700 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.576 lists and curating? In-Reply-To: <20100117094433.8910531821@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I think listmaking captures our fascination because bibliography has almost become a lost art among humanists and information professionals. Perhaps we yearn with some nostalgia for the years before information overload when keeping tabs on citations within certain areas was much more manageable. With the impending arrival of the semantic web, I hope we will seize the opportunity to develop tools that can at least partially automate the process of constructing and updating lists within specific domains. And perhaps our professions will return once again to rewarding this valuable skill, albeit this time around it will be for scientific acumen as much as it is for artistic talent. Best wishes, Sterling Fluharty Sent from my iPhone On Jan 17, 2010, at 2:44 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 576. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:09:31 -0500 (EST) > From: Francois Lachance > Subject: Lists and curating > > > Willard, > > Geoffrey Rockwell recently invited us to consider the activity of list > making. The question arose in the context of lists of software and the > thread, as it often does, went off into the direction of the > fabrication of > tools. I would like to take up Geoffrey's invitation in the context > of list > making per se and argue that the humble list should be an important > "genre" > in the universe of scholarship. > > First allow me to begin via a tangent and to quote Aldous Huxley at > the > beginning of Heaven and Hell. He argues for the work of > gathering which I take > to be a species of list making (or vice versa). > > > However lowly, the work of the collector must be done, before we can > proceed to the higher scientific tasks of classification, analysis, > experiment and theory making. > > > I am reminded of the memes that circulate often among blogs, memes > that call > for the generation of lists. In observing such list creation > behaviour one > comes to understand a list as an itinerary. A list maker is in a > sense a map > maker. Huxley's is a fitting beginning to an essay about the > transporting > properties of art. > > As humble as it may be, list making is an exercise in judgement > (choices are > to be made) and it is also an exercise in communicating results > (annotations > aim to guide the reader of the list). Lists are not only generated > by human > beings they are also beasts of the machines that mine the WWW. > > In a saturated world of creativity lists can be tedious. They can > also guide > one to marvellous experiences. I leave you with one example (and in > so doing > begin a list) > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAKAGMtZ6BM > > A mashup called "Meta presentation" posted to YouTube by someone > going under > the handle zzthex. It's a mashup of lectures given at UC Berkeley > with as > accompanying music Grace by Bobby McFerrin and Yo-Yo Ma. I found it by > searching for "Robin Blaser" who is a poet featured in the mashup. > Most > importantly for the audience of Humanist is not that I wish to make > the case > for data mining YouTube but that judicious use of metadata allows > neat stuff > to be found. It's a lesson to impart with some exercises in list > making. > > Francois Lachance, > Scholar-at-large > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 19 06:15:55 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742244684A; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:15:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F261E46792; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:15:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100119061553.F261E46792@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:15:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.579 reminder: Zampolli nominations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 579. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:05:58 -0800 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: call for Zampolli nominations [reminder, 15 Feb deadline] Call for Nominations for the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize The Antonio Zampolli Prize is an award of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO). Now in its inaugural year, the prize will be given every three years to honour an outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. It is presented by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) on behalf of its constituent organizations: the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI). The prize is named in honour of the late Professor Antonio Zampolli (1937-2003), who was one of the founding members of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) in 1973, and ALLC President 1983-2003. He was a major figure in the development of literary and linguistic computing from the 1960s, and an enthusiastic supporter of the joint international conferences of ALLC and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), which were initiated in 1989. He was also a prime mover in the Text Encoding Initiative, both in the initial 11-year project, and in the establishment of the TEI Consortium. The Zampolli Prize is given to recognise a single outstanding output in the digital humanities by any scholar or scholars at any stage in their career. The output must involve the innovative use of information and communications technologies and may take the form of published research and/or the development of research-related tools or resources. The award will be made on the basis of the output's importance as a contribution to the digital humanities, taking into account the significance both of its use of information and communication technologies and of its actual or potential contribution to the advancement of humanities research. The first Antonio Zampolli Prize will be given at the Digital Humanities 2011 conference, which will be held at Stanford University. The Award Committee invites nominations for this award. Nominations may be made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing and neither nominee nor nominator need be a member of ACH, ALLC or SDH/SEMI. Nominators should give an account of the nominee's work and the reasons it is felt to be an outstanding contribution to the field. A list of bibliographic references to the nominee's work is required. Nominations should be sent no later than 15 February 2010, to the Chair of the Antonio Zampolli Prize Committee: Ray Siemens, siemens@uvic.ca University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Email submissions are preferred. Members of the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize Committee: Ray Siemens (Chair) Jean Anderson, Chuck Bush, Matt Jockers, Øyvind Eide Marilyn Deegan, Julia Flanders, Christian Vandendorpe John Nerbonne, Harold Short, John Walsh _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 19 06:16:49 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EB01469BD; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:16:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 381D1469AE; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:16:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100119061648.381D1469AE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:16:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.580 scholarships for DHSI 2010 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 580. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:18:02 -0800 From: Caroline Leitch Subject: 2010 Digital Humanities Summer Institute Tuition Scholarships [Please redistribute / please excuse cross-posting] *Tuition Scholarships for the 2010 Digital Humanities Summer Institute* University of Victoria, June 7-11, 2010 http://www.dhsi.org We are pleased to announce that funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and other partners, makes it possible for us to offer of a limited number of tuition scholarship spots in the 2010 Summer Institute. The scholarships are open to everyone and are awarded on the basis of need and merit; scholarships cover all tuition costs, with the exception of a small administration fee. The application form is available online at http://www.dhsi.org/home/scholarships. The application deadline for this year is February 14th, with news of scholarships returned no later than the end of February. Please note that scholarships are awarded on a rolling basis, to expedite travel planning and other arrangements, and there are a limited number of scholarship spots in each course. Please apply early as some courses are full already! *Additional ACH Travel Bursary* The Association for Computers and the Humanities (http://www.ach.org) is again offering several bursaries to assist graduate students in defraying travel and lodging costs. You may apply for this bursary at the same time as for DHSI scholarships by indicating on the scholarship application form that you are a graduate student member of the ACH and would like to be considered for the ACH bursary. *About the DHSI* The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies and how they are influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate students from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond. During the DHSI, we share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to our teaching, research, dissemination and preservation. *Courses for 2010* Introductory Courses: - Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application with Julia Flanders (Brown U) and Syd Bauman (Brown U) - Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application with Robin Davies (Vancouver Island U) and Michael Nixon (Vancouver Island U) Intermediate Courses: - Transcribing and Describing Primary Sources with Matthew Driscoll (Arnamagnaean Institute, Copenhagen) - Multimedia: Design for Visual, Auditory, and Interactive Electronic Environments - with Aimee Morrison (U Waterloo) - Online Journal Publishing Using PKP's Open Journals System (OJS) - with Alec Smecher and James MacGregor (PKP Staff) - SEASR in Action: Data Analytics for Humanities Scholars with Loretta Auvil (NCSA, UIUC) and Boris Capitanu (NCSA, UIUC) - Geographical Information Systems in the Digital Humanities with Ian Gregory (Lancaster U) Advanced Consultations: - Issues in Large Project Planning and Management with Lynne Siemens (U Victoria) - Out-of-the-Box Text Analysis for the Digital Humanities with David Hoover (NYU) - Scaling Digital Humanities, in Discipline and Interdiscipline with Ray Siemens (U Victoria) *Institute Lectures (to be confirmed)* - Susan Brown (U Guelph/U Alberta) - Ken Coates (U Waterloo) - Stéfan Sinclair (McMaster) - John Unsworth (UIUC) - Kay Walter (CDRH, U Nebraska-Lincoln) *Registration Fees* Early registration fees for the institute are $500 CDN for students and $950 CDN for non-students. After April 1, 2010, fees will be $575 CDN (student) and $1250 CDN (non-student). The SSHRC tuition scholarship covers this fee minus a small administration fee ($100 for students / $175 for non-students). *Host and Sponsors* Now in its ninth year of operation, the institute takes place on the University of Victoria campus, and 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 , College of Arts, University of Guelph, the Editing Modernism in Canada project, the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Image, Text, Sound and Technology Program, and others. For more information, please visit http://www.dhsi.org. You can contact Ray Siemens (Director) and Cara Leitch (Assistant Director) at institut@uvic.ca. -- Cara Leitch Assistant Director, DHSI University of Victoria Victoria BC Canada cmleitch@uvic.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 19 06:25:48 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C388B46EF8; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:25:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 710CA46EE8; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:25:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100119062546.710CA46EE8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:25:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.581 news from Australia X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 581. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:59:04 +1100 From: Paul Eggert Subject: news from Australia News from Australia: 1. The Book Logic conference linked below: 19-20 March 20102 in Sydney: http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/hass/conferences/book_logic.html 2. Recent appointments in digital humanities: The digital hums area seems to be growing: a new senior lectureship at the ANU is advertised: half research position, and a recent chair on digital history at Uni of Queensland (Paul Turnbull). 3. Also a new vol from Sydney UP called /Resourceful Reading/, ed. Robert Dixon and Katherine Bode (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2010) Paul Eggert FAHA | Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow | School of Humanities & Social Sciences | University of New South Wales at ADFA | Canberra ACT 2600 | AUSTRALIA | +61 (0)2 6268 8900 +61 (0)2 6268 8879 (fax) http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/ASEC p.eggert@adfa.edu.au The website for the Book Logic master class and conference (19-20 March 2010 in Sydney) is at http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/hass/conferences/book_logic.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 19 06:26:36 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E351147079; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:26:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 17B954704D; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:26:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100119062635.17B954704D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:26:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.582 events: mobility, design X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 582. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jose Abdelnour-Nocera (62) Subject: cfp: IWIPS Growing Global Design Communities - London 2010 [2] From: "sudweeks@murdoch.edu.au" (42) Subject: Call for Papers - CATaC'10 - Vancouver, Canada --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:32:35 +0000 From: Jose Abdelnour-Nocera Subject: cfp: IWIPS Growing Global Design Communities - London 2010 9th International Workshop of Internationalisation of Products and Systems www.iwips2010.org London, England, 7 - 10 July 2010 to be held in Thames Valley University. IWIPS 2010 committee is seeking submissions on the topics of localization and globalization, with an emphasis on this year's theme: Growing Global Design Communities. The objective of the 2010 theme is to focus on the impact of international design teams on the design, evaluation, and development of products and systems.  IWIPS invites several types of submissions, including papers, case studies, research-in-progress and tutorials.  All submissions are due 15 February 2010, unless indicated otherwise. Accepted submissions (except tutorials) will be published in the IWIPS 2010 proceedings. Suggested Topics for Submissions As the world's economy recovers from the downturn, the need increases for effective, efficient, and socially responsible strategies for supporting global design communities. Strategies that address both business and human issues are of great importance. Topics of interest for IWIPS 2010 include, but are not limited to the following: Cross-cultural issues in IT design User centric strategies for economic and community development IT projects Revised models for global IT off-shoring, outsourcing and distributed resources Sociotechnical design and evaluation frameworks Methods for software localization / globalization Designing for trust Dealing with intercultural issues in participatory design The impact of Social Networks and other CMC tools across cultural boundaries Interactions between culture and user-centred design Managing geographically dispersed  multicultural design communities Localising usability evaluation and requirements gathering techniques Submission Types Papers - Papers are formal reports of completed research, organized on amodified APA model. The length of the paper should be no more than 10 pages in the proceedings format. Case Studies - Case studies are structured descriptions of the lessons learned in applied design, evaluation, or development of products or systems within industry. The length of case studies should be between 4 to 8 pages in the proceedings format. Research-in-Progress - Research-in-Progress briefs should provide a description of the background, procedures and methodology, anticipated results, and preliminary findings (if any) of ongoing research or applied product design, evaluation or development. The length of the Research-in-Progress brief should be 6 to 10 pages in the proceedings format. (Graduate students are encouraged to submit a brief based on their theses or dissertations.) Tutorials - A tutorial is a comprehensive delivery, in an interactive and applied style of a core set of internationalisation or localisation skills methodologies or procedures. Tutorials should be interactive and applied in the nature of their delivery. Initial proposals should be 3 to 5 pages in length and do not have to be submitted in the proceedings format. The final submission will be between 15 to 30 pages, in the proceedings format, due on 15th of April 2010. Important Dates Papers, case studies, and research-in-progress briefs Submission deadline 15 February 2010 Notification to authors 15 March 2010 Camera ready copies of papers 5 April 2010 Tutorials Initial proposal 15 January 2010 Final submissions 15 April 2010 More info on http://www.iwips2010.org/calls.html --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:46:44 +0000 From: "sudweeks@murdoch.edu.au" Subject: Call for Papers - CATaC'10 - Vancouver, Canada CATaC'10 CALL FOR PAPERS "Diffusion 2.0: Computing, mobility, and the next generations" Papers due 18 February 2010 On behalf of the Local and Program Chairs, and the CATaC Executive Committee, we are very pleased to announce the (second) Call for Papers for CATaC 2010: "Diffusion 2.0: Computing, mobility, and the next generations". (Please see www.catacconference.org for further details regarding accommodation, venue, and more about visiting Vancouver.) PLEASE NOTE: extended submissions deadline - 18 February 2010. See the Submissions page http://blogs.ubc.ca/catac/submissions for dates, formatting requirements, and link to our OCS submissions site. Both short (3-5 pages) and long (10-15 pages) original papers are sought. VENUE: The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada DATES: 15-18 June 2010 CATaC 2010 will feature keynote addresses by Dr Linc Kesler (First Nations Studies, The University of British Columbia) and Dr John Willinsky (Stanford University School of Education). The biennial CATaC conference series provides a premier international forum for current research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations and discussions, and in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference theme. Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values and practices) and short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results) are invited. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to: - Mobile technologies in developing countries - New layers of imaging and texting interactions fostering and/or threatening cultural diversity - Theoretical and practical approaches to analyzing “culture” - Impact of mobile technologies on privacy and surveillance Gender, sexuality and identity issues in social networks - Cultural diversity in e-learning and/or m-learning You may also purchase the conference proceedings from previous conferences by visiting the Proceedings page. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to welcoming you to Vancouver in 2010! Local Co-Chair: Leah Macfadyen (UBC) Local Co-Chair: Kenneth Reeder (UBC) Program Chair: Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna) Executive Committee: Lorna Heaton (University of Montreal, Canada) and Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo, Norway) Fay Sudweeks (Co-Chair, CATaC) and Charles Ess (Co-Chair, CATaC) ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 20 06:16:45 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62689478BA; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:16:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B4906478AE; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:16:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100120061643.B4906478AE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:16:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.583 why history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 583. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:47:56 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.570 why history In-Reply-To: <20100115084501.4EFC946824@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, What about T.S. Eliot: Some one said: "The dead writers are remote from us because we *know* so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know. From "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1922). Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 20 06:17:07 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47DB647954; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:17:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8928847945; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:17:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100120061706.8928847945@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:17:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.584 Irish postdocs X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 584. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:51:03 +0000 From: "John G. Keating" Subject: IRCHSS Fellowships Colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to The Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) 2010-2011 Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowships and the European Commission co-funded Government of Ireland CARA Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowships. There are three types of fellowship available, including a CARA mobility fellowship which involves spending a two-year research period in an non-Irish HEI and the third year in an Irish HEI. To be eligible to apply to the scheme, applicants must have been awarded their doctoral degree within the five-year period before 31 January 2010 (viva date not graduation date, exceptions include verified maternity or illness leave). The closing date is 19th February 2010. Full details are available here: http://www.irchss.ie/schemes/scheme02/index.html Fellowships must be held at a recognised higher education institution in the Republic of Ireland. An Foras Feasa (at National University of Ireland Maynooth)would be pleased to host and mentor successful Postdoctoral Fellows availing of these schemes. Furthermore, we would be pleased to assist prospective applicants with application preparation. AFF develops theoretical and practical components necessary for successful digital library and digital archival projects. Projects typically aim to create preservation-quality Digital Humanities objects to support further Humanities research and can include manuscript studies, high-resolution and hyperspectral scanning, data modeling, XML encoding, repository building, software engineering and development, RDMS, and theoretical contextualisation. AFF's Digital Imaging Laboratory is central to its activities in preservation, conservation and digitisation of historical documents and material culture objects. We have secured advanced imaging equipment which is housed in a purpose-built imaging laboratory. In 2010 the laboratory will relocate to a high-specification climate controlled facility (27.62 sq metres) in a new Humanities and Social Science building (to be completed in mid-2010). Currently the laboratory contains the following imaging equipment and accompanying computing facilities: Digital Imaging Equipment, Large Object High Resolution Imaging Unit (32 Megapixel), Macrophotography High Resolution Imaging, Hyperspectral Scanner (Reflectance), Hyperspectral Scanner (Florescence), Portable High Resolution Imaging Unit (32 Megapixel), Rexan III Portable 3D Scanner, Geomagic Software Suite (complete). The institute is particularly interested in supporting postdoctoral studies in the following areas, and has the experience, infrastructural and intellectual capabilities to contribute to collaborative projects: (i) Fedora Commons, DSpace and DuraSpace, Repository design, construction and management; (ii) Digital Object and associated Metadata design, generation and management; (iii) Preservation Quality Image acquisition, including Hyperspectral imaging; (iv) Design and development of novel chaos-based Digital Watermarking of image and audiovisual material; (v) XML Mark-up of digital objects for inclusion in digital libraries, for example, historical texts, audiovisual material; (vi) Software development, Software Engineering for Humanities and Digital Libraries; (vii) Data modeling for Humanities and Digital Libraries research and development; (vii) Virtual Learning and Collaborative Writing Environments leveraging digital objects. Please email me (john.keating@nuim.ie) if you are interested in applying for an IRCHSS fellowship to be hosted at An Foras Feasa. Best wishes, John. ------ 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@nuim.ie Tel: +353 1 708 3854 FAX: +353 1 708 4797 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 20 06:17:34 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 293B847990; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:17:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 064034797A; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:17:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100120061732.064034797A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:17:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.585 D-Lib for January/February X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 585. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:20:35 +0000 From: Larry Lannom Subject: The January/February 2010 issue of D-LibMagazine is now available Greetings: The January/February 2010 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains eight articles, two conference reports, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features The Swingle Plant Anatomy Reference Collection, a historical collection of plant anatomical microscope slides, courtesy of University of Miami Libraries. The Articles are: Digital Object Repository Server: A Component of the Digital Object Architecture by Sean Reilly and Robert Tupelo-Schneck, Corporation for National Research Initiatives http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-reilly Technologies Employed to Control Access to or Use of Digital Cultural Collections: Controlled Online Collections by Kristin R. Eschenfelder, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Grace Agnew, Rutgers University http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-eschenfelder The Use of Metadata for Educational Resources in Digital Repositories: Practices and Perspectives by Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos, Andreas D. Alexopoulos, Georgia D. Solomou, and Theodore S. Papatheodorou, University of Patras http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-koutsomitropoulos RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use by Diane Hillmann, Information Institute of Syracuse, Metadata Management Associates; Karen Coyle, kcoyle.net; Jon Phipps, JES & Co., Metadata Management Associates; Gordon Dunsire, University of Strathclyde http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-hillmann D-Lib Magazine: Its First 13 Years by Taemin Kim Park, Indiana University Libraries http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-park Tagging Full Text Searchable Articles: An Overview of Social Tagging Activity in Historic Australian Newspapers August 2008 - August 2009 by Rose Holley, Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP), National Library of Australia http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-holley FERPA and Student Work: Considerations for Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Marisa Ramirez, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo and Gail McMillan, Virginia Tech http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-ramirez The Virtual Journals of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics by Richard H. Cyburt, Sam M. Austin, Timothy C. Beers, Alfredo Estrade, Ryan M. Ferguson, Alexander Sakharuk, Hendrik Schatz, Karl Smith, and Scott Warren, Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA) http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-cyburt The Conference and Workshop Reports are: e-Science for Musicology Workshop Report by Richard Lewis, Goldsmiths College, University of London http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-lewis Cloud Computing, Big Data, and Open Access at EDUCAUSE 2009 by Carol Minton Morris, DuraSpace and Cornell University http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-morris D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the January/February 2010 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. There is a delay between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Laurence Lannom Editor-in-Chief D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 20 06:18:45 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FCFD47A48; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:18:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5FAD547A38; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:18:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100120061844.5FAD547A38@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:18:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.586 cfp: Balisage 2010 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 586. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:43:24 -0500 From: Balisage Conference Information Subject: Balisage 2010 Call for Participation Call for Participation Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010 Got Markup? (of course you do!) Want to get more out of it? Want to stretch it to the limit? Come to Balisage 2010, the peer-reviewed conference that makes you a markup geek (or at least feel like one)! Whether you're into theory or practice, this is the place to be to find out where the cutting edge is-and go beyond it. Balisage looks at every aspect of markup, from its theoretical and philosophical underpinnings to the newest and coolest ways of applying it to real-world problems. Got Something To Say About Markup? (of course you do!) We want to hear from you at Balisage 2010. We welcome submissions on any aspect of markup and structured information in theory or practice, generic or application specific, including by not limited to: * principles for the design, development, and documentation of markup vocabularies * applications of XML, Topic Maps, and related specifications * use or implementation of XSLT, XQuery, XProc, and other tools for processing marked up data * XML and databases * libraries and designs for supporting XML (or other forms of descriptive markup) in general-purpose programming languages * efficiency in XML processing * techniques for quality assurance in markup systems * handling overlapping structures in markup * alternatives to XML * formal models of markup and structured information * principles and practice of data validation (including uses of XSD, Relax NG, Schematron, and other schema languages) * best practice in the organization of XML workflows * problems of data longevity and reusability * fundamental principles of information structure and organization * achieving interoperability in applications of common vocabularies How: Submit full papers in XML to info@balisage.net Guidelines, DTDs, schemas, and details at http://www.balisage.net/submissions.html Apply to the Peer Review panel http://www.balisage.net/peer/ReviewAppForm.html More Information: Read about Balisage: http://www.balisage.net Sign up for the Markup conference announcement list: http://www.balisage.net/MarkupAnnounce.html Follow Balisage on Twitter: http://twitter.com/balisage Schedule: 19 March 2010 - Peer review applications due 16 April 2010 - Paper submissions due 16 April 2010 - Applications due for student support awards 20 May 2010 - Speakers notified 9 July 2010 - Final papers due 2 August 2010 - Pre-conference Symposium 3-6 August 2010 - Balisage: The Markup Conference Help make Balisage your favorite XML Conference. See you in Montréal! -- ========================================================= Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010 mailto:info@balisage.net August 3-6, 2010 http://www.balisage.net pre-conference symposium: August 2, 2010 Montreal, Canada ========================================================= _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 23 09:34:31 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 371E048CF6; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:34:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AB37548CDD; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:34:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100123093429.AB37548CDD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:34:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.587 the case against digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 587. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:33:33 -0500 From: "Vallee, Jean-Francois" Subject: The case against digital humanities Another view of digital humanities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VREJV--VHSw _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 23 09:35:40 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A1D448D5A; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:35:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7827348D47; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:35:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100123093539.7827348D47@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:35:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.588 postdocs X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 588. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alan Galey (54) Subject: INKE Postdoctoral Fellowship: History and Future of the Book [2] From: Bill Kapralos (91) Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] Post-doctoral Fellowship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:26:32 -0500 From: Alan Galey Subject: INKE Postdoctoral Fellowship: History and Future of the Book Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in the History and Future of the Book (2010-11, renewable) The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project, funded by a Major Collaborative Research Initiative grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), seeks a post-doctoral fellow in the History and Future of the Book, with expertise in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities. This position is based in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, in partnership with the Jackman Humanities Institute. The successful candidate is anticipated to work closely with team members at U Toronto, Acadia U, U Saskatchewan, U Victoria, U Western Ontario, and beyond. The postdoctoral fellow will work with digital manifestations of historical textual features, collaborating with INKE’s Textual Studies team and others, consulting with project stakeholders and potential stakeholders, and liaising with other INKE researchers located in North America and the UK. The fellow will be expected teach a light course load in the Faculty of Information and the collaborative program in Book History and Print Culture, to be remunerated in addition to the fellowship’s salary. The successful candidate will have skills and aptitudes in humanities-oriented research, textual studies and book history/bibliography, including training or demonstrated experience working with a variety of digital humanities resources, including digital archives, scholarly editions, journals and monographs, and text analysis and visualization tools. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset. The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. Examples of technologies employed in INKE projects are as follows: TEI P5 ; XML, XSLT, XSL and XHTML encoding; XQuery; eXist XML databases; JavaScript; and Ruby on Rails. Experience in some or all technologies in use in INKE-related projects and similar areas would be an asset, but is not a requirement, though hands-on aptitude with -- as distinct from merely interest in -- digital tools is required. Our current team members pride themselves on a passionate interest in both the humanities and their computational engagement. Our ideal candidate is someone with similar passions who can introduce the team to new ideas and provide new perspectives on existing digital humanities issues. The salary for this position is competitive in the Canadian context, and is governed in part by SSHRC practices. Applications comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees may be sent electronically to inke.ischool@utoronto.ca. The contract can begin as early as 1 September 2010; it is for a one-year term, with the possibility of renewal. The position is subject to budgetary approval. Interviews may be conducted via Skype, or in person at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Montréal), the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Victoria), and other venues at which INKE team members are present. Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled. http://www.inke.ca http://ischool.utoronto.ca http://humanities.utoronto.ca http://bookhistory.fis.utoronto.ca --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:51:18 +0000 From: Bill Kapralos Subject: Post-doctoral Fellowship The Interactive Systems Research Group in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Play:CES studio in the Faculty of Education at York University, Toronto, Ontario are seeking applicants for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Computer Science and Engineering, beginning as soon as February 1, 2010 and ending April 1, 2011. The applicant will join an interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Jen Jenson, Faculty of Education at York University and will be co-supervised by Dr. Jenson and Dr. Wolfgang Stuerzlinger. In the collaborative project, the applicant will participate in a major role in an intensive work for theorizing and implementing innovative software development projects, relating both to digital game development and qualitative research. These include, primarily, a multi-media database for use by researchers, for uploading, synchronizing and analyzing multiple strands of qualitative and quantitative research data (including sound, video, text transcripts, and surveys) for a research project on Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) players and communities. Other potential projects include educational game development for either the iPhone/iPod Touch and/or Flash. Applicants must have finished or be demonstrably close to finishing a relevant PhD. Fluency in both written and spoken English is necessary. The successful applicant should have extensive experience with web development and on-line database systems. A proven track record that demonstrates high-quality work is necessary. Familiarity and/or fluency with some tools for digital game development on hand-held devices or WWW pages is also desired. Competency with game tool and knowledge of/enthusiasm for independent, casual, small-scale games and game development is a bonus. Please send a brief letter of application, including a curriculum vitae, and digital portfolio (in PDF format or as WWW links) to Wolfgang Stuerzlinger . Three reference letters should be sent independently to the same address. We will begin reviewing applications immediately. The Interactive Systems Research Group is a rich community of students, researchers, and faculty investigating many aspects of Human Computer Interaction, 3D User Interfaces and Virtual Reality in Toronto. The group is one of the largest Human-Computer Interaction research groups in Canada. It is based within the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and has established connections with many other disciplines at York, including the world-renowned Centre for Vision Research, which also hosts the strongest Virtual Reality research group in Canada. This forms an ideal environment for young researchers. http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~isrg The Play:CES studio in the Faculty of Education has produced over 10 play-based educational software resources. These include “Ethics and Legal Studies in Education”, an online tutorial for teachers-in-training to learn the ethical and legal issues facing classroom teachers; “Contagion”, a health-related adventure game, for which we developed one of the first isometric game engines for Flash; and, more recently, “Quest for the Arundo Donax: A Baroque Adventure”, a game commissioned by the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra to teach music and culture through historically-themed rhythm and music mini-games. The studio is also home to a number of qualitative research projects that explore the intersections of digital play, education (both formal and informal), and issues around gender and identity. http://edu.apps01.yorku.ca/profiles/main/jenson-jennifer ------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Kapralos, Ph.D Assistant Professor Faculty of Business and Information Technology University of Ontario Institute of Technology 2000 Simcoe Street North Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. L1H 7K4 Phone: 905-721-8668 x2882 Fax: 905-721-3167 bill.kapralos@uoit.ca http://faculty.uoit.ca/kapralos FuturePlay @ GDC Canada 2009 http://futureplay.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 23 09:36:59 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB5148EA1; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:36:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6CD6048E98; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:36:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100123093658.6CD6048E98@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:36:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.589 computing and thinking X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 589. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Wendell Piez (21) Subject: Chess, the machine and the mind [2] From: Willard McCarty (11) Subject: computational thinking --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:43:19 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Chess, the machine and the mind Dear Willard, Here's an engaging and thoughtful essay that reflects on many of the issues of interest to HUMANIST: The Chess Master and the Computer By Garry Kasparov Review of Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind by Diego Rasskin-Gutman, translated from the Spanish by Deborah Klosky MIT Press, 205 pp., $24.95 New York Review of Books (57 no. 2, Feb 11 2010) http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23592 Cheers, Wendell ======================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:04:27 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: computational thinking Many here will be interested in a new publication of the U.S. National Academies Press, Report of a Workshop on the Scope and Nature of Computational Thinking, ISBN: 0-309-14958-4. It is available freely by download from www.nap.edu/catalog/12840.html. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 23 09:44:42 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DF74892A; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:44:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F0B9848919; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:44:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100123094440.F0B9848919@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:44:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.590 events too various for brief summary X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 590. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (65) Subject: International Meeting on Graphic Archaeology and Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation [2] From: "Engel, Maureen" (113) Subject: CeCL2010 - Call for Proposals [3] From: Dominic Forest (123) Subject: DEFT 2010 - Appel à participation [4] From: Sara Schmidt (63) Subject: Re: JCDL 2010 paper submission deadline extended to February 1st [5] From: Marian Dworaczek (9) Subject: Library Related Conferences --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:12:46 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: International Meeting on Graphic Archaeology and Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation *2nd. International Meeting on Graphic Archaeology and Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation* * **ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0* http://www.arqueologiavirtual.com Cultural Center of Villa, La Rinconada Roman City of Itálica 16-19 June 2009 Seville. Spain On behalf of the Organisation Comittee of the **2nd International Meeting on Graphic Archaeology and Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0,** it is a pleasure to invite colleagues from all over the World to come to La Rinconada, Seville, Spain, from 16th to 19th June, 2010. This will be the second International meeting held in Spain, where researchers from Archaeology and Graphics fields will work together on Virtual Archaeology, concerning all its posibilities. The participation of well-known researchers on this field will shape a very interesting meeting. *ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0* will analize both the present and future of reconstruction and computer aided render techniques, applied to archaeological heritage and culture. The main aim is to offer an updated overview about the Archeology of XXI Century: research and development on virtual archaeology, performed and planned projects, new render techniques, development of innovative methods and procedures. Besides, it is also important to provide both the scientific community and the related companies with a suitable meeting point, in order to share the latest research projects and professional frameworks. Thus, *ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0* is the place to exchange ideas and information, as well as seek for cooperation and chances of participation in common projects. The official languages are Spanish, English and Italian. Scientific communications and lectures can be held in any of those three languages. Simultaneous translation into Spanish and English will be provided at all sessions. **CALL FOR PAPERS** Participants from any discipline are encouraged to contribute in order to create an open forum for knowledge exchange and a fertile environment for discussion relating to the topic of Graphic Archaeology and Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation. Researchers or practitioners are invited to submit papers on original work from within archaeology although contributions are particularly encouraged from other disciplines which address and inform key issues in the context of the following sub-themes: Virtual reconstruction or virtual anastilosys of archaeological heritage Virtual and zoomed reality applied to Archaeology 3D digitalization of archaeological heritage CAD tools on virtual Archaeology. Render techniques Archaeological visualization Applied theory of virtual archaeology Virtual Archaeology and museums. Virtual museums and visits The communications abstracts must fit within 120 text rows, in English or Spanish, including pictures and images. The complete communication paper will be submitted according to the indications set up by the Scientific Committee, in maximum 6 DIN A4 pages, keeping to the previously delivered document template. Posters accepted by the Scientific Committee shall be submitted in digital format with a real A1 size. Abstracts and posters must be submitted to the Secretary by the following email address. The deadline is 1st march 2010 [...] -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London: staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:10:47 -0700 From: "Engel, Maureen" Subject: CeCL2010 - Call for Proposals Call for Proposals CeLC2010:rEvolution Canadian e-Learning Conference June 22-25, 2010 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Deadline for Submissions: Jan 31, 2010 Notification: March 31, 2010 Submission URL: www.celc2010.ualberta.ca Launched in 2003, the Canadian e-Learning Conference has developed into an engaging venue for practitioners, instructors, administrators, and students alike to share ideas and evidence on technology enhanced learning and teaching. In 2010, in keeping with our conference theme of "rEvolution," the conference comes full circle and returns to its origins at the University of Alberta. In choosing the word rEvolution to guide and define this year's conference, we hope to inspire thinking on a number of fronts: on the one hand, revolution is a marker of radical change, progress, and new and innovative thinking; on the other, revolution speaks to the cyclical nature of time and progress, where a full revolution (of a wheel, even of the globe) brings us back to where we began. Contained within "revolution", and perhaps in contrast to the sense of radical and fast-paced change, we find "evolution" which helps us to recognize that change can happen incrementally and at a much more guarded and methodical pace. Each of these connotations gives us fruitful ways to think through the relationships between and among teaching, learning, discovery, and technology. We invite you to submit a proposal to the 2010 conference program. Like e-Learning tools, the program is flexible and allows for innovation. Proposals must specify one of the conference formats listed below, and are encouraged to engage with one of the key conference themes. Conference Themes Imagine the Possibilities These presentations will focus on the near and distant futures of e-Learning. What will e-Learning be like in 20 years? Tomorrow? Reality Check How feasible is innovation in e-Learning? What are the impacts of current fiscal, administrative, political and educational realities on the implementation of e-Learning? These sessions should be rooted in current realities and, where possible, based on evidence-based practice. Keeping Our Feet on the Ground "Teaching is teaching." How should the scholarship of teaching drive developments in e-Learning? What is the empirical evidence? We're Listening We strongly encourage student presenters to share how they understand, critique, and analyse their relationship to e-Learning. Case Studies and Demonstrations These sessions highlight specific experiences with e-Learning : specific assignments, courses, or innovations. We particularly encourage submissions under the headings "My best failure" and "My greatest success." [...] Questions? celc2010@ualberta.ca --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:57:20 -0500 From: Dominic Forest Subject: DEFT 2010 - Appel à participation DEFT 2010 - Appel à participation ~~ Où et quand un article de presse a-t-il été écrit ? ~~ Atelier d'évaluation en fouille de textes sur l'identification de la période et du lieu de publication d'articles de presse francophone Date de l¹atelier : 23 juillet 2010 (conjointement à TALN 2010) Lieu : Montréal (Canada) Site Internet : http://www.groupes.polymtl.ca/taln2010/deft.php Contact : deft10@limsi.fr Cette campagne d'évaluation bénéficie du soutien de CEDROM-SNi, du CNRTL et de ELDA. ******************************************************** DEFT2010, sixième édition de la campagne d'évaluation en fouille de textes, portera sur les variations diachroniques et géographiques en corpus de presse francophones. L'atelier de clôture se tiendra à Montréal dans le cadre de la conférence TALN 2010. Un locuteur francophone natif est capable de détecter dans une conversation des expressions spécifiques à un pays (par exemple au niveau des nombres "septante" et "nonante" en Belgique et en Suisse contre "soixante-dix et "quatre-vingt-dix" en France et au Québec, et "huitante" en Suisse vs. "quatre-vingts" dans les trois autres pays). Un lecteur est également capable de mobiliser des connaissances linguistiques, culturelles et historiques pour identifier la période (sur une échelle plus ou moins grande) de parution d'un article (en identifiant un événement particulier et/ou des tournures linguistiques ou des entités nommées jugées représentatives d'une période donnée). Comme tout acte de communication, les documents ont une origine et un public visé ; leur nature, c'est-à-dire leurs contenu, niveaux de langue, etc. en dépend fortement. Dans cette édition du défi fouille de textes, nous nous intéressons à l'origine des documents, plus particulièrement à l'époque et au lieu de leur création. Dans ce cadre, nous proposons plusieurs pistes distinctes et indépendantes. * Piste 1. Cette piste, relative à la variation diachronique, concerne l'identification de la décennie de publication d'extraits d'articles français d'une taille de 300 mots. Les extraits de ce corpus couvrent une période comprise entre 1800 et 1944. Le corpus d'apprentissage se composera d'extraits (300 mots) d'articles de quatre titres de journaux différents, le corpus de test intègrera des extraits provenant de ces quatre mêmes titres plus un cinquième titre absent du corpus d'apprentissage, de manière à éprouver la robustesse des systèmes. * Piste 2. L'identification de l'origine géographique de chaque document (pays d'origine) constituera la seconde piste de cette campagne. Elle reposera sur des corpus de presse rassemblant plusieurs titres provenant de France et du Québec. Pour ces deux pistes, les participants auront la possibilité d'utiliser des ressources externes (linguistiques, historiques, etc.) qu'ils devront obligatoirement déclarer lors de la soumission des résultats. En ce qui concerne plus spécifiquement la piste 1, les ressources provenant de Gallica ne seront pas autorisées. Nous invitons les participants à participer aux deux pistes. Il est cependant possible de ne participer qu'à une seule des pistes. Des corpus d'apprentissage seront fournis aux participants inscrits, à partir du 26 février 2010. Ces corpus sont composés de 60% des corpus d'origine. Les 40% de corpus restants seront utilisés pour le test. Le test aura lieu sur une fenêtre d'un mois, à partir de la mi-mars. À partir de la date qu'ils auront choisie dans cet intervalle, les participants auront trois jours pour appliquer, sur les corpus de test, les méthodes mises au point sur les corpus d'apprentissage et nous retourner leurs résultats d'analyse. ******************************************************** Dates importantes : - Inscription : à partir du 25 janvier 2010. Les équipes souhaitant participer à DEFT 2010 devront s'inscrire à l'aide du formulaire en ligne et signer les accords de mise à disposition des corpus. - Diffusion des corpus d'apprentissage : 26 février 2010 - Test : au choix, 3 jours pris entre mi-mars et mi-avril 2010 - Atelier : le 23 juillet 2010 lors de la conférence TALN ******************************************************** Comité d'organisation : - Dominic Forest (EBSI, UdeM) - Cyril Grouin (LIMSI) - Lyne Da Sylva (EBSI, UdeM) ******************************************************** Dominic Forest, Ph. D. Professeur adjoint Adresse postale : École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7 Adresse géographique : École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information Université de Montréal Pavillon Lionel-Groulx 3150, rue Jean-Brillant, bureau C-2046 Montréal (Québec) H3T 1N8 Téléphone : (514) 343-6119 Télécopieur : (514) 343-5753 Courrier électronique : dominic.forest@umontreal.ca Sites Internet : www.dominicforest.name et www.ebsi.umontreal.ca --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:40:47 -0600 From: Sara Schmidt Subject: Re: JCDL 2010 paper submission deadline extended to February 1st Dear Collegues: Please disseminate the following to your colleagues: Call for Papers http://www.jcdl-icadl2010.org/ Joint Conference on Digital Libraries JCDL 2010 June 21-25, 2010 Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. http://www.jcdl2010.org Paper Submission Deadline Extended to February 1 Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB, ASIS&T, and IEEE-CS TCDL The ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is the major international research forum focused on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term "digital libraries", including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and evaluating digital content; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing. Digital libraries are distinguished from information retrieval systems because they include more types of media, provide additional functionality and services, and include other stages of the information life cycle, from creation through use. Digital libraries can also be viewed as an extension of the services libraries currently provide. The theme of JCL 2010 is “Digital Libraries – 10 years past, 10 years forward, a 2020 vision”. This theme reflects the fact that the context in which digital libraries were originally conceived has significantly changed in the context of new information models embodied in Web 2.0 and popular social networking applications. In this spirit, we are especially interested in papers that address and demonstrate new models of collaborative, participatory information interaction increasingly ubiquitous in the Web 2.0 context. JCDL 2010 invites submissions of papers and proposals for posters, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops that will make the conference an exciting and creative event to attend. As always, the conference welcomes contributions from all the fields that intersect to enable Digital Libraries. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Collaborative and participatory information environments • Cyberinfrastructure architectures, applications, and deployments • Data mining/extraction of structure from networked information • Digital library and Web Science curriculum development • Evaluation of online information environments • Impact and evaluation of digital information in education • Information policy and copyright law • Personal digital information management • Retrieval and browsing • Social networks and networked information • Social-technical perspectives of digital information • Studies of human factors in networked information • Systems, algorithms, and models for data preservation • Theoretical models of information interaction and organization • Visualization of large-scale information environments Important Dates • All papers are due Monday, February 1, 2010 at 5 PM EST. • Demonstration submissions are due Monday, February 8, 2010 at 5 PM EST. • Tutorial proposals are due Monday, February 8, 2010 at 5 PM EST. • Poster submissions are due Monday, February 15, 2010 at 5 PM EST. • Workshop proposals are due Monday, February 22, 2010 at 5 PM EST. • Notification of acceptance to authors by March 15, 2010. • Doctoral consortium abstracts are due Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Submission and Formatting Instructions are available at: http://www.jcdl2010.org/submitformat.php Best regards. Carl --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:50:35 +0000 From: Marian Dworaczek Subject: Library Related Conferences Library Related Conferences - updated to January 21, 2010 Available at: http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/CONF.HTM Marian Dworaczek University of Saskatchewan Library _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 24 08:50:13 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5AC486A0; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:50:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 290E84868D; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:50:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100124085007.290E84868D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:50:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.591 the case against digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 591. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:32:27 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.587 the case against digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20100123093429.AB37548CDD@woodward.joyent.us> Very funny, and I'm amused at how well and for how many different things that video clip has been used (anyone know its origin?), but I'm curious if the people who created it distinguish between being able to get information online and being able to get an education online? If there was nothing more to education than "getting the content," then there is no distinction between the two, but that's just not the case. I currently work at an institution that supports and encourages online learning and makes a great deal of money from it. The trajectory that I see for online learning is that it's only significant from a monetary standpoint: the goal is for one underpaid professor to create a course shell that can "educate" thousands of students with a minimum of guidance at the highest possible price that available financial aid will allow. The spread of online learning will therefore lead to an additional tier within US higher ed: online college will become the slums servicing the great mass of our poorest students while traditional, seated classes will be reserved for the upper classes with money. The name over your degree will become more important than ever in determining your future possibilities. I think the first thing that we need to do is separate the two following concepts: -the availability of educational materials online; books, manuscripts, etc. -the availability of an education online. The first is an unequivocal good in my opinion, the second varies in good depending upon kind and content and context. I see a distinction between the two because I was an autodidact for some years before I started college, and learned what difference the organization of knowledge makes for its acquisition, as well as the difference that personal contact with other and more educated people can make -- not just in the classroom, but in the lunchroom, around campus, etc. Jim R On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Humanist Discussion Group > > > Another view of digital humanities: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VREJV--VHSw > > > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 24 08:50:42 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 894CE486E3; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:50:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2090C486D2; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:50:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100124085041.2090C486D2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:50:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.592 Kasparov's wolf X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 592. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:20:08 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: sometimes there is a wolf We highly educated sorts have all kinds of sophisticated mental routines for turning aside just about anything whose point would discomfort us. (Milton's portrait of Satan comes to mind.) We have the "o tempora, o mores" gambit covered in all its variations. Since we've lost the conventional language for expressing the idea that humanity is damned but not the evidence which still suggests that idea, "o tempora, o mores" hasn't much of an edge to begin with. It's bound to be unpopular in a techno-centric age. And since it's usually the older ones who proclaim it -- those who are themselves speedily going to Hell in a handbasket -- the lament really does have an uphill battle to wage before attention can be drawn to whatever the problem is. But sometimes, you know, there really is somethingto pay attention to. My thanks to Wendell Piez, as so often in the past, for the pointer to something worthy of our attention, in this case to Gary Kasparov's review of Diego Rasskin-Gutman's Chess Metaphors in the NYRB for 11 February, 57.2, www.nybooks.com/articles/23592. His observation that humans are now playing chess more and more like computers adds to the accumulating store of observations and arguments along those lines. But what grabs me even more is his explication of "our last chess metaphor": > a metaphor for how we have discarded innovation and creativity in > exchange for a steady supply of marketable products. The dreams of > creating an artificial intelligence that would engage in an ancient > game symbolic of human thought have been abandoned. Instead, every > year we have new chess programs, and new versions of old ones, that > are all based on the same basic programming concepts for picking a > move by searching through millions of possibilities that were > developed in the 1960s and 1970s. Like so much else in our > technology-rich and innovation-poor modern world, chess computing has > fallen prey to incrementalism and the demands of the market. > Brute-force programs play the best chess, so why bother with anything > else? Why waste time and money experimenting with new and innovative > ideas when we already know what works? Such thinking should horrify > anyone worthy of the name of scientist, but it seems, tragically, to > be the norm. Our best minds have gone into financial engineering > instead of real engineering, with catastrophic results for both > sectors. Instead of Cicero's lament perhaps we should address those who shape our part of the world with "For shame!" and ourselves feel ashamed whenever the shoe fits? But a moment more of your time. No doubt that sense of shame would be healthy all around as a corrective to the shameless commercialisation of universities, but I wonder if more isn't involved here. What would delight the Kasparovs among us? What would we regard as a scientifically or intellectually respectable result? Clearly the opposite of "brute-force" automation: an mathematically elegant algorithm, the simpler the better, that would with a minimum number of steps artifically reason its way to check-mate. We'd then forgive the massive computing power required and rejoice in the brilliance of the (human) idea, yes? Because this is how we think we work. This is our intelligence (neverminding the fact that we don't know the steps by which it is achieved). But is this the way, or the only way, that computing behaves when it is most successful? Compare, for example, how we once thought perfect information-retrieval would work -- before Google. (Somewhere Terry Winograd speaks of his great surprise as a conventionally trained computer scientist by the success of its approach.) Consider the effects of very dumb searches in JSTOR and its kind, precisely due to the fact that their "precision" is so poor. So, if your interest is on the cognitive science side of things, wanting to know what computing can tell us about cognition, isn't the gulf between brute-force chess and Kasparovian chess valuable? Do we welcome the wolf? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 24 08:51:12 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81CB248756; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:51:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D5D2E48747; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:51:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100124085110.D5D2E48747@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:51:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.593 postdoc at Stanford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 593. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:42:06 -0800 From: Jon Christensen Subject: Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental (and Digital) Humanities at Stanford Stanford University Postdoctoral Fellowship: Cultures of Nature in the American West The Environmental Humanities Project, in collaboration with the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University, seeks applicants for a postdoctoral fellowship focusing on cultures of nature in the American West. Applicants' research should focus on how cultures shape conceptions of nature, the natural, species boundaries, uses of plants and animals and natural resources, the human body in its environmental dimensions, or environmental health and illness; how cultures of nature form and dissolve; how cultures map nature, literally and metaphorically; how cultures of nature rooted in particular places develop dimensions beyond that place (e.g. in the virtual realm); and what practical differences such cultures make for human uses of the environment and in shaping nature. The postdoctoral fellow will be a leader in the Environmental Humanities Project, a new initiative at Stanford designed to develop an interdisciplinary community across departments, programs and research areas in the Humanities involving environmental issues. This community will also seek to build bridges to the social and natural sciences. Fellows should be committed to this goal and will be expected to participate actively in building such a community. In addition, they will teach one class and participate in workshops and seminars. The appointment is for one year but may be renewed for an additional year. Applicants must have their doctoral degree in hand 30 days prior to the appointment start date. The concept of "cultures of nature" is conceived broadly to include indigenous, ethnic, class-based, local, professional formations and subcultures. The American West is understood as the United States west of the Mississippi, western Canada, Mexico, and their interfaces with the Pacific region. We welcome applicants from anthropology, history, literary and cultural studies, political science, sociology and urban studies, as well as candidates from the natural sciences with a strong interest in multidisciplinary methods and the humanities. We particularly encourage applicants who are interested in working with a variety of sources, including data, maps, images, and multimedia visualization techniques. Applicants should be comfortable working in a collaborative research setting. The fellowship research project will be developed by the candidate in collaboration with scholars from a variety of related disciplines, and will have an associated public outreach dimension. For further information please contact Ursula K. Heise , Professor of English, Director of the Program in Modern Thought and Literature and faculty coordinator of the Environmental Humanities Project, or Jon Christensen , Executive Director, Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University. Applicants should submit the following materials by April 1, 2010: Cover letter, CV, 1000-word project proposal, dissertation abstract, 25-page writing sample, three letters of recommendation. Send application materials to: Prof. Ursula K. Heise, Department of English, 450 Serra Mall Bldg. 460, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2087. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 25 06:29:13 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C2F4813E; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:29:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B0F84812D; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:29:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100125062912.1B0F84812D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:29:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.595 the case against digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 595. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dennis Moser (30) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.591 the case against digital humanities [2] From: "Markus Wust" (53) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.591 the case against digital humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:12:54 -0700 (MST) From: Dennis Moser Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.591 the case against digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20100124085007.290E84868D@woodward.joyent.us> The original film from which the clip is taken is the 2004 "Der Untergang"...I'd been wondering about that myself for some time and had been lazy. This use of the clip is by far one of the best I've seen (but a slight misnomer, as it can't seem to decide if it's against digital humanities or digital scholarship). Jim's point is well-taken. Best, Dennis ----- Original Message ----- [VERY BIG SNIP] ... Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:32:27 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.587 the case against digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20100123093429.AB37548CDD@woodward.joyent.us> Very funny, and I'm amused at how well and for how many different things that video clip has been used (anyone know its origin?), but I'm curious if the people who created it distinguish between being able to get information online and being able to get an education online? If there was nothing more to education than "getting the content," then there is no distinction between the two, but that's just not the case. ... [ANOTHER VERY BIG SNIP] ... Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:33:19 -0500 From: "Markus Wust" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.591 the case against digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20100124085007.290E84868D@woodward.joyent.us> The source of the clip is "Der Untergang" (Downfall, 2004): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/ Markus Wust _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 25 06:30:43 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA01C48215; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:30:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7A8EC48202; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:30:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100125063041.7A8EC48202@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:30:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.596 Kasparov's wolf X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 596. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:23:45 -0700 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.592 Kasparov's wolf In-Reply-To: <20100124085041.2090C486D2@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I was intrigued by the point you shared about humans now playing chess more and more like computers. Of course the noble dream of AI has long been that computers would make breakthroughs in figuring out and emulating how humans play chess. I actually subscribe to neither of these views. For me, human chess players have now entered a self- feedback loop where they are imitating cariactures of themselves that computer scientists invented in the 1960s and 1970s when they grossly underestimated what it meant to be human. As I see it, chess offers a reductionist view of humans by privileging a militaristic mindset that, in its most extreme forms, is cold, calculating, and constraining. After all, the game of chess was designed so that language, perhaps our greatest hallmark as humans, was superfluous. So I take exception when chess is characterized as an "ancient game symbolic of human thought." As long as AI and chess researchers ignore the ways of human thought that flourish within the humanities, they will fail in their quest for the singularity. And so it comes as no surprise to me that innovation and creativity in AI and chess research have given way to incrementalism and capitalistic thinking. But it would sure be great to see more digital and computational humanists weighing in on this stalemate debate and offering solutions that help set AI free from the cages of its cariacture constructions. Best wishes, Sterling Fluharty Sent from my iPhone On Jan 24, 2010, at 1:50 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 592. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:20:08 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: sometimes there is a wolf > > > We highly educated sorts have all kinds of sophisticated mental > routines for > turning aside just about anything whose point would discomfort us. > (Milton's > portrait of Satan comes to mind.) We have the "o tempora, o mores" > gambit > covered in all its variations. Since we've lost the conventional > language > for expressing the idea that humanity is damned but not the evidence > which > still suggests that idea, "o tempora, o mores" hasn't much of an > edge to > begin with. It's bound to be unpopular in a techno-centric age. And > since > it's usually the older ones who proclaim it -- those who are > themselves > speedily going to Hell in a handbasket -- the lament really does > have an > uphill battle to wage before attention can be drawn to whatever the > problem > is. But sometimes, you know, there really is somethingto pay > attention to. > > My thanks to Wendell Piez, as so often in the past, for the pointer to > something worthy of our attention, in this case to Gary Kasparov's > review of > Diego Rasskin-Gutman's Chess Metaphors in the NYRB for 11 February, > 57.2, > www.nybooks.com/articles/23592. His observation that humans are now > playing > chess more and more like computers adds to the accumulating store of > observations and arguments along those lines. But what grabs me even > more is > his explication of "our last chess metaphor": > >> a metaphor for how we have discarded innovation and creativity in >> exchange for a steady supply of marketable products. The dreams of >> creating an artificial intelligence that would engage in an ancient >> game symbolic of human thought have been abandoned. Instead, every >> year we have new chess programs, and new versions of old ones, that >> are all based on the same basic programming concepts for picking a >> move by searching through millions of possibilities that were >> developed in the 1960s and 1970s. Like so much else in our >> technology-rich and innovation-poor modern world, chess computing has >> fallen prey to incrementalism and the demands of the market. >> Brute-force programs play the best chess, so why bother with anything >> else? Why waste time and money experimenting with new and innovative >> ideas when we already know what works? Such thinking should horrify >> anyone worthy of the name of scientist, but it seems, tragically, to >> be the norm. Our best minds have gone into financial engineering >> instead of real engineering, with catastrophic results for both >> sectors. > > Instead of Cicero's lament perhaps we should address those who shape > our part of the world with "For shame!" and ourselves feel ashamed > whenever the shoe fits? > > But a moment more of your time. No doubt that sense of shame would be > healthy all around as a corrective to the shameless > commercialisation of > universities, but I wonder if more isn't involved here. > > What would delight the Kasparovs among us? What would we regard as a > scientifically or intellectually respectable result? Clearly the > opposite of > "brute-force" automation: an mathematically elegant algorithm, the > simpler > the better, that would with a minimum number of steps artifically > reason its > way to check-mate. We'd then forgive the massive computing power > required > and rejoice in the brilliance of the (human) idea, yes? Because this > is how > we think we work. This is our intelligence (neverminding the fact > that we > don't know the steps by which it is achieved). > > But is this the way, or the only way, that computing behaves when it > is most > successful? Compare, for example, how we once thought perfect > information-retrieval would work -- before Google. (Somewhere Terry > Winograd > speaks of his great surprise as a conventionally trained computer > scientist > by the success of its approach.) Consider the effects of very dumb > searches > in JSTOR and its kind, precisely due to the fact that their > "precision" is > so poor. > > So, if your interest is on the cognitive science side of things, > wanting to > know what computing can tell us about cognition, isn't the gulf > between > brute-force chess and Kasparovian chess valuable? Do we welcome the > wolf? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 26 06:34:21 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3727A492A7; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:34:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 43BAC49297; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:34:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100126063420.43BAC49297@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:34:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.597 why chess for AI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 597. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:30:09 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: why chess for AI The fascination with chess as a problem for artificial intelligence goes back at least as far as a paper by Claude Shannon (who famously also provoked interest in machine translation a couple of years earlier), "Programming a Computer for Playing Chess", Philosophical Magazine, ser. 7, 41.314 (March 1950). "Although perhaps of no practical importance," he wrote, "the question is of theoretical interest, and it is hoped that a satisfactory solution of this problem will act as a wedge in attacking other problems of a similar nature and of greater significance." He then lists these: > (1) Machines for designing filters, equalizers, etc. > (2)Machines for designing relay and switching circuits. > (3) Machines which will handle routing of telephone calls based on the individual > circumstances rather than by fixed patterns. > (4) Machines for performing symbolic (non-numerical) mathematical operations. > (5) Machines capable of translating from one language to another. > (6) Machines for making strategic decisions in simplified military operations. > (7) Machines capable of orchestrating a melody. > (8) Machines capable of logical deduction. He points out that chess is a good place to start because, > (1) the problem is sharply defined both in allowed operations (the > moves) and in the ultimate goal (checkmate); > (2) it is neither so simple as to be trivial nor too difficult for satisfactory solution; > (3) chess is generally considered to require "thinking" for skilful > play; a solution of this problem will force us either to admit the > possibility of a mechanized thinking or to further restrict our > concept of "thinking"; > (4) the discrete structure of chess fits well > into the digital nature of modern computers. Feigenbaum and Feldman, Computers and Thought (1963): 4-6, also discuss the reasons for going after chess; they emphasize how great a problem it is. In his great lecture in Paris in 1900, "Mathematische Probleme", in which he set out the programme for mathematics for the next generations, David Hilbert wisely invoked the second of Shannon's principles -- neither too difficult nor too easy -- to justify his choice of problems: "a mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock our efforts". A wise principle, I think (which I'd do well better to respect!). But there's another essential point, made by Pamela McCorduck in Machines Who Think, pp. 146f: Games, she points out, are at the heart of us and at the heart of AI. "Games are models of situations in life, just as physical models imitate, simplify, and express the essence of physical phenomena." Or, put another way, games simplify life by reducing roles into rules (which approach algorithms). As children we learn about life by playing games; I'd suppose that the rules then teach us about the roles we observe. But I also suppose that much more has been written along these lines, and perhaps someone familiar with the literature would care to comment? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 26 06:37:49 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC8844950A; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:37:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BF6C949503; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:37:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100126063747.BF6C949503@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:37:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.598 whatever happened to Second Life? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 598. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:55:31 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: whatever happened to Second Life? Some here will be interested in the gloomy report on and discussion of Second Life, at www.pcpro.co.uk/features/354457/whatever-happened-to-second-life/1. Does this decline in popularity matter? What, do you suppose, does it tell us about VR techniques generally? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 26 06:38:12 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF45849552; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:38:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 46B7B49542; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:38:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100126063811.46B7B49542@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:38:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.599 two new books X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 599. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dolores_Romero_López (140) Subject: new book: Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis [2] From: Dolores_Romero_López (67) Subject: new book: Literaturas del texto al hipermedia --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:06:54 +0100 From: Dolores_Romero_López Subject: new book: Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis In-Reply-To: <20100125063041.7A8EC48202@woodward.joyent.us> *Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis* Edited by Amelia Sanz and Dolores Romero (LEETHI Group) This book first published 2007 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN 1-84718-291-7; ISBN 13: 9781847182913 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ................................................................................................. 1 *Amelia Sanz and Dolores Romero* *Part I: Hyper-Paradigm.......................................................................... 17* *María Goicoechea* Chapter One............................................................................................... 23 Comparative Literature From Text to Hypertext or What do Electronic Media have to Offer Discipline? *George Landow* Chapter Two.............................................................................................. 41 Always Already-Known Hypertexts: a Recent Debate in Old Terms *Apostolos Lampropoulos* Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 51 Ludology meets Hypertext *Susana Pajares Tosca* Chapter Four.............................................................................................. 61 Actualizing Allusions: Hypertext and Cognitive Literary Research *Ziva Ben-Porat* *Part II: Hyper-(W)reader....................................................................... 81* *María Goicoechea* Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 85 The Boundaries of Digital Narrative: a Functional Analysis *Juan B. Gutiérrez* Chapter Six.............................................................................................. 103 Some Notes on the Reading of Digital Literary Works. *Alckmar L. Dos Santos* Table of Content vi Chapter Seven.......................................................................................... 123 “Lector in machina”: towards an Erotic of Reading *Laura Borrás* Chapter Eight........................................................................................... 151 Reading Guidelines For Electronic Literature *Alexandra Saemmer* *Part III: Hyper-Editing......................................................................... 167* *María Goicoechea* Chapter Nine............................................................................................ 171 Aspects of Scholarship and Publishing in the Age of New Media Technology *Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek* Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 185 A Dynamic Authenticity of Texts in E-Archives: On Digitized Cultural Resources in Comparative Literatury Studies *Jola Skulj* Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 201 Postmodernity and Critical Editions of Literary Texts: Towards the Virtual Presence of the Past *Marko Juvan* Chapter Twelve ....................................................................................... 221 The Hypertextual Structure of Writing Processes *Dirk Van Hulle* Chapter Thirteen...................................................................................... 235 Digital Text: Conceptual and Methodological Frontiers *María Clara Paixão de Sousa* *Part IV: Hyper-Praxis........................................................................... 253* *María Goicoechea* Chapter Fourteen ..................................................................................... 257 The Hyper in Calligraphy and Text *Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih* Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis vii Chapter Fifteen........................................................................................ 267 Hypertext: An Alternative Route to Short Stories Theorizing *Anastasia Natsina* Chapter Sixteen ....................................................................................... 277 The Echo of Narcissism in Interactive Arts *Lee Scrivner* Chapter Seventee n................................................................................... 289 Hypertext and Collective Authorship. The Influence of the Internet on the Formation of New Concepts of Authorship *Florian Hartling* Chapter Eighteen ..................................................................................... 297 Hypermedia Narratives: Paratactic Structures and Multiple Readings *Ana Pano Alamán* Chapter Nineteen ..................................................................................... 305 “Salaam Baghdad”: Warblogs in the Textual and Social Economies of the Internet *Priscilla Ringrose* Chapter Twenty ....................................................................................... 319 >From Hypertexts to Blogs: ‘El primer vuelo de los Hermanos Wright’ and ‘Más respeto que soy tu madre’ *Perla Sassón-Henry* Contributors............................................................................................. 329 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:15:56 +0100 From: Dolores_Romero_López Subject: new book: Literaturas del texto al hipermedia In-Reply-To: <20100125062912.1B0F84812D@woodward.joyent.us> Romero López, D. Sanz Cabrerizo, A (2008). *Literaturas del texto al hipermedia*. Barcelona: Anthropos. *ÍNDICE * Introducción, por *Dolores Romero y Amelia Sanz*.............................................. Prólogo, por *Tania Franco Carvalhal*................................................................... *INTERDISCIPLINARIEDAD * Literatura comparada del texto al hipertexto, o ¿qué pueden ofrecer los medios electrónicos a la disciplina?, por *George Landow*............................................... *HIPERDIFUSIÓN * Aspectos académicos y editoriales en la época de los nuevos medios tecnológicos, por *Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek*................................................................................ Investigación y difusión de la literatura y el teatro en relación con las nuevas tecnologías: algunos ejemplos publicados en castellano en España, por *José Nicolás Romera Castillo*.......................................................................................... Hacia nuevos paradigmas textuales: edición y difusión de los textos literarios en el siglo XXI, por *José Manuel Lucía Megías*.............................................................. Posibilidades de la edición del romancero hispánico en hipertexto, por *Ignacio Ceballos*.................................................................................................................... Cultura mediática, autoría y derechos de autor, por *Felip Vidal Auladell*................ *LECTOESCRITURA * Algunas notas sobre las lecturas de obras literarias digitales, por *Alckmar Luiz Dos Santos*.............................................................................................................. La actualización de las alusiones: el hipertexto y la investigación cognitiva literaria, por *Ziva Ben-Porat*.................................................................................. El hipertexto: ejemplos didácticos para un aprendizaje integrador en la enseñanza de la literatura, por *Isabella Leibrandt*..................................................................... *HIPERCREACIÓN * Hipertextualidad y experimentación textual: vínculos (y rupturas) en la literatura catalana, por *Mercè Picornell Belenguer y Margalida Pons Jaume*......................... Literatura española en el siglo XXI: hacia la nueva creación digital, por *Dolores Romero López*............................................................................................................. Fragmentación, espacio y ciberpoesía, por *Teresa Vilariño*................................... Los tortuosos caminos de la blognovela, por *David Felipe Arranz Lago*................ *LA (EST)ÉTICA DEL HIPERPARADIGMA * Sujetos mutantes: nuevas identidades en la cultura, por *Virgilio Tortosa*............. Pero ¿hay realmente un cambio de paradigma? Un análisis apresurado mientras la literatura pierde los papeles, por *Laura Borrás Castanyer*.................................... La ludología frente al hipertexto, por *Susana Pajares Tosca*................................. Videojuegos, cine y literatura: especificidad versus remediación, por *Domingo Sánchez Mesa*........................................................................................................ La estética posthipertextual, por *Carlos Scolari* -- Drª. Dolores Romero López Universidad Complutense de Madrid Facultad de Filología (Edificio D) Dept. de Literatura Española Despacho 1/331 Ciudad Universitaria s/n 28040 Madrid (España) Telf. 34+91+3945863 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 27 08:26:47 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4676F48BE3; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:26:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1E17548BD0; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:26:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100127082646.1E17548BD0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:26:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.600 why chess for AI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 600. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (7) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.597 why chess for AI [2] From: Amanda Gailey (131) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.597 why chess for AI [3] From: Wendell Piez (61) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.597 why chess for AI --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:10:30 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.597 why chess for AI In-Reply-To: <20100126063420.43BAC49297@woodward.joyent.us> There's a story, perhaps apocryphal, about the invention of a chess-playing "mechanical man" who was pitted against Napoleon. Napoleon exposed the robot as a fraud by repeatedly making illegal moves until the midget hiding inside got angry and swept the pieces off of the board. At any rate, game playing as a problem for AI may predate the 20thC. It may predate the 19thC. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:40:15 -0600 From: Amanda Gailey Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.597 why chess for AI In-Reply-To: <20100126063420.43BAC49297@woodward.joyent.us> Hi, Willard-- I'd like to point out that chess as a problem for artificial intelligence has captured the imagination long before artificial intelligence had any hope of tackling chess, as evidenced by "The Turk" (the 18th-century automaton hoax in which a concealed man operated a contraption in such a way that a mechanical "Turk" outside the box appeared to play chess). One interesting aspect of this is how, to 18th- and 19th-century western audiences at least, artificial intelligence seemed bound up with orientalism and the occult: creators of automata were more interested in developing an atmosphere of mystique and mysticism (culminating, maybe, in the fortune-telling machines in Depression-era penny arcades?) than in calling attention to the cleverness of the technology. Perhaps one reason chess lent itself to early AI was that unlike tic-tac-toe or checkers (more suitable subjects from a practical standpoint), chess, with its eastern origins and vaguely anthropomorphic pieces, seemed more suited to the aesthetic. In 1836 Edgar Allen Poe--so perfectly combining the occult with ratiocination himself--wrote an editorial for The Southern Literary Messenger in which he considers the Turk alongside Babbage's difference engine. (Full article available here: http://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/maelzel.htm) Ultimately, Poe claims, if the Turk were indeed fully automated, it would be a far more impressive machine than Babbage's: Babbage's would use the simple logic of a machine to proceed unerringly from raw data to a single inevitable output, while with the Turk "there is no determinate progression. No one move in chess necessarily follows upon any one other." Poe concludes that if the Turk proves to be "pure machine," it would, unlike Babbage's, have a mind. This is, of course, exactly what Kasparov regrets: modern chess programs are powerful but ultimately not much closer to truly mimicking the mind than when Poe reflected on the problem 174 years ago. Thanks, Amanda -- Amanda Gailey Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska 202 Andrews Hall Lincoln, NE 68588 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:52:25 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.597 why chess for AI In-Reply-To: <20100126063420.43BAC49297@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, At 01:34 AM 1/26/2010, you wrote: >[Shannon] points out that chess is a good place to start because, > > > (1) the problem is sharply defined both in allowed operations (the > > moves) and in the ultimate goal (checkmate); > > (2) it is neither so simple as to be trivial nor too > difficult for satisfactory solution; > > (3) chess is generally considered to require "thinking" for skilful > > play; a solution of this problem will force us either to admit the > > possibility of a mechanized thinking or to further restrict our > > concept of "thinking"; > > (4) the discrete structure of chess fits well > > into the digital nature of modern computers. I think (3) here is very interesting. It's especially interesting that he suggests the alternative to "admit[ting] the possibility of machine thinking" (presumably because we wish thinking, by definition, to be something machines can't do) is "to further restrict our concept of thinking". That is, either the chess-playing machine is a member of the set of thinkers, or chess playing is not sufficient to qualify one as a member of the set. I might be tempted to choose the second option, but I'm not sure I'd describe this as a "restriction" of my concept of thinking. "Refinement" might be more like it. Yet on the other hand, I think the point is important, particularly in a world in which entities other than individual people, such as cats or dogs, or basketball teams, bureaucracies, stock markets, voting publics, or entire genomes (which "learn" from one generation to the next) seem also to be "thinking". I would sooner say that all of these are thinking than I would that computers are thinking. Thinking is certainly involved in what the computers are doing. But I'm not sure the computer is quite as autonomous as we pretend, even after we push the button and it starts playing chess: I think its thinking is an extension of and largely limited by its programmers' and user's thinking. >But there's another essential point, made by Pamela McCorduck in >Machines Who Think, pp. 146f: Games, she points out, are at the heart of >us and at the heart of AI. "Games are models of situations in life, just >as physical models imitate, simplify, and express the essence of >physical phenomena." Or, put another way, games simplify life by >reducing roles into rules (which approach algorithms). As children we >learn about life by playing games; I'd suppose that the rules then teach >us about the roles we observe. Indeed. I wrote about this, in the context of markup languages, last year. It will be more interesting to those concerned with the practice and politics of markup technologies than to others, but it also speaks more generally about games and technologies: http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol3/html/Piez01/BalisageVol3-Piez01.html (Check out the slides, too. They're fun.) Cheers, Wendell ========================================================= Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ========================================================= _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 27 08:28:02 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D2248C7E; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:28:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 50D8548C6F; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:28:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100127082800.50D8548C6F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:28:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.601 Second Life X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 601. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak" (66) Subject: whatever happened to Second Life? [2] From: David Golumbia (49) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.598 whatever happened to Second Life? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:05:17 +0100 From: "Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak" Subject: whatever happened to Second Life? > Some here will be interested in the gloomy report on and discussion of > Second Life, at > www.pcpro.co.uk/features/354457/whatever-happened-to-second-life/1. > Does this decline in popularity matter? What, do you suppose, does it tell > us about VR techniques generally? There's been some discussion of this article/issue on SLED, the SL Educators listserv. I've reacted in my own blog here: http://zakajek.ning.com/profiles/blogs/whatever-happened-to-second. I first quoted excerpts from the paper: The first thing I notice upon dropping out of the Second Life sky once more is how empty the place is. On my first visit back in 2006, I couldn't walk through the training level without clumsily bumping into the throng of fellow newbies. Now, there's enough room to swing the contents of Noah's ark, let alone a cat. I walk and then fly around the landscape for ten minutes or so, but can't find a single soul to shoot the breeze with. [...] In fact, Second Life seems so increasingly obsessed with aping the real world that it's in danger of becoming an interactive version of those creepy model villages you only find in English holiday resorts. [...] And yet, I still can't help wondering what the point of all this is? Yes, these virtual recreations are magnificent and impressive, but once you've wandered around and seen the sights, what else is there to do? There are no goals, no objectives, no points to be won or levels to be completed. Yes, there's a degree of social interaction - although precious little of it in these glossy showcase areas. [...] Three years on, and Second Life seems no closer to finding a respectable reason for being than it did in 2006. It might try and shuffle sex into a corner, and pretend that it's a melting pot of creativity, business and academia, but it ultimately serves no purpose. Now, there are at least three point here worth discussing... Briefly on each: (1) That SL is empty: there's been loads of rebuttals here, using statistics (like RL venues, such as discos, shops, bars, etc., are deserted most of the time, too: they're simply closed) to show that this impression is erroneous, even if subjectively overwhelming (but then some of our overwhelming impressions about RL have proved to be patently untrue :-) (2) SL can do better than ape RL: here I agree... See my "added value" discussion thread on this ning (http://zakajek.ning.com/forum/topics/added-value-of-sl-for-flt), where I talk about replicating (or not) RL teaching in-world. (3) The point of SL? The point od SL is that there is no God-given point at all :-) This is exactly like in RL: there's no sense in it except what you make of it yourself. YOU give life sense, both in RL and SL. It is profound misunderstanding to expect that somebody will do it for you, in either world. So SL has no obligation to "find a respectable reason for being", jut like RL does not. Indeed, either "serves no purpose". If that bothers you, quit. WS ========================================== This email is: [X] bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private ========================================== prof. Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak School of English Adam Mickiewicz University al. Niepodleglosci 4 61-874 Poznan Poland ========================================== tel. (48-61) 8293506 fax (48-61) 8523103 e-mail: sobkow@amu.edu.pl e-mail: swlodek@ifa.amu.edu.pl Skype: wasobk My web places: http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/~swlodek/links.html --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:36:50 -0500 From: David Golumbia Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.598 whatever happened to Second Life? In-Reply-To: <20100126063747.BF6C949503@woodward.joyent.us> earlier this month there was a really thorough discussion of this topic, including quite a few SL artists, over in the [idc] part of the world, starting with andreas schiffler's question, "anyone using SL?": https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2010-January/004138.html David -- David Golumbia dgolumbia@gmail.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 27 08:28:48 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57ED248D04; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:28:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8CD6548CFA; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:28:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100127082847.8CD6548CFA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:28:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.602 events: Nebraska Digital Workshop cfp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 602. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:37:33 -0600 From: Katherine L Walter Subject: Nebraska Digital Workshop Call for Proposals The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) will host the 5th Annual Nebraska Digital Workshop from Oct. 1-2, 2010. We are seeking proposals for digital presentations by pre-tenure faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students working in digital humanities. The goal of the Workshop is to enable the best early career scholars in the field of digital humanities to present their work in a forum where it can be critically evaluated, improved, and showcased. Under the auspices of the Center, the Workshop will bring nationally recognized senior scholars in digital humanities to UNL to participate and work with the selected scholars. Selected early-career scholars will receive travel reimbursement and an honorarium for presenting their work at the Nebraska Digital Workshop. Selection criteria include: significance in primary disciplinary field, technical innovation, theoretical and methodological sophistication, and creativity of approach. Please send an abstract, curriculum vitae, and a representative sample of digital work via a URL or disk on or before April 23, 2008 to: Katherine L. Walter, Co-Director, UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, at kwalter1@unl.edu or 319 Love Library, UNL, Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 USA. Thanks for your assistance in distributing this call, Kay Walter and Ken Price ***************************************** Katherine L. Walter and Kenneth M. Price Co-Directors, 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@unl.edu http://cdrh.unl.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 28 05:30:47 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 591D947D35; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:30:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 838D147D22; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:30:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100128053045.838D147D22@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:30:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.603 why chess for AI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 603. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alexander Hay (198) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.600 why chess for AI [2] From: Wendell Piez (41) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.600 why chess for AI --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:17:47 +0000 From: Alexander Hay Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.600 why chess for AI In-Reply-To: <20100127082646.1E17548BD0@woodward.joyent.us> Chess also has a lot in common with boxing - they both feature a limited range of moves but can involve an almost infinite range of strategies and combinations. Both can take years of training and still yield no real mastery. Both possess and often destroy their exponents. And both are impossible for a computer (or a robot) to properly emulate, precisely because they depend so much on human psychology, imprecision and nuance. With this in mind, 'Chess Boxing' seems less an eccentric passtime, and more like kicking computers when they're down.. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:14:16 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.600 why chess for AI In-Reply-To: <20100127082646.1E17548BD0@woodward.joyent.us> Willard and HUMANIST: At 03:26 AM 1/27/2010, James wrote: >There's a story, perhaps apocryphal, about the invention of a >chess-playing "mechanical man" who was pitted against Napoleon. >Napoleon exposed the robot as a fraud by repeatedly making illegal >moves until the midget hiding inside got angry and swept the pieces >off of the board. At any rate, game playing as a problem for AI may >predate the 20thC. It may predate the 19thC. This is a great story. Apart from whether it's true, part of the reason it's so compelling is that it retells the story of Alexander and the Gordian Knot. As conquerors, both Napoleon and Alexander knew the way to win the game was to rewrite its rules. One way of putting it is that both Alexander and Napoleon refused to be automata, accepting the rules as given. By this reasoning -- turning Shannon on his head -- chess playing, which Napoleon refused to do, may not be a form of intelligence so much as a form of its sublimation. Of course, having cut the knot -- and conquered Asia -- Alexander found he held a rope that could no longer bind. And so his empire did not hold together. The same might arguably be said of Napoleon. "Intelligence" perhaps means to take initiative within a situation neither perfectly deterministic, nor perfectly entropic, a world of matter and energy mixed. The machine is a structure and relates to structure; as such, it is a means of harnessing or channeling energy, but not, by itself, a creative force, destroying old orders and creating new ones. So far at least, no machine has broken the rules by which it was made -- even while its makers and users have. Or has it? It's interesting that while Napoleon exposed the chess-playing mechanism as a fraud, he did so by revealing that it was, in fact, intelligent -- that it understood what was going on. Cheers, Wendell ========================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ========================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 28 05:31:16 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E9B347DAB; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:31:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 102D847DA3; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:31:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: 23.604 new publication: Digital Studies / Le champ numérique From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100128053115.102D847DA3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:31:15 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 604. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:56:52 -0800 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Digital Studies / Le champ numérique: The Computer and Canadian Scholarship [please redistribute / please excuse x-posting] Digital Studies / Le champ numérique http://www.digitalstudies.org Vol 1, No 2 (2009) http://bit.ly/7vndr The Computer and Canadian Scholarship: Recent Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences * John Bonnett and Kevin Kee. Transitions: A Prologue and Preview for Digital Humanities Research in Canada * Robert C. H. Sweeny. Rethinking Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Lessons from the Montréal l’avenir du passé (MAP) Project. * Anthony Di Mascio and Adam J. Green. The Canadian Century Research Infrastructure: Enabling Humanities and Social Science Research in the Digital Age * Shawn Graham. 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Similarly, our publication technology, policies and practices will strive to promote and reflect the community's best emergent and longstanding practices. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 28 05:31:49 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2AA47E01; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:31:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E188F47DEE; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:31:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100128053147.E188F47DEE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:31:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.605 CATMA 2.01 released X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 605. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:58:19 +0100 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: CATMA 2.01 - fully JAVA based version released *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1264597105_2010-01-27_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_6101.2.txt 13:48 27.01.2010 In June 2009 we released CATMA (Computer Aided Textual Markup and Analysis) version 1.0 which was also presented to interested parties at the DH 2009. Inspired by the well known program ?Usebase? (from the TACT suite, a DOS based tool set developed at Toronto University) CATMA provides a variety of functions by way of a seamless integration of a Tagger and an Analyzer component. CATMA places a strong emphasis on usability and is designed for users with little experience in digital text analysis. It took a bit longer than we had hoped, but - our next release, the fully JAVA based version CATMA 2.01 and further information is now available for download at http://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/catma/ ******************************* Jan Christoph Meister Professor für Neuere deutsche Literatur (Literaturtheorie, Textanalyse, Computerphilologie) Universität Hamburg Department SLM I - Institut für Germanistik II Von-Melle-Park 6 D-20146 Hamburg Mail: jan-c-meister@uni-hamburg.de Office: +49 - 40 - 42838 2972 Cell: +49 - 0172 40 865 41 Web: www.jcmeister.de ~\| _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 28 05:33:12 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FE6A47E9A; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:33:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CB4B147E85; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:33:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100128053310.CB4B147E85@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:33:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.606 events: visual interpretations; London Seminar; i-Society X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 606. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (60) Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship for February [2] From: David Brown (137) Subject: Call for Papers: i-Society 2010! [3] From: Kurt Fendt (44) Subject: MIT humanities + digital Conference on Visual Interpretations - CallFor Proposals --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:40:43 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship for February John Bradley, 'Pliny: providing tools for traditional scholarship' 4 February 2010, Thursday, Room 275 (Stewart House), Bloomsbury, London, 17:30 - 19:30 All are welcome; refreshments provided. From its beginnings about 60 years ago, the often stated purpose of the digital humanities has been to transform how scholarship is done. The recent claim made in the report from the Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities is typical: “humanists are on the verge of [...] a revolutionary change in their scholarship, enabled by information technology" (www.iath.virginia.edu/dtsummit/). My experience during the last 35 years in the field now called the Digital Humanities suggests a rather different reality and outcome. While the tools and techniques developed and proposed are exciting and full of possibilities for some kinds of scholarly investigation, I argue that they are not grounded sufficiently in mainstream humanities scholarship to effect the envisioned transformation. Many have noticed that the digital humanities has so far failed in its transformative mission. Many of the key people seem to believe that more of the same will finally make a difference. I disagree. Pliny represents an attempt to express in software and to augment central aspects of what scholars actually do when they read a text, take notes on it and develop an interpretation from their reading. Pliny is indebted to tools available for many years in the social sciences and to more recent research in computer science but models humanistic scholarly practices. It is in and of the digital humanities but marks a significant break from traditional software development for the humanities. Its design is deeply indebted to the ideas of Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the mouse, who argued that software with the least obvious presence has the greatest chance of making a difference to how things are done. In my talk, I will introduce Pliny and present some of the intellectual foundations upon which it is built. I will also describe Pliny's second agenda: to bring some of the radical new research technologies somewhat closer to the methods of traditional scholarship. Biography John Bradley is a Senior Analyst for Humanities Computing at King’s College London and has worked on problems in the digital humanities since the 1970s. He came to the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) at King’s in March 1997, having worked previously at the University of Toronto (Canada). A significant element of his work at CCH includes the management, design and analysis of a number of major multi-year collaborative research projects with discipline-specific partners from the humanities. These projects are funded by bodies such as the AHRC and the Mellon Foundation. They range in subject from music to history, and focus on issues that arise from modelling, collecting and presenting highly structured data and text from complex humanities sources. Mr Bradley also teaches in CCH’s academic program at both the undergraduate and MA level. Personal research interests have centred on exploring the impact of digital tools on humanities research. Bradley was the principal designer for the TACT text analysis system in the 1980s and 1990s - a system that although now over 15 years old still has today an influence upon thinking about text-based tools within the digital humanities community. In more recent work, on Pliny (pliny.cch.kcl.ac.uk), he has proposed and demonstrated a new role for computer tools to support scholarly research derived from an analysis of scholarly notetaking and its significance. In 2008 this work was awarded a MATC prize from The Mellon Foundation. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London: staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:04:48 +0100 (CET) From: David Brown Subject: Call for Papers: i-Society 2010! Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************* International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010), Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter 28-30 June, 2010, London, UK www.i-society.eu ******************************************************************* The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010) is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter. The i-Society is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry. The conference covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to information society, which includes technical and non-technical research areas. The mission of i-Society 2010 conference is to provide opportunities for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing and generate new knowledge in the field of information society. The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science that studies the societal and technological dimensions of knowledge evolution in digital society. The i-Society bridges the gap between academia and industry with regards to research collaboration and awareness of current development in secure information management in the digital society. The topics in i-Society 2010 include but are not confined to the following areas: *New enabling technologies - Internet technologies - Wireless applications - Mobile Applications - Multimedia Applications - Protocols and Standards - Ubiquitous Computing - Virtual Reality - Human Computer Interaction - Geographic information systems - e-Manufacturing *Intelligent data management - Intelligent Agents - Intelligent Systems - Intelligent Organisations - Content Development - Data Mining - e-Publishing and Digital Libraries - Information Search and Retrieval - Knowledge Management - e-Intelligence - Knowledge networks *Secure Technologies - Internet security - Web services and performance - Secure transactions - Cryptography - Payment systems - Secure Protocols - e-Privacy - e-Trust - e-Risk - Cyber law - Forensics - Information assurance - Mobile social networks - Peer-to-peer social networks - Sensor networks and social sensing *e-Learning - Collaborative Learning - Curriculum Content Design and Development - Delivery Systems and Environments - Educational Systems Design - e-Learning Organisational Issues - Evaluation and Assessment - Virtual Learning Environments and Issues - Web-based Learning Communities - e-Learning Tools - e-Education *e-Society - Global Trends - Social Inclusion - Intellectual Property Rights - Social Infonomics - Computer-Mediated Communication - Social and Organisational Aspects - Globalisation and developmental IT - Social Software *e-Health - Data Security Issues - e-Health Policy and Practice - e-Healthcare Strategies and Provision - Medical Research Ethics - Patient Privacy and Confidentiality - e-Medicine *e-Governance - Democracy and the Citizen - e-Administration - Policy Issues - Virtual Communities *e-Business - Digital Economies - Knowledge economy - eProcurement - National and International Economies - e-Business Ontologies and Models - Digital Goods and Services - e-Commerce Application Fields - e-Commerce Economics - e-Commerce Services - Electronic Service Delivery - e-Marketing - Online Auctions and Technologies - Virtual Organisations - Teleworking - Applied e-Business - Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) *e-Art - Legal Issues - Patents - Enabling technologies and tools *e-Science - Natural sciences in digital society - Biometrics - Bioinformatics - Collaborative research *Industrial developments - Trends in learning - Applied research - Cutting-edge technologies * Research in progress - Ongoing research from undergraduates, graduates/postgraduates and professionals Important Dates: Paper Submission Date: January 31, 2010 Notification of Paper Acceptance /Rejection: February 28, 2010 Camera Ready Paper Due: March 15, 2010 Early Bird Attendee registration: January 01, 2010 Late Bird Attendee registration: February 28, 2010 Conference Dates: June 28-30, 2010 For more details, please visit www.i-society.eu --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:51:02 -0500 From: Kurt Fendt Subject: MIT humanities + digital Conference on Visual Interpretations - CallFor Proposals humanities + digital Conference 2010 "Visual Interpretations" - Aesthetics, Methods, and Critiques of Information Visualization in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences May 20-22, 2010 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology/HyperStudio http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/h-digital/ How do visual representations of complex data help humanities scholars ask new questions? How does visual rhetoric shape the way we relate to documents and artifacts? And, can we recompose the field of digital humanities to integrate more dynamic analytical methods into humanities research? HyperStudio’s Visual Interpretations conference will bring digital practitioners and humanities scholars together with experts in art and design to consider the past, present, and future of visual epistemology in digital humanities. The goal is to get beyond the notion that information exists independently of visual presentation, and to rethink visualization as an integrated analytical method in humanities scholarship. By fostering dialogue and critical engagement, this conference aims to explore new ways to design data and metadata structures so that their visual embodiments function as "humanities tools in digital environments.” (Johanna Drucker) We welcome submissions from practitioners and theorists of digital humanities as well as such connected disciplines as art, design, visual culture, museum studies, and computer science. Possible topics include: · Expressive and artistic dimensions of visualizations · Subjectivity and objectivity in information visualization · Dynamic/multidimensional visualizations and user collaboration · Social media and contextualized visualization · Cultural history of visual epistemology · Limits and affordances of the translation from data to visualization · 2D and 3D visualizations of historical/social/political data · Visualization across media and the archive · Digital visual literacy & accessibility · Relationships between database and interface · Alternative modes of data representation. Submissions: We are inviting submissions for the following conference formats: · Papers with 15minutes of presentation and short discussions (12 slots) · Short presentations, so called “6/4s” with 6 minutes of presentation and 4 minutes of discussion (18 slots available) · Mini-Workshops, 30 minutes each (6 slots) · Demos and Posters (30 slots) Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2010 Organizers: MIT HyperStudio for Digital Humanities (http://hyperstudio.mit.edu) MIT Communications Forum (http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/) For more information: http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/h-digital/ or contact: h.digital@mit.edu Thank you for distributing this call. Dr. Kurt E. Fendt, Executive Director, HyperStudio - Digital Humanities at MIT Research Director, Comparative Media Studies/Foreign Languages and Literatures Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mail: Room 14N-305 (Office: 16-635) 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Phone: (617) 253-4312, Fax: (267) 224-6814 HyperStudio: http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 29 06:31:10 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D8248EB5; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:31:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CE5F748EA5; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:31:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100129063108.CE5F748EA5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:31:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.607 why chess for AI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 607. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:21:02 -0600 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.597 why chess for AI In-Reply-To: <20100126063420.43BAC49297@woodward.joyent.us> Chess has an interesting history in AI. It was more a case of trying to explore the limits of reasoning by machine than anything else--or at least forcing opponents of the idea that machines could "think" to clarify what they meant. Most famously, there was a gauntlet thrown down by those who said, "A computer could never defeat a human at chess"; later refined to "A computer could never defeat a grand master at chess". It became a demonstration task for the computer folks. However, as with many other tasks, the solution revealed that computers and human beings are different. At first the task was simply to build computer programs that could play chess, i.e., make legal moves. This became a standard artificial intelligence graduate course class assignment by the late 1960s, to teach students about game playing techniques. Once computers played "legal" chess there were a variety of approaches to improving their game. Some pursued modeling the strategies of human chess experts. However, it soon became apparent that there was another strategy available through brute force. I.e., the computer could simply look ahead to see what the consequences of EVERY move were. And then, the consequences of every countermove by its opponent, and the consequences of every counter-countermove to those moves.... all the way through to a checkmate. Once this strategy was determined to be solely limited by the computing capacity of the machine it was apparent that a computer could eventually beat human players--all that had to be done was to build it. Additional criteria were added to the challenge, such as requiring the machine to make its moves in real time, in a real chess match. Frankly, it seemed a bit silly because it was very much like questioning whether a locomotive could outrace a horse and anyone claiming that it would never happen clearly didn't understand how engineering works. So, what finally happened is that computer folks decided to build special purpose hardware to play chess. This is always available as an option when general purpose computing is too slow. (However, surprisingly, it is often a short-lived necessity, as general purpose computers eventually overtake the capability of the special-hardware--which cannot economically continue to be developed since it only does one task). The "chess machine" was created with the sole purpose of playing chess using look-ahead to greater depths than any human could reach. An interesting sidenote was that once all these circumstances were set up, i.e., computer engineers figured out how to build and run special hardware to play chess in real time against real chess masters, the human chess masters began to interpret the machine's performance as evidence of it having a personality. I suppose this was an integral part of their strategy in playing against human chess players that gave them a means to see further ahead by guessing what moves their opponent would favor---but I can't but help find it misplaced inference when used against a machine. True, the problem of being able to see all the way to the end of the game was too difficult for even the best hardware of the day, so effort was put into improving the software to not have the computer waste its time with analysis of legal but dumb moves that no chess expert would execute, but the principle that this was a finite game that had a computable end really meant eventually there was no doubt of the computer's eventual mastery of the problem and no reason to believe in "personality" being a factor. So, when it became apparent that all but grand masters could easily be beaten by a computer playing chess, it became a matter of finding a use for this capability. The obvious answer was to market a chess-playing computer for human players to test their skill against--and that was done, with graded levels of expertise so it could be played and beaten at each level. I guess the humanist lesson is that one shouldn't assume all tasks performed by human beings REQUIRE "thinking", just because we use "thinking" to do them. The computer that plays chess well doesn't "think" any more than the toaster-oven that cooks food using a timer to shut off when done "thinks" about the food being done. "Thinking" is thus a rather vague term that has swept up a number of tasks humans perform that could readily be done without "thought" at all. The questions that remain are still challenging. How can we decide when a task cannot be performed by "reasoning" alone. In hindsight, I believe we've gotten considerably more sophisticated in our understanding of the boundary between "reasoning" and "thinking". Of course, the mathematical understanding of game theory and the realization that many 'games' are completely solvable by reasoning alone, advanced our understanding of where the boundary was. The movie "Wargames" is instructive. In it a computer programmed to fight a nuclear war is hacked into by a kid thinking it's a harmless game-playing machine with this novel game called "thermonuclear war". The computer doesn't know or care that it's about to launch a real nuclear war using the hardware it controls. In the end, it runs a massive number of scenarios in terms of the outcome and (in a Hollywood ending) "learns" that "thermonuclear war" is an odd game, because as it says, "The only way to win is not to play" and then suggests a nice game of chess instead. Learning of this kind is still a mystery in AI. I.e., recasting the problem intitially given as an instance of a high-level concept. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 29 06:32:08 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A778148FAE; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:32:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CAAD148FA1; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:32:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100129063207.CAAD148FA1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:32:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.608 postdoc at INKE; jobs at King's College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 608. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Spence, Paul" (24) Subject: Three jobs at King's College London (CCH) [2] From: Richard Cunningham (60) Subject: Post-doc sought --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:14:37 +0000 From: "Spence, Paul" Subject: Three jobs at King's College London (CCH) Job posting: three Project Research Associates required [With apologies for cross-posting] The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London is looking for three highly motivated and technically sophisticated individuals to work on its text-based research projects. The positions will involve using computer tools and methods to facilitate digital scholarship. CCH is both a department with responsibility for its own academic programme and a research centre promoting the appropriate application of computing in humanities research. Its research projects cover a wide range of humanities disciplines, including medieval studies, history, literature and linguistics, and music, and also include a number of more general information management projects in both humanities and the social sciences. The successful candidates will possess strong analytical and problem solving skills: they will be required to identify and engage with the core scholarly questions in a highly collaborative research context; to analyse a wide variety of humanities materials and to model them using XML-related technologies; to design and develop systems for editing and delivering text-based scholarly materials and to collaborate in the design of integrated HTML-based publication. Experience in creating and manipulating XML documents in a range of XML-related standards and technologies (DTDs, XPath, XSLT) is highly desirable, in particular textual materials encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative's guidelines. All successful candidates will need to have a good understanding of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences and will be expected to make a strong contribution to the departmental research profile. They will need to be able to work effectively as part of a team, as well as independently. They must have good communication skills and the ability to document their work in clear written English. One position is for one year on Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover) - within the Grade 5 scale, currently £28,074 to £32,176, inclusive of London Allowance. Two positions are for one year on Fixed Term Contract - within the Grade 6 scale, currently £30,070 to £39,038 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance. Closing date: 12th February 2010 Please view and apply for positions at the following URLs: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=8594 and http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=8595 ---------------------------------------- Paul Spence Project Manager (Digital Text) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL paul.spence@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/ http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/research/projects/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:21:41 +0000 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: Post-doc sought With apologies for cross-posting, please circulate this to anyone you believe might be interested and qualified. A pdf of the ad is attached, and we would ask you to post it where qualified applicants might see it. Thank you. Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in the History and Future of the Book (2010-11, renewable) The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project, funded by a Major Collaborative Research Initiative grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), seeks a post-doctoral fellow in the History and Future of the Book, with expertise in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities. This position is based in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, in partnership with the Jackman Humanities Institute. The successful candidate is anticipated to work closely with team members at U Toronto, Acadia U, U Saskatchewan, U Victoria, U Western Ontario, and beyond. The postdoctoral fellow will work with digital manifestations of historical textual features, collaborating with INKE’s Textual Studies team and others, consulting with project stakeholders and potential stakeholders, and liaising with other INKE researchers located in North America and the UK. The fellow will be expected teach a light course load in the Faculty of Information and the collaborative program in Book History and Print Culture, to be remunerated in addition to the fellowship’s salary. The successful candidate will have skills and aptitudes in humanities-oriented research, textual studies and book history/bibliography, including training or demonstrated experience working with a variety of digital humanities resources, including digital archives, scholarly editions, journals and monographs, and text analysis and visualization tools. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset. The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. Examples of technologies employed in INKE projects are as follows: TEI P5 ; XML, XSLT, XSL and XHTML encoding; XQuery; eXist XML databases; JavaScript; and Ruby on Rails. Experience in some or all technologies in use in INKE-related projects and similar areas would be an asset, but is not a requirement, though hands-on aptitude with--as distinct from merely interest in--digital tools is required. Our current team members pride themselves on a passionate interest in both the humanities and their computational engagement. Our ideal candidate is someone with similar passions who can introduce the team to new ideas and provide new perspectives on existing digital humanities issues. The salary for this position is competitive in the Canadian context, and is governed in part by SSHRC practices. Applications comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees may be sent electronically to inke.ischool@utoronto.ca. The contract can begin as early as 1 September 2010; it is for a one-year term, with the possibility of renewal. The position is subject to budgetary approval. Interviews may be conducted via Skype, or in person at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Montréal), the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Victoria), and other venues at which INKE team members are present. Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 29 06:34:22 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD5E949047; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:34:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 40C4149030; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:34:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100129063420.40C4149030@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:34:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.609 invitation to say how you use digital resources X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 609. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:38:35 +0000 From: Karen Taylor Subject: Invitation to Participate in a Digital Humanities Study Dear Colleague, Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) is a large-scale collaborative research project in the digital humanities directed by Dr. Ray Siemens, Department of English, University of Victoria, and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Our research team is examining the complex processes of human engagement with information that is available digitally. Specifically, we are interested in identifying and understanding the ways in which social sciences and humanities readers engage with forms such as the electronic scholarly edition, the academic monograph, scholarly journal and essay collections, and electronic literature. With this letter, we are inviting you to complete a short survey about how you experience and use digital resources in the context of your research. The findings of this survey will be used to improve existing digital tools and to derive requirements for prospective tools and resources that we hope will be of benefit to you and other researchers. The questionnaire should take approximately twenty minutes to complete. If you are willing to participate, you will find it online at . Your answers to this questionnaire will be kept strictly confidential. In consideration of your time you may enter a draw for a $150.00 gift certificate from an online bookstore upon completion of the questionnaire. We look forward to the prospect of your participation in this study. Please feel free to contact the INKE Graduate Research Assistant, Karen Taylor, at any time if you have questions about this research: 604-737-2873 (British Columbia, Canada) or >. Best regards, Dr. Teresa Dobson for the INKE Team Associate Professor Director, Digital Literacy Centre University of British Columbia c/o Department of Language & Literacy 2125 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 29 06:34:41 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C202490A6; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:34:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D47854907A; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:34:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100129063439.D47854907A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:34:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.610 new book X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 610. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:34:43 +0000 From: "mktgtwo@umn.edu" Subject: new book: What is Posthumanism? Beyond humanism and anthropocentrism WHAT IS POSTHUMANISM? By Cary Wolfe University of Minnesota Press | 392 pages | 2010 ISBN 978-0-8166-6614-0| hardcover | $75.00 ISBN 978-0-8166-6615-7| paperback | $24.95 Posthumanities Series, volume 8 Can a new kind of humanities-posthumanities-respond to the redefinition of humanity's place in the world by both the technological and the biological or "green" continuum in which the "human" is but one life form among many? Exploring this radical repositioning, Cary Wolfe ranges across bioethics, cognitive science, animal ethics, gender, and disability to develop a theoretical and philosophical approach responsive to our changing understanding of ourselves and our world. "What Is Posthumanism? is an original, thoroughly argued, fundamental redefinition and refocusing of posthumanism. Firmly distinguishing posthumanism from discourses of the 'posthuman' or 'transhumanism,' this book will be at the center of discussion for a long time to come." - Donna Haraway, author of When Species Meet For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/W/wolfe_posthumanism.html Find more information on the Posthumanities series: http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/posthumanities.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/mediaalert.html - Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 skinn077@umn.edu v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 http://www.upress.umn.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 29 06:36:20 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EE2649127; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:36:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A121849115; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:36:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100129063618.A121849115@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:36:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.611 events: digitisation; language technology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 611. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (6) Subject: AFF workshop, 'Digitisation in a Day', 3 February 2010 [2] From: "Kalliopi A. Zervanou" (107) Subject: LaTeCH-2010: Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:48:51 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: AFF workshop, 'Digitisation in a Day', 3 February 2010 *** Attachments: mhstore: missing argument to -part With apologies for cross-posting, members of this list may find the following of interest: From: foras.feasa@nuim.ie Date: 27 January 2010 16:54:41 GMT To: foras.feasa@nuim.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:57:45 +0000 From: "Kalliopi A. Zervanou" Subject: LaTeCH-2010: Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities First CALL FOR PAPERS ECAI Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2010) http://ilk.uvt.nl/LaTeCH2010/index.html Submission deadline: 7 May 2010 ********************************************************************* The 4th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities will be held in conjunction with ECAI 2010, which takes place from 16-20 August 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal (http://ecai2010.appia.pt). ================== About the Workshop ================== With the advent of the digital age, museums, archives, libraries and other cultural heritage (CH) institutes are gradually moving away from a predominantly pen-and-paper based collection management; more and more CH institutes are aiming to make their collections widely accessible to both experts and laypersons. A first step in this endeavour is the digitisation of existing data. Several large-scale digitisation efforts have been launched in recent years. A similar development can also be seen in the 'soft' sciences, such as social sciences and humanities (SH), where increasing amounts of relevant texts are being made available in electronic form, either being produced digitally, or being digitised as part of efforts directed at digitising archival material. However, information access should not be restricted to simple key-word based search on digitised data. To truely unlock the knowledge contained in CH and SH collections, it is necessary to develop novel technologies that support the information and entertainment needs of individual users. Techniques from artificial intelligence are particularly well suited to help users to make the best possible use of these digitised collections. As information access is often obtained via the (mostly textual) metadata level, language technology in particular plays an important role. Other areas of AI, including knowledge representation, multi-modal systems and user modelling, are also relevant. =============== Workshop Topics =============== Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers on all aspects of language technology, machine learning, pattern recognition, knowledge representation, multi-modal systems, recommender systems, and other neighbouring fields in NLP and AI applied to cultural heritage (CH), social sciences and humanities (SH). We also invite contributions from the cultural heritage institutes themselves in the form of use cases and usage scenarios. We thereby hope to bring together both communities (NLP/AI and CH/SH) and foster an exchange of ideas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Automatic error detection and cleaning of digitised data * Data enrichment and linking * Adapting existing tools to the CH/SH domain * Knowledge representation, ontologies, metadata and data models * Knowledge discovery and text mining * Machine learning and pattern recognition * Multi-modal and interactive systems * Personalisation and recommender systems * Text simplification, text summarisation, and (hyper)text generation * Transdisciplinary research on CH and SH data * User scenarios and use cases For more details see: http://ilk.uvt.nl/LaTeCH2010/cfp.html =============== Important Dates =============== Paper submission deadline: May 7, 2010 Notification of acceptance: June 7, 2010 Early registration deadline: June 15, 2010 Camera-ready papers due: June 21, 2010 LaTeCH full-day workshop: August, 2010 (exact date to be confirmed) =================== Programme Committee =================== Ion Androutsopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne, Australia David Bamman, Tufts University, USA Toine Bogers, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark Paul Buitelaar, DERI Galway, Ireland Kate Byrne, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Milena Dobreva, HATII, University of Glasgow, Scotland Mick O'Donnell, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain Claire Grover, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Ben Hachey, Macquarie University, Australia Dominik Heckmann, DFKI, Germany Christer Johansson, University of Bergen, Norway Jaap Kamps, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece Michael Kipp, DFKI, Germany Stasinos Konstantopoulos, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece Veronique Malaise, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Barbara McGillivray, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy John McNaught, National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), UK Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK John Nerbonne, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands Katerina Pastra, ILSP, Greece Marco Pennacchiotti, Yahoo! Research, USA Georg Rehm, vionto GmbH, Germany Martin Reynaert, Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands Svitlana Zinger, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands ============ Organisation ============ Caroline Sporleder, Saarland University, Germany Kalliopi Zervanou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Piroska Lendvai, Academy of Sciences, Hungary Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, The Netherlands _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 30 07:38:11 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E57449220; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:38:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5377749216; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:38:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100130073810.5377749216@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:38:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.612 postdocs at EMiC (Canada) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 612. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:45:54 -0500 From: Dean Irvine Subject: EMiC Postdoctoral Fellowship (deadline: 1 March 2010) The Editing Modernism in Canada project, funded by a Strategic Knowledge Cluster grant (2008-15) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, invites applications to its 2010 competition for a postdoctoral fellowship. Our current EMiC postdoctoral fellow, Meagan Timney, is working under the supervision of Ray Siemens at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria, and in collaboration with Martin Holmes at UVic's Humanities Computing and Media Centre, on the development of the Image Markup Tool and publication engine for the production of the project's digital editions and archives. EMiC offers two-year postdoctoral fellowships valued at $31,500 per year to PhD students in the final year of their program and recent graduates who are engaged in research relevant to the project's mandate: to produce critically edited texts by modernist Canadian authors. The awards are tenable at any of the EMiC partner universities and are supervised by, or undertaken in collaboration with, co-applicants or collaborators. Although preference will be given to research projects most directly relevant to the task of producing critically edited texts by modernist Canadian authors, these awards are open to recently graduated postdoctoral scholars engaged in research projects relevant to one or more of the three components of this project: literary modernism, scholarly editing, and the digital humanities. Applicants must not hold a tenure or tenure-track position or other full-time employment. Fellows are expected to engage in full-time postdoctoral research during the term of the award. Preference will be given to recent graduates, that is, to graduates applying within five years of receiving their doctoral degree. The awards are not renewable beyond the second year. EMiC will provide an allocation of $31,500 per year to the partner universities at which successful applicants propose to engage in their research. EMiC co-applicants or collaborators will be responsible for ensuring that those funds are administered in keeping with the guidelines established by their respective universities. In a sponsorship letter the postdoctoral supervisor should clearly indicate the university's willingness to host the EMiC postdoctoral fellow and the arrangements made regarding office space, library access, supplies and teaching that will be made available. Applications must be submitted via the online form available at the project website: http://editingmodernism.ca/postdoc_funding.html Application deadline: 1 March 2010 Dean Irvine Associate Professor Director, Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) Collection Director, Canadian Literature Collection/Collection de littérature canadienne (University of Ottawa Press) Department of English Dalhousie University 6135 University Avenue Halifax, NS B3H 4P9 tel: 902.494.6903 email: dean.irvine@dal.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 30 07:38:51 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AEE249287; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:38:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 40C7349280; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:38:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100130073850.40C7349280@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:38:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.613 a new home for the Wired Humanities Projects? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 613. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:00:05 -0800 From: Stephanie Wood Subject: Mesoamerica & digital humanities The Wired Humanities Projects at the University of Oregon (with 90% of our digital humanities research projects having a Mesoamerican focus -- see http://whp.uoregon.edu/ ) is looking for a new home. We have been very successful at winning external funding, and would like to be able to continue writing grant proposals. We are open to collaboration. Any leads would be much appreciated. Please direct your replies to me off list. I apologize for any duplication and I hope people won't mind my using the listserv to make this inquiry. Thanks very much! Stephanie Wood, Ph.D., Director Wired Humanities Projects Yamada Language Center 1236 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon 97403-1236 U.S.A. Tel. 541-346-5771 swood@uoregon.edu Office: UO Annex, Suite 4 876 E. 12th Avenue _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 30 07:39:44 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E413749325; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:39:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 13EC34930D; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:39:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100130073942.13EC34930D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:39:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.614 new on WWW: Blake Archive update X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 614. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:20:17 -0500 (EST) From: William S Shaw Subject: Update to the William Blake Archive 29 January 2010 The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of the electronic edition of _Milton a Poem_ copy D. Only four copies of _Milton_, Blake's most personal epic, are extant. Copy D, from the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress, joins copies A, B, and C, previously published in the Archive, enabling the Archive to display the complete production history of this illuminated book. Blake etched forty-five plates for _Milton_ in relief, with some full-page designs in white-line etching, between c. 1804 (the date on the title page) and c. 1810. Six additional plates (a-f) were probably etched in subsequent years up to 1818. No copy contains all fifty-one plates. The prose "Preface" (plate 2) appears only in copies A and B. Plates a-e appear only in copies C and D, plate f only in copy D. The first printing, late in 1810 or early in 1811, produced copies A-C, printed in black ink and finished in water colors. Blake retained copy C and added new plates and rearranged others at least twice; copy C was not finished until c. 1821. Copy D was printed in 1818 in orange ink and elaborately colored. Like all the illuminated books in the Archive, the text and images of _Milton_ copy D are fully searchable and are supported by our Inote and ImageSizer applications. With the Archive's Compare feature, users can easily juxtapose multiple impressions of any plate across the different copies of this or any of the other illuminated books. New protocols for transcription, which produce improved accuracy and fuller documentation in editors' notes, have been applied to all copies of _Milton_ in the Archive. With the publication of _Milton_ copy D, the Archive now contains fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of seventy-three copies of Blake's nineteen illuminated books in the context of full bibliographic information about each work, careful diplomatic transcriptions of all texts, detailed descriptions of all images, and extensive bibliographies. In addition to illuminated books, the Archive contains many important manuscripts and series of engravings, sketches, and water color drawings, including illustrations to Thomas Gray's _Poems_, water color and engraved illustrations to Dante's _Divine Comedy_, the large color printed drawings of 1795 and c. 1805, the Linnell and Butts sets of the _Book of Job_ water colors and the sketchbook containing drawings for the engraved illustrations to the _Book of Job_, the water color illustrations to Robert Blair's _The Grave_, and all nine of Blake's water color series illustrating the poetry of John Milton. As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no access restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the continuing support of the Library of Congress, and the cooperation of the international array of libraries and museums that have generously given us permission to reproduce works from their collections in the Archive. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors Ashley Reed, project manager, William Shaw, technical editor The William Blake Archive _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 30 07:42:44 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C503F493BD; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:42:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1F017493B6; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:42:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100130074243.1F017493B6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:42:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.615 cfp: Conference on Editorial Problems, Toronto X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 615. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:47:38 -0500 From: Dean Irvine Subject: EMiC Conference on Editorial Problems Call for Papers EMiC] Editing Modernism in Canada Conference on Editorial Problems University of Toronto 23-24 October 10 The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence in transnational modernist studies and the emergence of a new generation of scholars working on Canadian modernist literature and drama. This period has seen the publication of critical monographs, biographies, essay collections, anthologies, and critical editions, the organization of several international conferences, and the launch of major collaborative research projects. The Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) project plays a leading role in this emergent generation of modernist studies. For its first major public event, EMiC is hosting the Conference on Editorial Problems at the University of Toronto, 23-24 October 2010. Sean Latham, Past President of the Modernist Studies Association, will deliver the keynote address. We invite proposals not only from EMiC-affiliated researchers (co-applicants, collaborators, postdocs, and graduate fellows) but also from unaffiliated scholars whose work in the fields of modernist literature and theatre, scholarly editing, book history, and the digital humanities intersects with our project. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: case studies of digital or print editions in progress; rationales for prospective or hypothetical editions in print or digital media; exhibitions of collaborative digital editing tools and publication engines; reports on experiential-learning pedagogies used to train students and new scholars in editorial theory and practice; strategies for the development of relationships among universities, publishers, the media, public libraries and non-profit cultural organizations (book clubs, reading groups, reading series, literary festivals) to promote Canada's modernists; re-assessments of canons and curricula posed by the introduction and/or reinterpretation of Canadian modernist texts in new critical editions; analyses of series of editions (New Canadian Library, Laurentian Library, Collected Works of A.M. Klein, Collected Works of E.J. Pratt, etc.) and how these series have shaped editorial and critical practice; findings based on research into the archives of modernist authors, their editors and anthologists, and their publishers. We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers for panels or 5-minute position papers for roundtables. Panel sessions will feature the standard sequence of 3 or 4 speakers delivering 15-20 minute talks followed by a question period and discussion. Roundtables will consist of 5 or 6 speakers gathered around issues or topics of common concern in order to generate discussion among the participants and with the audience. Roundtable participants will be asked to deliver short (5 minute) position statements in response to questions distributed in advance by the session organizer, and they will take turns responding to the moderator's and audience's questions and comments. Selected papers by conference participants will be collected in a planned volume of conference proceedings, which will be published as part of the University of Toronto Press's Conference on Editorial Problems series and co-edited by the conference convenors. In addition to this collection, we will publish a special issue of Essays on Canadian Writing with contributions from a select group of the conference's panel and roundtable participants. A limited number of subventions for EMiC participants (co-applicants, collaborators, postdocs, and graduate fellows) and affiliated students will be available to defray travel and accommodation expenses. For eligibility guidelines see the Travel Subventions page of the project website. Please submit 500-word proposal, 100-word abstract, and 50-word biographical statement via email to the conference organizers, Dean Irvine (dean.irvine@dal.ca) and Colin Hill (colin.hill@utoronto.ca), by 15 March 2010. For more information about the EMiC project, please visit our website at http://editingmodernism.ca or contact us at emic@dal.ca. EMiC is funded by a Strategic Knowledge Cluster grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Dean Irvine Associate Professor Director, Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) Collection Director, Canadian Literature Collection/Collection de littérature canadienne (University of Ottawa Press) Department of English Dalhousie University 6135 University Avenue Halifax, NS B3H 4P9 tel: 902.494.6903 email: dean.irvine@dal.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 1 05:30:28 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9359F4A56F; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 05:30:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 20F364A545; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 05:30:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100201053024.20F364A545@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 05:30:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.616 disciplinary variations? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 616. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:25:30 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: disciplinary variation across national/linguistic boundaries? Might anyone here know of studies on the variation of disciplinary cultures across national and/or linguistic boundaries? I know of the work of Mats Alvesson (Lund, visiting at Exeter), but there seems little more than mentions of his idea of "Great Culture". Adam Podgorecki's book, Higher Faculties: A Cross-National Study of University Culture (Praeger, 1997), has also surfaced. Other suggestions welcome. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 1 05:31:52 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 513064A5D3; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 05:31:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EBC024A5CC; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 05:31:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100201053149.EBC024A5CC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 05:31:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.617 events: language; visuals; society; numbers; biology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 617. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: David Brown (137) Subject: Final call for Papers: i-Society 2010! [2] From: Andrew Stauffer (39) Subject: CFP: "By the Numbers" Victorians Institute Conference at U of Virginia, Oct. 1-3, 2010 [3] From: "carlos.martin@urv.cat" (18) Subject: LATA 2010: early registration deadline [4] From: Kurt Fendt (44) Subject: cfp: MIT humanities + digital Conference on Visual Interpretations [5] From: Alfredo Ferro (8) Subject: cfp: 22nd Jacob T. Schwartz International School for Scientific Research --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:28:15 +0100 (CET) From: David Brown Subject: Final call for Papers: i-Society 2010! Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************* International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010), Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter 28-30 June, 2010, London, UK www.i-society.eu ******************************************************************* The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010) is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter. The i-Society is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry. The conference covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to information society, which includes technical and non-technical research areas. The mission of i-Society 2010 conference is to provide opportunities for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing and generate new knowledge in the field of information society. The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science that studies the societal and technological dimensions of knowledge evolution in digital society. The i-Society bridges the gap between academia and industry with regards to research collaboration and awareness of current development in secure information management in the digital society. The topics in i-Society 2010 include but are not confined to the following areas: *New enabling technologies - Internet technologies - Wireless applications - Mobile Applications - Multimedia Applications - Protocols and Standards - Ubiquitous Computing - Virtual Reality - Human Computer Interaction - Geographic information systems - e-Manufacturing *Intelligent data management - Intelligent Agents - Intelligent Systems - Intelligent Organisations - Content Development - Data Mining - e-Publishing and Digital Libraries - Information Search and Retrieval - Knowledge Management - e-Intelligence - Knowledge networks *Secure Technologies - Internet security - Web services and performance - Secure transactions - Cryptography - Payment systems - Secure Protocols - e-Privacy - e-Trust - e-Risk - Cyber law - Forensics - Information assurance - Mobile social networks - Peer-to-peer social networks - Sensor networks and social sensing *e-Learning - Collaborative Learning - Curriculum Content Design and Development - Delivery Systems and Environments - Educational Systems Design - e-Learning Organisational Issues - Evaluation and Assessment - Virtual Learning Environments and Issues - Web-based Learning Communities - e-Learning Tools - e-Education *e-Society - Global Trends - Social Inclusion - Intellectual Property Rights - Social Infonomics - Computer-Mediated Communication - Social and Organisational Aspects - Globalisation and developmental IT - Social Software *e-Health - Data Security Issues - e-Health Policy and Practice - e-Healthcare Strategies and Provision - Medical Research Ethics - Patient Privacy and Confidentiality - e-Medicine *e-Governance - Democracy and the Citizen - e-Administration - Policy Issues - Virtual Communities *e-Business - Digital Economies - Knowledge economy - eProcurement - National and International Economies - e-Business Ontologies and Models - Digital Goods and Services - e-Commerce Application Fields - e-Commerce Economics - e-Commerce Services - Electronic Service Delivery - e-Marketing - Online Auctions and Technologies - Virtual Organisations - Teleworking - Applied e-Business - Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) *e-Art - Legal Issues - Patents - Enabling technologies and tools *e-Science - Natural sciences in digital society - Biometrics - Bioinformatics - Collaborative research *Industrial developments - Trends in learning - Applied research - Cutting-edge technologies * Research in progress - Ongoing research from undergraduates, graduates/postgraduates and professionals Important Dates: Paper Submission Date: January 31, 2010 Notification of Paper Acceptance /Rejection: February 28, 2010 Camera Ready Paper Due: March 15, 2010 Early Bird Attendee registration: January 01, 2010 Late Bird Attendee registration: February 28, 2010 Conference Dates: June 28-30, 2010 For more details, please visit www.i-society.eu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:54:29 -0500 From: Andrew Stauffer Subject: CFP: "By the Numbers" Victorians Institute Conference at U of Virginia, Oct. 1-3, 2010 Call For Papers THE 2010 VICTORIANS INSTITUTE http://http//www.vcu.edu/vij/ CONFERENCE *BY THE NUMBERS* *The Victorian Quantification of Everything; or From Zero to NINES http://www.nines.org in Under Two Centuries* *October 1-3, 2010 University of Virginia* Conference website: http://www.nines.org/VIC2010/ Keynote lecturer: Daniel Cohen http://www.dancohen.org/ , George Mason University; author of *Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith*, 2007; and director of the Center for History and New Media http://chnm.gmu.edu/ . PLEASE SUBMIT 1-2 PAGE PROPOSALS to *Victorians.Institute@gmail.com* by MARCH 31, 2010. Let us count the ways in which Victorians turned, and in mounting numbers too, towards arithmetizing, computing, serializing, tallying, ordinating, enumerating – in a word, quantifying – both what they knew and the media they told it by. * chapter and verse: seriality up and down the scale * “for the numbers came”: prosody, measure, quantity * a tale of two tellers: recounting and accounting * stats, lies, and actuaries * whatever happened to numerology? * census and consensus * standardization and quantification * visual display of numerical data * higher mathematics in the 19th century: Babbage, Boole, and beyond * the third R: numeracy in education * poly-math fantasy: Flatland, Wonderland, and. . . * ratio redux, or Pythagoras on Piccadilly, Leonardo in London, Victorian Vitruvius: proportion in Victorian music, art, and architecture Papers on these and innumerable other aspects of the conference theme will be discussed in the warm collegiality of the Victorians Institute on what we suppose with moderate to high probability will prove a balmy Piedmont weekend at the University of Virginia. Co-sponsored by The University of Virginia English Department http://www.engl.virginia.edu/ and NINES http://www.nines.org/ . --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:18:13 +0000 From: "carlos.martin@urv.cat" Subject: LATA 2010: early registration deadline 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2010) Trier, Germany, May 24-28, 2010 ******************************************************* Early registration deadline: February 15, 2010 !!! Please visit: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2010/ ******************************************************* INVITED LECTURES John Brzozowski Complexity in Convex Languages Alexander Clark Three Learnable Models for the Description of Language Lauri Karttunen to be announced (tutorial) Borivoj Melichar Arbology: Trees and Pushdown Automata Anca Muscholl Analysis of Communicating Automata (tutorial) [...] --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:51:02 -0500 From: Kurt Fendt Subject: cfp: MIT humanities + digital Conference on Visual Interpretations humanities + digital Conference 2010 "Visual Interpretations" - Aesthetics, Methods, and Critiques of Information Visualization in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences May 20-22, 2010 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology/HyperStudio http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/h-digital/ How do visual representations of complex data help humanities scholars ask new questions? How does visual rhetoric shape the way we relate to documents and artifacts? And, can we recompose the field of digital humanities to integrate more dynamic analytical methods into humanities research? HyperStudio’s Visual Interpretations conference will bring digital practitioners and humanities scholars together with experts in art and design to consider the past, present, and future of visual epistemology in digital humanities. The goal is to get beyond the notion that information exists independently of visual presentation, and to rethink visualization as an integrated analytical method in humanities scholarship. By fostering dialogue and critical engagement, this conference aims to explore new ways to design data and metadata structures so that their visual embodiments function as "humanities tools in digital environments.” (Johanna Drucker) We welcome submissions from practitioners and theorists of digital humanities as well as such connected disciplines as art, design, visual culture, museum studies, and computer science. Possible topics include: · Expressive and artistic dimensions of visualizations · Subjectivity and objectivity in information visualization · Dynamic/multidimensional visualizations and user collaboration · Social media and contextualized visualization · Cultural history of visual epistemology · Limits and affordances of the translation from data to visualization · 2D and 3D visualizations of historical/social/political data · Visualization across media and the archive · Digital visual literacy & accessibility · Relationships between database and interface · Alternative modes of data representation. Submissions: We are inviting submissions for the following conference formats: · Papers with 15minutes of presentation and short discussions (12 slots) · Short presentations, so called “6/4s” with 6 minutes of presentation and 4 minutes of discussion (18 slots available) · Mini-Workshops, 30 minutes each (6 slots) · Demos and Posters (30 slots) Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2010 Organizers: MIT HyperStudio for Digital Humanities (http://hyperstudio.mit.edu) MIT Communications Forum (http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/) For more information: http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/h-digital/ or contact: h.digital@mit.edu Thank you for distributing this call. Dr. Kurt E. Fendt, Executive Director, HyperStudio - Digital Humanities at MIT Research Director, Comparative Media Studies/Foreign Languages and Literatures Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mail: Room 14N-305 (Office: 16-635) 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Phone: (617) 253-4312, Fax: (267) 224-6814 HyperStudio: http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:05:25 +0000 From: Alfredo Ferro Subject: cfp: 22nd Jacob T. Schwartz International School for Scientific Research 22nd Jacob T. Schwartz International School for Scientific Research -- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Biology and Computer Science: Modelling and Computing July 10 - July 17, 2010, Lipari Island http://lipari.cs.unict.it/LipariSchool/CS/index.php Deadline: April 20, 2010 22nd Jacob T. Schwartz International School for Scientific Research addresses PhD students and young researchers who want to get exposed to the forefront of research activity in the field of Modelling and Computing and their applications to biology. The school will be held in the beautiful surroundings of the Island of Lipari. The theme of the school is the cross-fertilization of biology and computer science, shown by means of some examples. On the one hand, it will be shown how methods of computer science can be employed in the analysis of microarray data and in the construction of models of biological phenomena, such as cell behaviour and evolution. On the other hand, models of computing will be presented which are inspired by biology and propose new ways for representing data and elaborating them, with interesting results on the computational complexity. DNA and P systems are the models which will be described. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 2 06:04:00 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 978B64A717; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 06:04:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D5B774A707; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 06:03:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100202060357.D5B774A707@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 06:03:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.618 intro to complexity theory? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 618. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:02:12 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: complexity? I am looking for an intelligent introduction to complexity theory meant for the beginner. And, while you're thinking about that, please let me know, if you happen to know, where John von Neumann defines the idea as the point at which the structure of an object becomes simpler than a description of its properties (that's from Dupuy's The Mechanization of Mind, where von Neumann's ideas are discussed. Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 2 06:04:38 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05544A757; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 06:04:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 955924A750; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 06:04:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100202060436.955924A750@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 06:04:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.619 Symposium, Book Launch, Research Seminars, Party and funded PhD X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 619. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 21:38:28 +0000 From: Beryl Graham Subject: Curating symposia, book launch, funded PhD studentship Symposium, Book Launch, Research Seminars, Party and funded PhD studentship. CRUMB is celebrating its 10th Birthday in 2010, and has international events during AV Festival in the North East of England in March (http://www.avfestival.co.uk/), plus a funded studentship opportunity to work with CRUMB -- SYMPOSIUM: COMMISSIONING AND COLLECTING VARIABLE MEDIA BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Fri 5 March, 9:00am-4:30pm Free to Contemporary Art Society's National Network Members, £25 non-members Tickets: www.contemporaryartsociety.org nationalprogrammes@contemporaryartsociety.org The work of artists who use new media art, live art and other 'variable media' is increasingly being drawn into our national public collections. Excellent models exist where major works are acquired or where artists are commissioned specifically to create works for collections. This symposium offers an opportunity to learn from pioneering institutions that have worked with artists. Keynote speaker: Benjamin Weil, Chief Curator of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial de Gijon, Spain. Other confirmed speakers include: Laura Sillars, Programmes Director, FACT; Lisa Panting, Director, Picture This; Lois Keidan, Director, Live Art Development Agency; Graham Harwood, artist. Programmed by the Contemporary Art Society's National Network in partnership with CRUMB. -- BOOK LAUNCH BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Fri 5 March, 4:30-5.30pm FREE Join CRUMB's co-founders, Sarah Cook and Beryl Graham, for a glass of wine to launch their new book Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media, published by MIT Press, and two new volumes of CRUMB dialogues published by The Green Box, Berlin. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12071 http://www.thegreenbox.net/ -- RESEARCH SEMINAR: CREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA RESEARCH PRACTICE: PRODUCTION THROUGH EXHIBITION 2 Culture Lab, Newcastle Tues 9 and Wed 10 March 10am-5pm Free, but booking essential at http://dm.ncl.ac.uk/events/ This two-day research-training event explores current design and curating practice research, and embraces new alternate models of creative production and dissemination, in consultation with CRUMB at the University of Sunderland. With participation from Kitchen Budapest; UDK Berlin Art & Design students; Digital Economy Hub researchers; Social Inclusion through the Digital Economies activities. A collaboration between Culture Lab and CRUMB. Funded by The Arts and Humanities Research Council, University of Sunderland, EPSRC Partnership Resource. -- BIRTHDAY PARTY! The Cellar Bar, Grey St. Hotel, Newcastle Fri 12 March, 5.30-7.30pm FREE. Tickets: Numbers are limited. RSVP to verina.gfader@sunderland.ac.uk To celebrate the 10th birthday of CRUMB, the resource for those who exhibit new media art, you are invited for bubbles, cocktails and cake. -- AHRC POSTGRADUATE STUDENTSHIP OPPORTUNITIES For full details see http://nuweb.northumbria.ac.uk/nebgp/ Northumbria and Sunderland Universities operate a collaborative AHRC Block Grant Partnership to support quality research and professional training. Studentships are available for uptake from September/October 2010 including the following areas: Doctoral Studentships D1 Applied Arts and Crafts (Glass and Ceramics) D2 Fine Art (Curating New Media Art, or Photography) Awards cover stipend and fees subject to eligibility criteria, see the AHRC Guide to Student Eligibility http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Documents/ Guide_to_Student_Eligibility.pdf Applications are invited electronically to applications@northeastbgp.org on the relevant form by no later than 12.00 midday on Thursday 24 March 2010. For details of each studentship opportunity and relevant form, see web links above. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art Faculty of Arts, Design, and Media, University of Sunderland Ashburne House, Ryhope Road Sunderland SR2 7EE Tel: +44 191 515 2896 Fax: +44 191 515 2132 Email: beryl.graham@sunderland.ac.uk CRUMB web resource for new media art curators http://www.crumbweb.org ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 3 07:45:48 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C86D4B8F4; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 07:45:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8CD8B4B8E4; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 07:45:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100203074546.8CD8B4B8E4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 07:45:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.620 complexity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 620. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "John Bonnett" (22) Subject: complexity? [2] From: Kirk Lowery (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.618 intro to complexity theory? [3] From: Michael Fox (102) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.618 intro to complexity theory? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 06:42:57 -0500 From: "John Bonnett" Subject: complexity? Willard, Perhaps the best known introduction to complexity theory is Mitchell Waldrop's Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos. It is a very good read and has been cited in both non-specialist and scholarly literatures. A more challenging description can be found in Alicia Juarrero's Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System. John Bonnett Assistant Professor / Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities Department of History Brock University 500 Glenridge Avenue St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1 Phone: (905) 688-5550, x5552 Fax: (905) 984-4849 E-mail: jbonnett@brocku.ca --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 07:26:39 -0500 From: Kirk Lowery Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.618 intro to complexity theory? In-Reply-To: <20100202060357.D5B774A707@woodward.joyent.us> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > I am looking for an intelligent introduction to complexity theory meant > for the beginner. And, while you're thinking about that, please let me > know, if you happen to know, where John von Neumann defines the idea as > the point at which the structure of an object becomes simpler than a > description of its properties (that's from Dupuy's The Mechanization of > Mind, where von Neumann's ideas are discussed. > I know that some deprecate this source, but for computer science topics, there is no better place to begin, IMO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory It has references and a substantial list of references on the subject. It has some nice charts and graphics, too. HTH. Kirk --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:29:31 -0500 From: Michael Fox Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.618 intro to complexity theory? In-Reply-To: <20100202060357.D5B774A707@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Professor McCarty, A very good book on the subject is the Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser. I'm not sure where von Neumann says that. Doesn't it seem slightly flawed, though? It seems that a person can never have an idea without also concretizing it in some way, and therefore, though they don't have to be, there are always properties to be described. Pater wrote about this in his "A Genius of Plato," and in many other places such as his famous Conclusion. At the bottom of this email I've attached a passage from the essay on Plato. On a side note, related to complexity theory--it seems that there is a terrible inherent problem with computer science: it was closed the moment it was opened. Even the problems of complexity "theory" can be reduced to Turing machines with very long tapes. When Turing defined his machine, he closed computer science. It was ever a practical tool after that, and separate and distinct from the sphere of theory. The tape-head of a Turing machine has the ability to move between cells along the tape according to an instruction, or symbol, given on each cell, and while it is scanning one cell all other cells have no effect on its behavior. Translated into a written mathematical model, the machine becomes an object for analysis. It operates under certain time and space complexity classes, and it relates to other Turing machines in decidable and rigorous ways. It is limited, however, in that it is an instrument which has only “body” and “shadow,” to use Shelley’s terms. The tape holds a stamp of its inherent behavioral structure, as a body does of a human’s. The tape-head exists as a limited means by which we can know that structure, like a shadow on the wall of Plato’s Cave. A Turing machine divided up falls into the sources of Shelley’s serial analogy comparing reason to imagination: “Reason is to imagination as the instrument to the agent, as the body to the spirit, as the shadow to the substance.” It is powerful abiding there but not as powerful as it could be if it were to acquire the qualities that make up Shelley’s targets. It never can, however. Colorless, it is ever unsubstantial. Valueless, it is sealed away from spirit. Void of will, it is blind to agency. It is strangely removed from the human, and finally from the larger realm of poetry. Best, Michael Fox Passage from the "The Genius of Plato" by Walter Pater: The lover, who is become a lover of the invisible, but still a lover, and therefore, literally, a seer, of it, carrying an elaborate cultivation of the bodily senses, of eye and ear, their natural [140] force and acquired fineness--gifts akin properly to ta erôtika,+ as he says, to the discipline of sensuous love--into the world of intellectual abstractions; seeing and hearing there too, associating for ever all the imagery of things seen with the conditions of what primarily exists only for the mind, filling that "hollow land" with delightful colour and form, as if now at last the mind were veritably dealing with living people there, living people who play upon us through the affinities, the repulsion and attraction, of persons towards one another, all the magnetism, as we call it, of actual human friendship or love:--There, is the formula of Plato's genius, the essential condition of the specially Platonic temper, of Platonism. And his style, because it really is Plato's style, conforms to, and in its turn promotes in others, that mental situation. He breaks as it were visible colour into the very texture of his work: his vocabulary, the very stuff he manipulates, has its delightful aesthetic qualities; almost every word, one might say, its figurative value. And yet no one perhaps has with equal power literally sounded the unseen depths of thought, and, with what may be truly called "substantial" word and phrase, given locality there to the mere adumbrations, the dim hints and surmise, of the speculative mind. For him, all gifts of sense and intelligence converge in one supreme faculty of theoretic vision, theôria,+ the imaginative reason. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 4 08:13:57 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 777374AF39; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:13:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 62ADA4AF23; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:13:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100204081353.62ADA4AF23@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:13:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.622 complexity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 622. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:35:16 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.620 complexity In-Reply-To: <20100203074546.8CD8B4B8E4@woodward.joyent.us> Has anyone had the thought that the more complex the Wikipedia entry is, the more likely it is to be reliable? Jim R > I know that some deprecate this source, but for computer science topics, > there is no better place to begin, IMO: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory > > It has references and a substantial list of references on the subject. It > has some nice charts and graphics, too. > > HTH. > > Kirk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 4 08:19:42 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C818B4B049; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:19:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ECB234B038; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:19:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100204081939.ECB234B038@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:19:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.623 Johns, Nature of the book X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 623. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 07:46:11 +0000 From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: Free download of Adrian Johns' -The Nature of the Book- > From: "George H. Williams" > Date: 3 February 2010 22:00:28 GMT > To: SHARP-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU > Subject: Free download of Adrian Johns' -The Nature of the Book- > Reply-To: "SHARP-L Society for the History of > Authorship, Reading & Publishing" L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU> > > While we're on the subject of Adrian Johns, note that the > University of Chicago Press is offering his The Nature of the Book > as their free e-book download this month: > > http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/free_ebook.html > > In order to read the e-book, you'll need to download (free) > software from Adobe called Digital Editions. > > Yours, > > --George _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 8 19:24:22 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5087E42851; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:24:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2873042832; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:24:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100208192419.2873042832@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:24:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.624 Humanist returns! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 624. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:23:21 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanist back up Dear colleagues, For the last several days Humanist has not been working due to malfunction of the system on which it runs. We now seem to be back in business. If this is indeed so, then I will resume sending out postings tomorrow morning. Please watch out for anything you have sent. If you don't see it, please send again. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 9 05:57:40 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A725049893; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:57:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 09A9B49866; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:57:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100209055737.09A9B49866@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:57:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.625 jobs: project coordinator (Canada); postdoc (Sweden) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 625. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Patrik Svensson" (52) Subject: Postdoctoral fellowship in digital humanities/media places at HUMlab [2] From: Susan Brown (19) Subject: Project and data integrity coordinator position --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 20:41:37 +0100 From: "Patrik Svensson" Subject: Postdoctoral fellowship in digital humanities/media places at HUMlab Postdoctoral fellow (two years, salaried) in the humanities and information technology with a focus on ”media places” at HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden. The postdoctoral fellow will be part of the dynamic milieu of HUMlab and ongoing research on ”media places”. Research can, for instance, focus on studio and lab environments for digital humanities and culture, interactive architecture, the development of public space in relation to social media, screen culture, new locative tools and visualization possibilities in humanities research, digital places used for cultural expression, the iconic-symbolic properties of digital spaces, or hybrid expressions. Suggestions for research foci are encouraged. The position will be affiliated with HUMlab, and apart from their own research, the successful applicant will be expected to work 20% of their time with scholarly and administrative duties for HUMlab. Additionally, the successful applicant will be expected to have a daily presence in HUMlab. This position is connected to a number of international networks, which include researchers from New York University, Stanford University and the University of California. HUMlab is closely affiliated with The School of Architecture and the School of Design, which are both located at the newly-built Arts Campus. The recent investment in developing the Arts Campus has contributed to the need for a postdoctoral fellow in this area, as well as provided a rich and multi-faceted research environment in which to work. The applicant will both be part of this research environment, as well as be expected to work closely in the development of this growing area. Additionally, HUMlab and the Arts Campus offer rich opportunities for collaboration with national and international researchers, as well as industry and the local community. Applicants must have completed their PhD degree within a discipline relevant to the research themes listed above. The degree must have been completed within the last three years, and the applicant may not have had previous employment as a postdoctoral fellow or research fellow (Sw. forskarassistent). The application must include the following: • a complete curriculum vitae (CV) • a list of publications • a research plan of 5-8 pages The successful applicant will be based at HUMlab. Interviews may be required. For more information about the research area and position, contact Docent Patrik Svensson, patrik.svensson@humlab.umu.se (or tel +46 90 786 7913). For further information, contact SACO (The Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations), tel +46 90-786 5365, SEKO (The Union of Service and Communication Employees), tel +46 90-786 5296 , or ST (The Union of Civil Servants), tel +46 90-786 5431 Electronic submissions should either be Word or pdf. Your application, specifying registration number Dnr 315-53-10, should be submitted to jobb@umu.se or to Umeå University, Registrator, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden by March 1, 2010. Patrik Svensson HUMlab Umeå University http://blog.humlab.umu.se/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:33:27 -0500 From: Susan Brown Subject: Project and data integrity coordinator position With apologies for cross-posting, would members of this list please circulate the follow job advertisement to anyone who might be interested? Project and Data Integrity Coordinator Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada The Project and Data Integrity Coordinator will assist with infrastructure development for the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory, a multiple-year project funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation to produce a platform to enable literary scholars to collaborate in the production, analysis, and dissemination of digital research materials. The project seeks a full-time Coordinator of its development processes who will work closely with the project leader and other team members to ensure that the multiple components of the project are produced according to project specifications, are interoperable, and are optimized for literary researchers. More information about the Collaboratory can be found at http://cwrc.cs.ualberta.ca/index.php/General:CWRC _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 9 05:58:49 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66C5A498E8; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:58:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3A15C498D9; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:58:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100209055847.3A15C498D9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:58:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.626 survey request: digital resources X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 626. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:33:34 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Invitation to Participate in a Digital Humanities Study Posted on behalf of the INKE team: this research project and associated survey may be of interest to the Humanist and Centernet communities (with apologies for cross-posting). ************************************** Dear Colleague, Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) is a large-scale collaborative research project in the digital humanities directed by Dr. Ray Siemens, Department of English, University of Victoria, and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Our research team is examining the complex processes of human engagement with information that is available digitally. Specifically, we are interested in identifying and understanding the ways in which social sciences and humanities readers engage with forms such as the electronic scholarly edition, the academic monograph, scholarly journal and essay collections, and electronic literature. With this letter, we are inviting you to complete a short survey about how you experience and use digital resources in the context of your research. The findings of this survey will be used to improve existing digital tools and to derive requirements for prospective tools and resources that we hope will be of benefit to you and other researchers. The questionnaire should take approximately twenty minutes to complete. If you are willing to participate, you will find it online at http://infopoll.net/live/surveys/s34325.htm . Your identity will be kept confidential. All documents and participants will be identified only by code number. Digital data records will be kept on password-protected hard drives and on disks stored in locked filing cabinets. Only the principal investigator and the co-investigators will have access to the data. If you have any concerns about your treatment or rights as a research participant, you may contact the Research Subject Information Line in the UBC Office of Research Services at 604-822-8598. Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary and you may refuse to participate or withdraw from the study at any time. Your completion and submission of the survey will indicate your consent to participate. In consideration of your time, you may enter a draw for a $150.00 gift certificate from an online bookstore upon completion of the questionnaire. We look forward to the prospect of your participation in this study. Please feel free to contact the INKE Graduate Research Assistant, Karen Taylor, at any time if you have questions about this research: 604-737-2873 (British Columbia, Canada) or . Best regards, Dr. Teresa Dobson for the INKE Team Associate Professor Director, Digital Literacy Centre University of British Columbia c/o Department of Language & Literacy 2125 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 9 05:59:20 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B9994992C; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:59:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B87E549925; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:59:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100209055917.B87E549925@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:59:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.626 survey request: digital resources X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 626. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:33:34 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Invitation to Participate in a Digital Humanities Study Posted on behalf of the INKE team: this research project and associated survey may be of interest to the Humanist and Centernet communities (with apologies for cross-posting). ************************************** Dear Colleague, Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) is a large-scale collaborative research project in the digital humanities directed by Dr. Ray Siemens, Department of English, University of Victoria, and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Our research team is examining the complex processes of human engagement with information that is available digitally. Specifically, we are interested in identifying and understanding the ways in which social sciences and humanities readers engage with forms such as the electronic scholarly edition, the academic monograph, scholarly journal and essay collections, and electronic literature. With this letter, we are inviting you to complete a short survey about how you experience and use digital resources in the context of your research. The findings of this survey will be used to improve existing digital tools and to derive requirements for prospective tools and resources that we hope will be of benefit to you and other researchers. The questionnaire should take approximately twenty minutes to complete. If you are willing to participate, you will find it online at http://infopoll.net/live/surveys/s34325.htm . Your identity will be kept confidential. All documents and participants will be identified only by code number. Digital data records will be kept on password-protected hard drives and on disks stored in locked filing cabinets. Only the principal investigator and the co-investigators will have access to the data. If you have any concerns about your treatment or rights as a research participant, you may contact the Research Subject Information Line in the UBC Office of Research Services at 604-822-8598. Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary and you may refuse to participate or withdraw from the study at any time. Your completion and submission of the survey will indicate your consent to participate. In consideration of your time, you may enter a draw for a $150.00 gift certificate from an online bookstore upon completion of the questionnaire. We look forward to the prospect of your participation in this study. Please feel free to contact the INKE Graduate Research Assistant, Karen Taylor, at any time if you have questions about this research: 604-737-2873 (British Columbia, Canada) or . Best regards, Dr. Teresa Dobson for the INKE Team Associate Professor Director, Digital Literacy Centre University of British Columbia c/o Department of Language & Literacy 2125 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 9 06:01:09 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB61499D5; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 06:01:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 90B4C499CB; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 06:01:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100209060103.90B4C499CB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 06:01:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.627 publications: on free Johns; sustainable development X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 627. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Laudun (14) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.623 Johns, Nature of the book [2] From: Luis Gutierrez (24) Subject: Pelican Journal of Sustainable Development --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:52:30 -0600 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.623 Johns, Nature of the book If by free you include the idea of also having to download Adobe's "Digital Editions" software which you then have to authorize with your Adobe ID. Only then do you get to read your "free" text within yet another Adobe UI that looks hauntingly like their PDF reader, but yet isn't. >> While we're on the subject of Adrian Johns, note that the >> University of Chicago Press is offering his The Nature of the Book >> as their free e-book download this month: -- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana – Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 337-482-5493 laudun@louisiana.edu http://johnlaudun.org/ ResearcherID: A-5742-2009 Twitter/Flickr: johnlaudun --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:34:54 -0500 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Pelican Journal of Sustainable Development The February 2010 issue has been posted: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n02page1.html Page 1 is a book review of State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures from Consumerism to Sustainability By Erik Assadourian & Staff, Worldwatch Institute, 2010 Pages 2 to 4 are three invited articles: Truth and Consequences on the Last Frontier by Richard Steiner, University of Alaska-Anchorage, USA http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n02page2ricksteiner.html Woman as "Other" in Monotheistic Religious Discourse by Zilka Spahic-Šiljak, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n02page3zilkaspahicsiljak.html A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030 by Mark Jacobson & Mark Delucchi, Stanford University, USA http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n02page4jacobsondelucchi.html There are also two supplements: one is on news and tools for sustainable development, and the other is a directory of online reference material. Sincerely, Luis Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D. The Pelican Web Editor, PelicanWeb Journal of Sustainable Development http://www.pelicanweb.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 9 06:02:34 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FFF449A3A; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 06:02:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0C83E49A31; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 06:02:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100209060232.0C83E49A31@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 06:02:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.628 events: many & diverse X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 628. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bertram_Fronhöfer (111) Subject: Announcement: ICCL Summer School 2010 [2] From: Faith Lawrence (38) Subject: Digital Humanities Workshops: Metadata, Markup and Emerging Toolsfor Scholarly Analysis and Presentation [3] From: Shuly Wintner (165) Subject: Workshop on Language Resources and Human Language Technologies forSemitic Languages [4] From: "Weiss, Julian" (20) Subject: Curating the Middle Ages: A Panel Discussion [5] From: Melissa Terras (44) Subject: cfp: Digital Classicist [6] From: Wim Van-Mierlo (13) Subject: London Textual Scholarship Seminar - announcement --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 19:51:54 +0000 From: Bertram_Fronhöfer Subject: Announcement: ICCL Summer School 2010 This message was originally submitted by Bertram.Fronhoefer@INF.TU-DRESDEN.DE to the humanist list at LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU. 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Finally, you should be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your mail program. ---------------- Message requiring your approval (132 lines) ------------------ Call for Participation ICCL Summer School 2010 COGNITIVE SCIENCE, COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC AND CONNECTIONISM Technische Universität Dresden August 29 -- September 11, 2010 http://www.computational-logic.org/iccl-ss-2010 TOPIC The summer school will focus on the relationship between modern formal logic (including its use for automated reasoning and computation) and, on the other hand, the rationality and common sense underlying human reasoning. Traditionally, a huge gap is perceived between the symbolic representation of knowledge used in modern logic and the sub-symbolic representation considered dominant in human reasoning. Psychological experiments of the past even suggested that people often don't reason logically and, in general, that logic seems to play only a minor role in human reasoning. However, recently, new ways of explaining human reasoning seem to revive its relatedness to logic. Connectionist models even show a closer relation between formal reasoning and brain activities. For these reasons this summer school attempts to bring together researchers from various sides for an exchange of views. REGISTRATION If you want to attend the summer school, we'd prefer that you register by April 1, 2010. (See the online registration on the web page mentioned above.) For all who want to apply for a grant, this deadline is obligatory. After April 1, 2010, registration will be possible as long as there are vacant places. (Since we intend to restrict participation to about 60 people, in case of excessive demand, we will have to close the registration to the summer school.) People applying until April 1, 2010, and applying for a grant will be informed about respective decisions on grants at latest by end of April 2010. FEES We ask for a participation fee of 200 EUR. GRANTS A limited number of grants may be available, please indicate in your application if the only possibility for you to participate is via a grant. Applications for grants must include an estimate of travel costs (to be filled in the respective part of the online registration form). INTEGRATED WORKSHOP It will be possible for some participants to present their research work during a small workshop integrated in the summer school. If you would like to do so, please register by means of the online workshop registration form on the web page mentioned above: (The title of your proposed talk, and, in addition, an extended abstract or a full paper of at most 10 pages in postscript or pdf format must be submit by April 1, 2010.) A program committee consisting of the summer school lecturers will select among the submissions. Notification of acceptance of a talk at the integrated workshop will be at latest by end of April 2010. Please note that participation at the summer school is a prerequisite for participation at the workshop. COURSE PROGRAM COGNITION, LANGUAGE, AND NEURAL COMPUTATION. Jerome Feldman (ICSI, Bekeley, USA) NEURO-SYMBOLIC COGNITIVE REASONING Artur d'Avila Garcez (City University London, UK) CONNECTIONIST MODEL GENERATION Steffen Hölldobler (Technische Universität Dresden) COMPLEX NETWORKS OF MINDFUL ENTITIES. Luís Moniz Pereira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY IN DEDUCTIVE REASONING Marco Ragni (University of Freiburg) COMPUTING EVENT STRUCTURES WITH LOGIC PROGRAMS Fritz Hamm / Fabian Schlotterbeck (Universität Tübingen) PEOPLE INVOLVED Chair of the ICCL Summer School 2010 Steffen Hölldobler Organizing Committee Julia Koppenhagen Bertram Fronhöfer NOTE ON FUNDING This Summer School is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with financial means from the German Federal Foreign Office ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:20:07 +0000 From: Faith Lawrence Subject: Digital Humanities Workshops: Metadata, Markup and Emerging Toolsfor Scholarly Analysis and Presentation The DHO in conjunction with the University of Ulster is proud to present two one-day digital humanities workshop events: Seeing Data Differently and A Date With Data. Lead by Digital Humanities Specialists Shawn Day and Dr K Faith Lawrence these workshops will take place 17th and 18th February at the Magee Campus, University of Ulster. The first workshop, 'Seeing Data Differently: Emerging Tools for Scholarly Analysis and Presentation', will combine a project clinic with hands-on demonstrations of web tools which can be used for managing, communicating and presenting data within and between digital humanities projects. The second, 'A Date With Data: What is this Markup Stuff Anyway?', will provide beginners an introduction to metadata, markup and document encoding. For more information and instructions on how to register for Seeing Data Differently and A Date With Data, please follow the links below to their respective event pages. Places are free but numbers are limited so early registration is recommended. Registration is done of a first come, first serve basis. Seeing Data Differently: http://dho.ie/node/660 A Date With Data: http://dho.ie/node/674 Yours, Faith -- K. Faith Lawrence, PhD Digital Humanities Specialist Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Email: f.lawrence@ria.ie / f.lawrence@dho.ie Phone: +353 (0) 1 234 2443 http://dho.ie http://ria.ie ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 12:20:40 +0000 From: Shuly Wintner Subject: Workshop on Language Resources and Human Language Technologies forSemitic Languages CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Language Resources (LRs) and Human Language Technologies (HLT) for Semitic Languages: Status, Updates, and Prospects To be held in conjunction with the 7th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010) 17 May 2010, Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valetta, Malta Deadline for submission: 22 February 2010 This workshop serves as the 2010 meeting of the ACL SIG on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (http://semitic.tk). Description The Semitic family includes languages and dialects spoken by a large number of native speakers (around 300 million). Prominent members of this family are Arabic (and its varieties), Hebrew, Amharic, Tigrinya, Aramaic, Maltese and Syriac. Their shared ancestry is apparent through pervasive cognate sharing, a rich and productive pattern-based morphology, and similar syntactic constructions. In addition, there are several languages which are used in the same geographic area such as Amazigh or Coptic, which, while not Semitic, have common features with Semitic languages, such as borrowed vocabulary. The recent surge in computational work for processing Semitic languages, particularly Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Modern Hebrew (MH), has brought modest improvements in terms of actual empirical results for various language processing components (e.g., morphological analyzers, parsers, named entity recognizers, audio transcriptions, etc.). Apparently, reusing existing approaches developed for English or French for processing Semitic language text/speech, e.g., Arabic parsing is not as straightforward as initially thought. Apart from the limited availability of suitable language resources, there is increasing evidence that Semitic languages demand modeling approaches and annotations that deviate from those found suitable for English/French. Issues such as the pattern-based morphology, the frequently head-initial syntactic structure, the importance of the interface between morphology and syntax, and the difference between spoken and written forms (especially in Colloquial Arabic(s)) exemplify the kind of challenges that may arise when processing Semitic languages. For language technologies, such as information retrieval and machine translation, these challenges are compounded by sparse data and often result in poorer performance than for other languages. This Workshop intends to follow on topics of paramount importance for Semitic-language NLP that were discussed at previous events (LREC, MEDAR/NEMLAR Conferences, the workshops of the ACL Special Interest Group for Semitic languages, etc.) and which are worth revisiting. The workshop will bring together people who are actively involved in Semitic language processing in a mono- or cross/multilingual context, and give them an opportunity to update the community through reports on completed or ongoing work as well as on the availability of LRs, evaluation protocols and campaigns, products and core technologies (in particular open source ones). We also invite authors to address other languages spoken in the Semitic language area (languages such as Amazigh, Coptic, etc.). This should enable participants to develop a common view on where we stand and to foster the discussion of the future of this research area. Particular attention will be paid to activities involving technologies such as Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval/Extraction, Summarization, etc. Evaluation methodologies and resources for evaluation of HLT will be also a main focus. We expect to elaborate on the HLT state of the art, identify problems of common interest, and debate on a potential roadmap for the Semitic languages. Issues related to sharing of resources, tools, standards, sharing and dissemination of information and expertise, adoption of current best practices, setting up joint projects and technology transfer mechanisms will be an important part of the workshop. Topics of Interest This full-day workshop is not intended to be a mini-conference, but as a real workshop aiming at concrete results that should clarify the situation of Semitic languages with respect to Language Resources and Evaluation. We expect to launch at least two evaluation campaigns: Comparative evaluation of Morphology taggers and Named Entities Recognizers. Among the many issues to be addressed, below follow a few suggestions: * Issues in the design, the acquisition, creation, management, access, distribution, use of Language Resources, in particular in a bilingual/multilingual setting (Standard Arabic, Hebrew, Colloquial Arabic, Amazigh, Coptic, Maltese, etc.) * Impact on LR collections/processing and NLP of the crucial issues related to "code switching" between different dialects and languages * Specific issues related to the above-mentioned languages such as the role of morphology, named entities, corpus alignment, etc. * Multilinguality issues including relationship between Colloquial and Standard Arabic * Exploitation of LR in different types of applications * Industrial LR requirements and community's response * Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking and evaluation for written and spoken language processing; * Focus on some key technologies such as MT (all approaches e.g. Statistical, Example-Based, etc.), Information Retrieval, Speech Recognition, Spoken Documents Retrieval, CLIR, Question-Answering, Summarization, etc. * Local, regional, and international activities and projects and needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for regional and international cooperation. We invite submissions on computational approaches to processing text/speech in all Semitic and Semitic-area languages. The call is open for all kinds of computational work, e.g., work on computational linguistic processing components (e.g., analyzers, taggers, parsers), on state-of-the-art NLP applications and systems, on leveraging resource and tool creation for the Semitic language family, and on using computational tools to gain new linguistic insight. We especially welcome submissions on work that crosses individual language boundaries, heightens awareness amongst Semitic-language researchers of shared challenges and breakthroughs, and highlights issues and solutions common to any subset of the Semitic languages family. Workshop general chair: Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, Paris, France Workshop co-chairs: Owen Rambow, Columbia University, New York, USA Bente Maegaard , University of Copenhagen, Denmark Ibrahim A. Al-Kharashi, Computer and Electronics Research Institute, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Organizing Committee information Khalil Sima’an, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Mona Diab , Center for Computational Learning Systems,Columbia University (USA). Mike Rosner , Dept. Intelligent Computer Systems,University of Malta (Malta). Shuly Wintner , Computer Science Dept., Haifa University, (Israel). Christopher Cieri, Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia, (USA) Paolo Rosso, Universidad Politécnica Valencia, (Spain) The Program and Scientific Committees will be listed on the web pages. Important Dates Deadline for abstract submissions: 26 February 2010 Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2010 Final version of accepted paper: 11 April 2010 Workshop full-day: 17 May 2010 Submission Details Submissions should comply with LREC standards (including the LREC Map initiative) and must be in English. Abstracts for workshop contributions should not exceed Four A4 pages (excluding references). An additional title page should state: the title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, as well as postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Submission will use the LREC START facility. Expected deadline is 26 February 2010. Submitted papers will be judged based on relevance to the workshop aims, as well as the novelty of the idea, technical quality, clarity of presentation, and expected impact on future research within the area of focus. Registration to LREC’2010 will be required for participation, so potential participants are invited to refer to the main conference website for all details not covered in the present call (http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/) Formatting instructions for the final full version of papers will be sent to authors after notification of acceptance and will be identical to LREC main conference instructions. When submitting a paper through the START page, authors will be kindly asked to provide relevant information about the resources that have been used for the work described in their paper or that are the outcome of their research. For further information on this new initiative, please refer to http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources. _______________________________________________ Iscol mailing list Iscol@cs.haifa.ac.il https://cs.haifa.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/iscol The material posted is under the full responsibility of whoever posted it and under their sole responsibility and liability. The University takes no responsibility whatsoever for any material or other damage, direct or indirect, that may incur from publications in the forum and/or distribution list. 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For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:47:49 +0000 From: "Weiss, Julian" Subject: Curating the Middle Ages: A Panel Discussion The Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies King’s College London, Curating the Middle Ages: A Panel Discussion 17.30 Thursday 11 February Council Room, Strand Campus James Robinson (Curator of Medieval Collections, Department of Prehistory & Europe, British Museum) John Clark (Curator Emeritus, Department of Archaeological Collections & Archive, Museum of London) Glyn Davies (Curator, Medieval & Renaissance Galleries, Victoria & Albert Museum) The recent opening of the refurbished medieval and Renaissance galleries at the British Museum, the Museum of London, and the Victoria & Albert Museum is testimony to the enduring cultural appeal of the Middle Ages. This event brings together three curators who played leading roles in relaunching these galleries. Each will explain the practical and conceptual decisions governing the choice and display of materials in their own institutions, and share their views on the broader opportunities and challenges of exhibiting medieval art and artefacts in today’s world. See the Medieval London gallery, Museum of London See the Medieval & Renaissance galleries, Victoria & Albert Museum See the Medieval Europe gallery, British Museum Julian Weiss Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Director of the Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies King's College London London WC2R 2LS Tel 020 7848 2206 --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:00:48 +0000 From: Melissa Terras Subject: cfp: Digital Classicist Digital Classicist Call for Seminar Papers The Digital Classicist will once more be running a series of seminars at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, with support from the British Library, in Summer 2010 on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component. We are especially interested in work that demonstrates interdisciplinarity or work on the intersections between Ancient History, Classics or Archaeology and a digital, technical or practice-based discipline. The Digital Classicist seminars run on Friday afternoons from June to August in Senate House, London. In previous years collected papers from the DC WiP seminars have been published* in a special issue of an online journal (2006), edited as a printed volume (2007), and released as audio podcasts (2008-9); we anticipate similar publication opportunities for future series. A small budget is available to help with travel costs. Please send a 300-500 word abstract to gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk by March 31st 2010. We shall announce the full programme in April. Regards, The organizers Gabriel Bodard, King's College London Stuart Dunn, King's College London Juan Garcés, Greek Manuscripts Department, British Library Simon Mahony, University College London Melissa Terras, University College London * See http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/4/ (2006), http://www.gowerpublishing.com/default.aspx?page=637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=1064&sort=pubdate&forthcoming=1&title_id=9797&edition_id=12252 (2007), http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/index.html (2008-9). -- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication Department of 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@ucl.ac.uk Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/melissa-terras/ Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ Digital Images for the Information Professional. Available now through all good bookshops, or from Ashgate at http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&pageSubject=324&title_id=8986&edition_id=9780 --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:20:22 +0000 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: London Textual Scholarship Seminar - announcement Dear List Members, The Institute of English Studies is launching a new Seminar on Textual Scholarship on Thursday 11 February at 5.30pm. The aim of the Seminar is to offer a forum for discussion of editorial theory and practice, textual criticism and historical bibliography, and cognate subjects such ‘critique génétique’ and the study of modern manuscripts, writer’s libraries, and the sociology of the text (in the tradition of D.F. McKenzie) across periods and disciplines. The first session will take place in Senate House, Room G21a. The speaker is Professor Henry Woudhuysen (UCL), who will talk about 'The History of the Book and Textual Scholarship: Strange Companions?' Wim Dr Wim Van Mierlo Lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English Literature Institute of English Studies University of London Senate House, Rm 237 Malet Street London WC1E 7HU http://ies.sas.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 10 06:35:46 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 550F448E4D; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:35:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4B99648E3D; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:35:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100210063544.4B99648E3D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:35:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.629 jobs: project coordinator; PhD studentship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 629. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Brown (50) Subject: Project Coordinator position [2] From: "Rauterberg, G.W.M." (7) Subject: Open Position as PhD student with Scholarship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:32:48 -0500 From: Susan Brown Subject: Project Coordinator position Dear Willard, Likely due to the technical problems with the listserv, the second part of the job notice that I sent, including the link to the job ad itself, was cut off when sent out. Would you be so kind as to repost it? Many thanks, Susan > With apologies for cross-posting, would members of this list please > circulate the follow job advertisement to anyone who might be > interested? > > Project and Data Integrity Coordinator > Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory > Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, > Edmonton, Alberta, Canada > > The Project and Data Integrity Coordinator will assist with > infrastructure development for the Canadian Writing Research > Collaboratory, a multiple-year project funded by the Canadian > Foundation for Innovation to produce a platform to enable literary > scholars to collaborate in the production, analysis, and > dissemination of digital research materials. The project seeks a > full-time Coordinator of its development processes who will work > closely with the project leader and other team members to ensure > that the multiple components of the project are produced according > to project specifications, are interoperable, and are optimized for > literary researchers. More information about the Collaboratory can > be found at http://cwrc.cs.ualberta.ca/index.php/General:CWRC. > > We are keen to fill the position with someone with a combination of > humanities research experience and strong technical background. > > The full ad, with details of salary, benefits, and how to apply > online, is available at: > > http://www.careers.ualberta.ca/competition.aspx?id=S110410619 > > The deadline for applications (cover letter and c.v.) is February 17 > (extending soon to Feb 23). ____________________________________________________________________________ Susan Brown Director, Orlando Project; Project Leader, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory Professor Visiting Professor School of English and Theatre Studies English and Film Studies University of Guelph University of Alberta Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Canada Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5 519-824-4120 x53266 (office) 780-862-0155 519-766-0844 (fax) sbrown@uoguelph.ca susan.brown@ualberta.ca http://orlando.cambridge.org http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:38:16 +0000 From: "Rauterberg, G.W.M." Subject: Open Position as PhD student with Scholarship In-Reply-To: <3E3367A41E018B4E8242B6277BBA2F76EC25D9C3D3@EXCHANGE10.campus.tue.nl> The Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) has the following vacancy: PhD student working on "Control Structures for Mixed Reality Systems" (V34.1039) at the Designed Intelligence Group, Department of Industrial Design http://vacatures-v2.tue.nl/Vacature.aspx?Vacaturenummer=V34.1039&Taal=English Full scholarship (2000-2600 EUR per month) available, no tuition fee. Working language is English. Apply at Ms. J.A.C.L. Braat, personnel department, Dept of Industrial Design phone +31 (0)40 247 5883, e-mail: j.a.c.l.braat@tue.nl _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 10 06:40:06 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1BAB48F85; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:40:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5D72E48EDD; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:40:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100210064001.5D72E48EDD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:40:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.630 new publication: quantitative linguistics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 630. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:13:23 +0000 From: RAM-Verlag Subject: Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 5, "Issues in QuantitativeLinguistics" Just published (Dezember 2009 ) Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 5: "Issues in Quantitative Linguistics" 205 pages, 13 issues ISBN: 978-3-9802659-9-7 Published by: RAM-Verlag ( www.ram-verlag.de ) Edited by: Reinhard Köhler Contents: Preface I Sergey Andreev Lermontov: Dynamics of style 1-9 Sheila Embleton, Dorin Uritescu, Eric S. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:12:02 +0000 From: Nianwen Xue Subject: cfp: Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAWIV) In-Reply-To: <165853785.492601263314103339.JavaMail.root@zimbra-store-4.unet.brandeis.edu> ********************* Second Call for Papers ********************* The Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW IV) Held in conjunction with ACL-2010 Uppsala, Sweden 15-16 July 2010 http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~clp/LAW4 Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods for statistical natural language processing. The Fourth LAW will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including the creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, etc. As in the past, the LAW will serve as a venue for annotation researchers to work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability of annotation information and software. Specifically,the goals of this workshop include: (1) The exchange and propagation of research results with respect to the annotation, manipulation and exploitation of corpora, taking into account different applications and theoretical investigations in the field of language technology and research; (2) Working towards the harmonization and interoperability from the perspective of the increasingly large number of tools and frameworks that support the creation, instantiation, manipulation, querying, and exploitation of annotated resources; (3) Pushing the frontier of linguistic annotation and of human language technology by extending the range of linguistic phenomena for which reliable annotation techniques exist. (4) Working towards a consensus on all issues crucial to the advancement of the field of corpus annotation. 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X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 632. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:33:35 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: how common, how important? I have a question which needs the thought of ordinary practitioners of several disciplines or, more broadly, forms of life. The question is this: how commonplace and how important is a practitioner's awareness of the history of his or her own practice? In practice is an historical awareness basically an optional extra, which may make you better at what you do but is not at all necessary? Take literary scholarship, for example. I suspect that most literary scholars work within whatever theoretical framework (to put the matter grandly) is current without giving much thought to the fact that this apparently solid framework is a highly contingent affair. I suspect that as students they were merely anxious to walk the walk and talk the talk so as to get a job, and then they become anxious to say the right things in the right way to get published. At one point or another as students they may have taken a course in the history of criticism and seen Coleridge, Arnold and the rest flit by, but the brief glance does little to relativize their thoughts. In the case of computer science, with half as much history and changing at much more than twice the speed, I suspect that most practitioners, if they regard the history of CS at all, think it irrelevant, full stop. And they do have a point as long as they stick within the technological frame. The sciences are more or less generally like that, I'd suppose. Historians, of course, pay loads of attention to the past of knowledge when knowledge is their subject. But apart from those few who wander into historiography, does the past of doing history matter when you're doing it? So, I venture an hypothesis (as Peirce said, a guess): that the history of a discipline tends to become important to its practitioners when they believe their discipline to be in trouble, are dissatisfied as to its status in the world etc. They're concentration from the tool to the task is broken, so they turn their attention to the tool and begin to wonder if it's the right one. Don't we believe our discipline is in trouble? At least rejected and despised and acquainted with grief (hear the music)? I certainly think that this belief is healthier than the one which says we're the Next Big Thing. Does my guess make sense? Yours,WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 11 08:45:36 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1B64BCFC; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:45:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 752584BCE8; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:45:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100211084534.752584BCE8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:45:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.633 how common, how important: a correction ("their" not "they're") X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 633. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:43:32 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: their not they're Mea culpa. But does anyone here have an idea why this happens to someone who is perfectly well aware of the difference? WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 12 08:28:20 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2428F4A78A; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:28:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 023E04A777; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:28:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100212082818.023E04A777@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:28:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.634 disciplinary history (how common, how important) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 634. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patrick Durusau (47) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.632 how common, how important? [2] From: Bovcon Vaupotic (88) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.632 how common, how important? [3] From: Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1 (62) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.632 how common, how important? [4] From: James Rovira (25) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.632 how common, how important? [5] From: Ali Grotkowski (7) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.632 how common, how important? [6] From: Elijah Meeks (22) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.632 how common, how important? [7] From: "Geoffrey C. Bowker" (105) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.632 how common, how important? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:45:29 -0500 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.632 how common, how important? In-Reply-To: <20100211083958.E63D94BB9B@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, > So, I venture an hypothesis (as Peirce said, a guess): that the history > of a discipline tends to become important to its practitioners when they > believe their discipline to be in trouble, are dissatisfied as to its > status in the world etc. They're concentration from the tool to the task > is broken, so they turn their attention to the tool and begin to wonder > if it's the right one. > > Rather than look at its tools, the AI community simply invents new names for itself. I had a CS doctoral student tell me in all seriousness that his department was now Human Assisted Computing because the AI moniker had fallen on hard times. When I questioned him further it turned out that he meant disappointment with AI results in the late 1990's. I had to point out that AI had quite similar disappointments in the 1980's, 1970's and 1960's. He assured me that this time was going to be different. Perhaps we should have a new name? 21st Century Humanists? (to imply our colleagues are last century humanists) That could lead to century inflation so, Renaissance Humanists? (that should put our alleged detractors in their place) > Don't we believe our discipline is in trouble? At least rejected and > despised and acquainted with grief (hear the music)? I certainly think that > this belief is healthier than the one which says we're the Next Big Thing. > No, not at all. What is despised is the "you must be our apprentice" sort of attitude and tool sets. If we want respect from humanists in general then we need to build tools that: 1) Have immediate benefit relevant to *their* needs, and 2) Be as easy to use as average office software (if not better, it needs to work the way a humanist works, not to make it easy for programmers or to fit the underlying representation). The key word in that suggestion is "their" needs, not ours. If we want respect from others then we need to earn it, not simply demand it based on our judgment about our efforts. Hope you are having a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:53:23 +0100 From: Bovcon Vaupotic Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.632 how common, how important? In-Reply-To: <20100211083958.E63D94BB9B@woodward.joyent.us> Dear colleagues, Let me introduce myself first - I am a new media artist and a literary comparatist. I was thinking about a similar issue the other day. Whether to overcomplicate the methodological and contextual approach or to merely submit oneself - e.g. a comparatist scholar - to the raw data. Walter Benjamin's work on the Trauerspiel comes to mind - he studied an obscure example of art and was therefore more free to interpret it in a way he wanted (although he was, of course, far from ignoring the history of research into this subject). This sort of freedom doesn't apply to e.g. Goethe studies. On the other hand, the computer science's rejection to study their own history has its limits. Manovich in his "Software Takes Command" points to the fact that HCI design is now discovering features, which have been presented in the Douglas Engelbart Demo in 1968. Best regards Aleš Vaupotič REELC/ENCLS http://eurolit.net --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:15:12 -0500 From: Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1 Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.632 how common, how important? In-Reply-To: <20100211083958.E63D94BB9B@woodward.joyent.us> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 08:39:58AM +0000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > how commonplace and how important is a practitioner's awareness of > the history of his or her own practice? In practice is an historical > awareness basically an optional extra, which may make you better at > what you do but is not at all necessary? ... > Historians, of course, pay loads of attention to the past of > knowledge when knowledge is their subject. But apart from those few > who wander into historiography, does the past of doing history > matter when you're doing it? > > So, I venture an hypothesis (as Peirce said, a guess): that the > history of a discipline tends to become important to its > practitioners when they believe their discipline to be in trouble, > are dissatisfied as to its status in the world etc. They're > concentration from the tool to the task is broken, so they turn > their attention to the tool and begin to wonder if it's the right > one. I cannot resist rising to the bait of Peirce and Handel! The premise that action is best described in terms of a Markov chain seems valid. A Markov chain forgets its past and responds probabilistically to actually existing circumstances. Humans are not mathematical operators, of course, and memory does weigh heavily on the present, but memory is a mental construction that exists only in the present as a one-sided and approximate analog for cumulative experience (Peirce). Arguably, the past exists only as constraining structures in the present, be they physical or mental, which determine the probability distribution of possible futures. It is therefore through struggle that we bring about improbable futures. As for the hypothesis, taking for granted that the discipline is in trouble (an issue that begs for class analysis), I suspect that old tools are necessarily ill-suited to ever-changing circumstances and demands. Besides, are not our historiographic tools now extraordinarily sophisticated? Is the problem that our tools are inadequate to the task, or that the task itself has been obscured and discredited? There's an approach, which can perhaps be described as existential, that keeps popping up to suggest that historic consciousness contributes to the effectiveness of action in the present. Carr, What is History, is a classic example. Another, which I encountered yesterday, is John Marcus, "The Consciousness of History", Ethics, 73 (1962), 28-41. What these and other examples argue, and with which I suspect we all might intuitively agree, is that historic consciousness helps us in some way to transcend the present to construct a better future. Unfortunately this is seldom if ever worked out explicitly in terms of naturalistic argument. Carr, if I recall accurately, saw it in psychological terms. Marcus emphasizes that the present is a process of becoming, but remains at the intuitive level. The basic point seems that historic consciousness does not have so much to do with the past but with the future, and with seeing the present as an open process that is only constrained rather than unequivocally determined (caused) by the structures of the past. Does anyone know of work that explores and develops this intuition explicitly and does not presume a mind-body ontic dichotomy? I have been working on it, but have had to skate on thin ice. Haines Brown Central Connecticut State University, Emeritus brownh@historicalMaterialism.info --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:21:08 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.632 how common, how important? In-Reply-To: <20100211083958.E63D94BB9B@woodward.joyent.us> You always pose such good questions, Willard. The important thing to me is a critical self-awareness of one's own methodologies and assumptions -- the knowledge that you could be working with different methodologies and different assumptions. One of the best ways of gaining this awareness is through a study of the history of one's field. The nature of this historical study, however, I think varies a great deal by discipline. I don't think knowledge of the state of computational sciences in the 1920s is necessary for the computer scientist today, but I think knowledge of it since the 50s or 60s could be very useful. However, in the field of literary theory, anyone who hasn't read much that was written before the 19th or 20th centuries is ragingly ignorant and not in a very good position to even understand 20th/21st C literary theory. It really helps one's understanding of Derrida, say, to have read Plato, Augustine, Rousseau, Hegel, Nietzsche. It's really very hard to fully appreciate what he was doing without this background. Jim R > I have a question which needs the thought of ordinary practitioners of > several disciplines or, more broadly, forms of life. The question is > this: how commonplace and how important is a practitioner's awareness of > the history of his or her own practice? In practice is an historical > awareness basically an optional extra, which may make you better at what > you do but is not at all necessary? > --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:25:59 -0700 From: Ali Grotkowski Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.632 how common, how important? In-Reply-To: <20100211083958.E63D94BB9B@woodward.joyent.us> Good question. I find that in all disciplines I have studied, the history has been an important component of the introduction to the field (and I have studied in several arts and sciences fields), so I am not sure that your suggestion is the case. Having a good background in history is useful, but also potentially limiting to the range of thought in a field, not necessarily wanting to either depart too far from what has come before or repeat the past, an interesting problem to have. Ali Grotkowski MA/MLIS student University of Alberta --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:36:31 -0800 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.632 how common, how important? In-Reply-To: <20100211083958.E63D94BB9B@woodward.joyent.us> "In the case of computer science, with half as much history and changing at much more than twice the speed, I suspect that most practitioners, if they regard the history of CS at all, think it irrelevant, full stop. And they do have a point as long as they stick within the technological frame. The sciences are more or less generally like that, I'd suppose." Actually, Willard, I'd argue that computer scientists are crippled by their constant looking back at their own history to the point of being incapable of looking beyond it. Mac OSX and Linux are just UNIX--which is over forty years old--and programmers love them, and the digerati loves them, as they love very old science fiction memes that they believe they're taking part in. Programmers and computer scientists either still live in a world of EMACS and FORTRAN or they hearken back to it nostalgically. I'd wager you can't find a coder who has advanced beyond the "revolutionary cybernetic vision" of the already hackneyed when it was published, c. 1984 novel Neuromancer. As a result, you have fogies like Richard Stallman literarally dressing themselves like iconic portraits of saints (complete with halos) and espousing extremely shallow philosophical ideals because they think that they have existed throughout the sum total of "important history" (which is to say, the history of their domain). We could all learn some lessons from them, but lessons of what to avoid rather than what to emulate. All the best, Elijah Meeks --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:24:08 -0500 From: "Geoffrey C. Bowker" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.632 how common, how important? In-Reply-To: <20100211083958.E63D94BB9B@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Willard, Way interesting post. I have immediate problems with the word 'discipline' though. There is no 'discipline' of sociology that would cover total quant-heads and qual-heads - the grounded theory of Anselm Strauss just does not fit with large scale survey research. Similarly history and any other so-called discipline - disciplines are a place where people agree on the terms of debate rather than prosecute a single style. BTW, am just starting to read a French book on Qu'est-ce-que une discipline that looks interesting - will report back if this thread continues. That said, the question of when history becomes important is still salient. I really like the guess but disagree. I've seen a few genealogies of Artificial Intelligence that trace their routes back to Hilbert - this is the 'unassailable genius' route for explaining a theory. This authority exercise is key for many clusters of research - I never met a grounded theorist who wasn't by various supervisors removed a student of Everett Hughes, nor an ethnomethodologist who didn't trace back, however vacuously, to Garfinkel. As a perennial outsider to these ancestries (Gerard Manning-Clark anyone?), I argue for an historical understanding of what I do more in the Dionysian/Apollonian tradition described by Nietzsche and developed by Derrida. This for me is not a sign that I feel I'm in disciplinary trouble - more a token for the range of various methodologies I find interesting. BTW - Michel D'Onfray in France has been engaged in a counter-history of philosophy (he follows the hedonist rather than the 'all is suffering' thread): he has some lovely arguments for needing to know the historical situation of whichever philosopher you discuss. Best wishes, geof Geoffrey C. Bowker Professor and Senior Scholar in Cyberscholarship Sixth Floor, Information Sciences Building 135 North Bellefield Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15260. ph. 412-624-9315 email: gbowker@pitt.edu web: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gbowker _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 12 08:30:44 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689AF4A83C; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:30:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B6CA4A834; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:30:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100212083042.1B6CA4A834@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:30:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.635 grammar on the fly (their/they're) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 635. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Terry" (25) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.633 how common,how important: a correction ("their" not "they're") [2] From: John Laudun (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.633 how common,how important: a correction ("their" not "they're") --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:12:38 +0900 From: "Terry" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.633 how common,how important: a correction ("their" not "they're") In-Reply-To: <20100211084534.752584BCE8@woodward.joyent.us> If you were composing as you went along, and composition consists of word chunks, it would be quite reasonable for your brain to get confused between: Their concentration... AND They are concentrating... Or something along those lines. "Their concentration from the tool to the task" strikes me as unusually abstract language anyway, so the pull might be in the direction of the human-as-default. Terry -----Original Message----- Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 633. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:43:32 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: their not they're Mea culpa. But does anyone here have an idea why this happens to someone who is perfectly well aware of the difference? WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:37:44 -0600 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.633 how common,how important: a correction ("their" not "they're") In-Reply-To: <20100211084534.752584BCE8@woodward.joyent.us> When I've done it, I've always assumed it was a product of going to school during the phonetic spelling regime and of remaining, fundamentally, an "oral thinker." That is, I still hear voices when I read texts -- perhaps this is what led me to folklore studies in the first place. This is noticeably different from my wife, a trained literary scholar, who is not only a faster reader and writer because of it, but also a better speller. For her, words are graphemes when written. For me, they never entirely escape their sounds and so if I am working quickly, with any luck in a blaze of insight, these kinds of "mistakes" creep in. That is entirely an internal observation and the most casual analysis. I suspect our linguist colleagues will have something far more rich to observe. john -- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana – Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 337-482-5493 laudun@louisiana.edu http://johnlaudun.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 12 08:31:26 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4CAF4A874; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:31:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 29F5A4A86B; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:31:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100212083125.29F5A4A86B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:31:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.636 new centre for digital scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 636. