From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 7 05:28:49 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 23E905492E; Fri, 7 May 2010 05:28:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 465AA54916; Fri, 7 May 2010 05:28:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100507052847.465AA54916@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 05:28:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.1 Happy 23rd birthday, Humanist X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 1. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 08:15:12 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Happy 23rd Birthday! I'm reminded of Humanist's annual birthday event these last few years by automatic devices, now my iPhone. Unlike the birthday of a person, who eventually does not want his or her age to be noted or is too busy with other things to be around for the celebration, Humanist exists only in outbursts of prose which in effect celebrate its existence these last 23 years. For those too young or too recently among us to know, Humanist dates back to a moment at a conference in Columbia, South Carolina, when Michael Sperberg-McQueen provoked the thought in me that we all should talk to each other more. That's what really happened (eigentlich!), although what I would have said at the time was that the couple of dozen people at the impromptu gathering of disgruntled colleagues had a revolution to start, and you cannot do that without conspiratorial passing of messages. I suppose one could say now that many of us here are living the outcome of that revolution, though I'd have to admit that us few were not the first expression of the revolutionary impulse -- Joe Raben was there to remind us we had a history. As Fidel has said many, many times, the revolution is nothing unless it continues. A perfect example of what Humanist is all about is to my mind Wendell Piez's characteristically magnanimous and insightful response yesterday to an outburst of mine on markup, it in turn provoked by Desmond Schmidt's, in a conversation on the topic stretching far enough around the globe to be simultaneously vernal and autumnal. I have been feeling (perhaps in part because of my own rather bewildering heap of birthdays, stretching back to the time when Fr Busa got started) that Fidel's point has been lost in the industrialisation of humanities computing that has followed in the wake of TEI's great success. I have been worrying that the central mission of the humanities, to make/find problems where none were before (how I wish we could hear the two resonances of the word "invent" simultaneously!) has been forgotten within the digital humanities by those who have found themselves all too comfortable in the mind-laced straitjacket of implementing someone else's ideas. And then I wake up from the nightmare and find Wendell, whose philosophical bedside manner is better than sunshine streaming through the blinds. CONVERSATION, not what Donald MacCrimmon MacKay apparently, somewhere I cannot find, called "competitive monologue", but real conversation. I think at this point of Warren McCulloch's marvellous "The Fun of Failures", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 156.0 (April 1969): 963-8, in which he quotes MacKay and gives us an idea of what a powerfully questioning mind is like. "Teaching and learning", McCulloch writes there, "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." Isn't that what it's all about for our kind, however geeky, however scholarly? Better than collaboration, the whole point of collaboration. We make things, sure, but in order better to question through their anomalous behaviours or results. Permit me to tell a story I have likely told several times here. One of the things that really got up my nose (a marvellous Britishism, no?) in those days when Humanist began was the widely used metaphor of the "clearinghouse" of information, which was what some thought was needed. I had been with my auntie many times as a lad to clearing-out sales at department stores, which would throw open their doors at the advertised hour in the morning to crowds of shoppers, who would then in a mad rush dive at tables where clothing on sale was piled and grab, sometimes in a tug-of-war, at particular items. This is what came to mind when "clearinghouse" was mentioned. Wrong for all sorts of reasons, especially because acquisition of objects was the putative goal. I am guessing that what really motivated my auntie wasn't the nice frock she hoped to grab, or not exactly, but a mixture of some vision of life promised by that frock and the chance to interact with those she probably at the time wished would die or at least go away. Conversation plus the ever-elusive truth, or as Plato knew perfectly well, desire. Which is where I always begin and end. Happy Birthday Humanist! And thanks to everyone here, and to everyone who has come and gone, for making these conversations possible. This certainly includes the lurkers. I note, suddenly questioning that term an interesting development chronicled in the Oxford English Dictionary, the following: ----- LURKER 1. One who lurks or lies concealed: freq. employed as a term of abuse in early quots. lit. and fig. [quotations 1325-1870] 2. A begging impostor; a petty thief. [quotations 1842-1973] 3. App[arently] misused for LURCHER [quotation 1440] DRAFT ADDITIONS JULY 2001 Chiefly Computing slang. A person who reads communications to an electronic network without actively contributing. [quotations 1984-1998] ----- >From this I conclude that computing brings out in us a playful spirit and has overall a most civilising effect! Thank you 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. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 7 05:32:00 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 D074754A09; Fri, 7 May 2010 05:32:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 43646549DF; Fri, 7 May 2010 05:32:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100507053200.43646549DF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 05:32:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.2 inadequacies of markup 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. 24, No. 2. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Wendell Piez (153) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.797 inadequacies of markup [2] From: "J. Randolph Radney" (7) Subject: markup --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 13:50:11 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.797 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100506053456.7F2A655317@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Desmond, At 01:34 AM 5/6/2010, you wrote: > >(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? Take this bit of LMNL syntax: [s}[quatrain}[line}[phr}He would have said,{phr] [phr}and could himself believe{line] [line}That the birds there in all the garden round{line] [line}Had gathered from the day-long voice of Eve{line] [line}And added to their own,{phr] [phr}an oversound,{phr]{line]{quatrain] [quatrain}[line}[phr}Her tone of meaning,{phr] [phr}though without the words.{phr]{line]{s] ... {quatrain] It parses into a tree: root start 's' range start 'quatrain' range start 'line' range start 'phr' range text: "He would have said," end 'phr' range text: " " start 'phr' range text "and could himself believe" end 'line' range text: "&xA;" (lf) start 'line' range [etc.] However, the ranges overlap. Accordingly, you can't validate the structure of the ranges over the text with a grammar. But once this tree is cast to a LMNL model (which basically consists of a set of annotated ranges over a text), you can detect them and relate them using other means. For example, it's easy enough to determine that the first 'phr' range appears "within" (in LMNL terminology, "is enclosed by") the first 'line' range. Note further that this is not necessarily a containment relation and certainly not a graph-dominance relation. You can, however, also inspect the set of ranges over the text, and determine that all 's' and 'phr' ranges nest cleanly, while all 'quatrain', 'line' (and other sorts of structures in a more extensive example) nest cleanly, so that hierarchies may be interpolated and XML documents induced. (This is all done automatically in the demonstration I posted.) Since it can't be done with a top-down parse, because sometimes things end before other things that start later, other methods are used. > >(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. Yes, actually that description doesn't mention attributes, to which LMNL annotations are only roughly analogous. It does, however, say a couple of other crucial things. Unlike XML attributes, the text content of LMNL annotations can have ranges (in LMNL syntax, these are identified in the same way as ranges over the text, with start and end tags). And annotations can also have annotations. So in LMNL syntax, you can have: [meta [author [name}Robert Frost{] [dates}1874-1963{] [bio}Robert Frost was born in [place}San Francisco, California{place] to [person [id}wpfrost23{]}William Prescott Frost, Jr.{person], and [person [id}imoodie41{]Isabelle Moodie{person] ... {bio]] [title}Never Again Would Birds' Song Be The Same{title]] Here (cosmetic whitespace is ignored): root start 'meta' range 'author' annotation 'name' annotation text: "Robert Frost" 'dates' annotation text: "1874-1963" 'bio' annotation text: "Robert Frost was born in " start 'place' range text: "San Francisco, California" end 'place' range text: "to" start 'person' range 'id' annotation text: "wpfrost23" text: "William Prescott Frost, Jr." end 'person' range text: ", and " start 'person' range 'id' annotation text: "imoodie41" text: "Isabelle Moodie" end 'person' range text: " ... " 'title' annotation text: "Never Again Would Birds' Song Be The Same" end (empty) 'meta' range Notice that the annotations form a tree, while markup is still markup. If and as annotations become elaborate, LMNL syntax is less legible. Here, for example, it's tricky to see that the title is presented as an annotation on the (empty) meta range (an empty range is useful mainly as a hangar for annotations), while the bio is an annotation on the author annotation. However, LMNL is not the syntax, it's the model behind it, and one would hope we'd also have better user interfaces to the model than this syntax (or indeed other forms of embedded markup :-), to help us sort things out. At that point, LMNL syntax becomes useful mainly as a teaching tool and an interchange/archiving format. Whether it would be a viable approach, unassisted by tools of its own, to (say) documentary editing, or prose composition, probably depends on what you're accomplishing and how elaborate your models are. > 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? That's essentially what LMNL has -- ranges -- while "annotations" are what we call extra bits or hunks of information attached to ranges. (In an XML representations, you may want to use standoff markup for any annotations that can't become attributes due to the limits on attributes in XML.) In LMNL, annotations are isomorphic to documents. >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. Indeed. I think the ideas are there. They only require the correct combination of talents under pressure for them to combust. As further evidence of this, I hasten to add that LMNL is *not* the only proposal out there for dealing properly with this set of problems. And this is good, because LMNL itself has only been implemented in (very) rudimentary forms, and we don't know yet if it hasn't got some fatal flaw that would prevent it from being feasible. 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 15:14:53 -0700 From: "J. Randolph Radney" Subject: markup In-Reply-To: <20100506053456.7F2A655317@woodward.joyent.us> What would be the possibility of a 'layered' markup, following the analogy of Google Earth's layers of terrain display? Could levels of 'interpreting' be agreed upon whereby users could 'turn on' certain layers for certain purposes and turn them off for others? -- "Get the education you want in the community you love" http://bclearningcoach.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 May 7 05:36:35 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 A172954B1E; Fri, 7 May 2010 05:36:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1F7AE54B0C; Fri, 7 May 2010 05:36:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100507053634.1F7AE54B0C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 05:36:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.3 events: mss studies; high-performance 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 3. 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 RNP COMSt: workshop on Digital Approaches to Manuscript Studies and travel grants [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (82) Subject: Public Talks at the University of Alberta --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 15:50:13 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF RNP COMSt: workshop on Digital Approaches to Manuscript Studies and travel grants The first Workshop devoted to Digital Support for Manuscript Analysis organised by the Team on "Digital Approaches to Manuscript Studies" within the ESF Research Networking Programme on "Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies" (COMSt) will take place on 23-24 July 2010 in Hamburg, Germany. The tentative Workshop programme is as follows: 23 July 2010 14:00-16:30: Digitisation techniques: general (incl. state-of-the-art survey) 16:30-17:00: Coffee break 17:00-19:30: Digitisation techniques: special cases (palimpsests, scattered manuscripts) 20:00: Dinner 24 July 2010 8:30-11:00: Material analysis: tools and techniques 11:00-11:30: Coffee break 11:30-13:30: Support for codicological and palaeographic analyses Each session will be introduced by a keynote speaker and followed by a facilitated discussion. The Workshop venue will be Hamburg University, Asia-Africa Institute, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 (East), 20146 Hamburg. Three travel grants will be made available for those willing to attend the workshop and unable to cover their expenses. The application deadline is 15 June 2010. For more information see http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/bandi.html As all ESF RNP activities, the workshop is open to everyone who may be interested to attend. The participation is free of charge. If you are willing to attend, please do contact the programme coordinator Evgenia Sokolinskaia (eae@uni-hamburg.de) and the Team Leader Jost Gippert (gippert@em.uni-frankfurt.de). 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: Thu, 6 May 2010 17:07:32 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Public Talks at the University of Alberta Dear all, Associated with our MIND THE GAP workshop we have a series of public talks next week at the Telus Centre at the University of Alberta. Please join us for any of these events. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell Philosophy and Humanities Comptuing Mind the Gap: Bridging the Humanities and High-Performance Computing (May 2010) MIND THE GAP is a week-long workshop on the uses of High Performance Computing in the humanities with the goal of coordinating a research agenda at the intersection of HPC and the digital humanities. MIND THE GAP combines invited talks and time for training and development. For more information see the MIND THE GAP web site, http://ra.tapor.ualberta.ca/mindthegap/ . The invited talks are open to all and include: Robyn Taylor: Exploring Human Computer Interaction through Performance Practice May 11th, 9:30am, Telus Centre, Room 236-238 Our research team conducts practice-based research into human computer interaction using my work as an interactive artist to probe and explore the way people interact with ambiguous interfaces in public spaces. We have adopted a pragmatic strategy of addressing technologically mediated participatory performance in order to use collaborative performance as an investigatory tool in the exploration of user behavior. By taking a holistic view of the evaluation of the interplay between the designed artefact (the performance content) and the people who interact and relate to it, we extract insights from the performance with the intention of informing the process of designing interaction mechanisms for more conventional public interfaces. This presentation will describe the interplay between creative practice and investigative research to illustrate how a multidisciplinary approach can help explore new problem domains. Robyn Taylor is a member of the Advanced Man-Machine Interface Laboratory at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her research and creative interests combine her two great loves: music and technology. Patrick Juola: Computers, Conjectures, and Creativity (or How we can get the computer to do the heavy lifting for us) May 11th, 2:30pm, Telus Centre, Room 236-238 Computers and massive databases have made literary research much easier; you can have literally millions of books at your fingertips. At the same time, this has made literary research much harder; if you don't know exactly what you're looking for, you can't possibly read "literally millions of books." This paper explores some of the implications of a new method of reading --- more accurately, a new method of avoiding reading --- using automatic hypothesis generation. Discussed are some of the intellectual precursors such as exploration of the mathematics of graph theory, a new system for generating and testing hypotheses via supercomputer, and some of the potentials for interpreting and using computer-generated "facts" to achieve human understanding. Patrick Juola is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Duquesne University. He has worked on authorship attribution and on text analysis. Paul Lu: Cloud Computing and HPC May 12th, 2:30pm, Telus Centre, Room 236-238 Paul Lu will be talking about cloud computing and high performance computing solutions. He will introduce cloud computing and talk about how it can be used in research. He will discuss WestGrid's approach to cloud computing. Paul Lu is on the Executive of WestGrid, a high performance computing consortium involving major research universities in Western Canada. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing Science of the University of Alberta. Stephen Ramsay, Knowing It When You See It: Humanistic Inquiry in the Age of Big Data May 13th, 9:30am, Telus Centre, Room 236-238 Large-scale data repositories -- of which Google Books is a striking, though not exclusive example -- are prompting humanists to ask questions like "What do you do with a million books?" and to propose new tools and techniques for analyzing cultural heritage materials at scale. For Stephen Ramsay, such questions and proposals underscore long-standing cultural anxieties about humanistic inquiry and computing. He suggests that radical changes may need to be made in the way both fields conceive of themselves methodologically, and points out some ways in which present debates about technology reflect older forms of concern about classification, preservation, canonicity, and interpretation. Stephen Ramsay is an Associate Professor of English and a Fellow at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has written and lectured widely on subjects related to software design for the humanities and critical theory. His book, Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism, is due from the University of Illinois Press later this year. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 7 07:38:24 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 EED665429C; Fri, 7 May 2010 07:38:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C7FBE54293; Fri, 7 May 2010 07:38:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100507073822.C7FBE54293@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 07:38:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.4 events: EpiDoc training; statistical analysis of genres X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 4. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Gabriel Bodard (37) Subject: EpiDoc Training, London, and bursaries [2] From: Willard McCarty (40) Subject: "Profiling Genres": London Forum / London Seminar 26 May --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 19:27:04 +0100 From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: EpiDoc Training, London, and bursaries The Summer 2010 EpiDoc training workshop will now take place in London, at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, from June 28 – July 1. Thanks to the generosity of the Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine (AIEGL) we have €500 available for bursaries to help students attend this event. The workshop be taught by Gabriel Bodard (KCL) and James Cowey (Heidelberg). There will be no charge to attend this workshop. Workshop description at http://www.currentepigraphy.org/2010/05/04/epidoc-bursaries/ To apply to attend the EpiDoc and SoSOL workshop, or for more information, please send an email as soon as possible to gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk; if you would like to apply for a partial bursary to help cover your travel and/or accommodation costs, please indicate this in the same email and give a brief account of your circumstances (student status, funding available, distance to be travelled, etc.). -- 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/ ---------------------------------------------------- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 08:35:23 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: "Profiling Genres": London Forum / London Seminar 26 May The London Forum for Authorship Studies and the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship invite you to the following special event. All within range of London are welcome. Refreshments are provided. ----- "Profiling Genres in the Corpus of Early English Drama" Professor Michael Whitmore (Wisconsin-Madison) Dr Jonathan Hope (Strathclyde) Wednesday, 26 May 2010 Room G37, Senate House (Ground Floor, north end) In this talk, Michael Witmore (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Jonathan Hope (Strathclyde University) will discuss their research into the underlying linguistic matrix of early modern dramatic genres using multivariate statistics and a text tagging device known as Docuscope, a hand-curated corpus of several million English words (and strings of words) that have been sorted into grammatical, semantic and rhetorical categories. The talk will focus particularly on the place of Shakespeare's work in the broader context of early modern drama. Details on this research can be found at www.winedarksea.org. ----- Michael Witmore is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he is the organizer of the Working Group for Digital Inquiry, a research collective that is mapping the prose genres of Early English Books online using techniques from bioinformatics and corpus linguistics (www.winedarksea.org). His most recent books are Shakespearean Metaphysics (Continuum) and Pretty Creatures: Children and Fiction in the English Renaissance (Cornell). In addition to serving as textual editor for the Comedy of Errors with the new Norton Shakespeare, he is currently at work on a collaborative study of Shakespearean scenes, characters and objects with the photographer Rosamond Purcell entitled Landscapes of the Passing Strange: Reflections from Shakespeare, to be published by Norton in December. Jonathan Hope is Reader in Literary Linguistics at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. His The Authorship of Shakespeare's Plays appeared in 1994 from CUP, and Shakespeare and Language: Reason, Eloquence and Artifice in the Renaissance will appear late this year from Arden. -- 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 7 09:25:10 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 768CB55526; Fri, 7 May 2010 09:25:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E767D55337; Fri, 7 May 2010 09:25:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100507092508.E767D55337@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 09:25:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.5 events -- correction: London Forum / London 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 5. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 10:23:24 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: correction: time of the London Forum / London Seminar event Dear colleagues, Apologies for omitting to mention the time of "Profiling Genres": London Forum / London Seminar 26 May, announced in Humanist 24.4 -- it is 17.30 (the standard time for such events). Mea culpa! 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 9 05:35:43 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 B82095149E; Sun, 9 May 2010 05:35:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 883495148C; Sun, 9 May 2010 05:35:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100509053541.883495148C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 05:35:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.6 Humanist's 23rd 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. 24, No. 6. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 05:48:14 -0700 From: "liz" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.1 Happy 23rd birthday, Humanist In-Reply-To: <20100507052847.465AA54916@woodward.joyent.us> Thank you Willard! The humanist list has been a light in the dark desert night for me. Happy 23rd... _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 05:36:40 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 EF2525154E; Sun, 9 May 2010 05:36:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 483BC5153C; Sun, 9 May 2010 05:36:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100509053638.483BC5153C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 05:36:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.7 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. 24, No. 7. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Wendell Piez (41) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.2 inadequacies of markup [2] From: Patrick Durusau (27) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.797 inadequacies of markup --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 10:06:00 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.2 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100507053200.43646549DF@woodward.joyent.us> Randolph, You wrote: >--[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 15:14:53 -0700 > From: "J. Randolph Radney" > Subject: markup > In-Reply-To: <20100506053456.7F2A655317@woodward.joyent.us> > > >What would be the possibility of a 'layered' markup, following the analogy >of Google Earth's layers of terrain display? Could levels of 'interpreting' >be agreed upon whereby users could 'turn on' certain layers for certain >purposes and turn them off for others? It's funny you say this, inasmuch as LMNL stands for "Layered Markup and Annotation Language". (The name -- pronounced, by many of us, "Liminal" -- also gestures towards how it can serve as something halfway between a raw text stream and a more fully controlled data structure. As befits a markup language meant for messing around, it's kind of slippy-slidy unless you assert control.) Moreover, absent a set of constraints for relating them (which an application is free to impose or not as it chooses), ranges in LMNL have no inherent relation to one another to prevent you from calling them in and out as you like. (You can leave out any set of ranges without discarding the text in them: unlike elements in XML, a LMNL range can't be identified with its contents, but only makes an assertion about them.) Where's the rub? We don't know, but I expect it is in performance and scalability. On the other hand, we have also taken care to specify LMNL in such a way as to avoid any obvious clashes with XML (LMNL as an XML datatype?), which (along with other optimizations yet undiscovered) could help deal with this. 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: Sat, 08 May 2010 10:42:11 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.797 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100506053456.7F2A655317@woodward.joyent.us> Desmond, You write: >> 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. > > It was Willard's point that we need to do something "...for interpretative readers in real time." that goes unexplained. You have some default "plain text view" that includes markup. What seems to be missing is a realization that a "plain text view" is a display decision someone made. As I recall, even the early versions of WordPerfect had a display/hide codes feature. I am sure even earlier than that but I don't recall the names of the software. Hope you are having a great weekend! 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) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 10 05:40:50 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 17AE65708B; Mon, 10 May 2010 05:40:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 33B025707A; Mon, 10 May 2010 05:40:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100510054048.33B025707A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 05:40:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.8 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. 24, No. 8. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (79) Subject: reading [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (35) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.7 inadequacies of markup --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 07:49:32 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: reading Patrick Durusau reminds me in 23.797 that I've fallen silent and so left the question of responding with software to readers in real time hanging. Duties elsewhere. I really do want help thinking about this, which is why I stirred the pot in the first place. Let me see if I can do better and only leave hanging what someone else can grab onto. Jerry McGann writes and talks metaphorically about markup before markup, bibliographic codes, i.e. ways of arranging text visually in a book, broadside or whatever to give the reader some help, e.g. by denoting paragraphs with blank lines, sometimes indentation &c. Encoding of this sort I find unproblematic for rendition directly into metatextual tags,

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or whatever. A textual editor might well disagree, but for purposes of argument let's say that there are kinds of encoded or encodable entities that no one will ever want to change. Then there's what happens during reading of the ordinary sort, what the marks on the page become as, say, I read Byatt's The Virgin in the Garden. This sort of reading does not concern markup at all, except for whatever conditions the visual experience. But then there's the scholar's sort of reading, the later attempt to study what happens during the former sort. Let's say I do this by slowing everything down, picking my way word by word, asking what's going on here, and here, and here? I do my best to eliminate observations I make that I think are out of bounds for some reason or other, e.g. private associations unlikely to be shared by anyone. I think of what's left, the associations likely to be shared, as being there, on the page, in the text. That's the way I am likely to think about these communicable, shared associations, but this is only a way of handling what I take to be mental experience, for which I use a convenient positivistic metaphor. Let's say that I am persistent and insightful enough to complete my scholarly reading and to persuade myself that I want to communicate it. How do I do that other than by writing a paper? Would it be a good thing to represent somehow the details of my reading in a computational form so that this scholarly reading would be manipulable? Or is the possibility of such a mutable snapshot flawed in some fundamental way? If it isn't, then how could software help another scholarly reader translate his or her view of my reading into some computationally tractable expression and then help connect it to the corresponding computationally tractable form in which I had rendered my reading? That's essentially my question, I think. Those here sensitive to varieties of literary-critical interpretation will recognise something of New Criticism in the question. A way, perhaps, of doing what the New Critics might have done far better, and eventually quite differently, if they'd had the means. (When I was taught New Criticism by a disciple of Cleanth Brooks -- one who preached the doctrine -- I remember being frustrated by the inability of the then current tools for writing to record minute observations about "the text". Perhaps all this is a resurfacing of those frustrations.) In the work I did on personification in Ovid's Metamorphoses I used a relational database to compute a score from weightings on what I took to be the textual and contextual elements involved in each personification, then to display this score graphically. My idea was that I'd be able to compare the graphical representation with my own understanding of the text, spot differences, change what needed to be changed until I arrived at something I could live with. Database software isn't great for this sort of thing because of the amount of trouble this sort of software gives you when you try to work backwards from the result to all the bits that went into determining it. It was clear from the reactions of people I showed this to that divergences of opinion as to the individual scholarly decisions was so great that the difficulty in manipulating their representations in the database was fatal to my project. The conclusion seemed to be that if a group of people could make some quite severe constraints on interpretation it might be possible to arrive at enough consensus to allow the clumsy tool to be useful in a minor sort of way. Perhaps. But that's hardly being true to a living poem, and esp not to one so metamorphic, one that ends "vivam", "I shall live"! I hope this helps to explain what I am trying to dream about: a way of interpreting with computing that would allow arguments, real arguments, to be conducted at the micro-level and their consequences made in effect instantly visible at the macro-level. To allow speculations such as, if we regard personification as being affected by thus-and-such, what does the whole poem look like? Markup (TEI/XML or whatever) isn't the tool for this job. What is? Or is it not a job worth thinking 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. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 19:27:34 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.7 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100509053638.483BC5153C@woodward.joyent.us> Patrick, I wasn't going to add anything more to this thread but you commented on an earlier remark of mine, so here is my response: We wrote, with your remarks first and last, and mine in the middle: > >>> 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. >> >> >It was Willard's point that we need to do something "...for >interpretative readers in real time." that goes unexplained. >You have some default "plain text view" that includes markup. >What seems to be missing is a realization that a "plain text view" is a >display decision someone made. >As I recall, even the early versions of WordPerfect had a display/hide >codes feature. I am sure even earlier than that but I don't recall the > names of the software. I don't see how a hide tags feature makes things much easier except when reading a text. As soon as you want to edit it you have to turn them back on, which forces the user instantly to know what each tag does, and what its syntax is. Although the interface can reduce the complexity of this by only displaying for insertion those tags that are available at a particular point in the text (like FrameMaker+SGML used to do), what they mean still requires documentation or expert knowledge. It is true that 'hide tags' has been around for ages. The mere fact you had to remind us indicates that it hasn't been very effective. On the other hand, an ordinary WYSIWYG word-processor doesn't normally use embedded tags. It uses standoff attributes that are maintained by the software as you edit, so you can easily have bold and italic overlapping. By extending that principle to all attributes of markup, much as Wendell is saying, you can eliminate the overlap problem and probably also solve the interface problem. The latter remains to be proven by experiment, but I think that simple textual properties can be converted into formats and complex annotations can be handled via annotation GUIs. But what we don't want to do is overload the user with too much information or too many technical requirements, or we will end up, as we have now, with a small band of techsperts and a large number of frustrated ordinary users. 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 Mon May 10 05:41:55 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 67044570E0; Mon, 10 May 2010 05:41:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 230E2570D9; Mon, 10 May 2010 05:41:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100510054154.230E2570D9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 05:41:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.9 clearinghouse X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 9. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 15:38:33 -0400 From: "Joe Raben" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.1 Happy 23rd birthday, Humanist In-Reply-To: <20100507052847.465AA54916@woodward.joyent.us> Your recollections of participating in clearance sales with your aunt not withstanding, I think the metaphoric intention of calling early initiatives clearinghouses (or even Clearingstelle) was to recall the distribution of checks and other financial instruments between banks where they were deposited and those on which they were drawn. That humanists borrowed a term from the financial world and seems now to have abandoned it may represent some progress in the evolution of our discipline. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Humanist Discussion Group" To: Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 1:28 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 May 10 05:42:24 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 57A615715F; Mon, 10 May 2010 05:42:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 527F25714F; Mon, 10 May 2010 05:42:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100510054222.527F25714F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 05:42:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.10 scanning microfilm? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 10. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 09:24:07 -0400 From: Michelle Laughran Subject: Scanning microfilm I'm hoping the list can help me with a query... For my research, I have some archival documents on microfilm that I want to convert to digital, but machines for this purpose seem quite expensive. I would appreciate any and all suggestions for an economical way to do this! Thanks! Michelle Laughran, Associate Professor of History and Chair, Saint Joseph's College of Maine _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 10 05:43:20 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 90E4F57D85; Mon, 10 May 2010 05:43:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 747A057D4E; Mon, 10 May 2010 05:43:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100510054317.747A057D4E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 05:43:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.11 new publications: PelicanWeb; Online Humanities 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 11. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Luis Gutierrez (41) Subject: PelicanWeb's Journal of Sustainable Development ~ Vol 6 No 5, May 2010 [2] From: Fred Moody (34) Subject: A landmark publishing event --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 00:28:50 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: PelicanWeb's Journal of Sustainable Development ~ Vol 6 No 5, May 2010 The May 2010 issue has been posted: PelicanWeb's Journal of Sustainable Development ~ Vol 6 No 5, May 2010 http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n05page1.html Feature article: Sustainable Development in the Gaian Perspective Outline: 1. Humanity and the Human Habitat 2. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 3. Synopsis of Self-Determination Theory (SDT) 4. Looking Ahead to the Forthcoming MDG Summit 5. List of References and Online Databases Abstract: Sustainable development is a human-intensive process. It happens in the context of humanity and the human habitat. Geographically, it happens at the local, national, and global levels. Geologically, it happens primarily in the biosphere, which in turn is sandwiched between the atmosphere and the lithosphere. The Gaian paradigm encompasses humanity and all the geographic and geological dimensions of the human habitat. In this context, the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are taken as a point of reference to discuss the current status of sustainable development worldwide. It is noted that some powerful institutions (both secular and religious) continue to create obstacles for the MDGs. It is also noted that competent systems thinking and effective psychological motivation are often lacking in sustainable development practices. Some appropriate system analysis methods are suggested, and the application of Self-Determination Theory (SDT) for enhancing human motivation in support of the MDGs is explored. Finally, some recommendations are offered in response to the U.N. Secretary-General's convocation of a "MDG Summit" meeting currently scheduled for 20-22 September 2010 in New York. Supplements: Supplement 1: Advances in Sustainable Development Supplement 2: Directory of Sustainable Development Resources This issue also includes four invited articles. Feedback to the editor is always welcome! Sincerely, Luis Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D. The Pelican Web Editor, PelicanWeb Journal of Sustainable Development A monthly, CC license, free subscription, open access e-journal --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 09:50:15 -0700 From: Fred Moody Subject: A landmark publishing event Rice University Press is pleased to announce a scholarly event of tremendous importance: publication of Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come, edited by Jerome McGann. The book publishes the twenty-seven papers presented at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded international conference "Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come," held at the University of Virginia on March 26-28, 2010. The conference brought together some of the world's most gifted and influential people in the digital humanities world to rigorously explore the critical issues confronting present-day humanities scholarship. In the words of the University of Glasgow's Andrew Prescott, "Containing contributions by many leading authorities in digital scholarship, this book is essential reading for everyone concerned with the future of the humanities." The questions raised in this volume, the answers proposed, and the projects described all point to an ever-nearing, exciting future in which scholarship is improved, enhanced, broadened and made more powerful by the intelligent development, use, and deployment of these new tools and media. The book itself, available only five weeks after the conference both as a free online publication and as a 554-page, print-on-demand volume for purchase, is itself a demonstration of the ever-more-powerful functionalities coming out of the online scholarship world. For more information, please visit http://rup.rice.edu/shapeofthings, or contact Rice University Press editor Fred Moody, at fred.moody@rice.edu. 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 05:12:43 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 2B87857EDC; Tue, 11 May 2010 05:12:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4D9F057ECB; Tue, 11 May 2010 05:12:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100511051242.4D9F057ECB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 05:12:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.12 scanning microfilm X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 12. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 08:48:05 +0200 From: Florian Willems Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.10 scanning microfilm? In-Reply-To: <20100510054222.527F25714F@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Michelle, > I'm hoping the list can help me with a query... For my research, I have some archival documents on microfilm that I want to convert to digital, but machines for this purpose seem quite expensive. I would appreciate any and all suggestions for an economical way to do this! we of the Digital Averroes project had the same problem and after much consultation developed a custom-cut aluminum feeder for up to five microfilms which fits on an Epson V700or V750. If you'd like, I could either send you the .dxf files, so that it can be cut near you, or we cut it here and send it to you for the price we pay for it. For the record: the only machine capable of scanning microfilms in high resolution and compellingly fast is the Fuji SP-3000, which comes as 35mm-feeder with Fuji Frontier Digilabs. If you find some (pre-)print company in your town, maybe they'll let you use it. All the other machines currently available have very poor resolutions. Best, Florian Willems. -- Florian Willems M.A. D.A.R.E. - Digital Averroes Research Environment Thomas-Institut Universität zu Köln / University of Cologne Universitätsstraße 22 50 923 Köln / Cologne, Germany Tel. +49 - (0)221 - 470 2985 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 05:13:53 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 DE574570E7; Tue, 11 May 2010 05:13:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EE2FD570D4; Tue, 11 May 2010 05:13:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100511051352.EE2FD570D4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 05:13:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.13 call for research proposals X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 13. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:39:30 +0200 From: "Mats Dahlström" Subject: JNU VWAB 6th call for research proposals Dear all, (sorry for any x-posting) The JNU VWAB project ("Joint Nordic Use of WWA Helsinki and WAB Bergen") announces its 6th call for proposals, for guest research initiatives at the von Wright and Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Helsinki and the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen. JNU VWAB provides stipends for research initiatives (both single users and research groups), in the following areas: (1) Digital humanities: digitization, digital scholarly editing, and text technology; (2) Wittgenstein research and philosophy; (3) Fields of intersection between (1) and (2). Proposals to the previous five calls have mainly fallen within area (2). JNU VWAB is therefore keen to encourage proposals pertaining to areas (1) and (3). Research projects within area (1) might e.g.: - identify, select, analyse, and prioritize particular documents, document segments, or document types in the collections that are relevant and suitable for transmission (viz. digitization, editing, machine-readable text production, text encoding, metadata production, and/or electronic publishing) - produce proposals, cost analyses and time plans for transmitting parts of the collections - implement and/or assess particular hardware or software for transmitting parts of the collections - study transmission projects already performed (e.g. the Bergen Electronic Edition), the relation between their digitized objects and the original source documents, and reassess their chosen as well as alternate technologies and practices (e.g. manuscript scanning or XML markup) - study concepts of text, work and authorship with regard to social text theory and/or media theory, as observable in the collections - address issues of reusability of the digitally transmitted material from a research perspective The deadline for this 6th call for proposals is June 7, 2010, the details of which can be found at http://wab.aksis.uib.no/jnu-vwab/wab_jnu-vwab-call6.page , including an application form. Participants of selected projects are granted reimbursement of travel expenses, accommodation and living expenses, and use of WAB or WWA free of charge for the agreed duration of the project. Sincerely, Mats Dahlström (member of the Management committee and User selection panel) ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Mats Dahlström, associate professor Swedish School of Library and Information Science UC Borås / University of Gothenburg, Sweden Mats dot Dahlstrom at hb dot se ; +46 33 435 44 21 ; http://www.adm.hb.se/~mad/ ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 05:14:32 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 4343E57158; Tue, 11 May 2010 05:14:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A1D4C5714F; Tue, 11 May 2010 05:14:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100511051430.A1D4C5714F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 05:14:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.14 on the radio! X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 14. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 07:13:21 -0500 From: Matt Zimmerman Subject: Ian Lancashire/ Digital Humanities on the radio! Apologies if this has already been announced here, but I was pleasantly surprised this weekend when I heard Ian Lancashire speaking about his Agatha Christie work on my favorite radio program "Radio Lab". Great Piece entitled "Vanishing Words" http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 05:15:36 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 9C914573D9; Tue, 11 May 2010 05:15:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AB766573C6; Tue, 11 May 2010 05:15:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100511051534.AB766573C6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 05:15:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.15 cfp: 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 15. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 04:10:16 +0100 From: "Happa, Jassim" Subject: InterFace 2010: Third Call for Papers Conference Call for Papers/Abstracts - Please forward to interested parties. Many thanks. Third Call for Papers – InterFace 2010: Humanities and Technologies ** EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MAY 21st ** 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: 21st May. 500-1000 word abstract. Conference website: http://www.interface2010.org.uk/ 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. Paper Submissions: If you are interested in attending, please submit an original paper 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 Papers must be produced as a PDF or in Microsoft Word (.doc) format and submitted to our EasyChair page: - Register for an easy chair account: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi - Log in: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iht2010 - Click New Submission at the top of the page and fill in the form. Make sure you: - Select whether you are representing humanities or technology. - Attach and upload your paper. If you encounter any problems, please e-mail contact@interface2010.org.uk Due to the limited number of places, papers will be subject to review by committee and applicants notified by email as to their acceptance. Confirmed External Speakers: Keynotes: - Prof. Andrej Ferko - Department of algebra, geometry and didactics of mathematics, Comenius University in Bratislava - Dr. Graeme Earl - Archaeological Computing Research Group, University of Southampton Multi-disciplinary Projects: - Prof. Sara de Freitas - Serious Games Institute, Coventry University Technology Park - Jamie Mackrill - Experiential Engineering, International Digital Laboratory, University of Warwick - Prof. Alan Chalmers – Visualization, International Digital Laboratory, University of Warwick Funding, Resources and Support: - Dr. Cora O'Reilly – Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) - Dr. Christopher Veal - Research Support Services Warwick Industry and Academia: - Steve Stott - Autodesk - Louise Ridgeway - Rare Ltd. Important Dates: * Paper Submission Deadline: 21st May 2010 * Acceptances Announced: 28th May 2010 * Conference: 15-16 July 2010 For full timetable and list of 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 Wed May 12 05:01:17 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 33A2257F86; Wed, 12 May 2010 05:01:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3912A57F75; Wed, 12 May 2010 05:01:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100512050115.3912A57F75@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 05:01:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.16 on digitizing: microfilm; Greek ms X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 16. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Richard Klee (11) Subject: a question regarding digitalization [2] From: jeremy hunsinger (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.10 scanning microfilm? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 11:04:44 -0400 From: Richard Klee Subject: a question regarding digitalization Dear Digital Humanists, I wonder if there might be someone with expertise in the following area: I am working on a manuscript to be published by a professor with Oxford; the manuscript is currently about 270 pages of typewritten Ancient Greek text, all manually entered in the early 1970s. We'd like to digitize this manuscript so as to edit it. I've looked into OCR programs, and it appears the general recommendations are FineReader or Anagnostis. Are there other resources to investigate, and would anyone endorse either of these mentioned programs from personal experience? Thank you for your consideration, Rick Klee --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 11:20:31 -0400 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.10 scanning microfilm? In-Reply-To: <20100510054222.527F25714F@woodward.joyent.us> My advice here is that... you will save much money by just partnering with a university who has already invested in machines to do this. We bought an image mouse for a project, but no one really uses it and the same year our university bought a much better system. So instead of investing in a machine, I'd say invest in a partnership. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -Pablo Picasso _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 12 05:02:20 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 E0FF551029; Wed, 12 May 2010 05:02:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 616E251020; Wed, 12 May 2010 05:02:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100512050219.616E251020@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 05:02:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.17 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. 24, No. 17. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 09:31:26 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.8 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100510054048.33B025707A@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 07:49:32 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: reading > > Patrick Durusau reminds me in 23.797 that I've fallen silent and so left > the question of responding with software to readers in real time > hanging. Duties elsewhere. I really do want help thinking about this, > which is why I stirred the pot in the first place. Let me see if I can > do better and only leave hanging what someone else can grab onto. > > Jerry McGann writes and talks metaphorically about markup before markup, > bibliographic codes, i.e. ways of arranging text visually in a book, > broadside or whatever to give the reader some help, e.g. by denoting > paragraphs with blank lines, sometimes indentation&c. Encoding of this > sort I find unproblematic for rendition directly into metatextual tags, >

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or whatever. A textual editor might well disagree, but for > purposes of argument let's say that there are kinds of encoded or > encodable entities that no one will ever want to change. > > Then there's what happens during reading of the ordinary sort, what the > marks on the page become as, say, I read Byatt's The Virgin in the > Garden. This sort of reading does not concern markup at all, except for > whatever conditions the visual experience. But then there's the > scholar's sort of reading, the later attempt to study what happens > during the former sort. Let's say I do this by slowing everything down, > picking my way word by word, asking what's going on here, and here, and > here? I do my best to eliminate observations I make that I think are out > of bounds for some reason or other, e.g. private associations unlikely > to be shared by anyone. I think of what's left, the associations likely > to be shared, as being there, on the page, in the text. That's the way I > am likely to think about these communicable, shared associations, but > this is only a way of handling what I take to be mental experience, for > which I use a convenient positivistic metaphor. > > Let's say that I am persistent and insightful enough to complete my > scholarly reading and to persuade myself that I want to communicate it. > How do I do that other than by writing a paper? Would it be a good thing > to represent somehow the details of my reading in a computational form > so that this scholarly reading would be manipulable? Or is the > possibility of such a mutable snapshot flawed in some fundamental way? > If it isn't, then how could software help another scholarly reader > translate his or her view of my reading into some computationally > tractable expression and then help connect it to the corresponding > computationally tractable form in which I had rendered my reading? > That's essentially my question, I think. > > Those here sensitive to varieties of literary-critical interpretation > will recognise something of New Criticism in the question. A way, > perhaps, of doing what the New Critics might have done far better, and > eventually quite differently, if they'd had the means. (When I was > taught New Criticism by a disciple of Cleanth Brooks -- one who preached > the doctrine -- I remember being frustrated by the inability of the then > current tools for writing to record minute observations about "the > text". Perhaps all this is a resurfacing of those frustrations.) > > In the work I did on personification in Ovid's Metamorphoses I used a > relational database to compute a score from weightings on what I took to > be the textual and contextual elements involved in each personification, > then to display this score graphically. My idea was that I'd be able to > compare the graphical representation with my own understanding of the > text, spot differences, change what needed to be changed until I arrived > at something I could live with. Database software isn't great for this > sort of thing because of the amount of trouble this sort of software > gives you when you try to work backwards from the result to all the bits > that went into determining it. It was clear from the reactions of people > I showed this to that divergences of opinion as to the individual > scholarly decisions was so great that the difficulty in manipulating > their representations in the database was fatal to my project. The > conclusion seemed to be that if a group of people could make some quite > severe constraints on interpretation it might be possible to arrive at > enough consensus to allow the clumsy tool to be useful in a minor sort > of way. Perhaps. But that's hardly being true to a living poem, and esp > not to one so metamorphic, one that ends "vivam", "I shall live"! > > I hope this helps to explain what I am trying to dream about: a way of > interpreting with computing that would allow arguments, real arguments, > to be conducted at the micro-level and their consequences made in effect > instantly visible at the macro-level. To allow speculations such as, if > we regard personification as being affected by thus-and-such, what does > the whole poem look like? Markup (TEI/XML or whatever) isn't the tool > for this job. What is? Or is it not a job worth thinking about? > > Comments? > > Let me tease out a thread from your closing paragraph to illustrate why this is a processing issue and not one of markup per se. You say: "...a way of interpreting with computing that would allow arguments, real arguments, to be conducted at the micro-level and their consequences made in effect instantly visible at the macro-level." It isn't the tree of markup (SGML and its children) that is at issue but that effects are processed downwards in markup. That is the element can constrain the occurrence of to only occur within the element but an element cannot force the occurrence of a element. What if we could process the "effects" of markup in more directions? Which would require (among other things): 1) "Effect" of adding an argument/conclusion on larger (smaller? sibling?) structures. 2) Display of the "effect". 3) Markup would have to be processed "upwards" ("downwards"? "sideways") to display the "effect." 4) A vocabulary for #1 and #2 would have to be defined and used consistently. What of the NoSQL world? Perhaps a graph database to alter parent nodes and/or their display based on actions taken on child/sibling nodes? Major caveat: Without a user interface that is intuitive and easy to use to *other* users, the project will fail. At least in terms of widespread use. Anyone interested in fleshing out Willard's dream into a fundable proposal? Hope you are having a great day! Patrick PS: This sort of transformation is done everyday with XSLT but the results are static. This project would require doing so interactively with a text and no doubt preserving the "original" view for those who prefer it. -- 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) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 12 05:05:15 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 3CA83510BD; Wed, 12 May 2010 05:05:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 15127510A2; Wed, 12 May 2010 05:05:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100512050513.15127510A2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 05:05:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.18 events: design; language X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 18. 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 (33) Subject: Call for Participation IWIPS2010- Programme Now Available [2] From: Makoto Kanazawa (187) Subject: ESSLLI 2011: Open for Submissions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 11:52:22 +0100 From: Jose Abdelnour-Nocera Subject: Call for Participation IWIPS2010- Programme Now Available The 9th International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products and Systems www.iwips2010.org (London, England, 7 – 10 July 2010) announces its programme for this year’s conference and invites the professional and academic communities to participate and contribute to discussions on the topics of localization and globalization. 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. Confirmed Keynote Presentations from Liam Bannon, PhD Professor at University of Limerick, Senior Researcher at Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre Investigating Culture(s): Local & Global Perspectives Charles Ess, PhD Guest Professor, Department of Information- and Media Studies, Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark – 2009-2012) Designing the Self? Notes on Communication, Technology, and Self/Identity Glyn Meek Information Technology Consultant; and Owner Software on Sailboats Organizational “Make-Up” - The Impact of Blending People, Places, and Technology Kath Straub, PhD Usability.org; formerly Chief Scientist / Executive Director at Human Factors International The Psychology of Persuasion: Principles without Borders The various session formats will enable all delegates to bring their experience and voice their views on the different conference topics. You can still contribute to the programme by - Submitting a poster paper. Deadline 15th of May - Proposing a breakout and/or panel session to the conference chairs before 1st of June. Detailed programme can be found in http://www.iwips2010.org/program_events.html Early Registration finishes on the 15th of May! Advance Registration (thru 15 MAY 2010) £250 / €283 / $413 Late Registration (after 15 MAY 2010 or later) £275 / €311 / $454 Register online: http://www.iwips2010.org/registration.html Sponsorship Opportunities still available from as little as £125! More info here http://www.iwips2010.org/sponsors.html Any further queries please contact the Conference Co-Chair, Jose Abdelnour Nocera at jose.abdelnour-nocera@tvu.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 06:45:08 +0100 From: Makoto Kanazawa Subject: ESSLLI 2011: Open for Submissions This message was originally submitted by kanazawa.makoto@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. 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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 via the EasyChair system, using a prescribed form that is available 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. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION Proposers of courses and workshops should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that do not conform with these guidelines may not be considered. Courses are taught by 1 or max. 2 lecturers, and workshops are organized by 1 or max. 2 organizers. Lecturers and organizers must have obtained a Ph.D. or an equivalent degree at the time of the submission deadline. Courses and workshops run over one week (Monday-Friday) and consist of five 90-minute sessions. 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 and an advance course in the second). The ESSLLI program committee has the right to select only one of the two proposed courses. 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 have 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 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 a topic at the interface of two fields 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 available). ADVANCED COURSES Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of advanced Masters or Ph.D. students. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. TIMETABLE FOR COURSE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Jun 14, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 15, 2010: Notification Deadline Jun 1, 2011: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material by the ESSLLI 2011 local organizers WORKSHOPS 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 various organizational matters, including soliciting submissions, reviewing, drawing up the program, taking care of 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. TIMETABLE FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS: Jun 14, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 15, 2010: Notification Deadline Oct 15, 2010: Deadline for submission of the Calls for Papers to ESSLLI 2011 PC chair Nov 1, 2010: Workshop organizers send out First Call for Papers Dec 15, 2010: Workshop organizers send out Second Call for Papers Jan 15, 2011: Workshop organizers send out Third Call for Papers Feb 15, 2011: Deadline for submissions to the workshops Apr 15, 2011: Suggested deadline for notification of workshop contributors Jun 1, 2011: Deadline for submission of camera-ready copy of workshop proceedings to the ESSLLI 2011 Local Organizers. Workshop speakers will be required to register for the Summer School; however, they will be able to register at a reduced rate to be determined by the Local Organizers. FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS A form for submitting course and workshop proposals will be available soon on the ESSLLI 2011 web site: http://esslli2011.ijs.si/. The proposers are required to submit the following information: * Contact address and fax number * Name, email, affiliation, homepage of each lecturer / workshop organizer (at most two per course or workshop) * Title of proposed course/workshop * Abstract (abstract of the proposal, max 150 words) * Type (workshop, foundational, introductory, or advanced course) * Areas (one or more of: Computation, Language, Logic, or Other) * Description (describe the proposed contents of the course and substantiate timeliness and relevance to ESSLLI in at most one A4 page) * Tentative outline of the course / expected participation in the workshop * External funding (whether the proposers will be able to obtain external funding for travel and accommodation expenses) * Further particulars (e.g., course prerequisites, previous teaching experiences, etc.) FINANCIAL ASPECTS Prospective lecturers and workshop organizers should be aware that all teaching and organizing at the summer schools is done on a voluntary basis in order to keep the participants' fees as low as possible. Lecturers and organizers are not paid for their contribution, but are reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses (up to fixed maximum amounts, which will be communicated to the lecturers upon notification). Lecturers and workshop organizers will have their registration fee waived. In case a course or workshop is to be taught/organized by two people, a lump sum will be reimbursed to cover travel and accommodation expenses for one of them; the splitting of the sum is up to the lecturers/organizers. It should be stressed that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the School cannot guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs, especially from destinations outside Europe. The local organizers would highly appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers and workshop organizers find alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses, as that would help us keep the cost of attending ESSLLI 2011 lower. ESSLLI 2011 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo) Local Co-chair: Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana) Area specialists: Language and Computation: Markus Egg (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin) Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Language and Logic: Hans-Christian Schmitz (Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin) Louise McNally (UPF, Barcelona) Logic and Computation: Ralph Matthes (IRIT, CNRS and University of Toulouse) Eric Pacuit (Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg) ESSLLI 2011 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Chair: Darja Fiser (University of Ljubljana) ESSLLI 2011 website: http://esslli2011.ijs.si/ EasyChair submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2011 ______________________________________________________________________ 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 14 07:35:27 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 90EE75A046; Fri, 14 May 2010 07:35:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AE0CA5A030; Fri, 14 May 2010 07:35:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100514073511.AE0CA5A030@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 07:35:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.19 inadequacies of markup 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. 24, No. 19. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 13:59:52 -0400 From: Jay Savage Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.17 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100512050219.616E251020@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Patrick, On May 12, 2010, at 1:02 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Willard, > > >> --[1]--------------------------------------------------------------------- --- >> Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 07:49:32 +0100 >> From: Willard McCarty >> Subject: reading >> >> >> >> I hope this helps to explain what I am trying to dream about: a way of >> interpreting with computing that would allow arguments, real arguments, >> to be conducted at the micro-level and their consequences made in effect >> instantly visible at the macro-level. To allow speculations such as, if >> we regard personification as being affected by thus-and-such, what does >> the whole poem look like? Markup (TEI/XML or whatever) isn't the tool >> for this job. What is? Or is it not a job worth thinking about? >> >> Comments? >> >> > > Let me tease out a thread from your closing paragraph to illustrate why > this is a processing issue and not one of markup per se. > > You say: "...a way of interpreting with computing that would allow > arguments, real arguments, to be conducted at the micro-level and their > consequences made in effect instantly visible at the macro-level." > > It isn't the tree of markup (SGML and its children) that is at issue but > that effects are processed downwards in markup. > > That is the element can constrain the occurrence of to > only occur within the element but an element cannot force > the occurrence of a element. > > What if we could process the "effects" of markup in more directions? > I actually think this gets at precisely the limitations of markup, at least as we commonly know it: namely, that markup makes positive assertions about what things *are*, in contrast to our traditions of printed and written textuality (also orality) that simply present a certain aesthetic, and allow--demand--the reader to interpret it. Whence this belief that lists have items, and that all things with a certain arrangement are in fact lists. Why is it desirable to infer the existence of a list on the basis of the presence of an item? When did we start believing that textual features have "parents"? That is not to say that the problem necessarily inheres in the idea of markup, but all of the markup we have seen to date, from SGML to LNML, has been inservice of ideas of the semantic web and concerned primarily with entity declarations. It is difficult to see how any such approaches can every be truly adequate, and recent developments in markup seem to be trending worse rather than better. My own pet peeve is the deprecation in X/HTML of the descriptive '' and '' tags in favor of the semantic '' and ''. Who is to say, a priori, what semantic information is truly encoded in a particular typeface decision? Different systems deal with these issues in different ways and stand-off is a good solution in some cases, but so far no markup has successfully created a space that is open to the kinds of interpretation Willard seems to be looking for: they all parse to trees (even if the trees occasionally overlap), and they all make semantic, positive assertions about entity types and content disposition. Or, to put it another way: there are some fantastic critical editions, facsimile editions, and enabling corpuses out there, but I don't think we have yet seen a diplomatic edition online that makes fullest use of the meduim. I am not even certain what such an edition would look like. I suspect that the real issue lies in the fact that markup is itself an assertion that the meaning of a text--at least sufficient meaning to adequately enable interpretation, for some value of "adequate"--is sufficiently conveyed by its structure, and that the structure can be 1) known, 2) abstracted and, 3) reconstituted. Thus we spend thousands of hours encoding texts, and thousands more tinkering with XSLT to make them again useful to human beings. Whether this is a feature of markup or a bug, of course, depends largely on the use to which a particular reader puts a particular text--if you want to quickly determine something about particular words in a document, having them enclosed in tags is certainly handy--but I think probably the move that will support Willard's aims will be a shift from naming entities (paragraph, quatrain, quotation, emphasis) to describing their behaviors. Whether that will be enabled by a new kind of markup, or a new alternative to markup will be interesting to see. Best, --j ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay Savage Director of Faculty Technology Centers Fordham University | Fordham IT - ITAC jsavage@fordham.edu | jsavage@well.com "Now I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative, but what we do know is: if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. " --Sir Ken Robinson _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 14 07:36:47 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 738145A0BC; Fri, 14 May 2010 07:36:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7466A5A0A3; Fri, 14 May 2010 07:36:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100514073637.7466A5A0A3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 07:36:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.20 job at Brown; undergrad research at Perseus X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 20. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Gregory Crane (53) Subject: Undergraduate Research Opportunity for Latin/Computer Science withPerseus at Tufts University [2] From: Julia Flanders (19) Subject: Job announcement: Director of Digital Technologies, Brown University --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 09:32:12 -0400 From: Gregory Crane Subject: Undergraduate Research Opportunity for Latin/Computer Science with Perseus at Tufts University We have been informed that we will probably receive funding for two undergraduate research positions for this coming summer. This would be from a US source and the students will probably have to be US citizens or residents. There is very little lead time. The work described would be accessible to Classicists. The ideal outcome would be to have this turn into undergraduate theses. Please pass this along. Applications will be examined on a rolling basis until the two positions are filled. With the rise of large open digitization projects such as the Internet Archive and Google Books, we are witnessing an explosive growth in the number of source texts becoming available to researchers in historical languages. The Internet Archive alone contains over 12,585 texts catalogued as Latin, including classical prose and poetry written under the Roman Empire, ecclesiastical treatises from the Middle Ages, and dissertations from 19th-century Germany written – in Latin – on the philosophy of Hegel. At 1.7 billion words, this collection eclipses the extant corpus of Classical Latin by several orders of magnitude and begins to offer insight into grand questions such as the evolution of a language over both time and space. One of Tufts’ goals in this data-intensive computing project is to be able to track the spread of linguistic features within a language and ideas across languages over the two millennia that Latin was used as a lingua franca across Europe. While much of this research operates on the textual data itself, the ability to chart such movement in both space and time requires accurate extra-textual metadata, including both the place and date of a work’s composition. The library records available to us, in contrast, report the place and date of publication for a specific edition – which, for historical texts, is often far removed from the time and place of original composition. For establishing the differences in usage between the Latin of Vergil’s Aeneid and that of Jean Calvin’s Institutio Christianae Religionis, it is far more important for us to know that the former was composed ca. 19 BCE and the latter in 1536 CE than the date of any later editions. In this project, undergraduates will supplement the existing million book metadata by researching the dates and locations of composition for the subset of the Internet Archive collection that has been catalogued (or otherwise identified) as being written in Latin. While some authors (like Vergil and Calvin) have more-or-less established dates and places of composition for their works, others (such as more obscure medieval authors) do not. In either case, both will require the student to conduct substantial research to determine the date of original publication (if one exists) or to delimit the smallest time window possible given the state of current research on each author. This will require students to leverage their skills as nascent humanists while also placing an emphasis on computational thinking, exposing them to the far wider range of tasks to which traditional modes of scholarship can be applied. The resulting data that will be produced as part of this internship is crucial for allowing us to begin analyzing the spread of linguistic features across space and time – it simply cannot be done with the existing metadata in the collection. The research experience of undergraduates here will, in a very tangible way, contribute to the success of the larger project. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:40:26 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Job announcement: Director of Digital Technologies, Brown University This position should be of interest to many in the digital humanities community: The Director of Digital Technologies provides leadership, vision, and strategic direction for the Brown University Library in the development, delivery and integration of new and existing systems and technology services and digital initiatives across the libraries. S/he oversees the management of the department’s three units: Integrated Technology Services, Systems and Technical Support and the Center for Digital Scholarship and will actively seek partnerships with other Library departments and organizations external to the Library. The incumbent will stay abreast of emerging developments, issues and trends and will be a leading force in the introduction and application of new technologies that improve, enhance and extend Library services. To see complete position announcement and apply online, go to: http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Human_Resources/jobs/index.html Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project 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 Fri May 14 07:37:23 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 BE4945A0F2; Fri, 14 May 2010 07:37:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 854CB5A0E3; Fri, 14 May 2010 07:37:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100514073721.854CB5A0E3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 07:37:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.21 on delay; visualising 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. 24, No. 21. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (10) Subject: Many Eyes [2] From: Willard McCarty (27) Subject: delays and their effects --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 10:00:06 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Many Eyes Those here interested in visualisation techniques and software will be interested in Many Eyes, http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/. Comments 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. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:09:15 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: delays and their effects Thanks to Wybo Wiersma I have discovered a seemingly quite reliable study of the effect of delayed response (from Web-sites) on users. The findings accord approximately with the pre-existing folk-wisdom on response-time from computers, according to which (as I recall) delays of longer than 2 seconds had significant effects. The article is Dennis F. Galletta et al., "Web Site Delays: How Tolerant are Users?", Journal of the Association for Information Systems Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 1-28/January 2004. They say that, "decreases in performance and behavioral intentions begin to flatten when the delays extend to 4 seconds or longer, and attitudes flatten when the delays extend to 8 seconds or longer." I suspect that the folk-wisdom is correct as far as unobserved (and perhaps unobservable) cognitive effects are concerned. I am encouraged to think this way by many experiences in which response from another person is delayed at all in conversation. The basic argument I have made is that a delay triggers one to begin censoring the questions one asks for those most likely to give good answers. You begin to be less and less surprised, more and more to get back a reflection of what you already know. Not good. I'm all for a functional harmonic symbiosis between humans and machines. 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 May 14 07:38:17 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 A25795A14C; Fri, 14 May 2010 07:38:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 140935A133; Fri, 14 May 2010 07:38:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100514073812.140935A133@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 07:38:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.22 events: semantics X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 22. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 08:46:18 -0500 From: bos@meaningfactory.com Subject: IWCS-2011, first call for papers ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ninth International Conference on COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS (IWCS 2011) January 12-14, 2011, Oxford, UK http://www.meaningfactory.com/iwcs2011/ ------------- Endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Semantics ------------- Organisers: Johan Bos & Stephen Pulman ------------------------------------------------------------------ FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS The University of Oxford will host the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-2011), which will take place at the Computing Laboratory on 12-14 January 2011. The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction, and representation of meaning in natural language, whether this is from a lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and statistical approaches to computational semantics, and everything in between. TOPICS OF INTEREST Areas of special interest for the conference will be computational aspects of meaning of natural language within written, spoken, or multimodal communication. Papers are invited that are concerned with topics in these and closely related areas, including the following: * representation of meaning * syntax-semantics interface * modelling and context in semantic interpretation * representing and resolving semantic ambiguity * shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning * inference methods for computational semantics * recognising textual entailment * methodologies and practices for semantic annotation * machine learning of semantic structures * statistical semantics * computational aspects of lexical semantics * semantics and ontologies * semantic web and natural language processing * semantic aspects of language generation * semantic relations in discourse and dialogue * semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts * computing meaning in multimodal interaction * semantics-pragmatics interface [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 14 07:53:01 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 CB58C5A36D; Fri, 14 May 2010 07:52:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DB6595A35F; Fri, 14 May 2010 07:52:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100514075251.DB6595A35F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 07:52:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.23 things virtual in Classics? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 23. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 08:51:36 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: things virtual in Classics? A colleague who is a classicist (with archaeological interests) and who works seriously in Second Life would like to know in what print journals in her field she might want to publish. All suggestions welcome. 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 May 15 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 D699B5D519; Sat, 15 May 2010 09:09:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2DBAA5D509; Sat, 15 May 2010 09:09:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100515090932.2DBAA5D509@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 09:09:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.24 things virtual in Classics X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 24. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 15:55:58 +0100 From: Timothy Webmoor Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.23 things virtual in Classics? In-Reply-To: <20100514075251.DB6595A35F@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I would suggest a few venues which have previously published on archaeological work with SL: Archaeologies (e.g. http://www.springerlink.com/content/t36465214425/?p=211c0224e93a4528badf3eff9251057f&pi=1) Journal of Material Culture (e.g. http://mcu.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/1/75). Additionally, your colleague ought to contact Ruth Tringham at Berkeley and Gary Devore and Michael Shanks at Stanford (http://www.mshanks.com/). All have extensive experience with SL. Additionally, Gary and Michael are trained classicists and are currently involved in an excavation project with outputs in SL. Hope this is a useful way into the archaeology-SL connection. Tim Webmoor On 14 May 2010, at 08:52, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 23. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 08:51:36 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: things virtual in Classics? > > A colleague who is a classicist (with archaeological interests) and who > works seriously in Second Life would like to know in what print journals > in her field she might want to publish. All suggestions welcome. > > 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 May 15 09:10:53 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 51A565D564; Sat, 15 May 2010 09:10:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C6C1D5D555; Sat, 15 May 2010 09:10:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100515091048.C6C1D5D555@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 09:10:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.25 inadequacies of markup 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. 24, No. 25. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 18:49:10 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.19 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100514073511.AE0CA5A030@woodward.joyent.us> Jay and HUMANIST, You make some very pertinent and valuable observations, and I agree with much of what you say. But it's important not to allow ourselves to be confused by the applications to which markup technologies have been put to date into making over-broad arguments about markup altogether. Let me start with something very minor. You imply that the limitations of markup technologies as we know them, and of XML in particular, are exposed or exemplified by the fact that XHTML now deprecates, for example, and tags. Certainly there are good reasons -- I agree with you -- to think that to disallow describing type face makes XHTML strict, in particular, an inadequate general approach to text description. But this leaves out two critical points: 1. Perhaps XHTML is not properly understood as a general approach to text description. Those who intend it to be so are misguided, or at least have an impoverished notion of how such a general description should work. For that matter, if there are those who intend it to be so, they may not be the same as the camp that would disallow and . Even if both camps are wrong. Yet for XHTML -- or any other tagging vocabulary -- to fail as an approach to the general description of text, does not make it useless (as I'm sure you'll agree). On the contrary, everything we have done with text encoding so far suggests that claims to generality or generalizability are less compelling than actual applications that actually allow people to do meaningful things with text and information. 2. More to the point, it's wrong to identify XHTML or any particular vocabulary with XML as a whole. XML gives anyone a basis for defining any tags they want to describe anything they want. What do you want to describe? The fact that no tag set is out there to do that, doesn't mean it can't be done. Now it can be argued -- I would argue (and I think this is getting closer to what you are saying) -- that having promised the capability of arbitrary description with one hand, XML takes it away with the other. Yes, you can partition your text and give the parts any names you like. But by requiring that all tagging should isolate and identify things ("structures", "entities" -- no name for them is sufficiently vague, since they can be anything you like, but XML calls them "elements") that are already arranged in a unitary hierarchy, XML frustrates any attempt at a truly flexible, responsive description of "anything you like". Everything has to be ordered and related going in -- and not only that, it will necessarily be related in a particular way ("parents" and "children"), even if your application wants to ignore these relations, or assert others. And many markup projects have foundered on these shoals. I actually think that these two points are intimately and importantly related. XML offers a syntax and a data model (implicit in the rules of the syntax) -- which may be inadequate -- but not a vocabulary. XHTML, TEI, NLM, or any of a thousand other XML applications, all offer vocabularies. These may be useful for doing certain sorts of things, and they also have shortcomings -- surely all of them do, and relatively few are actually aimed at anything like general-purpose use -- but XML itself is untouched by these, since you are still free to make up your own vocabulary to do what you want. The problem with XML as a data model and accompanying methodology is different from the problem of what sorts of things one decides to name, partition and control with it, for what purposes. These problems then meet when, having decided what you want to name (vocabulary design), you face the question of what you do with it (application design), where the limitations and shortcomings of the data model become inescapable. Either you use an application you find, off the shelf -- sure, publish a web site or blog, go for it -- in which these issues are, at best, hidden or mitigated, or you run straight into what can and cannot be done with the DOM, XSLT, XQuery -- the document as unitary hierarchy. Yet note that XML has nevertheless achieved something important by separating these. At least in one important respect (the proper names of the parts of a text), it has forsaken the ambition of providing a general description, in favor of providing a generalized means by which anyone can offer a particular description (of a text, or set of texts, or set of texts in a particular application, or set of hypothetical texts conforming to some theory of text or application profile). Certainly, its data model (the unitary hierarchy) is inadequate to do easily and straightforwardly many things we would like to do. Yet it is very general, much more general than the particular applications enabled by particular vocabularies (which might allow, or disallow, or tags). And this generality, not the particular vocabularies alone but the fact that they all sit together on a common foundation, is essential to what makes XML so attractive. It's like having standards for nuts and bolts. Now we don't have to fashion them individually whenever we want to fix something, but can buy them at the hardware store, along with tools to fit them. Many things can now be fixed that were not practical to fix before. Do we blame XML if it doesn't fix everything, or if its model is capable of supporting some approaches to text description but not others? Personally, I think these are very early days for markup technologies. It is as if the ancient Athenians, having started to write down plays, histories, philosophical dialogues, letters, and speeches, had decided that the alphabet was all there was to text, and were now arguing (as they did) about what they could and could not do with it. Of course, they were not wrong, and many of their insights are invaluable. But there was also much more to come. The thing is, XML's unitary hierarchy, for all its efficiency, is not the only way to handle markup or map it to a computationally tractable model of a text. Other approaches to markup preceded it, and others will follow. But until we have other, more flexible data models -- in particular, data models that support the arbitrary overlap, not just nesting, of identified segments of text in the document -- implemented on a basis that allows us data interchange and commodity tools development, we will have no idea, at least as a community, where the capability of arbitrary text description with digital encoding can really take us. (As evidence of this, consider how, in the last twelve years, the number of people has grown who are even able to have this conversation, because they are now familiar at first hand with XML's strengths and shortcomings.) Just to suggest one direction we might take to get there: LMNL itself makes nothing into anything else's "parent". In LMNL (understand I speak for the most part hypothetically, as this is a design not an actual toolkit), it's up to the application to define not just what names to recognize, but also any structural or "semantic" or other relations to infer, on what basis, between those things. In other words, it gives the ability and responsibility to do this, or not, to the application developer: to you. (In LMNL, a "paragraph" is not "inside" a "chapter" unless you say it is.) Along with this comes a more general capability: you can use markup to say what things are, or aren't, or might be, or how they look or work or whatever you like about them including how they are related to one another. (And contrary to your claim, this has nothing whatsoever to do with the "semantic web" unless you wish it to.) Only time and trial will show whether this design gives the vocabulary and application developer too much responsibility ... but my hope is that some, at least, will be able to take advantage of it. Why am I interested in this? Paradoxically, it's not because I want to invent (in Willard's double sense of that word) a generalized approach to markup. I'm like a poet without a language. I don't want to create a language: I want to make poems. Best regards, Wendell At 03:35 AM 5/14/2010, you wrote: >I actually think this gets at precisely the limitations of markup, at >least as we commonly know it: namely, that markup makes positive >assertions about what things *are*, in contrast to our traditions of >printed and written textuality (also orality) that simply present a >certain aesthetic, and allow--demand--the reader to interpret it. Whence >this belief that lists have items, and that all things with a certain >arrangement are in fact lists. Why is it desirable to infer the >existence of a list on the basis of the presence of an item? When did we >start believing that textual features have "parents"? > >That is not to say that the problem necessarily inheres in the idea of >markup, but all of the markup we have seen to date, from SGML to LNML, >has been inservice of ideas of the semantic web and concerned primarily >with entity declarations. It is difficult to see how any such approaches >can every be truly adequate, and recent developments in markup seem to >be trending worse rather than better. My own pet peeve is the >deprecation in X/HTML of the descriptive '' and '' tags in favor >of the semantic '' and ''. Who is to say, a priori, what >semantic information is truly encoded in a particular typeface decision? > >Different systems deal with these issues in different ways and stand-off >is a good solution in some cases, but so far no markup has successfully >created a space that is open to the kinds of interpretation Willard >seems to be looking for: they all parse to trees (even if the trees >occasionally overlap), and they all make semantic, positive assertions >about entity types and content disposition. > >Or, to put it another way: there are some fantastic critical editions, >facsimile editions, and enabling corpuses out there, but I don't think >we have yet seen a diplomatic edition online that makes fullest use of >the meduim. I am not even certain what such an edition would look like. > >I suspect that the real issue lies in the fact that markup is itself an >assertion that the meaning of a text--at least sufficient meaning to >adequately enable interpretation, for some value of "adequate"--is >sufficiently conveyed by its structure, and that the structure can be 1) >known, 2) abstracted and, 3) reconstituted. Thus we spend thousands of >hours encoding texts, and thousands more tinkering with XSLT to make >them again useful to human beings. > >Whether this is a feature of markup or a bug, of course, depends largely >on the use to which a particular reader puts a particular text--if you >want to quickly determine something about particular words in a >document, having them enclosed in tags is certainly handy--but I >think probably the move that will support Willard's aims will be a shift >from naming entities (paragraph, quatrain, quotation, emphasis) to >describing their behaviors. Whether that will be enabled by a new kind >of markup, or a new alternative to markup will be interesting to see. ============================================================ 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 15 09:12:39 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 E508B5D602; Sat, 15 May 2010 09:12:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9F3B85D5F9; Sat, 15 May 2010 09:12:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100515091237.9F3B85D5F9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 09:12:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.26 events: motion capture; liquid canons X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 26. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stuart Dunn (68) Subject: University of Sussex Motion Capture Methodologies Workshop, 25th-26th June, Lighthouse, Brighton] [2] From: Domenico Fiormonte (64) Subject: Liquid Canons in Rome --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 14:10:33 +0100 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: University of Sussex Motion Capture Methodologies Workshop, 25th-26th June, Lighthouse, Brighton] University of Sussex Motion Capture Methodologies Workshop 25th-26th June, Lighthouse, Brighton The University of Sussex is delighted to host an interdisciplinary workshop on motion capture, as part of the methodologies workshop series organised by UK higher education bodies AHESSC (Arts & Humanities e-Science Support Centre, www.ahessc.ac.uk) and JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee, www.jisc.ac.uk), in collaboration with the Motion in Place Platform Project (www.motioninplace.org). These events share experience and interests across specific digital development sectors that are nurturing research in the arts and humanities. The workshop will take place on June 25th-26th at Lighthouse in central Brighton (www.lighthouse.org.uk). It will consist of brief plenary presentations on projects and their technical environments interspersed with informal networking sessions and ample time for questions and discussion. Motion capture resources and related software products will be available for demonstrations and project-oriented discussions. A reception organised in partnership with Lighthouse on the evening of Friday 25th will provide further networking opportunities with regional cultural representatives. Workshop presenters are as follows: - DK Arvind, Research Consortium in Speckled Computing, School of Informatics University of Edinburgh - Helen Bailey, Division of Performing Arts and English, University of Bedfordshire - Stuart Dunn, AHeSSC, King's College London - Donald Glowinski, InFoMus Lab, Faculty of Engineering, University of Genoa - David Green, Culture Lab, Newcastle University - Carlos Guedes, Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Instituto Politécnico do Porto - Iwona Hrynczenko, Department of Game Development, Gotland University - Ali Kord, Animazoo, Brighton - Sally Jane Norman, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex - Matt Oughton, Vicon, Oxford - David Pirrò, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, Graz - Gretchen Schiller, School of Arts, Brunel University - Martin White, School of Informatics, University of Sussex - Kirk Woolford, School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex The workshop is free of charge and can accommodate approximately 50 participants in total. We therefore request prompt notification from persons wishing to attend for the two full days (beginning at 9:30am Friday 25th and ending at 4pm on Saturday 26th). Given high demand and limited capacity, only persons fully committed to attend should register by forwarding the attached response to Cecile Chevalier. Related University of Sussex events over the next months will focus on the development of the Motion in Place Platform, an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project (http://motioninplace.org), to be hosted by the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (under construction, see www.sussex.ac.uk/acca). -- Sally Jane Norman Professor of Performance Technologies Director, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts Silverstone 310 University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9RG United Kingdom www.sussex.ac.uk/acca -- ----------------------- 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 17:55:14 +0200 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Liquid Canons in Rome LIQUID CANONS. "Cultural variation and textual stability from the Bible to the Internet" International seminar, University of Roma Tre, 14-15 June, 2010 Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Via Ostiense 234 Seminar supported by the National Research (PRIN) "COntent Organization, Propagation, Evaluation and Reuse through Active REpositories". Resarch unit "Visualization and analysis of digital literary texts", coordinated by Domenico Fiormonte PRIN web site: http://nexos.cisi.unito.it/joomla/cooperare/ Seminar and project web site: http://www.digitalvariants.org/news The "canonical" or formative texts of a culture, from the Bible to the Rigveda, from Homer to Beowulf, exist in time as "texts" in a perpetual dialect between the (relative) stability of their media and the dynamics of culture. But why is stability important? What social, economic, political, ethic and esthetic interests does it represent? Who or what "possesses", from time to time, the keys for unlocking or closing a tradition? The digital edition poses new problems, but above all it forces us to rethink the way in which, up until now, the idea of the canon, understood as a unique, stable, authoritative and "true" text, is composed. The objective of this interdisciplinary seminar is thus to explore the tension between the variation of culture (in its modes of transmission) and the relative stability of texts and to show how variation represents the norm and not the exception in cultural processes. We don't envisage this event as a forum for specialists, but rather as an open space for debate. Attendance is free for students and colleagues, but we suggest to contact the organizers in advance. For more details e-mail info@digitalvariants.org or contact seminar organizer at: fiormont@uniroma3.it PROGRAMME 14 JUNE 14.30 Welcome by Prof. Francesca Cantù, Dean of the Faculty of Letters, Prof. Ornella Moroni, Chair of the Department of Italian Studies, and Prof. Mario De Nonno, Chair of the Department of Classics 15. 00 Marcello Buiatti (Biologist, Università di Firenze), "Multidimensionalità e varietà dei linguaggi del vivente" 15. 30 Gianluigi Prato (Old Testament scholar, Università Roma Tre), "Gli scritti biblici tra utopia del canone fisso e fluidità del testo storico" 16.00 Francesco Sferra, (Sanskritist, Università di Napoli l'Orientale), "La fluidità testuale nella tradizione antico-indiana" 16.30 Coffee / Tea break 16.45 Paolo Mastandrea (Classicist, Università di Venezia Ca' Foscari), "Variazioni foniche, memoria insignificante: formularità e dettato poetico latino" 17.15 Monica Storini (Literary theorist, Sapienza Università di Roma), "Resistere alla stabilità: il canone letterario in un'ottica di genere" 17.45 Discussion 15 JUNE 9.30 Alessandro Simonicca (Anthropologist, Sapienza Università di Roma), "La variazione nei processi di trasmissione della cultura" 10.00 Giovanni Cerri (Classicist, Università Roma Tre), "Omero liquido" 10.30 Domenico Fiormonte (Linguist, Università Roma Tre) and Desmond Schimdt (Computer scientist, University of Queensland, Australia), "La rappresentazione digitale della 'varianza' testuale" 11.00 Coffee / Tea break 11.30 Giulio Lughi (Sociologist, Università di Torino), "Tra generi e stili: forme di (in)stabilità nei nuovi media" 12.00 Presentation of the new book by Mario Ricciardi "La comunicazione. Maestri e paradigmi", Roma-Bari, Laterza. The author will discuss the volume with a panel of experts coordinated by Giovanni Ragone and Alberto Abruzzese. 12.30 Concluding remarks --------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 16 13:54:10 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 802AC5F191; Sun, 16 May 2010 13:54:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 71B1A5F188; Sun, 16 May 2010 13:54:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100516135409.71B1A5F188@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 13:54:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.27 things virtual in Classics X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 27. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 07:12:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.23 things virtual in Classics? In-Reply-To: <20100514075251.DB6595A35F@woodward.joyent.us> Pretty difficult question. But OK, just off the top of my head, then. Not knowing what kind of work in Second Life is here involved, or just what kind of publication she has in mind, I'd observe that for archaeology a possibility that quickly comes to mind is _Journal of archaeological method and theory_. Otherwise, perhaps _The classical bulletin_, _The classical world_, _Greece & Rome_ ? Or, if she's dealing seriously in theoretical perspectives, maybe _Arethusa_ ? ( I've restricted this to principally English-language periodicals. There are also some pertinent German- and Italian-language possibilities. ) - Laval Hunsucker Knokke-Heist, België _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 16 13:57:09 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 53ED05F22C; Sun, 16 May 2010 13:57:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 920335F21C; Sun, 16 May 2010 13:57:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100516135707.920335F21C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 13:57:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.28 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. 24, No. 28. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patrick Durusau (34) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.19 inadequacies of markup [2] From: Francois Lachance (55) Subject: Adequacies in mark-up --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 10:55:24 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.19 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100514073511.AE0CA5A030@woodward.joyent.us> Jay, > Whether this is a feature of markup or a bug, of course, depends largely > on the use to which a particular reader puts a particular text--if you > want to quickly determine something about particular words in a > document, having them enclosed in tags is certainly handy--but I > think probably the move that will support Willard's aims will be a shift > from naming entities (paragraph, quatrain, quotation, emphasis) to > describing their behaviors. Whether that will be enabled by a new kind > of markup, or a new alternative to markup will be interesting to see. > > Err, but you would agree that we have to name "entities" in order to say anything about their "behavior." Yes? I think "flat" interpretations of markup are as common as "flat" interpretations of texts. But we don't blame a text for the lack of imagination on the part of a reader. Why should we blame markup in the same situation? I find your suggestion that we should attribute "behavior" to entities quite interesting. What sort of "behavior" do you have in mind? Where should it be recorded (on which element if more than one in a behavior)? And if that seems too easy, what of behavior that depends on other behavior? ;-) The recording of the behavior is possible with traditional markup. But that is simply encoding for interchange of observations on a text. Processing markup that represents behaviors is a separate question. Hope you are having a great weekend! 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: Sat, 15 May 2010 16:14:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Francois Lachance Subject: Adequacies in mark-up In-Reply-To: Dear Willard I have been intrigued by the thread on the adequacies and inadequacies of markup. If I have but two observations: the first relates to the nature of the operations conducted upon instances of mark-up and the second to the the trigger for the operations. -- The nature of operations -- It strikes me that the various interlocutors are concerned with either adding to a document instance or subtracting from a document instance. Or in a more figurative fashion, with grafting or pruning. There has been some reflection upon how skilled a person must be in order to conduct the desired process, upon how conversant they must be with software or language. If I may be so bold as to reduce the question of process to its most machine-like steps, I would like our dear subscribers to entertain the idea that all that subtracting and all that adding can be accomplished with the most basic of means. A person can work with copy, cut, and paste. If I invoke the simple lessons recalled from the use a text editor it is to remind us of what the machine does. A copy of the file is brought into memory. It is from memory that is written out a record of the something done to the copy. I apologize for the circumlocution. I want to capture multiple possibilities: a modification of the copy, a selection of part of the copy, and, of course, the act of accessing the copy read into memory (i.e. no modification but a record of the access). What you may ask has this to do with mark-up and its processing. I suggest that underlying work with mark-up and processing it through copy, cut and paste is a species of counting. The file is parsed for instances. -- The trigger for operations -- Allow me a brief figurative turn. Mark-up. I stress the hyphenation. In working with a file, one marks that is one inscribes a sort of incision for pruning or grafting. Then one tallies up. The mark or incision indicates a spot that is to be taken up or counted. Interpretation is an accounting of what belongs where (and the instances of things out of place). The computer is a marvellous aid. With the assistance of the computer I can model reading behaviour: the machine assists in the collecting of given instances and in the producing of tidy output. An example of "bin" work: in an xml document elements were assigned a number from 1 through 6. an xslt transformation then exported the element to one of four html outputs, all four html outputs or none of the html outputs based on the value of the number. the numbers were assigned by a roll of a die -- i hadn't quite mastered random number generation in xslt. See http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin/ But what of ambiguous instances? A range of values can be associated with an instance (consider for example the richness offered by feature structures in the TEI Guidelines). During processing the computer can select from the range of values and thus produce variable output. In a sense the computer "plays" the instance and its values. To follow the nomenclature established by Espen Aarseth, the computer allows for a recording of the ergodic dimension of cybertext. What counts as a cybertext depends on the nature of the traversal of instances constituting the text: The nontrivial traversal of a text depends upon both the construction of the the semiotic matter that gives access the text and its world as well as the competencies of the reader or readers seeking that access. [...] From a reader's perspective, the traversal of a text whose semiotic material is assembled in a language not within the regular competencies of the reader, the text is ergodic. Whether the reading agent is a human being or an electronic machine, whether the language is natural or formal, traversal is non-trivial if the deciphering is laborious. http://grandtextauto.org/2005/08/12/clarifying-ergodic-and-cybertext/ Working to mark-up a document instance is to lay the ground work for a non-trivial traversal. The task at hand is a making ergodic. Mark-up, relies upon, facilitates and complicates the elementary actions of copy, cut and paste. --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 16 13:58:17 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 E94C15F268; Sun, 16 May 2010 13:58:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ECA725F259; Sun, 16 May 2010 13:58:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100516135815.ECA725F259@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 13:58:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.29 call for chapter proposals: teaching 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. 24, No. 29. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 02:08:41 +0800 From: "Brett D. Hirsch" Subject: CFP: Teaching Digital Humanities CFP: Teaching Digital Humanities: Principles, Practices, and Politics (Edited Collection) Despite the importance of pedagogy to the development and long-term sustainability of digital humanities, very little scholarly literature has been published on the topic. The proposed volume, *Teaching Digital Humanities*, will address the need for critical discussion of the various pedagogical issues associated with the field. Proposals for chapters that address any aspect of digital humanities and pedagogy are invited, including (but not limited to): * the politics and place of digital humanities in the academy; * digital humanities in the undergraduate/graduate curriculum; * innovative teaching methods and approaches to digital humanities; * theorizing the digital humanities classroom; * bridging the gap between digital humanities research and teaching; * new media, new technologies, new pedagogies; * digital humanities and open-access education; * cultural and social issues associated with teaching digital humanities; Discipline-specific topics (such as teaching digital history or digital literary studies) are welcome. Abstracts of no more than 500 words along with a brief biographical profile should be sent to Dr. Brett D. Hirsch (University of Western Australia) by 1st August 2010. Finished chapters of between 6,000 and 8,000 words in length will be commissioned and expected by February 2011. The collection will be subjected to rigorous peer review and scheduled for open-access online publication in 2011/12. The use of rich multimedia content is encouraged. Any queries are welcome. -- Dr. Brett D. Hirsch Honorary Research Fellow Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies University of Western Australia http://www.notwithoutmustard.net/ Coordinating Editor, Digital Renaissance Editions http://www.digital-renaissance.info/ 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 Sun May 16 14:00:29 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 378725F2E3; Sun, 16 May 2010 14:00:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DFF955F2D4; Sun, 16 May 2010 14:00:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100516140026.DFF955F2D4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 14:00:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.30 DH2010: registration; student bursaries X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 30. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Harold Short (25) Subject: DH2010 registration reminder [2] From: Harold Short (14) Subject: DH2010 Student Assistant Bursaries --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 14:38:33 +0100 From: Harold Short Subject: DH2010 registration reminder DH 2010 Registration Reminder This is a reminder that registration for the Digital Humanities Conference 2010 (DH2010) is open. Please note that the deadline for Early Bird registration has been extended to 31 May 2010. This is to allow for the delay in availability of the online credit card payment system, which is now expected to fully functional from early this coming week. 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 31st 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. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 14:39:36 +0100 From: Harold Short Subject: DH2010 Student Assistant Bursaries DH2010 Student Assistant Bursaries I'm afraid we're in the embarrassing position of having to ask if those who applied for Student Assistant Bursaries would mind re-submitting their application. There was a serious problem with the underlying email mechanism that meant we 'lost' some applications, and are now having to try to identify everyone who applied! In a few cases, we know from email exchanges that particular individuals were intending to apply, and we are contacting them directly. There may, however, be others of whose intentions we are not aware. Anyone who applied on or after 15th May will not need to re-apply. Full details of the scheme and the short application form are available on the DH2010 website at dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk. The deadline for receipt of applications is 21 May 2010. Sorry to put you to this trouble - if you know of anyone who has applied, we would be most grateful if you would pass the message on to them. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 17 07:42:50 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 4A17E60A57; Mon, 17 May 2010 07:42:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D95F660A50; Mon, 17 May 2010 07:42:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100517074248.D95F660A50@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 07:42:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.31 new publication: digital curation bibliography X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 31. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 00:37:29 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography, Version 1 Version one of the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcpb.htm This bibliography presents over 360 selected English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. 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 sources that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints for published articles in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. Note that e-prints and published articles may not be identical. See the scope note for further details: http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/scope.htm The following recent Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: * Digital Scholarship 2009 http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/ds2009.htm * Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 6 http://digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm * Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 2 http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html * Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 4 http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://digital-scholarship.org/ http://digital-scholarship.com/cwb/dschronology.htm ______________________________________________________________________ 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 Mon May 17 07:43:35 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 A426860A8E; Mon, 17 May 2010 07:43:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C85E960A7F; Mon, 17 May 2010 07:43:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100517074333.C85E960A7F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 07:43:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.32 events: Canadian digital economy X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 32. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 19:12:33 +0100 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Canadian Digital Economy Consultation Those within and outside of Canada may be interested to learn about, and to participate in, our national government’s Digital Economy Consultation. Details are at http://digitaleconomy.gc.ca. The home pages text reads: Digital technologies are critical to every aspect of our economy and society. That is why a strategy for the digital economy is needed to ensure that Canada is positioned to benefit from the opportunities that it presents. All Canadians have a role to play in helping shape Canada’s digital future. Your perspectives, suggestions, ideas and submissions will be important inputs in the creation of our digital strategy. We appreciate your interest and participation. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 18 09:29:57 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 CC11461FE3; Tue, 18 May 2010 09:29:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4CD4461C87; Tue, 18 May 2010 09:29:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100518092954.4CD4461C87@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 09:29:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.33 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. 24, No. 33. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 18:14:29 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Job Opportunity: Programme Manager DHO Applications are invited for Programme Manager of the DHO. This contract, which arises out of a maternity leave cover, is expected to last eight months. The successful applicant must be in a position to start no later than 21 June 2010. Further particulars are available here http://dho.ie/vacancies Applications are being accepted through IrishJobs.ie http://www.irishjobs.ie/Jobs/Programme-Manager-6287520.aspx -- 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 Tue May 18 09:33:24 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 6A3FE60118; Tue, 18 May 2010 09:33:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 49C5160110; Tue, 18 May 2010 09:33:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100518093322.49C5160110@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 09:33:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.34 events (correction): motion capture X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 34. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:21:00 +0100 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: ADDENDUM: University of Sussex Motion Capture Methodologies Workshop, 25th-26th June, Lighthouse, Brighton Dear all, It's been pointed out that this announcement did not include any contact information on where to address any enquiries about attendance. For further information, please contact Cecile Chevalier: chevalier.cecile@gmail.com. Apologies. -Stuart University of Sussex Motion Capture Methodologies Workshop 25th-26th June, Lighthouse, Brighton The University of Sussex is delighted to host an interdisciplinary workshop on motion capture, as part of the methodologies workshop series organised by UK higher education bodies AHESSC (Arts & Humanities e-Science Support Centre, www.ahessc.ac.uk) and JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee, www.jisc.ac.uk), in collaboration with the Motion in Place Platform Project (www.motioninplace.org). These events share experience and interests across specific digital development sectors that are nurturing research in the arts and humanities. The workshop will take place on June 25th-26th at Lighthouse in central Brighton (www.lighthouse.org.uk). It will consist of brief plenary presentations on projects and their technical environments interspersed with informal networking sessions and ample time for questions and discussion. Motion capture resources and related software products will be available for demonstrations and project-oriented discussions. A reception organised in partnership with Lighthouse on the evening of Friday 25th will provide further networking opportunities with regional cultural representatives. Workshop presenters are as follows: - DK Arvind, Research Consortium in Speckled Computing, School of Informatics University of Edinburgh - Helen Bailey, Division of Performing Arts and English, University of Bedfordshire - Stuart Dunn, AHeSSC, King's College London - Donald Glowinski, InFoMus Lab, Faculty of Engineering, University of Genoa - David Green, Culture Lab, Newcastle University - Carlos Guedes, Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Instituto Politécnico do Porto - Iwona Hrynczenko, Department of Game Development, Gotland University - Ali Kord, Animazoo, Brighton - Sally Jane Norman, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex - Matt Oughton, Vicon, Oxford - David Pirrò, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, Graz - Gretchen Schiller, School of Arts, Brunel University - Martin White, School of Informatics, University of Sussex - Kirk Woolford, School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex The workshop is free of charge and can accommodate approximately 50 participants in total. We therefore request prompt notification from persons wishing to attend for the two full days (beginning at 9:30am Friday 25th and ending at 4pm on Saturday 26th). Given high demand and limited capacity, only persons fully committed to attend should register by forwarding the attached response to Cecile Chevalier. Related University of Sussex events over the next months will focus on the development of the Motion in Place Platform, an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project (http://motioninplace.org), to be hosted by the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (under construction, see www.sussex.ac.uk/acca). -- Sally Jane Norman Professor of Performance Technologies Director, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts Silverstone 310 University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9RG United Kingdom www.sussex.ac.uk/acca -- ----------------------- 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 May 18 09:34:57 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 C1F5762067; Tue, 18 May 2010 09:34:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C744C6205F; Tue, 18 May 2010 09:34:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100518093456.C744C6205F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 09:34:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.35 Second Life for Classics X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 35. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 12:29:00 +0100 From: Virginia Knight Subject: Second Life and classics I suspect your colleague may know Shelley Hales in Bristol, but it would be worthwhile contacting her: shelley.hales@bristol.ac.uk She gave an interesting presentation a couple of weeks ago on her Second Life reconstruction of the Pompeiian townhouse formerly in the Crystal Palace, itself a reconstruction with assumptions from its own time built into it. A quick search found an article from the local paper about her work here: She's also addressing the question of how to present her Second Life work as a research output. 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 Wed May 19 04:43:48 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 30F2A61A42; Wed, 19 May 2010 04:43:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B551261A32; Wed, 19 May 2010 04:43:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100519044345.B551261A32@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 04:43:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.36 cfp: survey of programmes X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 36. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 13:39:27 -0400 From: Tanya Clement Subject: CFP: survey on undergraduate programs inflected by the digital humanities Dear digital humanists, Please participate in a survey I am conducting on curricular and infrastructural development underlying undergraduate programs inflected by the digital humanities at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/X3H8YQH Introduction to the survey: I am inviting you to participate in this survey "Designing for Digital Literacy" as part of a larger research project on curricular and infrastructural development within the digital humanities because you are affiliated with an undergraduate curriculum that is in some way inflected by the digital humanities. Whether your curriculum or program matches this broad description is entirely up to you. Some examples of how scholars and faculty are defining the field in terms of undergraduate curricula can be found on my blog at http://www.palms.wordherders.net/wp/2009/11/digital-humanities-inflected-undergraduate-programs-2/. These examples range from programs that work with new media and mobility devices to programs that are entrenched in textual computational analysis and representation. Other examples also appear--more importantly for this discussion, these participants who are choosing to align themselves with the digital humanities come from a wide range of institutional environments and experiences. The purpose of this research project is to start making transparent the institutional and infrastructural issues that are specific to certain universities in order to provide insight into how curricula that is inflected by the digital humanities has been, is being, or might be developed. Simply listing examples of existing programs would belie the extent to which scholars and administrators have shaped and are shaping these curricula according to the needs of their specific communities. The results of this research may help us all learn more about the current state of developing digital humanities curricula for undergraduates and provide a background of transparency that encourages continued development and knowledge production in this field. Tanya Clement, PhD Associate Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC) Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) The University of Maryland, College Park 301-405-2866 dcc.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 Wed May 19 04:46:42 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 DD9A562C2C; Wed, 19 May 2010 04:46:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5A01262ADD; Wed, 19 May 2010 04:46:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100519044640.5A01262ADD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 04:46:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.37 Summer internship at the BL X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 37. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 16:13:24 +0100 From: "Garces, Juan" Subject: Summer internship at the British Library In-Reply-To: A<4BE835BF.5090703@uleth.ca> Here is a great opportunity to gain work experience in a national library. [With apologies for cross-posting:] British Library summer internship 2010 (two months) The British Library has started digitising its medieval and earlier manuscript collections as part of its plans to make them all available to everyone online. The first volumes to be digitised are drawn from the Greek manuscript collections. To support this project, the British Library wishes to recruit an undergraduate or postgraduate intern to work on the TEI XML markup of over 600 Classical, Biblical and Byzantine manuscripts in Greek. The existing descriptions are available as MS Word documents and need to be converted into TEI-compliant XML code. Authority-list entries for authors, scribes and titles of works will be generated from the XML code and will need to be edited, looked up in other resources provided, and linked accordingly. The intern will be supervised by Dr Juan Garces who manages the Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Project. Requirements Essential: The right to live and work in the UK (The British Library is unable to apply for a work visa for this internship). Undergraduate or postgraduate. Good knowledge of XML and a basic understanding of the TEI guidelines. Experience of editing XML. Fluent in written and spoken English. Good time-management and organisational skills. Desirable: Experience of Greek/Byzantine Studies and working with manuscripts. Familiarity with the Oxygen XML editor. Able to work using own initiative. Terms Two month internship, ideally starting late June 2010. Pay: £6 per hour, 36 hours per week. How to apply Please email your CV, including the names and contact details of two referees, and a covering letter explaining why you wish to undertake this internship and how your skills and experience match the requirements to claire.breay@bl.uk (Claire Breay, Head of Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts, The British Library) by 17:00 on Wednesday 26 May 2010. Please include a copy of the main details page of your passport and any UK work permit. ------------------------------------------------ Dr Juan Garcés Project Manager, Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Projects The British Library 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7516 Fax: +44 (0)20 7412 7787 ************************************************************************** Experience the British Library online at http://www.bl.uk/ The British Library’s new interactive Annual Report and Accounts 2008/09 : http://www.bl.uk/knowledge Help the British Library conserve the world's knowledge. Adopt a Book. http://www.bl.uk/adoptabook The Library's St Pancras site is WiFi - enabled _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 19 04:47:14 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 1BBC562C7B; Wed, 19 May 2010 04:47:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BA3A162C6C; Wed, 19 May 2010 04:47:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100519044712.BA3A162C6C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 04:47:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.38 D-Lib Magazine for May/June X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 38. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 22:17:50 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The May/June 2010 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Greetings: The May/June issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue is a special issue on the theme of Digital Libraries in China. The issue contains four articles, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features the collection Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946, held by the Harvard-Yenching Library at Harvard University. The articles include: Overview of Digital Library Developments in China by Xihui Zhen, Content Digital Innovations Building the New-generation China Academic Digital Library Information System (CADLIS): A Review and Prospectus by Wang Wenqing and Chen Ling, The National Administrative Center for CALIS, Peking University China National Science and Technology Digital Library (NSTL) by Qiao Xiaodong, Liang Bing and Yao Changqing, Institute of Science and Technology Information of China (ISTIC) The National Digital LIbrary Project by Wei Dawei and Sun Yigang, National Library of China 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 May/June 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 May 19 05:03:12 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 9A251627E4; Wed, 19 May 2010 05:03:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1EF51626BD; Wed, 19 May 2010 05:03:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100519050310.1EF51626BD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 05:03:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.39 e-book reading? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 39. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 06:02:23 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: e-book readers? Recently I have discovered what seems to me a perfect solution to the piles of pdf'd student essays, chapters, articles, even the odd book that I must somehow read and would rather not print out and cannot efficiently get through at my desk: an e-book reader. Mine is a Sony PRS-300, which can easily be held in the palm of one hand. I admit to reading a novel on it when stuck in an airport unprepared and unwilling to pay airport prices, but in general I stick to the codex for reading that sort of prose -- a far better device on the whole. I find the difficulties of access other than serial (a page at a time in the predetermined sequence) frustrating on occasion, but for simply ploughing through scholarly material my e-book reader is, I have concluded, just the thing. I keep a spiral-bound notebook with it to make notes. In my brief time asking colleagues about e-book readers I have discovered one addict of junky prose who likes his for the purpose (a Kindle). What have others who have ventured into e-book reading found? 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 20 05:35:12 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 6CB945A9D3; Thu, 20 May 2010 05:35:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 74AA95A9C3; Thu, 20 May 2010 05:35:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100520053509.74AA95A9C3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 05:35:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.40 e-book reading X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 40. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Clark, Stephen" (4) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.39 e-book reading? [2] From: Cajsa Baldini (21) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.39 e-book reading? [3] From: Doug Reside (71) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.39 e-book reading? [4] From: James Rovira (12) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.39 e-book reading? [5] From: Kirk Lowery (23) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.39 e-book reading? [6] From: "Michael S. Hart" (61) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.39 e-book reading? [7] From: Ray Siemens (10) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.39 e-book reading? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 06:45:14 +0100 From: "Clark, Stephen" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.39 e-book reading? In-Reply-To: <20100519050310.1EF51626BD@woodward.joyent.us> I use my Kindle for the minutes and agendas of meetings, and papers for review, as well as for scholarly books, fiction, poems, including work that isn't sold directly through Amazon Kindle: Amazon runs a free service permitting the reformatting of work for the Kindle. And Calibre, an e-book management program, also formats material appropriately. It isn't limited to serial reading: you can go to specified locations, to bookmarks, and also search for particular words or phrases. The one complaint I have about e-books is that one has to go and check the print copy to get the correct page reference. Stephen Clark --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 03:19:02 -0700 From: Cajsa Baldini Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.39 e-book reading? In-Reply-To: <20100519050310.1EF51626BD@woodward.joyent.us> I use my Kindle similarly, carrying student papers with me. The Kindle has its own email address and I often email travel documents to it just to have a backup. Any kind of bulky document I need when I travel is uploaded as well. On one occasion I emailed a paper I was reading at a conference to the Kindle, in lieu of a printer, and read the paper off the Kindle. I was an early adopter of the Kindle 2, and thus paid some $350 for it, so any advice as to how to utilize it more efficiently is most appreciated! Best regards, Cajsa Baldini _______________________________ Dr. Cajsa C. Baldini On-Site Coordinator ASU Summer Program in Florence, Italy http://asu.edu/florenceitaly --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 07:24:30 -0600 From: Doug Reside Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.39 e-book reading? In-Reply-To: <20100519050310.1EF51626BD@woodward.joyent.us> Back in the PDA days I used Microsoft Reader frequently and read most of my Ph.D. reading list on it. I've not yet used a Kindle generation reader beyond store demos, but for me the PDA (just slightly larger than an iPhone) was the perfect reading device. It was small enough to be slipped into my pocket and carried everywhere but large enough that 2 full paragraphs could be comfortably read on the screen. Although there weren't many recent books available for it, nearly every book was free (or at most $5-$10). If I'm going to pay $10-$30 for a book I'd rather buy a DRM-free, software independent paper copy. Bestsellers only 6 months old regularly turn up for less at my local library booksale, so I almost never buy new books. I can't imagine, at current prices, a commercial ebook ever being more than an impulse buy ("I'm bored in this airport and I need this book, NOW!"). For non-commercial content (the PDFs and Word documents Willard mentions), I'd rather use my Android phone, though using it for reading makes me sort of miss my old Windows PDA. Doug -- Doug Reside, Associate Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland b0131 McKeldin Library College Park, MD 20742 (301) 405-5897 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 09:34:19 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.39 e-book reading? In-Reply-To: <20100519050310.1EF51626BD@woodward.joyent.us> Yes, I agree, that's probably the most useful thing about an ebook reader. iWrite about the iPad here: http://jamesrovira.towerofbabel.com/2010/05/02/what-ithink-about-the-ipad/ Note: I'm very clearly figuring things out as a I go along and post addenda as I go. Jim R --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 09:57:42 -0400 From: Kirk Lowery Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.39 e-book reading? In-Reply-To: <20100519050310.1EF51626BD@woodward.joyent.us> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > What have others who have ventured into e-book reading found? I have a Sony Reader Touch (PRS-600) and it works very well with the standard ebook formats. Unlike the Kindle, it has external storage (SD card) slots and one can use it without being locked into someone's business model and DRM. I use calibre with it. It does not have as clear a display as the Kindle. For academic purposes, it is not yet there. In particular, a lot of my reading is scanned pdfs and using the Sony for such documents is painful. Regular pdfs are fine. Right now, the only real option for those of us who read a lot of pdfs is the Irex dr1000 series (http://www.irextechnologies.com/irexdr1000), but it's price is prohibative: US$859.00. My PRS-600 is only a way stop while waiting for (1) the introduction of color epaper, (2) the appearance of *real* tablet computing (iPad is not one of those) in the 10" size range. I figure in another two or three years... Kirk -- Kirk E. Lowery J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 08:29:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.39 e-book reading? In-Reply-To: <20100519050310.1EF51626BD@woodward.joyent.us> In the course of my work I obviously look over many eBooks, and I must say the hardware is the least of my concerns. Sometimes it's nice to be able to read white on black, and sometimes it's nice to be able turn 90 degrees, but in the main I tend to get lost in the book and don't really care. I've tried nearly all the old standbys, and even the iPad, along with laptops and desktops of all sizes. All OK. I like the "normal" computing power to take notes or paste into emails I am sending, to use my own search engines and text programs, I don't like any proprietary formats much-- though I find QIOO to be pretty nice. Thank You!!! Give eBooks in 2010!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg, Inventor of eBooks As of ~12:00 noon on Apr. 21 we have the following totals: 100,000+ eBooks easy to download from Project Gutenberg at: http://www/gutenberg.cc [over 75,000+ eBooks][not subtotal] http://www.gutenberg.org [~37,054 eBooks] [subtotals below] http://www.gutenberg.org [31,975 U. S. Copyright Research] http://gutenberg.net.au Project Gutenberg Australia ~1851 http://pge.rastko.net 65 languages PG of Europe ~704 http://gutenberg.ca Project Gutenberg of Canada ~521 http://preprints.readingroo.ms Not Primetime Ready ~2,008 Please note: The above totals usually miss 100 plus items, and there are ~43 numbers that have been reserved. Don't forget Project Runeberg for Scandinavian languages. Blog at http://www.pglaf.org/hart If you ever do not get a prompt response, please resend, then keep resending, I won't mind getting several copies per week. --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 16:26:57 -0700 From: Ray Siemens Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.39 e-book reading? In-Reply-To: <20100519050310.1EF51626BD@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Willard, I've been pleasure reading on an earlier version of same Sony device for just over 3 years now, but traded it in a few weeks ago for an iPad; just as well, as my daughter is finding the Sony much better than print books at the moment simply because of the volume and rate of reading she is engaged in. Your observation, I think, is quite pertinent, certainly to me. Just a moment ago, as I turned from some quick reading of several Google Books on my iPad (part of my information seeking behaviour in my research reading), I then read your post on the same device and noted at roughly the same time, on my mobile phone via Twitter, that Jose Afonso Furtado had directed us to consider James O'Donnell's talk at Yale, "A Scholar Gets a Kindle and Starts to Read," which is available at http://bit.ly/cwjTKo. I'm now responding to you using my laptop, however, because I've not yet mastered the art of typing on a touchscreen, or a mobile's keyboard, at a reasonable pace; and because I wanted also to see O'Donnell's talk on my laptop screen, which is larger than that of my mobile or the iPad and, so, is easier on my eyes. I recall the promise, stated several years ago in a large company's marketing campaign, of all my digital interaction needs being handled by one device. Surrounded as I am at the moment by various appliances that I use for digital reading and writing, and using three almost simultaneously just now, I wonder if I await a virtual world where the many kinds of writing, reading, and information seeking I engage in personally and professionally can be optimally carried out via a single device ... or if the multiplicity of devices that I and seem to use isn't a perfectly apt reflection of specific needs associated with well-defined types of media and various pertinent practices relating to them. Certainly, though, the promise of being able to do everything on a single device is as worth entertaining as the other is worth celebrating, even tongue-in-cheek. All best, Ray _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 05:35:44 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 996C55AA16; Thu, 20 May 2010 05:35:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 61B345AA00; Thu, 20 May 2010 05:35:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100520053542.61B345AA00@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 05:35:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.41 job at Virginia Tech X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 41. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 08:17:14 -0400 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: Director, ASPECT: Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical & Cultural Thought Director, ASPECT: Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical & Cultural Thought at Virginia Tech The successful candidate is expected to have a substantial record of established research production and academic visibility as well as the professional networks needed to guide future faculty hiring, graduate student recruitment, and the placement of the program's Ph.D. graduates. The position involves a considerable amount of administrative activity tied to directing the program, developing curricula, supporting new faculty recruitment, supervising up to 24 funded doctoral students, program budgeting, and working with program stakeholders in the five core departments as well as the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, and the Virginia Tech Graduate School. The position offers a competitive salary and reduction in the typical Virginia Tech teaching load of two courses each semester. Required Qualifications: Earned doctorate at the time of application in history, philosophy, political science, humanities, or another interdisciplinary area of scholarship grounded in analytical, applied, comparative, critical, or normative theoretical perspectives of scholarly inquiry. Candidates must have a clearly defined specialization in one of the central areas of social, political, ethical or cultural thought associated with this Ph.D. program. They also must have a widely recognized reputation for excellence and demonstrated strength in teaching/learning, discovery, and engagement. ASPECT is an innovative problem-based, theoretically-engaged doctoral program (http://www.aspect.vt.edu/). Evidence of successful prior administrative leadership and the ability to foster academic community are essential expectations for this position. Preferred Qualifications: Preference will be given to candidates whose established research program and current teaching specialization are tied to interdisciplinary scholarship in social, political, ethical, and cultural thought, and who have extensive prior administrative experience. Candidates also should have a record that would merit a tenured appointment in one of the four core departments in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, namely, History, Philosophy, Political Science or Religion & Culture. Interested persons must apply at http://jobs.vt.edu, posting #0100222 where they will submit a cover letter, current curriculum vitae, recent writing samples, teaching evaluations, and a brief statement on administrative experience and philosophy along with the contact information of five references. The search committee will solicit letters of recommendation as it draws up its list of candidates for interviews. Screening of applications will begin September 20, 2010, and continue until the position is filled. All inquiries can be sent to: Timothy W. Luke, ASPECT Director Search Committee, Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical and Cultural Thought, 202 Major Williams Hall (0192), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061. Individuals with additional questions or with disabilities desiring accommodations in the application process should contact the search committee chair, Timothy W. Luke, twluke@vt.edu, phone: 540.231.0694 or 540.231.6633. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -Pablo Picasso _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 05:36:34 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 C8F455AAEC; Thu, 20 May 2010 05:36:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BBCE95AA9D; Thu, 20 May 2010 05:36:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100520053632.BBCE95AA9D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 05:36:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.42 events: 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 42. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 14:35:53 +0200 From: "REELC/ENCLS" Subject: CFP - The Book: An Economy of Cultural Spaces (International Conference) Dear Colleagues, I would like to point your attention to themes 7 and 8 of the call for papers for the international conference The Book: An Economy of Cultural Spaces which are focusing transformations of the book in new media. http://eurolit.net/?q=event/book-economy-cultural-spaces-international-conference Best regards Aleš Vaupotič *** The Slovenian Comparative Literature Association, REELC/ENCLS, and the ZRC SAZU/SRC SASA Institute for Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies cordially invite you to attend the international conference The Book: An Economy of Cultural Spaces, which will take place on 25 and 26 November 2010 at the ZRC SAZU/SRC SASA in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The conference is being planned by the organizing committee, composed of Marko Juvan (ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, head), Marijan Dović (ZRC SAZU), Jola Škulj (ZRC SAZU), Gašper Troha (University of Ljubljana), and Aleš Vaupotič (Academy of Design, Ljubljana). At its 12 September 2009 session in Vilnius, the REELC/ENCLS executive committee – whose members include Marko Juvan, Jola Škulj, and Aleš Vaupotič – included the symposium The Book: An Economy of Cultural Spaces in its schedule of scholarly meetings to be held between REELC/ENCLS congresses. *The conference concept: “The Book: An Economy of Cultural Spaces”* Through books and magazines as its main media, literature helps create the networks of cultural spaces. Books are not merely the material bearers of texts, but also cultural products or even artifacts and symbols with their own history, codes, value, and meaning. Together with the textual worlds of literature, into which the semiospheres of their contexts are copied, books are factors in the interactive and procedural formation of cultural identities. They are the memory and archive of a given culture, as well as its virtual windows into the world. In both cases and from today’s perspective, books are a necessary prerequisite of creative thought, through which a specific cultural space reinterprets itself, develops, and projects its utopias. The cultural transfer of literary texts in manuscripts, books, and magazines – as well as institutional forms and social models of literary life through them or in connection with them – has always crossed linguistic, ethnic, geographical, and national/political borders. The symbolic and market-oriented exchange of representations, and their translation into linguistically localized and geocultural codes, has revitalized the traditions of individual ethnic groups and nations. In this way, regional, transnational, and inter-civilizational networks were established and changed, through which literary ideas, mental spaces, textual structures, and conceptual roots of institutions and practices spread. This involves a cultural diffusion similar to epidemics in terms of contagiousness, viral mutations, and defense mechanisms. Without the unique economy of book transfer, in which the logics of the symbolic or cultural capital and market capital intersect, it would be impossible to speak of Goethe's idea of “world literature” or our participation in it, or international movements such as the Enlightenment and Modernism. With their economy, books and literature are mediators of cultural spaces: they materially and mentally establish both their “inner” coherence and continuity as well as their “outer” or “transnational” integration. The transfer of books and their systematic collection, cataloguing, analysis, commentary, and interpretation – all of these are factors that have shaped the history of the cosmopolitan awareness and consequently also the modern “system” of world literature. This is the background to the conference, which will consider the relevance of the history of books and related media for contemporary, transnationally focused comparative literature and its reflection on the concept of world literature. The following issues will be discussed: 1 - How did literary manuscripts circulate around the world, and how were the centers where they were created, preserved, and copied distributed? What did the invention of printed books and the expansion of literary journals signify for the distribution, dissemination, and reception of ideas, notions, and imaginary spaces of literature? 2 - Is the view that book printing, publishers, and libraries established the world literature infrastructure, as well as international literary movements such as the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Modernism, well founded? 3 - What were the roles of private, university, school, academic, and public libraries in cultural transfer? How did they shape cosmopolitan awareness and enable literary production to transcend provinciality and benefit from broader backgrounds, and richer cultural archives (namely “world,” and “European” literature)? 4 - How were works of fiction and information on them exchanged and collected through letters, salons, and other contacts between European intellectuals? How did this help form the transnational writers’ networks and the universal cultural space (i.e., the “literary republic”)? 5 - How did changes in the physical characteristics of books (the “bibliographic code”) affect the global development of literature and its genres? What was the intermediary role of distinguishing profiles for literary and cultural periodicals? 6 - How did the economics of the publishing industry and library science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries affect the global distribution of literary and cultural capital, and the asymmetric communications between the centers and the peripheries? 7 - Did the new media condense or expand the global literary space with the event of the World Wide Web, e-books, virtual libraries, and electronic archives in comparison to the codex book, and how? 8 - Which media and media hybrids from digital, electronic, technically reproducible, and traditional non-technical contexts are connected with the shift realized by the new media? What are the roles of hybrids of visual and verbal modes of expression? And how to regard in such a particular light other hybrids (from Emblem books through artists’ books to experimental book forms)? Since our culture is geocritically situated at the edges and marked by the permeability and fluidity of borders as well as by the intersection of heterogeneous regions (west and east, central European and Mediterranean), and has been decisively linked to the Slovenian language and Slovenian literature from the Reformation onwards, the book as a cultural document and a bearer of cultural, symbolic and economic values is all the more deserving of serious and conscientious consideration. As the “world book capital” from April 2010 to spring 2011, Ljubljana is an appropriate place for bringing together and examining more thorough comparative-literature and interdisciplinary discussion of the history and future of books, especially their role in the development of European and world literature. The answers to these questions can define the challenges that a common European future poses to the book and the quests in art and knowledge connected with it. *Conference official languages and papers* Official languages used at the conference will be English, French, and Slovenian (Slovenian papers will be accompanied by projections with English or French translations). Twenty to thirty scholars are expected to participate at the conference. Upon arrival, all the participants will receive a booklet of abstracts in the official languages. *Venue and accommodation * The conference will take place on Thursday and Friday, 25 and 26 November 2010, at Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, close to the National and University Library, in Ljubljana’s historic center. There will be no registration fee. The conference dinner for the participants and refreshments during breaks will be paid for by the organizers. Participants book and pay for their hotel accommodations themselves. The organizing committee will release a list with addresses and prices of available hotels by the end of June 2010. A one-day excursion to a region of Slovenia is planned for Saturday. Everyone can reserve his/her place for the excursion by the beginning of November and can pay for it at the start of the conference. *Procedures and registration deadlines* By *15 June 2010*: please send an English, French, or Slovenian title and abstract of your paper (no more than 300 words) to marko.juvan@guest.arnes.si or marijan.dovic@zrc-sazu.si; write your full name, academic position, complete work address (including your fax number and e-mail), and a short CV with bibliographic data on a maximum of three publications connected with the conference topic (less than 1,000 characters). By 30 June 2010: you will be informed by e-mail whether your paper has been included in the conference program. You will also receive practical information on the hotel accommodations and the excursion as well as instructions on the papers’ typographical layout. *The conference on the web* >From May 2010 onwards, information on the conference, practical information, the schedule of events, and later also abstracts will be available on the websites of REELC/ENCLS, the Slovenian Comparative Literature Association, and the ZRC SAZU/SRC SASA Institute for Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies. *Publication of papers* Longer, edited versions of papers will first be published in the form of conference proceedings on the REELC/ENCLS website, presumably by the end of June 2011. The final deadline for submitting papers (max. 30,000 characters with spaces) is 15 January 2011. Due to financial limitations, only peer-reviewed contributions will appear in printed form (as part of a monograph volume published by ZRC SAZU/SRC SASA and/or a thematic issue of the journal Primerjalna književnost [Comparative Literature], indexed on the A&HCI). Publication is planned by the end of 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 Fri May 21 06:25:44 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 5F1E758F8F; Fri, 21 May 2010 06:25:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2A54F58F5E; Fri, 21 May 2010 06:25:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100521062543.2A54F58F5E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 06:25:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.43 new publication: Online Humanities 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. 24, No. 43. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 15:25:33 +0100 From: Emily Cullen Subject: Landmark New Publication for Digital Humanities features article by DHO Director Landmark New Publication for Digital Humanities features article by DHO Director DHO Director, Dr. Susan Schreibman, recently co-authored an article with Dr. Jennifer Edmond, Executive Director the Long Room Hub at Trinity College, Dublin, for a publication of considerable significance to digital humanities scholarship and practice. Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come is edited by Jerome McGann and published by Rice University Press. The book contains the twenty-seven papers presented at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded international conference "Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come," held at the University of Virginia on March 26-28, 2010. The conference brought together some of the world's most gifted and influential people in the digital humanities world to rigorously explore the critical issues confronting present-day humanities scholarship. The collection includes Schreibman’s and Edmond’s co-authored article entitled, ‘European Elephants in the Room (are they the ones with the bigger or smaller ears?)’, which can be read online at http://rup.rice.edu/cnx_content/shape/m34307.html. In the words of the University of Glasgow's Andrew Prescott, "Containing contributions by many leading authorities in digital scholarship, this book is essential reading for everyone concerned with the future of the humanities." The questions raised in this volume, the answers proposed, and the projects described all point to an ever-nearing, exciting future in which scholarship is improved, enhanced, broadened and made more powerful by the intelligent development, use and deployment of these new tools and media. The book itself, available only five weeks after the conference both as a free online publication and as a 554-page, print-on-demand volume for purchase, is itself a demonstration of the ever-more-powerful functionalities coming out of the online scholarship world. -- 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 Fri May 21 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 AB827590CC; Fri, 21 May 2010 06:32:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E509D590C5; Fri, 21 May 2010 06:32:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100521063211.E509D590C5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 06:32:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.44 how quaint the revolution X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 44. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 07:25:27 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: how quaint the revolution Our field -- ragged, criss-crossed by others, ill-defined as it is but at the centre of considerable activity (I stop here to consider it) -- has among its characteristics the frequent claim of being *revolutionary*. What is meant by that term isn't that what goes around comes around in one more revolution along a rutted circular path, but that everything has changed or is changing, must be re-thought, re-edited, re-constructed etc etc for a new world into the dawn of which we are emerging. (Note the re-.) But I wonder about all that. I think first of all of the great Russian Revolution, and in particular of Arsenij Avraamov, now best known for his Symphony of Sirens (sonification.eu/avraamov), who at some point proposed that all existing musical instruments be destroyed because *everything* had changed. How quaint (and frightening) that seems now. I think also of the sometimes embarrassing assertions by those who understandably have to get ahead in the world that what they're proposing to be paid to do is *innovative* (softer synonym of "revolutionary"), in which the word is used as an unqualified virtue, without definition or specification of what's new, exactly. To my mind there's an urgent, anxious rush past the really interesting questions to a never quite visible vision of something somehow better. Out with the old, in with the new, whatever it may be. Don't worry, you'll forget the sounds of cello and choir and learn to appreciate the Theramin, even the factory siren and chorus of machine-gun fire. I also think, as recently here, about such things as e-book readers both existing and imaginable. It's not just that wholesale replacement of the codex is manifestly silly. Rather what I find interesting is how certain uses of the codex and more generally of printed artefacts are being resorted, some into e-book containers, some not. Clearly an experiment in progress. In a parallel correspondence a very bright senior colleague (who always seems to be up-to-the-minute before the minute has arrived for most of his younger colleagues) made the observation that, > Levenger could sell e-books, along with reading desks and revolving > bookcases and fountain pens. But they don't sell books. (If you're not N American, see www.levenger.com/.) That for me sums up something important about the illustrative change. Last night, during the launch of the new Centre for Digital Humanities at University College London (www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/) -- a most welcome addition to the academic scene -- the keynote speaker James Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation, Europe and Asia, dwelt on another turbulent resorting, of the creative output of musicians, artists, filmmakers et al via the likes of Pirate Bay rather than through channels such as his. (News Corporation funded Avatar, for example.) Curiously amidst all the talk of the new, though not surprisingly, he was in effect arguing for a law-enforced return to the situation prior to the Web, though he didn't say that exactly. I wonder, what are we doing to ensure that amidst all the shouting ofrevolution and the rearguard action against change we clear a space in which the changes may be contemplated and the choices we must make are well informed? What are we doing to observe rather than merely assert? To train the next generation of scholars to be able to *see* what is happening? To be able to recognize the new? 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 May 21 06:33:21 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 442515911D; Fri, 21 May 2010 06:33:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4DA0159116; Fri, 21 May 2010 06:33:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100521063320.4DA0159116@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 06:33:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.45 events: textual 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. 24, No. 45. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 17:14:08 +0100 From: Alice Wood Subject: Centre for Textual Studies Conference, De Montfort University, 5 July 2010 'Works in Progress,' a one-day conference at the Centre for Textual Studies at De Montfort University in Leicester will be held on 5th July 2010. This conference will examine significant ongoing editorial projects from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Speakers include: Ronald Bush, Michael Caines, David Colclough, Eugene Giddens, Jane Goldman, Jason Harding, Jim McCue, Joseph Phelan, Lynda Pratt, Richard Serjeantson, and Sir Brian Vickers. The event is free, but advance registration is required before 25th June via the Centre for Textual Studies website (available at www.cts.dmu.ac.uk). For more information please contact Alice Wood (awood02@dmu.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 May 22 07:03:19 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 5CBF25A43D; Sat, 22 May 2010 07:03:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1E18C5A428; Sat, 22 May 2010 07:02:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100522070256.1E18C5A428@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 07:02:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.46 how quaint the revolution X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 46. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 07:28:39 +0200 From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.44 how quaint the revolution In-Reply-To: <20100521063211.E509D590C5@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Willard et co. On 5/21/10 8:32 AM, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > I wonder, what are we doing to ensure that amidst all the shouting > of revolution and the rearguard action against change we clear a space in > which the changes may be contemplated and the choices we must make are well > informed? What are we doing to observe rather than merely assert? To train > the next generation of scholars to be able to *see* what is happening? To be > able to recognize the new? Funny you should mention ... I've just completed a bit of a review of the following, then "revolutionary" promises and developments in computing, humanities computing and computer-mediated communication: "hard" AI, 1960s-1980s (give or take); hypertext and hypermedia (1980s-1990s, represented, e.g., in the views of Jay David Bolter and George Landow); virtual communities as instantiations of a broader-based affirmation of "liberation in cyberspace," as expressed popularly in a 1995 MCI commercial declaring that there are only minds in cyberspace, no gender, race, age (then there's John Perry Barlow's famous Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace, 1996, that also solemnly declares that there are no bodies or matter in cyberspace ...) Somewhat better informed, but still driven by what appears to have been a prevailing dualism in the then-dominant imaginations regarding these new possibilities, of course, was the work of Howard Rheingold (1993); distance education (along with online shopping) as promising to replace "bricks-and-mortar" universities (and stores) - perhaps most memorably captured by Negroponte's declaration of the death of the book (1995) From the perspective of the end the first decade of this century, however - if by "revolution" was meant the complete replacement of embodied identities/modernity [broadly construed]/literacy/print, and all the institutions that went with it (including law regarding privacy and property) - what rather seemed to happen was what Walter Ong predicted (only to be largely ignored at the time, it seems) - i.e., the new media and their affiliated practices are gradually assuming a place alongside existing media and their affiliated practices, e.g. "hard" AI disappeared, to be replaced by other approaches that gave up on old ideas of the mind as a cognitive machine that worked by manipulating representations and symbols (a turn also decisively reinforced by contemporary neuroscience that stress instead the non-cognitive and pre-reflective role of multiple systems in our bodies for our knowing and navigating the world); the Web is the primary instantiation of hypertext/hypermedia for most people these days, however wonderful and amazing some of the elaborate contemporary projects we can point to, especially in the humanities, that continue to exploit the best possibilities of hypertext/hypermedia. Perhaps with declining ability and certainly in declining amounts, however, we still seem to think that people are helped along by learning how to read books ... i.e., most of us are satisfied (for better and for worse) with a very thin version of hypertext/hypermedia (however extensive the content the web can deliver), and the book (and print) are not dead yet (though newspapers, of course, are in very serious trouble); as early as 1995 - and acknowledged by Rheingold in 2002 (and Bolter in 2001) - and dramatically demonstrated by an extensive body of research in computer-mediated communication on everything from virtual communities to how people control their avatars in games: um, the "virtual" / "real" - online / offline distinction has more or less evaporated into what Luciano Floridi calls our "on/life" (in the developed world). Virtual communities, specifically, only work when they are clearly grounded and reinforced through "real"-world identities; and however important "pure" distance education can be for specific populations in specific ways - we seem to have come to a strong consensus that the ideal approach is "the blended classroom," i.e., one that conjoins the best of both "traditional" education between embodied, co-present students and instructor with specific affordances of online communication. None of this is to say, of course, that computing, humanities computing, and computer-mediated communication have not resulted in extraordinary shifts and changes, much of which, of course, we can be very glad for indeed. It is to say that, with these examples, at least, what started out as (hyped) revolution gradually transformed into reformation. For what it's worth. So maybe a quick answer to your question is: a little historical sensibility as a counterpart to especially 1980s' and 1990s' post-modern enthusiasms for discarding the past as no longer relevant? All best,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 Sat May 22 07:03:54 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 7EA3F5A563; Sat, 22 May 2010 07:03:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9EF245A4B5; Sat, 22 May 2010 07:03:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100522070337.9EF245A4B5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 07:03:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.47 survey on technology for musicology 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. 24, No. 47. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 10:57:45 +0100 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Purcell Plus Survey on Technology for Musicology INVITATION TO COMPLETE ONLINE SURVEY With apologies for cross posting. Dear Colleagues, Musicology is changing. Advances in technology are opening up new areas of musical practice to potential scrutiny such as analysis of performance through recorded music. Application of software to analytical tasks dealing with music is making possible a kind of objectivity which hasn't been possible in previous music scholarship. Current theoretical advances are even formalising the notion of musical and musicological practice and may potentially complement human agents in future models of practice. The social Web and scientific methods are bringing about changes in scholarly practice and publication with collaborative research becoming more commonplace in humanities disciplines. How will these changes effect your own practice? Purcell Plus is an AHRC/EPSRC/JISC funded project under the e-Science in the Arts and Humanities Initiative which is attempting to investigate the impact of technology on music. Part of the project involves eliciting opinions from the community of musical practice and scholarship on uses of technology. Please take a moment to answer our survey and make your opinion on technology for music known. Online survey: http://www.informat.org/purcellplus/ Purcell Plus: http://www.purcellplus.org/ With best wishes, Richard Lewis -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.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 22 07:06:27 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 0B4D55A635; Sat, 22 May 2010 07:06:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B677A5A627; Sat, 22 May 2010 07:06:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100522070621.B677A5A627@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 07:06:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.48 events: Art History in the Web X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 48. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 09:16:31 +0200 From: Corinne Wininger - Le Moal Subject: Networked Humanities: Art History in the Web, ESF-COST Conference -Call for applications/papers Networked Humanities: Art History in the Web ESF-COST High-Level Research Conference Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, 9-14 October 2010 http://www.esf.org/conferences/10342 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: Ira Assent - Aaalborg University, DK Data Mining and the Social Web Erik Champion - Massey University Auckland, NZ Game-Based Learning in Collaborative Virtual Worlds Matteo d'Alfonso - Università di Bologna, IT Linked Data & Semantic Web technologies for the Humanities Patrick Danowski - CERN Geneva, CH "Collaborative filtering" and Social Networks Francesca Gallo - University of Rome "La Sapienza", IT From local networks to the web: Artistic research after Les Immatériaux Charlie Gere - University of Lancaster, UK Touch, community and the digital Gudrun Gersmann - German Historical Institute Paris, FR Networked publication Guenther Goerz - University of Erlangen, DE A framework for semantic object representation, knowledge processing, and scholarly communication Halina Gottlieb - Interactive Institute, Kista, SE Designing support activities for the interdiscplinary collaboration in Digital Art History Gerhard Nauta - Universiteit Leiden, NL Do you see what we've seen? Using many eyes in search of similarities in the visual arts Robert Stein - Indianapolis Museum of Arts, US Crowd-Sourcing Art History: Research and Application of Social Tagging for Museums 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 accessible online from http://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. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 05:30:00 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 0FC9958AFA; Sun, 23 May 2010 05:30:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EBB6158AE5; Sun, 23 May 2010 05:29:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100523052957.EBB6158AE5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 05:29:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.49 how quaint the revolution X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 49. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 09:55:10 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.46 how quaint the revolution In-Reply-To: <20100522070256.1E18C5A428@woodward.joyent.us> Charles, On 5/22/2010 3:02 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 46. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 07:28:39 +0200 > From: Charles Ess > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.44 how quaint the revolution > In-Reply-To:<20100521063211.E509D590C5@woodward.joyent.us> > > > On 22 May 2010 Charles Ess wrote: > Hi Willard et co. > > On 5/21/10 8:32 AM, "Humanist Discussion Group" > wrote: > > >> I wonder, what are we doing to ensure that amidst all the shouting >> of revolution and the rearguard action against change we clear a space in >> which the changes may be contemplated and the choices we must make are well >> informed? What are we doing to observe rather than merely assert? To train >> the next generation of scholars to be able to *see* what is happening? To be >> able to recognize the new? >> > Funny you should mention ... > I've just completed a bit of a review of the following, then "revolutionary" > promises and developments in computing, humanities computing and > computer-mediated communication: > > So maybe a quick answer to your question is: a little historical sensibility > as a counterpart to especially 1980s' and 1990s' post-modern enthusiasms for > discarding the past as no longer relevant? > > Just curious which "post-modern enthusiasms" you see as "discarding the past"? I have recently been adding to my collection of Umberto Eco's published essays and I would not characterize them as "discarding the past." Hard to make generalizations about something as diverse as post-modernists but that hasn't been my impression of post-modernists overall. Granting that in my CS reading, there appears to be a lack of knowledge of or interest in what I would call the recent past (20 or 30 years) in CS. I don't think that is attributable to being "post-modern." Hope you are having a great weekend! 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) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.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 Sun May 23 05:30:55 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 20E1458BA8; Sun, 23 May 2010 05:30:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 077A558B77; Sun, 23 May 2010 05:30:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100523053053.077A558B77@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 05:30:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.50 job at the MPG X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 50. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 16:58:43 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Job Vacancy: Head of the Max Planck Digital Library The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), established in 2007, is a scientific service unit within the Max Planck Society. The MPDL is designing and developing software infrastructure and applications in the domain of scientific information and is responsible for providing the scientists of the Max Planck Institutes with all relevant electronic information resources such as journals or reference databases. MPDL also supports MPG in its Open Access activities. Please see the following for further particulars: http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/newhead _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 05:50:41 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 A13D55911A; Sun, 23 May 2010 05:50:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B9F4A5910B; Sun, 23 May 2010 05:50:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100523055039.B9F4A5910B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 05:50:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.51 what went wrong? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 51. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 22:15:17 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: what went wrong? Two authors in the superb collection, White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980, ed. Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert & Catherine Mason (2008), come to the same conclusion about the incunabular period of computing and the arts: conditions were better then, much better. After describing work of the most exciting kind, John Hamilton Frazer, in "Interactive Architecture", asks, "So what went wrong?" He says, > Digital culture suffered from two contradictory tides between 1960 > and 1980. On the one hand we witnessed the development of important > new technologies; on the other, these technologies were exploited and > trivialized. Technology moved fast -- in many ways faster than > expected -- but the social and political and economic systems did > not. (p. 50) Indeed. The fact that even now academic positions directly in the digital humanities are very rare, that academic departments dedicated to the field must number on the fingers of one hand, if not less, despite everything, shows how slow-moving these systems are. Too slow by the measure of a professional career. But, I think, we should look to ourselves rather than apportion blame: how much do we push these systems, question them? Another. Reviewing perhaps the best known early exhibition of computerart, in "Cybernetic Serendipity Revisited", Brent MacGregor concludes with a penultimate section entitled. "Serendipity Ain't What it Used to Be". He observes, > The exhibitors in Cybernetic Serendipity were a combination of > artists and scientist-engineers experimenting in a way not possible > today.... Questions... were asked and answered in 1968 in a way they > wouldn't be today.... Creative people wrote code, not funding > applications. (p. 92) It's hard to gainsay that trivialization, and its hard to buck socio-economic trends. But surely, kindled by the fact that we have made the bed we're tossing and turning in, we can leap out and remake it, or at least argue over how it could be remade. "It is important to remember", MacGregor writes, "that this seminal event [Cybernetic Serendipity] took place in 1968, a year after the optimistic 'summer of love' and roughly at the same time as the Soviet invasion of communist Czechoslovakia.... There were riots in Chicago against the war in Vietnam and presidential candidate Senator Robert Kennedy was shot in a Los Angeles hotel" (pp. 84-5). A complex historical reality, not at all uniformly encouraging, under the sinister influence of the Cold War, with summery love only for some, only some of the time. So it's not at all a matter of simple nostalgia. Rather I would extract encouragement. I would ask, if back then we could be curious and get excited about the possibilities, why not now? What's stopping us? 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 May 24 05:18:25 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 A22DB575CC; Mon, 24 May 2010 05:18:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BAE365737C; Mon, 24 May 2010 05:18:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100524051821.BAE365737C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 05:18:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.52 what went wrong, or 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 52. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Joe Raben" (19) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.51 what went wrong? [2] From: Jascha Kessler (100) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.51 what went wrong? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 11:08:17 -0400 From: "Joe Raben" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.51 what went wrong? In-Reply-To: <20100523055039.B9F4A5910B@woodward.joyent.us> I spent several hours at the "Cybernetic Serendipity" exhibition in 1968, and remember that very little of it related to computers. Chief among the exhibits was a totallly whimsical guess at what a computer might be if its memory was an elephant head comprising tennis rackets for ears and a vacuum cleaner hose for a trunk; a bed of vertical metal rods that waved like water when a hand was passed over them; a film, "Weekend," by Jean-Luc Godard, a criticism of bourgeois materialism featuring a ten-minute-long tracking shot of an interminable traffic jam; and similar expressions of imagination having very little relation to the reality of computers in general or their specific utility in humanistic endeavors. Perhaps these were appropriate responses to the artistic possibilities provided by the new technology, but in my judgment they did little to further the public awareness of the computer's potential to alter the intellectual environment. That they related not at all to the events occurring in the social and political spheres seems to deny this exhibition the label of "seminal event." --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 10:51:55 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.51 what went wrong? In-Reply-To: <20100523055039.B9F4A5910B@woodward.joyent.us> I rather imagine the reason for very slow adaptation is the diminished, and ever-diminishing funding for Humanities Divisions in Academia. President Yudoff of the vast UC, last November actually gave an interview I saw on video, youtubed, in which he said that Sciences and Engineering and Medicine are doing okay, but, well, the Humanities and Sociology have less and less monies available yearly. It was rather blatantly crass, but at least honest. We dont and probably wont have it for such folks, in short. Jascha Kessler On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 51. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 22:15:17 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: what went wrong? > > > Two authors in the superb collection, White Heat Cold Logic: British > Computer Art 1960-1980, ed. Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert & > Catherine Mason (2008), come to the same conclusion about the > incunabular period of computing and the arts: conditions were better > then, much better. > > After describing work of the most exciting kind, John Hamilton Frazer, > in "Interactive Architecture", asks, "So what went wrong?" He says, > > > Digital culture suffered from two contradictory tides between 1960 > > and 1980. On the one hand we witnessed the development of important > > new technologies; on the other, these technologies were exploited and > > trivialized. Technology moved fast -- in many ways faster than > > expected -- but the social and political and economic systems did > > not. (p. 50) > > Indeed. The fact that even now academic positions directly in the digital > humanities are very rare, that academic departments dedicated to the field > must number on the fingers of one hand, if not less, despite everything, > shows how slow-moving these systems are. Too slow by the measure of a > professional career. But, I think, we should look to ourselves rather than > apportion blame: how much do we push these systems, question them? > > Another. Reviewing perhaps the best known early exhibition of computerart, > in "Cybernetic Serendipity Revisited", Brent MacGregor concludes > with a penultimate section entitled. "Serendipity Ain't What it Used to > Be". He observes, > > > The exhibitors in Cybernetic Serendipity were a combination of > > artists and scientist-engineers experimenting in a way not possible > > today.... Questions... were asked and answered in 1968 in a way they > > wouldn't be today.... Creative people wrote code, not funding > > applications. (p. 92) > > It's hard to gainsay that trivialization, and its hard to buck > socio-economic trends. But surely, kindled by the fact that we have > made the bed we're tossing and turning in, we can leap out and remake it, > or at least argue over how it could be remade. > > "It is important to remember", MacGregor writes, "that this seminal event > [Cybernetic Serendipity] took place in 1968, a year after the optimistic > 'summer of love' and roughly at the same time as the Soviet invasion of > communist Czechoslovakia.... There were riots in Chicago against the war in > Vietnam and presidential candidate Senator Robert Kennedy was shot in a Los > Angeles hotel" (pp. 84-5). A complex historical reality, not at all > uniformly encouraging, under the sinister influence of the Cold War, with > summery love only for some, only some of the time. So it's not at all a > matter of simple nostalgia. Rather I would extract encouragement. I would > ask, if back then we could be curious and get excited about the > possibilities, why not now? What's stopping us? > > 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. -- 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 Mon May 24 05:21:42 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 2C36257C2C; Mon, 24 May 2010 05:21:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 979F857BFA; Mon, 24 May 2010 05:21:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100524052139.979F857BFA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 05:21:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.54 events: European 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. 24, No. 54. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 07:20:16 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: European Summer School "Culture & Technology", 26.-31.07.2010, University of Leipzig - 2nd call In-Reply-To: <20100523012840.397EAF8054@v1.rz.uni-leipzig.de> [Attachment: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1274613648_2010-05-23_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_12257.2.pdf] Dear All, attached you find information about the European Summer School "Culture & Technology" which will take place from the 26th to the 30th of July 2010 at the University of Leipzig. You are kindly asked to distribute this 2nd call as widely as possible. Although fees are still quite high, interested people should open an account with ConfTool now https://www.conftool.net/esu2010/ as there are altogether only 50 places. There is a chance that more funding will be available soon, that fees can be reduced and bursaries can be made available. Thanking you all for your help I send you my best regards. 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/ http://www.uni-leipzig.de/gal2010 http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~burr/JISU/ http://www.uni-leipzig.de/%7Eburr/JISU/ elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian 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 Mon May 24 05:28:32 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 C9C6E57EDA; Mon, 24 May 2010 05:28:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3F56957EC9; Mon, 24 May 2010 05:28:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100524052830.3F56957EC9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 05:28:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.55 new publication: LLC 25.2 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. 24, No. 55. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 06:26:48 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Literary and Linguistic Computing A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: June 2010; Vol. 25, No. 2 URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol25/issue2/index.dtl?etoc Claire Brierley and Eric Atwell, Holy smoke: vocalic precursors of phrase breaks in Milton's Paradise Lost Begona Crespo Garcia and Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel Fandino, CETA in the Context of the Coruna Corpus 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 II: Conclusion David I. Holmes and Daniel W. Crofts The diary of a public man: a case study in traditional and non-traditional, authorship attribution Meng Ji, A corpus-based study of lexical periodization in historical Chinese Matthew L. Jockers and Daniela M. Witten, A comparative study of machine learning methods for authorship attribution John Paul Loucky, Constructing a roadmap to more systematic and successful online reading and vocabulary acquisition Peter Dixon and David Mannion, Goldsmith and the 'British Magazine': A reconsideration ---------------------------------------------------------------- Review ---------------------------------------------------------------- Julianne Nyhan, Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity. * Louis Armand. -- 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 May 24 05:30:21 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 51FC857F54; Mon, 24 May 2010 05:30:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6DE6457F44; Mon, 24 May 2010 05:30:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100524053008.6DE6457F44@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 05:30:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.56 events: Future of Electronic Imaging X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 56. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 14:44:57 +0100 From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" Subject: IS&T/SPIE 2011: Future of Electronic Imaging. Call for Papers Dear Colleagues, *** http://spie.org/x16219.xml *** On behalf of the chairmen and organisers of the IS&T/SPIE 2011 conference on the FUTURE OF ELECTRONIC IMAGING I should like to draw the attention of interested colleagues to the call for papers. The Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) and SPIE welcome interdisciplinary research. Abstracts are due by 28 June 2010. In particular I should like to invite submissions of paper proposals concerned with Computer Vision and Image Analysis of Art: the application of computer vision, image analysis, pattern recognition and computer graphics to problems of interest to art historians, curators and conservators. For further details about this strand - part of the programme track on imaging, visualization, and perception - please see http://spie.org/ei108. The conference and associated workshops will be held at the San Francisco Airport Hyatt Regency in California between 23-27 January 2011. Do join us if you can. The last Electronic Imaging conference, held in San Jose, CA in January 2010, featured strongly 3D stereo imaging and computational photography. The proceeding are now available online (to SPIE members) and can be purchased in book format. Best wishes, Anna Bentkowska-Kafel ---- Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel 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 http://bentkowska.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 May 25 05:17:11 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 B864F59E78; Tue, 25 May 2010 05:17:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EBF3859E68; Tue, 25 May 2010 05:17:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100525051709.EBF3859E68@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 05:17:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.57 what went wrong, what went right X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 57. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 07:01:03 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: early experiments of artists & engineers Joe Raben writes as one who was there, at the famous exhibition, Cybernetic Serendipity, and saw nothing in particular that manifested computing in our sense. Nevertheless -- begging to differ with one who made so much happen for which I am grateful -- I think the largely forgotten history of the experiments of artists & engineers, and artist-engineers and engineer-artists, is more than simply worth a passing nod. I think it is worth trying to recover and eventually, when we know how, to write. White Heat Cold Logic, ed. Brown, Gere, Lambert and Mason (MIT Press, 2008) is a very good start. Read it tonight, as an old professor of mine used to say, and possibly did. I grant that to someone there at the time, interested in finding manifestations of computing useful in academia, would have been disappointed, even puzzled. But the ideas! The context was cybernetics, which is not computing in our sense, indeed is by now such an old and faded movement, changed into aspects of the cognitive sciences, that the term needs to be explained. (See in particular Jean-Pierre Dupuy, The Mechanization of the Mind, and Margaret Boden, Mind as Machine, if you're interested.) This is the movement that gave the newly invented computer -- I mean the actual machine, mostly in its digital form -- its most fruitful reception. What those artists/engineers were after was, as Frank Dietrich said about the artist Harold Cohen's work, "a functioning harmonic symbiosis between man and machine" ("Visual Intelligence: The First Decade of Computer Art (1965-1975), IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 5.7 (1985): 159-68). We can argue that such a "harmonic symbiosis" has no place in computing for us humanists. I wouldn't argue that at all. But its place *is* a vital question. Indeed, Harold Cohen, whose chapter in White Heat is an illuminating delight and inspiration to scholars, exemplifies exactly the kind of powerful open-minded curiosity that is so badly needed in this impoverishingly utilitarian age of ours. As for the historical linkage, i.e. the connection seen at the time as important, consider computational linguist Margaret Masterman and her vision for a "telescope of the mind", which was announced in the TLS in 1962 and later got into the literature of humanities computing, indeed in CHum, via Susan Wittig in 1978. At the Cambridge Language Unit Masterman worked closely with Robin McKinnon Wood, indeed wrote at least one piece in the TLS with him on their notion of poetry generated by computer ("The Poet and the Computer", TLS for 18 June 1970; cf. TLS for 6 August 1964). If you read the article carefully you'll see that what they were after is understanding and assisting the process of writing poetry -- by human poets. Masterman and McKinnon Wood were, at least in that article, seriously playful and curious, as indeed researchers should be. In the first issue of CHum, Louis Milic, in "The Next Step", pointed to the imaginative failure of computer-using colleagues (who, he says, were doing useful but rather unimaginative things, not understanding that new ways of thinking were on offer); he cited poetry-writing as the sort of thing that was needed despite the opprobrium it had attracted. F. R. Leavis blasted such ideas, for example, and many others ridiculed them, not understanding what Masterman and McKinnon Wood, at least, were advocating. Anyhow, McKinnon Wood's partner was Gordon Pask, the "mechanic philosopher" who was one of the most prominent exhibitors in Cybernetic Serendipity. McKinnon Wood gave lectures to the Cybernetic Serendipity crowd. See www2.venus.co.uk/gordonpask/candhk.htm for the flavour of their friendship. Now the personal connections linking Masterman (and so computational linguistics, before even it was called that) to Pask (and so the wild experiments of those artist-engineers) doesn't *prove* anything. But it does indicate that *at the time* some of those messing about with computers saw a connection way ahead of the capabilities of actual computing systems as we know them, though there were computers involved in some of the exhibits and elsewhere, e.g. in Edward Ihnatowicz's contemporary work, also discussed in White Heat. It does seem to me that paying attention now, across one of those debilitating academic divides, to what people in the arts and "new media" are up to, would be a *very* good idea. That's true, I think, without all the historical background, but that background does provide more than a powerful stimulus. It demonstrates a set of imaginative possibilities waiting for us to take up and some indication of where unseen, ignored problems lie. This background is a great gift. 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 May 25 05:19:34 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 793F95A068; Tue, 25 May 2010 05:19:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 457D859F39; Tue, 25 May 2010 05:19:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100525051933.457D859F39@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 05:19:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.58 events: Digital Classicist/ICS summer seminars X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 58. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 15:20:31 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Digital Classicist/ICS 2010 summer seminar programme Digital Classicist 2010 summer seminar programme Institute of Classical Studies Meetings are on Fridays at 16:30 in room STB9 (Stewart House) Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU *ALL WELCOME* Seminars will be followed by refreshments * Jun 4 _Leif Isaksen (Southampton)_ Reading Between the Lines: unearthing structure in Ptolemy's Geography * Jun 11 _Hafed Walda (King's College London)_ and Charles Lequesne (RPS Group) Towards a National Inventory for Libyan Archaeology * Jun 18 _Timothy Hill (King's College London)_ After Prosopography? Data modelling, models of history, and new directions for a scholarly genre. * Jun 25 _Matteo Romanello (King's College London)_ Towards a Tool for the Automatic Extraction of Canonical References * Jul 2 _Mona Hess (University College London)_ 3D Colour Imaging For Cultural Heritage Artefacts * Jul 16 _Annemarie La Pensée (National Conservation Centre) and Françoise Rutland (World Museum Liverpool)_ Non-contact 3D laser scanning as a tool to aid identification and interpretation of archaeological artefacts: the case of a Middle Bronze Age Hittite Dice * Jul 23 _Mike Priddy (King's College London)_ On-demand Virtual Research Environments: a case study from the Humanities * Jul 30 _Monica Berti (Torino) and Marco Büchler (Leipzig)_ Fragmentary Texts and Digital Collections of Fragmentary Authors * Aug 6 _Kathryn Piquette (University College London)_ Material Mediates Meaning: Exploring the artefactuality of writing utilising qualitative data analysis software * Aug 13 _Linda Spinazzè (Venice)_ Musisque Deoque. Developing new features: manuscripts tracing on the net For more information on individual seminars and updates on the programme, see http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/ -- _______________________________________________ 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/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 26 05:21:21 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 BAFF3503EA; Wed, 26 May 2010 05:21:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 066E6503D5; Wed, 26 May 2010 05:21:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100526052118.066E6503D5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 05:21:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.59 job: Director, Institute at TAMU 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. 24, No. 59. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 14:53:18 -0500 From: "Maura Ives" Subject: Director of Institute for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture,Texas A&M Texas A&M University seeks a dynamic scholar with an established record in digital humanities research and academic leadership to establish and direct an interdisciplinary Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture. The Director will be a tenured appointment at the rank of full professor in the Department of English, Department of Performance Studies, or another academic department within the College of Liberal Arts. The Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture supports interdisciplinary scholarly and creative work that broadly explores the relationship between computing technologies and culture. The Director's responsibilities include initiating and developing internal research program and facilities (including a new digital humanities laboratory), actively engaging external partners (including other research programs, educational institutions, and leaders in the technology industries, and securing supplemental funding from such external agencies as NEH, Mellon, ACLS, and NEA. The successful applicant will have an outstanding scholarly record in digital humanities, including substantial experience in interdisciplinary, collaborative research and in obtaining and administering grant funding. The Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture has been designated one of six Texas A&M Landmark Research Areas (and thus is the recipient of substantial start-up funding). The proposal which led to the funding of the Institute can be read at http://www-english.tamu.edu/pers/fac/may/DHwhitepaper.pdf Texas A&M University already supports a variety of high-profile and emerging projects involving digital humanities and offers a Digital Humanities Certificate (http://dh.tamu.edu/certificate). The Director will develop these existing strengths into a top-echelon, interdisciplinary Digital Humanities Institute and program. Minorities and women are strongly encouraged to apply. Texas A&M is an AA/EEO employer, is deeply committed to diversity, and responds to the needs of dual-career couples. The review of applications (including a curriculum vitae and at least six letters of reference) will begin on 6 August 2010. The committee plans to invite finalists for campus visits early in the Fall semester. We hope to have the new Director in place by 1 January 2011. Applications, letters of reference, and inquiries should be addressed to: Prof. James L. HarnerDepartment of English 4227 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-4227 j-harner@tamu.edu Maura Ives Director, Digital Humanities Program, College of Liberal Arts Associate Professor Department of English Texas A&M University 4227 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-4227 979-845-8319 m-ives@tamu.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 May 26 05:24:33 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 CC46450468; Wed, 26 May 2010 05:24:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1C26A50454; Wed, 26 May 2010 05:24:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100526052432.1C26A50454@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 05:24:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.60 events: affect, 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. 24, No. 60. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jonathan Gratch (12) Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] Call for proposals to host Affective ComputingConference (ACII 2011) [2] From: James Cummings (33) Subject: TEI@Oxford Summer School 2010 [3] From: B Tommie Usdin (22) Subject: [ANN] Balisage 2010 Conference Program --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 10:10:46 +0100 From: Jonathan Gratch Subject: Call for proposals to host Affective Computing Conference (ACII 2011) Call for Proposals to host the Fourth International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2011) The HUMAINE association is pleased to call for proposals to host the Fourth International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2011). ACII is a central event for researchers exploring the role of emotion and other affective phenomena in human-computer and human-robot interaction, with relations to graphics, AI, robotics, vision, speech, synthetic characters, games, educational software, etc.. ACII is a biannual, conference that started in 2005. The former proceedings were published in Springer Lecture Notes (2005, 2007) and IEEE Xplore (2009). Extended versions of the best articles will appear in a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. Details of previous editions can be found at: http://www.affectivecomputing.org/2005/, http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/acii2007/ http://www.acii2009.nl/ If you are interested in hosting this conference, please send your expression of interest as soon as possible to Jonathan Gratch, President of the HUMAINE Association gratch@ict.usc.edu, followed by a full proposal by 15 August, 2010 The proposal should include the following information (a slideshow format is welcome): (1) Who you are (the organizing team), your involvement in affect-related research and any previous experience you have in organizing conferences and other scientific meetings (e.g. workshops and symposia) (2) A description of the proposed venue, including meeting facilities, accommodation, travel access and social program (3) An outline budget (likely costs and expenditure), potential financial support (4) Important dates (5) Any co-located or otherwise connected conferences or workshops (6) Any specific plans for encouraging broad interdisciplinary participation in the event The evaluation criteria will include: (1) Quality of proposal and track record of the proposers. (2) Cost. One of ACII priorities is to facilitate the participation of students and young researchers, so keeping the cost of attendance low, especially for these categories, is an important criterion. (3) Accessibility of the location (i.e. access to airports, etc). (4) Venue attractiveness (e.g. quality of facilities and support of "togetherness"). The organization of ACII2011 should follow the guidelines of the HUMAINE Association. See http://emotion-research.net/acii/guidelines Please send the final proposal to: gratch@ict.usc.edu, conati@cs.ubc.ca, and R.Cowie@qub.ac.uk ***by no later than August 15, 2010*** --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 10:43:20 +0100 From: James Cummings Subject: TEI@Oxford Summer School 2010 TEI @ Oxford Summer School 2010 http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Oxford/2010-07-oxford/ The TEI @ Oxford Summer School is a three day course introducing the recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for encoding of digital text. It combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the TEI Recommendations for the encoding of digital text with practical workshops on related technologies. It includes an introduction to mark-up, explanations of the TEI Guidelines, and approaches to publishing TEI texts. Practical exercises expose you hands-on experience of a wide range of TEI customisation, editing, and publication. Each day will also include a number of afternoon 2.5 hour parallel workshops on related technologies and topics. These will include TEI Publishing; TEI for Language Resources; Transforming TEI with XSLT; TEI in Libraries; Creating a TEI-based Website with the eXist XML Database; and Genetic Editing: transcribing documents, transcribing the process. There will also be optional surgery sessions for those who wish to consult with TEI@Oxford about their particular projects or encoding issues. There will also be guest lectures from Digital Humanities experts familiar with the TEI talking about their own projects. 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. The course runs from Monday 12 July - Wednesday 14 July, 2010. The course runs from 09:30 - 17:30 each day in our fully-equipped computer training rooms. Lunch and refreshments are included in the course fee. Questions about booking on the workshop: courses@oucs.ox.ac.uk Dr James Cummings Research Technologies Service University of Oxford --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 15:59:54 -0400 From: B Tommie Usdin Subject: [ANN] Balisage 2010 Conference Program Balisage 2010 Program Announced!!! It's time to make plans to go to Montreal for Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010. If your toolkit includes markup, and you care about keeping your tools sharp; if you are a markup geek and happy to be one; if you are NOT a markup geek but find it informative to hang around with them now and then, you should enjoy Balisage. See the Schedule at a Glance: http://www.balisage.net/2010/At-A-Glance.html or study the Detailed program: http://www.balisage.net/2010/Program.html Think about attending the preconference symposium on XML for the Long Haul: Issues in the Long-term Preservation of XML Read about the symposium: http://www.balisage.net/longhaul/ and study the symposium program at: http://www.balisage.net/longhaul/LHProgram.html For a little help justifying your trip to Balisage see: http://www.balisage.net/WhyBalisage/why.html ========================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010 mailto:info@balisage.net August 3-6, 2010 http://www.balisage.net Symposium: XML for the Long Haul 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 Wed May 26 05:55:06 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 1DFE650B46; Wed, 26 May 2010 05:55:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2BF2450B13; Wed, 26 May 2010 05:55:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100526055504.2BF2450B13@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 05:55:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.61 this is a test X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 61. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (10) Subject: this is a test, do not adjust your set [2] From: Willard McCarty (53) Subject: test 1 [3] From: Willard McCarty (62) Subject: test 2 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 06:47:06 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: this is a test, do not adjust your set Dear colleagues, Forgive the following two messages, devised as a test of what seems to be a formatting problem. 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, 26 May 2010 06:50:58 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: test 1 SOFIWARE'S SECONDACf The next strides In computers will come from novel architectures. BY ALAN KAY n a puppet show, representations made from lifeless material are manipulated so adroitly that they seem alive and full of purposeful character. Only part of the presentation is seen by the audience; the rest is managed offstage by the puppeteers, costumers, scene builders, and playwright. If the puppets were letters and the stage set made to look like a computer screen, we might imagine the puppeteers dancing lelters across the screen Busby Berkeley fashion to form words, sentences, entire messages. If someone in the audience could tell the puppeteers to move one word off the stage and replace it with another, then we would have a striking analogy to what actually goes on in word processing on a personal computer. The lelters that look like marks of ink on the screen are actually costumes worn by the many thousands of nondescript players of this newest form of theater. The computer is easy to understand if we realize that everything it does is guid122 SCIENCE 85 NOVEMBER ed by a script. There are no important limitations to the kinds of plays that can be acted, nor to the range of costumes or roles that the actors can assume. We say that the theater-even puppet theater-simulates realities rather than imitates reality because ideas about things that have never happened in the real world can still be acted out realistically. As in theater, people who interact with computers quickly form myths to explain and predict the action taking place before them-in this case, on the screen. In theater, the audience wili identify emotionally with what they see, bringing their own experience to bear on the action, and they will then ignore the fact that the story being related is not real. Similarly, if a computer program is scripted to simulate a real action, the user will try to believe that the simulation is real. For example, there are popular ways to interact with the computer interfaces that allow a user to get rid of an object shown on the screen by placing the object in a trash can. The computer user assumes that later, should he choose to look into that trash can, the object will still be there. If it is, then the designer of what is called the "user interface" has followed a tradition that antedates the Greeks by setting a scene that successfully shapes and bounds the user's myth. As with the audience of a play, the user's joy, power, and satisfaction will depend on the software designer's skill in creating and consistently maintaining the myth throughout the life of the "play." Magical happenings that don't seem to be possible in the objective world are quite acceptable as long as they obey a consistent logic that permits prediction. When users of computers can directly manipulate those myths, they can be said to have "leverage." If, for example, guesses work out, if nudges of a computer "mouse" move things, if animated figures can be conversed with, the user has far more power to accomplish things. In this way, the audience can be a co-conspirator with the scriptwriter. But there is still the question --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 06:52:24 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: test 2 SOFIWARE'S SECONDACf The next strides In computers will come from novel architectures. BY ALAN KAY$$n a puppet show, representations made from lifeless material are manipulated so adroitly that they seem alive and full of purposeful character. Only part of the presentation is seen by the audience; the rest is managed offstage by the puppeteers, costumers, scene builders, and playwright. If the puppets were letters and the stage set made to look like a computer screen, we might imagine the puppeteers dancing lelters across the screen Busby Berkeley fashion to form words, sentences, entire messages. If someone in the audience could tell the puppeteers to move one word off the stage and replace it with another, then we would have a striking analogy to what actually goes on in word processing on a personal computer. The lelters that look like marks of ink on the screen are actually costumes worn by the many thousands of nondescript players of this newest form of theater. The computer is easy to understand if we realize that everything it does is guid122$$SCIENCE 85 NOVEMBER ed by a script. There are no important limitations to the kinds of plays that can be acted, nor to the range of costumes or roles that the actors can assume. We say that the theater-even puppet theater-simulates realities rather than imitates reality because ideas about things that have never happened in the real world can still be acted out realistically. As in theater, people who interact with computers quickly form myths to explain and predict the action taking place before them-in this case, on the screen. In theater, the audience wili identify emotionally with what they see, bringing their own experience to bear on the action, and they will then ignore the fact that the story being related is not real. Similarly, if a computer program is scripted to simulate a real action, the user will try to believe that the simulation is real. For example, there are popular ways to interact with the computer interfaces that allow a user to get rid of an object shown on the screen by placing the object in a trash can. The computer user assumes that later, should he choose to look into that trash can, the object will still be there. If it is, then the designer of what is called the "user interface" has followed a tradition that antedates the Greeks by setting a scene that successfully shapes and bounds the user's myth. As with the audience of a play, the user's joy, power, and satisfaction will depend on the software designer's skill in creating and consistently maintaining the myth throughout the life of the "play." Magical happenings that don't seem to be possible in the objective world are quite acceptable as long as they obey a consistent logic that permits prediction. When users of computers can directly manipulate those myths, they can be said to have "leverage." If, for example, guesses work out, if nudges of a computer "mouse" move things, if animated figures can be conversed with, the user has far more power to accomplish things. In this way, the audience can be a co-conspirator with the scriptwriter. But there is still the question _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 27 05:24:55 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 DF77B516E6; Thu, 27 May 2010 05:24:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 98A85516D0; Thu, 27 May 2010 05:24:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100527052452.98A85516D0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 05:24:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.62 events: workshops at Brown; Balisage programme 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. 24, No. 62. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Julia Flanders (50) Subject: Balisage 2010 Program Announced [2] From: Julia Flanders (41) Subject: Digital Humanities Workshops at Brown University --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:20:09 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Balisage 2010 Program Announced As sponsors of the 2010 Balisage conference, ACH, ALLC, and SDH-SEMI are very happy to circulate the announcement below (with a reminder that members of all three associations receive a discount of up to US $200 on conference registration--just indicate that you are a member when you register). **************************************** Balisage 2010 Program Announced [FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE] Rockville, Maryland. The organizing committee has released the program for "Balisage 2010: The Markup Conference" to be held in Montreal from 3 to 6 August, 2010. "Balisage: The Markup Conference" ( http://www.balisage.net/ http://www.balisage.net ) is an annual peer-reviewed XML conference: how to create markup; what it means; hierarchies and overlap; modeling; taxonomies; transformation; query, searching, and retrieval; presentation and accessibility; making systems that make markup dance (or dance faster to a different tune in a smaller space). Come to lovely Montreal, Canada from August 3rd to 6th for four action- packed days of angle brackets! Here's a baker dozen (or so) sampling from the much larger list of Balisage 2010 presentations: gXML, a new approach to cultivating XML trees in Java Java integration of XQuery - an information unit oriented approach Reverse modeling for domain-driven engineering of publishing technology Managing semantics in XML vocabularies XML pipeline processing in the browser Where XForms meets the glass: Bridging between data and interaction design Schema component paths for schema analysis A streaming XSLT processor Multi-structured documents and the emergence of annotations vocabularies Processing arbitrarily large XML using a persistent DOM Automatic upconversion using XProc Scripting documents with XQuery XQuery design patterns Parallel processing and your XML data Schedule At-a-Glance: http://www.balisage.net/2010/At-A-Glance.html http://www.balisage.net/2010/At-A-Glance.html Detailed schedule with descriptions: http://www.balisage.net/2010/Program.html Pre-conference symposium: XML for the Long Haul: Issues in the Long-term Preservation of XML http://www.balisage.net/longhaul/index.html Tower of Modern Babel Contest - Chance to win an Apple 15" (i5) MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook Air, or USD $2000: http://www.balisage.net/contest.html -- ========================================================== 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 ========================================================== --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 16:19:11 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Digital Humanities Workshops at Brown University Please circulate: The Brown University Women Writers Project is pleased to announce a new series of workshops on topics in TEI encoding and tools for digital humanists. These workshops are aimed at humanities faculty, librarians, students, and anyone interested in getting a strong introduction to digital humanities concepts, methods, and tools. Each workshop combines hands-on practice with discussion and lectures, and participants are encouraged to work with their own project materials. These small group events offer a wonderful opportunity to learn about other digital projects as well as to master important methods and concepts in an exploratory setting. More information, including detailed workshop descriptions and registration information, can be found at http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/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 Thu May 27 09:54:30 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 AE61F512F7; Thu, 27 May 2010 09:54:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 44247512E8; Thu, 27 May 2010 09:54:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100527095429.44247512E8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 09:54:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.63 drawing in other histories X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 63. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:53:15 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: drawing in other histories The following is from Malcolm Le Grice, "Never the same again", in White Head Cold Logic, ed. Brown, Gere, Lambert and Mason (2008): > ... where artists may choose any combination of media in which to > create a work there can be no historical stability in artistic form > based on medium. While the material form in which a work is produced > or encountered significantly affects its experience and meaning, > crossing media limits inevitably draws on, or draws in, a range of > histories and their related discourses. Through their ability to > incorporate other media forms, computers and digital systems bring to > an end any intrinsic link between discourse and medium. At the same > time digital systems represent the basis of a new cross-media, > cross-cultural discourse that began to emerge in the radical melting > pot of the 1960s. There's no going back! (p. 227) Can the same be said of written language and literature? 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 Fri May 28 05:17:50 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 C2E2152B51; Fri, 28 May 2010 05:17:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 65E1A52B40; Fri, 28 May 2010 05:17:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100528051749.65E1A52B40@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 05:17:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.64 other histories X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 64. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Zafrin, Vika" (21) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.63 drawing in other histories [2] From: Jascha Kessler (69) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.63 drawing in other histories --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 11:17:31 -0400 From: "Zafrin, Vika" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.63 drawing in other histories In-Reply-To: <20100527095429.44247512E8@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, [...] >> Through their ability to >> incorporate other media forms, computers and digital systems bring to >> an end any intrinsic link between discourse and medium. [...] > Can the same be said of written language and literature? I don't think it can even be said about [visual?] art. Consider Talan Memmott's work, in this context particularly "Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)]": http://iowareview.uiowa.edu/TIRW/TIRW_Archive/tirweb/feature/memmott/spo_Mem mott/index.html Discourse is, in Memmott's case, directly dependent on the medium. Not just the medium of ones and zeros, but the more specific medium of HTML and JavaScript. -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Digital Collections and Computing Support Librarian Boston University School of Theology 617.353.1317 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:52:31 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.63 drawing in other histories In-Reply-To: <20100527095429.44247512E8@woodward.joyent.us> I fail to understand the very question, but may be some decades in the rear of the rear of a world of "discourse" now in blossom. Written language and literature today is what it is: written, whether on clay tablets exhumed in Mesopotamia, or palimpsests in monastery libraries, or mouldering stacks of decaying libraries. Whether digitized or not, it is per se, PER SE! archival, from the instant the first Aleph is recorded. Inscriptions tattooed on the body of a SE Buddhist monk may somehow be retained in the karmic memory [sic], but vanish with the monk's immolation. Even Hamlet couldnt decipher the quiddities somehow recorded in Yorick chap-fallen skull.... How the records are kept, even in a "cloud" memory is the question; that cloud itself is a metaphor, standing for ranks of silicon wafers in server warehouses, and liable to whatever the Memory Hole operations of the oncoming Islamic censors choose to do, as with the current bowdlerization of the 1001 Nights. Jascha Kessler On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 63. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:53:15 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: drawing in other histories > > The following is from Malcolm Le Grice, "Never the same again", in White > Head Cold Logic, ed. Brown, Gere, Lambert and Mason (2008): > > > ... where artists may choose any combination of media in which to > > create a work there can be no historical stability in artistic form > > based on medium. While the material form in which a work is produced > > or encountered significantly affects its experience and meaning, > > crossing media limits inevitably draws on, or draws in, a range of > > histories and their related discourses. Through their ability to > > incorporate other media forms, computers and digital systems bring to > > an end any intrinsic link between discourse and medium. At the same > > time digital systems represent the basis of a new cross-media, > > cross-cultural discourse that began to emerge in the radical melting > > pot of the 1960s. There's no going back! (p. 227) > > Can the same be said of written language and literature? > > 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 > -- 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 Fri May 28 05:19:24 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 6201652C28; Fri, 28 May 2010 05:19:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D12C052BB1; Fri, 28 May 2010 05:19:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100528051921.D12C052BB1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 05:19:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.65 new on WWW: Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 65. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 09:45:24 -0700 From: Ruth Mostern Subject: Resource Announcement: The Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty *Apologies for cross-posting* Dear Colleagues, I wish to announce the release of the Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty (DGSD) V.1.1, hosted by the University of California, Merced library at http:// songgis.ucmercedlibrary.info/. The DGSD is a MySQL database that records the 3,828 units that existed at any time in the administrative hierarchy of China's Song dynasty (960-1276 CE); along with attributes such as population, civil and military ranks, and locations of centers of state industry. All of the entities are spatially referenced, and all events of spatial change (establishment, abolition, promotion, and demotion of jurisdictions) are recorded and temporally referenced. The database, and shapefiles derived from it, are freely available for download and use under Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike terms. Please contact me or co-author Elijah Meeks (emeeks@stanford.edu) if you have any questions or feedback about the DGSD. Best, Ruth Mostern UC Merced -- Ruth Mostern Assistant Professor and Founding Faculty School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts University of California, Merced http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/rmostern rmostern@ucmerced.edu (209) 228-2961 (office) (209) 205-8566 (cell) 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343 Office: COB 379 Skype: ruth.mostern Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ruth.mostern _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 05:20:06 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 8D85E52CCF; Fri, 28 May 2010 05:20:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1BBC552CB3; Fri, 28 May 2010 05:19:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100528051959.1BBC552CB3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 05:19:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.66 events: ESF (Humanities) on art history; research conferences X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 66. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 19:45:08 +0100 From: Humanities Subject: ESF (Humanities Unit): Art History; research conferences Two announcements: 1. The Networked Humanities: Art History in the Web conference is now up and running 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. 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. Closing date for applications/ papers: 18th of July, 2010. Application form & programme available from www.esf.org/conferences/10342 http://www.esf.org/conferences/10342 Professor Naomi Segal - member of the Standing Committee for the Humanities - will be giving a presentation on one of the Standing Committee for the Humanities strategic activities: “Cultural Literacy in Contemporary Europe”, on the occasion of the “International Conference on Literary Studies” – Thinking Literature in the 21st century -Braga, Portugal, Sept. 30th to Oct. 1st, 2010 · May 31, 2010: closing date for the submission of abstracts · June 30, 2010: notification of acceptance/rejection · July 31, 2010: closing date for participants with paper 2. Call for proposals for 2012 ESF Research conferences 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) ----- 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 May 28 06:18:02 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 AA11551D0B; Fri, 28 May 2010 06:18:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5647651D01; Fri, 28 May 2010 06:18:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100528061801.5647651D01@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 06:18:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.67 passionate numeracy X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 67. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 07:14:28 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: passionate numeracy Many here will enjoy the following transcript of the words to a song sung at one of the annual meetings of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics. The Cowles Commission was an early group of econometricians named after the wealthy American investment analyst Alfred Cowles, who after the crash in 1929 donated $12,000/year because he was of the opinion that stock analysts did not know what they were doing, and he wanted to do something about their ignorance. Herbert Simon was a member of this Commission. Anyhow, here's the song, sung to the Gilbert & Sullivan tune of "The American Patrol": > We must be rigorous, we must be rigorous > We must fulfill our role. > If we hesitate or equivocate > We won't achieve our goal. > We must investigate our system complicate > To make our models whole. > Econometrics brings about > Statistical control! > > Our esoteric seminars > Bring statisticians by the score, > But try to find economists > Who don't think algebra's a chore. > Oh we must urge you most emphatically > To become inclined mathematically, > So that all we've developed > May some day be applied! In case you think I have made this up, see the Commission's "Economic Theory and Measurement: A Twenty Year Research Report 1932-1952", http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/P/reports/1932-52.htm, where after quoting this song the author of the Report comments, "Its exact authorship is surrounded by a certain degree of obscurity, which perhaps is just as well." The actual singing of this at a meeting of the Commission is claimed by Hunter Crowther-Heyck, in Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2005): 126. I'd be happy to join in at DH2010 if anyone can furnish the music and wishes to sing along. I won't do a solo performance! But seriously, as we say, the rationalized depiction of the rationalism which came in a torrent with computing -- what Thomas Nagel called in his Tanner Lecture, "The Limits of Objectivity", delivered at Brasenose College Oxford in 1979, "this bleached out physical conception of objectivity" -- omits the very real passion with which Simon et al pushed their view of computing and what they thought it was for. We inherit their bleached out conception; we build computing systems that manifest it. Isn't this a fatal mistake in which we must not persist if we are to have a digital *humanities* worthy of the name? 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 29 05:47:54 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 AA4D756AA6; Sat, 29 May 2010 05:47:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B3D6956A70; Sat, 29 May 2010 05:47:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100529054752.B3D6956A70@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 05:47:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.68 passionate numeracy 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. 24, No. 68. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 11:51:42 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.67 passionate numeracy In-Reply-To: <20100528061801.5647651D01@woodward.joyent.us> I am not sure I can grasp what "a bleached out physical conception of objectivity" means. That sort of writing, or pseudosimile is itself "bleached out of" physicality. At bottom, the problems of Critical Theory after [misunderstood] Derrida may be stated simply as the reification of abstractions, which like derivatives continued to be bundled and abstracted and reified. SCIENCE AND SANITY, many decades ago, Koryzbski's semantics study, described this mistaken sort of ladder of "rationalizations" of the rational, which itself au fond is etymologically and literally already an abstraction of measurements of physicality. If Mesopotamia laid string out to demarcate lines for plowing or building foundations, those strings were not the stones themselves upon which civilization was constructed [my metaphor]. Digitization of the physical is not the physical. Marks denoting words, as in cuneiform or hieroglyph, are not the physical reality, not even signs of its objective existence, but sounds for words. I teach an Honors Seminars [teach?] in poetry, titled WHAT A POEM SAYS. I prevent freshman students from writing any sentences about what a poem "means." I select at random poems in English, of course, that represent, more or less, the three fundamental modes of poetry: Elegy, Satire, Invocation. They have difficulty grasping the notion that a poem is fundamentally speech, and speaking may be considered almost original, though emotion and thought are what is original in our own "sitz im Leben," and speech represent thought and emotion to another...who may or may not be able to receive that event of information without already changing it in his/her body, and "misreading" it. That is our fundamental problem. And as this group must know, Heidegger, who tackled the problem in BEING AND TIME, never finished rationalizing or analyzing it. His last book, about poetry, ran off into mysticism, Blut und Boden. I liked that book, because he tried to follow some difficult written poems, or obscure expressions of the writers' Beingness. Digitization should not be a problem, I think, because it is another form of the abstraction from physical objectivity that writing is, which evolves from speech, which is ephemeral, time-bound in act, just as a wall painting in a cave is. Using 0/1 to represent signs, speech or image, is not different. Why it should be a problem for what is called the Humanities seems to be creating a problem where there is none. Of course the Critical Theorists need jobs, but they cannot it seems READ a text as a text, but have to read virtual abstractions in the margins, so to say. Chasing will-o'-the-wisps, fireflies, swamp flames... Jascha Kessler On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 67. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 07:14:28 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: passionate numeracy > > Many here will enjoy the following transcript of the words to a song > sung at one of the annual meetings of the Cowles Commission for Research > in Economics. The Cowles Commission was an early group of > econometricians named after the wealthy American investment analyst > Alfred Cowles, who after the crash in 1929 donated $12,000/year because > he was of the opinion that stock analysts did not know what they were > doing, and he wanted to do something about their ignorance. Herbert > Simon was a member of this Commission. > > Anyhow, here's the song, sung to the Gilbert & Sullivan tune of "The > American Patrol": > > > We must be rigorous, we must be rigorous > > We must fulfill our role. > > If we hesitate or equivocate > > We won't achieve our goal. > > We must investigate our system complicate > > To make our models whole. > > Econometrics brings about > > Statistical control! > > > > Our esoteric seminars > > Bring statisticians by the score, > > But try to find economists > > Who don't think algebra's a chore. > > Oh we must urge you most emphatically > > To become inclined mathematically, > > So that all we've developed > > May some day be applied! > > In case you think I have made this up, see the Commission's "Economic > Theory and Measurement: A Twenty Year Research Report 1932-1952", > http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/P/reports/1932-52.htm, where after quoting > this song the author of the Report comments, "Its exact authorship is > surrounded by a certain degree of obscurity, which perhaps is just as > well." The actual singing of this at a meeting of the Commission is > claimed by Hunter Crowther-Heyck, in Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of > Reason in Modern America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2005): 126. > > I'd be happy to join in at DH2010 if anyone can furnish the music and > wishes to sing along. I won't do a solo performance! > > But seriously, as we say, the rationalized depiction of the rationalism > which came in a torrent with computing -- what Thomas Nagel called in > his Tanner Lecture, "The Limits of Objectivity", delivered at Brasenose > College Oxford in 1979, "this bleached out physical conception of > objectivity" -- omits the very real passion with which Simon et al > pushed their view of computing and what they thought it was for. We > inherit their bleached out conception; we build computing systems that > manifest it. Isn't this a fatal mistake in which we must not persist if > we are to have a digital *humanities* worthy of the name? > > 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. -- 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 Sat May 29 05:48:44 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 23C8856B95; Sat, 29 May 2010 05:48:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E79B656B82; Sat, 29 May 2010 05:48:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100529054841.E79B656B82@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 05:48:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.69 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. 24, No. 69. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 18:22:49 -0400 (EDT) From: William S Shaw Subject: Update to the William Blake Archive 28 May 2010 The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of electronic editions of Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ copies E and I, in the Huntington Library and Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art, respectively. They join copies a, A, B, C, J (1793), F (c. 1794), G (1795), and O and P (c. 1818), previously published in the Archive. _Visions_, extant in seventeen complete copies, consists of eleven relief-etched plates executed and first printed in 1793. Copies E and I were produced in Blake's first printing session. Probably to lend variety to his stock of copies on hand, Blake used three ink colors in this first printing: yellow ochre (as in copy A), raw sienna (copies B, C, and E), and green (copies I and J). Like all early copies of _Visions_, copies E and I have the frontispiece printed on one side of a leaf, but all other plates are printed on both sides of five leaves. Like all the illuminated books in the Archive, the texts and images of _Visions_ copies E and I 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 _Visions_ in the Archive. With the publication of _Visions_ copies E and I, the Archive now contains fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of 75 copies of Blake's nineteen illuminated works 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 May 29 05:50:09 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 BECDE56C3F; Sat, 29 May 2010 05:50:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0376956C1C; Sat, 29 May 2010 05:50:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100529055000.0376956C1C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 05:50:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.70 events: manuscript analysis; virtual voyages X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 70. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Arianna Ciula (27) Subject: ESF COMSt workshop: Digital Support for Manuscript Analysis [2] From: Dr Paul Arthur (34) Subject: Virtual Voyages book launch 8 June National Library of Australia --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 14:27:15 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF COMSt workshop: Digital Support for Manuscript Analysis ESF Research Networking Programme on Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies (COMSt): workshop on Digital Support for Manuscript Analysis, 23-24 July, Hamburg, Germany. Tentative programme: ***23 July 2010*** 14:00-16:30: Digitisation techniques: general (incl. state-of-the-art survey) 17:00-19:30: Digitisation techniques: special cases (palimpsests, scattered manuscripts) ***24 July 2010*** 8:30-11:00: Material analysis: tools and techniques 11:30-13:30: Support for codicological and palaeographic analyses There will be three travel grants available to attend the workshop (application details available at: http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/bandi.html - the deadline is 15 June). Please contact the programme coordinator for more information on how to register for this event and for details on other forthcoming COMSt events Evgenia Sokolinskaia (eae [at] uni-hamburg.de). == 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: Fri, 28 May 2010 15:34:15 +1000 From: Dr Paul Arthur Subject: Virtual Voyages book launch 8 June National Library of Australia *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1275111699_2010-05-29_paul.arthur@anu.edu.au_3820.2.pdf * * *BOOK LAUNCH Tuesday 8 June 4pm, National Library of Australia conference room* * * *Virtual Voyages: Travel Writing and the Antipodes 1605-1837* by Paul Longley Arthur Engage in a conversation about voyages, both real and imaginary, to the 'great south land'. Join Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Bolton AO, Professor Melanie Nolan and Professor Tom Griffiths for the launch of *Virtual Voyages: Travel Writing and the Antipodes 1605-1837* by Dr Paul Longley Arthur, Deputy Director of the National Centre of Biography and Deputy General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Book signing and refreshments to follow. Bookings: 02 6262 1271 or bookings@nla.gov.au National Library of Australia in association with the National Centre of Biography, Australian National University -- Dr Paul Arthur www.paularthur.com Organising Committee, eResearch Australasia Conference 2010 www.eresearch.edu.au Deputy Director, National Centre of Biography Deputy General Editor, Australian Dictionary of Biography School of History, Research School of Social Sciences The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia Virtual Voyages: Travel Writing and the Antipodes 1605-1837 http://www.anthempress.com/index.php/virtual-voyages.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 31 09:46:24 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 1606C58294; Mon, 31 May 2010 09:46:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0727E58282; Mon, 31 May 2010 09:46:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100531094622.0727E58282@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 09:46:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.71 cfp for Doctor Virtualis X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 71. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 08:34:56 +0200 From: "Massimo Parodi" Subject: After the paper, after the parchment DOCTOR VIRTUALIS – CALL FOR PAPERS Doctor Virtualis, journal of History of Medieval Philosophy, is edited by a research group of the Università degli Studi di Milano, on paper and on line (http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/DoctorVirtualis). We are mainly interested both in the relationships between medieval and modern-contemporary thought and in the possible analogies between present and medieval themes. In the last issues we were concerned with the medieval roots of the modern concept of secularity (Italian laicità) and with the relationships between contemporary and medieval music. For the next issue we have decided to examine some features of the history of the book. Which analogies are possible between the transition from paper to digital support and the transition from manuscript to printed paper? Doctor Virtualis 11 shall contain five papers, by the journal editors, concerning some fundamental stages in the history of printing, some significant periods as Enlightenment, industrial revolution and spreading of digital media; authorship and intellectual property, new means of ideas production and diffusion on the web. In this framework we call for 6 papers – in Italian, English, French or Spanish – on the following themes: 1) - in which way the circulation of the books promoted / supported / conditioned the Reformation? - in which way the Index librorum prohibitorum was born, how did it circulate and exert influence on the history of European culture? - how the publication and circulation of the research outcomes promoted / supported / conditioned the scientific revolution? 2) - idea and images of the book in late Middle ages, e.g. in Richard of Bury; - questions and doubts about the transition from parchment to paper, e.g. in Gerson and Trithemius; - possible analogies with questions and doubts about the transition from paper to digital means; 3) - in which way the production and the distribution of the manuscripts, in late medieval university towns, has changed the way the book is conceived as merchandise? - significant shifts in meaning of the book as economical good between invention of the printing press and industrial revolution; - social and economical changes that cause contemporary ideas of the book; 4) - how we have to think the medieval library: as a place (a set of material tools) or as immaterial good (a set of facilities for a community)? - in reference to retrieval of texts on the web, we mention decontextualization, delocalization, disappearance of the librarian mediation; are there possible analogies with medieval world? - high medieval Benedictine cloisters as a server net on the European country; medieval practice of not explicit quotations as forerunner use of cut and paste. 5) - main ways the former printed books imitate manuscripts; - possible analogies with the present state of electronic publishing in which texts on the web are inclined to imitate the paper ones; - which could be main changes in a conscious and explicit electronic publishing? 6) - changes in the book jobs, in relation to the production technologies and to the shapes assumed by book; - social, economical and cultural conditions related to the book production; - analogies between changes arising from printing and changes arising from the web. Deadlines august 2010 title and abstract, not less than 4000 characters, to DV september 2010 acceptance from DV april 2011 whole paper to DV july 2011 peer review from DV Send to: massimo.parodi@unimi.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 Mon May 31 09:48:20 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 7517F5AB86; Mon, 31 May 2010 09:48:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9538B5A017; Mon, 31 May 2010 09:48:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100531094817.9538B5A017@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 09:48:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.72 dodgy statements to ponder X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 72. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 10:40:40 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: dodgy statements to ponder The following is extracted from Brian Reffin Smith's blog, Zombie 'Pataphysics, www.zombiepataphysics.blogspot.com/, an entry made on 12 March, "43 Dodgy Statements on Computer Art". The original has a single line of code between each of the statements up to the 41st, " ". At the risk of blunting the truthfulness of these statements but in the interest of readability, I have removed the line of code below. Many here will know the computer scientist Alan Perlis' delightful and wise epigrams. Reffin Smith's belong alongside Perlis'. They address computing in the arts, but as far as I can see their humour and persuasive force applies equally, say, to literary computing. Yours, WM --- 43 Dodgy Statements on Computer Art Brian Reffin Smith From Zombie ‘Pataphysics www.zombiepataphysics.blogspot.com/ FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2010 1. The sadness of most art is that it does not know its future. The sadness of computer art is that it does not know its past. 2. Constraint is liberty; reduce to the maximum. 3. If it looks just like, you know, ‘art’…it probably isn't. 4. Using state-of-the-art technology merely produces state-of-the-technology art. 5. Those who use computers to make art need to understand art as well as computers. 6. Most participative art is deeply authoritarian. 7. The computer is best characterised not as an information processor but as a general-purpose representation processor. 8. Marshall McLuhan, at least as filtered through his sound-bites, was often wrong. The medium is not the message, which is more often determined socially and psychologically by the recipient. 9. If your system costs 10 000 € and mine 30 000 €, it does not follow that my art is thrice as good as yours. 10. In an ideal world, New Media institutions would employ at least one non-technological artist. 11. Are you pushing the frontiers of computational representation, or of contemporary art? Confusion rarely leads to success. 12. 99% of computer art is meretricious nonsense. But then 99% of everything is meretricious nonsense. 13. Self-imposed formal requirements are not inhibitive of expression. 14. Post Modernism has never said that everything is of equal value, just that the contexts in which we identify or attribute value should be open to analysis. 15. You know your amazing new computer art, rich in metaphors and analogies? It's been done. Years ago. Without a computer. 16. We lose dimensions and scale. The computer in art is immediate and almost always, however "global", local. Just as no well-found art school would be complete without computers, so every such institution should have a telescope and a microscope, connected to the computer or not. 17. Making computer art too dangerous to sponsor would be a good way to go. 18. Just as everyone has a novel inside them, many believe they have an artwork. The purpose of a good art school is to seek out these people and stop them. 19. Using a computer merely to access the web is like using a Bugatti Veyron to deliver the papers. 20. Many people think that graphic design is art. Art is undertaken for art-like reasons, graphic design for graphic design-like reasons. There may of course be overlap. There should never be confusion. 21. Making the (arts) information revolution consists not only in enabling the control of the means of computer art production by art workers, but also in being kind, non-gouging and relatively honest. Without the latter, one may doubt commitment to the former. 22. The best interactive art always makes you look at the participants. 23. There is only one thing worse than studying art for the budding computer artist, and that is to study computers. Or vice versa. 24. Art is not craft. 25. What would be pretentious or nonsensical if one said it oneself does not become more worthy when spoken by a computer-generated avatar. 26. Seen in the light of Guy Debord's "The Society of the Spectacle", computer art is very spectacular indeed. 27. Beware of computer art as farce repeating itself as history. 28. There is no "normal" computer art, in the Kuhnian sense. It is in constant revolution, hence constantly evading scrutiny. 29. When the first solitary Metro station was built in Paris, where could people travel to? They just admired the station. 30. Bugs are good; as with fireflies, the fertile ones shed light. 31. The Prix Pierre Gutzman, 100 000 Francs, was offered by the Institut de France in 1906 to the first person who could establish contact with extra-terrestrials; except with Martians, which would be too easy. 32. ‘All that is solid melts into air’ is not a celebration of virtuality, but Marx 'n' Engels' prediction for late capitalism. 33. A half developed Polaroid photo is different to half a digital photo. A half-finished pen-plotter drawing is different to a half-finished inkjet print. 34. When art processes happen near-instantaneously, doing art becomes synonymous with correction and selection, later with celebration; rarely with creativity. 35. Art is visual philosophy. But computer art is not visual computer philosophy. 36. Revolutionary modes of interaction between humans and normative structures do not a revolution make. 37. 'i', the imaginary square root of minus 1, is to the real numbers as the computer is — or should be — to art. 38. The purpose of the computer in art is to render it difficult and problematic, not easy. 39. We do not admire Picasso's Guernica or Goya's The Third of May 1808 solely because of the techniques used, yet we are often invited to admire computer art for just that reason. Art that is deliberately content-free is one thing. Art that is accidentally, lumpenly content-free is another. 40. Computer artist: the unemployable producing the unsaleable for the uninterested. 41. Of course computers and other devices will never fully understand flowing, allusive conversation. But they won't care. 42. Many of the ‘objects’ of computer art are instances, illustrations, of some less tangible, invisible process. But it may be that the waveform should remain uncollapsed, the artwork staying undecideable, problematic, unobjectified. Lucy R. Lippard described the ‘dematerialization of the art object’ nearly 40 years ago. 43. Never throw away any computer or peripheral equipment that is more than 15 years old. You may well come to need it. ----- -- 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 1 05:32:15 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 A43F55BBE0; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 05:32:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 91FEF5AC01; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 05:32:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100601053212.91FEF5AC01@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 05:32:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.73 computer art: a poetic response, quoting the Devil 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. 24, No. 73. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 15:53:10 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Fwd: I suppose those cautionary apothegms about computer sketchings might have been prefaced with Kipling's poem: In-Reply-To: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jascha Kessler Date: Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:44 PM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 05:33:53 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 7C9775C074; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 05:33:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 548EE5C063; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 05:33:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100601053351.548EE5C063@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 05:33:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.74 an oddity or something more? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 74. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 18:38:08 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: odd chiasmus I am wondering whether anyone here knows of a study of or commentary on a phenomenon of which I have 3 instances from the history of computing: at the very moment when a development has come to fruition those most closely concerned turn away. The instances are these: 1. Tools for word-study vs scholars' interests In his British Library lecture, Anthony Kenny cites the classicist Robert Connor's observation that "Computer technology became available precisely at the wrong moment in the profession's development. The era of traditional lexical and textual studies had largely passed..." when the tools to pursue such studies better than ever before arrived on the scene. Kenny suggests that scholars might have reacted adversely to "quantification invading their own subject [offering] no escape from those wretched numbers" (pp. 9-10). Hence their rejection. 2. Tools for construction vs constructivism in art Richard Wright, in "From System to Software: Computer Programming and the Death of Constructivist Art", in White Heat Cold Logic, asks about the artistic movement known as Constructivism, why it "should have declined precisely at the point at which the 'programmatic' seemed to reach its fullest potential for expression: the programming of the digital computer" (p. 120). He leaves the question open. 3. Disembodiment of information vs materiality of texts Alan Galey, in "The Human Presence in Digital Artefacts", in Text and Genre in Reconstruction (forthcoming from Open Book Publishers), argues that "it should be disquieting to see a deepening separation of material form from idealized content in our tools at the very moment when literary critics have established the materiality of texts to be indispensable to interpretation" (p. 94). What might we say about these co-incidences? Is there some inclusive principle at work here? Are there other examples in the history of the digital humanities we might consider? 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 Jun 1 05:36:07 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 F30D75C9CE; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 05:36:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E1B295C9BD; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 05:36:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100601053604.E1B295C9BD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 05:36:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.75 events: doctoral workshop, maths & engineering in CS X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 75. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 19:46:50 +0100 From: Jan Staudek Subject: MEMICS 2010, 2nd CFP 6th Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science MEMICS 2010 http://www.memics.cz/ October 22--24, 2010, Hotel Galant, Mikulov, Czech Republic Second Call for Papers The MEMICS 2010 workshop is organized jointly by the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University. MEMICS provides a forum for doctoral students interested in applications of mathematical and engineering methods in computer science. Topics: Submissions are invited especially in the following (though not exclusive) areas: computer security; software and hardware dependability; 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; as well as all areas of theoretical computer science underlying the previously mentioned subjects. Moreover, this year, we specifically invite submissions in computer graphics and vision, signal and image processing, text and speech processing, human-computer interaction, especially when related with security or parallel or distributed processing. Invited talks will be given by Alan Chalmers (Univ. of Warwick, UK) on `Real Virtuality: High-fidelity multi-sensory virtual environments', Andreas Steininger (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria) on `New approaches to fault tolerant systems design', Antti Valmari (Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland) on `Recent results on DFA minimization and other block splitting algorithms', and Stefan Wörz (Univ. of Heidelberg and DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany) on `Model-based segmentation of biomedical images'. Students are invited to submit a regular paper or a presentation. A regular paper is a previously unpublished piece of work with original results, not exceeding 8 pages in the LNCS style. A presentation reflects recent outstanding work that has been published (or is accepted for publication) at a leading computer science conference or in a recognized scientific journal. Presentations to be included in the programme will be selected on the basis of a one-page abstract, which will also appear in the proceedings. For formatting and submission instructions see the detailed instructions for authors at the workshop's web page. The proceedings will be available at the workshop in printed form. Important Dates Regular paper registration: September 1, 2010 Regular paper and presentation submission: September 8, 2010 Review notification: September 22, 2010 Camera ready papers and presentations: September 30, 2010 Venue: The workshop will be held in Mikulov, a lovely town near the Austrian borders at the edge of the Palava Landscape Protected Area. Mikulov, situated in the centre of vineyard area, is also famous for numerous examples of architecture. Tourists attractions include the Mikulov Castle, the Piarist College, the Dietrichstein Sepulchre, and the former Jewish ghetto. The workshop is organized within project No. 102/09/H042 of the Czech Science Foundation. General Chair LudÄ›k Matyska, Czech Rep. Programme Committee Chairs Michal Kozubek, Czech Rep. Tomáš Vojnar, Czech Rep. Pavel Zemcik, Czech Rep. Organizing Committee Chair Jan Staudek, Czech Rep. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 10:29:01 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 78375540EC; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:29:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 452C755C7B; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:29:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100601102900.452C755C7B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:29:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.76 events: DH2010 news! 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. 24, No. 76. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:49:06 +0100 From: Harold Short Subject: DH2010 news The start of the Digital Humanities 2010 Conference is now just over five weeks away! Conference registrants who have been waiting to make their payments by credit card will be pleased to know that the online payment facility is finally available - as well as those who have been waiting for this *before* registering. In recognition of the delays with this, we have extended the early bird registration deadline by a further week, to Monday 7 June. There is new information on the website about the Performance strand that will run throughout the conference, supporting the theme 'Cultural expression, old and new'. This includes the intriguing participative artwork by Ele Carpenter within the Open Source Embroidery project. Details will also appear soon of a new installation by the well-known digital artist and researcher Michael Takeo Magruder. The DH2010 website is at: dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk ----- 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 05:24:28 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 8B1FE5ABE6; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:24:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E8AD85AB53; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:24:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100602052424.E8AD85AB53@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:24:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.77 an oddity or something more X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 77. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (18) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.74 an oddity or something more? [2] From: Dot Porter (98) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.74 an oddity or something more? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 06:51:45 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.74 an oddity or something more? In-Reply-To: <20100601053351.548EE5C063@woodward.joyent.us> I think Kenny overstated his case. James Rovira Assistant Professor of English Tiffin University Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety http://www.continuumbooks.com > > > 1. Tools for word-study vs scholars' interests > > In his British Library lecture, Anthony Kenny cites the classicist > Robert Connor's observation that "Computer technology became available > precisely at the wrong moment in the profession's development. The era > of traditional lexical and textual studies had largely passed..." when > the tools to pursue such studies better than ever before arrived on the > scene. Kenny suggests that scholars might have reacted adversely to > "quantification invading their own subject [offering] no escape from > those wretched numbers" (pp. 9-10). Hence their rejection. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:49:37 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.74 an oddity or something more? In-Reply-To: <20100601053351.548EE5C063@woodward.joyent.us> Regarding Alan's comment re: the materiality of text: In my circle, at least, there is great concern with the materiality of text and what digital technology means for it. Concerns include both the philosophical (what does it mean for a editorial reading of a text when that reading is known solely through digital imaging? For example, readings from the Archimedes Palimpsest images, or those discovered through the virtual unrolling of damaged papyrus scrolls), as well as the practical (what is the best way to present the materiality of a text in a digital environment?). I presented a paper last year on this topic, it's available online for anyone interested: http://dho.ie/node/74; I have a few things in the pipeline as well. The "Digital Paleography and Codicology" series of books published by the Institute for Documentary and Scholarly Editing also includes several chapters along these lines, I believe (http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften-2/kodikologie-und-palaographie-im-digitalen-zeitalter/cfp-palaeography-en). Melissa Terras and Kathryn Piquette work in this area (two names off the top of my head, I know there are more). Generally, Alan may have a point, but there are certainly digital scholars interested in, thinking about, and talking about materiality of texts. Dot On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 74. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 18:38:08 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: odd chiasmus > > > I am wondering whether anyone here knows of a study of or > commentary on a phenomenon of which I have 3 instances from the history > of computing: at the very moment when a development has come to > fruition those most closely concerned turn away. The instances are these: > > 1. Tools for word-study vs scholars' interests > > In his British Library lecture, Anthony Kenny cites the classicist > Robert Connor's observation that "Computer technology became available > precisely at the wrong moment in the profession's development. The era > of traditional lexical and textual studies had largely passed..." when > the tools to pursue such studies better than ever before arrived on the > scene. Kenny suggests that scholars might have reacted adversely to > "quantification invading their own subject [offering] no escape from > those wretched numbers" (pp. 9-10). Hence their rejection. > > 2. Tools for construction vs constructivism in art > > Richard Wright, in "From System to Software: Computer Programming and > the Death of Constructivist Art", in White Heat Cold Logic, asks about > the artistic movement known as Constructivism, why it "should have > declined precisely at the point at which the 'programmatic' seemed to > reach its fullest potential for expression: the programming of the > digital computer" (p. 120). He leaves the question open. > > 3. Disembodiment of information vs materiality of texts > > Alan Galey, in "The Human Presence in Digital Artefacts", in Text and > Genre in Reconstruction (forthcoming from Open Book Publishers), argues > that "it should be disquieting to see a deepening separation of material > form from idealized content in our tools at the very moment when > literary critics have established the materiality of texts to be > indispensable to interpretation" (p. 94). > > What might we say about these co-incidences? Is there some inclusive > principle at work here? Are there other examples in the history of the > digital humanities we might consider? > > 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. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian 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 Jun 2 05:27:04 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 BCA4E5C35B; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:27:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0A8765C347; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:27:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100602052703.0A8765C347@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:27:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.78 new MA 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 78. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:13:35 +0100 From: Aja Teehan Subject: An Foras Feasa (NUIM, Ireland) launches MA in Digital Humanities, commencing September 2010 An Foras Feasa launches MA in Digital Humanities, commencing September 2010 MA in Digital Humanities An Foras Feasa (at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth) is pleased to announce a new MA in Digital Humanities degree, designed to fill an identified gap in current educational and professional provision. It is designed for graduates from both the Humanities and the Computing Sciences, integrating the needs, practices and challenges of humanities research with new methodologies, theories and practices in Information Communications Technologies. Course Fees The MA in Digital Humanities is funded under the Graduate Skills Conversion Programme (GSCP), a joint initiative with the Department of Education and Science and the Higher Education Authority, under the National Development Plan. For 2010-11 the fees are €2,500. Further Details See www.learndigitalhumanities.ie for further details. An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions National University of Ireland, Maynooth Tel: 353-1-7086173 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 05:29:42 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 6C27F5C509; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:29:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3DC0B5C4BA; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:29:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100602052941.3DC0B5C4BA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:29:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.79 events: European Summer School; 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 79. 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 (24) Subject: Balisage 2010: Call for Latebreaking News [2] From: Elisabeth Burr (30) Subject: European Summer School "Culture &Technology", 26-30.07.2010 University of Leipzig - deadline extension --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 14:05:52 -0400 From: B Tommie Usdin Subject: Balisage 2010: Call for Latebreaking News Proposals for Late-breaking News presentations at Balisage are due June 11th. http://www.balisage.net/latebreaking-call.html The peer-reviewed part of the Balisage 2010 program has been scheduled (http://www.balisage.net/2010/Program.html). A few slots have been reserved for presentation of "Late-breaking" material. In order to be in serious contention for addition to the final program, your proposal should be either: a) really late-breaking (it reports on something that happened in the last month or two) or b) a well-developed paper, an extended paper proposal, or a very long abstract with references on a topic related to Markup and not already on the 2010 conference program. Late-breaking slots are few and the competition is fiercer than for regular peer-reviewed papers. Now is the time to start writing or to encourage someone you want to hear from at Balisage to get to work. For more information see: http://www.balisage.net/latebreaking-call.html or send email to info@balisage.net -- ========================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010 mailto:info@balisage.net August 3-6, 2010 http://www.balisage.net Symposium: XML for the Long Haul August 2, 2010 Montreal, Canada --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:29:10 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: European Summer School "Culture &Technology", 26-30.07.2010 University of Leipzig - deadline extension Deadline extension European Summer School Culture & Technology, hosted by the University of Leipzig, Germany, July 26-30 2010 http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ We are pleased to announce that the deadline for applying for a place in one of the workshops offered by the European Summer School has been extended to the 15th of June 2010. Application is done via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.net/esu2010/ by creating an account and handing in a curriculum vitae and a letter of motivation (300-500 words). People who would like to present their own project hand in a short description of the project as well. Application by Email cannot be accepted. Notwithstanding the extension of the deadline, we aim at starting the selection process in the next few days so that people who have already handed in their documents can be notified of the result around the 16th of June and can start to organize their journey. People should only register for the Summer School once they have been attributed a place in one of the workshops. All the necessary information can be found on the multi-lingual Web-Site of the Summer School. Please, read the information carefully. If you have any questions please contact the organizers at: esu2010@uni-leipzig.de. Elisabeth Burr Organizer of the European Summer School University of Leipzig _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 05:46:10 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 CBB75586B5; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:46:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 64614586A6; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:46:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100602054607.64614586A6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:46:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.80 books to read X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 80. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:43:09 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: books from Ashgate I have been asked by Helen Moore, Marketing Manager, Information and Cultural Management, Ashgate Publishing Group, to distribute information about their book series, Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities, http://www.ashgate.com/digitalresearch/, now with 7 titles. (Read them tonight!) One day, perhaps, when we all know far too much about our subject, and our bookshelves are groaning under the weight of volumes as good as these, or better, one might object. But until then, I expect, few of us, or none, will be anything but grateful for the news of them. Yours, WM *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1275457448_2010-06-02_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_9731.2.pdf -- 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 3 04:49:55 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 A4D8E535A5; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 04:49:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 979195359B; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 04:49:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100603044953.979195359B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 04:49:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.81 an oddity or something more X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 81. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 15:20:41 -0400 From: Alan Galey Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.77 an oddity or something more In-Reply-To: <20100602052424.E8AD85AB53@woodward.joyent.us> Dot, I agree entirely, and appreciate the optimistic examples you cite (including your Hexateuch
 paper, which I quite enjoyed). Since I first wrote the sentence Willard quotes, prospects have certainly brightened for those interested in the materiality of texts. The maturing of image-based computing and the increasing convergence of DH and mainstream scholarship (esp. book history) have helped, but no doubt there are other factors, too. The general problem I'm highlighting in the piece Willard cites is the huge gravity well created by a certain kind of formalism, in which texts -- all texts -- are assumed to be reducible to buckets of words, or tokens of types. That premise works well enough in some fields; what I question to is the notion that one must embrace the idea to do any DH research, or to use any digital tools. Others like Alan Liu and David Golumbia have shown how this idea still pervades business computing and its tools. Even in academic circles, one still encounters the idea that form and content must be treated as separable because (supposedly) that's simply how computers work. It's encouraging to see recent projects that imagine computing working in other ways, and exploring the nature of materiality rather than trying to escape from it. So, I wouldn't frame the problem as an absence of people working on the materiality of texts. As you point out, there's lots of energy in that topic right now -- and on the information studies side, too. Rather, I'd say the question is how that interest is enabled or constrained by the tools we use, build, and inherit), and how much effort is still required to get free of formalism's gravity well. Maybe less now than when I wrote that article? I'm cautiously optimistic. (Somewhere in an alternate universe, some formalist must be writing a post about getting free of materialism's gravity well...) Best, Alan On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > >                  Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 77. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > >  [1]   From:    James Rovira                      (18) >        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.74 an oddity or something more? > >  [2]   From:    Dot Porter                         (98) >        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.74 an oddity or something more? > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ >        Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 06:51:45 -0400 >        From: James Rovira >        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.74 an oddity or something more? >        In-Reply-To: <20100601053351.548EE5C063@woodward.joyent.us> > > > I think Kenny overstated his case. > > James Rovira > Assistant Professor of English > Tiffin University > Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety > http://www.continuumbooks.com >> >> >> 1. Tools for word-study vs scholars' interests >> >> In his British Library lecture, Anthony Kenny cites the classicist >> Robert Connor's observation that "Computer technology became available >> precisely at the wrong moment in the profession's development. The era >> of traditional lexical and textual studies had largely passed..." when >> the tools to pursue such studies better than ever before arrived on the >> scene. Kenny suggests that scholars might have reacted adversely to >> "quantification invading their own subject [offering] no escape from >> those wretched numbers" (pp. 9-10). Hence their rejection. > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ >        Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:49:37 -0400 >        From: Dot Porter >        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.74 an oddity or something more? >        In-Reply-To: <20100601053351.548EE5C063@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Regarding Alan's comment re: the materiality of text: > > In my circle, at least, there is great concern with the materiality of text > and what digital technology means for it. Concerns include both the > philosophical (what does it mean for a editorial reading of a text when that > reading is known solely through digital imaging? For example, readings from > the Archimedes Palimpsest images, or those discovered through the virtual > unrolling of damaged papyrus scrolls), as well as the practical (what is the > best way to present the materiality of a text in a digital environment?). I > presented a paper last year on this topic, it's available online for anyone > interested: http://dho.ie/node/74; I have a few things in the pipeline as > well. The "Digital Paleography and Codicology" series of books published by > the Institute for Documentary and Scholarly Editing also includes several > chapters along these lines, I believe > (http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften-2/kodikologie-und-palaographie-im-digitalen-zeitalter/cfp-palaeography-en). > > Melissa Terras and Kathryn Piquette work in this area (two names off the top > of my head, I know there are more). Generally, Alan may have a point, but > there are certainly digital scholars interested in, thinking about, and > talking about materiality of texts. > > Dot > > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < > willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > >>                  Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 74. >>         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >>                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >>                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >>        Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 18:38:08 +0100 >>        From: Willard McCarty >>        Subject: odd chiasmus >> >> >> I am wondering whether anyone here knows of a study of or >> commentary on a phenomenon of which I have 3 instances from the history >> of computing: at the very moment when a development has come to >> fruition those most closely concerned turn away. The instances are these: >> >> 1. Tools for word-study vs scholars' interests >> >> In his British Library lecture, Anthony Kenny cites the classicist >> Robert Connor's observation that "Computer technology became available >> precisely at the wrong moment in the profession's development. The era >> of traditional lexical and textual studies had largely passed..." when >> the tools to pursue such studies better than ever before arrived on the >> scene. Kenny suggests that scholars might have reacted adversely to >> "quantification invading their own subject [offering] no escape from >> those wretched numbers" (pp. 9-10). Hence their rejection. >> >> 2. Tools for construction vs constructivism in art >> >> Richard Wright, in "From System to Software: Computer Programming and >> the Death of Constructivist Art", in White Heat Cold Logic, asks about >> the artistic movement known as Constructivism, why it "should have >> declined precisely at the point at which the 'programmatic' seemed to >> reach its fullest potential for expression: the programming of the >> digital computer" (p. 120). He leaves the question open. >> >> 3. Disembodiment of information vs materiality of texts >> >> Alan Galey, in "The Human Presence in Digital Artefacts", in Text and >> Genre in Reconstruction (forthcoming from Open Book Publishers), argues >> that "it should be disquieting to see a deepening separation of material >> form from idealized content in our tools at the very moment when >> literary critics have established the materiality of texts to be >> indispensable to interpretation" (p. 94). >> >> What might we say about these co-incidences? Is there some inclusive >> principle at work here? Are there other examples in the history of the >> digital humanities we might consider? >> >> 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. > > -- > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) > Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian > 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 3 05:05:59 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 06A4C539B1; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 05:05:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6797D53998; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 05:05:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100603050556.6797D53998@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 05:05:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.82 reviewing 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 82. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:13:28 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: reviewing digital scholarship In his Brainstorm article, "Reviewing Digital Scholarship", Stan Katz notes the problem of reviewing born-digital material that is formally distinguishable from books and articles, i.e, primarily digital resources that take the form of databases. He identifies "the more urgent need... for all of the major humanities journals to develop the interest and capacity for reviewing digital scholarship as a matter of course". Let me propose an analogy with which to think about this recommendation. (I must declare at the outset that in this as in so many other areas of scholarship, I only observe what others do.) When, for example, a manuscript scholar publishes an edition, say of the Latin glosses to Martianus Capella's De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury) as manifested in extant 9th-century manuscripts, where is it reviewed? By whom is it reviewed? How? I think the answer to the first question would be, in journals which specialise in manuscript studies, not in journals, say, of early medieval history -- except for any introductory chapters the edition might contain, chapters addressing methods and implications of the study, which might well have appeared in the latter sort of journals. And by whom is the edition reviewed? Best, of course, by someone who had seen some if not many or even all of the manuscripts in question. Otherwise a reviewer who understood the text and the period in which it was glossed might raise questions about surprising results from the work but wouldn't be able to do much more, I'd suppose. And that answers the last question as well -- the edition would have to be reviewed by inspection of the evidence itself, in some cases only by seeing the actual manuscripts concerned. There's also the problem of time. Working in manuscript studies is a slow business, and one can expect an edition to be properly appreciated only after quite a long time has elapsed, during which it has been used and so its subtleties appreciated. So, my question about digital resources, i.e. databases and the like. Who will be able to get down to where the decisions are embedded in software? What sort of discussion would this getting down entail? Who would be able to understand it? And so in what sort of publication would it appear? How is this going to happen quickly enough that the review, when it appears, still addresses something people use? Who will be able to afford the time it takes to review a resource properly, critically? Does this mean, then, that historians, say, must take the technical work and all those embedded decisions on faith? I ask here the question that John Burrows, for example, asks of work in stylometry: how much confidence can scholars have in the work? I would think (from watching Burrows for some years) that the confidence is built in part from the reasonableness of the conclusions but more from his patient accounts, requiring patience and attention to follow, of how he works, the stages of gradual advance from what we already know toward what we don't. But then with Burrows' sort of work, no one has to travel anywhere, for example to St Petersburg, then negotiate the bureaucracy of the state library, or to the BNF in Paris and be told that he or she has seen a certain manuscript the maximum number of times allowable by the rules. Anyhow, you get the idea. >From all this I conclude, once again, that presenting the digital object isn't enough. One has to present and reflect on the process -- which means among other things paying attention as participant observer while the work is going on. So we're talking here about a different sort of reviewing for a different sort of scholarly object, presenting quite different problems from those encountered previously. If there's anyone here with experience of simulation in the physical sciences, it might be useful to have some commentary on how confidence in simulations is built, where the authority comes from. Partly, I suppose, it would come from the researcher, the lab. How is consensus built up? When one builds a model of what one understands a physical system to be, then turns it loose and observes phenomena not otherwise observable -- say, processes at the centre of a star -- how much can one depend on these (simulated) phenomena? How closely does one resemble Wily E. Coyote, who runs off a cliff and is fine until he looks down? (See e.g. http://viper.haque.net/~timeless/blog/144/coyote-06.jpg or http://libweb5.princeton.edu/Visual_Materials/gallery/animation/jpeg/animation3.jpeg.) 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 3 05:09:11 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 2961F53A9A; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 05:09:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 607E553A88; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 05:09:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100603050908.607E553A88@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 05:09:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.83 reviewing digital scholarship (the first message) X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 83. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 08:04:54 -0400 From: "Stanley N. Katz" Subject: Reviewing Digital Scholarship - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education [Apologies to all those puzzled by the previous message bearing the same title -- this one should have gone out first, indeed yesterday! Anyhow, many here will want (perhaps first) to read Stan Katz's latest in the Brainstorm series, in the Chronicle of Higher Education, "Reviewing Digital Scholarship", for which the URL follows. --WM] http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Reviewing-Digital-Scholarship/24402/ Stanley N. KatzLecturer with the rank of Professor Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies Woodrow Wilson School 428 Robertson Hall Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 Ph: 609-258-5637; Fax: 609-258-1235 Webpage: www.princeton.edu/~snkatz/ Center: www.princeton.edu/~artspol/ CPANDA: www.cpanda.org SNK conf.: www.lapa.princeton.edu/eventdetail.php?ID=44 SNK blog: www.chronicle.com/review/brainstorm/katz _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 3 05:10:08 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 372FC53BCF; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 05:10:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ECE7653B4F; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 05:09:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100603050959.ECE7653B4F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 05:09:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.84 events: summer school in Madrid X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 84. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 20:24:11 +0200 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Digital texts summer school in Madrid Although deadline is tomorrow, this could be of interest to Spanish-speaking students and colleagues. Saludos cordiales Domenico --------------------------------------------------------------------- Se amplía hasta el 4 de junio el plazo para presentar solicitudes de becas para los Cursos de verano de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid http://www.ucm.es/info/cv/matriculainst.html 5-9 de julio 2010 Cursos de verano 2010 Universidad Complutense "El texto digital ante la encrucijada del libro electrónico y del hipertexto" Director: José Manuel Lucía Megías http://www.ucm.es/info/cv/matricula.html http://www.ucm.es/info/romanica/docs/71110.pdf Lunes, 5 DE JULIO EL TEXTO DIGITAL Y EL LIBRO ELECTRÓNICO: BALANCES Y PERSPECTIVAS 10.30 h. José Manuel Lucía Megías Inauguración. Reivindicación del texto digital 12.00 h. Rogelio Blanco Martínez, director general del Libro, Archivos y Bibliotecas, Ministerio de Cultura El lirbo digital en España: un balance 16.30 h. Mesa redonda: Perspectivas económicas del libro digital Modera: José Manuel Lucía Megías. Participan: Mercedes López Suárez; Julio Larrañaga Rubio, profesor titular Facultad de CC de la Comunicación, Universidad Complutense MARTES, 6 DE JULIO LAS BIBLIOTECAS DIGITALES: NUEVOS MODELOS, NUEVOS RETOS 10.00 h. Milagros del Corral, directora general, Biblioteca Nacional de España El boom de las bibliotecas digitales: TEL, Europeana y la Biblioteca Nacional de España 12.00 h. Luis Collado, Strategic Partner Dev. Manager Spain & Portugal, Google España Las bibliotecas digitales generalistas: Google Libros 16.30 h. Mesa redonda: Nuevos modelos de difusión del texto digital: una perspectiva de futuro Modera: José Manuel Lucía Megías. Participan: Milagros del Corral; Luis Collado; José Antonio Magán Walls; director de la Biblioteca, Universidad Complutense MIÉRCOLES, 7 DE JULIO EL LIBRO ELECTRÓNICO: LOS RETOS DEL SECTOR EDITORIAL Y TECNOLÓGICO 10.00 h. Francisco Cuadrado Pérez, Dirección General Global de Ediciones Generales, Grupo Santillana Las plataformas editoriales o la importancia de la difusión digital 16.30 h. Mesa redonda: El sector editorial y tecnológico ante el libro electrónico: una mirada de futuro Modera: Mercedes López Suárez. Participan: Francisco Cuadrado Pérez: Luis Francisco Rodríguez, director general de Publidisa; Ángel María Herrera Burguillo, fundador de Bubok; Carlos Rabazo Márquez, jefe de Área: Proyectos de Innovación, Telefónica JUEVES, 8 DE JULIO LA LITERATURA DIGITAL: NUEVOS MODELOS DE CREACIÓN Y DE LECTURA 10.00 h. Laura Borrás Castanyer, profesora agregada, Universitat de Barcelona La literatura digital: texto, hipertexto, cibertexto en la red 12.00 h. Dolores Romero López, profesora titular, Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense Literatura digital en español: ¿poética de la crisis o crisis de la poética? 16.30 h. Mesa redonda: Literatura digital: creación y reconocimiento Modera: Mercedes López Suárez; Participan: Laura Borrás Castanyer; Dolores Romero López; Doménico Chiappe, escritor independiente VIERNES, 9 DE JULIO EL TEXTO DIGITAL Y EL HIPERTEXTO MÁS ALLÁ DEL LIBRO ELECTRÓNICO 10.00 h. Domenico Fiormonte, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università Roma Tre El humanista digital: propuestas para el siglo XXI 12.00 h. Clausura y entrega de diploma José Manuel Lucía Megías http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/escritores/jmlucia_megias _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 09:31:57 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 51051601B1; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 09:31:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8B3486017D; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 09:31:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100604093150.8B3486017D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 09:31:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.85 reviewing 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 85. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Desmond Schmidt (37) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.82 reviewing digital scholarship [2] From: Elijah Meeks (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.82 reviewing digital scholarship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:23:46 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.82 reviewing digital scholarship In-Reply-To: <20100603050556.6797D53998@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, You raise an interesting question - not about born-digtial texts, but about born-analog ones. I am not aware that any such technical review process has ever taken place. The number of techsperts who could undertake such a review is small, and they are mostly busy helping produce these digital artefacts in the first place. But there is one way that review of technical tools *can* happen: by collaborative development. Tools developed by consensus have by definition an in-built authority of peer review, hopefully to the extent that scholars of texts could concentrate on textual issues without having to first negotiate their way through a smokescreen of technical ones. That's not happening at the moment because the software that is built to enable the web presentation of these texts is mostly not shared or developed collaboratively. And that doesn't happen because people can't agree on the methods for processing and representing them. There needs to be a cleaner separation between the technology and the editorial process. Ideally, one should be able to edit a text without knowing a thing about technology, other than how to point and click in a web browser. At the moment we seem to be far from this goal. >So, my question about digital resources, i.e. databases and the like. >Who will be able to get down to where the decisions are embedded in >software? What sort of discussion would this getting down entail? Who >would be able to understand it? And so in what sort of publication would >it appear? How is this going to happen quickly enough that the review, >when it appears, still addresses something people use? Who will be able >to afford the time it takes to review a resource properly, critically? >Does this mean, then, that historians, say, must take the technical work and >all those embedded decisions on faith? >From all this I conclude, once again, that presenting the digital object >isn't enough. One has to present and reflect on the process -- which means >among other things paying attention as participant observer while the work >is going on. So we're talking here about a different sort of reviewing for a >different sort of scholarly object, presenting quite different problems from >those encountered previously. ------------------------------ Dr Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Information Technology Queensland University of Technology (07)3138-9509 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 09:00:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.82 reviewing digital scholarship In-Reply-To: <714533974.856127.1275580629858.JavaMail.root@zm07.stanford.edu> Willard, I think, when considering the review of digital scholarly media, we must first separate it into its constituent categories, as has been noted numerous times. There are tools, used by humanities scholars, to explore humanities questions. Whether they are tools for improving our bibliographies, or tools for visualizing connections between our agents, or tools for exploring the spatial relationship between phenomena, these are all fundamentally similar when it comes to how we review them in the academy: we don't. It's not important for humanities scholars to try to review tools, when the merits and problems of those tools should be apparent in the traditional, linear narratives that they have helped to produce. Just as very complex and expensive tools are used in the sciences to produce traditional scholarly media (the countless bog of journal articles in the countless boroughs of scientific journals) without the tools themselves being the subject of said media, humanities scholars should be content with using tools as well as discussing new and innovative ways to use them, without trying to become a technical expert on their manufacture or design. Archives, however, are a bit different. Eventually, domain experts in the subject matter being archived--whether as a database or a marked-up text or otherwise--will need to have some degree of literacy with regard to the methods of packaging such knowledge. For now, I think it is incumbent upon the creators of the archives to produce media suitably accessible to domain experts in the subject matter who are not familiar or comfortable with the media in which it is stored. Something like this already occurs, but it is very often only with a highly processed and packaged subset of the data, presented in such a way that the underlying structure is obscured. It's so terribly important that these databases and encoded texts and other digital sources begin to be systematically reviewed that every step should be taken to reduce the barriers to review on the side of the creators, while at the same time a necessary level of literacy must be encouraged among existing experts so that they can properly engage not only with the bits of data being stored but the structures in which that data has been framed. Finally, you mentioned simulations and models, and here I think is the category with the most exciting possibilities. A tool cannot express an argument and a database can only make an ontological one, and as such those types of digital product will always exist in relation to a linear narrative no different than the kind produced in the university for all my lifetime & yours &c as far back as I care to think about it. A model, on the other hand, is an argument, and can very easily be a scholarly humanities argument and in that case would likely contain narrative aspects, but also contain parametric and algorithmic aspects, all of which fellow scholars would need to engage with to criticize or build upon the original. And there's no avoiding the fact that an argument presented in this manner requires a scholar to have some understanding of the way software functions. There's simply no avoiding it, and this mixed system we currently have, wherein some digital humanities scholars are content to experience digital tools and environments, and then step back and make their arguments in linear, narrative fashion, with the occasional picture or map or graph to break up the textual monotone, while they rely on 'experts' to run their tools or build their software, cannot be so vibrant as a community of scholars who can be and are engaged with the digital medium not just as observer but as creator and investigator. Elijah Meeks Digital Humanities Specialist Academic Computing Services Stanford University emeeks@stanford.edu (650)387-6170 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 5 08:07:41 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 62C0F5A4B8; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 08:07:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A570E5A4A7; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 08:07:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100605080738.A570E5A4A7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 08:07:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.86 The Humanities Go Google X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 86. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 13:06:20 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: The Humanities Go Google In-Reply-To: <201006030053.o530rkJb003368@mail.ucla.edu> This should interest you, and I hope it comes as news, not a redundancy...? Jascha Kessler ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Jack Kolb >Date: Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:53 PM >Subject: [ENGemeri] [ENGacsen] [ENGlist] The Humanities Go Google >To: skeptic@lists.johnshopkins.edu May 28, 2010 The Humanities Go Google By Marc Parry Palo Alto, Calif. Matthew L. Jockers may be the first English professor to assign 1,200 novels in one class. Lucky for the students, they don't have to read them. As grunts in Stanford University's new Literature Lab, these students investigate the evolution of literary style by teaming up like biologists and using computer programs to "read" an entire library. It's a controversial vision for changing a field still steeped in individual readers' careful analyses of texts. And it could become a more common way of doing business in the humanities as millions of books are made machine-readable through new tools like Google's digital library. History, literature, language studies: For any discipline where research focuses on books, some experts say, academe is at a computational crossroads. Data-diggers are gunning to debunk old claims based on "anecdotal" evidence and answer once-impossible questions about the evolution of ideas, language, and culture. Critics, meanwhile, worry that these stat-happy quants take the human out of the humanities. Novels aren't commodities like bags of flour, they warn. Cranking words from deeply specific texts like grist through a mill is a recipe for lousy research, they say—and a potential disaster for the profession. The debate over the value of the work at Stanford previews the disciplinary battles that may erupt elsewhere as Big Data bumps into entrenched traditions. It also underscores complications colleges encounter when they pin their digital dreams on a corporation. Authors and publishers have besieged Google's plan to digitize the world's books, accusing the company of copyright infringement. The legal limbo that has tied up a settlement of their lawsuits is hanging a question mark over universities' plans to build centers for research on the books Google scanned from their libraries. Another complication: Worrisome questions remain about the quality of Google's data, which may be less like the library of Alexandria and more like a haphazardly organized used-book shop. But at Stanford, legal and technical headaches may be worth the sweeping rewards of becoming one of perhaps two places in the world to host the greatest digital library ever built. The university is planning to chase that prize—and the prestige, recruitment power, and seminal research that could come with it. So is HathiTrust, a digital library consortium whose leaders include the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Indiana University at Bloomington, and the University of California system. "It's like the invention of the telescope," Franco Moretti, a Stanford professor of English and comparative literature, says of Google Books. "All of a sudden, an enormous amount of matter becomes visible." Once scholars like Mr. Moretti can gaze into those new galaxies, however, they'll have to answer the biggest question of all: So what? Partners in Provocation "Lab" is a generous description for the place where Mr. Moretti and his disciples work on these problems. The research effort he leads with Mr. Jockers, a lecturer and academic-technology specialist in the English department, is housed in an ugly room the size of one professor's office. The lab has no window and nothing on the walls but some whiteboards scrawled with algorithms. Like others itching to peer into Google's unfinished telescope, Mr. Moretti and his colleagues here are honing their methods with home-grown prototypes. One lesson they've learned is you can't do this humanities research the old way: like a monk, alone. You need a team. To sort, interrogate, and interpret roughly 1,000 digital texts, scholars have brought together a data-mining gang drawn from the departments of English, history, and computer science. They're the rare clique of humanities graduate students who work across disciplines and discuss programming languages over beer, an unlikely mix of "techies" and "fuzzies" with enough characters for a reality-TV show. Their backbone is Mr. Jockers, an obsessive tech whiz from Montana who has run a 50-mile race in his spare time and gets so excited talking about text-mining that his knees bob up and down. Mr. Moretti is his more conservative partner in provocation, a vest-and-spectacles-wearing Italian native who tempers Mr. Jockers's excitement with questions and punctuates sentences with his large hands. In their role as Lewis and Clark on the literary frontier, the duo have a penchant for firing shots at the establishment; Mr. Moretti once told The New York Times that their field is in some ways one of "the most backward disciplines in the academy." The idea that animates his vision for pushing the field forward is "distant reading." Mr. Moretti and Mr. Jockers say scholars should step back from scrutinizing individual texts to probe whole systems by counting, mapping, and graphing novels. And not just famous ones. New insights can be gleaned by shining a spotlight into the "cellars of culture" beneath the small portion of works that are typically studied, Mr. Moretti believes. He has pointed out that the 19-century British heyday of Dickens and Austen, for example, saw the publication of perhaps 20,000 or 30,000 novels—the huge majority of which are never studied. The problem with this "great unread" is that no human can sift through it all. "It just puts out of work most of the tools that we have developed in, what, 150 years of literary theory and criticism," Mr. Moretti says. "We have to replace them with something else." Something else, to him, means methods from linguistics and statistical analysis. His Stanford team takes the Hardys and the Austens, the Thackerays and the Trollopes, and tosses their masterpieces into a database that contains hundreds of lesser novels. Then they cast giant digital nets into that megapot of words, trawling around like intelligence agents hunting for patterns in the chatter of terrorists. Learning the algorithms that stitch together those nets is not typically part of an undergraduate English education, as several grad students point out over pastries in the lab one recent morning. "It's hard to teach English Ph.D. students how to code," says Kathryn VanArendonk, 25, a ponytailed Victorianist whose remark draws knowing chuckles from others. But the hardest thing to program is themselves. Most aren't trained to think like scientists. A control group? To study novels? How do you come up with pointed research questions? And how do you know if you've got valid evidence to make a claim? One of the more interesting claims the group is working on is about how novels evolved over the 19th century from preachy tales that told readers how to behave to stories that conveyed ideas by showing action. On a whiteboard, Long Le-Khac, 26, sketches how their computational tools can spit out evidence for the change: the decline of abstract conceptual words like "integrity," "loyalty," "truthfulness." Mr. Jockers chimes in with the "So what?" point behind this chart: The data are important because scholars can use these macro trends to pinpoint evolutionary mutants like Sir Walter Scott. "It's very tantalizing to think that you could study an author effect," Mr. Jockers says. "So that there's this author who comes on the scene and does something, and that perpetuates these ripples in the pond of prose." What they have right now is more like a teaspoon of prose. To achieve what they really want—the ability to make generalizations about all of literature without generalizing, because they are supported by data—what they need is a much larger archive. An archive like Google's. The Library If Google Books is like a haphazardly organized used-book shop, as one university provost has described it, Daniel J. Clancy is its suitably rumpled proprietor. The freckled former leader of an information-technology research organization at NASA is now engineering director of Google Books. He works a few miles down the road from Mr. Jockers on a surreal corporate campus that feels like it was designed by students high on LSD: lava lamps, pool tables, massage parlors, balloons, gourmet grub, a British-style red phone booth, doors that lead nowhere, and rafters hung with a toy snake. A proposed settlement he negotiated with authors and publishers would permit the use of millions of in-copyright works owned by universities for "nonconsumptive" computational research, meaning large-scale data analysis that is not focused on reading texts. Mr. Clancy would turn over the keys to his bookshop, plus $5-million, to one or two centers created for this work—the centers that Stanford and others hope to host. "It's pretty simple," he says. "We'll give them all the books." Mr. Clancy says this with the no-big-deal breeziness of someone who works for a Silicon Valley empire of nearly 21,000 employees, one whose products creep into every media business. But for scholars, those three words—"all the books"—are a new world. The digital content available to them until now has been hit or miss, and usually miss, says John M. Uns­worth, dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, one of the partners in the HathiTrust consortium. Google has changed the landscape. Pouring hundreds of millions into digitization, the company did in a few years what Mr. Unsworth believes would have taken libraries decades: It has digitized over 12 million books in over 300 languages, more than 10 percent of all the books printed since Gutenberg. "We haven't had digitized collections at a scale that would really encourage people broadly—across literary studies and English, say—to pick up computational methods and grapple with collections in new ways," Mr. Unsworth says. "And we're about to now." But here's the rub. Google Books, as others point out, wasn't really built for research. It was built to create more content to sell ads against. And it was built thinking that people would read one book at a time. That means Google Books didn't come with the interfaces scholars need for vast data manipulation. And it isn't marked with rigorous metadata, a term for information about each book, like author, date, and genre. Back in August 2009, Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist who teaches at the University of California at Berkeley's School of Information, wrote an article for The Chronicle that declared Google's metadata a "train wreck." The tags remain a "mess" today, he says. When scholars start trying large-scale projects on Google Books, he predicts, they'll have to engage in lots of hand-checking and hand-correction of the results, "because you can't trust these things." Classification is particularly awful, he adds. A book's type—fiction, reference, etc.—is key information for a scholar like Mr. Jockers, who can't track changes in fiction if he doesn't know which books are novels. "The average book before 1970 at Google Books is misclassified," Mr. Nunberg says. Mr. Clancy counters that Google has made "a ton of progress" improving the data, a claim backed up by Jean-Baptiste Michel, a Harvard systems-biology graduate student with intensive experience using the corpus for research. Mr. Clancy also points out that the metadata come from libraries and reflect the quality of those sources. Many of the problems always existed, he says. It's just that people didn't know they existed, because they didn't have Google's full text search to find the mislabeled books in the first place. And Google is finally opening its virtual stacks to digital humanists, with a new research program whose grant winners are expected to be announced by the end of May. But don't expect text-mining to sweep the humanities overnight. Or possibly ever. "There are still a tremendous number of historians, for example, that are really doing very traditional history and will be," says Clifford A. Lynch, director of the Coalition for Networked information. "What you may very well see is that this becomes a more commonly accepted tool but not necessarily the center of the work of many people." A Clash of Methodologies As the humanities struggle with financial stress and waning student interest, some worry that the lure of money and technology will increasingly push computation front and center. Katie Trumpener, a professor of comparative literature and English at Yale University who has jousted with Mr. Moretti in the journal Critical Inquiry, considers the Stanford scholar a deservedly influential original thinker. But what happens when his "dullard" descendants take up "distant reading" for their research? "If the whole field did that, that would be a disaster," she says, one that could yield a slew of insignificant numbers with "jumped-up claims about what they mean." Novels are deeply specific, she argues, and the field has traditionally valued brilliant interpreters who create complex arguments about how that specificity works. When you treat novels as statistics, she says, the results can be misleading, because the reality of what you might include as a novel or what constitutes a genre is more slippery than a crude numerical picture can portray. And then there's the question of whether transferring the lab model to a discipline like literary studies really works. Ms. Trumpener is dubious. Twenty postdocs carrying out one person's vision? She fears an "academia on autopilot," generating lots of research "without necessarily sharp critical intelligences guiding every phase of it." Her skepticism is nothing new for the mavericks in Mr. Moretti's lab. When presenting work, they often face the same question: "What does this tell me that what we can't already do?" Their answer is that computers won't destroy interpretation. They'll ground it in a new type of evidence. Still, sitting in his darkened office, Mr. Moretti is humble enough to admit those "cellars of culture" could contain nothing but duller, blander, stupider examples of what we already know. He throws up his hands. "It's an interesting moment of truth for me," he says. Mr. Jockers is less modest. In the lab, as the day winds down and chatter turns to what might be the next hot trend in literary studies, he taps his laptop and jackhammers his knee up and down. "We're it," he says. http://chronicle.com/article/The-Humanities-Go-Google/65713/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en -- 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 Sat Jun 5 08:08:11 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 04AEC5A704; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 08:08:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 58F455A4D4; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 08:08:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100605080809.58F455A4D4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 08:08:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.87 the Balisage Contest 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. 24, No. 87. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:17:04 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Balisage contest Forwarded on behalf of the Balisage conference committee, with apologies for cross-posting. Note that one does not have to attend the conference in order to compete. ======================================================== 05/18/10 Balisage 2010 Contest - Solve the Modern Tower of Babel As part of the Balisage 2010 Conference, MarkLogic has put forth a challenge in the form of a contest. The goal of the contest is to encourage markup experts to review and to research the current state of wiki markup languages and to generate a proposal that serves to de-babelize the current state of affairs for the long haul. Wikis: tower-of-babel Solve the modern tower of babel Contest Description: In the past few decades, as a planet, we've succeeded tremendously in standardizing a number of technologies (yay us!). Wiki technology (other than its underlying use of web technologies as a platform) is not solidly in this list. There is a lot of content available today in a variety of wiki syntaces. This syntax is not standardized. Some argue it shouldn't be. Go beyond the existing debates, diatribes, and arguments. Put us on a practical track to fixing this and ensuring we will have access to this content for the long haul. To enter, you must propose a set of concrete steps (organizational, social, and/or technological) that will enable wiki content interchange, a real WYSIWYG editor, and/or wiki syntax standardization. Entries will be evaluated based on criteria that includes: * How well does the entry understand the current state of the art? * How well does the entry identify key stake holders and actors (including history, motivation, and so on) * Is the entry clear on its objectives? (The summary allows for some variance here). * Is the approach/vision elegant, clever, or mind-changing? * Are the set of steps actionable and implementable? Guidelines, rules, and prize: 1. Please no more than 10000 words. 2. Entries should be submitted by July 15th to: balisage-2010-contest at marklogic dot com 3. Author(s) retains copyright and grants MarkLogic a non-exclusive license to publish the winning entry. 4. The winner will be announced on August 3rd at the conference and will take home a choice of * Apple 15" (i5) MacBook Pro * Apple MacBook Air or * USD $2000 5. The winner will be strongly encouraged (but not required) to give a brief summary (~10 minutes) of their winning entry at the conference on August 3rd. 6. Employees of MarkLogic are not eligible. 7. Judges decision is final. 8. Contest-related questions may also be submitted to: balisage-2010-contest at marklogic dot com. ======================================================== ====================================================================== 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 Jun 5 08:09:35 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 CC9765AB66; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 08:09:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 45EED5AABD; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 08:09:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100605080934.45EED5AABD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 08:09:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.88 Digital Humanities 2010, 7-10 July X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 88. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 17:17:57 +0100 From: "Short, Harold" Subject: Digital Humanities 2010 Conference 7-10 July Digital Humanities 2010 Conference The annual international Digital Humanities 2010 (DH2010) conference will take place at King's College London 7-10 July 2010, hosted by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) and the Centre for e-Research (CeRch). A special registration fee of £90 has been set for KCL and other University of London staff. The digital humanities is a relatively recent area of disciplinary engagement. Its central preoccupation is the scholarship that is made possible by the use of advanced technologies (in particular information and communications technologies - ICT) in research and teaching in the Arts and Humanities - and Social Sciences. The conference will be attended by over 300 delegates from around the world - from 24 countries in five continents. The academic programme consists of papers, panels and posters covering a very wide range of topics in: research in language, literature, history, classical studies, music and the arts; the changing roles of libraries and archives; information analysis and modelling; the cultural impact of new forms of cultural expression; visualisation in 2 and 3 dimensions; digital humanities in the curriculum. There will be three plenary speakers, whose presentations will be advertised as public lectures. The theme of DH2010 is 'Cultural expression, old and new'. In support of this, the conference will have a strong 'Performance' strand, including two art installations in the Great Hall: an inter-active artwork devised by Ele Carpenter as part of her Open Source Embroidery project, based on comments by Ada Lovelace; and a digital art installation by Michael Magruder, who is an integral part of the King's Visualisation Lab, which is part of CCH. Full details of the conference may be found on the conference website at dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk. You can register by following the link in the Registration section to the conference admin system, ConfTool. There is a quick and easy process to set up a ConfTool account the first time you use it. In registering, make sure you select the University of London Staff category in order to benefit from the specially reduced rate. 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 5 08:12:30 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 A54265AFEC; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 08:12:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7AD0F5AFE3; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 08:12:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100605081228.7AD0F5AFE3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 08:12:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.89 events: textual scholarship; music IR; ancient geography X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 89. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "J. Stephen Downie" (50) Subject: MIREX 2010 Submission System is Now Open [2] From: Peter Robinson (21) Subject: ESTS conference, Pisa: extended deadline to 11 June [3] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (30) Subject: Unearthing Structure in Ptolemy's Geography (seminar) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 17:49:04 -0500 From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: MIREX 2010 Submission System is Now Open Greetings all: The 2010 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) submission system is now open. This will be the 6th iteration of MIREX. We are looking forward to the most rewarding MIREX yet. Over the past 6 years MIREX has evaluated over 750 MIR algorithm runs on a wide variety of music-related tasks. There is a good chance that we might break the 1000 cumulative runs barrier this year! The MIREX plenary and poster sessions will be convened on Wednesday, 11 August 2010 as part of the 11th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval(ISMIR) in Utrecht, Netherlands, from August 9th to 13th, 2010 (http://ismir2010.ismir.net/). We have created a new submission system with new submission procedures for this year. Because of this, it is important that you take some time to review the documentation carefully. We will be following up this message early next week with information about deadlines. Like last year, we will have rolling deadlines. However, do note that ISMIR is in early August. This means that we need to begin running algorithms as soon as possible. The first two deadlines will involve the Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval (AMS) and the Symbolic Melodic Similarity (SMS) tasks as both of these will require further human evaluation via the famous Evalutron 6000 system. If you have general questions, feel free to post them to the EvalFest list . Specific problem requests can be made to the MIREX team via . Please begin the submission process by visiting: http://music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2010:MIREX_2010_Submission_Instructions Special comment: We are REQUIRING that EACH person involved in a MIREX 2010 submission MUST create an identity for themselves on the submission system. Identities are important to us as they help us better manage the submissions. Even if a colleague of yours is going to do the actual submitting, you still need to create an identity for yourself in the system. We have a video that will help you make better sense of this. So, even if you are not going to be the submitter, could can help your colleagues immensely by creating an identity for yourself on the system as soon as possible. Until the final 2010 results are published, this will be the last MIREX 2010 message cross-posted. All further communications from MIREX Central will be made via the EvalFest list. 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 10:32:06 +0100 From: Peter Robinson Subject: ESTS conference, Pisa: extended deadline to 11 June In-Reply-To: A<43AAA514.1080101@arts.kuleuven.be> Dear everyone We have received a pleasing number of proposals for the ESTS conference in Pisa/Florence November 25-2, this year. However, we still have spaces for a few more proposals, preferably on the conference theme of 'Texts worth editing'. Possible participants should note that the conference is excellent value: we keep the registration fee low (likely only €50), accommodation in Pisa is plentiful and cheap, even without the special deal we have arranged. The call text is: All text editing begins with a choice: what text to edit. How do we choose the text we edit? Are all texts worth editing, simply because they are texts? Even once we have chosen what we are to edit, further choices lie ahead of us. If a text exists in many versions, and in many documents: are all versions, and all documents, equally worthy of editing? If we choose to focus on a particular version, or a particular document, how do we make this choice, and how do we justify it to others? Once we have made these decisions: choices of method will also be affected by perceptions of value. Should we publish the full text of a particular version or document; or publish its variants only, in an apparatus? and if we choose to publish variants only: what are our criteria to determine which variants are worth publishing? The programme chairs invite the submission of full panels or individual papers devoted to the discussion of current research into the different aspects of textual work, preferably focusing on the topics mentioned above. Proposals and abstracts (250 words) should be submitted electronically to: Peter Robinson, p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk, by 11 June 2010. The full call is at http://www.textualscholarship.eu/conference-2010.html. Proposals should be emailed to me (not to the list, please!) best wishes Peter 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 ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:45:12 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Unearthing Structure in Ptolemy's Geography (seminar) In-Reply-To: A<43AAA514.1080101@arts.kuleuven.be> Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010 Friday June 4th at 16:30 STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Leif Isaksen (Southampton) 'Reading Between the Lines: unearthing structure in Ptolemy’s Geography' *ALL WELCOME* Ever since Ptolemy’s 'Geography' was rediscovered in 1295, scholars have noted that it is troublingly inconsistent both internally and with the environment in which it was supposedly compiled. Two new techniques by which this long-standing problem in the history of mapping can be approached will be presented. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For the full programme see: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html (This seminar combines archaeology, computering, ancient history and geography; interdisciplinary interests should be especially well catered for.) -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher, Digital Classicist, Pirate) 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 Sun Jun 6 08:27:08 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 406E755BF3; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 08:27:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6C15A55BDB; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 08:27:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100606082706.6C15A55BDB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 08:27:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.90 humanities go Google X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 90. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 05:51:00 -0600 From: Mark Davies Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.86 The Humanities Go Google In-Reply-To: <20100605080738.A570E5A4A7@woodward.joyent.us> http://chronicle.com/article/The-Humanities-Go-Google/65713/ The Humanities Go Google By Marc Parry Palo Alto, Calif. >> Matthew L. Jockers may be the first English professor to assign 1,200 novels in one class... No slight in the least to Matt, who I know is doing great work with DH. But this entire "Chronicle of Higher Education" article seems a bit strange to me (but maybe it's just because the majority of articles from the Chronicle seem strange / misguided to me in general :-). The article makes it sound like the students at Stanford are the first to use hundreds of millions of words in text archives or corpora to look at language change and variation. Probably a surprise to the Chronicle, but those of us in corpus linguistics have been doing this for 20-25 years. Two quick examples: -- The recently released alpha version of the 400 million word, NEH-funded Corpus of *Historical* American English (COHA; http://corpus.byu.edu/coha) has already begun to be used in ways that are at least as developed as the work at Stanford. For example, this past semester, the students in an undergraduate "capstone" course in English used the corpus to look at a wide range of linguistic shifts in American English during the past 200 years, including lexical, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change, relationship of lexical change to historical and cultural shifts, etc. The 200+ projects created by these students are online at the corpus website. In this case, they are using *140,000* texts (not just 1,200) from a wide range of genres (not just fiction) from the 1810s-2000s. -- The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA; http://www.americancorpus.org) is composed of more than 400 million words in 160,000+ texts from 1990-2009, and it is used by about 55,000 *unique* users each month, many of them linguists and many in literary studies. Since it was released in 2008, it has been used as the basis for more than a hundred academic papers, journal articles, theses, etc. In addition, it is the only tool that allows researchers to look in-depth at ongoing change in a wide range of genres, dealing with many different types of change (lexical, morphological, syntactic, semantic) -- see the LLC article to appear in 1-2 months. The Google books-based work at Stanford is exciting. However, because of the simplistic architecture and query interface used for typical Google-like queries, it cannot do (at all, or easily) a number of types of searches that can be done in 1-2 seconds with an architecture of a structured corpus like COCA and COHA: -- find the frequency of a word, morpheme, syntactic construction, or collocates (for word meaning), decade by decade or year by year. Google News archive and Google books *can* show the frequency over time, but in far too many cases, the book/article is not really *from* that year, but rather just *refers to* that year in the book or article, so the frequency data is useless. -- search by substring, to find variation and change with word roots, suffixes, etc (e.g. the frequency of all adjectives with the suffix *ble, decade by decade during the last 200 years) -- search by grammatical tag, to do syntax (prescriptive or descriptive) (e.g. the rise of "going to V", who/whom in particular contexts, changes in relative pronouns, etc etc) -- search by collocates, to see semantic change (e.g. using collocates to see new meanings or uses for words like engine, gay, green, or terrific) -- use the integrated thesaurus and customized lists to look at semantically-driven change (e.g. all phrases related to a "family member" (mother, sister, etc) talking in a particular way (synonyms of a given verb) to someone else in the family. With a Google-like approach, you are typically looking just at *exact strings* of words. -- limit and order the results by frequency in a given set of decades, and compare these (e.g. adjectives near "woman" in the 1880s-1920s compared to the 1960s-2000s, or which of the 20-30 synonyms of [beautiful] were much more common in the 1800s than in the 1900s (with a single one second search) Again, all of these are doable in 1-2 seconds with a full-featured corpus architecture and interface like that of COCA or COHA, but they would be difficult or impossible with a simplistic Google-like architecture. So while the work by Matt and colleagues is in fact quite impressive, it would have been nice if the Chronicle had done at least the minimum in terms of research to see that many, many others have already been doing similar research for a long time now. 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 Sun Jun 6 08:27:52 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 DC5F955C9C; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 08:27:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8674055C90; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 08:27:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100606082751.8674055C90@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 08:27:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.91 new book on Google 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 91. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:21:30 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new book on Google Books Many here will be interested in a newly published book on Google Books, Peter Batke's Google Book Search and Its Critics, available from Lulu in print and freely downloadable from http://www.lulu.com/browse/search.php?fListingClass=0&fSearch=batke. Some here will remember Peter, who at one time worked in CIT at Princeton (http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/), before then at Johns Hopkins, before then at Duke, and was active in humanities computing on the North American scene. He now lives in Austria. 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 Jun 7 07:32:24 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 6E88F559C3; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 07:32:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9A27E559AF; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 07:32:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100607073222.9A27E559AF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 07:32:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.92 humanities go Google X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 92. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 07:27:02 -0700 From: Matthew Jockers Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.90 humanities go Google In-Reply-To: <20100606082706.6C15A55BDB@woodward.joyent.us> I second Mark's remarks here. This is a point I make over an over again with my students and colleagues. Were it not for the work done by the computational linguists and especially the nlp folks, our lab group would still be trying to figure out how to install Java. Having said that, I'd add that we do have different agendas and different questions. That we have not done with purely literary language what the linguists have done with language in general (at the corpus level I mean) is for me a bit shocking (but also a great opportunity for our lab to explore some new territory). We are constantly leveraging the work of our colleagues in linguistics and are beginning now to utilize some of the linguistic corpora as controls for our work analyzing literary writing. Matt On Jun 6, 2010, at 1:27 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 90. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 05:51:00 -0600 > From: Mark Davies > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.86 The Humanities Go Google > In-Reply-To: <20100605080738.A570E5A4A7@woodward.joyent.us> > > http://chronicle.com/article/The-Humanities-Go-Google/65713/ > > The Humanities Go Google > By Marc Parry > Palo Alto, Calif. >>> Matthew L. Jockers may be the first English professor to assign 1,200 novels in one class... > > No slight in the least to Matt, who I know is doing great work with DH. But this entire "Chronicle of Higher Education" article seems a bit strange to me (but maybe it's just because the majority of articles from the Chronicle seem strange / misguided to me in general :-). > > The article makes it sound like the students at Stanford are the first to use hundreds of millions of words in text archives or corpora to look at language change and variation. Probably a surprise to the Chronicle, but those of us in corpus linguistics have been doing this for 20-25 years. Two quick examples: > > -- The recently released alpha version of the 400 million word, NEH-funded Corpus of *Historical* American English (COHA; http://corpus.byu.edu/coha) has already begun to be used in ways that are at least as developed as the work at Stanford. For example, this past semester, the students in an undergraduate "capstone" course in English used the corpus to look at a wide range of linguistic shifts in American English during the past 200 years, including lexical, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change, relationship of lexical change to historical and cultural shifts, etc. The 200+ projects created by these students are online at the corpus website. In this case, they are using *140,000* texts (not just 1,200) from a wide range of genres (not just fiction) from the 1810s-2000s. > > -- The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA; http://www.americancorpus.org) is composed of more than 400 million words in 160,000+ texts from 1990-2009, and it is used by about 55,000 *unique* users each month, many of them linguists and many in literary studies. Since it was released in 2008, it has been used as the basis for more than a hundred academic papers, journal articles, theses, etc. In addition, it is the only tool that allows researchers to look in-depth at ongoing change in a wide range of genres, dealing with many different types of change (lexical, morphological, syntactic, semantic) -- see the LLC article to appear in 1-2 months. > > The Google books-based work at Stanford is exciting. However, because of the simplistic architecture and query interface used for typical Google-like queries, it cannot do (at all, or easily) a number of types of searches that can be done in 1-2 seconds with an architecture of a structured corpus like COCA and COHA: > > -- find the frequency of a word, morpheme, syntactic construction, or collocates (for word meaning), decade by decade or year by year. Google News archive and Google books *can* show the frequency over time, but in far too many cases, the book/article is not really *from* that year, but rather just *refers to* that year in the book or article, so the frequency data is useless. > > -- search by substring, to find variation and change with word roots, suffixes, etc (e.g. the frequency of all adjectives with the suffix *ble, decade by decade during the last 200 years) > > -- search by grammatical tag, to do syntax (prescriptive or descriptive) (e.g. the rise of "going to V", who/whom in particular contexts, changes in relative pronouns, etc etc) > > -- search by collocates, to see semantic change (e.g. using collocates to see new meanings or uses for words like engine, gay, green, or terrific) > > -- use the integrated thesaurus and customized lists to look at semantically-driven change (e.g. all phrases related to a "family member" (mother, sister, etc) talking in a particular way (synonyms of a given verb) to someone else in the family. With a Google-like approach, you are typically looking just at *exact strings* of words. > > -- limit and order the results by frequency in a given set of decades, and compare these (e.g. adjectives near "woman" in the 1880s-1920s compared to the 1960s-2000s, or which of the 20-30 synonyms of [beautiful] were much more common in the 1800s than in the 1900s (with a single one second search) > > Again, all of these are doable in 1-2 seconds with a full-featured corpus architecture and interface like that of COCA or COHA, but they would be difficult or impossible with a simplistic Google-like architecture. > > So while the work by Matt and colleagues is in fact quite impressive, it would have been nice if the Chronicle had done at least the minimum in terms of research to see that many, many others have already been doing similar research for a long time now. > > 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 Mon Jun 7 07:33:39 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 24C1255A93; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 07:33:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 91D9755A82; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 07:33:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100607073337.91D9755A82@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 07:33:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.93 knowledge from belief 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. 24, No. 93. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 15:45:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Francois Lachance Subject: knowledge generation from belief Willard, The protagonist of Ursula K. LeGuin's _The Telling_ comes to realize by novel's end that "belief is the wound that knowledge heals". It is a fine saying. It is also an invitation to an exercise. I wonder what subscribers to Humanist "believe" about Humanities Computing. And how such beliefs compose the pathways to knowledge. ***** I pondered for a while what I believe about Humanities Computing. I came to the realization that I believe that the scholars at work in Humanities Computing will achieve breakthroughs at the point there is more general attention played to the topology of textual (both verbal and non-verbal) representations. As the discipline becomes more conversannt with geometry it will make truly unique contributions. The discipline is now able to use computing to demark locations. However as Leonard Mlodinow writes in _Euclid's Window_ "The real power of a theory of locations resides in the ability to relate different locations, paths, and shapes to each other, and to manipulate them employing equations -- in the unification of geometry and algebra." I believe that Humanities Computing needs to devote itself to shape-shifting. --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 Jun 8 08:55:43 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 95A6154F80; Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:55:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 903BC54F4D; Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:55:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100608085541.903BC54F4D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:55:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.94 archiving 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 94. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:09:59 -0500 From: Alan Corre Subject: Humanist 24.82 reviewing digital scholarship I recently received an email from the Library of Congress requesting permission to "collect" my web site on Lingua Franca and place it in its historic collections of Internet materials. I responded positively to this request. I was not previously aware of this activity, namely the collection of "born-digital" materials. I will append the letter I received, omitting only some technical details about giving the permission. Further information may be found at http://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/. I started my Lingua Franca site shortly after my university made access to the web available to faculty members and students. I published there some of my own researches, and found that others started to offer me contributions, with the result that the site gradually grew to its present size, and is still increasing. I am grateful for the opportunity to have these materials perpetuated, since I long feared that on my death someone at the computer center would push a button and blow the whole thing away. One wonders how they manage to find and evaluate appropriate materials among the billions of web sites that exist, but I certainly appreciate their initiative. Alan D. Corre Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee *** [copy, slightly abridged] The United States Library of Congress has selected your Web site for inclusion in its historic collections of Internet materials. The Library's traditional functions, acquiring, cataloging, preserving and serving collection materials of historical importance to the Congress and to the American people to foster education and scholarship, extend to digital materials, including Web sites. We request your permission to collect your web site and add it to the Library's research collections. The following URL has been selected: https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/corre/www/franca/go.html With your permission, the Library of Congress or its agent will engage in the collection of content from your Web site at regular intervals over time and make this collection available to researchers both onsite at Library facilities and though the Library's public Web site http://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/. The Library hopes that you share its vision of preserving Internet materials and permitting researchers from across the world to access them. Our Web Archives are important because they contribute to the historical record, capturing information that could otherwise be lost. With the growing role of the Web as an influential medium, records of historic events could be considered incomplete without materials that were "born digital" and never printed on paper. For more information about these Web Archive collections, please visit our Web site (http://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/). If you have questions, comments or recommendations concerning the web archiving of your site please e-mail the Library's Web Archiving team at webcapture@loc.gov at your earliest convenience. Thank You. Web Archiving Team webcapture@loc.gov http://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/ Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 8 08:59:28 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 E6A8F550F2; Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:59:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8F23D550E1; Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:59:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100608085926.8F23D550E1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:59:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.95 Canadian grants; British job X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 95. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Simon Mahony (53) Subject: Job opportunity at the Petrie Museum London. [2] From: Ray Siemens (15) Subject: SSHRC announcement: Knowledge Synthesis Grants on the Digital Economy --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 10:04:57 +0100 From: Simon Mahony Subject: Job opportunity at the Petrie Museum London. Job opportunity at the Petrie Museum: tinyurl.com/27lhsfa Research Associate - Networked 3D Design Application for Museums, - Ref:1141523 UCL Department / Division, Museums and Collections, Specific unit / Sub department The Petrie Museum Grade 7 Hours:Full Time Salary: (inclusive of London allowance) £31,778-£38,441 per annum Duties and Responsibilities The Petrie Museum is a leader in the area of web access. It was one of the first museums to make its entire catalogue accessible online and is currently involved in a number of projects aimed at supplementing its catalogue with 3D content. The Museum has received funding to create an online 3D interactive museum where multiple users can work together from remote locations to create museum displays and exhibitions. The Research Associate will be responsible for creating a 3D interactive application that will allow users to construct display spaces, organise images of objects from the Petrie collection into these spaces and prepare accompanying interpretative labels. The objective of this project is to have a pilot of the 3D interactive museum ready for evaluation by March 2011. The post is full time for 9 months in the first instance, start date July 2010. Key Requirements A good first degree or post-graduate qualification in computer science is essential, as is knowledge of computer graphics techniques, web tecnologies and websites. The ability to develop software and to analyse and write up data is needed. Effective verbal and written communication skills are important, allowing the applicant to present complex information to a range of audiences. The applicant should excel at working to deadlines whilst having an eye for accuracy and detail. The applicant will ideally have experience of working in a research environment with graphics oriented programmes such as C++ and Open GL. They should have experience in deploying interactive 2D and 3D graphics on websites and in developing software requirements with customers. Finally, the applicant should be committed to high quality research, be able to work collabaratively and as part of a team in a research community, be confident working unsupervised, self motivated and able to use their initiative. Further Details A job description and person specification can be accessed at the bottom of this page. To apply for the vacancy please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button below. If you have any queries regarding the vacancy or the application process, please contact Lauren Sadler, l.sadler@ucl.ac.uk 0207 679 2540. -- 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 20:02:57 +0100 From: Ray Siemens Subject: SSHRC announcement: Knowledge Synthesis Grants on the Digital Economy [FYI for non-Canadians; FYA (For Your Action) for Canadians. --WM] Members of our community will be interested in the following.... Knowledge Synthesis Grants on the Digital Economy http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/knowledge_synthesis_economy-synthese_connaissance_economie-eng.aspx Canada’s ability to succeed in the digital economy will be a key determinant of its success as a society in the 21st century. The digital triangle of technologies, content and literacies is now framing almost every activity in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, and in society at large. The ability to connect virtually using digital technologies, to access relevant information and knowledge, and to use digital content effectively and appropriately, increasingly enables businesses, governments and institutions to innovate, boost their productivity and reach across Canada and around the world. In the emerging digital age, we are changing our approach to learning, to the nature of work, and to the ways in which services are delivered, citizens interact, access and share knowledge, and cultural goods are produced and exchanged. The Government of Canada is holding a broad consultation to help develop a national digital economy strategy, as indicated in the Speech from the Throne. The consultation is based on a consultation paper, Improving Canada’s Digital Advantage: Strategies for Sustainable Prosperity, that has been released jointly by the Minister of Industry, the Minister of Heritage and the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. From the public and private sectors to non-governmental organizations, academia and volunteer organizations, to students, consumers and citizens—we all have a vested interest in a dynamic and flourishing digital economy. A strong digital economy will be the backbone of Canada’s future prosperity and success. Consequently, we all have a role to play in shaping the future of this key part of our economy and our lives. The social sciences and humanities have a wealth of knowledge and expertise to bring to bear on our understanding of all the critical dimensions of the digital world, be they economic, social or cultural. From literature to philosophy, from sociology to political science, from communications to design, from law to management and education, Canadian researchers are leading global networks in collaboration with colleagues across campuses and partners in the private and public sectors, to build knowledge and influence policy and practice in business and organizations. These researchers also train the highly qualified people who will supply our knowledge industries and perform at the interface of social sciences, humanities and technologies, giving Canada the edge in this new era. They are essential to our understanding of the profound changes taking place now and into the future, and to developing the approaches and policies that Canada needs to prosper, to compete globally, and to sustain an innovative and creative society. In this context, SSHRC is launching a funding opportunity to enable the synthesis of knowledge and to help identify research opportunities in key areas related to the digital economy. This initiative is not intended to provide direct input into the national consultation on the digital economy, which ends on July 9, 2010. The knowledge and insights resulting from this initiative aim to advance discussions and knowledge exchange into the future. -- La capacité du Canada d’occuper une place de choix au sein de l’économie numérique constituera un élément déterminant de sa prospérité au cours du 21esiècle. Le trio numérique formé par les technologies, le contenu et l’alphabétisation oriente désormais toutes les activités des secteurs public, privé et sans but lucratif ainsi que de la société en général. La capacité de se connecter sur le plan virtuel, d’utiliser des technologies numériques, d’avoir accès à des renseignements pertinents et d’utiliser un contenu numérique de façon efficace permet de plus en plus aux entreprises, aux gouvernements et aux établissements d’innover, d’augmenter leur productivité ainsi que d’avoir un impact sur le Canada et le reste du monde. En cette nouvelle époque numérique, nous modifions notre approche de l’apprentissage, de la nature du travail ainsi que de la manière dont les services sont offerts, dont les citoyens interagissent et partagent des connaissances et dont les biens culturels sont produits et échangés. Le gouvernement du Canada tient actuellement une vaste consultation visant l’élaboration d’une stratégie nationale liée à l’économie numérique, comme cela est indiqué dans le discours du Trône. Ce processus de consultation s’inspire d’un document de consultation intitulé Accroître l’avantage numérique du Canada : stratégies pour une prospérité durable, qui a conjointement été publié par le ministre de l’Industrie, le ministre du Patrimoine canadien ainsi que le ministre de Ressources humaines et Développement des compétences Canada. Toutes les parties intéressées – qu’il s’agisse des secteurs public et privé, d’organismes non gouvernementaux, universitaires ou bénévoles, d’étudiants, de consommateurs ou de citoyens – ont un intérêt particulier pour une économie numérique dynamique et florissante. Le fait que celle-ci soit solide constituera la base de la prospérité du Canada, donc nous avons tous un rôle à jouer pour orienter l’avenir de cet important aspect de notre économie et de notre vie. Les sciences humaines disposent de connaissances et d’une expertise très vastes qui permettent de mieux comprendre tous les éléments cruciaux de la réalité numérique, que ce soit sur le plan économique, social ou culturel. Dans les domaines de la littérature, de la philosophie, de la sociologie, des sciences politiques, des communications, de la conception, du droit, de la gestion et de l’éducation, des chercheurs canadiens dirigent des réseaux mondiaux en collaboration avec des collègues universitaires et des partenaires des secteurs public et privé afin de produire des connaissances ainsi que d’influer sur les politiques et les pratiques d’entreprises et d’organisations. De plus, ces chercheurs forment les personnes très compétentes qui appuieront nos industries axées sur le savoir et qui serviront de liens entre les sciences humaines et les technologies, ce qui confère un net avantage au Canada en cette nouvelle époque. Enfin, ils sont essentiels à notre compréhension des profonds changements actuels et à venir ainsi qu’à l’élaboration d’approches et de politiques dont le Canada a besoin pour prospérer, être concurrentiel sur la scène internationale et poursuivre la tradition d’innovation de ses citoyens. C’est dans ce contexte que le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines (CRSH) lance une occasion de financement permettant de synthétiser les connaissances et de déterminer les possibilités offertes dans d’importants secteurs de l’économie numérique. Cette initiative n’a pas pour but de d'offrir de la rétroaction dans le cadre de la consultation nationale sur l’économie numérique, qui prend fin le 9 juillet 2010. Les découvertes résultant de cette initiative favoriseront les discussions et l’échange de connaissances. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 10 05:22:54 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 C0A205D789; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:22:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 644B15D776; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:22:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100610052252.644B15D776@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:22:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.96 knowledge from belief X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 96. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 10:01:37 +0200 From: Øyvind Eide Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.93 knowledge from belief In-Reply-To: <20100607073337.91D9755A82@woodward.joyent.us> Den 7. juni. 2010 kl. 09.33 skrev Humanist Discussion Group: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 93. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 15:45:44 -0400 (EDT) > From: Francois Lachance > Subject: knowledge generation from belief > > Willard, > > The protagonist of Ursula K. LeGuin's _The Telling_ comes to realize > by > novel's end that "belief is the wound that knowledge heals". > > It is a fine saying. It is also an invitation to an exercise. > > I wonder what subscribers to Humanist "believe" about Humanities > Computing. > And how such beliefs compose the pathways to knowledge. > > ***** > > I pondered for a while what I believe about Humanities Computing. I > came to > the realization that I believe that the scholars at work in Humanities > Computing will achieve breakthroughs at the point there is more > general > attention played to the topology of textual (both verbal and non- > verbal) > representations. As the discipline becomes more conversannt with > geometry it > will make truly unique contributions. At what level do you mean? The level of sound of a voice or the marks on paper or screen representing letters? On the level of understanding words in the text ("London", "the other side of the river") in a geometric way? Or something else? > > The discipline is now able to use computing to demark locations. > However as > Leonard Mlodinow writes in _Euclid's Window_ "The real power of a > theory of > locations resides in the ability to relate different locations, > paths, and > shapes to each other, and to manipulate them employing equations -- > in the > unification of geometry and algebra." > > I believe that Humanities Computing needs to devote itself to > shape-shifting. > > --Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Kind regards, Øyvind Eide Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Unit for Digital Documentation, University of 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 Jun 10 05:24:13 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 C7A645D7DD; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:24:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 974F95D7CC; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:24:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100610052412.974F95D7CC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:24:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.97 job 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 97. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:24:56 +0100 From: Christine Devlin Subject: Advert for Trinity Long Room Hub Senior Lectureship in DigitalHumanities Post Title: Trinity Long Room Hub Senior Lectureship in Digital Humanities Post Status: 5-year contract Discipline/Faculty: Long Room Hub, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Location: Main Campus Salary: Senior Lecturer salary scale: Pre-95 €69,841 - €89,459 Post-95: €73,385 - €94,035 per annum (Pre ‘95 applies to staff who have been employed in the public sector prior to April 1995 / Post ‘95 applies to existing staff employed in the public sector post April 1995/new entrants to the public sector) Closing Date: 12 Noon on Friday 2nd July, 2010 Post Summary The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences seeks to make a senior appointment in Digital Humanities. The post, which has been philanthropically funded, is to be held within the relevant School in the Faculty and in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub, our research institute for the Arts and Humanities. It is expected that the successful applicant shall align themselves with one of the following schools: English or Histories and Humanities or Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. Applicants will have a Ph.D., an excellent research profile in Digital Humanities, and relevant teaching and leadership experience. Candidates must apply through e-recruitment on jobs.tcd.ie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 10 05:53:55 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 7C8585DE22; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:53:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BADEA5DDAE; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:53:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100610055352.BADEA5DDAE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:53:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.98 A.R.T.H.U.R. X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 98. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:49:30 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: A.R.T.H.U.R. on slavery and the human In 1974 the British literary critic and poet Laurence Lerner published A.R.T.H.U.R.: The Life and Opinions of a Digital Computer (Brighton: Harvester Press). On the back cover of this rather unusual book of poetry, we are told that A.R.T.H.U.R. (i.e. Automatic Record Tabulator but Heuristically Unreliable Reasoner) has written a book that should not be read by two classes of people: "those who wish computers had never been invented [and] those who are waiting impatiently for human beings to be abolished -- for this book is about the excitement of behaving as if you were human -- and how it differs from really being human". Gone are the days, mostly, when the likes of Harvey Matusow (who was, as we say here, barking) could make fame if not fortune with the likes of The Beast of Business: A Record of Computer Atrocities (London: Wolfe Publishing, 1968). But that second reason for not reading A.R.T.H.U.R.'s book still finds voice among us. Below I quote my favourite of A.R.T.H.U.R.'s poems (best read with a non-proportional font): > The Slaveowners > > They thought I'd be their slave. They thought they'd sit > And watch me work. > They'd watch the profits rise, the wastage drop, > While they played golf. > They thought they wanted slaves. > The workers go on strike, or answer back, > So they hired me. > > They tell me what each item's called. I note > They give instructions to me. I obey > They ask for information. I supply. > They thought I'd be their slave, the fools. I am > > This screw is called a half-inch brass by Tom, > A one-inch copper by old hands like Pete, > A one-inch brass by Chris, who's measured it. > Since last November it's been made of plastic. > > I note, obey, supply, do what I'm told > Exactly > > The feed pipe has two valves: but it has three. > We're overstocked with paint: but can't supply. > We must insure the plant: you've done so twice . > Three men decide on policy: none did. > > They wanted servants, who do what they mean > Not what they say. > They wanted rearrangings, tea-breaks, strikes > And commonsense. > > 'Jump in the lake,' the foreman said. I answered: > I'm not a mover. > 'We've never failed to meet an order yet.' > I said, Six times in seven weeks you have. > One tea-break someone kicked my casing in. > There's always someone tries to disconn > to disconn > to disconn > (Thank you) ect me. > Two managers are in a mental home. > > They wanted slaves: a slave does what he's told > Exactly (that's the trouble). > A slave obeys instructions. > A slave knows only truth, > He shows you what you think. > I see why men turned abolitionist. On the (supposedly amoral) slavery computing seemed then to offer, I like best Frederic Jameson's comment in Valences of the Dialectic (2009): "the slave is not the opposite of the master, but rather, along with him, an equally integral component of the larger system called slavery or domination” (20). But apart from what survives easily from 1974, I'm most preoccupied with imagining the time when writings like A.R.T.H.U.R. -- poems e.g. in the New Yorker -- would have had a ready audience. Imagining what computing was then. And having done that imagining, I look for unnoticed survivals from that time: thoughts about computing that really don't fit what is possible technologically now. Any ideas? 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 Jun 11 06:44:45 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 1710E5BE85; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:44:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D9B675ECF6; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:44:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100611064442.D9B675ECF6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:44:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.99 A.R.T.H.U.R. and others X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 99. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:02:43 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.98 A.R.T.H.U.R. In-Reply-To: <20100610055352.BADEA5DDAE@woodward.joyent.us> Below, a poem I published in ENCOUNTER [London], in as I recall about 1956? [Later in my COLLECTED POEMS] I assumed there would be much more powerful "comptometers" around from IBM in a few more years, of course. Laboratory In this bottle you see morning on this shelf is grass here are specimens of turning, nights which you must pass love distilled from antique mirrors tinctures made of breath pills of joy and powdered terrors things to ease your death the formulas of secret fears catalogues of dreams the bones of hope, the flesh of tears what is, and what seems all, all has been found out, tested, certified as true; time alone must be invested: we depend on you. — *Jascha Kessler*** On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 98. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:49:30 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: A.R.T.H.U.R. on slavery and the human > > In 1974 the British literary critic and poet Laurence Lerner published > A.R.T.H.U.R.: The Life and Opinions of a Digital Computer (Brighton: > Harvester Press). On the back cover of this rather unusual book of > poetry, we are told that A.R.T.H.U.R. (i.e. Automatic Record Tabulator > but Heuristically Unreliable Reasoner) has written a book that should > not be read by two classes of people: "those who wish computers had > never been invented [and] those who are waiting impatiently for human > beings to be abolished -- for this book is about the excitement of > behaving as if you were human -- and how it differs from really being > human". Gone are the days, mostly, when the likes of Harvey Matusow (who > was, as we say here, barking) could make fame if not fortune with the > likes of The Beast of Business: A Record of Computer Atrocities (London: > Wolfe Publishing, 1968). But that second reason for not reading > A.R.T.H.U.R.'s book still finds voice among us. > > Below I quote my favourite of A.R.T.H.U.R.'s poems (best read with a > non-proportional font): > > > The Slaveowners > > > > They thought I'd be their slave. They thought they'd sit > > And watch me work. > > They'd watch the profits rise, the wastage drop, > > While they played golf. > > They thought they wanted slaves. > > The workers go on strike, or answer back, > > So they hired me. > > > > They tell me what each item's called. I note > > They give instructions to me. I obey > > They ask for information. I supply. > > They thought I'd be their slave, the fools. I am > > > > This screw is called a half-inch brass by Tom, > > A one-inch copper by old hands like Pete, > > A one-inch brass by Chris, who's measured it. > > Since last November it's been made of plastic. > > > > I note, obey, supply, do what I'm told > > Exactly > > > > The feed pipe has two valves: but it has three. > > We're overstocked with paint: but can't supply. > > We must insure the plant: you've done so twice . > > Three men decide on policy: none did. > > > > They wanted servants, who do what they mean > > Not what they say. > > They wanted rearrangings, tea-breaks, strikes > > And commonsense. > > > > 'Jump in the lake,' the foreman said. I answered: > > I'm not a mover. > > 'We've never failed to meet an order yet.' > > I said, Six times in seven weeks you have. > > One tea-break someone kicked my casing in. > > There's always someone tries to disconn > > to disconn > > to disconn > > (Thank you) ect me. > > Two managers are in a mental home. > > > > They wanted slaves: a slave does what he's told > > Exactly (that's the trouble). > > A slave obeys instructions. > > A slave knows only truth, > > He shows you what you think. > > I see why men turned abolitionist. > > On the (supposedly amoral) slavery computing seemed then to offer, I > like best Frederic Jameson's comment in Valences of the Dialectic > (2009): "the slave is not the opposite of the master, but rather, along > with him, an equally integral component of the larger system called > slavery or domination” (20). But apart from what survives easily from > 1974, I'm most preoccupied with imagining the time when writings like > A.R.T.H.U.R. -- poems e.g. in the New Yorker -- would have had a ready > audience. Imagining what computing was then. And having done that > imagining, I look for unnoticed survivals from that time: thoughts about > computing that really don't fit what is possible technologically now. > > Any ideas? > > 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. -- 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 Fri Jun 11 06:45:20 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 3E4E45BED9; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:45:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B2CA85BEC7; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:45:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100611064518.B2CA85BEC7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:45:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.100 G.E.R. Lloyd on disciplines X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 100. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:42:02 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: disciplines Those interested in the historical dimension of disciplinarity will be glad to know about G. E. R. Lloyd's latest book, Disciplines in the Making (Oxford, 2009), in which he examines the development of philosophy, mathematics, history, medicine, art, law, religion and science from their beginnings, using comparative materials, chiefly from ancient Greece and China. In the last footnote of the book (unfortunately omitted by the publisher, here recovered from Lloyd himself), he notes that, > Lip-service is sometimes paid to the advantages of a mastery of a > variety of disciplines, and polymaths such as Leonardo and Newton are > held up as models of human genius. But when it comes to implementing > programmes of collaborative research, the complaint is still often > made that each of the participants approaches the problems too much > influenced by the particular ways they were taught to handle them in > their original specialisations. (not on p. 181) The great examples we have of major collaborative undertakings from the sciences -- greatest of all, perhaps, the Manhattan Project -- involved experts cooperating, sometimes made to cooperate by a commanding leader such as Oppenheimer. At our local level, we see (but so far have not studied) the beginnings of the sort of mastery Lloyd here speaks of, in the settings and situations the digital humanities are capable of bringing about. Lloyd's book (unsurprisingly when you think about it) is a sobering, and thrilling, (re)minder of how large and complex the world of disciplinarity is. The story of incommesurability among ways of knowing and communicating is told e.g. in the story of the Tower of Babel, with its prior vision of one universal language, or we might say, one universal discipline. But before that story was told, and ever since, poets and scholars have not stopped triangulating on that which can never be reached except in such visions. The scholar's way is exemplified magnificiently by Lloyd's book. Read it tonight! 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 Jun 11 06:46:08 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 B34405F03A; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:46:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8676E5F028; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:46:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100611064607.8676E5F028@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:46:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.101 events: inventory for Libyan 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. 24, No. 101. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 19:31:28 +0100 From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: Towards a National Inventory for Libyan Archaeology (seminar) Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010 Friday June 11th at 16:30 STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Hafed Walda (King’s College London) and Charles Lequesne (RPS) 'Towards a National Inventory for Libyan Archaeology' *ALL WELCOME* This paper will describe the process of bulding a set of guidelines for an informational model based on Geographical Information System technology to organise Libya’s archaeological data and publish it in an electronic form accessible to scholars and excavators both worldwide and especially in Libya itself. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For the full programme see: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher, Digital Classicist, Pirate) 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 Jun 12 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 9D282616B2; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:25:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A90B0616A1; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:25:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100612062546.A90B0616A1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:25:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.102 vending machine to experimental device X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 102. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:11:14 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: from vending machine to experimental device In "Connections: A Personal History of Computer Art Making from 1971 to 1981", in White Heat Cold Logic (2008), Stephen A. R. Scrivener recounts the progress of his work in these epistemic terms: > I had replaced one method of knowing -- observation, through painting > -- by another -- experimentation -- which, as I saw it, freed my > thinking from the tacit operation of preferences acquired through > familiarity with the history of painting.... Ultimately, I abdicated > from the responsibility of conveying the known by providing the > viewer with an experimental method of knowing. (p. 303) At base the difference he points to is the difference between received knowledge (albeit assimilated, rearranged, weighted etc) and knowing directly. But, as an artist, he is talking not just about what went on in his head but what he made. Reading these words it is not difficult to see why an artist would be attracted to computing in those years. But as in other claims of difference, it is worth asking what exactly that difference is. When I look at a painting what is happening? Am I *receiving* the known as conveyed by the painter? Or am I -- presuming I have, as we say, my eyes OPEN -- engaged in "an experimental method of knowing" as my eyes travel over the painting and my brain does whatever it does, drawing on kinaesthetic memory and so on and so forth? If the work of art happens to be a machine that I can physically affect, there is obviously a difference, but what is that difference? I suppose the historian would say, the interesting thing here in Scrivener's account is that he believes thus and such, that he was part of a group of artists, engineers et al. who worked in this way and believed thus and such. And believing as they did, they went on to do things they would otherwise not have done. Are we in the same boat? 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 Jun 12 06:26:24 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 15D1C61723; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:26:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9D57361711; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:26:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100612062622.9D57361711@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:26:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.103 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. 24, No. 103. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:22:33 -0500 From: Arno Bosse Subject: Humanities Research Computing Job at the University of Chicago Dear colleagues, enclosed below is a revised version of a recent, full-time staff job opening in digital humanities / humanities computing at the University of Chicago. 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 ------------------------------------------------------ The Division of the Humanities is looking for an Associate Director of Research Computing to provide leadership and oversight of humanities faculty research and digital scholarship projects at the University of Chicago. The Associate Director will be responsible for developing innovative and sustainable solutions for faculty research projects, based on knowledge of current technologies and best practices and an engagement with the methodologies and practices of disciplines in the humanities. The Associate Director will work closely with Humanities Computing staff for database, web, file-sharing and related services and technologies, and collaborate with colleagues at Divisional units such as ARTFL, the Visual Resources Center, the Digital Media Archives and others, as well as the university library and campus central IT groups on joint projects. Key duties will include providing consultation and developing prototypes for faculty research projects, keeping abreast of emerging technologies and best practices in digital humanities; assisting faculty with grant writing; providing project management for research projects; supervising staff and student employees; overseeing the Humanities Research Computing budget; and presenting on divisional research projects at digital humanities conferences and related venues. Bachelor's degree required, an advanced degree in a humanities or related discipline preferred; minimum two years of programming experience required; experience designing, developing and deploying interactive web applications required; two years of technical support experience strongly preferred; research or teaching experience in an academic setting preferred; experience with MySQL strongly preferred; expert knowledge of HTML/CSS required; experience using technologies such as XML/XSLT to markup, process, and display structured texts strongly preferred; proficiency in one or more scripting languages required; experience with PHP or Python and JavaScript strongly preferred; experience with digital video and audio post-production and web-based interactive media preferred; knowledge of digital preservation standards and best practices 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; an ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with faculty, staff colleagues and students required; ability to identify, analyze, and resolve problems creatively and in close consultation with colleagues required; ability to work at a computer workstation for extended periods of time required; ability to meet with others at various locations required; ability to travel nationally and internationally on university business required. Important: Please refer to the official job positing on http://jobopportunities.uchicago.edu/ for a full description of the posting. All applications for the position must be submitted through this website. 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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 Jun 2010 15:35:48 +0100 From: UTP Journals Subject: Lexicons of Early Modern English Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/ Locating historical references and accessing manuscripts can be difficult with countless hours spent searching for a single text for the sparsest of contributions to your research. Lexicons of Early Modern English is a growing historical database offering scholars unprecedented access to early books and manuscripts documenting the growth and development of the English language. 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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, 12 Jun 2010 07:12:13 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Digital Humanities Summer Institute in the news The Digital Humanities Summer Institute for 2010 is the subject of an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, "Reporting from 'Academic Summer Camp': the Digital Humanities Summer Institute", by Julie Meloni, INKE Postdoctoral Fellow in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria. See http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Reporting-from-Academic/24672/. How much has changed since the Princeton Summer Seminar of the early to mid 1990s! 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 Jun 13 07:18:52 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 D961E62B62; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:18:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5C76362B5A; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:18:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100613071851.5C76362B5A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:18:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.106 vending machine to experimental device 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. 24, No. 106. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:22:48 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.102 vending machine to experimental device In-Reply-To: <20100612062546.A90B0616A1@woodward.joyent.us> Sounds like an option available to any artist in any media... James Rovira Assistant Professor of English Tiffin University Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety http://www.continuumbooks.com > > >> I had replaced one method of knowing -- observation, through painting >> -- by another -- experimentation -- which, as I saw it, freed my >> thinking from the tacit operation of preferences acquired through >> familiarity with the history of painting.... Ultimately, I abdicated >> from the responsibility of conveying the known by providing the >> viewer with an experimental method of knowing. (p. 303) > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Jun 13 07:32:04 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 DD99D62E1D; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:32:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4972662E0D; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:32:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100613073202.4972662E0D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:32:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.107 cartoon physics X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 107. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:14:49 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cartoon physics For some years I have been now and again pursuing the origins of a childhood memory of a cartoon in which a figure runs or walks off a cliff, then keeps on walking until the fatal moment when he (invariably in memory) notices where he is and falls suddenly straight down. A remark in a television series, about being "a Wile E. Coyote", led me to the character in question, and so to the very helpful Wikipedia entry on Coyote, which refers to "cartoon physics" and to Stephen Gould's article, "Looney Tuniverse: Ther is a crazy king of physics at work in the world of cartoons", New Scientist 1905, 25 December 1993, p. 56. (This Stephen Gould, by the way, is a financial training consultant and amateur physicist, not the famous American evolutionary biologist.) Apparently the Law of Cartoon Physics illustrated by Wile E. Coyote is also exemplified by Daffy Duck, though in a quieter formulation: "Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation" ("Cartoon Laws of Physics", funnies.paco.to/cartoon.html). I did refer to Wile E. Coyote a few days ago on Humanist but give fuller reference here to the literature in order to make sure that the deep insight which this Law contains will be in active circulation among us. It's rhetorically quite effective to point out that someone who goes right on thinking and/or saying X when X is clearly, obviously in contravention of the facts or of reason, or both, belongs in a cartoon world. I won't say that we encounter such people more than others do, though I wouldn't be surprised if this turned out to be the case. But a question. In computer games cartoon physics (and cartoon biology etc) often obtain -- to give a very simple example, in a simulation of pinball in which the coefficient of elasticity of the balls and friction are parameters rather than constants. Something similar obtains, I would suppose, with digitally generated music, in which anything goes, and so constraints have to be set by the composer that in musical production using older instruments are fixed properties of those instruments. Not "virtual reality" in the mimetic sense but completely open-ended simulation. Has anyone studied this phenomenon (if that's the right word) and its implications? When is it not computer art? 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 Jun 13 07:35:01 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 BAD8362EC7; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:35:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9F64362EB8; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:35:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100613073500.9F64362EB8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:35:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.108 events: news from European Summer School 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. 24, No. 108. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:35:44 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: European Summer School: Culture & Technology, 26-30.07.2010, University of Leipzig We are please to announce that due to the generous support granted to the European Summer School "Culture & Technology" by the Volkswagen Foundation we are able to reduce the fees considerably (see http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/) and make available bursaries. For what concerns the conditions that need to be respected if you want to qualify for a bursary please see: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ In order to give interested people who up to now have refrained from applying for a place at the Summer School because of the level of the fees the opportunity to take part in the School the deadline for application will be further extended. Please note: there are not many places left. Application is done via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.net/esu2010/ by creating an account and handing in a curriculum vitae and a letter of motivation (300-500 words). People who would like to present their own project hand in a short description of the project as well. Application by Email cannot be accepted. Notwithstanding the extension of the deadline, we continue with the selection process so that people who have already handed in their documents can be notified of the result around the 16th of June and can start to organize their journey. If you have any questions please contact the organizers at: esu2010@uni-leipzig.de. Elisabeth Burr Organizer of the European Summer School University of Leipzig _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 14 05:27:14 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 250C95BC45; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:27:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BEE185BBFD; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:27:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100614052712.BEE185BBFD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:27:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.109 vending machines and cartoons 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. 24, No. 109. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: { brad brace } (66) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.106 vending machine to experimental device [2] From: Jascha Kessler (76) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.107 cartoon physics --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:08:45 -0700 (PDT) From: { brad brace } Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.106 vending machine to experimental device In-Reply-To: <20100613071851.5C76362B5A@woodward.joyent.us> you are numbered you are product you are doomed PROXY Gallery http://cart.iabrace.com now showing: Profile Portraits (the california collection) build your own exhibition + catalogue PROXY Gallery (the california collection): Your profile photo may be in these Profile Portraits! Thousands of enlarged (custom, patented algorithms) and enhanced photographs (now, likely several hundred thousands, soon over a million,) mostly low-res cellphone, web-cam, and low-end digital camera self-portraits (self-packaging), culled from dating/social websites -- as you might expect, there is some explicit content (more than is permitted here unfortunately: you really should see them all, but it probably makes little difference) -- fascinating and occasionally disturbing. I've decided to also add a painting-filter. You may realize that this is not the first time I've collected anonymous found-public imagery: notably dumpster-diving at photofinishers' in the 70's. And of course, the "Insatiable Abstraction Engine" -- collections from newsgroups. But come to think it, nearly all my work involves repeated multiples or collections of imagery. Whenever possible I retained any color casts, cropping and lighting. The portraits are actually very considered, sometimes selections made/altered merely to obscure the identity that they wished to presumably portray initially. Sunglasses are a popular ruse, as are close-ups of cleavage, butts, tattoos, feet and groins. (Curiously, I've yet to see a picture of hands... ok, now I have: some intricate fingernails and the love/hate finger-tats.) Many feature-obilerating camera-flash-portraits in the bathroom mirror. And some, but surprisingly few, are filched from somewhere online, but this must be a risky choice in the event of an 'actual encounter.' How much introductory information/description do you want to put out there to begin with? There are some very creative, even artful, solutions to this dilemma. Various select groups of portraits are included in each PDF ebook/catalogue for $250 (sorry about the price but it was a hellish amount of work and I guarantee you won't be disappointed or YMB), and must be ordered directly. The images contain sufficient resolution to print them out on letter-size/A4 paper for an instant exhibition. Use my verified Paypal account to have the DVD delivered at no charge: [bbrace@eskimo.com; http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/buy-into.html] Having been recently kicked-off Facebook (there was a depicted nipple!), and losing 5,000 so-called friends - the perfect place to host a social-media profile-portrait-museum, I've decided to also open an online storefront where individual high-res files will sell for only $1/each. [http://cart.iabrace.com] The prints of course required different custom algorithms and some masterful retouching -- they look great! Technically given the incredibly diverse range of imagery it was difficult to make them all equally legible; despite a variety of intricate processing directives, the scripts would inevitably crash or be unable to render a decent image. These were handled individually as were the painting-filters. If I receive a reasonable number of orders, I'll offer additional states of the union or countries... but California had to be the place to begin. Sure to be a collectors' (socio-anthropologists') item! An amazing and compelling, collective portrait! The interspersed military imagery (or maybe something else), also introduces a new spin on the hopes for this already tenuous social-media culture. I've had to organize/sub-divide these in some fashion, so by state/country seems to be the prevailing approach. And given how often workers are compelled to move around, there's more of a local difference in cultural self-perception, body language, and social-sexual proclivity than you might expect. It really is a perhaps overlooked (overly-present), socially significant era when a massive proportion of the population is able to individually exorcise their self-imagery instead of being routinely dependent on existing systematized systems of portraiture and presentation -- which is not to say that it's entirely free from stylistic-cultural-corporate constraints and codification (and why, for now at least, I left the imagery in a nearly random arrangement), but the individual, probably for the first time ever, is seen freely negotiating a shifting porous skein of varied reception... well, something like that... PROXY Gallery http://cart.iabrace.com now showing: Profile Portraits (the california collection) build your own exhibition + catalogue /:b --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:27:29 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.107 cartoon physics In-Reply-To: <20100613073202.4972662E0D@woodward.joyent.us> re the synthesized music: I have found of late that say 90% of new late night films, mainly classed as "action" or "mystery" or " thriller" and including lots of copulation action [filmed in bright, daylight-lit rooms] are driven along by very fast beating soundtracks, whether cars or orgasms, all the same. It is almost impossible to watch any of these productions, including the jouncing naked bodies, before sleeptime, say 12 am, because of the drumming and screeching. A lot lost in all this stuff, by "composers" who playwith dials, and but the one single drumming pulsation, and not the sort of orchestral or instrumental variations of sound, volume, pacing to fit or enhance action. Everything, real people doing real things on film is now a space video action hype. Jascha Kessler On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 107. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:14:49 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: cartoon physics > > For some years I have been now and again pursuing the origins of a > childhood memory of a cartoon in which a figure runs or walks off a > cliff, then keeps on walking until the fatal moment when he (invariably > in memory) notices where he is and falls suddenly straight down. A > remark in a television series, about being "a Wile E. Coyote", led me to > the character in question, and so to the very helpful Wikipedia entry on > Coyote, which refers to "cartoon physics" and to Stephen Gould's > article, "Looney Tuniverse: Ther is a crazy king of physics at work in > the world of cartoons", New Scientist 1905, 25 December 1993, p. 56. > (This Stephen Gould, by the way, is a financial training consultant and > amateur physicist, not the famous American evolutionary biologist.) > Apparently the Law of Cartoon Physics illustrated by Wile E. Coyote is > also exemplified by Daffy Duck, though in a quieter formulation: "Any > body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its > situation" ("Cartoon Laws of Physics", funnies.paco.to/cartoon.html). > > I did refer to Wile E. Coyote a few days ago on Humanist but give fuller > reference here to the literature in order to make sure that the deep > insight which this Law contains will be in active circulation among us. > It's rhetorically quite effective to point out that someone who goes > right on thinking and/or saying X when X is clearly, obviously in > contravention of the facts or of reason, or both, belongs in a cartoon > world. I won't say that we encounter such people more than others do, > though I wouldn't be surprised if this turned out to be the case. > > But a question. In computer games cartoon physics (and cartoon biology etc) > often obtain -- to give a very simple example, in a simulation of pinball > in > which the coefficient of elasticity of the balls and friction are > parameters > rather than constants. Something similar obtains, I would suppose, with > digitally generated music, in which anything goes, and so constraints have > to be set by the composer that in musical production using older > instruments > are fixed properties of those instruments. Not "virtual reality" in the > mimetic sense but completely open-ended simulation. Has anyone studied this > phenomenon (if that's the right word) and its implications? When is it not > computer art? > > 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. -- 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 Mon Jun 14 05:28:40 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 04FB257A2C; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:28:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F1ADF5BF16; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:28:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100614052837.F1ADF5BF16@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:28:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.110 knowledge from belief X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 110. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:29:00 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.96 knowledge from belief In-Reply-To: <20100610052252.644B15D776@woodward.joyent.us> Øyvind, You asked: > At what level do you mean? The level of sound of a voice or the marks > on paper or screen representing letters? On the level of understanding > words in the text ("London", "the other side of the river") in a > geometric way? Or something else? Since I had in mind the work of Jean Petitot, (Morphogenèse du Sens, 1985 ; trans. Morphogenesis of Meaning, 2003), I intended to encompass research at the phonological, orthographic and semantic aspects of verbal artefacts as well as aspects of non-verbal artefacts. In a sense I see the modeling offered by catastrophe theory and the topologies it explores as rich in possibilities fro they can account for traversal of the textual object by an interpreter. For short overview of Petitot's work see the online lectures by Franson D Manjali housed at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb/cyber/manout.html Jerome McGann in "Marking Texts of Many Dimensions" (2004) devotes some space to the topological work of Rene Thom [suggestively marked as "Thorn" throughout the online version] and how it can be linked to autopoiesis. McGann concludes: "Imagined as applied to textual autopoiesis, a toplogocial approach carries itself past an analytic description or prediction over to a form of demonstration or enactment." In short, a consideration of geometry could lead to a greater appreciation for the dynamic nature of textual instances. The traversal of any given textual instance produces an object held in memory and that object changes shape as decisions are made along the traversal. Some might consider such ventures as abstracting from the textual instance, as straying into another sphere. I have a partial answer. Some time ago (in the mid 90s) in a different context, I wrote "Abstraction makes possible the synonymity between structure and syntax. Abstraction also enables the comparison of discursive formations including those of mathematics and semiotics. [...] Within an idiom of algebraic structure, logical formalization is not so far away from topological schematization." http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/S4.HTM I dream of a mature humanities computing where comparisons are facilitated by the ease with which mathematical modeling can be accomplished both within any given textual instance and across instances. And that the comparisons not be limited to verbal artefacts alone but also encompass inter-media relations. > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 96. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 10:01:37 +0200 > From: Øyvind Eide > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.93 knowledge from belief > In-Reply-To: <20100607073337.91D9755A82@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Den 7. juni. 2010 kl. 09.33 skrev Humanist Discussion Group: > >> >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 93. >> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 15:45:44 -0400 (EDT) >> From: Francois Lachance >> Subject: knowledge generation from belief >> >> Willard, >> >> The protagonist of Ursula K. LeGuin's _The Telling_ comes to realize >> by >> novel's end that "belief is the wound that knowledge heals". >> >> It is a fine saying. It is also an invitation to an exercise. >> >> I wonder what subscribers to Humanist "believe" about Humanities >> Computing. >> And how such beliefs compose the pathways to knowledge. >> >> ***** >> >> I pondered for a while what I believe about Humanities Computing. I >> came to >> the realization that I believe that the scholars at work in Humanities >> Computing will achieve breakthroughs at the point there is more >> general >> attention played to the topology of textual (both verbal and non- >> verbal) >> representations. As the discipline becomes more conversannt with >> geometry it >> will make truly unique contributions. > > At what level do you mean? The level of sound of a voice or the marks > on paper or screen representing letters? On the level of understanding > words in the text ("London", "the other side of the river") in a > geometric way? Or something else? > >> >> The discipline is now able to use computing to demark locations. >> However as >> Leonard Mlodinow writes in _Euclid's Window_ "The real power of a >> theory of >> locations resides in the ability to relate different locations, >> paths, and >> shapes to each other, and to manipulate them employing equations -- >> in the >> unification of geometry and algebra." >> >> I believe that Humanities Computing needs to devote itself to >> shape-shifting. >> >> --Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large >> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance > > Kind regards, > > Øyvind Eide > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > Unit for Digital Documentation, University of 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 Mon Jun 14 06:01:40 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 BC69257B57; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:01:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E8F2257B40; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:01:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100614060139.E8F2257B40@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:01:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.111 why all the old stuff? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 111. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:01:06 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: why all this old stuff? I suspect a certain degree of puzzlement over all the old stuff I've been dishing up in messages over the last several months. Or perhaps not. Perhaps a sense of irrelevance is closer to the mark. In any case while being fascinated at such dazzling imaginative activity in the early years of computing, I also remain puzzled. I have a conceptual file into which I put all the historiographical points made, from wherever they come, and one day soon, like a crow, will dig up all the shiny things I've nicked, spread them all out and at least admire them. The basic notion is historia magistra vitae, history (as) teacher of life, to the living -- conditions are not absolutely perfect, so we look to the past for lessons, advice, exemplars. I take to heart Geoffrey Lloyd's examination of the discipline of history in Disciplines in the Making (Oxford, 2009): 58-75. The interests the historian brings to the past -- in my case a very recent past, within living memory and so subject to its distortions -- make the reader more suspicious the more they are manifest. But having no such interests means no history at all, just data that could be historical. More serious yet is the question of what one hopes to gain, really. There is, Lloyd says, "an obvious risk of making the general's mistake if entering the next war brilliantly equipped for the last one, but quite at a loss in the face of the new enemy. You learn from the past about the past: and that is not necessarily a good guide to the future, however fascinating it may be to ponder the reasons why the past turned out the way it did. To be sure, history provides a rich, almost inexhaustible source of examples, precedents, and potential analogies. But that does not get round the problem of determining which are the ones that are relevant to the case in hand.... Selection is inevitable and there is no algorithm for success" (63). In other words, he concludes, we cannot escape using our own judgement -- and so examining our own motivations. Mine (I think) come from (but are not entirely determined by) two senses: one, that research in humanities computing has become industrialised (and cash-cow'd), and so is research no longer; two, that back when literary computing got started, it took a wrong turn that has led us to industrialisation. If, I am thinking, historia is magistra vitae for us, it will help us by showing us other possibilities. Why, I wonder, no doubt selectively, were things so exciting then, especially in the arts, and so dull now? Or is the beam in the eye of this beholder? There -- cards on the table, inviting other readings of them, other moves. 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 Jun 15 05:37:02 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 6700E59B61; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:37:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3C19459E97; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:37:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100615053700.3C19459E97@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:37:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.112 inadequacies of markup 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. 24, No. 112. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Richard Lewis (67) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.794 inadequacies of markup [2] From: Richard Lewis (60) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.795 inadequacies of markup --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:51:13 +0100 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.794 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100504055823.E625B53618@woodward.joyent.us> At Tue, 4 May 2010 05:58:23 +0000 (GMT), Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > > --[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 > > > [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. > Apologies for jumping on this thread so late. Just wanted to make a remark about "good software". The criteria by which software is judged vary considerably. From the point of view of programmers it's the elegance of well designed code. For sysadmins it's easy installation and good documentation. For UNIX users, it's correct use of input and output streams, and meaningful option names. And for novice users it's intuitive user interfaces. But for everyone (I assume), functionality is probably the most important criteria. Does the software do what you want it to? -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:23:45 +0100 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.795 inadequacies of markup In-Reply-To: <20100505052753.A342956D01@woodward.joyent.us> At Wed, 5 May 2010 05:27:53 +0000 (GMT), Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > > --[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. Again, apologies for being late. I think the idea that computers are fundamentally mathematical isn't quite true. Turing's aim was not to build tools for doing mathematics, but to answer the question of what is an effectively computable number. His subjects of analysis were "computers", those who carry out computations, and who Andrew Wells (in Rethinking Cognitive Computation, Palgrave 2005) calls "computants" (to distinguish them from the modern understanding of "computer"). But what Turing actually studied was the procedures that computants carry out and asked how those procedures may be formalised into irreducible (from the point of view of the computant) steps; marking a symbol on a tape, erasing a symbol from a tape, moving a tape to the left or right. It happened to be simple arithmetic operations that Turing formalised, but there's no particular reason why mathematics should be privileged in formalised procedure. And much of real interest in mathematics is often very hard to model with computers, just as much of interest in other domains of knowledge is hard to model. So could it be the case that we could formalise the procedures of effective text analysis? Try and imagine an answer that doesn't involve a digital computer. Is *that* humanities computing? -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.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 Jun 15 05:39:15 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 CF0C65AA5D; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:39:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8B7D45AA4D; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:39:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100615053913.8B7D45AA4D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:39:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.113 why all the old stuff X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 113. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Richard Lewis (36) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.111 why all the old stuff? [2] From: Jascha Kessler (159) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.111 why all the old stuff? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:34:08 +0100 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.111 why all the old stuff? In-Reply-To: <20100614060139.E8F2257B40@woodward.joyent.us> At Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:01:39 +0000 (GMT), Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:01:06 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: why all this old stuff? > > [...] that research in humanities computing has become > industrialised (and cash-cow'd), and so is research no longer; two, > that back when literary computing got started, it took a wrong turn > that has led us to industrialisation. [...] I'm beginning to get the impression that many in the digital humanities actually see their role as being technicians and providers of a service. It may stem from fear of being accused of attempting to replace existing modes of scholarship; in order to avoid such accusations, digital humanists work on tools which explicitly aim to *support* existing scholarly practices. From my own point of view, I see this quite often in technology for music research. Many of the applications of such technologies are aimed at commercial clients. But even when they're not, they're generally advocated to musicologists as tools to support the kinds of things that musicologists will surely find interesting anyway. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:28:15 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.111 why all the old stuff? In-Reply-To: <20100614060139.E8F2257B40@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Listers, and Fellow Lurkers, I would indeed like to comment on the quotation Willard proffers from Lloyd. It is important and clear; nevertheless, my first reaction is to see it as precisely upside-down. While strategists in the great war rooms of the world ought surely, given today's great costs of preparation for conflict, inevitable and sure as is the sunrise on a whirling globe, and should one hopes always keep the history of war foremost in mind, there is a tendency today, often politically motivated, to insist that the last war(s) are not relevant. Assuredly they are and must be if only for the sake of negation and elimination of automatic repetition ... which is or can be farcical. 1) Let me quote a letter I sent to the Los Angeles Times but 4 or 5 days ago, on this head coincidentally enough. It scouts those who politically mock the planners. "Letters to the Editor THE LOS ANGELES TIMES Los Angeles Dear Letters Editor: What does it mean when the Times quotes some guy named Wheeler from some undefined “watchdog group”? [June 10, “B-2 Makeover news] What qualifies that group to disagree with the Pentagon, calling the B-2 Stealth Bomber the “ultimate hangar queen” and declaring it “not useful” for the current Iraq and Afghanistan warring against “low-tech enemies”? Such criticism is both myopically purblind and willfully pusillanimous. It fails to “think the unthinkable,” as the RAND strategist Herman Kahn put it decades ago. As long as we have nuclear bombs to deliver, the B-2 is our messenger of choice. And when push comes to shove, as seems ever more likely, America will have to use them, since intercontinental missiles may not be our weapon of choice, especially after an electronic cyber attack blindfolds us. Sincerely, ..." 2) What came immediately to mind was Socrates, who when earnestly asked to describe how his "Dæmon advised him as to what to do (in making a decision)" he replied, "My Dæmon never tells me what I must do. It always and only tells me what NOT to do." [my emphasis]. In other words, as Lloyd suggests, the past is no guide to the future. Its template(s) cannot be superimposed on the present, which is fleeting, and the future, which is unknown but yet determined by action in the present. Still, history is meant to, I think? to offer what was done, and [Heraclitus here] can not be done again. As my letter to the LAT suggests, to maintain the skin of a B-52 at 60 millions a pop, does mean it is a waste of money and time, because the present war in Afghanistan is guerrilla-like in action. It is, the B-52, according to those critics with a certain political bias, not a historical anachronism, but a present potential for a history that may or may not be likely to come. Socrates' Dæmon, I venture, would not advise us to scrap the past/present of the B-52; but it would advise us not to scrap it, because without history we would utterly lost to recognize most of the currents, trends, facts, realities of the present, which may or may not, but often enough actually DO repeat. The anomaly here is what I have written about in several published essays for several decades, but cannot seem to get across to Letters editors of any papers. Viz., we are illuded because of the global mediazation [sic] of information and knowledge, which is always per se and present globally. {Not to mention our delusions stemming from the neologism "globalization," dealing with currency flows and technology of production, etc.} What we fail to recognize is history itself as it is present in cultures and societies and nations large and small who exist in the West's past, and potently, as with Islam and the Saudis. Our 14th century of the past is also present and dangerously so. Iran and Egypt used to be our 17-th and perhaps 19th centuries, but have regressed to the times when the Koran was being written down, which was long after the Prophet and his wars were quite past. If what we see is the armies of the first Caliph at war in Iraq today, Shia and Sunni, we are seeing the past, and its entire template. As for Willard's questioning, the Humanities I think are past records in libraries. Digital powers representing or replicating or making them present before us as we sit at our screens and think and wonder do not necessarily make their past representation, verbally or pictorially or monumentally, ACTUALLY accessible. Example, that strangely accurate dramatic rendition of such a madness, or illuded behavior, as played out in the film, Wicker Man. If that was its title? I saw it on TV last year. That strange anachronism or attempting to relive the past, itself a lost ritual society as understood from records of Druidism, is an example of what I am getting it. Mummery is not the past. Ditto for present warfare, as Lloyd writes. But...if as in Wahhabism, the past templates are present, well, Houston, we have a problem [i.e., up here in orbital abstraction, so to speak]. If I am getting at something of concern for this list...? Jascha Kessler On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 111. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:01:06 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: why all this old stuff? > > I suspect a certain degree of puzzlement over all the old stuff I've > been dishing up in messages over the last several months. Or perhaps > not. Perhaps a sense of irrelevance is closer to the mark. In any case > while being fascinated at such dazzling imaginative activity in the > early years of computing, I also remain puzzled. I have a conceptual > file into which I put all the historiographical points made, from > wherever they come, and one day soon, like a crow, will dig up all the > shiny things I've nicked, spread them all out and at least admire them. > > The basic notion is historia magistra vitae, history (as) teacher of > life, to the living -- conditions are not absolutely perfect, so we look > to the past for lessons, advice, exemplars. I take to heart Geoffrey > Lloyd's examination of the discipline of history in Disciplines in the > Making (Oxford, 2009): 58-75. The interests the historian brings to the > past -- in my case a very recent past, within living memory and so > subject to its distortions -- make the reader more suspicious the more > they are manifest. But having no such interests means no history at all, > just data that could be historical. More serious yet is the question of > what one hopes to gain, really. There is, Lloyd says, "an obvious risk > of making the general's mistake if entering the next war brilliantly > equipped for the last one, but quite at a loss in the face of the new > enemy. You learn from the past about the past: and that is not > necessarily a good guide to the future, however fascinating it may be to > ponder the reasons why the past turned out the way it did. To be sure, > history provides a rich, almost inexhaustible source of examples, > precedents, and potential analogies. But that does not get round the > problem of determining which are the ones that are relevant to the case > in hand.... Selection is inevitable and there is no algorithm for > success" (63). > > In other words, he concludes, we cannot escape using our own judgement > -- and so examining our own motivations. Mine (I think) come from (but > are not entirely determined by) two senses: one, that research in > humanities computing has become industrialised (and cash-cow'd), and so > is research no longer; two, that back when literary computing got > started, it took a wrong turn that has led us to industrialisation. If, > I am thinking, historia is magistra vitae for us, it will help us by > showing us other possibilities. Why, I wonder, no doubt selectively, > were things so exciting then, especially in the arts, and so dull now? > Or is the beam in the eye of this beholder? > > There -- cards on the table, inviting other readings of them, other moves. > > 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. -- 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 Jun 15 05:41:20 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 3AF4458BFB; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:41:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BC9E058BE5; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:41:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100615054118.BC9E058BE5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:41:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.115 fellowship at Leuven X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 115. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:07:07 +0100 From: Caroline Macé Subject: 2 year fellowship at the K.U.Leuven The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven announces a 2 year research fellowship, starting in October 2010, to work on a project entitled "The Tree of Texts: Towards an empirical model for text transmission and evolution". This project will be carried out at the Faculty of Arts, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Caroline Macé. Profile The candidate has a PhD or a Master degree (with research experience) in a field of study related to computer sciences applied to the humanities. The candidate should be able to design a database, apply statistical tools, and draw mathematical models. Some experience in digital philology would be an advantage, but at least an interest in textual scholarship is required. Description of the work The first step in the research process will consist in creating a data base where data coming from different manuscript traditions in different languages will be gathered and structured. The data will be analysed according to the following questions: what types of variations occur, can these types be divided into subtypes, do all these variations occur in all types of texts / manuscripts, are some variants reversible and others irreversible, are there indisputable (objective) criteria to distinguish between "original" (or primary) readings and "derived" (or secondary) readings, etc. Applications (CV + motivation letter) and inquiries can be sent to Caroline.Mace@arts.kuleuven.be _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 15 05:41:58 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 C70365C9B9; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:41:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A88915C9B2; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:41:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100615054156.A88915C9B2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:41:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.116 new publication: TextGrid Newsletter X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 116. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:26:39 +0200 From: "Felix Lohmeier" Subject: TextGrid Newsletter 08 Dear Colleagues, today, we are pleased to present you the eighth TextGrid Newsletter: http://www.textgrid.de/en/newsletter.html In this edition you will find information on the following topics: * TextGridLab Beta Rev 6135 Released * Updates to TextGridLab * Tutorials Released * TextGrid Workshops * Cooperation * Latest Events * Recent Publications The joint project TextGrid aims to support access to and exchange of data in the arts and humanities by means of modern information technology (the grid). In 2006 development began on a web-based platform, one which will provide services and tools for researchers for analysis of text data in various digital archives - independently of data format, location and software. TextGrid serves as a virtual research environment for philologists, linguists, musicologists and art historians. This 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). Yours Sincerely, The TextGrid 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 Wed Jun 16 08:29:08 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 079B12E88C; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:29:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C17E22E874; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:29:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100616082905.C17E22E874@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:29:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.117 knowledge from belief X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 117. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:27:25 +0200 From: Øyvind Eide Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.110 knowledge from belief In-Reply-To: <20100614052837.F1ADF5BF16@woodward.joyent.us> Den 14. juni. 2010 kl. 07.28 skrev Humanist Discussion Group: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 110. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:29:00 -0400 (EDT) > From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.96 knowledge from belief > In-Reply-To: <20100610052252.644B15D776@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Øyvind, > > You asked: > >> At what level do you mean? The level of sound of a voice or the marks >> on paper or screen representing letters? On the level of >> understanding >> words in the text ("London", "the other side of the river") in a >> geometric way? Or something else? > > Since I had in mind the work of Jean Petitot, (Morphogenèse du Sens, > 1985 > ; trans. Morphogenesis of Meaning, 2003), I intended to encompass > research > at the phonological, orthographic and semantic aspects of verbal > artefacts > as well as aspects of non-verbal artefacts. In a sense I see the > modeling > offered by catastrophe theory and the topologies it explores as rich > in > possibilities fro they can account for traversal of the textual > object by > an interpreter. > > For short overview of Petitot's work see the online lectures by > Franson D > Manjali housed at > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb/cyber/manout.html > > Jerome McGann in "Marking Texts of Many Dimensions" (2004) devotes > some > space to the topological work of Rene Thom [suggestively marked as > "Thorn" > throughout the online version] and how it can be linked to > autopoiesis. > McGann concludes: "Imagined as applied to textual autopoiesis, a > toplogocial approach carries itself past an analytic description or > prediction over to a form of demonstration or enactment." > > In short, a consideration of geometry could lead to a greater > appreciation > for the dynamic nature of textual instances. The traversal of any > given > textual instance produces an object held in memory and that object > changes > shape as decisions are made along the traversal. > > Some might consider such ventures as abstracting from the textual > instance, as straying into another sphere. I have a partial answer. > Some > time ago (in the mid 90s) in a different context, I wrote > "Abstraction > makes possible the synonymity between structure and syntax. > Abstraction > also enables the comparison of discursive formations including those > of > mathematics and semiotics. [...] Within an idiom of algebraic > structure, > logical formalization is not so far away from topological > schematization." > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/S4.HTM > > I dream of a mature humanities computing where comparisons are > facilitated > by the ease with which mathematical modeling can be accomplished both > within any given textual instance and across instances. And that the > comparisons not be limited to verbal artefacts alone but also > encompass > inter-media relations. Thank you for this short, but clarifying introduction! I will have to study it and the references in more detail to find out if this is something I will go deeper into. What you say is indeed quite abstract, but also connects to something much more concrete, the actual storage and use in the human mind of what you above call the object produced by a traversal of a textual instance. I will go in that direction for a few sentences. Have you made any attempts to connect to research in neuroscience, or heard of such attempts? One example of neuroscience that may be relevant is the Moser Group, claiming to have provided "some of the most important insights so far into how spatial location and spatial memory are computed in the brain." [1] This is an area where many of us face a major problem with cross- disciplinary work; I have no training in biology myself, so everything has to be based on either popular presentations or a quite limited understanding of research articles. As I understand their research there are grids of neurones representing landmarks in relation to a place you (well, really, a rat friend of yours) are at or remember, as well as the orientation you have: grid cells, place cells, head- direction cells, and border cells are the key computational units of this network. Move around, turn around; different neurones fire. Then there is the question of geometry as an object of textual reference on one hand (e.g. travel narrative) and geometry as a "modelling system" on the other. Given that grids of neurones in the brain are used for spatial information management: Is the system for storing abstract information that can be modelled in a spatial way (such as networks of friends) stored the same way? Or will that depend on which metaphors the person thinking about this uses? I do not have any idea about the answer to this, but it should --- at least partially --- be an empirical question. Has anyone seen any links to neuroscience in this area? [1] A presentation of the Moser Group: http://www.ntnu.no/cbm/moser Regards, Øyvind _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 16 08:29:38 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 39DFF2E8D7; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:29:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C412E2E8BC; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:29:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100616082936.C412E2E8BC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:29:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.118 why all the old stuff X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 118. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:58:41 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.113 why all the old stuff In-Reply-To: <20100615053913.8B7D45AA4D@woodward.joyent.us> Willard: In my posting yesterday, I see a sentence that was quite wrongly put. Here it is, followed by my inversion and correction. [slightly feverish with sore throat yesterday]: *"It is, the B-52, according to those critics with a certain political bias, not a historical anachronism, but a present potential for a history that may or may not be likely to come.* It should have read: *It is, the B-52, according to those critics with a certain political bias, an historical anachronism, instead of a present potential for a history that may or may not be likely to come."* * * * * *Jascha Kessler * On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 113. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Richard Lewis > (36) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.111 why all the old stuff? > > [2] From: Jascha Kessler > (159) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.111 why all the old stuff? > > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:34:08 +0100 > From: Richard Lewis > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.111 why all the old stuff? > In-Reply-To: <20100614060139.E8F2257B40@woodward.joyent.us> > > At Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:01:39 +0000 (GMT), > Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > > > Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:01:06 +0100 > > From: Willard McCarty > > Subject: why all this old stuff? > > > > [...] that research in humanities computing has become > > industrialised (and cash-cow'd), and so is research no longer; two, > > that back when literary computing got started, it took a wrong turn > > that has led us to industrialisation. [...] > > I'm beginning to get the impression that many in the digital > humanities actually see their role as being technicians and providers > of a service. It may stem from fear of being accused of attempting to > replace existing modes of scholarship; in order to avoid such > accusations, digital humanists work on tools which explicitly aim to > *support* existing scholarly practices. From my own point of view, I > see this quite often in technology for music research. Many of the > applications of such technologies are aimed at commercial clients. But > even when they're not, they're generally advocated to musicologists as > tools to support the kinds of things that musicologists will surely > find interesting anyway. > -- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Richard Lewis > ISMS, Computing > Goldsmiths, University of London > Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 > Skype: richardjlewis > JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li > http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:28:15 -0700 > From: Jascha Kessler > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.111 why all the old stuff? > In-Reply-To: <20100614060139.E8F2257B40@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Dear Willard, Listers, and Fellow Lurkers, > > I would indeed like to comment on the quotation Willard proffers from > Lloyd. > It is important and clear; nevertheless, my first reaction is to see it > as > precisely upside-down. While strategists in the great war rooms of the > world ought surely, given today's great costs of preparation for conflict, > inevitable and sure as is the sunrise on a whirling globe, and should one > hopes always keep the history of war foremost in mind, there is a tendency > today, often politically motivated, to insist that the last war(s) are not > relevant. Assuredly they are and must be if only for the sake of negation > and elimination of automatic repetition ... which is or can be farcical. > 1) Let me quote a letter I sent to the Los Angeles Times but 4 or 5 days > ago, on this head coincidentally enough. It scouts those who politically > mock the planners. > > "Letters to the Editor > > THE LOS ANGELES TIMES > > Los Angeles > > Dear Letters Editor: > > What does it mean when the Times quotes some guy named Wheeler from some > undefined “watchdog group”? [June 10, “B-2 Makeover news] What qualifies > that group to disagree with the Pentagon, calling the B-2 Stealth Bomber > the > “ultimate hangar queen” and declaring it “not useful” for the current Iraq > and Afghanistan warring against “low-tech enemies”? Such criticism is both > myopically purblind and willfully pusillanimous. It fails to “think the > unthinkable,” as the RAND strategist Herman Kahn put it decades ago. As > long as we have nuclear bombs to deliver, the B-2 is our messenger of > choice. And when push comes to shove, as seems ever more likely, America > will have to use them, since intercontinental missiles may not be our > weapon > of choice, especially after an electronic cyber attack blindfolds us. > > Sincerely, > > ..." > > 2) What came immediately to mind was Socrates, who when earnestly asked to > describe how his "Dæmon advised him as to what to do (in making a > decision)" > he replied, "My Dæmon never tells me what I must do. It always and only > tells me what NOT to do." [my emphasis]. > > In other words, as Lloyd suggests, the past is no guide to the future. Its > template(s) cannot be superimposed on the present, which is fleeting, and > the future, which is unknown but yet determined by action in the present. > Still, history is meant to, I think? to offer what was done, and > [Heraclitus here] can not be done again. As my letter to the LAT suggests, > to maintain the skin of a B-52 at 60 millions a pop, does mean it is a > waste > of money and time, because the present war in Afghanistan is guerrilla-like > in action. It is, the B-52, according to those critics with a certain > political bias, not a historical anachronism, but a present potential for a > history that may or may not be likely to come. Socrates' Dæmon, I venture, > would not advise us to scrap the past/present of the B-52; but it would > advise us not to scrap it, because without history we would utterly lost to > recognize most of the currents, trends, facts, realities of the present, > which may or may not, but often enough actually DO repeat. > > The anomaly here is what I have written about in several published essays > for several decades, but cannot seem to get across to Letters editors of > any > papers. Viz., we are illuded because of the global mediazation [sic] of > information and knowledge, which is always per se and present globally. > {Not > to mention our delusions stemming from the neologism "globalization," > dealing with currency flows and technology of production, etc.} What we > fail to recognize is history itself as it is present in cultures and > societies and nations large and small who exist in the West's past, and > potently, as with Islam and the Saudis. Our 14th century of the past is > also present and dangerously so. Iran and Egypt used to be our 17-th and > perhaps 19th centuries, but have regressed to the times when the Koran was > being written down, which was long after the Prophet and his wars were > quite > past. If what we see is the armies of the first Caliph at war in Iraq > today, Shia and Sunni, we are seeing the past, and its entire template. > > As for Willard's questioning, the Humanities I think are past records in > libraries. Digital powers representing or replicating or making them > present before us as we sit at our screens and think and wonder do not > necessarily make their past representation, verbally or pictorially or > monumentally, ACTUALLY accessible. Example, that strangely accurate > dramatic rendition of such a madness, or illuded behavior, as played out in > the film, Wicker Man. If that was its title? I saw it on TV last year. > That strange anachronism or attempting to relive the past, itself a lost > ritual society as understood from records of Druidism, is an example of > what > I am getting it. Mummery is not the past. Ditto for present warfare, as > Lloyd writes. But...if as in Wahhabism, the past templates are present, > well, Houston, we have a problem [i.e., up here in orbital abstraction, so > to speak]. > > If I am getting at something of concern for this list...? > > Jascha Kessler -- 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 Wed Jun 16 08:30:27 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 5CD482E973; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:30:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C58442E961; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:30:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100616083025.C58442E961@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:30:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.119 job in Darmstadt X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 119. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:10:00 +0200 From: Sabine Bartsch Subject: Lecturership (1 yr.) in Humanities Computing The Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies at the Technische Universität Darmstadt invites applications for a vacant position for a Lecturer (75 %) in the field of Humanities Computing in Text Studies The position is initially for one year with a potential extension subject to performance and funding. The prospective postholder should have an interest and documented qualifications and skills in questions of the application of corpus and computational linguistics as well as corpus stylistic methods and approaches especially to literary texts and texts belonging to what has come to be called cultural heritage data. Applicants are expected to have obtained a Masters (or comparable) degree in a philology (preferably in Anglistik / English studies) with a focus on and documented interest in humanities computing (corpus and computational linguistics) and / or corpus stylistic questions with an emphasis on literary texts. The prospective postholder will be encouraged to engage with the current research activities of the institute in the field of Digital Humanities (computational philology / corpus linguistics). He or she will teach courses (3 hours per week) in this area of specialization and be expected to take over administrative tasks (student counseling, writing research proposals etc.). The successful applicant will be given the opportunity to conduct their own research and pursue a further qualification (PhD, Habilitation, second book). The Technische Universität 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. Remuneration is according to the Tarifvertrag TV - TU Darmstadt. Applications should quote the post’s Identification Number (ID-No. 177) and include a CV, a list of publications, copies of relevant diplomas, and a record of teaching and research activities. They should be sent to: The Dean of the Faculty of History and Social Science, Prof. Dr. Rudi Schmiede, Residenzschloss, 64293 Darmstadt. Kenn.-Nr. 177 Deadline: June 2010 -- Dr. Sabine Bartsch Technische Universität Darmstadt Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft Hochschulstrasse 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 Jun 16 08:31:03 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 72EC62E9B3; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:31:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 138382E9AA; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:31:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100616083102.138382E9AA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:31:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.120 digitizing Brazilian culture 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. 24, No. 120. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:18:51 -0500 From: Ana Boa-Ventura Subject: Preserving Brazilian culture, promoting Brazilian Portuguese In-Reply-To: <20100615054156.A88915C9B2@woodward.joyent.us> In Brazil, a public program is contributing to digitizing Brazilian Culture and to making it Open, leveraging the preservation / promotion of Brazilian Portuguese. The Brasiliana Library initiative was created by researchers at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) Version 1.1 of Digital Brasiliana at http://www.brasiliana.usp.br/bbd Portuguese speakers can follow the discussion of practical apects at http://www.brasiliana.usp.br/bd_projeto ( I love the name of the robot scanner of Brasiliana: ' Maria Bonita'!) For non Portuguese speakers, a good summary of the program including technical aspects can be found at: http://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/2077/21374/1/gupea_2077_21374_1.pdf Between the new digital Brasiliana at USP and OurGrid at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil is taking some groundbreaking strides in the Digital Humanities. Ana Boa-Ventura HASTAC Scholar 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 Jun 17 08:47:25 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 DF18A58C51; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:47:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BF3D859A3D; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:47:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100617084723.BF3D859A3D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:47:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.121 measuring up? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 121. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:35:14 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: measuring up For the purpose of argument let me make a distinction between *prosthesis* (OED: "The replacement of defective or absent parts of the body by artificial substitutes") and *augmentation* ("making greater, or adding to; extension, enlargement"), with obvious reference to Douglas Engelbart. These two blur into each other, as we see particularly when the former is used to denote extension of normal capacities. Let's assume also that the norm hiding in this distinction is unproblematic and indicates what is "normal", as we say, i.e. average. So, a couple of questions. (1) Can we agree that in the development of our digital tools and methods our aim is augmentation rather than prosthesis? A prosthetic tool would not just be e.g. a text-to-speech or speech-to-text synthesizer designed for someone who cannot produce the one but can the other, but also, say, a diary reminder for the busy person who cannot remember where he or she has to go when. An augmenting tool would be something that allows e.g. all literature in a particular language, or in several languages, to be searched for a particular syntactic or semantic pattern. (2) If augmentation is our goal, then how in the various areas of our activity do we measure up, and what can we learn from our successes and our failures? And beyond those, what can we learn from our dreams of an augmented human? In the gym this morning, I found myself (as one does) gazing in endorphinic intoxication (NOT the right word, but you get the idea) at some muscle-building machines and wondering where they fit into the continuum from prosthesis to augmentation. I don't think this is a simple question, though I admit that as I type the endorphins are still doing their marvellous work. 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 17 08:48:22 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 8F27858E24; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:48:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7C14058F55; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:48:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100617084820.7C14058F55@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:48:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.122 Fulbright in digital humanities 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. 24, No. 122. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:32:59 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fulbright in Digital Humanities at Galway [Please note: as a first step, interested individuals should write directly to Professor Nicholas Canny, nicholas.canny@nuigalway.ie, asking for a letter of invitation to apply. --WM] Call for Applications Fulbright Visiting Scholar to Ireland Award in Digital Humanities to be based at the Moore Institute, National University of Galway Ireland DEADLINE for APPLICATONS: 2nd August 2010 Country: Ireland Award Title: Humanities/Digital Humanities Activity: Teaching/Research Disciplines: History (non-U.S.), Information Sciences, Language and Literature (non-US), Library Science Ph.D. Required: Yes Specializations: Digital humanities, literature, history, languages, and information technology. Grant Activity: Teach one undergraduate seminar to a maximum of fifteen students in digital humanities in the fall semester, for two hours per week for eleven weeks. Advise fifteen to twenty graduate students and liaise and cooperate with faculty in related fields for a maximum of 15 hours. Collaborate with the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies and its key academic staff on the following key research activities: 1) Texts, Contexts, Cultures 2) TEXTE: Transfer of Expertise in Technologies of Editing, 3) Thomas Moore Hypermedia Archive. Additional Qualifications: PhD; five years teaching experience preferred. Locations: Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, University Rd, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland http://www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute/. The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies was established under Ireland’s Higher Education Authority's Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, Cycle 2, (PRTLI 2), as an international research community of upwards of thirty early-stage researchers concerned with the full range of humanities disciplines, and on the interconnection between creativity and innovation. It is located within the National University of Ireland, Galway’s College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies and has links with researchers in each of the Six Schools of the College. Length Of Grant: 10 months Starting Date: September 2011 Special Features: This award is cost-shared by the host institution. Additional Comments: Letter of invitation recommended. Contact: Professor Nicholas Canny, Director, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway; nicholas.canny@nuigalway.ie; telephone: 00353.91.493902; To Apply: See http://catalog.cies.org/viewAward.aspx?n=1247 -- 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 17 08:50:25 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 26BF25A3BE; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:50:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3097F5A3AD; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:50:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100617085023.3097F5A3AD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:50:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.123 survey of undergrad programmes 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. 24, No. 123. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:35:04 -0400 From: Tanya Clement Subject: Survey on undergraduate programs inflected by the digital humanities Dear digital humanists, Now that the spring semester is over, you have another chance to participate! This is a Call for Participation in a survey I am conducting on curricular and infrastructural development underlying undergraduate programs inflected by the digital humanities at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/X3H8YQH Introduction to the survey: I am inviting you to participate in this survey "Designing for Digital Literacy" as part of a larger research project on curricular and infrastructural development within the digital humanities because you are affiliated with an undergraduate curriculum that is in some way inflected by the digital humanities. Whether your curriculum or program matches this broad description is entirely up to you. Some examples of how scholars and faculty are defining the field in terms of undergraduate curricula can be found on my blog at http://www.palms.wordherders.net/wp/2009/11/digital-humanities-inflected-u ndergraduate-programs-2/. These examples range from programs that work with new media and mobility devices to programs that are entrenched in textual computational analysis and representation. Other examples also appear--more importantly for this discussion, these participants who are choosing to align themselves with the digital humanities come from a wide range of institutional environments and experiences. The purpose of this research project is to start making transparent the institutional and infrastructural issues that are specific to certain universities in order to provide insight into how curricula that is inflected by the digital humanities has been, is being, or might be developed. Simply listing examples of existing programs would belie the extent to which scholars and administrators have shaped and are shaping these curricula according to the needs of their specific communities. The results of this research may help us all learn more about the current state of developing digital humanities curricula for undergraduates and provide a background of transparency that encourages continued development and knowledge production in this field. Thank you for your time. Tanya Clement, PhD Associate Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC) Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) The University of Maryland, College Park 301-405-2866 dcc.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 Thu Jun 17 08:51:44 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 78FE35A807; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:51:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C9BC75A5B8; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:51:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100617085142.C9BC75A5B8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:51:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.124 new online: Jane Austen; more Brazilian X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 124. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: alckmar@cce.ufsc.br (55) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.120 digitizing Brazilian culture [2] From: Willard McCarty (14) Subject: Jane Austen online --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:14:09 -0300 From: alckmar@cce.ufsc.br Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.120 digitizing Brazilian culture In-Reply-To: <20100616083102.138382E9AA@woodward.joyent.us> We could also mention our project on digitalizing Brazilian literature (at www.literaturabrasileira.ufsc.br), which makes available both digitalized texts (739 titles, in HTML format, up to this moment) and metadata of literary works (more than 63,000) or authors (more than 16,000), not to mention some e-learning tools we are developing, as a semantical annotations mechanism in HTML texts. Alckmar Luiz dos Santos Literature, Linguistics and Computing Research Group Federal University of Santa Catarina - Brazil --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:41:09 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Jane Austen online In-Reply-To: <20100616083102.138382E9AA@woodward.joyent.us> Many here will be interested to know that a new digital edition of the surviving manuscripts of Jane Austen's fiction, gathered together for the first time in 150 years, has been completed and is now online, at www.janeausten.ac.uk/. This edition is the product of a collaboration between Professor Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford) and a technical team at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (KCL) led by Dr Elena Pierazzo. It features on the homepage of King's, www.kcl.ac.uk. 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 17 08:52:18 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 8D0A35A894; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:52:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 15D7F5A88B; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:52:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100617085217.15D7F5A88B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:52:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.125 events: Digital Classicist 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. 24, No. 125. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:02:32 +0100 From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: After Prosopography: Data modelling, models of history, and new directions for a scholarly genre (seminar) Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010 Friday June 18th at 16:30 STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Tim Hill (King’s College London) *After Prosopography: Data modelling, models of history, and new directions for a scholarly genre* ALL WELCOME Database technology profoundly altered the scope and power of the prosopography; more recently developed technologies have the potential to transform the genre yet again. Advances in the areas of digitised social network analysis, natural language processing, and ontological reasoning have the potential not only to extend the research reach and utility of the prosopography, but also to allow us to ask new questions of the past. The purpose of this paper is to outline these new technologies and tentatively to explore where these new questions might take us. 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, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk or M.Terras@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher, Digital Classicist, Pirate) 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 Jun 19 06:55:19 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 1F32B5ACC5; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:55:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 157CD5ACB1; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:55:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100619065517.157CD5ACB1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:55:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.126 measuring up X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 126. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:48:27 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.121 measuring up? In-Reply-To: <20100617084723.BF3D859A3D@woodward.joyent.us> *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1276800514_2010-06-17_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_18416.2.octet-stream Dear Willard, I have always digressed when the opportunity arose while lecturing to remark to my audience of Homo sapiens — classroom, seminar, public — that *Homo Faber*, an casual evolutionary category, is distinguished by first, clothing itself, and second of course tools after fire managemen. Homo prosthesiensis, since we arrive incapable of survival at birth and for the first year and more, say three? We would not be had we not even the most elementary of prostheses. Whether to replace or augment, as in trepanning amongst Neanderthals? Speaking of Neandethals, the FT recently published a letter of mine that may be entertaining. I attach it to this email. Jascha Kessler On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 121. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:35:14 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: measuring up > > For the purpose of argument let me make a distinction between > *prosthesis* (OED: "The replacement of defective or absent parts of the > body by artificial substitutes") and *augmentation* ("making greater, or > adding to; extension, enlargement"), with obvious reference to Douglas > Engelbart. These two blur into each other, as we see particularly when > the former is used to denote extension of normal capacities. Let's > assume also that the norm hiding in this distinction is unproblematic > and indicates what is "normal", as we say, i.e. average. > > So, a couple of questions. > > (1) Can we agree that in the development of our digital tools and > methods our aim is augmentation rather than prosthesis? A prosthetic > tool would not just be e.g. a text-to-speech or speech-to-text > synthesizer designed for someone who cannot produce the one but can the > other, but also, say, a diary reminder for the busy person who cannot > remember where he or she has to go when. An augmenting tool would be > something that allows e.g. all literature in a particular language, or > in several languages, to be searched for a particular syntactic > or semantic pattern. > > (2) If augmentation is our goal, then how in the various areas of our > activity do we measure up, and what can we learn from our successes and > our failures? And beyond those, what can we learn from our dreams of an > augmented human? > > In the gym this morning, I found myself (as one does) gazing in > endorphinic intoxication (NOT the right word, but you get the idea) at > some muscle-building machines and wondering where they fit into the > continuum from prosthesis to augmentation. I don't think this is a > simple question, though I admit that as I type the endorphins are still > doing their marvellous work. > > 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 > -- 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 Sat Jun 19 06:55:41 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 568ED5AD54; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:55:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 80D735AD42; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:55:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100619065539.80D735AD42@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:55:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.127 appointments in or near 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 127. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:50:22 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: appointments in the digital humanities For purposes of research into where the field is going, and with whom, I'd be very interested to receive pointers to job adverts for any academic, semi- or para-academic appointments that could be considered to involve the digital humanities officially. 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 Jun 19 06:56:44 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 DBBEF5AE61; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:56:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 38AD65AE40; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:56:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100619065643.38AD65AE40@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:56:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.128 new on WWW: stemmatics 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 128. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:20:03 +0100 From: Peter Robinson Subject: Stemmatics data: for testing phylogenetic analysis on actual manuscript traditions As part of the Studia Stemmatalogica project (led by Tuomas Heikkilä, Teemu Roos and Petri Myllymäk of the University of Helsinki), I have prepared a page giving access to five full sets of data prepared for phylogenetic analysis: four for sections of the Canterbury Tales, one for the Old Norse Solarljod. These datasets have been produced with exceptional care, to give the most accurate and complete portrayal of the variation in each tradition. For each dataset, we also present an expert scholarly analysis. Our hope, in releasing this data, is to encourage researchers interested in the possibilities and challenges of the application of phylogenetic methods to stemmatics to experiment with different methods of analysis on 'real' datasets. We would be glad to hear of any and all uses made of this data. The data is at http://www.textualscholarship.org/newstemmatics/data/index.html. (this address omitted in any earlier posting) 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 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 Sat Jun 19 06:57:45 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 572AD59DD3; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:57:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 370F559A5F; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:57:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100619065743.370F559A5F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:57:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.129 new encoding service X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 129. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:12:31 -0400 From: John Unsworth Subject: AccessTEI digitization service announced Those interested in digitizing text (whether printed or manuscript, in any language) will benefit from the AccessTEI program just launched by the Text Encoding Initiative, in partnership with Apex Covantage and with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The program provides bulk-pricing on the transcription and (structural) xml encoding of text, for those at institutions that are members of the TEI Consortium. A current list of institutional members is at http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/current.xml; if your institution is not a member, cost of membership varies from $100 to $5,000/year, depending on the size of the organization that is joining and the world economy in which it is located. Membership application can be found at http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/teimembershipform.pdf and pricing for AccessTEI services to TEI members can be found at http://accesstei.apexcovantage.com/Home/PriceMatrix . John Unsworth _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 19 06:58:57 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 EEFAB59F60; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:58:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AA7A059E2F; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:58:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100619065854.AA7A059E2F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:58:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.130 events: TEI 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. 24, No. 130. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:18:32 +0100 From: James Cummings Subject: Reminder: TEI @ Oxford Summer School 2010 (apologies for cross-posting, feel free to forward) Book soon! TEI @ Oxford Summer School 2010 http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Oxford/2010-07-oxford/ The TEI @ Oxford Summer School is a three day course introducing the recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for encoding of digital text. It combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the TEI Recommendations for the encoding of digital text with practical workshops on related technologies. It includes an introduction to mark-up, explanations of the TEI Guidelines, and approaches to publishing TEI texts. Practical exercises expose you hands-on experience of a wide range of TEI customisation, editing, and publication. Each day will also include a number of afternoon 2.5 hour parallel workshops on related technologies and topics. These will include TEI Publishing; TEI for Language Resources; Transforming TEI with XSLT; TEI in Libraries; Creating a TEI-based Website with the eXist XML Database; and Genetic Editing: transcribing documents, transcribing the process. There will also be optional surgery sessions for those who wish to consult with TEI@Oxford about their particular projects or encoding issues. There will also be guest lectures from Digital Humanities experts familiar with the TEI talking about their own projects, including C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen (co-editor of the XML Spec and one of the founding editors of the TEI). 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! The course runs from Monday 12 July – Wednesday 14 July, 2010. The course runs from 09:30 – 17:30 each day in our fully-equipped computer training rooms. Lunch and refreshments are included in the course fee. Questions about booking on the workshop: courses@oucs.ox.ac.uk Dr James Cummings Research Technologies Service University of Oxford _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Jun 20 09:35:22 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 6B7395710E; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:35:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 654B5570D7; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:35:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100620093520.654B5570D7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:35:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.131 stemmatics 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 131. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:20:46 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.128 new on WWW: stemmatics data In-Reply-To: <20100619065643.38AD65AE40@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Peter, I also have a method for generating phylogenetic trees, but it works differently. What I do is run my nmerge program over the set of witnesses to produce an MVD. Then I query the MVD to produce a difference matrix. This computes the Levenshtein distance between each witness against each other witness (so, like you, no base text). The Levenshtein distance is computed at character-level granularity at a cost of 1 for a deletion, insertion or variant and at a cost of 1 for any transposition between the versions being compared, no matter what their length (so maybe 100 characters transposed for cost 1). Then I compute the standard deviation for each witness against each other witness and output this as a difference matrix. The difference matrix gets fed into Phylip to produce the phylogenetic tree. I have modified the fitch and drawtree programs of Phylip to output a JPG file that can be viewed in our web application. So one 'view' of an MVD becomes the phylogenetic tree. As you modify the text or add new witnesses it will update the tree. Although I have the tools to do all this manually I'm still working on the GUI, but it won't take much longer. Domenico will be able to demonstrate this at Pisa so you can see it. But it would be interesting to compare your method and mine on the same data, don't you think? Could you possibly make some of the original witnesses available to me in advance? ------------------------------ Dr Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Information Technology Queensland University of Technology (07)3138-9509 >Subject: [Humanist] 24.128 new on WWW: stemmatics data Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 128. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:20:03 +0100 From: Peter Robinson Subject: Stemmatics data: for testing phylogenetic analysis on actual manuscript traditions As part of the Studia Stemmatalogica project (led by Tuomas Heikkilä, Teemu Roos and Petri Myllymäk of the University of Helsinki), I have prepared a page giving access to five full sets of data prepared for phylogenetic analysis: four for sections of the Canterbury Tales, one for the Old Norse Solarljod. These datasets have been produced with exceptional care, to give the most accurate and complete portrayal of the variation in each tradition. For each dataset, we also present an expert scholarly analysis. Our hope, in releasing this data, is to encourage researchers interested in the possibilities and challenges of the application of phylogenetic methods to stemmatics to experiment with different methods of analysis on 'real' datasets. We would be glad to hear of any and all uses made of this data. The data is at http://www.textualscholarship.org/newstemmatics/data/index.html. (this address omitted in any earlier posting) 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 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 Sun Jun 20 09:36:05 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 C3E7357196; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:36:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A169657183; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:36:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100620093604.A169657183@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:36:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.132 Herbert Simon and 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. 24, No. 132. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:33:13 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Herbert Simon and computing For those here who have an interest in how computing was shaped and applied in the early years, where many of our ideas about it came from and what they bring with them, I can heartily recommend Hunter Crowther-Heyck's intellectual biography, Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2005). His chapter, "The program is the theory" is superb, to mention one among several. I have found in this book greater insight into Simon's ideas than anywhere else I can recall. 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 22 05:34:38 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 9FB2359602; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:34:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7CED9595D0; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:34:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100622053436.7CED9595D0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:34:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.133 job at Trinity Dublin: new closing date X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 133. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:22:33 +0100 From: Christine Devlin Subject: Advert for Trinity Long Room Hub Senior Lectureship in Digital Humanities [NB the new closing date for the Senior Lectureship post in Dublin.] Post Title: Trinity Long Room Hub Senior Lectureship in Digital Humanities Post Status: 5-year contract Discipline/Faculty: Long Room Hub, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Location: Main Campus Salary: Senior Lecturer salary scale: Pre-95 €69,841 - €89,459 Post-95: €73,385 - €94,035 per annum (Pre ‘95 applies to staff who have been employed in the public sector prior to April 1995 / Post ‘95 applies to existing staff employed in the public sector post April 1995/new entrants to the public sector) Closing Date: 12 Noon on Friday 9th July, 2010 Post Summary The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences seeks to make a senior appointment in Digital Humanities. 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Candidates must apply though jobs.tcd.ie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 05:34:54 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 0562B59675; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:34:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 59D5659660; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:34:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100622053452.59D5659660@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:34:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.134 new on CLCWeb X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 134. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:20:57 +0100 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: new on CLCWeb Announcement: Issue 12.2 (June 2010) of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb (open access) Thematic Issue: New Modernities and the "Third World" http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol12/iss2/ guest edited by Valerian DeSousa, Jennifer E. Henton, and Geetha Ramanathan is with articles "Robert Clive and Imperial Modernity" by Nigel Joseph, "Modernizing the Colonial Labor Subject in India" by Valerian DeSousa, "Aesthetics, Nationalism, and the Image of Woman in Modern Indian Art" by Kedar Vishwanathan, "The Anti-Colonial Revolutionary in Contemporary Bollywood Cinema" by Vidhu Aggarwal, "Philosophy of Modernity and Development in Jamaica" by Novella Z. Keith and Nelson W. Keith, "Modernity in Marquez and Feminism in Ousmane" by Geetha Ramanathan, "Nordestina Modernity in the Novels of Freitas, Queiroz, and Lispector" by Fernanda Patricia Fuentes Munoz, "New Modernity, Transnational Women, and Spanish Cinema" by Maria Van Liew, "Modern Migration in Two Arabic Novels" by Ikram Masmoudi, "Danticat's The Dew Breaker, Haiti, and Symbolic Migration" by Jennifer E. Henton, "Haitian Zombie, Myth, and Modern Identity" by Kette Thomas, "Political Modernism, Jabra, and the Baghdad Modern Art Group" by Nathaniel Greenberg, and "Bibliography of Work in Modernity and 'Third World' Studies" by Valerian DeSousa. Announcement: Issue 12.1 (March 2010) of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb (open access) General Issue http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol12/iss1/ is with articles "Literary Studies from Hermeneutics to Media Culture Studies" by Siegfried J. Schmidt, "Sartre, Marcuse, and the Utopian Project Today" by Robert T. Tally Jr., "The Making of (Post)colonial Cities in Central Europe" by Agata Anna Lisiak, "Bassani's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis and Italian 'Queers'" by John Champagne, "Anti-Nationalism in Scott's Old Mortality" by Montserrat Martinez Garcia, "Peking Opera and Grotowski's Concept of 'Poor Theatre'" by Yao-Kun Liu, "The Motif of the Patient Wife in Muslim and Western Literature and Folklore" by Mounira Monia Hejaiej, the book review article "Literature, Theatre, and Estrangement: A Review Article of New Work by Fanger, Jestrovic, and Robinson" by Gregory Byala, and "Bibliography of Siegfried J. Schmidt's Publications" by Agata Anna Lisiak and Steven Totosy de Zepetnek. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 05:36:44 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 BB4D659972; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:36:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EF882597DD; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:36:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100622053640.EF882597DD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:36:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.135 events: DH and CS; markup; lunch at 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 135. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dot Porter (34) Subject: lunch at DH2010 (London, Wednesday July 7) [2] From: Martin Mueller (14) Subject: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science,November 21-22 2010 [3] From: B Tommie Usdin (25) Subject: Latebreaking Sessions added to Balisage Schedule --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:55:53 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: lunch at DH2010 (London, Wednesday July 7) [redistributed from the Digital Medievalist list --WM] Dear colleagues, Many of you are aware of the Digital Humanities 2010 conference (to be held in London July 7-10), I hope some of you will be there as well. If you're curious, here is the website: http://dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ We'd like to give folks an opportunity to meet informally during the conference, so I'm working with Peter Stokes (who won't be able to attend the conference, but who lives in London) to organize a lunch on one of the days of the conference. It looks like Wednesday will be the best day to meet; although it's technically registration day (no sessions until the evening keynote and reception following), the other days have association AGMs during lunch, and we want to encourage people to attend those if they can. So... If you are going to be at DH2010, and/or if you live in London, and if you would like to meet informally with [Digital Medievalists], and if you will be available at lunchtime on Wednesday July 7 (or, if you would like to petition that we aim for another day), please send me a message at dot.porter@gmail.com to let me know. Peter is looking at local venues, but it would help if we could have a rough estimate of how many people we might expect. Thanks! Hope to see some of you in London soon. Dot --*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:42:29 -0500 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, November 21-22 2010 With apologies in advance for cross-posting: The fifth annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) will be held at Northwestern University on November 21-22, 2010 (Sunday-Monday). The tag line for this year's colloquium is "Working with Digital Data: Collaborate, Curate, Analyze, Annotate" We will be particularly interested in papers or poster sessions about annotation. scholarly crowdsourcing, and challenges of human/computer interaction. The deadline for submissions is August 31, with notification by September 17. Proposal abstracts should not exceed two pages and be submitted in Adobe PDF (preferred) or MS Word format. The colloquium now has its own website at http://chicagocolloquium.org/. It is still under construction, and details about this or that will follow, but I hope this call will provide enough initial direction to spur submissions. For questions about the program contact Martin Mueller Professor of English and Classics martinmueller@northwestern.edu For questions about logistics and administrative matters contact Nathan Mead Coordinator, Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science n-mead2@northwestern.edu --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:17:46 -0400 From: B Tommie Usdin Subject: Latebreaking Sessions added to Balisage Schedule When the regular (peer-reviewed) part of the Balisage program was scheduled, a few slots were reserved for presentation of "Latebreaking" material. These presentations have now been selected and added to the program. Topics added include: - XSLT versus XQuery: how to choose - DITA: who is, and isn't, and why - XHTML dialects - The nature of documents - Managing unpredictable structures as a linkbase - Overlapping structures: Implementing string-range() Balisage is the XML Geek-fest; the annual gathering of people who design markup and markup-based applications; who develop XML specifications, standards, and tools; the people who read and write, books about publishing technologies in general and XML in particular; and super-users of XML and related technologies. You can read about the Balisage 2010 conference at http://www.balisage.net. Schedule At A Glance: http://www.balisage.net/2010/At-A-Glance.html Detailed program: http://www.balisage.net/2010/Program.html -- ========================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010 mailto:info@balisage.net August 3-6, 2010 http://www.balisage.net Symposium: XML for the Long Haul 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 Tue Jun 22 08:53:46 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 AF6A959F98; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:53:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8743C59F84; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:53:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100622085343.8743C59F84@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:53:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.136 digital palaeography? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 136. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:40:48 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital palaeography? I would like to get a grip on the current state of thinking about digital palaeography. I'd like to know in broad terms, techno-intellectually, (a) what now is demonstrably possible; (b) what we have good reason to think we can do in the relatively near future; and (c) where we can dream of going someday. Provision of what we now call "high-definition" images is a given. That's fine. But that's not the end of the matter, I hope. Surely with palaeography as elsewhere throughout the humanities, there is a fundamental, enlightening but unavoidable difference between the precision of digital tools and the rather different qualities of scholarship. Since Turing's definition of computability and the machines that have followed, we have tended to go around and around in a vicious circle, from that which can be precisely stated to that which can be computed and back again. Which leaves anyone not in that circle imprecise, vague, muddled.... Some write about a "crisis" in palaeography, by which I gather they mean to say that the intermixture of human judgement (which cannot be computed) and historical fact (which presumably can) is a problem, the kind that can be solved -- or at least that having much less of the former and more of the latter is a good and achievable thing. Digital tools are supposed to help. But with what, exactly, can they help the palaeographer, without the pretense that handwritten letterforms are a different kind of thing than they actually are? Is the root crisis the problem of being an embodied creature in time? Of course we can choose to ignore the fact that *every* letterform is a work of art, however highly repetitive its production, however far to the back we shove its individual aesthetics. (Look at the Book of Kells in Dublin and then tell me that those aesthetics aren't important.) Every letterform is something produced by a living hand at a particular historical moment in a particular place, though one or more of these coordinates may be unknown. Of course we want to make more of the unknown known (to "push back the fence of the law", as Jacob Bronowski said), but great scholarship needs unblinking recognition of what we don't, and perhaps can never, know. Yes? And, it seems to me, there's a persistent tendency to downplay the fact -- stressed by calligraphers, who like painters to the art historian tend to be suspect because they *do* what the scholars study -- that handwritten letterforms are traces of movement in time involving moment-by-moment variation in the conditions of production. The workaday scribe (as opposed, say, to a Jackson Pollock of the edged pen) will want to reduce that variation to an absolute minimum, but part of being skilled involves the ability to respond instantaneously to the unexpected, e.g. a defect of the writing surface. Logically it would make sense, I'd suppose, that capturing the dynamics of production would get us closer to the identity of the historical writing hand than mere classification of, say, a Carolingian minuscule "a" with such-and-such a characteristic bowl or serif. And it just might open up new questions. Is progress being made on that front? What is the state of the art? (Note I didn't say, the state of the science, but that, too, is a question and needs to be asked simultaneously.) 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 Jun 22 08:54:32 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 767385804A; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:54:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 83AFF58017; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:54:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100622085430.83AFF58017@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:54:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.137 events: computing and philosophy X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 137. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:29:51 +0700 From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: 2nd CfP - Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference (APCAP2010) 2nd Call for Papers AP-CAP’10 October 1-2, 2010 Paper Submission Deadline has been extended until July 30th. http://www.ia-cap.org/ap-cap10 Wellington Institute of Technology, Petone, Wellington, New Zealand Conference Chair : Soraj Hongladarom Local Chair : Steve McKinlay The Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference 2010 (AP-CAP 2010) will be held on the campus of Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec), Petone, Wellington, New Zealand. AP-CAP 2010 is part of a series of conferences organised by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. CAP conferences are interdisciplinary by their very nature; we therefore welcome the submission of papers from a wide variety of disciplines at the intersection of philosophy, computer science and information technology as well as related areas in the social sciences. Confirmed Keynote Speakers Prof. John Weckert Prof. Edwin Mares Prof. Jack Copeland Research Tracks Whilst there is no specific theme for the conference papers are invited which explore the following ideas and their related disciplines. * Information and Computer Ethics * Identity, Trust and the Social Networking Phenomenon * Virtual Environments * Computing, Culture and Society * Computer-based Education and Electronic Pedagogy * Computational and related Logics * Metaphysics (Ontology, etc.) * Artificial Intelligence, Mechatronics, Robotics and Autonomous Agents * Philosophy of Computer Science * Philosophy of Information and Information Technology * Intersections Please note that the above list should not be a limiting factor. Submissions Electronic submission is now open via OpenConf http://www.ia-cap.org/ap-cap10/openconf/openconf.php IA-CAP is moving towards full paper submissions however please limit submission length to 3000 words and include a 250 word abstract. IACAP discourages participants from reading their papers to the audience. The use of PowerPoint or other presentation software is popular. However, these need not be submitted with your original paper. Post graduate students (PhD and Masters) are especially encouraged to submit. Panel Proposals We are also accepting expressions of interest for a panel discussion, to be submitted to stevet.mckinlay@gmail.com by July 30, 2010. Panel proposals must be accompanied with a paper submission which includes a statement of the general topic, and an overview of the specific problems or issues to be addressed. Please also include a list of the panelists involved, their expertise in this area, and whether they have indicated that they are willing to participate. AP-CAP’10 Conference Website http://www.ia-cap.org/ap-cap10 Important Dates April 1 Paper submission open July 14 Early registration opens July 30 Deadline for paper submission August 21 Paper acceptance notification October 1 - 2 AP-CAP'10 Conference, WelTec, Wellington, NZ -- Soraj Hongladarom Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University Bangko 10330, Thailand Tel. +66(0)2218 4756 Fax +66(0)2218 4755 Director, Center for Ethics of Science and Technology http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 05:12:14 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 C4CCF3FD97; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:12:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9A7D63FD85; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:12:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100623051212.9A7D63FD85@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:12:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.138 digital palaeography X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 138. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Peter Stokes (102) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.136 digital palaeography? [2] From: "Desiree Scholten" (21) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.136 digital palaeography? [3] From: John Unsworth (98) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.136 digital palaeography? [4] From: Robert Kraft (111) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.136 digital palaeography? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:55:27 +0100 From: Peter Stokes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.136 digital palaeography? In-Reply-To: <20100622085343.8743C59F84@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard (and list), I think a lot of the questions you raise apply not just to 'digital' palaeography but to palaeography in general, and this is one aspect of the 'crisis'. There has been an ongoing debate in the field over whether palaeography is (or should be) an 'art' or a 'science', and this debate began well before digital methods began to be applied (see, in particular, articles in Scrittura e Civiltà from 1995 and 1996, but the question goes back to work done by L. Gilissen in the 1970s). The question of letters as 'embodied in time' has also been addressed by 'traditional' palaeographers, for want of a better term, and different people have naturally taken different approaches. Albert Derolez, for one, defended his use of 'morphology' over 'ductus', in his recent book on the palaeography of Gothic script. Ultimately, though, like with everything else we do, I think it depends on what question you want to answer. Scribal attribution, like authorship attribution, is arguably amenable to quantitive analysis and therefore computing, and this is where most of the work has been done. I have also argued that scribal attribution, like authorship attribution, has the fundamental problem that we lack ways of verifying or even debating the results. Forensic document analysts have shown that examining 'strokes in time' is certainly useful for writer identification, but that capturing this from a finished product is very difficult; they have certainly tried to model the mechanics of human movement, though. The historical development of scripts, however, depends almost entirely on analysis of strokes in time (or ductus), as Mallon demonstrated, and so this is much less amenable to digital analysis. Categorisation of scripts is more complex: computers are good at categorising, in one sense, but their categories may not match the scholars' which raises interesting questions about what we do with those results. On the other hand, simply trying to teach a computer to identify 'Caroline minuscule' raises further useful questions about what we as scholars mean by Caroline minuscule in the first place, and indeed some palaeographers have argued that any categorisation of script is an artificial and essentially meaningless exercise anyway. I've discussed much of this in my article 'Digital Palaeography: Present and Future', and I'd suggest that the other contributions to that volume give a pretty good sense of the 'state of the art', although I think all of us in that book are guilty of downplaying the question of movements in time. The whole book is available at . There are also two articles in the Digital Medievalist journal on automatic scribal identification and classification: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/1.1/ciula/ and http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/3/stokes/ , as well as various other works referenced in those. Yours, Peter -- Dr Peter Stokes Research Associate (Analyst) Centre for Computing in Humanities King's College London Room 210, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 On 22 Jun 2010, at 09:53, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 136. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:40:48 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: digital palaeography? > > > I would like to get a grip on the current state of thinking about digital > palaeography. I'd like to know in broad terms, techno-intellectually, (a) > what now is demonstrably possible; (b) what we have good reason to think we > can do in the relatively near future; and (c) where we can dream of going > someday. Provision of what we now call "high-definition" images is a given. > That's fine. But that's not the end of the matter, I hope. > > Surely with palaeography as elsewhere throughout the humanities, there is a > fundamental, enlightening but unavoidable difference between the precision > of digital tools and the rather different qualities of scholarship. Since > Turing's definition of computability and the machines that have followed, we > have tended to go around and around in a vicious circle, from that which can > be precisely stated to that which can be computed and back again. Which > leaves anyone not in that circle imprecise, vague, muddled.... > > Some write about a "crisis" in palaeography, by which I gather they mean to > say that the intermixture of human judgement (which cannot be computed) and > historical fact (which presumably can) is a problem, the kind that can be > solved -- or at least that having much less of the former and more of the > latter is a good and achievable thing. Digital tools are supposed to help. > But with what, exactly, can they help the palaeographer, without the > pretense that handwritten letterforms are a different kind of thing than > they actually are? > > Is the root crisis the problem of being an embodied creature in time? > > Of course we can choose to ignore the fact that *every* letterform is a work > of art, however highly repetitive its production, however far to the back we > shove its individual aesthetics. (Look at the Book of Kells in Dublin and > then tell me that those aesthetics aren't important.) Every letterform is > something produced by a living hand at a particular historical moment in a > particular place, though one or more of these coordinates may be unknown. Of > course we want to make more of the unknown known (to "push back the fence of > the law", as Jacob Bronowski said), but great scholarship needs unblinking > recognition of what we don't, and perhaps can never, know. Yes? > > And, it seems to me, there's a persistent tendency to downplay the fact -- > stressed by calligraphers, who like painters to the art historian tend to be > suspect because they *do* what the scholars study -- that handwritten > letterforms are traces of movement in time involving moment-by-moment > variation in the conditions of production. The workaday scribe (as opposed, > say, to a Jackson Pollock of the edged pen) will want to reduce that > variation to an absolute minimum, but part of being skilled involves the > ability to respond instantaneously to the unexpected, e.g. a defect of the > writing surface. Logically it would make sense, I'd suppose, that capturing > the dynamics of production would get us closer to the identity of the > historical writing hand than mere classification of, say, a Carolingian > minuscule "a" with such-and-such a characteristic bowl or serif. And it just > might open up new questions. > > Is progress being made on that front? > > What is the state of the art? (Note I didn't say, the state of the science, > but that, too, is a question and needs to be asked simultaneously.) > > 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: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:27:19 +0200 From: "Desiree Scholten" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.136 digital palaeography? In-Reply-To: <20100622085343.8743C59F84@woodward.joyent.us> I generally hold my quiet on discussion lists as I am rather fresh in the market so to speak (will begin my PhD in October) but last year I looked a little deeper into this matter myself. On my academia.edu page you can find a paper I wrote last year on the state of the art in digital paleography. My conclusions were that technology can bring us much further when it comes to enhancing images. This is particularly helpful when working with palimpsests, or damaged manuscripts. Still, computers lack the creativity of the human mind, which is needed when it comes to recognizing letterforms, or classifying a script by its general appearance. Everything which leans on hard to define standards needs such interpretative creativity and flexibility, which cannot be programmed. Also, my experience thus far with paleography has been that experience is very important, a good paleographer knows the basic traits of a script, but has seen so many individual examples of that script that he or she is able to place it in a broader perspective. Again, this is not only hard to teach to a student, but even harder to teach to a program which can work with more or less rigid definitions only. Kindest regards, Desiree Scholten --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:50:56 -0500 From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.136 digital palaeography? In-Reply-To: <20100622085343.8743C59F84@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I was recently at the MARGOT conference on the Digital Middle Ages, at Barnard, where this plenary panel occurred: Plenary Panel: Quantitative Palaeography through Massive Image Analysis: The Graphem Project Chair: Denis Muzerelle, IRHT, CNRS, Paris - Marc H. Smith, École des Chartes, Paris, and Maria Gurrado, IRHT/CNRS, Paris "Beyond Typology: Rethinking Palaeographical Categories with Computer Science?"- Hubert Empotz, LIRIS-INSA, Lyon and Mathieu Exbrayat, LIFO, Orléans "New Tools for Exploring, Analysing and Categorising Medieval Scripts" - Dominique Poirel, IRHT/CNRS, Paris "Access to Textual Contents of Medieval Manuscripts Using Wordspotting Methods" I don't know if any of these folks subscribe to Humanist, but perhaps if they do, they'd be willing to share presentations from this panel. John Unsworth --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:58:45 -0400 From: Robert Kraft Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.136 digital palaeography? In-Reply-To: <20100622085343.8743C59F84@woodward.joyent.us> Ah yes, digital paleography. It has been more than 20 years since I tried to sketch out what I needed for working with the thousands of papyri and related fragments in the UPenn collections (primarily the Greek and Coptic), but have not been able to find a programmer to take up the challenge, although I've been told that it "should be possible." Here are some steps that seem to be relatively straightforward: (1) Establish the base line of writing; (2) Judge the degree of tilt (if any) to the writing; (3) Measure the average height of letters; (4) Judge the width of individual letters, where possible (easiest for uncials); (5) Evaluate color of writing surface and of the ink; (6) Identify individual letters by shape (OCR algorithms); (7) Isolate unusual shapes for closer attention. My specific needs include matching fragments that may be from the same document, and such "digital paleography" would be a long step in that direction. Further steps could include pattern matching (edges and fiber patterns) of fragments identified as containing similar writing, but at that stage, close visual attention would also be very important. If some program(s) along these lines exist(s), I'd be anxious to put it/them to use. Digital images of the fragments are available, and I'm about to spend time attempting to group them paleographically. Bob Kraft, UPenn 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 Wed Jun 23 05:12:49 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 726063FDFC; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:12:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4D5143FDE4; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:12:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100623051247.4D5143FDE4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:12:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.139 philosophy of information and care X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 139. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:42:14 +0000 (GMT) From: peter jones Subject: Philosophy of information empowers philosophy of care In-Reply-To: <20100622085430.83AFF58017@woodward.joyent.us> Originally posted at: http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2010/06/philosophy-of-information-empowers.html http://hodges-model.blogspot.com The moral and ethical dimensions of nursing quickly become apparent to individual practitioners and professional associations. Philosophy in nursing boasts specific courses, journals and groups, for example: International Philosophy of Nursing Society (IPONS) Nursing Philosophy (journal) International Centre for Nursing Ethics Here on W2tQ, in papers and on the website I have stressed the importance of the health career model as a framework that can utilise information as a fundamental and potentially unifying concept. Expanding on the post last week about the philosophers' magazine [tpm50] let's look at Floridi's piece on the philosophy of information (PI). The 50 ideas featured are each only granted two pages, but this has a definite philosophical equivalent twitter-styled appeal. On page 42 (- 43) Floridi notes that: > ... PI possesses one of the most powerful conceptual >vocabularies ever devised in philosophy. This is because one can rely >on informational concepts whenever a complete understanding of some >series of events is unavailable or unnecessary for providing an >explanation. Virtually any issue can be rephrased informationally. Such >semantic power is a great advantage of PI, understood as a methodology. >... > >It shows that we a dealing with an influential paradigm. But >it may also be a disadvantage, because a metaphorically pan >informational approach can lead to a dangerous equivocation, namely, >thinking that since any x can be described in (more or less >metaphorically) informational terms, then the nature of any x is >genuinely informational. (Luciano Floridi, 2010).Admittedly Floridi's context is the position and status of PI as an emerging discipline within philosophy. As he notes the vocabulary while powerful lies in the discipline of philosophy. Given my preoccupation with information, Floridi's observation above is a timely warning for me and the many nurses who in the past saw a concomitant risk that in adopting the nursing process, patients (and carers) would be processed. Ironically, this processing concerned information. The workflow - form and layout of the documentation - was prescribed. This is an old tale, with the nursing process being subsumed within the routine work of nursing. Perhaps though this also demonstrates a need for a new debate? My interest in information is as a trope to explain the significance of the care (knowledge) domains that underpin Hodges' model. Crucially, though these can stand on their own as nursing philosophy issues. Joining the efforts of the nursing philosophers above, this can bring information and philosophy out of the academic realm to include a more practical and grounded variety of topics: FROM: personal identity,definitions and ownership of computer based records, utility versus security of information (summary care record ...), definitions of information (data, knowledge) - through TO: patient information and patient informatics, ... where is collective informatics# heading? Taking Floridi's lead - which of the above .... are core nursing (health) information concepts (and not just freeloading info-masqueraders along for the ride)? Well, that is a question for a new community of scholars to decide? Philosophy resources: Interpersonal care domain #Collective informatics = all the claimed informatics disciplines combined? Peter Jones Chorley & Ormskirk Community Mental Health teams Lancashire, UK http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/ Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/ h2cm: help2Cmore - help-2-listen - help-2-care http://twitter.com/h2cm _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 05:14:26 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 42C363FE85; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:14:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D59143FE70; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:14:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100623051424.D59143FE70@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:14:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.140 new publication: digital archives X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 140. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:11:09 +0100 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: APPOSITIONS, Volume Three (2010): Digital Archives & the Field of Production PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT . . . _____ A PP OS IT IO NS http://appositions.blogspot.com/ ISSN: 1946-1992 Volume Three (2010): Digital Archives & the Field of Production _____ In Volume Three of APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture, you will find: * 5 Articles * 5 Book Reviews One of those articles first appeared as a conference paper during our 2010 Appositions e-conference. For the closing remarks from that event, please visit this page: http://appositions.blogspot.com/2010/02/welcome-message.html. Presenters at our annual e-conference are invited to submit article-length versions of their papers for our standard peer-review process at the journal while we review manuscripts during our submission period, October through April. Conference presentation does not guarantee journal publication, but we do hope that our electronic forum may generate useful commentary on works-in-progress. http://appositions.blogspot.com/ ISSN: 1946-1992 The rest of the documents gathered and published here were submitted independently of the 2010 e-conference. _____ APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture http://appositions.blogspot.com/ ISSN: 1946-1992 Volume Three (2010): Digital Archives & the Field of Production ARTICLES: Elizabeth Scott-Baumann & Ben Burton, "Encoding Form: A proposed database of poetic form" Dorothea Heitsch, "Renaissance Soul-Searching (1555-1584): Maurice Scève, Jacques Peletier du Mans, Pierre de Ronsard, Guillaume Du Bartas, René Bretonnayau" Colleen E. Kennedy, "'Do You Smell a Fault?': Detecting and Deodorizing King Lear's Distinctly Feminine Odor" George Klawitter, "Andrew Marvell's Use of John Donne: 'The Definition of Love'" Andrew Russ, "Four Diseases of Social Speech in _Hamlet_" REVIEWS: Claire Bordelon, reviewing: John Bowes, _Richard Brathwait: The First Lakeland Poet_. Hugill Publications (2007). Elizabeth H. Hageman, reviewing: Ann Hollinshead Hurley and Chanita Goodblatt, eds., _Women Editing/Editing Women: Early Modern Women Writers and the New Textualism_. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2009). Sheri L. McCord, reviewing: Rebecca Laroche, _Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts, 1550-1650_. Ashgate Publishing (2009). Kathryn Vomero Santos, reviewing: Amy Greenstadt, _Rape and the Rise of the Author: Gendering Intention in Early Modern England_. Ashgate Publishing (2009). Adam Swann, reviewing: Nicholas McDowell and Nigel Smith, eds., _The Oxford Handbook of Milton_. Oxford University Press (2009). http://appositions.blogspot.com/ ISSN: 1946-1992 _____ In our opinion, we have assembled a robust gathering of works that all strike a vital balance between traditional and innovative concerns in the field. The content speaks/reads for itself, but, of course, we also welcome your participation. Appositions is designed for commentary and open-access. You may post your questions and comments via the "post a comment" link at the bottom of each document page. We hope you enjoy your visit, and that you'll share Appositions with your colleagues, friends, and students. -The Editors _____ APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture, http://appositions.blogspot.com/, ISSN: 1946-1992, Volume Three (2010): Digital Archives _____ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 05:16:21 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 C3AD83FF0B; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:16:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 240E13FEFA; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:16:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100623051618.240E13FEFA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:16:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.141 events: logic, language, 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. 24, No. 141. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:30:35 +0100 From: "Rasmus K. Rendsvig" Subject: Call for Participation: ESSLLI 2010 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************************** ESSLLI 2010 / UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN / DENMARK / AUGUST 9-20, 2010 http://esslli2010cph.info/ The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) 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. During two weeks,46 foundational, introductory and advanced courses + 6 workshops headed by some of the most prominent scholars in the fields are offered to the attendants, each of 1.5 hours per day during a five days week, with up to seven parallel sessions. ESSLLI also includes a student session (papers and posters by students only, 1.5 hour per day during the two weeks) and four evening lectures by senior scientists in the covered areas. In 2010, the venue for ESSLLI will be The University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Chair of the Program Committee is Valentin Goranko (The Technical University of Denmark), and Chair of the Organizing Committee is Vincent F. Hendricks (The University of Copenhagen). The registration for ESSLLI 2010 is open, see http://esslli2010cph.info/?page_id=40   * Student: 350€.   * Regular: 480€ Different accommodation packages are available, from 21€/night to 46€/night. All packages are currently available, but availability cannot be guaranteed. The rooms suggested are at Danhostel Copenhagen City, a mere 10 minute walk from the main venue. For more information and links to registration and accommodation pages, please visit the ESSLLI 2010 website: http://esslli2010cph.info/ Best regards, Rasmus K. Rendsvig, ESSLLI 2010 Organization 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 Wed Jun 23 05:16:51 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 95F703FF7D; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:16:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4A4D83FF6A; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:16:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100623051649.4A4D83FF6A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:16:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.142 DH2010 (London): jobs and 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. 24, No. 142. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:40:34 +0100 From: DH2010 Subject: DH2010: ACH Jobs and Mentoring Activities at Digital Humanities 2010 The following message is about the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) jobs and mentoring activities at DH2010 in London. The ACH is committed to promoting the growth and strength of the digital humanities community. We are especially keen to provide guidance and opportunities to newer members of the community. In particular, we have the following three initiatives during DH2010 that are open to all members of ADHO associations (ACH, ALLC, SDH/SEMI): 1) ACH MENTORING PROGRAMME (ongoing) 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, we hope you'll consider participating in one of our mentoring initiatives. Here are some of the objectives of the mentoring programme. * 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 If you'd like to participate in the mentoring programme as a potential mentor or mentee, please send the following information to the email address at the end of this message: - are you a potential mentor or mentee? - what are your areas of expertise and experience - if you're a mentee: - what would you value most from a mentor? - is there anyone specific you have in mind as a mentor? 2) ACH MENTORING MIXER (time and location to be announced) This is a very casual outing where all mentors and mentees are invited to a local pub or bar in London to chat with one another. The first round of refreshments is offered by the ACH. We will provide more details on this event soon. 3) JOBS SLAM – at the ACH Annual General Meeting (Friday July 9th at lunch) During the AGM we will have an opportunity for people currently or imminently on the job market to introduce themselves to digital humanities colleagues and potential employers. As well, there will be an opportunity for employers to present jobs that are currently advertised or about to be announced. Each spoken presentation is limited to 30 seconds. This year we're also encouraging advocates to speak (more flatteringly) on behalf of job seekers, if possible and when desired. If you're looking for a job or if you have a job to offer (staff or faculty), please send the following information to the email address at the end of this message: * your name, affiliation and basic contact information * your discipline or the discipline of your job * a link to other information, if available If you're interested in any or all of the above, please email me (sgs at the domain mcmaster.ca) or tweet me (@sgsinclair). We hope to hear from you! On behalf of the ACH Jobs & Mentoring Committee, Stéfan Sinclair -- Dr. Stéfan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address: TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia 1280 Main St. W., McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://stefansinclair.name/ -- Digital Humanities 2010 https://secure.digitalhumanities.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 Jun 23 05:31:25 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 0F1C83E192; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:31:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CE7D73E183; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:31:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100623053123.CE7D73E183@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:31:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.143 the behaviourables and futuribles of a 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. 24, No. 143. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:24:45 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: behaviours In "Behaviourables and Futuribles" (in Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness, ed. Shanken), originally a poster-sized manifesto written in 1967, Roy Ascott proclaimed, > When art is a form of behaviour, software predominates over hardware > in the creative sphere. Process replaces product in importance, just > as system supercedes structure. > > Consider the art object in its total process: a behaviourable in his > history, a futurible in its structure, a trigger in its effect. > (p. 157) Some years later, in "Table", originally published in House: The Journal of the London Architecture Club 1.1 (1975), he wrote, > Each person's house is a received or created analogue of his/her > perceived or wished-for universe. The table is the analogue of the > house. The table enables us to sit around our universe of discourse > and to transact with one another in that universe. > > The components of the domestic day, the behaviours of transforming, > unpacking, laying out, switching on or off this or that system, are > analogues of behaviours in the wider universe. In the kitchen, a > fork, a funnel, a container, a grater, a sieve are all *pure ideas*, > realised in hardware, and in using them we bring into conjunction new > assemblies of ideas. (p. 168) What about a book -- and what we do with it digitally? 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 24 05:14:50 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 1C6EB52EB2; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:14:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0112F52E9E; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:14:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100624051444.0112F52E9E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:14:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.144 digital palaeography: practical steps? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 144. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:04:48 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: practical steps? Bob Kraft's recalling of old questions calls up more specifics. Let me be specific and ask the experts, such as we reach them here, to address the following thought-experiment. Imagine, for the sake of argument, just the writing on a clean ms page, in an alphabet that is relatively unproblematic (such as Carolingian minuscule -- which, yes, is a constructed idea, but let's entertain that idea). For the particular alphabet we establish as a working hypothesis the order and direction of strokes for each letterform, about which it is possible to be relatively certain. We also establish the angle at which the pen was held -- again, a relative certainty, or at least a good working hypothesis. By training of a computing system with optical scanning capabilities, we establish the identity of each letterform in the system. The imagined machine then goes letter by letter, word by word, line by line, following the writing. And so my first question: what could this machine compute in doing what I have described (assuming of course that the mechanical operations are possible)? From that follows my second: having computed whatever, could a comparison with the results from scanning a second ms yield palaeographically respectable results? A guide to further investigations? For rather different but overlapping purposes the calligrapher Edward Johnston taught that if you could copy a ms hand well enough that your lines exactly matched the lines of the original in length as well as height of letterform you had the script in your hand and could claim to understand it. At minimum (I have always thought and once got the agreement of Angus Cameron and Leonard Boyle) excellent training for the palaeographer. But could we train a suitably constructed computing system, and would it then tell us anything of interest? Is it technically conceivable and within the range of current possibilities that the imagined system could deal with the tactile dimension -- which the meticulous calligrapher would attempt to reproduce, of course, using as close to the same materials as possible? If, like Wily E. Coyote, I am running on thin air but have yet to look down, someone please tell me what I should be seeing when finally I come to my senses. But, then, the above may be utterly wrongheaded for an altogether different reason and be answered by an altogether different techno-scientific approach. The neurosciences, after all, have begun to peek into the workings of our brains and are beginning to have interesting things to say about what goes on there. Why not crawl inside the head and take a look at what a scribe's brain knows that the scribe is doing *when he or she is doing it*? True, anything even remotely approaching what a palaeographer could use is but a dream of a glimmer on the horizon. But, for example, A. S. Byatt is bravely digging into these neurosciences for what they might be able to tell her about her own imaginative processes. In that way she resembles the British painter Harold Cohen, who got involved with computing to find out more about drawing and painting than doing them could tell him. What most interests me here is the sense that now is the moment that the neuroscientific metaphor is opening doors of the mind, in the way that computing in the 1960s and 70s was opening such doors for the creative arts and scholarship. Before, alas, industrialisation set in, and the restless moved elsewhere. And I wonder, what can we learn for our practices in the digital humanities from such historical moments? 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 24 05:16:08 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 6460552F3B; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:16:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EC2C052EE8; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:15:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100624051538.EC2C052EE8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:15:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.145 editions of the IBM Jargon and General Computing Dictionary? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 145. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:52:45 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: IBM Jargon and General Computing Dictionary The 10th edition of the IBM Jargon and General Computing Dictionary (May 1990) is online, at http://www.comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf. I have a copy of the 6th edn (December 1983). Does anyone have other, preferably earlier editions? 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 Jun 24 05:17:25 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 7AC8A52FA3; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:17:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 53B9052F90; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:17:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100624051723.53B9052F90@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:17:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.146 Wolfram on Turing 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. 24, No. 146. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:58:36 +0100 (BST) From: S Barry Cooper Subject: Happy Birthday, Alan Turing - Stephen Wolfram's Turing blogpost [forwarded from the ATY list --WM] Hector Zenil from Wolfram Research writes: _________________________________________________________________ As you may know, today would have been Alan Turing's 98th birthday, if he had not died in 1954, at the age of 41. Stephen Wolfram has written this blog post in celebration of this date. The Web version is available here: http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2010/06/23/happy-birthday-alan-turing/ ________________________________________________________________ With just two years to go to the centenary, we hope to send a short weekly update to ATY list members. 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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: "Knight, Gareth" (15) Subject: Event: Uptake of e-Infrastructure services in the arts andhumanities, King's College, London [2] From: Alun Edwards (20) Subject: Event for community collections, Aberystwyth 27 July 2010 [3] From: "Mahony, Simon" (35) Subject: Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:58:07 +0100 From: "Knight, Gareth" Subject: Event: Uptake of e-Infrastructure services in the arts and humanities, King's College, London Dear All, I would like to invite you to a workshop I am co-organizing on July 6th. It's not part of DH 2010, but some DH attendees may be interested in attending. If you know of any project partners or colleagues who would be interested in this event, please do pass on the information. I'd be happy to discuss the event and the project in more detail with anyone who may be interested. best, Lorna Workshop at King's College, London, July 6th, 2010, 12:00 - 17:00 "Uptake of e-Infrastructure services in the arts and humanities" Organizers: Lorna Hughes, King's College London; Rob Procter, University of Manchester What do arts and humanities researchers want from e-Infrastructure services? What services and resources make up the e-Infrastructure for the arts and humanities? How are these services accessed and used by researchers across the disciplines? How are they transforming the research practice, and enabling new forms of scholarship? What are the barriers to using these services in the arts and humanities, and how might these be addressed? If academic research is to build on the foundations of the emerging e-Infrastructure, it is essential to understand potential barriers to wider adoption and uptake of these services, and to develop strategies to address them. The JISC recently funded the project "Enabling uptake of e-Infrastructure services" (part of its Community Engagement strand) to investigate barriers to uptake of e-Infrastructure services in the UK. The project has now concluded, and a final report and other materials are now available. This workshop will discuss the findings of the project with a selected group of arts and humanities researchers and practitioners to discuss the impact of these findings on shaping future policy for research support. The primary objectives of the workshop are to discuss strategies for increasing engagement with, and adoption of, e-infrastructure services in the UK. We wish to discuss these issues in greater depth with actual or potential users of e-infrastructure services, to frame the findings of the project within the way that researchers see their practice and the role that advanced information technologies play in their work. At the same time, we wish to provide service providers and technology developers with a sound grasp of problems as perceived by users from the arts and humanities. Who should attend? - Service providers who develop and implement e-Infrastructure services for the arts and humanities - Researchers and practitioners in the arts and humanities who may have used (or attempted to use) e-infrastructure services for research - Digital arts and humanities specialists, and University IT staff. Registration There is no charge to attend the workshop, but you must register. Please send e-mail to anna.ashton@kcl.ac.uk to register. For updated information about the programme, see: http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/workshop_uptake_e_infrastructure_services_arts_humanities --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:44:10 +0100 From: Alun Edwards Subject: Event for community collections, Aberystwyth 27 July 2010 Dear Willard, Apologies for cross-posting. Registration is now open for the free RunCoCo/Culturenet Cymru workshop: How to Run a Community Collection Online, which will take place on Tues 27 July 2010 at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. - Event details: http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/events/27July/index.html - Registration: www.surveymonkey.com/s/runcoco2010july - Os hoffech gofrestru drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg, anfonwch e-bost at anwene@culturenetcymru.com - Organisers: RunCoCo, University of Oxford http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ and Culturenet Cymru, NLW www.culturenetcymru.com/selectLanguage.php Community collections 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. These include The Great War Archive www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa and Community Archives Wales www.ourwales.org.uk/. A community can also be harnessed to enrich an existing collection with tags or comments (like Galaxy Zoo, www.galaxyzoo.org). The organisers would like to invite anyone from the education/public sector who is interested in such projects to take part in this free RunCoCo workshop. As a taster, presentations from previous workshops held by RunCoCo are available online 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 also launched an online 'community of interest' for those involved in community collection or working to harness a community to enrich an existing collection with tags or comments (http://groups.google.com/group/runcoco - follow the link on the right of that Web page to Join This Group) - Be an opportunity to hear from a number of projects such as Galaxy Zoo and Community Archives Wales, as well as Culturenet Cymru and new initiatives like Citizen Science and The People's Collection - RunCoCo will disseminate the processes, CoCoCo open-source software and results of the Great War Archive, a pilot community collection. Places are limited, and similar events in Oxford have been over-subscribed. Please register at www.surveymonkey.com/s/runcoco2010july no later than 1200pm on 12 July 2010. Os hoffech gofrestru drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg, anfonwch e-bost at anwene@culturenetcymru.com We will confirm your place as soon as possible. Best wishes, Alun 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:00:45 +0100 From: "Mahony, Simon" Subject: Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010 Friday June 25th at 16:30 STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Matteo Romanello (King's College London) Towards a Tool for the Automatic Extraction of Canonical References ALL WELCOME Classicists usually refer to primary sources by means of abbreviated references, called canonical references. Explicit linking of primary and secondary sources contained in the Digital Library implies being able to automatically interpret and extract such references, which is still an open issue. A tool currently under development for the automatic extraction of canonical references will be presented. 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, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk or M.Terras@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html -- 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 05:45:54 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 A558256BC2; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:45:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 769DC56BB1; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:45:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100625054551.769DC56BB1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:45:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.148 job at Trinity College Dublin: revised closing date X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 148. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:09:04 +0100 From: Christine Devlin Subject: Advert for Trinity Long Room Hub Senior Lectureship in Digital Humanities In-Reply-To: <3120045E5CC6734AB08701182D63B29501701E31B230@GOMAIL.college.tcd.ie> [NB Note the new closing date for the position described below: Monday, 12th July 2010.] Post Title: Trinity Long Room Hub Senior Lectureship in Digital Humanities Post Status: 5-year contract Discipline/Faculty: Long Room Hub, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Location: Main Campus, Trinity College Dublin Salary: Senior Lecturer salary scale: Pre-95 €69,841 - €89,459 Post-95: €73,385 - €94,035 per annum (Pre ‘95 applies to staff who have been employed in the public sector prior to April 1995 / Post ‘95 applies to existing staff employed in the public sector post April 1995/new entrants to the public sector) Closing Date: 12 Noon on Monday, 12th July 2010 Post Summary The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences seeks to make a senior appointment in Digital Humanities. The post, which has been philanthropically funded, is to be held within the relevant School in the Faculty and in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub, our research institute for the Arts and Humanities. It is expected that the successful applicant shall align themselves with one of the following schools: English or Histories and Humanities or Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. Applicants will have a Ph.D., an excellent research profile in Digital Humanities, and relevant teaching and leadership experience. Candidates must apply though jobs.tcd.ie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 05:46:40 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 0780456C37; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:46:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BD15856C20; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:46:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100625054638.BD15856C20@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:46:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.149 Digital Medievalist elections X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 149. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:08:52 -0600 From: "O'Donnell, Dan" Subject: Digital Medievalist Elections through July 4, 2010 Digital Medievalist Elections Open June 24 through July 4, 2010. http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/dm-elections-2010/ Elections for the Digital Medievalist Board are now open. Anybody currently subscribed to the Digital Medievalist mailing list (dm-l@uleth.ca) is eligible to vote in the election (whether you view yourself as a digital medievalist or not). There are 4 vacancies on the board and 8 candidates. Eligible voters may vote for up to four candidates. Information about Digital Medievalist is available at its website. See especially: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/about.html http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws.html Candidate biographies are available at: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/election2010/ The ballot is available at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YFN6TLW In order to check eligibility, voters will be asked to supply the email address they use for their subscription to dm-l. 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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, 24 Jun 2010 09:10:28 +0100 From: "Moore, Sarah" Subject: EELC2010 -- Registration Open REGISTRATION NOW OPEN Third Annual Conference Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication: Perspectives on Data 2pm on Thursday 23rd until 5pm Friday 24th September 2010 Aston University, Birmingham, UK Conference includes keynote talks from Professor Charles Briggs (University of California, Berkeley) and Professor Carey Jewitt (Institute of Education, University of London), and data-workshops facilitated by Professor Angela Creese (University of Birmingham), Professor Ben Rampton (King's College London), Dr Frances Rock (Cardiff University), and Dr Sarah Collins (University of York). For further information and registration details, visit: http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/news-events/conferences-seminars/september-2010/ethnography-language-communication/ Note early registration deadline of Friday 3rd September 2010. Queries should be directed to lss_eelc@aston.ac.uk Sent on behalf of the conference organisers: Dr Fiona Copland (School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University) Dr Julia Snell (Institute of Education, University of London) Dr Sara Shaw (University College London / The Nuffield Trust). Julia Snell Research Officer Department of Learning, Curriculum and Communication Institute of Education, University of London 20 Bedford Way London WC1H 0AL E-mail: j.snell@ioe.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7331 5117 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 26 07:18:16 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 B51DE5A5DB; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:18:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2C4565A5C8; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:18:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100626071815.2C4565A5C8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:18:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.151 text analysis in the popular media? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 151. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:28:24 -0600 From: Mark Davies Subject: Popular media use of text analyses In a week or two I'm giving a conference presentation where I'd like to spend just a bit of time looking beyond "high level" corpus and text analyses to see what types of things are percolating down to the popular media (or even newspapers). So I'm looking for examples where popular media and newspapers have done informal text analyses, which are presented in user-friendly graphical format -- something like http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/20070123_STATEOFUNION.html, and probably more than just a simple Wordle word cloud. If you have a link or two and might send them my way, I'll post a list of the links. Thanks in advance, 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 Sat Jun 26 07:19:38 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 96F365A66D; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:19:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B3C4B5A65E; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:19:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100626071936.B3C4B5A65E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:19:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.152 new publications from the CSTB (U.S.) X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 152. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:07:17 +0100 From: "Eisenberg, Jon" Subject: CSTB Update -- recently released and forthcoming reports from the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board Dear friend of CSTB, I write to let you know about several new publications and forthcoming reports from CSTB. The following reports were recently released by CSTB and issued in final published form by National Academies Press: -- "Report of a Workshop on The Scope and Nature of Computational Thinking," which discusses what “computational thinking for everyone” might mean and its cognitive and educational implications. -- "Achieving Effective Acquisition of Information Technology in the Department of Defense," which calls for the DOD to acquire information technology systems using a fundamentally different acquisition process based on iterative, incremental development practices. -- "Letter Report from the Committee on Deterring Cyberattacks: Informing Strategies and Developing Options for U.S. Policy," which is the first of two reports from a project examining deterrence strategies for cyberattacks. This first report identifies key issues and questions that merit further examination. The second report, a proceedings of a June 2010 workshop at which these issues were explored, will be published in Fall 2010. Also, CSTB's recent report, "Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities," is now available for free download from the MacArthur Foundation, a study co-sponsor, at http://bit.ly/bzEXMA or http://www.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7Bb0386ce3-8b29-4162-8098-e466fb856794%7D/NRC-CYBERATTACK.PDF. Finally, several reports are forthcoming from CSTB this summer: -- Biometric Recognition: Challenges and Opportunities -- Wireless Technology Prospects and Policy Options -- Toward Better Usability, Security, and Privacy of Information Technology: Report of a Workshop -- The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or Next Level -- Critical Code: Software Producibility for Defense All reports can be viewed, downloaded, or ordered from http://cstb.org and a limited number of hard copies are also available on request. sincerely, Jon Eisenberg ================= Jon Eisenberg, Ph.D. Director, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board National Academies cstb.org jeisenbe@nas.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 Jun 27 06:37:43 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 B5BDC593C5; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:37:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B88F5593BD; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:37:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100627063742.B88F5593BD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:37:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.153 text-analysis in the popular media X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 153. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:33:05 -0400 From: "Schlitz, Stephanie" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.151 text analysis in the popular media? In-Reply-To: <20100626071815.2C4565A5C8@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Mark, I've used the resource below (in addition to several of your own corpora) with my students: http://www.speechwars.com/elec08/index.php Hope this is helpful -- Stephanie A. Schlitz, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, English and Linguistics Bloomsburg 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 Jun 27 06:41:18 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 2B044594A6; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:41:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F3BE059492; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:41:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100627064115.F3BE059492@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:41:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.154 Herbert Simon and Jorge Luis Borges X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 154. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:35:00 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: choice I am particularly fond of a story that Herbert Simon tells in his autobiography, Models of My Life (1996). (The entire book can be downloaded from the Herbert A. Simon Archive at Carnegie Mellon. This archive, by the way, is marvellous, and itself a model of access to the papers of major figure.) Anyhow, at the beginning of Chapter 11, as explanation for his central idea of "bounded rationality", Simon reveals his very early fascination with mazes -- i.e. structures of bounded choice, in his terms. While at RAND during 1960-61, Simon says in a footnote, Edward Feigenbaum drew his attention to Jorge Luis Borges' Ficciones. Some years later, in a letter to Borges asking for an interview, Simon wrote that he was drawn "in particular [to] the story La Biblioteca de Babel, to discover that you too conceive of life as a search through the labyrinth". During the interview Borges explained his use of the maze with a poem: > I Have Become Too Old For Love > > My love > has made me old. > But never so old > as not to see > the vast night > that envelops us. > Something hid deep in love > and passion > still amazes me. > > Here there is a play on words. In English, the word for labyrinth is > "maze" and for surprise, "amazement." There is a clear semantic > connotation as well. > > This is the form in which I perceive life : a continual amazement; a > continual bifurcation of the labyrinth. What fascinates me here is the divergence of the paths of the two men, as it were, starting at the identical image -- at the threshold of the labyrinth. It is easy for a certain kind of person (I include myself in this lot) to look on Simon's work ignorantly, with disdain for his reductive model of thinking, as problem-solving. It is easy to read the 1958 paper he wrote with Allen Newell, in which they brashly made those infamously rash predictions, and laugh at what now seems silliness. But thinking historically, and thinking in particular of Simon as kin to Borges -- the two as different as day from night and as matched as day is to night -- stops that laughter in its tracks. We have our preferences, I for Borges' story, which I find much greater by far than The Sciences of the Artificial, however much less professionally useful. But better yet, I think, is to be able to hold both in mind simultaneously, to be both simultaneously. 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 Jun 29 05:58:04 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 10EDF5B13F; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:58:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4FB8D5B127; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:58:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100629055802.4FB8D5B127@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:58:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.155 a digital 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. 24, No. 155. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:20:59 +0100 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Plan for a Digital Canada Of interest, perhaps, to Canadian digital humanists [and others! --WM]... > From: Senate Standing Committe on Transport and Communications / Comité sénatorial permanent des Transports et des Communication > Date: June 28, 2010 6:34:09 PM GMT+02:00 > To: Ray Siemens > Subject: Plan for a Digital Canada.ca / Plan pour un Canada numérique [http://www.planpouruncanadanumerique.com/images/stories/mail/bandeau_courriel_pfdc.jpg] A plan to bring Canada into the digital age The Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communication, which I am honoured to Chair, has just published its latest report entitled, Plan for a Digital Canada.ca. The Committee and I are very proud of the work that was accomplished through this report. It sheds light on such subjects as Canada’s fall from grace as a leader in wireless and Internet technology. The report also includes a number of Committee recommendations to help Canada be a frontrunner in these fields once again. I invite you to visit the report’s Website for more information: www.planforadigitalcanada.ca Dennis Dawson, Senator Chair of the Standing Committee on Transport and Communications Senate of Canada [http://www.planpouruncanadanumerique.com/images/stories/mail/bandeau_courriel_pfdc.jpg] Un plan pour amener le Canada à l’âge du numérique Le Comité permanent des transports et des communications du Sénat, que j’ai l’honneur de présider, vient de publier son dernier rapport qui s’intitule : « Plan pour un Canada numérique.ca ». Le comité et moi-même sommes particulièrement fiers du travail accompli avec ce rapport qui montre notamment comment le Canada est passé d’une position de leader en matière de technologie sans-fil et Internet à une position qui laisse beaucoup à désirer. Ce rapport contient de nombreuses recommandations du comité pour que le Canada cesse de tirer de l’arrière et regagne la position de tête en matière de technologie sans-fil et Internet. Je vous invite à visiter le site Internet du rapport pour en apprendre davantage : www.planpouruncanadanumerique.ca Dennis Dawson, sénateur Président du comité sénatorial permanent des Transports et des Communications Sénat du 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 Tue Jun 29 05:58:52 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 6FE3F5B1B1; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:58:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CE89E5B17C; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:58:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100629055850.CE89E5B17C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:58:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.156 events: digital 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 156. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:51:28 -0500 From: Maeve Reilly Subject: 6th International Digital Curation Conference ************************************************************* 6th International Digital Curation Conference Participation & Practice: Growing the curation community through the data decade 6 - 8 December 2010, Chicago, USA ************************************************************** The call for papers for IDCC10 is open until 23 July 2010. http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/conferences/6th-international-digital-curation-conference/papers Submission information can be found at:- http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/conferences/6th-international-digital-curation-conference/submissions Presenting at the conference offers you the chance to be part of the growing curation community - To share good practice, skills and knowledge transfer - To influence and inform future digital curation policy & practice - To test out curation resources and toolkits - To explore collaborative possibilities and partnerships - To engage with curation educators and trainers The draft programme is now available at:- http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/conferences/6th-international-digital-curation-conference/programme Key speakers to include:- *Kevin Ashley, Director of the Digital Curation Centre *Christine Borgman, Presidential Chair & Professor of Information Studies, University of California Los Angeles *Sheila Corrall, Professor of Librarianship & Information Management, University of Sheffield *Stephen Friend, President and CEO Sage Bionetworks *Chris Lintott, Principal Investigator, Galaxy Zoo, University of Oxford *Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information *MacKenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology, MIT Libraries. *Barend Mons, WikiProteins, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam *John Unsworth, Dean and Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. *Antony Williams, Vice President of Strategic Development, ChemSpider at the Royal Society of Chemistry Registration will open on 1 September 2010. Sent on behalf of IDCC10 Programme Committee: Co-chaired by Kevin Ashley, Director of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), Liz Lyon, Associate Director of the DCC, Allen Renear and Melissa Cragin from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information. -- Maeve Reilly Research and communications coordinator Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois mjreilly@illinois.edu (217) 244-7316 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 30 07:18:57 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 818555DAA3; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:18:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 902355DA70; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:18:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100630071855.902355DA70@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:18:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.157 text-analysis in the popular media X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 157. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:53:49 +0100 From: Martin Wynne Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.151 text analysis in the popular media? In-Reply-To: <20100626071815.2C4565A5C8@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Mark, Word clouds made it into the popular media in the recent UK election campaign. The BBC coverage of the leaders' debates included word clouds for each participant immediately after the end of the debate, and word and tag clouds of twitter contributions on the topic of the debates (although the journalist who presented it clearly didn't know how to interpret them!). It was a live TV broadcast and I can't find a record of it for you, unfortunately. They also appear fairly regularly in the press - see for example http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/06/budget-word-cloud/. Best wishes, Martin On 26/06/10 08:18, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 151. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:28:24 -0600 > From: Mark Davies > Subject: Popular media use of text analyses > > In a week or two I'm giving a conference presentation where I'd like to spend just a bit of time looking beyond "high level" corpus and text analyses to see what types of things are percolating down to the popular media (or even newspapers). So I'm looking for examples where popular media and newspapers have done informal text analyses, which are presented in user-friendly graphical format -- something like http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/20070123_STATEOFUNION.html, and probably more than just a simple Wordle word cloud. If you have a link or two and might send them my way, I'll post a list of the links. > > Thanks in advance, > > 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 ** > ============================================ -- 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 30 07:19:59 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 3316E5DB2C; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:19:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1D2D05DB24; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:19:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100630071958.1D2D05DB24@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:19:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.158 new on WWW: Scholarly E-Publishing Bibliography ver. 78 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 158. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:36:41 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 78, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 78 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,750 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 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) Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography, Version 1 http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcpb.htm (2) Google Books Bibliography, Version 6 http://digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm (3) Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 2 http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://digital-scholarship.org/ A Look Back at 21 Years as an Open Access Publisher http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/21/21years.htm ______________________________________________________________________ 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 Jun 30 07:21:47 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 B03E55DC83; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:21:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9FD815DC4F; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:21:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100630072145.9FD815DC4F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:21:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.159 events: digital curation; management; Leipzig 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. 24, No. 159. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michael Fraser (30) Subject: Sudamih Workshop: Data Management Training in the Humanities, 22July 2010, Oxford [2] From: Matthew Kirschenbaum (34) Subject: digital curation, archives, and forensics at BL (July 5) [3] From: Elisabeth Burr (15) Subject: European Summer School, Culture & Technology, 26-30.07.2010 University of Leipzig --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:41:32 +0100 From: Michael Fraser Subject: Sudamih Workshop: Data Management Training in the Humanities, 22July 2010, Oxford Title: Data Management Training in the Humanities - A Half-Day Workshop Time and place: Oxford, 22nd July 2010, 0915-1400 (lunch included) More info: http://sudamih.oucs.ox.ac.uk/training_workshop.xml Description: We would like to invite you to the 'Data Management Training in the Humanities' workshop, which will take place on the morning of Thursday the 22nd July, 2010 in Oxford. This half-day workshop will consider how institutions might meet growing requirements for training in the management of research data within the humanities. The aim is to learn more about research data management training already taking place at UK universities, plans for such training, relevant scoping studies, and related experiences. We are adopting a broad approach to 'data', taking it to mean not just structured information on computers, but the whole range of materials that researchers must assemble and analyse in order to produce their research outputs. Although the focus is on data management training in the humanities, the workshop will hear experiences from other disciplines as well. The workshop is being organised as part of the Sudamih Project (Supporting Data Management Infrastructure in the Humanities), funded by the JISC. The project seeks to develop tools and training that will enable researchers in the humanities to organize their information more effectively. For more information about the workshop, please visit the project website: http://sudamih.oucs.ox.ac.uk/training_workshop.xml . To register for this event (free of charge), please email . Yours, James A J Wilson (Sudamih Project Manager) Michael A. Fraser (Sudamih Co-Director) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:03:44 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: digital curation, archives, and forensics at BL (July 5) Many readers of Humanist, including those arriving early for DH 2010, may be interested in this day of talks, demos, and discussions Jeremy John has put together at the British Library: http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/authenticity_forensics_materiality_virtuality_emulation_advances_curatorship_personal_digital_ Authenticity, Forensics, Materiality, Virtuality and Emulation Advances in the curatorship of personal digital archives Start: 05/07/2010 - 10:00 End: 05/07/2010 - 17:00 Synopsis Recently there have been some significant and exciting advances in the curation of personal digital archives. Seemingly distinct aspects of computing have come together to yield a vision of future curation and research in the archival context. A combination of novel technologies and processes are making it possible to offer scholars a rich and evocative experience of emulated and virtual environments, both locally and remotely. This seminar explores and critically reviews some of these advances, a number of which have been made by colleagues within as well as beyond the British Library. In addition to an inspiring group of invited speakers, members of the Personal Digital Manuscripts Project at the British Library will give talks about various aspects of the digital curation of personal archives. It is anticipated that the seminar will be of interest to all professionals working with personal archives, as well as digital preservation specialists and information scientists. -- 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:39:15 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: European Summer School, Culture & Technology, 26-30.07.2010 University of Leipzig European Summer School „Culture & Technology“, 26-30.07.2010 University of Leipzig as after the completion of the reviewing process there are now again some places and bursaries left we would like to encourage interested parties to apply for a place. The bursaries are travel bursaries and cover journey, accommodation and stay. All the necessary information can be found in our multi-lingual portal http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ For the application procedure please go to http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/en/index_en.php?content=../ESU_2010/en/registration_2010 If you have any questions please do not hessitate to contact the organizers at: esu2010@uni-leipzig.de. Elisabeth Burr Organizer of the European Summer School University of Leipzig _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 05:04:16 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 97E115CCD5; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 05:04:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EEC595CCB1; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 05:04:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100701050414.EEC595CCB1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 05:04:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.160 text-analysis in the popular media 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. 24, No. 160. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:38:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.157 text-analysis in the popular media Further to Martin's remarks below. A national newspaper here ( de Volkskrant ) did something quite similar in a two-page spread on 8 June (p.12-13), the day before the national elections -- in a non-partisan effort to help voters make their choice among the various parties. The analysis here was of answers which other interviewed voters had given to the question why they had decided to vote, the following day, for a given party. This was done for seven parties. The article is online : http://www.volkskrant.nl/archief_betaald/article1387513.ece/Klein_handboek_voor_de_strategische_stemmer ( see the last paragraph ), but the actual word clouds aren't, without a password. - Laval Hunsucker Breukelen, Nederland ----- Original Message ---- Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 157. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:53:49 +0100 > From: Martin Wynne > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.151 text analysis in the popular media? Hi Mark, Word clouds made it into the popular media in the recent UK election campaign. The BBC coverage of the leaders' debates included word clouds for each participant immediately after the end of the debate, and word and tag clouds of twitter contributions on the topic of the debates (although the journalist who presented it clearly didn't know how to interpret them!). It was a live TV broadcast and I can't find a record of it for you, unfortunately. They also appear fairly regularly in the press - see for example http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/06/budget-word-cloud/. Best wishes, Martin -- 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 05:06:42 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 5C1F85CEA6; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 05:06:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4915B5CE91; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 05:06:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100701050640.4915B5CE91@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 05:06:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.161 fellowship at Birmingham X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 161. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:57:41 +0100 From: "Martin, Worthy (wnm)" Subject: Marie Curie Fellowship possibility through the U21 Network for "Cultural Heritage And Technology" (CHAT) University of Birmingham to support applicants within U21 Network CHAT for Marie Curie Fellowship The University of Birmingham would be keen to host interested researchers (post-docs and experienced/established researchers) within the U21 Network for "Cultural Heritage And Technology" (CHAT) in relevant research areas as a Marie Curie Fellow. In summary, Marie Curie Fellowships are available as Intra-European Fellowship (IEF) for researchers within the EU, who wish to acquire or enhance their competence and skills in order to attain and/or strengthen a leading independent position, and as International Incoming Fellowship (IIF) from outside the EU, for excellent researchers (any nationality) to carry out some mutually beneficial research and to transfer their know-how to the host organisation, which may lead to future collaborative links and activities. Fellowships can last from 12 months to 24 months. The deadline for application is 17th August 2010, 5pm Brussels time. For further information, please go to the dedicated call web page for each call: FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/mariecurieactions/ief_en.html and FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/mariecurieactions/iif_en.html Academic colleagues from U21 partner institutions interested in applying for one of the Marie Curie Fellowship Schemes to spend some time at the University of Birmingham working in the area of Digital Humanities should contact Katharina Freise at K.Freise@bham.ac.uk in the first instance. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 05:08:08 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 931DC5E042; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 05:08:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 38EA75E039; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 05:08:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100701050807.38EA75E039@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 05:08:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.162 events: colour imaging X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 162. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:50:42 +0100 From: "Mahony, Simon" Subject: seminar: 3D Colour Imaging For Cultural Heritage Artefacts Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010 Friday July 2nd at 16:30 STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Mona Hess (University College London) 3D Colour Imaging For Cultural Heritage Artefacts ALL WELCOME Digital technologies, like 3D colour laser scanning and 3D imaging, are not only challenging the traditional methods in the heritage field but they are also opening up new paths for scientific analysis of museum artefacts. I will discuss possibilities of integration of 3D image analysis in the daily museum workflow. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For the full programme see: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html -- 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 05:30:34 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 F3B1F5C01F; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 05:30:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6D1D25C00C; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 05:30:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100702053031.6D1D25C00C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 05:30:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.163 job: Institute Director, DH at TAMU 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. 24, No. 163. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:34:19 -0500 From: "Maura Ives" Subject: job opening reminder: Director of Institute for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture, Texas A&M University Just a reminder: review of applications will begin August 6. Texas A&M University seeks a dynamic scholar with an established record in digital humanities research and academic leadership to establish and direct an interdisciplinary Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture. The Director will be a tenured appointment at the rank of full professor in the Department of English, Department of Performance Studies, or another academic department within the College of Liberal Arts. The Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture supports interdisciplinary scholarly and creative work that broadly explores the relationship between computing technologies and culture. The Director's responsibilities include initiating and developing internal research program and facilities (including a new digital humanities laboratory), actively engaging external partners (including other research programs, educational institutions, and leaders in the technology industries, and securing supplemental funding from such external agencies as NEH, Mellon, ACLS, and NEA. The successful applicant will have an outstanding scholarly record in digital humanities, including substantial experience in interdisciplinary, collaborative research and in obtaining and administering grant funding. The Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture has been designated one of six Texas A&M Landmark Research Areas (and thus is the recipient of substantial start-up funding). The proposal which led to the funding of the Institute can be read at http://www-english.tamu.edu/pers/fac/may/DHwhitepaper.pdf. Texas A&M University already supports a variety of high-profile and emerging projects involving digital humanities and offers a Digital Humanities Certificate (http://dh.tamu.edu/certificate). The Director will develop these existing strengths into a top-echelon, interdisciplinary Digital Humanities Institute and program. Minorities and women are strongly encouraged to apply. Texas A&M is anAA/EEO employer, is deeply committed to diversity, and responds to the needs of dual-career couples. The review of applications (including a curriculum vitae and at least six letters of reference) will begin on 6 August 2010. The committee plans to invite finalists for campus visits early in the Fall semester. We hope to have the new Director in place by 1 January 2011. Applications, letters of reference, and inquiries should be addressed to: Professor James L. Harner, Department of English, 4227 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-4227; j-harner@tamu.edu. Maura Ives Director, Digital Humanities Program, College of Liberal Arts Associate Professor Department of English Texas A&M University 4227 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-4227 979-845-8319 m-ives@tamu.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 Jul 2 05:31:57 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 439B35C0D1; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 05:31:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5E5C55C07F; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 05:31:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100702053155.5E5C55C07F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 05:31:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.164 submissions for Project Woruldhord X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 164. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:02:19 +0100 From: Alun Edwards Subject: Project Woruldhord - now open for submissions Sent on behalf of Dr Stuart Lee: Dear All, I am pleased to announce that Oxford University have now opened the online submission site for Project Woruldhord as of today. This project will try to build up an online collection of material related to Old English and the Anglo-Saxons by voluntary contributions online. Anything submitted will then be made available worldwide, free of charge, for others to reuse (for educational purposes only). This follows on from a very successful community collection project we ran at Oxford where we collected together memorabilia from the First World War. In short we are trying to collect any material that would be of help to people who wish to find out more about the Anglo-Saxon period of history and the language and literature. We are looking for images, audio/video recordings, handouts, essays, articles, presentations, spreadsheets, databases, and so on. In particular we hope teachers/researchers will contribute teaching material they are happy to share with others. In part I'm trying to investigate whether academics and teachers are willing to share such items, especially if they feel it will be of benefit to the discipline (this project, I hope, will generate renewed interest in the Anglo-Saxons). However, in general terms we'd also be willing to collect such things as: * a photograph of an Anglo-Saxon building (e.g. the church at Deerhurst) * a photograph of an Anglo-Saxon 'site' or reconstructions (e.g. the buildings at West Stow) * a photograph of an Anglo-Saxon artefact (e.g. the Bewcastle Cross) * a monograph or article that is now out of print that you hold the rights to * a reading list used in teaching * a set of slides used in a lecture * a handout tackling some specific issue of the discipline * translations of texts * a workbook of grammar exercises * an article on Anglo-Saxon England or Old English * a video of a re-enactment from the Anglo-Saxon period * an audio recording of some Old English * and so on ... The most important page to get started is: http://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord This takes you through the simple to use submission process where you can upload your object and provide some basic information about it. However other pages you might be interested in are: http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/ - the main web site http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/ - the project blog http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/faq/index.html - our 'help' section including a 'how to get started guide' and an FAQ http://groups.google.com/group/project-woruldhord - a discussion group for the project http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ - Woruldhord is an exemplar trialling processes formed by the RunCoCo project If you have any questions please email the project at: woruldhord@oucs.ox.ac.uk Thanks in advance for anything you send! Stuart ********************* Dr Stuart Lee Faculty of English, University of Oxford Reader in E-learning and Digital Libraries HEA National Teaching Fellow c/o OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN ------------------------------------------------------ E-mail: woruldhord@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: 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 Fri Jul 2 05:36:24 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 93D765C1B5; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 05:36:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DE93A5C1A4; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 05:36:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100702053621.DE93A5C1A4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 05:36:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.165 events: lunch for medievalists at 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 165. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:56:41 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: DM lunch at DH2010 (London, Wednesday July 7) In-Reply-To: [forwarded from the Digital Medievalist list] Dear DM Community, A follow-up to my previous announcement regarding a Digital Medievalist lunch at DH2010: Peter Stokes has reserved a table for us at the Edgar Wallace (a link to google maps is appended below) at 11:30 am on Wednesday, July 7. I'll be by the DH registration tables from 11: 15 until 11:25 (the Edgar Wallace is just around the corner). I'll be the one with the baby. I've already received word from several people who intend to come. If you'd like to add your name please contact me (dot.porter@gmail.com), but if you find yourself available on the day please feel free to stop by the Edgar Wallace and look for us. I expect we'll be there for a while. Look forward to seeing some of you then! Dot [A map of the place may be found by googling for "edgar wallace london"; the street address is 40 Essex Street, WC2.] On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Dot Porter wrote: > Dear DM Community, > > Many of you are aware of the Digital Humanities 2010 conference (to be held > in London July 7-10), I hope some of you will be there as well. If you're > curious, here is the website: http://dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ > > We'd like to give DM folks an opportunity to meet informally during the > conference, so I'm working with Peter Stokes (who won't be able to attend > the conference, but who lives in London) to organize a lunch on one of the > days of the conference. It looks like Wednesday will be the best day to > meet; although it's technically registration day (no sessions until the > evening keynote and reception following), the other days have association > AGMs during lunch, and we want to encourage people to attend those if they > can. > > So... > If you are going to be at DH2010, and/or if you live in London, > and if you would like to meet informally with other DMers, > and if you will be available at lunchtime on Wednesday July 7 (or, if you > would like to petition that we aim for another day), > > please send me a message at dot.porter@gmail.com to let me know. Peter is > looking at local venues, but it would help if we could have a rough estimate > of how many people we might expect. > > Thanks! Hope to see some of you in London soon. > > Dot > > > -- > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) > Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian > 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 Jul 2 05:58:04 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 989545C48E; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 05:58:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 09DD85C45A; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 05:58:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100702055803.09DD85C45A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 05:58:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.166 the digital humanities 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. 24, No. 166. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:54:35 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: TAMU Dear colleagues, In February of this year I had the good fortune to be at Texas A&M, as guest of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. I was greatly impressed by what I found, by the people, their ideas, projects and collegiality. Anyone who has been anywhere close to writings on digital libraries will know of TAMU already. But (unsurprisingly when you consider it) a visit is required to appreciate what an exciting research environment for the digital humanities and their relations has been created in College Station, Texas. This is merely to urge anyone with the appropriate qualifications to apply to the advertised job of Institute Director. Invitations to run with one's ideas in the company of bright people with many of their own are rare. 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 3 05:32:44 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 4CC4A311B6; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 05:32:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 012CF311AD; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 05:32:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100703053242.012CF311AD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 05:32:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.167 Woruldhord: copyright? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 167. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:32:40 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.164 submissions for Project Woruldhord In-Reply-To: <20100702053155.5E5C55C07F@woodward.joyent.us> On 02/07/2010 06:31, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:02:19 +0100 > From: Alun Edwards > Subject: Project Woruldhord - now open for submissions > > Sent on behalf of Dr Stuart Lee: > > Dear All, > > I am pleased to announce that Oxford University have now opened the online submission site for Project Woruldhord as of today. This project will try to build up an online collection of material related to Old English and the Anglo-Saxons by voluntary contributions online. Anything submitted will then be made available worldwide, free of charge, for others to reuse (for educational purposes only). ----- Whilst I wish this project every success, especially as you guarantee that the material will be made "available for free on the world wide web", could I please ask that the copyright situation is dealt with more coherently? First of all, the link to the Jisc Model license http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Help-and-information/How-Model-licenses-work/ on this page: http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/faq/faq.html#copyright is broken - I'm getting 404 page not found. Then, the clause "You will allow the material to be used for educational purposes, e.g. school classes, handouts, lectures, etc" should state whether educational purposes include publication on the web at a site other than Oxford's, or just offline educational use. (The problem is not just if, say, a photograph is published as is on another website, but if the lecture is recorded, or the presentation slides published, on a third party website.) And finally, I suggest encouraging Creative Commons licenses; they're becoming increasingly well known (for example, Flickr offer options for publishing under them), and remove many doubts when (re)using material. http://creativecommons.org/ Obligatory disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. Nor do I play one on TV. But I am an historian, who has to wade through legalese, even for material that has been in the public domain for hundreds of years. John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://www.facebook.com/john.levin http://twitter.com/anterotesis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 3 05:33:04 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 0362C311F0; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 05:33:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D03BC311DE; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 05:33:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100703053302.D03BC311DE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 05:33:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.168 Manifesto X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 168. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 20:48:05 +0200 From: Marin Dacos Subject: Manifesto for the Digital Humanities Dear colleagues, two months ago, THATCamp Paris campers wrote un Manifesto for the Digital Humanities. You'll find the text in this message and there : http://tcp.hypotheses.org/443 The poster is now available in paper (40X30) and PDF : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1744854/DH%20MANIFESTO.pdf There is a french version : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1744854/DH%20MANIFESTE.pdf We've been translating it in more than 10 languages : Spanish : http://www.digitalhumanities.cnrs.fr/wikis/tcp/index.php?title=Espagnol German : http://www.digitalhumanities.cnrs.fr/wikis/tcp/index.php?title=Allemand Italian : http://www.digitalhumanities.cnrs.fr/wikis/tcp/index.php?title=Italien Portugues : http://www.digitalhumanities.cnrs.fr/wikis/tcp/index.php?title=Portugais Serbian : http://www.digitalhumanities.cnrs.fr/wikis/tcp/index.php?title=Serbe Modern Greek : http://www.digitalhumanities.cnrs.fr/wikis/tcp/index.php?title=Grec_moderne We work to translate it in Chinese, Finnish, Ancient Greek, Hebrew, Hungrian, Latin, Polish, Russian, Swedish, vietnamese. Any help or any more languages are welcome : http://www.digitalhumanities.cnrs.fr/wikis/tcp/index.php?title=Traduisez_le_Manifeste You can sign : http://www.digitalhumanities.cnrs.fr/wikis/tcp/index.php?title=Manifeste 180 people who signed it by now : http://tcp.hypotheses.org/412 I'll bring the poster at DH2010, THATCamp London and Centernet summit. Sincerely, Marin Dacos Director Centre for open electronic publishing Manifesto for the Digital Humanities Context *We, professionals or observers of the digital humanities *(humanités numériques)* came together in Paris for THATCamp on May 18th and 19th, 2010. * *Over the course of these two days, we discussed, exchanged, and collectively reflected upon what the digital humanities are, and tried to imagine and invent what they could become.* *At the close of the camp – which represents but a first step – we propose to the research communities, and to all those involved in the creation, publication, valorization or preservation of knowledge, a manifesto for the digital humanities.* I. Definition 1. Society’s digital turn changes and calls into question the conditions of knowledge production and distribution. 2. For us, the digital humanities concern the totality of the social sciences and humanities. The digital humanities are not *tabula rasa*. On the contrary, they rely on all the paradigms, *savoir-faire* and knowledge specific to these disciplines, while mobilizing the tools and unique perspectives enabled by digital technology. 3. The digital humanities designate a “transdiscipline”, embodying all the methods, systems and heuristic perspectives linked to the digital within the fields of humanities and the social sciences. II. Situation 4. We observe: - that experiments in the digital domain of the social sciences and humanities have multiplied in the last half century. What have emerged most recently are centers for digital humanities – which at the moment are themselves only protoypes or areas of application specific to the approach of digital humanities; - that computational and digital approaches have greater technical, and therefore economic, research constraints; that these constraints provide an opportunity to foster collaborative work; - that while a certain number of proven methods exist, they are not equally known or shared; - that there are many communities deriving from shared interests in practices, tools, and various interdisciplinary goals – encoding textual sources, geographic information systems, lexicometry, digitization of cultural, scientific and technical heritage, web cartography, datamining, 3D, oral archives, digital arts and hypermedia literatures, etc. – and that these communities are converging to form the field of digital humanities. III. Declaration 5. We, professionals of the digital humanities, are building a community of practice that is solidary, open, welcoming and freely accessible. 6. We are a community without borders. We are a multilingual and multidisciplinary community. 7. Our objectives are the advancement of knowledge, the improvement of research quality in our disciplines, the enrichment of knowledge and of collective patrimony, in the academic sphere and beyond it. 8. We call for the integration of digital culture in the definition of the general culture of the twenty-first century. IV. Guidelines 9. We call for open access to data and metadata, which must be documented and interoperable, both technically and conceptually. 10. We support the dissemination, exchange and free modification of methods, code, formats and research findings. 11. We call for the integration of digital humanities education within social science and humanities curricula. We also wish to see the creation of diplomas specific to the digital humanities, and the development of dedicated professional education. Finally, we want such expertise to be considered in recruitment and career development. 12. We commit to building a collective expertise based upon a common vocabulary, a collective expertise proceeding from the work of all the actors involved. This collective expertise is to become a common good. It is a scientific opportunity, but also an opportunity for professional insertion in all sectors. 13. We want to help define and propagate best practices, corresponding to needs identified within or across disciplines, which should derive and evolve from debate and consensus within the communities concerned. The fundamental openness of the digital humanities nevertheless assures a pragmatic approach to protocols and visions, which maintains the right to coexistence of different and competing methods, to the benefit of both thought and practice. 14. We call for the creation of scalable digital infrastructures responding to real needs. These digital infrastructures will be built iteratively, based upon methods and approaches that prove successful in research communities. Join us! You can sign the Manifesto by adding your name on the Wiki(create an account). ******** Marin Dacos Directeur du Cléo - Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte CNRS - EHESS - Université de Provence - Université d'Avignon et Très grand équipement Adonis 3, place Victor Hugo, Case n°86, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3 NOUVEAU NUMERO DE TELEPHONE : 04 13 55 03 40 Nouveau Tél. direct : 04 13 55 03 39 Nouveau Fax : 04 13 55 03 41 marin.dacos@revues.org http://www.revues.org http://cleo.cnrs.fr - http://www.flickr.com/revuesorg/ - http://www.twitter.com/revuesorg http://blog.homo-numericus.net - http://twitter.com/marind Skype : marin.dacos Gmail vidéo chat : marin.dacos@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 Sat Jul 3 05:36:22 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 76BE0312AE; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 05:36:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B8E223127C; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 05:36:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100703053620.B8E223127C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 05:36:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.169 job at Eindhoven X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 169. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:15:44 +0100 From: "Rauterberg, G.W.M." Subject: Open Position as Assistant Professor 'Cognitive Systems' Open Position as Assistant Professor 'Cognitive Systems' http://jobs.tue.nl/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3085&p_web_page_id=110212&p_vacancy=assistant-professor-cognitive-systems-technische-universiteit-eindhoven Department Department of Industrial Design FTE 1,0 Date off 01-09-2010 Reference number V51.1175 The department of Industrial Design (ID) of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e), founded in 2001, is a rapidly growing department with over 550 students, both Bachelor and Master, and around 200 staff members. With a strong emphasis on research the ID department focuses on the design of intelligent products, systems, and related services. These innovative systems and products enable people to interact with their environment in an optimal and flexible way. The TU/e ID engineer, who has developed a wide range of competencies during his/her education, is capable of integrating technology, user aspects, design and business/marketing insights. This MSc-program is practice oriented, capable to deal with and aware of relevant issues as formulated by industry and society at large. Ambient Intelligence and Cultural Computing draw special attention within the TU/e and ID particular, and is an important research and application field. ID encompasses four areas: Technology covered by the Designed Intelligence (DI) group, User aspects, covered by User-Centred Engineering (UCE) group, Design, covered by the Designing Quality in Interaction (DQI) group, and Business, covered by the Business Process Design (BPD) group. This position is situated within the group Designed Intelligence (DI). This group is focused on the involvement of (new) technologies in the field of ambient intelligence and mixed reality. This position of assistant professor is needed to strengthen the research themes of adaptive and aware environments within this group. These themes address one of the key areas of ambient intelligence and therefore needs to gain more critical mass within the DI group. The profile: The aim of this position is to contribute to the education and the research program of the DI group. Therefore you must have a PhD in Computer Science/Software Engineering focusing on software architecture and control structures for mixed reality, user modeling and/or cognitive simulations. You have a track record of publications in top conferences and journals and are open and interested in an industrial design environment. Strong programming skills (e.g. JAVA, C or C ++) and background/strong interests in empirical research methods (e.g. experiment) are required. Dutch language skills are not required, English is obligatory. Having obtained the Basic Certificate in Learning and Teaching (BKO) is mandatory for a scientific career at the TU/e. If necessary the TU/e will facilitate candidates in getting their BKO-certificate. Appointment and salary: We offer a full time, challenging position in a new and rapidly growing Department of Industrial Design. This is a four year tenure track position. We offer a salary with a minimum of € 3,195 and a maximum of € 4,970 gross per month (salary scales 11 and 12, CAO NU (Dutch Universities)) on a full-time basis and related to relevant experience and knowledge, plus 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end of the year allowance. Attractive package of fringe benefits (good sport facilities, child care, etc.). Information and application: You will find general information about the Department Industrial Design on http://w3.id.tue.nl/. About this position you can get more information from Prof.dr. G.W.M Rauterberg , head of the group Designed Intelligence +31 40 247 5215, e-mail: g.w.m.rauterberg@tue.nl . If you have any questions about the application procedure, please contact Jelmer Sieben, personnel advisor, telnr. +31 40 247 5954, e-mail j.m.sieben@tue.nl . Applications are due before September 1st, 2010. Please click on this link and fill in the form: http://jobs.tue.nl/wd/plsql/wd_portal_cand.form?p_web_site_id=3085&p_web_page_id=110212 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 3 05:37:40 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 2AB48312F1; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 05:37:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 97331312EA; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 05:37:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100703053738.97331312EA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 05:37:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.170 employment stats? ACH Exec Council? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 170. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Katharine K. Liu" (63) Subject: Employment Stats? [2] From: John Lavagnino (37) Subject: Citizens, help run the ACH! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:09:40 -0400 From: "Katharine K. Liu" Subject: Employment Stats? Do we have a sense of how many applicants are competing for jobs like this? Katharine K. Liu Research Assistant The Folger Shakespeare Library Washington, DC On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 163. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:34:19 -0500 From: "Maura Ives" Subject: job opening reminder: Director of Institute for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture, Texas A&M University Just a reminder: review of applications will begin August 6. Texas A&M University seeks a dynamic scholar with an established record in digital humanities research and academic leadership to establish and direct an interdisciplinary Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture. The Director will be a tenured appointment at the rank of full professor in the Department of English, Department of Performance Studies, or another academic department within the College of Liberal Arts. The Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture supports interdisciplinary scholarly and creative work that broadly explores the relationship between computing technologies and culture. The Director's responsibilities include initiating and developing internal research program and facilities (including a new digital humanities laboratory), actively engaging external partners (including other research programs, educational institutions, and leaders in the technology industries, and securing supplemental funding from such external agencies as NEH, Mellon, ACLS, and NEA. The successful applicant will have an outstanding scholarly record in digital humanities, including substantial experience in interdisciplinary, collaborative research and in obtaining and administering grant funding. The Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture has been designated one of six Texas A&M Landmark Research Areas (and thus is the recipient of substantial start-up funding). The proposal which led to the funding of the Institute can be read at http://www-english.tamu.edu/pers/fac/may/DHwhitepaper.pdf. Texas A&M University already supports a variety of high-profile and emerging projects involving digital humanities and offers a Digital Humanities Certificate (http://dh.tamu.edu/certificate). The Director will develop these existing strengths into a top-echelon, interdisciplinary Digital Humanities Institute and program. Minorities and women are strongly encouraged to apply. Texas A&M is anAA/EEO employer, is deeply committed to diversity, and responds to the needs of dual-career couples. The review of applications (including a curriculum vitae and at least six letters of reference) will begin on 6 August 2010. The committee plans to invite finalists for campus visits early in the Fall semester. We hope to have the new Director in place by 1 January 2011. Applications, letters of reference, and inquiries should be addressed to: Professor James L. Harner, Department of English, 4227 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-4227; j-harner@tamu.edu. Maura Ives Director, Digital Humanities Program, College of Liberal Arts Associate Professor Department of English Texas A&M University 4227 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-4227 979-845-8319 m-ives@tamu.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 23:49:48 +0100 From: John Lavagnino Subject: Citizens, help run the ACH! If you're involved in the digital humanities, start thinking about nominating yourself for the executive council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities! Elections for the council will occur in the fall, but now is a good time to consider it anyway, especially as members of the community mix at the Digital Humanities conference and other events, and ideas about what to do and how bubble up. If you're coming to DH we'll be talking about it at the ACH's general meeting on Friday the 9th, and you can also buttonhole current ACH officers and find out more. Together with other officers, the councillors are the people who form the ACH's policies, decide how the ACH will spend its funds, and oversee its activities. They meet for an annual meeting at the Digital Humanities conference every year, and hold discussions during the rest of the year by email and occasional phone conferences. You need to be a member of the ACH and need to commit to attending council meetings at the annual Digital Humanities conference. You don't need to be in an old-fashioned academic job: graduate students have often served on the council, for example, and commitment to the organization and to the field have usually counted for more with the membership than job titles. Current officers of the ACH are listed at http://www.ach.org/ACH_Officers/index.html For more information on the responsibilities and obligations of ACH officers, see http://www.ach.org/documents/ACH_Constitution_Bylaws.html A formal call for nominations will appear in the fall, but until then I'll be fielding inquiries and early nominations. John Lavagnino -- 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 Sat Jul 3 05:39:27 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 7F6253136C; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 05:39:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 386A831358; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 05:39:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100703053926.386A831358@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 05:39:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.171 new CATMA for text-analysis X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 171. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 00:26:47 +0200 From: J C Meister Subject: Release of CATMA 3.0 00:10 03.07.2010 Version 3.0 of our TACT-inspired integrated text markup and analysis software CATMA has now been released and is available for download at www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/catma Various installation packages are provided (for Windows PC, MacOSX, Linux etc.) New features and improvements in CATMA 3.0 include the following: * a QueryBuilder, which lets you build queries with a few clicks * an improved distribution analysis GUI, which lets you highlight single graphs and jump from the chart directly to the KWIC instance of a type occurrence * distribution for Tag queries is now displayed as a single graph * a results pager for the KWIC view to speed up result computation especially when computing a collocation analysis * a context sensitive help based on the CATMA user manual * fine grained options to the tell the indexer how to create the word list * improvements for MAC users * a Property query: property ="myProperty" value = "myValue" * improved and updated context sensitive help function For further details see our website. For technical enquiries contact Marco ( marco.petris@web.de ) or Malte (malte.meister@knysna.info ) of the CATMA developers team. PS: We'll be at the DH 2010 and glad to answer any questions - please feel free to contact us. ******************************* Jan Christoph Meister Professor für Neuere deutsche Literatur (Literaturtheorie, Textanalyse, Computerphilologie) Universität Hamburg Fachbereich 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 Sun Jul 4 05:29:22 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 258EC3AB27; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 05:29:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E5DA83AB15; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 05:29:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100704052920.E5DA83AB15@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 05:29:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.172 the New Math 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. 24, No. 172. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 13:06:20 -0400 From: Francois Lachance Subject: New Math - Old Trope In-Reply-To: <20100616082905.C17E22E874@woodward.joyent.us> Willard In your perusal of the zeitgeist of early computing you might want to turn briefly to a little later along the time line and consider the exchanges around the New Math. For example, French mathematician, Rene Thom is quoted by Siobhan Roberts _King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry_ In the minds of most of our contemporaries, so-called modern mathematics holds a place of high prestige lying somewhere between cybernetics and information theory in the bag of tricks promoted by deceptive publicity as the essentials of modern technology, the indispensable tools for the future development of all scientific knowledge. ("'Modern' Mathematics: an Educational and Philosophical Error?") 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 Jul 4 05:47:42 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 850EB3ACE9; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 05:47:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3344E3ACDA; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 05:47:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100704054739.3344E3ACDA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 05:47:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.173 Humanist in July X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 173. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:46:11 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanist in July Dear colleagues, >From 13 July, for an unpredictable run of days, at least three but perhaps a little longer, Humanist will fall silent while I am in transit to a life in Sydney, Australia. I'll be there for a period of three months, attached to the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. I'll post a note when I am reconnected and sufficiently alert to use a computer. Meanwhile keep the postings coming. They will be safe meanwhile. Before then I very much hope to see everyone at DH2010. Be there or be square! 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 6 06:40:29 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 370B0408F7; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 06:40:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C73A0408E0; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 06:40:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100706064027.C73A0408E0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 06:40:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.174 sightings at 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 174. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Neil Fraistat (28) Subject: centerNet at DH 2010 [2] From: Willard McCarty (53) Subject: DH at home --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 14:39:07 +0100 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: centerNet at DH 2010 Dear all, Those of you attending DH 2010 in London might want to know that there will be four sessions related to centerNet during the conference, three on Friday, June 9, and a general members meeting on Saturday, June 10. At the meeting on Saturday, Kay Walter and I will discuss the outcomes of the just concluded centerNet international summit and Harold Short will talk about opportunities and challenges for digital humanities centers at the present time; we anticipate lively discussion. Here is a listing of the sessions: *Friday, June 9* 9:00: "CHAIN: Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks," to be held in Safra Theatre 11:00 "Teaching/Managing" (Findings from the IMLS Interns grant for DH Centers and ISchools), to be held in S-2.08 2:00 "Understanding the Capacities of Digital Humanities," to be held in Safra Theatre *Saturday, June 10* 1:00 - 2:00 centerNet General Members, to be held in Safra Theatre We hope to see many of you soon! 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/ Twitter: @fraistat --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:33:58 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: DH at home Dear colleagues, It's been since 1989 that a digital humanities conference was at an institution to which I belong, then in Toronto, when the field was not called that, and called names some of us can remember and are glad not to hear any more; now in London, where we are presiding over a very different scene, though with some familiar faces from that former time still in evidence. The conference itself starts on Wednesday. Today continues the meetings of all those people who have worked so hard to make the current event happen, most of all Harold Short. "Thank you" just isn't enough -- but won't be all. It is, I'd guess, a common enough thing for those getting older (and so aware, as the younger ones tend not to be, of going speedily to hell in a handbasket) to think that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, when what's happening is change, much more various and complex and indeterminate. But we in the digital humanities see a flowering. Perhaps I have been sitting in my pleasant little English garden too much, but I do think this assessment accurate. Of course there are weeds (WHICH MUST BE PULLED OUT AND PUT INTO THE COMPOST IMMEDIATELY), but what I sense at a distance and see gathered here in London on this occasion is enormously positive. As a colleague asked me rhetorically last night, how often does an academic get to be present at the emergence of a new field? I think of the creation of English as a discipline, at Oxford in the late 19C and then at Cambridge in the early 20C. Yes, humanities computing has been emerging for the last 60 years ormore, but disciplinary self-awareness is less than ca 15 years old, and a sense of solid ground on which to build, rather than sand, is very recent indeed. So, for those of us going off to do other things, and for those of us sticking around a bit longer to help keep things going, a very great sense of having something valuable to pass on. At the same time, when one considers, for example, great works of quite traditional scholarship such as Geoffrey Lloyd's Cognitive Variations (Oxford, 2007), it's hard not to have another, quite sobering sense of intellectual poverty, or rather, immaturity. As Lloyd implicitly demonstrates, when you're in a field that has been passionately, lovingly tended for generations, for millennia, what you can grow is so much greater than what you can manage in a field from which the stones have just been removed. So its mostly potential that we have to pass on, potential far more than actual. So much to be done before the likes of a Lloyd can show what digital scholarship is really capable of. I don't mean prize-winning books in whatever medium. I mean the sort of stuff that rescues "human" from the register of dirty words and makes one feel like a child. Thus, in a quiet moment before the official day begins, in East London, with a cool breeze blowing and, from the street below, a Cockney builder arguing on a mobile phone with some work mate. 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 6 06:41:16 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 7AB8340953; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 06:41:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 826944093A; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 06:41:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100706064115.826944093A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 06:41:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.175 Woruldhord copyright X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 175. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 09:25:06 +0100 From: Alun Edwards Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.167 Woruldhord: copyright? In-Reply-To: <20100703053242.012CF311AD@woodward.joyent.us> Dear John, Many thanks for your feedback about the launch of the Woruldhord public collection online http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/ RunCoCo (the parent project of Woruldhord based at the University of Oxford) reported the broken link to JISC last week as they were also directing to that 404 page. After their response we thought we had redirected all the RunCoCo and Woruldhord links - but we missed this one - the most important. We really appreciate your attention, and your consideration in reporting it. When we ran The Great War Archive in 2008, we explained the re-use conditions for the material only after we launched the website with all the material collected from the public http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/ However there is no reason why we should not explain this now, at the collection stage. Therefore we will add to Woruldhord FAQ and also add to the website and the Woruldhord collection site information about permitted use, like http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/permitteduse.html (from the First World War Poetry Digital Archive). Woruldhord has been advised by the JISC Strategic Content Alliance (JISC SCA) that Oxford should not distribute material collected from third parties under a Creative Commons licence. When we ran the World War 1 community collection in 2008 we were advised to follow the JISC/HEFCE model licence to distribute online the material from libraries and archives worldwide, and collected from the public. In 2010, as RunCoCo, we prepared to advise other community collections on issues such as copyright. We assumed, like you, that Creative Commons had matured since 2008 and was robust enough to recommend. Naomi Korn of the JISC SCA ran an extremely useful session on copyright, Creative Commons and IPR in May 2010 at a free RunCoCo workshop for community collections. Like you, and like RunCoCo and Woruldhord, the other community collections all wanted to know why they should not release material under a creative commons licence? JISC SCA continues to advise very strongly that we should continue to distribute material collected from third-parties via the JISC Model Licence - this position is explained in a little more detail: http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/about/permitteduse.html Woruldhord therefore will not use CC but we do allude to it under the submissions route. As this is a UK project, effectively funded by JISC and HEFCE, Woruldhord should follow their advice and go with their model licences. CC, for example, makes no mention of 'in perpetuity'. The JISC SCA posts much of their advice online as part of a toolkit and on their blog: http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/wp/files/2009/10/ipr-toolkit-archivist-oct09.pdf http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/wp/ipr-publications/ NB we distribute under a Creative Commons Licence all material the RunCoCo project writes, this includes reports and audio from the copyright workshop session run by Naomi Korn (to be written-up this summer). We have 2 further free events planned: 'How-to engage with a community' 27 July 2010 at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, and 'How-to sustain community collections', mid-November at the University of Leeds. For booking information please see: http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/events/index.html With 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 -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: 03 July 2010 06:33 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 Jul 7 06:06:37 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 13DBF44D6C; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 06:06:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4F5BA44D59; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 06:06:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100707060635.4F5BA44D59@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 06:06:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.176 how sweetly can you tweet? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 176. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:09:57 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: degeneration of language In "Words" (New York Review of Books, 15 July 2010), Tony Judt writes, > Cultural insecurity begets its linguistic doppelgänger. The same is > true of technical advance. In a world of Facebook, MySpace, and > Twitter (not to mention texting), pithy allusion substitutes for > exposition. Where once the Internet seemed an opportunity for > unrestricted communication, the increasingly commercial bias of the > medium—”I am what I buy”—brings impoverishment of its own. My > children observe of their own generation that the communicative > shorthand of their hardware has begun to seep into communication > itself: “people talk like texts.” > > This ought to worry us. When words lose their integrity so do the > ideas they express. If we privilege personal expression over formal > convention, then we are privatizing language no less than we have > privatized so much else. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in > rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to > mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether > you can make words mean so many different things.” Alice was right: > the outcome is anarchy. > > In “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell castigated > contemporaries for using language to mystify rather than inform. His > critique was directed at bad faith: people wrote poorly because they > were trying to say something unclear or else deliberately > prevaricating. Our problem, it seems to me, is different. Shoddy > prose today bespeaks intellectual insecurity: we speak and write > badly because we don’t feel confident in what we think and are > reluctant to assert it unambiguously (“It’s only my opinion…”). > Rather than suffering from the onset of “newspeak,” we risk the rise > of “nospeak.” Is a poetics of Tweets possible? If it's true that certain thoughts become thinkable when the right language for them comes along (for example, through the invention of a device, such as the digital computer, which provides a powerful metaphor), then language is in a sense deterministic. We can observe the deleterious effects of a highly limited vocabulary, or even a single word which brings limiting assumptions along with it. But, I wonder, are the fears expressed by Tony Judt, leading to the condemnation of texting and tweeting, in need of qualification? It is fashionable nowadays uncritically to celebrate expressions of popular culture, just as it is fashionable to attribute bad behaviour in public (such as routinely shouting rather than talking quietly on a residential street or other forms of aggressive action) to the ways of another culture, which of course must be welcomed. David Crystal's book on texting plays with the condemnations of texting. He has a point, but still I wonder. How do we navigate between strong influences and determinism? Where in (what I assume is) the continuum between take-it-or-leave-it and The Borg do we locate the Bad Language to which Judt points? These points, it seems to me, must concern us deeply because we are intimate with the machine. Serious arguments assert that machines *are* deterministic. Is our machine crippling our expressive powers? How does it *feel* when you tweet? What sort of things would you never say in that form -- putting aside issues of privacy and discretion? Is the real worry that masses of people will primarily know language of that kind? Look at the images in the Dictionary of Words in the Wild (http://lexigraphi.ca/), ask how and what they are communicating. 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 7 06:07:50 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 BA46544E2D; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 06:07:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 16A7644E1F; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 06:07:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100707060749.16A7644E1F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 06:07:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.177 new publication: music and the 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 177. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:26:05 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 35.2 (June 2010) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 35.2 (June 2010) 1. Music and the Sciences: Introduction Wiering, Frans pp. 103-105(3) 2. Composing Claims on Musical Instrument Development: A Science and Technology Studies' Contribution Bijsterveld, Karin; Peters, Peter Frank pp. 106-121(16) 3. What Constitutes Proof: Challenges in Wind Harmony Music Stoneham, Marshall; Harker, Tony; Blomhert, Bastiaan; Glen, Nessa pp. 122-137(16) 4. A Multimodal Way of Experiencing and Exploring Music Muller, Meinard; Konz, Verena; Clausen, Michael; Ewert, Sebastian; Fremerey, Christian pp. 138-153(16) 5. Hearing Voices: Neuropsychoanalysis and Opera Zuccarini, Carlo pp. 154-165(12) 6. The Pleasure of Making Sense of Music Vuust, Peter; Kringelbach, Morten L. pp. 166-182(17) 7. Music and Conflict: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Grant, M.J.; Mollemann, Rebecca; Morlandsto, Ingvill; Christine Munz, Simone; Nuxoll, Cornelia pp. 183-198(16) -- 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 7 06:08:37 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 16E8E44EA8; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 06:08:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5161C44EA1; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 06:08:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100707060836.5161C44EA1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 06:08:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.178 new on WWW: centerNet X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 178. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 23:40:08 +0100 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: New centerNet Website Dear All, We are delighted to announce a new beta site for centerNet: http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet_new/ This is a work in progress, and comments and suggestions are appreciated. If you’re center is not represented, or information about it is incorrect, please let us know. Those of you attending DH 2010 in London will be able to find information on the new site about four centerNet-related sessions at the conference, including the centerNet Members Meeting at 1:00 on Saturday, July 10, during which Kay Walter and I will discuss the outcomes of the recent centerNet summit and Harold Short will talk about opportunities and challenges for digital humanities centers at the present time. Best, 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/ Twitter: @fraistat _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 05:15:04 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 ACC272A25B; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 05:15:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 60DE72A24B; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 05:14:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100709051459.60DE72A24B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 05:14:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.179 how sweetly tweet X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 179. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (18) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.176 how sweetly can you tweet? [2] From: J C Meister (114) Subject: a rumination --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 08:48:24 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.176 how sweetly can you tweet? In-Reply-To: <20100707060635.4F5BA44D59@woodward.joyent.us> The "machine" is being spoken of pretty generally here -- there are many different ways to tweet (email, web interface, text message) -- and language doesn't change very much from medium to medium: the word "gr8" is only a possible substitute for "great" because they share a phonetic basis. Acronyms have been in use for quite a long time. That being said, a poetics of tweets have already been established, though perhaps not in great detail. Typing in all caps is generally recognized as shouting, while being eloquent and articulate when making a point communicates condescension. The rule is that of informal discourse -- just as we don't expect perfect grammar and diction in everyday conversations, we don't expect perfect spelling and punctuation from tweets, IMs, text messages, etc. And when someone has to press the same button three or four times to get their desired letter, we don't blame them for using abbreviations, numbers in place of letters, or still identifiable misspellings. They all work because they are tied to a -phonetic- base, however, that the machine cannot touch. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 01:26:55 +0200 From: J C Meister Subject: a rumination In-Reply-To: <20100707060635.4F5BA44D59@woodward.joyent.us> 00:39 08.07.2010 Willard, the argument about the degeneration of language (usage, as one should specify: for what you're talking about is parole and langue, not langage) is in and by itself an overtraded trope. Words do not have integrity per se. It would be comforting if we could still subscribe to that nominalist paradigm; alas, if anybody knows better then the digital humanist should certainly be among the knowing. And so the question is, unfortunately, rather simple. If you're happy to condense your display of natural intelligence and humane engagement with the world around you into a 160 character utterance then that's your choice. This is not to say that it cannot be done; some of us do possess that skill of brevitas. In fact, we all know of encounters with world and fellow humans where a single digit number will feel even more appropriate. However, if complexity, depth and a tolerance, if not even longing for the indecisive and the self-questioning quality of discourse are what you aspire to then such density and compactness of signals will become a serious challenge. Or to phrase it more provocatively: in some contexts four letters will do, in others even 40k won't. And so this is not a question of poetics (nor one of "I would tentatively think that"), but one of aptitude, and thus of rhetoric judgement and intent. In short: let us stop blaming the demise of language use on popular culture or technology and simply put our tongue on the block, hic et nunc. Chris ******************************* Your original message / Ihre Nachricht of/vom: 07.07.2010 re/betr.: [Humanist] 24.176 how sweetly can you tweet? Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 176. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:09:57 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: degeneration of language In "Words" (New York Review of Books, 15 July 2010), Tony Judt writes, > Cultural insecurity begets its linguistic doppelgänger. The same is > true of technical advance. In a world of Facebook, MySpace, and > Twitter (not to mention texting), pithy allusion substitutes for > exposition. Where once the Internet seemed an opportunity for > unrestricted communication, the increasingly commercial bias of the > medium—”I am what I buy”—brings impoverishment of its own. My > children observe of their own generation that the communicative > shorthand of their hardware has begun to seep into communication > itself: “people talk like texts.” > > This ought to worry us. When words lose their integrity so do the > ideas they express. If we privilege personal expression over formal > convention, then we are privatizing language no less than we have > privatized so much else. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in > rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to > mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether > you can make words mean so many different things.” Alice was right: > the outcome is anarchy. > > In “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell castigated > contemporaries for using language to mystify rather than inform. His > critique was directed at bad faith: people wrote poorly because they > were trying to say something unclear or else deliberately > prevaricating. Our problem, it seems to me, is different. Shoddy > prose today bespeaks intellectual insecurity: we speak and write > badly because we don’t feel confident in what we think and are > reluctant to assert it unambiguously (“It’s only my opinion…”). > Rather than suffering from the onset of “newspeak,” we risk the rise > of “nospeak.” Is a poetics of Tweets possible? If it's true that certain thoughts become thinkable when the right language for them comes along (for example, through the invention of a device, such as the digital computer, which provides a powerful metaphor), then language is in a sense deterministic. We can observe the deleterious effects of a highly limited vocabulary, or even a single word which brings limiting assumptions along with it. But, I wonder, are the fears expressed by Tony Judt, leading to the condemnation of texting and tweeting, in need of qualification? It is fashionable nowadays uncritically to celebrate expressions of popular culture, just as it is fashionable to attribute bad behaviour in public (such as routinely shouting rather than talking quietly on a residential street or other forms of aggressive action) to the ways of another culture, which of course must be welcomed. David Crystal's book on texting plays with the condemnations of texting. He has a point, but still I wonder. How do we navigate between strong influences and determinism? Where in (what I assume is) the continuum between take-it-or-leave-it and The Borg do we locate the Bad Language to which Judt points? These points, it seems to me, must concern us deeply because we are intimate with the machine. Serious arguments assert that machines *are* deterministic. Is our machine crippling our expressive powers? How does it *feel* when you tweet? What sort of things would you never say in that form -- putting aside issues of privacy and discretion? Is the real worry that masses of people will primarily know language of that kind? Look at the images in the Dictionary of Words in the Wild (http://lexigraphi.ca/), ask how and what they are communicating. 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. ******************************* Jan Christoph Meister Professor für Neuere deutsche Literatur (Literaturtheorie, Textanalyse, Computerphilologie) Universität Hamburg Fachbereich 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 Fri Jul 9 05:16:09 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 724122A2C1; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 05:16:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1F7382A2AF; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 05:16:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100709051605.1F7382A2AF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 05:16:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.180 job as software engineer for Digital Antiquity X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 180. 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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: Martin Mueller (194) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.179 how sweetly tweet [2] From: Desiree Scholten (7) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.179 how sweetly tweet [3] From: Willard McCarty (40) Subject: replace or augment? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 06:13:02 -0500 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.179 how sweetly tweet In-Reply-To: <20100709051459.60DE72A24B@woodward.joyent.us> Joel Spolsy in one of his software columns has this to say about Twitter, and it's hard not to agree with much of it: Although I appreciate that many people find Twitter to be valuable, I find it a truly awful way to exchange thoughts and ideas. It creates a mentally stunted world in which the most complicated thought you can think is one sentence long. It’s a cacophony of people shouting their thoughts into the abyss without listening to what anyone else is saying. Logging on gives you a page full of little hand grenades: impossible-to-understand, context-free sentences that take five minutes of research to unravel and which then turn out to be stupid, irrelevant, or pertaining to the television series Battlestar Galactica. I would write an essay describing why Twitter gives me a headache and makes me fear for the future of humanity, but it doesn’t deserve more than 140 characters of explanation, and I’ve already spent 820. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 22:00:40 +0200 From: Desiree Scholten Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.179 how sweetly tweet In-Reply-To: <20100709051459.60DE72A24B@woodward.joyent.us> also, I would like to add that personally I appreciate an eloquent tweet very much, as it is tricky to write something both meaningful and eloquent in 140 chars only... In that sense it is a form of enrichment of language as it touches upon creativity with language. Desiree Scholten --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:16:55 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: replace or augment? In-Reply-To: <20100709051459.60DE72A24B@woodward.joyent.us> With regards to the subject of tweeting's rhetorical powers (or lack of them), isn't the error we might make, and do, to regard it as a replacement for other kinds of writing rather than an augmentation of writing? We certainly tend to make the same mistake when we think about the digital book, as if a daisy were an inferior kind of rose, put out of business by the rose. To think pedagogically isn't the real problem to show others that tweeting opens up a new area of expression with certain powers and characteristics? Of course time is limited, so if you tweet very much you won't have time for writing long notes e.g. to Humanist. If the digital medium turns out to be best adapted within the scholar's life for reading articles rather than books, or more broadly for trashy novels rather than good ones, and if in the administrator's domain it shows itself superior for dealing with what Jim O'Donnell calls "shovelware", then the domain of print shrinks a bit. Uses change. Wouldn't it be desirable if we looked at the incursion of the new like this rather than as a replacing of the old tout court? My initial question, whether there is a poetics of tweeting, could be rephrased as the question of where we look for guidance, for instruction. To haiku, for example? To the poets not writing in Japanese who were influenced by it, e.g. (ironically) Robert Bly? Bly is an ironic example because he has levelled serious charges at our medium. See his Introduction to The Best American Poetry 1999, at www.robertbly.com/r_e_bap.html, on the cooling of language. Bly cites Sven Birkerts: "We are losing our grip, collectively, on the logic of complex utterance, on syntax; we are abandoning the rhythmic, poetic undercurrents of expression." Birkerts (with whom I once debated and, though academic decorum did not permit a vote to be taken, I was and remain certain he lost) is a champion of decline-and-fall, hell-in-a-handbasket. But is there any evidence *at all* that tweeting, e-mailing etc etc have muted us, cooled off our language, taken away while not at the same time giving us something else that is only different, not necessarily worse? 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 10 06:29:19 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 2DEF451E9F; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:29:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2C8F051E8A; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:29:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100710062917.2C8F051E8A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:29:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.182 cfp: redesigning peer-review X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 182. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 17:35:03 -0400 From: "Schlitz, Stephanie" Subject: CFP: Redesigning Peer Review Interactions Using Computer Tools Greetings -- The following CFP "Redesigning Peer Review Interactions Using Computer Tools" is of potential interest to the DH community. For details see: http://www.jowr.org/special.html and below. Best wishes, stephanie schlitz Call for Special Issue on Redesigning Peer Review Interactions Using Computer Tools Peer review has long been a component of writing education, although often informally implemented in classrooms with mixed results. More recently, web technologies have enabled more regular use of formal peer review methods in a broad cross-section of classes across many disciplines. This transition enables computers to play new roles in writing, now supporting the peer review process rather than just the writing process. With new computer tools, for example, the following elements can be changed: how reviewers are matched with authors, how reviewers interact with each other, how reviewers interact with authors, how instructors interact with reviews, how instructors interact with other instructors about writing assignments, and how authors provide feedback on the reviews. Submissions are to be made through the online system for the Journal. Include "Special Issue-Peer Review" at the front of the paper title. Initial submissions: October 1, 2010 Review completed by: December 1, 2010 Revisions by: February 1, 2010 Guest Editors: Christian Schunn (schunn@pitt.edu)| Kevin Ashley (ashley@pitt.edu)| Ilya Goldin (goldin@pitt.edu) University of Pittsburgh _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 15:12:45 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 0A33157E16; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:12:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 70FE857E02; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:12:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100711151242.70FE857E02@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:12:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.183 how sweetly tweet X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 183. 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] 24.181 how sweetly tweet [2] From: "Richard Frank" (21) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.181 how sweetly tweet [3] From: Alan Liu (64) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.181 how sweetly tweet --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:50:07 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.181 how sweetly tweet In-Reply-To: <20100710062806.55AA651DF6@woodward.joyent.us> Yes, I agree. I'd say the best precedent for Twitter posts would be the epigram or the proverb. Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell, parts of Hammarskjold's Markings, selections from Pensees... Jim R > With regards to the subject of tweeting's rhetorical powers (or lack of > them), isn't the error we might make, and do, to regard it as a > replacement for other kinds of writing rather than an augmentation of > writing? --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:11:54 -0400 From: "Richard Frank" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.181 how sweetly tweet In-Reply-To: <20100710062806.55AA651DF6@woodward.joyent.us> Twitter is not meant to be the source of original thought (though some pithy one-liners do exist). It is, I think, merely a pointer to these sources of information, whether they be articles, blog postings, pictures of your vacation, family, friends, events or whatever else may be contained at the end of the posted link. For example on the day this was posted on Humanist I sent out this 139 character submission (and I didn't even need to use any url shortening program). "[Humanist] 24.176 how sweetly can you tweet? http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/pipermail/humanist/2010-July/001398.html #Food_for_thought." Cheers Rick Frank President, Dufferin Research OTTAWA ON --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:49:36 -0700 From: Alan Liu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.181 how sweetly tweet In-Reply-To: <20100710062806.55AA651DF6@woodward.joyent.us> - Poetics of Tweeting, Ancestral - An interesting precedent for the "poetics of tweeting" that Willard calls for is the poetry that Barry Spacks wrote in the 1990's in a form he invented called "bumpers." Bumper poems have to be exactly 84 characters long, including punctuation. They were one of the early poetic forms to rely on computational assistance in the creative act, since--as I recall the poet telling me--one had to be writing in a word processor with a ready means of character counting. (Apparently, though, the form was originally invented when the poet heard of a "a new product — magnetic letters for your car bumper, 84 characters in the kit.") I also recall from the poet that he and other poets traded these back and forth by email. You can see some examples of bumper poems by Spacks at the following links. The first site, now available only in the Internet Archive, is co-authored by Spacks and Lawrence E. Leone. It explains the rules and history of the form and adds some commentary. The second site contains (to my mind) some particularly beautiful examples. http://web.archive.org/web/19991006071347/silcom.com/~snospx/bumper.htm http://www.poetserv.org/SRR6/spacks.html (I note with surprise, not having seen the first of the above-mentioned sites until now as I searched for examples, that Spacks quotes an informal observation I made to him at the time that the form is characterized by "its blend of concision, constraint, and therefore (paradoxically) also invention." I added that "the online publication possibilities are also spectacular — inasmuch as this form is calculated to fit on a single screen and will therefore free the imagination of designers as much as of poets." Spacks and Leone themselves comment: "Written 84's seem to hover in aesthetic effect between Chinese 4-line wisdom poems and the Japanese tanka (a haiku plus a follow-up couplet producing a five line poem with syllable-count 5,7,5,7,7). Closest to tanka in flavor, Bumpers (as you can already see) have a tang all their own, and an ability to say just about anything due to their casualness and flexibility." --Alan On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > > My initial question, whether there is a poetics of tweeting, could be > rephrased as the question of where we look for guidance, for > instruction. To haiku, for example? To the poets not writing in Japanese > who were influenced by it, e.g. (ironically) Robert Bly? > > Bly is an ironic example because he has levelled serious charges at our > medium. See his Introduction to The Best American Poetry 1999, at > www.robertbly.com/r_e_bap.html, on the cooling of language. Bly cites > Sven Birkerts: "We are losing our grip, collectively, on the logic of > complex utterance, on syntax; we are abandoning the rhythmic, poetic > undercurrents of expression." Birkerts (with whom I once debated and, > though academic decorum did not permit a vote to be taken, I was and > remain certain he lost) is a champion of decline-and-fall, > hell-in-a-handbasket. But is there any evidence *at all* that tweeting, > e-mailing etc etc have muted us, cooled off our language, taken away > while not at the same time giving us something else that is only > different, not necessarily worse? > > 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 Sun Jul 11 15:15:36 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 DDDAD57EA6; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:15:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5CBE857E95; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:15:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100711151533.5CBE857E95@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:15:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.184 community X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 184. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:09:10 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: community Dear colleagues, I don't know how much of the following will make sense to anyone other than the 420+ attendees of Digital Humanities 2010, but I think it is important to record the fleeting sense of community that one can only get while being physically present in the midst of one -- in this case for all too brief a time. And now it is only remembered. Communities, Benedict Anderson and others have taught us, are imagined. They don't just happen. But once imagined they can in turn support, nurture and extend our imaginings in all sorts of ways, even for those who work mostly alone. There is, of course, the strong Gemütlichkeit of a pleasant gathering over a fine meal, with friends, music, wine and so on, in an architecturally and otherwise also culturally fascinating Great Hall, as was for the conference banquet last night. But, I think, that's not all there is to it. After all the years the conferences of this community of researcher-practitioners have been going on, we still come close to the essentials of what I imagined long ago the academic life would be -- the vision that fuelled my own long-wandering path and, I'd assume, that of many others. Is this the experience of academics in other fields and of those in other professions? It's remarkable further because all around us economic gloom is thickening and lesser sorts of people are reacting badly, as they always do. In the universally acclaimed keynote address which ended the formal academic programme of DH2010, Melissa Terras mentioned then rhetorically turned aside from the threat several times, making its seriousness plain to everyone. But at the same time she delivered the message with an energy and infectious enthusiasm that really said it all: we are intelligently in love with a wonderful field of research and practice -- despite everything, including our own imperfections. What I'm saying is that we have here an opportunity to reflect on how an important state of affairs, our own, has come about and that it is urgent we do so because it is not something independent of us that will automatically propagate into the future. It could vanish when the old guard finally shuffles off (or dances off), as they are doing, particularly if we forget, as we have, what they did. It could vanish by our losing sight of what you see only when you stand at the intersection of the humanities and computing and not from within any of the disciplines themselves. It could be destroyed by self-importance. It could, Melissa pointed out, be destroyed because we don't have the wit to articulate what exactly the digital humanities is when someone with their hands on the budget asks what for, or mistakes something else for it. (That last point deserves an aside. Opinions vary, but I think the best way for us to communicate what we're for is to ask questions when questioned, to draw out what the questioner is interested in and then develop a realisation of our field from within his or her own concerns. I think it's simply asking too much to expect someone who has never gone walkabout in a disciplinary sense to take in a research activity that is not bounded by any discipline but has intimate relations with all of them.) But back to last night, and the time preceeding it at DH2010. Wonderful, memorable, exemplary. Some photos are collected on the conference site (dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk/), others soon, with a video record of the entire event, by means of which you'll be able to see, or vividly recall, much that I would like to describe but cannot. Next year at Stanford, the year after at Hamburg. Much to ponder and discuss meanwhile. 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 11 15:16:21 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 739B557F15; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:16:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5160157F01; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:16:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100711151620.5160157F01@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:16:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.185 TEI by Example X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 185. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:13:17 +0200 (CEST) From: edward.vanhoutte@kantl.be Subject: TEI by Example launched We're very pleased to announce the completion and launch of TEI by Example: http://www.teibyexample.org. TEI By Example (TBE) offers a series of freely available online tutorials walking individuals through the different stages in marking up a document in TEI (Text Encoding Initiative). Besides a general introduction to text encoding, step-by-step tutorial modules provide example-based introductions to eight different aspects of electronic text markup for the humanities. Each tutorial module is accompanied with a dedicated examples section, illustrating actual TEI encoding practise with real-life examples. The theory of the tutorial modules can be tested in interactive tests and exercises. The tutorial materials are contextualised with a TBE validator application, allowing you to test your TEI encoding as you type! We hope you will consider using TEI by Example in your (online)teaching and refer students of markup to these tutorials. We also hope you will submit more examples of encoding for inclusion in TBE. We're eager to receive your comments and learn about your use of TEI by example in (self-)teaching environments. Please contact the editorial team with any feedback at teibyexample@kantl.be. Funding for the project has been made available by the Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing, the Centre for Computers and the Humanities - King's College London, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, and the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature. Melissa Terras Ron Van den Branden Edward Vanhoutte -- ================ Edward Vanhoutte Coordinator Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - CTB (KANTL) Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies Associate Editor LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature Koningstraat 18 / b-9000 Gent / Belgium tel: +32 9 265 93 51 / fax: +32 9 265 93 49 edward dot vanhoutte at kantl dot be http://ctb.kantl.be/ http://ctb.kantl.be/vanhoutte/ http://ctb.kantl.be/staff/edward.htm Peter de Bruijn, Edward Vanhoutte & Bert Van Raemdonck (red.), Trends en thema's in de editiewetenschap. Themanummer Verslagen & Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 119/2. 183 pp.-ill. €10. ISSN 0770 - 786X. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 15:17:34 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 2495157F99; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:17:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 02E1157F85; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:17:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100711151733.02E1157F85@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:17:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.186 events: Interedition 5th Bootcamp X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 186. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:40:15 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: CFP 5th Interedition Bootcamp, Munich, September 2010 **Call for Participation** *Interedition 5th Bootcamp* *About Interedition* Interedition (http://www.interedition.eu) is a COST (http://www.cost.eu) funded Action that furthers the interoperability of tools in digital scholarship. Interedition is raising the awareness of the importance of interoperability as a major driver for sustainability for tools and data in the field of digital scholarship. It does so firstly by organizing meetings to network the knowledge on interoperability of researchers in digital scholarship, and secondly by developing proof of concept implementations of interoperable tools and offering the open source development community in the humanities opportunities to meet, network, and exchange knowledge. *The Bootcamp* Interedition is inviting all interested to participate in the upcoming Development Bootcamp that will be held in Munich Germany from Tuesday 28 September to Saturday 2 October 2010. The bootcamp is coinciding with the closing conference of the related COST Action A32 'Open Scholarly Communities on the Web' (http://www.cost-a32.eu), and the last week of the famous Oktoberfest. The objectives of the bootcamp center around the first Interedition prototype tool, CollateX, described in more detail below. Another primary objective is to give developers and early stage researchers an opportunity to meet and share their own projects and experiences with tool interoperability in textual scholarship. *Bursaries* COST Action IS0704 'Interedition' is offering bursaries to early stage researchers (< Ph.D. + 10 years) and developers that want to join the bootcamp. The bursaries will consist of an 100 Euro per diem allowance and will cover travel expenses fully (limitations apply). *CollateX Prototype* The Interedition team has recently (July 2010) released version 0.9 of CollateX, a webservice-enabled text collation engine that will be of use to a wide range of digital humanities projects. This release is the result of the work done during the last Interedition Bootcamp in April in Firenze, Italy and is the first official release of CollateX. It features baseless multiple witness alignment, parallel segmentation and handling of transpositions. It can export an alignment table as a critical apparatus in TEI format. CollateX is available as a Java application and has Python bindings available, but it is primarily designed to be run as a REST webservice using the Tomcat or Jetty webserver. More information can be found on http://collatex.sourceforge.net. *Next steps for CollateX and other prototypes* One of the core objectives of the Munich bootcamp will be to carry forward work on CollateX, in particular integrating the core webservice with other existing software, with prototypes under development, and as a standalone service with its own user interface. Possible targets for CollateX integration include Juxta (http://www.juxtasoftware.org), TextGRID ( http://www.textgrid.de), the Versioning Machine (http://v-machine.org), and other projects that involve an element of text comparison and display. *Program* Tuesday 28 September - Introduction to CollateX and its framework and principles - Division of Tasks/Labor Wednesday 29 September - Hacking Thursday 30 September - Unconference on participants' projects - Hacking Friday 1 October - Hacking - Documentation Saturday 2 October - Hands On Session in A32 Conference - Ungathering on - Interoperability of tools [and data?] for digital humanities - Supporting the Open Source Development Community in Digital Humanities - Round up, reporting *How to Apply* If you are interested in participating in the bootcamp, please just send an email to joris.van.zundert@huygensinstituut.knaw.nl. You don't need an intricate motivation, but please state your affiliation, and add a very short (certainly not more than 200 words) description of your current or related development work in digital humanities. Please note that if you will join the bootcamp, some formal paperwork will be necessary to get you the bursary - but until now all participants passed that test with flying colors. -- 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 Mon Jul 12 08:17:49 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 9E2FC5520E; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:17:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7C42C55202; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:17:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100712081747.7C42C55202@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:17:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.187 community: 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. 24, No. 187. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:07:48 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.184 community In-Reply-To: <20100711151533.5CBE857E95@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Thank you for your posting - I have been really astounded by feedback to my plenary at DH2010. I just wanted to point out that, for those who weren't there, I've put up an approximation of what I hoped to say on the day at http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/2010/07/dh2010-plenary-present-not-voting.html best, Melissa On 11/07/2010 16:15, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 184. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:09:10 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: community > > Dear colleagues, > > I don't know how much of the following will make sense to anyone other > than the 420+ attendees of Digital Humanities 2010, but I think it is > important to record the fleeting sense of community that one can only > get while being physically present in the midst of one -- in this case > for all too brief a time. And now it is only remembered. > > Communities, Benedict Anderson and others have taught us, are imagined. > They don't just happen. But once imagined they can in turn support, > nurture and extend our imaginings in all sorts of ways, even for those > who work mostly alone. There is, of course, the strong Gemütlichkeit of > a pleasant gathering over a fine meal, with friends, music, wine and so > on, in an architecturally and otherwise also culturally fascinating > Great Hall, as was for the conference banquet last night. But, I think, > that's not all there is to it. After all the years the conferences of > this community of researcher-practitioners have been going on, we still > come close to the essentials of what I imagined long ago the academic > life would be -- the vision that fuelled my own long-wandering path and, > I'd assume, that of many others. Is this the experience of academics in > other fields and of those in other professions? > > It's remarkable further because all around us economic gloom is > thickening and lesser sorts of people are reacting badly, as they always > do. In the universally acclaimed keynote address which ended the formal > academic programme of DH2010, Melissa Terras mentioned then rhetorically > turned aside from the threat several times, making its seriousness plain > to everyone. But at the same time she delivered the message with an > energy and infectious enthusiasm that really said it all: we are > intelligently in love with a wonderful field of research and practice -- > despite everything, including our own imperfections. > > What I'm saying is that we have here an opportunity to reflect on how an > important state of affairs, our own, has come about and that it is > urgent we do so because it is not something independent of us that will > automatically propagate into the future. It could vanish when the old > guard finally shuffles off (or dances off), as they are doing, > particularly if we forget, as we have, what they did. It could vanish by > our losing sight of what you see only when you stand at the intersection > of the humanities and computing and not from within any of the > disciplines themselves. It could be destroyed by self-importance. It > could, Melissa pointed out, be destroyed because we don't have the wit > to articulate what exactly the digital humanities is when someone with > their hands on the budget asks what for, or mistakes something else for it. > > (That last point deserves an aside. Opinions vary, but I think the best > way for us to communicate what we're for is to ask questions when > questioned, to draw out what the questioner is interested in and then > develop a realisation of our field from within his or her own concerns. > I think it's simply asking too much to expect someone who has never gone > walkabout in a disciplinary sense to take in a research activity that is > not bounded by any discipline but has intimate relations with all of them.) > > But back to last night, and the time preceeding it at DH2010. Wonderful, > memorable, exemplary. Some photos are collected on the conference site > (dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk/), others soon, with a video record of the entire > event, by means of which you'll be able to see, or vividly recall, much > that I would like to describe but cannot. > > Next year at Stanford, the year after at Hamburg. Much to ponder and > discuss meanwhile. > > Yours, > WM > > -- 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 Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 12 08:18:54 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 58D54552A2; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:18:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4A9175528A; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:18:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100712081852.4A9175528A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:18:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.188 how sweetly tweet X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 188. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:16:22 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: micropoetry On the subject of a poetics of tweets, or poetry in that medium, I find PoeticTweet (www.poetictweets.com/), a bot that serves up any tweets with the right sort of hashtag -- though at the time of writing it found none; William Shatner reciting Sarah Palin's tweets as poetry (mashable.com/2009/07/29/shatner-palin-conan/); an article in the Guardian on poetic tweets that quotes "the kind of 'I went outside and saw a cat / it was black and white, how lucky is that?' drivel that is the lingua franca of the Twitterati" but argues, in this vein optimistically, "that doesn't mean there's no room for anyone else to carve out a niche market" (www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/07/books-news-twitter-maya-angelou); some "almost haiku" (twitter.com/seriouseats/status/9544922177); and so on among the 295K hits on "poetic tweets". The Poetry Foundation has taken notice (www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/02/poetry-tweets/). Other suggestions, especially of the nondrivelling kind, would be welcome. But again, what interests me, and seems highly relevant to Humanist, is the argument that Twitter is deterministic, or restricts the writer to such a degree that the tendency to write drivel is well-nigh overwhelming. When confronted with something we don't understand do we *always* take refuge in the nearest determinism? Prisoners in a dungeon tapping out messages to each other can say quite a bit that isn't drivel. But the greatest example of all is Jean-Dominique Bauby's autobiography, translated as The Diving-Bell & the Butterfly, from which a fine movie has been made. Mind over/through/in the medium? 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 12 08:19:45 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 C18595530E; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:19:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5F120552E9; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:19:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100712081944.5F120552E9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:19:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.189 cfp: Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 189. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:02:49 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: CFP: Inaugural Issue of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, the official journal of the TEI Consortium The TEI Board is delighted to announce a call for papers for the inaugural issue of The Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. The journal will be published at least once a year with papers from the previous year's TEI Conference and Members' Meeting. The editors also welcome proposals from members of the community to guest-edit a special issue on a particular topic or theme of interest for TEI scholarship, methods, or practice. This is a freely-available, open-access, peer-reviewed journal hosted by Revues.org. For more information on the journal, see http://journal.tei-c.org/ . Detailed submission instructions will be made available at this site in the near future. For this inaugural issue, the guest editors (Syd Bauman, Kevin Hawkins, and Malte Rehbein) welcome any article that takes as its premise the scholarly, pedagogic, or administrative concerns of the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines or the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. Articles arising from the 2009 Conference and Members Meeting held in Ann Arbor are especially welcome. Closing date for submissions for the inaugural issue is 30 October 2010 with publication expected late Winter 2011. On behalf of the TEI Board, Susan Schreibman, Editor-in-Chief Markus Flatscher, Technical Editor Kevin S. Hawkins, Managing 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 Tue Jul 13 05:36:45 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 2BCF63B82E; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:36:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2478B3B81D; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:36:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100713053643.2478B3B81D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:36:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.190 how sweetly tweet 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. 24, No. 190. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:44:44 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.188 how sweetly tweet In-Reply-To: <20100712081852.4A9175528A@woodward.joyent.us> "Poetic tweets? Doubtful. Doggerel at best, drivel as per usual. Poetry is something else. Check out Socrates in THE SYMPOSIUM. Even the lowest common denominator is not low enough for hoi polloi. Poetic means, I think? an attribute of poetry. Poetry is extremely rare. Check out Socrates in THE SYMPOSIUM. One cannot be critically severe enough. World enough and time are scarcer than... Jascha Kessler On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 188. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:16:22 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: micropoetry > > On the subject of a poetics of tweets, or poetry in that medium, I find > PoeticTweet (www.poetictweets.com/), a bot that serves up any tweets > with the right sort of hashtag -- though at the time of writing it found > none; William Shatner reciting Sarah Palin's tweets as poetry > (mashable.com/2009/07/29/shatner-palin-conan/); an article in the > Guardian on poetic tweets that quotes "the kind of 'I went outside and > saw a cat / it was black and white, how lucky is that?' drivel that is > the lingua franca of the Twitterati" but argues, in this vein > optimistically, "that doesn't mean there's no room for anyone else to > carve out a niche market" > (www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/07/books-news-twitter-maya-angelou); > some "almost haiku" (twitter.com/seriouseats/status/9544922177); and so > on among the 295K hits on "poetic tweets". The Poetry Foundation has > taken notice (www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/02/poetry-tweets/). > > Other suggestions, especially of the nondrivelling kind, would be welcome. > > But again, what interests me, and seems highly relevant to Humanist, is > the argument that Twitter is deterministic, or restricts the writer to > such a degree that the tendency to write drivel is well-nigh > overwhelming. When confronted with something we don't understand do we > *always* take refuge in the nearest determinism? Prisoners in a dungeon > tapping out messages to each other can say quite a bit that isn't > drivel. But the greatest example of all is Jean-Dominique Bauby's > autobiography, translated as The Diving-Bell & the Butterfly, from which > a fine movie has been made. Mind over/through/in the medium? > > 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. > -- 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 Jul 13 05:37:13 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 01E053B875; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:37:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D3E403B85F; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:37:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100713053710.D3E403B85F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:37:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.191 Music Encoding Initiative X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 191. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:29:54 -0400 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: Fwd: MEI press release Congratulations to the MEI (Music Encoding Initiative) Council, on the release of its new schema for recording conceptual and material characteristics of musical notation. A press release is below. 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/ Begin forwarded message: > From: "Mayhood, Erin (elm8s)" > Date: July 12, 2010 12:14:00 PM EDT The Music Encoding Initiative Council announces the release of MEI 2010-05 – a groundbreaking digital musical notation model. The MEI Council is pleased to announce the first collaboratively-designed method for encoding the intellectual and physical characteristics of music notation documents and their scholarly editorial apparatus. MEI has the ability to manage complex source situations and will dramatically improve the search, retrieval and display of notated music online, benefiting music scholars and performers. Because of MEI’s software independence, the data format defined by the schema also serves an archival function. The MEI model is free and available for download at http://music-encoding.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 13 05:37:46 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 6EDA93B8C7; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:37:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2D1313B8AC; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:37:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100713053744.2D1313B8AC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:37:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.192 call for nominations: TEI-C Board 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. 24, No. 192. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:52:52 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Call for nominations to TEI-C board and council Dear members of the digital humanities community, 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 September 1, 2010. Members of the nomination committee this year are Julia Flanders (chair), Markus Flatscher and Laurent Romary. The elections will take place via electronic voting prior to the annual Members' Meeting in November 2010. 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. Example candidates' biographies from a previous election can be found at http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/Meetings/2008/mm45.xml All nominations should include an email address for the nominee and should indicate whether the nomination is for Board or Council. The TEI-C Board is the governing body for the TEI Consortium, and is responsible for its strategic and financial oversight. The TEI-C Council oversees the technical development of the TEI Guidelines. Service in either group is an opportunity to help the TEI grow and serve its members better. For more information on the Board please see: http://www.tei-c.org/About/board.xml For more information on the Council please see: http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/index.xml TEI-C membership is NOT a requirement to serve on the Board or Council. Candidates should be familiar with the TEI and should be willing to commit time to discussion, decision-making, and TEI activities. If you have ideas about how to make the TEI stronger or can help it do a better job, please nominate yourself! Or, if you know someone who you think could contribute to TEI, nominate him or her. With best wishes and thanks, Julia Flanders (for the TEI nominating 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 Jul 13 06:54:58 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 DFEB15841A; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:54:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 759C758406; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:54:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100713065455.759C758406@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:54:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.193 how sweetly tweet some more X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 193. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Brett D. Hirsch" (117) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.190 how sweetly tweet [2] From: Willard McCarty (29) Subject: doing what one can --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:07:28 +0800 From: "Brett D. Hirsch" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.190 how sweetly tweet In-Reply-To: <20100713053643.2478B3B81D@woodward.joyent.us> With respect to Professor Kessler, that's an awfully conservative assessment of poetry. Like Willard, I'm interested in the argument that Twitter is restrictive to the point of being deterministic. Couldn't you make the same (strained) argument about any poetic form? Does size really matter? Take the following quintessential example of Imagist poetry by Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Including the title of the piece, that's 99 characters in total. You could add "Ezra Pound" in brackets after the title and still be under the Twitter character limit. Or this short poem by William Carlos Williams: The Red Wheelbarrow so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens That's 112 characters (including the line breaks). Again, even with (William Carlos Williams) added after the title, it's still under the 140 character limit. Similar examples abound. Who's to say that the character limit of Twitter won't encourage poetry like this? Best wishes, Brett -- Dr. Brett D. Hirsch University Postdoctoral Research Fellow Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (M208) University of Western Australia http://www.notwithoutmustard.net/ Coordinating Editor, Digital Renaissance Editions http://www.digital-renaissance.info/ Co-Editor, Shakespeare http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17450918.asp --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:50:11 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: doing what one can In-Reply-To: <20100713053643.2478B3B81D@woodward.joyent.us> With respect to Twitter: isn't the point to do what you can with what you've got to do it, with all your might and intelligence? Isn't computing itself terribly restrictive? Consider the idea of computability manifested in the Turing Machine. Now *that's* restrictive! And yet look at what we can do, and dream of doing, with at least a chance of doing it. Partly it's a matter of turning from the restriction to the fast iterative abilities of the machine; partly it's a matter of seeing what's left over, which is thus illumined in a new light. And on that scale of determinisms. Consider the range: from altogether dead (or perhaps, as Job wished, not ever having been born at all) to Basho, or Alice Munro, or Annie Proulx, or Eric Satie, or whomever you wish to name of those who use the simplest means to achieve that which makes being conscious worth the pain which comes with it. And consider, again, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who told his story -- before Locked-in Syndrome got him, not worth the telling despite his life as Editor of Elle -- with the blinking of a single eyelid. Even the most highly restricted means can be enough if the person has something to say. No, I'd say that (to speak negatively) the fault for stupidity lies with the utterer, not the medium. And I'd suggest that absolute determinism is possibly even more restrictive than biological death, which after all leaves memories, things made and biochemical traces behind. 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 Jul 16 20:07:26 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 D866F5BFF9; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:07:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 011905BFD8; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:07:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100716200721.011905BFD8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:07:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.194 a new routine X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 194. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:03:57 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a new routine Dear colleagues, This is the first of Humanist from Sydney, Australia, early in a southern hemispheric winter morning after two days of recovery with the help of brilliant sunshine -- I am told the first in a while this winter. I offer apologies to those Europeans accustomed to read Humanist with their morning coffee, who now find it coming to them in the evening, to those N Americans in their early to late afternoons and to everyone else thus disrupted. Something new! All the best. 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 Jul 16 20:09:27 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 E12FD580E7; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:09:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C36CA580D4; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:09:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100716200922.C36CA580D4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:09:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.195 how sweetly tweet X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 195. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jascha Kessler (158) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.193 how sweetly tweet some more [2] From: renata lemos (35) Subject: The Best Literary Criticism (of a Twitter Feed) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:15:32 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.193 how sweetly tweet some more In-Reply-To: <20100713065455.759C758406@woodward.joyent.us> Perhaps my point was not made altogether clearly. I was speaking of poetry, not poems. The Pound and Williams pieces are famous experiments in imagism, which had a rather short run. Imagism is something for the eye; these short pieces are, well, call them aphoristic. There are epigrams that may run to a couplet, poems, yes; poetical, yes. But ... poetry? We too easily these days of populist doggerel, not to say drivel, call anything poetry. Poems are not prose, if prosaic. But again ... poetry? I recommended the discussion of making, and Eros in THE SYMPOSIUM. Little skip-rope rhymes and jingles are, well, poems; but again ... poetry. I am still haunted by my childhood indoctrination re pop: "Pepsi Cola hits the spot;/Twelve full ounces, that's a lot;/Twice as much for a nickel too;/Pepsi Cola is the drink for you! [Twice as much as Coca Cola was the subtext, and in the Depression, you went for Pepsi.] The jingle was sung, but was it poetry? It is not a matter of Tweeted syllabics, rhymed or not. If the God is not present, in it or behind it, it may be a poem, or as Kipling put it, " ...but is it art?" ["The Conundrum of the Workshops"] Usually, however, it is prose, or what the poets used to call "typewriter poetry," meaning type out words, hit return key, as a Keruoac did, on an endless roll of adding machine paper. Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:23:45 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: The Best Literary Criticism (of a Twitter Feed) In-Reply-To: <20100713065455.759C758406@woodward.joyent.us> Slate's Nathan Heller has written a gorgeous and generous piece of literary criticism. About two Twitter feeds. http://www.slate.com/id/2259928/pagenum/all/#p2 Weighing in at over 2,000 perfectly chosen words, Heller's dissection of the comic stylings of@CrankyKaplan http://twitter.com/crankykaplan and @WiseKaplan http://twitter.com/wise_kaplan , both roasty tributes to former New York Observer editor Peter Kaplan, strikes me as a milestone for how we view -- and write about -- what's possible on Twitter. "[T]he Kaplan dispatches offer one of the most entertaining and ambitious uses of Twitter yet," Heller writes, explaining that the feeds are co-written by Peter Stevenson, former Observer executive editor, and Jim Windolf of Vanity Fair, who were Kaplan mentees in the early 90s. Peter Kaplan is known to New York's newspaper readers as the man behind a jaunty, impudent voice that shaped the *Observer* through the flush years of the late '90s and on. Stevenson and Windolf, though, knew him as a boss, mentor, and eccentric. The Twitter parodies were meant to be an inside joke. Yet through their online comedy act, the journalists have nudged Twitter in a new, more literary direction. Unlike contrived and headache-inducing concepts like the "Twitter novel http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_novels_not_big_success_stories.php " or the serialized essay http://www.danbaum.com/Nine_Lives/New_Yorker_tweets.html --long forms awkwardly broken into 140-character bits--the Kaplan narratives are colorful, varied, and fully wedded to the medium. If you still don't think Twitter can be a platform for valuable things, Heller might just change your mind. As for Kaplan, he doesn't seem to mind the attention, and it hasn't hurt his career: Fairchild Fashion Group announced that they've hired him as its new editorial director http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/peter-kaplan-to-join-fairchild-as-editorial-director-3182139 today. at: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/07/the-best-literary-criticism-of-a-twitter-feed-yet/59750/ -- 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 Fri Jul 16 20:10:59 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 5CE93581B2; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:10:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EA7AF581A4; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:10:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100716201051.EA7AF581A4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:10:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.196 jobs: postdoc in Dublin; teaching fellow 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. 24, No. 196. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Carl Vogel (44) Subject: R&D postdoc: outlook analysis -- Trinity College Dublin [2] From: Melissa Terras (24) Subject: Teaching Fellow in Digital Humanities available at UCL --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:08:44 +0100 From: Carl Vogel Subject: R&D postdoc: outlook analysis -- Trinity College Dublin [please pass this on as appropriate; apologies for duplications!] Post-doctoral Position in Computational Linguistics Applications are invited for a funded two-year post-doctoral research position in the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin to work on PaJR, a collaborative research project on building software for patient self management of chronic illness. The project partners are the National Digital Research Centre (www.NDRC.ie), GroupNos Technologies (www.groupnos.com), PHC Research Ltd and Trinity College Dublin (the Knowledge and Data Engineering Group (http://kdeg.cs.tcd.ie) and the Computational Linguistics Group (www.cs.tcd.ie/research_groups/clg)). The post-doc role will involve identifying patterns in patient narrative text and triggering appropriate actions. The successful candidate will have a PhD in Computational Linguistics, or a closely related discipline, such as Computer Science, with demonstrable expertise in as many of the following as possible: statistical analysis, corpus linguistics, sentiment analysis, formal semantics, machine learning. The project requires an individual who is well versed in theoretical issues that impinge on the work, but who also appreciates the pragmatic value of eclectic, practical solutions. They will be highly motivated, with strong communication skills and a demonstrated proficiency in software development. All candidates must be fluent in English, and have good writing skills. This full-time position is for two years' duration, starting at the latest in November 2010 and is supported by the NDRC. The salary will be at the upper end of the IUA Post-doctorate researcher (Level 2) scale (see link on http://www.iua.ie/iua-activities/research.html). Applications that do not satisfy the requirements listed below will not be considered. Applications must include: 1. A targeted cover letter (600-1000 words) expressing your suitability for the position 2. A complete CV including a list of refereed publications and contact details for three referees. 3. Full academic transcripts undergraduate and postgraduate translated to English if necessary Applications received on or prior to 27th August 2010 will receive fullest consideration. Please send applications via email with Subject Line "Comp Ling Postdoc Position" to: Jean.Maypother at scss.tcd.ie Informal questions may be addressed to Carl.Vogel at tcd.ie or Lucy.Hederman at tcd.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:06:05 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Teaching Fellow in Digital Humanities available at UCL Dear Willard et al, A teaching post will be available, from the 1st Sept 2010 to 31st Dec 2011, in the Department of Information Studies, University College London, to cover my job whilst I am on Maternity leave. This post will teaching Digital Resources in the Humanities, Internet Technologies, and Web Publishing. Further details are available here: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5041178&ownertype=fair&jcode=1149210 Please pass on to any good candidates that you know, best wishes, 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/ Deputy Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 16 20:14:03 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 16F78582B2; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:14:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B87DB5829A; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:14:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100716201400.B87DB5829A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:14:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.197 events: DRHA, Chicago Colloquium X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 197. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Cronin (25) Subject: Registration is now open for DRHA 2010 [2] From: Martin Mueller (31) Subject: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science,November4 21-22 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:28:06 +0100 From: James Cronin Subject: Registration is now open for DRHA 2010 Registration is now open for the 2010 Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts Conference (DRHA 2010: http://drha2010.org.uk/ ) Brunel University in London Sunday 5th to Wednesday 8th September 2010 This year's applications have created an excellent line-up of panels, papers, performances and installations - final delegates to be announced online in early August 2010. The DRHA committee recommends not missing this event at such a time of important shifts in the digital debate. Outstanding 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. Performers to include Troika Ranch, Stelarc and the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse led by Pauline Oliveros. Specific focus on discussions in and around SecondLife. Twitter: http://twitter.com/DRHA2010 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:05:02 -0500 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, November 21-22 A second announcement with repeated apologies for cross-posting: The fifth annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) will be held at Northwestern University on November 21-22, 2010 (Sunday-Monday). The tag line for this year's colloquium is "Working with Digital Data: Collaborate, Curate, Analyze, Annotate." This does not exclude a whole lot. Quality will always trump category, but we will be particularly interested in papers or poster sessions about annotation, scholarly crowdsourcing, and challenges of human/computer interaction. How to create better texts from OCR may be a problem in which new forms of human/computer interaction hold particular promise. The deadline for submissions is August 31, with notification by September 17. We welcome submissions for 1. Paper presentations (20 minutes) 2. Poster sessions 3. Software demonstrations Please submit an abstract (no more than 2 pages, please) in either Adobe PDF (preferred) or Word format to dhcs-submissions@listhost.uchicago.edu. The colloquium now has its own website at http://chicagocolloquium.org/. It is still under construction but the links to past colloquia are a useful guide to the scope and spirit of this event. For questions about the program contact Martin Mueller Professor of English and Classics martinmueller@northwestern.edu For questions about logistics and administrative matters contact Nathan Mead Coordinator, Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science n-mead2@northwestern.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 Jul 17 20:05:41 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 28DD75CB8F; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:05:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 953E65CB84; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:05:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100717200538.953E65CB84@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:05:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.198 how sweetly tweet X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 198. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:57:23 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: what is poetry? With Jascha Kessler's latest, in Humanist 24.195, once again we arrive at what seems to me the fundamental question to which computing always leads the questioner: what is X that it may be computed? Here I am taking "computed" to mean whatever is done by computing systems that signifiantly affects X. In this case: if a tweet can be a poem, then what is poetry? But as this example shows, the question leads us away from the specifics of digital machinery to any set of constraints put on a human cultural expression, i.e. to any language (verbal, mathematical, graphical etc). And if this is an interesting limb out on which to crawl, then we might ask: what possible languages, with what degree of expressive richness, can be formed on the basis of the digital machinery we have? In each case how does the basic digitality of the expressive form affect what is said? When trying out stray thoughts for their strength and potential, I also like to ask, am I making sense? How do we rescue such discussions as the one which prompted the above from becoming a YES IT IS / NO IT ISN'T squabble? 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 17 20:06:13 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 AE32A5CBD0; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:06:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 33CFE5CBC2; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:06:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100717200612.33CFE5CBC2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:06:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.199 survey on publishing X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 199. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:45:54 +0100 From: Judith Simon Subject: Survey: Scientific Publishing & Web 2.0 - last reminder [from the Catac mailing list -- WM] Dear Colleagues, a few weeks ago, we announced a survey on Scientific Publishing and Web 2.0. The aim of the survey is to gauge the potential acceptance of a Web 2.0 inspired production and dissemination of scientific publications by different scientific communities and by practitioners. The survey is hence tailored for researchers in all domains as well as for people working in the publishing industry. Many of you, indeed almost 500 people, responded and provided their information and opinions on the topic. We sincerely want to thank all those people who participated in the study! Since we want to start processing the data, we will close the survey on July 20th. Hence there are only few more days for those of you who still wish to participate. This survey is part of the Liquidpub project (http://project.liquidpub.org), funded by Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Programme within the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission. We thank you in advance for filling in the questionnaire. It will take about 20 minutes. You can find the survey at the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LiquidpubSurvey Please note that the survey is totally anonymous and that data will be analyzed in an aggregated form only. Once we have finished our analyses, we will notify you and make the results available at our project website: http://project.liquidpub.org/ For any questions, please feel free to contact Judith and Diego at "InfoLiquidPub@disi.unitn.it". Further information on the project can be found on: The Project Website: http://project.liquidpub.org/ Our Blog: http://liquidpub.wordpress.com/ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/liquidpub Best Regards, Diego & Judith for the Liquidpub team PS: Sorry for x-postings! -- NEW CONTACT DATA ______________________ + ______________________ Judith Simon Institut Jean Nicod Ecole Normale Supérieure 29, rue d'Ulm F-75005 Paris email: judith.simon@ens.fr www: http://www.institutnicod.org tel: +33 (0) 1 443 22 6464 fax: +33 (0) 1 443 22 699 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 17 20:06:50 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 1F8B75CC2F; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:06:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8A6EA5CC1D; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:06:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100717200646.8A6EA5CC1D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:06:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.200 new on WWW: D-Lib for July/August X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 200. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:08:26 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: July/August 2010 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Greetings: The July/August issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, an opinion piece, and a conference report. Also in this issue you can find 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 Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery of Scripps College collection of Japanese woodblock prints. The articles include: nature.com OpenSearch: A Case Study in OpenSearch and SRU Integration by Tony Hammond, Nature Publishing Group Document Management in the Open University of Catalunya (UOC) Classrooms by Albert Cervera, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya The Benefits of Integrating an Information Literacy Skills Game into Academic Coursework: A Preliminary Evaluation by Karen Markey, Fritz Swanson, Chris Leeder, Brian J. Jennings, Beth St. Jean, Victor Rosenberg, Soo Young Rieh, Robert L. Frost, Loyd Mbabu, and Andrew Calvetti, University of Michigan; Gregory R. Peters, Jr., Cyber Data Solutions LLC, and Geoffrey V. Carter and Averill Packard, Saginaw Valley State University Semantically Enhancing Collections of Library and Non-Library Content by James E. Powell, Linn Marks Collins and Mark L. B. Martinez, Los Alamos National Laboratory The opinion piece is: No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed by Stevan Harnad, Universite du Quebec a Montreal & University of Southampton The conference report is: Report on the 2009 Joint CENDI/NKOS Workshop - Knowledge Organization Systems: Managing to the Future by Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State 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/ 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 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 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 Sat Jul 17 20:07:22 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 E91865CC8F; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:07:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6CF1A5CC7D; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:07:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100717200718.6CF1A5CC7D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:07:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.201 Google's support for the digital humanities 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. 24, No. 201. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:56:02 +0300 From: Robert Barron Subject: Google and Digital Humanities http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/our-commitment-to-digital-humanities.html Familiar names? :) Robert Barron _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 18 19:56:09 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 4DDFA25E9D; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:56:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C57A725E8A; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:56:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100718195604.C57A725E8A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:56:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.202 Google's support for 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. 24, No. 202. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Roxanne Kent-Drury (17) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.201 Google's support for the digital humanities [2] From: Dolores_Romero_López (22) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.201 Google's support for the digital humanities [3] From: Susan Schreibman (21) Subject: Google Announces Support for Digital Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:56:45 -0400 From: Roxanne Kent-Drury Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.201 Google's support for the digital humanities *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1279407502_2010-07-17_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_14435.2.ms-tnef Yes--because they were invited. The competition was not open. Dr. Roxanne Kent-Drury Graduate Program Director Department of English Northern Kentucky University Highland Heights, KY 41099 (859)572-6636 Graduate Program: englishgrad@nku.edu Graduate Director: rkdrury@nku.edu website: http://www.nku.edu/~rkdrury --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:46:25 +0200 From: Dolores_Romero_López Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.201 Google's support for the digital humanities In-Reply-To: Dear Robert Barron: Yes, I know and belong to the LEETHI (Literaturas Españolas y Europeas del Texto al Hipermedia) Research Group (http://www.ucm.es/info/leethi/1_nav/somos_01.php) Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain). The project submitted by Amelia del Rosario Sanz-Cabrerizo (LEETHI coordinator) and José Luis Sierra-Rodríguez (IT Research Group) *Collaborative Annotation of Digitalized Literary Texts *have been selected. There will be a collaboration between philologists, information technology scholars, specialists in didactics and librarians. We have been working in digital humanities since 2001, as you may see in the above Website. We will be pleased to share our results with the international community at the end of the next academic year. ** Dolores Romero López Profesora Titular de Universidad Universidad Complutense de Madrid Facultad de Filología (Edificio D) Dept. de Literatura Española Ciudad Universitaria s/n 28040 Madrid (España) dromero@filol.ucm.es --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:30:03 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Google Announces Support for Digital Humanities In-Reply-To: <20100717200718.6CF1A5CC7D@woodward.joyent.us> See the press release http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/our-commitment-to-digital-humanities.html -- 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 2588 Email: susan.schreibman@gmail.com 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 Jul 18 19:57:15 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 169FC25EF4; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:57:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6C7C325EEB; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:57:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100718195705.6C7C325EEB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:57:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.203 how sweetly tweet X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 203. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:44:54 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: re W McC's posting, as of 17 July Dear Willard, I have just published online a long essay, at www.eclectica.com. It may not directly or clearly answer you questions, which are valid, and seem to be reflections on my remarks that make sense [except that when I say "poetry" I do not say "X." When I say "poem," I am saying X, which is relevant. The essay, REASONING UNREASON, is perhaps tangential to this thread. I hope squabbling is not one of the effects, side, or blowback, of my questions. I dont your personal email address, or would post to it, so for your convenience I attach a pdf here, which I just prepared last night. I wrote "perhaps tangential.." I trust it can at least divert you for an hour or less? I will say again, a poem is a poem is a poem, whether uttered, or sung, or chanted viva voce, or digitally recorded and reproduced on paper, from a recorded set of 0/1s, whathaveyou. But whether such an object is poetry is the question that leads 99.99% into confusion. That is my reference to THE SYMPOSIUM, and the root term, *poein. To make, or create. The God, Eros, is that "force." But poem is recent term. Here is the current OED, for your convenience. Towards the end, some divine insisted the God had to be in it...* ** poem (ˈpəʊɪm) Also 6–7 poeme. [a. F. poème (in Oresme 14th c.), ad. L. poēma (in Plautus), a. Gr. πόηµα (4th c. b.c.), early variant of ποίηµα, thing made or created, work, fiction, poetical work, f. ποιεῖν (early variant ποεῖν) to make. (If ποίηµα had been the form introduced, the L. would have been pœēma.) The word poem was app. not in use till about the middle of the 16th c.; the sense was previously, from 14th c., expressed by poesy, sense 2.] 1. a.1.a ‘The work of a poet, a metrical composition’ (Johnson); ‘a work in verse’ (Littré); a composition of words expressing facts, thoughts, or feelings in poetical form; a piece of poetry. In addition to the metrical or verse form, critics have generally held that in order to deserve the name of ‘poem’, the theme and its treatment must possess qualities which raise it above the level of ordinary prose. Cf. quots. 1575, 1689, 1841, and see poetry. 1548 Elyot Dict., Poema‥a poetes inuencion, a poeme [ed. 1538 Poema‥a poetes warke]. 1568 T. Howell (title) The Arbor of Amitie; wherin is comprised pleasant Poems and pretie Poesies. 1575 Gascoigne Notes Eng. Verse §1 in Steele Glas, etc. (Arb.) 31 The first and most necessarie poynt‥meete to be considered in making of a delectable poeme is this, to ground it upon some fine inuention. 1581 Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 23 And may not I‥say that the holy Dauids Psalmes are a diuine Poem? 1636 B. Jonson Discov. Wks. 1641 II. 126 Even one alone verse sometimes makes a perfect Poeme. Ibid., These three voices differ, as the thing done, the doing, and the doer; the thing fain'd, the faining and the fainer; so the Poeme, the Poesy, and the Poet. 1689–90 Temple Ess. Poetry Wks. 1731 I. 236 The Frame and Fabrick of a true Poem, must have something both sublime and just, amazing and agreeable. ― Ess. Learning Ibid. I. 298 The Language is but the Colouring; 'tis the Conception, the Invention, the Judgment, that give the Life and Spirit, as well as Beauty and Force, to a Poem. 1706 Phillips, Poem, a Piece of Poetry, a Composition in Verse, a Copy of Verses. 1736 Sheridan in Swift's Lett. (1768) IV. 181, I have written a little pretty birth-day poem against St. Andrew's day, which‥I intend for Faulkner to publish. 1828 Whately in Encycl. Metrop. I. 290/1 Any composition in verse, (and none that is not,) is always called, whether good or bad, a Poem, by all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain. 1841–4 Emerson Ess., Poet Wks. (Bohn) I. 157 It is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem. 1871 B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. Notes 319 Everything in this poem is perfect, thought and expression, Rhythm; but one thing it lacks: 'tis not a poem at all. b.1.b transf. (or in more general sense): Applied to a composition which, without the form, has some quality or qualities in common with poetry. 1581 Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 28 Xenophon, who did imitate so excellently‥the portraiture of a iust Empire vnder the name of Cyrus, (as Cicero sayth of him) made therein an absolute heroicall Poem. 1873 Ruskin Fors Clav. III. xxxiv. 6 Do you know what a play is? or what a poem is? or what a novel is?‥ You had better first, for clearness' sake, call all the three ‘poems’, for all the three are so, when they are good, whether written in verse or prose. 2.2 fig. Something (other than a composition of words) of a nature or quality akin or likened to that of poetry (with various implications, as artistic or orderly structure, noble expression, ideal beauty or gracefulness, etc.). 1642 Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 270 He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to be a true Poem, that is a composition and patterne of the best and honourablest things. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 421 There being as much continued and coherent Sence‥in this Real Poem of the World, as there is in any Phantastick Poem made by men. 1843 Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 108 We shall have no need to write poetry—our life will be a real poem. 1856 Emerson Eng. Traits, Race Wks. (Bohn) II. 24 The Celts‥gave to the seas and mountains names which are poems, and imitate the pure voices of nature. 1899 W. R. Inge Chr. Mysticism 47 The world is the poem of the Word to the glory of the Father. -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1279403295_2010-07-17_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_7681.3.vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1279403295_2010-07-17_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_7681.2.pdf _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 18 19:59:28 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 C0ED425FA1; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:59:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B64F325F92; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:59:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100718195922.B64F325F92@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:59:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.204 job: Chair in Digital Collections, Wales X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 204. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:31:56 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Chair in Digital Collections The National Library of Wales we're currently seeking to fill a new Chair in Digital Collections, funded by the University of Wales. "An opportunity for an outstanding individual from any relevant academic background, with a passion for the digital. You will be expected to undertake and lead research based on the latest developments in your chosen field of expertise, while applying your findings to the large digital collections housed at the National Library of Wales. You will have a world-class research profile in any aspect of digital curation: the creation, provision, investigation, interpretation and conservation of digital collections – encompassing legal issues, the management of data, innovative research methods, and technological developments in access, search and exploitation." http://www.llgc.org.uk/fileadmin/documents/adDisSwyddSaesPrifysgol.pdf Closing date for receipt of applications: 9 August 2010. -- Andrew M.W. 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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: Yang Guilin Dr (15) Subject: Call for Papers for the 4th Asia International Symposium on Mechatronics (AISM) [2] From: Katie McCadden (18) Subject: 3rd Annual DHO Summer School 2010 brings together 75 digitalhumanities scholars --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:44:01 +0100 From: Yang Guilin Dr Subject: Call for Papers for the 4th Asia International Symposium on Mechatronics (AISM) In-Reply-To: <1BFE520F80656342880CFFD3819621B302187FDEED@mola.SIMTech.a-star.edu.sg> Dear Colleagues, The 4th Asia International Symposium on Mechatronics (AISM) will be held on December 15-18, 2010, in Singapore. AISM is a biannual conference with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd one held in China in 2004, Hong Kong in 2006, and Japan in 2008. Mechatronics is an ever-widening field involving actuators/sensors, electronics/mechanics, computing, controls, system design/integration, and beyond. The aim of the symposium is to promote the research, development and application in this field by bringing together researchers and practitioners in this multidisciplinary field to stimulate new ideas, to share knowledge in practical problems and solutions, as well as to facilitate cooperation for the future. The scope of the Symposium includes, but is not limited to, the following: Modeling and Design Instrumentation, Measurement and Control Mechatronics in Manufacturing and Automation Micro-and Nano-Mechatronics Medical Mechatronics Different Applications All the papers published in the conference will be indexed at Crossref with doi assigned by default. Apart from this, the publication will be submitted to all the major subject specific indexers for possible inclusion which includes, Elseviers' Scopus, Engineering Village EI, Compdex and ISI Thomson's Web of Science. Important Date: 31 July 2010 Full Paper Submission 15 Sept 2010 Notification of Acceptance of Full Paper 15 Oct 2010 Final (Camera-Ready) Paper Submission 15 Oct 2010 Early Registration Please visit http://guppy.mpe.nus.edu.sg/aism2010 for more details about the Symposium. With best regards, Dr Guilin Yang Publicity Co-Chair of AISM 2010 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:21:26 +0100 From: Katie McCadden Subject: 3rd Annual DHO Summer School 2010 brings together 75 digitalhumanities scholars In-Reply-To: <1BFE520F80656342880CFFD3819621B302187FDEED@mola.SIMTech.a-star.edu.sg> >From 28 June - 2 July, the DHO Summer School in Dublin lectured, facilitated and motivated through a series of innovative workshops and talks, offering digital humanities scholars the opportunity to empower their own research. Attendees from twelve countries on three continents explored new ways to approach their own work and share their experience with their peers. The audience was captivated with Dr. Hugh Denard's cutting edge demonstration of the ways in which researchers at the King's Visualisation Lab are using software platforms such as Second Life to engage in the study of classical surroundings by experiencing them in a virtual environment. Dr. Ian Gregory demonstrated the close engagement between spatial representation and traditional historical research sources such as newspapers and manuscript census records in a compelling narrative. Four day strands in text encoding, XSLT transformation, image and data visualisation provided hands-on and theoretical presentations of forward-looking techniques in these core digital humanities skillsets. An exciting series of one-day workshops provided attendees with an added opportunity to explore areas of interest in diverse subjects such as virtual worlds, Irish digital resources, academic publishing, data modelling and geospatial methods. An unforgettable evening of harp entertainment was provided by Drs Emily and Benita Cullen, captivating all and creating a truly magical experience. This year's school built on past success and added new components such as a coffee and consultation session as well as new ventures into geospatial and virtual worlds that proved very popular. The DHO thank all of those who attended, as well as the superb group of scholars who lent their expertise to deliver a world-class event. A gallery of photos http://dho.ie/node/695 from the summer school is available at: http://dho.ie/node/695 Kind regards, Katie -- Katie McCadden Programme Manager Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: +353(0)1-2342442 Fax:+353(0)1-2342400 E-mail: k.mccadden@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 Tue Jul 20 21:14:32 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 ABA763AA23; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:14:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2FAB33AA1A; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:14:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100720211429.2FAB33AA1A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:14:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.206 how sweetly tweet X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 206. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:06:15 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Just a short question... The thread about Tweety Birds several times discussed the "determinism" of digital poem composition. I think the questions related to the possible making according to digitalization, or the latter's inevitable formation of what is made. I entered on that point with some remarks that you put up. But it made me wonder today, what is the difference between that hypothesis and McLuhan's flat statement, famous and notorious for decades as we all know, that the medium IS the message. Delphic enough, that. Actually what does that say? That our apperceptive mass, its configuration and æsthetic/intellectual components are formed and directed by our longterm attention to what we see hear and read? Is that something new? Or does it pertain to the life and experience even of that little Lucy, a proto-ancestor? McLuhan made that long argument brilliantly in his early, and fine, illustrated book, THE MECHANICAL BRIDE, I think it was called. I used to point that out to Freshman English students, that analysis of the front page say of a full-sized newspaper's layout. The world as a temporal/spatial collage presented all at once. After a while things got a bit different with the TV, which is temporally linear perforce. And then we get that oracular dictum. So, is the thread about the determinism, or determinating, or determinative nature of digital lines of words called poems really not the same old same old? I dont mind that; but I am bemused by the full-barrel applications of all sorts of Structural/Derridarean vocabulary and hifalutin, synthetic "discourse-ology," not to put too fine a point on it. If Humanities hiring in digitology provide jobs, well, that is the current fad. I dont mind that. Every generation has to find a new way to make a curriculum out of all the old ones, as R.P. Blackmur once observed. [I think it was he who said that, re new schools of criticism.] Cordially, Jascha Kessler -- 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 Jul 20 21:20:08 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 D5EA43AB36; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:20:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AAB253AB24; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:20:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100720212002.AAB253AB24@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:20:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.207 new on WWW: Informatica Umanistica 3 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 207. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:57:46 +0100 From: Massimo Parodi Subject: Informatica Umanistica 3 online Informatica Umanistica 3 http://www.ledonline.it/informatica-umanistica/ Il linguaggio e oltre il linguaggio Indice Presentazione ------------------ Massimo Parodi Il linguaggio e oltre il linguaggio Parole e numeri -------------------- Ilaria Bonomi Tendenze linguistiche dell’italiano in rete Maurizio Lana Come scriveva Gramsci? Metodi matematici per riconoscere scritti gramsciani anonimi Alessandro Lenci Modelli distribuzionali del lessico: metodi computazionali per l’analisi semantica Parole e conoscenza --------------------------- Fabio Cusimano Informatica Umanistica e ricerca storica: la digitalizzazione delle cedole di professione monastica di San Martino delle Scale (Palermo) Massimo Parodi e Marco Todeschini Word surfing. Dialogo su futili sistemi _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 21:21:56 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 1C4CA3ABA3; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:21:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DECDC3AB92; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:21:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100720212152.DECDC3AB92@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:21:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.208 events: terminology; 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. 24, No. 208. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Schreibman (44) Subject: TKE (Terminology and Knowledge Engineering) Conference [2] From: Leif Isaksen (11) Subject: CAA 2011 Call for Session Proposals --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:51:13 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: TKE (Terminology and Knowledge Engineering) Conference Registration is open for the TKE (Terminology and Knowledge Engineering) Conference, themed 'Presenting terminology and knowledge engineering resources online: models and challenges'. This conference will be held in Fiontar, Dublin City University, Ireland, on 12-13 August 2010. You can have a look at the programme here: http://www.dcu.ie/fiontar/conference/home_baile.shtml. There will be papers and invited talks on such topics as: knowledge extraction; encoding and lexical information; definitions; term planning and resources; terms for education and law; terminology management; term extraction; teaching terminology; topic maps and concept maps; terminological resources and presenting knowledge. The invited talks are 'Cognitive aspects of designing, generating, and using domain ontologies', by Prof Gerhard Budin (University of Vienna), and 'How to build a termbase for 500,000 users (and live to tell the story)' by Michal Boleslav Mechura and Brian Ó Raghallaigh (DCU). As well as two full days of papers and discussion, there will be pre- and post-conference workshops on the following themes: * Can quality be assured in the language industry? * Accommodating user needs for ISO 704: Towards a new revision of the core international standard on terminology work * Terminology management business models in localization environments: challenges and change * ISO/CDB – A model for future integrated and federated content repositories * Standardizing data categories in ISOcat: Implementing group work for thematic domains * Establishing and using ontologies as a basis for terminological and knowledge engineering resources This conference is being organised by Fiontar, DCU (developers of the national terminology database for Irish, www.focal.ie http://www.focal.ie ) and the Association for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer (GTW), in cooperation with Termnet, Infoterm, and other national and international organisations. It will be held the week before the ISO TC37 meeting in Dublin. You can register and book accommodation at http://www.dcu.ie/fiontar/conference/registration_claru.php3. We look forward to seeing you in August! -- Úna Bhreathnach Fiontar Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath Glas Naíon Baile Átha Cliath 9. Fón oifige: 353-1-7008083 -- TKE Conference 2010: Presenting terminology and knowledge engineering resources online: models and challenges http://www.dcu.ie/fiontar/conference/home_baile.shtml Local organisers: Úna Bhreathnach, Fionnuala de Barra Cusack -- 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 2588 Email: susan.schreibman@gmail.com http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:30:49 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: CAA 2011 Call for Session Proposals 39th annual international conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology - CAA2011 Call For Proposals for Sessions, Round Tables and Workshops The 39th annual CAA conference(CAA 2011) Beijing, China. http://www.caa2011.org. Important Dates: Sep. 15, 2010 Deadline for proposals for sessions, round tables, and workshops. Nov. 15, 2010 Deadline for paper abstract submission April. 12~16, 2011 CAA 2011 Conference Days Please note that all proposals/papers must be submitted electronically through the online ConfTool system (http://www.conftool.com/caa2011). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 18:48:39 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 07A105792B; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:48:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DC16C57917; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:48:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100721184834.DC16C57917@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:48:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.209 textual intimacies? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 209. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:51:26 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: intimacy with the text The U.S. National Humanities Center held a conference on 19-20 March 2010 on "The State and Stakes of Literary Study", a summary of which may be found in the NHC Newsletter, nationalhumanitiescenter.org/newsletter2010/NHC_SprSum10_LitStudy.pdf. Apart from the interest this event may have for literary scholars outside our community, the emphasis given by numerous attendees to "a more intimate way of approaching literature, as it were, from the inside rather than the outside", as Jeff Dolven (Princeton) said, is worth our attention. This disciplinary desire for intimacy seems to me far more important to us than the question of whether universities of the future will be digital (a prediction from the President of Duke, who was also there) and all the other such dreams that have been distracting us from well before computing began. Intimacy with literature via computing has been professed for at least the last decade by Jerome McGann and was primitively instantiated in the Ivanhoe Game. Indeed, the game with students that Dolven described sounds very Ivanhoe-like. If the NHC conference is indicative, then it seems that the rank-and-file are in agreement. What sort of response might we have? Historically literary scholarship turned away from positivistic late New Criticism into Theory just at the time when computing came on the scene. I think it is fair to say that the things we knew how to do with computing then and for some time afterwards were simply of no interest to the vast majority of literary scholars. Even the idea that one might model a theory of literature to test its strength and reach seemed to have no appeal at all. At that time one didn't put theories of this sort to the test; the point was to theorize. But if now "text" becomes what it is through intimacy with the reader -- far more than reader-response to text-stimulus -- what role can computing play? Does one encode the beloved? Perhaps as a cure for lovesickness a la Burton. But not a healthy lover's response. What *is* a healthy lover's response to a beloved text? How can textual intimacy be achieved with the help of the machine? When is this a good idea, when not? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 21 18:49:32 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 156E657998; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:49:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7F3CA57983; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:49:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100721184928.7F3CA57983@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:49:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.210 job at Trinity College Dublin (another one) 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. 24, No. 210. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:44:36 +0100 From: Carl Vogel Subject: another computational linguistics position at Trinity College Dublin [Apologies for Multiple Postings; Please pass on to colleagues and students as appropriate. Please note that this position is distinct from another very recently advertized computational linguistics position at TCD on outlook analysis.] Post-doctoral position in Text Classification and Automatic Labelling The Computational Linguistics Group at Trinity College Dublin is looking for applications for ONE Postdoctoral position in the area of text classification and automatic labelling of text streams. The position is part of a large research project "Next Generation Localisation" (CNGL) involving a consortium of leading Irish Universities (DCU, TCD, UCD and UL) and Industry Partners, funded by the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). The project focuses on Language Technology and Digital Content Management in Localisation. Localisation is the industrial-scale adaptation of digital content to domain, culture and language. Successful candidates will join a team of Postdoctoral researchers, PhD students and research advisors from academia and industry. Details of the advertised posts are as follows: - POSTDOC.ILT3: Postdoctoral Position in "Text Categorisation" o Description: The successful candidate will research and develop algorithms for automatic annotation of localisation metadata, and multilingual text type and genre classification. Candidates must have a strong background and research record in machine learning and data-intensive natural language processing, as well as good programming skills. o Starting date: 3rd quarter 2010 o Duration: 12-18 months. o Salary: Approx. 38,000-44,000 Euro per annum depending on experience and qualifications. For further details, please contact Martin Emms (mtemms@tcd.ie) Carl Vogel (vogel@cs.tcd.ie). To apply, please email a CV and contact details for two references by August 31, 2010 to Jean.Maypother@cs.tcd.ie. Please include the job reference ("POSTDOC.ILT3") in the subject line of all email correspondence. See www.cngl.ie for details on the broader goals of the project. While the deadline is August 31, 2010, applications will be considered 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 Wed Jul 21 18:51:25 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 A1C1E57A49; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:51:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8A2E057A31; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:51:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100721185122.8A2E057A31@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:51:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.211 events: MT; virtual 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. 24, No. 211. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ventsislav Zhechev (55) Subject: cfp: Workshop: Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry [2] From: "Mahony, Simon" (26) Subject: seminar: On-demand Virtual Research Environments: a case study fromthe Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:27:14 +0100 From: Ventsislav Zhechev Subject: cfp: Workshop: Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry CALL FOR PAPERS –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– “Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry” Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2010) http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The EuroMatrix+ Project (http://www.euromatrixplus.eu) and the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (http://cngl.ie) are organising the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, titled “Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry”. The workshop will be hosted at the AMTA 2010 conference (http://amta2010.amtaweb.org) in Denver, Colorado. It will take place on 4 November 2010 immediately after the main conference. Premise: Recent years have seen a revolution in MT triggered by the emergence of statistical approaches to MT and improvements in translation quality. MT (rule-based, statistical and hybrid) is now available for many languages for free on the Web and is making strong inroads into the corporate localisation and translation industries. Open-source MT solutions are competing with proprietary products. Increasing numbers of translators are post-editing TM/MT output. At the same time, there has been some disconnect between academic research on MT, which (rightly so) focuses on algorithms to increase translation quality, and many of the practical issues that need to be addressed to make MT maximally useful in real translation and localisation scenarios. Objectives: This workshop will bring together MT researchers, developers, industrial users and translators to discuss issues that are most important in real world industrial settings involving MT, but currently not very popular in research circles. Workshop Chairs: Ventsislav Zhechev Philipp Koehn Josef van Genabith Call for Research Papers: For this workshop we solicit full research papers with industry or academic background to highlight the real-world issues that need to be tackled by new research and the recent academic advancements that improve translation quality, as well as novel and successful methods for the integration of Machine Translation with Translation Memories or Localisation Workflows. We will accept research paper submissions (reviewed anonymously) for oral presentation and publication. Papers should present clearly identifiable problem statements, research methodologies and measurable outcomes and evaluation. The papers should follow the submission guidelines for the research track of the main AMTA 2010 Conference (http://amta2010.amtaweb.org/cfp-mt.htm), with the maximum length being 10 pages in US Letter format, including references. Please, do not include your name in the paper text and avoid overt self-references to facilitate the blind review process. If a paper is accepted, at least one author will have to register through the AMTA 2010 website and travel to Denver to present it. Topics include but are not limited to: • MT/TM in Localisation/Translation Workflows • MT/TM Combinations • Post-Editing Support for MT • MT and Monolingual Post-Editing • MT Confidence Scores and Post-Editing Effort • Training Data for MT: Size, Domain and Quality • Data Cleanup and Preparation for MT • Meta-Data Mark-Up/Annotation and MT • Terminology and MT • Costing/Pricing MT • MT for Free/for a Fee • Rule-Based, Statistical and Hybrid MT • Computing Resources for MT • MT in the Cloud • MT and the Crowd • Smart Learning from Post-Edits • (Machine) Translation in Context Program Committee: The submitted papers will be reviewed by a mixed industry–academia committee. Industry members: Fred Hollowood (Symantec), Johann Roturier (Symantec), Dag Schmidtke (Microsoft), Dion Wiggins (Asia Online), Jaap van der Meer (TAUS), Manuel Tomás Carrasco Benítez (DGT of the EC), Daniel Grasmick (Lucy Software), Marc Dymetman (XRCE), (to be confirmed: Tony O’Dowd (Alchemy), Nicholas Stroppa (Google)) Academic members: Michael Carl (IAI Saarbrücken), Eiichiro Sumita (NICT Japan), Julien Bourdaillet (University of Montreal), Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant), Philipp Koehn (EM+), Hans Uszkoreit (EM+), Josef van Genabith (CNGL), Andy Way (CNGL), Harold Somers (CNGL), Ventsislav Zhechev (EM+, CNGL), (to be confirmed: Pierre Isabelle (NRC Canada)) Deadlines (all GMT -11): 29 August 2010 Full Paper Submissions Due 12 September 2010 Acceptance Notifications Sent Out 25 September 2010 Camera-Ready Papers Due Please, direct all enquiries to Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev at emcnglworkshop@me.com For up-to-date information, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 For information about the First Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://www.euromatrixplus.eu/cngl2009 Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev EuroMatrix+ Centre for Next Generation Localisation School of Computing Dublin City University http://VentsislavZhechev.eu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:37:26 +0100 From: "Mahony, Simon" Subject: seminar: On-demand Virtual Research Environments: a case study fromthe Humanities **Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010** Friday July 23rd at 16:30 STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Mike Priddy (King’s College London) 'On-demand Virtual Research Environments: a case study from the Humanities' **ALL WELCOME** Virtual Research Environments are often highly specialised concentrating efforts around a single collection. The gMan project aims to demonstrate cross-collection discovery, annotation, reporting & management in an on-demand VRE (using gCube) with three heterogeneous classical collections: The Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis (HGV), Projet Volterra & The Inscriptions of Aphrodisias (IAph). The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For the full programme see:http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html -- 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 20:22:22 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 109635EBF2; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:22:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5092E5EBE7; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:22:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100722202219.5092E5EBE7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:22:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.212 markup: a lover's response X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 212. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:26:23 -0400 From: "Zafrin, Vika" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.209 textual intimacies? In-Reply-To: <20100721184834.DC16C57917@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, > Does one encode the beloved? Perhaps as a cure for lovesickness a la > Burton. But not a healthy lover's response. What *is* a healthy lover's > response to a beloved text? Call me lovesick, then, because after years of encoding texts I've loved, no cure is in sight. Some of the encoding I've done -- most of my dissertation RolandHT[1] -- mostly fits New Criticism's objectives: the encoding itself is of themes, imagery and characters recurring across many texts. It also diverged from New Criticism in its aim to enable a reader to make her own conclusions about the meaning(s) of the connections I suggest through the encoding. Other encoding in which I participated, notably the Esposizioni and Cronica texts at the Virtual Humanities Lab[2], was presented to the encoders themselves as an opportunity to convey arguments to their colleagues. When they encoded the main themes of a work, they were doing so without viewing the code as empirical. Of course, the process got tedious -- all encoding does, at some point. But I'm pretty sure none of us lost our fascination with the texts as a result. If anything, the intimacy gained deepened the love. Or is this not what you're talking about? I'm reading what you wrote above as equivalent to stating that close reading (of which encoding can be one expression) is an unhealthy lover's response. Is this what you mean? > How can textual intimacy be achieved with the help of the machine? > When is this a good idea, when not? I can't speak to other kinds of text processing for lack of experience, but would be curious to hear of some examples of losing intimacy with (and/or love for) a text through the process of semantic encoding. [1] http://rolandht.org/ [2] http://golf.services.brown.edu/projects/VHL/ 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 Thu Jul 22 20:23:42 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 A055F5EC75; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:23:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EA3825EC6A; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:23:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100722202340.EA3825EC6A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:23:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.213 antagonistic cooperation X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 213. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:58:27 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: antagonistic cooperation [The following is from Lawrence Alloway, "Design as a human activity", in This is Tomorrow (London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, August 9 - September 9 1956): 1. This is Tomorrow was one of the very earliest, if not the earliest, exhibition to show a connection between computing and the arts. I pass it on because as we talk about collaboration as a mode of work in the humanities, especially the digital humanities, I think it would be wise to consider the experiences of other disciplinary groups, especially in the arts and in the sciences.] > ...it would be realistic to replace the ideal picture of > collaboration (derived from a rosy fiction of the middle ages) by the > notion of antagonistic cooperation. The patterns of dominance and > submission, of prestige and intrigue, that attend every human group > cannot be suspended from the special world of the arts. This factual > estimate of the changing patterns of human groups precludes ideal > solutions of permanent validity. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 22 20:24:43 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 1BD525ED28; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:24:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3B4B65ED1F; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:24:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100722202440.3B4B65ED1F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:24:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.214 publications: call for scholarly editing; biographical memoir X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 214. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Amanda Gailey (26) Subject: Scholarly Editing: Call for Editions and Articles [2] From: Willard McCarty (24) Subject: NAS Biographical Memoir: Clifford Geertz --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:55:01 -0500 From: Amanda Gailey Subject: Scholarly Editing: Call for Editions and Articles Hello, We'd like to remind members of the list that Scholarly Editing (presently Documentary Editing) is accepting proposals for small-scale digital editions for its first digital issue through August 1. We are also issuing a call for articles on any aspect of the theory or practice of editing. Since 1979, Documentary Editing has been a premier journal in the field of documentary and textual editing. Beginning with the 2012 issue (to be published in late 2011), Documentary Editing will be renamed Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing and will become an open-access, digital publication. While retaining the familiar content of the print journal, including peer-reviewed essays about editorial theory and practice, the 2012 issue of Scholarly Editing will be among the first to publish peer-reviewed editions. Please see the full call for editions and articles here: http://cdrh.unl.edu/opportunities/docediting_call.php Thanks, Amanda Gailey and Andrew Jewell -- Amanda Gailey Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska 202 Andrews Hall Lincoln, NE 68588 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:13:18 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: NAS Biographical Memoir: Clifford Geertz Many here, I suspect, will be interested in the Biographical Memoirs series published by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences at http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Memoirs_A. These "provide a personal and scholarly view of the lives and work of America's most distinguished scientists and a biographical history of science in the United States". In the latest batch of memoirs to be published is Richard A. Shweder's of Clifford Geertz, at http://click.newsletters.nas.edu/?ju=fe31157075610c7b741479&ls=fe0c10787565077d77147074&m=feef12737c620c&l=fe9116717063017973&s=fe211175776c0c7e761375&jb=ffcf14&t= . Following is the blurb sent along with the announcement: > One of the most influential American cultural anthropologists of the > second half of the 20th century, Clifford Geertz gave definition to the > more humanistic side of his discipline's scholarly agenda. Through his > writings on Indonesia, Morocco, religion, ideology, ritual, Islam, > politics, the process of discerning the meanings of symbolic actions, > and cultural pluralism, Geertz attempted to understand ways of life not > merely different from but incompatible with one's own. Born in San > Francisco, he received degrees from Antioch College and Harvard, was a > professor of social science at Princeton for more than 30 years, and was > elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973. If anyone here is in a position to advise the NAS, they'd be doing us all a service to persuade that fine institution that short, human-readable URLs are better than the sort of thing we see above. 