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:33:54 -0500 From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Brown University Center for Digital Scholarship We are very pleased to announce the launch of the Center for Digital Scholarship, a new digital center in the Brown University Library. The CDS is a focal point for digital humanities research and development at Brown, working in close partnership with individual researchers and academic centers across the campus and at other institutions. Among its activiites are outreach programs, internships, digitization and enhancement of significant library collections, lectures and events, project development and grant development. Under the leadership of Patrick Yott, Director of Digital Technologies, the CDS brings together several groups, each with its own long history: The Scholarly Technology Group Founded in 1994, STG has been a center of activity in digital humanities scholarship, with a strong program of research and publication projects, events and grant development and support. The Women Writers Project First funded in 1988, the WWP is a research group with a dual focus on early women's writing and the impact of digital textuality on humanities scholarship. The WWP publishes Women Writers Online and conducts grant-funded research on text encoding and digital scholarship; it also provides seminars, workshops, and documentation on using the TEI Guidelines. The Center for Digital Initiatives Founded in 2001, the CDI provides high-quality digitization, metadata development, repository services, and consultation on digital projects. Please visit the CDS site at http://library.brown.edu/cds/ and in particular: • Our database of CDS projects, http://library.brown.edu/cds/ projects • Our research library of papers, reports, and documentation,http://library.brown.edu/cds/research/publications-and-documents • Our listing of outreach programs, http://library.brown.edu/cds/programs/education-and-outreach On behalf the CDS, Julia Flanders and Elli Mylonas Center for Digital Scholarship Brown University Library _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 13 06:20:20 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E5145042; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:20:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 30C2A45033; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:20:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100213062017.30C2A45033@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:20:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.637 new report: the future of scholarly communication X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 637. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:25:07 -0800 From: Diane Harley Subject: Final publication of CSHE/Mellon Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication We are delighted to announce the publication of the final report: Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines. The full report can be accessed at: http://escholarship.org/uc/cshe_fsc Since 2005, the Center for Studies in Higher Education_(CSHE), with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has been conducting research to understand the needs and practices of faculty for in-progress scholarly communication (i.e., forms of communication employed as research is being executed) as well as archival publication. The final report brings together the responses of 160 interviewees across 45, mostly elite, research institutions in seven selected academic fields: archaeology, astrophysics, biology, economics, history, music, and political science. Our premise has always been that disciplinary conventions matter and that social realities (and individual personality) will dictate how new practices, including those under the rubric of Web 2.0 or cyberinfrastructure, are adopted by scholars. That is, the academic values embodied in disciplinary cultures, as well as the interests of individual players, have to be considered when envisioning new schemata for the communication of scholarship at its various stages. Links to the complete results of our ongoing work can be found at the Future of Scholarly Communication's project website. ======================================== Diane Harley, Ph.D. Principal Investigator and Director, Higher Education in the Digital Age Project, Center for Studies in Higher Education 771 Evans Hall, # 4650 University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 http://cshe.berkeley.edu/people/dharley.htm scproject@berkeley.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 13 06:21:12 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614F4450F2; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:21:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 554C4450D6; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:21:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100213062110.554C4450D6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:21:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.638 events: The Past's Digital Presence (Yale) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 638. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:11:48 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: The Past's Digital Presence (Yale) The Past's Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities Yale University 19-20 February 2010 http://digitalhumanities.yale.edu/pdp/ How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with pre-digital sources in the humanities? If the “medium is the message,” then how does the message change when primary sources are translated into digital media? What kinds of new research opportunities do databases unlock and what do they make obsolete? What is the future of the rare book and manuscript library and its use? What biases are inherent in the widespread use of digitized material? How can we correct for them? Amidst numerous benefits in accessibility, cost, and convenience, what concerns have been overlooked? -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 14 09:11:12 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C570B4AA04; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:11:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9D8C14A9FA; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:11:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100214091110.9D8C14A9FA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:11:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.639 CSHE/Mellon report on scholarly communication X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 639. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:07:18 -0500 From: "Joe Raben" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.637 new report: the future of scholarly communication In-Reply-To: <20100213062017.30C2A45033@woodward.joyent.us> It is amazing that the CSHE/Mellon Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication fails to include anything related to literature. The closest it comes to the humanities is a report on history and archaeology (which often are regarded as social sciences) and "music" (by which it seems to mean muiscology), a minor field which may not be representative. When the number of scholars interviewed is divided by the number of disciplines covered, one needs to wonder how representative the conclusions really are. The conservative, anti-technology attitude reported among those who control the careers of junior faculty, even if not advocated in the report, seems to show little respect for the openmindedness of senior academics that is supposed to be the hallmark of scholarship. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Humanist Discussion Group" To: Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:20 AM> scproject@berkeley.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 18 13:57:41 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCFAE4C323; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:57:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B45DE4C123; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:37:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100218133704.B45DE4C123@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:37:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.640 "their" not "they're" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 640. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:06:58 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.633 how common, how important: a correction ("their" not "they're") In-Reply-To: <20100211084534.752584BCE8@woodward.joyent.us> Maybe my phonetic spelling is catchy? (There, their and they're seem all to be perfectly interchangeable in some of my texts.) Best -- Joris On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 633. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:43:32 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: their not they're > > Mea culpa. But does anyone here have an idea why this happens to someone > who is perfectly well aware of the difference? > > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. -- Mr. Joris J. van Zundert (MA) Alfalab / Huygens Institute IT R&D Team Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Contact information at http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/vanzundert _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 18 14:02:28 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8F064C3BC; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:02:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BE3074C1AB; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:40:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100218134047.BE3074C1AB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:40:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.641 The CSHE/Mellon report X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 641. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Laudun (15) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.637 new report: the future of scholarly communication [2] From: Diane Harley (105) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.639 CSHE/Mellon report on scholarly communication --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:14:47 -0600 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.637 new report: the future of scholarly communication On 2010-02-13, at 24:20 , Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > The final report brings together the responses of 160 interviewees across 45, > mostly elite, research institutions in seven selected academic fields Sigh. It's the mercenary nature of these documents that I find so sad. By focusing on elite institutions, they maneuver to make their reports into "bench marking" documents that will receive widespread attention and application, especially by administrators and faculty members in institutions further down the food chain of the academy. The irony, of course, is that they survey the master masons of the cathedral about their use the very set of technologies that are all about the bazaar happening in the town square. The conversations at the Project Bamboo workshops proved on a regular basis that a fair amount of innovation does indeed happen on the margins. Will I read this document in full? Yes. Will I use it for quotable quotes to help digital humanities efforts at my little hybrid university on the margins of the academy as established by this very document? Yes. I will do so in in the same mercenary fashion that the authors of these survey appear to have created this document. In so doing, the reigning order will largely been confirmed. Sigh. john -- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana – Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 337-482-5493 laudun@louisiana.edu http://johnlaudun.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:25:34 -0800 From: Diane Harley Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.639 CSHE/Mellon report on scholarly communication Dear Mr. Raben, Thank you for your preliminary comments. As you will see when you actually read the full report, and explore our website, we found an immense amount of professed flexibility in the tenure and promotion system. (And you will also find that we explored English language literature in the planning phase of the project. That case study, with four others, was published in 2006. http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/ publications.php?id=23 ) We could not include every discipline in the latest study. We spent a significant amount of time narrowing down our choices via lay of the land interviews. Among the criteria was what we considered to be interesting trajectories for in-progress communication and for integration of media and data sets. As you will discover when you read it, music in fact is a fascinating case for many reasons, not least of which is that its institutional organization is so diverse and the subfields it embraces offer multiple epistemologies (that reflect on publishing and advancement practices). I am sure French literature, or geosciences, or psychology, or physics, or theater or...would have yielded their own surprises and orthodoxies. But research resources are always finite. Literature was rejected because (1) we had already gotten a bead on it in the planning phase, (2) it's problems with overproduction of Ph.D.'s and monographs that Presses can't/won't sell are legend, and (3) the MLA (which we cite extensively) appeared to have begun public soul searching about some of these issues. As to our N's, the methods speak for themselves. You may not like the results, but as an anthropologist I can say with some conviction that we report the news, we don't make it. The report is deeply peer reviewed. As part of IRB requirements and anonymization, each interviewee was invited to review quotes and our conclusions at least once. We received a lot of great feedback from quite distinguished scholars, many of whom are "innovators." We also spent considerable time testing hunches in each interview, and we vetted final conclusions with our advisory, with each other (I am blessed with a great team.), and many, many generous and whip-smart colleagues over the last years. Are our conclusions right? Wrong? It represents a snapshot in time of particular cultures in a rapidly changing world. By virtue of publishing so many quotes, those who want to challenge the conclusions can dive in and try to come up with more or less parsimonious interpretations themselves. We are very open to embracing other interpretations as long as they are based on good evidence, not anecdote and hype. Would different results emerge for other disciplines, professional schools, and/or HE institutional sectors domestically or abroad? It's testable (and we have constant feelers out to gauge the answers to those questions, maybe even do follow-up research). We do expect similar work might come to different conclusions in some period of time (2? 5? 10 years?). We hope that we have set a reliable and scholarly baseline for any comparative work. Best, Diane ======================================== Diane Harley, Ph.D. Director, Higher Education in the Digital Age Project Center for Studies in Higher Education, 771 Evans Hall, # 4650 University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 voice: 510/642-4343; fax: 510/643-6845 http://cshe.berkeley.edu/people/dharley.htm _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 18 14:03:28 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB02E4C3FC; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:03:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0E4F24C1CF; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:42:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100218134225.0E4F24C1CF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:42:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.642 call for chapter proposals: Virtual Worlds X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 642. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:07:59 -0600 From: Ana Boa-Ventura Subject: Call for Chapter proposals In-Reply-To: <20100119061648.381D1469AE@woodward.joyent.us> ********** 2nd CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS ********** Proposal Submission Deadline: February 28, 2010 *** Virtual Worlds, Second Life and Metaverse Platforms: New Communication and Identity Paradigms *** A book edited by: Nelson Zagalo, University of Minho Leonel Morgado, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, and Ana Boa-Ventura, The University of Texas at Austin To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=794 ***Introduction*** The metaverse is emerging, through the increasing use of virtual world technologies that act as platforms for end-users to create, develop, and interact, expanding the realm of human communication, and collaboration. Researchers and scholars are experiencing the importance of this new area. The private sector is also strongly investing in these domains. Even more importantly, society is responding, and this will have a huge impact on life transformation. This book will present texts whose focus are the scientific research on uses, effects, developments and applications of various metaverse platforms, such as Second Life, Home (Sony), OpenSimulator, Open Croquet, Activeworlds, Project Wonderland, World of Warcraft and others. The goal is to provide a forum for the research community to present and discuss innovative approaches. Whereas metaverse platforms are not a novel topic, they continue to pose challenges in areas such as the adaptation of conventional research methodologies and communication practices. Furthermore, these platforms are reshaping our frameworks in topics as important as digital identity, collaboration, entertainment and play, technology and arts, educational objects, virtual space and digital representation, and communication design. ***Objectives of the Book*** The mission of this book is to discuss the main issues, challenges, opportunities and trends related to the metaverse and its potential for research, society and technological evolution. The overall objectives are: . To discuss the impact of the metaverse and related new paradigms; . To present new technological developments, and their current and future possibilities . To present affective and cognitive effects of virtual worlds . To discuss anthropological and social impacts; . To present new creation and simulation perspectives for art and design . To discuss the future generations of virtual worlds; . To provide guidance for further research and development; . To build a bridge between research and practice. ***Target Audience*** The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals and researchers working in the fields of virtual worlds, virtual environments, virtual reality, videogames, communication, design, computer science, education, psychology and information technology. ***Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:*** . Design. Interactivity . Technology . Simulation . Games and Play . Aesthetics . Creativity . Communication Paradigms . Culture and Identity . Education . Collaboration . Behavioral studies and Emotion ***Submission Procedure*** Potential contributors are invited to submit on or before February 15, 2010, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 15, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by June 15, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. To follow the progress of this project, please visit regularly: http://sites.google.com/site/metaverseparadigms ***Publisher*** This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011 ***Important Dates*** February 15, 2010: Early Proposal Submission DeadlineFebruary 28, 2010: Late Proposal Submission Deadline March 15, 2010: Notification of Acceptance June 15, 2010: Full Chapter Submission August 30, 2010: Review Results Returned October 30, 2010: Final Chapter Submission November 30, 2010: Final Deadline ***Editorial Advisory Board Members*** Craig Becker, Emerging 3D Internet and Virtual Business EBO, IBM, USA Graham Attwell, University of Warwick, United Kingdom Isabel Valverde, Visualization and Intelligent Multimodal Interfaces, INESC-ID, Portugal João Mattar, Universidade Anhembi Morumbi and PUC/SP, Brazil Julian Lombardi, Duke University, USA ***Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to: *** Nelson Zagalo, Communication and Society Studies Centre, University of Minho - ICS, 4710-057 Braga - Portugal Phone: +351 253 604 214 . Fax: +351 253 604 697 . Mobile: +351 962761660 e-mail: nzagalo@ics.uminho.pt or nzagalo@gmail.com *** http://sites.google.com/site/metaverseparadigms *** _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 21 12:52:03 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 491404C901; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:52:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2A5114C8F3; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:51:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100221125157.2A5114C8F3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:51:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.643 "their" not "they're" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 643. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:41:44 +0100 From: Guido Milanese Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.640 "their" not "they're" In-Reply-To: <20100218133704.B45DE4C123@woodward.joyent.us> As a native speaker of another language, not of English, I notice this kind of "confusions" quite often, probably because being a foreigner I read English a bit slower than a native speaker. One among these frequent mistakes impresses me as being probably a real mistake: -its- versus -it's-, for example it's most important feature is... This is quite common also in the documentation of computer programmes. It may be worth a little research, if not already done. Best regards, GM -- Guido Milanese - Professor of Latin The Catholic University, Milan and Brescia, Italy http://docenti.unicatt.it/ita/guido_fabrizio_milanese http://www.arsantiqua.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 21 12:55:15 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E2324C9B3; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:55:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 239E04C9AC; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:55:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100221125513.239E04C9AC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:55:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.644 jobs at Oxford, Athabasca X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 644. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Wynne (14) Subject: Job opportunity in Oxford [2] From: Darren James Harkness (43) Subject: Web Developer position at Athabasca University --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:13:10 +0000 From: Martin Wynne Subject: Job opportunity in Oxford The Oxford e-Research Centre is looking for a Research Associate for 6 months to work on the CLARIN project. The work will involve development tasks contributing to promoting the interoperability of language resources in the Oxford Text Archive with the CLARIN infrastructure that is under development. Details are at http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/jobs/. Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on 12th March 2010, and interviews will be held on mid late March 2010. -- Martin Wynne Research Technologies Service & Oxford e-Research Centre Oxford University Computing Services 7-19 Banbury Road Oxford UK - OX2 6NN Tel: +44 1865 283299 or +44 1865 610677 Fax: +44 1865 273275 martin.wynne@oucs.ox.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:35:42 -0700 From: Darren James Harkness Subject: Web Developer position at Athabasca University WEB DEVELOPER - KNOWLEDGE INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM Job details and resume submission available at https://athabascau.hua.hrsmart.com/ats/js_job_details.php?reqid=3D661 Req #661 Closing Date (mm/dd/yy): 02/28/10 Term End Date: 03/31/2011 Job Type: Full Time Temporary Location: Edmonton, Alberta Salary Range$61,098 - $78,341 Job Summary This term position is intended to build, implement, document, and test a suite of applications to support the creation of a virtual media lab within Athabasca University that will be used by students and faculty. The project has three primary goals: the creation of a web-based portal for research tools and tutorials, implementing workshop tools, and working with mobile learning technologies. The successful candidate for this position will show a mix of implementation and development skills, focused on web-based tools, and a familiarity with an academic or research environment. A high level of collaboration is required, as the project has dependencies on other tools being developed by the university. The full job description can be viewed at: http://www1.athabascau.ca/hr/careers/jobprofiles/folder.2009-09-22.0665451518/10171%20web%20developer.doc/file_view. For further information regarding this position, contact Darren Harkness at (780) 497-3420 or via email at darren@athabascau.ca. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and Permanent Residents will be given priority. All applicants should forward a letter of application, resume, and the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of three references. Applications will only be accepted via our online recruitment system. Job Qualifications The successful candidate will require a minimum of a university degree in a related field, plus a minimum of three years experience in web development / programming. Experience with website development, maintenance and systems design is required. Experience with the languages/technologies of PHP, Java, SQL (MySOL and/or Postgre SQL), XML, XHTML, Javascript and Subversion is also required. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. All educational credentials must be recognized in Canada. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 21 12:57:01 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 367D94CA43; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:57:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5D45C4CA2F; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:56:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100221125658.5D45C4CA2F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:56:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.645 new publication: digital literature X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 645. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:04:05 +0100 From: Dolores Romero López Subject: new publication In-Reply-To: <20100218133704.B45DE4C123@woodward.joyent.us> I am pleased to send you the reference of a monographic on Digital Literature published last December in* Neohelicon. Acta Comparationis* (Netherlands). Maybe it could be of some help to somebody. Many thanks http://linguistlist.org/issues/21/21-324.html http://www.springerlink.com/content/k6777787408g/?p=594e896ad86f425f8e0fae28eee5aab4&pi=0 Drª. Dolores Romero López Universidad Complutense de Madrid Facultad de Filología (Edificio D) Dept. de Literatura Española Despacho 1/331 Ciudad Universitaria s/n 28040 Madrid (España) Telf. 34+91+3945863 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 21 12:57:45 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78BE64CA9A; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:57:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B5AFA4CA88; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:57:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100221125743.B5AFA4CA88@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:57:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.646 ACH election results X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 646. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:26:01 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: ACH Election Results Dear Colleagues, I am very pleased to announce the results from the ACH 2010 Elections: Officers, to serve 2010-2011: - President: Julia Flanders - Vice-President: Bethany Nowviskie ACH Executive Council, to serve 2010-2013: - Tanya Clement - Neil Fraistat - Geoffrey Rockwell - Susan Schreibman (to serve out Nowviskie's term, 2010-2011) Thanks very much to all the candidates and to these individuals for being willing to serve - and thanks also to all who voted. Finally, thanks to the nominations committee (John Lavagnino (chair), Paul Caton, Glen Worthey, Lisa Spiro, Chuck Bush and Melissa Terras) for preparing such a strong slate. The ACH is the Association for Computing in the Humanities and, like the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), has Humanist and the journal Literary and Linguistic Computing as its official publications. For more information on the ACH please see: http://www.ach.org/ Yours, Dot (ACH Executive Secretary) -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager (on leave) Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 21 13:14:25 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9AC74CD14; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:14:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CD7094CD01; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:14:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100221131423.CD7094CD01@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:14:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.647 events: at Yale (past), at the MLA (future) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 647. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Olin Bjork (55) Subject: MLA 2011 Special Session: Digital Humanism and English Studies (deadline: 3/20/2010) [2] From: "Willard McCarty" (27) Subject: conference at Yale --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:05:33 -0500 From: Olin Bjork Subject: MLA 2011 Special Session: Digital Humanism and English Studies (deadline: 3/20/2010) MLA 2011 Special Session (deadline: 3/20/2010) Digital Humanism and English Studies Humanism is traditionally defined as a philosophy that attaches primary importance to humans, to their dignity, concerns, and capabilities.  What happens when we include the digital in this definition?  Is “digital humanism” an oxymoron?  Or is there room for reconceiving the relationship between computing and knowledge production--especially in, but not limited to, the discipline of English studies--in a way that harnesses human potential in the pursuit of humanistic ends?  The print revolution played an essential role in the rise of Renaissance humanism.  Can the spread of computers stimulate a digital humanism? N. Katherine Hayles (1999) has argued that in this age of DNA, computers, and artificial intelligence, information has lost its body and the liberal humanist subject has given way to the “posthuman.” Charles Traub and Jonathan Lipkin (2003) respond to this situation by calling for the emergence of a “creative interlocutor” capable of using computers to reinvent historical ways of interacting, thinking, and creating that reinforce what makes us human.  Franco Moretti (2005) argues that computation allows humanists to answer questions that, due to their physical limitations as readers, could only be asked before. These viewpoints raise the question of whether we are reinventing the human in the computer’s image or the computer in our own. Disciplinarily speaking, has the move by English studies toward computing moved it closer to or further from humanism? In addition to the questions posed above, you may want to consider: * What is digital humanism?  What is a digital humanist? * What is the relationship between digital humanism and the digital humanities? * How might digital humanism allow us to reconceive the humanities, in particular the English studies discipline (both literary studies and composition studies)? * How might digital humanism allow us to reconceive the computer sciences? * How does the emergence of the posthuman affect our notion of humanism? * What is the relationship between digital humanism and the various historical humanisms? * How does the focus on the human element in product design contribute to a conception of digital humanism? * How does the view of computing as a socially embedded activity contribute to a conception of digital humanism? * How does the view of computing as a fundamentally rhetorical activity contribute to a conception of digital humanism? * What is the relationship between computing and the pursuit of democracy and human rights? * How has Matthew Arnold’s concept of culture as “the best that has been thought and said” been affected by the digital computing revolution?  Is there still room in digital humanism for the value of human excellence? * How has the poststructuralist view that humans are constructed by and complicit in formations of power and ideology been affected by the computer revolution? Please send a 250-word abstract to John Pedro Schwartz js34@aub.edu.lb or Olin Bjork olin.bjork@lcc.gatech.edu by March 20, 2010. The MLA Convention will be held between January 6-9, in 2011, in Los Angeles, CA. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:51:11 -0000 (GMT) From: "Willard McCarty" Subject: conference at Yale Yesterday, by generous invitation of the organizers, I attended "The Past's Digital Presence" here at Yale (digitalhumanities.yale.edu/pdp/). This conference was mostly by and for graduate students, though there were a few of us about for whom graduate school is but a memory. To someone who has spent his professional career working in various ways toward the realisation of humanities computing as an institutionally recognised scholarly discipline, this was quite an encouraging, indeed exhilirating experience. Ed Ayres, historian and now President of the University of Richmond, Virginia, summed up the moment by saying that he thought it might well prove a watershed event in the history of our field in the U.S. What impressed me most was the quality of the work by graduate students from Yale and elsewhere. I treasure most the chance to witness their energies of mind and critical intelligence applied to activities in the digital humanities. Quite independently of the work us older ones have done for so long, these students see the possibilities now visible and question them as befits the humanities. We often bemoan the unthinking acceptance and uncritical uses of computing in evidence all around us. Here was evidence of an altogether different sort. Bravo! I think what sticks in my mind most encouragingly of all is not just the acts of critical questioning but the idealism which survives it: the realisation that what really matters is enabling the "beginner's mind" of scholarship, as a teacher of mine used to say (though he was speaking of much more than scholarship). What matters even more than the assist to professional scholarship, one presenter said, is the beginner's experience, say of medieval manuscripts. If, as another said, the most important engagements with computing are the simplest ones, then our job is to make more of them simple. We can, I was told, look forward to a detailed record of the event once all the dust has settled and those most involved have had a chance to recover. Yours,WM -- Professor Willard McCarty staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 23 08:55:55 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9123A4C83A; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:55:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 423B94C829; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:55:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100223085553.423B94C829@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:55:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.648 "their" not "they're" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 648. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" (44) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.643 "their" not "they're" [2] From: Joris van Zundert (55) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.643 "their" not "they're" [3] From: Martin Mueller (26) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.643 "their" not "they're" --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:55:57 +0000 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.643 "their" not "they're" In-Reply-To: <20100221125157.2A5114C8F3@woodward.joyent.us> oh, these not mistakes non-native english speakers make only: in my experience, one finds such even in some graduate papers in the humanities! steven totosy de zepetnek ph.d. professor http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv On Feb 21, 2010, at 12:51 pm, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 643. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:41:44 +0100 > From: Guido Milanese > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.640 "their" not "they're" > In-Reply-To: <20100218133704.B45DE4C123@woodward.joyent.us> > > As a native speaker of another language, not of English, I notice this > kind of "confusions" quite often, probably because being a foreigner I > read English a bit slower than a native speaker. One among these > frequent mistakes impresses me as being probably a real mistake: -its- > versus -it's-, for example > > > it's most important feature is... > > > This is quite common also in the documentation of computer programmes. > It may be worth a little research, if not already done. > > Best regards, > GM > -- > Guido Milanese - Professor of Latin > The Catholic University, Milan and Brescia, Italy > http://docenti.unicatt.it/ita/guido_fabrizio_milanese > http://www.arsantiqua.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:24:51 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.643 "their" not "they're" In-Reply-To: <20100221125157.2A5114C8F3@woodward.joyent.us> Well, if we're hunting for these kinds of things now... It seems using 'en' instead of 'and' seems to be a distinctive Dutch treat - or so I'm told by my English speaking colleagues. Best -- Joris -- Mr. Joris J. van Zundert (MA) Alfalab / Huygens Institute IT R&D Team Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Contact information at http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/vanzundert --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:43:09 -0600 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.643 "their" not "they're" In-Reply-To: <20100221125157.2A5114C8F3@woodward.joyent.us> When does a mistake become 'real'? The confusion of {its} and {it's} is quite old, and it has some reason on its side. The possessive case in English is a common Germanic genitive suffix and until well into the 1600's there is no orthographical difference between {kings} as a genitive and {kings} as a plural. The genitive form of {it} is rare in that world, {his} being the much common form. But {it's} as analogous to {king's} has much to say for it. In modern English, of course, the confusion of {its} and {it's} counts as a howler and has shibbolethic qualities to it. Or used to. I can think of two reasons for its spread. First, there is finger memory, an important orthographic factor in a world of keyboards. And second, it may inherit the informality that leads to preferring {don't}, {I'll}, and {it's} in situations where it was previously frowned on. But it's not a real mistake. It just counts as one, but may not do so much longer. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 23 08:57:13 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71DED4C962; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:57:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E13D64C94F; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:57:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100223085710.E13D64C94F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:57:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.649 Yale, the past and the future X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 649. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:37:04 -0600 From: Amanda Gailey Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.647 events: at Yale (past), at the MLA (future) In-Reply-To: <20100221131423.CD7094CD01@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I appreciated your post about the Yale graduate conference. I am writing, though, to offer a different perspective on Ed Ayers's comment (for which I lack context) that the conference--where talented graduate students at an Ivy League institution publicly presented on digital humanities-- was a "watershed" moment. As someone for whom graduate school isn't too distant a memory (I've been done for about four years), I find that the "watershed" comment overlooks the work that many grad students have been doing at non-Ivy schools for several years now. A wave of us--well, maybe a ripple more than a wave--have been presenting our work on DH as students for quite a while. Importantly, many of us who did not attend Ivy League schools and who professionally defined ourselves as digital humanists before it became an MLA buzzword were arguably taking many more risks. I know I'm preaching to the converted as I address this email to you, but I think it's important to note on the public record. To my mind it is much more interesting to observe that universities such as Nebraska and Georgia have been offering DH opportunities to grad students for years now while more prominent programs typically have been reluctant to jump in. Frankly, I view the late arrival of the Ivies as a worrisome indicator that DH will soon be locked down by the same tired socio-economic gatekeeping mechanisms that prevent many people with talent from succeeding at so many other academic disciplines. I say this not at all to denigrate what is surely fine work coming from those schools, and even perhaps from students and staff who can relate rags-to-riches stories of their academic career paths. I simply want to suggest that to my mind, the conference may be a watershed, but not because DH has finally earned the benediction of the Ivies. Instead, it is quite possible that a hitherto unproven field, within which smart people not housed at the most selective and expensive universities could actually earn influence and rewards, is becoming less egalitarian. Best, Amanda On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > > > Yesterday, by generous invitation of the organizers, I attended "The Past's > Digital Presence" here at Yale (digitalhumanities.yale.edu/pdp/). This > conference was mostly by and for graduate students, though there were a few > of us about for whom graduate school is but a memory. To someone who has > spent his professional career working in various ways toward the > realisation > of humanities computing as an institutionally recognised scholarly > discipline, this was quite an encouraging, indeed exhilirating experience. > Ed Ayres, historian and now President of the University of Richmond, > Virginia, summed up the moment by saying that he thought it might well > prove > a watershed event in the history of our field in the U.S. > > What impressed me most was the quality of the work by graduate students > from > Yale and elsewhere. I treasure most the chance to witness their energies of > mind and critical intelligence applied to activities in the digital > humanities. Quite independently of the work us older ones have done for so > long, these students see the possibilities now visible and question them as > befits the humanities. We often bemoan the unthinking acceptance and > uncritical uses of computing in evidence all around us. Here was evidence > of > an altogether different sort. Bravo! > > I think what sticks in my mind most encouragingly of all is not just the > acts of critical questioning but the idealism which survives it: the > realisation that what really matters is enabling the "beginner's mind" of > scholarship, as a teacher of mine used to say (though he was speaking of > much more than scholarship). What matters even more than the assist to > professional scholarship, one presenter said, is the beginner's experience, > say of medieval manuscripts. If, as another said, the most important > engagements with computing are the simplest ones, then our job is to make > more of them simple. > > We can, I was told, look forward to a detailed record of the event once all > the dust has settled and those most involved have had a chance to recover. > > Yours,WM > > -- > Professor Willard McCarty > staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/%7Ewmccarty/ -- Amanda Gailey Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska 202 Andrews Hall Lincoln, NE 68588 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 23 09:00:12 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B42D4CA83; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:00:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 096494CA63; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:00:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100223090008.096494CA63@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:00:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.650 invitation to say how you use digital resources X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 650. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:32:57 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Invitation to participate in a digital humanities study [Posted on behalf of the INKE team] Dear Colleague, Two weeks ago, you received via the Centernet listserv an invitation to complete a survey about researchers' use of digital tools and resources in teaching and research. If you did not complete the survey, we would like to invite you again to do so. The findings of the survey will be used to improve existing digital tools and resources, and to derive requirements for prospective tools and resources that we hope will be of benefit to researchers. The following link will bring you to the online questionnaire: http://infopoll.net/live/surveys/s34325.htm Information about this research is included in the attached letter. If you have already completed the survey, thank you very much for your time. Please feel free to contact the INKE Graduate Research Assistant, Karen Taylor, at any time if you have questions about this research: 604-737-2873 (British Columbia, Canada) or . Sincerely, Karen Taylor for the INKE Team INKE Graduate Research Assistant University of British Columbia c/o Department of Language & Literacy 2125 Main Mall Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 23 09:03:54 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DEDB4CB5C; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:03:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8E1314CB55; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:03:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100223090352.8E1314CB55@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:03:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.651 publishing's revolutionary future X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 651. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:36:35 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: publishing's revolutionary future Many here will be interested in Jacob Epstein, "Publishing: The Revolutionary Future", New York Review of Books 57.4 (11 March 2010), www.nybooks.com/. Sometimes one has to allow that great changes actually do occur, though I am strongly tempted to recommend that anyone who finds him- or herself about to write the word "revolutionary" first count to ten, and then find another word. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 23 09:09:38 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C43C4CC76; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:09:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BF5784CC65; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:09:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100223090935.BF5784CC65@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:09:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.652 events X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 652. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Noiret, Serge" (15) Subject: CFP: Historia Crítica Bogotá, Colombia, Call for papers for a Thematic Section on "Digital_History" [2] From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" (78) Subject: Call for participation: XML for the Long Haul, 2 August 2010 [3] From: "James R. Kelly" (14) Subject: Call for papers for MLA 2011 [4] From: "Mahony, Simon" (47) Subject: Digital Classicist 2010 Seminars CFP [5] From: Richard Cunningham (43) Subject: [SDH/SEMI Members] SDH-SEMI Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:45:26 +0100 From: "Noiret, Serge" Subject: Subject: CFP: Historia Crítica Bogotá, Colombia, Call for papers for a Thematic Section on "Digital_History" Historia Crítica. Bogotá, Colombia. Call for papers for a Thematic Section on "Digital History" Editors: Serge Noiret, European University Institute (Florence, Italy), Stefania Gallini, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia). The relationship between the Internet and the Historian's craft has been a topic of debate, reflection, and questioning for some time now. "The Internet," as one historian has written, "does not question the aim of historical work, but influences the way we think and communicate knowledge about the past." In other words, the Internet - and other new media - is challenging the "traditional" ways (sequential, argumentative, linear) of constructing historical narratives aw well as the traditional role of historians and audience of historical work. The widespread use of the Internet - in terms of methods, techniques, and production of primary sources and scholarly literature, but also of very popular History websites much accessed by young people (usually uninterested in traditional academic contents) - demands wide-ranging and critical reflection. For this special issue on "Digital History," we are accepting papers on a variety of topics: * Conceptual reflections about the use of the Internet in the field of History. * The transformation of the web into an archive of contemporary history and memories. * New ways of communicating history such as Digital Public History * The creation of born digital sources and of the so-called "invented archives" * The "democratization" of historical research through the participation of historians without graduate degrees in History. * The impact of Web 2.0 and social networks and of user-generated content activities in the field of history: are new popular multimedia websites and platforms like Flickr, YouTube, Facebook and more recently Twitter, having also an impact on the historian's craft ? * The implications for research, teaching and social appropiation of knowledge in the field of history, through the introduction of wiki's, podcasts, weblogs, tri-dimentional artifacts, geographical information systems, etc. We invite interested scholars to submit articles to this Special Issue of Historia Crítica using our website http://historiacritica.uniandes.edu.co between May 1 and May 31, 2010. Please follow the editorial norms established by Historia Crítica, available at the same website. Articles can be submitted in the following languages: Spanish, English, French, Italian, and Portuguese. However, if an essay is accepted, each author is responsible for submitting the final version of his or her article in Spanish. Historia Crítica cannot offer any assistance in the translation of articles. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:35:19 -0700 From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" Subject: Call for participation: XML for the Long Haul, 2 August 2010 This pre-conference symposium co-located with Balisage 2010 should be of more than usual interest to readers of this list. In humanistic disciplines, the "long haul" is often a bit longer than in some others. Please forward as appropriate. And if you have a department bulletin board, you might print out the flyer at http://balisage.net/Handouts/LongHaulCall.pdf and put it up for others to see. I look forward to your paper proposals and your attendance! -Michael Sperberg-McQueen * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Call for Participation: International Symposium on XML for the Long Haul Issues in the Long-term preservation of XML Monday 2 August 2010 Hotel Europa, Montréal, Canada Chair: Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies http://balisage.net/longhaul/ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Nearly everywhere, people who create, store, query, or serve XML expect it to live a very long time. XML is platform- and application-independent, and by and large it is platforms and applications that vanish. If by encoding information in XML we have freed it from dependency on specific platforms or applications, have we succeeded in ensuring that the XML can live long into the future? Or is there more to it than using XML? How can we best ensure that our data, all our data, and its semantics survive this year, next year, ten years? into the next millennium? Commercial information may have a useful lifetime measured in years or decades; cultural-heritage material, scientific data, governmental data, and historical documents need to be preserved for centuries; information about nuclear waste products will remain relevant for hundreds of millennia. It‘s not enough for the bits to survive; the meaning of the information needs to survive as well. What are we doing and what should we be doing to help its survival? This one-day symposium will bring together researchers, government analysts, archivists, preservationists, librarians, and XML practitioners to discuss the problems and challenges of deep time document encoding. What is being done now and what more we can do? We solicit papers addressing any aspect of this problem complex, including but not limited to: - Analysis of the problem: what are the requirements? - How is XML for long-term archiving different from XML for immediate processing or message interchange? - Identification of particular risk factors (with or without recommendations for managing risks) - Long-term preservation and access issues in library, commercial, governmental, or other contexts - Designing for survival - How tradeoffs in the design of markup vocabularies affect data life - Reports from the field on success or failure of specific techniques in preservation in particular fields (energy, defense, healthcare, STM journal articles, historical editions, curated scientific and scholarly data, product support and maintenance data, legislative records, etc.) - How to document the semantics of markup vocabularies so as to ensure that documents can be understood in the future - How to document and preserve application semantics - How to use XML as a wrapper around pre- or non-XML data to improve its chances of survival - The role of packaging - How to ensure that XML data remain usable even if the application environment they were built in (or for) has disappeared - Does scale change everything? Paper Submissions Paper submissions for the symposium should follow the instructions for submissions to the main Balisage 2010 conference (same format, same address, same due date). Paper submissions are due 16 April 2010. * * * * * There is nothing so practical as a good theory * * * * * -- **************************************************************** * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies LLC * http://www.blackmesatech.com * http://cmsmcq.com/mib * http://balisage.net **************************************************************** --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:20:02 -0500 From: "James R. Kelly" Subject: Call for papers for MLA 2011 CFP: Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures Literary Research in/and Digital Humanities. Addressing digital humanities projects (past, present, forthcoming) with a literary component and their relation to libraries, digitization projects, archiving, or data curation. Abstracts by 15 March 2010; James R. Kelly (jrkelly@library.umass.edu). James R. Kelly Humanities Bibliographer W.E.B. Du Bois Library University of Massachusetts 154 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003-9275 (413) 545-3981; (413) 577-2565 (fax) E-mail: jrkelly@library.umass.edu American Co-Editor, Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature; Section Head & Senior Bibliographer, MLA International Bibliography; Adjunct faculty: UMass German & Scandinavian Studies, Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science and URI Graduate School of Library and Information Studies; Research Librarian, Mass. Ctr. for Renaissance Studies; Slavic Cataloger, Amherst College; Humanities Editor, Guide to Reference --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:40:29 +0000 From: "Mahony, Simon" Subject: Digital Classicist 2010 Seminars CFP Call for Presentations The Digital Classicist will once more be running a series of seminars at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, with support from the British Library, in Summer 2010 on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component. We are especially interested in work that demonstrates interdisciplinarity or work on the intersections between Ancient History, Classics or Archaeology and a digital, technical or practice-based discipline. The Digital Classicist seminars run on Friday afternoons from June to August in Senate House, London. In previous years collected papers from the DC WiP seminars have been published* in a special issue of an online journal (2006), edited as a printed volume (2007), and released as audio podcasts (2008-9); we anticipate similar publication opportunities for future series. A small budget is available to help with travel costs. Please send a 300-500 word abstract to by March 31st 2010. We shall announce the full programme in April. Regards, The organizers Gabriel Bodard, King's College London Stuart Dunn, King's College London Juan Garcés, Greek Manuscripts Department, British Library Simon Mahony, University College London Melissa Terras, University College London * Seehttp://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/4/ (2006), http://www.gowerpublishing.com/default.aspx?page=637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=1064&sort=pubdate&forthcoming=1&title_id=9797&edition_id=12252 (2007),http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/index.html (2008-9). -- Simon Mahony Student Support Manager Department of War Studies, e-Learning Programme Room K7.05, 7th Floor, South Range King's College London WC2R 2LS http://www.kcl.ac.uk/wimw --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:45:14 +0000 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: [SDH/SEMI Members] SDH-SEMI Call for Papers CFP SDH/SEMI 2010 (Montreal, 31 May-2 June) [l’appel à communication en francais ci-dessous] The Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) invites scholars and graduate students to submit proposals for posters, papers, and sessions for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2010 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Concordia University (Montreal), from Monday 31 May to Wednesday 2 June. The theme of this year’s congress is ‘Connected Understanding’, with an emphasis on open access. Abstracts/proposals should include the following information at the top of the front page: title of paper, author's name(s); e-mail address; institutional affiliation and rank, if any, of the author; statement of need for audio-visual equipment. Abstracts of papers and posters should be between 250 and 500 words long, and clearly indicate the thesis, methodology, and results. Paper, poster and/or session proposals will be accepted until 20 March 2010 through the conference website: [Address to follow as soon as possible.] (The program will be available two weeks later.) Please note that all presenters must be members of SDH/SEMI or other groups in the Alliance for Digital Humanities at the time of the conference. There is some funding available to support graduate student participation, and in keeping with the forward-looking nature of SDH/SEMI graduate students are strongly encouraged to submit. Information on accommodation, travel, and registration for the Congress can be found at: http://www.congress2010.ca/content.php?id=427 (hotel and residence rooms are available at a special Congress rate until mid-April) We look forward to seeing you in Montreal in a few months! Michael Eberle-Sinatra, President (French) of SDH/SEMI (michael.eberle.sinatra@umontreal.ca), On behalf of the 2010 conference committee - Susan Brown (University of Guelph) - Richard Cunningham (Acadia University) - Ollivier Dyens (Concordia University) - Dominic Forest (Université de Montréal) - Eric Moore (University of New Brunswick) - - - - - - La Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des medias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) invite des propositions pour sa conférence annuelle qui se tiendra au Congrès 2010 de la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines à l’université Concordia (Montréal), du lundi 31 mai au mercredi 2 juin. Le thème du congrès cette année est ‘Le savoir branché’, avec une emphase mise sur l’accès libre. Les propositions doivent comprendre en haut de la page : un titre ; le(s) nom(s) de(s) auteur(s) ; adresse courriel ; institution d'appartenance et fonction; besoin d'audio-visuel. Le résumé des propositions et posters doit être entre 250 et 500 mots, et clairement indiquer la thèse, la méthodologie et les résultats attendus. Les propositions devront être remises avant le 15 mars 2010 sur le site de la conférence : [L'adresse de suivre aussitôt que possible] (Le programme sera disponible deux semaines plus tard.) Veuillez prendre note que les conférenciers doivent être membres de SDH/SEMI ou un des groupes de ‘Alliance for Digital Humanities’ au moment de la conférence. Un support financier est disponible pour les étudiants des cycles supérieurs qui sont donc fortement encouragés à soumettre leur proposition. Des informations sur l’hébergement, le transport et l’inscription au Congrès sont en ligne à : http://www.congress2010.ca/contenu.php?id=427 (Des chambres d’hôtel et résidence sont disponibles à un tarif réduit jusqu’à mi-avril.) En espérant vous voir à Montréal dans quelques mois ! Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Président (Français) SDH/SEMI (michael.eberle.sinatra@umontreal.ca), Au nom du comité organisateur 2010 - Susan Brown (University of Guelph) - Richard Cunningham (Acadia University) - Ollivier Dyens (Concordia University) - Dominic Forest (Université de Montréal) - Eric Moore (University of New Brunswick) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 24 08:50:21 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C027D4D7C5; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:50:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 15A954D7B0; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:50:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100224085018.15A954D7B0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:50:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.653 Yale, the past and the future X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 653. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:44:12 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: watersheds Thanks to Amanda Gailey in Humanist 23.649 for supplying a context I had in mind but did not transcribe in reporting on the recent event at Yale. As is my habit, on reading Amanda's note I went immediately to the OED to check my understanding of what "watershed" commonly means. "A parting of the ways" or "a big change" seems the common meaning. Not very satisfactory for my sense of the moment. During the discussion, if I recall correctly, someone remarked that recognition of digital scholarship has proceeded at a rate inversely proportional to institutional prestige. In broad terms, yes, I suppose there's some truth in that. Would it be fair to say that innovation tends to come from the 2nd- and 3rd tier institutions (by some vague but more or less commonly observed measure)? So, by that sort of argument, when a prestigious, old and quite traditional university becomes at last the site of such recognition, it signals that our common project is no longer so new and perilous as it once was. Because such institutions are influential, it is a moment for all to celebrate, since it means the change for which so many have worked for so long is now solid. Those afraid to act until a precedent can be cited among the top universities can then act. When one looks closer, the institutional history of digital scholarship becomes much more complex. Centres of activity at Oxford, Cambridge, Toronto, Bergen were early on the scene. (Harvard was very active in computing from the time of the Mark I, built by Howard Aiken and completed in 1944; its Program on Technology and Society, 1964-1972, was an early attempt to assess what was happening more broadly.) Some, esp the e-text centres, were clearly set up in a way that did not challenge the divide between support of research and research itself, yet in time they also vanished. I suspect that if the study were done we'd find more than one reason for the disbanding of centres. I'd like to be able to argue that over time we've been evolving ever better institutional models but don't have sufficient data to hand. I think what we really want to look for is recognition that digital humanities (in the singular) is itself a scholarly enterprise, not merely a step'n'fetchit infrastructure. We want to know about the vigour of the research programme for which it is directly, primarily responsible. That vigour is now widely distributed. Now we very much need the socially strongest castles to pull up the portcullis and throw open the gate. As Amanda more or less said, many of us have been working for years toward the point at which scholarship in digital humanities becomes as an unremarkable a possibility as any other of the older kinds. And I for one have been waiting a long time to witness the more slowly moving institutions get there. Beyond that point is less excitement than a more calm, critical attitude toward the work done. What I think was most hopeful in the Yale event was the degree to which the graduate students and recent graduate students were thinking critically and quite practically about actual work in the archives, manuscript rooms and so on. One senior scholar (repeating a very old theme, articulated yet again e.g. by Anthony Kenny in his 1991 British Library lecture) said he was waiting for the results that would bring forth some new discovery that could not have been made otherwise. I wonder where he's been looking, and not looking. But, I'd argue, the important changes are less of that kind, much more of the kind that takes place quietly, gradually. We do need people to document, study and discuss such changes so that they won't simply be taken for granted and slip by unnoticed. A "Paradise within thee, happier far"? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 24 08:53:03 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 107044D867; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:53:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 221FA4D85F; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:53:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100224085301.221FA4D85F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:53:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.654 job at Brown X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 654. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:41:24 -0500 From: Andrew Ashton Subject: Freelance programmer job - the Center for Digital Scholarship, BrownUniversity The Center for Digital Scholarship at the Brown University Library is looking for a part-time, freelance programmer/software developer to help out on a grant-funded project. Ideally, we are looking for someone with an interest in text-analysis and/or TEI. This project requires experience with Java or Python, as well as a familiarity with XML and related tools. Knowledge of TEI, RDF programming, SPARQL, and web services development would be great. We are open to working remotely with a well-qualified individual. This is an hourly job without benefits. If you know of anyone who could use some extra work and fits this description, please pass this along. Feel free to email me at Andrew_Ashton@brown.edu with any questions. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 24 08:54:15 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997194D8CB; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:54:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1738D4D8BA; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:54:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100224085413.1738D4D8BA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:54:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.656 cfp: essays on VR filmmaking X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 656. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:14:57 +0100 (CET) From: "Jim Barrett" Subject: Call for Papers: UNDERSTANDING MACHINIMA: essays on filmmaking in virtual worlds UNDERSTANDING MACHINIMA: essays on filmmaking in virtual worlds Call for Papers Submissions are invited for an edited book with the working title Understanding Machinima: essays on filmmaking in virtual worlds. Machinima - referring to "filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment, often using 3D video-game technologies" as well as works which use this animation technique, including videos recorded in computer games or virtual worlds - is challenging the notion of the moving image in numerous media contexts, such as video games, animation, digital cinema and virtual worlds. Machinima's increasingly dynamic use and construction of images from virtual worlds - appropriated, imported, worked over, re-negotiated, re-configured, re composed - not only confronts the conception and ontology of the recorded moving image, but also blurs the boundaries between contemporary media forms, definitions and aesthetics, converging filmmaking, animation, virtual world and game development. Even as it poses these theoretical challenges, machinima is expanding as a practice via internet networks and fan-based communities as well as in pedagogical and marketing contexts. In these ways, machinima is also transformative, presenting alternative ways and modes of teaching and commercial promotion, in-game events and, perhaps most significantly, networking cultures and community-building within game, virtual and filmmaking worlds, among others. Divided into these two sections - machinima (i) in theoretical analysis; and (ii) as practice - this first collection of essays seeks to explore how we can understand machinima in terms of the theoretical challenges it poses as well as its manifestations as a practice. We are primarily concerned with offering critical discussions of its history, theory, aesthetics, media form and social implications, as well as insights into its development and the promise of what it can become. How does machinima fit in the spectrum of media forms? What are the ontological differences between images from machinima and photochemical/digital filmmaking? How does machinima co-opt the affordances of the game engine to provide narrative? How may machinima, developed from the products of game and virtual world marketing, be used as an artistic tool? How is machinima self-reflexive, if at all, of the virtual environments from which they arise? What are the implications of re-deploying these media formats into alternative media forms? How does the open-source economy that currently defines much of global machinima relate it to broader cultural production generally? In particular, we are looking for essays that address (but not limited to) the following ideas: * History: context; definitions; culture; relationships to gaming and play; development of technology; hardware and games; archiving of play; * Theory: image; ontology; time; space; narrative; realism; spectatorship; subjectivity; virtual camera; materiality; * Aesthetics: poetics; play; visuality; détournement; remix; digital mashup; appropriation; recombinative narratives; audio and visual theory; spatiality; narrative architecture; * Contemporary media contexts: comparative media; machinima vis-à-vis video games, (digital) cinema, animation, virtual worlds; the visual economy of machinima versus film * Communities: Machinima as community-based practice and performance; user created content; online publishing; fan (fiction) communities; open source; cultural reflection * Pedagogy: digital literacy; teaching models and practices; student-centered learning; critical making; collaborative authorship; rhetorics; problem based learning; * Marketing: crowd sourcing; viral marketing; peer to peer sharing; commercials, trailer promotions; grass roots versus astro turf; serials and sequels. Please submit a 400 word abstract and a short bio via e-mail to understandingmachinima@gmail.com by 30 August 2010. We expect that final essays should not exceed 7,000 words and be due on 30 December 2010. Jenna P-S. Ng James Barrett HUMlab, Umeå University Sweden -- PhD Candidate, HUMlab. Department of Language Studies. Umeå University +46 (0)90 786 6584 Umeå University.SE-901 87.Umeå.Sweden Blog: http://www.soulsphincter.blogspot.com HUMlab: http://www.humlab.umu.se/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 24 08:54:59 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D09D34D90A; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:54:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EDAED4D903; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:54:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100224085457.EDAED4D903@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:54:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.657 events: 2010 DHO Summer School X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 657. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:00:08 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: Registration now open for DHO Summer School 2010 DHO Summer School - Registration Now Open www.dho.ie/ss2010 The DHO is pleased to announce that registration for the 2010 DHO Summer School, in conjunction with NINEs and the EpiDoc Collaborative, is now open. The Summer School welcomes registrants from the various fields of the humanities, information studies, and computer science. Workshops and lectures cover subjects as diverse as text encoding, virtual worlds, and geospatial methods for the humanities. These are facilitated by leading experts, with plenty of time during evening activities for informal interaction. This year, in addition to four-day workshop strands, the DHO is also offering mid-week, one-day workshops. For those unable to attend the entire Summer School, it is possible to register separately for these mid-week workshops and lectures. As in previous years, the Summer School brings together Irish and International scholars undertaking digital projects in diverse areas to explore issues and trends of common interest. The programme will offer attendees opportunities to develop their skills, share insights, and discover new opportunities for collaboration and research. Activities focus on the theoretical, technical, administrative, and institutional issues relevant to the needs of digital humanities projects today. The pricing for the full Summer School, as well as one-day workshops and lectures, is available on the registration page: http://dho.ie/ss2010/registration A number of subsidised places are available for attendees at HSIS institutions. For more information about these places, please contact the DHO Consultative Committee representative at your institution. Names of representatives can be found at: http://dho.ie/committee Full details of the workshop strands, lectures and guest speakers can be found on the Summer School website at: www.dho.ie/ss2010 We look forward to seeing you in Dublin. -- Emily Cullen, Ph.D., Programme Co-ordinator Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: +353(0)1-2342442 Fax:+353(0)1-2342400 E-mail: e.cullen@ria.ie http://dho.ie -- -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager (on leave) Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 24 08:58:50 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AC894D98C; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:58:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B2CC94D976; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:58:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100224085847.B2CC94D976@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:58:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.658 cyberspace and alienation? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 658. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:34:04 -0000 From: "Stephen Woodruff" Subject: cyberspace, alienation In-Reply-To: <20100223090935.BF5784CC65@woodward.joyent.us> Horrible combination of words. I'm looking for up-to-date work on whether or how people's (especially young adults) use of cyberspace leads to greater feelings of alienation from their family or other real life groups, and whether it leads to greater identification with other groups in society, for positive or negative reasons. I'd appreciate suggestions of readings: most of what I've found predates the social networking surge which I think has taken such activity from the nerdish to the mainstream. Stephen Woodruff Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland/UK _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 25 07:34:09 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA80F4C8E0; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:34:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5E8144C8CD; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:34:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100225073407.5E8144C8CD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:34:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.659 Yale, the past and the future X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 659. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kathy Harris (61) Subject: Re: [Bulk] [Humanist] 23.653 Yale, the past and the future [2] From: Wendell Piez (54) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.653 Yale, the past and the future --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:38:09 -0800 From: Kathy Harris Subject: Re: [Bulk] [Humanist] 23.653 Yale, the past and the future In-Reply-To: <20100224085018.15A954D7B0@woodward.joyent.us> I'm intrigued by Willard and Amanda's comments on the Yale Symposium for Graduate Students and the evolution of Digital Humanities. Though both are absolutely right in their suppositions (that Digital Humanities has been around long enough to become a mainstay and that private Ivies are getting involved signals to the rest of the community some validity), I think there's some short-sighted celebration about the extension of Digital Humanities from or into 2nd and 3rd tier U.S. universities. This may be true for 2nd and 3rd tier Research I institutions, but we are still grappling with issues of funding, authority and networking for Digital Humanities at teaching institutes. This is a question I repeatedly ask at the MLA panels: do the centers and bastions of Digital Humanities have an obligation to bring along their "lesser" public institutions? Indeed, I've been attending and struggling to pull my university to Project Bamboo meetings for the past 2 years. Most of the university and the Cal State system has a profound distrust of Digital Humanities or Digital Studies. What is its purpose? Who is funding it? Are faculty really interested if they have to teach a 4-course load? (The question should be "how do they have time to do this "extra" work if they teach so much?") How does it align with the mission of a teaching university. (And, yes, I realize that some teaching institutions are involved in DH; but, really, those tiny few aren't enough to convince deans of the movement's veracity.) Willard writes: "research programme for which it is directly, primarily responsible. That vigour is now widely distributed. Now we very much need the socially strongest castles to pull up the portcullis and throw open the gate. As Amanda more or less said, many of us have been working for years toward the point at which scholarship in digital humanities becomes as an unremarkable a possibility as any other of the older kinds. And I for one have been waiting a long time to witness the more slowly moving institutions get there." There are pockets of faculty acting independently at some teaching institutions, but there has not been a move at the organizational level to push into teaching institutes. And, I'm still waiting for my teaching institute to fully accept DH: in T&P issues, in funding my research, in giving me time to play with the tools in the classroom. After 5 years, I still struggle with convincing my Department that this facet of my research and teaching is innovative and authoritative -- everyday, people, everyday. So, before we declare that the gate has been thrown open, let's think about the broader version of higher education, please. Kathy ************************** Dr. Katherine D. Harris Editor, Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/ Assistant Professor Department of English & Comparative Literature San Jose State University One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192-0090 Email: katherine.harris@sjsu.edu Phone: 408.924.4475 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:24:41 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.653 Yale, the past and the future In-Reply-To: <20100224085018.15A954D7B0@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, In my understanding -- and this is lore, not knowledge -- the metaphor of the "watershed moment" refers to when one crosses the line at the hilltop (and it may not be a very steep hill, but it might be long, and high; it could be a continental divide) where the streams downhill change direction, no longer running back toward the known, but away. That is, it is a subtle but profound shift, which shows that despite the terrain not having changed in other respects, nevertheless one is making progress -- indeed, one is advancing into a new realm altogether. In that context, I imagine that the Yale event you attended might have been a watershed for those who attended it, and even (at least this is what I imagine President Ayers meant to say) for the culture at large, insofar as an expedition commissioned under a blue banner (Lux et Veritas) may finally give official credence to the idea that there is actually a new world here, that no, one won't fall off the map or find oneself becalmed on an endless sea. Yet I share Amanda Gailey's ambivalence completely: this development may not be quite so promising for us who have been exploring these territories for a long time already, or who have in fact long since gone native, and see the encroachment of civilization (with its own peculiar preoccupations, different from ours) as not entirely benign. We must keep in mind that although there are many imaginative, forward-looking and progressive individuals within our elite institutions, nevertheless the institutions themselves are essentially conservative, and must be as long as they remain themselves. The reason a school like Yale offers a great education (at least in my experience) is not that Yale itself is devoted to this (although it may be) so much as that such a concentration of intellects, wherever it be, inevitably causes reactions among them. Part of the conservatism of the place is in fact to help contain this alchemy and sustain it. So is it any wonder at all if top-tier schools, or departments within them, have been reluctant to engage closely with anything as catalytic and perhaps corrosive as digital media? Yet change is happening. And with change may be loss, and regret for what might have been. But when has creation not involved destruction, at least of possibility? In the meantime, I hope Amanda can take comfort. Sure, these new strangers are proud, maybe prone to suppose that if they are looking at something for the first time, it must never have been beheld before. But after all, they are us, and we don't have anything to fear from them that we shouldn't fear from ourselves. Cheers, Wendell ========================================================= Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ========================================================= _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 25 07:34:58 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D48D4C965; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:34:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B84934C951; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:34:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100225073455.B84934C951@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:34:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.660 online music and its enemies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 660. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:18:16 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: music online Some here will certainly want to know about a book that just came into my hands, Patrick Burkart, Music and Cyberliberties (Wesleyan University Press, 2010). It is "an activist's guide for musicians and fans opposed to the major label lockdown of online music" -- but also a good scholarly study of a contemporary phenomenon. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 25 07:35:34 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72CB84C9E7; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:35:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 509AF4C9D2; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:35:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100225073532.509AF4C9D2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:35:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.661 on WWW: interface ecology; open-source history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 661. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (29) Subject: interface ecology [2] From: renata lemos (20) Subject: Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:34:38 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: interface ecology This is to draw your attention to the work of the Interface Ecology Lab, Texas A&M University, www.ecologylab.net. On a recent visit to Texas A&M I was fortunate enough to be shown a couple of projects, both of which were seriously impressive. The current state of one of these projects, combinFormation, is described thus: > a mixed-initiative system that uses composition for browsing, > collecting, and arranging information samples from web pages. The > samples act as visual, semiotic, and navigational surrogates for the > documents from which they are extracted. The initiatives are the > system's generation of composition, and the user's direct > manipulation. The system's generative actions -- collecting > information samples, and composing them visually -- are conducted > iteratively, based on a user model. The system presents the ongoing > generation of the composition to the user in an interactive > information space. In this space, one of the user's initiatives is to > directly manipulate the composition through interactive design > operations, which enable samples to be displaced, layered, annotated, > and removed. The user can also express positive or negative interest > in each sample. Expressions of interest affect the model, creating a > feedback loop through the visualization. There's a link to the tool, with a YouTube video (which should not be run when being quiet is a good idea). Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:42:31 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past Roy Rosenzweig See This article was originally published in *The Journal of American History* Volume 93, Number 1 (June, 2006): 117-46 and is reprinted here with permission. History is a deeply individualistic craft. The singly authored work is the standard for the profession; only about 6 percent of the more than 32,000 scholarly works indexed since 2000 in this journal's comprehensive bibliographic guide, "Recent Scholarship," have more than one author. Works with several authors–common in the sciences–are even harder to find. Fewer than 500 (less than 2 percent) have three or more authors.1 Historical scholarship is also characterized by *possessive* individualism. Good professional practice (and avoiding charges of plagiarism) requires us to attribute ideas and words to specific historians–we are taught to speak of "Richard Hofstadter's status anxiety interpretation of Progressivism."2 And if we use more than a limited number of words from Hofstadter, we need to send a check to his estate. To mingle Hofstadter's prose with your own and publish it would violate both copyright and professional norms. p.s. i still can not believe humanist is not on twitter yet. i´ll keep waiting --renata lemos http://www.renatalemos.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 25 07:36:53 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B33AA4CA8A; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:36:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 25E264CA57; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:36:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100225073651.25E264CA57@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:36:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.662 events: Day of Digital Humanities; Balisage discount X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 662. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Julia Flanders (71) Subject: Balisage discount for digital humanists [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (15) Subject: Day of Digital Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:03:56 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Balisage discount for digital humanists The ACH, ALLC, and SDH-SEMI are very pleased to be co-sponsors of the upcoming Balisage conference in August 2010. A detailed call for participation is below. As a special benefit, members of all three associations will receive a discount of up to US$200 on conference registration--just indicate that you are a member when you register. Balisage offers student support awards; details are available at http://www.balisage.net/special/students.html This is a wonderful conference in a marvellous city--we encourage you to take advantage of the membership discount and attend! Julia Flanders on behalf of ACH, ALLC, and SDH-SEMI ................................................................ Call for Participation Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010 Got Markup? (of course you do!) Want to get more out of it? Want to stretch it to the limit? Come to Balisage 2010, the peer-reviewed conference that makes you a markup geek (or at least feel like one)! Whether you're into theory or practice, this is the place to be to find out where the cutting edge is-and go beyond it. Balisage looks at every aspect of markup, from its theoretical and philosophical underpinnings to the newest and coolest ways of applying it to real-world problems. Got Something To Say About Markup? (of course you do!) We want to hear from you at Balisage 2010. We welcome submissions on any aspect of markup and structured information in theory or practice, generic or application specific, including by not limited to: * principles for the design, development, and documentation of markup vocabularies * applications of XML, Topic Maps, and related specifications * use or implementation of XSLT, XQuery, XProc, and other tools for processing marked up data * XML and databases * libraries and designs for supporting XML (or other forms of descriptive markup) in general-purpose programming languages * efficiency in XML processing * techniques for quality assurance in markup systems * handling overlapping structures in markup * alternatives to XML * formal models of markup and structured information * principles and practice of data validation (including uses of XSD, Relax NG, Schematron, and other schema languages) * best practice in the organization of XML workflows * problems of data longevity and reusability * fundamental principles of information structure and organization * achieving interoperability in applications of common vocabularies How: Submit full papers in XML to info@balisage.net Guidelines, DTDs, schemas, and details at http://www.balisage.net/submissions.html Apply to the Peer Review panel http://www.balisage.net/peer/ReviewAppForm.html More Information: Read about Balisage: http://www.balisage.net Sign up for the Markup conference announcement list: http://www.balisage.net/MarkupAnnounce.html Follow Balisage on Twitter: http://twitter.com/balisage Schedule: 19 March 2010 - Peer review applications due 16 April 2010 - Paper submissions due 16 April 2010 - Applications due for student support awards 20 May 2010 - Speakers notified 9 July 2010 - Final papers due 2 August 2010 - Pre-conference Symposium 3-6 August 2010 - Balisage: The Markup Conference Help make Balisage your favorite XML Conference. See you in Montréal! -- ======================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010 mailto:info@balisage.net August 3-6, 2010 http://www.balisage.net pre-conference symposium: August 2, 2010 Montreal, Canada --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:37:32 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Day of Digital Humanities Day of Digital Humanities http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2010 Dear humanists, I am writing to invite you to participate in the second " Day of DH 2010". On March 18, 2010. Individuals in the field or related professions will document the events of their day. We would like to invite you to participate. We will be treating this project as an online collaborative publication, with each participant as a co-author. The idea is that you will spend one day writing about and taking pictures of what you do as a digital humanist for an online publication that will resemble a collection of blogs of that day. You can learn about last year’s Day of Digital Humanities at: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2009 After the data is collected, everyone will get a chance to link and comment on the journals of others before it is frozen. Perhaps more exciting, though, is the plan to release the raw data (texts and images) for everyone to analyze. (Last year's data is almost ready for distribution.) For those interested in data visualization, this will provide a data set for displaying semantic links between different stories. We will also be providing a live RSS feed for those that want to try visualizations on the day. If you want to participate we ask that you apply using the online application form at: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2010 We will accept applications up to March 15th, though we would prefer that you apply before so we can set you up. We hope that this project will be a way to document the variety of what we do in the digital humanities. Your participation would very much be appreciated. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 28 08:32:16 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B853F013; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:32:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E06CA40FE5; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:32:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100228083212.E06CA40FE5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:32:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.663 Yale, the past and the future X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 663. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (24) Subject: parallels to Yale? [2] From: Amanda Gailey (46) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.659 Yale, the past and the future [3] From: "Joe Raben" (1) Subject: Yale, the past and future --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:07:20 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: parallels to Yale? The thought has circulated for years that as a field the digital humanities bears some structural resemblance to comparative literature, i.e. that comp-lit and digital humanities have similar institutional qualities. This leads me to wonder about the establishment of comp-lit as an institutional entity, in particular because of the discussion of the Yale conference, whether similar things happened when it became an academic entity. Did it show up late at places like Yale after there had been departments, centres or quasi-departments at less prestigious institutions, and if so, did its institutionalization there make a big difference? Are there other, perhaps closer parallels for us to consider? I recall that at Toronto the three senior professors who began comp-lit (this includes Northrop Frye) had first to teach it informally, on their own time, and then to resign or threaten to do so for the administration finally to recognize it. At King's College London it remains a programme rather than a department. In particular instances it would be interesting to know how comp-lit has established its particular identity as a discipline. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:11:55 -0600 From: Amanda Gailey Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.659 Yale, the past and the future In-Reply-To: <20100225073407.5E8144C8CD@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks to Willard, Kathy, and Wendell for your thoughtful remarks on this topic. I am really enjoying this refreshingly candid and respectful conversation. I wanted to delve a little further into the excellent points that Kathy raises. I work at a university that offers, I believe, support for DH that is unprecedented among American research institutions. One telling measure of this: starting in the fall of '10, the chairs of English, History, Modern Languages, and Special Collections will *all* be actively interested in digital humanities. This fact is not lost on me or on anyone working on DH here. My day-to-day work does not require me to make a case to my colleagues for the legitimacy of what I do. I attribute that fact to the hard work and vision of senior faculty here. Kathy, you are one of the ones who are doing the hard daily work of proving the legitimacy of DH. I suspect from comments I've received from colleagues at other institutions from the last few days that you will in fact find it easier to argue for DH now that Yale is visibly engaged. But should we be proud of the fact that so many humanists--who tend to claim progressive political values, incidentally--require the imprimatur of the Ivies rather than demonstrably good work in order to recognize that a field is worth pursuing? DH has had a mixed record in every sphere of American higher ed, and it is indeed overly simplistic to draw quick patterns. I would argue, though, that as spotty and problematic as its record has been, it nevertheless has strived to be a meritocracy, not an oligarchy, as the backgrounds of so many prominent DHers indicate. This is a value I would like to retain. I think the only way we can do so is to put pressure on our non-DH colleagues, the ones who will soon be chairing search committees in this area, to *not* assume that a traditionally valued pedigree necessarily makes the best candidate. More to Kathy's point, we also need to think hard in the DH community about beefing up our attention to pedagogy. The classroom is where, on a daily basis, we subtly model the profession not only to our students but to ourselves and our colleagues. If we had better methods (probably developed within DH subgroups such as Digital Americanists or Digital Medievalists) for using DH resources and methods in the classroom, I suspect it would help people like Kathy make their case...in a way I for one would find much more palatable than pointing to authority. Amanda -- Amanda Gailey Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska 202 Andrews Hall Lincoln, NE 68588 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:00:16 -0500 From: "Joe Raben" Subject: Yale, the past and future In-Reply-To: <20100225073407.5E8144C8CD@woodward.joyent.us> With regard to Yale's involvement with DH, it may be worth noting that in late 1964 or early 1965, a one-day conference was held there to discuss humanities computing. My only memory of the event is that Stephen M. Parrish, with slight emabrassment, delivered the same talk he had given at the IBM-sponsored Literary Data Processing Conference at Yorktown Heights the previous September. It might be illuminating to retrieve any record of the Yale conference to identify other participants. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 28 08:34:22 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B8053F0BC; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:34:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 500563F09A; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:34:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100228083420.500563F09A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:34:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.664 cyberspace and alienation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 664. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:57:40 +0000 From: James Cronin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.658 cyberspace and alienation? In-Reply-To: <20100224085847.B2CC94D976@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Stephen, You may consider exploring the work of Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, especially his work with the GoodPlay Project, an ongoing study that explores the ways in which young people’s use of social-networking sites, blogging, online games, and other forms of digital media are shaping their “ethical minds”. Carrie James has edited a report on the project’s progress to date entitled: Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media: A Synthesis from the Good Play Project (MIT Press, 2009). This report considers formation of the social self through online communication. For an overview of the GoodPlay Project visit http://www.goodworkproject.org/research/digital.htm. The forthcoming symposium at Oxford University, Beyond Borders: the place of research institutions in open educational resources taking place on 20th April, is well worth attending see http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/beyond2010/ Good luck with this interesting project. Regards, James G. R. Cronin, History of Art & Centre for Adult Continuing Education, University College Cork, Ireland. http://www.ucc.ie/en/StaffWebsites/JamesGRCronin/ On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 658. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:34:04 -0000 >        From: "Stephen Woodruff" >        Subject: cyberspace, alienation >        In-Reply-To: <20100223090935.BF5784CC65@woodward.joyent.us> > > Horrible combination of words. > I'm looking for up-to-date work on whether or how people's (especially > young adults) use of cyberspace leads to greater feelings of alienation > from their family or other real life groups, and whether it leads to > greater identification with other groups in society, for positive or > negative reasons. > I'd appreciate suggestions of readings: most of what I've found predates > the social networking surge which I think has taken such activity from > the nerdish to the mainstream. > > Stephen Woodruff > Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute > 11 University Gardens > University of Glasgow > Glasgow G12 8QQ > Scotland/UK _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 28 08:36:27 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 695243F11E; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:36:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2C2053F10B; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:36:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100228083625.2C2053F10B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:36:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.665 jobs: PhD studentship; postdocs X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 665. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Richard Booth (61) Subject: Open PhD position (Luxembourg/Lens): Dynamics of Argumentation [2] From: Susan Schreibman (40) Subject: Postdoc positions available --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:48:51 +0000 From: Richard Booth Subject: Open PhD position (Luxembourg/Lens): Dynamics of Argumentation The University of Luxembourg is inviting applications for a 2+2-year PhD position in Computer Science (ref. number F1-070088). The position is embedded in a project "Dynamics of Argumentation", which is a common project between the Individual and Collective Reasoning (ICR) group at the Computer Science and Communication Research Unit (CSC) in Luxembourg (Responsible: Leon van der Torre) and the Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens (CRIL) at the Université d'Artois, in Lens, France (Responsible: Souhila Kaci). The position is foreseen as a co-tutuelle position, that is the student will receive a degree from both universities. The successful candidate will be expected to work on abstract argumentation theory and belief dynamics. Offer: * A 2+2-year PhD position in Computer Science* Work in cooperation with 2 first class and highly active research groups (ICR and CRIL) in a friendly working environment; * Salary: 2300 Euros/month (gross) * Starting date: as soon as possible. Profile: * Candidates must hold a master degree in computer science or related areas; * The ideal candidate should have a strong background in logic-based approaches to artificial intelligence, e.g., in knowledge representation, reasoning about uncertainty, or reasoning about preferences. * Candidates should be proficient in mathematical reasoning and be capable of working with abstract concepts. * Candidates should possess good oral and written English skills. Applications should include an introduction letter indicating the motivation, a detailed CV including copies of the MSc diploma and information about the grades, and the names and contact details of two referees. We accept only electronic submissions, which should be sent to Richard Booth (richard.booth@uni.lu) and Leon van der Torre (leon.vandertorre@uni.lu), quoting the reference number for this position F1-070088. The deadline for applications is **April 15, 2010**. More information can be obtained from Richard Booth (richard.booth@uni.lu). University of Luxembourg homepage: http://www.uni.lu ICR homepage: http://http://icr.uni.lu CRIL homepage: http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr The University of Luxembourg, which was founded in 2003, is a research university at the heart of Europe. The Computer Science and Communication Research (CSC) research unit, which belongs to the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication and counts around 150 people, is located in the city of Luxembourg, next to the European Institutions. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:13:50 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Postdoc positions available As a result of a major multidisciplinary Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project, Language and Linguistic Evidence in the 1641 Depositions, led by Dr Barbara Fennell, we are seeking a Postdoctoral team to work with the Principal Investigator (PI) and consortium of other linguists, computer specialists and historians to further develop and analyse a digitized corpus of quasi-legal depositions from the 1641 rebellion in Ireland to investigate the language of violence and genocide, and to develop a unique humanities research interface in cooperation with IBM LanguageWare™, Dublin. The ads and further particulars for each post are available at the URLs below and on the University of Aberdeen website (www.abdn.ac.uk). RA/RF in Software Development http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=LAN019R 2. RF in Early Modern English Language http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=LAN018R 3. RF in Discourse Analysis http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=LAN017R If you have questions about any of these positions, please contact Dr Barbara Fennell b.a.fennell@abdn.ac.uk +44 1224 272490. -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 28 08:43:41 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E17973F2AC; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:43:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 55C6B3F299; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:43:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100228084338.55C6B3F299@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:43:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.666 events: conferences & a summer school X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 666. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dot Porter (56) Subject: Registration now open for DHO Summer School [2] From: Humanities (36) Subject: European Science Foundation 2010 Calls [3] From: Shuly Wintner (236) Subject: CFP (Extended) NAACL-HLT 2010 Workshop on Statistical Parsing ofMorphologically Rich Languages (SPMRL 2010) [4] From: "Dr. Indira Guzman" (37) Subject: Call for papers and reviewers for the "IT Culture" minitrack [5] From: James Cronin (76) Subject: Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity [6] From: Humanities (33) Subject: The Making of the Humanities Conference [7] From: Richard Cunningham (36) Subject: SDH/SEMI annual conference / conférence annuelle [8] From: HSofia Pinto (56) Subject: EKAW: Final Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:00:08 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: Registration now open for DHO Summer School 2010 DHO Summer School - Registration Now Open www.dho.ie/ss2010 The DHO is pleased to announce that registration for the 2010 DHO Summer School, in conjunction with NINEs and the EpiDoc Collaborative, is now open. The Summer School welcomes registrants from the various fields of the humanities, information studies, and computer science. Workshops and lectures cover subjects as diverse as text encoding, virtual worlds, and geospatial methods for the humanities. These are facilitated by leading experts, with plenty of time during evening activities for informal interaction. This year, in addition to four-day workshop strands, the DHO is also offering mid-week, one-day workshops. For those unable to attend the entire Summer School, it is possible to register separately for these mid-week workshops and lectures. As in previous years, the Summer School brings together Irish and International scholars undertaking digital projects in diverse areas to explore issues and trends of common interest. The programme will offer attendees opportunities to develop their skills, share insights, and discover new opportunities for collaboration and research. Activities focus on the theoretical, technical, administrative, and institutional issues relevant to the needs of digital humanities projects today. The pricing for the full Summer School, as well as one-day workshops and lectures, is available on the registration page: http://dho.ie/ss2010/registration A number of subsidised places are available for attendees at HSIS institutions. For more information about these places, please contact the DHO Consultative Committee representative at your institution. Names of representatives can be found at: http://dho.ie/committee Full details of the workshop strands, lectures and guest speakers can be found on the Summer School website at: www.dho.ie/ss2010 We look forward to seeing you in Dublin. -- Emily Cullen, Ph.D., Programme Co-ordinator Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: +353(0)1-2342442 Fax:+353(0)1-2342400 E-mail: e.cullen@ria.ie http://dho.ie -- -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager (on leave) Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:19:47 +0000 From: Humanities Subject: European Science Foundation 2010 Calls The European Science Foundation (ESF) has published a leaflet with information on common Calls for Proposals 2010 www.esf.org/publications.html http://www.esf.org/publications.html [...] OTHER MEETINGS OF INTEREST [...] ESF-LiU Conference: Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures and Generational Responsibility Linköping, Sweden, 6-10 September 2010 Closing date for applications: 1 May 2010 More information: www.esf.org/conferences/10316 ESF-COST High-Level Research Conference: Future Internet and Society: Complex Networks Perspective Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, 2-7 October 2010 Closing date for applications: 1 June 2010 More information: www.esf.org/conferences/10341 CALENDAR OF UPCOMING ESF COMMON CALLS ESF EUROCORES European Collaborative Research Themes Call opens: 1 March Deadline for submitting proposals: 21 May For further information: www.esf.org/eurocores ESF Exploratory Workshops Call opens: 8 March Deadline for submitting proposals: 29 April For further information: www.esf.org/workshops ESF Research Conferences Call opens: 15 March Deadline for submitting proposals: 15 September For further information: www.esf.org/conferences ESF Research Networking Programmes Call opens: 1 July Deadline for submitting proposals: 14 October For further information: www.esf.org/programmes The European Science Foundation (ESF) provides a platform for its Member Organisations to advance European research and explore new directions for research at the European level. Established in 1974 as an independent non-governmental organisation, the ESF currently serves 79 Member Organisations across 30 countries. 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia • BP 90015 67080 Strasbourg cedex • France Tel: +33 (0)3 88 76 71 00 • Fax: +33 (0)3 88 37 05 32 www.esf.org/social http://www.esf.org/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:05:41 +0000 From: Shuly Wintner Subject: CFP (Extended) NAACL-HLT 2010 Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages (SPMRL 2010) > ************************************************************ > Final CALL FOR PAPERS > NAACL-HLT 2010 First Workshop on Statistical Parsing > of Morphologically Rich Languages (SPMRL 2010) > June 5 or 6, 2010, Los Angeles, CA > > Submission Deadline: March 12, 2010 > http://sites.google.com/site/spmrl2010/ > > Sponsored by SIGPARSE > ************************************************************ > > OUTLINE > The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested > in parsing languages with richer morphological structures than in > English, and to provide a forum for discussing the challenges > associated with parsing such languages and sharing strategies towards > their solutions. We are interested in presentations relating to > actively studied areas of research including the adaptation of > existing parsing techniques to new languages, the design of new models > that take morphological information into account, the implementation > of models that allow robust statistics to be obtained in the face of > high word-form variation, and so on. > > IMPORTANT DATES > Submission deadline: March 12, 2010 > Notification to authors: March 30, 2010 > Camera ready copy: April 12, 2010 > Workshop: June 5 or 6, 2010 > > [...] --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:50:21 +0000 From: "Dr. Indira Guzman" Subject: Call for papers and reviewers for the "IT Culture" minitrack Call for papers and reviewers AMCIS 2010, Lima, Peru. Mini-Track: IT Culture and Values: Occupational, Organizational, and Societal (part of the "Social Issues in IS" Track) Dear CATAC community, We would like to invite you to participate in the IT Culture and Values Minitrack of the AMCIS 2010 conference in Lima, Peru. Submission due date: March 1st, 2010 You can then submit your paper and/or register as reviewer at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2010 http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2010 Conference web site: http://www.amcis2010.org/home/ Description of the Minitrack: The goal of research on culture and IT is diverse in both context and method. Our venue of Peru highlights the opportunities of cross-cultural studies, however, our mini-track, now it it's third year, addresses equally important cultural and value related aspects of information and communication technologies (ICT's). Rather than focusing on cross-cultural studies that compare IT development and use in different countries, the focus of this mini-track is to provide a forum for research that seeks to understand the values and assumptions embedded in ICT's, and the human groups served by ICT's (i.e. occupational groups, organizations, and society). [...] Indira R. Guzman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Business Administration and Information Systems TUI University; 5665 Plaza Dr. Cypress, CA 90630, U.S.A. Tel: 714.816.0366 or 1.800.375.9878 Ext.2026; Fax: 714.229.8934 iguzman@tuiu.edu | http://www.indiraguzman.com --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:28:46 +0000 From: James Cronin Subject: Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES DRHA 2010 Conference: Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts Sunday 5th September - Wednesday 8th September 2010 Brunel University, West London. CONFERENCE THEME: Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity The conference’s overall theme will be the exploration of the collaborative relationship between the body and sensual/sensing technologies across various disciplines. In this respect it will offer an interrogation of practices that are indebted to the innovative exchange between the sensual, visceral and new technologies. At the same time, the aim is to look to new approaches offered by various emerging fields and practices that incorporate new and existing technologies. Specific examples of areas for discussion could include: • Delineation of new collaborative practices and the interchange of knowledge • Collaborative interdisciplinary practices of embodiment and technology • Integration/deployment of digital resources in new contexts • Connections and tensions that exist between the Arts, Humanities and Science • Notions of the ‘solitary’ and the ‘collaborative’ across the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences • eScience in the Arts and Humanities • Use of digital resources in collaborative creative work, teaching, learning and scholarship • Open source and second generation Web infrastructure • Digital media in time and space • Music and technology: composition and performance • Dance and interactive technologies • Taking inspiration from SET: imaging, GPS and mobile technologies • Evaluating the experience among providers and users / performers and audiences • Interface Design and HCI • Performative Practices in SecondLife or other virtual platforms • New critical paradigms for the conference’s theme Confirmed Keynote Speakers: - Richard Coyne - Professor of Architectural Computing at the University of Edinburgh. - Christopher Pressler: Director of Research and Learning Resources and Director of the Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham. - Thecla Schiphorst: Media Artist/Designer and Faculty Member in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. - STELARC, Chair in Performance Art at Brunel University and Senior Research, Fellow in the MARCS Labs at the University of Western Sydney. The DRHA (Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts) conference is held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. This year’s conference is hosted by Brunel University, West London. It will take place from Sunday 5th September to Wednesday 8th September 2010. It will be held across various innovative spaces, including the newly expanded Boiler House laboratory facilities, housed in the Antonin Artaud Building, and state of the art conference facilities plus high standard accommodation. SUBMISSIONS: We invite original papers, panels, installations, performances, workshop sessions and other events that address the conference theme, with particular attention to the ‘Sensual Technologies’ focus. We encourage proposals for innovative and non-traditional session formats. DRHA 2010 will include a SecondLife roundtable/discussion event, led by performance artist Stelarc, which will enable international participants to present performative work via Second Life. For this event, we particular encourage submission of Machinima works that can be screened as part of this panel. Short presentations, for example work-in-progress, are invited for poster presentations. Anyone wishing to submit a performance or installation should visit http://www.drha2010.org.uk for information about the spaces and technical equipment and support available. All proposals - whether papers, performance or other - should reflect the critical engagement at the heart of DRHA 2010. The deadline for submissions will be 31 March 2010. Abstracts should be between 600 - 1000 words. Letters of acceptance will be sent by 15th of May 2010, when the conference registration will be opened. --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:24:14 +0000 From: Humanities Subject: The Making of the Humanities Conference The Making of the Humanities II Second International Conference on the History of the Humanities 21-23 October 2010, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Call for Abstracts Goal of the Conference This is the second of a biennially organized conference that brings together scholars and historians of humanities disciplines to draw the outlines for a comparative history of the humanities. Although there exist histories of single humanities disciplines, a comparative history would satisfy a long-felt need, and fill a conspicuous gap in intellectual history. Theme of the Conference The first highly successful conference, held in 2008, discussed the early modern period. The theme of this year’s meeting is From Early Modern to Modern Disciplines, focusing on the period 1600-1900. Topics include all aspects of the history of philology, linguistics, rhetoric, musicology, literary theory, historiography, art history, archeology and other humanities disciplines, with an emphasis on their interrelations. We especially encourage submissions on: * Increasing specialization and institutionalization: How did various branches of the humanities develop into modern differentiations between disciplines? * Historization of the humanities: How did the historical approach become the leading method underlying the humanities -- from philology to musicology? * Humanties vs sciences: How were the humanities positioned with respect to other sciences? Was there a continuing search for patterns and ‘laws’ in the humanities? * Interaction between regions: What was the impact of the European humanities on the humanities in China, India and Africa, and vice versa? * Rise of canonical figures and themes: How did individual scholars come to be identified with their disciplines? How did certain historical moments or works obtain canonical positions, often in relation to the ideals of cultural nationalism? Abstract Submission Send an abstract of maximally 400 words to: HistoryHumanities@gmail.com Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 June 2010 For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/MakingHumanities/2010/ Organization: Rens Bod, Jaap Maat and Thijs Weststeijn (University of Amsterdam) -- Prof dr Rens Bod, VICI Laureate Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam Visiting Address: Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, NL Postal Address: P.O. Box 94242, 1090 GE Amsterdam, NL phone: +31 20 5256086 or +31 20 5256051 http://staff.science.uva.nl/~rens/ --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:20:22 +0000 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: SDH/SEMI annual conference / conférence annuelle CFP SDH/SEMI 2010 (Montreal, 31 May-2 June) [l’appel à communication en francais ci-dessous] The Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) invites scholars and graduate students to submit proposals for posters, papers, and sessions for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2010 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Concordia University (Montreal), from Monday 31 May to Wednesday 2 June. The theme of this year’s congress is ‘Connected Understanding’, with an emphasis on open access. Abstracts/proposals should include the following information at the top of the front page: title of paper, author's name(s); e-mail address; institutional affiliation and rank, if any, of the author; statement of need for audio-visual equipment. Abstracts of papers and posters should be between 250 and 500 words long, and clearly indicate the thesis, methodology, and results. Paper, poster and/or session proposals will be accepted until 15 March 2010 through the conference website: http://www.sdh-semi.org/conftool (The program will be available two weeks later.) Please note that all presenters must be members of SDH/SEMI or other groups in the Alliance for Digital Humanities at the time of the conference. There is some funding available to support graduate student participation, and in keeping with the forward-looking nature of SDH/SEMI graduate students are strongly encouraged to submit. Information on accommodation, travel, and registration for the Congress can be found at: http://www.congress2010.ca/content.php?id=427 (hotel and residence rooms are available at a special Congress rate until mid-April) We look forward to seeing you in Montreal in a few months! Michael Eberle-Sinatra, President (French) of SDH/SEMI (michael.eberle.sinatra@umontreal.ca), On behalf of the 2010 conference committee - Susan Brown (University of Guelph) - Richard Cunningham (Acadia University) - Ollivier Dyens (Concordia University) - Dominic Forest (Université de Montréal) - Eric Moore (University of New Brunswick) - - - - - - La Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des medias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) invite des propositions pour sa conférence annuelle qui se tiendra au Congrès 2010 de la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines à l’université Concordia (Montréal), du lundi 31 mai au mercredi 2 juin. Le thème du congrès cette année est ‘Le savoir branché’, avec une emphase mise sur l’accès libre. Les propositions doivent comprendre en haut de la page : un titre ; le(s) nom(s) de(s) auteur(s) ; adresse courriel ; institution d'appartenance et fonction; besoin d'audio-visuel. Le résumé des propositions et posters doit être entre 250 et 500 mots, et clairement indiquer la thèse, la méthodologie et les résultats attendus. Les propositions devront être remises avant le 15 mars 2010 sur le site de la conférence : http://www.sdh-semi.org/conftool (Le programme sera disponible deux semaines plus tard.) Veuillez prendre note que les conférenciers doivent être membres de SDH/SEMI ou un des groupes de ‘Alliance for Digital Humanities’ au moment de la conférence. Un support financier est disponible pour les étudiants des cycles supérieurs qui sont donc fortement encouragés à soumettre leur proposition. Des informations sur l’hébergement, le transport et l’inscription au Congrès sont en ligne à : http://www.congress2010.ca/contenu.php?id=427 (Des chambres d’hôtel et résidence sont disponibles à un tarif réduit jusqu’à mi-avril.) En espérant vous voir à Montréal dans quelques mois ! Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Président (Français) SDH/SEMI (michael.eberle.sinatra@umontreal.ca), Au nom du comité organisateur 2010 - Susan Brown (University of Guelph) - Richard Cunningham (Acadia University) - Ollivier Dyens (Concordia University) - Dominic Forest (Université de Montréal) - Eric Moore (University of New Brunswick) --[8]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:14:15 +0000 From: HSofia Pinto Subject: EKAW: Final Call for Papers In-Reply-To: 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management EKAW 2010 Lisbon, Portugal, http://ekaw2010.inesc-id.pt 2nd Call for Papers The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and its role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent information integration, etc. The focus of the 17th edition of EKAW will be on "Knowledge Management and Engineering by the Masses". EKAW 2010 welcomes papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, experimental, and application aspects. The call for papers with detailed topics is available electronically at: http://ekaw2010.inesc-id.pt/call-for-papers.html [...] -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Helena Sofia Pinto Phone + 351 - 21 - 3100388 Instituto Superior Tecnico Email sofia.pinto@dei.ist.utl.pt Departamento de Eng. Informatica Av. Rovisco Pais 1049-001 Lisboa PORTUGAL INESC-ID Email sofia@inesc-id.pt Rua Alves Redol, 9 1000-029 Lisboa PORTUGAL _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 1 06:39:23 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C450B4E3F1; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 06:39:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 57B884E3D3; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 06:39:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100301063921.57B884E3D3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 06:39:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.667 Yale, the past, the future -- & comp lit X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 667. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" (140) Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 23.663 Yale, the past and the future [2] From: DrWender@aol.com (8) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.663 Yale, the past and the future [3] From: Richard Heinzkill (5) Subject: Comparative Literature as a discipline --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:46:15 +0000 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 23.663 Yale, the past and the future In-Reply-To: <20100228083212.E06CA40FE5@woodward.joyent.us> willard: the parallel you intend to draw is problematic because comparative literature as a discipline is under much pressure and constriction in Europe, Canada, as well as the US for many years now (and there is ample material published about this), although the pronouncements of the discipline's death by such as Susan Bassnett or Gayatry Chakravorty Spivak appear to be misguided: while the death of the discipline is indeed an issue in the "center," in the so-called periphery (i.e., Lastin America, Asia, etc.) the discipline is growing. what i am trying to say is that the parallel of digital humanities and comparative literature is not a parallel i would like consider; in addition, comparative literature as a discipline has been in a "perpetual crisis" (weissstein 1966) since its inception in the nineteenth century and institutionally there has been one single country where it was able to establish itself in numbers (i.e., departments), structure, institutional relevance, etc., and that was the US and there in the last many years this established institutional relevance has been dissipating. i discuss several of these aspects in an article: Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven. "The New Humanities: The Intercultural, the Comparative, and the Interdisciplinary." Globalization and the Futures of Comparative Literature. Ed. Jan M. Ziolkowski and Alfred J. López. The Global South 1.2 (2007): 45-68.
 best, steven steven totosy de zepetnek ph.d. professor http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv editor, clcweb: comparative literature and culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/ clcweb@purdue.edu series editor, purdue books in comparative cultural studies http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/seriespurdueccs & http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/comparativeculturalstudies.html 8 sunset road, winchester, ma 01890 usa think of trees before printing this email On Feb 28, 2010, at 8:32 am, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 663. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Willard McCarty (24) > Subject: parallels to Yale? > > [2] From: Amanda Gailey (46) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.659 Yale, the past and the future > > [3] From: "Joe Raben" (1) > Subject: Yale, the past and future > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:07:20 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: parallels to Yale? > > The thought has circulated for years that as a field the digital > humanities bears some structural resemblance to comparative literature, > i.e. that comp-lit and digital humanities have similar institutional > qualities. This leads me to wonder about the establishment of comp-lit > as an institutional entity, in particular because of the discussion of > the Yale conference, whether similar things happened when it became an > academic entity. Did it show up late at places like Yale after there had > been departments, centres or quasi-departments at less prestigious > institutions, and if so, did its institutionalization there make a big > difference? Are there other, perhaps closer parallels for us to consider? > > I recall that at Toronto the three senior professors who began comp-lit > (this includes Northrop Frye) had first to teach it informally, on their > own time, and then to resign or threaten to do so for the administration > finally to recognize it. At King's College London it remains a programme > rather than a department. In particular instances it would be > interesting to know how comp-lit has established its particular identity > as a discipline. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:31:33 EST From: DrWender@aol.com Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.663 Yale, the past and the future In-Reply-To: <20100228083212.E06CA40FE5@woodward.joyent.us> In einer eMail vom 28.2.2010 09:32:26 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk: > Are there other, perhaps closer parallels for us to consider? Statistics as 'transdisciplinary discipline' holds chairs in departments of economical or social sciences, defines a clear cutted field of research, but is - when I see it right - at least in Germany not installed as 'department'. Herbert --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:46:17 -0800 From: Richard Heinzkill Subject: Comparative Literature as a discipline In-Reply-To: <20100228083212.E06CA40FE5@woodward.joyent.us> You might want to consult the following for a start---- Title: Comparative literature as academic discipline : a statement of principles, praxis, standards Author: Robert J Clements Publisher: New York : Modern Language Association of America,1978. Richard Heinzkill, retired Humanities Librarian, University of Oregon Library _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 1 06:39:48 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00BCE4E451; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 06:39:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7E1C84E438; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 06:39:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100301063945.7E1C84E438@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 06:39:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.668 events: TEI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 668. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:33:31 +0900 From: Christian Wittern Subject: TEI members meeting 2010: call for workshop proposals Call for pre-conference workshop and tutorial proposals TEI Applied: Digital Texts and Language Resources 2010 Annual Meeting of the TEI Consortium http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/ * Meeting dates: Thu 11 November to Sun 14 November, 2010 * Workshop dates: Mon 08 November to Wed 10 November, 2010 * Workshop proposals due Wed 31 March 2010 Traditionally, the TEI Conference and Members' Meeting has been preceded by educational or research workshops. The goal of these workshops is to give members of the TEI community an opportunity to learn more about the use of the TEI markup under the guidance of experienced instructors and practitioners. In the past such workshops have ranged from a basic introduction to the use of TEI markup to more specialized sessions on specific aspects of the TEI or its use in specific domains. They have ranged in length from a single morning or afternoon to a maximum of two days. Workshops are run on a cost-recovery basis: a separate fee is charged of participants that is intended to cover the costs of running the workshop. We are now soliciting proposals for workshops for the 2010 Conference and Members' Meeting, to be held November 8-14 at University of Zadar, Croatia. Workshops are distinct from other conference activities, such as papers, sessions, and Special Interest Group meetings and we have tentatively reserved three days for them. These workshops should be educational in focus or involve hands-on work with a research problem. They should propose topics that are likely to be of interest to recognizable segments of the TEI community. Possible topics include: * An Introduction to TEI * TEI and libraries * Editorial practice and the TEI * Extending and customizing the TEI * Introduction to the ODD system * Using the TEI with other standards and markup languages * Images and the TEI * Use and development of tools and processes Proposals addressing other topics are welcome and encouraged. If you are interested in proposing a workshop for the 2010 Members Meeting and Conference, please email meeting@tei-c.org by 31 March 2010. Expressions of interest should include as much as possible of the following information (the committee is willing to work with proposers in developing their proposals): * A proposed topic * A rationale explaining why this topic is likely to be of interest to the TEI community * A proposed instructor or slate of instructors including brief discussion of relevant experience * Method of instruction * Preferred length for the workshop * A preliminary budget of your anticipated costs (if any). Organisational and infrastructure costs (e.g. coffee breaks and the like) will be determined later in conjunction with the local organising committee. Proposals will be evaluated by the program committee primarily on the basis of their likely appeal to the TEI community, the quality of the proposed instructors and method of instruction, and cost. The committee will work with selected organizers after this date to refine the details of their workshops. For the international programm comittee, Christian Wittern (chair) -- Christian Wittern Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 2 06:05:23 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4FE34E1D8; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 06:05:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 98CF84E1C7; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 06:05:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100302060521.98CF84E1C7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 06:05:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.669 Yale, the past and the future X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 669. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:57:05 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.663 Yale, the past and the future In-Reply-To: <20100228083212.E06CA40FE5@woodward.joyent.us> Amanda, Willard and HUMANIST: At 03:32 AM 2/28/2010, Amanda wrote: >More to Kathy's point, we also need to think hard in the DH community about >beefing up our attention to pedagogy. The classroom is where, on a daily >basis, we subtly model the profession not only to our students but to >ourselves and our colleagues. If we had better methods (probably developed >within DH subgroups such as Digital Americanists or Digital Medievalists) >for using DH resources and methods in the classroom, I suspect it would help >people like Kathy make their case...in a way I for one would find much more >palatable than pointing to authority. I agree that the way forward lies in pedagogy and pedagogical applications of digital technologies. For one thing, we have all known for years that projects in the digital humanities afford special and perhaps unique opportunities for collaboration between students, technologists, and traditionally-trained faculty. For another, it is spectacularly evident that networked digital media have strong pedagogical consequences -- and require the serious, critical engagement of teachers as well as technologists -- even while it is doubtful (at least to my mind) that the most important or consequential promise of digital technologies is that they should generate "new research results" (which depend less on technical means than on imagination and discovery). I also agree that is not only second- and third-tier institutions that would reap the rewards. Even the elite research universities will benefit from this emphasis, and not just because in an era of short budgets and apparent zero-sum calculus even in the educational sphere (a state of affairs I find rather bizarre, however "normal" it has become), a recommitment to teaching, learning and (digital) literacy can trump old criticisms of irrelevance. In fact, in my experience in the private sector as well as in academia, it is clear that digital media, at least at this moment, have the capability of reconfiguring the old research/teaching divide. This division is based on the assumption that what is to be learned by the student is already known by the pedagogue, and therefore outside any scope of interest to the researcher. But that is hardly the case in our work, where these roles can hardly be distinguished. (Echoing Kathy Harris, I think this is one reason why institutions organized on the basis of this split are having such problems coming to terms with digital technologies.) Routinely, organizations I work with discover that their research into digital media leads them to rethink what they themselves are doing and how they can best address the needs of their markets, audiences and constituencies, discovering in the process much about themselves, their world, and their opportunities in it. I should hardly have to add that this is a rather different promise from "greater efficiency", as if the point of digital technology was to automate jobs away and thereby widen profit margins. Instead, we tell our clients that the point isn't to do as much with less: it's to do more and better, and by "better" we mean qualitatively. Inevitably this demands an investment in people more than in methods and machines. And inevitably, those who make this investment discover it pays big. Will this shift also happen in the academy? I have no doubt whatsoever. I just can't say where or when. Cheers, Wendell ======================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 2 06:06:01 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463B54E214; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 06:06:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D497E4E20A; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 06:05:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100302060558.D497E4E20A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 06:05:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.670 job at ESF X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 670. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:35:39 +0100 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: Job vacancy: Web manager at ESF Job Profile Communications Officer Web Manager The European Science Foundation (ESF) provides a platform for its Member Organisations to advance European research and explore new directions for research at the European level. Established in 1974 as an independent non-governmental organisation, the ESF currently serves 79 Member Organisations, including Research Funding Agencies, Research Performing Organisations and Academies, across 30 countries. Mission of the Position In this position the key objective will be to translate the mission and objectives of ESF in the European research community by developing, managing and leveraging the ESF website. You will also be expected to develop an online strategy and presence for ESF. You will ensure that the website is a reflection of what we do as an organisation and what we stand for in a clear, innovative, and efficient manner. It will be your responsibility that the ESF website should be easy to navigate and to find relevant information for researchers, funding bodies, policy makers and others interested in research developments and opportunities. Your focus will be to improve the overall customer experience with the aim of the website becoming the first port of call for all ESF stakeholders seeking information about the organization and our activities. In your role you will need to communicate with ESF employees guiding and training them on using the website as well as our link to the website's technical and design needs. You will need to liaise with and manage budgets for third party providers and suppliers. The role also requires knowledge of the latest web development technologies and innovations in including 2.0 tools that can help our member organizations leverage the ESF platform as a collaborative tool. In this role you will need to have leadership skills in order to guide ESF in making choices about upgrades and improvements in its online strategy. In addition you will need to be able to facilitate the planning, construction, development and maintenance stages of web designing and construction as well as web traffic analytics. You will work with our internal and external stakeholders to ensure they can leverage and work efficiently with the website and that it fulfils individual units' and member organizations' needs as well as producing a website that has a unified tone of voice and look and feel. You will also be responsible for the quality assurance and safeguarding of the content that appears on the website to external audiences. Position Responsibilities This position will involve: . Developing a strategic plan for the ESF website and our online presence; . Managing the content of the website; . Reviewing the current structure and content of the website and recommending new ways of improving the overall effectiveness and innovative functionalities; . Implementing improvements to improve overall website effectiveness based on review of website; . Working with internal and external developers to create an effective user experience; . Collaborating with communications team, management, units and IT/IS department to determine the website's key objectives, functions, requirements and long-term strategy; . Advising ESF staff how to optimize their individual pages and content; . Managing and updating the web design of the website; . Ensuring that the website is easy to navigate with optimal search functions and structuring; . Tracking website usage and traffic and communicating data with ESF staff as needed; . Establishing and updating policies and procedures regarding the content management and design of the website; . Keeping up-to-date on new technologies and channels for online communication Profile and Competencies required The successful jobholder should demonstrate the following competencies: Specific competencies . A minimum of 3 years' experience in website management; . Expertise in website management, optimization and development; . Proven experience in website data analysis and evaluation; . Knowledge of current internet industry and best practice standards; . Familiar with various Content Management Systems, including Typo 3; . Knowledge of HTML, XML and CSS and other online programs; . Demonstrable experience in effective project management; . High standard of spoken and written English as the working language; . Excellent writing skills; . Excellent communication skills; . Experience implementing and leveraging social media is preferable; . Experience with Intranet sites preferable. Inter-personal competencies: . Leadership qualities to drive innovation and lead change when needed; . Ability to manage multiple projects while keeping priorities in mind; . Ability to provide consultation to various stakeholders; . Action-orientated, responsible and autonomous, creative and willing to take initiatives, and continuously improvement-minded; . Strong inter-personal and excellent communication skills within a multi-national context, including diplomacy and tolerance; . Good self organisational skills; . Transparency in working and a team-orientated work ethic; . Commitment to deliver on allocated tasks and respond in a timely manner to deadlines; . Positive and constructive attitude; . Capable of demonstrating the ESF's values: Excellence, Openness, Responsiveness, Pan-European approach, Ethical Awareness and Human Values. Employment conditions This full time position is offered for a permanent contract preferably starting April 2010. The place of work is Strasbourg, France. The salary level will be based on experience and qualifications of the successful candidate and will follow ESF terms and conditions. Please send your application by 17 March 2010 to jobs@esf.org quoting the following reference WM- COMM. Interviews will be held in Strasbourg on 26 March 2010. Further details at www.esf.org == Dr. Arianna Ciula Science Officer European Science Foundation Humanities Unit 1 quai Lezay Marnésia BP 90015 F-67080 Strasbourg France Email: aciula@esf.org Tel: +33 (0) 388767104 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 2 06:12:47 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1704E300; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 06:12:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 36B3C4E2F9; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 06:12:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100302061245.36B3C4E2F9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 06:12:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.671 events: modelling, text, logic, TEI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 671. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Christian Wittern (95) Subject: TEI members meeting 2010: call for proposals [2] From: Geoff Sutcliffe (36) Subject: LPAR-16 Short Papers - CFP [3] From: Isabelle Peschard (19) Subject: WORKSHOP: The Experimental Side Of Modeling (2) [4] From: Marcus Dahl (7) Subject: Textual Scholarship seminar 16th March --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:08:37 +0000 From: Christian Wittern Subject: TEI members meeting 2010: call for proposals Call for proposals TEI Applied: Digital Texts and Language Resources 2010 Annual Meeting of the TEI Consortium http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/ * Meeting venue: University of Zadar, Croatia * Meeting dates: Thu 11 November to Sun 14 November, 2010 * Workshop dates: Mon 08 November to Wed 10 November, 2010 The Program Committee of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium invites individual paper proposals, panel sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but not exclusively, on digital texts, language resources and any topic that applies TEI to its research. Submission Topics Topics might include but are not restricted to: * TEI and natural language processing * TEI and language resources * Analyzing and quantifying encoded texts * Aggregation and compilation * Integrating the TEI with other technologies and standards * Tools that create and process TEI data * TEI used in conjunction with other technologies and standards * TEI as: o metadata standard o interchange format: sharing, mapping, and migrating data In addition, we are seeking micropaper proposals for 5 minute presentations on how you applied TEI. Submission Types Individual paper presentations will be allocated 30 minutes: 20 minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions & answers. Panel sessions will be allocated 1.5 hours and may be of varied formats, including: * three paper panels: 3 papers on the same or related topics * round table discussion: 3-6 presenters on a single theme. Ample time should be left for questions & answers after brief presentations. Posters (including tool demonstrations) will be presented during the poster session. The local organizer will provide flip charts and tables for poster session/tool demonstration presenters, along with wireless internet access. Each poster will have the opportunity to participate in a slam immediately preceding the poster session. Micropapers will be allocated 5 minutes. Submission Procedure All proposals should be submitted at http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ by May 1st, 2010. You will need to create an account (i.e., username and password) in order to file a submission. For each submission, you may upload files to the system after you have completed filling out demographic data and the abstract. * Individual paper or poster session proposals (including tool demonstrations): o Please submit a brief abstract (no more than 500 words) in the "Abstract" field. o Supporting materials (including graphics, multimedia, etc., or even a copy of the complete paper) may be uploaded after the initial abstract is submitted. * Micropaper: o The procedure is the same as for an individual paper, however the abstract should be no more than 300 words, but may be as short as the name of the feature. o Please be sure the abstract mentions the feature to be presented! * Panel sessions: o The panel organizer submits an abstract for the entire session, listing the proposed papers, and explaining the organizing theme and rationale for the inclusion of the papers in no more than 500 words in the "Abstract" field. o The panel members each submit a separate complete individual paper proposal; see above. The program committee reserves the right to accept papers submitted as part of a panel without accepting the whole panel. All proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers. Those interested in holding working paper sessions outside the meeting session tracks should contact the meeting organizers at meeting@tei-c.org to schedule a room. Please send queries to meeting@tei-c.org. Conference submissions will be considered for conference proceedings. Further details on the submission process will be forthcoming. For the international programm comittee, Christian Wittern (chair) -- Christian Wittern Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:14:44 +0000 From: Geoff Sutcliffe Subject: LPAR-16 Short Papers - CFP ===================== CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS ===================== LPAR-16 16th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning April 25 - May 1, 2010 Dakar, Senegal http://www.lpar.net/lpar-16/ The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning, computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 16th edition will be held in Dakar, Senegal. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In keeping with the tradition of LPAR, researchers and practioners are encouraged submit short papers reporting on interesting work in progress or providing system descriptions. They need not be original. Extended versions of the short papers may be submitted concurrently with or after LPAR-16 to another conference or a journal. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal semantics of programming languages. At the other, it drives billions of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is in itself a powerful programming paradigm but it is also the quintessential specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems to networked infrastructures. Logical techniques link implementation and specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a central role in Computer Science education. [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:25:26 +0000 From: Isabelle Peschard Subject: WORKSHOP: The Experimental Side Of Modeling (2) WORKSHOP: The Experimental Side of Modeling (2) San Francisco State University Tue March 30, 2010 Anthony Chemero, “Dynamics, Data and Noise in the Cognitive Sciences” Isabelle Peschard, “Data Model, Reliability, and the Neglected Relevance of Relevance” Roberta Millstein, “Obtaining Data on Natural Selection and Random Drift in the Wild: The Case of the Great Snail Debate” Alan Love, “ Modeling Experimental Evidence in Studies of Ontogeny: Idealization, Abstraction, and Whole Mount In Situ Hybridization” Wed March 31, 2010-MORNING Bas van Fraassen, “Modeling And Measurement: the Criterion of Empirical Grounding” Elizabeth Lloyd, “When the Models are Right and the Data are Wrong: Climate Modeling of the Troposphere” ----------------------------------- Commentators-at-large include: Arthur Fine, James Griesemer, Edward MacKinnon, Shannon Vallor, Andrea Woody Free, but registration is required: contact Isabelle Peschard Abstracts of the lectures -- as well as last year’s program and videos of lectures -- can be found on the workshop website: www.isabellepeschard.org/WORKSHOP-2010.HTML http://www.isabellepeschard.org/WORKSHOP-2010.HTML ---------------------------------------------- Isabelle Peschard Asst. Prof. of Philosophy San Francisco State University http://www.isabellepeschard.org/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 14:47:46 +0000 From: Marcus Dahl Subject: Textual Scholarship seminar 16th March UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY Textual Scholarship Seminar 16 March 2010, 5.30-7.00 PM Senate House, Room G21a Christopher A. Adams (SOAS) 'Returning to Parnassus: Textual Editing and New Strains in Bibliography' the session will include a demonstration of R. Carter Hailey’s COMET optical collator For more details, please contact the convenor: Dr Wim Van Mierlo, Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; email: wim.van-mierlo@sas.ac.uk, or visit http://ies.sas.ac.uk/. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 3 06:29:10 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8236A4F502; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:29:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 19C734F4F2; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:29:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100303062908.19C734F4F2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:29:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.672 teaching the digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 672. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 00:22:55 +0800 From: "Brett D. Hirsch" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.669 Yale, the past and the future In-Reply-To: <20100302060521.98CF84E1C7@woodward.joyent.us> Dear all, Following on from what Wendell and Kathy have said, this might be an opportune time to mention that Meagan Timney (Dalhousie/UVic) and myself are in the process of putting together an edited collection on _Teaching Digital Humanities: Principles, Practices, and Politics_. We're presenting a poster on the collection at DH2010 and are hoping for feedback about the project. We will also be sending out a general call for papers on Humanist and the UPenn list within the next fortnight. Moreover, there are other pedagogically-oriented publications in the wings worth trumpeting here -- David Gants's introductory textbook for Wiley-Blackwell, and a methodological primer co-edited by Kenneth Price and Ray Siemens for the MLA. Best wishes, Brett -- Dr. Brett D. Hirsch University of Western Australia On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 669. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:57:05 -0500 >        From: Wendell Piez >        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.663 Yale, the past and the future >        In-Reply-To: <20100228083212.E06CA40FE5@woodward.joyent.us> > > Amanda, Willard and HUMANIST: > > At 03:32 AM 2/28/2010, Amanda wrote: >>More to Kathy's point, we also need to think hard in the DH community about >>beefing up our attention to pedagogy.  The classroom is where, on a daily >>basis, we subtly model the profession not only to our students but to >>ourselves and our colleagues.  If we had better methods (probably developed >>within DH subgroups such as Digital Americanists or Digital Medievalists) >>for using DH resources and methods in the classroom, I suspect it would help >>people like Kathy make their case...in a way I for one would find much more >>palatable than pointing to authority. > > I agree that the way forward lies in pedagogy and pedagogical > applications of digital technologies. > > For one thing, we have all known for years that projects in the > digital humanities afford special and perhaps unique opportunities > for collaboration between students, technologists, and > traditionally-trained faculty. > > For another, it is spectacularly evident that networked digital media > have strong pedagogical consequences -- and require the serious, > critical engagement of teachers as well as technologists -- even > while it is doubtful (at least to my mind) that the most important or > consequential promise of digital technologies is that they should > generate "new research results" (which depend less on technical means > than on imagination and discovery). > > I also agree that is not only second- and third-tier institutions > that would reap the rewards. Even the elite research universities > will benefit from this emphasis, and not just because in an era of > short budgets and apparent zero-sum calculus even in the educational > sphere (a state of affairs I find rather bizarre, however "normal" it > has become), a recommitment to teaching, learning and (digital) > literacy can trump old criticisms of irrelevance. > > In fact, in my experience in the private sector as well as in > academia, it is clear that digital media, at least at this moment, > have the capability of reconfiguring the old research/teaching > divide. This division is based on the assumption that what is to be > learned by the student is already known by the pedagogue, and > therefore outside any scope of interest to the researcher. But that > is hardly the case in our work, where these roles can hardly be > distinguished. (Echoing Kathy Harris, I think this is one reason why > institutions organized on the basis of this split are having such > problems coming to terms with digital technologies.) > > Routinely, organizations I work with discover that their research > into digital media leads them to rethink what they themselves are > doing and how they can best address the needs of their markets, > audiences and constituencies, discovering in the process much about > themselves, their world, and their opportunities in it. I should > hardly have to add that this is a rather different promise from > "greater efficiency", as if the point of digital technology was to > automate jobs away and thereby widen profit margins. Instead, we tell > our clients that the point isn't to do as much with less: it's to do > more and better, and by "better" we mean qualitatively. Inevitably > this demands an investment in people more than in methods and > machines. And inevitably, those who make this investment discover it pays big. > > Will this shift also happen in the academy? I have no doubt > whatsoever. I just can't say where or when. > > Cheers, > Wendell > > ======================================================== > Wendell Piez                            mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com > Mulberry Technologies, Inc.                http://www.mulberrytech.com > 17 West Jefferson Street                    Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 > Suite 207                                          Phone: 301/315-9631 > Rockville, MD  20850                                 Fax: 301/315-8285 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >   Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML > ======================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 3 06:35:57 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E478D4F5E4; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:35:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1EEFE4F5D5; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:35:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100303063554.1EEFE4F5D5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:35:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.673 jobs: project officer (Oxford); PhD studentships (ITU) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 673. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alun Edwards (14) Subject: Part-time project officer job at Oxford University [2] From: "Georgios N. Yannakakis" (48) Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] PhD Scholarships - Center for Computer GamesResearch, ITU --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:35:25 +0000 From: Alun Edwards Subject: Part-time project officer job at Oxford University Oxford University Computing Services is looking for a Project Officer (part-time, fixed-term) to work on the RunCoCo project. The work involves: * running a communication campaign and developing engaging Web content to successfully promote the RunCoCo project and support its user community * managing project events and overseeing the production of training materials * providing advice to a number of community digitisation projects Details and an application form are available from http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jobs/ Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on 26th March 2010, and interviews will be held on 7th April 2010. RunCoCo is a JISC-funded project (based at the Learning Technologies Group of OUCS) which uses training activities to encourage the formation of community collections. In community collection projects the cost of digitising photographs (or films or interviews) is spread out across the community (education and public sectors) and not borne entirely by the host institution. The community involvement sometimes focuses more on users tagging or commenting on existing collections, rather than the public contributing digital items. RunCoCo will demonstrate how successful collections can be put together by smaller individual units than the expensive digitisation projects that receive funding from traditional (and now severely reduced) sources. More details are on the website http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ Best wishes, Ally Alun Edwards Manager of RunCoCo | Learning Technologies Group | Oxford University Computing Services | 13 Banbury Road | Oxford OX26NN E: alun.edwards@oucs.ox.ac.uk T: +44 (0) 1865 283347 W: http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ RunCoCo: how to run a community collection online --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:05:27 +0000 From: "Georgios N. Yannakakis" Subject: PhD Scholarships - Center for Computer Games Research, ITU Spring 2010 call for PhD scholarships at the Center for Computer Games Research (http://game.itu.dk/), IT University of Copenhagen. Application deadline: *25-March* Further info: http://www1.itu.dk/sw487.asp and http://www1.itu.dk/graphics/ITU-library/Intranet/Personale/Stillingsopslag/TAP/Stillingsopslag%202009/PhDSpring%202009-2.pdf Areas of research interest include : - computational intelligence (CI) and games - game artificial intelligence (AI) and AI, CI approaches to topics including (but not limited to): - player (user) modeling - human game interaction - affective modeling - interactive narrative - multimodal interaction - procedural game content - serious and persuasive games - In this call we are specifically interested in students wishing to pursue a PhD within AI/CI as applied to serious and persuasive games, particularly in the form of cross-cultural player modeling and scenario generation. - Prospective candidates are strongly encouraged to contact Georgios N. Yannakakis, Julian Togelius or Rilla Khaled before applying. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 3 06:41:51 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09AC24F691; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:41:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8CFF14F68A; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:41:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100303064147.8CFF14F68A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:41:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.674 events: the doctoral thesis; musicology; games X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 674. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Philippe Codognet (105) Subject: cfp: IEEE ICME workshop IMIDA2010 : Interactive Multimedia Installations and Digital Art [2] From: "Viglianti, Raffaele" (12) Subject: Musicology in the Digital Age: IMR, London, 26 April 2010 [3] From: "Richard Sheldrake" (43) Subject: ESRC Research Conference - The doctoral thesis in the digital and multimodal age --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:51:25 +0000 From: Philippe Codognet Subject: CFP IEEE ICME workshop IMIDA2010 : Interactive Multimedia Installations and Digital Art CALL FOR PAPERS Interactive Multimedia Installations and Digital Art (IMIDA2010) July 23, 2010, Singapore Satellite Workshop at IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo July 19-23, Singapore, www.icme2010.org Workshop Website: webia.lip6.fr/~codognet/IMIDA Scope and Topics: The objective of this workshop is to bring together artists, researchers and media designers in order to explore innovative use of interactive multimedia technologies for enhancing creativity and developing cultural contents. Artists are now exploring new horizons beyond the “white box” or the “black box” inside museum exhibitions and envisioning “intelligent spaces”, that is, digital artworks installed in public space which require minimal and intuitive interaction that can take advantage of today’s interactive and ubiquitous technologies. We believe that such a domain can be explored only through an inter-disciplinary dialogue between science, technology, art and the humanities. Digital and interactive art has been developing rapidly in the last twenty years and has now become a mature field. Artists are now experimenting with the latest technologies and are sometimes developing works together with researchers in order to explore new types of interaction and novel use of digital technologies, including mobile technology, context-aware devices, sensor networks, etc. The key point is that artworks are aimed to be in direct contact with the general public and therefore provide an excellent test-bed in order to experiment new ideas and their acceptance by the mainstream public. Many digital artworks can thus also be seen as innovative devices engaging the public in new types of interactions with new media and envisioning thus usages and social impact. We believe that developing art-oriented applications of multimedia techniques can lead to a faster and easier acceptance by a broader public of the new interactive, ambient and ubiquitous technologies that are coming out of the research labs. We will invite contributions on the following topics: - Interactive visual and sound installations - Digital installations for intelligent public spaces and outdoor spaces - location-based digital artworks and mobile artworks - interactive art installations - Tools and emerging technologies for cultural applications and museum installations Paper Submission: Prospective participants should submit either a research paper or an artwork presentation, in relation with one or several workshop topics. The submissions should be up to 6 pages in length according to the general ICME2010 format: http://www.icme2010.org/submission.html and uploaded on the Online Submission Website for ICME 2010: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICME2010/Default.aspx Papers will be reviewed by the program committee and selected papers will be included in the ICME2010 conference proceedings. Key Dates: Workshop Paper Submission: March 11th, 2010 Notification of Acceptance: April 1st, 2010 Final paper Due: April 15th, 2010 Workshop Organizers: - Philippe Codognet, Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics (JFLI), CNRS / UPMC / University of Tokyo, Japan - Ryohei Nakatsu, Director, Interactive & Digital Media Institute (IDMI), National University of Singapore, Singapore - Naoko Tosa, Professor, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University, Japan Program Committee: - Gerard Assayag, IRCAM (Institute for music/acoustic research and coordination), Paris, France - Philippe Codognet, JFLI - CNRS / UPMC / University of Tokyo, Japan - Michitaka Hirose, Cyber Interface lab, University of Tokyo, Japan - George Legrady, Experimental Visualization Lab, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA - Ryohei Nakatsu, Interactive & Digital Media Institute (IDMI), National University of Singapore, Singapore - Stephane Natkin, CNAM / School of Games and Interactive Media, Paris, France - Atau Tanaka, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, U.K. - Naoko Tosa, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University, Japan Contact: Philippe Codognet, Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics (JFLI), University of Tokyo, Information Technology Center, 2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8658 Tokyo, JAPAN Email: codognet {AT} jfli.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:28:33 +0000 From: "Viglianti, Raffaele" Subject: Musicology in the Digital Age: IMR, London, 26April 2010 [Forwarded message] Musicology in the Digital Age A Study Day in association with the Institute of Musical Research and the Society for Music Analysis Room G37, Senate House, University of London 26 April 2010, 10am - 4pm Speakers to include: Alan Marsden (Lancaster), Tim Crawford (Goldsmiths), David Bretherton (Southampton), Vanessa Hawes (UEA) and Polina Proutskova (Goldsmiths) This event is aimed at musicologists (including ethnomusicologists and music theorists) who are interested in applying, or already apply, e-Science methodologies and computational approaches to their research. We particularly encourage established, emerging and postgraduate scholars with no prior experience of computational musicology or e-Science, to attend. A primary aim of the Study Day is to help attendees recognise opportunities for computational and e-Science approaches in their own work, and for identifying potential areas for future research collaboration. The morning will be given over to presentations by scholars already working at the intersection of musicology and computer science. The afternoon will be devoted to workshops and discussion of the issues surrounding 'e-musicology'. Attendance is free of charge, but places are limited. Email D.Bretherton@soton.ac.uk to secure a place. ___________________________________ Dr David Bretherton, Research Fellow in Music (musicSpace). D.Bretherton@soton.ac.uk Music, Building 2, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:21:31 -0000 From: "Richard Sheldrake" Subject: ESRC Research Conference - The doctoral thesis in the digital and multimodal age Dear colleagues and those interested in the ESRC seminar series for New Forms of Doctorate, Following today's seminar at the London Knowledge Lab, we're pleased to announce the final conference: The doctoral thesis in the digital and multimodal age. This will be held at the British Library on 18 May 2010. Further details are attached to this email. We can accommodate up to 180 delegates, on a first-come, first-served basis. Please let me know if you would like a place reserved. May I also take this opportunity to inform you of the following upcoming lectures in the Leverhulme Public lecture series by Caroline Haythornthwaite on Learning Networks: Social networks and learning - 11 March 2010 at 5pm Social informatics - 30 March 2010 at 5pm Ubiquitous learning - now 10 May 2010 at 5pm (not 15 April as advertised on the posters) These lectures by Caroline are held in the large seminar room of the London Knowledge Lab, 29 Emerald St. Coffee, tea and biscuits from 4.30; all are welcome. Kind regards, Richard Research and Consultancy Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy University of London: Institute of Education Email: r.sheldrake@ioe.ac.uk Telephone: 020 7911 5373 Address: Room 839, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 4 07:14:22 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 869634E911; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:14:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 062224E8FF; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:14:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100304071420.062224E8FF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:14:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.675 Yale, the past and the future X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 675. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 08:45:51 -0600 From: Douglas Knox Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.669 Yale, the past and the future In-Reply-To: <20100302060521.98CF84E1C7@woodward.joyent.us> This has been an interesting discussion, and I have followed it generally with much agreement. But thinking back to the conference that provided the occasion for this thread, "The Past's Digital Presence," I wonder about some directions the discussion did not take. It seems to me that the metonymy that is Yale here may have distracted from aspects of the conference quite unrelated to its location. I did not attend the PDP conference, but of the many recent conferences I have failed to attend, this was one of the most intellectually engaging. I caught some sense of it intermittently through digital humanities folks on Twitter, enough to make an effort to go back and find out more. The fact that it happened to be at an Ivy location didn't matter to me; the fact that senior scholars participated did register, but if a sense of intellectual excitement reached me remotely, I was well aware that much more junior people from a variety of places were not just the means of conveyance but largely the source. In addition, what I saw remotely in the conference didn't suggest to me it was claiming to be a signal moment in the disciplinary institutionalization of "digital humanities" as such. Since reading this thread I have listened to Jana Remy's podcast of the roundtable, and it seems to me that what Ed Ayers was welcoming was the sign that graduate students within existing humanities disciplines were not waiting for ivy departments and tenured positions to give them permission and make it safe to organize themselves and to think through what digital methods and resources might mean for the intellectual questions they are grappling with in their work. This conference, multidisciplinary but focused on the study of the past, seemed to me to provide hints of some salutary developments in the engagement of history with related historical disciplines in the humanities and with thinking through "the past's digital presence." Of all the humanities disciplines, history has perhaps been the least driven by theory, and the politics of theory has been quite different from what it has been in literary studies or other fields; different relations to theory have indeed often been part of boundary-drawing between disciplines. What I thought I glimpsed between the tweets about PDP2010 was nascent home-grown theory arising out of methodological reflection within historically oriented disciplines. Digital challenges to presumptions about research, evidence, analysis, communication, and audience certainly call for this reflection throughout the humanities, not just in humanities departments but in libraries, archives, museums, and publishing enterprises driven by an intellectual mission. The grad students who came together for PDP recognize the necessity of thinking about, and historicizing, the role of libraries, archives, their own collecting and publishing, and, not least, the dark matter of missing information, in the production of knowledge about the past. I don't know whether PDP itself will have much significance or promise from the perspective of strategizing to further institutionalize digital humanities as discipline and departments. But if it represents another instance of those who have something to bring to digital humanities as a rich, plural, open intellectual trading zone, there's reason for optimism (as Willard remarked), and reason to welcome those who have chosen not to wait for pedagogy or for tenure to discover for themselves what is already at hand, and how it matters to them. The subject line of this thread has highlighted the past and future, but the conference title (as Ayers noted) was not about the past's speculative future, but about its presence. The past for our time is already here, and intellectual engagement with it is already decentralized and ongoing. Douglas Knox Newberry Library _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 4 07:15:45 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5F54E982; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:15:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ECD114E969; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:15:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100304071538.ECD114E969@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:15:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.676 bursaries for editing medieval texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 676. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:43:14 -0000 From: "Jenny Benham" Subject: Bursaries for editors of medieval legal texts Bursaries for editors of medieval legal texts Early English Laws (EEL), a collaboration between the Institute of Historical Research and King's College London, is offering 20 bursaries worth £2,000 each. They are designed to support scholars in the preparation of editions of early English legal texts for publication as part of the AHRC-funded EEL project. Eligible expenses include travel, accommodation, and reproduction and permission fees. Guidelines for proposals, together with a list of possible texts, are available on the Early English Laws website http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk/edit/guidelines.html . If you have any enquiries, please contact the Project Officer: jenny.benham@sas.ac.uk Kind regards, Dr Jenny Benham Project Officer EARLY ENGLISH LAWS Institute of Historical Research, University of London Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Direct line: 020 7862 8787 Email: jenny.benham@sas.ac.uk www.history.ac.uk http://www.history.ac.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 4 07:16:25 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F6514EA4E; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:16:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 070794EA3B; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:16:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100304071623.070794EA3B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:16:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.677 cataloguing personal correspondence? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 677. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:59:30 +0100 From: Hartmut Krech Subject: Query: Cataloguing personal correspondence In-Reply-To: <20100303064147.8CFF14F68A@woodward.joyent.us> The private letters and personal correspondence of scholars, scientists and artists are an invaluable source material for the history of science and the republic of letters. Being mostly unpublished, their cataloguing and indexing pose special problems. Would list members please inform me about current initiatives, activities or accepted standards regarding the digitization of such correspondence, both online and offline? Any suggestions of websites or working papers will be helpful and are kindly appreciated. Thank you for your attention. Best regards, Dr Hartmut Krech Bremen, Germany _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 4 07:17:21 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA9904EAAE; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:17:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6C2E24EAA7; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:17:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100304071719.6C2E24EAA7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:17:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.678 (re)newed on WWW: Irish Resources in the Humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 678. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:23:39 +0000 From: Emily Cullen Subject: Irish Resources in the Humanities (IRITH) now hosted by the DHO IRITH (Irish Resources in the Humanities) is now hosted by the DHO. IRITH was developed in 1999 by Dr. Susan Schreibman as a gateway to sites on the World Wide Web that contain substantial content in the various disciplines of the humanities in the area of Irish Studies. IRITH includes entries on a broad range of subjects and these are categorised under the rubrics of archaeology, architecture, art, biographical, film, geography, grants & fellowships, history, Irish language, literature and music. The site conveniently brings together a wealth of diverse material from across disciplines and centuries. For example, one can navigate with ease from the ‘Lexicon of Old Irish’ to ‘Irish Impressionists Art’ or from ‘Celtic Art Cultures’ to ‘Dancing at Lughnasa: The Movie’. The site, thus, repays and rewards both the casual browser with an interest in Irish culture, and the serious researcher of Irish Studies. Irish Resources in the Humanities welcomes suggestions for links. To conribute, please e-mail details of the site to Dr. Schreibman (s.schreibman@ria.ie) or Associate Editor, Dr. Emily Cullen (e.cullen@ria.ie). Please include the site name, its URL, and a brief abstract in your message. The site is accessible at: http://irith.org and from the DHO's resources page at: http://dho.ie/resources -- Emily Cullen, Ph.D., Programme Co-ordinator Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2 Ireland Tel:+353(0)1-2342442 Fax:+353(0)1-2342400 E-mail: e.cullen@ria.ie http://dho.ie -- -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 4 07:20:45 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 391454EB6A; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:20:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BCB204EB59; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:20:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100304072042.BCB204EB59@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:20:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.679 events: modernism; knowledge representation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 679. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joost Vennekens (49) Subject: KR 2010 - Early Registration 12 March [2] From: Peter Shillingsburg (33) Subject: Modernist Networks day conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:24:17 +0000 From: Joost Vennekens Subject: KR 2010 - Early Registration 12 March KR 2010 Early Registration Deadline: Friday, March 12 ********************************************* Dear KR Community Member, Please join us for the Twelfth International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2010), to be held May 9-13, 2010 at The Sutton Place Hotel, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Registration is now open and the deadline to qualify for early registration is Friday, March 12. KR 2010 will be co-located with AAMAS, FOIS, ICAPS, and NMR. Options for cross-registration are available. The Knowledge Representation and Reasoning conference series is a leading forum for timely, in-depth presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying the representation and computational management of knowledge. The 2010 conference will feature an extensive technical program, including a series of invited talks by Ron Brachman (Yahoo!) and Hector Levesque (University of Toronto), Ian Horrocks (University of Oxford), Yoav Shoham (Stanford University), and Chitta Baral (Arizona State University), as well as several invited tutorials by Leonardo de Moura (Microsoft Research), Carsten Lutz (Universität Bremen), Bernhard Nebel (University of Freiburg), and mc schraefel (University of Southampton). For participating students, the conference also includes a doctoral consortium. For complete conference information, please see http://www.kr.org/KR2010/ To register, please visit the online registration and information page at http://www.aaai.org/Forms/torontoregistration-form.php For inquiries regarding registration, please write to AAAI at toronto10@aaai.org. We look forward to seeing you in Toronto this May! The KR 2010 Conference Committee Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 04:40:18 +0000 From: Peter Shillingsburg Subject: Modernist Networks day conference Announcing a Modernist Networks day-conference at Loyola University Chicago from 9:30-4:30 on Saturday, April 10, 2010. The fourth in an ongoing series of conferences on textual studies at Loyola, this event will take place in the Klarchek Room of the Information Commons on the Lake Shore Campus. It is sponsored by The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities and the Martin J. Svaglic Chair in Textual Studies. Participation is free, including 9:30 tea and coffee and lunch. Registration in advance is essential to aid us in planning lunch. Register before 1 April by sending email to Peter Shillingsburg (pshillingsburg@luc.edu). DO NOT use reply ALL to this email; send an individual email to Peter Shillingsburg separately.) The distinguished presenters include: George Bornstein, University of Michigan: "The Colors of Modernism: Publishing Blacks, Jews, and Irish in the Early Twentieth Century." Robin Schulze, Penn State University: "The Hardware and Software of Modernist Studies: Building the Digital Future." Sean Latham, University of Tulsa: "Creating a New Art: The Modernist Journals Project and the Archives of the Everyday." Pamela L. Caughie, Loyola University Chicago: "Sounding Off: Modernist Sound Scholarship and the Challenges of Publishing." Do not forget by 1 April to register by sending a message to pshillingsburg@luc.edu Information is also available at the Center's website at: http://ctsdh.luc.edu/?q=conferences Yours, Peter Shillingsburg The Martin J. Svaglic Professor of Textual Studies Loyola University Chicago Martin J Svaglic Chair, Textual Studies English Department Loyola University, Chicago 6525 N. Sheridan Dr. Chicago, IL 60626 773 508-2790 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 5 09:27:20 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 319F34FF19; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:27:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 150EE4FF08; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:27:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100305092717.150EE4FF08@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:27:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.680 cataloguing personal correspondence X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 680. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:02:14 +0200 From: Constantinescu Nicolaie Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.677 cataloguing personal correspondence? In-Reply-To: <20100304071623.070794EA3B@woodward.joyent.us> I hope this will prove to be a good starting point? http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-reference-manual/completed-chapters/curating-e-mails On 4 March 2010 09:16, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 677. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:59:30 +0100 >        From: Hartmut Krech >        Subject: Query: Cataloguing personal correspondence >        In-Reply-To: <20100303064147.8CFF14F68A@woodward.joyent.us> > > > The private letters and personal correspondence of scholars, scientists > and artists are an invaluable source material for the history of science > and the republic of letters. Being mostly unpublished, their cataloguing > and indexing pose special problems. > > Would list members please inform me about current initiatives, > activities or accepted standards regarding the digitization of such > correspondence, both online and offline? Any suggestions of websites or > working papers will be helpful and are kindly appreciated. > > Thank you for your attention. > > Best regards, > Dr Hartmut Krech > Bremen, Germany -- Constantinescu Nicolaie Information Architect http://www.kosson.ro _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 5 09:28:11 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A4784FF57; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:28:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9B8A44FF4B; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:28:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100305092808.9B8A44FF4B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:28:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.681 events: mss encoding (last chance) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 681. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:26:05 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: last call for participation, TEI institute on manuscript materials Note extended deadline: Applications are invited for participation in an advanced TEI seminar on manuscript encoding, being held at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, July 21-23, 2010, hosted by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. Application deadline is March 10, 2010. This seminar assumes a basic familiarity with TEI, and provide an opportunity to explore manuscript encoding topics in more detail, in a collaborative workshop setting. We will focus on the detailed challenges of encoding manuscript materials, including editorial, transcriptional, and interpretive issues and the methods of representing these in TEI markup. This seminar is part of a series funded by the NEH and conducted by the Brown University Women Writers Project. They are intended to provide a more in-depth look at specific encoding problems and topics for people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are in the process of planning one. Each event will include a mix of presentations, discussion, case studies using participants' projects, hands-on practice, and individual consultation. The seminars will be strongly project-based: participants will present their projects to the group, discuss specific challenges and encoding strategies, develop encoding specifications and documentation, and create encoded sample documents and templates. We encourage project teams and collaborative groups to apply, although individuals are also welcome. A basic knowledge of the TEI Guidelines and some prior experience with text encoding will be assumed. Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant. For more information and to apply, please visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 6 09:18:44 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 900FB4C731; Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:18:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 933EF4C721; Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:18:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100306091841.933EF4C721@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:18:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.682 cataloguing personal correspondence X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 682. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 18:23:26 +0100 From: Peter Stadler Subject: Re: Query: Cataloguing personal correspondence Another good starting point could be the Special Interest Group on Correspondence within the TEI. This SIG runs a Wiki (http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/ SIG:Correspondence) as well as a mailing list where you get further information about ongoing projects and initiatives. If you have any more questions concerning the SIG please feel free to ask on or off list. All the best Peter _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 8 06:47:31 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28754482D8; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 06:47:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 15E05482CB; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 06:47:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100308064729.15E05482CB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 06:47:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.683 job at Virginia: library director X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 683. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 11:02:52 -0500 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: library director position at UVA FACULTY OPENING DIRECTOR, ONLINE LIBRARY ENVIRONMENT University of Virginia Library The University of Virginia Library seeks a creative and flexible leader for the position of Director of our "online library environment," a comprehensive suite of tools and services to provide access to the Library's physical and digital collections. We seek candidates who are interested in pursuing solutions that provide faculty and students a cohesive, innovative environment for accessing information used in research, teaching, and learning. Environment: The University of Virginia Library (http://www.lib.virginia.edu) is a leader in innovative customer service, an international leader in digital library research and digital scholarship, and is recognized for the strength and variety of its collections. The Library system consists of twelve libraries, with independent libraries for health sciences, law, and business. The libraries support 12,000 undergraduates, 6,000 graduate students and 1,600 teaching faculty. The University and the Library have a strong commitment to achieving diversity among faculty and staff. The Neoclassical buildings of founder Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village still serve as the center of the University's Grounds (http://www.virginia.edu/uvatours/slideshow/) and as a unique backdrop for teaching, learning, and research. Responsibilities: The Director of the online library environment is responsible for leading the investigation and implementation of emerging information technologies as well as managing the daily operations for the Library's access and delivery applications. The Director will head a newly formed department of technologists and librarians in carrying out this activity. She or he will have oversight of all aspects of the Library's Integrated System (ILS - Sirsi/Dynix Unicorn) and will lead development of an information architecture that provides a cohesive access and delivery environment. She or he will investigate new ways to provide access & delivery and workflow services traditionally provided by an ILS and seek to develop gateways to other information resources such as the Library's electronic resources and institutional repositories. The Director will: * provide leadership and vision that ensures easy, reliable online access to a wide array of collections, information, and services in support of research, teaching and learning; * manage the daily operations environment for the Library's access and delivery applications; * supervise the daily work of both faculty and classified staff positions; * collaborate with partners within the Library and among entities that require access to Library content; * and engage professionally in activities related to librarianship and digital scholarship. Qualifications: Master's degree in Library Science or master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Information Sciences or related area. Successful candidates should have demonstrated significant and progressively responsible experience managing positions with a range of technology-specific and administrative responsibilities. Experience in libraries or information organizations is preferred. Preferred candidates will also have: * demonstrated understanding of digital library concepts and standards (e.g., metadata standards, media-specific standards); * experience in systems design and systems architecture; * an understanding of and commitment to library technologies; * the ability to communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing; * demonstrated ability to manage information technology staff and projects as well as departmental priorities; * demonstrated knowledge of emerging technologies and related research; * strong interpersonal skills; * and a customer-service orientation. Salary and Benefits: Competitive depending on qualifications. This position has general faculty status with excellent benefits, including 22 days of vacation and TIAA/CREF and other retirement plans. Review of applications will begin on March 19, 2010 and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants must apply through the University of Virginia online employment website athttps://jobs.virginia.edu/ Search by position number FP674, complete an application, and attach a cover letter and resume, with contact information for three current, professional references. For assistance with this process contact Library Human Resources at (434) 924-3081. The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer strongly committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity. The University actively encourages applications and nominations from members of underrepresented groups. Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ ● http://uvasci.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 8 06:48:15 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 727264832C; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 06:48:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BB72F4831B; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 06:48:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100308064813.BB72F4831B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 06:48:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.684 Music Theatre Online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 684. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 08:46:26 -0500 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: Announcing Musical Theatre Online The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is proud to announce the launch of the prototype of Music Theatre Online (MTO), a freely accessible web-based archive of musical and music theatre. Funded by a Digital Humanities Startup grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, MTO provides a model for online scholarly archives of the exceptionally multimodal art form of music theatre. “Under the inspired leadership of Doug Reside,” comments MITH Director Neil Fraistat, “MTO promises to revolutionize the study of musical theatre, and adds to an increasing number of MITH projects involving the performing arts.” The MTO prototype makes available, with the generous permission of creators James Gardiner and Nick Blaemire, audio and video files, photographs, and seventeen TEI encoded drafts of the 2008 Broadway musical, Glory Days charting the development of the show from early sketches through regional productions to opening night. For several versions of the show, the lyrics have been linked to audio transcriptions of related performances, allowing a reader to closely study both text and music simultaneously. Glory Days is the first in what we hope will be a continuing series of musicals added to the collection in the coming years. Upcoming titles under development include the 1866 melodrama The Black Crook and the 1920 Jerome Kern musical, Sally. The prototype is available at http://mith.umd.edu/mto. -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC, a new Living/Learning Program in the Honors College) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 9 06:26:30 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC7344C1A9; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:26:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2900B4C198; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:26:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100309062629.2900B4C198@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:26:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.685 jobs at Belfast X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 685. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:59:32 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Posts Available at QUB POSITION : Systems Analyst/Programmer, DIPPAM Project SCHOOL/DEPARTMENT : QUB School of History and Anthropology REFERENCE: 10/101284 CLOSING DATE : 4.00 pm, Friday 19 March 2010. SALARY : £29,853 - £38,951 per annum (including contribution points). ANTICIPATED INTERVIEW DATE : Tuesday 30 March 2010. CONTRACT DURATION : Available immediately until 21 March 2011. WEBPAGE: http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/QUBJobVacancies/JobDetails/?vac_no=10/101284&ref=10/101284 JOB PURPOSE : Two posts are available to assist in the implementation and development of the DIPPAM portal that will integrate and improve access to the EPPI, NMR and IED databases. MAJOR DUTIES : Work as part of a team to develop an integrated search and access facility for the EPPI, NMR and IED databases. Use appropriate technologies and applications to ensure the continuity, performance and sustainability of the portal. Adopt a proactive approach to the identification of potential problem areas. Ensure the effective maintenance of information and documentation, e.g. systems specifications, so that the portal can continue to be developed. Liaise with Information Services systems unit to ensure support and maintenance of computer systems. Contribute to the development and monitoring of progress towards meeting the objectives of the project. Present reports and results to inform decision making within relevant areas. Liaise with users of the portal to ensure that the interface is usable. Carry out any other duties which are appropriate to the post as may be reasonably requested by the Principal Investigator. Planning and Organising: Plan own work over the short to medium term with an awareness of longer term issues, in response to Principal Investigators instructions. Develop appropriate work schedules in order to meet targets and/or turnaround times. Resource Management Responsibilities: Assist in the planning of resources within the area of responsibility to ensure that they are effectively managed and monitored. Advise on the cost/benefit of new and existing technologies. Assume delegated responsibilities as appropriate. Internal and External Relationships: Attend internal and external meetings to ensure that relevant issues are appropriately represented and reported. Liaise with key contacts to ensure appropriate integration, collaboration and understanding. Liaise with external suppliers, consultants and other third parties. ESSENTIAL CRITERIA : 1. A degree with significant computing element or equivalent. 2. A minimum of three years' experience working in a relevant computing environment. 3. Good working knowledge of at least one of C, PHP or Java. 4. Good working knowledge of UNIX and/or Windows 2000XP/server 2003. 5. Ability to communicate technical information with clarity and effectiveness. 6. Good communication skills both oral and written. 7. Able to respond flexibly to meet changing client requirements. 8. Effective interpersonal skills. 9. Must be willing to work outside normal office hours on occasional basis and provide cover as requested during critical periods. DESIRABLE CRITERIA : 1. 2.1 or higher Honours degree in Computer Science or related discipline. 2. BCS Corporate Membership or equivalent. 3. Experience using XML/XSLT/XHHTML and CSS. 4. Experience of making applications available through the WWW in particular using SQL Server/MySQL/ORACLE databases. 5. Experience of working in a research group within HE Sector. 6. Experience in the provision of training in either large or small groups. 7. Ability to present technical information to a variety of different audiences. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Informal enquiries about the post may be directed to Mr G Mitchell (g.mitchell@qub.ac.uk). THE APPLICATION PROCESS : The Application Form should be completed and returned (Curriculum Vitaes will not be accepted). In customising your application details to our vacant post you should read the Job Details and criteria. You must demonstrate clearly and unambiguously how your qualifications, skills and experience meet the requirements of the post. You submit your application by revisiting www.qub.ac.uk/jobs and clicking on Submit Application against the job you wish to apply for. Enter your email address (and confirm it), then use the Browse button to locate the forms on your computer and click Submit to email your application to the Personnel Department at Queen's. You must submit your application within the advertising period as the job will not be displayed on the Jobs page after the closing date and time has lapsed. Alternatively post your application to The Director of Human Resources, The Personnel Department, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT7 1NN (Tel: 028 9097 3044, Fax: 028 9097 1040). You should note that the University does not normally consider applications that are received after the closing date. You should also note that where post, fax or e-mail services are used, the onus for ensuring receipt in the PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT by the closing date and time rests with the applicant. EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES MONITORING : The recruitment panel will not have access to the monitoring information you have completed and it will not be used in the selection procedure. --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2 IRELAND --- 53.335373,-6.254219 --- Tel: +353 1 2342441 --- shawn@shawnday.com --- http://dho.ie -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 9 06:27:04 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB56E4C1F4; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:27:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3194C4C1E1; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:27:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100309062703.3194C4C1E1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:27:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.686 collaborative data curation? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 686. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:31:17 -0600 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Collaborative data curation in the humanities I would like to find out more about forms of collaborative data curation in humanities projects projects that can serve scholarly and pedagogical purposes. In particular, I am interested in "dispersed annotation," as it is called by the authors of a review of similar projects in genome research, "Community annotation: procedures, protocols, and supporting tools" (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17065605). Here are four projects, in no particular order, about which I know something. I will be very grateful to hear about others, and I will be happy to share whatever information I receive. Distributed Proofreaders (http://www.pgdp.net/c/) engages volunteers (about 3,0000 a month) in the task of correcting transcriptional errors in Project Gutenberg texts on a page-by-page basis. The Australian Newspapers Digitization Program (https://code.nla.gov.au/redmine/projects/show/ndp-beta)lets users correct the OCR'd article text and add or edit tags and comments. The SUDA On Line project (http://www.stoa.org/sol/) has over the past dozen years produced translations of ~25,000 entries from the over 30,000 entries in the SUDA, a 10th century Byzantine Greek encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean. Integrating Digital Papyrology (http://idp.atlantides.org/trac/idp/wiki/DDBDP) seeks to "create a version controlled, transparent and fully audited, multi-author, web-based, real-time, tagless, editing environment, which—in tandem with a new editorial infrastructure—will allow the entire community of papyrologists to take control of the process of populating these communal assets with data." _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 9 06:34:05 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0924C2DE; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:34:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 240544C2C7; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:34:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100309063403.240544C2C7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:34:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.687 new MA: Language & Cultural Diversity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 687. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:38:02 +0000 From: "Rampton, Ben" Subject: New MA Language & Cultural Diversity, King's College London MA in Language and Cultural Diversity Centre for Language Discourse and Communication King´s College London www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc This new MA programme provides a platform for study and understanding of the linguistic dimensions of social and cultural diversity in globalized societies. It combines an introduction to linguistic perspectives on identity and culture with a variety of optional modules that provide the opportunity to specialise in three areas: * Linguistic diversity - e.g. `Cultures in grammar´, `World languages &linguistic typology´, `Language, mind & culture´ * Discourse, text, interaction and identity - e.g. 'Linguistic approaches to narrative analysis', 'Translation theory', 'Medical discourses', 'Language & power', 'Arabic sociolinguistics' * Teaching and diversity - e.g. 'Language contact, bilingualism & Black Englishes', 'Language practices in multi-ethnic classrooms' Within and across these strands, students can develop their knowledge and abilities in language analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography, discourse analysis, translation, first & second language learning, cognitive/psycholinguistics, language education and language policy. Students are supported by modules in research methodology ('Researching linguistic diversity' & 'Digital methods for text & discourse analysis'), and they are encouraged to pursue their interests in particular languages and/or in social, cultural and practical issues where language plays a role. There are strong links to the extensive and internationally recognised research on language and culture conducted at the Centre for LDC, as well as to the work on linguistic diversity in London and beyond. For more information, visit > > www.kcl.ac.uk/prospectus/graduate/language_and_cultural_diversity X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E0A4C356; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:35:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D114C4C34B; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:35:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100309063538.D114C4C34B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:35:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.688 DH events: DH2010; European Summer School; Day of DH X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 688. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (8) Subject: Day of Digital Humanities 2010 [2] From: Elisabeth Burr (28) Subject: 2nd European Summer School "Culture & Technology" [3] From: Harold Short (21) Subject: DH2010 announcement --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:48:35 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Day of Digital Humanities 2010 A reminder to those who want to participate in the Day of Digital Humanities 2010 that we would appreciate you registering by the end of the 10th of March. We will be creating the blogs on the 11th so you have time to experiment. To find out about this project and to register go to: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2010 This is not a project just for "important" digital humanists. We want a diversity of perspectives including students, librarians, programmers and those who feel what they do is modest! So please invite your students and colleagues. For those who like to lurk during such online events we will have an RSS feed you can follow, as we did last year. There is also a twitter hashtag, #dayofdh for those who want to have a parallel discussion. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:29:59 +0100 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: 2nd European Summer School "Culture & Technology" We are happy to announce that the 2nd European Summer School "Culture & Technology" will take place at Leipzig University from the 26th to the 30th of July 2010. More information will be posted to Humanist soon. Elisabeth Burr ---------- Univ.-Prof'in Dr. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut für Romanistik Philologische Fakultät Universität Leipzig Haus 1 / 3. Etage, Zi. 1307 Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig Tel. +49 (0)341 97 37413/37411 http://www.uni-leipzig.de/gal2010 http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~burr/JISU/ http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Burr, Elisabeth (ed.) (2009): «Tradizione & Innovazione». Dall’italiano, lingua storica e funzionale, alle altre lingue (= Quaderni della Rassegna 59). Firenze: Cesati. Sabine Bastian / Thierry Bulot / Elisabeth Burr (eds.) (2009): Sociolinguistique urbaine et développement durable urbain. Enjeux et pratiques dans les sociétés francophones et non francophones (= Sprache - Kultur - Gesellschaft 5). München: Meidenbauer --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:58:32 +0000 From: Harold Short Subject: DH2010 announcement Registration for the Digital Humanities Conference 2010 (DH2010) is now open. DH2010 will take place 7-10 July 2010 at King's College London. Please visit the website at dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk for information about the conference. There will be the usual full academic programme of papers, panels and posters, plus an extensive social programme involving receptions, performances, installations and the conference dinner, which will take place in the Great Hall at Lincoln's Inn, the oldest of London's four Inns of Court, with a continuous record dating back to 1422. A set of pre-conference workshops as well as a THATCamp have been arranged in the period Monday 5 - Wednesday 7 July, and three excursions are available on Sunday 11 July. A reasonable but limited number of low-cost student apartments are available through the registration process. To register you will need to go to the ConfTool website (you can follow a link on the DH2010 website), and log in with your username and password. If you do not already have a ConfTool account, you will be asked to create one. Early registration runs to 17th May, and online registration will close altogether on 1st July. Conference fees (in GBP) are: Early Member 210; Late Member 260; Early Non-member 300; Late Non-member 350; Student Member 60; Student Non-member 120. A 'member' is a subscriber to the journal LLC, published by Oxford University Press. To qualify for 'member' prices, you will need to provide your subscriber number during the registration process. Note that the journal subscription price is GBP 64 p.a. or GBP 32 for students, so there is financial advantage for non-members to subscribe to the journal. (Subscriptions may also be paid in equivalent USD or Euro.) The Conference Dinner at Lincoln's Inn on Saturday 10th July will cost GBP 55. On Sunday 11th there are three excursion options: a full-day trip to Hampton Court including its 16th Century Palace, world-famous maze and gardens, and with its Flower Show (the world's largest, they say) as an additional option; the Tate-to-Tate Tour, which includes guided tours of Tate Britain and Tate Modern, with a boat trip along the Thames in between; and a guided tour of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and Exhibition, with a full-day ticket to the Exhibition included. The Digital Humanities Conferences are sponsored by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO), whose constituent associations are the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH-SEMI). THE DH2010 conference is hosted by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities and the Centre for e-Research at King's College London. You can stay updated about the conference by subscribing to the RSS feed on the website, or follow #dh2010 on Twitter. Please address any questions by email to dh2010[at]kcl.ac.uk. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 9 06:39:41 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F744C40A; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:39:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6CEC74C3FC; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:39:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100309063939.6CEC74C3FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:39:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.689 events: Victorians by the numbers; knowledge engineering X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 689. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrew Stauffer (45) Subject: cfp: Victorians Institute: By the Numbers [2] From: HSofia Pinto (53) Subject: EKAW: Final Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:03:54 -0500 From: Andrew Stauffer Subject: cfp: Victorians Institute: By the Numbers THE 2010 VICTORIANS INSTITUTE CONFERENCE http://www.vcu.edu/vij/ BY THE NUMBERS *October 1-3, 2010* *University of Virginia* New submission deadline: *April 15, 2010* *Conference website*: http://www.nines.org/VIC2010 Co-sponsored by The University of Virginia English Department http://www.engl.virginia.edu/ , Rare Books School http://www.rarebookschool.org/ , and NINES . Keynote lecturer: *Daniel Cohen*, George Mason University; author of Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith, 2007; and director of the Center for History and New Media . Other confirmed speakers: Jimena Canales, Harvard University (author of A Tenth of a Second: A History) Marilyn Gaull, Boston University (editor of The Wordsworth Circle http://www.bu.edu/editinst/resources/wordsworth/index.html) Alice Jenkins, University of Glasgow (author of Space and the ‘March of Mind’) Ellen Rosenman, University of Kentucky (editor of Victorians Institute Journal http://www.vcu.edu/vij/VIJ.html ) UVA organizing committee: Steve Arata, Alison Booth, Karen Chase, Jerome McGann, Andrew Stauffer, and Herbert Tucker; with assistance from Bethany Nowviskie and Michael F. Suarez, S.J. This conference has received generous funding support from the Page-Barbour Lecture Endowment at University of Virginia. As a result, we may in a position to provide *stipends to offset expenses* for selected *graduate students and junior scholars*. Other plans include the following: 1. a *special roundtable with journal editors* on the future of scholarly journals in a digital age 2. a *special roundtable with university press editors* on the monograph and the crisis in scholarly publishing 3. a visit to *UVA’s Rare Book School http://www.rarebookschool.org/ *for seminars on C19 materials 4. *lunch and coffee breaks provided gratis* during the conference 5. a *gala Friday evening reception* and a *wine reception on Saturday*evening 6. open house in the *Scholars’ Lab http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ *, showcasing digital C19 projects PLEASE SUBMIT 1-2 PAGE PROPOSALS to Victorians.Institute@gmail.com by *APRIL 15, 2010* --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:07:29 +0000 From: HSofia Pinto Subject: EKAW: Final Call for Papers 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management EKAW 2010 Lisbon, Portugal, http://ekaw2010.inesc-id.pt 2nd Call for Papers The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and its role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent information integration, etc. The focus of the 17th edition of EKAW will be on "Knowledge Management and Engineering by the Masses". EKAW 2010 welcomes papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, experimental, and application aspects. The call for papers with detailed topics is available electronically at: http://ekaw2010.inesc-id.pt/call-for-papers.html Important dates * Submission: 19th of March 2010 * Notification: 14th of May 2010 * Camera Ready: 11th of June 2010 Organizing Committee * General and PC chairs: - Sofia Pinto (INESC-ID, Lisbon) - Philipp Cimiano (CITEC, UniversitŠt Bielefeld) * Workshop chair: - Siegfried Handschuh (DERI, NUI Galway) * Tutorial chair: - Victoria Uren (University of Sheffield) Demonstration chairs: - Oscar Corcho (UPM, Madrid) - Johanna Všlker (University of Mannheim) The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. The LNCS volume will contain contributed papers. EKAW 2010 will also feature a tutorial and workshop program, as well as a poster and demo track. Poster/demo notes and workshop/tutorial notes will be published separately in a companion booklet. Paper submission and reviewing for EKAW 2010 will be electronic via CMT System at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/EKAW2010. Submissions should be 15 pages long (max) formatted according to Springer Verlag LNCS guidelines. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Helena Sofia Pinto Phone + 351 - 21 - 3100388 Instituto Superior Tecnico Email sofia.pinto@dei.ist.utl.pt Departamento de Eng. Informatica Av. Rovisco Pais 1049-001 Lisboa PORTUGAL INESC-ID Email sofia@inesc-id.pt Rua Alves Redol, 9 1000-029 Lisboa PORTUGAL --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 10 06:25:05 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E20144F98A; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:25:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B78EF4F97A; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:25:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100310062501.B78EF4F97A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:25:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.690 collaborative data curation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 690. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: René Audet (20) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.686 collaborative data curation? [2] From: Jeff Drouin (63) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.686 collaborative data curation? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:46:01 -0500 From: René Audet Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.686 collaborative data curation? > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 686. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:31:17 -0600 > From: Martin Mueller > Subject: Collaborative data curation in the humanities > > I would like to find out more about forms of collaborative data curation in > humanities projects projects that can serve scholarly and pedagogical > purposes. In particular, I am interested in "dispersed annotation," as it is > called by the authors of a review of similar projects in genome research, > "Community annotation: procedures, protocols, and supporting tools" > (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17065605). > > Here are four projects, in no particular order, about which I know something. > I will be very grateful to hear about others, and I will be happy to share > whatever information I receive. > > Distributed Proofreaders (http://www.pgdp.net/c/) engages volunteers (about > 3,0000 a month) in the task of correcting transcriptional errors in Project > Gutenberg texts on a page-by-page basis. [...] Have a look to Bite-size Edits, a project of BookOven, a startup based in Montreal. It is not a digital humanities as such, but links to the production chain in the field of edition — such an interesting move from DH to the concrete world of editing a book outside of the academic world. http://bitesizeedits.com/ http://bookoven.com René Audet ______________________________________________________________ René Audet Professeur, Département des littératures Titulaire, Chaire de recherche du Canada en littérature contemporaine Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture québécoises (CRILCQ) Université Laval, Québec mail rene.audet@lit.ulaval.ca web http://contemporain.info bur Pavillon Charles-De Koninck, bureau 7173 tél 418 656 2131, poste 2459 fax 418 656 2991 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:42:16 -0500 From: Jeff Drouin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.686 collaborative data curation? In-Reply-To: <20100309062703.3194C4C1E1@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Martin, I don't know if this is the kind of thing you're looking for, but I've had my students curate avant-garde periodicals at the Modernist Journals Project (modjourn.org) by means of an interactive timeline. As part of the process, they tagged content according to the major information types (author, genre, item title, periodical title, periodical date, topical and conceptual key terms, etc.), described the items, and linked to the items' image pages in the MJP. Students actively investigated literary modernism in its original context, while also learning a bit of textual and bibliographic criticism and an expanded awareness of how interactive media can be employed to study a text or a body of texts. It also reinforced the social responsibility of knowledge production. The curation activity was a cumulative step toward collaborative and individual research essays, all of which were posted to the course website. Students applied meta-critical tags to both the primary material in the archive and the secondary material they produced. The idea was that the course produced a resource that was useful to classmates and outside scholars alike, especially since modernist magazines are still a relatively untilled field. So it's research and pedagogy rolled into one. The timeline and course website run on Drupal and an Exhibit/SIMILE script from MIT. The course ran at Brooklyn College but I put the technology on the Macaulay Honors College server because I didn't have enough access at BC. http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/material-modernism/timeline.html Jeff _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 10 06:25:59 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 843D54F9D6; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:25:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4477E4F9C7; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:25:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100310062557.4477E4F9C7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:25:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.691 bursary applications for DH2010 by 15 March X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 691. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:36:33 +0000 From: DH2010 Subject: DH2010: Deadline for ADHO Bursary Applications is March 15th! Dear DH2010 Participant: As part of its commitment to promote the development and application of digital methods in humanities scholarship, each year ADHO awards up to TEN bursaries to students and young scholars who are members of an ADHO constituent organization and who have had papers or posters accepted for presentation at the annual Digital Humanities conference. The purpose of the bursary is to assist students and young scholars to attend the annual Digital Humanities conference, to encourage them to make a contribution to scholarship in the digital humanities, and to promote the involvement of outstanding young scholars in the application of information and communications technologies in humanities research. Bursaries are intended to cover expenses incurred in attending the conference (including travel, lodging, the conference fee, and meals not covered by the conference fee) up to 500 GBP. A student applicant must be enrolled for full- or part-time study at a recognized institution of higher education. To qualify as a "young scholar," an applicant must be age 30 or less, or otherwise justify consideration as a new participant in the field. Both paper and poster submissions are eligible for consideration. A participant in a multi-authored submission is eligible for an award if he or she has contributed substantially to the paper/poster and will take significant part in its presentation. Recipients must be individual subscribers to ADHO’s official print journal, Literary and Linguistic Computing, and thereby members of one of the constituent organizations. This may be certified with the subscripton number from the journal wrapper. Uncertified subscriptions must be resolved before winners are announced. A review panel will choose award recipients based on the applicants’ submission abstracts, information from the application forms, reviewer comments, and evaluations as deemed necessary to make a confident decision. To apply for a 2010 Bursary, please visit http://www.digitalhumanities.org/view/Adho/BursaryAwards The Application deadline is March 15. Winners will be notified before April 15, 2010 Sincerely, Matthew L. Jockers (2010 Bursary Award Committee Chair) -- Digital Humanities 2010 https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 10 06:26:51 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06A6A4FA29; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:26:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A4FA84FA12; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:26:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100310062648.A4FA84FA12@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:26:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.692 online tool? projects on visual impairment? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 692. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Thomas Crombez (12) Subject: Online teaching tool for images, texts, and comments [2] From: "WILLIAMS, GEORGE" (9) Subject: Digital humanities projects for users with visual impairments --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:06:29 +0100 From: Thomas Crombez Subject: Online teaching tool for images, texts, and comments I am looking for an online teaching tool for a Philosophy of Art course. Ideally, the tool would allow to: -- post a number of images online -- post some paragraphs of commentary (along with links to full-length texts) -- let users insert short comments, and see them updated in real-time (These three components would have to be presented together in a three-column layout on the landing page) Additionally, the tool would allow to: -- let users (students) contribute images and texts -- let users vote images/texts up or down -- let users contribute longer pieces of commentary through a group blog (or similar) Any ideas for a platform or existing tool that would make this possible? I was thinking of CMS-like systems such as WordPress or Django, but I would be glad to hear about other possibilities (maybe there's already something out there like this?). Best, Thomas Crombez --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:41:15 -0500 From: "WILLIAMS, GEORGE" Subject: Digital humanities projects for users with visual impairments Dear Colleagues I'm writing to ask for pointers to any relevant scholarship in the digital humanities concerning human computer interaction involving users with visual impairment. Additionally, I'd be interested in learning about any projects currently underway that are designed for such users. I'm currently participating in a project studying the history and current state of braille literacy in South Carolina. Part of that project is the creation of an online scholarly resource: we're using Omeka as a CMS and have been creating plugins that make the site more accessible for blind and visually impaired users. If there are any other projects addressing this issue, I'd very much like to learn about them. Thank you in advance for any advice or feedback that you might be able to provide. Sincerely, --George Williams ------------------------------------ http://GeorgeHWilliams.net http://ProfHacker.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 10 06:29:28 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2CC94FA9D; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:29:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 79C544FA90; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:29:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100310062926.79C544FA90@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:29:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.693 events too various for brief summary X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 693. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Amanda French (19) Subject: Announcing THATcamp [2] From: Amanda French (65) Subject: Applications open for One Week | One Tool -- A Digital HumanitiesBarn Raising [3] From: Luis Gutierrez (125) Subject: Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage [4] From: Kevin Hawkins (39) Subject: Symposium on TEI and Scholarly Publishing * Dublin, Ireland * 28April 2010 [5] From: Emily Cullen (71) Subject: Notice of Workshop on E-Publishing and Digital ScholarlyCommunication --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:50:10 -0500 From: Amanda French Subject: Announcing THATcamp The Humanities and Technology Camp, better known as THATcamp, will be held for the third time on *May 22-23, 2010*. THATCamp is a user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities organized and hosted by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Deadline for applications is *March 15*. According to Wikipedia, an unconference is “a conference where the content of the sessions is created and managed by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by one or more organizers in advance of the event.” An unconference is not a spectator event. Participants in an unconference are expected to present their work, share their knowledge, and actively collaborate with fellow participants rather than simply attend. For more information and to apply, see http://thatcamp.org. -- Amanda French amanda@amandafrench.net 720-530-7515 http://amandafrench.net http://twitter.com/amandafrench --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:55:21 -0500 From: Amanda French Subject: Applications open for One Week | One Tool -- A Digital HumanitiesBarn Raising Generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, One Week | One Tool is a unique summer institute, one that aims to teach participants how to build an open source digital tool for humanities scholarship by actually building a tool, from inception to launch, in a week. During the week of *Sunday July 25 – Saturday July 31, 2010*, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will bring together a group of twelve digital humanists of diverse disciplinary backgrounds and practical experience to build something useful and usable. A short course of training in principles of open source software development will be followed by an intense five days of doing and a year of continued remote engagement, development, testing, dissemination, and evaluation. Comprising designers and developers as well as scholars, project managers, outreach specialists, and other non-technical participants, the group will conceive a tool, outline a roadmap, develop and disseminate an initial prototype, lay the ground work for building an open source community, and make first steps toward securing the project’s long-term sustainability. One Week | One Tool is inspired by both longstanding and cutting-edge models of rapid community development. For centuries rural communities throughout the United States have come together for “barn raisings” when one of their number required the diverse set of skills and enormous effort required to build a barn—skills and effort no one member of the community alone could possess. In recent years, Internet entrepreneurs have likewise joined forces for crash “startup” or “blitz weekends” that bring diverse groups of developers, designers, marketers, and financiers together to launch a new technology company in the span of just two days. One Week | One Tool will build on these old and new traditions of community development and the natural collaborative strengths of the digital humanities community to produce something useful for humanities work and to help balance learning and doing in digital humanities training. *Who should apply?* Scholars, students, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, developers, designers, hackers, bloggers, sys admins, outreach coordinators, community builders, project managers, fundraisers, and anyone else with an interest in building scholarly software. No specific qualifications (e.g. a higher degree or particular skill set) are required. But we are looking to assemble a cohesive group of twelve talented and accomplished people who together will possess the entire range of skills necessary to conceive, manage, build, and disseminate a tools project. Given the importance of intra-team dynamics and self-initiative to the success of any open source project—especially at its inception—we will also be looking for evidence of teamwork, patience, flexibility, and resourcefulness (such as a history of picking up a programming language on one’s own) in assessing applications for One Week | One Tool. Accepted participants will receive travel, lodging, per diem, a small stipend, and a practical education in open source scholarly software development from the organizers of THATCamp and the makers of Zotero and Omeka. *How do I apply?* By *March 15, 2010*, please send a two-page C.V. and a brief email to info@oneweekonetool (subject line: One Week Application) addressing the following: 1) what skills/experiences/interests you think are most important to building a successful tool; 2) which of these skills / experiences / interests you will bring to the barn raising; and 3) what you think you will get out of attending that will help you in future pursuits. We apologize in advance that space is limited to 12 participants. #oneweek #buildsomething http://oneweekonetool.org/ -- Amanda French amanda@amandafrench.net 720-530-7515 http://amandafrench.net http://twitter.com/amandafrench --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:55:02 -0500 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage This may be of interest .... Luis EuroMed2010 - Call for Papers Dedicated to Digital Cultural Heritage and Digital Libraries November 8 - 13th, 2010 Limassol, Cyprus http://www.euromed2010.eu Invitation: You are kindly invited to submit a paper to the EUROMED2010 joint conference which will provide an opportunity to exchange research results, opinions, experiences and proposals on the best practice and hi-tech tools from Information and Communications Technology to document, archive, preserve, manage and communicate Cultural Heritage (CH). The main goal of the event is not only to illustrate the programs underway but also excellent work wherever it is located and however it is supported, in order to promote a common approach to the tasks of e- documentation of World Cultural Heritage. Furthermore, regional capacities in the area of Cultural Heritage and IT will be facilitated in advancing their know-how through the exchange of information and generation of new ideas and cooperation's, where the world meets the finger prints of several ancient civilizations on earth. To reach this ambitious goal the topics covered will include experiences in the use of innovative recording technologies & methods and how to take best advantage to integrate the results obtained to build up new tools and/or experiences as well as improved methodologies for documenting, managing and communicating CH. The EuroMed2010 joint event will focus on interdisciplinary and multi- disciplinary research concerning both cutting edge Cultural Heritage Informatics and use of technology for the representation, documentation, preservation, archiving and communication of CH knowledge. The scope includes standards, metadata and every phase of CH information technology: initial data capture/digitization, information/data processing, reconstruction, visualization and documentation as well as dissemination of results to the scientific and cultural heritage communities and to the general public (Multilingua, Multimedia Digital Library). We are also interested in aspects of the wider legal, IPR and ethical responsibilities of Cultural Heritage Informatics. Research subjects parallel the interests of CIPA, ISPRS and EuroMed including culturally significant monuments, artefacts and sites as well as the activities of museums, libraries, archives, and organizations involved with their care. [...] --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:20:52 +0000 From: Kevin Hawkins Subject: Symposium on TEI and Scholarly Publishing * Dublin, Ireland * 28 April 2010 *Please circulate* Symposium on TEI and Scholarly Publishing http://dho.ie/node/673 Wednesday, 28 April 2010 Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 The TEI Council and the Digital Humanities Observatory, a project of the Royal Irish Academy, invite you to participate in a one-day Symposium on TEI and Scholarly Publishing, to be held 28 April 2010 in conjunction with a meeting of the TEI Council. Invited speakers from universities, publishing organizations, and private industry will identify current difficulties in making publication systems interoperable and identify priority actions for the TEI to intervene in this arena. During the presentations, there will be simultaneous discussion in the backchannel #teipublishing and in a publicly readable and editable Google Docs file for collaborative identification of priority actions for the TEI. To avoid infestation by spambots, we will not include the actual URL in announcements. Please type "docs.google.com" into your browser and then paste the following after it: /Doc?id=dv3dx7h_12gtqzjxg5 We encourage participation on the backchannel and in this collaborative writing exercise by all, even those unable to attend in person. Registration to attend in person is free but required. For further information, please see http://dho.ie/node/673 -- Kevin Hawkins, MSc (Illinois) Visiting Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 ~ A project of the Royal Irish Academy ~ Web: dho.ie Email: k.hawkins@dho.ie Tel. +353 1 234 2444 Mobile +353 86 125 1839 Fax +353 1 234 2400 --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:42:29 +0000 From: Emily Cullen Subject: Notice of Workshop on E-Publishing and Digital ScholarlyCommunication Dear All, Please find below details of a workshop on e-publishing and digital scholarly communication which will take place on Friday, 19th March at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. The event is organised by the Academic and National Library Training Co-operative (ANLTC) in association with the Library of the Royal Irish Academy. Workshop Title: E-Publishing and Digital Scholarly Communication This workshop will offer an insight into current trends, challenges and methodologies in e-publishing and highlight future directions in scholarly communication. Participants will be informed about innovative digital humanities projects currently underway throughout Ireland and they will be introduced to the work of the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO), which serves to support and guide these projects. Kevin Hawkins, University of Michigan, will share his expertise with attendees. He is joined by Dr Susan Schreibman, a leading international digital humanities scholar. They will highlight successful and unsuccessful e-publishing ventures and the implications of both. Dr. Claire Warwick will discuss research carried out at UCL DIS concerning the ways that humanities scholars use digital resources, and she will talk about what features they need and what they enjoy or find frustrating about them. She will go on to describe how users can, and should, be involved in the process of designing digital resources, ideally from the beginning of the project. She will look at the lessons we can learn from good practice by the builders of well-used resources. This event is open to anyone interested in the development and management of projects in e-publishing and digital humanities. For further information, please visit the following link on the website of the ANLTC: http://www.anltc.ie/events/events-archive/2010-events/e-publishing-and-digital-scholarly-communication/ Course presenters: Dr Susan Schreibman, Director of the DHO; Kevin Hawkins, Visiting Metadata Manager at the DHO and Electronic Publishing Librarian at the University of Michigan; Dr. Claire Warwick, Director UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Programme and Director Electronic Communication and Publishing UCL Department of Information Studies [...] Regards, Emily Cullen -- Emily Cullen, Ph.D., Programme Co-ordinator Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2 Ireland Tel:+353(0)1-2342442 Fax:+353(0)1-2342400 E-mail: e.cullen@ria.ie http://dho.ie -- -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 11 06:52:52 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BCCC4F916; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:52:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CA18A4F90D; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:52:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100311065249.CA18A4F90D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:52:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.694 collaborative data curation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 694. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:59:16 -0500 From: Patrick Rourke Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.686 collaborative data curation? In-Reply-To: <20100309062703.3194C4C1E1@woodward.joyent.us> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Humanist Discussion Group > Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:31:17 -0600 >        From: Martin Mueller >        Subject: Collaborative data curation in the humanities > > The SUDA On Line project (http://www.stoa.org/sol/) has over the past dozen years produced translations of ~25,000 entries from the over 30,000 entries in the SUDA,  a 10th century Byzantine Greek encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean. Just a quick point which Prof. Mueller didn't emphasize: an important part of the original vision of the project is that the translations should be annotated - the Suda is a work of many qualities, and most entries (particularly the biographies) are greatly enhanced by scholarly annotation. The project is up to about 27,000 entries now. Patrick Rourke, currently inactive member of the Suda On Line project. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 11 06:54:45 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36CC84F97B; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:54:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9418F4F973; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:54:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100311065443.9418F4F973@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:54:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.695 GLIMPSE 2.4: arts & sciences of seeing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 695. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:03:27 -0700 From: "GLIMPSE | the art + science of seeing" Subject: GLIMPSE vol 2.4 Cosmos - the history and technology of seeing beyondEarth's atmosphere [Please forward as desired. Apologies for duplicate postings.] COSMOS GLIMPSE journal vol 2.4, winter 2009/2010 now available http://www.glimpsejournal.com The Cosmos issue examines the history and technology of seeing beyond Earth's atmosphere. March 2010 is the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's publication of the first printed treatise on celestial observations. If Galilei were alive today, we suspect he would be collaborating with these innovative stargazers... CONTENTS Dimming the Lights: Astronomy and light pollution Scott Kardel, Palomar Observatory, CalTech What the Wise Men Saw In the Sky Michael R. Molnar, astronomer & historian Maya Ethnoastronomy Susan Milbrath, ethnoastronomer, Florida Museum of Natural History The Chemical Elements in the Cosmos - a redesign of the Periodic Table of Elements Katharina Lodders, astrochemist, Washington University Exploring Mars and the Moon Using Google Earth Ross A. Beyer, SETI Institute The Use of Color In Interstellar Message Design Kimberly A. Jameson & Jon Lomberg cognitive scientist, University of California, Irvine; Carl Sagan's principal artistic collaborator and Design Director for NASA's Voyager Interstellar Record Seeing Titan: Mapping Saturn's moon with infrared technology Jason W. Barnes, physicist, University of Idaho RetroSpect: 1880-1911 - Williamina Fleming Cataloged the Stars Glimpse's Carolyn Arcabascio RetroSpect: 1757 - The Aerial Telescope Seeing the Universe Through a Straw: The Hubble Space Telescope Glimpse's Christie Marie Bielmeier $25 Million a Ride: A real view of space tourism C.J. Wallington, Rochester Institute of Technology Unberührtes Muster (Pristine Patterns) Glimpse's Staff Poet, Arto Vaun (Re)Views: From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Moon (2009) Ivy Moylan, Brattle Film Foundation ____________________________ SUBSCRIBE to GLIMPSE Invest in (in)sight. Subscribe and see! http://www.glimpsejournal.com/subscribe.html ____________________________ ADVERTISE in GLIMPSE http://www.glimpsejournal.com/advertise.html ____________________________ Glimpse | the art + science of seeing http://www.glimpsejournal.com A quarterly, interdisciplinary journal examining visual perception and its implications for being, knowing, and constructing our world(s) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 11 06:55:24 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CDB94F9D5; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:55:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 03C704F9C3; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:55:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100311065522.03C704F9C3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:55:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.696 tools: text-analysis; online in class X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 696. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Peter Organisciak (24) Subject: Text Analysis for me Too [2] From: James Rovira (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.692 online tool? projects on visual impairment? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:25:52 -0700 From: Peter Organisciak Subject: Text Analysis for me Too Dear all, I'm writing to share the latest version of TAToo. Find it at http://ra.tapor.ualberta.ca/~tatoo/ TAToo is an embeddable, Flash-based text analysis tool. Paste a short customized snippet of code into your website, and you're off! It's directed toward casual web use, to give your online visitors a taste of text analytics, with a word cloud, frequencies, concordances, and collocates. It was developed at the University of Alberta under the supervision of Geoffrey Rockwell and Stan Ruecker, with gratitude to TAPoR and our early morning research group. With this release, we've sped up processes and fixed bugs (with thanks to reports from the Humanist community). There is also an experimental Wordpress widget and a simplified homepage more in the spirit of the project. We welcome additional feedback and suggestions. Currently, we are polishing the code, so that it can be easily borrowed by others. If you can't wait, though, the source *is* already available. I'm also curious where people stand in regards to such casual tools. Is there a value in combining analytics with a text for the incidental reader to see, or is text analysis something that is primarily useful for those that seek it? Between this project, certain facets of Stefan Sinclair's Voyeur, and the work of Brian Pytlik Zillig at Nebraska-Lincoln, it's definitely an area that's being considered in different ways. Peter Organisciak --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:22:00 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.692 online tool? projects on visual impairment? In-Reply-To: <20100310062648.A4FA84FA12@woodward.joyent.us> Right, I was going to say -- sounds like a blog to me. I'm using Wordpress right now and like it. I've used blogs in classes before. Jim R On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Humanist Discussion Group > > Any ideas for a platform or existing tool that would make this possible? I > was thinking of CMS-like systems such as WordPress or Django, but I would be > glad to hear about other possibilities (maybe there's already something out > there like this?). > > Best, Thomas Crombez > > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 11 06:56:19 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05ED94FA16; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:56:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BC6AF4FA0F; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:56:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100311065616.BC6AF4FA0F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:56:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.697 events: Digital Humanities Summer Institute X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 697. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:10:59 +0000 From: "institut@uvic.ca" Subject: DHSI 2010 March Update Hello Everyone, The DHSI is still three months away but we're already very busy here at Institute Headquarters getting ready for June. A few announcements: Registration Courses filled up very quickly this year! There are still a few spots open in "SEASR in Action: Data Analytics for Humanities Scholars" but act fast if you are interested. We also have a few extra scholarships available for SEASR. To apply, email institut@uvic.ca. If you have received a scholarship but have not yet registered, please do so as soon as possible. If you won't be able to use your scholarship this year, please let us know and we'll pass it on to someone else. Housing To book on-campus accommodation for the 2010 DHSI, download the U Victoria Housing reservation form (linked from http://www.dhsi.org/home/accomodation). Submit your completed reservation form to Housing by email: bookings@uvic.ca or fax: (250) 721-8930. Events This year's Graduate Student Lunch has been generously sponsored by the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs. To register for this free event, go to http://www.dhsi.org/event/event_list. Current and recently graduated students and post-docs only, please! We hope to have news about our DHSI Banquet in the very near future. ACH Bursaries We are pleased to announce the winners of the DHSI 2010 ACH Travel Bursary: Jeremy Boggs (George Mason); Mike Frangos (UCSB); Jessica Jacobson-Konefall (U Winnipeg); Oscar Oliver Santos Sopena (U Maryland); Tara Hargrave (U Waterloo); Natalie Milbrodt (CUNY, Queens); Matteo Romanello (KCL); Jeremy Throne (UCSC). Congratulations to all the recipients and thank you to ACH for their sponsorship. On behalf of the entire DHSI team, let me say how much we are all looking forward to seeing you in June. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me. Best, Cara -- Cara Leitch Assistant Director, Digital Humanities Summer Institute PhD Candidate, Department of English University of Victoria Victoria BC Canada cmleitch@uvic.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 12 07:21:13 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9AE4F191; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:21:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 928454F17C; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:21:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100312072111.928454F17C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:21:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.698 TAToo X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 698. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:04:42 -0500 From: Eric Lease Morgan Subject: Re: [Humanist] Text Analysis for me Too In-Reply-To: <20100311065522.03C704F9C3@woodward.joyent.us> Peter Organisciak wrote: > I'm writing to share the latest version of TAToo. Find it at > http://ra.tapor.ualberta.ca/~tatoo/... > > I'm also curious where people stand in regards to such casual tools. > Is there a value in combining analytics with a text for the incidental > reader to see, or is text analysis something that is primarily useful > for those that seek it? Between this project, certain facets of Stefan > Sinclair's Voyeur, and the work of Brian Pytlik Zillig at > Nebraska-Lincoln, it's definitely an area that's being considered in > different ways. Fun, and thanks. I've put this into my own blog. Easy. Yes, I do think the inclusion of these sorts of tools is a good idea, if not an excellent one. The flow of data and information is only increasing. Finding it -- data and information -- is not really the problem to be solved, in my humble opinion. Instead we need tools that help, assist, and supplement our reading activities to help us evaluate and understand what we find. TAToo is a good example of such a think. Thank you. [1] blog - http://infomotions.com/blog/ -- Eric Lease Morgan _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 12 07:21:43 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04AC14F1EF; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:21:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DB42D4F1DB; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:21:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100312072140.DB42D4F1DB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:21:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.699 the great Omeka Plugin Rush X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 699. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:20:10 -0500 From: Will Riley Subject: Omeka Plugin Rush 2010 I wanted to let all of you know about the Omeka Plugin Rush 2010. Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. We are currently accepting applications from interested students, faculty, and staff to create one of several Omeka plugins: FlickrImporter AnonymousTagging MetaComplete Flowplayer FeedImporter Participants will be honored with some Omeka swag, a spot in our Developers' Hall of Fame, and a small sum of money. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, but all plugins are due by 5/1/2010. Please pass this information along to anyone who may be interested in participating. More information can be found at: http://omeka.org/c/index.php/Plugin_Rush_2010 If you have any questions, please contact me at will@omeka.org Will Riley will@omeka.org Omeka Dev Community Lead Center for History and New Media George Mason University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 12 07:24:18 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B34E14F26C; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:24:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4DDA64F265; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:24:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100312072416.4DDA64F265@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:24:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.700 London Seminar in Digital Text & Scholarship; Day in the Life X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 700. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Barribeau (11) Subject: March 18 - A Day in the Life of Digital Humanities 2010 [2] From: Willard McCarty (39) Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2010-11 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:14:30 -0600 From: Susan Barribeau Subject: March 18 - A Day in the Life of Digital Humanities 2010 FYI: Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities 2010: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2010 "A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH) is a community publication project that will bring together digital humanists from around the world to document what they do on one day, March 18th. The goal of the project is to create a web site that weaves together the journals of the participants into a picture that answers the question, “Just what do computing humanists really do?” Participants will document their day through photographs and commentary in a blog-like journal. The collection of these journals with links, tags, and comments will make up the final work which will be published online." ******************************************************************* Susan Barribeau English Lit. & Humanities/Comm. Arts/Linguistics Bibliographer University of Wisconsin - Madison, Memorial Library, Room 278D 728 State Street, Madison WI 53706-1494 Phone: (608)262-9585 FAX: (608)265-2754 Email: sbarribeau@library.wisc.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:52:11 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2010-11 London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship www.tinyurl.com/LondonSeminar/ This is to invite proposals for seminars in the 2010-11 academic year, October through April. The London Seminar in Digital Text & Scholarship focuses on the ways in which the digital medium remakes the relationship of readers, writers, scholars, technical practitioners and designers to the manuscript and printed book. Its discussions are intended to inform public debate and policy as well as to stimulate research and provide a broad forum in which to present its results. Although the forum is primarily for those working in textual and literary studies, history of the book, humanities computing and related fields, its mandate is to address and involve an audience of non-specialists. Wherever possible the issues it raises are meant to engage all those who are interested in a digital future for the book -- and the future of the book in a digital world. The Seminar is held once per month in Stewart House, adjacent to Senate House, Bloomsbury, London, normally on a Thursday. A seminar usually consists of an hour's presentation followed by another hour of discussion. Refreshments (wine & water) are provided. The seminar leader is taken out to dinner afterwards at the Seminar's expense. Unfortunately the Seminar cannot fund any major expenses, such as transatlantic travel. An e-mail note sent to both Convenors will suffice. Please specify a working title, an abstract and a choice of date. If multiple dates are possible, please specify your preference(s). Convenors: Willard McCarty Professor of Humanities Computing King's College London staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ Claire Warwick Reader in Digital Humanities University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/claire-warwick/ -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 13 09:12:42 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99B1D4C4D0; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:12:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3E46B4C4BD; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:12:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100313091239.3E46B4C4BD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:12:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.701 jobs: WEME Project; language engineering for undergrads X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 701. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Kirsten C. Uszkalo" (58) Subject: Part Time Programming Job: The WEME Project [2] From: Shuly Wintner (53) Subject: Fwd: Summer Research for Undergrads --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:13:56 -0600 From: "Kirsten C. Uszkalo" Subject: Part Time Programming Job: The WEME Project > The Witches in Early Modern England (WEME) Project is looking for a = part time Java developer experienced with working in an academic = computing environment to work on a grant-funded, web-based application. = The incumbent will integrate several existing Java and Processing = applications and web-based frameworks, such as the Google Maps API. >=20 > This position requires a broad range of technical expertise, = analytical skills and excellent interpersonal skills. The successful = candidate is required to have a minimum of 3 years programming = experience, with a strong preference for a completed four-year Computing = Science degree.=20 >=20 > Required skills >=20 > =B7 Java & Python in a web-based context >=20 > =B7 Working knowledge of Processing >=20 > =B7 Working knowledge of common databases >=20 > =B7 Ability to quickly analyze, plan, and execute project tasks >=20 > Desired Skills =20 >=20 > =B7 Experience with integration of multiple web-based = applications >=20 > =B7 Knowledge of PHP & Perl >=20 > =B7 Experience working on academic computing projects >=20 > Salary: Hourly, MA/MCS scale of $20/hour >=20 > For more information about the position, or to submit your cover = letter, CV, and references for consideration, please contact Dr. Kirsten = C. Uszkalo before March 23rd. More information = about the WEME Project can be found at http://kirsten.uszkalo.com/weme. = Please feel free to redistribute this advertisement to any interested = colleagues. All interested applicants are encouraged to apply. Due to = funding guidelines, applicants currently authorized to work in Canada = will be given priority. -- Kirsten C. Uszkalo Visiting Assistant Professor=20 Post-Doctoral Fellow=20 Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities=20 Illinois Informatics Institute=20 Department of History=20 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign=20 Urbana, IL, USA Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of English Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6 kcu2 (at) sfu.ca / kirsten (at) uszkalo.com "Sure this woman is no witch, for she speaks many good words, which the = witches could not" --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:15:10 +0000 From: Shuly Wintner Subject: Fwd: Summer Research for Undergrads Begin forwarded message: > NSF-Supported Summer Research for Undergraduates > > The Center for Language and Speech Processing at the Johns Hopkins > University is seeking outstanding members of the current junior > class for a summer research workshop on language engineering from > June 7 to July 30, 2010. > > The 8-week workshop provides an intense intellectual environment. > Undergraduates work closely alongside more senior researchers as > part of a multi-university research team, which has been assembled > for the summer to attack some problem of current interest. The > teams and topics for summer 2010 are described here: > > http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/ws10/internship.php > > We hope that this stimulating and selective experience will > encourage students to pursue graduate study in human language > technology, as it has been doing for many years. > > The summer workshop provides: > * An opportunity to explore an exciting new area of research > * A two-week tutorial on current speech and language technology > * Mentoring by an experienced researcher > * Participation in project planning activities > * Use of a computing cluster and personal workstation > * A $5,000 stipend and $2,520 towards per diem expenses > * Private furnished accommodation for the duration of the workshop > * Travel expenses to and from the workshop venue > > Initial applications should be received by FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2009, > and should include the name of a faculty nominator who would be > willing to serve as a reference if asked. Apply online here: > > http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/ws10/internship.php > > Applicants are evaluated only on relevant skills, employment > experience, past academic record, and the strength of letters of > recommendation. No limitation is placed on the undergraduate > major. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. > > > _______________________________________________ Iscol mailing list Iscol@cs.haifa.ac.il https://cs.haifa.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/iscol The material posted is under the full responsibility of whoever posted it and under their sole responsibility and liability. The University takes no responsibility whatsoever for any material or other damage, direct or indirect, that may incur from publications in the forum and/or distribution list. 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For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 13 09:14:54 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA5A74C55B; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:14:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D6EA84C549; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:14:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100313091451.D6EA84C549@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:14:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.702 technological determinism? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 702. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:11:14 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: technological determinism I am looking into the question of technological determinism -- the idea that our technologies determine the shape and direction of our lives absolutely or to a large degree. This question turns out to be much more interesting and various than I had expected. I am persuaded by Raymond Williams' argument in Television: Technology and Cultural Form (1990/1974), which considers both poles of the determinism -- in his terms "technological determinism" and "determined technology". Both, he argues, are one-sided oversimplifications of limits set and pressures exerted, by people and their inventions, “within which variable social practices are profoundly affected but never necessarily controlled” (p. 133). That is, in a particular instance independence of humans and their technologies may be compromised but is never in principle ruled out. Within that case for a non-absolutist view, Robert Heilbroner's classic article "Do Machines Make History" (1967) and his revisiting of the topic in "Technological Determinism Revisited", both published in Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism, ed. Smith and Marx (MIT Press, 1994) provide additional refinements. And Thomas Misa's "How Machines Make History, and How Historians (and Others) Help Them to Do So", Science, Technology & Human Values 13.3/4: 308-31, related to Misa's piece in the Smith and Marx volume, "Retrieving Sociotechnical Change from Technological Determinism", helps to relativise determinism by showing how the arguments about it tend to vary by discipline and disciplinary specialism. (For example, as he argues, military historians tend, or perhaps tended, to favour strong determinism, I would suppose for the obvious reason that better hardware tends to win wars -- until, perhaps, the close, dirty wars now in progress demonstrated otherwise. Will they as a result become less deterministic?) Anyhow, does anyone here know of writings on the topic, with or without a view to computing, that it would be good for me to take a look at? Has anyone considered the deterministic argument for computing? Thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 13 09:17:45 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6393E4C5CD; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:17:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DAA344C5B8; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:17:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100313091742.DAA344C5B8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:17:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.703 events many & various X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 703. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andy Miah (28) Subject: Posthuman Lifestyles [2] From: Arianna Ciula (16) Subject: ESF-LiU Conference: Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures andGenerational Responsibility [3] From: Arianna Ciula (15) Subject: ESF Call for Exploratory Workshops now Open [4] From: "Tabata, Tomoji" (69) Subject: Event: Osaka Workshop on Digital Humanities [5] From: Peter Robinson (24) Subject: 2010 ESTS conference: Pisa and Florence, November 25-27 [6] From: Emily Cullen (31) Subject: HII / GII Joint Programme in Digital Humanities - Lecture & Seminarby Professor Michael Shanks (Stanford) 24 & 25 March 2010 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:51:45 +0000 From: Andy Miah Subject: Posthuman Lifestyles Dear All, Please find below info about a wee lecture I'm giving in a couple of weeks. It may appeal to some of you. We're hoping to live stream, but it'd be great to see some friendly faces from afar. Posthuman Lifestyles: Has the Future Arrived? Inaugural lecture of Professor Andy Miah University of the West of Scotland 23 March, 2010 @ the CCA, Glasgow, 6pm (arrivals) http://www.andymiah.net/2010/03/10/posthuman-lifestyles-has-the-future-arriv ed/ The year 2010 marks the 10-year anniversary of two technological revolutions ­ the genetic and the digital. It is also one of the most prominent years projected as Œthe future¹ in 20th century science fiction. Professor Miah¹s inaugural lecture will discuss his contribution to imagining the future and critiquing the present, by outlining the successes and failures of an emerging technological culture that marks the end of humanism. To register, please email marketing@uws.ac.uk or call 0141 848 3598 Map to venue: http://tiny.cc/fgAxS Best wishes, Andy PS: we do have limited space, so please get in touch with our marketing team, if you'd like to come. http://twitter.com/andymiah Professor Andy Miah, BA, MPhil, PhD | http://www.andymiah.net Chair of Ethics and Emerging Technologies Faculty of Business & Creative Industries, University of the West of Scotland, Ayr Campus, KA8 0SR, UK --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:17:19 +0100 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF-LiU Conference: Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures and Generational Responsibility ESF-LiU Conference: Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures and Generational Responsibility Linköping, Sweden, 6-10 September 2010 Closing date for applications: 1 May 2010 More information: www.esf.org/conferences/10316 "Paying Attention" concerns the politics, ethics and aesthetics of the attention economy. This is the social and technical milieu in which web native generations live much of their lives. It will address key questions like: What architectures of power are at work in the attention economy? How is it building new structures of experience? What kinds of value does this architecture produce? "Paying Attention" encourages dialogue between researchers from the fields of Cultural and New Media Studies, Education, Communications, Economics, Internet studies, Human Computer Interface Studies, Art and Design. It also seeks the input and insights of creative practitioners exploring critical and alternative uses of new media forms and technologies. == Dr. Arianna Ciula Science Officer European Science Foundation Humanities Unit 1 quai Lezay Marnésia BP 90015 F-67080 Strasbourg France Email: aciula@esf.org Tel: +33 (0) 388767104 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:22:18 +0100 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF Call for Exploratory Workshops now Open I am pleased to inform you that the 2010 Call for Exploratory Workshops proposals - aimed at events to be held in 2011 - is now available on the ESF website at http://www.esf.org/activities/exploratory-workshops.html. The deadline for submitting proposals is 29 April 2010. Each year, ESF supports approximately 50 Exploratory Workshops across all scientific domains. These small, interactive group sessions are aimed at opening up new directions in research to explore new fields with a potential impact on developments in science. The workshops, which usually last 1-3 days, have a wide participation from across Europe and involve mature scientists as well as young, independent researchers and scholars with leadership potential. The relatively small scale (in terms of people involved) provides an ideal platform for focus on the topic and for all participants to contribute to discussions and plan follow-up collaborative work. Interdisciplinary topics are greatly encouraged. == Dr. Arianna Ciula Science Officer European Science Foundation Humanities Unit 1 quai Lezay Marnésia BP 90015 F-67080 Strasbourg France Email: aciula@esf.org Tel: +33 (0) 388767104 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:05:27 +0900 From: "Tabata, Tomoji" Subject: Event: Osaka Workshop on Digital Humanities In-Reply-To: <20100312072416.4DDA64F265@woodward.joyent.us> 2010 Osaka Workshop on Digital Humanities Period: Saturday 20th--Monday 22nd March 2010 Venue: Graduate School of Language and Culture, Toyonaka Campus, University of Osaka =========================================== Flyer: English version http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~dhw2010/Osaka_Workshop_poster_Blue.pdf Flyer: Japanese version http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~dhw2010/Osaka_Workshop_poster_Blue_JP.pdf (Access map)| http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/access/index.html (Campus map)| http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/access/toyonaka.html Target Audience and the Aim of the Workshop =========================================== Computers are coming to play a steadily more prominent role in the various fields of modern scholarship, including literature, linguistics, cultural studies, history, and religious studies. The goal of this workshop is to raise awareness of how we can apply digital technologies in humanities studies. Lectures by invited speakers will provide a general introduction to the state of the art in digital humanities as well as excellent examples of computer-assisted text analysis and creation and management of humanities digital resources. Hands-on workshop exercises will provide an opportunity for participants to acquire practical skills by trying out some of the resources and techniques demonstrated in the lectures. Discussion sessions will be held to complement the lectures and workshops, through which participants will have a chance to receive expert advice on how to initiate and develop their own projects. Invited speakers =========================================== Harold Short, John Lavagnino, Gerhard Brey (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London) Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen（University of Oulu, Finland） Espen S. Ore（University of Oslo, Norway） Tomoji Tabata, Maki Miyake, Yu'ichiro Kobayashi (University of Osaka) Registering for the Workshop =========================================== Tuition fee: JPY 4,000 (including coffee/snack and teaching materials). A reduced rate of JPY 3,000 applies to students. To sign-up, send e-mail to dhw2010@lang.osaka-u.ac.jp with the following information. 1) Name 2) Affiliation 3) Contact: E-mail address 4) Operating System (OS) of your computer (e.g., Windows 7, Mac OS X, Windows XP, etc.) 5) The course to sign-up: A) Text analysis/Text mining or B) Digitization of scholarly humanities resources. Notes * All participants are advised to bring their own laptops. Wi-Fi internet connection will be available in the venue. * Unfortunately, we cannot offer accommodation for participants. But, [here are useful links for those who wish to find accommodation in Osaka.|http://www.hankyu-hotel.com/cgi-bin2/cms2/index_en.cgi?hid=23senrihh | http://www.holidaycityjapan.com/osakahotels/] Provisional Timetable =========================================== Sat. 20 March Core programme (common to Rooms 1 & 2): Plenary introduction to ditigal humanities: Time Contents 12:00-- Registration 13:00--13:15 Opening 13:15--14:15 Harold Short (King's), Digital Humanities: Introduction and Overview 14:20--15:20 Espen S. Ore (Oslo), Digitisation, databases and text encoding 15:20--15:50 Coffee Break 15:50--16:50 Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen（Oulu), Text corpora / literary and linguistic analysis 17:00--18:00 John Lavagnino and Gerhard Brey (King's), Manuscripts and digital editions Sun. 21 March Parallel sessions ◦ Room 1: Text analysis/Text mining ▪ Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen, Gerhard Brey, Tomoji Tabata, and Maki Miyake ◦ Room 2: Digital database/Digitization of cultural heritage ▪ Espen Ore, Kiyonori Nagasaki, and John Lavagnino Time Contents 10:00--12:00 Session 1 (Core Programme) Lecture & hands-on exercises 12:00--13:30 Lunch 13:30--15:30 Session 2 Lecture & hands-on exercises 16:00--18:00 Session 3 Lecture & hands-on exercises Mon. 22 March Parallel sessions & Common programme ◦ Room 1: Text analysis/Text mining ▪ Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen, Tomoji Tabata and Yu'ichiro Kobayashi ◦ Room 2: Digital database/Digitization of cultural heritage ▪ Espen Ore, Kiyonori Nagasaki, and John Lavagnino Time Contents 09:30--10:50 Session 4 Advanced exercises 11:10--12:30 Session 5 Advanced exercises 12:30--14:00 Lunch 14:00--15:30 Session 6 15:30 Closing =========================================== 2010 Osaka Workshop on Digital Humanities Organizing Team Contact/Queries: dhw2010@lang.osaka-u.ac.jp --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:53:34 +0000 From: Peter Robinson Subject: 2010 ESTS conference: Pisa and Florence, November 25-27 In-Reply-To: <20100312072416.4DDA64F265@woodward.joyent.us> Dear everyone We have pleasure in announcing the call for papers for the 2010 conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, organized locally by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, where the Thursday and Friday sessions will be held, with the Saturday session hosted by the Società Dantesca Italiana, and held in the Palagio dell'Arte della Lana, Florence. Further information, with submission dates for proposals, etc, is at http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ests2010 and http://www.textualscholarship.eu/conference-2010.html Best wishes Peter Robinson Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing Elmfield House, Selly Oak Campus University of Birmingham Edgbaston B29 6LG P.M.Robinson@bham.ac.uk p. +44 (0)121 4158441, f. +44 (0) 121 415 8376 www.itsee.bham.ac.uk --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:16:33 +0000 From: Emily Cullen Subject: HII / GII Joint Programme in Digital Humanities - Lecture & Seminarby Professor Michael Shanks (Stanford) 24 & 25 March 2010 In-Reply-To: <20100312072416.4DDA64F265@woodward.joyent.us> Professor Michael Shanks http://www.stanford.edu/%7Emshanks/ , Omar and Althea Dwyer Hoskins Professor of Classical Archaeology at Stanford University, a Visiting Professor as part of the joint HII / GII Programme in Digital Humanities, will visit UCD on 24 & 25 March 2010. He will participate in two events during his stay. Please forward details of these events to colleagues and students in your area. If you are interested in attending either event please email hii@ucd.ie to reserve a place. Wednesday 24 March 2010 – Guest Lecture: Digital Humanities: an archaeological prospect from Silicon Valley Venue: C108, Newman Building, Belfield Time: 3 p.m. Thursday 25 March 2010 – Seminar: Digital culture and the future of the Humanities Venue: H204, UCD Humanities Institute Seminar Room Time: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. / 1.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. Computation, information technology, digital media, and social software meet the Humanities. Institutional investment in the Digital Humanities is accelerating. Is this to be a new discipline? What of traditional forms of Humanistic scholarship? What are the implications of digital culture for the Academy? Professor Shanks will acknowledge new trends and ground a critique of digitally-enabled Humanities in a fresh perspective on humanistic scholarship since the eighteenth century, broadening the context from the Academy to cover new developments in digital culture, including social software, located and ubiquitous media, virtual worlds and Web 3.0. As an archaeologist, his focus is through memory practices and archives, long term historical trends, and cultural heritage, on issues such as cultural property, globalization and social justice, identity and documentation, and materiality/immateriality. Prof Shanks will argue that the key issues facing the contemporary Humanities are to do with the basic practices of that cultural sector typically called the public sphere. The forms of text, image, publication, dissemination, critique, commentary, and debate are achieving a fungibility that prompts a radical evaluation of how the Humanities address matters of common and pressing concern, requiring even an examination of the qualities of humane living. ________________________________ Michael Shanks is the Omar and Althea Dwyer Hoskins Professor of Classical Archaeology at Stanford University, the heart of Silicon Valley. He is a Director of Stanford Humanities Lab and is a founder of Stanford Strategy Studio. His lab in Stanford Archaeology Center is called Metamedia. Michael has worked on the archaeology of early farmers in northern Europe, Greek cities in the Mediterranean, has researched the design of beer cans, and the future of mobile media for Daimler Chrysler; currently he is exploring the English borders with Scotland with new excavations of the Roman town of Binchester, and investigating the Anglo-American antiquarian tradition as a key to a fresh view of the early history of science. His lab at Stanford, Metamedia, is pioneering the use of Web 2.0 technologies to facilitate collaborative multidisciplinary research networks in design history, media materialities and long-term historical trends. This comes after a long collaboration with the European performance company Brith Gof and with performance artists in an international collaborative research project - the Presence Project - arts practice in multimedia. As a Director of Stanford Humanities Lab, he has championed experimental research and development in transdisciplinary Arts and Humanities, building bridges to a bigger picture on our contemporary cultural condition. A key theme in his current lab projects is the future of The Archive. A series of critical interventions in debates about the character of the archaeological past, including the books ReConstructing Archaeology (1987), Social Theory and Archaeology (1987), Experiencing the Past (1992), Art and the Early Greek State (1999) and Theatre/Archaeology (2001) have made him a key figure in contemporary archaeological thought. For Michael, archaeologists do not discover the past; they work on what remains. Archaeology, the discipline of things, design and making, is about our relationships with what is left of the past. This means we are all archaeologists now; cultural heritage lies at the core of who we think we are, and how we might respond to the challenges of today and tomorrow. ________________________________ -- Emily Cullen, Ph.D., Programme Co-ordinator Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2 Ireland Tel:+353(0)1-2342442 Fax:+353(0)1-2342400 E-mail: e.cullen@ria.ie http://dho.ie -- -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 15 06:00:41 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CCA94FE49; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:00:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E2AD14FE2B; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:00:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100315060034.E2AD14FE2B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:00:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.704 technological determinism X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 704. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Michael Truscello" (19) Subject: technological determinism [2] From: Ryan Shaw (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.702 technological determinism? [3] From: "Holly C. Shulman" (79) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.702 technological determinism? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:16:46 -0500 From: "Michael Truscello" Subject: technological determinism Willard, The classic text on technological determinism in my view is Langdon Winner's Autonomous Technology. Also see the often reprinted article "Do artifacts have politics?" Selected articles a.. "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" in Daedalus, Vol. 109, No. 1, Winter 1980. Reprinted in The Social Shaping of Technology, edited by Donald A. MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman (London: Open University Press, 1985; second edition 1999). a.. "Social Constructivism: Opening the Black Box and Finding It Empty," Science as Culture, Vol. 3, part 3, no. 16, pp. 427-452. a.. "How Technology Reweaves the Fabric of Society," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 39, Issue 48, August 4, 1993, pp. B1-B3. Selected books a.. Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought, M.I.T. Press, 1977. (ISBN 978-0262730495) a.. The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, University of Chicago Press, 1986. (ISBN 978-0226902111) a.. Technology and Democracy, (editor), Dordrecht and Boston: Reidel/Kluwer, 1992. a.. Technology and Democracy: Technology in the Public Sphere, co-edited with Andrew Feenberg and Torben Hviid Nielsen, Oslo: Center for Technology and Culture, 1997. Michael Truscello, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3C5 (519) 884-1970 x 2501 mtruscello@wlu.ca --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:44:55 -0800 From: Ryan Shaw Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.702 technological determinism? In-Reply-To: <20100313091451.D6EA84C549@woodward.joyent.us> > Anyhow, does anyone here know of writings on the topic, with or without > a view to computing, that it would be good for me to take a look at? Has > anyone considered the deterministic argument for computing? Langdon Winner, "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" Daedalus, Vol. 109, No. 1, Modern Technology: Problem or Opportunity? (Winter, 1980), pp. 121-136 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652 Gene Rochlin. 1997. Trapped in the net: the unanticipated consequences of computerization. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35331317 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:27 -0400 From: "Holly C. Shulman" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.702 technological determinism? In-Reply-To: <20100313091451.D6EA84C549@woodward.joyent.us> Take a look at Michael Schudson, Discovering the News. It's old, but very good. Holly Shulman -- Holly C. Shulman Editor, Dolley Madison Digital Edition Founding Director, Documents Compass Research Professor, Department of History University of Virginia 434-243-8881 hcs8n@virginia.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 15 06:07:53 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D2B4FF6C; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:07:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3D98A4FF5A; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:07:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: 23.705 cfp: Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100315060751.3D98A4FF5A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:07:51 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 705. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:40:34 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: cfp: Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture Appel de textes / Call for papers À l’ère du numérique et de cette « Troisième révolution du livre » qui touche tant les supports que les pratiques et les agents, la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales s’adapte elle aussi aux changements technologiques et emprunte de nouveaux canaux de diffusion. Les sites Internet et les listes de diffusion se multiplient : pensons à SOCIUS, liste consacrée à la sociologie de la littérature et à l’histoire culturelle, ou au site d’information Fabula.org. De même, le nombre de revues qui ajoutent une version numérique à la publication papier ou qui d’emblée optent uniquement pour la diffusion électronique ne cesse de croître, un phénomène qui se mesure entre autres au succès des portails spécialisés Érudit et Revues.org. La recherche en histoire du livre suit aussi la tendance, le site Internet et la liste de diffusion de la Society for the History of Autorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) en étant des exemples probants. Accueillant chaque jour des centaines d’usagers, SHARP-Web est devenu un lieu incontournable où trouver de l’information, nouer des relations, savoir ce qui se passe dans le petit monde des historiens du livre. En France, le site de l’Institut d’histoire du livre, qui a pour partenaires l’ENSSIB et le Musée de l’imprimerie de Lyon, joue un rôle similaire. Ironiquement, l’histoire du livre semble néanmoins résister encore à la publication électronique, du moins dans le monde francophone. Si l’on trouve parfois des textes et des articles sur des sites personnels ou institutionnels, aucune revue spécialisée n’a encore vu le jour. C’est pour pallier ce manque que avons lancé Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture. Dédiée à la diffusion de travaux d’histoire du livre, Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture accueille des études portant sur tous les supports de l’écrit, du manuscrit à l’écran, en passant par l’imprimé. La perspective historique n’exclut pas ici les recherches portant sur des phénomènes contemporains, envisagés sous l’angle de la sociologie, de la bibliothéconomie, de la statistique et de l’analyse des professions. Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture privilégie plutôt l’interdisciplinarité et le décloisonnement des objets. En réalité, Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture entend s’ouvrir à tous les corpus et à toutes les approches qui permettent de mieux comprendre le système-livre, le mot « livre » étant pris ici dans son sens le plus large. Les articles, comptant de 15 et 25 pages, doivent être accompagnés d’un résumé en français et d’un résumé en anglais d’environ 150 mots maximum. Les textes doivent également comprendre une brève notice biographique de 150 mots maximum et être envoyés avant le 30 avril (pour le numéro d’automne) ou avant le 30 octobre (pour le numéro du printemps) à Marie-Pier.Luneau@USherbrooke.ca. Les articles qui auront reçu l’approbation du comité scientifique pourront être publiés, hors thème, dans la rubrique « Varia » de la revue. Prière de consulter le protocole de rédaction de la revue, disponible à l’adresse suivante : http://www.erudit.org/revue/documentation/protocoleRedacMEMOIRES.pdf. Version anglaise : In this era of the “Third Book Revolution,” where digitization influences not only the various print media but also many of the practices and people involved in the field of textual production, research in the social sciences and humanities is adapting to technological change, and taking advantage of the new means of transmitting and circulating ideas. The number of websites and discussion lists is growing everyday: SOCIUS, a list devoted to the sociology of literature and to cultural history, and the information web site Fabula.org, are only a few examples. Furthermore, several academic journals now appear in digital as well as print formats, while others have opted for electronic distribution only. This phenomenon can be observed by the success of specialized portals such as Érudit and Revues.org. Research in book history is following suit. The website and dissemination list created by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (sharpweb.org and SHARP-L) is host to hundreds of users every day; these resources have become essential for acquiring information, creating networks between researchers, and for staying up-to-date on new developments of the small world of book historians. In France, the website created by the Institut d’histoire du livre, which counts among its partners the ENSSIB and the Musée de l’imprimerie de Lyon (Lyon’s Museum of Print), plays a similar role. Despite these innovations, however, the field of book history has largely resisted the transition to on-line publication (at least in the Francophone world). Although specific essays and articles can be found on personal or institutional websites, no specialized on-line academic journal has yet been created. In order to compensate for this lack of a valuable resource, we have launched Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture. Dedicated to the dissemination of research in the history and culture of the book, Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture welcomes studies pertaining to all types of media for the written word, from manuscript to print to the screen. Our historical perspective broadens to include research on contemporary phenomena undertaken from a sociological point of view, whether in library and information studies, statistics, or an analysis of the various trades related to the book world. Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture generally aims for interdisciplinarity and for crossing boundaries among the various fields related to book history. Indeed, Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture is open to all genres and approaches that will provide insight on the “book-system”, the word “book” being understood in all possible meanings. Articles should be 15 to 25 pages in length and must be accompanied by a summary in French and in English, each 150 words maximum. Articles must also be accompanied by a brief biographical notice, 150 words maximum, and be sent no later than April 30 (for the fall edition) or before October 30 (for the spring edition) to Marie-Pier.Luneau@USherbrooke.ca. Articles approved by the editorial board will be considered for publication, off topic, under the “Varia” rubric. Please consult “Instructions to Authors for the Presentation Format of Articles” available at: http://www.erudit.org/revue/documentation/guidelinesAuthorsMEMOIRES.pdf. Appel de textes / Call for papers Quatrième numéro, printemps 2011 « Le livre dans le livre : représentations, figurations, significations » Sous la direction de Caroline Paquette, Université de Sherbrooke et d’Anthony Glinœr, Université de Toronto La figure de l’écrivain dans la fiction a fait l’objet de plusieurs études dans les dernières décennies. Toutes posent à leur manière la question soulevée par André Belleau dans Le romancier fictif, paru en 1980 : « un personnage, du fait qu’il est écrivain, jouit-il d’un statut particulier dans l’histoire ? » Cette interrogation amorce la réflexion que nous souhaitons élargir à tous les métiers du livre. En effet, qu’en est-il des représentations de tous ces médiateurs – critique, éditeur, traducteur, libraire, agent, illustrateur, pour n’en nommer que quelques-uns – qui contribuent à mettre au monde, à faire passer et à légitimer le livre ? Autrement dit, comment s’organise, dans l’économie même de l’œuvre, la référence aux acteurs du « petit monde du livre », tel que le nomment Lucien Febvre et Henri-Jean Martin dans L’apparition du livre en 1958 ? Et que dire de l’objet-livre lui-même, dont les multiples occurrences dans la fiction témoignent du rôle qu’il joue dans l’univers social, réel ou fictif ? Ce numéro de Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture vise à examiner comment se déploient le livre et les métiers du livre dans les œuvres fictionnelles (poésie, roman, théâtre, chanson), toutes époques et tous corpus confondus. Les articles pourront relever de l’histoire du livre et de l’édition, de la sociologie du littéraire ou encore de la sociocritique, mais privilégieront un questionnement méthodologique ouvert. Parmi les sujets qui pourront être abordés : le statut des médiateurs fictifs diffère-t-il en fonction du degré de légitimation de l’œuvre ? Comment les figures de l’éditeur et du libraire évoluent-elles au fil des transformations du champ littéraire et du capitalisme d’édition ? En quoi les mises en fiction du livre témoignent-elles de l’avènement des nouvelles technologies? La chanson reproduit-elle ce mythe de l’écrivain-génie inspiré, comme c’est souvent le cas en littérature ? Le livre est-il investi de sens particuliers selon le médium utilisé ? Quelles différences peut-on observer entre fiction et autofiction à cet égard ? Que nous apprennent les personnages du libraire et du bibliothécaire sur la société intratextuelle ? Dans la fiction, le critique littéraire est-il condamné à la dévalorisation ? Et qu’en est-il de ces métiers du livre aujourd’hui disparus – enlumineur, copiste, etc. –, tels que représentés dans Le nom de la rose d’Umberto Eco ? Les propositions d'articles, d'une vingtaine de lignes, devront parvenir avant le 1er mai 2010 par courriel à Caroline Paquette (Caroline.Paquette3@USherbrooke.ca), qui codirige ce numéro thématique avec Anthony Glinoer (Université de Toronto). Après évaluation par le comité de rédaction, une réponse sera donnée pour le 15 mai 2010. Les articles dont la proposition aura été acceptée devront être rendus pour le 15 octobre 2010. Ils seront alors soumis au comité de lecture, qui rendra un avis. La version définitive des textes sera à envoyer pour le 15 janvier 2011, la publication du dossier étant prévue pour le printemps 2011. Number Four, Spring 2011 “Books in Books: Representations, Roles, Meanings” Under the direction of Caroline Paquette, Université de Sherbrooke and Anthony Glinœr, University of Toronto The figure of the author in fiction has been the subject of several studies over the past decades. All of them pose, in their own way, the question raised by André Belleau in Le romancier fictif (1980): “when a character is an author does it enjoy a particular status?” The question invites an interrogation that we wish to extend to all aspects of the book. Indeed, what sort of representations are there of any or all of these mediators – critics, publishers, translators, bookstore owners, literary agents, illustrators, to name just a few – who contribute to delivering a book to the world, to promoting and to legitimizing it? In other words, how to organize, within the structure itself of the book, references to participants in what Lucien Febvre et Henri-Jean Martin, in L’apparition du livre (1958), refer to as the “little world of the book”? And what of the book-as-object itself, the many occurrences of which signal the role that it plays in the social, actual or fictive universe? This issue of Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture sets out to study how the book and its related professions are portrayed in works of fiction (poetry, novels, drama, lyrics), in a melding of eras and corpuses. Articles may be based on the history of the book and book-publishing, the sociology of literature or even social criticism, but will privilege a methodologically liberal interrogation process. Topics could include: does the status of fictional mediators change in relation to the degree of the book’s legitimization? How do the characters of publishers and bookstore owners change in books as the literary field and publishing capitalism evolve? In what ways does the representation of books in books signal the advent of new technologies? Do lyrics reproduce this myth of the inspired writer-genius, as is often the case in literature? Is the book invested with specific meanings depending on the medium used? What differences can be observed between fiction and auto-fiction in this regard? What do bookstore owners and librarians as characters teach us about intra-textual society? In fiction, is the literary critic condemned to deprecation? And what of those book professions that have today disappeared – illuminators, transcribers, etc. – such as those represented in Le nom de la rose by Umberto Eco? Article proposals approximately twenty lines in length should be emailed before May 1, 2010 to Caroline Paquette (Caroline.Paquette3@USherbrooke.ca), co-director of this special number together with Anthony Glinoer (University de Toronto). A response will be given by May 15, 2010 following evaluation of the proposal by the editing committee. Proposed articles that have been accepted must be submitted by October 15, 2010. They will then be reviewed by a reading committee who will give their comments. The final version of the articles is to be sent by January 15, 2011 for publication in spring 2011. Marie-Pier Luneau Département des lettres et communications Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines Université de Sherbrooke J1K 2R1 819-821-8000 poste 62237 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 15 06:08:54 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E914FF9B; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:08:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 70D1E4FF91; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:08:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100315060852.70D1E4FF91@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:08:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.706 events: textual scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 706. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:53:34 +0000 From: Peter Robinson Subject: 2010 ESTS conference: Pisa and Florence, November 25-27 Dear everyone We have pleasure in announcing the call for papers for the 2010 conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, organized locally by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, where the Thursday and Friday sessions will be held, with the Saturday session hosted by the Società Dantesca Italiana, and held in the Palagio dell'Arte della Lana, Florence. Further information, with submission dates for proposals, etc, is at http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ests2010 and http://www.textualscholarship.eu/conference-2010.html Best wishes Peter Robinson Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing Elmfield House, Selly Oak Campus University of Birmingham Edgbaston B29 6LG P.M.Robinson@bham.ac.uk p. +44 (0)121 4158441, f. +44 (0) 121 415 8376 www.itsee.bham.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 16 06:46:46 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20D8E50A5A; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:46:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3E75550A52; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:46:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100316064644.3E75550A52@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:46:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.707 technological determinism X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 707. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Timothy Webmoor (71) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.702 technological determinism? [2] From: (76) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.702 technological determinism? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:40:27 +0000 From: Timothy Webmoor Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.702 technological determinism? In-Reply-To: <20100313091451.D6EA84C549@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, there are several fields within Science and Technology Studies that considered the complex interplay between technology and society. I pass along references to some of the key works within SCOT ('social construction of technology'), SST ('social shaping of technology'), and Actor-Network Theory (ANT). (There are also the influential and early studies by Lewis Mumford, especially The Myth of the Machine and the concept of the "megamachine," and Elizabeth Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change.) MacKenzie, Donald and Judy Wajcman (eds.) 1999. The Social Shaping of Technology. Buckingham: Open University Press. Law, John (ed.) 1991. A Sociology of Monsters: essays on power, technology and domination. London: Routledge. (esp. essays by Woolgar, Latour and Callon) Bijker, Wiebe, and John Law (eds.) 1992. Shaping Technology/Building Society: studies in sociotechnical change. Cambrdige, MA: MIT Press. Woolgar, Steve and Keith Grint 1997. The Machine at Work. Cambridge: Polity Press. Within STS the discussion has largely moved on. There is still very much a currency, though, to the notion of 'social shaping'. I'm reminded of an event happening today at my institute subtitled "the role of technology in reshaping society." http://sbs-xnet.sbs.ox.ac.uk/complexity/complexity_ICTeCollective.asp Best Regards, Tim - Timothy Webmoor Research Fellow in STS Institute for Science, Innovation and Society University of Oxford tel: +44 (0) 1865 278819 mail: timothy.webmoor@sbs.ox.ac.uk web: users.ox.ac.uk/~mast2749 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mast2749 video: iChat, Google, Skype --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:02:04 +0000 From: Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.702 technological determinism? In-Reply-To: <20100313091451.D6EA84C549@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Willard, You might have a look at the work of Rob Kling: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/rob-kling-bibliography Tamara _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 17 06:42:00 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2019550C0F; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:42:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BC1C650BF8; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:41:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100317064157.BC1C650BF8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:41:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.708 new on WWW: D-Lib for March/April X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 708. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:07:31 +0000 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The March/April 2010 issue of D-LIb Magazine isnow available Greetings: The March/April issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, one opinion piece and one conference report, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features the WADP Numbering System (a postal stamp website and database), courtesy of Ujwala Nawlakhe, Library Intern, Sarwajanik Wachanalaya, Bhandara, India; Sulbha Thengadi, LIS Post Graduate, Waijeshwar ward, Pauni, District Bhandara, India; and Anil Nawlakhe, Lecturer in Physics, J.M.Patel College, Bhandara, India.. The articles include: Realizing and Maintaining Aggregative Digital Library Systems: D-NET Software Toolkit and OAIster System by Paolo Manghi, Marko Mikulicic, Leonardo Candela, Donatella Castelli and Pasquale Pagano, Instituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo", Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Using Omeka to Build Digital Collections: The METRO Case Study by Jason Kucsma, Metropolitan New York Library Council, and Kevin Reiss and Angela Sidman, City University of New York Museum Data Exchange: Learning How to Share by Gunter Waibel, Ralph LeVan and Bruce Washburn, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Crowdsourcing: How and Why Should Libraries Do It? by Rose Holley, National Library of Australia The opinion piece is: An Approach to Open Access Author Payment by Donald W. King, University of North Carolina The Conference Report is: Berlin 7: Open Access Reaching Diverse Communities by Elena Giglia, University of Turin D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the March/April 2010 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. There is a delay between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson Contributing Editor D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 17 06:44:41 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A24CD50C8B; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:44:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6390250C7C; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:44:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100317064438.6390250C7C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:44:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.709 events: ICTs & Society X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 709. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:36:13 +0000 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: Third International Meeting of the ICTs-and-Society Network: Perspectives and Challenges Call for contribution and participation Third International Meeting of the ICTs-and-Society Network: “Perspectives and Challenges” The annual meeting of the ICTs-and-Society Network 2010 is hosted by the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in Barcelona, Spain and supported by the University of Salzburg, Austria. This meeting is as open to everyone engaged in ICTs-and-Society research and related fields – whether you are a senior researcher or a PhD candidate – as the network is open itself. The ICTs-and-Society network provides a forum for taking a step back, questioning why you research what by which means and a platform to discuss with like-minded people. Theannual meeting offers a space where these people can meet personally every year. The topics of the network revolve around • the impact of our research on society, • our basic concepts and our background theories, • and our use of methodologies and may include but are not restricted to: • Normative Research and Meaningful Technology; • Critical Internet Theory; • ICTs and Society – A New Transdiscipline? • Communities of Action – From Message to Movement • Challenges and Problems of Empirical Research; • Towards a Science of Information, Information Society and Information Technology; • How to Reconcile Technology and Society in Curricula; • The Future of the Network: ICTs-and-Society Network quo vadis? Since the meeting is to facilitate self-organisation of researchers for the sake of self-reflection of the field, the format of the meeting will differ from a traditional paper presentation conference. • You are encouraged to suggest panels or round tables or other formats around the issues at stake. As usual, a session will last 90 minutes. We welcome your suggestions before April 15, 2010. • If you prefer to write a paper, you are free to do so and invited to submit it to tripleC. Please send an abstract before the end of the deadline on 15 April 2010 to Wolfgang Hofkirchner at wolfgang.hofkirchner@sbg.ac.at. We will notify you before April 30, 2010. We will assign your paper to an appropriate session where you will be included as panelist or round table participant or else. The first day of the meeting (June 30, 2010) will be shaped by PhD candidates’ presentations only. If you are a student and want to present, please submit a PhD concept. Be aware that your paper should not only deal with your dissertation thesis, but will be evaluated against the criteria of how you reflect the problems of the field as indicated above. Nine papers will be selected. A schedule of the network meeting is available at http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/schedule. Please adjust your contribution to one or more of the mentioned sessions, and/or suggest a new topic. Besides the scheduled programme, the meeting will provide ample space and time for ad-hoc working groups, informal and formal discussion groups and networking. Speakers Juliet Webster (Work and Equality Research, London, UK) William Dutton (Oxford Internet Institute, UK) Please have a look at the website at http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/ which will be updated on a regular basis. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 21 15:24:05 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 024485B72; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:24:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 20DC55B39; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:24:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100321152403.20DC55B39@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:24:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.710 technological determinism X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 710. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:32:21 -0400 From: Oya Yildirim Rieger Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.707 technological determinism In-Reply-To: <20100316064644.3E75550A52@woodward.joyent.us> Hi All - My dissertation, which is almost finished, uses Kling's social informatics framework to explore how humanities scholars are using information and communication technologies in facilitating their work. One of the underlying themes is assessing the role of technological determinism in defining the transformative role of technologies on scholars' research methods and collaboration styles. I'll be glad to share the paper with anyone who is interested in looking at it. Regards, Oya Oya Y. Rieger Associate University Librarian for Information Technologies Cornell University Library Department of Communication- Human Computer Interaction, Ph.D. Candidate Cornell University http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/rieger _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 21 15:25:46 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D616A5BEB; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:25:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 05F5A5BE4; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:25:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100321152545.05F5A5BE4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:25:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.711 jobs: PhD studentship; project officer X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 711. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "John G. Keating" (23) Subject: An Foras Feasa - Project Officer Contract Position [2] From: Andrew Thacker (17) Subject: PhD Scholarship in Modernist Magazines De Montfort University --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:02:11 +0000 From: "John G. Keating" Subject: An Foras Feasa - Project Officer Contract Position An Foras Feasa: the Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions is a consortium of four partner institutions: NUI Maynooth, St Patrick's College Drumcondra, Dundalk Institute of Technology and Dublin City University. An Foras Feasa (AFF) supports individual and collaborative research projects in the areas of Humanities and Technology, and represents a unique contribution of traditional knowledge and dynamic innovation. Under its 'Humanities, Technology, Innovation' project, the following four project streams constitute AFF's current research priorities: o ICT Innovation and Digital Humanities:; o Multiculturalism and Multilingualism: Textual Analysis and Linguistic Change; o Ireland and Europe: Creating an International Data Archive; o Cultural Heritage, Social Capital and the Role of Interactive Digital Media. Following its success in the HEA's Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions, Cycle 4, as part of the national research platform Humanities Serving Irish Society, An Foras Feasa invites applications for a Project Officer (Education and Development), fifteen month post, based at NUI Maynooth. For details of main responsibilities and essential requirements, see http://humanresources.nuim.ie/vacancies.shtml Salary range: Euro 36,643-42,663 (5 Points) depending on relevant qualifications and experience. Intended commencement date: April/May 2010. For an informal discussion about the position you are welcome to contact: Professor Margaret Kelleher, Director, An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth. E-mail: foras.feasa@nuim.ie. Tel: 353 (0)1 708 3451/ 708 6173 >>> 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@nuim.ie Tel: +353 1 708 3854 FAX: +353 1 708 4797 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:54:05 +0000 From: Andrew Thacker Subject: PhD Scholarship in Modernist Magazines De Montfort University A fully-funded PhD studentship at De Montfort University on the topic of 'The Textual Culture of Modernist Magazines' will shortly be advertised via findaphd.com and jobs.ac.uk on Monday 22nd March. Applications are due by 16th April. I have attached some further information. Please bring to the attention of anyone who may be interested. Any inquiries to Andrew Thacker (athacker@dmu.ac.uk). Professor Andrew Thacker Department of English De Montfort University Leicester LE1 9BH Director, Centre for Textual Studies http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/ http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/ Co-Director, AHRC funded Modernist Magazines Project http://modmags.cts.dmu.ac.uk/ http://modmags.cts.dmu.ac.uk/ Editor, Literature & History _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 21 15:27:08 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EAF55CC2; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:27:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CD6205CB9; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:27:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100321152706.CD6205CB9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:27:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.712 ACH mentoring X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 712. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:38:27 -0400 From: Stéfan Sinclair Subject: ACH Mentoring Dear colleagues, The Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH) has an ongoing mentoring programme. We try to match new scholars and practitioners in the digital humanities with mentors who can help provide advice and guidance. The potential benefits will vary depending on the individuals involved, but some of the objectives are as follows: * have new-comers to digital humanities meet more established professionals * allow broader networking between digital humanists * provide professional guidance about jobs and careers * provide additional discipline-specific advice Mentoring can take place virtually (email, etc.) or in person (at the Digital Humanities conference or elsewhere) and our annual activities usually culminate in two events at the Digital Humanities Conference (this year in London): * a mentoring mixer with all participants present (a casual meeting at a café or bar) * a jobs slam during the ACH annual general meeting (employers and prospective employees present themselves briefly) Participation in the mentoring programme is free and often fun! If you'd like to participate in the mentoring programme as a potential mentor or mentee, please email me (sgs at the domain mcmaster.ca) and provide the following information (you can also tweet me @sgsinclair): * are you a potential mentor or mentee? * what are your areas of expertise and experience * are you planning on attending DH2010 in London If you're a mentee, please feel free to describe in more detail what you would most value from a potential mentor. BTW, the ACH Jobs database is undergoing a transformation – in the meantime, we'd encourage potential job seekers to consult the following two excellent resources: http://www.arts-humanities.net/jobs http://www.hastac.org/forum/23 On behalf of the ACH Outreach Committee, Stéfan Sinclair http://ach.org/ -- [Please do not reply to this message as I use this address for communication that is susceptible to spambots. My regular email address starts with my user handle sgs and uses the domain name mcmaster.ca] -- Dr. Stéfan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address: TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://stefansinclair.name/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 21 15:31:56 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10ECC5FE6; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:31:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C09525FD5; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:31:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100321153154.C09525FD5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:31:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.713 events of many kinds X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 713. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: B Tommie Usdin (27) Subject: Reminder: Balisage papers due April 16 [2] From: Carl Vogel (73) Subject: StylisticsMMX -- extended deadline -- March 29, 2010 [3] From: "Bradley, John" (24) Subject: THATCamp and workshops at DH2010 [4] From: Bernie Frischer (79) Subject: Call for Papers: Cultural Tourism and Heritage track of TheMediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS) [5] From: Simon Dixon (17) Subject: Textual, Cartographical GIS: Queen Mary, 23 March [6] From: Susan Schreibman (27) Subject: Registration Open: DHO Workshops at NUIG --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:14:43 -0400 From: B Tommie Usdin Subject: Reminder: Balisage papers due April 16 Balisage 2010 Paper Submissions are Due April 16, 2010. Submissions to Balisage must be: * Full papers or very extensive draft papers * In XML, according to the Balisage tag set (a subset of DocBook V5 available in DTD, XSD, and RNG formats) * All new material (or previously presented only at small, local events; not previously published) * Received by 16 April 2010 Resources: * Call for Participation: http://www.balisage.net/Call4Participation.html * Submission Instructions: http://www.balisage.net/submissions.html * Tag Set and Instructions for authors: http://www.balisage.net/tagset.html * Online Tag Set Documentation: http://www.balisage.net/DocumentModels/BalisageTL/index.html -- ========================================================== B. Tommie Usdin mailto:btusdin@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Phone: 301/315-9631 Suite 207 Direct Line: 301/315-9634 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in XML and SGML --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:24:54 +0000 From: Carl Vogel Subject: StylisticsMMX -- extended deadline -- March 29, 2010 [apologies for multiple postings -- please alert relevant colleagues -- DEADLINE EXTENDED to MARCH 29, 2010] CALL FOR PAPERS -- StylisticsMMX European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2010 (ESSLLI 2010 Workshop): Computational Stylistics: Beyond concordances and grammar checkers Methods of automatic text classification have been applied widely and extensively, ranging in category granularity and with respect to both solely internal properties of texts and text-external variables. Coarse-grained categories include binary distinctions such as spam vs. non-spam and three-way sentiment analysis of positive, negative or neutral, and at the other extreme, fine grained categories might derive from authorship attribution tasks or translation re-ranking in machine translation. Recent studies have sought to relate internal linguistic features of texts with external variables, such as author gender or scores on personality indices. Approaches driven by statistics amassed over corpora are compatible with (and informed by) precision analyses over selected texts, as practiced widely in the digital humanities and some approaches to discourse representation theory. Neither the "macro" level analysis supplied by corpus linguistics nor the "micro" level analysis of individual texts is in any way new. However, the potential for their interaction, and for assessing supra-lexical linguistic features of texts within stylistic analysis is growing. The aim of this workshop is to highlight current work that advances and applies computational stylistics. Papers sought for presentation will address any of the topics related to the theme of the workshop, including: - relations between demographic and linguistic variables - reliability and validity of complexity and other indices - plot structure analysis - sentiment, theme and semantic relation analysis - dramatis personae analysis - tracking stylistic change - cross-cultural variations in effects Each of ten to fifteen presentations will have a tutorial element situating the problem and hypotheses explored, as well as spelling out the methods of analysis, followed by the main substance of the research findings. Thus, the workshop proposes pedagogical value appropriate to ESSLLI, at the same time as recording recent research advances. TIMELINE: Call for Papers -- November 15, 2009 Extended Submission Deadline -- *March 29, 2010* [extended from March 15] Notice of Acceptance or Rejection -- *April 20, 2010* [extended from April 15] Final Submissions -- May 15, 2010 ESSLLI2010 -- August 9-20, 2010 FORMATTING and SUBMISSION DETAILS: Final versions will be formatted using LaTeX via a style sheet made available here: http://www.cs.tcd.ie/research_groups/clg/StylisticsMMX Submit pdf of full papers not exceeding 12 pages (inclusive of bibliography and appendices) in 11 point text via EasyChair to: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stylisticsmm10 IMPORTANT NOTE about the European Summer School in Logic Language and Information: Authors of accepted papers to ESSLLI workshops must register as participants in the whole of ESSLLI, even if they intend to participate in only the week of ESSLLI in which the workshop is scheduled. Traditionally, presenters of papers accepted to workshops have been allowed to register with fees set at the student early-registration rate. Further details on ESSLLI 2010 are here: http://esslli2010cph.info/ StylisticsMMX Program Committee: Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp Patrick Juola, Duquesne University Fionn Murtagh, Science Foundation Ireland & Royal Holloway, University of London Harold Somers, Dublin City University/University of Manchester Sarah Rauchas, Goldsmiths, University of London Joseph Rudman, Carnegie Mellon University Carl Vogel [Chair], Trinity College Dublin --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:27:32 +0000 From: "Bradley, John" Subject: THATCamp and workshops at DH2010 Those planning to attend DH2010 might be interested in a series of extra events that are happening in the days immediately before the conference itself. (a) First, there are seven full- and half-day workshops that are scheduled for immediately before DH2010. All are also hosted at King's in the same building where DH2010 will occur. They are all free. You can read about them at the conference website page: http://dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk/academic-programme/pre-conference-workshops.html and register to attend one or more of them via the DH2010 conference registration system. (b) Second, there will be, for the first time, a THATCamp scheduled to occur with the Digital Humanities conference. THATCamps are user-generated "unconference" on digital humanities. The THATCamp idea has been developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, and THATCamp London is jointly sponsored by CHNM, CCH and CeRch at King's and ADHO. You can read more about the London THATCamp at: http://www.thatcamplondon.org/ and you can apply to attend via the THATCamp registration form. The deadline for the THATCamp application is 10 May, 2010. These events promise to further enrich what is already going to be an exciting experience at DH2010. I hope that many DH2010 attendees can join us for the workshops and the THATCamp too. --------------------------------------------- John Bradley Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Tel +44 (0)20 7848 2680 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:45:19 +0000 From: Bernie Frischer Subject: Call for Papers: Cultural Tourism and Heritage track of The Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS) Call for Papers Aims The Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS) aims to: * Inspire innovative and informative IS research that is relevant to the social, economic, and cultural particularities of the Mediterranean Region, * Foster ground breaking IS research to improve the quality of life in the Mediterranean Region through further development of the regional knowledgebase and its emerging collaboration infrastructure, * Raise the visibility of IS-related research, education, policy, and practice carried out in the Mediterranean Region Scope The organizers of MCIS 2010 aspire to bring together researchers, educators, policy makers and practitioners from the region for a high quality IS conference with solid academic and practitioner foundations. Conference Submissions (via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=mcis2010) The conference invites submissions on a broad range of IS themes relevant to IS research and education. Submissions with a focus on policy and practice in the Mediterranean region are especially welcome. Track on Cultural Tourism and Heritage * Oleg Missikoff, University of Perugia, Italy, co-chair * Bernard Frischer, University of Virginia, USA, co-chair All over the world, domain of Cultural Heritage and Tourism is rethinking its rationale and methods, partly in response to the recent financial crisis. The socio-economic context in which cultural institutions operate has dramatically changed, and the pressure for downsizing and restructuring is increasing. In order to produce results, restructuring must affect most aspects of a cultural institution from the definition of the mission itself to inner organizational configuration, from human resources to management of customer relations, from technological solutions to marketing and promotion. Two factors are particularly important: (i) the need to raise financial resources independent of public funding, and (ii) the increasing request for high quality, value-added contents and services for a clientele of cultural tourists that is ever more demanding and sophisticated. New approaches must integrate organizational models and technological solutions, customised for providing the various categories of CH institutions with the support they need to design a sustainable evolutionary roadmap and as well as a management model for successfully meeting the new challenges. The final goal is a transformation of cultural institutions into “state of art”, networked organisations, here defined as Cultural Service Providers (CSP). The itinerary of innovation will therefore proceed along three main lines: 1. Organizational models (designed for cultural institutions) 2. Technological solutions (supporting innovation and management activities) 3. Knowledge management and dissemination (by means of Domain Ontologies) The chosen approach is fully interdisciplinary and the epistemological basis includes cybernetics, cultural economics, and ontologies. An integration of contributions from these three fields of research, appropriately adapted to the characteristics of the CH and tourism domain, is essential for finding viable solutions for the complex scenario outlined above. Track chair: Oleg Missikoff , University of Perugia, Italy Track chair: Bernard Frischer, University of Virginia, USA Track reviewers: Valentina Albano, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy Francesco Barbini, University of Bologna, Italy Alessio Braccini, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy David Germano, University of Virginia, USA Gabriele Guidi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Jeffrey Jacobson, Public VR, USA Chris Johanson, UCLA, USA Jose Kozan, University of Cincinnati, USA Gunnar Liestøl, University of Oslo, Norway Daniël Pletinckx, Visual Dimension, Belgium Noah Snavely, Cornell University, USA Ana Almagro Vidal, Fundación Caja Madrid, Spain Léon Wennekes, Imagination, The Netherlands Patrik Wikstrom, Jönköping University, Sweden Best Paper Award A jury of senior scholars will select the best paper from those nominated for the award by track chairs. Journal Outlets Selected papers will be considered for publication by a number of academic publications (e.g., IJDAR, IJESMA, BISE). Agreements with the editors are in progress and more information will be available soon. Proceedings Conference Proceedings will be published online. The proceedings (ISBN 978-965-555-474-8) will be listed in major citation databases such as EBSCO, ABSInform, etc. Submission of a paper to the conference represents the author’s agreement to allow AIS to publish the paper in any written or electronic format for distribution to all interested parties in perpetuity with or without compensation to AIS and without compensation to the author. The parties understand that the author is granting a nonexclusive license and all copyrights remain the property of the author. Please address any questions to PROCEEDINGS EDITOR Angela Sansonetti, asansonetti@luiss.it . Types of Contributions MCIS2010 solicits the following types of contributions (in English): * Full research papers (7–12 pages) * Extended abstracts and short researchin- progress papers (3–7 pages) * Research and Teaching Case studies (7–12 pages) * Workshop proposals (2–3 pages) * Panel proposals (2–3 pages) * PPosition statements from junior faculty members for the consortium (3–7 pages) * Dissertation proposal abstracts from doctoral students for the consortium (3–7 pages) Important Due Dates Deadline for all submissions: May 1, 2010 Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2010 Camera-ready versions: July 15, 2010 -- Bernard Frischer www.frischerconsulting.com/frischer 130 Terrell Road East Charlottesville, Virginia home tel.: +1-434-971-1435 cell: +1-310-266-0183 ------------------------------- Via F. Ozanam 75 00152 Rome Italy Italian cell: +39-349-473-6590 Rome tel.: +39-06-537-3951 --------------------------------- Skype: bernard.frischer --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:15:57 +0000 From: Simon Dixon Subject: Textual, Cartographical GIS: Queen Mary, 23 March ‘Textual, Cartographical & Digital Space: The Literary GIS’ Ian Gregory and David Cooper (Lancaster University) The second meeting of the London Digital Humanities Group will take place in the Lock-keepers Cottage, Mile End Campus, Queen Mary, University of London on Tuesday 23 March at 5pm. Ian Gregory and David Cooper's paper will seek to expand the conceptual possibilities opened up by the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology through an exploration of the theoretical potentiality of the literary GIS. Drawing upon the work carried out as part of the British Academy-funded interdisciplinary project, ‘Mapping the Lakes’, the paper will focus on the ways in which GIS can be used to explore the spatial intersections of, and distinctions between, two textual accounts of tours of the English Lake District: the proto-Picturesque journey through the region undertaken by the poet, Thomas Gray, in the autumn of 1769; and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s self-consciously post-Picturesque ‘circumcursion’ of August 1802. Alongside this text-specific focus, the paper will also draw upon recent spatial literary criticism to reflect, more generally, upon the critical possibilities and problems associated with the digital mapping of the literature of place and space. Ultimately, the paper will seek to open up methodological and critical space for the ongoing development of literary GIS. More particularly, it will argue that the use of GIS technology needs to be embedded within a holistic conceptualisation of literary spatiality. For directions to Queen Mary, and to download a map of the campus, see http://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/campus/mileend/index.html. All are welcome to attend. For further information please contact me at s.dixon@qmul.ac.uk. -- Dr Simon Dixon Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dissenting Academies Project Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies Department of English and Drama Queen Mary, University of London http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams/people/index.html#dixon --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:25:27 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Registration Open: DHO Workshops at NUIG The DHO is pleased to offer a three-day series of workshops in collaboration with the Moore Institute, NUI, Galway. These will be of interest to humanities scholars who wish to learn about text encoding, manuscript encoding, and digital resources useful for research and teaching in Irish Studies. 'Text Encoding with the TEI' will offer two concurrent workshop strands in text encoding for both beginners and intermediate practitioners. These two-day courses entitled ‘From Text Encoding to Digital Publishing’ and ‘TEI for Handwritten Texts’ will run on Wednesday, 7th and Thursday, 8th April. Both will focus on the theories and practicalities of creating electronic scholarly editions utilising the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines, the standard in the field. They will be led by experts in the field of text encoding: Dr. Susan Schreibman, Mr. Kevin Hawkins, Dr. Malte Rehbein and Dr. Justin Tonra. Registration is required to participate in these workshops. ‘Using Digital Resources for Research and Teaching in Irish Studies’, which will take place on Friday, 9th April, will offer two half-day sessions . Participants may register for one or both of the workshops. The morning session, 'Integrating Digital Content into Teaching Practices' will focus on how one can integrate the wealth of primary and secondary resources now available into the field of Irish Studies in the classroom. The afternoon session, 'New Research Practices using Digital Content' will introduce participants to a number of freely available tools to transform and, indeed, deform data to discover new patterns, new themes, and new insights. For more information and instructions on how to register for the above events, please follow the links below to their respective event pages. Please note that places are free but limited. They will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis numbers so early registration is advised. Text Encoding with the TEI: http://dho.ie/node/679 Using Digital Resources for Research & Teaching in Irish Studies: http://dho.ie/node/680 -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory Pembroke House 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Email: susan.schreibman@gmail.com Email: s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 22 07:59:49 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E07254172; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:59:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D028054164; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:59:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100322075945.D028054164@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:59:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.714 PhD studentships at Trinity College Dublin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 714. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:21:13 +0000 From: Carl Vogel Subject: 2 PhD Positions in Text Analysis and Speech Synthesis, Trinity College Dublin [Apologies for multiple postings; please circulate as appropriate.] 2 Phd Positions involving speech and text analysis are open within TCD. http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/ The bursaries include payment of fees, some research costs, and a stipend of 16K per annum. The funding covers four years of study within a structured PhD program. This funding is equivalent to that provided by IRCSET awards. Position 1: Speaking the 1641 Depositions This innovative project under the theme of "Digital Humanities and Sustainable Records" will attract candidates who are interested in independent and advanced research linking speech synthesis and important historical documents. It will involve application of advanced linguistic and statistical methods, using the latest tools and technologies, for the analysis and rendering into speech of large bodies of annotated historical text. The project will last for four years and research costs, a stipend, and coverage of fees, etc., will be offered. Successful applicants will have a background in either history or computing. They will have keen analytical skills and will join a small team of researchers with similar interests in the way people speak and present information. They will be especially interested in expressing personality through speech synthesis, and in attempting to render historical texts in order to express character through the synthesised voices. Further details: http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/ Apply for course: www.pac.ie/tcd (code -- TRB01) Position 2: Technology for harmonising interpersonal communication We explore how contemporary modes of interaction, typically at a distance via electronic devices, can be supplemented to support the sorts of information flow and inference that evolution has endowed humans sensitivity to in face-to-face communications. The research entails that various prototype applications be constructed, deployed and analyzed. A successful candidate will have demonstrable expertise in computer programming, preferably with experience of end-user application delivery. The candidate will be engaged in the delivery of software alongside performance of quantitative and qualitative analysis of linguistic data. The background research topic is in discerning sentiment and other non-propositional content of textual communications (such as text messages) and projecting the same through appropriate vocal synthesis. Prior expertise in text and dialogue analysis as well as speech synthesis will be an advantage. Candidates should be comfortable with computational theoretical frameworks for syntax and formal semantics, as well as statistically oriented approaches to language analysis. Further details: http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/ Apply for course: www.pac.ie/tcd (code -- TRB08) ---------------------- Closing date for applications: Friday 9th April 2010 Applications should be made online through www.pac.ie/tcd _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 23 06:07:46 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9F451DC; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:07:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A1A6151B5; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:07:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100323060743.A1A6151B5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:07:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.715 new publication: DS/CN 1.3: Bridging Communities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 715. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:01:21 -0700 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Announcing DS/CN 1.3: Bridging Communities in Digital Scholarship Announcing Digital Studies / Le champ numérique 1.3 (2009) Bridging Communities in Digital Scholarship Brent Nelson, editor (http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies/issue/current) Contents Introduction: Bridging Communities Brent Nelson CARAT-Computer-Assisted Reading and Analysis of Texts: The Appropriation of a Technology Jean-Guy Meunier Poetic Waveforms, Discrete Fourier Transform Analysis of Phonemic Accumulations, and Love in the Garden of Tennyson's Maud Marc R Plamondon Putting Humpty Together Again: Otto Ege's Scattered Leaves Peter Stoicheff dis-Covering the Early Modern Book: An Experiment in Humanities Computing Richard Cunningham Visualizing Repetition in Text Stan Ruecker, Milena Radzikowska, Piotr Michura, Carlos Fiorentino, Tanya Clement Searching with Sathan: The English Witch's Familiar as Interface Model Kirsten C. Uszkalo, Susan Liepert _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 23 06:09:21 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 193A1543B; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:09:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0F190542D; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:09:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100323060920.0F190542D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:09:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.716 call for nominations: dissertation prize X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 716. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:23:11 +0000 From: Richard Moot Subject: E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2010 call for nominations E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2010 call for nominations Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic, Language, and Information, http://www.folli.org) awards the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. We invite submissions for the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. degree in the year 2009. The dissertations will be judged on technical depth and strength, originality, and impact made in at least two of three fields of Logic, Language, and Computation. Interdisciplinarity is an important feature of the theses competing for the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize. Who qualifies. Nominations of candidates are admitted who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2009 and December 31st, 2009. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the Ph.D. was granted. After a careful consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written in English. Dissertations produced in 2009 but not written in English or not translated will be allowed for submission, after translation, also with the call next year (for 2010). The present call for nominations for the E.W. Beth Dissertation Award 2010 will also accept nominations of full English translations of theses originally written in another language than English and defended in 2008 or 2009. Prize. The prize consists of: -a certificate -a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E.W. Beth Foundation -an invitation to submit the thesis (or a revised version of it) to the FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information (Springer). For further information on this series see the FoLLI site. How to submit. Only electronic submissions are accepted. The following documents are required: 1. The thesis in pdf or ps format (doc/rtf not accepted); 2. A ten page abstract of the dissertation in ascii or pdf format; 3. A letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor. Self-nominations are not admitted: each nomination must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor. The letter of nomination should concisely describe the scope and significance of the dissertation and state when the degree was officially awarded; 4. Two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. All documents must be submitted electronically to buszko@amu.edu.pl. Hard copy submissions are not admitted. In case of any problems with the email submission or a lack of notification within three working days, nominators should write to buszko@amu.edu.pl. Important dates: Deadline for Submissions: April 30, 2010.Notification of Decision: July 20, 2010. Committee : Natasha Alechina (Nottingham) Lev Beklemishev (Moscow) Wojciech Buszkowski (chair) (Poznan) Didier Caucal (IGM-CNRS) Nissim Francez (Haifa) Alexander Koller (Saarbruecken) Alberto Policriti (Udine) Ian Pratt-Hartmann (Manchester) Rob van der Sandt (Nijmegen) Colin Stirling (Edinburgh) Rineke Verbrugge (Groningen) Heinrich Wansing (Dresden) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 23 06:12:21 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F95858D4; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:12:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 16F095879; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:12:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100323061219.16F095879@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:12:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.717 events: ALLC elections; Culture, Design, Development X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 717. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Harold Short (14) Subject: Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) : 2010Elections [2] From: Jose Abdelnour-Nocera (22) Subject: Call for Posters - IWIPS 2010 Young Reseachers Session: Culture, Design, Development and Offshoring. --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:21:00 +0000 From: Harold Short Subject: Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) : 2010 Elections Dear Willard I'm writing to notify Humanist subscribers that the ALLC elections for 2010 are now under way. Those entitled to participate are current subscribers to LLC who chose either the 'Joint' or 'ALLC' membership options. This entitles the subscriber to make a nomination, to be nominated, and if an election is required, to vote. Nominations are now invited for three Committee posts, each to serve a 3-year term, and for one Committee post to serve a 2-year term (replacing Melissa Terras who was appointed Secretary by the Committee last year). Nominations are also invited for the role of Chair, one of the designated Officers of the Association. For the Officer positions, nominators and nominees must be current - i.e. 2010 - 'Joint' or 'ALLC' subscribers to LLC, but if there is more than one nomination, the the appointment of a new Chair, from among those nominated, will be made by the Committee at its July meeting in London, just prior to the DH2010 conference. Members should note that I will be stepping down as Chair, and would in any case be ineligible to stand again under the terms of the revised constitution. Full details of the election process are to be found on the ALLC website at www.allc.org. Nominations may be made using the form provided on the website, or by email, or by post. A copy of the Constitution is also available on the ALLC website. The nomination period has now begun and will run to the end of April. If there are more than four nominations for the Committee Member positions, voting will take place during May. Results will be announced, as specified by the constitution, at the Association's Annual General Meeting, which will take place during the DH2010 conference, on Thu 8 July 2010. All nominations require the support of two Joint or ALLC members - in effect a proposer and seconder - and the written consent of the nominee. Note that self-nomination is excluded by the constitution. ALLC members are urged to exercise your democratic right to make a nomination, to stand for election, and in due course to vote. Harold Short Chair, ALLC Professor Harold Short, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London, 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2739 * Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 Web: www.kcl.ac.uk/cch --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:23:31 +0000 From: Jose Abdelnour-Nocera Subject: Call for Posters - IWIPS 2010 Young Reseachers Session: Culture, Design, Development and Offshoring. 9th International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products and Systems www.iwips2010.org London, England, 7 - 10 July 2010 to be held in Thames Valley University. IWIPS 2010 committee is seeking poster submissions for the 'Young Researchers' session. This will be a space where research students and early career researchers can showcase their work in progress, even is this is still at a conceptual stage. Ideas, concepts and concerns will be discussed among both experienced academics and practitioners. Each submission will be presented during the 'Young Researchers' session and in the IWIPS 2010 exhibit area. Each submission requires an accompanying 3-4 page introduction and overview of your research project following the IWIPS 2010 paper guidelines. The paper should include an overview of the research question, used methods and how the work is connected to issues and questions surrounding the interplay of culture and at least one from product design, evaluation and development, including offshoring. Paper submission deadline is the 15th of April- interactive posters must be received by the 1st of July 2010; traditional posters accepted at IWIPS 2010 registration. Please send a paper in IWIPS Word format to Malte Ressin (Malte.Ressin@tvu.ac.uk). Notification of acceptance: 22nd of April. Accepted submissions will be published in the IWIPS 2010 proceedings. Suggested Topics for Submissions As the world's economy recovers from the downturn, the need increases for effective, efficient, and socially responsible strategies for supporting global design communities. Strategies that address both business and human issues are of great importance. Topics of interest for IWIPS 2010 include, but are not limited to the following: Cross-cultural issues in IT design User centric strategies for economic and community development IT projects Revised models for global IT off-shoring, outsourcing and distributed resources Sociotechnical design and evaluation frameworks Methods for software localization / globalization Designing for trust Dealing with intercultural issues in participatory design The impact of Social Networks and other CMC tools across cultural boundaries Interactions between culture and user-centred design Managing geographically dispersed multicultural design communities Localising usability evaluation and requirements gathering techniques More info on http://www.iwips2010.org/calls.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 24 06:13:41 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533894FE6B; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:13:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EA25D4FE63; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:13:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100324061339.EA25D4FE63@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:13:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.718 cfp: music IR evaluation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 718. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:32:21 -0500 From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: Announcing MIREX 2010: Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (Apologies for cross-postings) MIREX 2010 Call for Evaluation Task Proposals The International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is soliciting proposals for evaluation tasks to be performed as part of the 2010 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX 2010). Potential participants are invited to submit proposals for novel evaluation tasks, the re-running of past evaluation tasks and additional datasets and evaluation metrics to used to run tasks. Since 2005, MIREX has conducted 760 evaluation runs over a wide range of MIR tasks. Evaluation tasks from past MIREX evaluations include: - Audio Test/Train Tasks - Audio Artist Identification - Audio Genre Classification - Audio Music Mood Classification - Audio Classical Composer Identification - Audio Onset Detection - Audio Key Detection - Audio Tag Classification - Audio Cover Song Identification - Real-time Audio to Score Alignment (a.k.a Score Following) - Query-by-Singing/Humming - Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation & Tracking - Audio Chord Estimation - Audio Melody Extraction - Query-by-Tapping - Audio Beat Tracking - Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval - Structural Segmentation So that the MIREX team can gauge the level of interest in each task an online poll has been setup. If you are considering participating in MIREX 2010 please indicate your likelihood of participation at: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHNtUjkxQ1M2Q0dQa293cC02TnM2OFE6MA Please use the MIREX organisation mailing list (EvalFest) for discussion of MIREX task proposals and other MIREX related issues: https://mail.lis.illinois.edu/mailman/listinfo/evalfest The MIREX 2010 wiki will be used to embody and disseminate task proposals and can be found at: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/2010/index.php/Main_Page Where possible, task related discussions, which should be conducted on the MIREX organization mailing list (EvalFest), should be summarized on the appropriate MIREX 2010 wiki pages. Where possible, definitions or example code for new evaluation metrics or tasks should be provided to the IMIRSEL team who will embody them in software as part of the NEMA analytics framework, which will be released to the community at or before ISMIR 2010 - providing a standardised set of interfaces and output to disciplined evaluation procedures for a great many MIR tasks. Projected Target Dates: - 1st May 2010: MIREX submission system opens (somewhat hopeful target date) - 15th June - 1st July 2010: Rolling MIREX submission system closures (dates to be announced) - 15th July 2010: MIREX results posting begins - 1st August 2010: All MIREX results posted (somewhat hopeful target date) - 2-6th August 2010: USMIR Summer School (http://ismir2010.ismir.net/usmir-summer-school/) - 9-13th August 2010: ISMIR 2010 Conference (http://ismir2010.ismir.net/) Finally, a web-accessible submission and execution system is to be provided for MIREX by the NEMA project (http://nema.lis.illinois.edu/). This prototype "MIREX DIY" system will allow users to very simply submit, configure, test, execute and debug their own submissions and to inspect or publish their results. As this system is still in its infancy it may (initially) only be available for selected tasks and participants at MIREX 2010. Hence, we would like to invite institutions likely to produce multiple submissions to MIREX 2010 to contact the IMIRSEL team at mirexteam@googlemail.com and to nominate an individual from their institution to be tutored on the use of the NEMA service and to manage their institutions submissions. Looking forward to the best MIREX yet. Cheers, J. Stephen Downie on behalf of the MIREX team. -- ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and, Center Affiliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839 NEMA Project Home: http://nema.lis.uiuc.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 24 06:14:22 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8828F4FEBA; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:14:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0C32C4FEA7; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:14:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100324061421.0C32C4FEA7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:14:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.719 cfp: ebooks as bibliographical objects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 719. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:18:09 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: MLA 2011 CFP: Ebooks as Bibliographical Objects I am looking for proposals for the following session I am organizing on behalf of the Discussion Group on Bibliography and Textual Studies for the 2011 MLA in Los Angeles: Title: E-books as Bibliographical Objects Description: Kindle, Nook, iPhone, etc., in relation to any aspect of bibliography, history of the book, or textual studies. Submission Requirements: Abstracts and brief vitae Deadline: 26 Mar. 2010 Organizer: Matthew Gary Kirschenbaum (mgk@umd.edu) This session is guaranteed to be on the program. -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC, a new Living/Learning Program in the Honors College) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 24 06:32:13 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58014507CA; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:32:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1FBAA5063B; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:32:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100324063212.1FBAA5063B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:32:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.720 persistent fear? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 720. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:31:29 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: persistent fear Yesterday, in a class I teach to PhD students from a variety of disciplines, the subject of computer science and its ambitions came up. I tried to explain in terms I thought would be fully acceptable to people in the humanities and social sciences what could now be done, e.g. with literary language, and how what could be done raised very interesting questions of the sort that such people ordinarily entertain. But I was in for a surprise. Perhaps I should not have been surprised by the reactions of a mature student, now retired and pursuing his degree for the love of the subject, who thought these advances in computing represented a "foot in the door" of a metaphorical creature we would not want to share a room with. But clearly the younger sorts were bothered as well, and one of them volunteered afterward that he thought the heads of department at a recent gathering he attended would not be welcoming either. Now fear of computing is one of my favourite subjects. I study that fear, because I think it is very revealing historically of what was happening in the early years. But I had assumed that it was now more or less a thing of the past, and that our problem now is an over-familiarity with computers as appliances. It seems from the one experience, however, that although the machine-as-appliance may be familiar enough, what is not at all, and so a cause of fear, is what machines can do analytically. We all know this is little enough, and we complain. But it seems that at least to some lovers of poetry, for example, concording the stuff, looking for collocates and patterns revealed by statistical tests etc is all part of a rather disturbing reductionist programme. I for one am glad that the fear is still alive, since I think it's closer to the mark at which we aim than the refrigerator-view of computing. But then I admire people who say, "THE BRAIN IS A COMPUTER MADE OF MEAT!!", just to see if they're awake. Seriously, what's your experience? Do you encounter this fear when you talk outside your circles of technically adept colleagues? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 25 06:27:17 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0F234F2D5; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:27:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 755F74F2C2; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:27:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100325062715.755F74F2C2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:27:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.721 persistent fear X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 721. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Charles van den Heuvel" (15) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.720 persistent fear? [2] From: Melissa Terras (68) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.720 persistent fear? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:44:24 +0100 From: "Charles van den Heuvel" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.720 persistent fear? Dear Willard, Given your interest in fear of computing I would like to bring a PhD to your attention of a former colleague of mine. John Beckers with the title Computer Anxiety Determinants and Consequences defended at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands on 16 October 2003. There are no further bibliographical details of this publication. Best wishes, Charles Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Virtual Knowledge Studio for Humanities and Social Sciences Dr. Charles van den Heuvel Cruquiusweg 31 1019 AT Amsterdam +31-(0)20-8500283 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) charles.vandenheuvel@vks.knaw.nl Monday and Tuesday + 31-(0)43-3101455 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:54:27 +0000 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.720 persistent fear? In-Reply-To: <20100324063212.1FBAA5063B@woodward.joyent.us> I think it was Isaac Asimov who said "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them...." Melissa _______________________________________________ Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication Department of 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@ucl.ac.uk Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/melissa-terras/ Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ On 24/03/2010 06:32, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 720. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:31:29 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: persistent fear > > Yesterday, in a class I teach to PhD students from a variety of > disciplines, the subject of computer science and its ambitions came up. > I tried to explain in terms I thought would be fully acceptable to > people in the humanities and social sciences what could now be done, > e.g. with literary language, and how what could be done raised very > interesting questions of the sort that such people ordinarily entertain. > But I was in for a surprise. Perhaps I should not have been surprised by > the reactions of a mature student, now retired and pursuing his degree > for the love of the subject, who thought these advances in computing > represented a "foot in the door" of a metaphorical creature we would not > want to share a room with. But clearly the younger sorts were bothered > as well, and one of them volunteered afterward that he thought the heads > of department at a recent gathering he attended would not be welcoming > either. > > Now fear of computing is one of my favourite subjects. I study that > fear, because I think it is very revealing historically of what was > happening in the early years. But I had assumed that it was now more or > less a thing of the past, and that our problem now is an > over-familiarity with computers as appliances. It seems from the one > experience, however, that although the machine-as-appliance may be > familiar enough, what is not at all, and so a cause of fear, is what > machines can do analytically. We all know this is little enough, and we > complain. But it seems that at least to some lovers of poetry, for > example, concording the stuff, looking for collocates and patterns > revealed by statistical tests etc is all part of a rather disturbing > reductionist programme. > > I for one am glad that the fear is still alive, since I think it's > closer to the mark at which we aim than the refrigerator-view of > computing. But then I admire people who say, "THE BRAIN IS A COMPUTER > MADE OF MEAT!!", just to see if they're awake. > > Seriously, what's your experience? Do you encounter this fear when you > talk outside your circles of technically adept colleagues? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 25 06:34:21 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 160454F551; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:34:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A91DE4F54A; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:34:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100325063419.A91DE4F54A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:34:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.722 opportunities: computing in politics and mathematics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 722. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: S Barry Cooper (15) Subject: Funding opportunity - Foundational Questions [2] From: Hertog Global Strategy (4) Subject: Call for Applications: The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative at Columbia University --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:20:11 +0000 From: S Barry Cooper Subject: Funding opportunity - Foundational Questions Foundational Questions in the Mathematical Sciences There is a grant opportunity in: A) foundations of: mathematics, mathematical sciences, computer science; B) artificial intelligence; C) closely related fields. The John Templeton Foundation accepts research proposals that directly or indirectly address one of the following questions: (1) What are the limits of mathematics in advancing human knowledge? (2) What have the difficulties of AI taught us about the nature of mind and intelligence? Deadline for the initial inquiry is April 15, 2010. For more information, please visit http://tiny.cc/mJuDR or http://www.templeton.org/ Please feel free to pass the information on to others who might be interested in the grant opportunity. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:11:11 +0000 From: Hertog Global Strategy Subject: Call for Applications: The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative at Columbia University Call for Applications: The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative http://globalstrategy.columbia.edu/ seeks talented undergraduate and graduate students for its 2010 seminar on Nuclear Proliferation and the Future of World Power. The seminar will take place over twelve weeks, from May 24 through August 13, at Columbia University. It begins with three weeks of “total immersion” training in nuclear strategy. Then there are eight weeks in which students conduct independent research and/or work in the field. Then the class reconvenes for one more week, so that students can present their research and produce a joint report. Students taking the course for credit will receive eight points, the equivalent of two semester-long courses at Columbia. The 2010 Initiative will be taught by Matthew Connelly, Professor of History at Columbia University, and Francis Gavin, Professor of International Affairs, University of Texas. They will be assisted in the classroom by a number of experts in the field, including world-class scholars and top government officials. Confirmed speakers include Graham Allison, Richard Betts, Hans Blix, Paul Bracken, John Lewis Gaddis, Robert Gallucci, Bonnie Jenkins, Robert Jervis, Henry Kissinger, Michael Levi, Scott Sagan, Etel Solingen, James Steinberg, Stephen Van Evera, and Philip Zelikow. For more about the program, including the application and financial aid information, visit http://globalstrategy.columbia.edu http://globalstrategy.columbia.edu/ . Please direct any further questions to globalstrategy@columbia.edu. The application deadline is April 1. [For a compelling connection between nuclear strategy and computing, see Paul N. Edwards' The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. I'd think that someone interested in the nature and implications of VR would be particularly motivated to think about the subject of this seminar. --WM] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 25 06:35:28 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B60B4F61C; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:35:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DD2974F60A; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:35:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100325063526.DD2974F60A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:35:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.723 new on WWW: software tools X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 723. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:54:21 +0000 From: "Reimer, Torsten" Subject: directory of software tools for humanists Dear subscribers of Humanist, Software is a key component that supports research in the humanities. Humanists use a diverse range of tools, from word processors and XML editors to more specialised bespoke tools, at every stage of the research lifecycle. To enable humanists to locate software tools of relevance to their research, the tools sections of www.arts-humanities.net has been extended to describe a large number of software tools, drawn from the experiences of several hundred arts & humanities research projects with digital components catalogued on arts-humanities.net. http://www.arts-humanities.net/tools We welcome feedback, and would encourage you to post comments about tools listed on the site. We will continue to add new tool descriptions over the coming months: please contact us if you would like to suggest a tool for inclusion in the collection (admin@arts-humanities.net). Regards, Torsten -- Dr. Torsten Reimer Development Manager Community Infrastructures and e-Learning http://www.arts-humanities.net Centre for e-Research, King's College London http://kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch/ +44 (0)20 7848 2019 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 25 06:37:32 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C23D4F6BE; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:37:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 77E9C4F6B7; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:37:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100325063730.77E9C4F6B7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:37:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.724 events: DHO workshops at Galway X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 724. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:27:16 +0000 From: Emily Cullen Subject: Reminder: DHO Workshops at NUI, Galway This is a reminder about the three-day series of exciting workshops the DHO will be presenting at NUI Galway, in collaboration with the Moore Institute. These are designed for anyone interested in the future of humanities research. They will greatly benefit scholars working with textual sources, providing you with the opportunity and the skills to think about text in new and useful ways. 'Text Encoding with the TEI' will offer two concurrent workshop strands in text encoding for both beginners and more advanced practitioners. These two-day courses entitled ‘From Text Encoding to Digital Publishing’ and ‘TEI for Handwritten Texts’ will run on Wednesday, 7th and Thursday, 8th April. http://dho.ie/node/679 ‘Using Digital Resources for Research and Teaching in Irish Studies’, which will take place on Friday, 9th April, will offer two half-day sessions. These will explore ways to utilize the wide variety of digital resources now available to the field of Irish Studies. Participants may register for one or both of the sessions. http://dho.ie/node/680 As Easter is fast approaching, we will close registration for the above workshops on Tuesday, 30th March. These workshops are free and open to all members of HSIS institutions, although places are limited. To register, and for more information on the events, please visit the respective event pages linked above and register as soon as possible. Yours, Emily -- Emily Cullen, Ph.D., Programme Co-ordinator Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2 Ireland Tel:+353(0)1-2342442 Fax:+353(0)1-2342400 E-mail: e.cullen@ria.ie http://dho.ie -- -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 25 06:48:49 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCBD94FCEE; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:48:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 311954FCDD; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:48:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100325064848.311954FCDD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:48:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.725 new book: a digital trivium X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 725. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:14:07 +0000 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Digital trivium book Dear list members and friends, We are happy to announce the publication of our new book "L'umanista digitale" (*The Digital Humanist*), by Teresa Numerico, Domenico Fiormonte and Francesca Tomasi (Il Mulino, Bologna, 2010): http://www.mulino.it/edizioni/universita/scheda_volume.php?vista=indice_esteso&ISBNART=13425 This work follows the collective "Informatica per le discipline umanistiche" (ed. by Teresa Numerico and Arturo Vespignani, 2004), a small best-seller in our field, as it was widely used in many humanities computing courses across Italy. In the last six years so many things have changed, so we decided to write a completely different book, and organized it around the idea of an essential "digital trivium". Not just an introduction to DH, but a critical reflection on current tools (Google, among others) and practices. Accordingly, the volume is divided in three main sections: "Writing & producing content" (*Scrivere e produrre*, by D. Fiormonte); "Representation and preservation" (*Rappresentare e conservare*, by F. Tomasi); "Searching and organizing" (*Cercare e organizzare*, by T. Numerico). The book was conceived from a genuinely interdisciplinary perspective, as we all work in different fields: Teresa is a philosopher of science and CS historian, Francesca is a computer scientist and digital archivist, and Domenico is a linguist and new media student. Perhaps the most challenging output of this collaboration is the first chapter on the "humanistic roots" of computer science, written by T. Numerico, but discussed among us at length. Teresa, who has been working for years on this topic, describes an epistemological turn: from the computer as "computing machine" to idea of "interface" and communicative tool, explaining how this idea derived from people and scholars who had a humanistic approach to knowledge. Interesting to the DH community would be also the Appendix: "The international scenario of digital humanities", a concise summary of geo- political trends, research scenarios and projects in our field. The prospect provided here is deliberately international, but also attentive to the specific cultural needs of each national DH community. Finally, registered readers can access the publisher's online environment AulaWeb (http://www.mulino.it/aulaweb/), where they can find more material, i.e. unpublished chapters, tests, slides, and tutorials. So, you'll say, another Italian HC/DH book that nobody outside Italy will ever read? Maybe. Or may be you can help us to translate bit & pieces, summarise, and abridge paragraphs and chapters, and post them in your blog and web sites. We can send you the italian text and help you to translate anything you're interested in. Especially the introduction "Storia dell'interazione tra tecnologia e sapere umanistico" is something quite new in our field: we don't remember many publications, except perhaps Willard 's "Humanities Computing", reflecting on how important has been our theoretical and practical contribution to the birth of Informatics and Computer Science. If you need more info, or want a review copy of the volume, please contact the publisher at universita@mulino.it, or feel free to write us: Teresa Numerico (t.numerico@mclink.it) Domenico Fiormonte (fiormont@uniroma3.it) Francesca Tomasi (francesca.tomasi@unibo.it) Thanks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Domenico Fiormonte Ricercatore in Linguistica Universita' Roma Tre http://www.selc.ed.ac.uk/italian/digitalvariants/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 26 08:53:08 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D679E51537; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:53:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0DCC951526; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:53:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100326085307.0DCC951526@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:53:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.726 persistent fear X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 726. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Wendell Piez (66) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.720 persistent fear? [2] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.721 persistent fear --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:30:57 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.720 persistent fear? In-Reply-To: <20100324063212.1FBAA5063B@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, In my day-to-day, I don't much encounter the fear you describe, but I certainly hear echoes of it all around me. However, the noise I hear isn't specifically from people who fear computers and their supposed capabilities, actual or potential. Indeed, (like you, I suspect) I find this kind of thing actually rather quaint and touching. In my opinion, we have much more to fear from our computers than that they will learn to read poems. Indeed, if that's what the computers of the world were doing, I'd feel better. I am not naturally a fearful person, but I'm afraid that the fear is altogether justified. What people fear isn't the "intelligent" computer, but the stupid "system" that uses it. The metaphorical creature we would not want to share a room with is already here. It envelops and sustains us. It does not just share the room (invited in with a signal from a remote control); it owns it. It is capricious, implacable, and unaccountable, and our lives depend on it. Whether it be the fear of bankers and financiers, of health-care providers or the lawmakers who seek to regulate them, of automobiles that literally run away with their drivers, or only of "number crunchers" with spreadsheets, who get to decide whether we are being "productive" enough, or maybe our jobs should be "downsized" ... in very many respects this fear is entirely justified and warranted. We place ourselves and our livelihoods in the hands of programmers and bureaucrats, sheltered and shut in like ourselves, and demand that they act fairly and according to regulations, yet protest when we are ruled and overruled. And why shouldn't we? Justice is blind, okay, but what is justice without mercy? I think the metaphorical creature with his foot in the door is simply a synecdoche for something else. The poetry-reading computer -- the *interpreting* computer -- isn't a threat in itself. It's the use to which it can and (we have every reason to expect) will be put, not by ourselves (we think) but by faceless others, that is threatening. If it can read poetry, we wish to know, what else can it read? The fact that computers, as appliances, are so ubiquitous, so familiar and so necessary (how many of us would now literally be screaming without our mobile devices?) only underlines and defines this problem and how we are implicated within it. Cheers, Wendell At 02:32 AM 3/24/2010, you wrote: >Yesterday, in a class I teach to PhD students from a variety of >disciplines, the subject of computer science and its ambitions came up. >I tried to explain in terms I thought would be fully acceptable to >people in the humanities and social sciences what could now be done, >e.g. with literary language, and how what could be done raised very >interesting questions of the sort that such people ordinarily entertain. >But I was in for a surprise. Perhaps I should not have been surprised by >the reactions of a mature student, now retired and pursuing his degree >for the love of the subject, who thought these advances in computing >represented a "foot in the door" of a metaphorical creature we would not >want to share a room with. But clearly the younger sorts were bothered >as well, and one of them volunteered afterward that he thought the heads >of department at a recent gathering he attended would not be welcoming >either. > >Now fear of computing is one of my favourite subjects.... ========================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:59:16 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.721 persistent fear In-Reply-To: <20100325062715.755F74F2C2@woodward.joyent.us> One problem I've encountered with humanists who approach computing issues is the way in which some pose their questions. They often begin with a question format such as "Can the computer do such and such a task?" This evidences a fundamental psychological premise that needs to be immediately corrected. The problem is that computers consist of hardware designed by people and run software written by people. The subtle implication of asking whether "the computer" can do something quite naturally adds an element of fear to the question because it leaves open the issue of the computer's intelligence and free will. Until the questioner understands that they are asking whether some human beings have figured out how to construct/instruct a machine to carry out some task it is best to halt the conversation and explain why the question as posed doesn't make sense. While in many other cases it may seem trivial that the questioner doesn't assume the presence of intelligence and volition on the part of the entity being inquired about ("Can this book tell me about such and such?" "Can this bridge take me across the river safely?"), in the case of computers there isn't necessarily the same appreciation of inanimateness. At least, I've seen the possibility for an epiphany taking place when the distinction is pointed out. Humanists of all people should appreciate the significance of the concept of people being behind computers and computing. Good people, bad people, intelligent people, ignorant people, socially adept people, socially inept people, all kinds of people. When a computer doesn't perform as expected I'd much prefer someone say, "Who designed this to work this way?" than "The computer doesn't understand me". Remember the scene in the Wizard of Oz when the Great and Powerful Oz is answering Dorothy's questions.... and the revelation that the man behind the curtain was the one controlling it. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 26 08:53:45 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D28CC515A4; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:53:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D15A95157D; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:53:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100326085344.D15A95157D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:53:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.727 job at Oxford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 727. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:12:21 +0000 From: Alun Edwards Subject: Reminder - Part-time project officer job at Oxford University Dear Willard, Further to a message earlier this month may I remind Humanist readers that there is still time for applications to be received for the RunCoCo part-time project officer post, based in Oxford. Please do circulate this message to subject lists. Oxford University Computing Services is looking for a Project Officer (part-time, fixed-term) to work on the RunCoCo project. The work involves: * running a communication campaign and developing engaging Web content to successfully promote the RunCoCo project and support its user community * managing project events and overseeing the production of training materials * providing advice to a number of community digitisation projects Details and an application form are available from http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jobs/ Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on 26th March 2010, and interviews will be held on 7th April 2010. RunCoCo is a JISC-funded project (based at the Learning Technologies Group of OUCS) which uses training activities to encourage the formation of community collections. In community collection projects the cost of digitising photographs (or films or interviews) is spread out across the community (education and public sectors) and not borne entirely by the host institution. The community involvement sometimes focuses more on users tagging or commenting on existing collections, rather than the public contributing digital items. RunCoCo will demonstrate how successful collections can be put together by smaller individual units than the expensive digitisation projects that receive funding from traditional (and now severely reduced) sources. More details are on the website http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ Best wishes, Ally Alun Edwards Manager of RunCoCo | Learning Technologies Group | Oxford University Computing Services | 13 Banbury Road | Oxford OX26NN E: alun.edwards@oucs.ox.ac.uk T: +44 (0) 1865 283347 W: http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ RunCoCo: how to run a community collection online _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 26 08:54:35 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F397351628; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:54:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 85D9851617; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:54:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100326085433.85D9851617@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:54:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.728 blog for digital humanists in New England X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 728. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:03:17 -0400 From: Shane Landrum Subject: New England digital humanities community/events blog Humanist readers may be interested in the new blog I've established to highlight digital humanities events, projects, and people in the US Northeast. http://dhnewengland.wordpress.com/ I'm inspired partially by http://dhsocal.blogspot.com/ , which is trying to help DH people in Southern California find one another. Given the scholarly resources that Boston and the wider New England area have to offer, I've been surprised at how difficult it is to locate individual people, departments, or research centers who do DH work, or who are interested in DH but having trouble with steep learning curves. I'd like to rectify that. (The internet is great, but sometimes one wants to have coffee and brainstorm in person with someone who understands the problem domain.) If you have an event to announce, feel free to email me offlist. I'm also interested in hearing from potential contributors (guest writers or co-editors). srl --- Shane Landrum www.cliotropic.org Ph.D. Candidate, American History, Brandeis University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 29 06:55:57 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17DAF513C0; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:55:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4045D513B8; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:55:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100329065555.4045D513B8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:55:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.729 persistent fear X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 729. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (23) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.726 persistent fear [2] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (5) Subject: Re: Solstice greetings and a few sparks --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:06:08 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.726 persistent fear In-Reply-To: <20100326085307.0DCC951526@woodward.joyent.us> As usual, thank you for this post, Wendell. I've come to understand fears of the intelligent, self-directed computer (or other human creation) in literature as tropes for the very thing that you describe -- the system (no? the real people) using them. They are the embodiment or projections of our real fears, which ultimately is a fear of those who created this computer; i.e., ourselves. A poetry-reading computer would be annoying at worst. Perhaps a bit of a tin ear? Jim R I think the metaphorical creature with his foot in the door is simply > a synecdoche for something else. The poetry-reading computer -- the > *interpreting* computer -- isn't a threat in itself. It's the use to > which it can and (we have every reason to expect) will be put, not by > ourselves (we think) but by faceless others, that is threatening. If > it can read poetry, we wish to know, what else can it read? The fact > that computers, as appliances, are so ubiquitous, so familiar and so > necessary (how many of us would now literally be screaming without > our mobile devices?) only underlines and defines this problem and how > we are implicated within it. > > Cheers, > Wendell > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:01:02 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: Solstice greetings and a few sparks In-Reply-To: <4B308D33.8000100@mccarty.org.uk> Dear Willard The Guardian online (25 March 2010) has a set of images from Brit artist and X-ray boffin Nick Veasey. One is of a set of hands at the keyboard of a laptop. Very nice for illustrating the "fear of computing" trope. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2010/mar/24/art?picture=360801002 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 29 07:01:40 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC410514D7; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:01:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 715FC514CC; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:01:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100329070135.715FC514CC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:01:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.730 new on WWW: Blake Archive update X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 730. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:41:18 -0400 (EDT) From: William S Shaw Subject: Update to the William Blake Archive 27 March 2010 The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of an electronic edition of 20 of Blake's water color illustrations to the Bible. They are presented in a new category in the Archive's main Table of Contents, "Illustrations to the Bible, c. 1780-1824," under Drawings and Paintings, Water Color Drawings. These designs illustrate the Old Testament and are arranged according to the passages illustrated. They are presented in our Preview mode, one that provides all the features of the Archive except Image Search and Inote (which provides detailed descriptions of Blake's images). The Bible had an enormous influence on Blake's work as both artist and poet. Among his many and complex responses to that text are water color drawings. The present group of 20 is selected from a sequence of about 80 biblical water colors of similar size that Blake painted for Thomas Butts between c. 1800 and c. 1806. These designs emphasize interactions between the human and the divine. In works such as _Ezekiel's Wheels_ and _David Delivered Out of Many Waters_, the interaction is revelatory or redemptive. In other designs, including _Pestilence: The Death of the First-Born_, the relationship between God and humankind devolves into punishment and destruction. This group of water colors is the first installment in our publication of a large selection of Blake's water color drawings illustrating the Bible. In coming months we will publish a group of New Testament illustrations also from the series executed for Butts. Later we will add early works, such as _Abraham and Isaac_, datable to c. 1780, and continue through Blake's final biblical water colors, including _Moses Placed in the Ark of the Bulrushes_ of c. 1824. As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no access restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the continuing support of the Library of Congress, and the cooperation of the international array of libraries and museums that have generously given us permission to reproduce works from their collections in the Archive. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors Ashley Reed, project manager, William Shaw, technical editor The William Blake Archive _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 29 07:02:53 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D96A7515C9; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:02:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 15EDD51579; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:02:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100329070251.15EDD51579@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:02:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.731 events: digital humanities blog; computational linguistics conference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 731. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shane Landrum (20) Subject: New England digital humanities community/events blog [2] From: "[IMCSIT] News" (15) Subject: Computational Linguistics - Applications (CLA'10) -- CALLFOR PAPERS --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:03:17 -0400 From: Shane Landrum Subject: New England digital humanities community/events blog Humanist readers may be interested in the new blog I've established to highlight digital humanities events, projects, and people in the US Northeast. http://dhnewengland.wordpress.com/ I'm inspired partially by http://dhsocal.blogspot.com/ , which is trying to help DH people in Southern California find one another. Given the scholarly resources that Boston and the wider New England area have to offer, I've been surprised at how difficult it is to locate individual people, departments, or research centers who do DH work, or who are interested in DH but having trouble with steep learning curves. I'd like to rectify that. (The internet is great, but sometimes one wants to have coffee and brainstorm in person with someone who understands the problem domain.) If you have an event to announce, feel free to email me offlist. I'm also interested in hearing from potential contributors (guest writers or co-editors). srl --- Shane Landrum www.cliotropic.org Ph.D. Candidate, American History, Brandeis University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:45:18 +0000 From: "[IMCSIT] News" Subject: Computational Linguistics - Applications (CLA'10) -- CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS Computational Linguistics - Applications (CLA'10) (within 2010 International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology (IMCSIT) - http://www.imcsit.org") October 18-20, 2010 Hotel Golebiewski, Wisla, Poland http://CLA.imcsit.org If you have your account at Facebook you can also join a group: HERE. ________________________________ The CLA Workshop is located within the framework of the IMCSIT conference to create a dialog between researchers and practitioners involved in Computational Linguistics and related areas of Information Technology. IMSCIT is a multi-disciplinary conference gathering scientists form the different fields of IT & Computer Science together with representatives of industry and end-users. IMSCIT with its motto: "new ideas are born not inside peoples' heads but in the space between them", quickly became a unique place to share thoughts and ideas. Workshop Goals The Computational Linguistics - Applications Workshop was established in 2008 in response to the fast-paced progress in the area. Traditionally, computational linguistics was limited to the scientists specialized in the processing of a natural language by computers. Scientific approaches and practical techniques come from linguistics, computer science, psychology, and mathematics. Nowadays, there is a number of practical applications available. These applications are sometimes developed by smart yet NLP-untrained developers who solve the problems using sophisticated heuristics. CLA aims to be a meeting place for both parties in order to share views and ideas. It will help scientist to better understand real world needs and practitioners not to reinvent the wheel. Computational Linguistics needs to be applied to make the full use of the Internet. There is a definite need for software that can handle unstructured text and information to allow search for information on the web. The priority aim of the research in this area is to enable users to communicate with the computer in their native language. CLA'10 Workshop is a place where the parties meet to exchange views and ideas with a benefit to all involved. The Workshop will focus on practical outcome of modeling human language use and the applications needed to improve human-machine interaction. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 30 05:18:39 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E0D85164A; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:18:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5BF0351642; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:18:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100330051837.5BF0351642@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:18:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.732 persistent fear X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 732. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:48:59 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.729 persistent fear What precisely is meant by a computer's reading poetry? Words? Scanning a text and speaking it in a synthetic voice which may or not hear stress, pitch, rhythm, or whatever; all of which differ from speaker to speaker. How many great actors can read poems aloud well? Very few, since they are taught elocution and movement performance techniques. How many people, even professors, perhaps especially academics, can *read poetry? Reading poetry is not interpreting, which perhaps a computer might be handy for, to footnote and suggest allusions, usages, whatever; but that is not reading. I teach at UCLA an honors seminar in the FIAT LUX series. Students select themselves, and from a list of nearly a hundred seminars offered for fun by professors working or Emeriti like myself; so one assumes curiosity and real interest on the part of students, who get 1 unit of credit, pass/fail. Passing means showing up, in my case, for 5 two-hour sessions. Each are asked for one 1-page+ paper in the Quarter on a poem they have selected from the hodgepodge manual I constructed of about 108 pages of poems. They are cautioned at the outset and chastised during the course if they try to say what a poem or line(s) means. Meaning is strictly prohibited, per se. Because of course even most adults do not know how to says what a poem says. My manual is titled: THREE FUNDAMENTAL MODES OF POETRY: ELEGY, SATIRE, INVOCATION. [So epic is exempted. When I was 21 I was bemused by E A Poe's theory of Composition, in which he scouted any poem over 100 lines, which he said couldnt be read at one sitting of reading. I have come to think he had a point, and he said "Paradise Lost" was a series of short poems linked. I think he may also have had in mind Homer, though I dont know what he thought about that matter — we suppose the epics were stitched together and originally recited, even Beowulf, by the memory man, or singer or bard, during after dinner short parties, before the torches burned down, or the lamps ran out out oil.) A written poem is a transcription of a speech act, as the Psalms are orperhaps were meant to be chanted with a harp's accompaniment. To get thenotion of a speech act across, and its occasion, elegiacal, satirical attack, or invocational, is very difficult, since none of our students today have ever memorized and spoken even a sonnet, or Shaxperian soliloquy, which mimics internal rumination spoken aloud. What has a computer that reads and speaks what it reads to do with the elegy, satire, or invocation, which are the essence of what a poem is: erotic energy in action, as Socrates suggests forcibly in THE SYMPOSIUM. And it should be kept in mind, Socrates never completes or discloses the poem, the source of which, for him, was revealed, in speech, by Diotima, a sybilline person in the mountains. Let us try to see how we can understand what the speech act is. The written poem is secondary. Interpretation tertiary. Jascha Kessler Emeritus Professor of Modern English & American Literature, UCLA www.jfkessler.com -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393,4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 30 05:21:56 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6557B51A6A; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:21:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 71256519FC; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:21:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100330052154.71256519FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:21:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.733 events X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 733. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Faith Lawrence (102) Subject: DRHA 2010 Conference: Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts [2] From: Thomas Bolander (112) Subject: HyLo 2010: Deadline extended till April 7 [3] From: Corinne Wininger - Le Moal (17) Subject: 'Networked Humanities: Art History in the Web' [4] From: Nianwen Xue (17) Subject: Deadline extension for LAW IV --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:24:39 +0100 From: Faith Lawrence Subject: DRHA 2010 Conference: Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts In-Reply-To: <7B49D72E-6F6B-42FF-8587-788A4F1064A6@qub.ac.uk> Extended Deadline: 14th of April 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES DRHA 2010 Conference: Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts Sunday 5th September - Wednesday 8th September 2010 Brunel University, West London www.drha2010.org.uk CONFERENCE THEME: Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity The conference’s overall theme will be the exploration of the collaborative relationship between the body and sensual/sensing technologies across various disciplines. In this respect it will offer an interrogation of practices that are indebted to the innovative exchange between the sensual, visceral and new technologies. At the same time, the aim is to look to new approaches offered by various emerging fields and practices that incorporate new and existing technologies. Specific examples of areas for discussion could include: ·       Delineation of new collaborative practices and the interchange of knowledge ·       Collaborative interdisciplinary practices of embodiment and technology ·       Integration/deployment of digital resources in new contexts ·       Connections and tensions that exist between the Arts, Humanities and Science ·       Notions of the ‘solitary’ and the ‘collaborative’ across the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences ·       eScience in the Arts and Humanities ·       Use of digital resources in collaborative creative work, teaching, learning and scholarship ·       Open source and second generation Web infrastructure ·       Digital media in time and space ·       Music and technology: composition and performance ·       Dance and interactive technologies ·       Taking inspiration from SET: imaging, GPS and mobile technologies ·       Evaluating the experience among providers and users / performers and audiences ·       Interface Design and HCI ·       Performative Practices in SecondLife or other virtual platforms ·       New critical paradigms for the conference’s theme The DRHA (Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts) conference is held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. This year’s conference is hosted by Brunel University, West London. It will take place from Sunday 5th September to Wednesday 8th September 2010. It will be held across various innovative spaces, including the newly expanded Boiler House laboratory facilities, housed in the Antonin Artaud Building, and state of the art conference facilities plus high standard accommodation. Confirmed Keynote Speakers - Richard Coyne - Professor of Architectural Computing at the University of Edinburgh. - Christopher Pressler: Director of Research and Learning Resources and Director of the Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham. - Thecla Schiphorst: Media Artist/Designer and Faculty Member in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. - STELARC, Chair in Performance Art at Brunel University and Senior Research, Fellow in the MARCS Labs at the University of Western Sydney. We invite original papers, panels, installations, performances, workshop sessions and other events that address the conference theme, with particular attention to the ‘Sensual Technologies’ focus. We encourage proposals for innovative and non-traditional session formats. DRHA 2010 will include a SecondLife roundtable/discussion event, led by performance artist Stelarc, which will enable international participants to present performative work via Second Life. For this event, we particular encourage submission of Machinima works that can be screened as part of this panel. Short presentations, for example work-in-progress, are invited for poster presentations. Anyone wishing to submit a performance or installation should visit http://www.drha2010.org.uk for information about the spaces and technical equipment and support available. All proposals - whether papers, performance or other - should reflect the critical engagement at the heart of DRHA 2010. The deadline for submissions will now be: 14 April 2010. At this stage, only abstracts are due and these should be between 600 - 1000 words. Full papers can be submitted after the conference for peer-review to specifically themed issues of the Body Space and Technology Journal (Brunel University), as well as to the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, (Intellect Publishing). Letters of acceptance will be sent by mid/late May 2010. Please see http://www.drha2010.org.uk more information and a link for online submission.              Franziska Schroeder              DRHA 2010 Programme Chair -- K. Faith Lawrence, PhD Digital Humanities Specialist Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Email: f.lawrence@ria.ie / f.lawrence@dho.ie Phone: +353 (0) 1 234 2443 http://dho.ie http://ria.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:41:12 +0100 From: Thomas Bolander Subject: HyLo 2010: Deadline extended till April 7 In-Reply-To: <7B49D72E-6F6B-42FF-8587-788A4F1064A6@qub.ac.uk> HYLO 2010 DEADLINE EXTENDED! New deadline is Wednesday April 7 ******************************************************************* FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic and Applications (HyLo 2010) Affiliated with LICS 2010 July 10, 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland ******************************************************************* Scope ----- Hybrid logic is an extension of modal logic which allows us to refer explicitly to states of the model in the syntax of formulas. This extra capability, very natural in the realm of temporal logics, where one usually wants to refer to specific times, has been shown very effective in other domains too. Although they date back to the late 1960s, and have been sporadically investigated ever since, it was 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, with the usefulness of the additional expressive power. For example, when reasoning about time one often wants to build up a series of assertions about what happens at a particular instant, and standard modal formalisms do not allow this. What is less obvious is that the route hybrid logic takes to overcome this problem (the basic mechanism being to add nominals - atomic symbols true at a unique point - together with extra modalities to exploit them) often actually improves the 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 simply not available in modal logic. That is, hybridization - adding nominals and related apparatus - seems a fairly reliable way of curing many known weaknesses in modal logic. [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:04:53 +0100 From: Corinne Wininger - Le Moal Subject: 'Networked Humanities: Art History in the Web' In-Reply-To: <7B49D72E-6F6B-42FF-8587-788A4F1064A6@qub.ac.uk> Networked Humanities: Art History in the Web Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, from 9-14 October 2010. http://www.cost.esf.org/events/networkedhumanities Organized by the European Science Foundation (ESF http://www.esf.org/ ), in partnership with COST. It is claimed today that the World Wide Web offers revolutionary models of scientific cooperation, which promise to instantiate a utopian democracy of knowledge. This claim has repeatedly been associated with the development and introduction of a collaborative Web, commonly referred to as ’Web 2.0’ as well as its offspring, a semantically enriched Web 3.0 still in the making The aim of this conference is to bring together art historians and other researchers (including digital humanists) in order to investigate the intersection between the web and collaborative research processes, via an examination of electronic media-based cooperative models in the history of art and beyond. The conference will not only be an occasion to exchange ideas and present relevant projects in the field, but,with contributions spanning from art history (and digital art) to philosophy and cultural studies, from psychology and sociology of knowledge to computer graphics, from semiotics to curatorial practices it will offer a unique forum for the representation of both diversified and complementary approaches to the topic of Networked humanities. This conference will be chaired by Prof. Hubertus Kohle, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, DE. Corinne Wininger Communications Officer - ESF Conferences European Science Foundation - Communications Unit 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, BP 90015 67080 Strasbourg Cedex, France Phone: +33 (0)388 76 21 50 Fax: +33 (0)388 76 71 80 clemoal@esf.org www.esf.org/conferences --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:56:36 +0100 From: Nianwen Xue Subject: Deadline extension for LAW IV In-Reply-To: <7B49D72E-6F6B-42FF-8587-788A4F1064A6@qub.ac.uk> The Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW IV) Held in conjunction with ACL-2010 Uppsala, Sweden 15-16 July 2010 http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~clp/LAW4 Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods of statistical natural language processing. The Fourth LAW will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, etc. As in the past, the LAW will provide a forum for annotation researchers to work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability of annotation information and software. Specifically, the goals of this workshop include: (1) The exchange and propagation of research results with respect to the annotation, manipulation and exploitation of corpora, taking into account different applications and theoretical investigations in the field of language technology and research; (2) Working towards the harmonization and interoperability from the perspective of the increasingly large number of tools and frameworks that support the creation, instantiation, manipulation, querying, and exploitation of annotated resources; (3) Working towards a consensus on all issues crucial to the advancement of the field of corpus annotation. We invite submissions of long and posters, and demonstrations relating to any aspect of the linguistic annotation. Long papers should reflect work in an advanced state, but posters may describe more preliminary work and pilot studies. Posters and proposals for a system demonstration are to be submitted in the form of a short paper. A demonstration proposal should provide an overview of the system to be demonstrated, including functionality, supported input/output formats or structures, supported languages and modalities, etc. Accepted proposals will also appear in the proceedings and are intended to provide background for the demonstration. Papers are invited to address issues in all aspects of linguistic annotation, including but not limited to: [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 31 05:38:07 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAD9850892; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:38:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9D2D050883; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:38:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100331053804.9D2D050883@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:38:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.734 we're in the money (as we sleep rough) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 734. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:36:04 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanities make money > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Humanities make money > Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:47:38 +0100 > From: Daniel Pitti > > Many of you may be interested in this article: > > Bottom line shows humanities really do make money: > http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bottom-line-shows-humanities-really-155771.aspx > > Daniel Since there's a danger that some of us -- I felt the pull -- will not bother to read this, suspecting a message that we are apt to regard as obscenely beside the point of what we do, let me quote a couple of paragraphs from the end of Robert Watson's piece for the Chronicle of Higher Education: > No sane citizenry measures its public elementary schools by whether > they pay for themselves immediately and in dollars. We shouldn't have > to make a balance-sheet argument for the humanities, either, at least > not until the balance-sheet includes the value, to the student and to > the state, of expanded powers of personal empathy and cross-cultural > respect, improved communication through language and other symbolic > systems, and increased ability to tolerate and interpret complexity, > contemplate morality, appreciate the many forms of artistic beauty, > and generate creative, independent thought. ... > ...when a university's own leaders begin talking about higher > education as if it were just another business rather than a great > collective legacy, by making English professors the scapegoat for > hundreds of millions of dollars in operating deficit, they need to > hear some other voices. The assumption that the humanities are a > vestigial parasite within an otherwise self-sufficient institutional > body is dangerously wrong. Some here will, I hope, be interested in Watson's case that the humanities in fact support the rest of the university, since there are people in power who care only about such facts. And I very much hope that when we in humanities computing are valued for being the curious cash-cow amidst the other disciplines, constructed as money-losers in order to shift an imbalance of power even more to the powerful, we will not wriggle in comfortable self-satisfaction but protest. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 31 05:38:43 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9800E51451; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:38:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 775E851449; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:38:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100331053842.775E851449@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:38:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.735 events: DH2012 cfp; DHSI news X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 735. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Unsworth (17) Subject: DH2012, call for proposals [2] From: "institut@uvic.ca" (20) Subject: Late-march update: Banquet and Blog news --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:24:07 -0500 From: John Unsworth Subject: DH2012, call for proposals Call for proposals to host Digital Humanities 2012 Digital Humanities (DH) is the annual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (AHDO), whose constituent organisations are the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH-SEMI). The next DH conference will be at King's College, London, July 7-10, 2010: http://dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk/home.html ; the conference in 2011 will be at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. The committees of DH and its constituent organizations now invite proposals to host DH in 2012. Digital Humanities aspires to be a global organization, and so it moves the conference to different parts of the world in different years. Traditionally, the conference has alternated between North America and Europe, and it will be held in North America in 2011, so we are particularly interested in proposals from outside North America for 2012--but those proposals could be for hosting the conference in Asia, Australia, or other areas where there are developed or developing Digital Humanities communities or organizations. However, The local organizer must be a member of one of the ADHO constituent organizations (ALLC, ACH or SDH/SEMI). The conference normally attracts 200-300 delegates with 3-4 days of papers and posters. There are normally 3-4 parallel sessions per time slot, and a small number of plenary presentations. Meetings of the committees of the constituent organizations precede the conference, and lunchtime slots are normally used for member meetings of constituent organizations. The academic programme is selected and planned by an international Programme Committee appointed by ADHO constituent organizations. The local organizer at the host institution is responsible for the conference web site, provision of facilities, the production of a book of abstracts, a conference banquet, and any other social events that the local host thinks would be appropriate. The conference is entirely self-financed through conference fees and any other financial contributions as the local organizer is able to arrange. No financial support is provided by ADHO or its constituent organizations, except in relation to the recipient of ADHO awards, such as named prizes or bursaries. In consultation with the Program Committee, the local organizer may invite other plenary speakers whose travel, subsistence and registration must be funded from the conference budget. The local organizer is expected to set (and verify) three levels of fees: members of ADHO constituent organizations, non-members, and students. The difference between the fee levels for members and non-members should be no less than the cost of an individual subscription to ADHO's main print journal, Literary and Linguistic Computing, because subscription to the journal is what qualifies an individual for the member rate. ADHO is currently using the conference management system Conftool, and the ADHO Conference Coordinating Committee provides support for this system, including access to data from previous conferences. Proposals should include * overview of facilities at the host institution * overview of local institutional engagement and support for the local organizer * possible arrangements for social events, to include the conference banquet * options for accommodation (with provisional costs) * travel information * a provisional budget, with a provisional registration fee * options for payment (credit card, foreign currency etc) by participants Proposers must be prepared to give a short presentation and to answer questions at the ADHO Steering Committee meeting at the DH2010 conference in London, England, on the 5th and 6th of July, 2010. Budgets and other information about past conferences can be made available on request, for planning purposes. For further information, see the ADHO Conference Protocol at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/view/Adho/ConferenceProtocol and the Conference Annex at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/view/Adho/ConferenceAnnex . Proposers are invited to discuss their plans informally with the Chair of the ADHO Conference Co-ordinating Committee, John Unsworth (unsworth@illinois.edu). Proposals should be shared in draft form with the Chair by the end of May. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:48:06 +0100 From: "institut@uvic.ca" Subject: Late-march update: Banquet and Blog news Hello all, Greetings from sunny UVic where we are receiving new shipments of adorable baby bunnies every day. Just a couple of DHSI notes: Register for the DHSI 2010 Banquet: This year's banquet will be held at the beautiful Bard & Banker pub in downtown Victoria. The building was once the Bank of British Columbia and the former workplace of poet Robert Service. For more information about the pub, please visit http://www.bardandbanker.com . We have worked hard with the people at the Bard & Banker to plan a casual and fun gathering. We hope as many DHSI participants as possible will join us! To register, go to http://www.dhsi.org/event/event_list . 2010 Visitor Information Site: To help you plan your trip to Victoria we have set up a Visitor Information site at http://dhsi2010.wordpress.com . We have included information about traveling to Victoria as well as recommendations for restaurants and activities. If you have any suggestions or comments, please feel free to add them or email us at . As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please be in touch. Best wishes on behalf of the entire DHSI team, Cara _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 1 05:43:22 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B60CC481A8; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 05:43:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 84B4E48187; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 05:43:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100401054317.84B4E48187@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 05:43:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.736 we're in the money (as we sleep rough) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 736. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:33:26 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.734 we're in the money (as we sleep rough) In-Reply-To: <20100331053804.9D2D050883@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks for posting this, Willard. I currently work at an institution dominated by Business and Criminal Justice majors, and you wouldn't believe the hostility my dept. encountered just for wanting to add a much need Freshman Writing course. These arguments for the humanities are valuable and need to be made. Jim R Some here will, I hope, be interested in Watson's case that the > humanities in fact support the rest of the university, since there are > people in power who care only about such facts. And I very much hope > that when we in humanities computing are valued for being the curious > cash-cow amidst the other disciplines, constructed as money-losers in > order to shift an imbalance of power even more to the powerful, we will > not wriggle in comfortable self-satisfaction but protest. > > Yours, > WM > > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 1 05:44:47 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 325D0481F6; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 05:44:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0508F481ED; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 05:44:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100401054446.0508F481ED@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 05:44:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.737 PhD studentship in CS at Luxembourg X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 737. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:18:44 +0100 From: Richard Booth Subject: Open PhD position (Luxembourg/Lens): Dynamics of Argumentation The University of Luxembourg is inviting applications for a 2+2-year PhD position in Computer Science (ref. number F1-070088). The position is embedded in a project "Dynamics of Argumentation" (http://icr.uni.lu/dynarg/DYNARG/Home.html), which is a common project between the Individual and Collective Reasoning (ICR) group at the Computer Science and Communication Research Unit (CSC) in Luxembourg (Responsible: Leon van der Torre) and the Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens (CRIL) at the Universit√© d'Artois, in Lens, France (Responsible: Souhila Kaci). The position is foreseen as a co-tutuelle position, that is the student will receive a degree from both universities. The successful candidate will be expected to work on abstract argumentation theory and belief dynamics. Offer: * A 2+2-year PhD position in Computer Science* Work in cooperation with 2 first class and highly active research groups (ICR and CRIL) in a friendly working environment; * Salary: 2300 Euros/month (gross) * Starting date: as soon as possible. Profile: * Candidates must hold a master degree in computer science or related areas; * The ideal candidate should have a strong background in logic-based approaches to artificial intelligence, e.g., in knowledge representation, reasoning about uncertainty, or reasoning about preferences. * Candidates should be proficient in mathematical reasoning and be capable of working with abstract concepts. * Candidates should possess good oral and written English skills. Applications should include an introduction letter indicating the motivation, a detailed CV including copies of the MSc diploma and information about the grades, and the names and contact details of two referees. We accept only electronic submissions, which should be sent to Richard Booth (richard.booth@uni.lu) and Leon van der Torre (leon.vandertorre@uni.lu), quoting the reference number for this position F1-070088. The deadline for applications is **April 15, 2010**. More information can be obtained from Richard Booth (richard.booth@uni.lu). DYNARG project homepage: http://icr.uni.lu/dynarg/DYNARG/Home.html University of Luxembourg homepage: http://www.uni.lu ICR homepage: http://http://icr.uni.lu CRIL homepage: http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr The University of Luxembourg, which was founded in 2003, is a research university at the heart of Europe. The Computer Science and Communication Research (CSC) research unit, which belongs to the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication and counts around 150 people, is located in the city of Luxembourg, next to the European Institutions. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 1 05:46:13 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 528C948291; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 05:46:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 042B34828A; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 05:46:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100401054612.042B34828A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 05:46:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.738 events: student support at Balisage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 738. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:47:47 +0100 From: Syd Bauman Subject: support for students at Balisage BALISAGE 2010 STUDENT SUPPORT AWARDS Students! An inexpensive way to attend a most excellent technical conference! Balisage is the premier international conference on markup languages, technologies, theories, and practice. It is held annually during late summer in Montréal, QC. (But don't take our word for it: try Googling it: http://www.google.com/search?q=markup%20conference.) This year, support for attending Balisage 2010 will be available for some full-time students in the field of markup technologies and related disciplines including Computer Science, Library and Information Science, and Digital Humanities. Thanks to our sponsors, award winners will receive substantial support: * Reimbursement for travel to and from Montréal * Accommodations at the Hotel Europa, the conference venue, for the duration * Full conference registration, including breakfast and lunch To be eligible, you must be currently enrolled full time in an academic degree program, as documented in your CV. And you must have a demonstrable interest in and commitment to our field. In order to qualify, please submit an application that includes the following: * Application Letter. Tell us, in a page or two, why you want to come to Balisage, and how attending Balisage will help you. Describe your academic research program, professional interest in the field, perspective on important issues (addressed and not adequately addressed by the community and in the industry), or anything else you feel will recommend you and your work to the conference committee and Balisage community at large. * Academic CV, listing any of the following: relevant course work, research projects (with links where applicable), published papers, conferences attended, professional employment and activity, blogging, etc. * Letter(s) of recommendation (at least one) by professionals (academic or not) who know your work and can speak to your engagement with markup technologies. * Permission to publicize, at the conference and in connection with it, your name and participation, in announcements and related materials such as the program. Part of the reason for Balisage is to develop professional contacts among the attendees. You want to know us, and we want to know you. * Optional: a paper submission for the conference. (See the Call for Participation at http://www.balisage.net/Call4Participation.html.) Papers submitted in connection with an application for student support will not guarantee you win support, nor will papers submitted by applicants necessarily be accepted for the program. But a paper submission, even if not accepted for the program, will strengthen your application. Application materials will be accepted in plain text, HTML, or PDF and are due on April 16, 2010 (the same day Balisage paper submissions are due). Please send applications to info@balisage.net, with the subject line "Student award application". Be sure you include contact information. Awards will be offered at the discretion of the conference committee. Find out more about the Balisage series of conferences at http://www.balisage.net. Then come to Montréal to experience the cutting edge of this fascinating field at the crossroads of technology, textual studies, database theory, and philosophy. "There is nothing so practical as a good theory" _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Apr 2 05:51:11 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB6F4CC50; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 05:51:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A785C4CC3D; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 05:51:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100402055109.A785C4CC3D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 05:51:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.739 "bug" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 739. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:52:46 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: bug Some here, esp those with philological and etymological interests, will appreciate the following: Shapiro, Fred R. 1987. "Etymology of the Computer Bug: History and Folklore", American Speech 62.4: 376-8. It's in JSTOR. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Apr 2 05:51:42 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84DA84CC8C; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 05:51:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3CA1A4CC7F; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 05:51:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100402055141.3CA1A4CC7F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 05:51:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.740 mine text for Google X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 740. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:12:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Google encouraging "humanities text-mining research" This should interest some, I'd think : http://chronicle.com/article/Google-Starts-Grant-Program/64891/ - Laval Hunsucker Breukelen, Nederland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Apr 2 05:53:21 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 514BC4CD30; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 05:53:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7D5184CD20; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 05:53:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100402055319.7D5184CD20@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 05:53:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.742 slaves in chains or our companions? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 742. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: Humanist Discussion Group Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 741. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 06:50:09 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: slaves in chains or companions with us? Some here will know of the Companions project, "Intelligent, Persistent, Personalised Multimodal Interfaces to the Internet", with which Yorick Wilks and others are involved, www.companions-project.org/. Among the recent publications are the position papers from a forum in 2007, www.companions-project.org/downloads/Companions_Position_Papers_20071026.pdf, and now a book, Close Engagements with Artificial Companions (Benjamins, 2010), of which a proof version is online, at www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick/FINAL-AC.pdf. Among the papers there is one by Joanna Bryson, "Robots Should be Slaves". Until encountering this paper I had assumed, it seems quite wrongly, that the conception of computers as slaves or servants was a fossilised remnant from an earlier time. It seems not. Bryson's argument, whose conclusion is her title, is an ethical one. She argues that to establish a bond with a robot, by attributing to it human identity and so allowing it to be a recipient of our empathy, is a fundamental error. This is quite contrary to the argument, originating in the early days of computing, that the goal of computing applied to the arts is to achieve what Frank Dietrich, in a paper for SIGGRAPH in 1984, called "a functioning harmonic symbiosis between man and machine” ("Visual Intelligence", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 5.7: 159-68. Dietrich was referring specifically to the work of Harold Cohen with his drawing software AARON. Although Lev Manovich points out that the collective memory about such work is all to short, a fair amount of material exists here to be pondered, e.g. by the communications engineer A. Michael Noll, an experimenter in computer art in the early days. See his "The Beginnings of Computer Art in the United States: A Memoir", Leonardo 27.1: 39-44. Leonardo is, of course, a good place to look for this stuff. So, it seems, we have two quite opposed and living arguments about where our work could go. Neither are trivial or easily dismissed. It seems to me that for interests like ours a smart companion is preferable by far than an ever so obedient slave. What do you think? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Apr 2 05:53:51 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA114CD90; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 05:53:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 013954CD88; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 05:53:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100402055350.013954CD88@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 05:53:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.743 new transcription initiative X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 743. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:32:38 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: WWP announces new transcription initiative The Women Writers Project is pleased to announce a groundbreaking new digital humanities initiative designed to address ongoing problems faced by numerous text encoding projects, particularly those dealing with early print and manuscript materials. Like many such projects, the WWP has struggled with the challenges of dealing with special characters (especially those not represented in Unicode) and with the ongoing problem of overlapping hierarchies, which despite several decades of research remains essentially unresolved. In addition, we have been alarmed by rising server costs and increased internet security risks. In response to these concerns, starting in summer 2010, the WWP will begin transitioning its transcription of early women's writing to a new paper-based platform, and by the end of the year we expect to be transcribing and distributing texts entirely in manuscript. Transcription will be done, as always, by trained graduate students, working with pen and ink from images of the source text. The script is a modified italic hand that has been optimized for speed and legibility, as well as for quick training. The transcription captures all line breaks, capitalization, long s, and special characters. A sample text (an excerpt from Mary Squire's "A Proposal to Determine Our Longitude", 1731) is available at http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/research/gfx/wwp_ms_sample.pdf . We are still experimenting with paper quality standards and problems with bleeding, as well as questions of optimal ink color. Structural features of the text will be represented using what are often referred to as "bibliographic codes", through which information about each textual unit is conveyed unobtrusively through formatting such as indentation, font shifts, and spacing. Because these codes do not involve explicit delimiters, unlike XML, they do not risk overlap problems and are in many cases easier to apply than traditional TEI tags. In addition, because each character is formed by hand, transcribers can replicate any character exactly, without being limited to characters represented in Unicode. These considerations are of particular importance in the WWP textbase, where non-Unicode characters are common (as in the sample shown) and where the familiar generic structures represented by tagsets like the TEI are not always present. Access to Women Writers Online will be somewhat more limited once this project is complete. We will be funding student transcribers at academic institutions regionally across the US and Europe, who will transcribe texts on demand as needed by WWO users, and these will be delivered by the local postal service, usually within 4-6 business days. Although not searchable in conventional ways, these texts are guaranteed to be durable (research suggests that if kept away from moisture and direct sunlight, the new WWO texts may last for several centuries) and will remain legible indefinitely. They are free from hardware and software dependencies and can be read and used on airplanes and in deep caves where access to wireless and power may be limited. This new approach still adheres to our fundamental principles of using non-proprietary, standards-based, software- and hardware-independent platforms for publication, while also providing other advantages as well. We hope this effort to "put the digits back in 'digital'" will be of interest to other members of the digital humanities community! Enjoy the first of April-- Best wishes from the WWP team _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 3 05:18:40 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7AC151996; Sat, 3 Apr 2010 05:18:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8BB8B5198E; Sat, 3 Apr 2010 05:18:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100403051839.8BB8B5198E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 05:18:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.744 slaves or companions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 744. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (34) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.742 slaves in chains or our companions? [2] From: "Zafrin, Vika" (39) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.742 slaves in chains or our companions? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:08:42 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.742 slaves in chains or our companions? In-Reply-To: <20100402055319.7D5184CD20@woodward.joyent.us> The closest I've come to relating to a computer as anything more than a machine is in using TIVO, the programmable digital recorder. The image that I frequently evoke is one of a television butler, a household servant. While such an image 'could' be of a 'slave' it would in more modern times be that of a person hired to perform a specific task. The main conflict is that TIVO is still not much more intelligent than a dog. It's scheduling algorithm needs constant monitoring because it fails to make the same decisions about how to resolve conflicts in recording two shows at once that I would make. Fails to recognize solutions that involve skipping shows that will be rebroadcast multiple times to record shows of lesser priority that will only be broadcast once. However, it sets up the paradigm for the future. Think of the services that the wealthy hire people to perform for them today and imagine computers being brought into use to provide those same services for the general public in the future. It's neither symbiosis nor slavery. The problem with 'slavery' is that (among many) that it assumed the 'slave' is intelligent enough to make human-level decisions. The problem with 'symbiosis' is that it assumes the symbiote is trustworthy at the level of your own body or mind. Neither of these is likely to be possible for some time. What we'll get it tentative trials of an entity hired to carry out a task with a presumption of monitoring their actions rather closely until it becomes clear what the entity is capable of doing reliably. I guess the question of whether dogs trained to perform tasks, fetch the paper, alert the owner to someone or something approaching, etc. are in 'slavery' of some sort? Do we put lesser life forms into 'slavery' when we keep them as pets? I suppose it could be considered that way. We hold the power of life and death over them. They are considered property. They are returned to us if they run away. The only modern modification to the slavery pact is that government organizations require certain standards of conduct from the owners and regulate the types of animals we can keep as pets. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 12:02:12 -0400 From: "Zafrin, Vika" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.742 slaves in chains or our companions? In-Reply-To: <20100402055319.7D5184CD20@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, > So, it seems, we have > two quite opposed and living arguments about where our work could go. Neither > are trivial or easily dismissed. It seems to me that for interests like ours > a smart companion is preferable by far than an ever so obedient slave. What > do you think? I agree, though suspect that people who think at/about a more ones-and-zeroes level than I would disagree. My reasons are twofold. One has to do with the nature of my work. In large part, it involves slowly coaxing variously Luddite faculty members to think about computers, computing, networks, social media and various online tools and resources as a necessary part of their humanities research and pedagogy. They overcome a lot of fear in order to get anywhere useful, and most of that fear is the fear of the black box that they don't understand. A slave is wholly dependent on you, the master; that's scary when you don't know what you're doing. Assigning a computer agency (not sentience!) takes some of the load of responsibility off the human interactor. My second reason to view computers as smart companions is science fiction, much of which is a subset of contemporary philosophy. From Asimov to Battlestar Galactica, we've been exploring what would happen if computers achieved sentience, if an artificial intelligence crossed some sort of threshold and gained a sense of self. Inevitably, the answer is conflict with the humans; inevitably, that conflict arises from humans' obstinate arrogance in thinking themselves the pinnacle of intelligence. Whether this AI-selfhood thing ever happens is irrelevant. Thinking of computers as smart companions reminds me of humility, nudges me to check my assumptions, leaves me open to more possibilities (and greater empathy with other human beings) than the master-slave mentality would. Am I telling myself fairy tales? Sure. Don't we all, all the time? -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Digital Collections and Computing Support Librarian Boston University School of Theology 617.353.1317 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 3 05:19:55 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8914751A3D; Sat, 3 Apr 2010 05:19:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4634C51A2E; Sat, 3 Apr 2010 05:19:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100403051954.4634C51A2E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 05:19:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.745 Recaptcha? Google Book Search? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 745. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Mueller (2) Subject: Recaptcha in humanities projects [2] From: "David L. Hoover" (17) Subject: Google Book Search --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 08:31:01 -0500 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Recaptcha in humanities projects In-Reply-To: <20100402055350.013954CD88@woodward.joyent.us> I'd like to find out about the use of ReCaptcha in humanities projects of various kinds or sizes. Are there any? Does it help with cleaning up OCR, especially with texts before 1800? Martin Mueller --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:01:23 -0400 From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: Google Book Search In-Reply-To: <20100402055350.013954CD88@woodward.joyent.us> Both lovers and haters of Google may be interested in the following curious facts. A Google Books search frequently fails to find all of the books Google has digitized. A case in point is that an advanced Google Books search for "Awkward Age" by "Henry James" yields just 2 full view copies. In contrast, an archive.org search finds a total of 10 full view copies of the novel in all--5 at books.google.com, 1 at Gutenberg, and 4 independent copies. There's an irony for you: a Google search fails to find items on Google's own web site. Any ideas how/why this is possible? -- David L. Hoover, Professor of English, NYU 212-998-8832 http://homepages.nyu.edu/~dh3/ Most of her friends had an anxious, haggard look, . . . Basil Ransom wondered who they all were; he had a general idea they were mediums, communists, vegetarians. -- Henry James, The Bostonians (1886) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 3 05:20:24 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 166C351BC6; Sat, 3 Apr 2010 05:20:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3CD4F51BBE; Sat, 3 Apr 2010 05:20:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100403052023.3CD4F51BBE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 05:20:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.746 April Fool! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 746. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:16:36 -0500 (CDT) From: rasmith@tamu.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.743 new transcription initiative In-Reply-To: <20100402055350.013954CD88@woodward.joyent.us> From: Humanist Discussion Group _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Apr 5 07:06:43 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 618DD4F23C; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 07:06:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 99E7A4F232; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 07:06:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100405070641.99E7A4F232@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 07:06:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.747 transposition of meaning by images? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 747. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 18:31:16 -0400 From: Susan Brown Subject: image transposition on the web Does anyone know of any useful work (formal or informal) about the transposition of meaning in digital media through the recontextualization of a digital image? I have a graduate student who wants to consider the movement of meaning both in the works of John Cayley and on websites such as Tumblr and Ffffound, which reproduce and reframe already existent images, and he's been having difficulty finding material with which to frame his argument. Any suggestions of analyses that might be helpful, including work on mashups or phenomena such as reblogging/retweeting, would be very welcome, as would considerations of the reproduction of images on the web. He's interested in considering the transposition of meaning as the site of meaning itself. Many thanks, Susan _________________________________________________________________ Susan Brown Director, Orlando Project; Project Leader, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory Professor Visiting Professor School of English and Theatre Studies English and Film Studies University of Guelph University of Alberta Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Canada Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5 519-824-4120 x53266 (office) 780-862-0155 519-766-0844 (fax) sbrown@uoguelph.ca susan.brown@ualberta.ca http://orlando.cambridge.org http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Apr 5 07:08:09 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09FB14F2AE; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 07:08:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 914F14F293; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 07:08:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100405070807.914F14F293@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 07:08:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.748 events: Amir Pnueli Memorial Symposium X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 748. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 10:03:40 +0100 From: MYV Subject: Amir Pnueli Memorial Symposium - May 7-9, 2010 Amir Pnueli Memorial Symposium New York University New York, New York, USA May 7-9, 2010 ======================================================== Amir Pnueli was one of the most influential computer scientists of our time. He published more than 250 papers, many of them groundbreaking, including the 1977 paper, "The Temporal Logic of Programs," for which he won the 1996 ACM Turing Award. On November 2, 2009, Amir unexpectedly passed away. His loss is felt deeply by friends and colleagues around the world. The Amir Pnueli Memorial Symposium is an opportunity for the computer science community to remember Amir by revisiting the ideas and challenges which inspired and defined his life's work. It will feature talks by a select group of internationally acclaimed researchers, including colleagues and former students of Amir. The symposium will take place at New York University on May 7-9, 2010. It is open to all who wish to attend. For more information and to register, please visit http://www.cs.nyu.edu/acsys/pnueli. ================== Schedule ================== May 7, 4:00 - 6:00pm - Remembering Amir Pnueli, with tributes from his family, friends, colleagues, and students. May 8, 8:15am - 6:00pm - Symposium Day 1 May 9, 8:30am - 5:30pm - Symposium Day 2 Symposium Speakers ================== Rajeev Alur University of Pennsylvania Krzysztof Apt Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica Egon Brger Universit di Pisa Manfred Broy Technische Universitt Mnchen Patrick Cousot New York University Werner Damm Carl von Ossietzky Universitt Oldenburg Willem-Paul De Roever Christian-Albrechts-Universitt zu Kiel E. Allen Emerson The University of Texas at Austin Javier Esparza Technische Universitt Mnchen David Harel The Weizmann Institute of Science Tom Henzinger EPFL Robert Kurshan Cadence Design Systems Leslie Lamport Microsoft Research Oded Maler CNRS-Verimag Ken McMillan Cadence Research Labs Stephan Merz INRIA Lorraine, LORIA Jayadev Misra University of Texas at Austin Catuscia Palamidessi cole Polytechnique Krishna Palem Rice University Doron Peled Bar Ilan University Nir Piterman Imperial College London Roni Rosner Intel Labs Muli Safra Tel Aviv University Giora Slutzki Iowa State University Ofer Strichman Technion Moshe Vardi Rice University Lenore Zuck University of Illinois at Chicago _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Apr 6 06:03:28 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C614AB35; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 06:03:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E24134AB24; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 06:03:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100406060326.E24134AB24@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 06:03:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.749 meaning by images; Recaptcha X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 749. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jeff Drouin (55) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.747 transposition of meaning by images? [2] From: Peter Organisciak (27) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.745 Recaptcha? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:28:59 -0400 From: Jeff Drouin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.747 transposition of meaning by images? In-Reply-To: <20100405070641.99E7A4F232@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Susan, I'm not sure if this is directly relevant to your student's query, but one of my projects, the Ecclesiastical Proust Archive, uses images to interpret the church motif in A la recherche du temps perdu. It consists of a searchable database of all church-related passages, paired with photographs showing the original churches or, where there is none, some architectural or other feature that captures the emotive or narrative spirit of the passage. http://proustarchive.org The project exists as a proof of concept and will be drastically changed and expanded over the coming year. The Rationale page provides a window into my thinking behind representational vs. interpretive images. However, there is much more to it, so your student should feel free to contact me directly at jsdrouin at gmail dot com. Best, Jeff || On Monday 05 April 2010 03:06:41 Humanist Discussion Group wrote: Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 747. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 18:31:16 -0400 From: Susan Brown Subject: image transposition on the web Does anyone know of any useful work (formal or informal) about the transposition of meaning in digital media through the recontextualization of a digital image? I have a graduate student who wants to consider the movement of meaning both in the works of John Cayley and on websites such as Tumblr and Ffffound, which reproduce and reframe already existent images, and he's been having difficulty finding material with which to frame his argument. Any suggestions of analyses that might be helpful, including work on mashups or phenomena such as reblogging/retweeting, would be very welcome, as would considerations of the reproduction of images on the web. He's interested in considering the transposition of meaning as the site of meaning itself. Many thanks, Susan _________________________________________________________________ Susan Brown Director, Orlando Project; Project Leader, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory Professor Visiting Professor School of English and Theatre Studies English and Film Studies University of Guelph University of Alberta Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Canada Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5 519-824-4120 x53266 (office) 780-862-0155 519-766-0844 (fax) sbrown@uoguelph.ca susan.brown@ualberta.ca http://orlando.cambridge.org http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:11:57 -0600 From: Peter Organisciak Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.745 Recaptcha? In-Reply-To: <20100405070641.99E7A4F232@woodward.joyent.us> > > I'd like to find out about the use of ReCaptcha in humanities projects of > various kinds or sizes. Are there any? Does it help with cleaning up OCR, > especially with texts before 1800? > > Martin Mueller > Martin, Though ReCaptcha is free to use, it is only within its capacity as a CAPTCHA — which is to say as a layar between users and a website to keep bots out. In implementing it, you can't control the texts being digitized. Also, since Google acquired them, I don't know if asking nicely would be effective. I came across a fellow that wanted to licence the ESP Game (an encoding project with the same PI as ReCaptcha) but was unable to because Google had also licensed that project. I can't confirm this, so take it as you will. As for your question, reCaptcha reported 99.1% accuracy in this Science article: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/321/5895/1465. If I recall, it used to be run on Internet Archive texts, and is now plowing through the New York Times archives: much more contemporary than that what you're asking about. However, if you are interested in building something similar, the fact that words are independently confirmed by multiple users cannot be understated, and I'd think it's reasonable to think that it would at least make worthwhile dent in texts before 1800. However, a point to remember if trying it yourself is that reCaptcha is constantly evolving to keep ahead of spammers, though a little fish implementation likely wouldn't have to worry about that. Peter _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Apr 6 06:07:29 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D408F4ABEC; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 06:07:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C7DBD4ABDB; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 06:07:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100406060727.C7DBD4ABDB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 06:07:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.750 April Fool in software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 750. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:28:31 -0300 From: "dennis c.l." Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.746 April Fool! In-Reply-To: <20100403052023.3CD4F51BBE@woodward.joyent.us> is the April fool moniker to do with the lack of content in this email? dennis cintra leite On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 746. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:16:36 -0500 (CDT) > From: rasmith@tamu.edu > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.743 new transcription initiative > In-Reply-To: <20100402055350.013954CD88@woodward.joyent.us> > > From: Humanist Discussion Group > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: > http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php > [Sorry, no, this is Humanist's software humourlessly joking with us. Unfortunately the original message has gone into the aether. Apologies on behalf of atoms and the void. --WM] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Apr 6 06:08:15 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 233EB4AC30; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 06:08:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 56F154AC20; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 06:08:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100406060813.56F154AC20@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 06:08:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.751 events: call for TEI workshops X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 751. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:31:32 +0900 From: Christian Wittern Subject: TEI MM 2010 Call for Workshops: Deadline extended to 2010-04-23! Dear HUMANIST readers, The international program committee for the next members meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative decided to extend the deadline for workshop proposals to April 23, 2010. The full Call for Workshop proposals with the new deadline is included below. All the best, Christian Wittern (PC Chair) ------------------------------------------------------- Call for pre-conference workshop and tutorial proposals TEI Applied: Digital Texts and Language Resources 2010 Annual Meeting of the TEI Consortium http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/ * Meeting venue: University of Zadar, Croatia * Meeting dates: Thu 11 November to Sun 14 November, 2010 * Workshop dates: Mon 08 November to Wed 10 November, 2010 * Workshop proposals due Fri April 23, 2010 Traditionally, the TEI Conference and Members' Meeting has been preceded by educational or research workshops. The goal of these workshops is to give members of the TEI community an opportunity to learn more about the use of the TEI markup under the guidance of experienced instructors and practitioners. In the past such workshops have ranged from a basic introduction to the use of TEI markup to more specialized sessions on specific aspects of the TEI or its use in specific domains. They have ranged in length from a single morning or afternoon to a maximum of two days. Workshops are run on a cost-recovery basis: a separate fee is charged of participants that is intended to cover the costs of running the workshop. We are now soliciting proposals for workshops for the 2010 Conference and Members' Meeting, to be held November 8-14 at University of Zadar, Croatia. Workshops are distinct from other conference activities, such as papers, sessions, and Special Interest Group meetings and we have tentatively reserved three days for them. These workshops should be educational in focus or involve hands-on work with a research problem. They should propose topics that are likely to be of interest to recognizable segments of the TEI community. Possible topics include: * An Introduction to TEI * TEI and libraries * Editorial practice and the TEI * Extending and customizing the TEI * Introduction to the ODD system * Using the TEI with other standards and markup languages * Images and the TEI * Use and development of tools and processes Proposals addressing other topics are welcome and encouraged. If you are interested in proposing a workshop for the 2010 Members Meeting and Conference, please email meeting@tei-c.org by April 23, 2010. Expressions of interest should include as much as possible of the following information (the committee is willing to work with proposers in developing their proposals): * A proposed topic * A rationale explaining why this topic is likely to be of interest to the TEI community * A proposed instructor or slate of instructors including brief discussion of relevant experience * Method of instruction * Preferred length for the workshop * A preliminary budget of your anticipated costs (if any). Organisational and infrastructure costs (e.g. coffee breaks and the like) will be determined later in conjunction with the local organising committee. Proposals will be evaluated by the program committee primarily on the basis of their likely appeal to the TEI community, the quality of the proposed instructors and method of instruction, and cost. The committee will work with selected organizers after this date to refine the details of their workshops. -- Christian Wittern Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 8 13:23:25 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28791523D9; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:23:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C556E523D1; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:23:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100408132323.C556E523D1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:23:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.752 meaning by images X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 752. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Charles van den Heuvel" (77) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.749 meaning by images; Recaptcha [2] From: Thomas.Gloning@germanistik.uni-giessen.de (11) Subject: [Humanist] 23.747 transposition of meaning by images? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 08:32:22 +0200 From: "Charles van den Heuvel" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.749 meaning by images; Recaptcha Dear Susan A colleague of mine, Sarah De Rijcke came up with this suggestion: The first reference that comes to my mind is Bolter & Grusin's _Remediation. Understanding new media._ It deals with the constant remediation of older media in newer media, and also aptly analyses the consequences of 'windowed' viewing of and interaction with visual images on the web. Best wishes, Charles Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Virtual Knowledge Studio for Humanities and Social Sciences Dr. Charles van den Heuvel Cruquiusweg 31 1019 AT Amsterdam +31-(0)20-8500283 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) charles.vandenheuvel@vks.knaw.nl Monday and Tuesday + 31-(0)43-3101455 ________________________________ Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 749. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jeff Drouin (55) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.747 transposition of meaning by images? [2] From: Peter Organisciak (27) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.745 Recaptcha? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:28:59 -0400 From: Jeff Drouin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.747 transposition of meaning by images? In-Reply-To: <20100405070641.99E7A4F232@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Susan, I'm not sure if this is directly relevant to your student's query, but one of my projects, the Ecclesiastical Proust Archive, uses images to interpret the church motif in A la recherche du temps perdu. It consists of a searchable database of all church-related passages, paired with photographs showing the original churches or, where there is none, some architectural or other feature that captures the emotive or narrative spirit of the passage. http://proustarchive.org http://proustarchive.org/ The project exists as a proof of concept and will be drastically changed and expanded over the coming year. The Rationale page provides a window into my thinking behind representational vs. interpretive images. However, there is much more to it, so your student should feel free to contact me directly at jsdrouin at gmail dot com. Best, Jeff || On Monday 05 April 2010 03:06:41 Humanist Discussion Group wrote: Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 747. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 18:31:16 -0400 From: Susan Brown Subject: image transposition on the web Does anyone know of any useful work (formal or informal) about the transposition of meaning in digital media through the recontextualization of a digital image? I have a graduate student who wants to consider the movement of meaning both in the works of John Cayley and on websites such as Tumblr and Ffffound, which reproduce and reframe already existent images, and he's been having difficulty finding material with which to frame his argument. Any suggestions of analyses that might be helpful, including work on mashups or phenomena such as reblogging/retweeting, would be very welcome, as would considerations of the reproduction of images on the web. He's interested in considering the transposition of meaning as the site of meaning itself. Many thanks, Susan _________________________________________________________________ Susan Brown Director, Orlando Project; Project Leader, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory Professor Visiting Professor School of English and Theatre Studies English and Film Studies University of Guelph University of Alberta Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Canada Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5 519-824-4120 x53266 (office) 780-862-0155 519-766-0844 (fax) sbrown@uoguelph.ca susan.brown@ualberta.ca http://orlando.cambridge.org http://orlando.cambridge.org/ http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:54:34 +0200 From: Thomas.Gloning@germanistik.uni-giessen.de Subject: [Humanist] 23.747 transposition of meaning by images? In-Reply-To: Dear Susan, I am equally not sure if this is relevant to your student's needs. Anyhow: my colleague Hans-Jürgen Bucher, Univ. of Trier, one of the champions of research into multimodality, points to the following item: Iedema, Rick 2003: "Multimodality, Resemiotization: Extending the Analysis of Discourse as Multi-Semiotic Practice." Visual Communication 2(1): 29-57. It might be worth the while to scrutinize the newer items of this journal as well and to check the publications of authors like Kress, Van Leeuwen, O'Halloran, Jewitt, Bateman, to name but a few. Best, Thomas _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 8 13:23:50 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1626B52540; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:23:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 17397524B0; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:23:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100408132349.17397524B0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:23:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.753 Grafton on British universities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 753. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:02:17 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Grafton on British universities Colleagues here who have heard dire words about what is happening now to British universities, King's College London in particular, will want to read Princeton historian Anthony Grafton's article, "Britain: The disgrace of the universities", published by the New York Review of Books, blogs.nybooks.com/post/437005501/britain-the-disgrace-of-the-universities. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London: staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 8 13:26:40 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7703C525CE; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:26:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AF539525BF; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:26:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100408132638.AF539525BF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:26:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.754 postgrad internship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 754. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:04:29 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Postgraduate_Internshiprtext_Stack Postgraduate Internship (12 Week Fixed-Term Contract) St. Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack Activity The St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack Activity (www.dho.ie/confessio http://www.dho.ie/confessio ) is one of two “Academy Digital Resources” projects which are funded under Cycle Four of the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI-4); they operate in collaboration with the Digital Humanities Observatory (further information on which may be found at www.dho.ie http://www.dho.ie/ ). The Stack is based on digitally captured scholarly material and is being built up into a virtual research environment so as to present, on the web, key stages in the text-history of St Patrick’s iconic Latin Confessio. Facsimiles of the manuscript witnesses are being supplemented by several layers of significant contextual material, including the corresponding passages as they appear in diplomatic transcription, in critical editions, and in translation. The RIA now invites applications for the following fixed-term contract position with the Hypertext Stack, to begin in June 2010 (dates are to some degree flexible): Postgraduate Internship – (Fixed-Term Contract – 12 Weeks) 1. The Task: Reporting to the Postdoctoral Researcher, Franz Fischer, the Postgraduate Intern will help with some of the Stack's fundamental editorial work, involving detailed proof-reading of digital renderings of texts that relate to the Confessio, together with some basic encoding thereof. The Postgraduate Intern will also be involved in assisting with the dissemination of information on the project and its promotion, and may be required to participate in some related workshops. 2. Qualifications and Experience: A basic understanding, and preferably some experience, of digital text encoding will be required. Also indispensable will be general editorial skills, an understanding of Latin, and an ability at least to read the Greek alphabet. The successful candidate will have a meticulous eye for detail, and a willingness to communicate the project in seminar or similar settings. Postgraduate Interns must be registered at a PRTLI-eligible third-level institution at the time of taking up the internship. 3. Salary: A salary of €21,864 per annum will be offered on a pro rata basis. PRSI is payable at the A1 rate. Further information and details of the application process are available on www.ria.ie http://www.ria.ie/ and www.hea.ie http://www.hea.ie/ . The closing date for applications is Friday, 30th April 2010. Applicants will be short listed on the basis of the information provided in their application. 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For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 8 13:27:40 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C9052657; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:27:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A4C5C52647; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:27:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100408132739.A4C5C52647@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:27:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.755 new publications: ISR and LLC X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 755. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (29) Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 35.1 [2] From: Willard McCarty (29) Subject: Literary and Linguistic Computing 25.1 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:28:09 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 35.1 Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 35.1: Seeing Science: The Sight/Insight of Scandinavian Art www.isr-journal.org/ Editorial McCarty, Willard; Fuller, Steve 1-4(4) Seeing Science: The Sight/Insight of Scandinavian Art Friedman, Robert Marc 5-6(2) How Edvard Munch and August Strindberg Contracted Protoplasmania: Memory, Synesthesia, and the Vibratory Organism in Fin-de-Siecle Europe Brain, Robert Michael 7-38(32) Richard Bergh: Natural Science and National Art in Sweden Facos, Michelle 39-50(12) Making the Aurora Norwegian: Science and Image in the Making of a Tradition Friedman, Robert Marc 51-68(18) Angels, Demons, Birds and Dinosaurs: Creativity, Meaning and Truth in the Life, Art and Science of Gerhard Heilmann (18591946) Ries, Christopher Jacob 69-91(23) Reviews: 92-102(11) -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:19:27 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Literary and Linguistic Computing 25.1 Literary and Linguistic Computing 25.1 (April 2010) Stephen Brown and Mark Greengrass Research portals in the arts and humanities Mike Conway Mining a corpus of biographical texts using keywords Hugh Craig and R. Whipp Old spellings, new methods: automated procedures for indeterminate linguistic data Donald Derrick and Daniel Archambault TreeForm: Explaining and exploring grammar through syntax trees Ward E. Y. Elliott and Robert J. Valenza Two tough nuts to crack: did Shakespeare write the 'Shakespeare' portions of Sir Thomas More and Edward III? Part I Mark Myslin and Stefan Th. Gries k dixez? A corpus study of Spanish Internet orthography Oliver Hellwig Etymological trends in the Sanskrit vocabulary Jen-Jou Hung, Marcus Bingenheimer, and Simon Wiles Quantitative evidence for a hypothesis regarding the attribution of early Buddhist translations ---------------------------------------------------------------- Review ---------------------------------------------------------------- Iris Hendrickx What's In A Word-List? Investigating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction. Dawn Archer (ed.). -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London: staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 8 13:35:16 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC71528F2; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:35:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AFD05528EB; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:35:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100408133514.AFD05528EB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:35:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.756 events: playing games; Alberta lecture series; ESF cfp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 756. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stan Ruecker (51) Subject: Willard McCarty Lecture Series on Computing and Reading, April 7-14 [2] From: Humanities (25) Subject: ESF Call for proposals for Conferences in 2012 [3] From: Franca Garzotto (27) Subject: ACM IDC 2010Workshop on Interactive Storytelling for Children [4] From: Stephane Natkin (11) Subject: RIA special issue on SERIOUS GAMES [5] From: "Dr. Lennart Nacke" (26) Subject: cfp: Workshop on Playability and player experience of casual games [6] From: "El Rhalibi, Abdennour" (8) Subject: Hindawi International Journal of Computer Games Technology - Digital Interactive Storytelling special issue --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:33:08 -0600 From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Willard McCarty Lecture Series on Computing and Reading, April 7-14 Dear all, In case anyone is in Edmonton in the next few days, we are very pleased at the University of Alberta to have Willard in our midst. Announcement below. Sincerely, Stan Ruecker ****** You are cordially invited to attend the “Computing and Reading” Lecture Series April 7-13 Willard McCarty from King’s College London U of A Distinguished Visitor Computing and reading is a series of lectures from my current research toward a book on the history of computing in the study of literature. In it I take up computing’s unfulfilled and often lamented promise to become, in Margaret Masterman’s stirring phrase of 1962, a critical “telescope for the mind” with effects on literary studies comparable to Galileo’s on our conception of the world. Many explanations have been offered for the failure of computing to transform or even significantly influence literary studies, but with very few exceptions these have not taken notice of the wider historical context in which computing has developed, multiplied, spread and interpenetrated our imaginations. They have offered a narrow chronological view of specialist achievements, not a genuine history. Here I make first efforts toward such a history. A Pisgah-sight of readers and texts Town and Gown lecture: Wed April 7 6:30 pm reception Telus 236 7:00 - 8:30 pm lecture If we imagine a future for readers and their texts in which computing provided the “machine to think with”, what might that future be? If we accept that the book as we know it is a machine, and we imagine in addition to it a different sort of machine that, like a loom, we might use to accomplish kinds of work for which previous methods were not well adapted, what would that machine do? The profits of anxiety and failure: Critics and computing 1949-1991 Thurs April 8 11:00 am - 12:00 pm public talk Arts Senate Chambers (326 Arts) Emergent theory: Writing a recent history for the present Fri April 9 2:00 - 3:00 pm public talk Arts Senate Chambers (326 Arts) Excitement elsewhere: Cybernetics and complementarity Mon April 12 2:00 - 3:00 pm public talk Humanities Centre 2-37 The future: What’s going on? What’s to be done? Tues April 13 11:00 am - 12:00 pm public talk Arts Senate Chambers (326 Arts) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 11:04:58 +0200 From: Humanities Subject: ESF Call for proposals for Conferences in 2012 Call for proposals 2012 The European Science Foundation invites scientists to submit proposals for high-level research conferences to take place in 2012 within the framework of its research conference scheme. The Call for Proposals for 2012 ESF Research Conferences is now open. Researchers are invited to submit proposals on the following topics:   . Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences . Molecular Biology+ . Mathematics . Physics/Biophysics and Environmental Sciences . Social Sciences and Humanities The deadline for submitting proposals is 15 September 2010. Link: http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/call-for-proposals ESF Contact: Anne Blondel (ablondeel@esf.org) European Science Foundation Humanities Unit 1 quai Lezay Marnésia BP 90015 F - 67080 Strasbourg Tel +33 (0)388 76 71 26 Fax +33 (0)388 76 71 81 Email: humanities@esf.org Web: http://www.esf.org/human P Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:31:21 +0100 From: Franca Garzotto Subject: ACM IDC 2010Workshop on Interactive Storytelling for Children First International Workshop on INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING FOR CHILDREN http://hoc.elet.polimi.it/idc/2010/ Barcelona (Spain), June 12, 2010 (full day) in conjunction with IDC 2010 ­ the 9th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (http://www.iua.upf.es/idc2010/) ACM IDC 2010 is the major multidisciplinary international forum where to discuss children's needs in relationship to interactive technology and present the most innovative research in the field of interaction design for young people. Within the context of IDC 2010, the goal of this full-day workshop is to bring together researchers from a wide spectrum of disciplines who share a common interest in understanding the challenges of interactive storytelling for children. A selection of the position papers will appear in IDC 2010 conference proceedings and ACM Digital Library. The best submissions will be invited to appear as full papers in a special issue of the International Journal of Arts and Technology, IJART ( http://www.inderscience.com/ijart www.inderscience.com/ijart). IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline for workshop position papers: April 8, 2010 Notification of acceptance for submitted position papers: April 20, 2010 Camera ready versions of accepted papers: May 3, 2010 For detailed updated information: http://hoc.elet.polimi.it/idc/2010/ [...] --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:31:50 +0100 From: Stephane Natkin Subject: RIA special issue on SERIOUS GAMES CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE RIA (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE JOURNAL) http://ria.revuesonline.com/ « SERIOUS GAMES » From Serious to Ludic Activities, Design and Architecture, Psychological and Sociological issues Guest Editors: Jean-Marc Labat (University of Paris 6), Stéphane Natkin (CNAM) Paper submission deadline: 29 April 2010 GOALS AND TOPICS The concept of Serious Gaming can be considered from two main points of view: “Non gaming computer applications relying on the technology or the principles of computer games”, or “ Computer games main goal of which is not related to entertainment”. Whatever meaning is given to this term, the Serious Games industry is growing rapidly, partly as a consequence of several government initiatives in Europe, Asia and America. Game studios and publishers, education and communication companies, government agencies… are involved in the design, development and marketing of Serious Games. The development of Serious Games leads to numerous research problems starting from psychological and sociological topics (user engagement, educative principles, social adoption) to design (Game Design for Serious Games) and technological ones (specific architectures and tools). The goal of this special issue is to provide a state of the art on these topics. Submission may cover either theoretical contributions, analysis of new applications of Serious Games, and innovative examples of Serious Games. [...] --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:31:59 +0100 From: "Dr. Lennart Nacke" Subject: cfp: Workshop on Playability and player experience of casual games In-Reply-To: CALL FOR PAPERS Playability and player experience of casual games K.U.Leuven, 15 September 2010 workshop in conjunction with the Fun and Games Conference 2010 This workshop focuses on the development and use of all kinds of playability and player experience measures, like quantitative metrics and data harvesting, to evaluate digital games. Playtesting metrics are very much in demand and yet not much often used within the casual gaming industry, although already standard practice in the larger game development studios. Therefore all game genres are addressed, but casual games are considered the preferred focus. Introducing a system for player experience evaluation earlier in the game design cycle will influence the final design as well while still under development. The focus of this workshop consist therefore in defining which methods are best to apply in the casual game domain, and in analyzing their efficacy and applicability. Call for papers Position papers are invited on the use of different evaluation methods for digital games. Special attention is given to quantitative metrics, especially when applied to casual games. Additional issues include the specific nature and value of evaluation techniques/methodologies that can be used during the game development process, the player experience associated with it and its implications for interface design. The workshop will include thematically organized formal presentations, followed by group discussions. [...] --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:29:00 +0100 From: "El Rhalibi, Abdennour" Subject: Hindawi International Journal of Computer Games Technology - Digital Interactive Storytelling special issue In-Reply-To: Extended Deadline to May 1, 2010. Digital Interactive Storytelling http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijcgt/osi.html Call for Papers In recent years, the field of Digital Interactive Storytelling (DIS) has enjoyed a keen interest in both academic circles and the game industry. DIS allows creating a bespoke story according to user interactions. As a mixture of storytelling, game technologies, and user interactions, DIS provides users the ability to interact with the storyteller and the story characters in real-time, so that dynamic and customized storylines can be generated. DIS, including novel forms of gameplay, medical application, and serious games, guarantees to become an important research area. DIS provides access to shared themes through stories, and promises to advance significantly the potential for interactive entertainment, computer games, and other digital interactive applications. DIS research identifies challenges and solutions for redefining our understanding of narrative structure and theory through interactive simulations in computer-generated story worlds. DIS could also be enhanced with the convergence of sociology, pedagogy, and edutainment. Recently, computer games have been deployed for educational purposes and proven to be an effective approach for learning and teaching. Many conceptual similarities exist between storytelling and educational gaming. The development of DIS will thus make a huge contribution that will expand the horizons in the fields of games, interactive entertainment, and edutainment. In this special issue, we invite submission of papers from current research in the multidisciplinary research field of DIS and its related technology and application areas, for example, games, virtual/online worlds, e-learning, edutainment, and entertainment, including but not limited to: [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Apr 9 11:18:32 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C6054F21D; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:18:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7EB6E4F20C; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:18:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100409111830.7EB6E4F20C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:18:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.757 meaning by images X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 757. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elli Mylonas (15) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.752 meaning by images [2] From: "Conway, Paul" (18) Subject: transposition of meaning by images? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:29:44 -0400 From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.752 meaning by images In-Reply-To: <20100408132323.C556E523D1@woodward.joyent.us> "Reflexive Representations", work from 2006 by Ian Russell, who is currently a postdoc here at Brown may be of relevance. He and his collaborators have worked with photomosaics made up of images from the web, to highlight and illustrate the interplay between how things are identified (tagged) and what we may imagine or expect when doing a search for a particular keyword. Their context is archaeology, so for ex. they look for words like "Greece" and make photomosaics of Parthenon metopes, using what comes up when you look for "Greece" in flickr or other sites. See http://www.iarchitectures.com/rrexhibit.html The site has further bibliography. --elli [Elli Mylonas Center for Digital Scholarship Brown University library.brown.edu/cds] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 15:57:23 -0400 From: "Conway, Paul" Subject: transposition of meaning by images? In-Reply-To: <20100408132323.C556E523D1@woodward.joyent.us> Susan, My research at the University of Michigan focuses on this issue as it pertains to the digitization of archival photographs. I presented a potentially relevant paper at the first Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (2009). https://letterpress.uchicago.edu/index.php/jdhcs/article/viewArticle/12 At this summer's DH 2010 conference in London, I am presenting additional research findings on interpretation and meaning from the perspective of experienced users of digitized photographs. I would be happy to talk to your graduate student about his research. Paul Conway Associate Professor School of Information University of Michigan _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Apr 9 11:19:33 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0B474F3E8; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:19:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3D7F74F3E1; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:19:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100409111932.3D7F74F3E1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:19:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.758 skills for humanities computing? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 758. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 14:44:32 +0100 From: Alexander Hay Subject: What Would Be A Good Basic Skill-set For Humanities Computing Jobs? Out of interest, what would be the bare minimum any would-be Humanities Computing researcher should have in terms of skills? By that, I mean what should you know in order to be eligible for most jobs, funding opportunities etc.? _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Apr 9 11:21:10 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65BA44F64B; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:21:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7F13F4F4D9; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:21:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100409112108.7F13F4F4D9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:21:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.759 events: art history online; epigraphy X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 759. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Arianna Ciula (38) Subject: ESF-COST Conference on Networked Humanities: Art History in the Web: Call for Applications/Papers [2] From: Charlotte Roueche (17) Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] ParisSeminar --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:47:10 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF-COST Conference on Networked Humanities: Art History in the Web: Call for Applications/Papers Call for Applications/Papers - ESF-COST Conference on Networked Humanities: Art History in the Web, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, 9-14 October 2010 Chair: Hubertus Kohle - Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Deutsches Historisches Institut, DE Programme Committee: Claudine Moulin - Trier University, DE & Lea Rojola - University of Turku, FI Since the earliest times, new technologies have contributed to profound scientific advances and have transformed the ways we can do research. It is claimed today that the World Wide Web offers revolutionary models of scientific cooperation, which promise to instantiate a utopian democracy of knowledge. This claim has repeatedly been associated with the development and introduction of a collaborative Web, commonly referred to as 'Web 2.0' as well as its offspring, a semantically enriched Web 3.0 still in the making The aim of this conference is to bring together art historians and other researchers (including digital humanists) in order to investigate the intersection between the web and collaborative research processes, via an examination of electronic media-based cooperative models in the history of art and beyond. The conference will not only be an occasion to exchange ideas and present relevant projects in the field, but,with contributions spanning from art history (and digital art) to philosophy and cultural studies, from psychology and sociology of knowledge to computer graphics, from semiotics to curatorial practices it will offer a unique forum for the representation of both diversified and complementary approaches to the topic of Networked humanities. Conference format: - lectures by invited high level speakers - short talks by young & early stage researchers - poster sessions, round table and open discussion periods - forward look panel discussion about future developments Invited Speakers will include: - Patrick Danowski, CERN Geneva, CH - Matteo d'Alfonso, Università di Bologna, IT - Francesca Gallo, University of Rome "La Sapienza", IT - Charlie Gere, University of Lancaster, UK - Gudrun Gersmann, German Historical Institute Paris, FR - Guenther Goerz, University of Erlangen, Institute of Computer Science, DE - Halina Gottlieb, Interactive Institute, Kista, SE - Gerhard Nauta, University of Leiden, NL - Robert Stein, Indianapolis Museum of Arts, US [List to be completed] A good number of grants are available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and possibly part of the travel costs. Grant requests should be made by ticking appropriate field(s) in the paragraph "Grant application" of the application form. Full conference programme and application form are accessible online from www.esf.org/conferences/10342. ESF-COST Contact for further information: Zuzana Vercinska - zuzana.vercinska@cost.eu Closing date for applications: 18 July 2010 This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with COST European Cooperation in Science and Technology. == Dr. Arianna Ciula Science Officer European Science Foundation Humanities Unit 1 quai Lezay Marnésia BP 90015 F-67080 Strasbourg France Email: aciula@esf.org Tel: +33 (0) 388767104 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 19:57:09 +0100 From: Charlotte Roueche Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] ParisSeminar ANTHROPOLOGIE ET ÉCONOMIE DU MONDE ROMAIN Séminaire de Mireille CORBIER École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm, – le lundi 17 mai 2010 – exceptionnellement en salle de séminaire du Centre d’études anciennes, au rez-de-chaussée à droite, intervention du professeur Joseph Denooz « Épigraphie et informatique » ---------------------------- Professor Charlotte Roueché Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies/Department of Classics King's College London WC2R 2LS direct tel. + 44 20.7848 2515 fax + 44 20.7848 2545 charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/bmgs/staff/roueche.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 10 12:54:48 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA0175459A; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:54:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C71FA54589; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:54:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100410125446.C71FA54589@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:54:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.760 skills for humanities computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 760. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Barbara Bordalejo (40) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.758 skills for humanities computing? [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (20) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.758 skills for humanities computing? [3] From: Willard McCarty (48) Subject: basic skills? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:57:42 +0100 From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.758 skills for humanities computing? In-Reply-To: <20100409111932.3D7F74F3E1@woodward.joyent.us> There is one absolute requirement for Humanities Computing: you must belong to the TEI. You don't necessarily need to know XML (although it might be good if you understood how it works) but you have to know the standard software used to process it (when I say standard, I mean software commonly used by TEI members and generally open source). If you want a job in Humanities Computing then you should be able to use Oxygen and XQuery. You get brownie points for being able to write XSLT. BB --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:42:35 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.758 skills for humanities computing? In-Reply-To: <20100409111932.3D7F74F3E1@woodward.joyent.us> On Apr 9, 2010, at 5:19 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Out of interest, what would be the bare minimum any would-be Humanities > Computing researcher should have in terms of skills? By that, I mean what > should you know in order to be eligible for most jobs, funding opportunities > etc.? Alexander Hay asks an interesting question about basic skills that could us to defining boundaries as to who is in and out. Boundary setting is something I believe we should avoid for a bit longer, especially since humanities computing is a field that has generally been welcoming and should stay so. That said, it is still useful to ask the question as Hay does in order to help students who want to pursue jobs in the field. So, I've tried to answer it in that spirit - what skills could you acquire to be positioned to be hired. Here is my list: * Ability to represent humanities evidence digitally following best practices for scholarly digitization. This would mean that the researcher would be familiar with discussions, research, standards, and guidelines around the representation of a type of evidence. They would be expected to have some experience actually digitizing authentic evidence whether it is text or images or other. For those who want to present themselves as well prepared to do a scholarly text project that would mean being conversant with XML, TEI and the discussions around best practices for digitization/encoding of texts. I would not, however, say that a researcher has to know about text encoding necessarily, though it dominated the early decades of the field; they could specialize in geospatial representation or historical data. My point is that they have experience and knowledge in one recognizable area of digitization, preferably the area needed for the job, though I would generally trust that if they know one area well they could learn others as needed as they would have an appreciation of how much is lost and gained in digitization. * Understanding of the possibilities for the manipulation of digitized evidence in some field. This sounds obscure, but again I feel it is important that a researcher has struggled with what applications can do with data. I would not, however want to prescribe which applications or which type of data. If a researcher wanted to present themselves as competent with electronic texts then I would expect them to have an understanding and basic facility with text editing tools (XML editors), text manipulation technologies (XSLT), text publishing tools (especially for the web), and possibly analytical tools. I would not expect as part of the "bare minimum" that the person be able to set up such tools on a server or that they could program them, but I would expect them to be able to understand their place and be able to use whatever variant was needed with minimum instruction. Again, I would not expect expertise necessarily in text tools, but I would expect comparable understanding in whatever area of evidence they presented themselves as competent at. * Understanding of how to imagine, design, carry through, document, and finish off a digital humanities project. In other words they should be able to participate in a project in some recognizable and significant capacity. Ideally they would have the skills to act as a project manager if needed, but Hay asks for "bare minimum." As part of this I would hope that they would be familiar with the types of documents typical of projects from proposals to training manuals. Likewise, I would expect that they would have the basic people skills to be a welcome participant in a project. To be honest the most important skill when hiring is whether the person gets things done in a timely fashion and communicates effectively. A smart person can be learn most of the technical skills needed for a project, but someone who can't learn and work unsupervised ends up costing the project more than they are worth and doesn't get rehired. * Closely connected with the previous skill is the ability to communicate using the variety of tools typically used on projects. (See below for a list of some that are applicable now.) More important than the tools is the ability to write effectively which usually means being able to think clearly. For academic projects it is also very important that the person understand the importance of accurate and detailed communication. By this I mean things like being able to maintain a bibliography or getting technical details right. There is nothing worse than realizing that someone you trusted with detailed information did not pay attention to the details. * Some knowledge of the community and its history so as to be able to contribute to the community. It would be nice if they had attended a conference or regional workshop of some sort because when you hire someone you often need them to interact with others and hope that they will help publish the project. For this reason it would be nice if they knew enough to be able to write a paper proposal and give a paper that would be recognizable as a contribution. Obviously this would mean that they are capable of original research in the field, and that too would be good, though it is hard to define and it might not be a bare minimum for positions that are not faculty positions. That said, for a faculty position this would be the most important "skill" - the ability to do publishable research. * Some other skills that I would expect today, but which change over time would be: - Familiarity with social media tools like blogging, wikis, and twitter. These are used a lot by projects for documentation and communication. - Ability to edit HTML and to be able to build a simple web site. We all seem to end up needing web pages edited now and then. - Ability to use bibliographic tools to maintain a project bibliography whether it is RefWorks, Zotero or something else. - Ability to use shared documents like Google Docs. - Ability to read and edit a spreadsheet with a budget. - Ability to prepare slides (PowerPoint or other) for training or a conference. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:51:29 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: basic skills? In-Reply-To: <20100409111932.3D7F74F3E1@woodward.joyent.us> In Humanist 23.768 Alexander Hay asks, > Out of interest, what would be the bare minimum any would-be Humanities > Computing researcher should have in terms of skills? By that, I mean what > should you know in order to be eligible for most jobs, funding opportunities > etc.? At one level this is a question implicitly at least asked and answered by those who set up programmes in the field, especially undergraduate programmes. It becomes less important the more academic and the less professional the training becomes. It's certainly not one of the central questions arising out of the PhD programmes that I can observe or imagine. For students at the PhD level (few of whom, I'd suppose, have passed through any undergraduate programme in humanities computing) it's simply not an issue, or rather, which skills the student needs depends entirely on what the student proposes to work on. It seems to me, however, that as asked about participation in the field generally, it's altogether the wrong question to be asking. Asking it pushes what is meant by humanities computing toward fields we associate with the techno-sciences. But even there it has an unfortunate narrowing effect. I doubt (but do not know) whether one could produce such a list, applicable to practitioners of the field, for many of the techno-sciences that would not have to be heavily qualified. Take TEI, for example. I would say that there are a number of ways in which someone in training could gain the essential knowledge of what markup can and cannot do, TEI being just one of them, and by far not the simplest, most efficient of the lot. Marking up texts is not the only life. True, knowing TEI-XML makes one more likely to get a job somewhere, though not an academic job. And again, thinking in those terms, of becoming oneself or making someone else employable, shifts what we have in mind away from the humanities and away from scholarly work. Is that what we want to do? Another way of saying this is to argue for a loose consensus about what undergraduate programmes should train students to do as far as skills are concerned but to recognize that undergraduate training provides two paths: (1) basic training for those who have bought into the notion that education is for full-time employment, who want the degree in order to get a job; (2) a highly simplified starting point for those who will go on to dwell on the questions that make for a life worth living. Apart from the appalling misunderstanding of higher education to which the former attests, in my experience it also doesn't work very well because students can do much better elsewhere. Who among us could stomach teaching students enough of what they don't already know so as to help them get a job? Aren't they much better off going to a technical college? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London: staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 10 12:56:24 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DEB8545F4; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:56:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 127C9545E6; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:56:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100410125623.127C9545E6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:56:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.761 publications: a suggestion X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 761. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:22:30 -0500 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.755 new publications: ISR and LLC Just a thought, but one of the niceties that has evolved out of longstanding discussion boards like Slashdot is to note what content is open access and what content is behind a pay wall ... It makes it easier to forward such posts to interested colleagues who may not be on the DH list and thus not have the contextual/traditional knowledge of what is open and what is closed. -- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana – Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 337-482-5493 laudun@louisiana.edu http://johnlaudun.org/ ResearcherID: A-5742-2009 Twitter/Flickr: johnlaudun _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Apr 13 15:06:47 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8FDE56484; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:06:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 794ED56474; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:06:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100413150645.794ED56474@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:06:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.762 skills for humanities computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 762. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:50:26 -0600 From: Mark Davies Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.760 skills for humanities computing In-Reply-To: <20100410125446.C71FA54589@woodward.joyent.us> >> There is one absolute requirement for Humanities Computing: you must belong to the TEI. You don't necessarily need to know XML (although it might be good if you understood how it works) but you have to know the standard software used to process it (when I say standard, I mean software commonly used by TEI members and generally open source). I guess it depends on how one defines "humanities computing" and whether corpus linguistics is part of it (I like to think that it is). For large 100-400 million word corpora (like those at corpus.byu.edu), TEI and XML are often more of a hindrance than a help. While TEI and XML might work nicely for small 1-10 million word collections of texts, they are simply not scalable enough and are far too cumbersome for "industrial strength" corpora, where relational databases are the norm (SQL Server, mySQL, or architectures like Corpus Workbench, Sketch Engine, BNCweb, etc; which are based on underlying RDBMs). Mark Davies ============================================ Mark Davies Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics Brigham Young University (phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906 Web: http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases ** ** Historical linguistics // Language variation ** ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese ** ============================================ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Apr 13 15:07:58 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3DB564D8; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:07:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BF0CD564C9; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:07:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100413150755.BF0CD564C9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:07:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.763 new on WWW: Google Books bib X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 763. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:15:31 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Google Books Bibliography, Version 6 Version 6 of the Google Books Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. http://digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm This bibliography presents over 310 selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Books. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Books and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation (http://bit.ly/GW4Ih) from the University of Houston Libraries, see the Digital Scholarship Publications Overview (http://bit.ly/1tsW5s) and the Digital Scholarship Chronology (http://bit.ly/9IQ2es). The following recent Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: o Digital Scholarship 2009 (http://bit.ly/dCMnd5): 504-page paperback that includes four bibliographies: the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2009 Annual Edition, the Institutional Repository Bibliography, the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, and the Google Book Search Bibliography. o Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 2 (http://bit.ly/B0Xsf): Includes over 700 selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding institutional repositories. o Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 4 (http://bit.ly/1eyLv5): Includes over 130 selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://digital-scholarship.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Apr 13 15:08:50 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 231495650E; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:08:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 08FA556500; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:08:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100413150849.08FA556500@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:08:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.764 events: TEI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 764. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:43:30 +0900 From: Christian Wittern Subject: TEI MM2010 call for papers (reminder) This is a reminder about the call for papers for the next TEI members meeting, the call is scheduled to close May 1st, 2010. There is also new and updated information concerning keynote speakers and the publication of papers. -- Christian =========================================================== Call for proposals TEI Applied: Digital Texts and Language Resources 2010 Annual Meeting of the TEI Consortium http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/ * Meeting venue: University of Zadar, Croatia * Meeting dates: Thu 11 November to Sun 14 November, 2010 * Workshop dates: Mon 08 November to Wed 10 November, 2010 The Program Committee of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium invites individual paper proposals, panel sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but not exclusively, on digital texts, language resources and any topic that applies TEI to its research. Confirmed Keynote Speakers * Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia) * Ian Gregory (Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK) Submission Topics Topics might include but are not restricted to: * TEI and natural language processing * TEI and language resources * Analyzing and quantifying encoded texts * Aggregation and compilation * Integrating the TEI with other technologies and standards * Tools that create and process TEI data * TEI used in conjunction with other technologies and standards * TEI as: o metadata standard o interchange format: sharing, mapping, and migrating data In addition, we are seeking micropaper proposals for 5 minute presentations on how you applied TEI. Submission Types Individual paper presentations will be allocated 30 minutes: 20 minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions & answers. Panel sessions will be allocated 1.5 hours and may be of varied formats, including: * three paper panels: 3 papers on the same or related topics * round table discussion: 3-6 presenters on a single theme. Ample time should be left for questions & answers after brief presentations. Posters (including tool demonstrations) will be presented during the poster session. The local organizer will provide flip charts and tables for poster session/tool demonstration presenters, along with wireless internet access. Each poster will have the opportunity to participate in a slam immediately preceding the poster session. Micropapers will be allocated 5 minutes. Submission Procedure All proposals should be submitted at http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ by May 1st, 2010. You will need to create an account (i.e., username and password) in order to file a submission. For each submission, you may upload files to the system after you have completed filling out demographic data and the abstract. * Individual paper or poster session proposals (including tool demonstrations): o Please submit a brief abstract (no more than 500 words) in the "Abstract" field. o Supporting materials (including graphics, multimedia, etc., or even a copy of the complete paper) may be uploaded after the initial abstract is submitted. * Micropaper: o The procedure is the same as for an individual paper, however the abstract should be no more than 300 words, but may be as short as the name of the feature. o Please be sure the abstract mentions the feature to be presented! * Panel sessions: o The panel organizer submits an abstract for the entire session, listing the proposed papers, and explaining the organizing theme and rationale for the inclusion of the papers in no more than 500 words in the "Abstract" field. o The panel members each submit a separate complete individual paper proposal; see above. The program committee reserves the right to accept papers submitted as part of a panel without accepting the whole panel. All proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers. Those interested in holding working paper sessions outside the meeting session tracks should contact the meeting organizers at meeting@tei-c.org to schedule a room. Please send queries to meeting@tei-c.org . Conference submissions will be considered for conference proceedings in a peer-reviewed journal. Further details on the submission process will be forthcoming. For the program committee, Christian Wittern (PC chair) -- Christian Wittern Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Apr 21 10:08:42 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4500851FA5; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:08:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 21B8551EF2; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:08:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100421100840.21B8551EF2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:08:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.765 ashes & messages X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 765. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:07:41 +0100 (BST) From: "Willard McCarty" Subject: ashes and messages Dear colleagues, The poor behaviour of Humanist in recent days has been due to the perturbations in my normal routine while in transit -- and for the last few days, because of the volcanic ash that has stranded me in Toronto and so made normal activities difficult to impossible. I am hoping for a resumption of the usual by the beginning of next week. Meanwhile please do not hesitate to send in postings. I now have a temporary setup that will serve the purpose. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Apr 21 10:10:16 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D05BC52046; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:10:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 638A852035; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:10:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100421101015.638A852035@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:10:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.766 meaning by images; tools for humanists X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 766. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Laudun (4) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.760 skills for humanities computing [2] From: Melissa Terras (84) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.757 meaning by images [3] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (2) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.757 meaning by images --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:21:57 -0500 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.760 skills for humanities computing On 2010-04-10, at 07:54 , Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > There is one absolute requirement for Humanities Computing: you must > belong to the TEI. And those of us not working with texts are simply not part of humanities computing? --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:33:19 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.757 meaning by images In-Reply-To: <20100409111830.7EB6E4F20C@woodward.joyent.us> There is a lot written in Art History about the reuse and "visual quoting" of images that could be usefully applied to the digital realm. A good starting point is "Metapictures" in W. J. T. Mitchell's "Picture Theory", Uni of Chicago Press, 1994. (A primary text for art history students). Melissa On 09/04/2010 12:18, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 757. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Elli Mylonas (15) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.752 meaning by images > > [2] From: "Conway, Paul" (18) > Subject: transposition of meaning by images? > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:29:44 -0400 > From: Elli Mylonas > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.752 meaning by images > In-Reply-To:<20100408132323.C556E523D1@woodward.joyent.us> > > "Reflexive Representations", work from 2006 by Ian Russell, who is > currently a postdoc here at Brown may be of relevance. He and his > collaborators have worked with photomosaics made up of images from the > web, to highlight and illustrate the interplay between how things are > identified (tagged) and what we may imagine or expect when doing a > search for a particular keyword. Their context is archaeology, so for > ex. they look for words like "Greece" and make photomosaics of > Parthenon metopes, using what comes up when you look for "Greece" in > flickr or other sites. > > See http://www.iarchitectures.com/rrexhibit.html > The site has further bibliography. --elli > > [Elli Mylonas > Center for Digital Scholarship > Brown University > library.brown.edu/cds] > > [...] -- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication Department of 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@ucl.ac.uk Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/melissa-terras/ Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/ Deputy Manager, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:18:25 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.757 meaning by images In-Reply-To: <20100409111830.7EB6E4F20C@woodward.joyent.us> One vein to tap into regarding images being re-selected and shuffled is the work of Lev Manovich on database cinema. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Apr 21 10:11:41 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E60A520F5; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:11:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 467C8520E6; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:11:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100421101139.467C8520E6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:11:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.767 funding for preservation & access research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 767. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:17:49 -0400 From: "Sternfeld, Joshua" Subject: NEH Grant Opportunity - Preservation and Access Research and Development - July 15 Deadline NEH Grant Opportunity - Preservation and Access Research and Development The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be accepting applications for grants in its Research and Development program. The new 2010 guidelines, which include sample proposal narratives, can be found at: http://neh.gov/grants/guidelines/PARD.html. Grants in this program support projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation's cultural heritage-from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence-and to develop advanced modes of searching, discovering, and using such materials. Maximum awards are $350,000 for up to three years. Eligible activities include: * the development of technical standards, best practices, and tools for preserving and creating access to humanities collections; * the exploration of more effective scientific and technical methods of preserving humanities collections; * the development of automated procedures and computational tools to integrate, analyze, and repurpose humanities data in disparate online resources; and * the investigation and testing of new ways of providing digital access to humanities materials that are not easily digitized using current methods. NEH especially encourages applications that address the following topics: * Digital Preservation: how to preserve digital humanities materials, including born-digital materials, for which there is no analog counterpart; * Recorded Sound and Moving Image Collections: how to preserve and increase access to the record of the twentieth century contained in these formats; and * Preventive Conservation: how to protect and slow the deterioration of humanities collections through the use of sustainable preservation strategies. Applications addressing one of these three areas of interest are eligible for a maximum award of $400,000 for up to three years. The application receipt deadline is July 1, 2010 for projects beginning May 2011. All applications to NEH must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov; see guidelines for details. Prospective applicants seeking further information are encouraged to contact the Division at 202-606-8570 or preservation@neh.gov. Program staff will read draft proposals submitted six weeks before the deadline. A list of the 2010 awards is available at: Please note that the Division is also accepting applications for two other grant categories: "Humanities Collections and Reference Resources" (July 15, 2010 deadline) and "Education & Training" (July 1, 2010 deadline). Details on these programs, as well as on the full slate of funding opportunities in Preservation and Access, can be found at: http://www.neh.gov/grants/grantsbydivision.html#preservation _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Apr 21 10:12:19 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619E5521F8; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:12:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4F862521EF; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:12:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100421101218.4F862521EF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:12:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.768 new publication: Sustainable Development X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 768. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:17:47 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Sustainable Development The April 2010 issue reviews a "National Sustainable Development Framework" and how national strategies can contribute, but not replace, a global strategy. It includes 2 supplements (Advances in Sustainable Development and Directory of Online Resources on Sustainable Development) and 5 invited articles. Page 1 has navigation links to all pages of the current issue as well as other Pelican Web content. http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n04page1.html Sincerely, Luis Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D. The Pelican Web Editor, PelicanWeb Journal of Sustainable Development http://www.pelicanweb.org/ A monthly, CC license, free subscription, open access e-journal _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Apr 21 10:14:39 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 787DA522DB; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:14:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CA69F522C7; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:14:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100421101437.CA69F522C7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:14:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.769 events: Renaissance, text, narrative, camping X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 769. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Frédéric_Clavert (21) Subject: THATCamp Paris! [2] From: Elli Mylonas (77) Subject: CFP: AAAI Computational Models of Narrative [3] From: Ray Siemens (18) Subject: CFP: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies (RSA 2011, 24- 26March; Montreal) [4] From: Matthew Kirschenbaum (98) Subject: CFP: 2011 Society for Textual Scholarship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:51:34 +0200 From: Frédéric_Clavert Subject: THATCamp Paris! Dear Humanist members, (sorry for crossposting) I wish to present myself. I’m Frédéric Clavert, French historian specialized in central banks, and working in Luxembourg at the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (http://www.ena.lu). I’m helping Marin Dacos (Centre pour l’édition électronique ouverte, CNRS) organising THATCamp Paris (18-19 May). If you wish more informations on THATCamp Paris, we’ve got a blog : http://tcp.hypotheses.org/ that we’re trying to make bilingual. And the subscription page is a wiki: http://www.digitalhumanities.fr/wikis/tcp The submission deadline is May, 1st; We opened a Twitter account that you can follow: @thatcampparis Best regards, Frédéric Clavert > Docteur en Histoire contemporaine «Hjalmar Schacht, financier et diplomate» mailto:frederic@clavert.net http://www.clavert.net/ twitter: @inactinique Google Wave: inactinique@googlewave.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:02:29 -0400 From: Elli Mylonas Subject: CFP: AAAI Computational Models of Narrative I was asked to forward this to the ACH and other interested humanists: --elli [Elli Mylonas Center for Digital Scholarship Brown University library.brown.edu/cds] Please feel free to forward to all interested parties. Call for Participation: ----------------------- AAAI 2010 Fall Symposium on ================================= Computational Models of Narrative ================================= November 11-13, 2010, Arlington, Virginia ----------------------------------------- Submissions Due: Friday, May 14, 2010 ----------------------------------------- Narratives are ubiquitous. We use them to educate, communicate, convince, explain, and entertain. As far as we know, every society has narratives, which suggests they are deeply rooted and serve an important cognitive function: that narratives do something for us. It is clear that, to fully explain human intelligence, beliefs, and behaviors, we will have to understand and explain narrative. Topics ------ Despite a revival of interest in the computational understanding of narrative, there is still great uncertainty regarding fundamental questions. What does narrative do for us? What exactly is narrative? What representations are required to model narrative? This symposium will address fundamental topics and questions regarding the computational modeling and scientific understanding of narrative. Immediate technological applications, while not discouraged, are not required. Questions include: * What makes narrative different from a list of events or facts? What is special about the discourse that makes something a narrative, rather than something else? * What is the relationship between narrative and common sense? Does understanding narrative first require we understand common sense reasoning? * How are narratives indexed and retrieved? Is there a "universal" scheme for encoding narratives? * What impact does the purpose, function, and genre of a narrative have on its form and content? * Are there systematic differences in the formal properties of narratives from different cultures? * What comprises the set of possible narrative arcs? Is there such a set? Is there a recipe for generating narratives? * What are the appropriate representations for the computational modeling of narrative? What representations underlie the extraction of narrative schemas from experience? * How can we evaluate computational models of narrative? The symposium will bring together researchers with a wide variety of perspectives to share what is known about the fundamentals of the computational modeling of narrative and to explore the forefront of that knowledge. We seek participation from as wide a variety of approaches as possible, including not only AI researchers and technologists, but also psychologists, cognitive scientists, linguists, philosophers, narrative theorists, anthropologists, educators, storytellers, and neuroscientists. Submissions ----------- Interested parties should send either a full paper (8 pages maximum) or a position paper (2 pages maximum) as a AAAI-formatted PDF to narrative-fs10@csail.mit.edu . Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the symposium, which will be released as a AAAI Symposium technical report. For detailed formatting instructions, see the AAAI websitehttp://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php Organizing Committee -------------------- * Mark Finlayson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL) * Pablo Gervas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) * Erik Mueller (IBM) * Srini Narayanan (ICSI and University of California at Berkeley) * Patrick Winston (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL) For More Information -------------------- Web: http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/fs10 Email: narrative-fs10@csail.mit.edu --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:35:53 -0700 From: Ray Siemens Subject: CFP: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies (RSA 2011, 24-26March; Montreal) [pls redistribute / pls excuse x-posting] Renaissance Studies and New Technologies (RSA 2011, 24-26 March; Montreal) For the past nine years, the Renaissance Society of America program has featured a number of sessions that document innovative ways in which computing technology is being incorporated into the scholarly activity of our community. At the 2011 RSA meeting (Montreal, 24-26 March 2011), several sessions will continue to follow this interest across several key projects, through a number of thematic touchstones, and in several emerging areas. For these sessions, we seek proposals in the following general areas, and beyond: a) new technology and research (individual or group projects) b) new technology and teaching (individual or group projects) c) new technology and publication (e.g. from the vantage point of authors, traditional and non-traditional publishers) Proposals for papers, panels, demonstrations, and/or workshop presentations that focus on these issues and others are welcome. We are pleased to be able to offer several graduate student travel subventions for presentation on these panels. Those wishing to be considered for the subvention should indicate this in their abstract submission. For details of the RSA conference see www.rsa.org http://www.rsa.org . Please send proposals before May 15 to siemens_at_uvic.ca. Ray Siemens University of Victoria William R Bowen University of Toronto ____________ R.G. Siemens, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Ph.(250)721-7272 Fax.(250)721-6498 siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:31:21 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: CFP: 2011 Society for Textual Scholarship CALL FOR PAPERS The Society for Textual Scholarship Sixteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference March 16-18, 2011 Penn State University K E Y N O T E S P E A K E R S ===================================== MORRIS EAVES, University of Rochester LISA GITELMAN, New York University WILL NOEL, Walters Art Museum DAVID STORK, Ricoh Innovations ===================================== Program Chair: Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland Deadline for Proposals: October 31, 2010 After many years of successful meetings in New York City, the Society for Textual Scholarship is inaugurating a new venue for its biennial conference: Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania. This new venue will accommodate the STS in a state of the art conference center with up-to-date technology support and other amenities http://www.pshs.psu.edu/pennstater/pshome.asp , which will in turn facilitate the introduction of several new session formats. The new formats, new venue, and stellar line-up of confirmed keynote speakers--addressing textual and media scholarship and theory, conservation and archival practices, and relevant aspects of computer science--promises to make the 2011 conference an especially invigorating and important one for the STS. Accordingly, the Program Chair invites submissions devoted to interdisciplinary discussion of current research into particular aspects of textual work: the discovery, enumeration, description, bibliographical analysis, editing, annotation, and mark-up of texts in disciplines such as literature, history, musicology, classical and biblical studies, philosophy, art history, legal history, history of science and technology, computer science, library and information science, archives, lexicography, epigraphy, paleography, codicology, cinema studies, new media studies, game studies, theater, linguistics, and textual and literary theory. As always, the conference is particularly open to considerations of the role of digital tools and technologies in textual theory and practice. Papers addressing newer developments such as forensic computing, born-digital materials, stand-off markup, cloud computing, and the sustainability of electronic scholarship are especially encouraged. Papers addressing aspects of archival theory and practice as they pertain to textual criticism and scholarly editing are also especially welcome. This year the conference is introducing several new formats. Submissions may therefore take the following form: 1. Papers. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length. They should offer the promise of substantial original critical or analytical insight. Papers that are primarily reports or demonstrations of tools or projects are discouraged. 2. Panels. Panels may consist of either three associated papers or four to six roundtable speakers. Roundtables should address topics of broad interest and scope, with the goal of fostering lively debate between the panel and audience following brief opening remarks. 3. Seminars. Seminars should propose a specific topic, issue, or text for intensive collective exploration. Accepted seminar proposals will be announced on the conference Web site http://www.textual.org at least two months prior to the conference and attendees will then be required to enroll themselves with the posted seminar leader(s). The seminar leader(s) will circulate readings and other preparatory materials in advance of the conference. No papers shall be read at the seminar session. Instead participants will engage with the circulated material in a discussion under the guidance of the seminar leader(s). All who enroll are expected to contribute to creating a mutually enriching experience. 4. Workshops. Workshops should propose a specific problem, tool, or skillset for which the workshop leader will provide expert guidance and instruction. Examples might be an introduction to forensic computing or paleography. Workshop proposals that are accepted will be announced on the conference Web site http://www.textual.org and attendees will be required to enroll with the workshop leader(s). Workshop leaders should be prepared to offer well-defined learning outcomes for attendees. Proposals for all four formats should include a title, abstract (one to two pages) of the proposed paper, panel, seminar, or workshop, as well as the name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation for all participants. Format should be clearly indicated. Seminar and workshop proposals in particular should take care to articulate the imagined audience and any expectations of prior knowledge or preparation. ***All abstracts should indicate what if any technological support will be required.*** Inquiries and proposals should be submitted electronically, as plain text, to: Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum mkirschenbaum -at- gmail -dot- com Additional contact information: Department of English 2119 Tawes Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD 20740 Phone: 301-405-8505 Fax: 301-314-7111 (marked clearly to Kirschenbaum's attention) All participants in the STS 2011 conference must be members of STS. For information about membership, please contact Secretary Meg Roland at or visit the Indiana University Press Journals website and follow the links to the Society for Textual Scholarship membership page. For conference updates and information, see the STS website at http://www.textual.org . Please post and recirculate this CFP as appropriate. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 24 07:13:51 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF838527EA; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:13:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 76C26527DF; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:13:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100424071350.76C26527DF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:13:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.770 jobs: projects manager; internships; PhD studentships X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 770. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Willard McCarty" (41) Subject: job as IT Projects Manager, DHO [2] From: "Willard McCarty" (90) Subject: PhD studentship at Edinburgh College of Art [3] From: Shawn Day (23) Subject: Postgraduate Internships Doegen Records Web Project --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:23:56 +0100 (BST) From: "Willard McCarty" Subject: job as IT Projects Manager, DHO Vacancy: IT Projects Manager, Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) 1 Year - Fixed Term Contract Applications are invited for a one year fixed term contract position of IT Projects Manager to the DHO. The DHO is designing, constructing, and hosting a digital repository of humanities research. This joint national platform, funded under Cycle 4 of PRTLI, is being constructed for the RIA and its partners to provide for the building, coordination and dissemination of humanities research, teaching and training at an all-island level. Reporting to the DHO Director, the IT Projects Manager will be responsible for : * provision of technical foresight and project management for a variety of DHO partner projects from various institutions created for inclusion in a federated Fedora Commons Repository, * the development, implementation, management and maintenance of web applications (this includes the Drupal based DHO portal and research database [DRAPIer], and the Fedora Commons Repository), * day-to-day management and technical foresight of the IT functions of the DHO including: o delivery of network, operational and technical services of the DHO o a certain level of software development for DHO applications. The IT Projects Manager will have a third-level degree or equivalent in a relevant IT discipline and a minimum of five years’ experience in an information systems development role. Previous experience of project management and staff management experience are essential. Further information and details of the application process are available here http://dho.ie/vacancies. The closing date for applications is Friday 7th May 2010 at 4 p.m. The Royal Irish Academy is an equal opportunities employer -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory Pembroke House 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:32:41 +0100 (BST) From: "Willard McCarty" Subject: PhD studentship at Edinburgh College of Art Edinburgh College of Art - PhD Studentship. £13,290 per annum maintenance will be provided, and course fees will be paid for three years. Research proposals are invited from applicants who wish to undertake a practice-based PhD researching networked, distributed and collaborative authorship in electronic arts and literature practices and the subsequent implications for how creative communities form and creative practice emerges. The PhD research project will explore questions through employing theoretical and practical methods within the context of a larger European wide research project. Developing a Network-Based Creative Community: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice is a 1 million Euro, three year research project funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area Joint Research Programme. The project involves an academic consortium, including Edinburgh College of Art, University of Bergen (Norway), Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden), University of Amsterdam (Nederlands), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), University of Jyväskylä (Finland) and University College Falmouth (England). Focusing on a particular creative community, of electronic literature practitioners, the project inquires into how creative communities of practitioners form within transnational and transcultural contexts, within a globalised and distributed communications environment, seeking to gain insight into and understanding of the social effects and manifestations of creativity. Creative communities can be regarded as microcosms of larger communities. Within networked culture creative communities tend to be international and yet reflective of cultural specificity, acting as a lens through which social change can be observed. Such communities exist as local and global phenomena, in ‘creative cities’ and ‘global networks’, and appear to draw value from this conjunction of opposites. Whilst creativity is often perceived as the product of the individual artist, or creative ensemble, it can also be considered an emergent phenomenon of communities, driving change and facilitating individual or ensemble creativity. Creativity can be a performative activity released when engaged through and by a community and can thus be considered an activity of exchange that enables (creates) people and communities. Understanding creativity as emergent from and innate to the interactions of people facilitates a non-instrumentalist analysis. The successful candidate will work with Principal Investigator Professor Simon Biggs, Co-Investigator Dr. Penny Travlou and Dr. Scott Rettberg (University of Bergen, Project Leader), producing a body of their own creative work, a thesis, assisting with ethnographic fieldwork, associated research, publications, the project conference and exhibition. They will liaise with project partners, particularly the University of Bergen and Blekinge Institute of Technology (Maria Engberg and Talan Memmott), on the design and development of the project website and DVD anthology of artists' networked practice, as well as University College Falmouth (Jerome Fletcher) and New Media Scotland, preparing a programme of performance based electronic literature as part of the final exhibition and conference. Candidates should possess either a Masters or a 1st or 2:1 degree in a relevant digital and creative arts, design or computing discipline, or have equivalent experience and skills, and be a practising artist or author in the field of electronic arts and literature. Skills in digital media design will be advantageous. The studentship will begin in September 2010 for a period of three years. For UK and EU students, the remuneration will be at the Arts and Humanities Research Council studentship rate and all fees will be paid. For non-EU students the remuneration will cover approximately 1/3 of the annual student fees. Students on programmes at eca graduate with an award from the University of Edinburgh. Further details on the project can be found at: http://www.elmcip.net/ Informal enquiries should be addressed to: Professor Simon Biggs. +44 (0)131 221 6084 s.biggs@eca.ac.uk To apply please send a proposal and an application form to the Academic Registry, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF UK. Tel: +44(0)131 221 6291. Guidelines and forms are available at: http://www.eca.ac.uk/index.php?id=379 Closing date for applications: 5pm on Friday May 14, 2010. Shortlisted applicants will be informed via email by May 20 and interviews will be held on Friday May 28, 2010. For further information on eca, please visit: http://www.eca.ac.uk For further information about the studentship please see: http://www.eca.ac.uk/index.php?id=1041 eca is an accredited institution of the University of Edinburgh and a charity registered in Scotland No: SC009021. Simon Biggs s.biggs@eca.ac.uk simon@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice http://www.elmcip.net/ Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:58:25 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Postgraduate Internships Doegen Records Web Project Postgraduate Internships (12 Week Fixed-Term Contract) The Doegen Records Web Project (http://dho.ie/doegen/) is one of two “Academy Digital Resources” projects funded under Cycle Four of the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI-4). Based in the Royal Irish Academy library, the Doegen Project is transferring 212 recordings of native Irish speech from each of the four provinces to the web. These recordings were made by Dr Wilhelm Doegen, Director of the Lautabteilung, Preussische Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, during the period 1928-31, under a Department of Education initiative, which was organised and administered by the Academy. The collection comprises versions of stories, songs, prayers and other miscellaneous items. The RIA now invites applications for the following fixed-term contract positions with the Doegen Web Project: Postgraduate Internships – 3 Posts (Fixed-Term Contract – 12 Weeks) We are offering 3 postgraduate internships (2 folkloric and 1 biographical research): Internship 1: Researching and writing folkloric and bibliographical notes on stories in the Doegen collection. Internship 2: Researching and writing folkloric, bibliographical and discographical notes on songs in the Doegen collection. Internship 3: Researching and writing biographical notes on informants in the Doegen collection and compiling other contextual information. The successful candidates for Internships 1 & 2 will have a third level degree in Folklore and/or Irish, must be fluent in Irish and must currently be registered for a postgraduate degree in Folklore or Irish. The successful candidate for Internship 3 must be fluent in Irish and must currently be registered for a postgraduate degree in a relevant humanities field. The successful candidates will also have excellent communication skills and IT skills. Salary Scale: €21,864 per annum. Further information and details of the application process are available on www.ria.ie http://www.ria.ie/ . The closing date for applications is Thursday, 6th May 2010. Applicants will be shortlisted on the basis of the information provided in their application. Late applications will not be considered. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted in advance of interviews, which will be held during May. The Royal Irish Academy is an equal opportunities employer --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2 IRELAND --- 53.335373,-6.254219 --- Tel: +353 1 2342441 --- shawn@shawnday.com --- http://dho.ie -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 24 07:15:27 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7448252903; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:15:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C8CB9528AC; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:15:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100424071525.C8CB9528AC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:15:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.771 publications: Web history; digital classics; documentary editing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 771. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Willard McCarty" (37) Subject: Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity [2] From: "Willard McCarty" (34) Subject: book on Web history [3] From: Amanda Gailey (61) Subject: Call for Editions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:21:00 +0100 (BST) From: "Willard McCarty" Subject: Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity > Subject: Book Review Offer: Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity > From: "mlazenby@Ashgatepublishing.com" > Date: Wed, April 21, 2010 11:11 am Dear Editor Ashgate is about to publish a book which may be of interest to your readers: Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity Edited by Gabriel Bodard, King's College, London, UK and Simon Mahony, University College London, UK 978-0-7546-7773-4 This book explores the challenges and opportunities presented to Classical scholarship by digital practice and resources. Drawing on the expertise of a community of scholars who use innovative methods and technologies, it shows that traditionally rigorous scholarship is as central to digital research as it is to mainstream Classical Studies. This volume exemplifies the collaborative and interdisciplinary nature at the heart of Classical Studies. http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754677734 Review copies are available. To obtain one please reply giving details of your journal and the address to which the book should be sent. We would be pleased to receive a copy of the review in due course, either hard copy or electronic copy (pdf preferred) as is convenient to you. Yours sincerely Maureen Lazenby Mrs M I Lazenby Marketing Ashgate Publishing Ltd Wey Court East, Union Road, Farnham, GU9 7PT. www.ashgate.com http://www.ashgate.com/ e-mail:mlazenby@ashgatepublishing.com Ashgate Publishing Group Wey Court East, Union Road, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7PT, UK Tel: +44 (0)1252 736600 or +44 (0)1252 331551 Fax +44 (0)1252 736736 Visit Our Website: www.ashgate.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:38:53 +0100 (BST) From: "Willard McCarty" Subject: book on Web history > ***Apologies for cross-postings*** > > New book: WEB HISTORY > > Edited by Niels Brügger, Peter Lang Publishing, New York 2010 > > Book synopsis > ”This is the first edited volume to put the emerging field of web history on the agenda of internet research. Sixteen original chapters investigate how the use of the web has developed in the realm of web culture at large, as well as how the organization of web industries and old media institutions on the web have changed. A number of fundamental theoretical and methodological questions related to doing web history are also examined. The collection aims to explore some of the possible ways of approaching the web of the past, based on the assumption that the past is not only important for historical purposes, but because it must be taken into consideration in order to fully understand the web of the present and the web of the future. The book includes a foreword by Charles Ess and contributions from Kirsten Foot, Steven Schneider, Alexander Halavais, Ken Hillis, and more.” > > Read more on the publishers website: http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=310468&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1 > > Best, > > Niels Brügger > > > --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:06:17 -0500 From: Amanda Gailey Subject: Call for Editions CALL FOR EDITIONS Documentary Editing The Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing Background Since 1979, Documentary Editing has been a premier journal in the field of documentary and textual editing. Beginning with the 2011 issue, Documentary Editing will move online and become an open-access, digital publication. While retaining the familiar content of the print journal, including peer-reviewed essays about editorial theory and practice, in 2011 Documentary Editing will become the first academic journal to publish peer-reviewed editions. Even as interest in digital editing grows, potential editors have not found many opportunities to publish editions that fall outside the scope of a large scholarly edition or that do not require creating a sophisticated technical infrastructure. We believe that many scholars have discovered fascinating texts that deserve to be edited and published, and we offer a venue to turn these discoveries into sustainable, peer-reviewed publications that will enrich the digital record of our cultural heritage. If you are interested in editing a small-scale digital edition of a single document or a collection of documents, we want to hear from you. Proposals We invite proposals for rigorously edited digital small-scale editions. Proposals should be approximately 1000 words long and should include the following information: 1) A description of content, scope, and approach. Please describe the materials you will edit and how you will approach editing and commenting on them. We anticipate that a well-researched apparatus (an introduction, annotations, etc.) will be key to most successful proposals. 2) A statement of significance. Please briefly explain how this edition will contribute to your field. 3) Approximate length. 4) Indication of technical proficiency. With only rare exceptions, any edition published by Documentary Editing must be in XML (Extensible Markup Language) that complies with TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) Guidelines, which have been widely accepted as the standard for digital textual editing. Please indicate your facility with TEI. 5) A brief description of how you imagine the materials should be visually represented. Documentary Editing will provide support to display images and text in an attractive house style. If you wish to create a highly customized display, please describe it and indicate what technologies you plan to use to build it. All contributors to Documentary Editing are strongly encouraged to be members of the Association for Documentary Editing, an organization dedicated to the theory and practice of documentary and textual editing. To become a member, go to www.documentaryediting.org. Please send proposals as Rich Text Format (RTF), MS Word, or PDF to the co-editors via email no later than August 1, 2010, for consideration in the 2011 issue. A separate call for papers will be issued for essays on editorial theory and practice. Feel free to contact us if you have questions. Thank you, Amanda Gailey Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln agailey2@unlnotes.unl.edu Andrew Jewell University Libraries Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln ajewell@unlnotes.unl.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 24 07:18:21 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB8A52A31; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:18:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0F14152A20; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:18:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100424071819.0F14152A20@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:18:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.772 events X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 772. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Willard McCarty" (23) Subject: UCL Centre for Digital Humanities [2] From: "Willard McCarty" (24) Subject: JISC event on modelling social interactions [3] From: "Willard McCarty" (37) Subject: ESSLLI 2011 [4] From: "Sternfeld, Joshua" (4) Subject: Deadline Correction: NEH Preservation and Access Research andDevelopment is JULY 1, 2010 [5] From: Katherine L Walter (44) Subject: Nebraska Digital Workshop faculty and extension [6] From: Barbara Bordalejo (39) Subject: Fwd: Text and Place: Abstracts and Programme [7] From: Matthew Kirschenbaum (54) Subject: Two Ray Siemens Talks at Maryland Next Week --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:26:43 +0100 (BST) From: "Willard McCarty" Subject: UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Please save the date! Professor Malcolm Grant, UCL President and Provost and Dr Claire Warwick, Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities are pleased to invite you to the launch of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. Guest speaker to be announced. Evening Lecture and Reception. Thursday 20th May 2010. 6.30pm registration, lecture starts at 7pm. Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT. The UCL Centre for Digital Humanities is the hub of a network, bringing together work being done in different departments and research centres within UCL, as well as working closely with UCL Library Services and Museums & Collections. The Centre is creating connections beyond UCL, working with major archives, galleries, libraries, museums, and members of the public to undertake research that addresses important questions in the field of Digital Humanities. RSVP: http://launchuclcentrefordigtialhumanities.eventbrite.com/ For more details about the Centre visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/dh --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:28:39 +0100 (BST) From: "Willard McCarty" Subject: JISC event on modelling social interactions JISC Roadshow on: Modelling social interactions and environments: advanced techniques for the Arts and Social Sciences This half-day workshop for researchers in the arts and social sciences will highlight some of the opportunities now available through the use of networks and advanced digital technologies for research. Sponsored by JISC, in collaboration with the training team at the National e-Science Centre (NeSC), it is one of a series of roadshow events for researchers and research support staff who are not currently using e-research tools or e-infrastructure services but would like to know how to get started. The roadshow, which is coordinated by the Information Services Directorate, will provide an interdisciplinary perspective illustrated by examples drawn mainly from the computing and social sciences. Some of the practical methods researchers can use for modelling real world social situations will be presented. University of East Anglia, Norwich 21 Apr 2010 09:30 - 14:00 For more information visit: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uearoadshow --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:37:01 +0100 (BST) From: "Willard McCarty" Subject: ESSLLI 2011 23rd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2011 August 1-12, 2011 Ljubljana, Slovenia Call for Course and Workshop Proposals --------------------------------------------------------------------- The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org/) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computer science. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within or around the three main 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. For more information, visit the FoLLI website, as well as the ESSLLI 2010 website: http://esslli2010cph.info/. CALL FOR COURSE AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The ESSLLI 2011 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 23rd annual Summer School on important topics of active research in the broad interdisciplinary area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science and the cognitive sciences. All proposals should be submitted, using a prescribed form that will be available soon on the ESSLLI 2011 website, no later than: June 14, 2010 Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision by September 15, 2010. [...] ESSLLI 2011 website: http://esslli2011.ijs.si/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:29:09 -0400 From: "Sternfeld, Joshua" Subject: Deadline Correction: NEH Preservation and Access Research and Development is JULY 1, 2010 For clarification, the deadline for the NEH Preservation and Access Research and Development program is JULY 1. Please make a note of this. Our apologies for any confusion this may have caused. --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:47:07 -0500 From: Katherine L Walter Subject: Nebraska Digital Workshop faculty and extension The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) is pleased to announce that the two senior faculty for the 5th Nebraska Digital Workshop, Oct. 1-2, 2010, are Professors Fotis Jannidis and Stefan Tanaka. Dr. Fotis Jannidis is professor of German literature and literary computing at the University of Wuerzburg, and is well known for his work on Goethe's Faust: A Genetic Edition. Dr. Stefan Tanaka is professor of history, specializing in modern Japanese history. In particular, he is interested in the technologies of communication and the ways that pasts have been formulated through various media. The deadline for applications has been extended to May 7th. We are seeking proposals for digital presentations by pre-tenure faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students working in digital humanities. The goal of the Workshop is to enable the best early career scholars in the field of digital humanities to present their work in a forum where it can be critically evaluated, improved, and showcased. Under the auspices of the Center, the Workshop will bring nationally recognized senior scholars in digital humanities to UNL to participate and work with the selected scholars. Selected early-career scholars will receive travel reimbursement and an honorarium for presenting their work at the Nebraska Digital Workshop. Selection criteria include: significance in primary disciplinary field, technical innovation, theoretical and methodological sophistication, and creativity of approach. Please send an abstract, curriculum vitae, and a representative sample of digital work via a URL or disk on or before May 7, 2010 to: Katherine L. Walter, Co-Director, UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, at kwalter1@unl.edu or 319 Love Library, UNL, Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 USA. Thanks, Kay Walter and Ken Price***************************************** Katherine L. Walter and Kenneth M. Price Co-Directors, 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@unl.edu http://cdrh.unl.edu --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:49:37 +0100 From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: Fwd: Text and Place: Abstracts and Programme FYI. Begin forwarded message: > > From: Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies > [mailto:LCMRS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Williams, Rebecca > [ab0u4065] > Sent: 23 April 2010 15:24 > To: LCMRS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Text and Place: Abstracts and Programme > > ***APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING*** > > Text and Place Conference, 27th May 2010, University of Liverpool > > > Please find attached the abstracts and programme for Text and Place. > > A sandwich lunch can be provided at cost price. If you would like > to order lunch, please let us know no later than Friday 21st May – > payment will be taken on the day of the conference. If you have any > dietary requirements, please make sure that you let us know when > you order. (Please note that any who order lunch but do not attend > will be invoiced for the cost.) > > Directions for the conference will follow. If you have any mobility > requirements, please also let us know. > > Best wishes, > > Becky Williams > > www.liv.ac.uk/cmrs/Text_And_Place.htm > --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:04:39 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: Two Ray Siemens Talks at Maryland Next Week Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria--and all around good fellow--will give two talks at the University of Maryland, College Park next week. Both are free and open to the public--if you're in the area, please consider coming to either or both. Please also recirculate this announcement as appropriate. Monday, April 26, "Foundations for a Future of the History of the Book: Books, Bits, and INKE," at 3:00 in Tawes Hall (English Department) room 3132. What might the future of the book look like if a scholarly understanding of its history were brought to bear on the science and industry behind recent products like the Kindle and iPad? This talk discusses the intellectual background and applied activities of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project, which hopes to bring the best of an academic understanding of the history of the book to our future engagement of it, via work encompassing a team of 35 researchers at 20 campuses and 21 separate research partners. Tuesday, April 27, "Tool Mashing: The Devonshire MS (BL Add 17492) and its Networks," at 12:30 at MITH in McKeldin Library. Our interest in the Devonshire MS (BL Add 17492) for almost two hundred years, now, has been in its role as a central textual witness to the works of Thomas Wyatt, but the movement late last century toward social theories of textuality and textual production has drawn significant and new attention to the manuscript. It is now chiefly seen as the product of a relatively large coterie situated in Queen Anne Boleyn’s court at an exciting time in English history (fictionalized grandly by the Tudors’ miniseries ;) , and quite prominently as the first sustained example of men and women writing together in the English tradition. Even so, what we now find to be most unique and engaging about the document itself is difficult to access, in part because of academic skills and context necessary simply to read and understand it, but in larger part because the connection between prominent identifiable figures and their expressions in the manuscript — which amount in the best cases to multi-voiced discussions and pontifications on matter important to the authors and scribes of the manuscript — is difficult to sustain in any meaningful way using traditional methods. This talk will represent the work of a largish group at UVic who have been working on an edition of the manuscript and, as part of this, have carried out an experimentation in tool mashing / visualization to allow a more coherent engagement of the connection between the people contributing to the manuscript and the nature of the their exchanges and, via this, to enable a significantly increased ability to understand the interpersonal networks evident in the manuscript. Contact Matthew Kirschenbaum for further details or information. -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC, a new Living/Learning Program in the Honors College) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 24 07:26:11 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B3F052C27; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:26:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 46C2A52BF7; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:26:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100424072609.46C2A52BF7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:26:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.773 postdocs at HUMlab X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 773. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:19:54 +0200 From: "Patrik Svensson" Subject: Call: Six postdoctoral fellowships in the digital humanities at HUMlab Six international postdoctoral positions in the digital humanities are now available at HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden from September 1, 2010 (January 2011 may also be a possibility, please indicate if this is your preference). The call is open, but 1-3 positions may be allocated to the areas of “media places, archeological landscape visualization”, and “internet and religion. There are no teaching requirements associated with any of the positions. HUMlab is an internationally recognized center for the humanities and information technology. Much of the work takes place in a 5,300 square feet studio space at the center of the university and in different kinds of digital and hybrid environments. HUMlab is based on a double affiliation model where much of the work is done in close collaboration with the humanities (or other) departments. HUMlab offers an open, friendly, creative and intellectually rich milieu for doing work in the humanities and information technology. The fellowships are for one year. Applications should include a description of an envisioned postdoctoral year-long project. Call announcement: http://blog.humlab.umu.se/?p=1882 Call: http://blog.humlab.umu.se/postdoc2010 Deadline: May 20, 2010. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 24 10:14:15 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41EDD5227F; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:14:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0CFD25226D; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:14:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100424101413.0CFD25226D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:14:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.774 Launch event at UCL: correction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 774. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:07:52 +0100 From: Claire Warwick Subject: Launch of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities: Correction In-Reply-To: <4BD2BB0B.9040308@mccarty.org.uk> Dear Humanists, It's great to know that the forthcoming launch of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities has generated such welcome publicity, including being posted on Humanist. I'm sorry that we did not make clear to Willard when we sent his own invitation is that this event is by personal invitation only. We have a very high profile speaker and a very small lecture theatre, so have had to construct our guest list carefully and make some hard choices about who we can include. So if you have not received a personal invitation to the launch I am sorry that we will not be able to accept any registration that you may have made via eventbrite for the main lecture hall. However, we will be streaming live into a larger lecture theatre and on the web, so once we are clearer about what our total numbers are, we may be able to fit other people into the streaming venue or you can join us in virtual space (we will also be tweeting, as you might expect) If you have registered to attend as a result of seeing the invitation on Humanist, we will email you personally about this on Monday. But if you have not received a personal invitation, I regret that we will not be able to accept any new registrations. Please contact me directly instead if you'd like your name to be added to the waiting list. Best wishes, and sorry for any confusion, Claire -- Claire Warwick MA, MPhil, PhD Reader in Digital Humanities Director UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Vice Dean Research: Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT phone: 020 7679 2548, email: c.warwick@ucl.ac.uk website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Apr 25 08:07:11 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 064F453047; Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:07:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 19FCB5303F; Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:07:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100425080710.19FCB5303F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:07:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.775 noticing the inadequacies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 775. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Desmond Schmidt (15) Subject: on the inadequacy of embedded markup [2] From: Willard McCarty (32) Subject: fashions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:09:20 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: on the inadequacy of embedded markup Hi all, I'd like to garner some reactions to my paper recently published on advance access by LLC at http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/fqq007? ijkey=ilzrEgphmlEtphb&keytype=ref . I find it interesting that, even in the most recent posts on Humanist ('23.771 publications: Web history; digital classics; documentary editing'), one can read things like: >With only rare exceptions, any >edition published by Documentary Editing must be in XML (Extensible Markup >Language) that complies with TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) Guidelines, >which have been widely accepted as the standard for digital textual editing. Apart from the fact that the TEI Guidelines are not in fact a standard, I don't wish to contend with the truth of that statement, merely to point out that knowledge of the inadequacy of using embedded markup to record born-analog texts is also 'widely accepted'. I have no quibble about the quality of the TEI Guidelines themselves. I think they are as fine a piece of collaborative scholarship one is likely to find. But what they are based on is embedded markup, which has, in my opinion, too many technical flaws in it to form an adequate basis for a lasting encoding of born-analog texts. I have put everything I know about this subject into the article, and I would be happy to discuss openly on the list any aspect of the points made therein. Yours sincerely Dr Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Information Technology Queensland University of Technology (07)3138-9509 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:04:21 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: fashions Ordinarily I don't comment on postings on the day that they are made, so that I'm on the same footing as everyone else here. On this occasion, however -- things being so quiet on Humanist on the one hand, and on the other too many little things crowding in and threatening to derail my thoughts -- I'll put in my 2 cents immediately. (Is that expression still current, I wonder?) I do hope that some here will comment on Desmond Smith's note on embedded markup because I think there's been remarkable little critical examination of the idea. Like him I do not mean to imply denegration of TEI, XML and related technologies. But what about the scholarship, properly so called? What about the research -- pure, curiosity-motivated, wicked or whatever one wishes to call it? I wonder, here outloud, whether collaborative projects, based on a common understanding of what's going on, don't tend to attenuate creative thinking. I wonder whether standards (so-called or otherwise), which enable a common effort, don't at the same time dampen experiment? Once something that can be routinised is moved from the laboratory to the factory, isn't it time to move on? Or, even more annoyingly perhaps, isn't it time to question our successes? If our role is to serve others -- a fine thing to do, no doubt -- then our concern must be for smooth, timely delivery of products as specified. If it is to go where none have gone before, then our concern is rather different. Some of us sort ourselves one way, some the other, and so there is tension, creative if we manage it right. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Apr 26 05:10:19 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D7F528EB; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:10:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 249C8526F8; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:10:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100426051016.249C8526F8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:10:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.776 inadequacies of markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 776. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (17) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.775 noticing the inadequacies [2] From: "John A. Walsh" (29) Subject: Reaction to the inadequacy of embedded markup --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:54:17 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.775 noticing the inadequacies In-Reply-To: <20100425080710.19FCB5303F@woodward.joyent.us> These juxtaposition and standards and experiment are as old as that between the Dionysian and the Apollonian, and I'm referring to Nietzsche's referent, not his discussion of it. It is possible to have standards and be experimental at the same time. Too often "experimental" is just another word for "sloppy, careless, and thoughtless." Any truly experimental work worth reading conforms to its own standards and, by doing so, sets new ones. Jim On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Humanist Discussion Group > > I wonder, here outloud, whether collaborative projects, based on a > common understanding of what's going on, don't tend to attenuate > creative thinking. I wonder whether standards (so-called or otherwise), > which enable a common effort, don't at the same time dampen experiment? > Once something that can be routinised is moved from the laboratory to > the factory, isn't it time to move on? Or, even more annoyingly perhaps, > isn't it time to question our successes? --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:58:58 -0400 From: "John A. Walsh" Subject: Reaction to the inadequacy of embedded markup In-Reply-To: <20100425080710.19FCB5303F@woodward.joyent.us> Certainly XML and other existing markup schemes are imperfect. Desmond Schmidt's article outlines many limitations. Some I accept; others I reject. I'd like to comment on two specific points. Although he points out that one of the designers of XML was a humanist, Schmidt nonetheless repeatedly criticizes XML, in the context of digital humanities projects, because XML is an "industrial tool." But the printing press and the World Wide Web are industrial tools (regardless of whatever they started as), and they seem to have served many humanists quite well. My major issue with Schmidt's argument, however, is the claim that the embedding of subjective content in the text, through the application of markup, is somehow a problem. Many humanists, and I am one of these, would argue that all texts and all representations of any given text are subjective. A "plain text" ASCII or Unicode version of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound is no more objective than an extensively marked up version. For many humanists, and I am one of these as well, the fact that markup allows one to unite a reading and interpretation with a source text is a desideratum--a blessing, not a curse. If the only goals are to archive and preserve, perhaps we do not need markup--ASCII, Unicode, or formaldehyde may do. But if the goals are additive, generative, critical, and creative, then markup, imperfect as current implementations may be, is very powerful indeed. -- | John A. Walsh | Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science | Indiana University, 1320 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405 | www: http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/jawalsh/ | Voice:812-856-0707 Fax:812-856-2062 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Apr 26 05:11:25 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2632752970; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:11:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 257495293B; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:11:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100426051123.257495293B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:11:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.777 events: InterFace 2010 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 777. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:43:09 +0100 From: "Happa, Jassim" Subject: InterFace 2010 Conference: Second Call for Papers -- Second Call for Papers -- InterFace 2010: Humanities and Technologies 2nd International Symposium for Humanities and Technology July 15th-16th 2010, International Digital Laboratory, University of Warwick, UK. Paper Deadline: 10th May. 500-1000 word abstract. **PLEASE NOTE - ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST PRESENT A LIGHTNING TALK BASED ON AN ABSTRACT** **DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MAY 10th** InterFace is a new type of annual non-profit event. Based on the format of last year's successful forum at the University of Southampton, this year follows in the same footsteps: part conference, part forum, part networking opportunity. The conference aims to bring PhD students, early postdocs and other early researchers together from the fields of Technologies and Humanities in order to foster cutting-edge collaboration. Delegates can also expect to receive illuminating talks from experts, presentations on successful interdisciplinary projects and on how to succeed as academics. Abstract Submissions: If you are interested in attending, please submit an original abstract of 500-1000 words, describing an idea or concept you wish to present. Following acceptance of your submission you will need to give a three-minute presentation of your paper at the conference. Papers should focus on potential, realistic areas for collaboration between the Technologies and Humanities sectors, either by addressing particular problems, new developments or both. As such, the scope is extremely broad but topics might include: Technologies: Agent Based Modelling, Computer Graphics & Visualization, Internet Technologies, Natural Language Processing, Online Collaboration, Pervasive Technologies, Sensor Networks, Semantic Web, Web Science Humanities: Applied Sociodynamics & Social Network Analysis, Archaeological Reconstruction, Dynamic Logics, Electronic Corpora, History & Art History, Information Ethics, Linguistics New Media, Spatial Cognition, Text Editing and Analysis, Teaching Methodologies Due to the limited number of places, papers will be subject to review by committee and applicants notified by email as to their acceptance. Important Dates: * Paper Submission Deadline: 10th May 2010 * Acceptances Announced: 17th May 2010 * Conference: 15-16 July 2010 For full timetable and list of external speakers, visit: http://www.interface2010.org.uk/timetable For further information, please visit the conference website: http://www.interface2010.org.uk or e-mail contact@interface2010.org.uk Kind Regards, InterFace 2010 Committee _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 29 05:24:54 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F1F51C5F; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:24:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E6E9451C55; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:24:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100429052452.E6E9451C55@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:24:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.778 inadequacies of markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 778. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Desmond Schmidt (48) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.776 inadequacies of markup [2] From: "Dino Buzzetti" (25) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.776 inadequacies of markup [3] From: Christian Wittern (71) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.775 noticing the inadequacies --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:36:46 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.776 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100426051016.249C8526F8@woodward.joyent.us> I'd like to thank John Walsh for reading my article. I am very grateful for having this public discussion of its contents. But I'd like to respond to his two points, not because I want to refute them (I don't think that is really possible) but because the other side of the argument needs to be stated for those for those who won't read whole thing. On point 1: It's just a fact - unpleasant or otherwise - that XML is an industrial tool. XML is based on SGML, which was standardised by IBM, and is much more widely used in industry than by humanists. SGML predated TEI - the original specification left it open as to which tool should be used. IBM's SGML was then chosen, having not been developed by humanists at all (to my knowledge). In fact some of SGML's more humanist-friendly features such as markup minimisation and CONCUR were left out of XML. I'm not really criticising XML. I use it every day in my work and it is a wonderful engineering tool. What I argued in the paper was that it is unsuited to encoding historical texts in the humanities that never had such codes in them when written. On point 2: It's a matter of opinion how significant the embedding of subjective markup codes into the text actually is. In the paper I argued that the thing being interpreted is the text, not the markup. It's not just archiving that is affected. The sharing of texts containing someone else's interpretations biases the research that another person wishes to undertake. It is true that even transcribing a text sans markup is an act of interpretation, but the effect is slight compared to the amount of subjective markup that is then embedded on the basis of that largely academic argument. ------------------------------ Dr Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Information Technology Queensland University of Technology (07)3138-9509 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:42:44 -0200 From: "Dino Buzzetti" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.776 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100426051016.249C8526F8@woodward.joyent.us> I, for one, have not found anything "sloppy, careless, and thoughtless" in Desmond Schmidt's paper. All best, -dino buzzetti -- Dino Buzzetti Department of Philosophy University of Bologna tel. +39 051 20 98357 via Zamboni, 38 fax 98355 I-40126 Bologna BO http://antonietta.philo.unibo.it --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:28:15 +0900 From: Christian Wittern Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.775 noticing the inadequacies In-Reply-To: <20100425080710.19FCB5303F@woodward.joyent.us> This is a reply to the note by Desmond Schmidt on his LLC paper and the following [excerpted] comment by WM: On 2010-04-25 17:07, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > I wonder, here outloud, whether collaborative projects, based on a > common understanding of what's going on, don't tend to attenuate > creative thinking. I wonder whether standards (so-called or otherwise), > which enable a common effort, don't at the same time dampen experiment? > Once something that can be routinised is moved from the laboratory to > the factory, isn't it time to move on? Or, even more annoyingly perhaps, > isn't it time to question our successes? As always, I think a cautionary note and a hesitating mindset is appropriate, but on the other side, I think that exploring the inner regions of this newly discovered continent seems to be more appropriate than to quibble about which exact width our railway tracks should have. Once we settle on one measure, we should busy ourselves to built the network, connect the remote locations and enjoy our findings. At the same time, there might be room for developing high-speed trains to connect some key areas, or other experiments, but such projects would by necessity proceed with a different priority, and probably on a different timescale. I agree with Desmond Schmidt (and, as he says most others who have thought about this), that we are still in the age of digital incunables. Text Encoding is still in its infancy and a *lot* of experimenting is still going on, whole new archipelagos are discovered, even as in the areas were we arrived first some factories started working. Now to take up some points from Desmond's paper, I think it is important to not forget the 'I' in TEI which stands also for 'interchange'. While the TEI Guidelines are used by many projects I know of as primary formats, there are also many projects that internally use a different format (for a whole range of reasons), but strive to be able to express their results *also* in TEI, in order to be able to exchange data with other projects, but also as archival versions that might be used in later stages of the project. This is enabling us to talk with each other, observe and name the features in our text in a way that bridges the individual projects. The issues Desmond raises against the way textual variants are encoded in TEI are valid and well taken; this is an area that indeed requires more research and experiments; the MVD list structure is a welcome contribution in that respect. I do think it should be both possible and worthwhile to come up with a way to encode such graph and list structures in TEI. Another area where important concerns are raised is the level of expertise that is required to work on XML encoded TEI texts by directly editing the source in an XML editor. This is where the demands of the technology frequently gets in the way of its users and obscures rather than illuminates -- we definitely should strive to do better. However, I am not convinced that the "command line interface" against "graphical user interface" dichotomy, that Desmond tries to construct here goes to the heart of the matter. It seems to me that we have to learn is to build tools that combine both a GUI that hides unnecessary details from the users, but still allows the power of working with commands, which for example also includes the ability to chain together frequently used commands to a new single command. The Author mode of oXygen is an attempt to do this, as was a similar mode of "hiding the tags" that early tools like Author/Editor did provide. I think that the combination of XML databases and the dynamic interaction with text they enable with new user interfaces (possible browser based, but maybe even, gasp, with Emacs?) has an enormeous potential here and expect to see some innovation in this area in the next years. This brings me to another point that Desmond makes in his paper, about the "industrial use" of XML, which he makes sound a bit dirty. To me, this means that as Digital Humanists, we can expand our toolbox and expect to be able to tap into a much larger pool of talent and developers that we could have available otherwise. A mixed blessing maybe, but I see quite a potential to find a way here to leave the craddle of digital text and enter in early childhood -but there is certainly a lot of growing up to expect and certainly a lot of creative thinking! Christian Wittern, Kyoto _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 29 05:31:10 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C088A51DBB; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:31:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5991751DA8; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:31:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100429053108.5991751DA8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:31:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.779 job at ESF; dissertation prize; student bursaries for DH2010 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 779. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Humanities (11) Subject: Job announcement [2] From: Harold Short (41) Subject: DH2010 conference: Student Assistant bursaries [3] From: Richard Moot (97) Subject: E.W. Beth Dissertation Award 2010 - deadline extended --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:48:46 +0200 From: Humanities Subject: Job announcement European Science Foundation - Humanities Unit [Details of] a job announcement for a Junior Science Officer position at the European Science Foundation - Humanities Unit [are to be found at] http://www.esf.org/. Please send your application (cover letter + CV) by 3 May 2010 to jobs@esf.org quoting the following reference JSO - HUM. Interviews will be held in Strasbourg on 7 May 2010. 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Harold Short, April 2010 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:07:19 +0100 From: Richard Moot Subject: E.W. Beth Dissertation Award 2010 - deadline extended E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2010 call for nominations Deadline extended: May 16, 2010 !!! Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic, Language, and Information, http://www.folli.org) awards the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. We invite submissions for the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. degree in the year 2009. The dissertations will be judged on technical depth and strength, originality, and impact made in at least two of three fields of Logic, Language, and Computation. Interdisciplinarity is an important feature of the theses competing for the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize. Who qualifies. Nominations of candidates are admitted who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2009 and December 31st, 2009. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the Ph.D. was granted. After a careful consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written in English. Dissertations produced in 2009 but not written in English or not translated will be allowed for submission, after translation, also with the call next year (for 2010). The present call for nominations for the E.W. Beth Dissertation Award 2010 will also accept nominations of full English translations of theses originally written in another language than English and defended in 2008 or 2009. Prize. The prize consists of: -a certificate -a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E.W. 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Committee : Natasha Alechina (Nottingham) Lev Beklemishev (Moscow) Wojciech Buszkowski (chair) (Poznan) Didier Caucal (IGM-CNRS) Nissim Francez (Haifa) Alexander Koller (Saarbruecken) Alberto Policriti (Udine) Ian Pratt-Hartmann (Manchester) Rob van der Sandt (Nijmegen) Colin Stirling (Edinburgh) Rineke Verbrugge (Groningen) Heinrich Wansing (Dresden) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 29 05:33:19 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C18A351EE9; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:33:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 42CC051EE0; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:33:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100429053318.42CC051EE0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:33:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.780 scanning Greek text? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 780. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:27:11 +0100 From: Richard Klee Subject: Greek scanning [I would appreciate your help in answering the following query on the scanning of ancient Greek text. Please copy all replies directly to Mr Klee. --WM] Dear Prof. McCarty, I hope you are well. My name is Ricky Klee and I work for a professor at Notre Dame who will publish a book on Leontius of Byzantium with Oxford. The Patristics editor there, Tom Perridge, said I should ask you about a problem we've encountered. We have about 270 pages of typewritten and critically edited Greek text that we'd like to scan and digitally edit. I've found resources for doing so with English text and other modern languages but not Greek. Do you happen to know a good way to accomplish this? Thank you very much for your consideration, Ricky _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 29 05:34:53 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7B35203D; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:34:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A0B475202B; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:34:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100429053451.A0B475202B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:34:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.781 new publications: DHQ 3.4; Quantitative Linguistics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 781. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Julia Flanders (51) Subject: DHQ issue 3.4 now available [2] From: RAM-Verlag (33) Subject: Quantitative Linguistics --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:06:19 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: DHQ issue 3.4 now available We're very happy to announce the publication of the new issue of DHQ: DHQ 3.4 Table of Contents ============================ Special Cluster: e-Science for the Arts and Humanities Guest Editors: Stuart Dunn and Tobias Blanke Introduction Stuart Dunn, Centre for e-Research, King's College London; Tobias Blanke, Centre for e-Research, King's College London Articles: The Potential and Problems in using High Performance Computing in the Arts and Humanities Melissa M. Terras, University College London e-Science for Medievalists: Options, Challenges, Solutions and Opportunities Peter Ainsworth, University of Sheffield; Michael Meredith, University of Sheffield Service-Oriented Software in the Humanities: A Software Engineering Perspective Nicolas Gold, King's College London The Making of Our Cultural Commonwealth John Unsworth, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The e Prefix: e-Science, e-Art & the New Creativity Gregory Sporton, Birmingham City University Locating Grid Technologies: Performativity, Place, Space Angela Piccini, University of Bristol Grid-enabling Humanities Datasets Mark Hedges, King’s College London ============================ Articles Ontologies and Logic Reasoning as Tools in Humanities? Amélie Zöllner-Weber, Uni Digital, Bergen, Norway Conjectural Criticism: Computing Past and Future Texts Kari Kraus, University of Maryland "It May Change My Understanding of the Field": Understanding Reading Tools for Scholars and Professional Readers Ray Siemens, University of Victoria; Cara Leitch, University of Victoria; Analisa Blake, University of Victoria; Karin Armstrong, University of Victoria; John Willinsky, University of British Columbia/ Stanford The Digital Future is Now: A Call to Action for the Humanities Christine L. Borgman, UCLA --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:26:18 +0100 From: RAM-Verlag Subject: Quantitative Linguistics Just published ( 2010 ) Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 6: "Quantitative Analysis of Italian Texts" 160 pages ISBN: 978-3-942303-00-2 Published by: RAM-Verlag ( www.ram-verlag.de ) Authors: Arjuna Tuzzi, Ioan-Iovitz Popescu, Gabriel Altmann Contents: See attachement please. and: Just published ( 2010 ) Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 7: "Quantitative Linguistic Computing with Perl" 202 pages ISBN: 978-3-942303-01-9 Published by: RAM-Verlag ( www.ram-verlag.de ) Authors: Fan Fengxiang, Deng Yaochen Contents: See attachement please. RAM-Verlag Jutta Richter-Altmann Medienverlag Stüttinghauser Ringstr. 44 58515 Lüdenscheid Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 2351/ 973070 Fax: +49 (0) 2351/ 973071 Mail: RAM-Verlag@t-online.de Web: www.ram-verlag.de http://www.ram-verlag.de/ Steuer-Nr.: 332/5002/0548 Mwst/VAT/TVA/ ID no.: DE 125 809 989 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 29 05:36:16 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2AC252101; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:36:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F2B78520CE; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:36:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100429053614.F2B78520CE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:36:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.782 reminder: ALLC nominations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 782. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:08:22 +0100 From: Harold Short Subject: ALLC elections This is to remind Humanist readers that the nominations period for the ALLC elections will soon come to an end: Fri 30 April is the closing day for nominations to be received. Full details are available on the ALLC website at www.allc.org. Those eligible to make a nomination or to be nominated are current (i.e. 2010) subscribers to the ADHO print journal LLC who chose as their membership affiliation either 'ALLC' or 'Joint'. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jaime E Combariza (44) Subject: Symposium on Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College [2] From: Humanities (15) Subject: Call for proposals Conferences 2012 [3] From: Christian Wittern (96) Subject: TEI MM 2010: Call for papers deadline extended to May 15th [4] From: hastac-web@duke.edu (119) Subject: [HASTAC Announcement] The Future of Learning Is the Future of the Web [5] From: "Norbert E. Fuchs" (154) Subject: CNL 2010: 2nd Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages (deadlinepostponed to 28 May 2010) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:12:44 -0400 From: Jaime E Combariza Subject: Symposium on Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College Greetings! On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to invite you to participate in the Symposium on Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College, Friday, May 14 2010. Several well-known speakers in the digital humanities, Timothy Murray, Laura Mandell, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Will Noel, among others, will be presenting the use of technology in their scholarship. We would like to develop a digital humanities community at Dartmouth, foster collaborations and connect scholars with several national and international projects sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation and many other academic institutions. This event is also an opportunity to showcase your digital humanities projects. We would like to invite you to participate in the "Projects Demonstration Session", May 14, 11:30 - 1:00PM Please let us know if you are interested in doing a demo of your project(s) or a poster presentation. At the end of the event, there will be a roundtable discussion about: ³The Digital Humanities: Support, Collaboration, Publishing, Tenure². -- What are the benefits and pitfalls of using digital technology in the tenure and promotion process at institutions of higher education? -- What is the future of peer review? ( There are presses considering blogs for example in peer review) -- In the era of the shrinking monograph and alternate forms of scholarship, what is the future of academic publishing and subsequent archiving and storage, and especially the model for new forms other than, or along with, written work? Where does this material go, and how is it seen? --The role of collaboration in digital humanities scholarship and publication -- how we are preparing students to collaborate? For registration and more information http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dighum Please distribute this email to anyone who you think might be interested. Thank you --Jaime E Combariza, Ph.D. Associate Director of Research Computing Baker/Berry 179H (603) 646-1506 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:58:25 +0200 From: Humanities Subject: Call for proposals Conferences 2012 Call for proposals 2012 The Call for Proposals for 2012 ESF Research Conferences is now open. Researchers are invited to submit proposals on the following topics:   . Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences . Molecular Biology+ . Mathematics . Physics/Biophysics and Environmental Sciences . Social Sciences and Humanities The deadline for submitting proposals is 15 September 2010 Link: http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/call-for-proposals ESF Contact: Anne (ablondeel@esf.org) European Science Foundation Humanities Unit 1 quai Lezay Marnésia BP 90015 F - 67080 Strasbourg --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:07:27 +0900 From: Christian Wittern Subject: TEI MM 2010: Call for papers deadline extended to May 15th Dear HUMANIST readers, The program committee for the upcoming members meeting of the TEI has decided to extend the deadline for the call for papers to May 15th, 2010. In addition to the members meeting and the academic conference, we are planning an exciting array of workshops in the days preceding the conference; details will be announced shortly. Below is the full text of the call for your reference. ======================================================== Call for proposals TEI Applied: Digital Texts and Language Resources 2010 Annual Meeting of the TEI Consortium http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/ * Meeting venue: University of Zadar, Croatia * Meeting dates: Thu 11 November to Sun 14 November, 2010 * Workshop dates: Mon 08 November to Wed 10 November, 2010 The Program Committee of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium invites individual paper proposals, panel sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but not exclusively, on digital texts, language resources and any topic that applies TEI to its research. Confirmed Keynote Speakers * Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia) * Ian Gregory (Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK) Submission Topics Topics might include but are not restricted to: * TEI and natural language processing * TEI and language resources * Analyzing and quantifying encoded texts * Aggregation and compilation * Integrating the TEI with other technologies and standards * Tools that create and process TEI data * TEI used in conjunction with other technologies and standards * TEI as: o metadata standard o interchange format: sharing, mapping, and migrating data In addition, we are seeking micropaper proposals for 5 minute presentations on how you applied TEI. Submission Types Individual paper presentations will be allocated 30 minutes: 20 minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions & answers. Panel sessions will be allocated 1.5 hours and may be of varied formats, including: * three paper panels: 3 papers on the same or related topics * round table discussion: 3-6 presenters on a single theme. Ample time should be left for questions & answers after brief presentations. Posters (including tool demonstrations) will be presented during the poster session. The local organizer will provide flip charts and tables for poster session/tool demonstration presenters, along with wireless internet access. Each poster will have the opportunity to participate in a slam immediately preceding the poster session. Micropapers will be allocated 5 minutes. Submission Procedure All proposals should be submitted at http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ by May 15th, 2010. You will need to create an account (i.e., username and password) in order to file a submission. For each submission, you may upload files to the system after you have completed filling out demographic data and the abstract. * Individual paper or poster session proposals (including tool demonstrations): o Please submit a brief abstract (no more than 500 words) in the "Abstract" field. o Supporting materials (including graphics, multimedia, etc., or even a copy of the complete paper) may be uploaded after the initial abstract is submitted. * Micropaper: o The procedure is the same as for an individual paper, however the abstract should be no more than 300 words, but may be as short as the name of the feature. o Please be sure the abstract mentions the feature to be presented! * Panel sessions: o The panel organizer submits an abstract for the entire session, listing the proposed papers, and explaining the organizing theme and rationale for the inclusion of the papers in no more than 500 words in the "Abstract" field. o The panel members each submit a separate complete individual paper proposal; see above. The program committee reserves the right to accept papers submitted as part of a panel without accepting the whole panel. All proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers. Those interested in holding working paper sessions outside the meeting session tracks should contact the meeting organizers at meeting@tei-c.org to schedule a room. Please send queries to meeting@tei-c.org . Conference submissions will be considered for conference proceedings in a peer-reviewed journal. Further details on the submission process will be forthcoming. For the program committee, Christian Wittern (PC chair) -- Christian Wittern Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:59:08 -0400 From: hastac-web@duke.edu Subject: [HASTAC Announcement] The Future of Learning Is the Future of the Web We are very excited that HASTAC was asked to put on a panel at FutureWeb [1], the colocated conference with the WWW2010 annual meeting that is being held in Raleigh, NC this week.  Cathy Davidson is chairing "The Future of Learning Is the Future of the Web" on April 30, 3:30-500.  The participants include Laurent Dubois, Negar Mottahedeh, Mark Anthony Neal, and Tony O'Driscoll.  Come join us! Panel: The Future of Learning Is The Future of the Web 90-minute panel, April 30, 2010 3:30-5:00pm Chair: Cathy N. Davidson, Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Co-founder of HASTAC    Panel Description: What do sports, Iranian election protests, Black popular culture, world soccer championships, global executive education, and a Twitter film festival have in common? All are ways that innovative faculty are transforming education now, using the affordances of the Web to rethink the basic configurations of what higher education might look like and do. What does a classroom look like when students can be in many cities at once? What does a teacher look like when participation and contribution happen from anywhere in the globe? What does a student look like when those "enrolled" in a class at one university are in interaction with other students beyond the classroom walls? What does learning look like when it is participatory? And what are the downsides? What does "open" mean when the majority of scholarly resources are locked in journals, in private archives, beyond the reach of many? And what does higher education have to contribute to the future of the Web? These are questions that will be raised by this panel of stellar interdisciplinary scholars from across many fields and with several different national and international areas of expertise, some of whom are also working on reforming "open access" policy for U.S. universities.  On many levels, the future of learning is the future of the web.   Bios Panel Chair: Cathy N. Davidson has published some twenty books and is the co-founder (with David Theo Goldberg) of HASTAC (pronounced haystack, Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). A network of networks, HASTAC now has some 3800 members dedicated to rethinking the design of new learning technologies, participatory learning, and the role of technology in social live and learning.  HASTAC administers the annual $2 million MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition.  In its third year, the 2010 Competition, Reimagining Learning, is a collaboration with the White House Educate to Innovate Initiative as well as with Sony, EA, and ESA.   Along with Goldberg, she is the author of The Future of Thinking:  Learning Institutions in a Digital Age.  Her Now You See It:  The Science of Attention in the Classroom, at Work, and Everywhere Else will be published by Viking Press in Fall 2010. Dr. Davidson also chairs Duke University's Digital Futures Task Force which has been charged with forming a university-wide open access policy.http://www.hastac.org [2]   Panelists: Laurent Dubois Author of Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France, Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History With Documents (with John Garrigus), Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, and A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804, Professor Dubois is a historian of French colonialism and the Caribbean and also writes on the global politics of football. His discussion forum about the power of global soccer is http://blogs-dev.oit.duke.edu/wcwp/ [3] (See attached poster.) http://news.duke.edu/2009/12/dubois.html [4], http://ondemand.duke.edu/video/20801/laurent-dubois-talks-haitian-h [5]   Negar Mottahedeh Author of Representing the Unpresentable: Images of Reform from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran and Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema, Professor Mottahedeh also received national notice for staging the first-ever Twitter Film Festival as well as for serving as a communications node in the Iranian election protests. Her blog is the Negarponti Files (http://negarpontifiles.blogspot.com/ [6]).https://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Literature/negar [7], http://ondemand.duke.edu/video/20953/negar-mottahedeh-on-social-med [8]   Mark Anthony Neal Author of New Black Man, That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader, Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation, Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture, Freedom Summer Remembered: A Conversation with Denise Nicholas, Birth of New Blackness: The Family Stand's Moon in Scorpio and It's Your Nigger Problem, Not Hip-Hop's, Professor Neal is one of the foremost scholars of Black popular culture in America. He writes the New Black Man website (http://newblackman.blogspot.com/ [9]) and is a national commentator on all forms of media. http://aaas.duke.edu/people?Gurl=%2Faas%2FAAAS&Uil=man9&subpage=profile [10]   Tony O'Driscoll Tony O'Driscoll is a Professor of the Practice at Duke Universitys Fuqua School of Business where he teaches, researches and consults in the areas of strategy, innovation and technology management, organization learning, services management, and management consulting. Dr. O Driscoll also serves as Executive Director of Fuquas Center for IT and Media; a research center dedicated to understanding the strategic, structural, operational and business model issues associated with these vibrant and volatile sectors.http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty_research/faculty_directory/odriscoll/ [11]   And finally, you can check out the schedule for the co-located FutureWeb conference at http://futureweb2010.wordpress.com/schedule/ [12]     [1] http://futureweb2010.wordpress.com/schedule/ [2] http://www.hastac.org/ [3] http://blogs-dev.oit.duke.edu/wcwp/ [4] http://news.duke.edu/2009/12/dubois.html [5] http://ondemand.duke.edu/video/20801/laurent-dubois-talks-haitian-h [6] http://negarpontifiles.blogspot.com/ [7] https://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Literature/negar [8] http://ondemand.duke.edu/video/20953/negar-mottahedeh-on-social-med [9] http://newblackman.blogspot.com/ [10] http://aaas.duke.edu/people?Gurl=%2Faas%2FAAAS&Uil=man9&subpage=profile [11] http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty_research/faculty_directory/odriscoll/ [12] http://futureweb2010.wordpress.com/schedule/ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:09:36 +0100 From: "Norbert E. Fuchs" Subject: CNL 2010: 2nd Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages (deadline postponed to 28 May 2010) 2nd Call for Extended Abstracts (deadline for submissions postponed to 28 May 2010) CNL 2010 2nd Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages http://staff.um.edu.mt/mros1/cnl2010 Marettimo Island, Sicily (Italy) 13-15 September 2010 ********************************************************************* Controlled natural languages (CNLs) are subsets of natural languages, obtained by restricting the grammar and vocabulary in order to reduce or eliminate ambiguity and complexity. Traditionally, controlled languages fall into two major types: those that improve readability for human readers (e.g. non-native speakers), and those that enable reliable automatic semantic analysis of the language. Languages of the first type (often called "simplified" or "technical" languages), for example ASD Simplified Technical English, Caterpillar Technical English, IBM's Easy English, are used in industry to increase the quality of technical documentation, and possibly simplify the (semi-) automatic translation of the documentation. These languages restrict the writer by general rules such as "write short and grammatically simple sentences", "use nouns instead of pronouns", "use determiners", and "use active instead of passive". Languages of the second type have a formal logical basis, i.e. they have a formal syntax and semantics, and can be mapped to an existing formal language, such as first-order logic. Thus, those languages can be used as knowledge-representation languages, and writing of those languages is supported by fully automatic consistency and redundancy checks, query answering, etc. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_natural_language) TOPICS CNL 2010 will address issues connected to controlled natural languages including the following topics Nature and Purpose of CNLs: - design of CNLs and comparison between CNLs - lexical and Syntactic issues for CNLs - CNL semantics and knowledge representation - expressivity within CNLs - reasoning in CNLs - theoretical results for CNLs Applications: - CNLs for specifications - CNLs and the semantic web - CNLs for user interfaces - CNLs for interaction, communication and dialogue - CNL in the context of Linked Open Data (LOD) content creation and annotation - CNL and Information Extraction - tool support architectures for CNLs - linking text mining to CNLs - CNLs for business rules - CNLs and mobile computing - use cases of CNLs The workshop will be informal with plenty of time for presentations and discussions in the fashion of the seminars organised at Dagstuhl in Germany (www.dagstuhl.de/programm/dagstuhl-seminare). To ensure the informal atmosphere the number of participants will be limited. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 29 07:31:10 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A7D51B29; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:31:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B1AE51B1C; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:31:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100429073108.1B1AE51B1C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:31:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.784 job at King's College London: Professor and Chair, CCH/Digital Humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 784. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:28:48 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: job at King's College London: Professor and Chair, Digital Humanities Chair and Head of Department King's College London - Department of Digital Humanities, Centre for Computing in the Humanities The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King's College London is looking for a new Chair and Head of Department to succeed Harold Short, the founding Director and Head of Department, who will be retiring in September 2010 after 22 years in the College. CCH is recognized as an international leader in the application of technology in research in the arts and humanities. It is an academic department in the School of Arts and Humanities, and operates on a collaborative basis across discipline, institutional and national boundaries. It is responsible for a PhD programme and three MA programmes and for teaching at undergraduate level. It has a particular focus on collaborative research, and at any one time is engaged in 30 or more research projects. These cover a wide range of humanities disciplines, including medieval studies, history, literature and linguistics, art history and music, and also include a number of more general information management projects in both humanities and the social sciences. In collaboration with its research partners, it has generated over £17 million in research grants over the past 7 years. This is an important time of transition, and it is proposed that the name will change to Department of Digital Humanities from October 2010. The new appointment will be leading the department with a number of specific goals in mind: strategic development to ensure that it continues to fulfill its mission to reflect critically on, and make the best use of, new technological developments in arts and humanities research; the development of a strategy for success in the Research Excellence Framework (REF, 2013), both with existing staff and through new appointments; the development of a more broadly based collaborative teaching programme; the continued growth of the PhD programme; the extension of consultancy and knowledge transfer activities; collaborative development of strategy and planning for the proposed 'Digital and Visual Cultures' theme within the Arts and Humanities School, in co-operation with other departments. While the Head of Department will have overall accountability for the department's performance across its whole range of activity, the role is seen primarily as a strategic one, working in close collaboration with and strongly supported by the senior CCH team who will have operational responsibilities in each of their areas of activity and who will also contribute to the development of strategy, policy and planning. The new Chair will be Head of Department for an initial 4-year term. Thereafter it is envisaged that the Head of Department role will pass in turn to senior colleagues. The successful candidate will be an individual who has a proven record of research excellence in the Digital Humanities. S/he will be able to demonstrate strong leadership skills, and international standing in the field. S/he will relish the idea of building on the success and reputation of CCH with ideas of their own, and will bring vision about how to maintain the department's position as an international leader in its field as well as to develop in new areas of activity. The appointment will be made, dependent on relevant qualifications and experience, within the Professorial scale. Benefits include a final salary superannuation scheme an annual season ticket loan scheme. For an informal discussion of the post please contact the Head of School, Professor Jan Palmowski via email at jan.palmowski@kcl.ac.uk. Further details and application packs are available on the College's website at www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs or alternatively by emailing Human Resources at jcmbjobs@kcl.ac.uk. All correspondence should clearly state the relevant job title and reference numbers A9/AAV/093/10 - LA. Closing date: 19 May 2010. Interviews will be held in early June; the date is to be confirmed. Equality of opportunity is College policy =============================== -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Apr 30 07:45:23 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73CEE535DE; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:45:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1D4C3535CA; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:45:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100430074522.1D4C3535CA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:45:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.785 inadequacies of markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 785. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Toma Tasovac (9) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.778 inadequacies of markup [2] From: Martin Mueller (153) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.778 inadequacies of markup [3] From: Desmond Schmidt (93) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.778 inadequacies of markup --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:54:23 +0200 From: Toma Tasovac Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.778 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100429052452.E6E9451C55@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Desmond, I was struck by a very strong statement toward the end of your essay: "Standards should not be followed if they lead to mutilation of the data." On the face of it, nobody could argue against this statement, yet I can't help noticing that the very idea of mutilation presupposes that there is a body to be dismembered and chopped off. Embedded markup turns the marital bed of data and its interpretation into a crime scene. If your essay was a Hollywood movie, it would star Julia Roberts in a TEI remake of Sleeping with the Enemy. Now, as somebody who came to text encoding directly from literary theory, I have, for many years now, actually celebrated the above mentioned marital bed, not as a site of some low-budget horror fantasy but rather as a place of playful interaction between the text and its interpretation. The digital text has made it possible for us to explore and experience in very real, kinetic terms what it means to say that the author is dead. The digital text has also made it possible to illustrate - on a practical, demonstrative level - what it means to say that there is no such thing as a stable, immutable text. I have always tried to tell my students and analogue humanists that text encoding is an extended hand of literary theory: it allows us, if you will, to sleep in the same bed with our text. And while cultural heritage folks may shudder at the thought of contamination of the original objects they are trying to preserve, the literary theorist in me is exhilarated by the possibility of textual ("objective") and interpretative ("subjective") cohabitation. You make incredibly important, astute and, above all, timely observations in your essay. Your treatment of the overlap problem, textual variation and multi-version documents are fascinating and necessary. I believe that we need much better software solutions for the problem of the text obscured by highly complex technical data, but I don't see how storing all texts that represent our cultural heritage in a non-markup environment would always make them more accurate. Some texts - such as historical dictionaries, for instance - would have much to lose and nothing to gain in their plain text versions. Digitalizing textual artifacts already changes their actual bodies beyond recognition. I don't think that we should fetishize these already altered bodies as new, untouchable originals. Messiness does not always inhibit creativity. All best, Toma Toma Tasovac Center for Digital Humanities (Belgrade, Serbia) http://humanistika.org95 http://transpoetika.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:15:06 -0500 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.778 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100429052452.E6E9451C55@woodward.joyent.us> Isn't it also a fact that writing is an "industrial tool" or business technology? There is widespread agreement that the re-introduction of writing into the Greek world around 800BCE is the result of interaction with Phoenician traders. Some people see the Iliad as having a causative force in the spread of writing. I think it is more likely that the poet(s) of the Iliad used this new technology and that the Iliad, as we now have it, is a different poem for that reason. When it comes to 'clerical' technologies there is not much point in driving a wedge between humanist and business interests . They have also been inextricably interwoven. Were it not for business, a point Christian Wittern makes well, we would not have thousands of clever people all over the world thinking hard about how to lower the entry barriers for human/machine interaction. Not all of that is benign: there is a lot of dumbing down. But then there has always been a lot of dumbing down. I found Desmond Schmidt's article very interesting, especially in its excellent review of the history of the TEI and its choice of SGML for implementation. But I have two disagreements or questions. First, it may be the case that no text is ever a perfect OHCO. Whenever I think about TEI, I remember the line from Wallace Stevens' Connoisseurs of Chaos': "The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind". On the other hand, there are a lot of advantages in treating texts, especially corpora or large numbers of texts that are supposed to be "interoperable" as if they were OHCOs. You lose some on that, but you gain a lot more, and on the trade-off the benefits win. Secondly, I must confess that Schmidt lost me when he drew his own model with its very complex way of expressing textual variants.I didn't quite get. Perhaps I would have got it if I had attended a little more carefully. But I am quite sure that from the perspective of modal humanists the entry barriers for understanding this approach are much higher than the time cost (much less now than a decade ago, and largely because of investments in the business world) of learning how to do use oXygen (or similar programs) and do useful stuff with TEI-encoded texts. On Apr 29, 2010, at 12:24 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 778. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Desmond Schmidt (48) > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.776 inadequacies of markup > > [2] From: "Dino Buzzetti" (25) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.776 inadequacies of markup > > [3] From: Christian Wittern (71) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.775 noticing the inadequacies > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:36:46 +1000 > From: Desmond Schmidt > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.776 inadequacies of markup > In-Reply-To: <20100426051016.249C8526F8@woodward.joyent.us> > > I'd like to thank John Walsh for reading my article. I am very grateful for having this public discussion of its contents. But I'd like to respond to his two points, not because I want to refute them (I don't think that is really possible) but because the other side of the argument needs to be stated for those for those who won't read whole thing. > > On point 1: It's just a fact - unpleasant or otherwise - that XML is an industrial tool. XML is based on SGML, which was standardised by IBM, and is much more widely used in industry than by humanists. SGML predated TEI - the original specification left it open as to which tool should be used. IBM's SGML was then chosen, having not been developed by humanists at all (to my knowledge). In fact some of SGML's more humanist-friendly features such as markup minimisation and CONCUR were left out of XML. I'm not really criticising XML. I use it every day in my work and it is a wonderful engineering tool. What I argued in the paper was that it is unsuited to encoding historical texts in the humanities that never had such codes in them when written. > > On point 2: It's a matter of opinion how significant the embedding of subjective markup codes into the text actually is. In the paper I argued that the thing being interpreted is the text, not the markup. It's not just archiving that is affected. The sharing of texts containing someone else's interpretations biases the research that another person wishes to undertake. It is true that even transcribing a text sans markup is an act of interpretation, but the effect is slight compared to the amount of subjective markup that is then embedded on the basis of that largely academic argument. > > ------------------------------ > Dr Desmond Schmidt > Information Security Institute > Faculty of Information Technology > Queensland University of Technology > (07)3138-9509 > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:42:44 -0200 > From: "Dino Buzzetti" > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.776 inadequacies of markup > In-Reply-To: <20100426051016.249C8526F8@woodward.joyent.us> > > I, for one, have not found anything "sloppy, careless, and > thoughtless" in Desmond Schmidt's paper. > > All best, -dino buzzetti > > -- > Dino Buzzetti > Department of Philosophy > University of Bologna tel. +39 051 20 98357 > via Zamboni, 38 fax 98355 > I-40126 Bologna BO http://antonietta.philo.unibo.it > > > > --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:28:15 +0900 > From: Christian Wittern > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.775 noticing the inadequacies > In-Reply-To: <20100425080710.19FCB5303F@woodward.joyent.us> > > This is a reply to the note by Desmond Schmidt on his LLC paper and the > following [excerpted] comment by WM: > > On 2010-04-25 17:07, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> >> I wonder, here outloud, whether collaborative projects, based on a >> common understanding of what's going on, don't tend to attenuate >> creative thinking. I wonder whether standards (so-called or otherwise), >> which enable a common effort, don't at the same time dampen experiment? >> Once something that can be routinised is moved from the laboratory to >> the factory, isn't it time to move on? Or, even more annoyingly perhaps, >> isn't it time to question our successes? > > As always, I think a cautionary note and a hesitating mindset is > appropriate, but on the other side, I think that exploring the inner > regions of this newly discovered continent seems to be more appropriate > than to quibble about which exact width our railway tracks should have. > Once we settle on one measure, we should busy ourselves to built the > network, connect the remote locations and enjoy our findings. At the > same time, there might be room for developing high-speed trains to > connect some key areas, or other experiments, but such projects would by > necessity proceed with a different priority, and probably on a different > timescale. > > I agree with Desmond Schmidt (and, as he says most others who have > thought about this), that we are still in the age of digital > incunables. Text Encoding is still in its infancy and a *lot* of > experimenting is still going on, whole new archipelagos are discovered, > even as in the areas were we arrived first some factories started working. > > Now to take up some points from Desmond's paper, I think it is important > to not forget the 'I' in TEI which stands also for 'interchange'. While > the TEI Guidelines are used by many projects I know of as primary > formats, there are also many projects that internally use a different > format (for a whole range of reasons), but strive to be able to express > their results *also* in TEI, in order to be able to exchange data with > other projects, but also as archival versions that might be used in > later stages of the project. This is enabling us to talk with each > other, observe and name the features in our text in a way that bridges > the individual projects. > > The issues Desmond raises against the way textual variants are encoded > in TEI are valid and well taken; this is an area that indeed requires > more research and experiments; the MVD list structure is a welcome > contribution in that respect. I do think it should be both possible and > worthwhile to come up with a way to encode such graph and list > structures in TEI. > > Another area where important concerns are raised is the level of > expertise that is required to work on XML encoded TEI texts by directly > editing the source in an XML editor. This is where the demands of the > technology frequently gets in the way of its users and obscures rather > than illuminates -- we definitely should strive to do better. However, > I am not convinced that the "command line interface" against "graphical > user interface" dichotomy, that Desmond tries to construct here goes to > the heart of the matter. It seems to me that we have to learn is to > build tools that combine both a GUI that hides unnecessary details from > the users, but still allows the power of working with commands, which > for example also includes the ability to chain together frequently used > commands to a new single command. The Author mode of oXygen is an > attempt to do this, as was a similar mode of "hiding the tags" that > early tools like Author/Editor did provide. I think that the > combination of XML databases and the dynamic interaction with text they > enable with new user interfaces (possible browser based, but maybe even, > gasp, with Emacs?) has an enormeous potential here and expect to see > some innovation in this area in the next years. > > This brings me to another point that Desmond makes in his paper, about > the "industrial use" of XML, which he makes sound a bit dirty. To me, > this means that as Digital Humanists, we can expand our toolbox and > expect to be able to tap into a much larger pool of talent and > developers that we could have available otherwise. A mixed blessing > maybe, but I see quite a potential to find a way here to leave the > craddle of digital text and enter in early childhood -but there is > certainly a lot of growing up to expect and certainly a lot of creative > thinking! > > Christian Wittern, Kyoto > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:04:37 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.778 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100429052452.E6E9451C55@woodward.joyent.us> Let me also thank Christian Wittern for reading the paper, which is 20 pages long, and taking the trouble to respond to it with such detail and elegance. I hope I can match him. 1. Certainly the adoption of XML has facilitated interchange in comparison with the situation before. As I pointed out in the article, however, there are some forces at work behind the scenes that either prevents that from happening or makes it difficult. Firstly, the TEI Guidelines are not fixed. They are always expanding and changing, and are often customised by users. And It is not possible in practice to keep out end-result related information from what is supposed to be a purely generalised encoding scheme. Maybe the information gets expressed as generalised markup, but it is often information about concordancing, collation, external formatting, screen layout, links to particular files, etc. Also, embedding subjective markup into the text means that sharing is compromised. What if I don't want your markup codes, and want to add my own? I accept that for some people this isn't a requirement, but for others it is quite a real problem. Taking out the markup is not as simple a matter as it might seem at first glance. But if I could combine markup sets with the text freely (not as standoff markup but as standoff annotation) then I could share the actual text with someone else without giving them my embedded and unremovable bias. 2. My point about modern digital texts in the humanities really being digital incunables was that it is the embedded markup in our texts that makes them digital incunables. Christian seems to imply that we can still move from digital incunable to true digital texts, and keep embedded markup. I argued at some length that this isn't possible. Firstly because modern generalised markup is based on printed format structures in the same way that the first incunable books were based on manuscript techniques. The nested structures of XML and any other computable-recognisable embedded markup language you might care to define will have the same structure. There is no escaping this, and it has been known since the 1950s. I don't see any way forward other than eventually abandoning the embedding altogether for these types of texts. And I'm not the first to say this. Angelo Di Iorio was saying the same thing at Balisage just last year: 'getting rid of embeddability altogether', and Dino Buzzetti urged it in his fine 2002 article. So why can't we move on to using markup more constructively? 3. It must seem quite tempting to try to represent the MVD data structure in XML, and quite a few people have suggested it. There are a few reasons why you might want to do this: a) readability: If the individual versions of an MVD are themselves encoded as XML *within* the XML of the MVD, then each version will necessarily contain escaped XML markup. You can't have '<' and '>' or '&' as the content of an element without escaping them. Another problem is that the fragments of content in an MVD are often a single character. Both points would make the XML quite unreadable. b) editability: Even if you could read and understand an MVD in XML form, the MVD list structure is not amenable to human editing. It is very delicate and small alterations can easily render it invalid. It can only be updated by a provably correct program, such as the nmerge program, which is provided under a free licence. c) use of standard XML tools: You can only do limited processing of the MVD-XML using standard XML tools. You could inefficiently list a version, but this operation is already performed efficiently by the nmerge tool. I don't see how you can search all versions simultaneously or merge or update versions using standard XML tools, but you can with nmerge. And I don't see why you would want to generate variants or compare versions outside of an MVD when all the versions are already compared with all other versions within the MVD format. All you have to do is read it. d) archivability: If you don't like your texts in MVD format (although it's compact and sharable) just archive the versions out into separate files, and they will have exactly the format that they had when you put them in. For these reasons I can't see any practical advantage in representing MVDs in XML, but I can see lots of disadvantages. 4. Christian argues that it's possible to hide the markup tags from the user and provide a friendly user interface with the power of markup hidden under the hood, and that XML-editors like oXygen allow you to do this. Unfortunately embedding the markup into the text necessarily exposes it to the humanist editor at some point. Corpus linguists may be able to ignore the markup to some extent, but for people who manually encode markup tags into the texts, what kind of human interface can you have? For the editor the only way to 'hide' markup would be to display a huge palate of possible codes to embed at some point in the text, combined with copious documentation as to their significance and which attributes are permissible, and what they all mean. Surely with 512 elements that would be too confusing. It's true that we can transform some tags into formatting but this form of tag-hiding only applies to reading a text, and what about the other tags that can't be converted into formats? I don't see how there can be any way around this user interface problem with embedded markup now or in the future. If there is, I would certainly like to know. 5. I'd like to sneak in another point that he doesn't make, and I didn't make in the paper. The real reason I wrote this article about the inadequacy of embedded markup is because of the inadequacy I feel as a software engineer and humanist at being able to satisfy the legitimate needs of the users. The Human-Computer-Interface (HCI) people tell us that we have to identify the users, who they are and what tasks they wish to perform, and then design the software around that. The problem I have is that in trying to do this I encounter the inadequate representation of embedded markup that gets in the way, that frustrates especially my ability to represent versions. There is a big difference between writing texts with markup codes and embedding markup codes into texts that never had them before. The problems that arise from taking that course of action won't go away with advances in technology however long we wait. Desmond Schmidt Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:28:15 +0900 From: Christian Wittern Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.775 noticing the inadequacies In-Reply-To: <20100425080710.19FCB5303F@woodward.joyent.us> This is a reply to the note by Desmond Schmidt on his LLC paper and the following [excerpted] comment by WM: On 2010-04-25 17:07, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > I wonder, here outloud, whether collaborative projects, based on a > common understanding of what's going on, don't tend to attenuate > creative thinking. I wonder whether standards (so-called or otherwise), > which enable a common effort, don't at the same time dampen experiment? > Once something that can be routinised is moved from the laboratory to > the factory, isn't it time to move on? Or, even more annoyingly perhaps, > isn't it time to question our successes? As always, I think a cautionary note and a hesitating mindset is appropriate, but on the other side, I think that exploring the inner regions of this newly discovered continent seems to be more appropriate than to quibble about which exact width our railway tracks should have. Once we settle on one measure, we should busy ourselves to built the network, connect the remote locations and enjoy our findings. At the same time, there might be room for developing high-speed trains to connect some key areas, or other experiments, but such projects would by necessity proceed with a different priority, and probably on a different timescale. I agree with Desmond Schmidt (and, as he says most others who have thought about this), that we are still in the age of digital incunables. Text Encoding is still in its infancy and a *lot* of experimenting is still going on, whole new archipelagos are discovered, even as in the areas were we arrived first some factories started working. Now to take up some points from Desmond's paper, I think it is important to not forget the 'I' in TEI which stands also for 'interchange'. While the TEI Guidelines are used by many projects I know of as primary formats, there are also many projects that internally use a different format (for a whole range of reasons), but strive to be able to express their results *also* in TEI, in order to be able to exchange data with other projects, but also as archival versions that might be used in later stages of the project. This is enabling us to talk with each other, observe and name the features in our text in a way that bridges the individual projects. The issues Desmond raises against the way textual variants are encoded in TEI are valid and well taken; this is an area that indeed requires more research and experiments; the MVD list structure is a welcome contribution in that respect. I do think it should be both possible and worthwhile to come up with a way to encode such graph and list structures in TEI. Another area where important concerns are raised is the level of expertise that is required to work on XML encoded TEI texts by directly editing the source in an XML editor. This is where the demands of the technology frequently gets in the way of its users and obscures rather than illuminates -- we definitely should strive to do better. However, I am not convinced that the "command line interface" against "graphical user interface" dichotomy, that Desmond tries to construct here goes to the heart of the matter. It seems to me that we have to learn is to build tools that combine both a GUI that hides unnecessary details from the users, but still allows the power of working with commands, which for example also includes the ability to chain together frequently used commands to a new single command. The Author mode of oXygen is an attempt to do this, as was a similar mode of "hiding the tags" that early tools like Author/Editor did provide. I think that the combination of XML databases and the dynamic interaction with text they enable with new user interfaces (possible browser based, but maybe even, gasp, with Emacs?) has an enormeous potential here and expect to see some innovation in this area in the next years. This brings me to another point that Desmond makes in his paper, about the "industrial use" of XML, which he makes sound a bit dirty. To me, this means that as Digital Humanists, we can expand our toolbox and expect to be able to tap into a much larger pool of talent and developers that we could have available otherwise. A mixed blessing maybe, but I see quite a potential to find a way here to leave the craddle of digital text and enter in early childhood -but there is certainly a lot of growing up to expect and certainly a lot of creative thinking! 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These data sources can now all be searched and re-used freely without an API key. Registration still gives Digimap OS Collections subscribers search across places and shapes derived from Ordnance Survey MasterMap. The Places gazetteer powers EDINA's Unlock Text service for text-mining and georeferencing research archives. This service extracts references to place from text documents, web pages or XML metadata, and links them to geographic references in a gazetteer. It is developed in partnership with the Language Technology Group at University of Edinburgh. Get started with the Unlock Places API: http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/getstarted.html http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/api.html Detail of updates to the Unlock Places API: http://unlockdata.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/unlock-places-api-version-2-2/ Try the web version of Unlock Text: http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/text.html Questions? Ask jo.walsh@ed.ac.uk Problems? Try unlock@ed.ac.uk -- ----------------------- Dr Stuart Dunn Research Fellow Centre for e-Research King's College London www.ahessc.ac.uk/stuart-dunn Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 1989 stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk Centre for e-Research 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL UK Geohash: http://geohash.org/gcpvj1zm7yp1 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Apr 30 07:50:57 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D26F553941; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:50:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3F2DC53926; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:50:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100430075056.3F2DC53926@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:50:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.788 events: collaboration; community collections X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 788. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alun Edwards (16) Subject: Free workshop: community collections 26 May Oxford [2] From: I-CHASS (50) Subject: ARTCA Summit Explores Collaboration Across the Americas --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:29:36 +0100 From: Alun Edwards Subject: Free workshop: community collections 26 May Oxford Community collections, (like The Great War Archive www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa), help to harness the collective resources of a wider community and spread the costs of creating and contributing to a collection across the education and public sectors. A community can also be harnessed to enrich an existing collection with tags or comments (like Galaxy Zoo, www.galaxyzoo.org). Oxford University would like to invite those interested in such projects to take part in a free RunCoCo workshop on 26 May (http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/events/index.html). The RunCoCo workshop has a number of purposes: - This is a chance for managers and others from community collection projects to share best practice and exchange knowledge. - This will be an opportunity for projects with some shared interests to meet face-to-face. The JISC-funded project, RunCoCo, has launched an online 'community of interest' (http://groups.google.com/group/runcoco - follow the link on the right of that Web page to Join This Group) for those involved in community collection or working to harness a community to enrich an existing collection with tags or comments. In the past Oxford has done this successfully for other subjects (like teaching First World War literature). However, these ventures have a better chance of working well when participants have met in person. - RunCoCo will disseminate the processes, CoCoCo open-source software and results of the Great War Archive, a pilot community collection project based at Oxford, which ran for 3 months in 2008. We are also making this material available online on the RunCoCo website so this will be your chance to help ensure the resources are correctly focussed on what projects need to run this kind of initiative. - Be an opportunity to hear from a number of projects such as Citizen Science, Galaxy Zoo and East London Lives 2012, as well as Dr Andrew Flinn, UCL and Chris Batt OBE, author of Digitisation, Curation and Two-Way Engagement. The JISC Strategic Content Alliance will lead a Q&A surgery on the issues surrounding copyright and IPR. Places are limited, and a similar event exclusively for Oxford projects was over-subscribed. So please register your interest (providing as much information as possible in support of your application) by completing our form on SurveyMonkey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/runcoco26may by 1200 on 14 May 2010. We will confirm your place as soon as possible after that date. We look forward to welcoming participants from a wide range of education or public sector projects. The meeting will be held 10.00am - 5.00pm, at OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX26NN. Lunch and other refreshments will be provided free-of-charge. Further details will be available soon at http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/events/index.html (RunCoCo will run two further free training workshops during Summer 2010. Venues and dates are to be confirmed, but we anticipate one will be held in Wales and one in northern England or Scotland). For further information about the JISC-funded RunCoCo project please see http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ or email Alun Edwards, Project Manager at runcoco@oucs.ox.ac.uk Alun Edwards Manager of RunCoCo | Learning Technologies Group | Oxford University Computing Services | 13 Banbury Road | Oxford OX26NN E: runcoco@oucs.ox.ac.uk W: http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ RunCoCo: how to run a community collection online --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:36:38 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: ARTCA Summit Explores Collaboration Across the Americas The Advanced Research and Technology Collaboratory for the Americas (ARTCA / http://www.artcaonline.org) Summit on Advanced Computing in the Americas, held March 11-12, 2010, at the Costa Rican Embassy and the ACCESS Center in Washington, D.C., brought together leading research centers, government agencies, and foundations focused on developing multi-institutional, inter-disciplinary, international collaborations to address grand challenges facing the hemisphere. Organized by the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) and the Costa Rica USA Foundation (CRUSA), the summit kicked off with a reception honoring Luis Diego Escalante, Costa Rican ambassador to the United States, for his work promoting hemispheric collaboration, followed by a day of presentations and discussions aimed at finding collaborative research and application possibilities across the Americas. “The summit sought to ask how we can we frame and develop the next generation of advanced computational technologies to positively impact communities on the ground, without regard to physical, geographical, institutional, disciplinary, and organizational boundaries” said ARTCA principal investigator Kevin Franklin, the executive director of I-CHASS. "Resources are scarcer than ever, the pressure on our ecosystems is at a level never before seen, and society’s problems have grown more complex. In this new scheme, no single country or organization can expect to try and effectively resolve these problems on its own. Collaboration is now more important than ever, but more than that, new models of collaboration are called for," said Hermann L. Faith, Executive Director of CRUSA. A significant aspect of ARTCA’s efforts focused on discussions of building the computational competency and infrastructure across the Americas regardless of domain content. “Computers and computational capabilities are increasingly assisting all aspects of not only scientific research and development, but literally all other aspects of the human environment -across the globe,” stated Danny Powell, executive director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. “Health care, the environment, energy, security, manufacturing, agriculture, entertainment, and education; nearly every aspect of our lives are being more and more integrated with computer infrastructure and capabilities.” The summit concluded with the signing of an letter of intent between CRUSA, I-CHASS, NCSA, and the Social Security Administration of Costa Rica to design and implement an emergency management system that will enable Costa Rican hospitals to be viewed as a single virtual organization by the National Emergency Operations Center. This partnership will assess existing infrastructure and design an emergency management system for Costa Rica that can be scaled throughout the Americas. “ARTCA offers incredible new opportunities for interdisciplinary and international collaboration in research in the humanities, arts, and social sciences,” communications researcher and University of Illinois professor M. Scott Poole stated. “The wide array of institutions and funders represented at the ARTCA kickoff conference as well as the Emergency Management system project is a great illustration of this.” [...] For more information contact: Jennifer Guiliano, guiliano@illinois.edu X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5173A52913; Sat, 1 May 2010 08:21:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6D22452907; Sat, 1 May 2010 08:21:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100501082121.6D22452907@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 08:21:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.789 inadequacies of markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 789. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Desmond Schmidt (31) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.785 inadequacies of markup [2] From: Willard McCarty (40) Subject: problem with markup [3] From: Wendell Piez (36) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.785 inadequacies of markup --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:20:48 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.785 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100430074522.1D4C3535CA@woodward.joyent.us> Hi all, I am glad that my paper has already been fairly widely read. I know there a couple of others who have read it that haven't responded yet. As for Toma's comments I found them more amusing than critical. On your point that you see no advantage in "plain text versions" for things like historical dictionaries, I never said that I favoured plain text versions. I suggested that, for the present, versions would be represented using light XML markup, and that I would seek to eventually replace the remaining markup with standoff annotation (which would leave the text bare - that may be where you thought I meant plain text). That would serve the same purpose as embedded markup, but would not be prone to overlap problems. Since the variant versions would be more accurately represented - compare the two attempts to encode the Sibylline Gospel text using markup versus the MVD graph, which detects much more detail than can be represented via manual markup, plus the elimination of the overlap problem, and I think you do in fact have a more accurate representation of texts using this approach. Martin Mueller has also asked a couple of questions that I would like to answer. On your first point I don't know of any original analog texts that are perfect OHCOs. But I do know a lot that aren't OHCO at all. The reason I got started on this model of text was some years ago when, like you, I believed in the OHCO model. Then a friend sent me the draft of a modern Italian poem that was structurally spaghetti (forgive the pun). I wish I could show it to you but for copyright reasons I can't. Part of it will be edited and appear in the next issue of DHQ. But it couldn't be encoded in XML at all. I tried very hard to do that before I admitted defeat. And yet we recorded all eleven layers of correction successfully using MVD. I think one's view on whether embedded markup is adequate or not depends rather greatly on the difficulty of the texts one has experience with. If one is used to encoding transcriptions of, say, printed novels, then it might seem perfectly adequate, with not many problems. If you work on modern manuscripts, on the other hand, you will come up against its limitations every day. So I don't think it's quite right to say that for you or for me embedded markup is fine, so it's fine for everyone. I'm seeking a general solution that works equally well for everyone and for every text. That is what I mean by an adequate representation, and in that context embedded markup falls well short of what is needed. On your second point I am aware that my brief summary of MVD is unlikely to explain it adequately. But I couldn't risk a longer description. I did cite the other two papers that explain it fully, even though they are quite technical. But I thought I had made it clear enough at least that the graph of the three versions produced by the program was generated automatically. You don't have to know anything at all about the structure of an MVD if you don't want to, but you have to know quite a bit about how markup works to use it. On that score I feel that my solution, which seeks to automate the edition as far as possible and to free the editor from complex technical work, is in fact the simpler approach. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:33:02 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: problem with markup In-Reply-To: <20100430074522.1D4C3535CA@woodward.joyent.us> This is a good time, I think, to test my knowledge against those awakened by the latest conversation on the subject of markup's inadequacies. Whether OHCO is useful depends, I'd think, on what you have in mind, what you're interested in doing. For publishing texts, preparing textual resources to be used in straightforward, more or less conventional ways, I suppose it's ok as a rough approximation. Like much of computing as it is usually practiced, markup gets you a distance. We know that good-enough approaches, e.g. to microphysics, actually get good results, provoke theoretical work etc. What I object to is the philosophical proposition that text is OHCO *really*. It isn't, and not only because it isn't singular. I have no objection to the thesis as long as it's an as-if for purposes of exploration. But lazy minds allow as-ifs to slip into is. Take behaviourism, for another example. "Let's pretend that X and see how far we get" is just fine, but people being how they are, such statements change into others that aren't. My problem with markup is that (as far as I know -- always a serious qualification) it is not systematically alterable for purposes of re-interpretation once a marked-up text gets over a certain size and complexity. Making the practical distinction between markup that is in effect and for most purposes non-interpretative > ( Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.785 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100430074522.1D4C3535CA@woodward.joyent.us> Willard and HUMANIST, At 03:45 AM 4/30/2010, Desmond wrote: >Taking out the markup is not as simple a matter as it might seem at >first glance. It isn't? I think that depends on your tools and capabilities. Certainly, not everyone can take this and run with it: But the software needed to apply this transformation has been on all our computers for about ten years now, and invoking it is a matter not of developing a text-processing technology, but of learning what particular XSLT processor(s) you have available, how to invoke it on your file, and how to save the results. And while you might not yourself know how to write the stylesheet given above, there are thousands of people who do. (Plus I've just given it to you.) In any case, as Desmond well knows, stripping markup is a piece of cake compared to adding additional markup that doesn't respect the design of markup already there. But we are working on that too -- without thinking that we have to do away with tagging as a methodology for data description, however cumbersome it may sometimes be. Or am I missing something about the requirement here? Cheers, Wendell ========================================================= Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 1 08:21:55 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50702529AB; Sat, 1 May 2010 08:21:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF86A52993; Sat, 1 May 2010 08:21:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100501082153.CF86A52993@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 08:21:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.790 job at Chicago X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 790. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:18:26 -0500 From: Arno Bosse Subject: Humanities Research Computing job opening at the University of Chicago Humanities Computing is looking for a creative and energetic leader for the position of Assistant Director, Research Computing, to provide vision and direction for a growing suite of technology services supporting faculty research and digital scholarship in the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago. The Assistant Director will develop innovative solutions to academic research problems, based on a knowledge of emerging information technologies and an understanding of the methodologies and needs of academic disciplines in the humanities. Principal research areas supported by this position may include 2D and 3D imaging; visual data analysis and modeling; audio digitization and endangered language preservation; geospatial tools and analysis; interactive design and human-computer interfaces; mobile computing; metadata standards and structured data; text analysis and machine learning; collaborative online research; scholarly publishing environments and digital preservation management. The Assistant Director will work closely and collaboratively with divisional faculty and colleagues in Humanities Computing, the university library and other campus IT organizations; provide ongoing project management for research projects; supervise staff and student employees; develop research prototypes and provide technical support; keep abreast of current research methodologies; participate in divisional and campus-wide technical committees and working groups; and attend and present research findings at conferences. The position reports to the Senior Director for Technology in Humanities Computing. Bachelor's degree required, an advanced degree in a humanities or related discipline preferred; minimum two years of programming experience required; experience developing and deploying database driven web applications required; two years of technical support experience strongly preferred; research or teaching experience in an academic setting preferred; experience building interactive web applications strongly preferred; experience with MySQL strongly preferred; expert knowledge of HTML/CSS required; proficiency in one or more scripting languages required; experience with PHP and Javascript strongly preferred; excellent analytical and communication skills required; project management experience strongly preferred; an active interest in technology-based approaches to interdisciplinary research, teaching and scholarship in the humanities required. 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Arno Bosse Senior Director for Technology Division of the Humanities University of Chicago 1115 E. 58th St., Walker Room 213F Chicago, IL 60637 Phone: 773-702-6177 Fax: 773-834-5867 http://humanities.uchicago.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 1 09:48:45 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C53E51A72; Sat, 1 May 2010 09:48:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D358B51A5D; Sat, 1 May 2010 09:48:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100501094842.D358B51A5D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 09:48:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.791 events: community collections workshop 26/5 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 791. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 09:54:15 +0100 From: Alun Edwards Subject: Free workshop: community collections 26 May Oxford Community collections, (like The Great War Archive www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa), help to harness the collective resources of a wider community and spread the costs of creating and contributing to a collection across the education and public sectors. A community can also be harnessed to enrich an existing collection with tags or comments (like Galaxy Zoo, www.galaxyzoo.org). Oxford University would like to invite those interested in such projects to take part in a free RunCoCo workshop on 26 May (http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/events/index.html). The RunCoCo workshop has a number of purposes: - This is a chance for managers and others from community collection projects to share best practice and exchange knowledge. - This will be an opportunity for projects with some shared interests to meet face-to-face. The JISC-funded project, RunCoCo, has launched an online 'community of interest' (http://groups.google.com/group/runcoco - follow the link on the right of that Web page to Join This Group) for those involved in community collection or working to harness a community to enrich an existing collection with tags or comments. In the past Oxford has done this successfully for other subjects (like teaching First World War literature). However, these ventures have a better chance of working well when participants have met in person. - RunCoCo will disseminate the processes, CoCoCo open-source software and results of the Great War Archive, a pilot community collection project based at Oxford, which ran for 3 months in 2008. We are also making this material available online on the RunCoCo website so this will be your chance to help ensure the resources are correctly focussed on what projects need to run this kind of initiative. - Be an opportunity to hear from a number of projects such as Citizen Science, Galaxy Zoo and East London Lives 2012, as well as Dr Andrew Flinn, UCL and Chris Batt OBE, author of Digitisation, Curation and Two-Way Engagement. The JISC Strategic Content Alliance will lead a Q&A surgery on the issues surrounding copyright and IPR. Places are limited, and a similar event exclusively for Oxford projects was over-subscribed. So please register your interest (providing as much information as possible in support of your application) by completing our form on SurveyMonkey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/runcoco26may by 1200 on 14 May 2010. We will confirm your place as soon as possible after that date. We look forward to welcoming participants from a wide range of education or public sector projects. The meeting will be held 10.00am - 5.00pm, at OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX26NN. Lunch and other refreshments will be provided free-of-charge. Further details will be available soon at http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/events/index.html (RunCoCo will run two further free training workshops during Summer 2010. Venues and dates are to be confirmed, but we anticipate one will be held in Wales and one in northern England or Scotland). For further information about the JISC-funded RunCoCo project please see http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ or email Alun Edwards, Project Manager at runcoco@oucs.ox.ac.uk Alun Edwards Manager of RunCoCo | Learning Technologies Group | Oxford University Computing Services | 13 Banbury Road | Oxford OX26NN E: runcoco@oucs.ox.ac.uk W: http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ RunCoCo: how to run a community collection online _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon May 3 05:14:48 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DDFC55ED5; Mon, 3 May 2010 05:14:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4628855EC4; Mon, 3 May 2010 05:14:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100503051446.4628855EC4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 05:14:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.792 inadequacies of markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 792. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Desmond Schmidt (35) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.789 inadequacies of markup [2] From: Patrick Durusau (33) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.789 inadequacies of markup [3] From: maurizio lana (54) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.789 inadequacies of markup --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 22:05:19 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.789 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100501082121.6D22452907@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Wendell, nice to hear from you! Sorry I'm not being clear. Actually what I meant was that the *consequences* of taking out the markup may not be a simple matter, even though I hadn't thought of such an elegant stylesheet for removing all the tags before. If you don't mind, I put it to the test, since it is pertinent to what Willard says below. Consider the following TEI-like XML: The quick browngrey fox jumps over the lazy dog.

One paragraph

And another straight after without a newline

Some plain text and some italic text that aren't different without the markup. Some awful uffal spelling that was corrected on separate lines with indents. I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils; The output of applying your stylesheet is: The quick browngrey fox jumps over the lazy dog. One paragraphAnd another straight after without a newline Some plain text and some italic text that aren't different without the markup. Some awful uffal spelling that was corrected on separate lines with indents. I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils; This looks pretty mangled. Doubtless you can think of many more examples of such problems. If I recall John Walsh's comments early on in this 'thread' he said he thought it didn't matter for him that the markup couldn't be taken out. And he's not alone. I have met other digital humanists who think the same way. I'm not saying that they are wrong, but I know of many more who think markup and content should be freely recombinable. Sets of markup information should be attachable to a text that, once established by any scholar, need only be lightly modified if at all in order to be reused. I'm *not* talking about standoff markup, which is just a deferral of the embedding of a tree-structure. I'm talking about overlapping properties asserted over content in the vein of RDF standoff annotation, but markup-type properties, not just annotations in the form of images, sound-files, pertinent texts etc. To say 'all markup is intrepretation' is not a very accurate description of a complex state of affairs, even if it is sort of true. Firstly

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type markup is obviously much less interpretative than ... Secondly the choice of one markup code over a similar one may be 'interpretation' or just reflect the encoder's degree of knowledge of the markup system. Thirdly the selection of markup codes and their application to text is not a free choice, it is strongly constrained by available tags in a tree-structured system. On the other hand, if you could separate markup (or rather annotation) from the text and freely mix annotation sets with the base text you could satisfy the user requirements of those who one the one hand like markup with the text, and on the other, those who want it without. With embedded markup, as the above test demonstrates, you can only satisfy the first group.. Desmond Schmidt Queensland University of Technology --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 22:25:22 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.789 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100501082121.6D22452907@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, Willard McCarty wrote: > Ok, I can produce an edition of > the Metamorphoses (as I did) enriched or muddled by my interpretation of > that poem, but I don't see that this is all that much better than a printed > edition. What I would like is an edition which provides for interpreting in > such a way that my go would inspire or provoke others -- without other > scholars having to do the whole job over again but differently. I would like > my judgements to be dynamically, systematically manipulable. Markup as far > as I know doesn't allow for that, given the software that we know how to > write. > > I am not clear what you mean when you say that markup doesn't allow your judgments to be "dynamically, systematically manipulable"? Assuming that you have been consistent, XSLT can manipulate your judgments about a text. Or did you mean something else? Such as retaining your judgments and experimenting with the imposition of additional judgments? Layering, perhaps even contrasting judgments about a text? That seems more like a software than a markup question, although markup plays an enabling role. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 09:48:48 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.789 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100501082121.6D22452907@woodward.joyent.us> At 10:21 01/05/2010, Willard McCarty wrote: >My problem with markup is that (as far as I know -- always a serious >qualification) it is not systematically alterable for purposes of >re-interpretation once a marked-up text gets over a certain size and >complexity. [...] > I would like y judgements to be dynamically, > systematically manipulable. Markup >as far as I know doesn't allow for that, given >the software that we know how to write. my biggest question, from the very early moment i knew of text encoding, is: where is the software? good, very good, software to edit and encode a text, and to read an encoded text managing/taking advantage of the encoding? could be good, very good, software the tool allowing to make encoded judgments "dynamically and systematically manipulable"? that is: i get a list of the markup elements which are in a given text, and i choose which ones to see/visualize and which ones to ignore (e.g. i keep the non-interpretative ones and only some of the interpretative ones); or even which ones to delete (e.g. i delete all the interpretative ones). (IMHO very good software must not only be very powerful for the experienced user but also easy for the entry-level user: for a down to earth example think of a word processor which can go from typewriter-like to typesetting-like use) and also: the discussion about inadequacies of markup, apart from its important philosophical side, couldn't be partly driven by the inadequacies of existing encoding software, the same way as a discussion about the inadequacies of today medicine is partly driven by the inadequacies of its tools (drugs, diagnostics, doctors' education !, and so on) ? finally: adequacy and inadequacy define themselves partly at least with reference to a given scope, aim, use, for the markup. which is the use/scope of marking up a text, apart from doing a job up to the times, a job formally sound and well done? what do you do of a tagged text? is there someone which studies texts taking advantage of their tagging? maurizio ------- La Repubblica promuove lo sviluppo della cultura e la ricerca scientifica e tecnica. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Desmond Schmidt (32) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.792 inadequacies of markup [2] From: Willard McCarty (40) Subject: markup --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 18:02:50 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.792 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100503051446.4628855EC4@woodward.joyent.us> [2] From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.789 inadequacies of markup >I am not clear what you mean when you say that markup doesn't allow your >judgments to be "dynamically, systematically manipulable"? >Assuming that you have been consistent, XSLT can manipulate your >judgments about a text. >Or did you mean something else? >Such as retaining your judgments and experimenting with the imposition >of additional judgments? Layering, perhaps even contrasting judgments >about a text? >That seems more like a software than a markup question, although markup >plays an enabling role. [3] From: maurizio lana (54) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.789 inadequacies of markup >very good, software the tool >allowing to make encoded judgments "dynamically >and systematically manipulable"? that is: i get a >list of the markup elements which are in a given >text, and i choose which ones to see/visualize >and which ones to ignore (e.g. i keep the >non-interpretative ones and only some of the >interpretative ones); or even which ones to >delete (e.g. i delete all the interpretative >ones). Firstly, what kind of manipulations can one make with XSLT? - mathematical ones. What if the manipulations I want to make are subjective, interpretative, or if I want to replace one set of markup with another one, or mix two sets, say a base tag set describing text structure with an interpretative set by someone else? Secondly, XSLT is a programming language. Because it's expressed in XML it's also a rather cumbersome one. My concern is why should a humanist have to write a stylesheet to manipulate his judgements. Well, maybe he/she should learn, but it's not happening in any significant numbers, and I don't see how it ever will. The digital humanists can do it - probably. But the ordinary humanists don't even want to get involved at that level, and why should they? Is it the role of 'very good, software' to force the user to write a program? In my view it's the goal of very good software to make the interface disappear, so that each task of the user is performed by the machine automatically with the least effort. Once markup is embedded in a text it's not easy (I don't say impossible) to take it out and repurpose the text. The example I gave in response to Wendell's post demonstrates that. The text is, even when markup is embedded in it, different from the markup. So why can't they just be separate? ------------------------------ Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Information Technology Queensland University of Technology --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 06:56:59 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: markup In-Reply-To: <20100503051446.4628855EC4@woodward.joyent.us> In Humanist 23.792 Patrick Durusau asks, > I am not clear what you mean when you say that markup doesn't allow your > judgments to be "dynamically, systematically manipulable"? > > Assuming that you have been consistent, XSLT can manipulate your > judgments about a text. > > Or did you mean something else? What I meant was something like this: If I mark up a text such as this, Joseph is a fruitful bough I can certainly find and alter or eliminate all tags ; I could decide all such tags including "bough" are really a type 2 &c. But the decisions to tag this particular passage, to include the words I've included and not to tag "fruitful" separately are all unique to this passage and not algorithmic. If, as is the case with this biblical quotation, the passage is part of a large text, let us say reasonably with tens of thousands of tags in it, then it is out of reach, an effectively permanent feature of the text except by direct intervention. And so the problem. My edition of this text as far as interpretations of this sort are concerned might as well be printed on paper. (Some here will know that it took me many years of tagging to reach this conclusion....) Unfair but real. I cannot even imagine what it is that might get through this brick wall. I guess what I want from this is recognition that tagging a text is a *very* limited instrument and that we need to deploy loads of thought-power to reach the point at which interpretative reading begins to benefit from computer-power. Publishing has gained and will continue to gain much from our sophisticated metatextual instruments. But can we do something for interpretative readers in real time? Am I missing something big and obvious here? Comments? 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "John A. Walsh" (205) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.794 inadequacies of markup [2] From: Patrick Durusau (76) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.794 inadequacies of markup [3] From: Patrick Durusau (52) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.794 inadequacies of markup [4] From: Wendell Piez (38) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.792 inadequacies of markup --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 06:24:57 -0400 From: "John A. Walsh" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.794 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100504055823.E625B53618@woodward.joyent.us> Another response to Desmond Schmidt (Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 18:02:50 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.792 inadequacies of markup) > Firstly, what kind of manipulations can one make with XSLT? > - mathematical ones. We are dealing with computers and digital objects. At some level, every manipulation done in these environments and with these objects is a mathematical one. And if we move beyond that fundamental level, I would say that most XSLT manipulations are not, on the surface, mathematical. Sure we can add, subtract, divide, and multiply and compare numeric values, but more often we are comparing and matching strings and nodes, the content and structural elements of the text. Or we are comparing the interpretive values we have added to the text. > What if the manipulations I want to make are subjective, > interpretative, or if I want to replace one set of markup with > another one, or mix two sets, say a base tag set describing > text structure with an interpretative set by someone else? All of the above may be done with XSLT. Certainly replacing one set of markup with another is commonplace. Typically, for instance, we replace something like TEI with HTML. We may take a TEI text and a linked Topic Map and use XSLT to combine those into one composite text. That combination is a subjective, interpretive, and creative act and results in a new text. > Secondly, XSLT is a programming language. Because it's > expressed in XML it's also a rather cumbersome one. My concern > is why should a humanist have to write a stylesheet to > manipulate his judgements. Well, maybe he/she should learn, > but it's not happening in any significant numbers, and I don't > see how it ever will. The digital humanists can do it - > probably. But the ordinary humanists don't even want to get > involved at that level, and why should they? Is it the role of > 'very good, software' to force the user to write a program? In > my view it's the goal of very good software to make the > interface disappear, so that each task of the user is > performed by the machine automatically with the least effort. Some prefer the syntax of XML to that of other programming languages. Whether or not one programming language is more cumbersome than another is certainly a subjective matter. Yes, humanists would do well to learn to write a stylesheet. It's not that difficult. It's certainly not rocket science, and even if it were, why should rocket scientists and brain surgeons get all the glory? If many humanists can spend years mastering the arts of fleeting jargon and deliberate obfuscation, then some of them can spend a few weeks or months learning XSLT. > Once markup is embedded in a text it's not easy (I don't say > impossible) to take it out and repurpose the text. The example > I gave in response to Wendell's post demonstrates that. I'm afraid your example demonstrates no such thing. Wendell provided the simplest of solutions. Removing the markup from your example and producing readable, meaningful output is also exceedingly simple, for those with the requisite knowledge, maybe five minutes work. > The text is, even when markup is embedded in it, different > from the markup. So why can't they just be separate? The text is not different than the markup. The text and the markup are one, a new text, a new interpretive, creative document. And more importantly, the text, with or without markup, is different from the the text, or borrowing from Jerry McGann, no text is self-identical. I do not believe you have adequately addressed the theoretical assertion that all texts and all representations of texts are subjective. You've acknowledged the truth of the assertion, but then trampled it under the foot of the developer's need for expediency. You wrote in your posts here on Humanist that "The real reason [you] wrote this article about the inadequacy of embedded markup is because of the inadequacy [you] feel as a software engineer and humanist at being able to satisfy the legitimate needs of the users." Shouldn't the "real reason" you wrote the article be stated in the article, and prominently highlighted in the article? You seem to be struggling to protect an ideal, objective text from the contagion of markup. That ideal, objective text does not exist. Having borrowed once from Jerry McGann, I will now borrow, with some liberties, from Jebediah Springfield: “A noble markup embiggens the smallest text.” -- | John A. Walsh | Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science | Indiana University, 1320 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405 | www: http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/jawalsh/ | Voice:812-856-0707 Fax:812-856-2062 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 07:56:00 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.794 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100504055823.E625B53618@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, In Humanist 23.792 Patrick Durusau asks, > >> I am not clear what you mean when you say that markup doesn't allow your >> judgments to be "dynamically, systematically manipulable"? >> >> Assuming that you have been consistent, XSLT can manipulate your >> judgments about a text. >> >> Or did you mean something else? >> > Willard replied: > What I meant was something like this: > > If I mark up a text such as this, > > Joseph isa fruitful bough > > I can certainly find and alter or eliminate all tags; > I could decide all such tags including "bough" are really a type 2&c. > But the decisions to tag this particular passage, to include the words > I've included and not to tag "fruitful" separately are all unique to > this passage and not algorithmic. If, as is the case with this biblical > quotation, the passage is part of a large text, let us say reasonably > with tens of thousands of tags in it, then it is out of reach, an > effectively permanent feature of the text except by direct intervention. > > When you say: "...is it out of reach, an effectively permanent feature of the text except by direct intervention." isn't that an interface issue? To illustrate, imagine that you made the claim: "...cuneiform texts are impossible to edit." Sitting at my computer with the latest Unicode based cuneiform font loaded I disagree. Then you say: "...well, but when baked on clay tablets it is impossible to edit." I would not disagree but the ability to edit isn't a characteristic of cuneiform but of the medium in which it is being written. So, isn't the question of being "...out of reach" a question of the software you are using with the markup? > And so the problem. My edition of this text as far as interpretations of > this sort are concerned might as well be printed on paper. (Some here > will know that it took me many years of tagging to reach this > conclusion....) > > Unfair but real. I cannot even imagine what it is that might get through > this brick wall. I guess what I want from this is recognition that > tagging a text is a *very* limited instrument and that we need to deploy > loads of thought-power to reach the point at which interpretative > reading begins to benefit from computer-power. Publishing has gained and > will continue to gain much from our sophisticated metatextual > instruments. But can we do something for interpretative readers in real > time? > > You have added the requirement that we do something "...for interpretative readers in real time." Another clue that you are talking about interfaces and not markup. Would it be possible to speculate on what you want to enable for "interpretative readers?" Interfaces to enable us to take better advantage of computing power are a current topic of discussion. See for example, Marti Hearst's Search User Interfaces, the full text of which is online: http://searchuserinterfaces.com/book/ (I recommend purchasing the hard copy as well.) I am in the processing of commenting on that work (in the context of topic maps) at my blog: http://tm.durusau.net. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 08:35:13 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.794 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100504055823.E625B53618@woodward.joyent.us> Desmond, Desmond Schmidt writes: > Firstly, what kind of manipulations can one make with XSLT? - mathematical ones. What if the manipulations I want to make are subjective, interpretative, or if I want to replace one set of markup with another one, or mix two sets, say a base tag set describing text structure with an interpretative set by someone else? > > Well, my assumption is that all the markup is already subjective and interpretive so any limits on XSLT need not bother you there. ;-) Perhaps you meant you want not well-formed XML? Or XML that isn't specified by a governing schema or DTD? Is it your contention that there is some markup that cannot be expressed by a regex that you wish to impose on a text? That would be a rather remarkable example if you have one. > Secondly, XSLT is a programming language. Because it's expressed in XML it's also a rather cumbersome one. My concern is why should a humanist have to write a stylesheet to manipulate his judgements. Well, maybe he/she should learn, but it's not happening in any significant numbers, and I don't see how it ever will. The digital humanists can do it - probably. But the ordinary humanists don't even want to get involved at that level, and why should they? Is it the role of 'very good, software' to force the user to write a program? In my view it's the goal of very good software to make the interface disappear, so that each task of the user is performed by the machine automatically with the least effort. > > Even more clearly an interface issue rather than a markup issue. Why not argue for better interfaces than trying to invent reasons to be critical of markup? (There are reasons to be critical of markup, but those aren't the ones being made.) > Once markup is embedded in a text it's not easy (I don't say impossible) to take it out and repurpose the text. The example I gave in response to Wendell's post demonstrates that. The text is, even when markup is embedded in it, different from the markup. So why can't they just be separate? > This may also be an interface issue but originally due to the likelihood of file corruption and poor handling of edits. Both file corruption and poor handling of edits because any change in the file structure could invalid the pointers into the text. Modern texts are moving in the direction of only appearing as discreet entities to users but not out of a desire to avoid markup or thinking markup is too hard for the average humanist. If I can put in a plug for OpenDocument Format 1.2 (about to be released for public comment), the new metadata mechanisms allow for robust and granular annotation of a text. (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office) One of the features of which I am particularly proud, although you have to read closely to realize it has been enabled by the standard, is the capacity to have asymmetric metadata for a document. That is that you and I maintain different metadata (that we may not be sharing, say on a contract) for the same document. Granted the interfaces are in their infancy, we are only finishing this version in the next month or so, but the future looks quite bright for better interfaces for recording views about documents. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick PS: OpenDocument Format does the things I have described by using XML markup. -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 12:38:14 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.792 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100503051446.4628855EC4@woodward.joyent.us> Desmond, Thanks for your response to this. In effect, you've demonstrated that the problem of "removing markup from text" is actually subject to complications from their mutual encroachment, in systems that have no option but to do this in order to achieve application requirements. In reply, all I can suggest is that: (a) An adequate markup language, in order to be composable the way you want, cannot be limited to describing a single hierarchy. Indeed, it should not have to see the text as a hierarchy at all. (b) Similarly, markup is actually much more than labeling, and an adequate markup language must allow annotations (the closest thing XML has is attributes or standoff-based workarounds) to be structured, sometimes elaborately. (c) Likewise, even while markup is much more than labeling, text, properly considered (which is to say, not redefined for purposes of handling in a digital environment), is much more than a stream of characters. The "non-character" part of text starts with white space, but it doesn't end there. (d) All of these facts mean that in practice, XML systems have to violate the markup/text divide fairly routinely, even though that distinction is at the heart of what makes XML work at all. Cheers, Wendell ========================================================= Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 5 05:29:05 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29EAB56D66; Wed, 5 May 2010 05:29:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D519056D54; Wed, 5 May 2010 05:29:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100505052903.D519056D54@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 05:29:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.796 events: TEI on ms-encoding X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 796. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:42:56 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: call for participation: TEI seminars on manuscript encoding Please circulate (apologies for cross-posting): We're now accepting applications for two advanced TEI seminars on manuscript encoding: October 4-6, 2010, University at Buffalo, hosted by the Digital Humanities Initiative. October 20-22, 2010, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, hosted by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. (This seminar was originally to be held in July but had to be rescheduled for logistical reasons.) The application deadline for both seminars is June 15, 2010. Participants will be notified by July 1. These seminars assume a basic familiarity with TEI, and provide an opportunity to explore manuscript encoding topics in more detail, in a collaborative workshop setting. We will focus on the detailed challenges of encoding manuscript materials, including editorial, transcriptional, and interpretive issues and the methods of representing these in TEI markup. We'll also be looking at the recently proposed new module for genetic editing, which includes very advanced methods of representing revision processes and editorial analysis. These seminars are part of a series funded by the NEH and conducted by the Brown University Women Writers Project. They are intended to provide a more in-depth look at specific encoding problems and topics for people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are in the process of planning one. Each event will include a mix of presentations, discussion, case studies using participants' projects, hands-on practice, and individual consultation. The seminars will be strongly project-based: participants will present their projects to the group, discuss specific challenges and encoding strategies, develop encoding specifications and documentation, and create encoded sample documents and templates. We encourage project teams and collaborative groups to apply, although individuals are also welcome. A basic knowledge of the TEI Guidelines and some prior experience with text encoding will be assumed. **Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant.** For more information and to apply, please visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 6 05:34:57 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD9385531F; Thu, 6 May 2010 05:34:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7F2A655317; Thu, 6 May 2010 05:34:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100506053456.7F2A655317@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 05:34:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.797 inadequacies of markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 797. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Wendell Piez (94) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.789 inadequacies of markup [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (47) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.795 inadequacies of markup [3] From: Desmond Schmidt (29) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.795 inadequacies of markup --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 14:29:08 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.789 inadequacies of markup Dear Willard, At 04:21 AM 5/1/2010, you wrote: >My problem with markup is that (as far as I know -- always a serious >qualification) it is not systematically alterable for purposes of >re-interpretation once a marked-up text gets over a certain size and >complexity. Making the practical distinction between markup that is in >effect and for most purposes non-interpretative > > ( > "interpretation" as far as I am concerned is misleading; we should really be >using the gerund/participle "interpreting". Ok, I can produce an edition of >the Metamorphoses (as I did) enriched or muddled by my interpretation of >that poem, but I don't see that this is all that much better than a printed >edition. What I would like is an edition which provides for interpreting in >such a way that my go would inspire or provoke others -- without other >scholars having to do the whole job over again but differently. I would like >my judgements to be dynamically, systematically manipulable. Markup as far >as I know doesn't allow for that, given the software that we know how to >write. I dare say readers of HUMANIST who follow these issues already know something about where I stand. I don't know anyone who seriously argues that the OHCO, or any unitary hierarchy, is a fully adequate model for general-purpose processing of text. (I think it's safe to say that the authors of the original papers on OHCO don't think so.) I also don't know anyone who doesn't agree that markup can be useful. So where's the problem here? In between. Your own work on Ovid, to which you allude above, is a nice demonstration of a serious scholarly application of a modeling of a text, which goes beyond the limits of current markup technologies. There might be debate about whether it is beyond the limits of any markup technology in theory as well as beyond current technologies in practice. In part, this is an argument over whether markup technologies in general, or "embedded markup" as Desmond puts it, should be tarred with the brush we are tempted to use on TEI (if it doesn't easily do what we want) or even on XML (if it doesn't easily do what we want). These are not all the same thing. There might also be debate over whether, even if the modeling of the Onomasticon is not beyond the limits of markup technologies in theory (sc. a better markup technology than XML), whether it would be practical to approach it with such a technology, or even if so, whether it might be more practical and more graceful to do it some other way. Then too, there might be debate over whether embedded markup, which provides certain affordances in general (which Toma has described well), might be a useful method even if it's not an ideal storage format, or a useful storage format for archiving even if it's not a useful method, etc. etc. This especially becomes vexed when we contrast embedded markup to, say, standoff approaches to data description, when many projects are now implementing standoff approaches using markup technologies. All I can say is that there is bathwater here, and there are babies. To make things worse -- you have a baby, I have a baby, Desmond has a baby -- but no one's is as beautiful as mine. (How could it be? Mine is the most beautiful baby ever.) And it might even be that some of these babies may grow up and play together. There is much work to do -- and much work being done -- to explore the space outside XML. Paradoxically, much of this work is enabled by the very technology it seeks to transcend. Between our agreement that the OHCO is inadequate, and our agreement that XML can sometimes be useful, there is lots of room for experimentation and discovery. I'll be talking about this (as time allows), in July at DH2010. In the meantime, here's something you might preview: http://cocoon.lis.illinois.edu:8080/lis590dpl/wapiez/LMNL/clix-sonnets?type=sonnets You also write: >I guess what I want from this is recognition that tagging a text is >a *very* limited instrument and that we need to deploy loads of >thought-power to reach the point at which interpretative reading >begins to benefit from computer-power. Publishing has gained and >will continue to gain much from our sophisticated metatextual >instruments. But can we do something for interpretative readers in real time? Well if it's recognition you want, you have it! It is indeed a very limited instrument. As bad as a dull pencil. In response to the real question, can we do something for interpretive readers, I should say I hope not. Or certainly, whatever we do (as in my little project with the sonnets) should fail to satisfy them, if it works at all. I am not interested in usurping their role. I think the very notion that our interventions should primarily be for an audience or a consumer to profit from is a pernicious capitalist idea. Instead, my efforts with text and with technology are meant to provoke interpretation, not impose it. If my readers do not look through and beyond my interpretation, I have done something wrong by them. Cheers, Wendell ========================================================= Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 08:14:34 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.795 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100505052753.A342956D01@woodward.joyent.us> [1] From: "John A. Walsh" (205) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.794 inadequacies of markup Dear John, I'm going to respond you your post separately to avoid confusion with the others. >We are dealing with computers and digital objects. At some level, >every manipulation done in these environments and with these >objects is a mathematical one. And if we move beyond that fundamental level, >I would say that most XSLT manipulations are not, on the surface, mathematical. I didn't mean in that low level sense. Many (e.g. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiploop.html) describe XSLT as a functional language, that is, one that "that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions" (Wikipedia!). But even an ordinary imperative language can be reduced to a series of predicate calculus statements. My point is that humanists are not used to thinking about texts in those terms. They interpret or judge, but what they do could not be more removed from mathematics. >> What if the manipulations I want to make are subjective, >> interpretative, or if I want to replace one set of markup with >> another one, or mix two sets, say a base tag set describing >> text structure with an interpretative set by someone else? >All of the above may be done with XSLT. Certainly replacing one set of markup >with another is commonplace. Typically, for instance, we replace >something like TEI with HTML. Yes, but with the constraint that the transformed text has more or less the same text-markup boundaries as the original. Taking markup out wholesale still doesn't work for texts authored by humans without parsing and responding to the structure. As I said, it is not a simple matter, although not impossible. You can't arbitrarily mix markup sets in the one document because of the overlap problem, unless you parse them separately using some fancy system like SGML CONCUR. >We may take a TEI text and a linked >Topic Map and use XSLT to combine those into one composite text. You'll have to show me an example of that. Again, this may be a specialist case. >That combination is a subjective, interpretive, and creative act and >results in a new text. If there something subjective interpretative or creative about the new text it came from the human who wrote or structured it, not from the software. >Yes, humanists would do well to learn to write a stylesheet. It's not >that difficult. ... If many humanists can spend years mastering the arts of >fleeting jargon and deliberate obfuscation, then some of them can >spend a few weeks or months learning XSLT. So the future of human-computer interaction for humanists that use embedded markup would appear to be that they learn a functional programming language. This reinforces my point earlier in response to Christian Wittern that I don't think it is possible to entirely shield the editor of the text from the commandline interface once you accept embedded markup. >I'm afraid your example demonstrates no such thing. Wendell provided >the simplest of solutions. Removing the markup from your example and producing >readable, meaningful output is also exceedingly simple, for those with the >requisite knowledge, maybe five minutes work. The exception proves the rule. My example was valid XML but the simple removal of markup tags using Wendell's stylesheet did not work. Wendell actually agreed with me on this point: 'you've demonstrated that the problem of "removing markup from text" is actually subject to complications from their mutual encroachment' >> The text is, even when markup is embedded in it, different >> from the markup. So why can't they just be separate? >The text is not different than the markup. The text and the markup are >one, a new text, a new interpretive, creative document. And more >importantly, the text, with or without markup, is different from the >the text, or borrowing from Jerry McGann, no text is self-identical. Yes, the markup is usually embedded in the text so that they are both physically in the same place. And yes, the markup comments on or refers to particular parts of the text. But in all other respects markup is separate from the text. They are treated as distinct by the parser, and are defined as such in the standards documents e.g. here http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#syntax. Michael Sperberg McQueen wrote back in 1991: 'By markup I mean all the information in a document other than the "contents of the document itself".' I would agree that when you *write* a text containing markup in the first place that the result may be a "new interpretive, creative document" but that's not what I am talking about. I'm talking about inserting markup codes into texts that never had them when they were originally written. That's a totally different ball game. >Shouldn't the "real >reason" you wrote the article be stated in the article, and >prominently highlighted in the article? Not possible, unfortunately. It was an afterthought and changing it is not now permitted. Anyway the comment was more personal than factual. Sorry you didn't like it. Desmond Schmidt Queensland University of Technology --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 13:34:17 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.795 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100505052753.A342956D01@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 07:56:00 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.794 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100504055823.E625B53618@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Patrick, in response to Willard's comments you said: >When you say: "...is it out of reach, an effectively permanent feature >of the text except by direct intervention." isn't that an interface issue? and then later: >You have added the requirement that we do something "...for >interpretative readers in real time." >Another clue that you are talking about interfaces and not markup. You appear to assume lightly that there is a clean separation between markup and interface. As if the choice of the former as a medium had no influence on what types of interface you could create. For example, I find it hard to see how the editor of a cultural heritage text, to which markup has been subsequently added, can avoid interacting with the markup directly and being influenced by the limitations that imposes on the interface. Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 12:38:14 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.792 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100503051446.4628855EC4@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Wendell, >(a) An adequate markup language, in order to be composable the way >you want, cannot be limited to describing a single hierarchy. Indeed, >it should not have to see the text as a hierarchy at all. I agree wholehearedly with the second sentence in particular. But you don't respond to my assertion in the article that a 'markup language' that didn't have a tree-structure (not just a hierarchy) could not be recognised/rejected by a computer. To what extent this is a useful property you haven't made clear, or do you wish to contend the point? >(b) Similarly, markup is actually much more than labeling, and an >adequate markup language must allow annotations (the closest thing >XML has is attributes or standoff-based workarounds) to be >structured, sometimes elaborately. I always assumed (naively) that LMNL 'annotations' were just an alternative name for attributes, as it appears to say here:http://www.lmnl.org/wiki/index.php/LMNL_syntax#Annotations . But please correct me. But I'm not sure I understand your distinction between labelling and structured annotations. It sounds a bit complicated. Why can't we just have annotations asserted over a range and allowed to overlap freely, like bold and italic in word processors? Just extend this principle to any set of properties that a text needs. What aspect of expressiveness would be lost? Then we don't need 'hierarchy', which is really a shorthand notation for inherited properties e.g. a piece of text may be a speech in a scene in an act in a play at the same time. We can express the same information by attaching those properties to ranges within the text that could freely overlap, which would yield your utopian vision in (a) above. Desmond Schmidt Queensland University of Technology _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 6 05:35:57 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5321C55AA4; Thu, 6 May 2010 05:35:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B4A5A55918; Thu, 6 May 2010 05:35:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100506053555.B4A5A55918@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 05:35:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.798 job at the DHO (Dublin) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 798. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 19:11:33 +0100 From: "Shawn Day" Subject: Vacancy: Digital Humanities Specialist, Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) Vacancy: Digital Humanities Specialist, Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO), Dublin, Ireland 1 Year Fixed Term Contract Applications are invited for a one year fixed term contract position of Digital Humanities Specialist to the DHO. The DHO is designing, constructing, and hosting a digital repository of humanities research. This joint national platform, funded under Cycle 4 of PRTLI, is being constructed for the RIA and its partners to provide for the building, coordination and dissemination of humanities research, teaching and training at an all-island level. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 13:34:10 +0100 From: Gualtiero Volpe Subject: PhD studentship and PostDoc positions at InfoMus,DIST Univ of Genoa The Casa Paganini - InfoMus international research center (www.infomus.org; www.casapaganini.org) of the University of Genova, Italy, is looking for Ph.D. students and post-doc researchers in the field of sound and gesture analysis. Casa Paganini - InfoMus is an International Centre of Excellence for research on music, science, and technology (human-computer interaction, multimedia, sound and music computing). Casa Pagnanini - InfoMus has its premises in a monumental building in the historical center of Genova and is endowed with a 250-seat auditorium and museum rooms. This makes it an ideal location to carry out experiments and proof-of-concept tests in real-world scenarios (public concerts, installations, etc). The work to be developed is linked to EU-funded research projects to be carried out in conjunction with a number of partners at a European level. Projects concern: - The study of creative communication within groups of people from the perspective of music ensemble performance and audience experience. - The extraction and analysis of expressive movement, audio, and physiological multi-layer features using real-time, synchronized, multi-modal feature extraction techniques. - The development of computational models of expressive gesture and expressive social interaction. - The development of cross-modal techniques for search and retrieval of audiovisual material from multimodal queries. - The development of techniques and prototypes of multimodal interfaces for supporting music learning by children. - The development of techniques and prototypes for active experience of audiovisual content, including mobile contexts. Among the foreseen tasks/duties to be carried out by Casa Paganini - InfoMus as part of the projects, those to be developed by the successful applicants will include: - Development/implementation of multi-modal data acquisition and/or synchronization techniques. - Development/implementation of algorithms for the analysis of sound and gesture signals in a cross-modal perspective. - Development/implementation of algorithms for the analysis of social interaction in groups. - Contribution to the technological platform of the project, based on the EyesWeb XMI platform (www.eyesweb.org). - Contribution to a database/repository of multi-modal data recorded from real musical performance scenarios. - Writing of deliverables and of technical reports. Requirements: - Computer Science / Electrical Engineering (or related) degree. - Excellent programming skills in C++ / scripting. - Experience in computer vision and signal processing applied to movement and gesture analysis. - Experience on techniques for musical sound description is appreciated. - Previous experience with gesture/motion analysis is preferred. - Enthusiastic attitude towards approaching new research challenges. - Ability to work in a team-oriented environment. - Proficiency in English language. - Knowledge of system administration and maintenance of on-line databases and/or of mobile platforms is welcome. Positions are full-time, on-site in Genova, Italy. The duration of Ph.D. studentship in Italy is three years. Post-doc positions have a duration of one year and can be extended for a second year. Traveling and attendance to project meetings or international workshops might be required from time to time. The working language in our Lab is English. Previous experience in similar working environments will be valued. Interested people should send a curriculum (including possible publications) as well as an introduction letter to: infomus-calls@infomus.org Before any decision is made, selected candidates will be invited for a short stay in Genova (major costs refunded). Deadline: June 15, 2010. Please note that according to the Italian national regulation, independently from any possible evaluation by Casa Paganini - InfoMus staff members, candidates will need to formally apply for a position at the University of Genova and will therefore be subject to a competitive examination, to be carried out by the University of Genova in fall 2010. The starting date for the positions is expected to be January 1, 2011. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 6 05:46:35 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67FAC56163; Thu, 6 May 2010 05:46:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5D0BA56151; Thu, 6 May 2010 05:46:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100506054633.5D0BA56151@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 05:46:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.800 augmented reality at I-CHASS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 800. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 22:52:15 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: Augmented Reality at I-CHASS The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) is pleased to announce that the project Augmented Reality for Understanding Social and Environmental Science has received $300,000 in funding through an EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award from the National Science Foundation’s Arctic Social Sciences Program. Augmented Reality for Understanding Social and Environmental Science will explore and develop the use of augmented reality applications on mobile computing devices to allow students to participate in simulated archeological digs. “Augmented Reality (AR) is an exciting emerging technology that overlays geographically registered three dimensional computer graphics on the real world,” said Dr. Alan B. Craig, Associate Director for Human-Computer Interaction at I-CHASS and a researcher at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Principal Investigator of the project. “Until recently, AR required expensive hardware, or, at the minimum, a laptop computer equipped with a web camera. Recent improvements in cellular telephone technology, however, have enabled the possibility to use a smart phone as an interaction device for AR thus creating a portable AR experience. By using the cell phone as a ‘magic lens,’ participants can view the real world through the camera on the phone and see the augmentations in place, in registration with the real world. This award will allow us to do some really exciting investigations and development in the use of augmented reality in the area of archeology and education. We are thrilled to bring these technologies to the social sciences, and to work with Arctic scientists.” EAGER awards are made to support exploratory work in its early stages on untested, but potentially transformative, research ideas or approaches. “Augmented Reality for Understanding Social and Environmental Science will create a demonstration of how Augmented Reality can aid in understanding and teaching social and environmental science,” continued Dr. Kevin Franklin, Executive Director of I-CHASS. “This award also demonstrates I-CHASS’s commitment to bring innovative technologies directly to our target communities and we are excited at the prospect of future collaborations with NSF’s Office of Polar Programs.” Dr. Craig will work closely with co-PI Robert McGrath and Senior Scientist David Bock, both research scientists at NCSA. Professor Sophia Perdikaris, from the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, as well as students from the Digital Media program at Parkland College will also be collaborators on the project. * * * Founded in 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I-CHASS charts new ground in high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social sciences by creating both learning environments and spaces for digital discovery. I-CHASS presents path-breaking research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social sciences. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 13:35:29 +0100 From: Rainer Malaka Subject: cfp: Human Computation Workshop 2010 (HCOMP 2010) Human Computation Workshop 2010 (HCOMP 2010) July 25, 2010 Washington DC, USA http://hcomp.info/hcomp2010 Collocated with ACM SIG KDD-2010 Most research in data mining and knowledge discovery relies heavily on the availability of datasets. With the rapid growth of user generated content on the internet, there is now an abundance of sources from which data can be drawn. Compared to the amount of work in the field on techniques for pattern discovery and knowledge extraction, there has been little effort directed at the study of effective methods for collecting and evaluating the quality of data. Human computation is a relatively new research area that studies the process of channeling the vast internet population to perform tasks or provide data towards solving difficult problems that no known efficient computer algorithms can yet solve. There are various genres of human computation applications available today. Games with a purpose (e.g., the ESP Game) specifically target online gamers who, in the process of playing an enjoyable game, generate useful data (e.g., image tags). Crowdsourcing marketplaces (e.g. Amazon Mechanical Turk) are human computation applications that coordinate workers to perform tasks in exchange for monetary rewards. In identity verification tasks, users need to perform some computation in order to access some online content; one example of such a human computation application is reCAPTCHA, which leverages millions of users who solve CAPTCHAs every day to correct words in books that optical character recognition (OCR) programs fail to recognize with certainty. Human computation is an area with significant research challenges and increasing business interest, making this doubly relevant to KDD. KDD provides an ideal forum for a workshop on human computation as a form of cost-sensitive data acquisition. The workshop also offers a chance to interact with practitioners who have complementary real-world expertise in gaming and mechanism design. The first Human Computation Workshop (HComp 2009) was held on June 28th, 2009, in Paris, France, collocated with KDD 2009. The overall themes that emerged from this workshop were very clear: on the one hand, there is the experimental side of human computation, with research on new incentives for users to participate, new types of actions, and new modes of interaction. On the theoretic side, we have research modeling these actions and incentives to examine what theory predicts about these designs. Finally, there is work on noisy results generated by such games and systems: how can we best handle noise, identify labeler expertise, and use the generated data for data mining purposes? Learning from HComp 2009, we have expanded the topics of relevance to the workshop. The goal of HComp 2010 is to bring together academic and industry researchers in a stimulating discussion of existing human computation applications and future directions of this new subject area. We solicit papers related to various aspects of both general human computation techniques and specific applications, e.g. general design principles; implementation; cost- benefit analysis; theoretical approaches; privacy and security concerns; and incorporation of machine learning / artificial intelligence techniques. An integral part of this workshop will be a demo session where participants can showcase their human computation applications. Specifically, topics of interests include, but are not limited to: * Abstraction of human computation tasks into taxonomies of mechanisms * Theories about what makes some human computation tasks fun and addictive * Differences between collaborative vs. competitive tasks * Programming languages, tools and platforms to support human computation * Domain-specific implementation challenges in human computation games * Cost, reliability, and skill of labelers * Benefits of one-time versus repeated labeling * Game-theoretic mechanism design of incentives for motivation and honest reporting * Design of manipulation-resistance mechanisms in human computation * Effectiveness of CAPTCHAs * Concerns regarding the protection of labeler identities * Active learning from imperfect human labelers * Creation of intelligent bots in human computation games * Utility of social networks and social credit in garnering data * Optimality in the context of human computation * Focus on tasks where crowds, not individuals, have the answers * Limitations of human computation [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php