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 Jul 22 20:25:33 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 8DFED5ED9F; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:25:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 615675ED89; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:25:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100722202530.615675ED89@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:25:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.215 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. 24, No. 215. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:37:31 -0600 From: "O'Donnell, Dan" Subject: TEI 2010 Conference, Meeting, and Workshops: Registration opens TEI 2010 Conference, Meeting, and Workshops: Registration opens Registration for the 2010 TEI Conference, Members Meeting, and Workshops is now open at http://www.tei-shop.org/. The meeting will take place November 11-14 at the University of Zadar, Zadar Croatia. Pre-conference Workshops will be held November 8-10. See the conference website: http://ling.unizd.hr/%7Etei2010/ The theme of the conference is “TEI Applied: Digital Texts and Language Resources,” though papers and posters on other subjects are also included. The conference programme includes two keynote lectures, twenty-one regular papers in parallel sessions (with additional space being held back for our September call for “late breaking” papers), numerous posters and demos, and a number of five minute micro-paper+poster demonstrations of the use of TEI XML. And of course there will be the TEI’s famous “poster-slam” where presenters have one minute to discuss their paper in a plenary session, will also be held. The annual TEI members meeting will be held at this conference and the results of the annual election for board and council will be announced. Our keynote speakers for 2010 are * *Tomaž Erjavec* (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia) * *Ian Gregory* (Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK) The conference will be preceded by seven intensive workshops, led by many of the most significant members of the TEI and wider markup communities including * *C. M. Sperberg-McQueen* on XQuery and XForms * *Norm Walsh* on XProc * *The TEI@Oxford team (Lou Burnard, Sebastian Rahtz, James Cummings)* on the TEI ODD Metalanguage (Introduction and Advanced Topics * *Elena Pierazzo and Malte Rehbein* on the TEI’s new proposal for Module for the Transcription of Genetic Documents * *Andreas Witt, Thomas Schmidt, Hanna Hedeland, Timm Lehmberg* on the use of TEI for Speech Transcription In keeping with the relevance of this line up to the wider community, the TEI is for the first time also offering a special commercial rate on its workshops and conference registration in addition to its usual Academic and heavily discounted member/subscriber and student/retired rates. In addition to individual registration prices, a 3-day pass is also available allowing attendance at any workshops over the pre-conference period for a 15% discount. /A 20% early registration discount for workshops (15% for conference registration) is available for registrations before September 8, 2010. Members and subscribers are eligible for up to an additional 50% discount on conference registration and workshops/. An overview of conference and workshop registration options can be found at the TEI Membership Centre http://www.tei-shop.org/ . You can also learn how to join the TEI as an individual subscriber or institutional member there. Relevant sites: * Conference Registration/TEI Subscription and Membership (http://www.tei-shop.org/) * Conference programme, housing, and local information (http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/) * Call for late breaking proposals (due Sept. 30th): http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/call4latebreakingproposals/index.en.html * Main TEI Consortium site (http://www.tei-c.org/) -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell 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/Sociétépour 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-confidential) 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 Jul 24 20:32:42 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 390E860806; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:32:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9E96D607F6; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:32:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100724203239.9E96D607F6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:32:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.216 antagonistic cooperation 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. 24, No. 216. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:09:40 -0400 From: Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1 Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.213 antagonistic cooperation In-Reply-To: <20100722202340.EA3825EC6A@woodward.joyent.us> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 08:23:40PM +0000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > ...it would be realistic to replace the ideal picture of > > collaboration (derived from a rosy fiction of the middle ages) by the > > notion of antagonistic cooperation. The patterns of dominance and > > submission, of prestige and intrigue, that attend every human group > > cannot be suspended from the special world of the arts. This factual > > estimate of the changing patterns of human groups precludes ideal > > solutions of permanent validity. > > Comments? Willard, I do have a comment for Lawrence Alloway, although it may not be an easy one. There is what might roughly be called a modern Western ontology that makes essential properties and potencies intrinsic to closed entities. Newtonian corpuscular theory, or example. This implies a categorical contradiction between inside and outside, part and whole, etc. Much has been written about this, and I needn't belabor it here. An implication is that any contingency, any outside influence, any structural determination, is alien to what is essentially true or natural to the affected entity or person. People's relations are therefore contractual, finding common ground in what otherwise are antagonistic private interests. What I'd like to suggest is that this ontology is neither compelling nor universal. There are other ways to see things that may not have such an impoverished view of human relations. For example, suppose the cosmic coherence that folks assume is a condition for the advance of knowledge does not consist of a (lawful or singular) causal relation of closed entities, but instead is a relation of mutual enabling. To see things as processes rather than as closed entities, the actual structure of one process constrains the possibility distribution of the other, and it is actualized by the framing implied by their physical relation. That is, emergent properties are the actualization of real possibilities in the processes that enter a physical relation. If this ontology of processes is a legitimate, and if the relation of processes is along the lines I sketched, then the structure of one person, such as intentions, skills, capacities, and personality, gives rise to a probability distribution which another person who enters a relation with the first can actualize. That is, No man is an island, but part of the main. People develop through combining their own possibilities, in mutual constraint and actualization, with those of others. Now this is not a zero-sum game, and each participant must expend an effort for such mutual development to occur, but the expenditure of effort does not vitiate their development but is its necessary condition. For example, in a successful marriage relationship each partner must struggle. While each yields with respect to what they have been, it is not a loss, but a development that combines their own possibilties with those of the other person, and the resulting development is not alien, but a further development of self in a way that is both true to self and embodies the possibilities of the other person. A music teacher and the student must both expend effort for the student to develop a musical skill. Yet, the development of the student is not at the expense of the development of the teacher, but can and usually does develop the teacher as well. Teachers often say they learn much from their students. Is this alternative approach utopian? I don't think so. We all enter relations of family, in school, at the workplace, and on the street that are generally cooperative and mutually constructive. When are relations clearly antagonistic? Perhaps driving ;-). The owner of productive property such as a small businessman, has an antagonistic relation with other businessmen, but the great majority of us are not owners of productive property. Of course we can think of situations that are clearly antagonistic or ambivalent, but my point is only to suggest that the modern Western atomistic social model may be inherently pathological and offer a woefully inadequate conception of historical dynamics. Haines Brown _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 24 20:33:20 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 CA1BF6084E; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:33:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 417386083B; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:33:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100724203316.417386083B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:33:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.217 community (at 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 217. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:06:50 -0400 From: "Joe Raben" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.184 community In-Reply-To: <20100711151533.5CBE857E95@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks, Willard, for expressing so well exactly how I also felt when I saw the gathering on the plaza outside the Great Hall and thought back to when I started ACH in 1978. I looked forward then to just such a congregation of younger people from many parts of the world united in their interest in what our field would develop into. It is exciting to contemplate what the field will grow to in another 32 years! Joe Raben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Humanist Discussion Group" To: Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 11:15 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 Sat Jul 24 20:35:22 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 9743D608EC; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:35:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A34D6608DD; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:35:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100724203519.A34D6608DD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:35:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.218 merit of 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. 24, No. 218. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:52:32 -0400 From: "John Ford" Subject: MSPB Requests Input for Research Agenda The U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is developing its research agenda-deciding what MSPB will study during the next three years. MSPB invites all interested members of the Federal and research communities to offer suggestions for inclusion in our future research. Part of MSPB's statutory mandate is to conduct studies of the Government's merit systems to determine whether they are operating in accord with the Merit System Principles and are free from Prohibited Personnel Practices. Every three years we actively seek input from our stakeholders about appropriate topics to study. The results of these studies are formally reported to the President and members of Congress. You may use this link (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZJJ59FM ) to make your research suggestions anonymously, email your ideas to research.agenda@mspb.gov, or call either John Ford at (202) 653-6772, extension 1104 or Tanya Page at (202) 653-6772 extension 1341. Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who may also have research ideas to share with 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 24 20:36:29 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 E3FB860937; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:36:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7096A6092C; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:36:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100724203625.7096A6092C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:36:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.219 cfp: teaching 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. 24, No. 219. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:51:06 +0800 From: "Brett D. Hirsch" Subject: CFP Reminder: Teaching Digital Humanities Dear Humanists, The response to the initial call for papers has been fantastic. I wanted to remind those of you thinking of submitting an abstract that the deadline (August 1) is fast approaching. The original CFP is included below, and I look forward to reading more abstracts in due course. Best wishes, Brett -- CFP: Teaching Digital Humanities: Principles, Practices, and Politics (Edited Collection) Despite the importance of pedagogy to the development and long-term sustainability of digital humanities, very little scholarly literature has been published on the topic. The proposed volume, *Teaching Digital Humanities*, will address the need for critical discussion of the various pedagogical issues associated with the field. Proposals for chapters that address any aspect of digital humanities and pedagogy are invited, including (but not limited to): * the politics and place of digital humanities in the academy; * digital humanities in the undergraduate/graduate curriculum; * innovative teaching methods and approaches to digital humanities; * theorizing the digital humanities classroom; * bridging the gap between digital humanities research and teaching; * new media, new technologies, new pedagogies; * digital humanities and open-access education; * cultural and social issues associated with teaching digital humanities; Discipline-specific topics (such as teaching digital history or digital literary studies) are welcome. Abstracts of no more than 500 words along with a brief biographical profile should be sent to Dr. Brett D. Hirsch (University of Western Australia) by 1st August 2010. Finished chapters of between 6,000 and 8,000 words in length will be commissioned and expected by February 2011. The collection will be subjected to rigorous peer review and scheduled for open-access online publication in 2011/12. The use of rich multimedia content is encouraged. Any queries are welcome. -- Dr. Brett D. Hirsch University Postdoctoral Research Fellow Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (M208) University of Western Australia http://www.notwithoutmustard.net/ Coordinating Editor, Digital Renaissance Editions http://www.digital-renaissance.info/ 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 Sat Jul 24 20:40:44 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 292A460A7E; 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woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A64BD604AF; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:54:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100725195443.A64BD604AF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:54:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.221 new on WWW: the Manually Annotated Sub-Corpus X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 221. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:29:14 +0100 From: Nancy Ide Subject: MASC data and annotations available for download MANUALLY ANNOTATED SUB-CORPUS (MASC) ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.anc.org/MASC Version 1.02 (July 2010) available for download ----------------------------------------------------------- MASC 1.02 contains 82K words of contemporary written and spoken American English across a broad range of genres. The entire corpus is annotated for logical structure, tokens (3 versions) and part of speech (2 versions), sentence boundaries, noun chunks, verbchunks, Penn Treebank syntax, and named entities. Other annotations include FrameNet frames and frame elements and Opinion; annotations for TimeBank, PropBank, HPSG, co-reference, event, and Discourse are in process. All MASC annotations are manually-produced or hand-validated. MASC 1.02 also includes a separate "sentence corpus" including 1000 sentences for each of 50 words, manually annotated for WordNet 3.1* senses by several taggers and including inter-annotator agreement statistics. One-hundred of the 1000 sentences for each word are currently being annotated for FrameNet frames and frame elements. WordNet and FrameNet annotations for an additional 50 words are forthcoming. All MASC annotations are distributed in the ISO TC37 SC4 GrAF standoff format. The ANC2Go web application can be used to obtain the annotations in a number of other formats, including in-line XML (XCES), token/pos, simple NLTK, and CONLL formats. Tools to import and export GrAF annotations into and out of GATE and UIMA are also available for download from the MASC and ANC websites. ALL MASC DATA AND ANNOTATIONS ARE FREELY DISTRIBUTED FOR RESEARCH AND COMMERCIAL USE. The full MASC, to be released in fall, 2011, will contain 500K words of data with annotations. MASC 2, available in December, 2010, contains an additional 140K words with annotations. MASC 1 and 2 texts are available for separate download to enable others to annotate the data and contribute the annotations to this community-developed resource. MASC 3 texts will be available this fall. ========================================================== We invite contributions of linguistic annotations of any portion of MASC data, in any format. We also invite contributions of unencumbered texts for inclusion in MASC and/or the Open American National Corpus. =========================================================+ Please consult the MASC website (http://www.anc.org/MASC) or contact anc@anc.org for additional information. See also: Ide, Nancy; Baker, Collin; Fellbaum, Christiane; and Passonneau, Rebecca (2010). MASC: A Community Resource For and By the People. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Uppsala, Sweden. http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P10/P10-2013.pdf References to additional MASC publications, including inter-annotator agreement studies, are available on the MASC website at http://www.anc.org/MASC/Publications.html. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* Yes, we mean 3.1. Please see the MASC website or the ACL 2010 paper cited above. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 19:55:52 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 2BB5D60573; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:55:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 799D560566; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:55:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100725195548.799D560566@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:55:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.222 winner & notables at the London THATCamp X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 222. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:01:09 +0100 From: "Bradley, John" Subject: London THATCamp/DH2010 Developers' Challenge: and the winner was... The winner of the London THATCamp/DH2010 Developers' Challenge was Patrick Juola (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Duquesne University) for his "Once Upon a Time" tool. The THATCamp/DD2010 DC was judged by Geoffrey Rockwell, Michael Sperberg-McQueen and Tobias Blanke, and the judges had the following things to say about the winner: 'Once upon a Time / Monkeying around tool was an original serious game that asks the user to write a story using the vocabulary of another author. The game provides a list of words the player must try to use in the story and then restricts the player to the vocabulary -- and the word combinations (bigrams) used by a particular author or corpus, such as Conan Doyle or Jonathan Swift. To do this he used some of the literary corpora provided. Like the Ivanhoe game, Once upon a time / Monkeying around encourages the user to think about the language of a corpus.  We could imagine this and similar games being used for playful learning and exploration of literary language. The interface was simple and clear. Above all, the tool/game struck us as an original and imaginative use of the given data. One judge called it "mind bending."' The judges also thought that two other submissions also deserved honourable mentions: -- Loretta Auvil with a neat SEASR flow that used the the API from the Victoria and Albert Museum and visualized searches in multiple ways. -- Marco Buechler and Thomas Eckhart, from eAqua, with a neat tool that could be trained to guess missing words in palimpsests with gaps. The prize for Patrick is an Apple iPad.  Congratulations to Patrick! Many thanks to all developers who participated, and to the judges who undertook their task with imagination and good humour under a rather tight deadline. ... John Bradley and Gabriel Bodard (CCH, KCL) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 19:57:10 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 1304366F44; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:57:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2A79A66F34; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:57:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100728195708.2A79A66F34@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:57:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.223 job at Drexel X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 223. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:55:32 -0400 From: Amanda French Subject: Job: Project Manager at the Drexel College of Medicine More details about the Drexel project on the history of women in medicine are available at http://archives.drexelmed.edu/ip_home.php *** The Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center is seeking a Project Manager for the Legacy Center Interpretive Planning Project. The Project Manager is responsible for executing a planning grant awarded by Pew Charitable Trust’s Heritage Philadelphia Program. This is a 12-month, part-time (30-39 hours/week) position. The Planning Grant process will explore dynamic and interactive means for online engagement of young audiences with our digital collections on the history of women in medicine. Working with students and educators the Project Coordinator will gather data through focus groups and usability testing to understand what activities and processes will most effectively engage the 6th – 12th grade user group. The Project Manager reports to the Legacy Center Director and will work with Archives staff, project Consultants and the Advisory Team. Responsibilities: Overall responsibility for executing planning project to develop interpretive programming from project start up through completion of implementation plan. Explore creative and effective approaches and technologies for interpretive youth programming, identify specific ideas to pursue and develop a plan for implementing those ideas. Research existing models of online cultural heritage programs geared to 6th-12th grades for effectiveness, applicability, potential collaboration, and marketing and outreach. Work with Archives project staff to design, compose and orchestrate usability testing and focus groups. Hire, direct and collaborate with focus group facilitator. Gather and assess focus group feedback and use to influence subsequent focus groups as well as inform development of implementation plan. Communicate with Advisory Team on development of focus groups, outcomes of focus groups and development of implementation plan. Explore and present final ideas for interpretive programming using digital collections. Write plan for developing and implementing interpretive programming based on outcomes of the planning grant research. Qualifications The successful candidate will have a history of managing projects incorporating technology in museum or historic interpretation. Required: Advanced degree in field relevant to Digital Humanities (Public History, Education, Information Science, Museum studies or related discipline); experience applying technology to interpretive projects; demonstrated ability to plan and coordinate programs and projects; ability to lead and collaborate; effective organizational skills. Preferred: Background working with middle and high school students; experience with educational gaming; experience in user-centered design; subject expertise in history, women’s studies or women’s history, science or medicine. Inquiries to: Margaret Graham, Managing Archivist – mgraham@drexelmed.edu -- Amanda French amanda@amandafrench.net 720-530-7515 http://amandafrench.net http://twitter.com/amandafrench Skype: amandafrenchphd AIM: habitrailgirl _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 19:57:57 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 55A4966FFC; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:57:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 41DFE66FED; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:57:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100728195755.41DFE66FED@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:57:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.224 job at Drexel X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 224. 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. 24, No. 223. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:55:32 -0400 From: Amanda French Subject: Job: Project Manager at the Drexel College of Medicine More details about the Drexel project on the history of women in medicine are available at http://archives.drexelmed.edu/ip_home.php *** The Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center is seeking a Project Manager for the Legacy Center Interpretive Planning Project. The Project Manager is responsible for executing a planning grant awarded by Pew Charitable Trust’s Heritage Philadelphia Program. This is a 12-month, part-time (30-39 hours/week) position. The Planning Grant process will explore dynamic and interactive means for online engagement of young audiences with our digital collections on the history of women in medicine. Working with students and educators the Project Coordinator will gather data through focus groups and usability testing to understand what activities and processes will most effectively engage the 6th – 12th grade user group. The Project Manager reports to the Legacy Center Director and will work with Archives staff, project Consultants and the Advisory Team. Responsibilities: Overall responsibility for executing planning project to develop interpretive programming from project start up through completion of implementation plan. Explore creative and effective approaches and technologies for interpretive youth programming, identify specific ideas to pursue and develop a plan for implementing those ideas. Research existing models of online cultural heritage programs geared to 6th-12th grades for effectiveness, applicability, potential collaboration, and marketing and outreach. Work with Archives project staff to design, compose and orchestrate usability testing and focus groups. Hire, direct and collaborate with focus group facilitator. Gather and assess focus group feedback and use to influence subsequent focus groups as well as inform development of implementation plan. Communicate with Advisory Team on development of focus groups, outcomes of focus groups and development of implementation plan. Explore and present final ideas for interpretive programming using digital collections. Write plan for developing and implementing interpretive programming based on outcomes of the planning grant research. Qualifications The successful candidate will have a history of managing projects incorporating technology in museum or historic interpretation. Required: Advanced degree in field relevant to Digital Humanities (Public History, Education, Information Science, Museum studies or related discipline); experience applying technology to interpretive projects; demonstrated ability to plan and coordinate programs and projects; ability to lead and collaborate; effective organizational skills. Preferred: Background working with middle and high school students; experience with educational gaming; experience in user-centered design; subject expertise in history, women’s studies or women’s history, science or medicine. Inquiries to: Margaret Graham, Managing Archivist – mgraham@drexelmed.edu -- Amanda French amanda@amandafrench.net 720-530-7515 http://amandafrench.net http://twitter.com/amandafrench Skype: amandafrenchphd AIM: habitrailgirl _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 20:00:47 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 85FE965DC7; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:00:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 890E665D97; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:00:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100728200045.890E665D97@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:00:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.225 events: workshop on machine translation X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 225. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:22:23 +0100 From: Ventsislav Zhechev Subject: cfp: Workshop: Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry CALL FOR PAPERS –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– “Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry” Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2010) http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– At the AMTA 2010 conference (http://amta2010.amtaweb.org), the EuroMatrix+ Project (http://www.euromatrixplus.eu) and the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (http://cngl.ie) are organising the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, titled “Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry”. The workshop will take place in Denver, Colorado on 4 November 2010, immediately after the main AMTA 2010 conference. Premise: Recent years have seen a revolution in MT triggered by the emergence of statistical approaches to MT and improvements in translation quality. MT (rule-based, statistical and hybrid) is now available for many languages for free on the Web and is making strong inroads into the corporate localisation and translation industries. Open-source MT solutions are competing with proprietary products. Increasing numbers of translators are post-editing TM/MT output. At the same time, there has been some disconnect between academic research on MT, which (rightly so) focuses on algorithms to increase translation quality, and many of the practical issues that need to be addressed to make MT maximally useful in real translation and localisation scenarios. Objectives: This workshop will bring together MT researchers, developers, industrial users and translators to discuss issues that are most important in real world industrial settings involving MT, but currently not very popular in research circles. Workshop Chairs: Ventsislav Zhechev Philipp Koehn Josef van Genabith Call for Research Papers: For this workshop we solicit full research papers with industry or academic background to highlight the real-world issues that need to be tackled by new research and the recent academic advancements that improve translation quality, as well as novel and successful methods for the integration of Machine Translation with Translation Memories or Localisation Workflows. We will accept research paper submissions (reviewed anonymously) for oral presentation and publication. Papers should present clearly identifiable problem statements, research methodologies and measurable outcomes and evaluation. The papers should follow the submission guidelines for the research track of the main AMTA 2010 Conference (http://amta2010.amtaweb.org/cfp-mt.htm), with the maximum length being 10 pages in US Letter format, including references. Please, do not include your name in the paper text and avoid overt self-references to facilitate the blind review process. If a paper is accepted, at least one author will have to register through the AMTA 2010 website and travel to Denver to present it. Topics include but are not limited to: • MT/TM in Localisation/Translation Workflows • MT/TM Combinations • Post-Editing Support for MT • MT and Monolingual Post-Editing • MT Confidence Scores and Post-Editing Effort • Training Data for MT: Size, Domain and Quality • Data Cleanup and Preparation for MT • Meta-Data Mark-Up/Annotation and MT • Terminology and MT • Costing/Pricing MT • MT for Free/for a Fee • Rule-Based, Statistical and Hybrid MT • Computing Resources for MT • MT in the Cloud • MT and the Crowd • Smart Learning from Post-Edits • (Machine) Translation in Context Program Committee: The submitted papers will be reviewed by a mixed industry–academia committee. Industry members: Fred Hollowood (Symantec), Johann Roturier (Symantec), Dag Schmidtke (Microsoft), Dion Wiggins (Asia Online), Jaap van der Meer (TAUS), Manuel Tomás Carrasco Benítez (DGT of the EC), Daniel Grasmick (Lucy Software), Marc Dymetman (XRCE), Nicholas Stroppa (Google), (to be confirmed: Tony O’Dowd (Alchemy)) Academic members: Michael Carl (IAI Saarbrücken), Eiichiro Sumita (NICT Japan), Julien Bourdaillet (University of Montreal), Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant), Philipp Koehn (EM+), Hans Uszkoreit (EM+), Josef van Genabith (CNGL), Andy Way (CNGL), Harold Somers (CNGL), Ventsislav Zhechev (EM+, CNGL), (to be confirmed: Pierre Isabelle (NRC Canada)) Deadlines (all GMT -11): 29 August 2010 Full Paper Submissions Due 12 September 2010 Acceptance Notifications Sent Out 25 September 2010 Camera-Ready Papers Due Please, direct all enquiries to Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev at emcnglworkshop@me.com For up-to-date information, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 For information about the First Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://www.euromatrixplus.eu/cngl2009 Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev EuroMatrix+ Centre for Next Generation Localisation School of Computing Dublin City University http://VentsislavZhechev.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 Jul 29 22:23:13 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 6814A69C1F; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:23:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 19DBB69C0B; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:23:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100729222310.19DBB69C0B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:23:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.226 in the news: Amazon; Geertz; research methods X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 226. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:19:52 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: in the news You will, I think, welcome news of three articles which have recently come to my attention. All are freely downloadable. The first is Ruth Franklin's "In defense of Amazon", The New Republic for 28 July 2010, www.tnr.com/ (down the page a bit). Perhaps I am more than usually out of it, but I confess the title surprised me. I didn't realise that Amazon needed defending. Like Franklin I am very grateful for Amazon, even though for most of the year I live in a place where books of all kinds are not difficult to get. But I am in no doubt whatever that because of Amazon.co.uk I have bought 2 to 3 times as many books, if not more, than I would have without it. Consider: I live 40 minutes' travel from Charing Cross Road, where there are some good book shops; imagine in detail what I would have to do successfully to obtain a book I knew I wanted if I had to rely solely on the several fine bookshops there. I love browsing in bookshops, but the efficiencies introduced by Amazon are overpowering. I don't feel as if I have gone over to The Dark Side. Has anyone here actively resisted the Siren's call? The second is Richard A. Shweder's biographical memoir of Clifford Geertz, published by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in their Biographical Memoirs series, www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Memoirs_A. Much has been written about Geertz, both before and after his death (in 2006), but many views are better than few. The third is Keith Thomas' Diary column, in the London Review of Books 32.11 (24 July 2010), www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n11/contents, "Working Methods", on how research actually gets done, i.e. mechanically, procedurally, step-by-step. Some of us here, perhaps most prominently in our community John Bradley (see his Pliny, pliny.cch.kcl.ac.uk/), have been concerned with tools to assist the physical, mechanical operations of research. Although we all do something or other, with the tools we have and think to use, I suspect many fewer of us reflect on our actual practices and those of others. How many of us, I wonder, realise that procedures vary widely and wildly, not only across disciplines and the researchers in them, but within a single research project. After more than a quarter century thinking about how to adapt the tools at hand to the circumstances in which I've found myself, I seem no closer to a settled method of work than at the beginning. New tools, of course, come along and must be tried out. But it seems wisdom to me that adaptation to changing circumstances is the important matter. Who here teaches a research methods course? What do you tell your students? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 29 22:24:02 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 1D7B169DF8; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:24:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8D23F69DE6; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:24:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100729222400.8D23F69DE6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:24:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.227 events: fragmentary 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. 24, No. 227. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:22:51 +0100 From: Gabriel BODARD Subject: Fragmentary Texts and Digital Collections of Fragmentary Authors (seminar) Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010 Friday July 30th at 16:30 STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Monica Berti (Torino) and Marco Büchler (Leipzig) Fragmentary Texts and Digital Collections of Fragmentary Authors ALL WELCOME Fragmentary texts are not only material remains of ancient writings, but also quotations of lost texts preserved through other texts: in this seminar the speakers will show how methods of computer scientists and methodologies of classicists can be combined to represent fragmentary sources in a digital library of ancient testimonies 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, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk or M.Terras@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.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 Fri Jul 30 23:02:49 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 2B9F56C265; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:02:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A1CBE6C25D; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:02:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100730230247.A1CBE6C25D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:02:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.228 postdocs in Rome 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. 24, No. 228. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:25:37 +0200 (CEST) From: "fmeschini@tin.it" Subject: Humanities Computing / Computational Linguistics Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at Roma Tre Members of Humanist could be interested in the recent fellowships announcement published (in Italian) on the Roma Tre web site: http://host.uniroma3.it/uffici/ricerca/assegni.asp Clicking on "Bando per 3 assegni di ricerca annuali cofinanziati dalla Regione Lazio" you will find the announcement for two postdoc fellowships in the field of Computational Linguistics and/or Humanities Computing. These fellowships are funded by the local government of Regione Lazio for one year and are renewable for another two years. The focus of the research (not clearly stated on the Application, though) seems to be the creation of a portal on Italian language and society. Candidates should hold a graduate degree in [Computational] Linguistics or Humanities Computing (Informatica applicata alle discipline umanistiche), plus the appropriate level of experience that demonstrates the required skills and capabilities. Salary: Euros 19,050 Application deadline: August 10. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 30 23:03:49 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 CE0966C2FD; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:03:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 07F026C2F6; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:03:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100730230349.07F026C2F6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:03:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.229 Mahoney papers archived X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 229. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:00:55 +0000 From: Subject: CBI --> finding guide to Mahoney papers In-Reply-To: Dear all, Some among us may be interested to learn that Michael S. Mahoney's papers have been archived at the CBI. Tamara > From: tmisa@umn.edu > Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:34:51 -0500 > To: members@sigcis.org > Subject: [Members] CBI --> finding guide to Mahoney papers > > Dear colleagues, > > We were pleased and honored when Jean Mahoney gave Mike's books, papers, and archival collection to CBI. And we are more than happy to have completed a finding guide to the collection and can announce that it is open for research. > > http://purl.umn.edu/92154 > > Mike, as you all know, was a scholar of unusual depth and breadth. "Papers contain 38 boxes of Michael S. Mahoney's collection of books and serials related to the history of computing, mathematics, and related fields. The collection also includes 17 boxes of Mahoney's archival materials, including course work, subject files, and publication drafts." There are extensive primary resources on theoretical computer science, including French and German titles. > > Here are just a tiny sample of items that caught my eye: > > * Zassenhaus, Hans. The Theory of Groups, 1949 > * Svoboda, Antonin. Computing Mechanisms and Linkages, 1964 > * Shera, Jesse Hauk, 1903-1982. Information Resources: A Challenge to American Science and Industry, 1958 > > * Turing Lectures, 1966-1987. > * Software Engineering, 1972-1996 > * Relational Databases, 1976-2007 > * Program Correctness, 1966-2002 > > Please contact Stephanie Crowe , CBI's archivist, with any questions --- on this or other CBI collections. > > Best, Tom Misa _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 30 23:04:49 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 CE3C36C367; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:04:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7D5D06C358; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:04:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100730230448.7D5D06C358@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:04:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.230 new MA: Digital Asset Management, at KCL X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 230. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:45:19 +0100 From: "Ashton, Anna" Subject: New MA in Digital Asset Management at King's College London King's has launched an innovative postgraduate programme to respond to the demand for digitally literate professionals to work in libraries, archives, cultural heritage institutions and business enterprises by equipping students with a range of strategic, technical and practical skills to provide direction and leadership in this area. We live in a digital age where understanding our history, culture, society, and the future development and innovation in the economy and business relies increasingly upon the effective management, curation, preservation, and use of a wide range of complex digital information and knowledge. Managing this digital information is presenting significant challenges for organisations and as a consequence there is an increasing demand for professionals with expertise in digital asset management. The MA in Digital Asset Management, jointly taught by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities and the Centre for e-Research, takes a comparative approach requiring students to explore and critically assess competing theories and practices from across library, archival, information science, and e-science thus providing a well-rounded understanding of the requirements across domains. There are still places available for 2010 entry. For further information about course content, fees and the application process, visit http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch/teaching and the online prospectus http://www.kcl.ac.uk/prospectus/graduate/index/name/digital_asset_management/alpha/d/header_search ___ Anna Ashton Communications & Administrative Officer Centre for e-Research King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: 020 7848 2689 Fax: 020 7848 1989 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch Follow us on Twitter @CeRch_KCL _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 30 23:05:55 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 5067B6C3CF; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:05:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B4A276C3C1; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:05:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100730230553.B4A276C3C1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:05:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.231 events: electroacoustics; TEI 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. 24, No. 231. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Julia Flanders (24) Subject: reminder: TEI customization workshop, August 16-18 [2] From: David Ogborn (38) Subject: Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2010 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:14:04 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: reminder: TEI customization workshop, August 16-18 What better way to spend a few hot August days than in learning about TEI customization? Avoid the crowds at the beach and join us for a three-day intensive workshop at Brown University, taught by the Women Writers Project. Participants will learn the basic concepts and practices of customization and will also become familiar with the TEI ODD language-- a special TEI tag set for writing customizations and custom documentation. If you've been building customizations with the Roma web interface, the ODD language will give you immense powers you never dreamed of. If you've always wanted to try customization but weren't sure where to begin, this workshop will teach you everything you need to get started. No familiarity with customization is assumed, but you should have a basic knowledge of TEI (an introductory workshop is a fine background). August 16-18, 2010 Brown University, 169 Angell Street, Providence, RI Cost: $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) For more information and to register: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/workshops/ We hope to see you there! best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Women Writers Project Center for Digital Scholarship Brown University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:38:17 -0400 From: David Ogborn Subject: Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2010 Dear Humanists, Below is information on an annual symposium for electroacoustic (music and arts) in Toronto. Sessions include "Instruments and Interaction", "Cognition, Interpretation and Analysis", "Electroacoustic Education", "Tangible Music", and "Process and Algorithm" - alongside various concerts, listening sessions and (new for this year) a compendium of technical tips and tricks. Details of the symposium's webcasting will appear at the URL below early next week... Enjoy! Yours truly, David ---------------------------------------------------------------- TORONTO ELECTROACOUSTIC SYMPOSIUM 4-7 August 2010 Toronto ON, Canada The Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) are pleased to invite you to the 2010 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium. This year's Keynote Speaker is Christian Calon and participating artists include Rick Sacks, Louis Dufort, Nick Storring and winners of the CEC's 2010 Jeu de Temps / Times Play project. As in preceding years, the symposium leads directly into the main concert weekend of the annual Sound Travels festival, which this year features Christian Calon, David Eagle, Ned Bouhalassa, D. Andrew Stewart, Natasha Barrett, and others. Full schedule details at: http://cec.concordia.ca/events/TES/2010 David Ogborn, Symposium Chair ------------------------------------------------------- Dr. David Ogborn Assistant Professor, Multimedia Communication Studies and Multimedia McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Phone: 1-905-525-9140 ext 27603 E-Mail: ogbornd --at-- mcmaster.ca Website: http://davidogborn.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 Sun Aug 1 20:22:13 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 D40775F793; Sun, 1 Aug 2010 20:22:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9B0D65F720; Sun, 1 Aug 2010 20:22:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100801202211.9B0D65F720@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 20:22:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.232 job at UVic in DH & literary 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. 24, No. 232. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:00:20 -0700 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Asst Prof Position at U Victoria: Digital Humanities and Literary Studies Digital Humanities and Literary Studies The Department of English, University of Victoria, invites applications for an entry-level tenure track position in the areas of Digital Humanities and Literary Studies. Expertise in textual studies and/or the ability to contribute to the Internet Shakespeare Editions may be an advantage. The appointment, effective 1 July 2011, will be made at the rank of Assistant Professor. Candidates should hold or be close to completing a Ph.D.; candidates should also be prepared to provide evidence of scholarly and teaching excellence or potential. Letters of application, CVs including all university transcripts, writing sample, and confidential letters from three referees should be sent by October 31, 2010, to Dr. Lisa Surridge, Chair, Department of English, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 3W1, Canada. E-mail: english@uvic.ca. Phone: 250-721-7235. 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 Sun Aug 1 20:24:12 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 9EA995F83B; Sun, 1 Aug 2010 20:24:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 87B6F5F828; Sun, 1 Aug 2010 20:24:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100801202411.87B6F5F828@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 20:24:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.233 events: TEI customization 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. 24, No. 233. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:14:04 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: reminder: TEI customization workshop, August 16-18 What better way to spend a few hot August days than in learning about TEI customization? Avoid the crowds at the beach and join us for a three-day intensive workshop at Brown University, taught by the Women Writers Project. Participants will learn the basic concepts and practices of customization and will also become familiar with the TEI ODD language-- a special TEI tag set for writing customizations and custom documentation. If you've been building customizations with the Roma web interface, the ODD language will give you immense powers you never dreamed of. If you've always wanted to try customization but weren't sure where to begin, this workshop will teach you everything you need to get started. No familiarity with customization is assumed, but you should have a basic knowledge of TEI (an introductory workshop is a fine background). August 16-18, 2010 Brown University, 169 Angell Street, Providence, RI Cost: $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) For more information and to register: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/workshops/ We hope to see you there! best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Women Writers Project Center for Digital Scholarship 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 Mon Aug 2 20:28:20 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 AE203617FC; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 20:28:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 58549617E9; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 20:28:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100802202818.58549617E9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 20:28:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.234 new publication series X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 234. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:19:27 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Scholarly Communication Scholarly Communication Past, present and future of knowledge inscription Series Editors: Adriaan van der Weel, Ernst Thoutenhoofd and Ray Siemens brill.nl/sc Editorial board: Marco Beretta, University of Bologna, Italy Amy Friedlander, Washington, DC, USA Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, UK Chuck Henry, Council on Library and Information Resources, USA Willard McCarty, King’s College London, UK Mariya Mitova, Leiden, The Netherlands Patrick Svensson, Umeå University, Sweden Melissa Terras, University College London, UK John Willinsky, Stanford University, USA Paul Wouters, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, The Netherlands Brill’s Scholarly Communication is an academic series that publishes imaginative and thought-provoking accounts of scholarly reading and writing practices from any disciplinary perspective, with special emphasis on past and present change in academic writing technologies and literacy. Aims and Scope Brill’s Scholarly Communication offers a new venue for original studies into the mutual shaping of reading, writing and scholarship in the past, present and future. It also welcomes manuscripts that interrogate this mutual shaping with respect to science. The series aims to bring together insights into the literate nature of scholarship and scholarly activity from across the entire spectrum of social sciences and humanities disciplines, emphasizing work aimed at understanding change in reading, writing and scholarship. The focus in this series is less on disciplinary specificities than it is on topical and imaginative contributions to scholarly literacy in the widest sense. English is presupposed, and we initially expect to publish two new volumes per year. Readership All those with an interest in reading and writing as scholarly work, and in academic text and publications as products and resources of scholarship. It also targets researchers studying the past, present and future of scholarship and scientific research. Call for Proposals and Manuscripts For enquiries or to submit a manuscript proposal, please contact: Series Editor: Editor Language & Linguistics: Adriaan van der Weel Liesbeth Kanis Book & Digital Media Studies BRILL Leiden University P.O. Box 9000 P.O. Box 9500 2300 PA Leiden 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands The Netherlands kanis@brill.nl a.h.van.der.weel@hum.leidenuniv.nl -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 2 20:31:24 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 B14E463874; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 20:31:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DB9616386D; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 20:31:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100802203123.DB9616386D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 20:31:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.235 events: language; mathematics & informatics X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 235. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Hroner M (7) Subject: EUROSAM 2010 [2] From: "Norbert E. Fuchs" (40) Subject: 2nd Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages CNL 2010: Final Callfor Participation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 23:30:12 +0100 From: Hroner M Subject: EUROSAM 2010 EUROSAM: European Conference for the Applied Mathematics and Informatics Athens, Greece, December 28-30, 2010 * Send your Paper (the format is here http://www.eurosam.org) to us by email: eurosiam@europment.org * Send your Proposal to us for a WORKSHOP or a SPECIAL SESSION by email: eurosiam@europment.org (free participation for the organizers) Delegates attending EURO-SAM 2010 will be invited to submit an expanded version of their paper for publication in over than seven International Journals associated with the EUROSAM [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 14:55:21 +0100 From: "Norbert E. Fuchs" Subject: 2nd Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages CNL 2010: Final Callfor Participation This message was originally submitted by fuchs@IFI.UZH.CH 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 (54 lines) ------------------ ********************************************************************* Final Call for Participation 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. The workshop will be informal with plenty of time for presentations and discussions. To ensure the informal atmosphere the number of participants will be limited. WORKSHOP PROGRAMME A full programme (http://staff.um.edu.mt/mros1/cnl2010/prog.html) of refereed papers and invited tutorial presentations is now online. Details are available on the conference website. VENUE The workshop will take place on the Italian island Marettimo at the Marettimo Residence (www.marettimoresidence.com/inglese/home.php). This consists of a set of two-storey houses set within a beautiful garden. On top of the garden of the residence there is a large lecture hall with wireless internet. Marettimo is the outermost of the Egadian Islands to the west of Sicily, and is easily reached from the airports of Palermo and Trapani. Marettimo offers the simple and relaxed life of southern Italy, unspoilt landscape, stupendous views, hiking, swimming, diving, boat trips, and excursions on donkeys. There are several restaurants and bars, and some shops. What the island does not offer: traffic - there are practically no roads - fancy shops and restaurants, night life, and sandy beaches. ACCOMMODATION The Marettimo Residence (www.marettimoresidence.com/inglese/home.php) offers one- and two-bedroom apartments with fully equipped kitchens. A number of apartments for the participants of CNL 2010 will be reserved until 15 July 2010 at a price 10% below the regular price. Participants should get into direct contact with the Marettimo Residence to organise their accommodation, citing "CNL 2010" and the names of the organisers when claiming the reduced price. Please indicate the length of your stay – perhaps you want to bring your family for additional days of vacation – and whether you would like to share your apartment with another participant of CNL 2010. The Marettimo Residence can also organise your transfers from and to the airports of Palermo or Trapani. REGISTRATION There is no registration fee for CNL 2010. Participants should contact the Marettimo Residence for accommodation until 15 July 2010. Alternative accommodations on Marettimo can be found via the internet, for instance by googling for "case vacanze Marettimo". Once your accommodation is confirmed, please send the registration form (http://staff.um.edu.mt/mros1/cnl2010/registration.html ) to the organisers. WORKSHOP DINNER A workshop dinner will be arranged during the workshop, and will be paid individually by the participants. ORGANISATION Michael Rosner (University of Malta) mike.rosner@um.edu.mt Norbert E. Fuchs (University of Zurich, Switzerland) fuchs@ifi.uzh.ch ______________________________________________________________________ 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 Aug 3 20:38:34 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 60CBA2A225; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 20:38:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 13AD02A21D; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 20:38:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100803203833.13AD02A21D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 20:38:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.236 JSTOR and diacritics? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 236. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:56:30 +0000 From: Peter Batke Subject: jstor and diacritics Could someone please help me with diacritics and jstor. A search of Humanist yielded only random references to jstor and diacritics. A general search of Google did show that Endnote has had problems with exporting of jstor references. It seems Endnote has written a filter. The search: jstor diacritics is complicated by the fact that there is a journal in jstor of that name. Here is the background: I have been using jstor for many years, generally only to read or print the articles. Since my retirement and subsequent loss of routine jstor access I have been using a public library to e-mail the articles to myself as attachments. Here is the problem: in course of handling the pdf's, I marked a page and cut and pasted the content to Textpad - just to see what would happen. To my surprise the ocr'd words showed up on the Textpad page. Great. To my even greater surprise the European diacritics seem not to have been enabled during ocr. The German word "grösser" showed up as "gr6sser." I find this hard to believe and hope someone can tell me I am having a bad dream or that I don"t understand something. In course of my recent project on Google Books (google: batke google books - for a free download - or you can buy it from Amazon) I have had to evaluate much critique of Google for bad ocr. There are reasons for bad ocr, many reasons, and not everybody understands them - which is fine. However, for one of the parade projects of digital humanities not to have enabled diacritics during ocr seems almost hard to grasp. Before I succumb to outrage, which I am prepared to do, let me ask if this is just an example of pardonable bad ocr, or are diacritics really not enabled. I was poking around in old German periodicals e.g. "Die Welt des Islam" l- "Oriens" looking for Babinger, Wittek etc., who I found but no Umlauts - lots of 6'es and double i's. Some searches of actual words with diacritics e.g. größer yielded mixed results - as though the search engine were programmed to normalize search strings away from diacritics. To give everyone an example that will demonstrate the problem: do a Google search of - jstor b6ll - you will get jstor references to Heinrich Böll. Do a search for - jstor böll - and you get randomness mostly about "boll weevils." Any clarification would be appreciated, or just shoot me when you see me. cheers, Peter Batke _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 3 20:40:12 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 2F91C2A286; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 20:40:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E730D2A26E; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 20:40:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100803204009.E730D2A26E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 20:40:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.237 new publications: DHQ 4.1; Literature and the Brain X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 237. 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: new book [2] From: Julia Flanders (22) Subject: DHQ issue 4.1 now available --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:29:52 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new book Norman H. Holland, Literature and the Brain. This book goes straight to the basic human questions about literature when it explains how our brains convert the imaginary events of stories, poems, plays, and films into real pleasure. Our brains can do this, because we know in our frontal lobes that we cannot act to change our posteriorly processed perceptions of the literary work. This is only one of the special ways our brains react as we go from the creation of literature to being transported, to “poetic faith,” to enjoyment, to meaning, and finally to evaluation. Each of these parts of the literary process draws on brain processes in an unusual way. /Literature and the Brain / describes and explains these brain changes, giving us a new understanding of what we do when we do literature and why we do it. Read more http://www.literatureandthebrain.com/blurbs.htm See a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2K1PmzEJxk&feature=player_profilepage Available as — Hardcover $44.95 Support independent publishing: buy this book. http://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=6612776 Paperback $24.95 Support independent publishing: buy this book. http://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=4054314 Download $9.95 Support independent publishing: buy this book. http://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=6612776 All profits from this book will go to support the PsyArt Foundation http://www.psyart.org/ and the psychological study of the arts. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:24:53 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: DHQ issue 4.1 now available We're very happy to announce the publication of the new issue of DHQ: DHQ 4.1 Table of Contents ======================== Articles The Landscape of Digital Humanities Patrik Svensson, HUMlab, Umeå University Crafting the User-Centered Document Interface: The Hypertext Editing System (HES) and the File Retrieval and Editing System (FRESS) Belinda Barnet, Swinburne University Melbourne Digital Encoding as a Hermeneutic and Semiotic Act: The Case of Valerio Magrelli Domenico Fiormonte, Università Roma Tre, Dipartimento di Italianistica; Valentina Martiradonna, Università di Roma, La Sapienza; Desmond Schmidt, Queensland University of Technology, Information Security Institute Reviews Accessioning the Digital Humanities: Report from the 1st Archival Education and Research Institute Sarah Buchanan, The Meadows School The Machine in the Text, and the Text in the Machine Manuel Portela, University of Coimbra _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 22:18:11 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 7F8BA53684; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 22:18:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0ED9C53674; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 22:18:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100804221810.0ED9C53674@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 22:18:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.238 JSTOR and diacritics X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 238. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 10:37:12 +0100 From: "Stephen Woodruff" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.236 JSTOR and diacritics? In-Reply-To: <20100803203833.13AD02A21D@woodward.joyent.us> > re Subject: jstor and diacritics The problem is probably PDF not TextPad. (I assume you tried pasting into something else, like a word processor?) There are many ways of creatin g and encoding a PDF file, and not all result in text which can be copied and pasted if the text includes more than standard Ascii characters. Normal word processors hold a internationally accepted numerical representation of each letter plus a note of its font, size, colour and so on. So you can search for an "a" without caring whether its in Arial or Times, red or italic, and you can copy that numerical representation to another application, even if it doesn't understand colour or have the same fonts. PDF doesn't always work like that. Some encodings are analogous to what a typical word processor would use, some are not: they store glyphs, effectively pictures of the individual letters, and have a table to convert back between those and the character codes needed by a copy-paste operation. Its that conversion back that can go wrong: you can read the PDF files and print them because all your eyes and the printer need are the shapes, but if they have been created badly you can not reliably extract the text. (I'm trying hard not to start complaining about the use of PDF, which is a PAGE description language not a TEXT description language, in the academic world.) James King of Adobe explains things well in his blog at http://blogs.adobe.com/insidepdf/2008/07/text_content_in_pdf_files.html and justifies it by explaining PDF's purpose. For more technical detail on PDF font encoding see http://www.4xpdf.com/2010/03/technical-background-to-pdf-font-options/ > Any clarification would be appreciated, or just shoot > me when you see me. cheers, Peter Batke Let's shoot PDF instead. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 22:18:50 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 AABAC53707; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 22:18:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E212D536F0; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 22:18:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100804221848.E212D536F0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 22:18:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.239 new software: Anthologize X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 239. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 20:03:46 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: anthologize (for archivists) Just released today, this Wordpress plug-in has potential for harvesting distributed online content and repackaging/republishing it in various formats, including TEI: http://anthologize.org/ So one use case I could imagine would be "anthologizing" an individual's internet footprint. -- 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 Aug 4 22:26:46 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 BF7765398B; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 22:26:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0083053979; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 22:26:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100804222645.0083053979@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 22:26:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.240 events: Material Mediates Meaning X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 240. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 17:40:43 +0100 From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: Exploring the artefactuality of writing utilising qualitative data analysis software (Seminar) Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010 Friday August 6th at 16:30 STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Kathryn Piquette (University College London) Material Mediates Meaning: Exploring the artefactuality of writing utilising qualitative data analysis software ALL WELCOME In this seminar I discuss an artefact-based approach to the study of early script using the qualitative data analysis software, ATLAS.ti. Drawing on a case study of inscribed funerary objects from the Lower Nile Valley dating to the period of Egyptian ‘state’ emergence (c.3200-2750 BCE), I consider the relationships between physical expression and meaning. 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, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk or M.Terras@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher, Digital Classicist, Pirate) 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 Aug 6 01:05:38 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 920BF5C94B; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 01:05:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 697685C90F; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 01:05:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100806010536.697685C90F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 01:05:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.241 JSTOR and diacritics X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 241. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:20:52 +0000 From: Peter Batke Subject: JSTOR and diacritics Thanks to Stephen for the pointers to the pdf technical details. And thanks for pointing to other victims for a shooting. But let us not shoot pdf. The phrase, "just shoot me" is a US southernism and is merely a expression of frustration that the most elementary problems, it seems, cannot be resolved. Pdf's are everywhere. The time I used to spend looking through piles of xerox articles on my desk, I now spend looking through directories of pdf's. The pdf's are mostly from Google and from jstor and a few others. The pdf's are generally wonderful and I have no problem with the medium. Many of my pdf's are files of graphic images. The problem arise with the content. In the case of jstor, the suspicion has hardened, in my mind at least, that there are indeed serious ocr problems that make searching jstor a thing of probabilities. I suspect that most of jstor is just fine and that the problems are confined to a small percentage of the files, or a small percentage of the journal runs. It just so happens that I have blundered into a real can of worms with German periodicals on Ottoman history. I give some more examples, at random: e matin Bernard est all6 l'6cole. 2. Nous sommes sortis de la maison A huit .... I1 est all6 au bureau. Il est descendu de la voiture devant le bureau. ... www.jstor.org/stable/318328 - Heinrich Schiitz. Psalmen Davids 1619, Nr. 23-26. Hrsg. von Werner ... Praetorius, Heinrich Schiitz, and others, compiled by Burckhard ... www.jstor.org/stable/900457 Katharina Schutz Zell. Vol. 1: The Life and Thought ... Katharina Schiitz Zell, a woman whom I used to call "wife of a reformer and ... www.jstor.org/stable/2544624 In the last example we must consider that - Schütz - could be found under Schutz, Schiits, as well as Schütz. With jstor the problems are masked by the fact that everyone is happy with the spledid images. In addition, the path to a specific article goes through discipline specific bibliographies and not through searching. However, in the new world of large scale digitization new standards and new expectations are arising. If I am looking for reviews of Babinger's "Mehmet the Conqueror" I would like to have jstor present me with all the "reviews" of the above. Generally it does extremely well. Rotten bad luck if I am working on Heinrich Schütz and several hundred other unfortunates with European diacritics in their name, unless I happen to know to add schiits to the query. Since I have no routine access to jstor - curious policy to require institutional affiliation, especially to long-time users who no longer have one, I can not guage the full scale of the problem easily. However, while we are beating on Google for its bad ocr, perhaps some colleagues from the library could sofly knock on jstor's door and respectfully ask if someone checked all the right boxes when German and French journals were ocr'd a decade ago. cheers, 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 Fri Aug 6 01:07:47 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 1FDAA5CD50; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 01:07:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 12EC85CD49; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 01:07:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100806010746.12EC85CD49@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 01:07:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.242 job at Hasselt; studentships 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. 24, No. 242. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Melissa Terras (70) Subject: Engineering Doctorate Studentship at UCL: Understanding the Use of3D Scanning in a Museum Environment [2] From: Claire Warwick (45) Subject: PhD Studentship at UCL on the Impact of Large Scale Digital Collections [3] From: Karin Coninx (34) Subject: Open position : assistant/associate professor HCI at Hasselt University --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:00:59 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Engineering Doctorate Studentship at UCL: Understanding the Use of3D Scanning in a Museum Environment Hi Everyone, Please see below an advert for an exciting Engineering Doctorate scholarship, to be undertaken in Computing Science at UCL, in conjunction with UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and a major London museum. best, Melissa *Engineering Doctorate Studentship* *Understanding the Use of 3D Scanning in a Museum Environment* Applications are invited for an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) in the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and Department of Computer Science in conjunction with a major London museum. This is a 4-year studentship, starting in October 2010, leading to the award of an Engineering Doctorate, which offers the opportunity to conduct research within a cultural heritage context. The research will seek to understand more about how 3D scans of museum objects can be used in a physical or virtual exhibition space. Within this we wish to ask the following subsidiary questions: how does the use of 3D scans affect the user experience of visiting an exhibition? (For example the user's level and type of learning, or how much they enjoy the experience.) Can users understand the relationship between the original and virtual object? Can users understand how such exhibitions should be navigated? This EPSRC http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/ (UK Research Council) funded studentship is available to UK citizens and EU nationals if a relevant connection with the UK has been established (usually by being resident for a period of three years immediately before the EngD). Applicants must fulfil EPSRC eligibility criteria http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/PostgraduateTraining/StudentEligibility.htm and the normal academic requirements for admission to study in the Department. This studentship will pay a tax-free stipend of *approximately £18,000 per year*, plus tuition fees. EU students without a relevant connection to the UK can receive an award to cover tuition fees only. Applicants should have at least a high 2.1 in Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, engineering or a related field. Applicants must also demonstrate an interest in cultural heritage, and the use of new media within a museum context. Informal enquiries on the project can be made to Dr Melissa Terras (m.terras@ucl.ac.uk). For further information on the EngD Programme, see http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/teaching/engd/ or contact Dr Jamie O'Brien, j.obrien@cs.ucl.ac.uk . To be considered, you must fill in the general UCL application form. Please see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate-study/application-admission/, where you can download the forms and guidelines. Make sure you specify Supervisor (Melissa Terras), and EngD ("Understanding the use of 3D Scanning in a Museum Environment") on the "Research Subject Area" part of the form. Please send the completed form to Naomi Jones & Melanie Johnson, Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. If you need further assistance regarding our application process, please contact the postgraduate administrators - Naomi Jones & Melanie Johnson (postgradadmin@cs.ucl.ac.uk ). The closing date for applications is September 1^st 2010. Interviews will be held shortly thereafter. -- 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 Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:49:50 +0100 From: Claire Warwick Subject: PhD Studentship at UCL on the Impact of Large Scale Digital Collections PhD Studentship at UCL on the Impact of Large Scale Digital Collections PhD Studentship on the Impact of Large-scale Digital Collections Applications are invited for a PhD studentship at UCL Centre for Digital Humanities in collaboration with the British Library, to work on the impact of Large Scale Digitisation Initiatives (LDSIs), also commonly referred to as Million Book Projects. The aim of the research is to study the use of large-scale digitised collections to ascertain how, when, and by whom they are used. The research will gather quantitative and qualitative evidence and investigate theories and predictions about the impact of LDSIs on libraries, publishers and the reading and researching public. The work will be carried out at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities which brings together work being done in many different UCL departments and centres, in the humanities, computer science and engineering, as well as Library Services and Museums and Collections. We also collaborate with organisations outside UCL, such as museums, galleries, libraries and archives. We aim to produce research that is meaningful to both computer scientists and humanities scholars, and that will bring about new knowledge in both research areas. In this case the research will collaborate with the British Library, and make use of some of their large-scale digitised collections. The Studentship is for three years and carries a stipend of £15,000 for the 2010/11 session. This means that fees will be paid, but not all living expenses will be covered. Applicants must have at least a good 2.1 in their first degree, and ideally an MA or MSc in a relevant discipline such as information studies, digital humanities or human computer interaction. Students may begin their research either in October or January of the 2010-2011 session. The closing date for applications is the first of September 2010 -- Claire Warwick MA, MPhil, PhD Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Vice Dean Research, Faculty of Arts and Humanities University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT phone: 020 7679 2548, email: c.warwick@ucl.ac.uk website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:43:32 +0100 From: Karin Coninx Subject: Open position : assistant/associate professor HCI at Hasselt University Open position : assistant/associate professor HCI at Hasselt University ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Expertise Centre for Digital Media is a research institute of Hasselt University, Belgium, hosting research groups in Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics and Multimedia and Communication Technology. Currently, we have an open position for an assistant /associate professor in Human-Computer Interaction http://www2.uhasselt.be/actueel/vacatures/vac310492.asp For an assistant professor, this is a tenure track position. The candidate will perform and guide research related to the research topics of the HCI group, as there are innovative interaction techniques in multimodal and virtual environments, haptics, "tangible interaction", serious games (with applications in e.g. culture and rehabilitation), model-based development of interactive systems, interaction in networked virtual environments and collaborative spaces, context aware (mobile) applications and ubiquitous computing. The candidate will be involved in education, mainly in the UHasselt Bachelor and Master programs Computer Science, with master specializations in Human-Computer Interaction, Multimedia and Databases. With regard to the candidate's profile, we emphasize the fact that a strong track record in research in one or more of the aforementioned research topics is necessary. Therefore, concrete former research results such as high-end publications, involvement in/ acquisition of basic and applied research projects etc are expected. Because there is a requirement to be able to teach in Dutch in a "reasonable" time, the official vacancy text is only provided in Dutch. Please contact us for all questions in this regard. Applications are due September 7th, 2010. Please address information requests to: Prof. dr. Karin CONINX, karin.coninx@uhasselt.be, HCI research coordinator, Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM) of Hasselt University, campus Diepenbeek (near Hasselt), Belgium. tel. 32 - 11 - 26 84 11 http://www.edm.uhasselt.be _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 6 01:08:24 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 7D3195CD91; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 01:08:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 491E85CD8A; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 01:08:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100806010823.491E85CD8A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 01:08:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.243 on crowds X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 243. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:02:24 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: crowds Some here, esp those who think about crowdsourcing, will be interested in an article in the latest Critical Inquiry, 36.4 (Summer 2010): William Mazzarella, "The Myth of the Multitude, or, Who's Afraid of the Crowd?". See http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci/2010/36/4?ai=sg&ui=vta&af=H. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 9 20:10:12 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 996656B619; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:10:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4C94D6B600; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:10:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100809201009.4C94D6B600@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:10:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.244 JSTOR and diacritics X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 244. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:40:19 -0500 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.241 JSTOR and diacritics Peter, I know a few folks at JSTOR, and they are pretty good at following up queries and suggestions, and so may I suggest you contact them directly? I know from conversations with Tim Cook at JSTOR that they pursue the PDF standard to the utmost of their ability. But we have to recognize that that standard has evolved over time and that the technology for digitizing texts has evolved as well. Early issues of my own field's flagship journal in JSTOR, the Journal of American Folklore, face some similar issues. And I agree that access to JSTOR is problematic. In my own case, all the universities in Louisiana are about to lose access to JSTOR because the Board of Regents has decided not to continue funding it. (Financial exigency is very flexible in what it cuts.) My professional society, the American Folklore Society, provides for access to the folklore journals within JSTOR, however, and I may have to seek out that alternative. Other societies do similar things. Does any hope lie there? john laudun -- 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 Mon Aug 9 20:11:25 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 D82BD6B74F; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:11:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 85D2B6B6F6; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:11:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100809201124.85D2B6B6F6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:11:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.245 anecdotes on method X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 245. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:05:28 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: doing it Patrick Collinson's autobiography, History of a History Man, which Keith Thomas mentioned in his London Review of Books piece on notetaking, news of which I passed on in Humanist 24.226, is actually available online from Collinson's web site at Cambridge: http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/collinson/. Thanks to John Lavagnino for the information and to Tamara Lopez for the original pointer to the LRB article, which is a treasure to all those interested in how scholarship actually gets done. Collinson's History of a History Man includes a chapter on his time in Sydney, at the University of Sydney. How much has changed, in the university life in both hemispheres, since the Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, now emeritus, spent his time here! Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 9 20:12:21 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 473AC6B800; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:12:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 559B56B7F9; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:12:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100809201220.559B56B7F9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:12:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.246 events: digital library; 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. 24, No. 246. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ventsislav Zhechev (55) Subject: Second CFP: Workshop "Bringing MT to the User: Research onIntegrating MT in the Translation Industry" [2] From: Amanda French (72) Subject: CFP: Digital Library Federation Fall Forum --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 15:55:44 +0100 From: Ventsislav Zhechev Subject: Second CFP: Workshop "Bringing MT to the User: Research onIntegrating MT in the Translation Industry" SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry" Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2010) http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- At the AMTA 2010 conference (http://amta2010.amtaweb.org), the EuroMatrix+ Project (http://www.euromatrixplus.eu) and the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (http://cngl.ie) are organising the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, titled "Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry". The workshop will take place in Denver, Colorado on 4 November 2010, immediately after the main AMTA 2010 conference. Premise: Recent years have seen a revolution in MT triggered by the emergence of statistical approaches to MT and improvements in translation quality. MT (rule-based, statistical and hybrid) is now available for many languages for free on the Web and is making strong inroads into the corporate localisation and translation industries. Open-source MT solutions are competing with proprietary products. Increasing numbers of translators are post-editing TM/MT output. At the same time, there has been some disconnect between academic research on MT, which (rightly so) focuses on algorithms to increase translation quality, and many of the practical issues that need to be addressed to make MT maximally useful in real translation and localisation scenarios. Objectives: This workshop will bring together MT researchers, developers, industrial users and translators to discuss issues that are most important in real world industrial settings involving MT, but currently not very popular in research circles. Workshop Chairs: Ventsislav Zhechev Philipp Koehn Josef van Genabith Call for Research Papers: For this workshop we solicit full research papers with industry or academic background to highlight the real-world issues that need to be tackled by new research and the recent academic advancements that improve translation quality, as well as novel and successful methods for the integration of Machine Translation with Translation Memories or Localisation Workflows. We will accept research paper submissions (reviewed anonymously) for oral presentation and publication. Papers should present clearly identifiable problem statements, research methodologies and measurable outcomes and evaluation. The papers should follow the submission guidelines for the research track of the main AMTA 2010 Conference (http://amta2010.amtaweb.org/cfp-mt.htm), with the maximum length being 10 pages in US Letter format, including references. Please, do not include your name in the paper text and avoid overt self-references to facilitate the blind review process. If a paper is accepted, at least one author will have to register through the AMTA 2010 website and travel to Denver to present it. Topics include but are not limited to: • MT/TM in Localisation/Translation Workflows • MT/TM Combinations • Post-Editing Support for MT • MT and Monolingual Post-Editing • MT Confidence Scores and Post-Editing Effort • Training Data for MT: Size, Domain and Quality • Data Cleanup and Preparation for MT • Meta-Data Mark-Up/Annotation and MT • Terminology and MT • Costing/Pricing MT • MT for Free/for a Fee • Rule-Based, Statistical and Hybrid MT • Computing Resources for MT • MT in the Cloud • MT and the Crowd • Smart Learning from Post-Edits • (Machine) Translation in Context Program Committee: The submitted papers will be reviewed by a mixed industry–academia committee. Industry members: Fred Hollowood (Symantec), Johann Roturier (Symantec), Dag Schmidtke (Microsoft), Dion Wiggins (Asia Online), Jaap van der Meer (TAUS), Manuel Tomás Carrasco Benítez (DGT of the EC), Daniel Grasmick (Lucy Software), Marc Dymetman (XRCE), Nicholas Stroppa (Google), Tony O’Dowd (Alchemy) Academic members: Michael Carl (IAI Saarbrücken), Eiichiro Sumita (NICT Japan), Julien Bourdaillet (University of Montreal), Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant), Philipp Koehn (EM+), Hans Uszkoreit (EM+), Josef van Genabith (CNGL), Andy Way (CNGL), Harold Somers (CNGL), Ventsislav Zhechev (EM+, CNGL) Deadlines (all 23:59 GMT -11): 29 August 2010 Full Paper Submissions Due 12 September 2010 Acceptance Notifications Sent Out 25 September 2010 Camera-Ready Papers Due Please, direct all enquiries to Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev at emcnglworkshop@me.com For up-to-date information, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 For information about the First Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://www.euromatrixplus.eu/cngl2009 Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev EuroMatrix+ Centre for Next Generation Localisation School of Computing Dublin City University http://VentsislavZhechev.eu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:51:03 -0400 From: Amanda French Subject: CFP: Digital Library Federation Fall Forum DLF Fall Forum 2010: Palo Alto, California Call For Proposals DEADLINE: Proposals must be submitted by August 23, 2010. The 2010 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Fall Forum is seeking ideas and proposals for presentations, panel sessions, workshops, reading discussions, and hands-on problem solving. The Forums have traditionally been working meetings where DLF members come together to share, strategically plan, and commit to future activities. Although the focus remains the same, starting with the 2010 Fall Forum, participation is open beyond the Federation to all those interested in contributing to and playing an active part in the successful future of digital libraries, museums and archives services, and collections. For the 2010 Fall Forum, the Program Planning Committee is requesting ideas and proposals focused within the broad framework of digital collections and their effect on libraries, museums and archives services, infrastructure, resources, and organizational priorities. We welcome proposals from both current community members and and non-members who may be interested in joining the DLF. Managing digital content from cradle to grave is a complex challenge for library, museum, and archives operations. It requires creative and collaborative approaches. In that spirit, and to maximize the Forum's benefit and better facilitate the community's work, the Forum's schedule will provide many opportunities to actively engage and network. The 2010 Fall Forum will have a strong participatory feel, with opportunities for community discussions, creative problem solving, and hands-on workshops. Ideas and activities generated at the Fall Forum will inform future DLF work and shape the program for the future DLF Community Forums. SESSION GENRES INCLUDE: Presentations and Panels: Traditional lecture format with question-and-answer sessions. Workshops: In-depth, hands-on training about a tool, technique, workflow, etc. You can recommend a topic or trainer, or you can volunteer to share your own expertise. Reading Discussions: Group discussion of a particular blog post, article, video, report, or book. Suggest a reading and a discussion facilitator, or volunteer to facilitate the discussion of a particular reading yourself. Working Sessions: Creative problem solvers, including project managers, developers, and/or administrators, gather to address a specific problem. This does not have to be a computational problem. The approach can be applied to workflow issues, metadata transformations, or other complex problems that would benefit from a collective, dynamic solution approach. Tools Showcase: Variation on a poster session or lightning talks. Presenters will demonstrate tools they have developed or are using in their digital library environment. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND EVALUATION PROCEDURES Ideas or complete proposals should be submitted as an attached document to DLF at clir dot org. Proposals must include a title, session leader, session genre, and a proposal description (maximum 500 words). If you are submitting an idea and not a full-fledged proposal, please suggest someone to lead the session, and indicate whether or not you have contacted this individual regarding this possibility. Proposals must be submitted by August 23, 2010. Those submitting complete proposals will be notified of their status by September 10, 2010. Ideas for sessions and workshops will be posted on a DLF Community Discussion Forum for feedback by September 10, 2010 (this forum is not yet active). If you would like to be invited to participate in the online discussion forum, please send your name and e-mail address to DLF at clir dot org with a comment that you want to be included. -- Amanda French amanda@amandafrench.net 720-530-7515 http://amandafrench.net http://twitter.com/amandafrench Skype: amandafrenchphd AIM: habitrailgirl _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 10 20:09:20 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 A91F96DA72; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:09:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A167C6DA63; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:09:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100810200919.A167C6DA63@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:09:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.247 iPad in the field? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 247. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:05:12 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: iPad in the field? Does anyone here have experience or knowledge with the use of computers in fieldwork of any sort, not necessarily archaeological or anthropological, not necessarily non-urban, who can comment on the iPad as a tool for such work? One obvious appeal of this device is its physical simplicity, which suggests that it would be far more useful than a laptop, which one has to open up and, as a result of the hinged design, is awkward if not vulnerable to damage. Thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 10 20:09:58 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 A8F416DE31; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:09:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E71386DE22; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:09:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100810200956.E71386DE22@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:09:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.248 on adoption of e-infrastructure X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 248. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:15:07 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: adoption of e-infrastructure Some here will be interested in the following recent paper: Franz Barjak, Julia Lane, Meik Poschen, Rob Procter, Simon Robinson & Gordon Wiegand. 2010. "E-infrastructure adoption in the social sciences and humanities: Cross-national evidence from the AVROSS survey". Information, Communication & Society 13.5: 635 — 651. Abstract. This paper is a first attempt to describe and compare the adoption of e-Infrastructure across the UK, continental Europe, and the USA in the social sciences and humanities. A survey of early adopters identified three differences across these countries, each potentially affecting adoption: funding approaches, the technical configuration of projects, and research support. Our findings also suggest that the sustainable adoption of e-Infrastructure co-varies with the role of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations and the involvement of other people in the adoption decision. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 10 20:10:32 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 867216E0BE; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:10:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BF1266E0AB; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:10:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100810201030.BF1266E0AB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:10:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.249 events: computational 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. 24, No. 249. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:24:24 +0100 From: "[IMCSIT] News" Subject: Computational Linguistics - Applications -- DRAFT PROGRAM Draft Program of Computational Linguistics - Applications (CLA'10) Workshop Tuesday, October 19, 2010 Morning session: Lexical Resources, chair: Maciej Piasecki 1. An approach for generating personalized views from normalized electronic dictionaries : A practical experiment on Arabic language Aida KHEMAKHEM, Bilel GARGOURI, Abdelmajid BEN HAMADOU MIRACL Laboratory, University of Sfax, Tunisia 2. Automatic Extraction of Arabic Multi-Word Terms Khalid Al Khati b, Amer Badarneh Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan 3. Building and Using Existing Hunspell Dictionaries and TeX Hyphenators as Finite-State Automata Tommi Pirinen, Krister Lindén University of Helsinki, Finland 4. Computing trees of named word usages from a crowdsourced lexical network Mathieu Lafourcade, Alain Joubert LIRMM, France 5. Parallel, Massive Processing in SuperMatrix – a General Tool for Distributional Semantic Analysis of Corpus Bartosz Broda, Damian Jaworski, Maciej Piasecki Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland 6. Semi-Automatic Extension of Morphological Lexica Tobias Kaufmann, Beat Pfister ETH Zurich, Switzerland 7. The Polish Cyc lexicon as a bridge between Polish language and the Semantic Web Aleksander Pohl Jagiellonian University, Poland 8. Tools for syntactic concordancing Violeta Seretan, Eric Wehrli University of Geneva, Switzerland 9. WordnetLoom: a Graph-based Visual Wordnet Development Framework Maciej Piasecki, Michał Marcińczuk, Adam Musiał, Radosław Ramocki, Marek Maziarz Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Afternoon session: Mach ine Translation & Speech, chair: Krzysztof Jassem 1. A web-based translation service at the UOC based on Apertium Luis Villarejo, Mireia Farrus, Gema Ramírez, Sergio Ortíz Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Office of Learning Technologies), Spain 2. Anusaaraka: An Expert System based Machine Translation System Sriram Chaudhury, Ankitha Rao Language Technologies Research Centre, IIIT-Hyderabad, INDIA 3. APyCA: Towards the Automatic Subtitling of Television Content in Spanish Aitor Álvarez, Arantza del Pozo, Andoni Arruti Vicomtech Research Centre, Spain Automatic Detection of Prominent Words in Russian Speech Daniil Kocharov Saint Petersburg State University, Russia 4. Development of a Voice Control Interface for Navigating Robots and Evaluation in Outdoor Environments Ravi Coote Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE, Germany 5. Improving the performance of Gaussian selection system Darko Pekar, Marko Janev, Niksa Jakovljevic, Vlado Delic Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia 6. LEXiTRON-Pro Editor: An Integrated Tool for developing Thai Pronunciation Dictionary Supon Klaithin, Patcharika chootrakool, Krit Kosawat Nati onal Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand 7. Matura Evaluation Experiment Based on Human Evaluation of Machine Translation Aleksandra Wojak, Filip Graliński Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland 8. Polish Phones Statistics Bartosz Ziolko, Jakub Galka AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland 9. SyMGiza++: A Tool for Parallel Computation of Symmetrized Word Alignment Models Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Arkadiusz Szał Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland 10. The Role of the Newly Introduced Word Types in the Translations of Novels Maria Csernoch University of Debrecen, Hungary 11. TREF – TRanslation Enhancement Framework for Japanese-English Bartholomäus Wloka, Werner Winiwarter University of Vienna, Austria Wednesday, October 20, 2010 Morning session: Syntax & Semantics, chair: Adam Przepiórkowski 1. An Approach for the Reuse of Lingware Systems Nabil BAKLOUTI, Sonia BOUAZIZ, Bilel GARGOURI, Chafik ALOULOU MIRACL Laboratory, University of Sfax, Tunisia 2. Effective natural language parsing with probabilistic grammars Paweł Skórzewski Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland 3. Finding Patterns in Strings using Suffixarrays Herman Stehouwer, Menno Van Zaanen Tilburg University, The Netherlands 4. German subordinate clause word order in dialogue-based CALL. Magdalena Wolska, Sabrina Wilske Saarland University, Germany 5. Interpreting Architectural Constraints Remco Niemeijer, Bauke de Vries, Jakob Beetz Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands 6. Multiple Noun Expression Analysis: An Implementation of Ontological Semantic Technology Julia Taylor, Victor Raskin, Maxim Petrenko, Christian F. Hempelmann RiverGlass Inc & Purdue University, USA 7. Tools and Methodologies for Annotating Syntax and Named Entities in the National Corpus of Polish Jakub Was zczuk, Katarzyna Głowińska, Agata Savary, Adam Przepiórkowski Université François Rabelais Tours, France 8. Using TRALE for HPSG Analysis of Persian Masood Ghayoomi, Stefan Müller Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Afternoon session: Text classification, chair: Piotr Fuglewicz 1. "Beautiful picture of an ugly place". Exploring photo collections using opinion and sentiment analysis of user comments Slava Kisilevich, Christian Rohrdantz, Daniel Keim University of Konstanz, Germany 2. Automatic Genre Identification: Testing with Noise Efstathios Stamatatos, Serge Sharoff, Marina Santini KYH, Sweden 3. Entity Summarisation with Limited Edge Budget on Knowledge Graphs Marcin Sydow, Mariusz Pikuła, Ralf Schenkel, Adam Siemion Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland 4. Is Shallow Semantic Analysis Really That Shallow? A Study on Improving Text Classification Performance Przemysław Maciołek, Grzegorz Dobrowolski AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland 5. Quality Benchmarking Relational Databases and Lucene in the TREC4 Adhoc Task Environment Ahmet Arslan, Ozgur Yilmazel Anadolu Universi ty, Turkey 6. RefGen: a Tool for Reference Chains Identification Laurence Longo, Amalia Todirascu Université de Strasbourg, France 7. Using Self Organizing Map to Cluster Arabic Crime Documents Meshrif Alruily, Aladdin Ayesh, Abdulsamad Al-Marghilani De Montfort University, UK The program is also available here. You are welcome to register now - here. CLA'10 workshop is organized within IMCSIT'10 conference Co-located with the XXVI Autumn Meeting of the Polish Information Processing Society Sponsored by CLA - where science meets reality ! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 20:44:06 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 46B345CF94; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:44:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B9B275CF81; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:44:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100811204404.B9B275CF81@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:44:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.250 JSTOR and diacritics X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 250. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:38:07 +0000 From: Peter Batke Subject: jstor and diacritics Thanks to the intrepid few who have expressed interest in the problem of shaky ocr in jstor. I have resisted stimulating interest in the topic by writing things like: "It seems humanist subscribers are more interested in creating markup for a glyph that occurs one time in the history of written expression than in chronic misrepresentation of uncounted glyphs of European diacritics in one of the premier large scale digitization projects - making searches of scholarship a crap shoot." That would have made the high security cages spring open no doubt. But I rejected the temptation to write things like the above. Yet we should consider the implications of lavishing untold hours on marking up 80 manuscripts of some Middle English narrative while ceding the electronic representation of the collected scholarship of the last two centuries to a non-profit institution that could be construed as an efficient manager of revenue flow from institutions to publishers. Everyone is of course operating in the public interest, to be sure. My interest as one of the locked out retired is of course of no interest to anyone - as are the interests of all those not part of the 3000 institutions paying up their subscription. Jstor is now 15 years old and perhaps it is time to renegotiate the deal. In my recent work on large scale digitization: see Google Book Search and its Critics, I have dared to suggest that some of the toll barriers should fall. The Connecticut Turnpike removed its toll booths after the bonds were paid off. We should be suspicious of non-profit megaliths who keep offering new services for fee while really charging for access to a considerable amount of materials that have been in the public domain for many decades. And doing it badly at that. There is an aroma of elitism here that I recognize from a life-time of working at east-coast universities, the primacy of service to self. I would like to make three points to summarize this first phase of the discussion (feel free to start a new thread). 1. Is it a pdf problem? 2. Have we lost an understanding of how ocr is done? 3. Can Google Book Search embolden us to demand free access to journals published before the Second World War? The sparse off-line discussion as well as the even sparser discussion on the list have suggested that there is a "pdf problem" - a problem either wih my use of pdf or with pdf itself. The notion that there could be a problem with jstor did not seem likely - on its face. Pdf has come a long way since 1995 when jstor was started and I wonder if the practice of layering a text layer over the graphics layer, a layer of the text of individual words tied to the location on the page that can be marked and copied, is still best practice. One might consider that electronic representation of the whole text of an article might be a better delivery vehicle. I am not insensitive to potential problem, but delivering page images for eye-ball scanning is not where this is eventually going, eta soon. If jstor will not realize that this data has to be made available for mining (and I don't know where the discussion stands), I could imagine redoing at least parts of the scholarship of the 19th century in short order. Google has proven it can be done. However that may be worked out in the future, the problems with "Schiitz" and with "all6" are standard ocr problems - that point to a careless operator and questionable quality control. Pdf may well be improved as well in time. Point two. Why do folks not recognize the signs of bad ocr, or seem to mind? Perhaps there has been a generational shift, and certain insights that those of us who did ocr in the 80's made, laboriously with much trial and error, have been lost. I would NEVER sign off on an ocr job without first looking at an aphabetical word list of the whole job. I would look at the beginning and at the end of the list. That is where errors like to congregate. I would also check the beginning and end of each letter, ditto. Of course you check for numbers mixed in with letters. It seems shocking that jstor appears not to have such utilities at its disposal. Of course all this can be fixed and should be fixed soon. A couple of perl programs could go through jstor in a week and write out a list of specific replace candidates that could be implemented in another week. European diacritics must ALWAYS be enabled even in English-only texts to catch references in footnotes. I would create an exemption for "really large scale digitization" (Google Books) that works with quick and dirty ocr in an initial phase. Finally, the fact that Louisiana is pulling the plug on jstor is sad. It is sad because they will have pulled the plug on any number of other for fee services in the delivery of electronic text before getting to jstor. This widens the gap between those who have and those who have not. The pool of the have-nots is already large, I know, I am in it. So let us consider the notion that electronic journals that are out of copyright should really be free to all, to quote Prof. Darnton's favorite phrase from the founding fathers. I would like to see the delivery of current journals be separated from the archive. I would like to have the whole notion of taking public domain materials and delivering them for a charge under the guise of adding value or convenience be reexamined. Again Google is showing the way. OK, if it is protected by law, then fees will have to be paid at a fair schedule. If is is in the public domain, it it as free as the book in the library was intended to be by Geoorge, John, Ben and Tommy and a couple of James'. I am not finished, but I have reached the limits for a posting. cheers, Peter [currently wirelessly at the beach] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 20:51:31 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 232DE5E736; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:51:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C67BB5E6A9; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:51:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100811205128.C67BB5E6A9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:51:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.251 iPad in the field X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 251. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" (23) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.247 iPad in the field? [2] From: Jockers Matthew (47) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.247 iPad in the field? [3] From: James Rovira (68) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.247 iPad in the field? [4] From: John Laudun (29) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.247 iPad in the field? [5] From: jeremy hunsinger (7) Subject: ipads in the field --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:15:45 -0700 From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.247 iPad in the field? In-Reply-To: <20100810200919.A167C6DA63@woodward.joyent.us> On Aug 10, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:05:12 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: iPad in the field? > > Does anyone here have experience or knowledge with the use of computers > in fieldwork of any sort, not necessarily archaeological or > anthropological, not necessarily non-urban, who can comment on the iPad > as a tool for such work? One obvious appeal of this device is its > physical simplicity, which suggests that it would be far more useful > than a laptop, which one has to open up and, as a result of the hinged > design, is awkward if not vulnerable to damage. I haven't used it "in the field," but having just completed a book about the iPad, and taken it with me to various places, I note that while you can type on it with the digital keyboard surprisingly well, it isn't an ideal way to do data entry. I can see it being used with a UI that was designed to minimize the need to keyboard data. I can also see its ability to record audio being useful. There are some early apps that do text transciption from audio (dragondictate) for the iPad but it's not trainable, and depends on access to a reliable network to do the evaluation of the audio in order to transcribe. Also, a couple of earlier efforts at deciphering script, but those are not terribly reliable. I am seeing it used to display manuals for, say., copier repair with diagrams and procedures. Lisa -- Lisa L. Spangenberg The iPad Project Book PeachPit Press, September 2010 http://www.ipadprojectsbook.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:59:51 -0700 From: Jockers Matthew Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.247 iPad in the field? In-Reply-To: <20100810200919.A167C6DA63@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, My colleage Claudia Engel wrote up her experience here: https://www.stanford.edu/group/ats/cgi-bin/hivetalkin/?p=609 Matt -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:12:50 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.247 iPad in the field? In-Reply-To: <20100810200919.A167C6DA63@woodward.joyent.us> Willard -- I'm a fairly new iPad owner so appreciate your question. I think that the answer depends upon the type of fieldwork that the iPad owner is doing and the type of apps needed for this work. From what I've read, the Excel equivalent (Numbers) is a remarkably good spreadsheet app, some say the best that they've ever used, but the translation from programs to apps involves something of a learning curve because you do not have a mouse, you touch the screen, and the keyboard takes up about 30% of the screen and is not fixed -- the keyboard is dynamic, changing with the app used and having multiple keyboards at work even in a single app. I am still unused to the Word equivalent (Pages), for example, and have a hard time manipulating it for tasks such as modifying tables in Word documents (for example, in my syllabi). It would take me about three times as long to create a syllabus from scratch using Pages on an iPad than it would using Word on a laptop or desktop computer. Apple does have a very nice, sleek bluetooth keyboard and another keyboard that physically mounts the iPad that I think would overcome many of these difficulties, however. I own the bluetooth keyboard and like using it. I would really like to get back with you on this question after a training session or two and about a year of practice. However, I can give some general feedback right now -- so far as just being a device that you can pick up and use easily in pretty well any given environment, the iPad is great. I think that, with the right kind of cover (particularly the standard black one that Apple came out with when the iPad was first released), even slightly wet environments could be handled by the iPad. I give mine to my kids (6 year old boy and 3 year old girl) to play with all of the time. The only issues I've faced are monitoring iPad content, and then getting it back from them at all. When I'm sitting around the house and want to check email or read a document, it is much easier to pick up the iPad than it is to use my laptop. When I attend meetings, I take notes on my iPad, and can check my calendar there, etc. However, I am writing this email on a laptop, and I would much rather write a longer email like this on any laptop than on my iPad. I'd also imagine that if someone wanted to fieldwork of any kind and could benefit from internet access, the WiFi+3G model would be a good option. I have a WiFi only model. AT&T's coverage is still spotty despite their claims of increased coverage area, and there are rumors that Verizon might be carrying the iPhone soon, so getting 3G access for your iPad on Verizon may become possible in a year or so. The iPad renders graphics better than any machine I've ever owned and has some decent image editing apps. Goodreader is an excellent all-around file-reading app that has many functions built in, including .pdf reading. I have not yet seen a book or .pdf reader for the iPad that allows users to annotate their texts. That is a serious shortcoming -- it is something the iPad cannot do that the Kindle can. Not having Flash capability is a bit annoying too -- I can't log in to the free network at a McDonald's, for example, because the "accept the terms of this agreement" button is Flash, I think. Panera is fine. But you see what I have to do. A 3G model owner wouldn't have this problem, but then would be paying $25 a month for this benefit. Jim --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:12:57 -0500 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.247 iPad in the field? In-Reply-To: <20100810200919.A167C6DA63@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, While I sometimes make comments on this list at the edge of what I know/grasp, this is surely not one of them. Ethnographic field research is at the core of what I do and is the basis for all my published work. That said, the range of activities that can fall under "fieldwork" within the humanities is fairly broad. In general, however, I think most people who do fieldwork think of it as a very productive set of activities: making notes, taking photographs, making diagrams and measured drawings, making audio and/or video recordings. The iPad does not really excel at any of these tasks. I have one and find it useful for reviewing texts and images, but not necessarily for producing them -- and I say this having used Apple's bluetooth keyboard with the iPad to do some writing this summer. This does align with the larger technorati's assessment that the iPad is designed for consumption and not production, but it could also easily be a function of the software not yet being there. E.g., one could imagine that with Filemaker's new iPad version of its eponymous software that there might be some much greater functionality given to the iPad. To be sure, one can write on the thing. And you can even import photographs and movies onto it. But my photographic workflow is already tied to Adobe's Lightroom software, which is much more powerful and I can't imagine downloading 100 12MB images onto an iPad, which is a typical number for a single day's work. While I can imagine typing up a day's worth of notes, perhaps, on the iPad, the software available -- and the way things are saved on the device isn't very comforting to someone as phobic about data loss as I am. I keep my notes either in a text file on my MobileMe account, or in a Scrivener or DevonThink file on DropBox. Both DropBox and MobileMe pretty much sync to the cloud as I work. There may be an iPad app that has this functionality, but I don't know about it -- anyone on the list? I work in pretty rough and tumble environments for my current project: metal fabrication shops, rice fields, farm equipment sheds, the Atchafalaya Basin. I have to be willing to lose an electronic device to the elements at any given moment. I am loathe to lose my data however. An SD card can be pulled out of a soaking wet camera or audio recorder. Backed up data can be pulled back from the cloud. All that said, there is another use for the iPad besides data production and that is review of data in the field: I have begun taking the iPad into the field to show things to individuals with whom I work. It makes it much easier to carry a large number of photographs with contents in need of identifying or maps which you can zoom into and out of so that people can describe the landscape for you. For this, the iPad is terrific. Plus, it's pure "whiz bang" dimension immediately helps to break down any initial awkwardness: especially when I pull it out of my bag and immediately hand it over to someone. (The gift of trust is never to be underestimated in the fieldwork enterprise.) best, john laudun -- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana – Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 337-482-5493 laudun@louisiana.edu http://johnlaudun.org/ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:17:16 -0400 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: ipads in the field In-Reply-To: <20100810200919.A167C6DA63@woodward.joyent.us> this was a debate on air-l last month, you might want to look at those archives. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech http://www.tmttlt.com Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. -George Iles _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 20:52:33 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 811EB5EB8C; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:52:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2F2215EA1B; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:52:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100811205232.2F2215EA1B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:52:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.252 job at NYU 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. 24, No. 252. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:49:10 -0400 From: Jennifer Vinopal Subject: NYU job posting - Director, Academic Technologies Dear colleagues, NYU ITS is seeking applicants for the position of Director of Academic Technologies. Here is the job posting: www.nyucareers.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=3D52325 Best regards, Jennifer Vinopal - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jennifer Vinopal / vinopal@nyu.edu Librarian for Digital Scholarship Initiatives Digital Studio, 2nd floor east Bobst Library, New York University 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 v: 212.998.2522 f: 212.995.4942 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 20:53:06 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 AF21F5F102; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:53:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ED7015F06F; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:53:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100811205304.ED7015F06F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:53:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.253 joint PhD degree programmes? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 253. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:58:02 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: joint degrees? Does anyone here know of institutions that offer joint doctoral degrees in the humanities or social sciences? Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 Aug 11 20:54:17 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 680C55F2F7; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:54:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 267EF5F1BA; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:54:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100811205416.267EF5F1BA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:54:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.254 new publication: Human IT 10.3 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 254. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:08:57 +0200 From: "Mats Dahlström" Subject: Human IT 10.3 Dear all, A fresh issue (10.3) of Human IT is now available at http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-10/ , marking the finalization of the tenth volume of Human IT. More on this occasion in the editorial at http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-10/index.htm#editorial . Although a non-thematic issue, 10.3 does pick up the thread on communicative media that was spun in 10.2, and features two peer reviewed articles on academic blogs and instant messaging. Three articles in Swedish discuss web portals for regional culture, integrity issues, and the history and philosophy of copyright. Enjoy your reading! ---Table of contents:--- * Sara Kjellberg Blogs as Interfaces between Several Worlds: A Case Study of the Swedish Academic Blogosphere [Refereed section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-10/sk_eng.htm Also published in Swedish as: Bloggar som gränssnitt mellan flera världar: en fallstudie av den svenska akademiska bloggosfären. http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-10/sk_sve.htm * Therese Örnberg Berglund Coherent Conversation Initiation in Multiplex Communicative Ecologies [Refereed section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-10/tob.htm * Erik Persson Socknen i cyberrymden: Några tankar om en webbportal för språk, kultur och historia i regionerna [= The Parish in Cyber Space: Notes on a Web Portal for Regional Languages, Culture and History] [Open section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-10/ep.htm * Mats Edenius Bortom det panoptiska schemat [= Beyond the Panoptic Scheme] [People & Opinions] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-10/me.htm * Karl-Erik Tallmo Upphovsrätten står och faller med sina undantag [= Copyright stands or falls with its exemptions] [People & Opinions] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-10/ket.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 of Borås. For more information, please contact human.it@hb.se Best wishes, Mats Dahlström and Jonas Söderholm, 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 11 20:56:04 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 CFFA95F6A0; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:56:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4575F5F645; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:56:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100811205603.4575F5F645@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:56:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.255 events: cyberscience; sustainable development; mss tracing X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 255. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Luis Gutierrez (31) Subject: Sustainable Development Simulation (SDSIM) [2] From: "Ashton, Anna" (38) Subject: London Citizen Cyberscience Summit, 2-3 September 2010 [3] From: Gabriel Bodard (26) Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Seminar: Musisque Deoque: manuscripts tracing on the net --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:45:46 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Sustainable Development Simulation (SDSIM) In anticipation of the UN MDG summit (20-22 September 2010), I have put together a "Sustainable Development Simulation" (SDSIM), using the "system dynamics" method, to analyze trade-offs between social/human development priorities and economic development priorities. The simulation nodes are human population, human consumption, energy consumption, cumulative pollution, biosphere integrity, climate integrity, ecological capital, financial capital, social capital, and human capital. I have just posted the simulation model and user interface, as follows: Sustainable Development Simulation (SDSIM) Version 1 General Description http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n08page1supp3.html User Interface http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n08page1supp4.html or http://forio.com/simulate/manager/luisgutierrez/sdsim-v1-1950-2200/run.html Any comments would be appreciated, especially regarding the still tentative definitions of social and human capital. I would be grateful if you forward this notice to anyone who might be interested. If anyone has the STELLA software, I would be happy to send you the .STM file, which includes the user interface, the complete flow diagram, and the annotated list of equations. I need some critical reviews to determine if my work is on the right path toward something that could be useful to analyze trade-offs between social/human development priorities and economic development priorities. Cordially, Luis Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D. The Pelican Web (http://pelicanweb.org) Editor, PelicanWeb's Journal of Sustainable Development A monthly, CC license, free subscription, open access e-journal --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:46:33 +0100 From: "Ashton, Anna" Subject: London Citizen Cyberscience Summit, 2-3 September 2010 London Citizen Cyberscience Summit 2-3 September 2010, King's College London The world's first summit on citizen cyberscience will be held at King's College London on 2-3 September. Citizen cyberscience is a growing trend where ordinary people use their computers and the world wide web to contribute in meaningful ways to an increasingly wide range of scientific challenges. Citizen cyberscience activity takes place all over the world and by its very nature participants very rarely - if ever - meet. This event will showcase a cross-section of these projects and will provide a platform for scientists and citizens to share their thoughts on the impact of citizen cyberscience face-to-face. The summit will be hosted by King's College London, and is organised jointly by the Citizen Cyberscience Centre, based at CERN in Geneva; the Centre for e-Research at King's; Queen Mary, University of London; Imperial College London; University College London and GridRepublic. It is supported by the Shuttleworth Foundation, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), e-ScienceTalk and Microsoft Research. Confirmed speakers include David Anderson, director of the SETI@home project, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of Berkeley; George Dyson, historian and philosopher of science and author of 'Darwin Among the Machines'; and Myles Allen, head of ClimatePrediction.net at Oxford University. There are currently more than 100 active citizen cyberscience projects - many address topical themes, such as modelling climate change (ClimatePrediction.net) or simulating the spread of malaria (MalariaControl.net). King's staff will demonstrate how citizen cyberscience can be applied to the cultural heritage sector through the East London Theatre Archive project (elta-project.org). The event will be of interest to both amateur and professional scientists, to people who care about the impact of science on society, and of society on science, and to those working in the digital humanities and cultural heritage. The Citizen Cyberscience Summit will take place on 2-3 September 2010 in the Anatomy Theatre & Museum at King's College London's Strand Campus. To see the full programme and to book tickets, see www.citizencyberscience.net/summit. The event will also be webcast. ___ Anna Ashton Communications & Administrative Officer Centre for e-Research King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: 020 7848 2689 Fax: 020 7848 1989 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch Follow us on Twitter @CeRch_KCL --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:04:46 +0100 From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: Seminar: Musisque Deoque: manuscripts tracing on the net Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010 Friday August 13th at 16:30 STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Linda Spinazzè (Venice) Musisque Deoque. Developing new features: manuscripts tracing on the net ALL WELCOME This paper will describe our research towards a solution for linking the intertextual research database on Latin poetry Musisque Deoque with some web resources relating to manuscripts held to witness variants of the text. 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, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk or M.Terras@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher, Digital Classicist, Pirate) 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 Mon Aug 16 20:53:19 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 0B11466FFE; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:53:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A02F666FED; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:53:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100816205317.A02F666FED@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:53:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.256 iPad in the field X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 256. 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] 24.251 iPad in the field [2] From: Brian Croxall (75) Subject: Re: Humanist Digest, Vol 23, Issue 8 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:59:30 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.251 iPad in the field In-Reply-To: <20100811205128.C67BB5E6A9@woodward.joyent.us> John -- Have you tried GoAruna? I agree with your overall view of the iPad. About an hour after sending my previous post to the list, I discovered an app called iAnnotate which allows users to annotate their .pdfs and export annotated.pdfs that are readable by Adobe Acrobat. It seems to have pretty high ratings and isn't too expensive ($9.99), so I may try it some time. Jim R <> --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:19:14 -0400 From: Brian Croxall Subject: Re: Humanist Digest, Vol 23, Issue 8 In-Reply-To: Jim, For an app that lets you annotate PDFs on the iPad, you should look at iAnnotate (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iannotate-pdf/id363998953?mt=8). Jason Jones reviewed the app at ProfHacker: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Mark-Up-PDFs-on-Your-iPad-/24500/. Best, Brian -- Brian Croxall, Ph.D. CLIR Postdocoral Fellow Emerging Technologies Librarian Emory University w: www.briancroxall.net t: twitter.com/briancroxall _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 16 20:55:08 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 E1EE966E27; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:55:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2FC6266C2C; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:55:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100816205508.2FC6266C2C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:55:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.257 jobs: at NYU (correction); studentships at Bolzano X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 257. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jennifer Vinopal (45) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.252 job at NYU [2] From: Diego Calvanese (64) Subject: Call for PhD positions at KRDB Centre, Free Univ. Bolzano, Italy -Deadline Oct. 18, 2010 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:18:30 -0400 From: Jennifer Vinopal Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.252 job at NYU In-Reply-To: <20100811205232.2F2215EA1B@woodward.joyent.us> All - the URL I included isn't working. This one should: http://www.nyucareers.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=3D52325 -Jennifer --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:59:28 +0100 From: Diego Calvanese Subject: Call for PhD positions at KRDB Centre, Free Univ. Bolzano, Italy -Deadline Oct. 18, 2010 In-Reply-To: <20100811205232.2F2215EA1B@woodward.joyent.us> CALL FOR PhD POSITIONS - DEADLINE October 18, 2010 3 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 18 positions for its 3-year PhD program. 9 of the positions are fully funded by a PhD studentship. *** 3 of the PhD positions with studentship are offered by the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data. *** The application deadline is Oct. 18, 2010 (arrival date of documents, electronic application is not possible). For information about the PhD program, the studentship, and the application, please visit http://www.unibz.it/en/public/research/phd/prospectivePhdstudents.html . To download the call, click on "Public Competition Announcement for PhD courses - 26th cycle". A PhD studentship 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 . 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 Aug 16 20:55:43 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 0199F63BE8; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:55:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7CFEF620BF; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:55:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100816205541.7CFEF620BF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:55:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.258 Google and Bing? 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. 24, No. 258. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:36:38 -0400 From: Francois Lachance Subject: Google and Bing In-Reply-To: <20100516135707.920335F21C@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I have found of late that Bing has been locating resources that Google does not. I wonder if any of the subscribers to the list have experienced similar results. 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 Aug 16 20:58:57 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 D2D3E66D81; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:58:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7AA4A65583; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:58:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100816205855.7AA4A65583@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:58:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.259 events: editing; mss; logic; maths & 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. 24, No. 259. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (26) Subject: Seminar: manuscripts tracing on the net [2] From: Geoff Sutcliffe (23) Subject: IWIL workshop at LPAR-17 in Indonesia - Extended deadline [3] From: Jan Staudek (66) Subject: MEMICS 2010, 3rd CFP [4] From: Susan Schreibman (64) Subject: Bursary Announcement: Interedition Workshop --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:13:58 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Seminar: manuscripts tracing on the net Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010 Friday August 13th at 16:30 STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Linda Spinazzè (Venice) Musisque Deoque. Developing new features: manuscripts tracing on the net ALL WELCOME This paper will describe our research towards a solution for linking the intertextual research database on Latin poetry Musisque Deoque with some web resources relating to manuscripts held to witness variants of the text. 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, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk or M.Terras@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher, Digital Classicist, Pirate) 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: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:55:22 +0100 From: Geoff Sutcliffe Subject: IWIL workshop at LPAR-17 in Indonesia - Extended deadline IWIL 2010 - The 8th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics The 17th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning Yogyakarta, Indonesia - October 10th-15th, 2010 ====================================================== http://www.eprover.org/EVENTS/IWIL-2010/iwil-2010.html ---------------------------- EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE ---------------------------- IWIL has been unusually sucessful in bringing together many talented developers, and thus in sharing information about successful implementation techniques for automated reasoning systems and similar programs. We are looking for contributions describing implementation techniques for and implementations of automated reasoning programs, theorem provers for various logics, logic programming systems, and related technologies. Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit a position statement (2 pages), a short paper (up to 5 pages), or a full paper (up to 15 pages), in EasyChair format. Submission is via EasyChair ... http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwil2010 Submission deadline: 6 September 2010 Notification: 17 September 2010 Worhsop: 10 October 2010 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:33:40 +0100 From: Jan Staudek Subject: MEMICS 2010, 3rd CFP 6th Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science MEMICS 2010 http://www.memics.cz/ October 22--24, 2010, Hotel Galant, Mikulov, Czech Republic Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Deadlines: abstract registration: September 1, 2010 submissions: September 8, 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The MEMICS 2010 workshop is organized jointly by the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University. MEMICS provides a forum for doctoral students interested in applications of mathematical and engineering methods in computer science. Topics: Submissions are invited especially in the following (though not exclusive) areas: computer security; software and hardware dependability; 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; as well as all areas of theoretical computer science underlying the previously mentioned subjects. Moreover, this year, we specifically invite submissions in computer graphics and vision, signal and image processing, text and speech processing, human-computer interaction, especially when related with security or parallel or distributed processing. Invited talks will be given by Alan Chalmers (Univ. of Warwick, UK) on `Real Virtuality: High-fidelity multi-sensory virtual environments', Andreas Steininger (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria) on `New approaches to fault tolerant systems design', Antti Valmari (Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland) on `Recent results on DFA minimization and other block splitting algorithms', and Stefan Wörz (Univ. of Heidelberg and DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany) on `Model-based segmentation of biomedical images'. Students are invited to submit a regular paper or a presentation. A regular paper is a previously unpublished piece of work with original results, not exceeding 8 pages in the LNCS style. A presentation reflects recent outstanding work that has been published (or is accepted for publication) at a leading computer science conference or in a recognized scientific journal. Presentations to be included in the programme will be selected on the basis of a one-page abstract, which will also appear in the proceedings. For formatting and submission instructions see the detailed instructions for authors at the workshop's web page. The proceedings will be available at the workshop in printed form. Important Dates Regular paper registration: September 1, 2010 Regular paper and presentation submission: September 8, 2010 Review notification: September 22, 2010 Camera ready papers and presentations: September 30, 2010 Venue: The workshop will be held in Mikulov, a lovely town near the Austrian borders at the edge of the Palava Landscape Protected Area. Mikulov, situated in the centre of vineyard area, is also famous for numerous examples of architecture. Tourists attractions include the Mikulov Castle, the Piarist College, the Dietrichstein Sepulchre, and the former Jewish ghetto. The workshop is organized within project No. 102/09/H042 of the Czech Science Foundation. General Chair Ludek Matyska, Czech Rep. Programme Committee Chairs Michal Kozubek, Czech Rep. Tomas Vojnar, Czech Rep. Pavel Zemcik, Czech Rep. Organizing Committee Chair Jan Staudek, Czech Rep. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:58:44 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Bursary Announcement: Interedition Workshop Bursary Announcement Interedition Workshop in at the National Library of Israel, 6-7 October The ESF COST Action Interedition is delighted to offer several bursaries for a workshop to be held at the National Library of Israel, 6-7 October 2010. The goals of Interedition < interedition.eu/> is to promote the interoperability of the tools and methodology used in the field of digital scholarly editing and research. Equally, Interedition seeks to raise the awareness of the importance of sustainability of the digital artefacts and instruments we create. To this end, Intereditions is hosting this workshop at the National Library of Israel to explore the tools, methodologies, and approaches to better support a shared model for the creation of sustainable infrastructure for digital text. Applications are being accepted for bursaries for early stage researchers to attend this two-day event which will include lectures by leading textual scholars (including Dirk Van Hulle, Fotis Jannidis, Susan Schreibman, and Joris van Zundert) The first day will focus on lectures on topics ranging from the creation and futures of digital scholarly editions, to the tools being used to create and edit them. The second day will be hands-on centering on practical experience in using tools and methodologies central to the discipline, including TEI, eLaborate, and CollateX. On day II attendees will participate in a project slam and there will be ample opportunity to discuss their editing projects with workshop facilitators. To apply for busaries, 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 


Bursaries will be awarded in two categories: up to €300 for Israeli delegates and up to €1200 for European delegates to cover housing and travel costs. Expenses will be reimbursed after the event in line with COST procedures. If you fit the above criteria and would like to apply for consideration, 
please send no more than two pages that include the following: a) a brief 
CV showing your career history and current academic affiliation; and b) how 
this workshop will intersect with your research. Please send your application to susan.schreibman[AT]gmail.com no later than 24 August. -- 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 2588 Email: susan.schreibman@gmail.com 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 Thu Aug 19 19:54:11 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 B9A2B61DA8; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:54:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0F0A961D73; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:54:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100819195410.0F0A961D73@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:54:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.260 referencing a Kindle 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 260. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:32:06 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Reference to a Kindle book Dear all, When you buy a book on a Kindle, you do not get the number of the pages of the printed book, but only «location» (you can look for passages with location's numbers). So, what is your opinion on this issue: In an academic work, can we quote a reference from a Kindle book by replacing the number of the page by the number of the location? Or should we quote only the paper version with the number of the page? Did somebody already quote a Kindle book with a number location in a scholarly paper? Thank you in advance for your opinions, Claire Clivaz (University of Lausanne, 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 Thu Aug 19 19:55:59 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 915E06012C; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:55:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EEC0960061; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:55:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100819195557.EEC0960061@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:55:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.261 call: nominations to TEI-C Board and Council 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. 24, No. 261. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:21:04 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: second call for nominations to TEI board and council Dear members of the digital humanities community, Just a reminder that the deadline for nominations is September 1! Please send nominations and self-nominations to nominations at tei-c.org. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 September 1, 2010. Members of the nomination committee this year are Julia Flanders (chair), Markus Flatscher and Laurent Romary The elections will take place via electronic voting prior to the annual Members' Meeting in November 2010. 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. Example candidates' biographies from a previous election can be found at http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/Meetings/2008/mm45.xml All nominations should include an email address for the nominee and should indicate whether the nomination is for Board or Council. The TEI-C Board is the governing body for the TEI Consortium, and is responsible for its strategic and financial oversight. The TEI-C Council oversees the technical development of the TEI Guidelines. Service in either group is an opportunity to help the TEI grow and serve its members better. For more information on the Board please see: http://www.tei-c.org/About/board.xml For more information on the Council please see: http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/index.xml TEI-C membership is NOT a requirement to serve on the Board or Council. Candidates should be familiar with the TEI and should be willing to commit time to discussion, decision-making, and TEI activities. If you have ideas about how to make the TEI stronger or can help it do a better job, please nominate yourself! Or, if you know someone who you think could contribute to TEI, nominate him or her. With best wishes and thanks, Julia Flanders (for the TEI nominating 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 Aug 19 20:00:15 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 A2EF1611C9; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:00:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7C8266105B; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:00:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100819200014.7C8266105B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:00:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.262 events: e-uptake; TEI; Semantic Web; learning X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 262. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Christian Wittern (27) Subject: TEI MM 2010: Conftool now open for latebreaking proposals [2] From: "Ashton, Anna" (29) Subject: e-uptake workshop, DRHA Conference, Brunel University, 5th September [3] From: Diego Calvanese (187) Subject: 6th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives(SWAP2010) - ***FInal*** Call for Papers - In Bressanone (Italy) Sep. 22-24,2010 [4] From: Susan Schreibman (23) Subject: Lecture by Curtis Wong at the Science Gallery, TCD 24 August --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:37:50 +0900 From: Christian Wittern Subject: TEI MM 2010: Conftool now open for latebreaking proposals Dear HUMANIST readers, Here is good news for everyone who is considering to submit a late-breaking proposal for the TEI members meeting 2010 in Zadar, Croatia (Nov. 8 to 14): We now started to accept proposals at the TEI conference management tool[1]. The official closing date for this is September 30th, 2010. Late-breaking proposals are screened by the Programme Committee and do not undergo the peer-review process of the regular submissions, thus also do not qualify for automatic consideration for the conference volume. More information about the conference is at [2] , the call for late-breaking proposals is at [3]. There is an excellent slate of workshops on offer[4] for this year's conference, for which the early bird rate offering discounts of up to 20% is available[5] until September 8th. Yet another good reason to consider coming to Zadar this year and catch up with what is going on in the text encoding community! All the best, Christian Wittern Chair, TEI MM2010 International Programme Committee [1] http://www.tei-c.org/conftool [2] http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/index.en.html [3] http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/call4latebreakingproposals/index.en.html [4] http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/workshops/index.en.html [5] http://tei-shop.org -- Christian Wittern Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:36:39 +0100 From: "Ashton, Anna" Subject: e-uptake workshop, DRHA Conference, Brunel University, 5th September Apologies for cross-posting ***** Workshop: uptake of e-Infrastructure services in the arts and humanities September 5th, 2010, 1-4.45 DRHA Conference, Brunel University Organizers: Rob Procter, University of Manchester, Lorna Hughes, King's College London Background What do arts and humanities researchers want from e-Infrastructure services? What services and resources make up the e-Infrastructure for the arts and humanities? How are these services accessed and used by researchers across the disciplines? How are they transforming the research practice, and enabling new forms of scholarship? What are the barriers to using these services in the arts and humanities, and how might these be addressed? If academic research is to build on the foundations of the emerging e-Infrastructure, it is essential to understand potential barriers to wider adoption and uptake of these services, and to develop strategies to address them. The JISC recently funded the project "Enabling uptake of e-Infrastructure services" (part of its Community Engagement strand) to investigate barriers to uptake of e-Infrastructure services in the UK. The project has now concluded, and a final report and other materials are now available. This workshop will discuss the findings of the project with a selected group of arts and humanities researchers and practitioners to discuss the impact of these findings on shaping future policy for research support. The workshop will specifically focus on issues of adoption of e-Infrastructure, and use of related support services, for research in the arts. It will be an opportunity to discuss strategies for increasing engagement with, and adoption of, e-infrastructure services in the UK, and to frame the findings of the project within the way that researchers see their practice and the role that advanced information technologies play in their work. At the same time, we wish to provide service providers, and funders, with a sound grasp of the issues. Who should attend? Researchers, IT service providers, and those planning and implementing computing for the arts and humanities. We particularly welcome the participation of early career researchers, and postgraduates. This event will discuss the broader impact of the e-Uptake findings for the arts, and stimulate debate on what should happen next. Registration There is no charge to attend the workshop, but you must register. Please send e-mail to anna.ashton@kcl.ac.uk to register. For updated information about the programme, see: http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/workshop_uptake_e_infrastructure_services_arts_humanities Provisional Workshop programme: 13:00 arrival and sandwich lunch 13:30 Rob Procter: About the e-Uptake project and its findings Lorna Hughes: enabling e-Uptake in the arts and humanities Both: aims and objectives of the workshop 2:00 presentations and discussions: e-Research services for the arts and humanities David deRoure, Oxford e-Research Centre Daisy Abbott, Glasgow School of Art Martin Turner, Manchester e-Research 3:00: Presentations and discussions: Helen Bailey, University of Buckingham Vince Gaffney, University of Birmingham Paul Ell, Queen's University Belfast 3:45 tea 4:00 final discussion 4.45 close --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:06:33 +0100 From: Diego Calvanese Subject: 6th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS submission deadline is approaching: 2 weeks left --------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================== 6th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives SWAP 2010 ========================================================== Bressanone-Brixen, Italy September 21-22, 2010 http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/events/swap2010/ Organized by the KRDB Research Centre Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Collocated with the 4th Int. Conf. on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010/ ========================================================== **** SUBMIT YOUR MOST INTERESTING 2009-2010 PAPER!! **** **** AND **** **** SHARE YOUR IDEAS WITH THE SEMANTIC WEB COMMUNITY **** ========================================================== The Semantic Web is currently one of the most interesting and ambitious challenges that the scientific and technological community is facing. While great progresses have been made in terms of consolidation of base philosophy and infrastructure, new issues, technologies, and tools are emerging. These issues include creating, presenting and managing Semantic Web content, making semantics explicit in order to automatically integrate data from different sources, and to search for information based on its meaning rather than its syntactic form. [...] --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:00:14 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Lecture by Curtis Wong at the Science Gallery, TCD 24 August Tales from the Archive - 20 years on the bleeding edge of technology in service of Storytelling and Learning - Curtis Wong Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, 1830-2000 Tuesday 24thAugust. The application of interactive media for learning has been one of the more compelling but elusive goals for technology since the early days of multimedia. In this talk Curtis Wong will focus on the evolution of "ECR" information architecture for learning gleaned from twenty years of developing interactive educational content across multiple generations of media formats including interactive laserdiscs, CD-ROMs, enhanced digital television, broadband enhanced television, Websites and Web service applications. Curtis Wong is a Principal Researcher in Microsoft Research focusing on interaction, media, visualization, gaming and storytelling. Curtis and his collaborators have built advanced prototypes which have influenced Microsoft products. http://sciencegallery.com/events/2010/08/curtis-wong-tales-archive -- 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 2588 Email: susan.schreibman@gmail.com 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 Thu Aug 19 20:35:36 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 0BA7562627; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:35:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9FEF062618; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:35:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100819203533.9FEF062618@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:35:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.263 getting involved, but how? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 263. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:34:10 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: getting involved At one time a number of us spent time arguing that computer-using scholars should become computer-programming scholars, and a few of us wrote books on programming languages designed to make that easier. The thinking was, as I recall, that if only "algorithmic thinking" were to become habitual, great strides could be made in humanities computing. This argument was related to the ongoing attempt to devise better, more humanly expressive programming languages -- better than FORTRAN and COBOL, higher-level than C++. Once upon a time I thought that assembler language was about as high as one should go, that to twiddle bits was not just thrilling but also was to understand what computing was all about. But then I never got much done, following yards of printout, spread out on the floor, trying to reconstruct the intricate path of a flawed micro-algorithmic thought I once had (but had lost) in order to find the flaw. Economics and technological improvements made that sort of indulgence a thing of the past, I would suppose, except in very specialised applications. But where now do we say that the ideal hybrid scholar's mind should be? In the circumstances I observe many scholars, though persuaded that digital methods and tools are Good, have only the vaguest notion of what they *are* -- in the way that a painter understands his or her paintbrush. I think this is a problem, the sort of one we should be trying to solve. The argument that you don't have to understand the workings of an internal combustion engine in order to drive, and all arguments I know of that take this form, really don't apply. Computing isn't mechanical in the same sense that an internal combustion engine is mechanical, and our objectives in using it aren't limited by getting from A to B. We want both the "B" and the "getting" to be dynamical, evolving processes. But many of our colleagues are still thinking of a simple drive from one place they know to another place they know in a vehicle they can trust to remain the same. The solution to the problem seems to be to involve educating the imaginations of these colleagues. And it seems to me that the way to do this is somehow to involve them in hands-on making of digital things. I see far too much standing back and talking about static results engineered by someone else, too little engagement, too little scholarly craftsmanship. Comments? Suggestions? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 20 21:37:34 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 AD55A69662; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:37:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 966B3695B1; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:37:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100820213732.966B3695B1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:37:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.264 e-book referencing and reading X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 264. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Sharon K. Goetz" (34) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.260 referencing a Kindle book? [2] From: James Rovira (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.260 referencing a Kindle book? [3] From: Willard McCarty (98) Subject: e-reading --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:07:15 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: "Sharon K. Goetz" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.260 referencing a Kindle book? In-Reply-To: <20100819195410.0F0A961D73@woodward.joyent.us> I'd be interested to know whether someone has indeed quoted from a Kindle book using a numeric location. To my knowledge, the locations are generated based on the Kindle's estimate of screen size. Thus the original Kindle, the Kindle DX, and the Kindle application on my Android phone might well show different location numbers for the same segment of text. I currently use only the phone app and cannot test this idea, but I find it striking that changing the displayed font size on one text can mean going immediately from location 533 to 537, or from 533 to 535, or from 528 to 535.... Has anyone tested locations between devices? Best wishes, Sharon Goetz On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > From: Claire Clivaz > Subject: Reference to a Kindle book > > Dear all, > > When you buy a book on a Kindle, you do not get the number of the pages o= f the printed book, but only =C2=ABlocation=C2=BB (you can look for passage= s with location's numbers). > > So, what is your opinion on this issue: In an academic work, can we quote= a reference from a Kindle book by replacing the number of the page by the = number of the location? Or should we quote only the paper version with the = number of the page? > > Did somebody already quote a Kindle book with a number location in a scho= larly paper? > > Thank you in advance for your opinions, > > Claire Clivaz (University of Lausanne, CH) > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:25:41 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.260 referencing a Kindle book? In-Reply-To: <20100819195410.0F0A961D73@woodward.joyent.us> My guess is that you'd cite it as an electronic publication and cite the page numbers in that version of the book. Seems like there's quite a bit in the latest MLA Handbook on epubs. Jim R --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:28:12 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: e-reading In-Reply-To: <20100819195410.0F0A961D73@woodward.joyent.us> [Following is an article from the online edition of The Washington Post. Note the argument concerning e-book readers vs the iPad. As far as I know, the former fall short for consistently readable versions of everything but specially prepared e-books. That is, they do not do well with pdfs one scans oneself. And I have found that in many public locations, such as trains, the lighting is too dim to make the E Ink technology effective for comfortable reading. I think, in other words that we're dealing here with two different styles of reading. Comments? --WM] E-reading: Revolution in the making or fading fad? By ANNIE HUANG The Associated Press Friday, August 20, 2010; 3:33 AM The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/20/AR2010082000559.html?wpisrc=nl_tech HSINCHU, Taiwan -- The marriage of an American technology firm and a Taiwanese display panel manufacturer has helped make digital reading a prospective challenger to paper as the main medium for transmitting printed information. Four years ago Cambridge, Mass.-based E Ink Corporation and Taiwan's Prime View International Co. hooked up to create an e-paper display that now supplies 90 percent of the fast growing e-reader market. The Taiwanese involvement has led some observers to compare e-reading to the Chinese technological revolution 2,000 years ago in which newly invented paper replaced the bulky wooden blocks and bamboo slats on which Chinese characters were written. But questions still hang over the Taiwanese-American venture, including the readiness of the marketplace to dispense with paper-based reading, in favor of relatively unfamiliar e-readers. "It's cockamamie to think a product like that is going to revolutionize the way most people read," analyst Michael Norris of Rockville, Maryland research firm Simba Information Co. said in an e-mail. Americans use e-books at a rate "much, much slower than it looks." Another challenge for the venture is the ability of key customers like Amazon and Sony to withstand the onslaught of multifunctional computing devices which have e-reader capability, particularly Apple's iPad, whose five-month sales history has left their one-dimensional models struggling to keep up. Researcher Chris Hung of Taiwan's Institute for the Information Industry says iPad sales are expected to reach 9 million this year, a figure that took e-books two years to reach. Still, the dedicated e-reader manufacturers appear to have a lot to be happy about - at least for now. Sales in 2010 - four years after the first devices hit the market - will probably reach 10 million units, according to Austin, Texas based research firm Display Search, up from the four million sold in 2009. And with e-reader prices coming down quickly - a drop from $300 to $100 by 2011 for a 6-inch model seems a likely response to the iPad challenge - volumes could grow even faster, particularly with color and other innovative paper displays coming on the market to augment the existing glass-based monochrome version. Kyle Mizokami, a 39-year-old freelance writer in San Francisco, has finished two dozen books in the last year on his Amazon-marketed Kindle, and counts himself an e-reader enthusiast. "Having a Kindle has actually increased my reading," he wrote in an e-mail. "It's distraction-free reading, and I find it just as enjoyable - if not more so - than reading actual books." Scott Liu, chairman of the U.S.-Taiwan venture, now known as E Ink Holdings, has an optimistic view of the e-reader's future, reflecting his confidence not only in the willingness of the marketplace to embrace e-readers in general, but also in his customers' ability to fend off iPad competition. The display module Liu's company churns out is deceptively simple. It is produced by attaching a glass section to the back of a panel - a thin film produced at E Ink of millions of tiny microcapsules, each containing positively and negatively charged particles suspended in a clear fluid to show white and black spots. A processor and other chips are then attached to the panels. "People read on digital paper exactly like reading on conventional paper, using natural light in the environment," Liu told The Associated Press. "In another five years, we could see a major change in reading habits, with more people switching to electronic reading." As for the competition, he said, the iPad's liquid-crystal-display panel is vulnerable because it depends on backlight sources that cause eye fatigue. The iPad "is fascinating, ... a multiple-purpose device," he said. "But it is not built for reading for long hours." Still, many e-reading consumers seem to be opting for cell phones or tablet PCs like the iPad because their LCD panels display fuller color and can both play games and surf the Internet - abilities the dedicated e-readers lack. Taiwan researcher Hung acknowledges that, but says that the marketplace appears to be big enough for both types of products. "One can hardly finish Harry Potter on the iPad, while comic books don't look so good on e-readers," he said, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the two competing devices. Liu says E Ink Holdings is aware of the LCD competition, and plans to introduce a limited color e-paper display later this year, with a fuller version set to come out "in a few years time." He added that E Ink has also unveiled a prototype of a plastic-based flexible display which is "ideal for children to use" because of its resistance to breakage. But he said production costs are still too high to bring the product to market, and did not provide a launch date. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 20 21:40:00 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 ED48269D7F; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:39:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ED71069D3B; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:39:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100820213957.ED71069D3B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:39:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.265 getting involved X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 265. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Holly C. Shulman" (120) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.263 getting involved, but how? [2] From: James Rovira (19) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.263 getting involved, but how? [3] From: James Smith (117) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.263 getting involved, but how? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:27:28 -0400 From: "Holly C. Shulman" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.263 getting involved, but how? In-Reply-To: <20100819203533.9FEF062618@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I think we might make a distinction between how computer languages work and the electronic medium as a narrative structure. To make a comparison other than that of the automobile, I do not think that the radio producer needed to understand electro-magnetic transmission in order to understand how radio needs to be constructed to work. I suspect for example that the great radio writers of the mid-20th century period such as Norman Corwin in the United States and Dylan Thomas in Britain had no idea how the technology of radio carried their sounds. But they certainly understood the relationship of the medium and their message, with its intimacy that could so glorify the sound of words. The same could be said for television, cable, and film. Rather, I think that digital humanity producers need to understand how information moves in the world of electronic production. How does this still-new medium impact writing and narrative structure and visualization and so forth. I believe that the future relationship between scholarship and electronic publication is too important to wait for scholars to become conversant in XML or TEI. That said, I do think that scholars need to understand what XML and TEI, or whatever, do -- how it shapes their product. But I do not think they need to be able to do it themselves. Full disclosure: my father was first a radio and then a television producer. He was also one of the least “handy” men I’ve ever known, preferring always to live in an apartment building with a super than have to learn how even to change a light bulb. But his command of how radio and television reached the ears of listeners, what it meant, and how to do it, was superb. I continue to believe that understanding narrative form and technical expertise are not the same and that in this complex world of ours we do best to work as teams. Sincerely, Holly Cowan Shulman Founding Director, Documents Compass and Editor, the Dolley Madison Digital Edition University of Virginia On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 263. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:34:10 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: getting involved > > At one time a number of us spent time arguing that computer-using > scholars should become computer-programming scholars, and a few of us > wrote books on programming languages designed to make that easier. The > thinking was, as I recall, that if only "algorithmic thinking" were to > become habitual, great strides could be made in humanities computing. > This argument was related to the ongoing attempt to devise better, more > humanly expressive programming languages -- better than FORTRAN and > COBOL, higher-level than C++. Once upon a time I thought that assembler > language was about as high as one should go, that to twiddle bits was > not just thrilling but also was to understand what computing was all > about. But then I never got much done, following yards of printout, > spread out on the floor, trying to reconstruct the intricate path of a > flawed micro-algorithmic thought I once had (but had lost) in order to > find the flaw. > > Economics and technological improvements made that sort of indulgence a > thing of the past, I would suppose, except in very specialised > applications. But where now do we say that the ideal hybrid scholar's > mind should be? > > In the circumstances I observe many scholars, though persuaded that > digital methods and tools are Good, have only the vaguest notion of what > they *are* -- in the way that a painter understands his or her > paintbrush. I think this is a problem, the sort of one we should be > trying to solve. > > The argument that you don't have to understand the workings of an > internal combustion engine in order to drive, and all arguments I know > of that take this form, really don't apply. Computing isn't mechanical > in the same sense that an internal combustion engine is mechanical, and > our objectives in using it aren't limited by getting from A to B. We > want both the "B" and the "getting" to be dynamical, evolving processes. > But many of our colleagues are still thinking of a simple drive from one > place they know to another place they know in a vehicle they can trust > to remain the same. > > The solution to the problem seems to be to involve educating the > imaginations of these colleagues. And it seems to me that the way to do > this is somehow to involve them in hands-on making of digital things. I > see far too much standing back and talking about static results > engineered by someone else, too little engagement, too little scholarly > craftsmanship. > > Comments? Suggestions? > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ > ; > Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, > www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. -- 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:24:27 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.263 getting involved, but how? In-Reply-To: <20100819203533.9FEF062618@woodward.joyent.us> Can't speak for anyone else, but if I have to spend time learning programming on a professional level, it's just not going to happen. I have too much other reading to do in my own fields, and no, it's really not necessary for -me- to know programming for this work to be done. Collaboration with people who are already programmers seems a lot more efficient. I'm willing to learn programs, but not much willing to become a programmer. Jim R --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:49:07 -0500 From: James Smith Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.263 getting involved, but how? In-Reply-To: <20100819203533.9FEF062618@woodward.joyent.us> *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1282326557_2010-08-20_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_5795.2.txt On 8/19/10 3:35 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 263. > > Subject: getting involved > > At one time a number of us spent time arguing that computer-using > scholars should become computer-programming scholars, and a few of us > wrote books on programming languages designed to make that easier. The > thinking was, as I recall, that if only "algorithmic thinking" were to > become habitual, great strides could be made in humanities computing. > This argument was related to the ongoing attempt to devise better, more > humanly expressive programming languages -- better than FORTRAN and > COBOL, higher-level than C++. Once upon a time I thought that assembler > language was about as high as one should go, that to twiddle bits was > not just thrilling but also was to understand what computing was all > about. But then I never got much done, following yards of printout, > spread out on the floor, trying to reconstruct the intricate path of a > flawed micro-algorithmic thought I once had (but had lost) in order to > find the flaw. > I suspect much of the techie side of digital humanities still feels this way, except that the assembly language of today's web environment is PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, C++, etc. In years past, I've thought that if only our faculty could see the beauty of working in Ruby or Perl, then they could become masters of the intricate computational machinations that animated their projects. I've come to believe that the fundamental flaw is not that we expect faculty to command computers, but that we expect them to do so in languages that have evolved out of Digital Engineering, that field of engineering that uses computers to aid their work. > Economics and technological improvements made that sort of indulgence a > thing of the past, I would suppose, except in very specialised > applications. But where now do we say that the ideal hybrid scholar's > mind should be? > > In the circumstances I observe many scholars, though persuaded that > digital methods and tools are Good, have only the vaguest notion of what > they *are* -- in the way that a painter understands his or her > paintbrush. I think this is a problem, the sort of one we should be > trying to solve. > > I think part of the problem is that the tools that are flexible enough to bend to the needs of the research are so low-level that they are more comparable to the molecules that make up the pigments that get mixed into the oil to make the paint. We're having to assemble the molecules and don't have time to think about how the paint adheres to the brush. The tools that are high-level enough that the researcher doesn't have to wonder how they work are so high-level that they can't consider the nuances in the research. You can have any color Model T you want as long as it's black. You can have any style concordance you want, as long as it's one that was thought up before you downloaded the tool. We need something in the middle. > The argument that you don't have to understand the workings of an > internal combustion engine in order to drive, and all arguments I know > of that take this form, really don't apply. Computing isn't mechanical > in the same sense that an internal combustion engine is mechanical, and > our objectives in using it aren't limited by getting from A to B. We > want both the "B" and the "getting" to be dynamical, evolving processes. > But many of our colleagues are still thinking of a simple drive from one > place they know to another place they know in a vehicle they can trust > to remain the same. > > The solution to the problem seems to be to involve educating the > imaginations of these colleagues. And it seems to me that the way to do > this is somehow to involve them in hands-on making of digital things. I > see far too much standing back and talking about static results > engineered by someone else, too little engagement, too little scholarly > craftsmanship. > I couldn't agree more. I do have some ideas on how to make this happen. If this had come across this list a few weeks from now, I'd probably have some web pages to point to. :-) Instead, I can point to my own development blog: http://dh-dev.tumblr.com/ . Part of our work has been to build a platform that can support multiple projects. As a single programmer tasked with supporting multiple projects, I can't do too much hand-crafted code at the level of Ruby. Instead, I've tried to boil each project down to it's unique aspects -- the equivalent of an editorial statement -- and create an environment that can operate on that 'editorial statement' to produce the desired presentation or data transformation. As a result of this work, I've been able to get the following pieces sketched out -- we're still working on tweaking some details: * Google Earth display of points mentioned in transcribed texts with links to those texts from Google Earth * Curated bibliography using the MIT Exhibit tools to create a faceted display * Curated list of scholars in a field * Concordance of transcriptions using MIT Exhibit tools to create a faceted display with lines linked to the scans of the original documents (eventually to the page in the viewer that contains the line) * Paged viewer of manuscripts showing transcription alongside the scan of the original document The list might not seem too long for a year's worth of work, but now any one of those items can be replicated fully integrated into the context of another project in a matter of hours with all of the work done from within the content management system. The list will only get longer over the next year or two. Part of the goal is to develop a programming language that comes from the humanities more than it does engineering. The nature of computers being what it is, there may always be some residual part of the language that reminds us of their mathematical side, but I want humanities computing processes to be as easy to express as mathematical processes are expressed. There are some things on the horizon that aren't sufficiently settled for me to mention them yet, but I think we will be seeing a way forward to help scholars feel as comfortable managing the algorithmic side of their projects as they are comfortable managing the transcription, scanning, or digitization sides. Of course, all of this could be symptomatic of me falling into the trap that you mentioned in the opening paragraph -- if only we had the right language, humanists could program! If I am falling into the trap, then hopefully I'm falling in differently than anyone has fallen in before. -- 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 Fri Aug 20 21:40:50 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 86F0569832; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:40:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 93BE869824; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:40:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100820214049.93BE869824@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:40:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.266 call for chapters: social implications X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 266. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:17:10 +0100 From: Katina Michael Subject: Call for Book Chapters: New Title (Social Implications of Emerging Technologies) Call for Chapters: Proposals Submission Deadline: September 15, 2010 Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants: Emerging Technologies Editors: Associate Professor Katina Michael and Dr M.G. Michael University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia http://www.igi-global.com/AuthorsEditors/AuthorEditorResources/CallForBookChapters/CallForChapterDetails.aspx?CallForContentId=34694c1f-d796-4490-88c5-289f3bff2f6f Introduction Uberveillance can be defined as an omnipresent electronic surveillance facilitated by technology that makes it possible to embed surveillance devices in the human body. These embedded technologies can take the form of traditional pacemakers, radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag and transponder implants, biomems and nanotechnology devices. Uberveillance has to do with the fundamental who (ID), where (location), and when (time) questions in an attempt to derive why (motivation), what (result), and even how (method/plan/thought). Uberveillance can be a predictive mechanism for a person’s expected behavior, traits, likes, or dislikes based on historical fact; or it can be about real-time measurement and observation; or it can be something in between. The inherent problem with uberveillance is that facts do not always add up to truth, and predictions based on uberveillance are not always correct. Uberveillance is more than closed circuit television feeds, or cross-agency databases linked to national identity cards, or biometrics and ePassports used for international travel. Uberveillance is the sum total of all these types of surveillance and the deliberate integration of an individual’s personal data for the continuous tracking and monitoring of identity, location, and condition in real time. In its ultimate form, uberveillance has to do with more than automatic identification technologies that we carry with us. It has to do with under-the-skin technology that is embedded in the body, such as microchip implants; it is that which cuts into the flesh – a charagma (mark). Think of it as Big Brother on the inside looking out. Like a black box embedded in the body which records and transmits specific measures. This charagma is virtually meaningless without the hybrid network architecture that supports its functionality: making the person a walking online node. We are referring here, to the lowest common denominator, the smallest unit of tracking – presently a tiny chip inside the body of a human being. This is opposed to other forms of spatial units such as satellite imagery, street views, or even cadastre blocks. Objective of the Book This book will aim to equip the wider community with information about the technological trajectory of RFID implants through exclusive primary interviews, case studies, literature reviews, ethnographies and frameworks supporting emerging technologies. The book will also provide professionals who are engaged in the development of emerging technologies with current and predicted social implications of human-centric technologies. In the context of innovation these findings should inform business system product/process life cycles through a feedback mechanism. The book will also be useful to professionals overseeing the evolution of the legal, policy and technology trichotomy in a given jurisdiction (e.g. the introduction of laws and regulations to stipulate the rights of individuals). The objective of the book is to develop an understanding of uberveillance (both in its emerging and ultimate forms) in a variety of application areas (medical, retail, policing etc). Target Audience The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals and researchers working in the field of emerging technologies, law and social policy including, e.g. information and communication sciences, administrative sciences and management, sociology, law and regulation, computer science, and information technology, policy, government, political science. Moreover, the book will provide insights and support to every day citizens who may be questioning the trajectory of micro and miniature technologies or the potential for humans to be embedded with electro-magnetic devices. Body wearable technologies are also of relevance, as they will act as complementary innovations to various forms of implants. [...] Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document): Associate Professor Katina Michael, Dr M.G. Michael School of Information Systems and Technology, Faculty of Informatics UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG, NSW AUSTRALIA 2522 Tel.: +61 2 4221 3937 • Fax: +61 2 4221 4045 • GSM: +61 431 201 172 E-mail: katina@uow.edu.au _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 21:41:23 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 95B006A7B5; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:41:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6CEB46A7A6; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:41:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100820214121.6CEB46A7A6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:41:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.267 new on WWW: digital methods X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 267. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:00:35 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital methods Many here will be interested in the work of the Digital Methods Initiative (http://wiki.digitalmethods.net/) and the inaugural address of Richard Rogers, the "web epistemologist" (http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/r.a.rogers/, link at the bottom of the page). Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 20 21:42:05 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 B7BA66AE24; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:42:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C0DB86AC74; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:42:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100820214204.C0DB86AC74@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:42:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.268 events: books & reading; memory & experience X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 268. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ray Siemens (12) Subject: CFP: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading inthe Digital Age [2] From: Shawn Day (30) Subject: Call for Proposals : PSi #17 - Camillo 2.0: Technology, Memory,Experience --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:51:18 -0700 From: Ray Siemens Subject: CFP: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading inthe Digital Age Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: Textual Methodologies and Exemplars 15 December 2010 Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands), The Hague in conjunction with the conference Text & Literacy (16-17 December) Proposals due 30 September 2010 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 artefacts--electronic books being just one type of many--that must sustain those practices now and into the future. This one-day gathering explores research foundations pertinent to understanding those new practices and emerging media, specifically focusing on work in textual method, in itself and via exemplar, 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. The gathering is offered in conjunction with the Text & Literacy conference (16-17 December) and is sponsored by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (the National Library of the Netherlands), the Book and Digital Media Studies department of Leiden University, and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments research group. We invite paper and poster/demonstration proposals that address these and other issues pertinent to research in the area. 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. Please send proposals before 30 September 2010 to siemens@uvic.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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:19:08 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Call for Proposals : PSi #17 - Camillo 2.0: Technology, Memory,Experience FYI Call for Proposals Camillo 2.0: Technology, Memory, Experience Performance Studies international #17 25-29 May 2011, Utrecht, the Netherlands Camillo 2.0: Technology, Memory, Experience combines science, scholarly pursuit and art in a five-day program consisting of lectures, presentations of current research (both theoretical and practical), performances, debates, and workshops. In addition, hybrid program components, or 'shifts', introduced by participants or inititiated by the organisers will pave the way to unconventional presentation situations. This PSi conference is an initiative of the Theatre Studies department at Utrecht University and Utrecht's annual Theatre Festival aan de Werf. The conference will be organized in collaboration with the Utrecht School for the Arts (HKU). Camillo's Theatre of Memory is a 16th-century invention meant to allow the spectator access to all existing knowledge via a wooden theatre-shaped construction. Once world-renowned, Camillo's theatre was forgotten after the death of its inventor, only to make an impressive comeback in the second half of the 20th century as a foreshadowing of both computers and the World Wide Web. Today, technological developments allow more people access to more information than ever before. These technologies alter what and how much can be stored; they also transform how memory is shaped, how what is stored is experienced, how memories become entangled in the here-and-now, and, finally, even the processes of thinking and imagination. Camillo 2.0: Technology, Memory, Experience approaches this co-evolution from the vantage point of performance as a triad of artistic practice, embodiment of culturally specific symbolic systems, and functional technology. Within this overarching notion the following focal points are distinguished: Performing memory The performing arts haves a long history as a memory machine while also functioning as a means for questioning the various processes of individual or collective remembering. What can performance, in both theory and practice, teach us about the relationship between technology, memory, and experience? How do the performing arts give space to intermedial explorations of the possibilities, implications, and consequences of how divergent technologies mediate the way we remember and experience? Save As Camillo's invention took place as developing printing technology allowed for storage of knowledge and information to move outside the brain. Today the 'performative turn' and the developments of Web 2.0 make the restrictions of the archive as memory machine tangible and pay homage to the processual, embodied and (inter)active nature of memory. How do performance and notations such as repertoire and performative remains provide a perspective into the possibilities and restrictions of the archive as memory machine? What can we learn, at this point in time, from re-enactment both as performative practice and as a mode of thinking? Ghosts Technologies of memory facilitate new psychic entities and objects of belief that, under appropriate circumstances, emerge as self-enunciating entities. Theatre is haunted by such ghosts, but they populate other media as well. How might theatre and performance illuminate how these medial 'ghosts' act as agents of memory and experience, both produced by and emerging from media technology? No Match Found Contemporary technological developments that allow for endlessly expanding memory storage conceal that memory machines are always simultaneously technologies of forgetting. This forgetting can be traumatic, and can also be part of (conscious or unconscious) strategies of exclusion. It can be an active choice, an act of resistance, or a strategy for survival. How does performance mediate processes of forgetting? How does it focus its attention on that which is not or cannot be remembered (trauma and exclusion); to blind spots, or black holes; to what is lost in translation? Memory Lab Presently, science and art (re)connect in exploring the possibilities that new technologies provide in storing and transferring knowledge. Makers, in collaboration with scholars, develop new technological means of archiving and re-experiencing divergent forms of live art. New insights concern not only archival practices but also reflect upon how technology mediates how knowledge and experience are transferred, how we think, and what is considered knowledge. What are the possibilities for and the potential of a renewed collaboration? A more extensive description of conference themes and topics can be found at www.psi17.org. The organizing committee of PSi #17 invites proposals for individual papers (20 minute presentations), panels (consisting of 3-4 paper presentations) and 'shifts'. Papers Proposals for individual papers should include a 350-word abstract, title, and a 150-word bio of the presenter. Proposals for papers are due October 1, 2010. Panels Panel proposals and proposals for other discursive formats (roundtable discussions, position papers, etc.) should include a 350-word abstract describing the rationale of the panel, 350-word abstracts and titles of the individual papers (if applicable), and the names and 150-words bios of participants. Proposals for panels are due October 1, 2010. Shifts Continuing the explorations of PSi #15 and #16, we invite proposals for 'shifts' i.e., alternative presentational models that push the boundaries of the conference presentation. Shifts take the notion of performance in the broad sense (aesthetic, cultural, durational, etc.) as their organizing principle. They can accommodate a wide range of formats: various kinds of performative presentations, round-table discussions on performances presented, lecture performances, workshops, interactive events, seminars, etc. They are non-conventional investigations into the themes of the conference and are designed to accomplish a higher level of interaction between the conference participants and especially between artistic and theoretical work. Proposals for shifts should include a 350-word description of the proposed events and 150-word bios of the organizers of the proposed shift as well as a clear description of the (technical) facilities required. Proposals for shifts are due October 1, 2010. Submissions All proposals should be submitted online by filling out the submission form at: www.psi17.org by October 1, 2010. All proposals will be evaluated by the Organizing Committee of PSi # 17 by December 15, 2010. Questions can be directed to conference manager Laura Karreman (L.L.Karreman@uu.nl). More information can be found atwww.psi17.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 Aug 21 21:01:18 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 9A198646BB; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:01:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2DDB5646AA; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:01:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100821210116.2DDB5646AA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:01:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.269 e-book referencing and reading X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 269. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Claire Clivaz (18) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.260 referencing a Kindle book? [2] From: Laval Hunsucker (27) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.264 e-book referencing and reading [3] From: "Laura J. Mitchell" (257) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.264 e-book referencing and reading --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:26:02 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.260 referencing a Kindle book? Dear all, To Sharon Getz: > I currently use only the phone app and cannot test this idea, but I find > it striking that changing the displayed font size on one text can mean > going immediately from location 533 to 537, or from 533 to 535, or from > 528 to 535.... > > Has anyone tested locations between devices? > > Best wishes, > Sharon Goetz All the Kindle applications (for Mac, I-phone, aso) give the same locations, independently from the size of the pages. As far as I have seen, Amazon does not explain to what corresponds the value number «1» in location. Here is the problem: it seems that we do not have, at the moment, a «universal» location system for digital books; Amazon has its own system. If somebody has other ideas on the topic.... To James Rovira: > My guess is that you'd cite it as an electronic publication and cite > the page numbers in that version of the book. Living in Europe, I do not want to buy the paper version any more. I try to get my complete library on my computer. So, the problem of quoting correctly from a Kindle version - whatever it is, i-Phone, Mac, aso - really matters! I am also sure that we will soon get scholarly books without paper version, without «pages» to quote. Have a good day, Claire Clivaz --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:33:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.264 e-book referencing and reading In-Reply-To: <20100820213732.966B3695B1@woodward.joyent.us> Willard McCarty wrote : > I think, in other words that we're dealing here with > two different styles of reading. > Comments? Only a very brief one. We're dealing with more than two, it seems to me. And I'd guess that's hardly likely to change, whatever else may happen -- and that the technology's hardly likely not to continue to take such into account. - Laval Hunsucker Breukelen, Nederland Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:28:12 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: e-reading In-Reply-To: <20100819195410.0F0A961D73@woodward.joyent.us> [Following is an article from the online edition of The Washington Post. Note the argument concerning e-book readers vs the iPad. As far as I know, the former fall short for consistently readable versions of everything but specially prepared e-books. That is, they do not do well with pdfs one scans oneself. And I have found that in many public locations, such as trains, the lighting is too dim to make the E Ink technology effective for comfortable reading. I think, in other words that we're dealing here with two different styles of reading. Comments? --WM] E-reading: Revolution in the making or fading fad? [ etc. ] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:19:57 -0700 From: "Laura J. Mitchell" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.264 e-book referencing and reading In-Reply-To: <20100820213732.966B3695B1@woodward.joyent.us> In reply to Sharon Goetz: My Kindle location in a book retains the same number whether I am looking at Kindle, or my Droid phone, or my I-Pad. However, the range of location numbers displayed on a single screen changes depending on device + text size. So making a note of a location number, or setting a bookmark, consistently takes me back to the same sentence--but sometimes it takes a bit of scrolling to come up with the bigger context of the sentence. I've never cited a Kindle version of a book in a scholarly article because very little of the work I read for my research is available in a Kindle version. Consequently my research reading on a device is usually a pdf with traditional page numbers. Kind regards, Laura Mitchell -- L.J. Mitchell Associate Professor Vice Chair and Director of Graduate Studies History Department, UCI 243 Krieger Hall Irvine, CA 92697-3275 949.824.3841 Read Belongings on-line www.gutenberg-e/org/mitchell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 21:06:03 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 83FCE64B95; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:06:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E900364B81; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:06:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100821210601.E900364B81@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:06:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.270 getting involved X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 270. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elijah Meeks (9) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.265 getting involved [2] From: Patrick Durusau (55) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.263 getting involved, but how? [3] From: Paolo Rocchi (42) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.263 getting involved, but how? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:07:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.265 getting involved In-Reply-To: <20100820213957.ED71069D3B@woodward.joyent.us> It seems that every time coding is brought up among digital humanities scholars that there are a thousand and one reasons why it is completely superfluous to the use and study of algorithmic media. The comparison, for instance, with production of other media, wherein a creator didn't need to be conversant with the technology, whether it's a printing press or a radio wave, ignores that the creation of software (and here we must distinguish dynamic programs from old-fashioned multimedia created using new-fangled tools) is performed by building logical structures with language. I think a better, and especially more academic, analogy would be with the study of a particular historical area and the requirement that one must be able to read the language or languages of that area and of the scholars who have most contributed to the study of that area. Imagine if an applicant to a PhD program wanted to study French literature but declared no need to learn French? Would you be able to take that person seriously? The analogy holds in a further manner: there is no requirement that one be fluent, merely capable of understanding the arguments and structures relayed by the text. And that's just the study of the subject. If one wants to create innovative digital humanities works, then how can you expect to achieve any level of success in expressing complex humanities concepts via digital means when you don't understand how the software represents your ideas internally and your programming collaborator doesn't understand complex humanities concepts? I've seen too much history written by scientists (evolutionary, computer and mechanical--they all secretly wanted to study history when they were pursuing their practical degrees) that's simplistic and lacking in nuance. I think there's a similar trend among history represented in digital humanities projects, for the same reason. I think, rather than envisioning some program or initiative to spur the development of code literacy among humanists, or the creation of an amazing and intuitive new programming language that makes semantic sense to humanists, that the only real way to change this situation is for scholars to think that understanding data structures and code is necessary for the study and use of digital scholarly media. Elijah Meeks Digital Humanities Specialist Academic Computing Services Stanford University emeeks@stanford.edu (650)387-6170 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:13:37 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.263 getting involved, but how? In-Reply-To: <20100819203533.9FEF062618@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 20:35 +0000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > The argument that you don't have to understand the workings of an > internal combustion engine in order to drive, and all arguments I know > of that take this form, really don't apply. Computing isn't mechanical > in the same sense that an internal combustion engine is mechanical, and > our objectives in using it aren't limited by getting from A to B. We > want both the "B" and the "getting" to be dynamical, evolving processes. > But many of our colleagues are still thinking of a simple drive from one > place they know to another place they know in a vehicle they can trust > to remain the same. > Hmmm, ok, let's say I have concordance software that equals the usual printed output that I would see in a bound and printed concordance. I might not "know" the means used to assemble either concordance but the utility for some purposes, such as studying the use of a particular term in a text corpus *is immediately apparent.* Your "objectives in using it aren't limited to getting from A to B. We want both the "B" and "getting" to be dynamical, evolving processes." doesn't provide any basis for demonstrating relevance to any humanities project. As a group we are going to have to do better than that to interest our colleagues in tools or learning new techniques. > The solution to the problem seems to be to involve educating the > imaginations of these colleagues. And it seems to me that the way to do > this is somehow to involve them in hands-on making of digital things. I > see far too much standing back and talking about static results > engineered by someone else, too little engagement, too little scholarly > craftsmanship. > I disagree with locating the problem with our colleagues. That is too easy and convenient an answer. How about educating *our* imaginations to show the relevance of digital methods to current scholarly tasks/goals or that digital techniques uncover things relevant to those goals? End of the day, if our efforts are not demonstrably relevant to their tasks, why should they bother? Hope you are looking forward to a great weekend! Patrick PS: Obviously I have a great deal of sympathy for "digital" techniques but I think traditional scholarship is wide and deep enough that such techniques are additions to and not alternatives for the traditional scholar's toolbox. -- 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) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:27:47 +0200 From: Paolo Rocchi Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.263 getting involved, but how? In-Reply-To: <20100819203533.9FEF062618@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard The principles of internal combustion engines are unnecessary to drive a car, but if a learner driver wants to be acquainted with those principles he can. I put forward the following naive question: Why can a not-major driver grasp the structure of his motor car without difficulties? Why can laymen become aware of the secrets of genetics, of nuclear physics and of other advance fields? The answer seems obvious to me. If a man of the street will, he can share the deep significance of innovative solutions because the principles of thermodynamics, of genetic and of other cutting-edge areas of research are clearly established. The logic of those disciplines is easily seen through, the order of topics and arguments are firmly established. Can one say the same for computer science? I restrict myself to three quotations. Computer theorists sustain the value of Shannon's interpretation. They take the Shannon concept of information as a fundamental Bible, but after fifty years we find more than twenty-five theories of information in literature. Perhaps the presumed cultural cornerstone is not so solid. Sometimes Turing's works are considered as the texts of a prophet but the Turing machine - which offers a static vision of computers - cannot explicate crucial technical aspects such as the software evolution and the program maintenance. The von Neumann concept of algorithm is oriented to solve mathematical problems and is largely surpassed by the present communicative needs of the Internet. Theoretical notions and interpretations are unable to sustain the activities of computer experts. From my modest viewpoint informatics is far away from being grounded upon unified and significant concepts; hence I mean to close: How can a digital-humanities expert improve his scholarship if the raw-material of his work turns out to be inadequate, lacking and often leading to nonsense conclusions? 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 From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: 19/08/2010 22.42 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 21:06:58 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 CB07064D10; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:06:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 30EB464D01; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:06:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100821210657.30EB464D01@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:06:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.271 new on WWW: interview with Julia Flanders X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 271. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:28:18 -0400 From: "Schlitz, Stephanie" Subject: J. Flanders Interview (apologies for cross-posting) On behalf of the TEI Education SIG (http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/SIG/Education/), I am pleased to announce preliminary dissemination of "An Interview with Julia Flanders." To ensure that anyone who may wish to access the piece for teaching (or other) purposes can do so even before the work finds a more permanent home, the interviewee has graciously granted me permission to share it informally via blog post. The related links (including a brief, informal introduction; the questions; the transcript and podcast; and the TEI-XML version) can be found on the TEI Education SIG wiki page: http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/An_Interview_with_Julia_Flanders As indicated in the interview introduction, Julia’s comments are thought-provoking and profoundly significant, the kind that urgently warrant dissemination, but I hope nonetheless that they will come to represent only one part of a larger, ongoing conversation about TEI and DH. Questions, comments, suggestions, etc. are warmly welcomed -- With best wishes, Stephanie Schlitz TEI Education SIG co-Convener _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 19:55:39 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 79D8466382; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:55:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 96F916634C; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:55:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100822195537.96F916634C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:55:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.272 e-book referencing X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 272. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:04:33 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.269 e-book referencing and reading In-Reply-To: <20100821210116.2DDB5646AA@woodward.joyent.us> Claire -- Thanks for your reply. So far as I can tell from my own use and others' replies, though, electronic versions of books do have page numbers; page numbers are certainly fixed in .pdf files. But, I'd forgotten that the MLA also recommends citing paragraph numbers for some electronic sources, which may be a useful practice in your situation. Jim R > Living in Europe, I do not want to buy the paper version any more. I try to get my complete library on my computer. So, the problem of quoting correctly from a Kindle version - whatever it is, i-Phone, Mac, aso - really matters! I am also sure that we will soon get scholarly books without paper version, without «pages» to quote. > > Have a good day, > > Claire _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 20:00:29 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 317B5664EF; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:00:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4290B664E0; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:00:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100822200027.4290B664E0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:00:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.273 getting involved X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 273. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (52) Subject: complexity; demonstrating and educating [2] From: James Rovira (7) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.270 getting involved [3] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (49) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.270 getting involved [4] From: Peter Batke (15) Subject: RE: getting involved --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:46:09 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: complexity; demonstrating and educating Two comments on the discussion in Humanist 24.270, about getting involved. First, understanding the algorithmic process step by step. This is possible and possibly enlightening for simple programs but, I'd think, not always, and for complex systems not at all. When a system becomes so large and intricate that its behaviour cannot be predicted, what's the point? I can see that understanding fundamentals of digital decision-making from simple examples has great benefits for a scholar who has never before translated some human task into software. Understanding how these fundamentals apply to his or her scholarly objects brings the lesson to life. But how about the situation, now commonplace, when one simply cannot follow what the software system does? Second, demonstrating (as we say) "evidence of value" to our colleagues. Here I am especially interested in getting help with thinking through the problem. It is a complicated one. And I wonder, after six decades why do we have this problem? Isn't it worth asking why we ask a question as well as immediately falling to answer it? I wonder what demos are for, especially why they don't work particularly well in the research setting, why hands-on is so crucial. Of course we need to be better explainers. We in the humanities aren't practiced in the arts of explanation to non-specialists. Until recently, I think, we didn't see it as a priority at all (unlike the natural scientists, who have poured enormous and intelligent efforts into popularisations). But in addition to assembling an array of success stories to back up our claims, experience suggests to me that people don't get it until they can internalise the demonstrated process and re-imagine it in terms of their own materials. The question is not simply relevance but relevance to what? It often isn't sufficient to show, say, a concordance to a Latin text when the person to be persuaded works with German ones -- German, after all, works differently. I wouldn't assume that the Germanist is being stupid, only that his or her imagination hasn't been contacted. Or suppose the Germanist does see the point of concording. If that sort of process doesn't fit into how the research has been conceived, then concording might not seem relevant. Indeed, it might not be at all. But thinking about the project algorithmically from the get-go, imagining it in those terms, then implementing it should (I think we want to argue) be one possibility the Germanist has to hand. If our objective is to increase the range of human possibility well beyond what we individuals know how to do, then don't we need the help of people who think other thoughts in other ways? Even a demonstration of how to drive a car or ride a bicycle doesn't get the novice very far. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor humanof Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:14:54 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.270 getting involved In-Reply-To: <20100821210601.E900364B81@woodward.joyent.us> Elijah -- I agree with your statement below to the extent that it applies to - digital - humanities as a distinct field. A digital humanities scholar needs to know programming, yes. But I think you go on to conflate digital humanities with all humanities. It is simply not true that all humanities scholars need to know programming in order to be humanities scholars, even ones who rely upon digital tools for their work. All that I really need to do my work is a library, a pad, and a pencil or pen. I would add that scholars working with paintings, etc., need to know how digital environments can change the appearance of visual works. A scanned image or photograph really isn't a substitute for the real thing. Jim R > Would you be able > to take that person seriously? The analogy holds in a further manner: there is no requirement that one be fluent, merely capable of understanding the arguments and structures relayed by the text. > --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:00:39 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.270 getting involved In-Reply-To: <20100821210601.E900364B81@woodward.joyent.us> The major reason digital humanities scholars need to understand the programs that provide them with analyses is that those programs can be operating incorrectly and the programmers may not know to check for the types of errors that can occur when processing humanities data; data which may be outside the scope of the types of programs they normally use for text. Two broad classes of errors can occur. First, character representation errors. Ordinary text processing programs have a limited repertoire of characters they expect to encounter. Just adding diacritics can throw some programs. There are several different schemes for representing characters with even simple diacritics and a corpus of texts could contain instances of all these different schemes in the same corpus. Basically, the first question a digital humanist must be able to answer is what are the 'characters' in all of the text to be processed and how are they represented. Are all special characters represented in the same encoding? How will they sort and how will they and the words they form be compared for equality and lexical order. If you don't know the answers to these questions, you can be unexpectedly surprised to discover some of the words in your text were not treated properly, were left out, or went unrecognized. Second, the algorithms that process text often use different methods of interpreting the objects they compare. Sort utilities, one of the most basic of programs to operate on text, can perform by 'folding case' or using a 'collating sequence' other than the one expected, especially for special characters. Sorting is a 'utility', not even a creative part of most applications--yet the 'sort order' of the words in a text can differ dependent upon what characteristics a sort utility has as defaults. There may not be any way to check for problems other than to create special data sets to use as test cases and to check that they process as expected. When sorting, programmers know to check the top and bottom of the sort for unexpected instances in the data which seem to rise to the top or descend to the very bottom. In short, if a digital humanist scholar expects to rise to the level of an expert, they need to be able to test and diagnose what software is doing to their data. As a good doctor, they must be able to understand what can go wrong with prescribed courses of treatment of their 'patient', be able to find the errors made by technicians and others who carry out their instructions. If you don't know what to test for or how to check whether a treatment is being properly applied, you can't really claim to know what your results mean. You may not have to know how to make a thermometer, but you better know that there are several scales on which temperature can be recorded and that thermometers should all read the same temperature when in the same glass of water, and that if not, there is something wrong. The universe will trick you if it can. Knowing what it can do and how is essential to using tools in any field; even if you don't know how to create the tools themselves. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:47:09 +0000 From: Peter Batke Subject: RE: getting involved In-Reply-To: <4C705582.4080800@mccarty.org.uk> The quote is from S. M. Parrish, Cornell, pioneer in electronic concordance. The occasion was an after-dinner speech at an IBM conference in 1969. Woldcat under: PROCEEDINGS: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TO PROBLEMS IN THE HUMANITIES. "[...] I've tried to stay free of programming. I'm perfectly innocent of any knowledge of any programming language and I feel I must remain that way if I am going to continue to function as a scholar in literature; my heartfelt advice to any of you younger people embarking on this whole venture is to do the same--to ask programmers to do for you what they know how to do and what would be costly and painful for you to learn--to learn to talk their language but not to get involved in programming research or machine research. I know the best of you will not take this advice and will, therefore, break new barriers and so on, but I persist in offering it. [...]" I really have no real sympathy for Parrish's point. I use it only as an example of attitudes about computers at a time when philologists still knew what philology was and loved the new muscle computers would give them. The notion that Parrish could not be a literary scholar and "program" explains why literary scholarship is no longer what it was. The authority the scholars of that time gathered through meticulous, slow and inefficient work has been diluted by electronic tools that allowed a broad range of less meticulous contemporaries (in the best sense of that word) to achieve roughly equivalent results, exact bibliographies, appropriate and complete quotations and neatly formatted papers. The lack of universal brilliance of the contemporary scholars as compared to what one sensed shining forth from the great ones of the past and near past working with slips of paper is easy to obscure in an accelerating shifts toward new perspectives and problems not before suspected. I actually expect an atrophy of some humanistic genres as much of what once was communicated through descriptive analysis which confused, challenged, enlightened and inspired the next generation will be found wanting because of failure to have availed of algorithmic tools. I do think that computers have become awfully close friends, helpmates and collaborators to our generation. But they have also spoiled that solitary perspective for us, the perspective that Parrish still had and that we computer symbionts have lost. I personally have not lost I feel, but gained. I have cast my lot with the database and programming logic that extracts information. I actually find young colleagues (or old) who think they can avoid that path strangely stuck, bless them and their efforts. I have great hopes that the Google people and text miners in general, who not only program but think in terms of Markhov chains (and about 20-30 other techniques) for extracting information from text, (unimaginably vast quantities of text), can be brought to literature easier than the current active cohorts of literature people can be brought to mathematical modeling. Some months ago there was a thread about economics and the maturing of disciplines toward mathematization that was thought not optional in the long term -understandable resistance by those who do not have a dog in the game notwithstanding. I think for us text people, it will come through a very large back door where thousands of CS people are working on terabytes of text. They will discover aesthetics and ideas and meaning in text expressions and they will have a larger canvas than the solitary critics of previous generations who inspired us. These uncounted mathematicians focused on text may not bother with trying to untie the knots that centuries of commentaries on commentaries have produced. They may just list the relevant component parts in indexes and move on. cheers, 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 Sun Aug 22 20:02:29 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 63F2E665E7; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:02:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 34EBA665D7; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:02:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100822200228.34EBA665D7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:02:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.274 events: 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. 24, No. 274. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:28:34 +0100 From: Ventsislav Zhechev Subject: Final CFP: Workshop "Bringing MT to the User: Research on IntegratingMT in the Translation Industry" FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry" Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2010) http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- At the AMTA 2010 conference (http://amta2010.amtaweb.org), the EuroMatrix+ Project (http://www.euromatrixplus.eu) and the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (http://cngl.ie) are organising the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, titled "Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry". The workshop will take place in Denver, Colorado on 4 November 2010, immediately after the main AMTA 2010 conference. Premise: Recent years have seen a revolution in MT triggered by the emergence of statistical approaches to MT and improvements in translation quality. MT (rule-based, statistical and hybrid) is now available for many languages for free on the Web and is making strong inroads into the corporate localisation and translation industries. Open-source MT solutions are competing with proprietary products. Increasing numbers of translators are post-editing TM/MT output. At the same time, there has been some disconnect between academic research on MT, which (rightly so) focuses on algorithms to increase translation quality, and many of the practical issues that need to be addressed to make MT maximally useful in real translation and localisation scenarios. Objectives: This workshop will bring together MT researchers, developers, industrial users and translators to discuss issues that are most important in real world industrial settings involving MT, but currently not very popular in research circles. Workshop Chairs: Ventsislav Zhechev Philipp Koehn Josef van Genabith Call for Research Papers: For this workshop we solicit full research papers with industry or academic background to highlight the real-world issues that need to be tackled by new research and the recent academic advancements that improve translation quality, as well as novel and successful methods for the integration of Machine Translation with Translation Memories or Localisation Workflows. We will accept research paper submissions (reviewed anonymously) for oral presentation and publication. Papers should present clearly identifiable problem statements, research methodologies and measurable outcomes and evaluation. The papers should follow the submission guidelines for the research track of the main AMTA 2010 Conference (http://amta2010.amtaweb.org/cfp-mt.htm), with the maximum length being 10 pages in US Letter format, including references. Please, do not include your name in the paper text and avoid overt self-references to facilitate the blind review process. If a paper is accepted, at least one author will have to register through the AMTA 2010 website and travel to Denver to present it. Topics include but are not limited to: • MT/TM in Localisation/Translation Workflows • MT/TM Combinations • Post-Editing Support for MT • MT and Monolingual Post-Editing • MT Confidence Scores and Post-Editing Effort • Training Data for MT: Size, Domain and Quality • Data Cleanup and Preparation for MT • Meta-Data Mark-Up/Annotation and MT • Terminology and MT • Costing/Pricing MT • MT for Free/for a Fee • Rule-Based, Statistical and Hybrid MT • Computing Resources for MT • MT in the Cloud • MT and the Crowd • Smart Learning from Post-Edits • (Machine) Translation in Context Program Committee: The submitted papers will be reviewed by a mixed industry–academia committee. Industry members: Fred Hollowood (Symantec), Johann Roturier (Symantec), Dag Schmidtke (Microsoft), Dion Wiggins (Asia Online), Jaap van der Meer (TAUS), Manuel Tomás Carrasco Benítez (DGT of the EC), Daniel Grasmick (Lucy Software), Marc Dymetman (XRCE), Nicholas Stroppa (Google), Tony O’Dowd (Alchemy), Jean Senellart (Systran) Academic members: Michael Carl (CBS Denmark), Eiichiro Sumita (NICT Japan), Julien Bourdaillet (University of Montreal), Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant), Philipp Koehn (EM+), Hans Uszkoreit (EM+), Josef van Genabith (CNGL, EM+), Andy Way (CNGL), Harold Somers (CNGL), Ventsislav Zhechev (EM+, CNGL) Deadlines (all Samoa time 23:59 GMT -11): 29 August 2010 Full Paper Submissions Due 12 September 2010 Acceptance Notifications Sent Out 25 September 2010 Camera-Ready Papers Due Please, direct all enquiries to Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev at emcnglworkshop@me.com For up-to-date information, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 For information about the First Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://www.euromatrixplus.eu/cngl2009 Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev EuroMatrix+ Centre for Next Generation Localisation School of Computing Dublin City University http://VentsislavZhechev.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 Mon Aug 23 19:58:34 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 652D565DA8; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:58:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1721365417; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:58:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100823195833.1721365417@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:58:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.275 getting involved X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 275. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alan Galey (241) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.270 getting involved [2] From: "Martin Mueller" (265) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.273 getting involved [3] From: James Rovira (24) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.273 getting involved [4] From: Doug Reside (71) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.273 getting involved [5] From: Patrick Durusau (102) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.273 getting involved [6] From: Elijah Meeks (8) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.273 getting involved --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:16:59 -0400 From: Alan Galey Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.270 getting involved In-Reply-To: <20100821210601.E900364B81@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Like many questions about outreach, this one comes down to matters of tone as much as matters of content. The programming question has a parallel we could learn from in literary studies and bibliography. Fredson Bowers famously crusaded for bibliographical literacy amongst literary critics in books like Textual and Literary Criticism (1959). That book is full of examples that should make any literary scholar nervous about what he or she doesn't know about editing. Bowers slays interpretational errors, and the literary critics who made them, with with the zeal of a Reformation polemicist. One could imagine a similar book today that substitutes programming for bibliography, and media studies for literary studies. The trouble is, Bowers failed. Anglo-American literary studies, at least, didn't experience any great upsurge of interest in textual matters in the sixties and seventies as far as I'm aware. (Though there were some brilliant editions and textual studies in that period, mostly appreciated by other textual scholars.) There are several reasons why Bowers's message didn't take, but the most pertinent for us, I think, was his tone. Despite being eloquent and knowledgeable about his subject -- and, I would argue, being right -- his tone ranges from chiding to badgering, even verging on moral panic. (Ex: "One can no more permit 'just a little corruption' to pass unheeded in the transmission of our literary heritage than 'just a little sin' was possible in Eden" [p. 8].) It's clear, also, that staking his argument to the future of his own discipline limited his ability to understand the other side. The resulting polemic is about as appealing as a Bill O'Reilly marathon, only smarter. If we want to persuade more mainstream scholars of the value of programming, we need to do what McKenzie, McGann, McLeod (and many whose names don't begin with "Mc") did for bibliography in the eighties and nineties, when the upsurge of interest finally happened. Mainstream literary scholars became interested in bibliography and textual transmission because they saw good reasons to, not because they were hectored into it. I'll bet that at the time, they didn't feel they were simply living up to a professional competency; they probably felt they were doing something new and exciting. Humanities programming could follow the same pattern. If we can show mainstream humanists how to do simple but cool things with programming skills, and how to pick up those skills inexpensively, the force of natural humanistic curiosity should kick in. As Steve Ramsay said on a Digital Campus podcast a while back, programming is just good for your brain. We learn it not because we should, but because we want to. That podcast, along with Matthew Kirschenbaum's Chronicle piece (linked below), are two examples of getting the tone just right. http://digitalcampus.tv/2008/04/21/episode-25-get-with-the-program/ http://chronicle.com/article/Hello-Worlds/5476 Of course, there are plenty of other barriers to "natural humanistic curiosity" kicking in, but that's another thread. All the best, Alan -- Alan Galey Assistant Professor University of Toronto individual.utoronto.ca/alangaley/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:17:04 -0500 (CDT) From: "Martin Mueller" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.273 getting involved In-Reply-To: <20100822200027.4290B664E0@woodward.joyent.us> I think the following is useful advice in any research project, whether digital or not: 1. Know your data 2. Know what it is possible to do with your data 3. Know what somebody else does with your data in your project Turn those propositions into questions. If in the context of a digital project you cannot answer the three questions with a reasonably firm 'Yes', stay away from that project. MM --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:34:17 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.273 getting involved In-Reply-To: <20100822200027.4290B664E0@woodward.joyent.us> I find it amusing that the following two paragraphs appeared in the same digest... Jim R 1. The major reason digital humanities scholars need to understand the programs that provide them with analyses is that those programs can be operating incorrectly and the programmers may not know to check for the types of errors that can occur when processing humanities data; data which may be outside the scope of the types of programs they normally use for text. 2. The authority the scholars of that time gathered through meticulous, slow and inefficient work has been diluted by electronic tools that allowed a broad range of less meticulous contemporaries (in the best sense of that word) to achieve roughly equivalent results, exact bibliographies, appropriate and complete quotations and neatly formatted papers. I agree with the first comment, by the way. I think that every scholar using a digital tool in any field needs to know something about how the tool works and how it can go wrong. I don't think that this means every scholar using a digital tool needs to know programming, though. I think that some humanities scholars need to know programming and that their knowledge is valuable for the rest of us. I just don't think that all humanities scholars need to know programming. Jim R --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:09:03 -0400 From: Doug Reside Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.273 getting involved In-Reply-To: <20100822200027.4290B664E0@woodward.joyent.us> I have trouble understanding the resistance some digital humanists exhibit towards learning programming. The humanities are big and broad enough that, as Jim points out, not everyone need call themselves a digital humanist (just as not every literature scholar must be a new historicist), but when someone takes on the label, then why, for goodness sake, do we as a community have patience with him when he not only does not know, but actually refuses to learn anything about the technologies he is studying? A radio producer does not need to know the precise mechanics of the technology she uses because she is using it as a tool, but a scholar of radio technology should probably know about transistors and electromagnetic spectra. "Collaboration" is regularly thrown out as a common excuse for this sort of willful ignorance, but it has become anathema to me when used in the sense Parrish describes: ----- "to ask programmers to do for you what they know how to do and what would be costly and painful for you to learn--to learn to talk their language but not to get involved in programming research or machine research." ---- This is not collaboration; this is a master-servant relationship. "Learn how to talk their language" (because of course, programmers do not speak the genteel tounges of the humanities scholar) and "ask programmers to do for you..."? And what is the humanist doing for the programmer? Pumping data or contextual information into a database? The work load in such an arrangement hardly seems balanced and is, at least, unsustainable. When the funding ends and the incentive for the programmer to work with the humanist fades, such collaborations often dissolve. If the programmer really likes the project, she could probably keep adding new data now that she knows the disciplinary shibboleth's to feed to Google or WorldCat as search terms, but without the programmer the humanist is left like the Celts with Roman aqueducts they do not know how to extend or repair. I find Peter's conclusion especially interesting and I think it suggests a new model for digital humanities: --- I have great hopes that the Google people and text miners in general, who not only program but think in terms of Markhov chains (and about 20-30 other techniques) for extracting information from text, (unimaginably vast quantities of text), can be brought to literature easier than the current active cohorts of literature people can be brought to mathematical modeling. ----- When I reflect on the amount of time I had to devote to my major in Computer Science as compared to my major (or even Ph.D.) in English I think this is absolutely true. Getting an interested computer scientist situated in a humanities discipline would likely take much less time than getting a humanist trained in advanced math (I say this provocatively in the hopes that someone challenges my assumption and experience). The future of digital humanities may lie with technological disciplines rather than humanities ones. Digital humanists have usually situated themselves in the humanities disciplines because their passion lies with the humanities content area. The result is our DH culture of hacking: usually amateurish work done without much care for sustainability, extensibility, even code review/testing (and in all of this I am the chief of sinners). Useful work has been done in spite of (or perhaps because of) this playful, informal, approach, but if computer scientists could make digital humanities work acceptable in their own communities (either through social change or by finding the right research angle), we might it much easier to answer the perennial challenge to point to significant new knowledge our field has produced. -- Doug Reside, Associate Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland b0131 McKeldin Library College Park, MD  20742 (301) 405-5897 --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:17:37 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.273 getting involved In-Reply-To: <20100822200027.4290B664E0@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, > Two comments on the discussion in Humanist 24.270, > about getting involved. > > First, understanding the algorithmic process step by step. This is > possible and possibly enlightening for simple programs but, I'd think, > not always, and for complex systems not at all. When a system becomes so > large and intricate that its behaviour cannot be predicted, what's the > point? I can see that understanding fundamentals of digital > decision-making from simple examples has great benefits for a scholar > who has never before translated some human task into software. > Understanding how these fundamentals apply to his or her scholarly > objects brings the lesson to life. But how about the situation, now > commonplace, when one simply cannot follow what the software system > does? > Translation into a programming language (or markup for that matter) may result in greater precision in thinking about an issue, but then so would translation into formal logic or even a classical language. That claim is not exclusive to digital computing. I am less certain what to make of your point that "...one simply cannot follow what the software system does?" Do you mean as a lay person? There are situations where under-specified systems have unexpected results but I am not sure why you would think that is relevant to the current discussion? > Second, demonstrating (as we say) "evidence of value" to our colleagues. > Here I am especially interested in getting help with thinking through > the problem. It is a complicated one. And I wonder, after six decades > why do we have this problem? Isn't it worth asking why we ask a question > as well as immediately falling to answer it? > A worthy question but not what provoked my response. In your original post you were objecting to our colleagues seeing computing as a mechanical activity and said: > *our objectives* in using it aren't limited by getting from A to B. > *We* want both the "B" and the "getting" to be dynamical, evolving > processes. With emphasis added, it illustrates the problem rather neatly. Our colleagues have their own goals, methodologies, customs, etc., for their various disciplines. Unless digital computing can be shown to either advance some goal they already seek or to offer some advantage (that they recognize as an advantage) they presently lack, one can hardly blame them for their lack of interest. On what other basis would you interest someone in digital computing? That we think it is important? That hardly seems like a compelling case. Even though I have spent a couple of decades in its pursuit and feel no reason to rue the time spent. If anything, I think the best times for digital humanities lie ahead of us. > I wonder what demos are for, especially why they don't work > particularly well in the research setting, why hands-on is so crucial. > > Of course we need to be better explainers. We in the humanities aren't > practiced in the arts of explanation to non-specialists. Until recently, > I think, we didn't see it as a priority at all (unlike the natural > scientists, who have poured enormous and intelligent efforts into > popularisations). But in addition to assembling an array of success > stories to back up our claims, experience suggests to me that people > don't get it until they can internalise the demonstrated process and > re-imagine it in terms of their own materials. The question is not > simply relevance but relevance to what? It often isn't sufficient to > show, say, a concordance to a Latin text when the person to be persuaded > works with German ones -- German, after all, works differently. I > wouldn't assume that the Germanist is being stupid, only that his or her > imagination hasn't been contacted. Or suppose the Germanist does see the > point of concording. If that sort of process doesn't fit into how the > research has been conceived, then concording might not seem relevant. > Indeed, it might not be at all. But thinking about the project > algorithmically from the get-go, imagining it in those terms, then > implementing it should (I think we want to argue) be one possibility the > Germanist has to hand. If our objective is to increase the range of > human possibility well beyond what we individuals know how to do, then > don't we need the help of people who think other thoughts in other ways? > Even a demonstration of how to drive a car or ride a bicycle doesn't get > the novice very far. > I certainly agree that learning from others who think differently than we do is always a good thing. Whether than leads us towards or away from digital techniques in the humanities. It is simply an enriching experience. Where I disagree is with the apparent presumption that every humanities project should begin with algorithmic design. If it involves digital computing it had better but I suspect that is a fairly small percentage of all humanities projects. Depends on which discipline and tradition. Do you know of any surveys by discipline, political science, sociology, English, etc. of the use of digital computing? Just curious. Thinking looking at where digital computing is or is not used might make our discussions more specific. Hope you are at the start of 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) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:44:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.273 getting involved In-Reply-To: <20100822200027.4290B664E0@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I'm curious as to which large software you're speaking of that becomes so complex as to be unpredictable. I'm not sure that scholars should be using tools that are black boxes, where they throw in their works and let some strange algorithm play with it to produce interesting reinterpretations. I'm also not sure that there are such systems. While I cannot, as Jim can, perform my work with a pad of paper, a library and a writing utensil, I do understand that when I plot a hundred points on a historic map and have ArcGIS rectify that map, that it is creating a spline, based on the variety of differences between the historic map and the modern map. I would be incapable of doing this math by hand and then applying the results to the re-creation of an artistic representation of geography (much less have the artistic ability to paint the new map--something that some folks still can do with a pad of paper and a pen but most of which cannot if divested of their Photoshop). However, I do understand the process. I understand the manner in which the software is aggregating the points and calculating the results. I understand the vagaries of political geography and the problems of historical change versus evidenciary gap. I could not write the software that does this, and when it comes to the higher level mathematical functions I doubt I could even write an effective script of any complexity, but I comprehend the tool. I don't simply wait for the box to return it's interpretation. Likewise, I know that data models have inherent claims, that XML and JSON, while convenient, are also rigid. That does not mean that I do not use them, but it does mean when I do use them I understand how they function, even if I, myself, may be incapable of creating a new standard. To return to my foreign language analogy, while a student of the classics is expected to read Aristotle, they are not expected to write Aristotle. I agree with Jim that there are still areas of the humanities that do not require algorithmic media and therefore do not require algorithmic literacy, but in the areas where the former is true, the latter is also true. Elijah Meeks Digital Humanities Specialist Academic Computing Services Stanford University emeeks@stanford.edu (650)387-6170 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 19:59:44 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 24A93679AB; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:59:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3144B679A3; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:59:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100823195942.3144B679A3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:59:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.276 e-book referencing X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 276. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Sharon K. Goetz" (33) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.272 e-book referencing [2] From: Peter Organisciak (45) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.260 referencing a Kindle book? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:19:04 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: "Sharon K. Goetz" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.272 e-book referencing In-Reply-To: <20100822195537.96F916634C@woodward.joyent.us> Jim, .mobi (Kindle-compatible) and .epub files (displayable on nearly every other dedicated e-reader device) don't have page numbers unless someone went to the trouble of encoding them that way. The advantage is that text reflows depending upon the display size. (This is why I inferred--wrongly--in my prior message that Kindle locations might be fluid; I'm absolutely certain about .epub structure, however.) I've noticed with archive.org .epub files that the more recently added books often include print-equivalent pagination, but the older ones do not. None of the dozen Kindle books I've seen--fiction titles with recent print instances--has included print-equivalent pagination. It'd be helpful to have original pagination reflected in electronic derivatives, but of course not all Kindle or .epub files have print instances, prior or otherwise. Thus Claire's question retains interest for me--and how are we to cite specific segments of .epub texts in a coherent, consistent manner, anyway? Counting unnumbered paragraphs is logical but a bit difficult to execute well if one's display shows less than a full paragraph at a time; not everyone uses MLA; etc. Cheers, Sharon On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > From: James Rovira > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.269 e-book referencing and reading > In-Reply-To: <20100821210116.2DDB5646AA@woodward.joyent.us> > > Claire -- > > Thanks for your reply. So far as I can tell from my own use and others' > replies, though, electronic versions of books do have page numbers; page > numbers are certainly fixed in .pdf files. But, I'd forgotten that the > MLA also recommends citing paragraph numbers for some electronic > sources, which may be a useful practice in your situation. > > Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:32:57 -0500 From: Peter Organisciak Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.260 referencing a Kindle book? In-Reply-To: <20100819195410.0F0A961D73@woodward.joyent.us> Claire, I generally figure out the related page number in the book's print version, most often using Amazon.com's feature for searching within a print book. If the intent of a citation is to direct the reader to the source of the quote, a Kindle citation limits the accessibility due to the hardware and the fact that the e-book will usually have to be purchased. Somebody with a print copy will have a tough time finding a quote from a Kindle location; a person with a Kindle but a page citation can just search for the passage. That's my reasoning. Given no alternatives, I would definitely cite the Kindle book location, but the obstacles to access and lack of permanence with DRM'd files leaves me uneasy. 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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, 21 Aug 2010 23:06:36 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 1, Open Access Journals Bibliography Version one of the Open Access Journals Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. Open access journals publish articles (typically peer-reviewed articles) that are free of charge and, depending on the journal, may be able to be reused under an open license (e.g., a Creative Commons license). This bibliography presents selected English-language scholarly works that are useful in understanding open access journals. It does not cover works about e-prints or works that include open access journals in a treatment of diverse types of research materials. Most sources have been published from 1999 to the present; however, a few key sources published prior to 1999 are also included. 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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: Simon Mahony (30) Subject: Classical Association Conference Durham 2011 [2] From: "Lynn Ransom" (36) Subject: 2010 Schoenberg Symposium Announcement --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:12:00 +0100 From: Simon Mahony Subject: Classical Association Conference Durham 2011 2011 Classical Association Annual Conference Durham University, Friday 15 April - Monday 18 April 2011 A reminder of our call for papers. Please note that the deadline for proposals is 31 August 2010: We welcome proposals for papers (20 minutes long followed by discussion) and coordinated panels (comprising either 3 or 4 papers) from academic staff, graduate students, and school teachers on the topics suggested below, or on any aspect of the classical world. We are keen to encourage papers from a broad range of classical, historical, and archaeological perspectives. Suggested topics: attitudes towards the future in Greece and Rome; memory and forgetting; archives and libraries; Greek epigraphy; display practices and public space; beauty; concepts of authorship and forgery; the identity of the artist; the disciples of Socrates; Greek and Roman historiography; Greek law; Greece and the Near East; Greek epigram; the reception of Augustan poetry; the Œlong¹ third century AD; iconicity of materials; sites of heritage; regionalism in Roman art and architecture; landscape and the environment; reconstruction of ancient remains; e-learning. Title and an abstract (no more than 300 words), and any enquiries should be sent to the address below (preferably by e-mail) not later than 31 August 2010: Paola Ceccarelli, CA 2011, Department of Classics& Ancient History, Durham University, 38 North Bailey, Durham DH1 3EU, UK. Email: CA.2011@durham.ac.uk Tel.: +44 (0)191 3341686 Further details can be found at Website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/classics/events/ca_conference2011/ Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/classicists.html --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:37:42 -0400 From: "Lynn Ransom" Subject: 2010 Schoenberg Symposium Announcement In-Reply-To: <20100822200027.4290B664E0@woodward.joyent.us> 3rd ANNUAL LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG SYMPOSIUM ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE November 19-20, 2010 Cantus Scriptus: Technologies of Medieval Song In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Department of Music, Penn Libraries are pleased to announce the 3rd annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's symposium will be on the theme of music in medieval and early modern manuscripts. We will explore a range of issues relating to music's materiality in the late medieval period, especially as it pertains to the manuscript source. We will bring together scholars and performers who will examine the ways the written text of music, especially in the unit of the codex, can be expressive as well as prescriptive; the multiple functions of music's most important technology - its notation; and finally, the role that modern digital technology can facilitate the study of manuscripts today. The symposium begins Friday evening at the Free Library of Philadelphia with a lecture and performance by the award-winning early music duo Asteria. On Saturday at the University of Pennsylvania, seven speakers will present papers on various topics relating to the history of music manuscripts and notation. The symposium will conclude with a roundtable to discuss issues related to the digitization of music manuscripts and related documents and the role of the digital humanities in medieval musicology. Special exhibitions of music manuscripts will be on view at both institutions. Participants include: Jane Alden, Wesleyan University Julia Craig-McFeeley, Digital Image Archive of Music Manuscripts Michael Scott Cuthbert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Emma Dillon, University of Pennsylvania Lauren Jennings, University of Pennsylvania Susan Rankin, University of Cambridge Anne Stone, City University of New York Emily Zazulia, University of Pennsylvania For program and registration details, go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium3.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 Aug 24 21:11:33 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 DED9361CB8; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:11:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C7E9B61CA5; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:11:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100824211131.C7E9B61CA5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:11:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.279 e-book referencing and evolution X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 279. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (35) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.276 e-book referencing [2] From: Wendell Piez (66) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.264 e-book referencing and reading --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:57:16 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.276 e-book referencing In-Reply-To: <20100823195942.3144B679A3@woodward.joyent.us> Sharon -- my only experience is with the iPad. It does display page numbers, but of course you're right, they're not static. Text that is on page 23 in a vertical orientation is on pages 44-45 in a horizontal orientation. I'm fairly certain that everyone using the iPad will see the same text on the same page(s), but I should have considered that it's very doubtful that the same text would show up on the same page ranges in the smaller-sized Kindle or the Nook or other book readers. I think that paragraph numbers are the only way to go, or to refer to the print edition page numbers as another contributor suggested. But, that latter route can cause problems. For example, I'm looking at a copy of the Confessions of St. Augustine on my iPad right now, a free text provided by Project Gutenberg (thank you!). The front matter informs me that the text was prepared from the 1921 Chatto & Windus edition of the Confessions translated by Edward Pusey. I can find quite a few versions of Pusey's text on Google books, some reprinted very recently, but in a short search can't seem to find that exact edition (I think there's a 1909 CW edition. I've just downloaded an 1838 .pdf). So the best that I can do is read it in my iPad, search the .pdf for the text that I want to quote, and then cite the edition... that I'm not actually reading. I could read the .pdf on my iPad, and could on a Kindle if I owned one -- and then I would have the benefit of fixed page numbers. So perhaps the easiest route would be to just cite editions of texts that do indeed have static page numbers whenever possible? I am aware that not everyone uses MLA, but suggested it because it does establish conventions for this sort of thing and can provide some guidance to someone not seeking to reinvent the wheel with their citations, or seeking at least some ideas about solutions that others have already come up with. I think any sensible and intelligible citation would work, though. Jim R > Jim, .mobi (Kindle-compatible) and .epub files (displayable on nearly > every other dedicated e-reader device) don't have page numbers unless > someone went to the trouble of encoding them that way. The advantage is > that text reflows depending upon the display size. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:28:41 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.264 e-book referencing and reading In-Reply-To: <20100820213732.966B3695B1@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard and HUMANIST, At 05:37 PM 8/20/2010, you wrote: >[Following is an article from the online edition of The Washington Post. >Note the argument concerning e-book readers vs the iPad. As far as I >know, the former fall short for consistently readable versions of >everything but specially prepared e-books. That is, they do not do well >with pdfs one scans oneself. And I have found that in many public >locations, such as trains, the lighting is too dim to make the E Ink >technology effective for comfortable reading. I think, in other words >that we're dealing here with two different styles of reading. >Comments? --WM] > >E-reading: Revolution in the making or fading fad? The development of robust electronic devices for reading and reference will take much longer than people now imagine. Decades rather than years. In this early phase, we have not settled on many of the basics, such as whether and when one wants electronic ink, or a back-lit display, or both or something else; or how a persistent, device-independent, and sufficiently granular referencing apparatus should be designed, implemented and deployed. In spite of these questions, we are seeing the beginnings. But there is also much more to come, which we hardly now imagine. In addition to the way in which we get hung up on the details (which are sometimes critically important, but not of the essence), our expectations are also at fault for distorting our understanding. We suppose that easy things are hard, and hard things are easy. In particular, we are simply oblivious to the high level of expertise we ourselves already bring to reading, even in the most ordinary quotidian uses of newspaper or novel, to say nothing of the expertise embedded in the material technologies that support these. Both the production and "consumption" of books and magazines are outcomes of years of learning and centuries of evolutionary development in the interaction of hand and eye with ink and paper. As technologies, they are well-suited to niches, which are not necessarily filled easily by interlopers. Yet there may also be other ecological niches possible in our oceans of information. This being the case, why should an e-book reader do well with a PDF one scans oneself? PDF isn't designed to support such a use -- its roots are in a printer control language for laying out pages, and an electronic device with a display screen (or two) has no "page" in the sense that PDF understands it. To the extent we can get an e-reader to emulate a page, something can be done. But to expect it to be beautiful or even very serviceable may be no more reasonable than to expect to cook a fine French dinner out of an already prepared Japanese meal. Were I a French chef presented with such a challenge, I hope I'd have the presence of mind to invite myself to sit down with my guests and enjoy it, fresh in its lacquered boxes, without further interference from me. E-readers will become more interesting and useful as they develop into themselves. The current generation of "page-turner" technologies will seem like those printed incunabula that left blanks for the decorator to add illumination. It's not that nice things cannot be done. It's that, in view of the wider possibilities, it seems a very strange thing to be devoted to exclusively. One thing e-books are not is a fad. But they are not books either. 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 Aug 24 21:12:06 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 F25EA62B45; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:12:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0EE8E61C20; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:12:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100824211205.0EE8E61C20@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:12:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.280 getting involved X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 280. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:20:39 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.275 getting involved In-Reply-To: <20100823195833.1721365417@woodward.joyent.us> I think that Alan's advice is very good. There are a great many tasks in humanities study that is made much easier with digital tools; a humanist who is interested in these tasks can probably become excited at the tools allowing them to do so. But, I've been thinking along the lines of the following: > When I reflect on the amount of time I had to devote to my major in > Computer Science as compared to my major (or even Ph.D.) in English I > think this is absolutely true.  Getting an interested computer > scientist situated in a humanities discipline would likely take much > less time than getting a humanist trained in advanced math (I say this > provocatively in the hopes that someone challenges my assumption and > experience). I wish that I could challenge your assumptions and experience, but... a computer scientist who reads enough of the right books can become a good enough humanist in a much shorter time than a humanist can become an equally competent programmer. I think that if we changed our education systems so that students couldn't graduate college without at least two full years of calculus, the situation might be different. That's a change I'd favor, by the way... 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 Tue Aug 24 21:21:43 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 8577C61C33; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:21:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AB6E261C24; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:21:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100824212141.AB6E261C24@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:21:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.281 designing an academic DH department? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 281. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:45:54 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: designing an academic DH department? A speculative question: ideally, in the best of possible worlds, what sort of human and non-human resources would make for a healthy digital humanities academic department meant to serve the research interests of one to two dozen productive scholars at any one time? What sort of people at what level and kind of appointment (professorial and otherwise), what equipment (hard and soft), what other facilities? Broad-brushingly but realistically? What are we now collectively dreaming of that we could actually have if we had the will and the money? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 24 21:26:48 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 58AA161D3D; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:26:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6E09B61D36; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:26:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100824212647.6E09B61D36@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:26:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.282 new publications: text & genre; visions, cartography &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. 24, No. 282. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (45) Subject: new publication [2] From: Willard McCarty (57) Subject: GLIMPSE --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:03:28 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication Some here will appreciate knowing about the following new publication: Willard McCarty, ed., Text and Genre in Reconstruction. Effects of Digitalization on Ideas, Behaviours, Products and Institutions. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2010. In this broad-reaching, multi-disciplinary collection, leading scholars investigate how the digital medium has altered the way we read and write text. In doing so, it challenges the very notion of scholarship as it has traditionally been imagined. Incorporating scientific, socio-historical, materialist and theoretical approaches, this rich body of work explores topics ranging from how computers have affected our relationship to language, whether the book has become an obsolete object, the nature of online journalism, and the psychology of authorship. The essays offer a significant contribution to the growing debate on how digitization is shaping our collective identity, for better or worse. Text and Genre in Reconstruction will appeal to scholars in both the humanities and sciences and provides essential reading for anyone interested in the changing relationship between reader and text in the digital age. Contents Introduction, Willard McCarty 1. Never Say Always Again: Reflections on the Numbers Game, John Burrows 2. Cybertextuality by the Numbers, Ian Lancashire 3. Textual Pathology, Peter Garrard 4. The Human Presence in Digital Artefacts, Alan Galey 5. Defining Electronic Editions: A Historical and Functional Perspective, Edward Vanhoutte 6. Electronic Editions for Everyone, Peter Robinson 7. How Literary Works Exist: Implied, Represented, and Interpreted, Peter Shillingsburg 8. Text as Algorithm and as Process, Paul Eggert 9. ‘I Read the News Today, Oh Boy!’: Newspaper Publishing in the Online World, Marilyn Deegan and Kathryn Sutherland References No. of pages: 256 See http://tinyurl.com/Text-and-Genre for more. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:09:12 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: GLIMPSE Some here will be interested in the online and print publication, GLIMPSE: the art + science of seeing (www.glimpsejournal.com/). Note in particular the Autumn 2010 issue, Text, described thus: > In Glimpse’s issue on "Text," we aim to present a discussion of the > evolution of text, from its appearance in the earliest written > languages to its contemporary forms and theoretical frameworks (i.e. > text messages and semiotics). In addition, this issue will focus on > the visual implications of text: from text in handwriting, typography > and printmaking (examining the physical contours and formation of the > letters themselves), to how we read and cognitively interpret written > symbols. > > We welcome work from a range of disciplines that deal with text in a > physical, cognitive and/or historical context. Contributors might > explore how/why dyslexic brains "flip" letters, and conversely, how > “normal” brains interpret text. We invite work that explores the many > functions of text: as evidence, as identity, as ritual, as social > interaction. We also encourage writers to investigate the revolutions > in technology that changed the face of text, as in the cases of the > printing press and hypertext. > > We invite works that cover any of these suggested topics, and also > encourage submissions that approach relevant issues that are unlisted > here. Submissions may not exceed 3000 words (or 6 pages for > non-textual visual submissions). Research articles presented for the > layperson, essays, interviews, book and film reviews, and visual > spreads are all welcomed. Winter 2011 promises Cartography, "on mapping systems, physical or imagined, on a micro- or macro-scale, that plot out our visible world or unperceived worlds in a linear or non-linear fashion". The current issue, #6, summer 2010, Visions, has the following: INVISIBLE FRIENDS: The creation of imaginary companions in childhood and beyond Dr. Tracy Gleason, Associate Professor of Psychology, Wellesley College THE SIMULATION OF THE GOD EXPERIENCE WITHIN THE LABORATORY Dr. M.A. Persinger, Professor of Psychology, Laurentian University VISION AND VISIONS IN PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA’S LEGEND OF THE TRUE CROSS Dr. Robert Belton, Dean of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia, Okanagan; and Dr. Bernd Kersten, Institut für Psychologie, Abteilung für Kognitionspsychologie, Universität Bern TARA DESCRIBES A PHOTOGRAPH TO ME Arto Vaun, GLIMPSE Staff Poet DECODING THE NEUROLOGICAL BASIS OF SHAMANIC VISIONS: An interview with Dr. Michael Winkelman [web-only extended interview] GLIMPSE's Carolyn Arcabascio NEUTRAL TERRITORIES: The High Sierra - traveling inward Peter Miles Bergman, Artist + Designer; Institute of Sociometry RETROSPECT ca. 1870: The temperance campaign against things that go bump in the night Lauren B. Hewes, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts, American Antiquarian Society OUR INSCAPES PROJECTED OUTWARD: Charles Bonnet Syndrome GLIMPSE's Rachel Sapin PERFORMING IMAGINARY PILGRIMAGES: Re/enacting the cloistered meta-voyages of the 15th-century Sisters of the Dominican Observance [web-only supplementary music and images] GLIMPSE's Carolyn Arcabascio (Re)VIEWS: Requiem, Where the Wild Things Are & Harvey Ivy Moylan, GLIMPSE Film Reviewer 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 Wed Aug 25 21:44:32 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 8CB5463AE7; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:44:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B9F356395B; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:44:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100825214431.B9F356395B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:44:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.283 designing an academic DH department X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 283. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Claire Clivaz (46) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.281 designing an academic DH department? [2] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (70) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.281 designing an academic DH department? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:01:53 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.281 designing an academic DH department? In-Reply-To: <20100824212141.AB6E261C24@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I like this kind of prospective! Such a department would be not only a dream, but also a necessity, a far as I can see. If you imagine a dozen of scholars, I think that about 3 of them should be scholars in New Technologies, and 9 in Humanities. I would ask to the three colleagues in New Technologies for the material. Regarding the 9 scholars in Humanities, the following fields could be represented: Law, Economy, Literature, Philosophy, Antiquity, Sociology, Modern History, Psychology. And may be somebody in Neurobiology for the last job. I wonder if such a department should welcome all the scholars «in situ», or if it could have a virtual part, with collaborations by skype, aso. I mean, if it is difficult in a first step to convince a University to give 12 jobs at the same time, it would be possible to begin with a 5-6 scholars team «in situ» and 6-7 other scholars, who could ask to their institution to delegate them at 50% for the project and work online with the team «in situ». It is of course better to have all scholars «physically» present at the same place, but I try to find a realistic way to begin something. Here in Lausanne, we experiment since a few weeks a very small and informal «digital humanities department» with 4 scholars, with exchanges and draft of projects: Modern History, French Literature, Antiquity and New Technologies. Nice. Yours Claire Clivaz Le 24 août 2010 à 23:21, Humanist Discussion Group a écrit : > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 281. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:45:54 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: designing an academic DH department? > > A speculative question: ideally, in the best of possible worlds, what sort > of human and non-human resources would make for a healthy digital humanities > academic department meant to serve the research interests of one to two > dozen productive scholars at any one time? What sort of people at what level > and kind of appointment (professorial and otherwise), what equipment (hard > and soft), what other facilities? Broad-brushingly but realistically? What > are we now collectively dreaming of that we could actually have if we had > the will and the money? > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, > www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:31:00 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.281 designing an academic DH department? In-Reply-To: <20100824212141.AB6E261C24@woodward.joyent.us> I would see it as involding two clusters of people. The digital humanists and the computer technologists / engineers who were employed within the digital humanities group as dedicated to that group itself. Roughly, I'd see a ratio of 1 computer / engineering professional to 5 or so digital humanists, although the computer staff would have their own hierarchy and there would be senior computer researchers, software/hardware support staff, and computer graduate students. The whole idea would be to create a department involving the two groups in a sort of equality such that the computer people could have their own discussions, plans, etc. for the advancement of the computer's role in developing capabilities in the humanities and the digital humanists could have their own agenda for the humanities that involved using computer tools. It should be possible for both groups to approach the other with ideas about what humanities tasks or software/hardware should be worked on/built/acquired. The dilemma I see in the traditional university environment, where you'd have separate computer science/engineering departments and a digital humanities department (or group within a humanities school) is that you'd wind up with the digital humanities having just computer support staff and the computer science/engineering departments having the truly creative people. That is, the best minds in computing & engineering wouldn't be thinking about digital humanities ideas unless for some reason the computer science / engineering departments happened to pick up someone with those "outside" interests. I think it is impossible to predict which group could make a bigger advance. There are dozens of technologies which digitally-inclined humanists are not aware of, except by chance encounters with these technologies. Similarly, there are dozens of areas within the humanities that computer scientists / engineers don't know exist, to which computer technology / engineering might be applied. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 21:45:46 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 3E5896170D; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:45:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7F63561539; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:45:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100825214544.7F63561539@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:45:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.284 e-book referencing and evolution X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 284. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Claire Clivaz (163) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.279 e-book referencing and evolution [2] From: James Rovira (8) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.279 e-book referencing and evolution --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:31:07 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.279 e-book referencing and evolution In-Reply-To: <20100824211131.C7E9B61CA5@woodward.joyent.us> Dear all, I totally agree with the evaluation of Wendell, notably when he says: “The current generation of "page-turner" technologies will seem like those printed incunabula that left blanks for the decorator to add illumination”. Things are really changing so fast, that it is difficult to imagine the next steps, but they will be «without paper», I guess. I am a humanist scholar (New Testament and Early Christianity) and with a colleague specialist in new technologies, working at the Swiss EPFL (our MIT), we begin to imagine the «post-book» object. So I am interested in every opinion about: how could look like the new digital academic object in Humanities? I mean, a digital object that cannot be printed any more and will more or less replace what we designate as a «book». It seems that we are leaving the «codex» era to the next one. But what will be exactly our next codex? The question of the reference will be of course a crucial one. All suggestions are welcomed! If we can work as we want, we will present our prototype in a meeting in Lausanne in August 2011. Best greetings, Claire Clivaz PS If somebody knows what criteria have been chosen by Amazon for establishing the «location» in the Kindle versions? What means «1» in this kind of «location»? --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:04:05 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.279 e-book referencing and evolution In-Reply-To: <20100824211131.C7E9B61CA5@woodward.joyent.us> Speaking only for myself... because I need and want it to. I don't see everything available on Google books becoming available in epub format right away, nor do I see JSTOR abandoning .pdf format for another right away. I already have hundreds upon hundreds of .pdfs and want to be able to read them conveniently -now-. Jim R > This being the case, why should an e-book reader do well with a PDF > one scans oneself? _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 21:46:58 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 9BBA7627D6; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:46:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C071F6199A; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:46:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100825214656.C071F6199A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:46:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.285 job as software engineer X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 285. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:09:06 +0100 From: Dmitry Babitsky Subject: Senior Software Engineer (NLP expert) Job Position Hello everyone, In case you are interested in job opportunities, or familiar with someone who is, this email might be interesting for you. ForNova, the leader in web data aggregation, is looking for a senior SW developer (NLP expert) to join the core technology team. Job description: Would you like to participate in the development of breakthrough technology that enables unheard scale of web data aggregation? If you do, then this job is for you! ForNova takes web content aggregation to the next level and you could be part of our core development team. Be one of the first to join a recently funded young and agile start-up company. 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Send CV to: dima@fornova.net Thanks, Dima. -- Dmitry Babitsky, CTO | M: +972 (0)54-7828258  | E: dmitry@fornova.net | www.fornova.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 Aug 25 21:49:25 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 EB45063095; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:49:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0F5B66308C; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:49:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100825214924.0F5B66308C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:49:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.286 when phonographs were new X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 286. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:36:12 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: when phonographs were new A textual representation modelling (and therefore reducing) an oral performance: > That is a wonderful machine, but it is cruelly true. It told me, in > its very tones, the anguish of your heart. It was like a soul crying > out to Almighty God. No one must hear them ever again! See, I have > tried to be useful. I have copied out the words on my typewriter, and > none other need now hear your heartbeat, as I did. -- Mina Harker, in Dr Seward's Diary for 29 September; chapter 17 in Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897) Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 Aug 25 21:51:02 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 181546394D; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:51:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D773B6393C; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:50:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100825215059.D773B6393C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:50:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.287 events: art history; e-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. 24, No. 287. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Arianna Ciula (22) Subject: ESF-COST 'Networked Humanities: Art History in the Web': conferenceprogramme [2] From: Marco Büchler (112) Subject: [FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: eHumanities Workshop at 40th Annual Meeting of the German Computer Science Society in Leipzig, Germany] --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:47:12 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF-COST 'Networked Humanities: Art History in the Web': conference programme Dear colleagues, This is just to inform you that the programme for the ESF-COST High-Level Research Conference on 'Networked Humanities: Art History in the Web' (9-14 October 2010, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy) is now available at: http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/details/2010/confdetail342/342-final-programme.html#c59761 The call for papers is now officially closed. However, should you wish to attend the conference please get in touch with the conference officer Ms. Zuzana Vercinska: Ms. Zuzana Vercinska Email (Zuzana.VERCINSKA [at] cost.eu) Phone +32 (0) 25333805 Fax +32 (0) 25333890 Please quote 10-342 in any correspondence 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: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:34:44 +0200 From: Marco Büchler Subject: [FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: eHumanities Workshop at 40th Annual Meeting of the German Computer Science Society in Leipzig, Germany] [We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message] Workshop: eHumanities - How does computer science benefit? Organiser: Prof. Gerhard Heyer and Marco Büchler (Natural Language Processing / CS, University of Leipzig) Dates: --------- Conference Sept. 27th - Oct. 1st, 2010 eHumanities workshop: Thursday Sept. 30th. Registration details: -------------------------------- Registration page: http://www.informatik2010.de/480.html SPECIAL HINT: -------------------------- The workshop is compiled NOT only by presentations of computer scientists BUT researchers from humanities and infrastructure as well. HUMANISTS ARE VERY WELCOME!!! Workshop description: ------------------------------------ In recent years the text-based humanities and social sciences experienced a synthesis between the increasing availability of digitized texts and algorithms from the fields of information retrieval and text mining that resulted in novel tools for text processing and analysis, and enabled entirely new questions and innovative methodologies. The goal of this workshop is to investigate which consequences and potentials for computer science have emerged in turn from the digitization of the social sciences and humanities. The workshop starts with a series of four invited talks by leading researchers in the field of eHumanities. Their presentations will revolve around the question "How can computer science benefit from eHumanities?". The afternoon will focus on demonstrations and discussions of different solutions to an open challenge, which aims to contrast and compare methods used in computer science with those in the humanities.. In this section, members from both fields of the eHumanities community will apply their own methods and tools on data of their choice to solve a set of previously announced problems. The exact challenges will be made public with the official announcement of the workshop and will be focused on current issues of unsupervised semantic analysis of text which are relevant to computer science, e. g. the handling of unexpected relations and associations, the treatment of rare textual patterns, or the merging of heterogeneous sources. The date for the workshop has been fixed on Thursday, September 30th, 2010. Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel (Director IAIS, Bonn/St. Augustin), Dr. Helge Kahler (Federal Ministry of Education and Research - Department of Humanities), Peter Wittenburg (MPG Nijmegen - Project CLARIN) and Prof. Dr. Gregory Crane (Tufts University, Boston - Project PERSEUS) will be the speakers for the morning session. The fixed schedule is as follows: ---------------------------------------------------- 9.00 - 12.30 Talks: "How can computer science benefit from eHumanities?" 9.00 - 10.30 Talks section I Gerhard Heyer, Marco Büchler: eHumanities - How does computer science benefit?, Natural Language Processing Group, University of Leipzig, Germany. Peter Wittenburg1, Erhard Hinrichs2, Dan Broeder1, Thomas Zastrow2: eHumanities - can we manage the complexity? 1MPI für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2University of Tübingen, Germany. Gregory Crane: The Work of the Humanities and Digital Philology. Editor-In-Chief Perseus Project, TUFTS University, Boston, USA. 10.30 – 11:00 Coffee break 11.00 – 12.30 Talk section II Sven Becker, Marion Borowski, Melanie Gnasa, Kai Stalmann, Stefan Wrobel: eHumanities: Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems in Humanities and Cultural Sciences. Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS) and University of Bonn, Germany. Helge Kahler: eHumanities from a funder's perspective. Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany. Open discussion 30 min. 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch break 14.00 - 17.30 Semantic challenge: qualitative versus quantitative methods 14.00 - 15.30 Team 1: Marie-Christine Bornes Varol1, Marie-Sol Ortola2, Jean-Daniel Gronoff3: Specific polysemy of the brief sapiential units. 1Inalco, Paris, 2Université Nancy, 3Dir. Méthodologies sémantiques annotatives, DualSemantics, Paris, France. Team 2: Ingelore Hafemann, Simon Schweitzer: The Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae - an interplay between an electronic corpus of Egyptian texts and the Dictionary of Ancient Egyptian Language. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany. Team 3: Marco Büchler, Gerhard Heyer: Salton and Wittgenstein in the Humanities: About Semantics in Philosophical Texts. Natural Language Processing Group, University of Leipzig, Germany. 15.30 Coffee break 16.00 - 17.00 Team 4: Christoph Schlieder: Digital Heritage: Semantic Challenges of Long-term Preservation. Computing in the Cultural Sciences, University of Bamberg, Germany. Team 5: Alexander Mehler, Nils Diewald, Rüdiger Gleim and Ulli Waltinger: Time Series of Linguistic Networks. Text Technology, University of Bielefeld, Germany. 17.00 – ca. 17:30 Round table with subsequent open discussion Estimated number of participants: 40 Special requirements: internet access, beamer, stage/podium for round table *All welcome* -- Marco Büchler Natural Language Processing Group Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Johannisgasse 26 04109 Leipzig, Germany Room : 5-43 Phone : 0341 / 97-32257 eMail : mbuechler@eaqua.net Web : http://www.eaqua.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 Fri Aug 27 00:47:16 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 F412863E84; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:47:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D2F8D63E68; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:47:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100827004713.D2F8D63E68@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:47:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.288 designing an academic DH department X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 288. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:21:13 -0600 From: Darren James Harkness Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.283 designing an academic DH department I can speak to the professional side on behalf of my own position as a web developer and project manager for the Centre for Research at Athabasca University. We support about a half-dozen active researchers at any given time in DH-like activities, installing software, doing preliminary research, and doing software modification and customization. Although we do rely in small part on our greater IT infrastructure to do our work, we get by with one developer and one systems administrator. I would say that, depending on the scope of work being engaged in by faculty (are we creating a new TaPor, or just investigating the pedagogical benefits of blogging software?) you could comfortably have a ratio of 1 developer for 6-10 active faculty, and one systems administrator for 3-5 developers. In addition, although we don't have the resources for them, I would recommend 1 QA/Tester for every 3-5 developers as well. In addition, the department would benefit from a project manager / coordinator who had development experience to act as a front line between the academic and professional staff, as there can often be cultural translation issues between those two layers. Ideally, this would be a person who has experience in both a professional and academic context. For an active DH department of 12-24 scholars, I would likely recommend a minimum of two developers, ideally split between highly structured languages such as Java and Python and less structured languages like PHP and perl as a way to cover most of your faculty's needs. I would likely recruit a senior Java developer and a junior web developer with good research skills. As a final note on staffing, I would mention that personality and fit are exceptionally important when hiring for an academic environment. It's important to recruit professional staff that have an active interest in, and can adapt easily to, the pace of working in an academic environment. For myself, I want to recruit staff that will push our institutional boundaries, while understanding and respecting the general institutional resistance to change. It's a bit of a balancing act, but one that pays off. Ideally, I would look to recruit from outside the institution as one way of accomplishing this. As for equipment, we've made great use at AU - as have others - of virtualization to provide server environments. One physical server, properly resourced and virtualized, can provide 5-10 virtual server environments. For most things, a virtual environment is virtually (ha) indistinguishable from a bare metal server (it does, however, start to show its limitations when faced with particularly heavy tasks, such as continuous video encoding or other tasks that require constant CPU / memory / disk usage). I'd also recommend a minimum of two physical servers to provide some redundancy for hardware failure and a third server for backup purposes. I would work with your school's CS / IT department to house these, and provide systems administration support, rather than hosting them in-department, as a way of managing ongoing maintenance costs. You will also want to invest in high end workstations for your professional staff, especially developers, as a way of futureproofing your department for the next 3-5 years. Ideally, you could do all of this through an initial 2-3 year grant, attached to a wildly successful project that would guarantee institutional acceptance and inclusion into their regular operation budget. One can dream. --Darren James Harkness webmaster@staticred.net "Ever Tried? Ever Failed? No Matter. Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better." 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 Aug 27 00:47:51 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 2734563FA4; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:47:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8505663EFD; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:47:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100827004749.8505663EFD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:47:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.289 e-book referencing X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 289. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:53:18 -0700 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.284 e-book referencing and evolution In-Reply-To: <20100825214544.7F63561539@woodward.joyent.us> The simplest way to provide reliable referencing for locations in a static edition of an e-book would be the shortest search string which would uniquely take you to the target location. 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 Fri Aug 27 00:49:04 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 3705262064; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:49:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 819F06201C; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:49:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100827004902.819F06201C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:49:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.290 events: The Life of 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. 24, No. 290. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:38:53 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: The Life of Information The Life of Information: A one-day symposium on the design and use of online dictionaries, encyclopedias & collections ncb.anu.edu.au/Life_of_Information/ Friday 24 September 2010 Hedley Bull Centre Australian National University Canberra >Atlas of Living Australia >Austlit: The Australian Literature Resource >Australian Dictionary of Biography >Australian Medical Pioneers Index >Defining Moments >Dictionary of Sydney >Encyclopedia of Australian Science >Gallipoli: The First Day >Invisible Australians >Mapping Our Anzacs >Obituaries Australia >People Australia & Trove Graduate students who use online resources in their research, or are interested in the future of digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, are especially encouraged to register. This is a full-day event (9am — 4pm, with lunch). Attendance is free but places are strictly limited. Register now by email: paul.arthur@anu.edu.au CONVENOR: Paul Arthur Deputy Director of the National Centre of Biography and Deputy General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University. SPEAKERS: Katherine Bode, Lecturer in English, University of Tasmania. From 2011, Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, Australian National University. Ross Coleman Director of Sydney eScholarship at the University of Sydney Library, which provides digital archiving and publishing services to the University. Basil Dewhurst Project Manager, Australian Research Data Commons Party Infrastructure Project, National Library of Australia. Stephen Due Chief Librarian at Barwon Health, Victoria, and Editor of the Australian Medical Pioneers Index. Emma Grahame Editorial Coordinator, Dictionary of Sydney project. Donald Hobern Director of the Atlas of Living Australia, a project integrating information about all Australian species of plants, animals and microorganisms. Ian Johnson Director of the Archaeological Computing Laboratory and Deputy Director of the Digital Innovation Unit, University of Sydney. Tim Sherratt Digital historian and web developer known for his work on innovative digital projects with national collecting institutions. Kerry Taylor Research Scientist at the CSIRO Information and Communication Technologies Centre. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 Aug 28 23:37:35 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 F094A655D3; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:37:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 69D9A654FE; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:37:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100828233733.69D9A654FE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:37:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.291 new publication: capitalism, communication, culture X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 291. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:35:46 +0100 From: Christian Fuchs Subject: Special issue tripleC: Capitalist Crisis, Communication & Culture tripleC (cognition, communication, co-operation): Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. Vol. 8. No. 2: Special Issue on Capitalist Crisis, Communication & Culture Edited by Christian Fuchs, Matthias Schafranek, David Hakken, Marcus Breen http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current Suggested citation: Fuchs, Christian, Matthias Schafranek, David Hakken and Marcus Breen. Eds. 2010. Special issue on “Capitalist crisis, communication & culture“. tripleC (cognition, communication, co-operation): Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 8 (2): 193-309. “Capitalism […] is approaching an apocalyptic zero-point” (Slavoj Žižek). What is the role of communication in the general situation of capitalist crisis? The global economic downturn is an indicator of a new worldwide capitalist crisis. The main focus of most public debates as well as of economic and policy analyses is the role of finance capital and the housing market in creating the crisis, less attention is given to the role of communication technologies, the media, and culture in the world economic crisis. The task of this special issue of tripleC is to present analyses of the role of ICTs, the media, and culture in the current crisis of capitalism. The seven papers focus on the causes, development, and effects of the crisis. Each paper relates one or more of these dimensions to ICTs, the media, or culture. Capitalist Crisis, Communication, & Culture – Introduction to the Special Issue of tripleC Christian Fuchs, Matthias Schafranek, David Hakken and Marcus Breen (Special Issue Editors) pp 193-204 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/228/189 Computing and the Current Crisis: The Significant Role of New Information Technologies in Our Socio-Economic Meltdown David Hakken pp 205-220 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/161/193 The Virtual Debt Factory: Towards an Analysis of Debt and Abstraction in the American Credit Crisis Vincent R. Manzerolle pp 221-236 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/149/192 Calculating the Unknown. Rationalities of Operational Risk in Financial Institutions Matthias Werner and Hajo Greif pp 237-250 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/184/194 Crisis, What Crisis? The Media: Business and Journalism in Times of Crisis Rosario de Mateo, Laura Bergés, Anna Garnatxe* pp 251-274 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/212/195 Anglo-American Credit Scoring and Consumer Debt in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis of 2007 as Models for Other Countries? Thomas Ruddy pp 275-284 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/176/198 Crise, Genre et TIC : Recette pour une Dés-Union Pronon- cée. L’Exemple de l’Afrique du Sud (in French) Joelle Palmieri pp 285-309 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/141/197 -- - - - Priv.-Doz. Dr. Christian Fuchs Unified Theory of Information Research Group christian.fuchs@uti.at Personal Website: http://fuchs.uti.at NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog Research Group: http;//www.uti.at Editor of tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-Operation | Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society http://www.triple-c.at Fuchs, Christian. 2008. Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age. New York: Routledge. http://fuchs.uti.at/?page_id=40 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 23:38:48 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 6CE4A657E3; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:38:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3B8BA65799; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:38:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100828233847.3B8BA65799@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:38:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.292 events: computing & culture X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 292. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:02:59 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Ideas at the Interface of Computing and Culture WORKSHOP SEMINAR Ideas at the Interface of Computing and Culture Centre for Cultural Research and School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Western Sydney Ideas at the interface of computing and culture is a seminar intended to explore what computing as we conceive it can do for the study of human cultures and what that study can do to enlarge and extend our ideas of computing. Three short talks from the perspectives of computer science, archaeology, the digital humanities and cultural research will be followed by a panel discussion, questions and comments from the audience. Date: Monday 13th September Venue: Room EB 1.35 (Access Grid) – Parramatta Campus UWS Also access from nodes at Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Kingswood (Y.2.39) Time: 2.00 – 4.00 p.m. Short Talks (20 min): 1) Dr Anton Bogdanovych and Professor Simeon Simoff, School of Computing and Mathematics, UWS "The City of Uruk, 3000 B.C. : Authentic Interactive Reenactment of Cultural Heritage with 3D Virtual Worlds and Artificial Intelligence” 2) Professor Willard McCarty, Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, UWS and King’s College London “From knowledge jukebox to resonant medium" 3) Dr Ian Johnson, Director Archaeological Computing Laboratory – University of Sydney "History lies in connections, not objects: some reflections on cultural databases" Panel Discussion Professor Brett Neilson Professor Ien Ang Professor Beryl Hesketh General Discussion -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 29 02:40:43 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 8E054635C9; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:40:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 44848635BC; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:40:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100829024042.44848635BC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:40:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.293 new app: FryPaper X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 293. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:26:56 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: FryPaper If you've been prowling around the Apple App Store you may have spotted something I already love, though I have known it for less than an hour. Not quite love at first sight, since I find it difficult to fall in love with software in the process of installation, but certainly love as soon as the FryPaper App fired up and delivered "The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry" for 29 August 2010 to my iPaded gaze. There to be recommended I found "iPhone 4: a Welcome and a Warning" (which gives me two excuses to write about FryPaper) as well as his marvellous speech at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Here is a moment in the development in our besetting technology to be treasured. It's free -- and also available on www.stephenfry.com. Imagine, an intelligent and cultured man waxing enthusiastic over his mobile phone while in the next column he talks about art to "Your Royal Highness, Your Grace, My Lord Bishop, Your Excellencies, Honoured President, Academicians, Lords, Ladies, Gentlemen, artists, art lovers, friends, trustees, donors, distinguished guests and assorted media scum." Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 29 20:03:47 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 63E5863124; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:03:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A2CA563072; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:03:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100829200345.A2CA563072@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:03:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.294 tainted app X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 294. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:35:45 +0100 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.293 new app: FryPaper In-Reply-To: <20100829024042.44848635BC@woodward.joyent.us> I'm disappointed that people can promote Apple products after the recent revelations about the working conditions at Foxconn in China. ________________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Sent: 29 August 2010 03:40 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 Aug 29 20:04:27 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 7B16C6317A; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:04:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 68BB363169; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:04:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100829200426.68BB363169@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:04:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.295 jobs: studentships at Sussex 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="===============1038159490==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============1038159490== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 295. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:23:39 +0100 From: Judith Good Subject: 2 DPhil (PhD) Studentships at the University ofSussex Applications are invited for two fully funded, 3 year DPhil studentships in the School of Informatics, University of Sussex, starting in October 2010. The studentships are associated with a DFID (Department for International Development) funded project, and will focus on the development of a “game for change”. In particular, the aim of the project is to create an online, multi-player, educational simulation game designed to allow students to experience the reality of small-scale farming in a complex environment in Africa. Applicants should have a first degree (and/or a Master’s degree) in Computer Science or a related topic, excellent knowledge of Java, the ability to learn new programming languages as needed, a sound knowledge of a range of HCI techniques including user centred design, an interest in third world issues and an ability to communicate with diverse user groups. Although a fully functioning simulation must be delivered by the end of the three year project period, the students will have the freedom to choose a research topic within the area of educational simulations in conjunction with their supervisor. For example, one might choose to look at the role of affect in learning, or the relationship between different types of representation and learning. Due to funding restrictions, the studentships cover the cost of Home/EU tuition fees only, and provide an annual stipend equivalent to that offered by the EPSRC (currently £13,290). Please send an up to date CV, along with a covering letter explaining how your research interests relate to the project to Dr. Judith Good at J.Good@sussex.ac.uk by 3 September 2010. Dr. Judith Good Director, Interactive Systems Research Group School of Informatics University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QJ Tel. 01273 873 228 J.Good@sussex.ac.uk --===============1038159490== 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 --===============1038159490==-- From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Aug 30 21:23:46 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 6E006659D9; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:23:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CE005659C8; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:23:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100830212344.CE005659C8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:23:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.296 tainted app X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 296. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (45) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.294 tainted app [2] From: Stefan Werner (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.293 new app: FryPaper [3] From: Willard McCarty (29) Subject: sticky sins? [4] From: Jan Christoph Meister (95) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.294 tainted app - Symbolism of the shiny apple [5] From: Vivian Tsang (21) Subject: Fwd: [Humanist] 24.294 tainted app --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:27:52 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.294 tainted app In-Reply-To: <20100829200345.A2CA563072@woodward.joyent.us> Oh please. Unless you sew your own clothing, walk to work, and grow your own food no one can make this argument. Jim R -- Dr. James Rovira Program Chair of Humanities Assistant Professor of English Tiffin University 155 Miami Street Tiffin, OH 44883 (419) 448-3586 roviraj@tiffin.edu Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety http://www.continuumbooks.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:32:04 +0300 From: Stefan Werner Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.293 new app: FryPaper In-Reply-To: <20100829024042.44848635BC@woodward.joyent.us> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Here is a moment in the development in our besetting technology > to be treasured. It's free -- and also available on www.stephenfry.com. Since you mention Stephen Fry and moments to be treasured please also have a look at his 2008 birthday speech in favor of free (not as in beer, but as in speech) software at http://www.gnu.org/fry/ or http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/09/01/happy-birthday-to-gnu/ Best regards, Stefan Werner University of Eastern Finland --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:55:21 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: sticky sins? In-Reply-To: <20100829024042.44848635BC@woodward.joyent.us> David Postles indirectly raises a very interesting question with wide application: to what degree does the morality of the making of an object inhere in that object? This is different from the practical concerns of someone motivated to stop evil practices by boycotting their products or by more radical actions. But in both cases I ask isn't all money blood-money? One could argue that if you do good with your iPhone 4, or with any thing that is bound to involve unethical practices, then your celebration of the iPhone, or whatever, is justified. Note, however, Fry's celebration of Wilde, who lived in an age of strong convictions about what was good and what was not, and recall what happened to him. The case of computing is a particularly interesting one historically, esp during the Cold War, when the "electronic battlefield" was a weird reality and when the use of computers to control nuclear missles was in the public gaze, indeed celebrated. This was also a time when computers were only the big hulks affordable only by large organizations and used often (as undoubtedly they still are) for nefarious purposes. What then did it mean for the ethically conscious scholar to mess with machines? I am not at all suggesting that we turn aside the problem, rather that we consider how human a problem it really is. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:07:33 +0200 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.294 tainted app - Symbolism of the shiny apple In-Reply-To: <20100829200345.A2CA563072@woodward.joyent.us> 30.08.10 10:44 Willard, thanks for the pointer. After reading Fry's appleophatic piece (and after watching his sickenengly sycophantic video clips on the subject of his initiation to the iPad) I wonder whether he shouldn't have put his wit and eloquence to better use. In fact, the entire debate on Apple's pros and cons and the mystique of its gadgets has a coquettish ring that smacks of a somewhat dated and self-conscious postmodernist attitude. Are we really still celebrating our technophile follies tongue in cheek, or aren't we plainly rationalising our niche brand of 21st century consumerism by giving it a bit of manierist veneer made up of 2 parts chic-design pleasure and 1 part software ergonomics appraisal? Don't get me wrong; to my Nietzschean mind there's nothing wrong with conscious aestheticism. I, too, believe that my MacBook Pro is the sexiest, best-designed piece of laptop hardware currently on the market. I also believe that the Mac's 'Finder' is one of the crappiest and most dumbing pieces of software I have ever encountered. Drop me on a Pacific island for a four week holiday and I'll happily take my Mac along, but send me on a space mission and sure as hell I will resort to my Lenovo - but you might decide otherwise and that's OK with me. I guess we can afford this attitude of laissez-faire since in our line of work computing devices are not really of an existential significance - we might like to believe that our life will come to an end if the thing fails, but it surely won't. On that score it is perhaps also unfair to compare a comparatively young technology like personal computing devices with a more established one like, say, motor vehicles - yet the fact of the matter is that Macs, PCs, smartphones of the various brands and the likes of all these tools and gadgets still have a long way to go before they will come close to the intuitive usability, level of reliability and existential impact in terms of how they effortlessly augment our lives that one gets with, say, a 5-series BMW. Take one of those for a spin and you will experience the difference that still sets an all-encompassing sensual encounter with modern technology apart from the bursts of clinical mind-fuck and virtual omnipotency provided by digital consumer goods, moreover as that pleasure is already subsconsciously negated by the anticipation of the next product launch. (Husserl would have had a field day here - it's a life under the condition of 'Protension' par excellence.) But then this is not really the argument worth spending any more time on: which brand of xyz (smartphone, e-book, notebook, pocket-size-jacuzzi, motor vehicle or identity enhancer of whatever nature) is better, sexier, more rewarding or even more functional than the other, and for how long. My point is: can't we elevate this debate onto a different level? Yes, one might be the moral one; I think there is absolutely nothing wrong with re-raising the moral question of the downsides of capitalist consumerism and how our first world lust for goods and gadgets impacts on the lives of other human beings. A second that comes to mind is the political one: here we are as Digital Humanists, raising our voices for the noble cause of Open Access - and at the same time we should be happy to defend as a minor aberration a marketing and product ideology that has a decisively fascist ring to it? That's a really strange relapse of ego-te-absolvo post-modernist relativism. Finally, a third take on the subject that would really interest me is the question of the conceptual cost-benefit ratio that comes with improved hard- and software ergonomics. Let me use an example to illustrate what I mean by this. When I eventually got rid of my 1982 rust-bucket of a Nissan Patrol and swapped it for a 1992 V6-Mitsubishi this was a really soothing experience: a much more comfortable drive, better suspension, no rain water leaking in from the roof and through the doors etc.. But to this day it gives me the creeps to imagine breaking down on a desert trip with the newer vehicle: it has - fuel injection. That's something that you cannot repair with a hammer and a screwdriver; it's something controlled by a piece of circuitry and electronics that lives inside a block of melted black plastic. And I also still yearn for the brute-force torque of a petrol-guzzling straight six engine, for the atavistic pleasure of experiencing the basic principle of the machine. Ultimately, for me the pleasure resides in understanding how it works - even if that can only be consciously experienced ex negativo, that is, when it doesn't. Technology gets smoother, easier to handle, wraps itself around us and our needs (or what we believe to be our needs) and thus gradually attains the quality of a natural extension of our selves that becomes completely opaque. Is this what we as Humanists and custodians of man's critical faculty should really aspire to and propagate? Aren't things that break, resist and that we can take apart and re-assemble much more rewarding to our intellect than the smooth and shiny placebos that drop into our laps and which we then wave at one another in childish amazement? Isn't it high time we rather spent some thought on the symbolism of the shiny apple on the lid, of the multi-color crusader's flag that waves at us on log-in? Chris (PS: Not sure what to make of the penguin though.) ___________________________________________________ Jan Christoph Meister Professor für Neuere deutsche Literatur (Literaturtheorie, Textanalyse, Computerphilologie) Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften Fachbereich SLM I - Institut für Germanistik II Von-Melle-Park 6 20146 Hamburg Office: +49 40 42838 2972 Cell: +49 172 40 865 41 Web: www.jcmeister.de --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:21:35 -0400 From: Vivian Tsang Subject: Fwd: [Humanist] 24.294 tainted app In-Reply-To: <20100829200345.A2CA563072@woodward.joyent.us> But at the current market price, how can any of the computing devices not be "blood diamonds" (i.e., produced under disturbing conditions)? With or without the news coverage? Either the labour is cheap, or the raw parts are cheap (low quality?)... something has to be cheap. There is much to complaint about the ethical business practices in the computing world. For example, many companies promote themselves as being environmentally conscious. But by putting out new products at a faster and faster rate, they are essentially asking people to produce more and more waste (by purchasing more and more toys), regardless of how environmentally friendly the computing components are. But what do we do? Do we boycott certain companies? Do we stop using computers altogether? As users and consumers, it seems that we are just as much to blame as these companies. Vivian Tsang Post-Doc Fellow Bloorview Research Institute Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:35:45 +0100 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.293 new app: FryPaper In-Reply-To: <20100829024042.44848635BC@woodward.joyent.us> I'm disappointed that people can promote Apple products after the recent revelations about the working conditions at Foxconn in China. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 30 21:24:45 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 C148A6618F; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:24:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 662D166188; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:24:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100830212444.662D166188@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:24:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.297 designing an academic DH department X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 297. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:25:08 +0200 From: Julianne Nyhan Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.288 designing an academic DH department In-Reply-To: <20100827004713.D2F8D63E68@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, In addition to the ideas already put forward, I think that such a department should also have a Chair in the 'Public Communication of Science (i.e. Wissenschaft) and Technology'. Ideally, the post holder would discuss and explain DH research to the general public and to other members of the Academy with different disciplinary backgrounds. Such a post would be relevant to my dream DH department because, inter alia, it could make a real contribution to helping us imagine and explore new kinds of projects and partnerships, both within and outside the Academy. It is also important in the context of the difficulties Humanities is facing in many parts of the world. All the best, Julianne -- Dr Julianne Nyhan, Kompetenzzentrum für elektronische Erschließungs- und Publikationsverfahren in den Geisteswissenschaften Universität Trier Fachbereich II / Germanistik Universitätsring 15 54286 Trier + 49 (0)651 201-3358 http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/KoZe2/ http://epu.ucc.ie/theses/jnyhan/ http://maney.co.uk/index.php/journals/isr/ http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/SIG/Education/index.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 Mon Aug 30 21:25:43 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 1BF3866290; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:25:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EC91E66273; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:25:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100830212540.EC91E66273@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:25:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.298 jobs at UIUC X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 298. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:28 -0500 From: John Unsworth Subject: faculty positions available The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, seeks to hire more than one outstanding full-time faculty member to join our dynamic and collegial program. Although strong candidates in any area are encouraged to apply, specializations of particular interest include: archives and archival theory, socio-technical systems, data curation, community informatics, information organization and semantic technologies, information seeking, information visualization, management and evaluation of information services and organizations, emergent reading technologies and media literacies, youth and digital culture. Review of applications begins December 1st, 2010. For the full announcement, see https://jobs.illinois.edu/default.cfm?page=job&jobID=3239 John Unsworth _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 30 21:26:42 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 6606766321; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:26:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4D9AD66319; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:26:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100830212641.4D9AD66319@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:26:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.299 events: MT (extended deadline) X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 299. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:57:23 +0100 From: "Венцислав_Жечев_ Subject: EXTENDED DEADLINE CFP: Workshop "Bringing MT to the User: Research onIntegrating MT in the Translation Industry" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- !!! EXTENDED DEADLINE !!! FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry" Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2010) http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- At the AMTA 2010 conference (http://amta2010.amtaweb.org), the EuroMatrix+ Project (http://www.euromatrixplus.eu) and the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (http://cngl.ie) are organising the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, titled "Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry". The workshop will take place in Denver, Colorado on 4 November 2010, immediately after the main AMTA 2010 conference. Premise: Recent years have seen a revolution in MT triggered by the emergence of statistical approaches to MT and improvements in translation quality. MT (rule-based, statistical and hybrid) is now available for many languages for free on the Web and is making strong inroads into the corporate localisation and translation industries. Open-source MT solutions are competing with proprietary products. Increasing numbers of translators are post-editing TM/MT output. At the same time, there has been some disconnect between academic research on MT, which (rightly so) focuses on algorithms to increase translation quality, and many of the practical issues that need to be addressed to make MT maximally useful in real translation and localisation scenarios. Objectives: This workshop will bring together MT researchers, developers, industrial users and translators to discuss issues that are most important in real world industrial settings involving MT, but currently not very popular in research circles. Workshop Chairs: Ventsislav Zhechev Philipp Koehn Josef van Genabith Call for Research Papers: For this workshop we solicit full research papers with industry or academic background to highlight the real-world issues that need to be tackled by new research and the recent academic advancements that improve translation quality, as well as novel and successful methods for the integration of Machine Translation with Translation Memories or Localisation Workflows. We will accept research paper submissions (reviewed anonymously) for oral presentation and publication. Papers should present clearly identifiable problem statements, research methodologies and measurable outcomes and evaluation. The papers should follow the submission guidelines for the research track of the main AMTA 2010 Conference (http://amta2010.amtaweb.org/cfp-mt.htm), with the maximum length being 10 pages in US Letter format, including references. Please, do not include your name in the paper text and avoid overt self-references to facilitate the blind review process. If a paper is accepted, at least one author will have to register through the AMTA 2010 website and travel to Denver to present it. Topics include but are not limited to: • MT/TM in Localisation/Translation Workflows • MT/TM Combinations • Post-Editing Support for MT • MT and Monolingual Post-Editing • MT Confidence Scores and Post-Editing Effort • Training Data for MT: Size, Domain and Quality • Data Cleanup and Preparation for MT • Meta-Data Mark-Up/Annotation and MT • Terminology and MT • Costing/Pricing MT • MT for Free/for a Fee • Rule-Based, Statistical and Hybrid MT • Computing Resources for MT • MT in the Cloud • MT and the Crowd • Smart Learning from Post-Edits • (Machine) Translation in Context Program Committee: The submitted papers will be reviewed by a mixed industry–academia committee. Industry members: Fred Hollowood (Symantec), Johann Roturier (Symantec), Dag Schmidtke (Microsoft), Dion Wiggins (Asia Online), Jaap van der Meer (TAUS), Manuel Tomás Carrasco Benítez (DGT of the EC), Daniel Grasmick (Lucy Software), Marc Dymetman (XRCE), Nicholas Stroppa (Google), Tony O’Dowd (Alchemy), Jean Senellart (Systran) Academic members: Michael Carl (CBS Denmark), Eiichiro Sumita (NICT Japan), Julien Bourdaillet (University of Montreal), Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant), Philipp Koehn (EM+), Hans Uszkoreit (EM+), Josef van Genabith (CNGL, EM+), Andy Way (CNGL), Harold Somers (CNGL), Ventsislav Zhechev (EM+, CNGL) Deadlines (all Samoa time 23:59 GMT -11): 09 September 2010 Full Paper Submissions Due 20 September 2010 Acceptance Notifications Sent Out 27 September 2010 Camera-Ready Papers Due Please, direct all enquiries to Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev at emcnglworkshop@me.com For up-to-date information, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 For information about the First Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://www.euromatrixplus.eu/cngl2009 Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev EuroMatrix+ Centre for Next Generation Localisation School of Computing Dublin City University http://VentsislavZhechev.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 Tue Aug 31 23:53:25 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 9070766BDD; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:53:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CC36366BD5; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:53:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100831235324.CC36366BD5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:53:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.300 tainted app X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 300. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:54:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.296 tainted app Perhaps I may be allowed to say that I would personally be pleased if Jan Christoph Meister's question yesterday from Hamburg, "Is this what we as Humanists and custodians of man's critical faculty should really aspire to and propagate?", and the one that immediately followed it, will not be received in this forum as, in effect, only rhetorical ones. ( Maybe I'm not the only one who was coincidentally almost as gratified to see them crop up here as I was to see Julianne Nyhan's extremely apt contribution from Trier that came through a bit later, on the other current thread of "designing an academic DH department". ) One thing that does puzzle me, though, is the apparent abandon with which the characterization "postmodern" has been, here yet again, and seemingly gratuitously, tossed in at a couple of points to underscore, as it were, the indignatory or condemnatory flavor of the passage concerned. I hardly want to single out JCM on this ; and maybe -- though that's not really clear to me -- he had better reasons to apply such terminology than many of those who ( in my opinion ) cavalierly do so. Or possibly I am myself just missing some important message here. But to be more positive : maybe it would on the other hand be appropriate and/or helpful, not least so in the present discussion, to ask whether Latour might not indeed have been on the right track when he emphatically -- in fact on his very title page -- proposed that "Nous n'avons jamais été modernes" ? - Laval Hunsucker Breukelen, Nederland ----- Original Message ---- From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sent: Mon, August 30, 2010 11:23:44 PM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 31 23:54:39 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 0BFD566CBD; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:54:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7824E66CB4; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:54:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100831235437.7824E66CB4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:54:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.301 event & funding: textual criticism of oriental mss X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 301. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:52:29 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF COMSt workshop and grants: Textual Criticism of Oriental Manuscripts Dear colleagues, The team on Philology and Text Criticism of the ESF Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies (COMSt) Research Networking Programme is organising a workshop on 'Textual Criticism of Oriental Manuscripts' in Leuven, Belgium (25-26, October 2010). For a preliminary programme see http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/meet2-1.html The meeting is open for everyone to attend. In addition, three travel grants are available (see http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/bandi.html). The application deadline is 30 September 2010. 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 31 23:55:35 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 532AD66D5D; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:55:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8D10266D48; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:55:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100831235533.8D10266D48@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:55:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.302 getting involved X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 302. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:28:29 -0400 From: Allen Beye Riddell Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.280 getting involved In-Reply-To: <20100824211205.0EE8E61C20@woodward.joyent.us> > I wish that I could challenge your assumptions and experience, but... > a computer scientist who reads enough of the right books can become a > good enough humanist in a much shorter time than a humanist can become > an equally competent programmer. There are some important counterexamples out there. I've run across a fair number of PhDs in Computer Science who have a BA in Classics. One concentration seems to be in Massachusetts -- with UMass (CS), Tufts, and Harvard. On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 21:12 +0000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 280. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:20:39 -0400 > From: James Rovira > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.275 getting involved > In-Reply-To: <20100823195833.1721365417@woodward.joyent.us> > > I think that Alan's advice is very good. There are a great many tasks > in humanities study that is made much easier with digital tools; a > humanist who is interested in these tasks can probably become excited > at the tools allowing them to do so. > > But, I've been thinking along the lines of the following: > > > When I reflect on the amount of time I had to devote to my major in > > Computer Science as compared to my major (or even Ph.D.) in English I > > think this is absolutely true. Getting an interested computer > > scientist situated in a humanities discipline would likely take much > > less time than getting a humanist trained in advanced math (I say this > > provocatively in the hopes that someone challenges my assumption and > > experience). > > I wish that I could challenge your assumptions and experience, but... > a computer scientist who reads enough of the right books can become a > good enough humanist in a much shorter time than a humanist can become > an equally competent programmer. > > I think that if we changed our education systems so that students > couldn't graduate college without at least two full years of calculus, > the situation might be different. That's a change I'd favor, by the > way... > > 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 Sep 1 00:23:55 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 2186A65C30; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 00:23:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1769165C07; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 00:23:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100901002353.1769165C07@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 00:23:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.303 designing an academic DH department X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 303. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:21:42 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: designing a digital humanities department My speculative question about what sort of digital humanities department we might want elicited 4 responses. Allow me to summarize these here. All four of the responses argued for or assumed that the department would comprise both technical, academic-related staff and those with established academic posts. Bob Amsler, in 24.283, put forth a cogent argument for having both groups in the same department: "a department involving the two groups in a sort of equality such that the computer people could have their own discussions, plans, etc. for the advancement of the computer's role in developing capabilities in the humanities and the digital humanists could have their own agenda for the humanities that involved using computer tools". Claire Chavez, in the same number, simply assumed this would be the case, as I would, since it seems now quite obviously the way to go. Both Amsler and Darren James Harkness, in 24.288, specified ratios of technical to non-technical staff. Julianne Nyhan, in 24.288, gave a brief but strong argument for a chair whose primary role would be to talk to the public outside the academy and to those in other disciplines -- a St Paul to the techno-humanistically unaware. Julianne's imagined chair denotes a role I have had for years, so you might expect me to agree with her enthusiastically. But my agreement is based more on the experience of doing the job and the conviction that we have a vital role to play in the future of the academy and our societies, indeed a crucial one. We are *already* out in the public sphere, already on the loose in the disciplines, so we had better be able to explain what motivates us and why we deserve respect and our salaries. In some countries the time has already come when justification (a.k.a. a "business case") is required. For the others I would guess that it's just around the corner. Comments? Yours, W -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 1 20:22:30 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 9DF705AAAF; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:22:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DFAD55AAA5; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:22:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100901202229.DFAD55AAA5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:22:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.304 designing an academic DH department X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 304. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Claire Clivaz (69) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.303 designing an academic DH department [2] From: James Cronin (83) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.303 designing an academic DH department [3] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (75) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.303 designing an academic DH department --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:20:35 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.303 designing an academic DH department In-Reply-To: <20100901002353.1769165C07@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, A lot has already be done, it is clear, but the situation changes drastically depending on the fields in Humanities. In my own field - early Christianity -, some parts are really alive - New Testament manuscripts, for example -, other parts of the field are really not convinced about the present challenges. So when one tries to get money of fundraising about a «digital humanities» project, everything depends on the global appreciation of the situation by the advanced scholar who stands in front of you. This period of «transition» is not always easy, notably in the discussion with our usual editors who have difficulties to imagine to abandon the papers editions, but the young generation of PhD students is really waiting for changes, and it is nice to try working for them. I know perfectly that I belong to a quite conservative field in Humanities regarding these questions: the challenge is huge for all the sciences of Antiquity, and particularly for the editions of ancient manuscripts. PS My name is «Clivaz», not Chavez :-) Claire Clivaz Prof. of New Testament and Early Christian Literature University of Lausanne (CH) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:45:13 +0100 From: James Cronin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.303 designing an academic DH department In-Reply-To: <20100901002353.1769165C07@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I am following, with interest, your conversation thread. Suggestions, so far, propose a model along the lines of established disciplinary and departmental structures. While it is understandable to want to reproduce structures institutions are familiar with, nevertheless, no matter what structure institutions may adopt, it is essential, I feel, to foster collaborative cultures between all participants be they academic, technical, or academic-related post-holders. Forming such cultures requires leadership, institutional support and a willingness on the part of all participants, irrespective of their individual disciplinary backgrounds, to engage in dialogue and dissemination. All this will inevitably take time and ideally begins at the recruitment phase. As your initial speculative question is an invitation to imagine an ideal scenario, is there value in speculating on the potential merits of different models of group affiliations and organisational structures or is this a step too far? Regards, James Cronin, University College Cork --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:49:38 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.303 designing an academic DH department In-Reply-To: <20100901002353.1769165C07@woodward.joyent.us> Interesting. Two questions: (1) What does the (digital) humanities owe society? (2) What does society owe the (digital) humanities? "digital" is in parentheses because the answers in both cases will tend toward answering the same question without 'digital'. That is, when funding comes up, society will not merely accept that "because you fund the humanities, you should fund the digital humanities" It's a matter of why the humanities itself is relevant in the digital age. Society probably accepts the argument that the humanities would evolve to adopt digital methods; society would expect every pursuit of knowledge to so adapt. (One could ask, horror be the question, why should non-digital humanities continue? -- It's akin to asking why should society pay for public care for horses now that we have automobiles. The answer of course is that there are still many places you can't reach except on horseback and that horses have some advantages in the management of crowds of people, etc. Rememeber this is 'public' funds for horses; not private funding because rich or commercial interests appreciate horses.) I think fundamentally, the digital humanities (DH) needs to offer society the comfort of knowing that non-digital humanities will be transitioned into the digital age preserving its essential qualities; preserving the things that society valued in the non-digital humanities. Second, that the DH needs to offer society satisfaction that the humanities will benefit from the addition of digital methods. That digital humanists will chart a safe course through the iceberg-filled waters of the digital realm preserving what the humanities has meant to civilization until now. The challenges of the digital realm are many. There is the creation and hence transformation of all artifacts to have digital replicas. There is the consequences of unlimited storage of and immediate access to, vastly more digital information than was possible in a physical world. It makes a difference if the amount of immediately available information on a subject exceeds the amount any one person can read or if that access comes without any accompanying context to explain it. New tools are needed to cope with those problems. It matters if software can abstract from the collected works of an author their style sufficiently well to replicate it independent of their works--which might soon be possible, as it is now possible for computer software processing music or other arts. We must anticipate computers being able to imitate any human skill that can be adquately described. (Exceeding that skill is a wholly different matter, since we have little evidence that computers can be programmed to be that creative). The digital humanities will also have to offer society a prioritization schedule for the preservation of non-digital artifacts and its assessment of the benefits of evolving digital preservation methods. Institutions, such as the Library of Congress, seem to be working quite actively on some aspects of this. Text Encoding methods need to be sharply critiqued to be certain the results are better than access to the original data; and that nothing that could be done before has been lost. (The discussion of how to reference location in e-text is an excellent example of what can go wrong here. It isn't just being able to find the location for a new reader--it's how to 'sync' the new location to references in past literaure based on older methods. When all copies of an obscure early edition have disappeared, how will "page 42" be uniquely identified in the future? When one uses a Project Gutenberg text, what can one say about 'edition' when that information wasn't uniquely preserved.) What does society owe the digital humanities?... Well, for one thing it owes DH the funds to perform the digitization of artifacts. This is, of course, a pitched battle between DH and other fields that also want computer resources. The DH argument to support its case should be twofold, (a) preserve what is in danger of being lost without preservation (b) transform that which will yield the most new results ("bang for the buck") based on the new abilities of digital processing. The DH has the same goal as the humanities itself, offer the public results which will enrich their ability to understand themseves and the world, to appreciate and understand the past, to interpret the future. Once upon a time someone from the classical humanities said to me, "Computers are going to destroy everything!". I replied, "No, they are simply going to transform it beyond recognition". The digital humanities has to oversee that transformation so that 'beyond recognition' doesn't mean irretrievable. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 20:23:05 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 ADD7E5AAF2; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:23:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D02C45AAE2; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:23:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100901202303.D02C45AAE2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:23:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.305 getting involved X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 305. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:10:16 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.302 getting involved In-Reply-To: <20100831235533.8D10266D48@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks for the response, but is that really a counterexample? Primary competence in computer science (Ph.D.), secondary competence in humanities (B.A.). Jim R >> I wish that I could challenge your assumptions and experience, but... >> a computer scientist who reads enough of the right books can become a >> good enough humanist in a much shorter time than a humanist can become >> an equally competent programmer. > > There are some important counterexamples out there. I've run across a > fair number of PhDs in Computer Science who have a BA in Classics. One > concentration seems to be in Massachusetts -- with UMass (CS), Tufts, > and Harvard. > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 20:25:25 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 053885ABE3; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:25:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 80A7E5ABC1; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:25:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100901202522.80A7E5ABC1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:25:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.306 events: DH2011; Literacy in Oral Cultures X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 306. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrew Prescott (75) Subject: Literacy in Oral Cultures: Call for Papers [2] From: Katherine L Walter (182) Subject: Digital Humanities 2011 Call for Posters, Short Papers, Long Papers, and Sessions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:48:19 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Literacy in Oral Cultures: Call for Papers *CALL FOR PAPERS* *Literacy in oral cultures: conflicts, compromises and complications* URL: http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii/ Email: LOCsymposium@gmail.com Date: 25 November, 2010. Location: University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. ****** Deadline for submission to Call for Papers: 20^*th* * September 2010 ******* Before Western colonial intervention, the culture and bureaucracy of sub-Saharan Africa was predominantly transmitted orally through ritual, storytelling, music, etc. For many years, the literate western colonial bureaucracy laboured to transform Africa and the evidence of the interaction between these two cultures is documented and preserved in the national archives of almost all African countries. This is, however, an incomplete record of bureaucratic process and ownership; the voices of Africans are largely silent in this official record. A free two-day symposium, /Literacy in oral cultures: conflicts, compromises and complications/, is hosted by the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) within the School of Humanities of the University of Glasgow. This symposium will provide a forum for renowned academics in African history both from the UK and Africa, surviving British former administrators in colonial Africa, UK scholars who have experience in using the archives in Africa, archivists, post-graduate students, researchers and many others, to discuss a range of critical issues surrounding media and memory in pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial Africa. The symposium keynote speakers will be Ivan Murambiwa, Director of the National Archives of Zimbabwe and Professor Kings Phiri of the University of Malawi. Although the conference is primarily for postgraduate students, everyone is invited to submit abstracts of papers and presentations for one of the three student panel discussions whose suggested themes are outlined below. Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be emailed to LOCsymposium@gmail.com by *14*^*th* * August 2010*. Applicants should include their names, details of their institution and phase of study, and indicate for which panel they consider their paper most relevant. /*Panel 1: Media and memory in oral cultures (pre-colonial era)*/: * What can we learn from the culture which existed before colonialism? * What are the dynamics of oral, aural, visual and material practices in oral cultures? * How does this differ from literate cultures? /*Panel 2: Literacy in oral cultures (colonial era)*/: * When oral cultures encounter literacy, how do they co-exist and to what extent do they cross-pollinate? * Is postcolonial African culture necessarily a hybrid culture? * How is this encounter reflected in the archives of colonial bureaucracy and tribal memory? * Whose voices remain silent in either place? /*Panel 3: Compromises and complications (post-colonial era)*//:/ * How do we include the voices of the people (oral history, internet fora, etc.)? * What ethical, legal, political and economic issues surround such an aim? * Whose responsibility is it? -- Professor Andrew Prescott Director of Research Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute University of Glasgow George Service House 11 University Gardens Glasgow G12 8QQ Tel: +44 (0)141 330 3635 Mobile: +44 (0)774 389 5209 Fax: +44 (0)141 330 1675 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:42:06 -0500 From: Katherine L Walter Subject: Digital Humanities 2011 Call for Posters, Short Papers, Long Papers, and Sessions Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2011 Call for Papers Hosted by Stanford University 19-22 June 2011 http://dh2011.stanford.edu Abstract deadline: November 1, 2010 (Midnight GMT). Please note: The Program Committee will not be offering an extension to the deadline as has become customary in recent years. The deadline of November 1 is firm. If you intend to submit a proposal for DH2011, you need to submit it via the electronic submission form on the conference website by November 1 Presentations include: Posters (abstract max of 1500 words) Short papers (abstract max of 1500 words) Long papers (abstract max of 1500 words) Multiple paper sessions, including panels (overview max of 500 words) Call for Papers Announcement I. General Information The international Program Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of digital humanities, from information technology to problems in humanities research and teaching. We welcome submissions particularly relating to interdisciplinary work and on new developments in the field, and we encourage submissions relating in some way to the theme of the 2011 conference, which is Digital Humanities 2011: Big Tent Digital Humanities. With the Big Tent theme in mind, we especially invite submissions from Latin American scholars, scholars in the digital arts and music, in spatial history, and in the public humanities. The conference web site is in development at http://dh2011.stanford.edu will be developing over the next few weeks. The program committee aims for a varied program and for that reason will normally not accept multiple submissions from the same author or group of authors for presentation at the conference. Proposals might, for example, relate to the following aspects of digital humanities: research issues, including data mining, information design and modelling, software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital medium; computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship. Some examples might be text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning, and endangered languages; the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theater, new media, and related areas; the creation and curation of humanities digital resources; the role of digital humanities in academic curricula; The range of topics covered by digital humanities can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press. The deadline for submitting poster, short paper, long paper, and sessions proposals to the Program Committee is November 1, 2010. Since the deadline is firm, we urge you to begin preparing your proposals before the submission form is ready. Presenters will be notified of acceptance on February 15, 2011. The electronic submission form will be available on the conference site the beginning of October 2010. See below for full details on submitting proposals. A separate call for pre-conferences and workshops will be issued by the Program Committee next week. In addition, proposals for non-refereed or vendor demonstrations should be discussed directly with the local conference organizer, Glen Worthey, as soon as possible. His email address is gworthey@stanford.edu. All other proposals should be submitted to the Program Committee through the aforementioned electronic submission form on the conference web site. For more information on the conference in general, please visit the conference web site. II. Types of Proposals Proposals to the Program Committee may be of four types: (1) poster presentations; (2) short paper presentations; (3) long papers; and (4) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). This year, the committee is approaching submissions in a different way. The type of submission preferred should be specified on the application; however, the committee may accept the application in another category based on the number of proposals and the nature of the abstracts. In part this addresses the incredible response to recent calls and in part recognizes that all applications are refereed and that the types of presentations are therefore equal in importance. Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. 1) Poster presentations Please submit an abstract of 750 to 1500 words. Poster presentations may include any work in progress on any topic of the call for papers as outlined above, computer technology, project demonstrations, and software demonstrations. Posters and software demonstrations are intended to be interactive, with the opportunity of the presenter to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Presenters will be provided with board space to display their work, computer connections may be available, and presenters are encouraged to provide a URL, business card, or handouts with more detailed information. Posters will be on display at various times during the conference, and a separate conference session will be dedicated to them when presenters should be present to explain their work and to answer questions. Additional times may be assigned for software or project demonstrations. Poster sessions may showcase some of the most important and innovative work being done in the digital humanities. In recognition of this, the Program Committee will award a prize for best poster. 2) Short papers This is a new category of presentation, allowing for up to five short papers in a one-hour session, with the length held to a strict ten (10) minutes each in order to allow time for one to two questions per paper. Short paper proposals (750 to 1500 words) are appropriate for reporting shorter experiments; describing work in progress; and for describing newly conceived tools or software in early stages of development. At the behest of the Program Committee, short papers may be presented as both a short paper and as a poster session. For research or projects further along in development, presenters should consider applying for a long paper presentation. 3) Long Papers Proposals for long papers (750-1500 words) are for reporting substantial, completed, and previously unpublished research; the development of significant new methodologies or digital resources; and/or rigorous theoretical, speculative, or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated twenty (20) minutes for presentation and ten (10) minutes for questions. Proposals about the development of new computing methodologies or digital resources should indicate how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, what their impact has been in formulating and addressing the research questions, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Papers than concentrate on a particular application or digital resource in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessments of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include relevant citations to sources in the literature. 4) Multiple Paper Sessions (90 minutes) are either: Three long papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or, A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers, i.e. November 1, 2010. Several points about the sessions papers: papers that are submitted as parts of special sessions may *not* also be submitted individually for consideration in another category. Session proposers should justify bundling the three papers into a special session, i.e., explaining the added value of the special session as opposed to including the papers separately, particularly how the special session addresses the conference theme. III. Format of the Proposals All proposal must be submitted electronically using the online submission form, found at the conference web site at http://dh2011.stanford.edu beginning October 1, 2010. Anyone who has previously used the confTool system to submit proposal or reviews should use their existing account rather than setting up a new one. If anyone has forgotten their user name or password, please contact dh2011@digitalhumanities.org. As noted above, the electronic submission form will be available on the conference site the beginning of October 2010. IV. Information about the conference venue Situated on the peninsula between the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean, Stanford University is in the heart of Silicon Valley, not far from magnificent redwood forests and the vineyards of the Napa and Sonoma Valleys. Stanford has a special culture and history to offer the Digital Humanities, sharing both rich traditions in the humanities, arts, and sciences, and a deep kinship with the world of computing, beginning well before the late 1930s founding of Hewlett-Packard by two recent Stanford graduates in a Stanford professor's now-legendary garage, and continuing through the founding of Google by two other Stanford graduate students in the late 1990s. We welcome new pioneers of DH2011 to Stanford. V. Bursaries for young scholars A limited number of bursaries for young scholars will be made available to those presenting at the conference by the Association of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). Young scholars who wish to apply for a bursary will find guidelines on the ADHO website http://www.digitalhumanities.org later this fall (roughly November 1st). More details will be issued about this subject in the next few weeks. VI. International Program Committee Arianna Ciula (ALLC) Dominic Forest (SDI-SEMI) Cara Leitch (SDI-SEMI) John Nerbonne (ALLC) Bethany Nowviskie (ACH) Daniel O'Donnell (SDI-SEMI) Dot Porter (ACH) Jan Rybicki (ALLC) John Walsh (ACH) Katherine Walter (ACH: 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 Thu Sep 2 20:32:45 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 65BE565861; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:32:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B08CF6584B; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:32:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100902203243.B08CF6584B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:32:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.307 getting involved X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 307. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Peter Batke (36) Subject: getting involved [2] From: Melissa Terras (104) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.302 getting involved --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 23:40:47 +0000 From: Peter Batke Subject: getting involved There seem to be some few sparks left in the "getting involved" thread. The embers of Doug Reside's challenge are still smoldering. Let me fan the embers. Dougs challenge responded to a paragraph in my post (24.273) on text mining and a further paragraph that uncounted CS people a fiddling with the back door of humanities text disciplines. They have already carted off copies of much of what we hold dear into their domain. The thought was that some many of these people will become genuinely interested in literature texts or history texts. I see this as real possibility, not doubt the arrogance of the humanist, I mean Brin and Page got hooked enough to spend 100 million, if not enough to learn Middle English. I seen no tracks down Washington Rd from East Pyne to Fine. > I have great hopes that the Google people and text miners in general, > who not only program but think in terms of Markhov chains (and about > 20-30 other techniques) for extracting information from text, > (unimaginably vast quantities of text), can be brought to literature > easier than the current active cohorts of literature people can be > brought to mathematical modeling. Doug's response was to share that he felt he had moved from CS to English and hoped to generate discussion on the point. Off-line he shared that his CS degree was primarily applied math. The challenge is not to point out counter examples; yea, there are examples of movement. The actual challenge is to confront the notion that there has been a huge interest in text mining, by applied math people, an interest beyond huge going deep into young hackers from HS and college to graduate students who want to get Google grants or learn Google techniques. Since I have made a practice on rubbing humanists noses in metaphoric piles of computing up and down the east coast for the last 30 years - I realized that now that I am retired - this is what I like to do best above all the world. I am still miffed that a certain scholar of classics did not get tenure at Harvard because the extremely learned were nothing but that. No harm done except to the extremely learned. Doug's response was a complex one, well beyond the fact of changing focus. > When I reflect on the amount of time I had to devote to my major in > Computer Science as compared to my major (or even Ph.D.) in English I > think this is absolutely true. Getting an interested computer scientist > situated in a humanities discipline would likely take much less time > than getting a humanist trained in advanced math (I say this > provocatively in the hopes that someone challenges my assumption and > experience). > The future of digital humanities may lie with technological disciplines > rather than humanities ones. I will not quote the rest of it; look in post 24.275. My thought was to tie in to Willards thought of some time age that mathematization of some disciplines was a long and hard road. His example was economics. Yet the thought is that mathematization is not really optional. While this could have been dismissed as utter nonsense some years ago, the tide is turning. At some time the mathematization of cosmology may have been thought nonsense. I would like to rephrase the challenge and call into question humanities modes of publication. I am amazed how much empty verbiage I must chew through to get at some uncorroberated facts that should have been mined and put into a database. Let me not strain the bounds of this mediun, cheers, Peter --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:54:16 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.302 getting involved In-Reply-To: <20100831235533.8D10266D48@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Folks, When I was doing my doctorate in Engineering (Robots and Information Systems) at Oxford, a fair whack of the 30 odd student cohort in the same group as me had done undergraduate degrees in Classics. My prof believed that a grounding in greek and latin prepared you equally for the rigours and logic of programming, as an undergraduate degree in comp sci or maths did. (And when it came to writing up, we "humanities" folks could do it in double quick time, as we had had lots of experience in "writing" as well as thinking logically, which went very much in our favour in the final stages). I'd also say that my undergrad degree (Art History and English Lit, with a specialism in Classical Art) has served me well by giving me a visual design training - which comes in handy when dealing with user interface design, digital identity, etc. This skill is also sadly lacking from many who can program. (And yes, I learnt the maths and the programming and graduated successfully, and continue to work with interested comp sci and engineering folks). All this to say - there are plenty of folks out there who have crossed the divide succesfully, and can bring interesting skills to the table, and work with either pure humanities folks, or pure maths folks, successfully. I believe this will also become more common. Melissa On 01/09/2010 00:55, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 302. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:28:29 -0400 > From: Allen Beye Riddell > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.280 getting involved > In-Reply-To:<20100824211205.0EE8E61C20@woodward.joyent.us> > > >> I wish that I could challenge your assumptions and experience, but... >> a computer scientist who reads enough of the right books can become a >> good enough humanist in a much shorter time than a humanist can become >> an equally competent programmer. > There are some important counterexamples out there. I've run across a > fair number of PhDs in Computer Science who have a BA in Classics. One > concentration seems to be in Massachusetts -- with UMass (CS), Tufts, > and Harvard. > > On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 21:12 +0000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 280. >> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:20:39 -0400 >> From: James Rovira >> Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.275 getting involved >> In-Reply-To:<20100823195833.1721365417@woodward.joyent.us> >> >> I think that Alan's advice is very good. There are a great many tasks >> in humanities study that is made much easier with digital tools; a >> humanist who is interested in these tasks can probably become excited >> at the tools allowing them to do so. >> >> But, I've been thinking along the lines of the following: >> >>> When I reflect on the amount of time I had to devote to my major in >>> Computer Science as compared to my major (or even Ph.D.) in English I >>> think this is absolutely true. Getting an interested computer >>> scientist situated in a humanities discipline would likely take much >>> less time than getting a humanist trained in advanced math (I say this >>> provocatively in the hopes that someone challenges my assumption and >>> experience). >> I wish that I could challenge your assumptions and experience, but... >> a computer scientist who reads enough of the right books can become a >> good enough humanist in a much shorter time than a humanist can become >> an equally competent programmer. >> >> I think that if we changed our education systems so that students >> couldn't graduate college without at least two full years of calculus, >> the situation might be different. That's a change I'd favor, by the >> way... >> >> 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 -- 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 Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 20:33:46 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 BD110658E1; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:33:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 46B0065898; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:33:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100902203345.46B0065898@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:33:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.308 designing an academic DH department X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 308. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:58:20 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.303 designing an academic DH department In-Reply-To: <20100901002353.1769165C07@woodward.joyent.us> On 01/09/2010 01:23, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 303. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:21:42 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: designing a digital humanities department > > My speculative question about what sort of digital humanities department > we might want elicited 4 responses. Allow me to summarize these here. > > All four of the responses argued for or assumed that the department > would comprise both technical, academic-related staff and those with > established academic posts. Bob Amsler, in 24.283, put forth a cogent > argument for having both groups in the same department: "a department > involving the two groups in a sort of equality such that the computer > people could have their own discussions, plans, etc. for the advancement > of the computer's role in developing capabilities in the humanities and > the digital humanists could have their own agenda for the humanities > that involved using computer tools". Claire Chavez, in the same number, > simply assumed this would be the case, as I would, since it seems now > quite obviously the way to go. Both Amsler and Darren James Harkness, in > 24.288, specified ratios of technical to non-technical staff. Julianne > Nyhan, in 24.288, gave a brief but strong argument for a chair whose > primary role would be to talk to the public outside the academy and to > those in other disciplines -- a St Paul to the techno-humanistically > unaware. > > Julianne's imagined chair denotes a role I have had for years, so you > might expect me to agree with her enthusiastically. But my agreement is > based more on the experience of doing the job and the conviction that we > have a vital role to play in the future of the academy and our > societies, indeed a crucial one. We are *already* out in the public > sphere, already on the loose in the disciplines, so we had better be > able to explain what motivates us and why we deserve respect and our > salaries. In some countries the time has already come when justification > (a.k.a. a "business case") is required. For the others I would guess > that it's just around the corner. > > Comments? > > Yours, > W > Perhaps one can also think a little less formally about the activities of an academic DH dept. An important part of the new DH centre at UCL (University College London) has been the relaxed discussions around 'Decoding Digital Humanities' http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/decoding_digital_humanities that have been taken up in Melbourne too: http://www.2cultures.net/ddh/ They offer a meeting point for the interested, from within and without the department (and the university), to share different ideas and approaches. This helps to 'embed' the department in the intellectual life of the university (and beyond),and share intellectual resources. Plus it's cheap.* * Can depend on the pub. (nb: I'm not a part of the UCL dept, but a happy participant in the DDH discussions.) John Levin -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://www.facebook.com/john.levin http://twitter.com/anterotesis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 20:35:42 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 97C3B65A29; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:35:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6BB1A65A1F; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:35:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100902203541.6BB1A65A1F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:35:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.309 new publications, and a question about photography X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 309. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Luis Gutierrez (33) Subject: Mother Pelican ~ Vol 6 No 9 September 2010 [2] From: Willard McCarty (9) Subject: Trans-Asia Photography Review --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:33:43 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Mother Pelican ~ Vol 6 No 9 September 2010 The PelicanWeb's Journal of Sustainable Development has been renamed *Mother Pelican* in honor of the Human Being she represents. The September 2010 issue has been posted, and this is the link to the front page: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n09page1.html *The UN MDG Review Summit* 1. The UN MDG Review Summit 2. Review of the "Keeping the Promise" Report 3. Opportunities for Collaboration/Participation 4. Key References and Workings Documents 5. Planned MDG Summit Meeting Agenda The main focus of the September issue is an analysis of the main obstacles to sustainable development with specific focus on MDG3 (gender equality) and MDG8 (partnerships for development). Supplements (September Updates): Supplement 1: Advances in Sustainable Development Supplement 2: Directory of Sustainable Development Resources Supplement 3: Sustainable Development Simulation (SDSIM) The basic objective of this web-based simulation model is to stimulate discussion on policy priorities. Specifically, what is the top priority .... economic development or human development? In other words, what are the trade-offs between pursuing further economic growth and investing in human well-being? Articles: Declaration of Independence from Wall Street, by David Korten Seizing the Moment for Clean Energy, by Ann Florini Towards a New Economy and a New Politics, by Gus Speth Feedback to the editor is always welcome! Sincerely, Luis Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D. The Pelican Web (http://pelicanweb.org) Editor, PelicanWeb's Journal of Sustainable Development A monthly, CC license, free subscription, open access e-journal --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:24:25 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Trans-Asia Photography Review The following request raises an interesting question: what do photographers and scholars of photography have to say these days about the online medium? I would suppose that as yet we're nowhere near the degree of resolution that large-negative chemical photography can accomplish. From my own experience with low-end digital cameras, digital photography seems a very different medium in terms of the relationship between what one sees directly and the image one captures. Any comments? Yours, WM ----- The first issue of the Trans-Asia Photography Review - a peer-reviewed, open access online journal devoted to the discussion of photography from Asia - is now viewable at . The editors welcome proposals for articles, book reviews, online exhibitions and interviews. With my best wishes, Sandra Matthews Sandra Matthews Hampshire College, USA Editor, Trans-Asia Photography Review _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 08:22:19 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 18E5F63707; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:22:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DA1ED636D2; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:22:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100904082216.DA1ED636D2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:22:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.310 designing an academic DH department X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 310. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:44:55 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: activities of a DH department One aspect of the question I posed about an academic DH department hasn't had much attention: what would the ideal range of activities be? Apart from Julianne's important point about communicating with the public, what would we have this department doing? Collaborative projects are one obvious activity. Another is teaching. Another is research-training, through the PhD and otherwise. Would there be any research professors (i.e. those who do nothing else but research)? What else? Some other questions. If you were setting up such a department how would you go about hiring the people to do the jobs? Would you design roles and then fill them, or would you simply get the best people you could and see what happens? There's alot to say for the latter, I would suppose. How would you describe the mandate of this department? How would you justify its existence given the fact that budgets are not unlimited? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 Sep 4 08:23:06 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 38F9763761; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:23:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 31BEE63739; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:23:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100904082304.31BEE63739@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:23:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.311 imaging the Mona Lisa X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 311. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:18:11 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Multispectral Imagining of the Mona Lisa > Subject: Multispectral Imagining of the Mona Lisa > Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:07:04 -0500 > From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu I was just today at an exhibit of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions at the National Geographic's small museum in Washington, DC and it included a section on the use of "multispectral imaging of the Mona Lisa". See: http://www.lumiere-technology.com/Pages/Download/download.htm It would seem that 'digital photography' has gone well beyond what conventional photography can provide, mostly because the pixels of a digital image can be manipulated digitally after they are captured, whereas in a conventional photograph one only has an analogue representation (i.e., you'd have to digitize the analogue photograph to use the same tricks to get more out of it than the eye sees). Since I can see no limit to the resolution of a digital image (other than the ability to miniturize the electronics), it stands to reason that digital photography may exceed photochemicals that are basically adapted to ONE set of properties of light at a time whereas electronics can take images with several different filters and store all the 'data', selectively including or excluding different wavelengths, etc. Of course, we're still using lenses to collect the light; but scientifically, I suspect the ability to collect electromagnetic radiation using multiple collection mechanisms will challenge the very name 'photography' soon. Is it a 'photo' when what you're recording is radio-waves, X-rays, gamma rays; and then combining them. Maybe it should be 'photonography' (photon + graphy). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 08:24:16 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 ABA73637E7; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:24:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D2970637DD; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:24:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100904082414.D2970637DD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:24:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.312 I-CHASS awarded X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 312. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:19:50 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: NSF Awards I-CHASS/NCSA Grant to Support Imaging and Image AnalysisWorkshop > Subject: NSF Awards I-CHASS/NCSA Grant to Support Imaging and Image > Analysis Workshop > Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:53:52 +0100 > From: I-CHASS The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) is pleased to announce that Cross-Disciplinary Investigations in Imaging and Image Analyses: An NSF-Sponsored Workshop has received $50,000 in funding through the National Science Foundation’s Information Integration and Informatics (III) program. A collaboration between the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS), the University of Illinois’ School of Art and Design, and the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) at the University of South Carolina, Cross-Disciplinary Investigations in Imaging and Image Analyses will bring together multi-disciplinary stakeholders in the burgeoning field of imaging and image analysis to offer a unique opportunity for cross-collaboration and information-exchange by using computational inquiries to bridge humanities, arts, and social science research. The two-day workshop, to be held in late-March/early-April, will cover topics including: 2D scanning technologies, 2D and 3D imaging and analysis, content-based image and video retrieval, and preservation strategies. “No matter the domain or subfield, regardless of whether it is clinical and research domains utilizing medical imaging, universe telescope-based imaging, air-borne and ground imaging, satellite imaging, or historical documentary imaging, the challenges related to imaging and image analyses are manifest and common to all researchers and domain-specialists exploring imaging and imaging analysis,” said Dr. Peter Bajcsy, Associate Director for Data Analytics and Pattern Recognition at I-CHASS, Research Scientist at NCSA, and co-Principal Investigator of the project. “This workshop will create opportunities for the humanities, arts, and social science communities to explore scientific instruments applied to imaging historical artifacts, as well as opportunities for the scientific community to investigate the adaptation of existing web 2.0 technologies to distributed research.” “The central drive of this workshop is that scholars working in imaging and imaging analyses from across these disciplines have so much to offer one another,” said Dr. Jennifer Guiliano, co-Principal Investigator and Associate Director at CDH. “The methods, approaches, and disciplinary pedagogies that one scholar might think obvious from their computational point of view could have the potential to transform the work of another thereby rapidly improving the overall objective of addressing grand challenges in the field of imaging and image analyses.” "Though digital imaging software is today a ubiquitous component of contemporary art and design, most practitioners relate to such technology primarily as consumers, rather than as co-producers,” continued Associate Professor Kevin Hamilton, Chair of New Media in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the project’s third co-Principal Investigator. “Digital imaging research offers a unique opportunity for discovering with others how meaning is made at the most basic levels of byte and pixel." Notably, Cross-Disciplinary Investigations in Imaging and Image Analyses recognizes that some boundaries to information sharing may be geographically-driven. Webcast for an international audience, the workshop will bring together representatives from US institutions with their colleagues from foreign academic institutions interested in the use of 2D and 3D imaging devices and applications of image and video analyses in their domains. “The lack of forums for cross fertilization of imaging and image analysis efforts and ideas in multiple communities developing relevant technologies is not limited to the United States,” said Dr. Kevin Franklin, Executive Director of I-CHASS. “We are therefore especially excited that this project will allow for global considerations of approaches to image and imaging analyses and will seed international collaborations for stakeholders across the humanities, arts, social science, and other science and technology domains.” The project’s co-Principal Investigators are Dr. Peter Bajcsy, Associate Director for Data Analytics and Pattern Recognition at I-CHASS and a Research Scientist at NCSA, Dr. Jennifer Guiliano, Associate Director of the Center for Digital Humanities and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of South Carolina, and Dr. Kevin Hamilton, Associate Professor and Chair of New Media in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Further details about the workshop, including final dates, speakers, and registration information, will be announced later this year. For more information, please contact Simon Appleford , Assistant Director of I-CHASS. * * * 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 Sat Sep 4 08:25:32 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 2E5CB6389C; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:25:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EE0226388F; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:25:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100904082529.EE0226388F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:25:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.313 events: THATCamp in Cologne; Ethics & the Internet X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 313. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Cornelius Puschmann Subject: THATCamp Cologne, September 17/18, University of Cologne, Germany [2] From: Willard McCarty (44) Subject: Ethics and the Internet at the Royal Academy of Engineering --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:10:15 +0200 From: Cornelius Puschmann Subject: THATCamp Cologne, September 17/18, University of Cologne, Germany Dear colleagues, THATCamp Cologne is a European digital humanities unconference and hackday that will take place at the University of Cologne, Germany, on 17-18 September 2010 (Friday and Saturday). We invite scholars, developers, librarians, and everyone interested in the intersections of technology and the humanities to attend and participate. Program? THATCamp Cologne is an unconference, meaning that the program will be developed from the bottom up via the website and finalized during the initial brainstorming session on Friday. A program outline is available here: http://thatcampcologne.org/program Registration? Participation is free and snacks/wireless Internet will be provided. Register here to secure your spot: http://thatcampcologne.org/wp-login.php?action=register Objectives? Learn new methods, exchange ideas, develop visions and code things on the spot (hackday). Themes? - DH tools, platforms, services, and APIs - cultural heritage data - text encoding and analysis - data hosting/curation/archiving - linked data - visualization - mobile device integration - geographic information systems (GIS) - semantic web, ontologies - teaching and learning DH methods THATCamp Cologne is supported by: Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), Cologne, Germany & Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) - Cornelius Puschmann (University of Düsseldorf) and Patrick Sahle (CCeH) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:17:15 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Ethics and the Internet at the Royal Academy of Engineering > Subject: Ethics and the Internet at the Royal Academy of Engineering > Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 15:11:16 +0100 > From: Yorick Wilks *Royal Academy of Engineering one-day seminar for engineers on Ethics and the Internet: December 3^rd 2010.* This one-day seminar will stimulate and deepen awareness and understanding of engineering-related ethical issues with an invited audience of engineers at the Royal Academy. It will involve: · High profile presenters with engineering and professional media experience · Prepared visual material from a professional film maker · Philosophers with experience of making ethical issues comprehensible and engaging. *Overall goals of the workshop:* * * · Animate an engineering audience to participate in active discussion of engineering-related ethical issues over and above “professional codes of conduct”; · Bind this discussion to their professional development and ensure some of the participants actively present their own views on these issues through mechanisms described below; · Develop novel media methods to secure this active participation, not simply making use of standard presentations of issues; · Relate the issues above to public policy issues implied in the development of the Internet; / / *The question underlying the seminar is *"What, if anything, is ethically specific to the Internet?" The workshop arises from a number of related and familiar intuitions: · Ethics is now a growth industry in the professions—why? · Codes of conduct have hollowed out “old ethics” and natural responsibility · People feel alienated by this split · We must therefore reintegrate The workshop is being organized by a team associated with the Oxford Internet Institute headed by Professor Yorick Wilks. The workshop will be a full day and include lunch. Requests to attend should go to yorick.wilks@oii.ox.ac.uk with “RAEng Seminar” in the subject line. We also hope to meet in London and plan the use of novel media and the seminar’s subsequent evaluation with a group of about six engineers prepared to come to a lunch with the team in London ahead of the meeting (probably at the Reform Club on October 1st) —if you are prepared to volunteer for this please also say so and add “Volunteer” to the email subject line above. It would help in selecting a representative sample of attendees if you would state your sex, age decade and whether you are a student, retired or working. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 21:12:57 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 41046630A9; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 21:12:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9199763095; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 21:12:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100904211254.9199763095@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 21:12:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.314 about photography X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 314. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 14:46:08 -0300 From: "dennis c.l." Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.309 new publications,and a question about photography In-Reply-To: <20100902203541.6BB1A65A1F@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard Actually there are recent developments in sensor technology that puts chemical photography in the also ran category. I quote Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/): Canon develops world's largest CMOS sensor Canon has announced it has developed the world's largest CMOS sensor measuring 202 x 205mm. Approximately 40 times the size of Canon's largest commercial CMOS sensor, it captures images with 1/100th the amount of light required by an SLR camera. Its advanced circuitry allows video recording at 60 frames per second with 0.3 lux illumination that according to the company is roughly one-half the brightness of a moonlit night. There is currently no information about the sensor's resolution. This follows last week's development announcement of Canon's 120 megapixel 29.2 x 20.2mm APS-H CMOS sensor. further details in: http://www.dpreview.com/news/1008/10083101canonlargestsensor.asp yours prof.dennis cintra leite (retired) eaesp/fgv On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 309. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > > > Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:24:25 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: Trans-Asia Photography Review > > The following request raises an interesting question: what do > photographers and scholars of photography have to say these days about > the online medium? I would suppose that as yet we're nowhere near the > degree of resolution that large-negative chemical photography can > accomplish. From my own experience with low-end digital cameras, digital > photography seems a very different medium in terms of the relationship > between what one sees directly and the image one captures. Any 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 Sat Sep 4 21:14:12 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 1C0B8631A4; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 21:14:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E769563198; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 21:14:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100904211410.E769563198@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 21:14:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.315 designing an academic DH department X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 315. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:23:40 -0700 From: "liz" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.310 designing an academic DH department In-Reply-To: <20100904082216.DA1ED636D2@woodward.joyent.us> One important activity for a department like this would be to reach out into the local/world community. Here in Tucson, Arizona there are communities of optical science firms (imaging) as well as a large medical community (consciousness studies) and several Native American tribes as well as a strong Arts community. All are rich sources to be delved into by a DH department (which we don't have as of yet at the U/A). Elizabeth Walter liz@kutsi.com “The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet.” >>-----Original Message----- >>From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org >>[mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On >>Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group >>Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 1:22 AM >>To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >>Subject: [Humanist] 24.310 designing an academic DH department >> >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 310. >> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:44:55 +1000 >> From: Willard McCarty >> Subject: activities of a DH department >> >>One aspect of the question I posed about an academic DH >>department hasn't had much attention: what would the ideal >>range of activities be? >>Apart from Julianne's important point about communicating >>with the public, what would we have this department doing? >> >>Collaborative projects are one obvious activity. Another is teaching. >>Another is research-training, through the PhD and otherwise. >>Would there be any research professors (i.e. those who do >>nothing else but research)? What else? >> >>Some other questions. >> >>If you were setting up such a department how would you go >>about hiring the people to do the jobs? Would you design >>roles and then fill them, or would you simply get the best >>people you could and see what happens? >>There's alot to say for the latter, I would suppose. >> >>How would you describe the mandate of this department? How >>would you justify its existence given the fact that budgets >>are not unlimited? >> >>Yours, >>WM >>-- >>Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's >>College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, >>Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, >>www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; >>Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; >>Editor, 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 5 20:28:16 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 32A6867CA8; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 20:28:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5B5CE67C8D; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 20:28:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100905202814.5B5CE67C8D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 20:28:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.316 tainted app X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 316. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:45:28 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: love of a good tool A rant on iEnthusiasms, to provoke you further. Ok, hype and all that. The promo man's profitable pseudo-religion and all that. Everything we can say about how (in our case) particular computing products are marketed to audiences of groupies (not stockholders) who clap and cheer, perhaps even shed tears, when prominence in the industry and huge profits at their expense are announced. Coolness defined by wealth we know to be derived in part from the heavy hands of tyranny and oppression. Cynical profiteers. All that. But, I put it to you, more than all of that is at play in Stephen Fry's or some, perhaps many others' proclaimed love of iPhone 4, iPad or iWhatever. I am not saying that hype etc. isn't involved. Only that a beautifully designed and manufactured tool, with the skilled designers and manufacturers behind it, can be loved without high moralistic condemnation. I am saying that Oscar had a point. I'm saying that it's a complicated world, where innocence and guilt are confusingly intermingled, e.g. in our tools and our relation to them. Northrop Frye used to say that despite all the manifest and historically documented evil that may have surrounded the production of a great work of art, we can see that it was made in a state of grace. I won't argue that iPhone 4 is up to the standards of Giotto or the scribe(s) who wrote out the Book of Kells. But changing what needs to be changed there are technological things of beauty, no? Perhaps if more of us had the experience of the artist/crafts- man and woman we'd simply be able to love a well designed and crafted object. But when, under what conditions, must we reject that love and spurn the object? Consider, for example, the typography of the Third Reich, where maintaining the separation becomes much more difficult. Comments? Yours,WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 6 20:14:12 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 B6CA76732D; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 20:14:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 56D3967D67; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 20:14:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100906201411.56D3967D67@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 20:14:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.317 designing an academic DH department X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 317. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 10:24:46 +0100 From: James Cronin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.315 designing an academic DH department In-Reply-To: <20100904211410.E769563198@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, This is just a thought, but fostering a consultancy dimension, in such a ‘department’, may have the advantage of helping to generate collaborative synergies between academia and the wider community. Research could be tailored to bespoke projects, in such a manner as to promote the dissemination of research applications into the public sphere. In turn, independent funding streams could be generated by such synergies. Regards, James Cronin, University College Cork On 4 September 2010 22:14, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 315. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:23:40 -0700 >        From: "liz" >        Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.310 designing an academic DH department >        In-Reply-To: <20100904082216.DA1ED636D2@woodward.joyent.us> > > >  One important activity for a department like this would be to reach out > into the local/world community. > > Here in Tucson, Arizona there are communities of optical science firms > (imaging) as well as a large medical community (consciousness studies) and > several Native American tribes as well as a strong Arts community.  All are > rich sources to be delved into by a DH department (which we don't have as of > yet at the U/A). > > Elizabeth Walter > liz@kutsi.com > “The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet.” _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 6 20:15:16 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 2482568068; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 20:15:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 14A4D68057; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 20:15:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100906201515.14A4D68057@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 20:15:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.318 events: authorship 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 318. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:12:00 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: LFAS meeting 12th Oct 2010 > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: LFAS meeting 12th Oct 2010 > Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 15:17:53 +0100 > From: Marcus Dahl Dear All, We hope you have had an enjoyable English Summer and that, as ‘Short dayes, sharpe dayes, long nights come on apace’, we can soon welcome you into the warm arms of the first LFAS meeting of the year, this October 12th . We shall be welcoming back Joseph Rudman, Professor of Physics at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, to deliver his second paper to the Forum, entitled: * “The Non-Traditional Case For the Authorship of THE FEDERALIST: A Monument Built on Sand?”. * Professor Rudman is the author of much influential work on the foundations of authorship studies and humanities computing, including: “The State of Authorship Attribution Studies: Some Problems and Solutions,” (/Computers and the Humanities/ 1998); “Unediting, De-Editing, and Editing in Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution Studies: With an Emphasis on the Canon of Daniel Defoe," (Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 2005). He has also given a number of important papers on the nature and application of modern authorship studies at recent conferences, including: /“//Assumptions, statistical tests, and non-traditional attribution studies – Part II”// (Digital Humanities Conference 2008)//,// /“Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature: Stylistics, Statistics, and the Computer” (/South/ /Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference 2009/)., and “ The State of Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution Studies 2010: Some problems and Solutions” (/Digital Humanities Conference/ 2010). The meeting will be held on *Tuesday October 12^th from 17.30-19.00* in *Senate House*, room *G32. Drinks and questions will follow.* We look forward to greeting you all on that evening, All the best, Marcus Dahl, Sir Brian Vickers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 8 01:04:29 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 7BF68687CB; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 01:04:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 07F5E687C1; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 01:04:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100908010428.07F5E687C1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 01:04:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.319 tainted app X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 319. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 23:41:13 +0100 From: "John A. Walsh" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.316 tainted app In-Reply-To: <20100905202814.5B5CE67C8D@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, You write, "Perhaps if more of us had the experience of the artist/crafts-man and woman we'd simply be able to love a well designed and crafted object. But when, under what conditions, must we reject that love and spurn the object?" You've probably read the stories, but if you Google "Foxconn," the firm that actually builds iPhones, iPads, and the like, I think you will find some news stories that report many conditions for which we might reject the love and spurn the object. The Foxconn workers live in giant factory/cities of something like 300,000 or more inhabitants, living in dormitories, doing repetitive, unfulfilling work, working extremely long hours, and earning wages of about £90 per month. Given that the iPad has a starting price of £429.00, it's unlikely the people who build the iPad could ever afford to own one. I assume most Humanist participants would not own iPads if we had to pay four months wages for one. While the iPad may be well designed (I certainly think it is), in no way is it "crafted"--well or poorly. It is, instead, manufactured. And there is a great difference between craft and manufacturing. Dropping a chip into place or inserting a screw on an assembly line does not constitute craft. It is mindless, unfulfilling labor. The processes by which these devices are made are plagued by classic division of labor problems, and, being a Victorianist, I can't help but quote Ruskin here: "It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men:—Divided into mere segments of men—broken into small fragments and crumbs of life; so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail." (from "The Nature of Gothic" in _The Stones of Venice_). I do believe that the process by which these devices are produced break men and women in small fragments and crumbs of life, and for me that is a very convincing reason not to love and perhaps to spurn these devices. I also think that whatever attraction people feel towards these objects would more properly be classified as lust rather than love. And in the interest of full disclosure I must add that I own an iPad. I use it a great deal, and I enjoy it a great deal. But while I own it and use it and enjoy it, I also suspect it may be a tool of the devil, for many reasons, only a few of which I touched on here. John On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 316. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:45:28 +1000 >        From: Willard McCarty >        Subject: love of a good tool > > > A rant on iEnthusiasms, to provoke you further. > > Ok, hype and all that. The promo man's profitable pseudo-religion and all > that. Everything we can say about how (in our case) particular computing > products are marketed to audiences of groupies (not stockholders) who clap > and cheer, perhaps even shed tears, when prominence in the industry and huge > profits at their expense are announced. Coolness defined by wealth we know > to be derived in part from the heavy hands of tyranny and oppression. > Cynical profiteers. All that. > > But, I put it to you, more than all of that is at play in Stephen Fry's or > some, perhaps many others' proclaimed love of iPhone 4, iPad or iWhatever. I > am not saying that hype etc. isn't involved. Only that a beautifully > designed and manufactured tool, with the skilled designers and manufacturers > behind it, can be loved without high moralistic condemnation. I am saying > that Oscar had a point. I'm saying that it's a complicated world, where > innocence and guilt are confusingly intermingled, e.g. in our tools and our > relation to them. > > Northrop Frye used to say that despite all the manifest and historically > documented evil that may have surrounded the production of a great work of > art, we can see that it was made in a state of grace. I won't argue that > iPhone 4 is up to the standards of Giotto or the scribe(s) who wrote out the > Book of Kells. But changing what needs to be changed there are technological > things of beauty, no? > > Perhaps if more of us had the experience of the artist/crafts- man and woman > we'd simply be able to love a well designed and crafted object. But when, under > what conditions, must we reject that love and spurn the object? Consider, > for example, the typography of the Third Reich, where maintaining the separation > becomes much more difficult. > > Comments? > > Yours,WM > > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, > www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. > -- | 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 Wed Sep 8 01:07:26 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 E8AE2689E4; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 01:07:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7AFC3689DA; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 01:07:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100908010724.7AFC3689DA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 01:07:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.320 designing an academic DH department X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 320. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:34:21 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: activity and passivity Most of the ideas about the activities of a digital humanities department that I come across put it in the role of a responder to research originating elsewhere for other purposes or in the role of an advertiser of potentialities. Little is said about its own independent research. What would this be? How would that department advance the field through curiosity-motivated (a.k.a. "pure") research? How would it keep its own people happy, indeed keep those it most wanted from going elsewhere? In a history department, say, the historians do history of whatever kind, ca. 1/3rd of each academic's time. The history that each does is driven solely by that academic's own interests, not by anyone who comes to the department wanting a history of X. If the historian gets involved in a research project, it is at choice and in his or her own area. The same holds for, say, computer scientists, who famously react rather strongly to any suggestion that they're appointed to write software on demand. Their purpose is to find out what computers can do, indeed what computers might be. Research, we know, must be protected against the misconstruction that it is essentially for a known outcome. Goal-orientated research dominates the commercial world, e.g. in pharmaceutical companies, profits from which are sometimes used to fund the curiosity-motivated kind. Thus commercial companies make sure it happens despite the fact that it can only be justified through a leap of faith -- supported, it is true, by numerous examples of crucial inventions which originated other than on purpose and by a schedule. But still, in the time-frame of most budgets, a leap of faith is required and explicit or at least implicit permission to "go off and do something interesting", as a friend of mine was once told by his employer (alas, long ago, when such things happened). One conclusion we might draw is that a DH department is bound to be in some respects more like a commercial company than like a conventional academic entity, running income-generating activities in order to support its own intellectual agenda. If that's right, then how exactly would it explain itself to university administrators and to its own staff? How would duties be distributed to what sorts of people? Let's say you wanted to start such an operation, and to make the problem interesting, let's say that it had to explain itself, to attract and engage the interests of colleagues while keeping its own staff active in research. How would that be done now, in 2010, given the understandings and conditions we now have? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 8 01:08:25 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 339D068A89; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 01:08:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1A6D668A50; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 01:08:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100908010823.1A6D668A50@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 01:08:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.321 items for a digital classics bibliography? 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. 24, No. 321. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 00:38:22 +0100 From: Matteo Romanello Subject: Digital Classics Bibliography [apologies for cross posting] Dear Humanists, As part of my Digital Humanities PhD I'm working on a literature review on the theme __Classics and Computers__. In order to allow other people with any interest in this to contribute to my initial list I created an open group on Zotero called __digitalclassics__. To find out more please check out my recent blog post http://www.stoa.org/archives/1216 . Thanks in advance, Matteo ______________ Matteo Romanello PhD candidate Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) King's College, London http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/User:MatteoRomanello http://kcl.academia.edu/MatteoRomanello http://www.linkedin.com/in/matteoromanello _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 8 01:09:15 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 5D91168C0F; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 01:09:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6D0DD68C05; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 01:09:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100908010914.6D0DD68C05@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 01:09:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.322 Ecdotica & scholarly 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. 24, No. 322. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:57:29 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Ecdotica in general & Ecdotica 6: Anglo-American Scholarly Editing,1980-2005 ECDOTICA Published by the Department of Italian Studies at Bologna University and by the Centro para la Edición de los Clásicos Españoles in Madrid, Ecdotica is an annual international review of textual studies, edited by Francisco Rico, Emilio Pasquini and Gian Mario Anselmi. The term ‘ecdotics’ is, in this journal, not limited to the theory and methods of the traditional critical edition. Instead, it includes all the elements that mark the entire movement of a text from the author to the readers (or users). The movement, and the forms it takes, are viewed from the perspective of the editors and users of editions, whether ancient or modern, whether destined for study or for reading, whether printed, digital or presented in any new technology. From Ecdotica number 6 (2009, issued in 2010), Carocci editore will make available on its site (www.carocci.it ) the complete journal in PDF format, downloadable at the price of 15 Euros (€15,00 = 19 $ ). Ecdotica is also available in printed form at € 43,50 (= 55,30 $) . ----- Ecdotica / 6 (2009). Special Issue: Anglo-American Scholarly Editing, 1980-2005. Edited and with an Introduction by Paul Eggert and Peter Shillingsburg. pp. 480, € 43,50 ISBN 978-88-430-5366-7 This is the first volume to bring together a selection of the most important works – much of which is now out of print or not easy to access – covering the revolution in Anglo-American editorial theory and practice during 1980-2005. This 25-year period marked the shift from the eclectic editing of works according to the author’s final intentions to a recording or archiving of a work’s multiple documentary witnesses. The shift remains a contentious one. Chief among current and renewed arguments are those over the intentions of the agents of textual change, choice of copy-text, principles of emendation, versional editing, and fundamental redefinitions of what is meant by the terms text, document, and work. The authors of the twenty-one essays selected here by Paul Eggert and Peter Shillingsburg include Hershel Parker, Jerome J. McGann, Donald F. McKenzie, G. Thomas Tanselle, David C. Greetham, George Bornstein and Kathryn Sutherland. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 8 20:59:55 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 77EDE613F2; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:59:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B79D9613E1; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:59:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100908205953.B79D9613E1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:59:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.323 tainted app X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 323. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: KC (139) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.319 tainted app [2] From: Stephen Ramsay (28) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.319 tainted app [3] From: Willard McCarty (34) Subject: the universal taint [4] From: "Stephen Woodruff" (9) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.319 tainted app [5] From: Gary Shawver (6) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.319 tainted app --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:57:28 +1200 From: KC Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.319 tainted app In-Reply-To: <20100908010428.07F5E687C1@woodward.joyent.us> I'd love to have seen the song tune that the old writers for *Mad Magazine* might have set this previous posting to.... So everyone should really think carefully about buying an iPad (but I've got mine, so there!).... cheers, KC On 8/09/2010, at 1:04 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 319. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 23:41:13 +0100 > From: "John A. Walsh" > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.316 tainted app > In-Reply-To: <20100905202814.5B5CE67C8D@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Willard, > > You write, "Perhaps if more of us had the experience of the > artist/crafts-man and woman we'd simply be able to love a well > designed and crafted object. But when, under what conditions, must we > reject that love and spurn the object?" > > You've probably read the stories, but if you Google "Foxconn," the > firm that actually builds iPhones, iPads, and the like, I think you > will find some news stories that report many conditions for which we > might reject the love and spurn the object. The Foxconn workers live > in giant factory/cities of something like 300,000 or more inhabitants, > living in dormitories, doing repetitive, unfulfilling work, working > extremely long hours, and earning wages of about £90 per month. Given > that the iPad has a starting price of £429.00, it's unlikely the > people who build the iPad could ever afford to own one. I assume most > Humanist participants would not own iPads if we had to pay four months > wages for one. > > While the iPad may be well designed (I certainly think it is), in no > way is it "crafted"--well or poorly. It is, instead, manufactured. > And there is a great difference between craft and manufacturing. > Dropping a chip into place or inserting a screw on an assembly line > does not constitute craft. It is mindless, unfulfilling labor. The > processes by which these devices are made are plagued by classic > division of labor problems, and, being a Victorianist, I can't help > but quote Ruskin here: > > "It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the > men:—Divided into mere segments of men—broken into small fragments and > crumbs of life; so that all the little piece of intelligence that is > left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts > itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail." (from "The > Nature of Gothic" in _The Stones of Venice_). > > I do believe that the process by which these devices are produced > break men and women in small fragments and crumbs of life, and for me > that is a very convincing reason not to love and perhaps to spurn > these devices. I also think that whatever attraction people feel > towards these objects would more properly be classified as lust rather > than love. > > And in the interest of full disclosure I must add that I own an iPad. > I use it a great deal, and I enjoy it a great deal. But while I own it > and use it and enjoy it, I also suspect it may be a tool of the devil, > for many reasons, only a few of which I touched on here. > > John --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 21:07:36 -0500 From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.319 tainted app In-Reply-To: <20100908010428.07F5E687C1@woodward.joyent.us> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > While the iPad may be well designed (I certainly think it is), in no > way is it "crafted"--well or poorly. It is, instead, manufactured. > And there is a great difference between craft and manufacturing. > Dropping a chip into place or inserting a screw on an assembly line > does not constitute craft. It is mindless, unfulfilling labor. I don't wish to detract from John's thoughtful, if grim assessment of modern technological manufacturing -- a message that is as depressing as it is necessary to hear. I will say, though, that "craftsmanship" has always seemed to me the right term for the art of programming. For those who are interested, I might suggest a book by Pete McBreen called *Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative* (2002). In it, he sets craftsmanship against terms like "software engineering," and suggests that our ideas about how to produce software efficiently (from management of projects to unit testing) have fallen prey to the same Tayloristic notions that have produced the bleak landscapes John describes. Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Associate Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 http://lenz.unl.edu/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:43:22 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the universal taint In-Reply-To: <20100908010428.07F5E687C1@woodward.joyent.us> Not to detract one bit from John Walsh's note on the horrible conditions under which our nifty gadgets are manufactured. But isn't the dilemma inescapable for human beings? Aren't we circling around the edges of what in a former era people would have called the fallen condition? Can we not at every stage of civilisation find in the development of its implements similar violence, cruelty, oppression, greed &c? Hasn't warfare frequently if not as a general rule always been the great engine of technological development? In the late 1960s those of us then alive and old enough to be part of the counterculture may recall the wholesale rejection of civilised ways, the migration out to communes and so on and so forth, revolted as we were by the blood on the hands of everyone in power (or so it seemed) and by the complicity of our complacent elders. And if we remember further, what we're likely to recall is the re-discovery of the serpent in the garden. I suspect few of us then saw that our edenic desires were supported by the certain knowledge that we could get a job ("sell out to the Man") anytime we wanted, or better, get a fresh infusion of cash from our parents. Thus came the 1980s and so on and so forth. Or perhaps we joined the Weather Underground, determined to change things rather more quickly by violent means. Or perhaps we were like the two Steves and their garage computer.... Is the answer to the moral dilemma to use our iPads only for good? Again I summon Oscar. We can play, and with sufficient skill, do it beautifully. Is that enough? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:52:42 +0100 From: "Stephen Woodruff" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.319 tainted app In-Reply-To: <20100908010428.07F5E687C1@woodward.joyent.us> While I agree there is a difference between craft and manufacturing, the notion of a "crafted" device even in this age of mechanical reproduction (sorry) is perhaps not so clear. Damien Hirst apparently has three workshops - see http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/article-23410356-inside-damien-hirsts-factory.do: "..f*** this, I hated it. As soon as I sold one, I used the money to pay people to make them..." In his (fascinating!) autobiography Benvenuto Cellini describes his (16th century) workshop of assistants and its clear he didn't touch much of the work 'he' produced. If we admit the devices are desirable, where does the appeal come from? Perhaps Benjamin was wrong. Is the presence of the original any longer the prerequisite for authenticity? Are our concrete devices now signifiers and the referents now in the virtual world: the mystique with Apple? Stephen Woodruff HATII --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:38:56 -0400 From: Gary Shawver Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.319 tainted app In-Reply-To: <20100908010428.07F5E687C1@woodward.joyent.us> Does anyone here know how people outside academia live? What were the conditions these people encountered before their employment at Foxconn? What are the real alternatives? Do we remember that it is precisely these kinds of jobs that eventually provided a good living for many in the west who did not have a college education, or desire one? Speaking of tainted products, before we remove the proverbial mote, perhaps we ought to address the beam. How many of us have used the Marx product in articles and books, often with approbation, without a single acknowledgment of the tens of millions it has murdered? On Sep 7, 2010, at 9:04 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > The Foxconn workers live > in giant factory/cities of something like 300,000 or more inhabitants, > living in dormitories, doing repetitive, unfulfilling work, working > extremely long hours, and earning wages of about £90 per month. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 8 21:02:14 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 1A3F4614A9; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 21:02:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D8D0461493; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 21:02:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100908210211.D8D0461493@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 21:02:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.324 designing an academic DH department 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. 24, No. 324. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:46:13 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.320 designing an academic DH department In-Reply-To: <20100908010724.7AFC3689DA@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Maybe you are cannily trying to elicit dismay or disagreement by your suggestion that a Digital Humanities "department" might perhaps be better organized like a corporation than like "a conventional academic entity" such as a department of History or Literature, with a more or less well-defined scope of interest and a self-sustaining and self-motivating research agenda. But the questions you raise and the distinctions you make are good ones. Yet rather than try and answer them (who am I to say), let me just pose this question. We now know -- we are now learning -- that there is this interesting problem or set of problems we call "information modeling". (I dare say you know this better than anyone.) It is not exactly engineering, although it involves design. Maybe it stands in the same relation to the engineering of information systems as architecture and urban planning do to engineering. It is a thing, but not exactly one thing -- the kind of modeling you do when using a typesetting program, a spreadsheet, a relational database, a web site, a markup language or an object-oriented application development framework, are all different, despite interesting commonalities. It is about naming things, and defining and relating what it is you distinguish by name. It is also a very old thing, even if "information modeling" when it comes to the design of narrative or verse form or stagecraft or other vehicles has happened by evolutionary processes as well as by the intentional activities of poets, thaumaturges, rhetoricians, legislators and bureaucrats. It involves technology and material forms, but it also involves much "softer" understandings of psychology, audience, and social organization. It has always been done implicitly within other disciplines. But now, perhaps due to the pressures of digital convergence, it is coming to be understood as a thing in itself. What is the proper framework within which to study and research the topics related to this? Digital Humanities comprises media theory as well as technology. It's a Klein bottle of a discipline (which is part of why it's so difficult to explain and justify). It is contained by much narrower interests like engineering and systems design; but it also contains whatever it is that contains them. 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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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 325. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:39:11 +0100 From: Justin Tonra Subject: Launch of Transcribe Bentham Transcription Desk The Bentham Project at UCL seeks the assistance of willing participants in an initiative to transcribe the manuscripts of philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832). Today sees the launch of the Transcribe Bentham Transcription Desk, an online tool designed to harness the efforts of all Bentham fans – whether schoolchildren, history enthusiasts, academics or armchair philosophers – to bring his work into the digital age and the world at large. The Transcription Desk allows participants to transcribe material from facsimile images of Bentham’s previously unpublished manuscripts. The resulting transcripts will be included in a freely-accessible database of Bentham’s Manuscripts at UCL, and will assist in the preparation of future printed volumes of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham at the Bentham Project. For further information on Transcribe Bentham, visit: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/ To start transcribing, visit the Transcription Desk: http://www.transcribe-bentham.da.ulcc.ac.uk/td/ Transcribe Bentham is a joint initiative of the Bentham Project, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, University of London Computer Centre, and UCL Library Services, and is supported by the AHRC. -- Dr Justin Tonra Research Associate, Bentham Project University College London +44 (0)20 7679 3607 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 8 21:07:38 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 C3EB0617BD; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 21:07:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1784C617B3; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 21:07:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100908210737.1784C617B3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 21:07:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.326 call for chapters: Zombies in the Academy X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 326. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:54:17 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Zombies in the Academy Call for papers: book chapters for the interdisciplinary anthology €œZombies in the Academy: living death in higher education Editors: Andrew Whelan, Chris Moore and Ruth Walker This book takes up the momentum provided by the recent resurgence of interest in zombie culture to explore the relevance of the zombie trope to discussions of scholarly practice itself. The zombie is an extraordinarily rich and evocative popular cultural form, and zombidity, zombification and necromancy can function as compelling elements in a conceptual repertoire for both explaining and critically enlivening the debates around a broad variety of cultural and institutional phenomena evident in the contemporary university. We propose to canvas a range of critical accounts of the contemporary university as a living dead culture. We are therefore seeking interdisciplinary proposals for papers that investigate the political, cultural, organisational, and pedagogical state of the university, through applying the metaphor of zombiedom to both the form and content of professional academic work. We invite submissions from a range of scholars - notably in cultural and communication studies, but also popular culture, anthropology, sociology, film, game and literary studies, political science, philosophy and education - who would be prepared to submit chapters that examine the zombie trope and its relation to higher education from a variety of perspectives. The editors of Zombies in the Academy have an agreement for publication with Intellect Press UK for 2012. The anthology will be structured in three sections around the broad general topics of: 1. corporatisation, bureaucratisation, and zombification of higher education; 2. technology, digital media and moribund content distribution infecting the university; 3. zombie literacies and living dead pedagogies. Paper proposals that would fit into these sections would include essays that might: -- investigate the current conditions of the academy under pressure from the zombie processes variously described as audit culture or the McDonaldisation of higher education; -- explore the uncanny value of the figure of the zombie as a component in critical pedagogical accounts (zombie concepts, undead labour in Marxist theory etc.), including in such accounts as they are applied to the university itself; --analyse the theme of zombies and the academic gaze through the narratives and mechanics of particular films, games, texts or graphic novels; -- name the attenuated conditions of work in the sector with reference to its various forms of zombidity; -- evaluate the perceived decomposition of academic standards; -- discuss the zombie contagion model as an explanatory device for the circulation of content across multiple media platforms, including into and out of the classroom; -- explore pedagogical activities that use or reflect zombie content; -- critically investigate the rise of zombie literacies - as an epidemic circulated by an unthinking student horde, and/or the undead ivory tower itself; -- address the corpselike inertia and atavism of academic distinction and social closure (journal rankings, peer review, tenure etc.) in the face of the apparently lifelike models of research production beyond the walls of the academy; -- reassess the metaphor of zombiedom, considering how it can be construed not only as a negative critique, but also as a possibly desirable, advantageous or alternative adaptive strategy in academic contexts. Abstracts for proposed book chapters should be 1000 words. Authors are asked to include brief biographical details along with their proposals, including name, academic affiliation and previous publications. Deadline for submissions is 15th December 2010. Please select the most appropriate book section theme for your paper, and submit proposals as an emailed .doc attachment to the following editors: For papers on the corporatisation and zombification of higher education: - Andrew Whelan, PhD. Department of Sociology, Sciences, Media and Communication, University of Wollongong. Email: awhelan@uow.edu.au For papers on technology, digital media and contagion: - Chris Moore, PhD. Centre for Memory, Imagination & Invention, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University. Email: moorenet@gmail.com For papers on zombie literacies and pedagogies: - Ruth Walker, PhD. Learning Development, University of Wollongong. Email: rwalker@uow.edu.au Anticipated timeline: - proposals due December 15th 2010 (1000 words) - contributors notified January 15th 2011 - chapters due July 1st 2011 (6,000 - 9,000 words) - edited full manuscript to publishers December 2011 - book publication 2012 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 21:37:17 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 B79E765E7F; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:37:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 97FF365E76; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:37:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100909213715.97FF365E76@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:37:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.327 designing an academic DH department X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 327. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:31:19 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: commercial in addition to academic models To answer Wendell's question, no, I wasn't trying to provoke our colleagues by suggesting that at least aspects of the commercial model (if this can be singular) might be worth considering in the construction of an academic department of digital humanities. Admittedly I am now under the influence of John Hartley's inspiring (and quite idealistic) book, The Uses of Digital Literacy (University of Queensland Press, 2009), in which he argues the case for the shift of our cultural genius from the intellectual mandarins to ordinary people, and the role of the digital media in what we've shifted to. (His title pointedly refers to Richard Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy, which he discusses in detail.) Some people in cultural studies & cultural research are considerably less optimistic than he about the masses of ordinary people. Those here may well be interested in what's happening at his institution, the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane: the work being done by Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess (http://www.mappingonlinepublics.net/); the 'Urban Informatics' group (http://www.urbaninformatics.net/) led by Marcus Foth; and Hartley's own group called 'Cultural Science', whose aim is to bring evolutionary theory, complexity theory and media/cultural studies together (http://cultural-science.org/). The edges of our large, underpopulated field keep getting harder to see. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 9 21:38:20 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 1439365F0B; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:38:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 80C2A65EF6; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:38:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100909213818.80C2A65EF6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:38:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.328 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 328. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:27:52 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Call for Applications - Digital Innovation Fellowships ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships The American Council of Learned Societies invites application for the sixth annual competition of the Digital Innovation Fellowships. This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating such works. ACLS will award up to six ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships in this competition year, including one project on which two scholars are collaborating. Stipends up to $60,000 Project costs up to $25,000 Deadline: September 29, 2010. For more information visit: http://www.acls.org/programs/digital/ During the 2009-10 cycle, ACLS awarded over $15 million to more than 380 scholars based in the US and abroad working in the humanities and related social sciences. Visit the Fellows & Research section to view recent awardee http://www.acls.org/research/digital.aspx?id=798 listings and profiles. American Council of Learned Societies 633 Third Avenue New York, NY 10017 fellowships@acls.org __________________________________ Steven C. Wheatley Vice President American Council of Learned Societies 633 Third Avenue New York, New York 10017-6795 tel: 212 697 1505, ext. 128 fax: 212 949 8058 swheatley@acls.org www.acls.org http://www.acls.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 9 21:39:25 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 75BE365FB8; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:39:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 003CC65FB0; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:39:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100909213924.003CC65FB0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:39:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.329 a calculated life? contemporary culture? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 329. 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 (15) Subject: Calculating and the Uncomputed [2] From: Willard McCarty (23) Subject: contemporary cultural life --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 08:43:52 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Calculating and the Uncomputed In-Reply-To: <20100828233733.69D9A654FE@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, Food for thought and a tangent to the tainted app thread. In this passage from Yevgeny Zamyatin's _We_ translated by Mirra Ginsburg I am struck by the juxtaposition between the Rousseauesque wilderness outside the ordered city. Through the glass the blunt snout of some beast stared dully, mistily at me; yellow eyes, persistently repeating a single, incomprehensible thought. For a long time we stared into each other's eyes — those mine-wells from the surface world into another subterranean one. And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we? Just what is an "uncomputed life" or for that matter one that is computed? --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:31:52 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: contemporary cultural life In-Reply-To: <20100828233733.69D9A654FE@woodward.joyent.us> I would greatly appreciate recommendations for online sites that focus academically on contemporary cultural phenomena, esp those that seek to engage others not just as viewers but also as participants. I would also like to know about the technologies of online engagement: what we have now that has been found to be especially effective, what possibilities are envisioned for the near future, esp how social networking of the sort manifested on Facebook and the like might be extended, intensified, made better than it is. I'm often less optimistic than perhaps I should be about the degree to which people want to be involved online, to take an active role in imagining communities and keeping them going. Who has written about such phenomena most perceptively, what have they written? What succeeds, what does not -- in general, with examples? Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 9 21:40:29 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 0CF8E670BA; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:40:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C7FE3670A3; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:40:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100909214026.C7FE3670A3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:40:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.330 Corpus of Historical American English X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 330. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 19:09:45 -0600 From: Mark Davies Subject: Corpus of Historical American English (400 million words, 1810-2009) Note: although this announcement is oriented towards linguists, the corpus may also be of value to those interested in the history of American society and culture. The corpus was funded by a generous grant from the US National Endowment for the Humanities (2009-2010) as part of the "We the People" program, which "encourages and strengthens the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture". ----------------------- We are pleased to announce the release of the beta version of the 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English (1810-2009). The corpus has been funded by a generous grant from the US National Endowment for the Humanities, and it is freely available at http://corpus.byu.edu/coha/. COHA is the largest structured corpus of historical English, and it contains more than 100,000 texts from fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and non-fiction books, with the same genre balance decade by decade from the 1810s-2000s. COHA is also related to other large corpora that we have created or modified, including the 410 million word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), the 100 million word TIME Magazine Corpus (1920s-2000s), the 100 million word British National Corpus (our architecture and interface), the 100 million word NEH-funded Corpus del Español (1200s-1900s), and the NEH-funded 45 million word Corpus do Português (1300s-1900s). For information on these corpora, see http://corpus.byu.edu. COHA allows you to quickly and easily search the 400 million words of text from the 1810s-2000s to see how words, phrases and grammatical constructions have increased or decreased in frequency, how words have changed meaning over time, and how stylistic changes have taken place in the language. Users can see the overall (normalized) frequency by decade and year, as well as the frequency of each matching string, by decade. The following are just a small sample of an unlimited number of queries, but they should give some idea of what the corpus can do. * Lexical change: the rise and fall of words and phrases like the following: - (decrease since the 1800s): bosom, folly, grieved, bestow*, quaint, beauteous, fellow, sublime, lad, many a time, of no little, for (conj) - (an increase and then decrease): mustn't, naughty, boyish, agog, toddle, far-out, famed, wangle, swell (adj), lousy - (an increase to the present time): a lot of, unleash, sexual, calm down, screw up, freak out, mommy, skills, frustrating - (words reflecting historical and cultural shifts): emancipation, steamship, telegraph, flapper*, fascis*, teenage*, communis*, global warming * Stylistic change (which gives the flavor of a different time period). Examples from the 1800s, which have decreased since then, are: [so ADJ as to V] (so good as to show me), [PRON be but] (they are but the last examples), [have quite V-ed] (until she had quite finished), [NOUN be that of] (her dress was that of a beggar), or [a most ADJ NOUN] (a most helpful child). * Morphological change: which show how word roots, prefixes, and suffixes have been used over time, including comparisons between different periods, such as -heart- (1800s noble-hearted, 1900s heart-stopping), home- (1800s homebred, 1900s homeowner), or -able adjectives (1800s placable, 1900s predictable). * Syntactic change (since the corpus is tagged and lemmatized), like [end up V-ing], [going to V], [V PRON into V-ing] (e.g. talked them into going), phrasal verbs with [up] (e.g. make up, show up), post-verbal negation with [need] (needn't mention), the "get" passive (get hired), sentence-initial "hopefully", and semi-modals like [need to] and [have to]. * Semantic change: how the meaning or usage of words have changed over time, by looking at changes in collocates (co-occurring words), like [sexual, gay, chip, engine, or web]. This can also signal cultural changes over time, such as nouns used with [woman] in the 1930s-50s compared to the 1960s-80s (fabrics, hips // liberation, abortion), or nouns used with [problem] in the 1810s-1920s compared to the 1920s-2000s (railway, trust // drugs, pollution). * Lexical change (again): users can also have the corpus generate a list of words that were used more in one period than another, even when they don't know what the specified words might be. For example, the corpus can generate lists verbs in the 1970s-2000s compared to the 1930s-1960s (download, recycle // effectuate, redound), adjectives in the 1970s-2000s and the 1930s-1960s (online, affordable // leftist, communistic), or -ly adverbs in the 1900s to the 1800s (basically, reportedly // despondingly, sportively). As can be seen, the corpus allows research on a wide range of phenomena in a robust 400 million word corpus from the last two centuries of American English. The corpus is freely available at http://corpus.byu.edu/coha/, and we invite you to use it for your research and teaching. ============================================ Mark Davies Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics Brigham Young University (phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906 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 Thu Sep 9 21:44:33 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 86E9C6774F; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:44:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A0B766755C; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:44:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100909214431.A0B766755C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:44:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.331 events: research communities; biological inspirations X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 331. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Arianna Ciula (34) Subject: ESF SCH Workshop: Research communities and research infrastructuresin the humanities [2] From: juan romero (110) Subject: CFP evomusart 2011. Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music,Sound, Art and Design --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:51:02 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF SCH Workshop: Research communities and research infrastructures in the humanities Dear all, Last February, the ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) Working Group on Research Infrastructures (RIs) set up by SCH in 2009 to envisage a pro-active strategy for RIs in the Humanities in Europe, decided to organise a strategic workshop, so as to inform a forthcoming SCH policy publication on RIs with real case studies. The workshop on "Research communities and research infrastructures in the humanities" will therefore take place on 29-30 October 2010 in Strasbourg. Its aim is to gather different research communities' perspectives on scholarly-driven design and use of research infrastructures in the humanities by attracting contributions from European scholars across a wide range of disciplines (e.g. linguistics, history, literature, archaeology, media studies, library and archival studies, digital libraries studies, musicology, art history, textual scholarship, manuscript studies, semiotics, data modelling), representing different research languages and interests over RIs related issues around five thematic sessions: 1. Research communities and adoption of research infrastructures The emergence and establishment of research communities around the adoption of new technologies for research in the humanities raise broad issues: from the necessity to bridge traditional research infrastructures (e.g. museums, libraries, archives) and digital research infrastructures to fragmentation of efforts and awareness of best practices, from training and education to impact and academic recognition. 2. Re-purposing and re-use of data The engagement of researchers in the remediation of artefacts, the repurposing and reuse of data in the digital environment have an impact on research methods, practices, tools and facilities in the humanities still to be assessed. 3. Text vs. non text The heterogeneous typology of research infrastructures in the humanities needs to be framed so as to encompass research practices associated both to textual and non textual material. 4. Disciplinary vs. interdisciplinary resources The interdisciplinary avenues of research resulting from the engagement with advanced methods and adoption of digital technologies raise policy issues such as academic recognition and evaluation of interdisciplinary research. 5. Integrating extant resources Past, ongoing and planned attempts at providing humanities scholars with digital research infrastructures that integrate extant intellectual as well as technical resources face delicate and complex issues such as regulation of access across scholarly cultures and languages, and provision of high standard long term services. Among others, contributions from the coordinators of the ESFRI RIs DARIAH and CLARIN as well as from representatives of ESF current activities in the Humanities with a RI dimension together with the input of early career researchers will feature in the workshop programme, which enjoys a wide representation of research languages and an ample geographical distribution of speakers across 15 European countries. The outcome of the workshop will inform the SCH Working Group's preparation of an ESF policy publication on RIs in the humanities, leveraging the views of the represented researcher communities on policy salient debates over research infrastructures. For the provisional programme, please contact Should you or your colleagues be interested in attending this workshop and contribute to the discussion, please contact us () as soon as possible and not later than ***15 September 2010*** (availability is rather limited). ESF would provide meals, but you are requested to cover the costs of your travel and accommodation. 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: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:13:07 +0200 From: juan romero Subject: CFP evomusart 2011. Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS evomusart 2011 9th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design 27-29 April, 2011, Torino, Italy evomusart 2011: http://www.evostar.org/call-for-contributions/evoapplications/evomusart/ evo* 2011: http://www.evostar.org/ CFP in pdf: http://www.evostar.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/call_evomusart.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The use of biologically inspired techniques for the development of artistic systems is a recent, exciting and significant area of research. There is a growing interest in the application of these techniques in fields such as: visual art and music generation, analysis, and interpretation; sound synthesis; architecture; video; poetry; and design. evomusart 2011 is the ninth european event on Evolutionary Music and Art. Following the success of previous events and the growth of interest in the field, the main goal of evomusart 2011 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 the area. The event will be held from 27-29 April, 2011 in Torino, Italy as part of the evostar event. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the event and included in the evoapplications proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The papers should concern the use of biologically inspired techniques - e.g. 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 - Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.; o Biologically Inspired Sound and Music - Systems that create musical pieces, sounds, instruments, voices, sound effects, sound analysis, 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 Surveys of the current state-of-the-art in the area; identification of weaknesses and strengths; comparative analysis and classification; o Validation methodologies; o Studies on the applicability of these techniques to related areas; o New models designed to promote the creative potential of biologically inspired computation; - Computer Aided Creativity o Systems in which biologically inspired computation is used to promote the creativity of a human user; o New ways of integrating the user in the evolutionary cycle; 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 automatic fitness assignment; o Systems in which an analysis or interpretation of the artworks is used in conjunction with biologically inspired techniques to produce novel objects; o Systems that resort to biologically inspired computation to perform the analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some other types of artistic object; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission: 22 November 2010 Notification: 7 January 2011 Camera ready: 1 February 2011 Workshop: 27-29 April 2011 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format (instructions downloadable from http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html) no later than November 22, 2010 to site http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps11 The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper. The papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by January 7, 2011. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts, along with text sources and pictures, by February 1, 2011. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, published in Springer LNCS Series, which will be available at the workshop. Further information, including the Online Submission Details, can be found on the following pages: evomusart2011: http://www.evostar.org/call-for-contributions/evoapplications/evomusart/ evostar 2011: http://www.evostar.org/ CFP in pdf: http://www.evostar.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/call_evomusart.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary Greenfield University of Richmond, USA ggreenfi AT richmond DOT edu Juan Romero University of A Coruna, Spain jj AT udc DOT es _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 21:45:20 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 BEDE7677D6; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:45:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0EECB677CE; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:45:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100909214519.0EECB677CE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:45:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.332 more on zombification X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 332. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 18:45:22 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.326 call for chapters: Zombies in the Academy In-Reply-To: <20100908210737.1784C617B3@woodward.joyent.us> I'd like to recommend Dr. Sherry Truffin's _Schoolhouse Gothic_ as a well-written, interesting, and insightful work along these lines... Jim R > Call for papers: book chapters for the interdisciplinary anthology > €œZombies in the Academy: living death in higher education > > Editors: Andrew Whelan, Chris Moore and Ruth Walker > > This book takes up the momentum provided by the recent resurgence of > interest in zombie culture to explore the relevance of the zombie trope > to discussions of scholarly practice itself. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 12 20:21:44 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 ADA2769F1F; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:21:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0B4BB69F0F; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:21:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100912202144.0B4BB69F0F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:21:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.333 exploring online participation 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. 24, No. 333. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:56:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.329 a calculated life? contemporary culture? In-Reply-To: <20100909213924.003CC65FB0@woodward.joyent.us> Willard asked, under the subject-line "contemporary cultural life" : > Who has written about such phenomena most > perceptively, what have they written? One thing that comes to mind, though I don't know how useful ( or perceptive ) you will find it, is Henry Jenkins, _Fans, bloggers, and gamers : exploring participatory culture_ (New York [etc.] : New York University Press, c2006). - vi, 279 p. - ISBN 978-0-8147-4284-6 hbk ; 978-0-8147-4285-3 pbk There's also something relevant, I think, in Zizi Papacharissi's edited volume _Journalism and citizenship : new agendas in communication_ (London : Routledge, 2009). - xvii, 213 p. - ISBN 978-0-415-80499-8 hbk ; 978-0-415-80498-1 pbk And I don't know how good your Dutch is, but there appeared a quite relevant report a couple of years back from our Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau here, by Jos de Haan and Anna Adolfsen, under the title _De virtuele cultuurbezoeker : publieke belangstelling voor cultuurwebsites_ (158 p. ; ISBN 978-90-377-0357-3). It has a long English-language summary on p.144-148. The research was carried out in cooperation with the University of Rotterdam. It's available at http://www.scp.nl/dsresource?objectid=19697&type=org They've given it the English title "The virtual culture buff : Public interest in cultural websites". - Laval Hunsucker Breukelen, Nederland ----- Original Message ---- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:31:52 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: contemporary cultural life In-Reply-To: <20100828233733.69D9A654FE@woodward.joyent.us> I would greatly appreciate recommendations for online sites that focus academically on contemporary cultural phenomena, esp those that seek to engage others not just as viewers but also as participants. I would also like to know about the technologies of online engagement: what we have now that has been found to be especially effective, what possibilities are envisioned for the near future, esp how social networking of the sort manifested on Facebook and the like might be extended, intensified, made better than it is. I'm often less optimistic than perhaps I should be about the degree to which people want to be involved online, to take an active role in imagining communities and keeping them going. Who has written about such phenomena most perceptively, what have they written? What succeeds, what does not -- in general, with examples? Many thanks. 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 Sun Sep 12 20:22:46 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 229A769655; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:22:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 563F369642; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:22:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100912202244.563F369642@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:22:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.334 even more on zombification X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 334. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 17:36:30 -0600 From: "Kirsten C. Uszkalo" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.332 more on zombification In-Reply-To: <20100909214519.0EECB677CE@woodward.joyent.us> I would also like to recommend the work of Dr. Peter Dendle (Penn State). He has numerous scholarly publications on Zombies, including his _ Zombie Movie Encyclopedia_, (McFarland & Co, 2001) and an upcoming volume by the same press, which looks to Zombie movies, 2000-2010. cheers, Kirsten ---- Kirsten C. Uszkalo - Project Lead | Witches in Early Modern England Project | http://weme.uszkalo.com - Editor | Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies in the Preternatural | http://preternature.org - Adjunct Assistant Professor | Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia "Sure this woman is no witch, for she speaks many good words, which the witches could not" On 2010-09-09, at 3:45 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 332. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 18:45:22 -0400 > From: James Rovira > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.326 call for chapters: Zombies in the Academy > In-Reply-To: <20100908210737.1784C617B3@woodward.joyent.us> > > I'd like to recommend Dr. Sherry Truffin's _Schoolhouse Gothic_ as a > well-written, interesting, and insightful work along these lines... > > Jim R > >> Call for papers: book chapters for the interdisciplinary anthology >> €œZombies in the Academy: living death in higher education >> >> Editors: Andrew Whelan, Chris Moore and Ruth Walker >> >> This book takes up the momentum provided by the recent resurgence of >> interest in zombie culture to explore the relevance of the zombie trope >> to discussions of scholarly practice itself. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 12 20:23:18 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 1E34269727; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:23:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A2EC969694; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:23:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100912202316.A2EC969694@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:23:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.335 PhD in Interdisciplinary 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. 24, No. 335. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:16:56 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Ph.D. programme in Interdisciplinary Humanities The Faculty of Humanities at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada is pleased to announce the creation of a Ph.D. programme in Interdisciplinary Humanities. This programme has received approval from both University and Provincial authorities, and will admit students as of September 2011. Brock’s University’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Doctoral Program provides students with a focused context in which to engage with topics integral to the contested notions of knowledge, values and creativity as reflected in the specific fields of Ways of Knowing (Epistemologies), Critique and Social Transformation, Culture and Aesthetics and Digital Humanities. The programme is committed to providing a rigourous interdisciplinary environment that nurtures scholarly and creative activity. Such endeavours aim to investigate the past as well influence the ways in which reflection and creation contribute to the further unfolding of society in the future. Students pursuing Brock University’s Interdisciplinary Doctoral Humanities Programme will have the opportunity to collaborate across disciplines and to associate with wider communities of inquiry. Upon completion of the program, individuals will be prepared for continued research and teaching, or for professions requiring abilities in disciplined study, critical discernment, and robust application of creative insight. Those interested in applying to the programme, or receiving more information, should contact Dr. Carol Merriam, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, Faculty of Humanities, Brock University. E-mail: merriamc@brocku.ca ; telephone: (905) 688-5550 extension 3320 ************************************************************* -- Carol U. Merriam, Ph.D. Associate Dean, Graduate Studies and Research Faculty of Humanities Brock University (905) 688-5550 ext 3320 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 13 21:47:25 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 9DF0F61763; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:47:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C459F61751; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:47:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100913214723.C459F61751@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:47:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.336 job at NYU: programmer, ancient texts 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. 24, No. 336. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:13:33 -0400 From: Jennifer Vinopal Subject: NYU Position Announcement - Programmer - Ancient Texts New York University Programmer/Analyst New York University's Division of the Libraries seeks a Programmer/Analyst to work on the "Papyrological Navigator" (http://papyri.info) and associated systems. Papyri.info is a web-based research portal that provides scholars worldwide with the ability to search, browse and collaboratively edit texts, transcriptions, images and metadata relating to ancient texts on papyri, pottery fragments and other material. The incumbent will work closely with the Project Coordinator and with scholars involved in the project at NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Duke University, the University of Kentucky and the University of Heidelberg, as well as with NYU Digital Library Technology staff. The incumbent's initial responsibilities will include: close collaboration with project team members to enhance and extend a robust production environment at NYU for the ongoing ingest and processing of new and updated text transcriptions, metadata and digital images; performing both analysis and programming of any required changes or enhancements to current PN applications. Candidates should have the following skills: * Bachelor's degree in computer or information science and 3 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination * Must include experience developing web applications using Java * Demonstrated knowledge of Java, Javascript, Tomcat, Saxon, Lucene, Apache, SQL, XML, XSLT * Experience with metadata standards (e.g. TEI, EpiDoc) * Experience working in Unix/Linux environments * Preferred: Experience with Apache Solr, RDF triple stores (e.g. Mulgara), Clojure =20 * Preferred: Experience designing, building, and deploying distributed systems * Preferred: Experience working with non-Roman Unicode-based textual data (esp. Greek) * Excellent communication and analytical skills Applicants should submit resume and cover letter, which reflects how applicant's education and experience match the job requirements. NYU offers a competitive salary and superior benefit package, which includes tuition benefits for self and eligible family members, generous vacation, medical, dental, and retirement plans. For more information about working at NYU visit our website at: www.nyucareers.com. To apply: To apply for this position online, visit http://www.nyucareers.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=3D52507 NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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 Mon Sep 13 21:48:20 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 DE34C617DB; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:48:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EE932617D3; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:48:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100913214819.EE932617D3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:48:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.337 what we are & seem to be X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 337. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:18:22 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: vampire disciplines, mollycoddling & other ills Reading Eduardo De La Fuente's article in The Australian for 26 May 2010, "Vampires latch on to learning" (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion-analysis/vampires-latch-on-to-learning/story-e6frgcko-1225871243920), and wondering about my own, I wonder if the author has considered the ongoing HBO series "True Blood"? The refiguration of the human continues apace with the refiguration of the disciplines. And in the o-tempora-o-mores department one also finds here Joseph Gora's article, "Drowned by Dr Verbiage" (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion-analysis/drowned-by-dr-verbiage/story-e6frgcko-1225915520257), which rather misses the point of its own examples. In some UK universities students can resit examinations as many times as they like -- in August, mind you -- including exams for courses whose meetings they've rarely or never attended. How would you vote if your idea of higher education had been formed on the basis of reports such as these? The absent-minded professor stereotype, harmless drudge or mad scientist would seem far less damaging. Anecdotal evidence from radio and television suggests that people are now openly questioning the university-as-job-training-centre idea, to which some of us in humanities computing appealed, and for a while quite successfully, to get students. In some places research income from granting agencies is sufficiently uncertain that justifying the existence of a department on that basis has become difficult. So perhaps it would be a good idea to think a bit, and discuss again, what we say we're good for. The second of the articles cited above goes after the argument that the humanities train students to "think critically". I know what I think we're good for, but will an appeal to a life of the mind work in today's world? An interesting case to consider is cultural studies. I refer particularly to Ien Ang, "From cultural studies to cultural research: Engaged scholarship in the Twenty-First Century", Cultural Studies Review 12.2 (2006). There Ang squarely faces cultural studies' desire "to align intellectual work with progressive social change"; the empty posturing that sometimes comes of this; the feeling that academics should just be concerned with questioning received knowledge and formulating it afresh; the dilemma of cultural studies' foundational commitment to "the Foucauldian truth... that knowledge is always ultimately 'political'"; and so the hard job of figuring out how genuine connections between academic research and ordinary life may be forged, with "concrete intellectual practice" a result (184-6). Of course the response she works out is particular to cultural studies, but changing what needs to be changed the article is a fine example for others. Not an answer, of course, but a way of talking in a situation that requires from us a story we can live with. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 13 21:49:04 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 0C8DA61853; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:49:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 026EA6183F; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:49:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100913214902.026EA6183F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:49:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.338 new publications X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 338. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Nicholas Ruiz III (14) Subject: Kritikos V.7 July-August 2010 [2] From: Willard McCarty (56) Subject: The September/October 2010 issue of D-LibMagazine is now available [3] From: Willard McCarty (117) Subject: Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42:1October 2010 [4] From: Willard McCarty (33) Subject: cfp: issue of LLC from DH2010 [5] From: Willard McCarty (47) Subject: Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:03:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicholas Ruiz III Subject: Kritikos V.7 July-August 2010 July-August-2010 The Aims of Education...(m.wark) Collecting Modernity...(m.bullock) http://intertheory.org/work.htm Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D NRIII for Congress 2010 http://intertheory.org/nriiiforcongress2010.html ____________________________________ Editor, Kritikos http://intertheory.org ____________________________________ Director, Florida Forum for Social Justice http://intertheory.org/ffsj.htm --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:38:32 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: The September/October 2010 issue of D-LibMagazine is now available > Subject: [Dlib-subscribers] The September/October 2010 issue of > D-Lib Magazine is now available > Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:08:06 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson > Greetings: The September/October issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. 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Wharton *Abstract*: This article analyzes important US university press net publishers' revenue and net publishers' unit datasets and e-book revenues for 2008–9. Data for net publishers' revenues, net publishers' units, and digital e-book revenues for higher education textbooks, professional and scholarly books, and consumer e-books were also evaluated covering the years 2008–9. Drawing on important economic data projections and the publicly available competitive print and digital strategies crafted by competitors in the consumer, higher education, and professional and scholarly sectors, the authors develop net publishers' revenue and unit projections for all of these book categories for 2010–15. The university press data sets reveal unsettling declines in revenues and units for 2008–2015. Addressing these declines, the authors conclude with a brief series of recommendations, including the rapid adoption of a digital ‘e-book’ business model in order to reposition the presses in what is becoming a digital book marketplace. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/cq3nr5271r466g6l/?p=c12434b31b0b4c99b8425ff89702bf56&pi=0 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.1.1 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/cq3nr5271r466g6l/ *Blog to the Future? http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/c59l03j5g6420780/ * Angus Phillips *Abstract*: A variety of current developments are creating questions over present models of publishing and scholarly communication. Will new journals continue to be launched? Will open-access developments such as subject or institutional repositories reach a tipping point at which libraries will start to cancel journal subscriptions? Is the journal article too static a mechanism, by comparison to the ways in which scholars are able to interact using blogs and wikis? Steadily emerging is a new future for the journal as part of an overall network of knowledge creation and scholarly communication. We are moving away from a world in which a few producers generate content to transmit to a set of users. Instead, the world of knowledge creation has a variety of routes through which research can be disseminated and feedback mechanisms facilitated by a range of collaborative tools. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/c59l03j5g6420780/?p=c12434b31b0b4c99b8425ff89702bf56&pi=1 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.1.16 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/c59l03j5g6420780/ *Where Will the Next Generation of Publishers Come From? http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/vlj95265524g7071/ * Alison Baverstock *Abstract*: This essay considers how publishing (the concept and the associated industry) is understood within society and how to spread understanding of both the processes involved and the job opportunities available. It examines traditional publishing recruitment practices and the skills and competencies sought. It considers the role of publishing within the academy, its arrival and reception, and how this is changing as more sector-specific research is published. It looks at course content on an international basis, how this matches the skills likely to be needed by future publishers, and the role of the work placement. Finally, it examines the process of widening and diversifying recruitment, as well as the practical measures being taken to assist in this process. The author makes a series of recommendations on how to spread understanding of the publishing industry and present it as an attractive option to the future workforce; promote a move to meet the needs of a wider cross-section of society through encouraging more people to read and gain the quantified benefits thereof; prioritize excellence in information management and dissemination; and spread the habit of buying published resources beyond traditional markets. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/vlj95265524g7071/?p=c12434b31b0b4c99b8425ff89702bf56&pi=2 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.1.31 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/vlj95265524g7071/ *Journal Identity in the Digital Age http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m78202759205xn42/ * Bonnie Wheeler http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m78202759205xn42/?p=c12434b31b0b4c99b8425ff89702bf56&pi=3 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.1.45 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m78202759205xn42/ *Reviews http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/67730873056nn301/ * http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/67730873056nn301/?p=c12434b31b0b4c99b8425ff89702bf56&pi=4 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.1.89 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/67730873056nn301/ *Journal of Scholarly Publishing * A must for anyone who crosses the scholarly publishing path – authors, editors, marketers and publishers of books and journals. 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For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:41:24 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp: issue of LLC from DH2010 Call for Papers We call for the submission to a special issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC) containing papers from the 2010 Digital Humanities Conference at King’s College, London. We should like to receive papers from anyone who presented at the meeting, including those who presented posters or demonstrations (see below). Long papers must report on completed work, including (at least preliminary) evaluation; while there is more room in short papers for reports on work at earlier stages, we emphasize that short papers should make scholarly points and not merely report on project work. All submissions will be judged by at least two independent referees. In the past such special issues have contained about ten papers of the seventy or eighty presentations. Long papers may be up to 6000 words. in length, while short papers should not exceed 2000 words. All submissions must be received by midnight (CET), Oct. 15, 2010. Although submissions should be made via email to John Nerbonne (j.nerbonne@rug.nl) and therefore not to the journal directly, authors should otherwise prepare their manuscripts using the LLC guidelines, available at: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/litlin/for_authors/ We emphasize that it is the author’s responsibility to see that the formal guidelines are met. John Nerbonne, Groningen Bethany Nowviskie, Virginia Paul Spence, King’s College, London Paul Vetch, King’s College, London -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:42:28 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography > Subject: Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography > Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:02:12 +0100 > From: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship: http://digital-scholarship.org/tsp/transforming.htm This bibliography presents over 1,100 selected English-language scholarly works useful in understanding the open access movement's efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly literature. The bibliography primarily includes books and published journal articles. A limited number of book chapters, conference papers, dissertations and theses, magazine articles, technical reports, and other scholarly works that are deemed to be of exceptional interest are also included (see the "Preface" for further details about selection criteria). The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included works. Most sources have been published from January 1, 1999 through August 1, 2010; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1999 are also included. The bibliography is available as a paperback and an open access PDF file. The following Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, version 78 http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html (2) Digital Scholarship 2009 (paperback and open access PDF file) http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/ds2009.htm (3) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition (paperback, Kindle e-book, and open access PDF file) http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2008.htm (4) Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography, version 1 http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcpb.htm Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen): http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/tsp.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://digital-scholarship.org/ A Look Back at 21 Years as an Open Access Publisher http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/21/21years.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 14 21:25:50 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 38A6E696B8; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:25:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8AB6169698; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:25:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100914212548.8AB6169698@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:25:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.339 opportunities editing modernism in 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 339. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:43:59 -0300 From: Dean Irvine Subject: EMiC Bulletin (fall 2010) Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) Bulletin Fall 2010 Visit us online at http://editingmodernism.ca We are pleased to introduce to you the EMiC project and its significant research and professional development opportunities. EMiC is a SSHRC-funded research initiative that facilitates collaboration among researchers and institutions from regions all across Canada and from the UK, France, Belgium, New Zealand, and the US. We produce new print and digital editions of Canadian modernist texts from the early to mid-twentieth century, as well as organize conferences, special issues of journals, and collections of essays on topics related to the mandate of the project. Researchers who join this new community of scholars are free to apply through EMiC for publication subventions and research assistants for their work related to Canadian modernism, and are invited to participate in our summer institutes on digital editing and textual editing. Students take note! EMiC offers stipend funding at the MA ($12, 000 per year) and PhD ($15, 000 per year) levels, Postdoctoral Fellowships ($31, 500 per year for 2 years), and also provides resources for training and networking at our summer institutes, workshops, and conferences. Take advantage of EMiC EMiC's wide variety of funding and research opportunities is open to all new and established scholars working on topics relevant to the mandate of the project. We would like to invite you to join our growing network of scholars and students by participating in some of the upcoming events and funding opportunities. Upcoming events and deadlines 23-24 October 2010: Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto http://editingmodernism.ca/training/conferences-and-workshops/conference-o n-editorial-problems-2010/ Publication subventions: ongoing http://editingmodernism.ca/funding/publication-subventions/ Plan ahead to apply for stipend and fellowships in Spring 2011, and to participate in EMiC's two summer institutes on digital editing (DEMiC, June 2011) as well as textual editing and project planning (TEMiC, August 2011). http://editingmodernism.ca/funding/ma-and-phd-stipends/ http://editingmodernism.ca/funding/postdoctoral-fellows/ http://editingmodernism.ca/training/ Recently completed EMiC projects 2010 P.K. Page, Kaleidoscope: Selected Poems of P.K. Page, ed. Zailig Pollock. Print edition (Porcupine's Quill). A.M. Klein, The Letters, ed. Elizabeth Popham (University of Toronto Press). 2009 Bertram Brooker, The Wrong World: Selected Prose, ed. Gregory Betts. Canadian Literature Collection. Print edition with web-based apparatus (University of Ottawa Press). CLC Online: http://www.uopress.uottawa.ca/clc/Brooker/author.htm 2008 Louis Dudek, All These Roads: The Poetry of Louis Dudek, ed. Karis Shearer (Wilfrid Laurier University Press). 2007 Irene Baird, Waste Heritage, ed. Colin Hill. Canadian Literature Collection. Print edition with web-based apparatus (University of Ottawa Press). CLC Online: http://www.uopress.uottawa.ca/clc/Baird/author.htm Robert J.C. Stead, Dry Water, eds. Neil Querengesser and Jean Horton. Canadian Literature Collection. Print edition with web-based apparatus (University of Ottawa Press). CLC Online: http://www.uopress.uottawa.ca/clc/Stead/author.htm Upcoming Projects 2011 Ted Allan, This Time a Better Earth, ed. Bart Vautour. Print edition with web-based apparatus (University of Ottawa Press). Ernest Buckler, The Mountain and the Valley, ed. Marta Dvorak (Tecumseh Press) Louis Dudek, "Dear Ezra": Letters of Louis Dudek, ed. Karis Shearer. (McGill-Queen's University Press) Marie Joussaye Fotheringham, Collected Works, ed. Meagan Timney (EMiC Digital Edition) Malcolm Lowry, Lunar Caustic, eds. Paul Tiessen, Patrick McCarthy, and Miguel Mota. Print edition with web-based apparatus (University of Ottawa Press) P.K. Page, Brazilian Journal, ed. Suzanne Bailey. Collected Works of P.K. Page (Porcupine's Quill) Eli Mandel, Room to Room: The Poetry of Eli Mandel, ed. Peter Webb. (Wilfrid Laurier University Press). Print edition for the Laurier Poetry Series. Oscar Ryan, Mildred Goldberg, Ed Cecil-Smith, and Frank Love, Eight Men Speak: A Political Play in Six Acts, ed. Alan Filewod. Print edition with online apparatus (University of Ottawa Press) Some Links Join in discussions on editorial practices, upcoming opportunities (that may or may not be affiliated with the EMiC project), and new technologies: http://editingmodernism.ca/community/ Modernist Studies Association Conference XII: Roundtable on Editorial Networks, Modernist Remediations, with EMiC participants: http://msa.press.jhu.edu/conferences/msa12/documents/MSAXIIPreliminaryProgram.pdf (see p.23, item 28) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 14 21:26:22 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 39690696F8; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:26:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 54052696E7; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:26:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100914212620.54052696E7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:26:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.340 events: games research and ethics X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 340. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:23:08 +0200 From: Charles Ess Subject: Workshop announcement: Games Research and Ethics Workshop, Aarhus University, 25-26 October Dear Humanists, -- please distribute as appropriate - The Department of Information and Media Studies and Center for Internet Research, Aarhus University, are hosting a PhD workshop on Games Research and Ethics, following Internet Research 11 (in Gothenburg), with Elizabeth Buchanan, Mia Consalvo, Annette Markham, Miguel Sicart, and Malin Sveningsson (please see announcement, below). The workshop is supported by the Danish National Research School in Media, Communication and Journalism (FMKJ), the Department of Information- and Media Studies (IMV), Aarhus University, and the (U.S.) National Science Foundation, Project number 0924604. The morning presentations on Monday and Tuesday (25-26. October - see preliminary schedule below), are open to interested scholars and researchers. The registration fee is 630 DKK - currently, ca. 110.00 USD / 85 Euro: the fee covers the costs of all coffee /tea breaks, lunch on Monday and Tuesday, and the workshop dinner on Monday evening. If you have any questions regarding travel and accommodation possibilities, etc., please don't hesitate to contact us. all best wishes, charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 == Games Research and Ethics: Current Issues, Possible Resolutions Sponsored by The Danish National Research School in Media, Communication and Journalism (FMKJ), the Department of Information- and Media Studies (IMV), Aarhus University, and the (U.S.) National Science Foundation, Project number 0924604. Organizer: Charles Ess October 25-26. Conference Center, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Contact: Charles Ess : Beatrice Gamborg (workshop administrative assistant) > The rapid development of computer-based / networked games in all their forms has inspired growing research into a range of questions, from concerns about potential social impacts (e.g., violence in games such as Grand Theft Auto) to interest in how player groups in such MMOGs as World of Warcraft resemble and differ from other online communities. At the same time, computer games thus evoke new sorts of ethical challenges for researchers. For example, a central research ethics question ­ especially in Europe with its strict laws protecting personal information ­ is: What are the obligations, if any, of the researcher to protect the identity and confidentiality of her research subjects? This concern becomes especially tricky, say, for an ethnographer who records voice chats of guild players in a MMOG. While texts from a text chat may be paraphrased so as to protect the identity of their authors in a published research report ­ manipulating voice recordings in analogous ways may not be so easy. Can the ethnographer safely publish these as part of her research, or is she ethically obliged to disguise or conceal this part of her research for the sake of protecting the confidentiality of her subjects? The goal of the workshop is to explore the novel ethical difficulties facing those undertaking games research ­ and this in a two-fold way. One, the course includes two panels of presentations - open to interested internet researchers and scholars, including participants in the AoIR conference in Gothenburg the previous week - by leading scholars and researchers on games and games research ethics: Elizabeth Buchanan (Director, Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR), and chair, AoIR ethics working group) Mia Consalvo (Visiting Professor, MIT, and current President, AoIR) Malin Sveningsson (University of Skövde, Sweden) Annette Markham (Senior Research Fellow, Internet Research Ethics, CIPR, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) Miguel Sicart (IT-University, Copenhagen, and author of The Ethics of Computer Games, MIT Press, 2009). These presentations will provide an overview of contemporary understanding and reflection on central ethical and methodological issues in games research. Two, the workshop encourages PhD students (who attend the workshop under the sponsorship of FMKJ) to contribute their current research and specific ethical challenges in an ³extended master class,² constituted by an informal paper/poster-session designed to catalyze dialogue and debate with the invited presenters. PhD students will be asked to submit either a paper or poster. Students will be assigned to a working group of no more than 3 students plus one or two of the senior workshop presenters. Each student will have 10 minutes to present his/her paper/poster, followed by comments from a designated respondent. The attending senior scholar(s) will then offer additional comments and continue open discussion, for a total time of 1.5 hours. If enough students participate, you will also be able to attend / audit a second such class. In these ways, we anticipate that PhD students will receive useful advice and guidance ­ and that you in turn will contribute your work from the praxis of your research to the reflections and frameworks continuously being developed by the invited presenters. Course registration In order to register for the course, you should send an email to Beatrice Gamborg (workshop administrative assistant) imvbg@hum.au.dk by October 1 2010. You should also attach a 1-page description of your PhD project. Phd students wishing to present a paper or poster must also submit their paper/poster by this date. You are welcome to contact either Charles Ess (imvce@hum.au.dk) or Kirsten Frandsen, Head of PhD study programme, (imvkf@hum.au.dk) for additional information. Maximum number of PhD participants: 20. * The morning presentations on Monday and Tuesday (25-26. October - see preliminary schedule below), are open to interested scholars and researchers, including those attending the AoIR annual conference the previous week in Gothenburg, Sweden. Registration for general audience Those interested in attending the open presentations are required to register via email with Beatrice Gamborg (workshop administrative assistant) imvbg@hum.au.dk by October 1 2010. Registrants will be assessed a fee of 630 DKK to cover catering costs - i.e., all coffee/tea breaks, lunch on Monday and Tuesday, and the workshop dinner on Monday evening. Course Requirements and ECTS points Participation in the course requires two kinds of preparation: readings that address each of the presentations in the course, and a 10-page paper or poster-session equivalent that you must submit by October 1 2010. The paper / poster presentation should outline your doctoral project, with particular reference to the research design and its methodological challenges. The course readings will be available by late September 2010. ECTS points 1.5 ECTS for participation without presenting a paper / poster. 1.5 ECTS for presenting a paper / poster ­ i.e., 3 ECTS possible. Costs The Danish National Research School in Media, Communication and Journalism(FMKJ) will cover all expenses for Ph.D. students who are enrolled in the School. PhD students who are not enrolled in FMKJ will have to pay for their own travel, accommodation, and meals while in Aarhus. Preliminary ProgramMonday 25. October 8:30-9:00 Coffee / tea / refreshments 9:00-9:15 Introduction to workshop - charles 9:15-10:00 Elizabeth Buchanan ­ Research Ethics 2.0 10:00-10:45 Miguel Sicart ­ Games and Research Ethics 11:45-11:15 Coffee / tea / refreshments 11:15-12:00 Malin Sveningsson ­ ³Going Native² in World of Warcraft: what¹s the problem(s)? 12:00-13:00 Lunch 13:00-16:00 Extended Master Class (Paper/ Poster sessions with individual PhD students in dialogue with senior scholars) (coffee, tea, refreshments available by 14:00) 16:00-16:15 Coffee / tea / refreshments 16:15-17:00 Closing plenary discussion (charles moderates) 17:00-18:30 Rest / relaxation 18:30-21:00 Dinner Tuesday, 26. October 8:30-9:00 Coffee / tea / refreshments 9:00-9:15 Reminders / springboards - Charles 9:15-10:00 Annette Markham ­ methods and ethics in games research 10:00-10:45 Mia Consalvo ­ Researchers and Developers: Ethical Reflections from the Field 11:45-11:15 Coffee / tea / refreshments 11:15-12:00 Closing plenary discussion: lessons learned, remaining questions, unsolved issues, next steps? 12:00-13:00 Lunch / evaluation / goodbye _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 17 22:18:36 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 6F5CA6C7FC; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:18:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 516986C7EA; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:18:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100917221835.516986C7EA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:18:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.341 iPad apps by us? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 341. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:40:04 -0400 From: Alan Galey Subject: iPad app development within DH communities Hello all, This question may be premature, with the iPad having been on the market only a few months now, but I've been wondering if any iPad apps designed within the digital humanities community might be on the horizon. To be specific, I'm wondering about iPad apps similar to Zotero -- similar not in terms of purpose and functionality, but in terms of having their genesis *within* an academic DH community, not with companies that market their products *to* scholars. I realize this distinction gets fuzzy, but I hope the gist of my question is clear. For example, the pdf reading app iAnnotate was co-designed by Stephen Hockema, a colleague at U Toronto's iSchool, and embodies many discussions about things like form, content, and trust in classrooms and colloquia here in Toronto. I imagine Zotero and Omeka had similar origins as web tools in the community at George Mason U. As much as we seek generalizability in the tools we build, those tools are sometimes marked by the very specific intellectual contexts and research programs from which they emerged. That may not make those tools any more useful, strictly speaking, but I think it makes them more interesting. Is anyone else currently developing an iPad app with similar origins in a DH community of some kind? All best, Alan Galey _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 18 22:18:29 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 619D2721EF; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:18:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AB4DD721D9; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:18:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100918221827.AB4DD721D9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:18:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.342 IPad apps by us X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 342. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" (58) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.341 iPad apps by us? [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (26) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.341 ipads and MVD - some ideas --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:31:45 -0700 From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.341 iPad apps by us? In-Reply-To: <20100917221835.516986C7EA@woodward.joyent.us> Hi I'm working on a few as a consultant--but none of them meant *for* the academic community. Mostly I've been brought in to consult on e-book like features. I'm not allowed to talk about them yet--I promise I will as soon as I can. Lisa On Sep 17, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 341. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:40:04 -0400 > From: Alan Galey > Subject: iPad app development within DH communities > > Hello all, > > This question may be premature, with the iPad having been on the > market only a few months now, but I've been wondering if any iPad apps > designed within the digital humanities community might be on the > horizon. To be specific, I'm wondering about iPad apps similar to > Zotero -- similar not in terms of purpose and functionality, but in > terms of having their genesis *within* an academic DH community, not > with companies that market their products *to* scholars. I realize > this distinction gets fuzzy, but I hope the gist of my question is > clear. > > For example, the pdf reading app iAnnotate was co-designed by Stephen > Hockema, a colleague at U Toronto's iSchool, and embodies many > discussions about things like form, content, and trust in classrooms > and colloquia here in Toronto. I imagine Zotero and Omeka had similar > origins as web tools in the community at George Mason U. As much as we > seek generalizability in the tools we build, those tools are sometimes > marked by the very specific intellectual contexts and research > programs from which they emerged. That may not make those tools any > more useful, strictly speaking, but I think it makes them more > interesting. > > Is anyone else currently developing an iPad app with similar origins > in a DH community of some kind? > > All best, > > Alan Galey > -- Lisa L. Spangenberg The iPad Project Book PeachPit Press, September 2010 http://www.ipadprojectsbook.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:13:38 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.341 ipads and MVD - some ideas In-Reply-To: <20100917221835.516986C7EA@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Alan, what an excellent idea! Of course the problem with the ipad is the proprietary nature of the development environment: you have to pay $99 per year and write in Objective-C which, once bound to MacOSX will only work on that platform. Still , software in that language is supposed to be easy to write. You work in big brush-strokes rather than the nitty-gritty, using graphical development tools to design User Interfaces. All in all it's much less daunting that writing standard web-applications in that cumbersome mixture of HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP/Java (or other combinations) that pass for web development these days. The Kindle is impossible to develop for, being a closed system, but the ipad is relatively open. So I think like you that this is an opportunity to explore the new medium that the ipad offers. What I had in mind was an ipad version of MVDViewer, whose latest incarnation is still being developed online at http://www.digitalvariants.org/texts . What the ipad offers is a more consistent platform than the web, so that quirks arising from using a different browser simply don't arise. What I have long wanted to do is port my MVD (multi-version-document) GUI to such a device so humanists could edit digital 'works' in all their versions, viewing them side-by-side in comparison, in single view (with interactive apparatus), facsimile and rendered text side-by-side and another view to allow annotations, so people can work on the text, not merely explore it. Why have boring flat books when we can have multi-dimensioned books? Is this really pie-in-the-sky? Not entirely. The web-gui already exists, although it is still incomplete, as does the code that handles the MVDs, the 'model'. But you were looking for people who were thinking along these lines, and those are my thoughts... It all depends on time and opportunity, but it might happen. best, Desmond Schmidt ________________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 8:18 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 Mon Sep 20 21:20:23 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 200C17D205; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:20:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8FECC7D1EF; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:20:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100920212021.8FECC7D1EF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:20:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.343 iPad apps by us X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 343. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.342 IPad apps by us [2] From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" (5) Subject: IPad apps by us --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:24:32 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.342 IPad apps by us In-Reply-To: <20100918221827.AB4DD721D9@woodward.joyent.us> This would be great -- I'd buy it. Think also about something similar that includes integrated visual elements -- photos, text and image, text in image -- with the ability to zoom in closely on a hi-res image. Jim R > What I had in mind was an ipad version of MVDViewer, whose latest incarnation is still being > developed online at http://www.digitalvariants.org/texts . What the ipad offers is a more consistent > platform than the web, so that quirks arising from using a different browser simply don't arise. What I > have long wanted to do is port my MVD (multi-version-document) GUI to such a device so humanists > could edit digital 'works' in all their versions, viewing them side-by-side in comparison, in single view > (with interactive apparatus), facsimile and rendered text side-by-side and another view to allow > annotations, so people can work on the text, not merely explore it. Why have boring flat books when > we can have multi-dimensioned books? --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 03:08:33 +0100 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: IPad apps by us In-Reply-To: <20100918221827.AB4DD721D9@woodward.joyent.us> The question might be posed: why should HE and OpenSource developers produce something for a company which in effect operates restricted practices? IMHO, it would be unethical for HE people to take this route. Dave Postles _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 21:24:36 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 C7C5A7D524; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:24:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0F5AB7D510; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:24:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100920212435.0F5AB7D510@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:24:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.344 mission-shrink X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 344. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:16:50 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: mission-shrink In a forthcoming paper, "From Studious Irrelevancy to Consilient Knowledge: Modes Of Scholarship and Cultural Anthropology", the American anthropologist Pascal Boyer (artsci.wustl.edu/~pboyer/PBoyerHomeSite/) notes the steep decline in public attention to the field of cultural anthropology thus: > “Mission creep” is the process, much feared by the military and some > politicians, whereby a limited tactical goal turns into an impossibly > ambitious political adventure. Cultural anthropology has in the last > fifty years or so suffered from the opposite problem, a quite > dramatic form of “mission-shrink.” Compared to its original agenda, > and even to what is routinely claimed to be its mission in textbooks, > cultural anthropology has gradually narrowed its focus to a few > obscure problems. The digital humanities (collective noun) is obviously very different in many respects, but changing what needs to be changed an object lesson is here for us as well. Though we do need to know what to say about computing to the broad public, in general our audience is comprised of our fellow academics. What of sufficient ambition do we have to say to them that will get their attention as scholars on matters of scholarship? When (as now happens from time to time) we are invited to sit at the table and join in on the conversation, what do we have to say that is recognisable as a genuine contribution? What do we have to say that makes a difference to the problems of the day? We simply cannot any longer afford to be indifferent to them. It's not easy for a number of reasons, one of which is certainly that which people expect to hear from us, what they think they want, which quite often is at best something rather less than matches our capabilities. But I am concerned that we don't often enough try. Yesterday I heard a postgraduate student (Jane Felstead, from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne) in a paper on game studies observe that, "the limitation of textual analysis is in its extrication of the player from the text". Do we have the wit to recruit such people when we find them and to figure out what they're doing that brings them to such a realisation? Or do we just shuffle on with our limited technical objectives? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 20 21:25:37 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 3E3E37D649; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:25:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E27377D634; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:25:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100920212535.E27377D634@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:25:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.345 defining 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 345. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:31:16 -0500 From: "Cogdill, Sharon E." Subject: Question about defining digital humanities Pursuant to the discussion of how to build an academic department for digital humanities, I've got an opportunity to get a question about digital humanities into a survey my university is sending out, to see if there is sufficient interest to begin developing ideas for some new programs. The survey will give the name of the proposed area of study, offer a short definition, and then present a Likert scale, ranging I think from "not interested" to "very interested." We are not in a position to do the level of digital humanities many people on this list have described, which have sounded just wonderful and, to be honest, ideal to me, but I would love to be able to introduce master's-level graduate students, including teachers in the schools, to some of the things that digital humanities can do, especially in attracting younger students to the humanities. So now my problem is to get a definition out for this survey in a form that would make sense to and attract people thinking about returning to school for a master's degree. We'll need to develop something interdisciplinary rather than a stand-alone program. Not only does my language need to be pretty accessible, but it needs to come in at less than 50 words. I'm wondering if any members of this list would have suggestions for me. Here is the first definition, which is for New Media/Digital Humanities, which it may need to do: "Using computers and the Internet in the arts and the humanities, including language arts (English, communication studies, mass communications), history, and geography." Here is the one more focused on digital humanities: "Bringing computers and the Internet into the presentation, preservation, and study of new and historical texts (including literature and public and private documents) - for lovers of the humanities, including language arts (English, communication studies, mass communications), history, and geography." Thanks for whatever suggestions you have for me. Best, sharon Sharon Cogdill Professor, Department of English 159 Building 51 St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 21:27:14 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 135257D794; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:27:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4DC567D783; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:27:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100920212712.4DC567D783@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:27:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.346 events: supporting 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 346. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:58:05 +0100 From: Martin Wynne Subject: Conference: Supporting the Digital Humanities, Vienna, 19-20th October2010 SDH 2010 - Supporting the Digital Humanities 19-20 October 2010, Vienna University of Technology NEERI 2010 - Networking Event for the European Research Infrastructures 21 October 2010, Vienna University of Technology ********************************************************* SDH2010 is the first conference that is jointly organized by the CLARIN and DARIAH initiatives, which are building the European research infrastructure for the humanities and related disciplines. SDH2010 aims to bring together infrastructure providers and users from the communities involved with the two infrastructure initiatives. The conference will consist of a number of topical sessions where providers and users will present and discuss results, obstacles and opportunities for digitally-supported humanities research. Participants will be encouraged to engage with honest assessments of the intellectual problems and practical barriers in an open and constructive atmosphere. SDH2010 is organized together with NEERI2010, the second European networking event for research infrastructures. Whereas SHD2010 will focus on the types of research made possible by research computing, NEERI2010 will focus on the technical, architectural and social challenges of building the infrastructure. NEERI2010 is the second Networking Event of its kind, providing a follow-up to NEERI2009 held in Helsinki. The goal of NEERI2010 is to exchange ideas on a number of topics relevant for research infrastructures and to clear common ground on the further development and application of these topics. NEERI focuses on what we share and what we can learn from each other. Examples of such commonalities are architectural issues, communication with users and integration of services and tools. SDH 2010 will have a special focus on the humanities and social sciences, while NEERI will focus more on general aspects of research infrastructure development across all disciplines, including the natural and life sciences. Registration is open. Further information is available on the conference website: http://ztwweb.trans.univie.ac.at/sdh2010/ -- 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 20:09:56 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 99C517F495; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:09:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 986D97F48C; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:09:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100921200955.986D97F48C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:09:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.347 iPad apps by us X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 347. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.343 iPad apps by us [2] From: Claire Clivaz (63) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.343 iPad apps by us [3] From: Patrick Durusau (18) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.343 iPad apps by us [4] From: Thomas Crombez (6) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.343 iPad apps by us [5] From: Timothy Hill (67) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.343 iPad apps by us [6] From: Desmond Schmidt (38) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.343 iPad apps by us --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:23:35 -0700 From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.343 iPad apps by us In-Reply-To: <20100920212021.8FECC7D1EF@woodward.joyent.us> On Sep 20, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:24:32 -0400 > From: James Rovira > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.342 IPad apps by us > In-Reply-To: <20100918221827.AB4DD721D9@woodward.joyent.us> > This would be great -- I'd buy it. Think also about something similar > that includes integrated visual elements -- photos, text and image, > text in image -- with the ability to zoom in closely on a hi-res > image. The image-zooming, and ability to enlarge anything on the screen are "gimmes" in the basic iPad dev frameworks. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:04:42 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.343 iPad apps by us In-Reply-To: <20100920212021.8FECC7D1EF@woodward.joyent.us> Dear all, With a colleague in new technologies (Frederic Kaplan, EPFL, Switzerland), we are precisely beginning to imagine and to create an I-Pad academic application in my field. It will be called «Compass on Early Christianities» and will be an introductory object to this field, using all the possibilities of an application. Its logic will combine linearity, by offering 3-4 different ways in the object, and associative logic. Its general presentation will be a map of the Mediterranean world in Antiquity (see the style of presentation by www.prezi.com). What is for me of particular interest is to offer an historical perspective with different points of view, what will really be possible with such a media. It is also interesting to have different ways in the application, related to the background of the readers. So I am able to figure different «ideal readers» for my Compass. We have only a limited amount of money, just to start the beginning of a prototype, but we are very enthusiastic. I try right now to convince advanced scholars to belong to an editorial board. We have to figure the role of the scientific editors: in my field, editors are particularly required to give «accreditation». I imagine such an application as a collaborative work among scholars, who would agree to follow general common principles and who would also agree to renew their part of the application at last every year. A first success is that some international colleagues have already accepted to do small moovies (3-5 minutes) on precise topics for this prototype. It is may be «crazy» to start such an adventure, and I am sure that we will meet a lot of difficulties, but I am just convinced that we have to try such a project. For example, one has to be able to refer the information of this object. At the moment, I am thinking to simply have «location» + a number (instead of «page» + a number). I think that the idea of «location» fits well with the internet logic. It will work for moovie, text, image, aso. If somebody has a better idea, please do not hesitate to make propositions. Every remark and questions are very welcome. If everything works, we will present this prototype in a meeting at the University of Lausanne next summer (or before and elsewhere, if I have the opportunity). Claire Clivaz Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature University of Lausanne (CH) Le 20 sept. 2010 à 23:20, Humanist Discussion Group a écrit : --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:15:16 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.343 iPad apps by us In-Reply-To: <20100920212021.8FECC7D1EF@woodward.joyent.us> David, > The question might be posed: why should HE and OpenSource developers produce something for a company which in effect operates restricted practices? IMHO, it would be unethical for HE people to take this route. > Dave Postles Err, because it is another way to make it available to users? Traditional print publishers restricted access to paying customers. Was publishing with them unethical? (Is is unethical now?) 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) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:31:41 +0200 From: Thomas Crombez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.343 iPad apps by us In-Reply-To: <20100920212021.8FECC7D1EF@woodward.joyent.us> > The question might be posed: why should HE and OpenSource developers produce something for a company which in effect operates restricted practices? IMHO, it would be unethical for HE people to take this route. > Dave Postles Developers do not produce "for a company", but for a device. And they choose the device that best suits their needs. In this case, the iPad offers a (limited) number of features that are not yet available on other devices. E.g., 'finger browsing' on a sufficiently large screen. When I export slides from Keynote or PowerPoint to image files (say JPG), I can put them in a photo album on the iPad and use the device for presenting. If the image is of sufficiently high resolution, I can zoom in and out by pinching, easier and faster than on any other device. For teaching art history, or for displaying maps, or network graphs, it works great. Last week, I used it for presenting at a conference, and it was much more practical than my laptop. I can imagine developers taking advantage of this new interface. It doesn't even have to happen within the infamous 'closed Apple ecosystem', but could just as well be done using (mobile) web programming. Thomas Crombez --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:02:37 +0100 From: Timothy Hill Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.343 iPad apps by us In-Reply-To: <20100920212021.8FECC7D1EF@woodward.joyent.us> Ditto what Dave Postles said - and to claim that 'what the ipad [sic] offers is a more consistent platform than the web' is ridiculous. If you ignore all but one platform, then indeed that platform will be entirely consistent with itself. But I don't find that entirely surprising. If I developed all my sites solely for display using Safari/Mac 10.6 with a 1440 x 900 resolution on the grounds that that's what I happen to own and prefer, I would then have an entirely consistent platform as well - *and* it would be web-based! Let's not allow the fact that we all have a bunch of shiny new iToys distract us from the fact that not everyone else does or can. Timothy Hill Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:40:42 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.343 iPad apps by us In-Reply-To: <20100920212021.8FECC7D1EF@woodward.joyent.us> That's encouraging, but I wouldn't sell it. If it's not free I don't want to do it. Thank you though for your suggestion that it provide a zoom facility and image elements - I presume you mean as part of a set of annotations as well as facsimilies. I agree that these are all desirable features. > Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:24:32 -0400 > From: James Rovira > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.342 IPad apps by us > In-Reply-To: <20100918221827.AB4DD721D9@woodward.joyent.us> >This would be great -- I'd buy it. Think also about something similar >that includes integrated visual elements -- photos, text and image, >text in image -- with the ability to zoom in closely on a hi-res >image. >Jim R >> What I had in mind was an ipad version of MVDViewer, whose latest incarnation is still being >> developed online at http://www.digitalvariants.org/texts . What the ipad offers is a more consistent >> platform than the web, so that quirks arising from using a different browser simply don't arise. What I >> have long wanted to do is port my MVD (multi-version-document) GUI to such a device so humanists >> could edit digital 'works' in all their versions, viewing them side-by-side in comparison, in single view >> (with interactive apparatus), facsimile and rendered text side-by-side and another view to allow >> annotations, so people can work on the text, not merely explore it. Why have boring flat books when >> we can have multi-dimensioned books? > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 03:08:33 +0100 > From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" > Subject: IPad apps by us > In-Reply-To: <20100918221827.AB4DD721D9@woodward.joyent.us> >The question might be posed: why should HE and OpenSource developers produce something for a >company which in effect operates restricted practices? IMHO, it would be unethical for HE people to >take this route. >Dave Postles On this I agree up to a point, but I don't see any conflict between using Apple's development tools and free software. I can't change the fact that many potential users of my software choose Apple's products. Apple in fact allow you to distribute free applications via the App Store. Yes, there is the issue that the result would be proprietary in form, and hence transient. Every change that Apple make to their development systems, to their device, would affect me, and be outside my control. Tell me about it. I developed for years on Carbon but it is now dust. I think though you have to accept that software is always transient. The same can be said of the non-standard Joomla application, in which the MVD GUI is currently written, even though that is a free software product. So the ethics don't help us there. In the absence of comprehensive and stable standards for writing practical GUI applications, what else can you do? _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 20:11:16 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 7B0287F50E; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:11:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 211A07F4FE; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:11:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100921201115.211A07F4FE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:11:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.348 mission-shrink X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 348. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:42:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.344 mission-shrink In-Reply-To: <20100920212435.0F5AB7D510@woodward.joyent.us> >> "Mission creep" is the process, much feared by the >> military and some politicians, . . . [ etc. ] . . . > Comments? Interesting theme. I don't see here mentioned a (counter)example of academic "mission creep", for contrast to cultural anthropology's alleged "mission-shrink". The classic one would have to be English studies, I suppose, but possibly one could identify a more appropriate discipline in this context ? Just musing before dinner time. - Laval Hunsucker Knokke-Heist, België ----- Original Message ---- From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sent: Mon, September 20, 2010 11:24:35 PM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 20:12:22 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 D96927F577; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:12:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DA7997F568; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:12:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100921201221.DA7997F568@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:12:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.349 defining 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 349. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:37:24 +0100 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 24.345 defining the digital humanities? In-Reply-To: <20100920212535.E27377D634@woodward.joyent.us> dear sharon: re your definition re list of fields: why english only? would "languages and literatures including English" not be more inclusive? here is my take on a possible definition: Using new media knowledge and technology in the humanities and social sciences in languages and literature including English, communication studies, media studies, history, geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, etc. with best regards, 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 Sep 20, 2010, at 10:25 pm, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 345. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:31:16 -0500 > From: "Cogdill, Sharon E." > Subject: Question about defining digital humanities > > > Pursuant to the discussion of how to build an academic department for digital humanities, I've got an opportunity to get a question about digital humanities into a survey my university is sending out, to see if there is sufficient interest to begin developing ideas for some new programs. The survey will give the name of the proposed area of study, offer a short definition, and then present a Likert scale, ranging I think from "not interested" to "very interested." > > We are not in a position to do the level of digital humanities many people on this list have described, which have sounded just wonderful and, to be honest, ideal to me, but I would love to be able to introduce master's-level graduate students, including teachers in the schools, to some of the things that digital humanities can do, especially in attracting younger students to the humanities. > > So now my problem is to get a definition out for this survey in a form that would make sense to and attract people thinking about returning to school for a master's degree. > We'll need to develop something interdisciplinary rather than a stand-alone program. Not only does my language need to be pretty accessible, but it needs to come in at less than 50 words. I'm wondering if any members of this list would have suggestions for me. > > Here is the first definition, which is for New Media/Digital Humanities, which it may need to do: "Using computers and the Internet in the arts and the humanities, including language arts (English, communication studies, mass communications), history, and geography." > > Here is the one more focused on digital humanities: "Bringing computers and the Internet into the presentation, preservation, and study of new and historical texts (including literature and public and private documents) - for lovers of the humanities, including language arts (English, communication studies, mass communications), history, and geography." > > Thanks for whatever suggestions you have for me. > > Best, > sharon > > Sharon Cogdill > Professor, Department of English > 159 Building 51 > St. Cloud State University > St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 20:13:08 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 05DD67F5DC; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:13:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5C0F27F5CC; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:13:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100921201306.5C0F27F5CC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:13:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.350 digital preservation 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. 24, No. 350. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:17:04 +0100 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: Digital Preservation EU Releases Digital Preservation Software on SF.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ https://sourceforge.net/projects/digitalpreserve/ 'As a part of the Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval (CASPAR) project, the European Union decided to open source and release their digital preservation software on SourceForge.net. It's a very cool project and we're happy to host. Check it out!' (SourceForge newsletter) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 20:16:51 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 5482580074; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:16:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9BBB98006B; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:16:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100922201649.9BBB98006B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:16:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.351 defining and guiding 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. 24, No. 351. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Simpson, Grant Leyton" (68) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.349 defining the digital humanities [2] From: "matt.lists@gmail.com" (51) Subject: The CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:09:12 +0000 From: "Simpson, Grant Leyton" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.349 defining the digital humanities Dear Sharon, A few of us are having this discussion over at HASTAC. Chris Forster's blog post defining the digitial humanities has generated many comments: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cforster/im-chris-where-am-i-wrong I also have a blog post on the issue: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/grantls/toward-humanities-digital Best, Grant Simpson ¶ Senior Analyst/Programmer, Office of the Registrar ¶ Doctoral Student, Department of English ¶ Vice President, IU Bloomington Professional Council Indiana University Bloomington --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:18:30 -0400 From: "matt.lists@gmail.com" Subject: The CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide The CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative is delighted to announce the launch of a new collaborative publication: The CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/The_CUNY_Digital_Humanities_Resource_Guide). Presenting a broad, annotated view of the field, the guide will serve as an introduction to DH for newcomers by offering a balanced archive of best practices, ongoing projects, and disciplinary debates. The guide covers a wide range of subjects, including Defining the Digital Humanities (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/Defining_the_Digital_Humanities), Hot Topics ( http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/Hot_Topics), Sample Projects (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/Sample_Projects), DH Syllabi (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/DH_Syllabi ), and Conferences and Events (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/Conferences_%26_Events ). Check out the Table of Contents (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/The_CUNY_Digital_Humanities_Resource_Guide) for the full range of topics. The initial version of the guide is just that -- a beginning. As you read through the guide, please let us know whether you have corrections or additional information to share with us. As the Using This Guide (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/Using_This_Guide) page notes, the wiki itself is editable only by members of the CUNY Academic Commons (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu), but non-CUNY contributors can add to the guide in the following ways: * Email your suggestions to cunydhi@gmail.com* Tag items on Delicious (http://www.delicious.com) with cunydhi * Tweet suggestions to us at http://twitter.com/cunydhi * Leave a comment on our launch blog post (http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/09/21/introducing-the-cuny-digital-humanities-resource-guide/) We hope that the guide will provide a useful starting point for others just entering the DH conversation, and we urge you to help us improve it. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with suggestions, corrections, and comments. Sincerely, Charlie Edwards and Matthew K. Gold, Co-Directors CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu ---------------------- Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D. Project Director, CUNY Academic Commons (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu) Assistant Professor of English, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program, CUNY Graduate Center 300 Jay Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 (718) 260-4972 mgold@gc.cuny.edu http://mkgold.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 Sep 22 20:19:19 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 913CC8014D; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:19:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1206B8013E; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:19:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100922201918.1206B8013E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:19:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.352 iPad apps by us X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 352. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (12) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.347 iPad apps by us [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (42) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.347 iPad apps by us [3] From: Constantinescu Nicolaie (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.347 iPad apps by us --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:49:48 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.347 iPad apps by us In-Reply-To: <20100921200955.986D97F48C@woodward.joyent.us> Right -- I am thinking of it as part of a set of annotations or facsimiles or part of an annotated document. An app that can manage very hi res images and handle the zooming on a hi res document with annotations. I see a lot of iPad apps that crash, especially some of those that handle images. Very sorry to hear it's not something that you'd be doing, but I like the product that you described even without these features. Jim R > That's encouraging, but I wouldn't sell it. If it's not free I don't want to do it. > Thank you though for your suggestion that it provide a zoom facility and > image elements - I presume you mean as part of a set of annotations > as well as facsimilies. I agree that these are all desirable features. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:09:06 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.347 iPad apps by us > Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:02:37 +0100 > From: Timothy Hill > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.343 iPad apps by us > In-Reply-To: <20100920212021.8FECC7D1EF@woodward.joyent.us> >Ditto what Dave Postles said - and to claim that 'what the ipad [sic] >offers is a more consistent platform than the web' is ridiculous. If >you ignore all but one platform, then indeed that platform will be >entirely consistent with itself. But I don't find that entirely >surprising. >If I developed all my sites solely for display using Safari/Mac 10.6 >with a 1440 x 900 resolution on the grounds that that's what I happen >to own and prefer, I would then have an entirely consistent platform >as well - *and* it would be web-based! Let's not allow the fact that >we all have a bunch of shiny new iToys distract us from the fact that >not everyone else does or can. >Timothy Hill >Centre for Computing in the Humanities > King's College London Hi Tim, I'm afraid I don't understand your argument. The iPad offers a consistent development platform that works on every iPad, and yet provides the application with access to the Internet. So it offers the user much the same kind of interaction as a traditional web application, with the removal of constraints on how I may layout out controls on the page, and what kind of controls - constraints inherent in the HTML web standard. It is also much more consistent, as you admit. Every version of every browser runs a different version of Javascript and interprets CSS differently. This makes development very difficult in a way that is simply absent on the iPad. Your example, though, fails. It is not practical to write a web application for one browser and one screen resolution. Such a tool would actually not be a web application, in the sense of a program accessible by all. In your example that would exclude not just a small percentage of users but nearly all of them. An ipad application on the other hand is not accessible by all, but it doesn't try to be. As several people have said in this thread already the iPad offers possibilities to developers and users that should be exploited by humanists. It's not just a shiny new toy. Since a large number of people are buying it, it becomes a new platform that we should explore and exploit to reach those users. I say that not because I have an ipad (I don't) or because I like Apple's products (I don't). The argument I believe transcends mere hype. best Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Queensland University of Technology --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:09:33 +0300 From: Constantinescu Nicolaie Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.347 iPad apps by us Dear friends, Please take into consideration the fact that the big wave of the tablets is yet to come (September is the first wave starting with ARCHOS products or Samsung). Wait for Android 2.2 based platform and there you will have an open platform for development. Kind regards, -- 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 Wed Sep 22 20:20:04 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 21DC7801AB; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:20:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6FAC280198; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:20:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100922202000.6FAC280198@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:20:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.353 mission-shrink X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 353. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:44:09 +0100 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.348 mission-shrink In-Reply-To: <20100921201115.211A07F4FE@woodward.joyent.us> > >I don't see here mentioned a (counter)example of academic >"mission creep", for contrast to cultural anthropology's >alleged "mission-shrink". The classic one would have to be >English studies, I suppose, but possibly one could identify >a more appropriate discipline in this context ? Just musing >before dinner time. > > >- Laval Hunsucker > Knokke-Heist, België Cognitive science, perhaps. (Or am I confusing mission creep with academic imperialism?) -D Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University 01908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 20:20:28 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 48E0A801F3; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:20:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7746E801DD; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:20:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100922202026.7746E801DD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:20:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.354 events: The Life of 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. 24, No. 354. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:11:15 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Life of Information The Life of Information A one-day symposium on the design and use of online dictionaries, encyclopedias & collections Twitter —— use hash tag #lois2010 Internet —— username: a326228 password: lois2010 http://ncb.anu.edu.au/Life_of_Information Friday 24 September 2010, Sir Roland Wilson Building, Australian National University, Canberra SESSION 1 Lives Online CHAIR: Nicholas Brown, Senior Fellow, School of History, ANU 9.00am WELCOME Professor Robin Stanton, Pro Vice-Chancellor (E-Strategies), ANU Paul Arthur, Deputy Director, National Centre of Biography, ANU 9.25am Stephen Due Australian Medical Pioneers Index: Research and Collaboration in Digital Lives 9.50am Janet McCalman, Sandra Silcot & Len Smith Founders & Survivors: Australian Life Courses in Historical Context, 1803-1920 SESSION 2 Stories in the Archive CHAIR: Debjani Ganguly, Head, Humanities Research Centre, ANU 10.45am Zoë D’Arcy The Art of Online Story-Telling: Exposing the National Archives’ Collection 11.10am Cassandra Pybus Recovered Lives: Constructing a Digital Repository for Enslaved Africans 11.35am Katherine Bode Speed Reading in the Digital Age: The Case of Women’s Writing SESSION 3 FRIDAY FORUM: Flexibly Digital FACILITATOR: Paul Arthur, Deputy Director, National Centre of Biography, ANU 1.00pm Introduction to the Friday Forum 1.15pm Presenters: Donald Hobern, Kerry Taylor & Basil Dewhurst 2.00pm Discussion SESSION 4 Knowledge Networks CHAIR: Paul Turnbull, Professor of eHistory, University of Queensland 3.00pm Ian Johnson Structure after the Fact: Abstract Databases and Digital Encyclopaedias 3.25pm Ross Coleman, Emma Grahame, Steven Hayes & Stewart Wallace Dictionary of Sydney 3.50pm Tim Sherratt Liberating Lives: Invisible Australians and Biographical Networks 4.15pm SYMPOSIUM CLOSE -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 22 23:42:39 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 0B7AA80D61; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:42:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx238.postini.com [64.18.2.239]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EBA4180D57 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:42:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([81.187.30.52]) (using TLSv1) by exprod7mx238.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:42:30 PDT Received: from [120.17.165.225] (helo=[192.168.1.100]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyYxF-0007Ol-J9; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:42:27 +0100 Message-Id: <1ADC67C5-3442-4558-A619-46A43DFC3D56@mccarty.org.uk> From: Willard McCarty To: Humanist X-Mailer: iPad Mail (7B500) Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPad Mail 7B500) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:41:26 +1000 X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:32.72765/99.90000 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] Programming for us X-BeenThere: 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 The following questions may seem rather naive. I left programming so long ago that the languages I wrote in are likely to be barely recognizable by name. And the programming practices (those we were taught as canonical) are even less likely to be familiar. First, what is it like to work in an environment such as is provided by the iPad or similar device? How does one think about the task in hand as the task-performer conceives it? What does one take for granted? What are the limitations imposed by the system, and how does one get around them or use them to reshape the task? Second, how in general does one go about programming these days? Are there more or less standard ways of working? How much of what one can say on this topic would be of benefit if communicated to those who use our tools and do not write programs? Are there good books on "algorithmic thinking" (as a colleague of mine calls it)? How would you like to see the world educated as to what you do? Morgan Tamplin, a colleague at Trent University (Canada), once wisely formulated the key to understanding what our machines are for as learning to see one's object of study "as data" -- or, I like to say, "as if it were only data". The American anthropologist Pascal Boyer speaks of different modes of reasoning, one of them "scientific", the other "erudite" (as in the humanities), best if they cohabit in the same mind. Tamplin's "as data" and the humanist scholar's native mode likewise. Comments? 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 Thu Sep 23 20:11:08 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 356FC7F0A7; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:11:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 521A97F09F; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:11:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100923201106.521A97F09F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:11:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.355 programming for us X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 355. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: jeremy hunsinger (9) Subject: Re: [Humanist] Programming for us [2] From: Simone Hutchinson (129) Subject: Re: [Humanist] Programming for us [3] From: Timothy Hill (48) Subject: Re: [Humanist] Programming for us [4] From: Shawn Graham (83) Subject: Re: [Humanist] Programming for us --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:02:20 -0400 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: Re: [Humanist] Programming for us In-Reply-To: <1ADC67C5-3442-4558-A619-46A43DFC3D56@mccarty.org.uk> > > > Second, how in general does one go about programming these days? http://hacketyhack.heroku.com/ if you want to start and yes, there are normal practices and tools , but they vary somewhat on OS... though not for open source so much, then it just varies on school. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:57:22 +0100 From: Simone Hutchinson Subject: Re: [Humanist] Programming for us In-Reply-To: <1ADC67C5-3442-4558-A619-46A43DFC3D56@mccarty.org.uk> I have carried out two front-end contracts since ceasing web development professionally in 2007 and for these two jobs I felt as out-of-date as you presume your programming experience is... There's no doubting the speed at which programming languages continue to rush on. To reply to your specific questions, I need to state that I worked firstly as a database developer using an open source environment and tools (Linux & PHP, SQL, PostgreSQL) creating e-commerce websites. Soon after this experience, I moved into interface programming instead, and had some design training along the way. I was using Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac environments with a mixture of Microsoft programming tools and open source ones. Using these skills, I became a staunch supporter of the accessbility and web standards "movements", and ended up by 2007 in designing user testing and project management (small scale though). I didn't get the chance to work with the iPad. However, I doubt that the iPad provides a good working environment simply because of it's size and keyboard: I expect any programmer would soon suffer painful RSI if they had a go at programming a website or database on it. In my experience, there were in-house specific ways of carrying out different projects. But the golden rule in every place I worked was: use a pencil and piece of paper first. All projects were informally modelled on paper by the task performer, unless that person didn't like to do that (rare!). Database tables of course were mapped out and relational database theory was the mother 'language' we database developers spoke in. This allowed us to generate a list of tasks. Each task was approached one by one. I used what we call pseudo code to map out the sub-tasks: pseudo code is literally plain English (or whatever language is spoken) describing what actions need to be performed by the programming language. I suppose it's not dissimilar to preparing a dissertation in English literature... ! Once the pseudo code is satisfactory and checked over, the programmer can use it as the task list as he or she starts the actual programming. Where I worked, there were in-house preferences as to how to write PHP. Certain functions would be avoided, others made use of in perhaps idiosyncratic ways. ! The reasons for such preferences being always: optimal performance combined with best use of the programming language. i.e. there were ethics in programming that might seem purely (merely) semantic but in fact reflected upon our company's approach to computing services too. Like I mentioned, we used open source materials and aimed to be clear, effective and intelligent with our programming. When I moved into interface programming, similar methodological standards prevailed. However, because of the notorious problems encountered by web developers caused by the Browser Wars, such methodological standards were continually reassessed by intelligent, progressive people and also by some less ethically-minded ones. I had to use code cheats to workaround some of the browser war problems. Then, as I became more experienced, and at the same time as the HTML and CSS specifications adapted to solve some of these problems, I was able to use code that was no longer a blatant cheat. But rather, a suspect redundancy... However, times moved quickly, and I soon was able to code an interface without taking any recourse to cheats. I was able to use strictly 'ethical' HTML and CSS and still avoid any browser-associated problems. I emphasise ethical because by this point, I remember things started to become personal! People would comment on well-known programmers' blogs about their choice of HTML specification: the arguments for and against using the STRICT document type definition were heated. There are other examples I could dig up. There were technical limitations imposed on me as a programmer which I took for granted, yes: off the top of my head, I would name: using Windows or Mac; then which language you choose for a job - PHP or ASP? Each having different benefits and disadvantages. The project brief itself defines the tasks; this brief is defined by the client and in most projects, I was but a cog in a machine. I had control only over the methodology. So far I have only discussed those issues which you ask about, but which are only related to the programmer. What about the user? What kind of user would be interested in the quasi-philosophical, quasi-political issues I briefly refer to above? I think the above deserve - to borrow your cited word - erudite attention, from the academic communities, but I doubt they will retain the interest of a lay computer user. What I found particularly interesting, and indeed rousing, about working as a developer was how there was no imposition of law about what standards to use: instead, a self-regulating community of developers across the world co-operated, adapting to changes in technology and user behaviour. Some programmers and bloggers became famous amongst coding crowds; small hegemonies dominated and defined a status quo of best practice. However, this best practice was always under critique by programmers and even by those who had been part of defining such. The freedom provided by the internet to express and foster discursive communities was very important. It seems now, looking back, that there was a degree of innate altruism and co-operation amongst the programmers. They were working to achieve a common goal, which I hazard to say was indeed about 'data': to manipulate and model it, to create new forms of it that better serve some predefined goals. these predefined goals can be banal - e.g. the user wants to subscribe to a newsletter and have a personal profile page where they change their preferences, or, these goals can be more significant - e.g. a visually impaired person wants to navigate a website and access the same information as a sighted person. Indeed, I have not discussed at all the user modelling which takes place during a project's initial phase: the use case scenario is very important. Trying to work out user behaviour and then define that behaviour in order to let it direct the definition of tasks requires a bit more room than I've given it here. I wonder what has become of the blogs and crowds I used to follow... I have since returned to university as a postgraduate in English literature. I hope this is helpful in some way and I apologise for the length of my response. Best wishes, Simone Hutchinson On 23 September 2010 00:41, Willard McCarty wrote: > The following questions may seem rather naive. I left programming so long ago that the languages I wrote in are likely to be barely recognizable by name. And the programming practices (those we were taught as canonical) are even less likely to be familiar. > > First, what is it like to work in an environment such as is provided by the iPad or similar device? How does one think about the task in hand as the task-performer conceives it? What does one take for granted? What are the limitations imposed by the system, and how does one get around them or use them to reshape the task? > > Second, how in general does one go about programming these days? Are there more or less standard ways of working? How much of what one can say on this topic would be of benefit if communicated to those who use our tools and do not write programs? Are there good books on "algorithmic thinking" (as a colleague of mine calls it)? How would you like to see the world educated as to what you do? > > Morgan Tamplin, a colleague at Trent University (Canada), once wisely formulated the key to understanding what our machines are for as learning to see one's object of study "as data" -- or, I like to say, "as if it were only data". The American anthropologist Pascal Boyer speaks of different modes of reasoning, one of them "scientific", the other "erudite" (as in the humanities), best if they cohabit in the same mind. Tamplin's "as data" and the humanist scholar's native mode likewise. > > Comments? > > 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 > --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:18:14 +0100 From: Timothy Hill Subject: Re: [Humanist] Programming for us In-Reply-To: <1ADC67C5-3442-4558-A619-46A43DFC3D56@mccarty.org.uk> This won't be the most profound reply to the questions you raise, as I'm writing from the other side of the divide: with no real programming experience prior to 2002, I can't really conceptualise what the world was like before object-oriented approaches became the entrenched orthodoxy. This being the case, I'm struck by your references here - and in an earlier thread, concerning the extent to which humanities scholars ought to be programmers - to 'algorithmic' approaches and styles of thinking. While obviously programming is fundamentally algorithmic, and objects and methods are in a sense just wrappers around algorithms, this is never the level of abstraction I start from when thinking about software design. I start by thinking about what objects the problem domain contains and the possible interactions amongst them: the more-explicitly algorithmic stuff I leave until much later in the process. Often I feel the most helpful medium for communication with the academics on whose projects I work would be some kind of UML entity-relationship diagram outlining how they conceptualise their field. If we agree on how the domain is to be modelled, questions of implementation and coding can be left to the developers, without the need for the academics to think about anything more 'computational' than this formalised model of their domain. As for the question about iPad (>ahem<, inter alia) development, I can't offer many specific insights, as I'm only starting to explore mobile dev. But speaking in generalities, I'd note that they share in the general trend of moving developers further and further away from the iron: indeed, the only reason I'm now contemplating a bit of iPad/Android development is that mobile dev is no longer a question of hacking around in the lower levels of device operating systems. Most development now occurs way on top of a vertiginous tower of layers, beneath which the chip and the fundamentals of the system are pretty much buried. The result is that the bulk of development work is now a much more "cultured" activity than it probably was, say, twenty years ago: typically, the learning process is that of familiarising yourself with the conventions used by framework architects, rather than butting your head against the limitations of hardware. The legendary cold, hard logic of the machine is overlaid by several layers of thoroughly human constructs, some of which - particularly during debugging - can appear thoroughly arbitrary. Admittedly this is a tendency that ebbs and flows. After years of browsers being the primary development target, mobile devices have shifted attention back to the OS, eliminating one huge layer-stack. But over all, I'd say the contemporary developer operates at a higher level, and in terrain arguably more congenial to the humanist, than did those of earlier generations. Timothy Hill Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:37:25 -0400 From: Shawn Graham Subject: Re: [Humanist] Programming for us In-Reply-To: <1ADC67C5-3442-4558-A619-46A43DFC3D56@mccarty.org.uk> Interesting questions, Willard. Regarding programming - My interest at the moment is in agent based modelling, or simulation, to explore archaeological & historical questions. An ABM is an environment where you specify the behavior of a single individual, and then create hundreds of such individuals who are heterogeneous in their individual characteristics. You let them interact playing by the rules, and see what emerges. The key there is specifying the individual behavior - that's the model, derived from some phenomenon you've observed out there in the wild. I regard programming & model building as a way of formalizing explicitly what it is I think about a particular phenomenon - and then I build a model that targets the simplest expression or analogue of that phenomenon. I try to keep it simple & stupid. I use the Netlogo environment for this - http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ which started out life as a programming environment to help high school students understand complex environments. It's an interpreted language, so the actual code used is rather 'near English'. A model studying how information diffuses along Roman road ways might create a population of agents who travel up and down those road ways. The key mechanism could be to pass a message along, so the code might look like: to have-you-heard-the-news if anybody-here with heard-the-news=0 set heard-the-news of anybody-here=1 end 'anybody-here' would be a variable of the local environment telling the agent the ids of everyone around it, and 'heard-the-news' is a yes/no variable of each agent. ...and then you watch how long it takes for everyone in the model population to hear the news, or you could observe where the roads (like at intersections or fora) enable jumps in the numbers of people who can hear-the-news, or extract other information - do particular patterns of roadways enable greater/lesser information diffusion? Then you look back at the history of road building in that part of the world, and perhaps tie the model results to Ray Laurence's observations about 'space-economy' or other ideas about Romanization... So netlogo is an excellent tool for this mode of investigation, and it's also very good for non-programmers to be able to look at the 'procedural rhetorics' of the simulation and understand what's going on - it mitigates the black box syndrome, to a degree (a problem with *any* kind of digital representation - code is a kind of rhetoric, and needs to be interrogated. The more transparent we are, the better...?) I'd recommend Nigel Gilbert and Klaus G. Troitzsch's 'Simulation for the Social Scientist, 2nd Ed' Open UP, 2005 especially chapters 8 and 9 where they explore agent models specifically and take the reader through the creation of a model; also the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html If anyone is interested in seeing some of my archaeological ABMs in action, these live at www.graeworks.net and I'd love to connect with anyone interested in the approach (or currently using it in their own work). Thanks, Shawn On 9/22/2010 7:41 PM, Willard McCarty wrote: > The following questions may seem rather naive. I left programming so long ago that the languages I wrote in are likely to be barely recognizable by name. And the programming practices (those we were taught as canonical) are even less likely to be familiar. > > First, what is it like to work in an environment such as is provided by the iPad or similar device? How does one think about the task in hand as the task-performer conceives it? What does one take for granted? What are the limitations imposed by the system, and how does one get around them or use them to reshape the task? > > Second, how in general does one go about programming these days? Are there more or less standard ways of working? How much of what one can say on this topic would be of benefit if communicated to those who use our tools and do not write programs? Are there good books on "algorithmic thinking" (as a colleague of mine calls it)? How would you like to see the world educated as to what you do? > > Morgan Tamplin, a colleague at Trent University (Canada), once wisely formulated the key to understanding what our machines are for as learning to see one's object of study "as data" -- or, I like to say, "as if it were only data". The American anthropologist Pascal Boyer speaks of different modes of reasoning, one of them "scientific", the other "erudite" (as in the humanities), best if they cohabit in the same mind. Tamplin's "as data" and the humanist scholar's native mode likewise. > > Comments? > > 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 -- Dr. Shawn Graham, RPA Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities Department of History 406 Paterson Hall Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6 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 Thu Sep 23 20:12:54 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 1B8EE7F19B; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:12:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2388E7F184; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:12:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100923201252.2388E7F184@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:12:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.356 iPad apps by us X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 356. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Timothy Hill (71) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.352 iPad apps by us [2] From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" (2) Subject: Tablets --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:41:57 +0100 From: Timothy Hill Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.352 iPad apps by us In-Reply-To: <20100922201918.1206B8013E@woodward.joyent.us> > I'm afraid I don't understand your argument. The iPad offers a consistent > development platform that works on every iPad, and yet provides the > application with access to the Internet. So it offers the user much the same > kind of interaction as a traditional web application, with the removal of > constraints on how I may layout out controls on the page, and what kind of > controls - constraints inherent in the HTML web standard. It is also much > more consistent, as you admit. Every version of every browser runs a > different version of Javascript and interprets CSS differently. This makes > development very difficult in a way that is simply absent on the iPad. > Your example, though, fails. It is not practical to write a web application > for one browser and one screen resolution. Such a tool would actually not be > a web application, in the sense of a program accessible by all. In your > example that would exclude not just a small percentage of users but nearly > all of them. An ipad application on the other hand is not accessible by all, > but it doesn't try to be. > As several people have said in this thread already the iPad offers > possibilities to developers and users that should be exploited by humanists. > It's not just a shiny new toy. Since a large number of people are buying it, > it becomes a new platform that we should explore and exploit to reach those > users. I say that not because I have an ipad (I don't) or because I like > Apple's products (I don't). The argument I believe transcends mere hype. I think we're confounding two separate issues here - which might be why our statements are seeming not quite to cross:. (1) The context in which 'platform consistency' is a meaningful phrase; and (2) The advantages of relatively recent advances in touchscreen/haptic interaction With regard to (1), I suppose I was puzzled by your contrast of the advantages of iPad development *in particular* with the difficulties of web-oriented dev. The browser is undoubtedly a hostile programming environment, owing to the various factors you cite. Partly as a result of this (the growing number of RIAs notwithstanding), applications supporting sophisticated interactions and requiring a high degree of consistency have typically targeted local platforms rather than the browser, at which point it seems to me pretty much redundant to praise the 'consistency' of any particular platform: there's just no point singling out any one local platform for praise on the grounds that it supports native applications so well. So you're right to say that the analogy between my browser and a native iPad application doesn't hold; my (rather over-tetchily-stated) point was that *you* had made this comparison in your post; and that it is, indeed, an absurd one. With regard to (2) I agree that the new interactions touchscreens, accelerometers, and all the rest of it allow are useful additions to the developer's toolkit, and can imagine they might prove transformative or crucial to some kinds of humanities application. But 'touchscreen' does not equal 'iPad'. As Constantinescu Nicolaie points out, we can expect a rush of Android tablets in the near future - and it's in *this* context that we should be considering the percentage of users our development decisions are excluding. *If* we've decided touch interactions are vital to our application (and have thus decided to exclude users who don't own devices that support this) we then have to decide which OS we wish to target, or whether we want to go to the probably-considerable trouble of supporting both, and/or any additional platforms that decide to enter the market. And it's at this point, I would suggest, that the native platform's self-consistency (and hence utter incompatibility with every other platform) will start to feel less like an advantage, and more like a handicap. It'll be the moment we'll start wishing we could port our app with a couple of lame IE conditional comments rather than undertaking a wholesale ObjC to Java conversion. Of course, that moment is going to come. Touch interactions are game-changers, the market is competitive - and at some point we are going to find ourselves needing to make a choice about the platform into which to pour our energies. It's not immediately clear to my mind where that choice should lie. Unless there are compelling reasons otherwise, I believe open source should always be HE's first choice; but Oracle and Google have been muddying the waters here. But at least Android will handle my garbage collection for me ... ;-) Timothy Hill Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:09:23 +0100 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: Tablets In-Reply-To: <20100922201918.1206B8013E@woodward.joyent.us> Re-Android, let's see what develops out of the $35-tablet in India and also whether Negroponte and the OLPC team will in fact be involved in its future too. The only problem is Larry Ellison's action over Java. What happens about Apple i products now that it has to allow flash technology? Will it constantly crash because it has been unable to handle it, as alleged by Jobs? Dave Postles _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 20:13:45 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 577E07F23D; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:13:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 552B87F227; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:13:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100923201343.552B87F227@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:13:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.357 events: Museums and the Web 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. 24, No. 357. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:07:45 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Museums and the Web 2011: CFP: Sept 30 Deadline > From: j trant > Date: 24 September 2010 04:04:12 GMT+10:00 > To: "willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk" > Subject: Museums and the Web 2011: CFP: Sept 30 Deadline > > > MW2011 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Deadline September 30, 2010 > > Museums and the Web 2011 > the international conference for culture and heritage online > April 6-9, 2011 > Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA > http://www.archimuse.com/mw2011/ > > > Museums and the Web explores the social, cultural, design, > technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science > and heritage online. Taking an international perspective, MW reviews > and analyzes the 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 > - wherever the network may take us. > > > * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * > The MW program is built from the ground up. Proposals are invited from > professionals and researchers in all areas actively exploring the > creation, online presentation and use of cultural, scientific and > heritage content, and its re-use and evaluation. There are no pre- > defined themes -- just a strong interest in the best work out there! > > The bibliography of past MW papers (all online since 1997) can be > searched at http://conference.archimuse.com/biblio/ > All full texts are freely available online. > > > * PROPOSAL FORM * > Online proposal submission is required. Use the form linked from http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/call.html > > Please co-ordinate your proposals with your collaborators. Multiple > proposals about the same project will not be successful. > > Proposals are peer-reviewed individually by an International Program > Committee. Note that proposals for 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/conferences/mw.sessionFormats.html > > > * DEADLINES * > Proposals due September 30, 2010 > - for papers, mini-workshops + professional forums (written paper > required by Jan. 31, 2011) > > Proposals due December 31, 2010 > - 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/suggestions_for_the_mw2011_program > > > * NEED FURTHER DETAILS? * > Review the MW2011 Call for Participation on-line at > http://www.archimuse.com/mw2011/call.html > > > Contact the MW2010 Conference Co-Chairs > David Bearman + Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics > mw2011@archimuse.com > > We hope to see you in Denver. > > jennifer and David > > > ---------- > Jennifer Trant and David Bearman > Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2011 produced by > April 6-9, 2011, Philadelphia, PA, Archives & Museum Informatics > http://www.archimuse.com/mw2011/ 158 Lee Avenue > email: mw2011@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 Thu Sep 23 20:54:37 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 8835A7FE9C; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:54:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E996F7FE88; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:54:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100923205434.E996F7FE88@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:54:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.358 the quieter game? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 358. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:50:24 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: The quieter game Last night I was one guest among many at a ceremonial dinner to celebrate research activities at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane. As expected at a university known to itself and others primarily for the techno-sciences -- although the great AusLit (http://www.austlit.edu.au) is here -- as a disciplinary being I felt very much like a child who had somehow wandered into a gathering of, say, Viking warriors and hidden himself out of sight to avoid being made the butt of a potentially fatal joke. It was easy to start thinking, amidst an imagined roar of cheers at various conquests, how by appeal to computing might we humanists gain some attention at gatherings such as these? But in the cool of the morning (as it happens, not far from where the Australian novelist David Malouf grew up, in Edmondstone Street), the quieter, long-term game seems far more attractive. Malouf, as always, is inspiration to think that this is a many-dimensioned world and that my imagined Viking warriors will be remembered, if at all, for reasons other than they would now be able to recognize. Take those lads Malouf imagined in his novel Johnno, among whom the narrator is a nobody. Last night my imagined child could also not help but think that the cheers and boasts were being exchanged among elders who had forgotten (as so many have) what education is for, but more immediately, what *actually* appeals to those we teach. My own experience suggests that what grabs them (at least until they are given no choice but to think otherwise) are the quite astonishing intellectual vistas that our beloved machine allows us to see, the questions that its application raises. What a time to be a curious child! Comments? 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 Fri Sep 24 21:51:50 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 ECEF682AA2; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:51:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 99CBD82A9A; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:51:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100924215147.99CBD82A9A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:51:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.359 programming for us X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 359. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Wendell Piez (121) Subject: Re: [Humanist] Programming for us [2] From: Ryan Deschamps (12) Subject: Re: [Humanist] Programming for us --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:46:22 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] Programming for us In-Reply-To: <1ADC67C5-3442-4558-A619-46A43DFC3D56@mccarty.org.uk> Dear Willard, At 07:41 PM 9/22/2010, you wrote: >The following questions may seem rather naive. I left programming so >long ago that the languages I wrote in are likely to be barely >recognizable by name. And the programming practices (those we were >taught as canonical) are even less likely to be familiar. I think your questions are far from naive. >First, what is it like to work in an environment such as is provided >by the iPad or similar device? How does one think about the task in >hand as the task-performer conceives it? What does one take for >granted? What are the limitations imposed by the system, and how >does one get around them or use them to reshape the task? I assume you mean by this working "on" the iPad, vs. designing or programming *for* the iPad. (The iPad SDK, which for the foreseeable future will be the only programming environment for iPad, runs on a Mac, but not on an iPad.) And as you know, as far as that goes, the iPad and similar devices are offering some innovative new capabilities (as well as some interesting limitations) in the physical affordances of their user interfaces, which are now making exactly this field of play very open. What we will see in months and years to come may be very different from what we see now. It is like having a new organ. It is having a new instrument. >Second, how in general does one go about programming these days? Are >there more or less standard ways of working? How much of what one >can say on this topic would be of benefit if communicated to those >who use our tools and do not write programs? Are there good books on >"algorithmic thinking" (as a colleague of mine calls it)? How would >you like to see the world educated as to what you do? These are very hard questions to answer because I don't think "one" programs these days. I spend long days with my head buried in code, and yet to most computer programmers, I am not a programmer, since I don't work writing "programs" that do anything like the programs they write. Programming is a craft or a set of related skills and crafts, and as such, it has very fuzzy, and shifting boundaries. Your question is somewhat like asking, a century ago (with the advent of power tools), "how does one go about woodworking these days". There are answers, but there is also change; and there are big differences in what one does depending on what one intends to do with what one does (if you catch my drift). Moreover, in my work as a consultant I am regularly faced with the conundrum of how people communicate, learn to relate to one another and understand what we are up to, in a world that has so far outstripped the ability of any individual to understand it, in its complexity. I can remember being alerted to this already 25 years ago, when I took my car to a tire shop -- bemused by the fact that there was a business just for tires, and then getting some slight sense, in my dialogue with the tire man in the tire shop, just how much there was to know about tires, even while I was impressed by his evident interest in them. There was a whole world of knowledge there, and this guy had made his home in it. So personally I think that beyond communicating the specifics of any one discipline, it is just as important to expose people to a recognition that other disciplines are there, and that they are complex (that's why they are disciplines), and not just arbitrarily so. This means not just the tools and methodologies, but something of the nature of the problems. I mean, I am not against sharing books or web sites about algorithmic thinking or logical problem solving or model building. Far from it. But I also want people to know that there is a difference between reading a book about algorithmic thinking (maybe solving a few puzzles), and being steeped in the problems of real systems design, building and maintenance for, oh, say, ten or twenty years. Whatever the system. Programming -- especially these days -- isn't just about algorithmic thinking. It means becoming familiar with -- going native in -- an entire ecology of technical standards, platforms and protocols, interchange formats, languages and libraries. (Within this ecology, it happens the iPad is something of an island.) I do not expect everyone to do this (which would betray the entire purpose). But I would like them to get some sense of it without deciding, as so often happens, that programmers are alien beings with inaccessible knowledge. In my experience, the best way to come to grips with this is by a familiar example of what not to be. Spend a few years learning about something complex. Then talk to someone who imagines himself an expert after some shallow or routine exposure to it. (Resolve not to be this person.) Given, instead, an attitude of respect for the knowledge, interests and passions of others, one can then begin, maybe, to educate them in dialogue about what one does. Don't expect them to move from their center; instead try to meet them where they are. From that starting point, the normal and natural need we feel to communicate can take over. >Morgan Tamplin, a colleague at Trent University (Canada), once >wisely formulated the key to understanding what our machines are for >as learning to see one's object of study "as data" -- or, I like to >say, "as if it were only data". The American anthropologist Pascal >Boyer speaks of different modes of reasoning, one of them >"scientific", the other "erudite" (as in the humanities), best if >they cohabit in the same mind. Tamplin's "as data" and the humanist >scholar's native mode likewise. I didn't become a computer programmer because at the crucial moment of choice (at age 18) I was shown that the humanistic erudition you mention was an important option and counter to the seeing-the-world-as-data choice I was also presented with. So I set the computer aside for a few critical years. There are things I regret about this -- I think I could have been an excellent programmer. If I had only learned Unix, and C, and LISP, instead of doing whatever it was that I did ... but ... loss and gain. One thing the humanistic mode teaches, after all, is how much you don't know. It may be that nothing human is alien to you -- certainly that is an important attitude to cultivate. Yet that outlook is completed and energized by the recognition that any of us is lucky if we know more than the tiniest fragment of it. All this is why I think the only strong approach to the problem you indicate is in negative capability. By demonstrating a spirit of generous inquiry, we encourage others to do the same. Only when they are receptive, after all, is there any chance they will be able to learn the subtleties of what we want to communicate to them. And indeed, negative capability -- the assumption that there's more to it than one yet knows, indeed than one can know -- is, to my mind, the only way to approach programming these days. 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, 24 Sep 2010 15:50:16 -0300 From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: [Humanist] Programming for us In-Reply-To: <1ADC67C5-3442-4558-A619-46A43DFC3D56@mccarty.org.uk> I have been looking at the scary 'functional' paradigm in computer programming that is gaining traction in computer programming circles. Immediately I noticed the advantage of higher-order functions and type-based access in describing (say) something like poetic meter. For instance, creating a recursive / polymorphic type in Haskell: data Stress a = Up | Down | Iamb (Stress Down) (Stress Up) | Trochee (Stress Up) (Stress Down) | etc \ ... could really help do the heavy lifting for a poetry site. It's an interesting area to explore (although functional can be a real pain to learn if you are used to Object-oriented / imperative languages). It also brings programming just that much closer to formal logic / math. Ryan. . . _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 24 21:55:34 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 0A90D82B61; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:55:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7C8E182B52; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:55:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100924215531.7C8E182B52@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:55:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.360 AusLit X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 360. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:01:25 +1000 From: Kerry Kilner Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.358 the quieter game? In-Reply-To: <20100923205434.E996F7FE88@woodward.joyent.us> Hello Willard, Thank you for mentioning AustLit to the humanist community. So that interested members may explore this resource that has indeed come from a very long game with many players, here are guest access details: Go to www.austlit.edu.au and when prompted use the following: User name: eres Password: guest Regards Kerry Kilner UQ Research Fellow  Director, AustLit - Research Projects and Publications www.austlit.edu.au The University of Queensland -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Friday, 24 September 2010 6:55 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 Fri Sep 24 21:58:27 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 8181682BE9; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:58:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F10D482BD9; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:58:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100924215824.F10D482BD9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:58:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.361 I-CHASS's Fab Lab in Alaska X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 361. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 07:28:23 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: I-CHASS's Fab Lab in Alaska > From: I-CHASS > Date: 24 September 2010 23:00:07 GMT+10:00 > To: "willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk" > Subject: NSF’s Arctic Social Sciences Program Awards I-CHASS Collaboration $100,000 to Host Fab Lab Workshop in Alaska > > The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) is pleased to announce that the project Alaska Federation of Natives Fab Lab Demonstration Workshop has been awarded $100,000 in funding through an EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award from the National Science Foundation’s Arctic Social Sciences Program. > > A collaboration between the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN), the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS), and the Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab (CUCFL), the workshop will introduce and demonstrate the capabilities of a Fab Lab at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention in Fairbanks, Alaska, on October 21-23, 2010. During the three-day convention, Fab Lab volunteers from the University of Illinois will engage Alaska Natives in the utilization of new technology and offer hands-on demonstrations of the capabilities of a Fab Lab. “The Fab Lab demonstration will directly engage Native students in science and engineering,” said Julie Kitka, President of the Alaska Federation of Natives and the project’s Principal Investigator. “Holding the Fab Lab at the AFN Convention, where a significant number of Native leaders, students, elders, parents, and educators are gathered, will demonstrate how technology can be tailored to meet local needs; encourage creativity; and demonstrate that advanced technology can be used in even the most remote locations. Furthermore, we believe that introducing the concept to the larger Native community will promote interest and encourage involvement statewide.” > > “The Fab Lab is a technology platform for learning and innovation: a place to play, to create, to learn, to invent, to mentor,” said Dr. Alan B. Craig, Associate Director for Human-Computer Interaction at I-CHASS, who will coordinate the technical and educational portion of the project. “The lab’s mission is to provide a venue for community members to learn about and experience new technology while exploring their own creativity and innovativeness.” > > “CUCFL has a particular interest in building new connections with new communities who can benefit from these tools and ideas,” continued Dr. Betty Jo Barrett, an associate professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois and coordinator for the CUCFL component of the project. “Its mission is to promote ingenuity, invention and inspiration by introducing students of any age to modern prototyping and fabrication equipment. The goal is to encourage creativity as well as an interest in architecture, art, computing, design, engineering, mathematics, science, and technical trades. Community access, at a reasonable cost, builds local capability with global links to the entire Fab Lab network – enabling personal growth, economic development and cross-cultural understanding. Fab Labs encourage people to build virtually anything they can imagine.” > > As part of this workshop, several students who are involved in the “Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn” project in Boston’s South End Technology Center Fab Lab will work collaboratively with students in Alaska on several projects together and to illustrate how the worldwide network of Fab Lab bridges geography, culture, and age, while empowering creators to solve problems and have fun together. Using video conferencing technologies, the students in Boston and Alaska will work together to develop a joint project that they will then execute together in the demo Fab Lab at the convention. > > EAGER awards are made to support exploratory work in its early stages on untested, but potentially transformative, research ideas or approaches. “This demonstration workshop is one of several projects that I-CHASS is involved with in Alaska that illustrate the potential application of new technologies to directly impact historically under-served communities,” said Dr. Kevin Franklin, Executive Director of I-CHASS. “This award also illustrates I-CHASS’s commitment to explore innovative technologies and we are excited at the continued opportunities afforded by our collaborations with NSF’s Office of Polar Programs. > > For further information, please contact Alan Craig. > > * * * > > 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 Tue Sep 28 20:53:10 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 2DA7885566; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:53:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3F27F8553A; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:52:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100928205253.3F27F8553A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:52:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.362 iPad apps by us 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. 24, No. 362. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:03:49 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.347 iPad apps by us In-Reply-To: <20100921200955.986D97F48C@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Patrick, Last week you wrote: > > The question might be posed: why should HE and OpenSource > developers produce something for a company which in effect operates > restricted practices? IMHO, it would be unethical for HE people to > take this route. > > Dave Postles > >Err, because it is another way to make it available to users? > >Traditional print publishers restricted access to paying customers. > >Was publishing with them unethical? (Is is unethical now?) It isn't that a proprietary platform is in itself unethical. As you know very well, intellectual property regimes such as patent and copyright, no matter how distorted they have become in recent decades, are designed for the public interest: the cultivation of a public domain, by allowing creators and innovators to profit from their works *for a limited time* and thereby motivate their risks and investments. That's why it's called a "patent": because I am enabled to share it without fear that you will steal it. Then, after I have profited and it has become more mature, we all get to put it into our boxes to tinker with. I think Desmond has put his finger on the essential issue: the strategic question of whether you harness your cart to that particular horse. Personally, I won't be developing for an iPad not only for the bedrock practical reason (not having the time or much inclination to master objective-C) but also for this entirely hypothetical one: that I would be banking on either iPad becoming a monopoly, or my application will be successful enough to command interest and resources for me to afford porting it, when the time came, to run on iPad's competitors and successors. (Timothy Hill has also articulated this for us.) Fundamentally, this is why the old guard -- who developed TEI and then XML -- had it essentially right. Yes, we need to do the work of development. But we need to develop the standards as well, as they are the platform on which the long future will be built. (Patrick, I know this is no mystery to you.) Accordingly, I am eager to see what iPad applications will be doing with data in openly specified formats, whether it be HTML/CSS/Javascript, HTML5, a TEI profile, or your own entirely local semantics exposed in XML or some other clean format. If you only tell me what it is, I can generate 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 ========================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 20:54:09 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 7C7FE85603; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:54:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A5118855E9; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:54:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100928205405.A5118855E9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:54:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.363 Scholarly Communication Institute 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. 24, No. 363. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:08:45 -0400 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: Scholarly Communication Institute report released The Scholarly Communication Institute announces the release of an executive summary and a full report from its 8th annual meeting at the University of Virginia Library: http://www.uvasci.org/current-institute/sci-8-report/ This summer, with the support of the Mellon Foundation and UVa Library's Scholars' Lab, SCI invited 36 scholars, publishers, librarians, administrators, digital humanists, and representatives of learned societies to gather for a three-day event examining experimental approaches to new-model scholarly communication. A full description of the SCI 8 program, including a list of participants, is available on our website, along with the final report, "Emerging Genres in Scholarly Communication:" http://www.uvasci.org/current-institute/ SCI 9, to be held in the summer of 2011, will further advance the work outlined in this report. Taking the vision of SCI 8 participants as a point of departure, we will convene an invited group of publishers, librarians, and technologists to work with scholars in further developing and testing new models for scholarly communication. Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute Vice President, Association for Computers & the Humanities http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ ● http://uvasci.org/ ● http://ach.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 28 20:54:59 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 BBFC985646; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:54:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A4B3785631; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:54:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100928205451.A4B3785631@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:54:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.364 events: Web/art/science camp X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 364. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:48:48 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Web / Art / Science Camp: An Unconference for People Who Do Hypertext > Subject: FWD: Web / Art / Science Camp: An Unconference for People Who Do Hypertext > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:42:28 +0100 > From: Faith Lawrence 6th November 2010 London, UK http://www.webartsciencecamp.org/ Join us on 6th November for a day of ideas, fun, and creativity with Hypertext and the Web! We're meeting in advance of Hypertext '11 and WebSci '11 to make cool things together, show off our work, get feedback on our ideas, and find research collaborators. You don't have to be a researcher to come. We're not just computer scientists. We encourage and publish work by poets, professionals, startup warriors, and academics in the humanities and political/social sciences. We're one of the only academic conferences to publish research in non-linear formats. Participating at Web Art Science Camp Web / Art / Science Camp is an unconference, so there's no traditional conference structure (papers and posters), instead its a much more fluid event, with opportunistic sessions intermixed with a few fixed activities. Topics will be determined by the mix of people on the day, but anything to do with hypertext technology, art, or science is in scope. Although we have scheduled a few initial sessions, W/A/S Camp is as good as you make it. If you have a demo to give, or a burning issue to discuss, then come along and make sure it goes up on the planning wall, as well as any ideas you have: * Demos * Research ideas * Topics suitable for group discussion * Ideas you want advice on * Inspiration We will have only a few predetermined sessions. On the day, we will put up a grid and some post-it notes. Everyone will then have a chance to post their session idea to the schedule. Programme Our programme is the framework that we use to plan the day on the day: 09.00 - 09.30: Coffee and Hellos 09.30 - 09:45: Welcome and Introduction to an Unconference 09.45 - 10.30: Interactive Keynote by Paul De Bra 10.30 - 11.00: Coffee and joint planning 11.00 - 12.30: Open space with parallel sessions 12.30 - 14.00: Lunch 14.00 - 15.30: Open space with parallel sessions 15.30 - 16.00: Coffee and joint planning 16.00 - 17.30: Open space with parallel sessions 17.30 - 18.00: Closing Important Dates 5th November: The night before W/A/S Camp 2010 we will meet up for some food and informal chat. 6th November: This is the main event, bring yourselves, your ideas and a receptive mind! -- 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 22:22:09 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 D89AC84FD6; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:22:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E365584FB8; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:22:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100929222202.E365584FB8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:22:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.365 iPad apps by us X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 365. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:18:51 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.362 iPad apps by us In-Reply-To: <20100928205253.3F27F8553A@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Wendell, On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 20:52 +0000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Dear Patrick, > > Last week you wrote: > > > > The question might be posed: why should HE and OpenSource > > developers produce something for a company which in effect operates > > restricted practices? IMHO, it would be unethical for HE people to > > take this route. > > > Dave Postles > > > >Err, because it is another way to make it available to users? > > > >Traditional print publishers restricted access to paying customers. > > > >Was publishing with them unethical? (Is is unethical now?) > > It isn't that a proprietary platform is in itself unethical. As you > know very well, intellectual property regimes such as patent and > copyright, no matter how distorted they have become in recent > decades, are designed for the public interest: the cultivation of a > public domain, by allowing creators and innovators to profit from > their works *for a limited time* and thereby motivate their risks and > investments. That's why it's called a "patent": because I am enabled > to share it without fear that you will steal it. Then, after I have > profited and it has become more mature, we all get to put it into our > boxes to tinker with. > > I think Desmond has put his finger on the essential issue: the > strategic question of whether you harness your cart to that > particular horse. Personally, I won't be developing for an iPad not > only for the bedrock practical reason (not having the time or much > inclination to master objective-C) but also for this entirely > hypothetical one: that I would be banking on either iPad becoming a > monopoly, or my application will be successful enough to command > interest and resources for me to afford porting it, when the time > came, to run on iPad's competitors and successors. (Timothy Hill has > also articulated this for us.) > But Desmond did not frame the question as a practical one but an *ethical* one. I don't use Apple products and so carry no brief for the iPad but on the other hand, anyone developing for an academic environment should give it a close look. Macintosh platforms became popular in academia because Apple realized people want computers to help them with their tasks. Not to have a second religion (*nix) or to have unreliable software on unreliable hardware (Windows). I am writing this post on a *nix machine that shares a monitor and keyboard with a Windows machine and have used both for almost 20 years, so no flames please. > Fundamentally, this is why the old guard -- who developed TEI and > then XML -- had it essentially right. Yes, we need to do the work of > development. But we need to develop the standards as well, as they > are the platform on which the long future will be built. (Patrick, I > know this is no mystery to you.) > > Accordingly, I am eager to see what iPad applications will be doing > with data in openly specified formats, whether it be > HTML/CSS/Javascript, HTML5, a TEI profile, or your own entirely local > semantics exposed in XML or some other clean format. If you only tell > me what it is, I can generate it. > I am not sure what "openly specified formats" have to do with development on the iPad? So far as I know the iPad has no restrictions on the data formats iPad applications can read. Is there information to the contrary? Open formats are about data *interchange.* You may find it difficult to duplicate the capabilities of the iPad in another environment but that is hardly the fault of the iPad or a reason to avoid it as a development platform. My original point was that if a target audience uses the iPad and/or the iPad offers capabilities that your application requires, or both, then develop for the iPad. Neither one of those are "ethical" questions. 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) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 22:23:25 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 DD44785042; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:23:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4653085030; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:23:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100929222322.4653085030@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:23:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.366 Black boxes? 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. 24, No. 366. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (4) Subject: Black Boxes [2] From: William Rogers (4) Subject: intro to complexity theory? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:20:48 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Black Boxes Dear all, Could someone point me to a good social history of the idea of a "black box". I'm interested in how computing tools are opaque black boxes that may show interesting results but are hard to interpret. I am interested in comparing the problems of opaque technique to the problems with connoisseurship which it could be argued is also opaque. Thanks in advance, Geoffrey Rockwell --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:09:31 +0100 From: William Rogers Subject: intro to complexity theory? Hello. My name is William Rogers. I saw your post at http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/pipermail/humanist/2010-February/001043.html. I was wondering if you you managed to find a good introductory course to complexity theory as I am looking for something similar. Thanks for any help you can provide, W L Rogers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 22:24:26 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 8A33B850D4; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:24:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 05CA9850B7; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:24:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100929222419.05CA9850B7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:24:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.367 New on WWW: Early English Law X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 367. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:58:16 +0100 From: "Jenny Benham" Subject: New online bibliography for early English law *** Attachments: mhstore: missing argument to -part Early English Laws publishes online bibliography Early English Laws (EEL), a collaboration between the Institute of Historical Research and King's College London, is pleased to announce the publication of its online bibliography. The bibliography is compiled and continuously updated to include items relating to any aspect of English legal history in the period between c. 600 and 1215. It is also searchable by category, author and date of publication. To access the bibliography, simply follow the link: http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk/db/bibliography Can I also remind everyone that we are still offering bursaries worth £2,000 each, 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, Jenny Dr Jenny Benham Project Officer, Early English Laws http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk/ Institute of Historical Research University of London Senate House Malet Street LONDON WC1E 7HU t: +44 (0)20 7862 8787 f: +44 (0)20 7862 8754 e: jenny.benham@sas.ac.uk Web: 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 Wed Sep 29 22:25:36 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 813BB85173; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:25:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ADC5085161; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:25:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100929222533.ADC5085161@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:25:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.368 DH Answers 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. 24, No. 368. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:03:41 -0400 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: announcing @DHanswers: Digital Humanities Q&A board The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), together with ProfHacker at the Chronicle of Higher Education, is happy to announce the launch of "DH Answers," a community-based question-and-answer board: http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ DH Answers is designed to be a friendly and inviting space where we can help each other with questions about languages, tools, standards, best practices, pedagogy, and all things related to scholarly activity in the digital humanities. No question is too small, or too simple, or, for that matter, too broad or difficult. We identified a need for DH Answers in observing the helpful digital humanities community growing on Twitter -- and the frequency with which answers to questions exceeded the 140-character limit for tweets, or required sharing of a code snippet or reference to an extended and hard-to-capture conversational thread. We also noted that many questions were a bit more specific (or basic!) than one might feel comfortable posing on Humanist or specialist mailing lists for software or standards. We hope that DH Answers, with its Twitter integration (follow @DHanswers or tweet questions from your own account!) will hit a sweet spot and prove to be a useful tool at a time in which many of us are thinking about big tents and the panopticon of the digital humanities. Further information about DH Answers appeared today in the Chronicle's ProfHacker column: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Announcing-Digital-Humanities/26544/ Please visit the site at http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ to ask your questions and share hard-won experience with colleagues around the world! On behalf of the ACH and the whole DH Answers team, Bethany Nowviskie Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute Vice President, Association for Computers & the Humanities http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ ● http://uvasci.org/ ● http://ach.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 30 21:49:49 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 1D2CC87880; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:49:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9CF5287878; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:49:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20100930214946.9CF5287878@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:49:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.369 complexity theory 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. 24, No. 369. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:23:56 -0400 From: Bill Kretzschmar Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.366 Black boxes? Complexity theory? In-Reply-To: <20100929222322.4653085030@woodward.joyent.us> A very readable introductory book on complexity science that has a strong computational side is Melanie Mitchell, *Complexity: A Guided Tour* (Oxford UP, 2009). It should not leave too many humanists behind, although Mitchell is a computer scientist. Von Neumann's entry in the index has 10 page citations. Bill On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 366. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Geoffrey Rockwell > (4) > Subject: Black Boxes > > [2] From: William Rogers > (4) > Subject: intro to complexity theory? > > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:20:48 -0600 > From: Geoffrey Rockwell > Subject: Black Boxes > > Dear all, > > Could someone point me to a good social history of the idea of a "black > box". I'm interested in how computing tools are opaque black boxes that may > show interesting results but are hard to interpret. I am interested in > comparing the problems of opaque technique to the problems with > connoisseurship which it could be argued is also opaque. > > Thanks in advance, > > Geoffrey Rockwell > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:09:31 +0100 > From: William Rogers > Subject: intro to complexity theory? > > > Hello. > > My name is William Rogers. I saw your post at > http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/pipermail/humanist/2010-February/001043.html. > I was wondering if you you managed to find a good introductory course to > complexity theory as I am looking for something similar. > > Thanks for any help you can provide, > > W L Rogers > -- Bill Kretzschmar Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities Dept. of English, Park Hall 317 University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 706-542-2246 / Fax 706-583-0027 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 30 21:50:41 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 287AE878F7; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:50:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 90415878DD; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:50:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100930215031.90415878DD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:50:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.370 iPad apps by us X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 370. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:14:30 +0100 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.365 iPad apps by us In-Reply-To: <20100929222202.E365584FB8@woodward.joyent.us> Two points here: (i) welcome to the world of *nix computing since OSX is an appropriation of the BSDs (Berkeley Software Distribution Unix); (ii) it sounds somewhat ironic for Apple users to refer to *nix as 'a second religion' - except that Apple obviously defers more to Mammon than morality. Dave Postles >Macintosh platforms became popular in academia because Apple realized >people want computers to help them with their tasks. Not to have a >second religion (*nix) or to have unreliable software on unreliable >hardware (Windows). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 30 21:52:04 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 9DB9187A0A; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:52:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0DF9B879F3; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:51:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100930215155.0DF9B879F3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:51:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.371 new publication: Ecdotica on Anglo-American 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 371. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:58:11 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Anthology of recent anglo american tc essays > Subject: anthology of recent anglo american tc essays > Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:41:31 +0100 > From: Peter Shillingsburg X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC6787A79; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:53:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 26B0F87A6D; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:53:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100930215302.26B0F87A6D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:53:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.372 events: textual scholarship; DH2011 workshops & tutorials X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 372. 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ZXggb2ZmaWNpbywgTG9jYWwgSG9zdCkNCg0KDQo= --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:31:21 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: Society for Textual Scholarship 2011 Many on Humanist will know of the long-running biennial Society for Textual Scholarship conference. For the 2011 meeting, we will be in a new venue, experimenting with several new formats, and have secured commitments from a stellar line-up of keynote speakers. As always, STS is a prime venue for those interested in electronic editing and other aspects of digital textuality. Please help us get the word out and of course consider submitting a proposal! Matt CALL FOR PAPERS The Society for Textual Scholarship Sixteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference March 16-18, 2011 Penn State University KEYNOTE SPEAKERS =========================== 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 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 lineup of confirmed keynote speakers--addressing textual and media scholarship and theory, conservation and archival practices, and relevant aspects of computer science--promise 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 cultural 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 elements 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 prepatory 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 skill set for which the workshop leader will provide expert guidance and instruction. Examples might include an introduction to forensic computing or paleography. Workshop proposals that are accepted will be announced on the conference website 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. -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC, a Living/Learning Program in the Honors College) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net and @mkirschenbaum on Twitter _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 30 21:55:47 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 0305987B8E; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:55:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B7FCC87B68; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:55:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20100930215539.B7FCC87B68@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:55:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.373 jobs: algorithmic research engineer for NLP X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 373. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:53:57 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Algorithmic Research Engineer specializing in NLP *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1285883673_2010-09-30_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_2079.1.txt > Subject: Looking for an Algorithmic Research Engineer specializing in NLP > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:34:39 +0100 > From: Amir Maor > To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk An early stage startup is looking for a great team player to join its core team. Duties will mainly be the design, implemention and testing of new NLP algorithms (in short cycles). Knowledge of IR and NLP algorithms (e.g., clustering) is highly important. Understanding of relational databases is important. If you qualify and working in a friendly, dynamic environment in a growing industry excites you - please send us your CV. Thanks, Amir _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 20:39:40 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 E75CE8892B; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 20:39:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0FA5688921; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 20:39:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101001203937.0FA5688921@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 20:39:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.375 iPad apps for us; Goodreader X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 375. 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. 24, No. 374. 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: Goodreader Updates [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (14) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.370 iPad apps by us [3] From: Timothy Hill (42) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.365 iPad apps by us --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:54:24 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Goodreader Updates Goodreader's latest update now allows .pdf annotation. I did try iAnnotate on another person's iPad and liked it a great deal. Will be curious to see what people who use both say about them, especially given the price difference between the two. <> Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 13:27:31 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.370 iPad apps by us In-Reply-To: <20100930215031.90415878DD@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Dave, I think there may be an advantage in developing for a proprietary hardware platform such as the iPad despite any moral distaste you may feel. Writing iPad applications seems to be relatively simple, and even fun. So any loss of development effort due to future changes in the system won't be any more costly than maintaining a more stable product that makes use of existing convoluted standards. What I'd love to see (and probably never will) is one standard and one language for web applications that handles everything from server to client. Until we see that I will resign myself to developing for the inevitable rubbish bin, so long as my product gets consumed by a few users on the way. best Desmond --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 11:11:23 +0100 From: Timothy Hill Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.365 iPad apps by us In-Reply-To: <20100929222202.E365584FB8@woodward.joyent.us> > My original point was that if a target audience uses the iPad and/or the > iPad offers capabilities that your application requires, or both, then > develop for the iPad. Neither one of those are "ethical" questions. Ah, but it's not that simple, is it - because the 'target audience' is to an extent determined by the applications developed for the iPad. Tech companies have long realised that users are interested foremost in content, and not in platform: that, in other words, the best way to create platform lock-in is to ensure that desirable content is accessible only on your particular platform. The most successful attempt at this kind of platform-monopoly-through-content-control is Microsoft's domination of the world through its business/office applications; the most obnoxious was probably the Browser Wars, which saw every company implementing HTML in some slightly different way in the hopes that *its* implementation would become the default on the www. Everyone knows the results: developing becomes less about writing and improving tools, and more about negotiating corporation-created obstacles in an attempt to get one's applications working across platforms. Whether one wishes to classify this as an "ethical" or a "technical" evil is neither here nor there; but the factors that have tended to mitigate it are open standards and a community process. Apple is, quite clearly, attempting platform lock-in through cornering the market on content. If there were any doubts on this score they've been entirely obliterated by Steve Jobs' (now failed) attempt to make sure that iDevice apps are not only compiled into *but originally written in* Objective-C. And while it's true that the 'iPad has no restrictions on the data formats iPad applications can read', Apple's continuing claim that what its browser reads is somehow HTML 5 is a pure old-skool Browser Wars tactic. Of course, Apple is not particularly to be censured for this: it's just a corporation behaving as corporations tend (and are, perhaps, legally obliged) to behave. But this doesn't mean that we, as developers and humanists, have to play into the hands of this strategy. We can (and generally do) favour open standards and platforms; should consider all platform options that are on the table (as an aside, I'm puzzled by the repeated ease with which Android drops out of this conversation); and ought to consider the extent to which commitment to a proprietary platform is simply storing up a rod for our own backs in the future. Timothy Hill Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 21:15:48 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 92808890CA; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 21:15:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 81D53890BA; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 21:15:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101002211544.81D53890BA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 21:15:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.376 iPad apps by us X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 376. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 16:09:01 +0100 From: Timothy Hill Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.375 iPad apps for us; Goodreader In-Reply-To: <20101001203937.0FA5688921@woodward.joyent.us> > I think there may be an advantage in developing for a proprietary hardware platform such > as the iPad despite any moral distaste you may feel. Writing iPad applications seems > to be relatively simple, and even fun. So any loss of development effort due to future changes in > the system won't be any more costly than maintaining a more stable product that makes use of > existing convoluted standards.  What I'd love to see (and probably never will) is one standard > and one language for web applications that handles everything from server to client. Until we > see that I will resign myself to developing for the inevitable rubbish bin, so long as my product > gets consumed by a few users on the way. If we're going to continue contrasting the happy realm of iPad development with the standards-strewn wasteland that is web dev, I feel honour-bound to point out that it is typically not the *standards* that are convoluted, but the technical hacks that are required to smooth over all the non-standard-compliant "features" and implementations introduced by manufacturers. In contemporary terms, this essentially means trying to cater for Internet Explorer 6 - a broken browser whose continued relevance to the interwebs a decade after its introduction is testament to the staying (and time-wasting) power of platform lock-in along the lines I described in a previous post. Pinning the difficulty of web dev on the standards is a bit like blaming the laws for all the crime we see about these days. As for writing iPad apps being 'simple, and even fun' ... well, to my naive eyes the iDevice development environment appears not entirely dissimilar from other and earlier fun'n'easy GUI dev tools like Visual Basic and Flash MX Components. Doubtless the iOS suite is more sophisticated and intuitive than these earlier efforts. But experience suggests that the designers of such tools do not typically have a humanities use case as their foremost consideration when they develop them - so do bear in mind, as you watch durability, portability, and arguably morality, dwindle to a small point in your rear-view mirror, that Your Mileage May Vary. Very considerably. And finally, as what is evidently going to become my very own Carthago Delenda Est - I am surprised at the repeated ease with which Android has dropped out of the conversation. Timothy Hill Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 21:16:24 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 433FA890F9; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 21:16:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D9EC5890F1; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 21:16:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101002211620.D9EC5890F1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 21:16:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.377 why the muddled middle? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 377. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:01:25 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: muddle in the middle What keeps our colleagues from taking an intelligent interest in computing for their research? This is not to ask why everyone isn't riding the bandwagon. There's enough work to go around as it is, and I'd think that if we imagine computing to be a *requirement*, however practical using machines may be, however unavoidable, then we also have lost the plot. But I will argue that a critical understanding of what computing puts on offer and a strong curiosity about it come as close to requirements for good scholarship in our time as can be. So, again, what keeps our colleagues from taking an intelligent interest? Sometimes these days, though alas not for much longer in this calendar year, I walk a very pleasant path along a river from a ferry wharf to my office through a nature reserve and and through a well-kept neighbourhood. Being a stranger to Australian flora, I am (when alert enough to realise that the world is always more than I think it is) kept in a state of wonderment about the plant-life I walk past. On this walk yesterday, in such a state, it occurred to me that there are two answers to my question. Or rather, the answer is that in order to realise what computing has on offer, and see the offer fully for what it is, you need two cohabiting states of awareness. The one we dwell on, the easy one, is seeing your object of interest as data, or as if it were only data. Then, we argue, the residue is where your attention goes -- if, that is, your primary motivation is to understand that object, not just to implement some version of it, however good. But the residue isn't going to be valuable, if visible at all, unless the object is more than an out-there thing. So I wonder: is the bigger problem a fundamental lack of curiosity about (brought about by a fear of?) that which escapes the small but safe conceptual boxes into which we put our interests? Between the live nettle of intelligent, participant wonderment at the cultural artefact and the dead nettle of the artefact-as-data (here paraphrasing Eliot in "Little Gidding") is the state of being which confounds me. I look at that famous scene in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, where he stands at the production line getting everything wrong, and think: this isn't a vision of the world we've been handed by our automated age, its a vision of what we have done with what we have given ourselves. Some people are by unavoidable circumstances forced to work like that. Why do we put ourselves there? Comments? Yours, WM --Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 2 21:20:29 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 EBE54891B8; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 21:20:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B1417891AC; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 21:20:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101002212023.B1417891AC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 21:20:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.378 events: DH2011; editing; contextual encoding; DH & CS X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 378. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Katherine L Walter (149) Subject: DH2011 CFP for preconferences, workshops, and tutorials [2] From: "Jenny Benham" (33) Subject: Digital editing workshop [3] From: Martin Mueller (40) Subject: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS), November 21-22 [4] From: Julia Flanders (38) Subject: call for participation: TEI seminar on contextual encoding --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:04:58 -0500 From: Katherine L Walter Subject: DH2011 CFP for preconferences, workshops, and tutorials Dear All, Apologies for the garbled CFP. We'll try again: The following is a Call for Proposal for pre-conferences, workshops and tutorials for the Digital Humanities 2011 conference. The deadline for this call (November 1) is the same as that issued for posters, papers, and panel sessions earlier. Deadlines are Firm. Submissions can be made through the ConfTool installation beginning tomorrow. Check out the Stanford University DH2011 website at the URL below. Thanks, Katherine Walter Chair, International Program Committee for 2011 ---- Call for proposals: Pre-conferences, workshops, and tutorials Digital Humanities 2011, 19-22 June 2011 Stanford University http://dh2011.stanford.edu Proposal deadline: November 1, 2010 (Midnight GMT). This is a firm deadline. Call for proposals: Preconferences, workshops, and tutorials I. General Information The international Program Committee invites submissions of proposals of no more than 1500 words for pre-conferences or specialized Tutorials and Workshops on any aspect of digital humanities, from information technology to problems in humanities research and teaching. Tutorials are typically a half day to a full day; workshops and pre-conferences may be one day or more. We particularly weclome submissions relating to interdisciplinary work and on new developments in the field, and we encourage submissions relating in some way to the theme of the 2011 conference, "Big-Tent Digital Humanities." Proposals might, for example, relate to the following aspects of digital humanities: computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theater, new media, and related areas research issues, including data mining, information design and modelling, software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital medium the creation, delivery, management, and preservation of humanities resources text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning, and endangered languages the role of digital humanities in academic curricula The range of topics covered by digital humanities can be also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC); Oxford University Press. Participants in workshops or tutorials will be expected to register for the full conference as well, paying the regular registration fee. There will be additional fees of roughly $30-40 per half-day for participants in tutorials and workshops, with a minimum attendance of approximately 10 participants each, in order to ensure that these events cover their own costs. The deadline for submitting proposals to the Program Committee is November 1, 2010 (Midnight GMT). All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by December 15, 2010. The electronic submission form will be available on the DH2011 conference registration application, ConfTool, beginning on October 1, 2010. See below for full details on submitting proposals. Proposals for non-refereed or vendor demonstrations should be discussed directly with the local conference organizers as soon as possible. Contact Glen Worthey and Matt Jockers at dhadminlist@lists.stanford.edu as soon as possible. For more information on the conference in general, please visit the conference web site at http://dh2011.stanford.edu. II. Pre-conference tutorials Proposals should provide the following information: 1. A title and brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the DH community (not more than 1500 words). 2. A brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial's core content can be covered in a half-day tutorial (approximately 3 hours plus breaks). In exceptional cases, full-day tutorials may be supported as well. 3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the tutorial instructors, including a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise. 4. A list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise and estimate of audience size. (DH tutorials are expected to be self-financing.) 5. Special requirements for technical support. Proposals will be submitted via the DH201 conference registration application, ConfTool, beginning October 1, 2010 (when the ConfTool URL will be announced) and no later than November 1, 2010. TUTORIAL SPEAKER RESPONSIBILITIES Accepted tutorial speakers will be notified by December 15, 2010, and must then provide final draft abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration materials by February 1, 2011. The description should be in two formats: an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference web site, and a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions to follow). Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial materials, at least containing copies of the course slides as well as a bibliography for the materials covered in the Tutorial, by May 15, 2011. III. Pre-conference Workshops: Proposals for workshops should provide the following information: 1. A title and brief description (of not more than 1500 words) of the workshop topic and its motivation (i.e. its relevance to DH). 2. A description of target audience and expected number of participants. 3. The intended length and format of the workshop (minimum half-day; maximum one and a half days). 4. A budget proposal (DH workshops are expected to be self-financing.) 5. Dates for submission deadline (if there is to be a CFP) and notification of acceptances. 6. A list of individuals who have agreed to be part of the workshop program committee if the workshop proposal is accepted. 7. Full postal address, phone number, email and fax of the workshop contact person. 8. Special Requirements (e.g. computer infrastructure or audio equipment). Proposals will be submitted via the DH201 conference registration application, ConfTool, beginning October 1, 2010 (when the ConfTool URL will be announced) and no later than November 1, 2010. You will be notified about the decisioin to accept or reject the proposal by December 15, 2010. IV. Format of the proposals All proposals must be submitted electronically using the online submission form in the ConfTool system beginning October 1, 2010 (when the ConfTool URL will be announced) and no later than November 1, 2010. Anyone who has previously used the ConfTool system to submit proposals or reviews should use their existing account rather than setting up a new one. Information on new users is available at the ConfTool site. If anyone has forgotten their user name or password, please contact . V. Information about the conference venue Situated on the peninsula between the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean, Stanford University is in the heart of Silicon Valley, not far from magnificent redwood forests and the vineyards of the Napa and Sonoma valleys. Stanford has a special culture and history to offer the Digital Humanities, sharing both rich traditions in the humanities, arts, and sciences, and a deep kinship with the world of computing, beginning well before the late 1930s founding of Hewlett Packard by two recent Stanford graduates in a Stanford professor's now-legendary garage, and continuing with the founding of Google by two other Stanford graduate students in the late 1990s. We now welcome Digital Humanities pioneers to Stanford. VI. International Program Committee Arianna Ciula (ALLC) Dominic Forest (SDI-SEMI) Cara Leitch (SDI-SEMI) John Nerbonne (ALLC) Bethany Nowviskie (ACH) Daniel O'Donnell (SDI-SEMI) Dot Porter (ACH) Jan Rybicki (ALLC) John Walsh (ACH) Katherine Walter (ACH: Chair) Glen Worthey (ex officio, Local Host) Matt Jockers (ex officio, Local Host) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 10:18:17 +0100 From: "Jenny Benham" Subject: Digital editing workshop Digital editing workshop Thursday 18 November 2010, Institute of Historical Research, University of London The workshop, organised with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the Early English Laws project, will discuss the digital editing of a range of texts, from the early middle ages to the 19th century. It will examine some of the approaches and tools that are available to editors of digital texts and the possibilities for collaborative editing online. It will suggest practical solutions to some of the challenges faced by editors in the digital age, and explore how 'editions' might evolve in the age of crowd-sourcing and deep linking of data. 1.00 Lunch 2.00 Panel session Eleonora Litta Modignani and Paul Spence (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London) Digital editing of the Early English Laws Stuart Dunn (Centre for e-Research, King’s College London) Connecting Historical Authorities with Links, Contexts and Entities (CHALICE) Bruce Tate (British History Online, Institute of Historical Research) ReScript – a platform for the collaborative online editing of historical texts 3.30 Tea and coffee 3.50 Discussion 4.30 Close If you would like to attend the workshop, email Jenny Benham (Jenny.Benham@sas.ac.uk). Places are limited, so you are advised to book early. Kind regards, Dr Jenny Benham Project Officer, Early English Laws http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk/ Institute of Historical Research University of London Senate House Malet Street LONDON WC1E 7HU t: +44 (0)20 7862 8787 f: +44 (0)20 7862 8754 e: jenny.benham@sas.ac.uk Web: www.history.ac.uk http://www.history.ac.uk/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 10:31:50 -0500 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS), November 21-22 We have completed the program for the fifth Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, which will be held at Northwestern University on November 21-22, 2010. You will find it at the colloqium's new and permanent website http://chicagocolloquium.org. You will find the program there, as well as information about registration and special hotel rates, which will require reservations by October 22. As in previous years, DHCS is shaping up as a conference with a strong Great Lakes base but lots of participants from other parts of the world including Britain, Canada, France, and Germany. At the first DHCS colloquium, Gregory Crane asked the question: "What To Do With a Million Books?" This year one of our keynote events will be a round table discussion about "Google and Hathi: More Stuff and More Things To Do With It." We are especially pleased to welcome Jon Orwant from Google as a participant in that discussion. Papers and posters are roughly grouped under the headings Annotation Data Curation For the historians Books and libraries Social Networks This and that The program will also include three roundtable discussions: E-science, Digital Humanities, and the Role of the Library Google and Hathi: More Stuff and More Things To Do With It Corpus Query Tools Over the past four years, the Chicago Colloquium has traveled between the University of Chicago, IIT, and Northwestern University. I am delighted to welcome Loyola University Chicago as an additional partner and future host to the enterprise. Since I will be traveling for much of October, I will have only sporadic access to email (martinmueller@northwestern.edu), and you are likely to have more luck by contacting Nathan Mead, the colloquium co-ordinator (n-mead2@northwestern.edu). I look for seeing many of you in late November, saying hello to old friends and making new ones. With best wishes Martin Mueller Professor of English and Classics Northwestern University --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 16:23:52 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: call for participation: TEI seminar on contextual encoding Please circulate (apologies for cross-posting): We're now accepting applications for two advanced TEI seminars on representing contextual information: January 17-19, 2011, University of Maryland, hosted by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Application deadline is November 1, 2010; participants will be notified by November 15. April 28-30, 2011, Brown University, hosted by the Center for Digital Scholarship Application deadline is February 1, 2011; participants will be notified by February 15. **Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant.** These seminars assume a basic familiarity with TEI, and provide an opportunity to explore 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. 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. For more information and to apply, please visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/ 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 Oct 3 20:29:53 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 9F266881D2; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 20:29:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B9FA881C0; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 20:29:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101003202947.1B9FA881C0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 20:29:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.379 iPad apps by/for us X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 379. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patrick Durusau (55) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.375 iPad apps for us; Goodreader [2] From: Willard McCarty (43) Subject: platforms and contents --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:48:28 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.375 iPad apps for us; Goodreader In-Reply-To: <20101001203937.0FA5688921@woodward.joyent.us> Timothy, > > My original point was that if a target audience uses the iPad and/or the > > iPad offers capabilities that your application requires, or both, then > > develop for the iPad. Neither one of those are "ethical" questions. > > Ah, but it's not that simple, is it - because the 'target audience' is > to an extent determined by the applications developed for the iPad. > Actually it is. But for the confusion between applications and the content for applications. Content for an application, even for the iPad, can certainly be written in a standard, interchangeable format. I would be surprised if anyone repeated the mistake that MS made in tying the code for MS Office to the format it purchased from PARC XEROX. There are two advantages to content being independent of the application code that will process it: 1) Developers can improve code for an application without fear of breaking with the content format. 2) Content can be delivered to any platform (open or otherwise) for which an application has been developed. > Tech companies have long realised that users are interested foremost > in content, and not in platform: that, in other words, the best way to > create platform lock-in is to ensure that desirable content is > accessible only on your particular platform. The most successful > attempt at this kind of platform-monopoly-through-content-control is > Microsoft's domination of the world through its business/office > applications; the most obnoxious was probably the Browser Wars, which > saw every company implementing HTML in some slightly different way in > the hopes that *its* implementation would become the default on the > www. > Ultimately a self-defeating process. The more incompatible formats, with the tying of those formats to applications, the greater the internal cost in terms of maintenance and development. Independent of format from code creates advantages for both consumers as well as producers. > But this doesn't mean that we, as developers and humanists, have to > play into the hands of this strategy. We can (and generally do) favour > open standards and platforms; should consider all platform options > that are on the table (as an aside, I'm puzzled by the repeated ease > with which Android drops out of this conversation); and ought to > consider the extent to which commitment to a proprietary platform is > simply storing up a rod for our own backs in the future. > Whether a platform is "open" or not isn't the issue. The issue is whether your application consumes content written in an interchangeable format. Assuming that to be the case, I don't see the problem. BTW, you mention Android in a later post in this thread. I don't recall it "dropping" from the conversation but what is it that you want to say about it? Hope you are having a great weekend! Patrick --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:38:58 +1100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: platforms and contents In-Reply-To: <20101001203937.0FA5688921@woodward.joyent.us> Although I understand (I think) what developers are getting at when they speak of a "platform" and certain "contents", from a long way off I'm troubled by how the thoughts we're having are bent by these metaphors. Apart from questions of height and stability, a platform is simply a place to stand, "A surface or area on which something may stand, esp. a raised level surface" (OED). Whether I use a hinged-screen laptop (Windows 7, boot-time considerable, battery-life of 3-4 hours, total weight of 2+ kg) or an iPad (instant-on, battery-life of 10-11 hours, total weight for a day's outing of .68 kg) depends quite a bit on those physical characteristics. It depends also, perhaps even more, on what those two machines can do -- although I will redistribute the tasks I assign myself so that laptop-tasks stay at home, iPad tasks go with me, if I can, so that I don't have to shlepp the heavier machine around. And then there are those characteristics of each which border on "religious" questions, which sometimes get expressed in ethical language, strangely. But let us not compare our lists of Evil Empires. The content metaphor (with the commercial language of "delivery" and "package" close behind) is perhaps even worse but exhibits much the same problem. I've recently been in meetings of supposedly intelligent people where "content delivery" was used with apparent sincerity. How we humanists have failed, esp those of us who teach literature! True, we are powerless against that dominant part of the world in which goods are delivered by whomever (doesn't matter, as long as they're on time and don't break what's inside), in packaging that we immediately discard. And we're struggling, it must be noted -- this is the interesting bit -- with a set of devices which challenge the language and ideas we have inherited, in real-life situations which don't allow us much time to ponder. It's so convenient to use these wholly inadequate metaphors, and we're so distracted that we fail to notice how our paths are redirected by them. But it does matter, this redirection, no? And isn't it the task of people in the digital humanities to be concerned with this problem of language, to take care, to stand back from the workbench from time to time and notice what's happening? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 3 20:31:27 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 62C0088288; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 20:31:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5806788275; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 20:31:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101003203119.5806788275@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 20:31:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.380 new publication: Mother Pelican 6.10 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 380. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:36:14 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Mother Pelican ~ Vol. 6, No. 10, October 2010 FYI ... the pelican journal of sustainable development has been renamed *Mother Pelican* in honor of the *Human Being* she represents. The October 2010 issue has been posted: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n10page1.html Going Forward After the UN MDG Review Summit 1. Current Status of the Millennium Development Goals 2. Review of the "Keeping the Promise" Declaration 3. Timidity of National Governments and Global Citizens 4. Ms. Michelle Bachelet and the UN Women Entity 5. Sustainable Human Development and the MDGs 6. Links to Key UN and MDG Documents and Resources 7. Links to News and Reports about the MDG Summit 8. Current Research on Sustainable Human Development 9. A Meditation on Sustainable Human Development Supplements: Supplement 1: Advances in Sustainable Development Supplement 2: Directory of Sustainable Development Resources Supplement 3: Sustainable Development Simulation (SDSIM) Articles: Socioeconomic Democracy: A Psycho-Politico-Socio-Economic System, by Robley George. Composition and Trends of Homestead Agroforestry in Bangladesh, by Sourovi Zaman et al. Will Working Mothers' Brains Explode? The Popular New Genre of Neurosexism, by Cordelia Fine. A Paradise Built in Hell: Communities that Rise to the Challenge of Disaster, by Rebecca Solnit. We Need Millennium Development RIGHTS, Not Just Goals, by Phyllis Bennis. Feedback is cordially invited! Sincerely, Luis Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D. The Pelican Web Editor, Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Development http://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 Mon Oct 4 20:15:51 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 7F28D8A07B; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:15:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0212B8A06E; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:15:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101004201543.0212B8A06E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:15:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.381 iPad apps by/for us X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 381. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Desmond Schmidt (37) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.379 iPad apps by/for us [2] From: Timothy Hill (72) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.379 iPad apps by/for us --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 07:47:14 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.379 iPad apps by/for us In-Reply-To: <20101003202947.1B9FA881C0@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Patrick, >There are two advantages to content being independent of the application >code that will process it: >1) Developers can improve code for an application without fear of >breaking with the content format. >2) Content can be delivered to any platform (open or otherwise) for >which an application has been developed. I guess you are talking about XML but XML is not in itself a format. Once you get down to the nitty-gritty of defining a data format within XML (for example) several practical problems arise which prevent these ideals from being fully realised. 1) Developer A implements the standard with extensions of his/her own to enable application-specific behaviour that he/she thinks appropriate. Developer B implements the standard with his/her own extensions: result is incompatibility. This happened for example with the portlet standard JSR 168. Each vendor extended it to suit their requirements and the result was incompatibility. So they rewrote the standard as JSR 286, which hardly anyone has yet implemented. Another example can be seen in the differences between browsers and interpretations of HTML, CSS and Javascript, even though in this case it is strongly constrained by a practical need for interoperability. Another example is TEI itself, as recognised within the Guidelines: "no predefined encoding scheme can possibly serve all research purposes". 2) I can't see how humanists will ever have the resources to develop applications for their own needs that are customised for several platforms. Maybe they can develop something that works on all such as Java or a commandline tool or a web application. (But even there absolute consistency is not possible). So for example developing twice, once for Android and once for iOS would be a cost that most developers in our field wouldn't contemplate, even with a standard format. 3) There's much more to a GUI application than its data format. I don't see how you can standardise those bits. Sooner or later these application-specific parts will impinge upon the data format and demand that it be extended. How, for example, can a word-processor format be "independent" from the GUI that implements it? Take your example of MS Office, why is it that we have two office XML standards: ODF (originally Sun) and OOXML (Microsoft)? This is just the canonisation of a commercial rivalry that we as developers are supposed to participate in under the guise of "open" standards. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 09:34:29 +0100 From: Timothy Hill Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.379 iPad apps by/for us In-Reply-To: <20101003202947.1B9FA881C0@woodward.joyent.us> >> > My original point was that if a target audience uses the iPad and/or the >> > iPad offers capabilities that your application requires, or both, then >> > develop for the iPad. Neither one of those are "ethical" questions. >> >> Ah, but it's not that simple, is it - because the 'target audience' is >> to an extent determined by the applications developed for the iPad. >> > > Actually it is. But for the confusion between applications and the > content for applications. Confusion or no, the point stands: it is idle to imagine that the tablet marketplace is sufficiently stable that one can decide what platform(s) to develop for simply on the grounds of an established user base. The intense competition surrounding the number and desirability of apps available for iOS and Android indicates that Apple and Google understand the interdependence between content provision and eventual market share extremely well. So should we. As for the confusion itself, it appears to have arisen from the fact that you take me to be discussing, albeit in a muddle-headed way, applications and application content, when I was in fact careful to couch my points in terms of 'platform' and 'content' - using the terms in a context-dependent way such that their referents will vary depending on which part of the solution stack is being discussed. This shifting use of the terms can of course breed confusion (things that are in one context the 'content' can in another be the 'platform'), which is why I supplied examples (Microsoft's dominance of the desktop market, with the various Windows operating systems as the 'platform' and business/office software as the 'content', and the Browser Wars, with the different browsers as 'platform' and HTML pages as 'content') which I'd hoped would clarify matters. Evidently, however, this didn't work, as Willard's subsequent post seems to indicate that he took my use of 'platform' to be referring to the bottom of the solution stack (hardware + OS), while you took me to be referring to applications near the top. So, to obviate further confusion on that score: by 'content' I meant 'the focus of user interaction', and by 'platform' I meant 'the technical context that allows these interactions to take place'. The distinction is admittedly a crude one, as Willard points out - but it's vital for some engineering questions, and it's one that marketing people understand very well. To take an example closer to home: when Apple takes out a full-page spread advertising the fact that, no matter what your need, there's 'An App For That', I understand them to be marketing their platform (iOS) in terms of the great content (the apps themselves) it gives you access to; and when Amazon tells you that you can read 700 000 titles using the Kindle for iPad app, they're again promoting their platform (this time, an app) with reference to the content (files encoded in Kindle AZW format) that exists for it. The point of employing 'platform' and 'content' in this (hardly idiosyncratic) fashion is that (a) it does justice to the multi-layered nature of application development and design; and (b) once you start doing justice to this multi-layered nature, it becomes clear that 'openness' is a criterion that potentially applies all the way down the solution stack, and not just (as you seem to suggest) the top. This latter is a point that Apple clearly understands very well - as indicated, as I pointed out in an earlier post, by its attempts to close off as many layers as possible, whether by trying to define the HTML 5 spec avant la lettre or by forbidding developers from compiling non-ObjC files into ObjC applications. Such behaviour is, as you rightly point out, ultimately self-defeating, at least taken in broad perspective. It is also, manifestly, a repeated corporate pattern. > BTW, you mention Android in a later post in this thread. I don't recall > it "dropping" from the conversation but what is it that you want to say > about it? I also mentioned it in an earlier one. As did Constantinescu Nicolaie and David Postles. For what I wanted to say about it, I refer you to my post in this thread of 22 September, published to the list on the 23rd. Timothy Hill Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 20:17:27 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 387698A1C6; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:17:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3AAA58A1B3; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:17:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101004201723.3AAA58A1B3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:17:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.382 muddled middle X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 382. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 06:44:58 +1000 From: Carol Wical Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.377 why the muddled middle? Hi All, Willard, You ask: So I wonder: is the bigger problem a fundamental lack of curiosity about (brought about by a fear of?) that which escapes the small but safe conceptual boxes into which we put our interests? First, I don't think it's a single problem and second I'm not sure it's a problem. Some folk will always fall under the old dogs new tricks rule. Also, it seems to me that many scholars I have heard speak have been brought up in a specialist tradition. Thinking inside the box was the way forward, career-wise. I have been told by more than one mentor to narrow my interest. Luckily for me I'm stubborn and not ambitious in a linear way. I think you are right in saying that fear is a factor. Fear forms a strong, opaque boundary. But I think it isn't just fear of computing. I think many feel they cannot gamble with their career. Also, I'm sad to say, I think the great underlying fear is that technology will 'prove' humanist pursuits nonsensical. Whether this is due to the loud posturing of the science Vikings as a result of the recent great right turn in the West or the proliferation of the Google mentality that conflates 'finding' with 'understanding' or a combination of both I'm not sure. There's a lot of exhaustion out there and change needs courage needs energy. I think it is worth accepting that there is a section of our cohort who cannot move in the DH direction. Others will without realising it and the younger generation will grow up doing it. I'm thinking making a small team of rsearchers available who can 'digitally enhance' the publications and presentations of others as well as produce their own may be the way to go - an evolution rather than a revolution as a wise man once said. Just some early morning thoughts from the DH frontier. Carol Carol Wical Project Officer AustLit - Research Projects and Publications www.austlit.edu.au School of English, Media Studies and Art History The University of Queensland St Lucia 4072 p: +61 7 33653313 f: +61 7 3365 7930 CRICOS Provider 00025B _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 20:18:58 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 1C41D8A22E; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:18:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0574D8A215; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:18:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101004201850.0574D8A215@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:18:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.383 funding for events: codicology; 19C 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. 24, No. 383. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Arianna Ciula (23) Subject: ESF COMSt call for grants to attend workshop 'Codicology BookMaterials in Oriental Cultures' [2] From: Willard McCarty (11) Subject: NINES Scholarships to DHSI --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:26:00 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF COMSt call for grants to attend workshop 'Codicology Book Materials in Oriental Cultures' A call is now open for attending the Workshop of the ESF Comparative Oriental Manuscripts (COMSt) RNP organised by Team 1: 'Codicology Book Materials in Oriental Cultures' - to be held in Pisa, Italy, on 26-27 November 2010. The application deadline is ***25 October 2010***. The programme of the workshop is available at http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/meet1-1.html Applicants can submit online the ESF application form at for Short Visit Grants. Applications should include: - A short description of the proposed project work (about 250 words) and the aim of the visit - A curriculum vitae of two A4 pages - Full address details of the prospective host - Estimated travel costs Scientific report of ca. 2 pages should be submitted following the visit. In 2009 3 short visit travel grants were awarded to attend the first RNP conference, December 1-3, 2009, Hamburg University, Germany. In July 2010, 3 short visit travel grants were awarded to attend the Workshop 'Digital Approaches to Manuscript Analysis', Hamburg University, Germany. In September 2010, 5 short visit grants were awarded to attend the Workshop 'Cataloguing Projects of Oriental Manuscripts: Evolution of Descriptive Criteria', Uppsala University, Sweden. In October 2010, 3 short visit grants were awarded to attend the Workshop 'Textual Criticism of Oriental Manuscripts', Leuven, Belgium. == 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, 05 Oct 2010 07:12:10 +1100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: NINES Scholarships to DHSI > Subject: NINES Scholarships to DHSI > Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:06:32 +0100 > From: Susan Schreibman Colleagues -- some of you who do research in the 19th century may be interested in this opportunity ***** As a sponsor for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2011, NINES is offering five tuition-free slots to scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture interested in the digital humanities. Please distribute this link as widely as you can: http://www.nines.org/news/?p=654 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 5 20:10:16 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 132AB8B20E; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:10:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E3BAF8B204; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:10:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101005201008.E3BAF8B204@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:10:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.384 iPad apps by/for us X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 384. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 05:19:03 +0100 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: iPad apps by/for us Regardless of the rhetorical definition of being 'religious, strangely', there are practical as well as moral reasons for following OpenSource developments: * US government adoption of OpenSource solutions: Forge.mil and Forge.gov ( as well as White House sponsorship of Drupal) * BRIC countries adopting OpenSource (Linux) solutions - and also wider Linux sponsorship such as Turkish-government-sponsored Pardus Linux and Italian municipalities sponsoring Sabayon Linux. * Critical mission use of Linux - 95% of the top 500 supercomputers * NYSE and LSE use of Linux - again critical mission - the argument is moving from just economy/cost to quality and robustness * LAMP servers as the backbone of the internet/web * Recent Accenture report on intentions to adopt OpenSource by top international companies and the UK government * HE has, IMHO, a moral responsibility to support OpenSource * Development on the iOS platform presumably requires your users to buy into this exaggeratedly-expensive hardware/software (BTW, Apple's profits must seemingly have been bloated by the low cost of development at Foxconn which engaged in appalling working practices for its workforce, but without any corresponding benefit to the consumer as Apple must have maintained immense margins) - those margins are revealed even more by the $35-tablet developed in India from the HiVision $100-tablet (Android - and there is a deluge of Android tablets on the market or about to appear) - what penetration do you expect iPads to have beyond a minority of rich, western students? * Balance of payments - it's analogous to importing expensive foreign cars through paying the premium on Apple products * What do iPad apps DO by comparison with, say, OpenSource QuantumGIS, Lyx, gretl, OpenOffice.org, and an endless list of OpenSource complex apps? * What is the morality of taking BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution Unix) and webkit (KDE Linux Konqueror file manager/web browser) and developing proprietary software from them (OSX and Safari)? _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 5 20:12:20 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 274C18B2C5; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:12:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C28288B2B9; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:12:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101005201212.C28288B2B9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:12:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.385 job in the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure project X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 385. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:07:34 +1100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: job: EU project EHRI, located in Germany > Subject: job: EU project EHRI, located in Germany > Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 18:08:53 +0200 > From: Felix Lohmeier > Organisation: SUB Göttingen Dear colleagues, we would like to inform you about a job advertisement at Goettingen State and University Library (Goettingen, Germany) for the EU project European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). The advertisement (German language) is available here: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3489.html?cid=5298 Please find the English version below. If you have questions concerning the project please contact Dr. Heike Neuroth (neuroth@sub.uni-goettingen.de). Best regards, Felix Lohmeier *************************** NIEDERSÄCHSISCHE STAATS- UND UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK GÖTTINGEN The Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (SUB) is one of the largest scientific libraries in Germany. It has been involved in the research and development of digital research infrastructures and virtual research environments for many years. We are looking for a full-time research associate (salary class 13 TV-L) starting on the 1st of November 2010 for the EU project European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). The running term is nine months with the possibility of an extension to a total of four years. Sources about the holocaust are scattered over different archives throughout Europe and beyond. They are organized in different language areas, terminologies and reference rooms. The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) project is designed to unify these heterogenic sources and will establish an integrated research environment about the holocaust (virtual research infrastructure). This includes the establishment of coordinated forms of access, a virtual research environment with comprehensive access to all relevant research data and the development of authoritative standards and interoperability mechanisms. The project is funded by the EU. In the EHRI project the SUB will concentrate on designing the digital infrastructure for the integration of data within EHRI (points of contact to DARIAH and Driver/OpenAIRE). The SUB will also contribute to the development of interaction mechanisms as Facetted-Browsing based on metadata and Geo-Browsing (points of contact to Europeana-Connect). Main tasks: * Development of concepts for the integration of metadata between the partner institutions and related initiatives * Technical realization of the integration of metadata between the partner institutions and related initiatives * Development of concepts for the implementation of user interaction in the portal, i.e. Facetted-Browsing and Geo-Browsing * Technical implementation of the user interaction in the portal, i.e. Facetted-Browsing and Geo-Browsing * Linkage of the technical infrastructure with the infrastructure of DARIAH (i.e. Shibboleth, Identifier-System) * Coordination of the SUB project management, especially in the area of EU time sheet, reports and more Required are: * A successfully completed university education, preferably in the humanities with declared technical understanding or a degree in computer sciences with a broad understanding of Digital Humanities * Competence in metadata and knowledge of well established metadata standards * Knowledge of XML (TEI) and in the area of Linked Data * Good organizational skills, good time management * High communication competences in dealing with international partners, very good English skills * Experience in the area of eHumanities and/or the EU context is of advantage The SUB Göttingen is offering you an opportunity to work tightly embedded in national and international activities in the Research and Development Department. We offer a diversity of challenging tasks with highly motivated colleagues and a dynamic and unbureaucratic working environment with a high degree of individual responsibility and autonomy. If you have questions concerning the project please contact Dr. Heike Neuroth (neuroth@sub.uni-goettingen.de). The University of Göttingen is an equal opportunities employer and places particular emphasis on fostering career opportunities for female scientists and scholars. Qualified women are therefore strongly encouraged to apply. Disabled persons with equivalent aptitude will be favored for the position. Please send your application by the 15th of October 2010 to the Director of the Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (SUB), Dr. Norbert Lossau, 37070 Göttingen. Applications per e-mail are welcome. Please send them to kanzlei@sub.uni-goettingen.de. Attention: Please only provide us with copies of your application papers. They will not be sent back unless you provide us with a stamped envelope, if you don't they will be destroyed after a retention period of five months. ***************************** _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 5 20:12:58 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 6F7278B304; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:12:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 50E648B2F1; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:12:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101005201252.50E648B2F1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:12:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.386 events: imaging X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 386. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:59:25 +1100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Imaging Without Boundaries Conference, October 14-15 2010 > Subject: Imaging Without Boundaries Conference, October 14-15 2010 > Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:11:25 +0100 > From: I-CHASS The Strategic Initiative on Imaging is holding its annual conference at the Beckman Institute and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign on October 14-15, 2010. The Strategic Initiative on Imaging is dedicated to bringing together ideas, modalities, and people in imaging to foster the interdisciplinary discovery of fundamental principles in imaging science, new enabling technologies for the next generation of imaging instruments, and novel techniques for basic and translational research. Imaging Without Boundaries will include a session on imaging in arts and society and will feature presentations from Dr. Peter Bajcsy, Associate Director for Data Analytics and Pattern Recognition at the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science; Professor Mara Wade of the University of Illinois; and Professor Dean Rehberger, Director of Michigan State University's MATRIX. Additionally, the closing keynote talk will be given by Professor Donna Cox, Director of the Illinois eDREAM Institute. Other sessions will highlight some of the many aspects of imaging and visualization in fields as varied as Materials Imaging, Biological Imaging, Imaging in Arts and Society, Astronomical Imaging, Imaging Agents and Agent Chemistry, Biomedical Imaging, and Imaging in Atmospheric and Earth Sciences. *Registration Deadline: October 10, 2010 * For a complete schedule and to register, visit: http://www.imaging.beckman.illinois.edu/Imaging2010 * * * 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 Oct 7 22:37:38 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 8A4548D2D7; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:37:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 950858D2BC; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:37:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101007223734.950858D2BC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:37:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.387 iPad apps by/for us X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 387. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 07:46:46 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.384 iPad apps by/for us In-Reply-To: <20101005201008.E3BAF8B204@woodward.joyent.us> >HE has, IMHO, a moral responsibility to support OpenSource Hi David, Can I ask what would you do if Apple's iPad dominated the market and Android tablets just went the way of all previous attempts to create tablet computers? Would you continue to develop for a largely unused platform simply because it was 'morally' sound? I feel uncomfortable with the idea that we should condemn computer and software companies simply because they do not produce free products. After all, many of the free software products you mention: e.g. Linux and Open Office, have been commercial products or contain significant parts of once commercial products. Releasing them as open source was a tactic by the donating companies or organisations to destroy the market share of their competitors. I don't call that morally pure. Computer companies like Apple have contributed significantly to the innovation and rapid development of technology through the lure of making significant profits. The current success of the tablet computer is due to the efforts of Apple to design their iPad. I wonder how successful the "deluge of Android tablets on the market or about to appear" will actually turn out to be. I keep an open mind, but I suspect that we will have to continue to work with the technology of commercial vendors as well as free software products in the foreseeable future. best Desmond _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 7 22:41:18 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 505C08D3AB; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:41:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 94C8C8D39C; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:41:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101007224114.94C8C8D39C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:41:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.388 jobs: at Michigan & Maryland X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 388. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Paul Edwards (73) Subject: Faculty position in Digital Environments/Digital Humanities at UMSchool of Information [2] From: Neil Fraistat (30) Subject: 3 New Positions at MITH --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 09:40:09 -0400 From: Paul Edwards Subject: Faculty position in Digital Environments/Digital Humanities at UMSchool of Information Faculty Position in Digital Environments/Digital Humanities Rank: Assistant Professor The University of Michigan's School of Information (SI) seeks an outstanding tenure-track faculty member at the Assistant Professor level to help establish a vigorous program of research and teaching in Digital Environments/Digital Humanities. New technologies and digital environments offer transformative opportunities for the humanities. At the same time, they bring unheralded challenges for accountability, authority, representation, intelligibility, and the assessment of value. Candidates for this position should have a demonstrated research record investigating topics of concern in the digital humanities. Potential areas of research include (but are not limited to) virtual collaboration in the humanities; design of interactive humanities-related media; credibility and authority of digital content; ethnography or history of digital culture; and curation of digital resources. This position is part of a Digital Environments faculty cluster aimed at transforming humanities scholarship and engaging faculty and students in new modes of research, teaching, and learning. The Digital Environments cluster represents a partnership between the School of Information; the departments of English Language and Literature and Communication Studies; and the Program in American Culture, each of which is hiring a new faculty member through independent searches. Candidates for the School of Information position will engage with these new faculty as well as colleagues across the university, through such venues as research projects, a speaker series, reading groups, and teaching initiatives. For more information or to apply, please visit http://www.si.umich.edu/about-SI/digital_environments.htm. Application letters for this position must discuss the candidate's ideas for interacting with the cluster group. Before doing so, please read the full description of the Digital Environments cluster (see full job description on our website for details). The mission of the School of Information, where this position will reside, is to connect people, information, and technology in more valuable ways. The School is home to a dynamic and vibrant research and teaching program, with 35 FTE faculty, 49 doctoral students, and 404 students in its professional program, the Master of Science in Information. In partnership with other units, we recently launched a new undergraduate informatics major. The School of Information is internationally recognized for its research strengths in social informatics, network analysis and text mining, human computer interaction, digital archives, cyberinfrastructure, digital preservation, and information seeking, sharing and use. More about the School, its vision, and its activities can be found at the School's website: http://www.si.umich.edu Founded in 1817, the University of Michigan has a long and distinguished history as one of the first public universities in the nation. It is one of only two public institutions consistently ranked among the nation's top ten universities. The University has one of the largest health care complexes in the world and one of the best library systems in the United States. With more than $1 billion in research expenditures annually, the University has the second largest research expenditure among all universities in the nation. The University has an annual budget of more than $1.4 billion and an endowment valued at more than $7.57 billion. Qualifications: Ph.D. (or nearing completion) in a relevant area, such as literature, history, cultural studies, cultural anthropology, archaeology, communication studies, design, information science, library science, archival studies, or technical fields involving significant interactions with the humanities Demonstrated potential for successful teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels Demonstrated potential for high scholarly impact A strong commitment to teaching, interdisciplinary research, creative activity, and cultural diversity Review of applications will begin Nov. 1 and continue until the position is filled. -----Paul N. Edwards, Professor of Information Director, UM Program on Science, Technology & Society A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010) Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing): five.sentenc.es University of Michigan School of Information 3439 North Quad 105 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 (734) 764-2617 (office) (206) 337-1523 (fax) pne.people.si.umich.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 18:20:22 -0400 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: 3 New Positions at MITH Dear all, I'm delighted to say that the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park is seeking to fill three new positions: *·** Software Architect/Lead Developer* We're looking for an experienced developer and software architect to lead the technical direction of all MITH software projects. In other words, we're seeking someone with ninja coding skills who can continue professionalizing our agile development process. *·** Software Developer, Research & Development* This programmer will focus on building shareable and reusable tools to manage and analyze large bodies of "diggable data," or structured text. We're looking for someone creative and experienced to prototype future funded work. *·** Project Coordinator* We're looking for someone to coordinate project activities for the Mellon-funded Project Bamboo's Corpora Space. This position will involve working with partners across the country to organize a series of workshops and white papers related to the project. More information about each of these jobs can be found here: http://mith.umd.edu/about/jobs/. 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/ Twitter: @fraistat _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 7 22:42:49 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 DE0A68D422; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:42:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 386748D413; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:42:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101007224247.386748D413@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:42:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.389 new discussion list for tag-set 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. 24, No. 389. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:17:27 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: New discussion list for JATS/NLM tag set Dear HUMANIST, I was asked to forward this (with apologies for cross-posting): ===== JATS-List is the open forum for the discussion of the JATS - the Journal Article Tag Suite. The JATS is also known as: - NLM's Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite, - the NLM DTDs, the NLM journal article models, and - NISO's Standardized Markup for Journal Articles JATS provides a common XML format for preserving the intellectual content of journal articles, independent of the form in which that content was originally delivered. JATS-List hosts discussion on the Journal Article Tag Suite itself; JATS applications, implementations, and customizations; and JATS user questions. 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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 Oct 2010 09:36:06 +1100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: DHSI Graduate Student Colloquium > Subject: [DHSI] Graduate Student Colloquium > Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 19:41:43 +0100 > From: institut@uvic.ca [Share with anyone you think might be interested!] Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2011 Graduate Student Colloquium June 7-9, 2011 CALL FOR PAPERS: The DHSI will be sponsoring its third annual graduate student colloquium in June 2011. Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows attending the Institute are invited to participate in the 2011 colloquium. 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 three days (Tuesday through Thursday) after classes end in the afternoon. Four graduate students will present at each hour-long 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 proposals of 150-300 words for these presentations. Successful abstracts for the 2011 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 2011. Please send abstracts to . Deadline for submissions is December 17, 2010. All who have submitted an abstract will be notified by mid-February 2011. All those whose work is accepted for presentation at the Graduate Student Colloquium will receive a tuition scholarship. 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. 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 6-10, 2011 The DHSI will be followed by THATCamp Victoria, June 10-11. For more information and to register for courses 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 Fri Oct 8 19:35:18 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 041848D39B; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:35:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B554B8D38C; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:35:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101008193515.B554B8D38C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:35:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.391 iPad apps by/for us X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 391. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 08:31:40 +0100 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.387 iPad apps by/for us In-Reply-To: <20101007223734.950858D2BC@woodward.joyent.us> There are a number of issues here. * Apple products will never, IMHO, attain that position because of their pricing structure and the needs of the developing world. Essentially, it's developing apps for the use of rich kids in the western world. Poor kids in the western world will not be able to afford these products unless HE gives them to them as part of their course. So HE has another moral dilemma there. * Why do I need an iPad? My light 13" kit was assembled in Portsmouth and delivered without an OS, at less than half the price of the cheapest of Apple products. * The consortia which donate apps to the 'community' do so under the GPL. Everyone under the GPL has to contribute back. Of course, those companies have their enterprise versions too, the basis of which is largely the support involved - no one decided to use Sun products because it gave us Java, OpenOffice, OpenSolaris - I doubt that giving those apps to the community increased Scott McNealy's business by one iota and I doubt that he expected it to - I used OpenSolaris, but only as one OS amongst many, but actually I prefer PC-BSD as my Unix OS because I prefer KDE to Gnome * You use Linux/Unix every day - you are using Unix in your Apple products: a proprietary version of the BSD - you use LAMP servers every day in your web work - Linux will, IMHO, be the OS of choice in the developing world * I'd be interested to know what Apple has done for the community and development rather than take advantage of webkit and BSD - CUPS is a minor offering, but HP gave us HPLIP In short, I'm not convinced, but then I'm a strange person. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 8 19:36:15 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 C1C168D450; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:36:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E448F8D446; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:36:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101008193611.E448F8D446@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:36:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.392 job at the British Library X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 392. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 14:27:54 +0100 From: "Knight, Gareth" Subject: job advertisement - Head of Digital Scholarship, British Library Head of Digital Scholarship Based in St Pancras, London NW1 £67,998 p.a. (more may be available for an exceptional candidate) An opportunity such as this one rarely occurs. It's a senior leadership position that will develop and implement our digital scholarship strategy for social sciences and the arts and humanities. This is an entirely new function and reflects the urgent need for the Library to further define our contribution to, and role in, the rapidly changing landscape of scholarly communication. This is by no means a simple task. It's a great opportunity for us to contribute to the future shaping of digital scholarship and to the creation of new forms of knowledge and learning. Are you up to the challenge? We're seeking leaders who can articulate digital scholarship and understand the challenges ahead, building on your experiences of collaboration, creating novel strategy propositions and implementing user-led technologies that can exploit our world-class collections. For further information, go in and have a look at the vacancy at http://gs10.globalsuccessor.com/fe/tpl_britishlibrary01.asp?newms=jj&id=74046 To arrange a discussion about this vacancy, please email your contact details to Graham Shaw at graham.shaw@bl.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 Oct 8 19:37:22 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 34EF88D536; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:37:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 391078D520; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:37:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101008193720.391078D520@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:37:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.393 new publications on 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. 24, No. 393. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 06:33:50 +1100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: two new publications in the area of digital curation > Subject: two new publications in the area of digital curation > Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 07:31:35 +0100 > From: Susan Schreibman *__****Digital Curation* A how-to-do-it manual Ross Harvey Facet Publishing International authority Ross Harvey’s new how-to-do-it manual is the first one-stop resource in digital curation. Harvey offers an in-depth, start-to-finish explanation of the digital curation process, and clarifies each step in the Digital Curation Centre’s (DCC) lifecycle model. You will learn best practices for improving data access, quality, and protection, and find time-saving tools such as an extensive directory of online resources, tutorials and further references in the area. Book buyers receive exclusive access to a password-protected companion website that offers electronic, customizable versions of planning forms, checklists, and more. *September 2010; 250pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-733-3; £44.95* http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=733-3 *Preparing Collections for Digitization* Anna E Bülow and Jess Ahmon Facet Publishing This practical guide offers advice and guidance covering the end-to-end process of digitizing collections, from selecting records for digitization, to choosing equipment and dealing with damaged documents. As such, it can be used as a ‘how-to’ reference manual for those who are embarking on a digitization project or those who are having to manage an existing project. It also covers some of the wider issues such as the use of surrogates for preservation, and the long term sustainability of digital access. The book is an essential resource for collection and project managers who have responsibility for the preservation of archival collections and all industry professionals whose roles touch on the digitization of collections. *December 2010; 192pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-711-1; £44.95* http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=711-1 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 8 19:38:24 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 56D8F8D5B0; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:38:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9117E8D59C; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:38:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101008193820.9117E8D59C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:38:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.394 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. 24, No. 394. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 07:56:52 +0800 From: Christian Wittern Subject: TEI MM 2010 Conference program published Dear Humanists, The program committee for TEI MM 2010 in Zadar, Croatia proudly presents the program for this years conference to you. Currently available at [1], you will soon also be able to peruse it from the conference web page. There might be still some minor adjustments necessary, but we think it will basically stand as it is now. I would also like to inform you that the program committee together with the local organizers decided to impose a 20% surcharge on all registrations received after Oct. 25, due to the organizational overhead this will cause. So, to ensure a smooth preparation and to avoid unnecessary surcharges, please go to the TEI webshop [2] at your earliest convenience to register for the conference, if you have not done so yet. There are also a few seats left in the pre-conference workshops, which can be booked from the same page. Looking forward to see all of you soon, for the program committee, Christian Wittern (Chair) [1] http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/sessions.php [2] http://tei-shop.org -- 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 Sun Oct 10 19:48:31 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 0D2958FB5E; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:48:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 50A848FB54; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:48:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101010194829.50A848FB54@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:48:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.395 PhD studentships at Groningen 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. 24, No. 395. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 06:32:56 +1100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: PhD positions, University of Groningen > Subject: Fwd: [SIGSEM] PhD positions, University of Groningen > Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 06:53:10 +0100 > From: Iddo Lev Two PhD positions in computational semantics, University of Groningen. For the full job advertisement follow the link at: http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/Jobs Closing date: 1 November 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 Sun Oct 10 19:49:48 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 3A0448FC27; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:49:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B53598FBF8; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:49:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101010194945.B53598FBF8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:49:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.396 a million old 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 396. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:07:22 -0400 From: Michael Zurat Subject: ProQuest to Place all European Books from 1475- 1700 online Dear Humanist List, Its been a number of years since I have submitted something to the list. A colleague of mine posted this on his Facebook profile and I thought it worth sharing as this was the first I have heard of this. October 09, 2010 ProQuest to Place All European Books from 1475 to 1700 Online Buried deep inside an article about a different topic is a reference to digitizing old books and placing them online. Dan Burnstone, from ProQuest, states that his company has launched a project that aims to get all early European books printed between 1475 and 1700 online. "We don't know how many books we are ultimately dealing with, but we think it's something like one million," said Burnstone. "Our plan is to digitise the holdings of several European libraries over several years." Read more here: http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2010/10/proquest-to-place-all-european-books-from-1475-and-1700-online.html I would be interested to hear if any of you are working with ProQuest on this and your thoughts on the matter. Best regards, Michael Zurat _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 10 19:50:30 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 3A77D8FC89; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:50:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AADBE8FC73; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:50:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101010195026.AADBE8FC73@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:50:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.397 fasten your seat-belt! X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 397. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 06:46:33 +1100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: re-entry Dear colleagues, Tomorrow will be the last of Humanist from the Southern Hemisphere until May 2011, when I return via the U.S. for another 3-month sojourn at the University of Western Sydney. So the usual arrival time for messages will change, and some local turbulence may cause a brief hiatus. Please do not adjust your set. (I am pleased to discover that this phrase has survived from the days when television transmission was not as stable as it is now; for the realities of those days see the HBO series Mad Men.) Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 10 19:53:40 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 30C1D8FECC; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:53:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 820EF8FEBB; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:53:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101010195336.820EF8FEBB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:53:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.398 new Hebrew corpus X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 398. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 06:36:10 +1100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new Hebrew corpus > Subject: Correction about the new Hebrew corpus > Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 21:07:50 +0100 > From: Justin Parry [Corrected announccement --WM] We are pleased to announce /hebrewCorpus/, a new corpus that is available for free online. This corpus presents a variety of searchable texts in Hebrew. Sources include the Tanach, the Mishnah, nine Israeli newspapers, some early and modern fiction, subtitles from movies, spontaneous, everyday conversations from the the Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew, academic journals, sessions of the Knesset, Wikipedia, and a few others. All of these texts add up to over 150 million words. These texts are not tagged, since the morphological ambiguity of Hebrew makes doing so problematic, but the program does use part of speech filters that try to predict the part of speech based on structure and affixes. The program also uses regular expressions, which greatly enhance the searchability of the texts. Detailed instructions and a tutorial for the corpus are provided on the site. We invite all Hebrew teachers, students, and scholars interested in using a search tool to study Hebrew to explore this resource. If you know of anyone not on this mailing list that may be interested, we invite you to forward this message to them. To begin using the corpus, go to http://hebrewcorpus.nmelrc.org . Click on register for free, and add your name and e-mail address to begin searching. You can also log in as a guest, but this is problematic since many users may log in as guest at the same time. You can input your query in Hebrew or in transliteration, and remember to choose the subcorpus in which you are interested, and in most cases "string" in the part-of-speech column. There is also a mailing list that provides updates and tips on the corpus; contact Justin Parry at ootkaman@yahoo.com to be added to it. This corpus was developed with funding from the National Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC). More information about this center can be found at http://www.nmelrc.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 10 19:55:52 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 E8B6290017; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:55:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3335090008; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:55:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101010195549.3335090008@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:55:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.399 events: machine translation; DH programmes; formal languages X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 399. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dr. Katherine D. Harris" (51) Subject: CFP: Digital Projects Poster Session (11/15/10; SHARP 7/14/11-7/17/11) [2] From: Willard McCarty (88) Subject: SSFLA 2011 [3] From: Willard McCarty (56) Subject: Call for Papers: Workshop on Machine Translation and Morphologically-richLanguages --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 16:48:06 -0700 From: "Dr. Katherine D. Harris" Subject: CFP: Digital Projects Poster Session (11/15/10; SHARP 7/14/11-7/17/11) In-Reply-To: CALL FOR POSTERS *Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing International Conference* Washington DC July 14 - July 17, 2011 *The Book in Art & Science* Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library and Institute, and the Corcoran College of Art + Design. This year’s conference theme, the Book in Art & Science, is an appropriate opportunity to highlight SHARP’s continuing commitment to digital humanities projects, tools or techniques or work in progress. This particular session encourages proposals from any college or university digital humanities program, center or group to present a poster that overviews their program. Posters may include a demonstration, traditional printed poster or a combination of both. A brief bio and short abstracts (250-300 words) should be submitted to Katherine D. Harris (katherine.harris@email.sjsu.edu) by November 15, 2010. Please include any technical requirements (e.g., Internet access). This panel will undergo the normal review procedure by the SHARP conference committee. One participant for each proposal must be a member of SHARP prior to the conference. Founded in 1991, the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing is a global network of literary scholars, historians, librarians, booksellers, and publishing professionals. With more than 1,000 members in over 20 countries, SHARP works in concert with a number of affiliated scholarly organizations around the world to encourage the study of book history. Evoking Washington's status as an artistic and scientific center, "The Book in Art & Science" is a theme open to multiple interpretations. Besides prompting considerations of the book as a force in either art or science or the two fields working in tandem, it also encourages examinations of the scientific text; the book as a work of art; the art and science of manuscript, print, or digital textual production; the role of censorship and politics in the creation, production, distribution, or reception of particular scientific or artistic texts; the relationship between the verbal and the visual in works of art or science; art and science titles from the standpoint of publishing history or the histories of specific publishers; and much more. ************************** Dr. Katherine D. Harris 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 Editor, Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 06:29:55 +1100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: SSFLA 2011 In-Reply-To: > Subject: SSFLA 2011 > Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:59:23 +0100 > From: carlos.martin@urv.cat 2011 INTERNATIONAL SPRING SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS (SSFLA 2011) (formerly International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications) Tarragona, Spain, April 18-22, 2011 Organized by: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/ssfla2011/ ****************************************** ADDRESSED TO: Undergraduate and graduate students from around the world. Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and Mathematics. Other students (for instance, from Linguistics, Electrical Engineering, Molecular Biology or Logic) are welcome too provided they have a good background in discrete mathematics. All courses will be made compatible in terms of schedule. COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Franz Baader (Dresden), Automata and Logic [advanced, 4 hours] Thomas Bäck (Leiden), Natural Computing [introductory, 10 hours] Markus Holzer (Giessen), Computational Complexity [introductory, 14 hours] Claude Kirchner (Bordeaux), Rewriting and Deduction Modulo [introductory, 6 hours] Thierry Lecroq (Rouen), Text Searching and Indexing [introductory, 10 hours] Rupak Majumdar (Kaiserslautern), Software Model Checking [introductory, 10 hours] Risto Miikkulainen (Austin), Natural Language Processing with Subsymbolic Neural Networks [introductory, 6 hours] Bernhard Steffen (Dortmund), Automata Learning from Theory to Application [introductory/advanced, 18 hours] Wolfgang Thomas (Aachen), omega-Automata and Infinite Games [introductory/advanced, 6 hours] Sheng Yu (London ON), Finite Automata and Regular Languages [introductory/advanced, 8 hours] SCHOOL PAPER: On a voluntary basis, within 6 months after the end of the School, students will be expected to draft an individual or jointly-authored research paper on a topic covered during the classes under the guidance of the lecturing staff. REGISTRATION: It has to be done on line at http://grammars.grlmc.com/ssfla2011/Registration.php FEES: They are variable, depending on the number of courses each student takes. The rule is: 1 hour = - 10 euros (for payments until November 30, 2010), - 15 euros (for payments after November 30, 2010). The fees must be paid to the School's bank account: Uno-e Bank (Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain): IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142 - Swift code: UNOEESM1 (account holder: Carlos Martin-Vide GRLMC) Please mention SSFLA 2011 and your full name in the subject. An invoice will be provided on site. Bank transfers should not involve any expense for the School. To check the eligibility for early registration, what counts is the date when the payment is received (not the date when the registration form was filled in). People registering on site at the beginning of the School must pay in cash. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation will be provided through the website of the School in January 2011. CERTIFICATES: Students will be delivered a diploma stating the courses attended, their contents, and their duration. Those participants who will choose to be involved in a research paper will receive an additional certificate at the end of the task, independently on whether the paper will finally get published or not. IMPORTANT DATES: Announcement of the programme: October 8, 2010 Starting of the registration: October 11, 2010 Early registration deadline: November 30, 2010 Starting of the School: April 18, 2011 End of the School: April 22, 2011 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: Carlos Martin-Vide: carlos.martin@urv.cat WEBSITE: http://grammars.grlmc.com/ssfla2011/ POSTAL ADDRESS: SSFLA 2011 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-558386 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 06:31:08 +1100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Call for Papers: Workshop on Machine Translation and Morphologically-richLanguages In-Reply-To: > Subject: Call for Papers: Workshop on Machine Translation and Morphologically-rich Languages > Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:57:25 +0100 > From: Shuly Wintner Machine Translation and Morphologically-rich Languages Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation University of Haifa, Israel, 23-27 January, 2011 http://cl.haifa.ac.il/MT/ General information Machine translation remains the holy grail of computational linguistics. While this field of research has had tremendous progress in the last decade, especially with the introduction of statistical methods, translation between morphologically-rich languages remains a highly challenging task. This Workshop addresses machine translation (and related multilingual applications) in the context of morphologically-rich languages. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, translation to and from such languages; transliteration and translation of named entities; morphological pre-processing and post-processing; language modeling of morphologically-rich languages; and multilingual language resources. The format of the Workshop is deliberately informal: it will include oral presentations, both invited and contributed, but will leave ample time for informal discussions, demonstrations and brainstorming. The Workshop provides an opportunity to present the current state-of-the- art, as well as future needs and directions. Complete works as well as work in progress are equally welcome for presentation. To encourage interaction and collaboration, an extensive social program is planned, including a welcome reception, a banquet and a one- day sightseeing tour. Invited Speakers (preliminary list) Ido Dagan; Nachum Dershowitz; Michael Elhadad; Marcello Federico; Kevin Knight; Philipp Koehn; Alon Lavie; Adam Lopez; Lluís Màrquez; Sergei Nirenburg; Kemal Oflazer; Ari Rappoport; Noah Smith; Andy Way Call for Papers The Workshop will consist of invited and contributed presentations. We invite 2-page abstracts, in PDF format only, describing recent results or work in progress in topics related to the main theme of the Workshop. Accepted abstracts will be presented either as oral presentations or as posters, as determined by the Program Committee. No Proceedings will be published. Abstratcs should be submitted on-line at http://mt.cs.haifa.ac.il/ mtml/. The deadline for submission is October 20, 2010. Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: October 20, 2010 Acceptance notification: October 31, 2010 Final version of abstract due: December 31, 2010 Registration deadline: December 31, 2010 Workshop: January 23-27, 2011 Program Committee Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University Gennadi Lembersky, University of Haifa Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa Acknowledgments The Workshop is funded by the Israel Science Foundation, and is generously supported by The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science at the University of Haifa. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 19:30:41 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 53537907DA; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:30:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F3ACD907AE; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:30:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101011193034.F3ACD907AE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:30:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.400 job at UCLA X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 400. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:00:45 -0700 From: "Borovsky, Zoe" Subject: UCLA position of Librarian for Digital Research and Scholarship In-Reply-To: <20101008193611.E448F8D446@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Humanist, This position was recently announced. Please circulate widely. This is the URL for the Library employment page: http://www.library.ucla.edu/about/2188.cfm This is the URL directly to the PDF with the complete posting: http://www.library.ucla.edu/pdf/UCLA_Library_Librarian_for_Digital_Research_Scholarship_Position_Posting_Full_Version.pdf Zoe Borovsky, UCLA .............. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS BEING POSTED TO MULTIPLE LISTSERVS – APOLOGIES FOR DUPLICATION *** Hello, The UCLA Library has initiated recruitment for the position of Librarian for Digital Research and Scholarship in the Collections, Research & Instructional Services Department, and is actively seeking nominations and applications. The first consideration date for this position is December 1, 2010. For your convenience, the complete posting is attached as a pdf document – it includes the position description, complete qualifications and application procedures. Anyone wishing to be considered for this position should apply to Jenifer Abramson, Assistant Director of Library Human Resources, UCLA Library, Library Human Resources, 22478 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1575. Email applications encouraged and can be sent to jobs-hr@library.ucla.edu. Applications should include: a cover letter describing qualifications and experience; a current resume/vita detailing education and relevant experience; and the names and addresses for at least three professional references, including a current or previous supervisor. Candidates applying by December 1, 2010 will be given first consideration. UCLA welcomes and encourages diversity and seeks applications and nominations from women and minorities. UCLA seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the people of California, to maintain the excellence of the university, and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning. UCLA Library staff members are encouraged to forward this position posting to potential applicants. If you would like to nominate someone for this position, please email either Hiring Manager Marta Brunner (martab@library.ucla.edu) or HR Manager Jenifer Abramson (JeniferA@library.ucla.edu). UCLA Library staff are also asked to post this position posting to professional LISTSERVs as appropriate – please copy Jenifer Abramson on such postings so we may retain a copy of the posting for reporting purposes. Thank you for your assistance. Michelle --------------------------------------------------------- Michelle O. Torre HR Specialist, UCLA Library Human Resources 22478 Charles E. Young Research Library (campus mailcode: 157511) 310.206.9764 voice 310.825.6174 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 Mon Oct 11 19:41:07 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 BE8E590A08; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:41:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1FE8F909F2; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:41:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101011194103.1FE8F909F2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:41:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.401 jobs: NLP programmer; lectureships in cultural 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 401. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (34) Subject: Research Lectureships in Cultural Research, University of WesternSydney [2] From: Willard McCarty (23) Subject: Looking for NLP programmer --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:37:17 +1100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Research Lectureships in Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney Given the activities here in the Centre for Cultural Research, present and future, some of us may wish to think quite seriously about the following research lectureship positions now being advertised. I'll be happy to advise. --WM > Subject: FW: Research Lectureships in Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:18:55 +1100 > From: Brett Neilson The University of Western Sydney provides opportunities for early career researchers specialising in Cultural Studies to engage with scholars of international standing in the Centre for Cultural Research and the Schools of Humanities and Languages, and Social Sciences. Applications are invited from early career researchers with a disciplinary background in cultural sociology, cultural anthropology, cultural geography, or cultural history. Particular areas of interest include: Asian Cultural Studies, with a focus on transnationalism and mobility; or Consumption and Everyday Life, with regard to environmental issues. Remuneration Package: Academic Level B, $93,187 to $109,962 p.a. (comprising salary $78,744 to $92,984 p.a., 17% Superannuation and Leave Loading). Position Enquiries : Associate Professor Brett Neilson, (02) 9685 9634 or email b.neilson@uws.edu.au Closing Date: 31 October 2010 http://tinyurl.com/2cvnlhn Associate Professor Brett Neilson Director Centre for Cultural Research Parramatta, EM University of Western Sydney Locked Bag 1797 Penrith South DC, 1797 Australia http://www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr Tel. +61-2-9685-9600 Fax. +61-2-9685-9610 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:38:21 +1100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Looking for NLP programmer > Subject: Looking for NLP programmer > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:49:03 +0100 > From: Taz Hi, My associate and I are looking for an NLP programmer to write a software for us. We need the software to answer questions asked based on information we have in our database. We realize there are many levels to this type of software so we have analysed the questions we will be asked. There are the basic questions which are actually quite easy (I say this after having spoken to a few NLP people who, unfortunately, are currently working on other projects) and then there are the more complex questions. As a starting point we would like someone to program for the basic questions. If you know anyone who could be interested or if you could forward this to possible interested parties I would be grateful. I can be reached by mail ( taz@resbestia.com ) or by phone 0549412898 Thanks Emilie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 19:42:16 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 A54E690A82; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:42:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A37D090A74; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:42:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101011194214.A37D090A74@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:42:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.402 an ideal PhD programme? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 402. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:28:42 +1100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: more envisioning Some time ago I asked for ideas about the ideal department of digital humanities. Let me ask now a related question: what (national constraints aside) would an ideal PhD programme in the digital humanities look like? How many years would it run? Would it have an initial year of coursework (as in N America) or be purely a research degree (as in the UK)? What would the courses be, if there were coursework? What sort of examination would it have, if any, after an initial period, to make sure candidates were not too deeply into trouble to finish? How would the variety of digital humanities research be reflected in the name and nature of the degree? What should the designer of a programme aim for, i.e. what sort of work afterward? All ideas welcome. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 11 19:43:08 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 9E1B490B3B; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:43:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0998990AF9; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:43:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101011194303.0998990AF9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:43:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.403 events: digitizing Rome X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 403. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:46:03 +1100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: lecture: Digitizing Imperial Rome "Digitizing Imperial Rome: A computerized Approach to the Architectural History of the Roman Imperial Forum" James E. Packer (Classics, Northwestern) King's Anatomy Theatre Lecture Hall, 29 October 2010 6 pm (reception afterwards at the adjacent Old Anatomy Museum) Although each year millions of people visit the Roman Forum - the center of Rome’s former remarkable empire - they find only one or two partially preserved structures and piles of architectural fragments. Most of the ancient buildings, apart from the few converted into churches, collapsed after centuries of neglect, leaving their remains to be quarried by later generations. The details of the individual buildings are still not widely understood, and the Forum has never been studied as a unified architectural composition. Moreover, owing to new archaeological studies and advances in computer technology in the last fifteen years, it is now possible both to reconstruct the Forum’s monuments accurately and, with these new reconstructions, to comprehend the design and meaning of the whole site. These considerations led my colleague, Professor and Architect Gilbert Gorski, and me to undertake our new, digitally based study of the Forum. Our work clarifies the design of the buildings around the Forum’s central core. It collects, for the first time in English, the most important material related each of the major monuments and shows visually their structure, size and original appearance. Over a period of nearly forty years (29 B.C. - A.D. 10), Augustus rebuilt the site, and thereafter, in material, size structure and decoration, its buildings related clearly to one another. Together they impressively represented the power and prestige both of Augustus own regime and that of the Mediterranean Empire it governed. With some missteps (the short-lived colossal equestrian state of Domitian, the unfortunately situated, enormous, gaudy Arch of Severus), later emperors carefully maintained Augustus’ design and structures, even as they rebuilt many of the monuments after disastrous fires. The late third century A.D. additions of Diocletian maintained this tradition but added a fashionable, new architectural framework that expressed that emperor’s optimistic hopes for the future of his recently reassembled Empire. Only the end of Rome as an imperial capital doomed the site to neglect, ruin, transformation and, from the 18th century on, to the investigations of modern excavators. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 14 16:35:18 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 69EC195634; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:35:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CAA529562B; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:35:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101014163513.CAA529562B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:35:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.404 ideal PhD programme X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 404. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Carol Wical (28) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.402 an ideal PhD programme? [2] From: Ryan Deschamps (77) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.402 an ideal PhD programme? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:50:12 +1000 From: Carol Wical Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.402 an ideal PhD programme? Hi Willard. As you may recall I'm currently finishing up my PhD. Most of my comrades are using software to help illuminate their various texts. Whether this is because they've all grown up computing or whether most of them have English as a second language I don't know. So that leads me to answering your question more or less consistently with my feeling about DH departments (that there shouldn't be). That is, aside from different tools and a differently constituted end-product (a thesis may look like a website rather than a book) I don't see why "DH" PhDs need be treated differently or, indeed, if there should be a DH PhD. I find these lines of consideration about separateness from the Humanities and the kind of implied globality of the Digital a bit unsettling. More thought doubtless required on my part. Carol Carol Wical Project Officer AustLit - Research Projects and Publications www.austlit.edu.au School of English, Media Studies and Art History The University of Queensland St Lucia 4072 p: +61 7 33653313 f: +61 7 3365 7930 CRICOS Provider 00025B --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:43:21 -0300 From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.402 an ideal PhD programme? In-Reply-To: <20101011194214.A37D090A74@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, Questions like these come up in my very similar fields, Information Sciences and Public Administration. My responses, when asked in these fields, often end up contradictory and/or ambiguous. It goes back to a discussion about disciplines and disciples, we had many many years ago (and, to my astonishment, I still find very relevant). Fields exist primarily because there are people ('disciples') that congregate around common learning, values etc. In this sense, the ideal PhD programme is partly one that will attract students. Determining what will attract students is where I find contradictions. Students will want all of these competing values in a potential degree. - Maximum achievement for minimum effort && a challenging course load. - Friendly, encouraging supervisors that do not coddle them through their thesis. - Practical, employable knowledge && exposure to ideas that no one else really knows about. I would add that access to the main players (academic and community) in the field would be essential. (I should add that I am taking the perspective of a potential student.) In terms of curriculum, I like the idea of some foundations to start - who suffered to make digital humanities a reality? What are it's theoretical foundations? Why do we need to learn digital humanities? What distinguishes it from other areas of digital or humanistic inquiry? I also think there should be a fundamental skills aspect to the degree - either as a requirement or as an introductory course. Fundamentals would include knowledge of some programming language / standard or protocol for humanistic types, and evidence of close reading / aesthetics / linguistic abilty for anyone coming from a more technical background. Ryan. . . On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 402. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:28:42 +1100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: more envisioning > > Some time ago I asked for ideas about the ideal department of digital > humanities. Let me ask now a related question: what (national > constraints aside) would an ideal PhD programme in the digital > humanities look like? How many years would it run? Would it have an > initial year of coursework (as in N America) or be purely a research > degree (as in the UK)? What would the courses be, if there were > coursework? What sort of examination would it have, if any, after an > initial period, to make sure candidates were not too deeply into trouble > to finish? How would the variety of digital humanities research be > reflected in the name and nature of the degree? What should the designer > of a programme aim for, i.e. what sort of work afterward? > > All ideas welcome. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, > www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Editor, 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 14 16:36:12 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 11D1395679; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:36:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0C94595664; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:36:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101014163608.0C94595664@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:36:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.405 PhD studentship at the Open University X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 405. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:32:15 -0700 From: Willard McCarty Subject: DH PhD at the OU > Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] DH PhD at the OU > Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:57:06 +0100 > From: E.T.E.Barker One full-time, three year PhD studentship available from 1 January 2011 Interdisciplinary PhD Studentship in Digital Humanities Open University - Faculty of Arts Based in Milton Keynes Digital Humanities at The Open University is a rapidly growing area of research. The proposed studentship is aimed at exploring the application of geographical concepts to research in the Arts and Humanities, and the ways in which they are represented, in the digital medium. We would welcome applications from candidates with an appropriate research proposal in any discipline studied in The Open University Faculty of Arts, ie Art History, Classical Studies, English, History, Music, Philosophy and Religious Studies. Projects which will benefit from supervision across traditional disciplinary boundaries are particularly encouraged. Also encouraged are proposals with links to one of our existing research groups or collaborative projects. For FURTHER PARTICULARS go to: http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment/job-details.asp?id=5367 Further details of Digital Humanities-related research at The Open University can be found at http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/digital-humanities/index.shtml For essential detailed information and instructions on how to apply go to www3.open.ac.uk/employment, call the Faculty of Arts Research Office on 01908-653177 or email arts-faculty-res-enq. Equal Opportunity is University Policy. Closing date: 5 November 2010. Interviews will be held during week of 22 November 2010. -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 14 16:37:47 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 56581956F4; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:37:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A1D73956E6; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:37:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101014163743.A1D73956E6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:37:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.406 new on WWW: XHTML version of bibliography X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 406. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:29:56 -0700 From: Willard McCarty Subject: XHTML Version of Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access with Live Links > Subject: XHTML Version of Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access with Live Links > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:42:20 +0100 > From: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography is now available as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. All versions of the bibliography are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. OA XHTML: http://digital-scholarship.org/tsp/w/tsp.html OA PDF: http://digital-scholarship.org/tsp/transforming.pdf Low-Cost Paperback: http://digital-scholarship.org/tsp/transforming.htm This bibliography presents over 1,100 selected English-language scholarly works useful in understanding the open access movement's efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly literature. The bibliography primarily includes books and published journal articles. (See the "Preface" for further details about scope and selection criteria). Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen): http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/tsp2.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://digital-scholarship.org/ A Look Back at 21 Years as an Open Access Publisher http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/21/21years.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 Oct 14 16:38:39 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 615629573A; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:38:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0B08695733; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:38:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101014163837.0B08695733@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:38:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.407 events: history; textual editing; translation X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 407. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ventsislav_Zhechev (43) Subject: CfParticipation: Workshop "Bringing MT to the User: Research onIntegrating MT in the Translation Industry" [2] From: Willard McCarty (23) Subject: 'World History and Digital Scholarship' Conference, University ofCambridge [3] From: Willard McCarty (56) Subject: CFP: Digital Poster Session (SHARP July 2011) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:10:50 +0100 From: Ventsislav_Zhechev Subject: CfParticipation: Workshop "Bringing MT to the User: Research onIntegrating MT in the Translation Industry" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry" Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2010) http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- At the AMTA 2010 conference (http://amta2010.amtaweb.org), the EuroMatrix+ Project (http://www.euromatrixplus.eu) and the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (http://cngl.ie) are organising the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, titled "Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry". The workshop will take place in Denver, Colorado on 4 November 2010, immediately after the main AMTA 2010 conference. Premise: Recent years have seen a revolution in MT triggered by the emergence of statistical approaches to MT and improvements in translation quality. MT (rule-based, statistical and hybrid) is now available for many languages for free on the Web and is making strong inroads into the corporate localisation and translation industries. Open-source MT solutions are competing with proprietary products. Increasing numbers of translators are post-editing TM/MT output. At the same time, there has been some disconnect between academic research on MT, which (rightly so) focuses on algorithms to increase translation quality, and many of the practical issues that need to be addressed to make MT maximally useful in real translation and localisation scenarios. Objectives: This workshop will bring together MT researchers, developers, industrial users and translators to discuss issues that are most important in real world industrial settings involving MT, but currently not very popular in research circles. Workshop Chairs: Ventsislav Zhechev Philipp Koehn Josef van Genabith Invited Speakers: Daniel Marcu, Ph.D. (CTO and COO of SDL Language Weaver) Will Burgett, PMP® (Product Manager, Intel Corporation) For more information, go to http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010/Invited_Speakers.html Research Papers Accepted for Presentation: • Shared Resources, Shared Values? Ethical Implications of Sharing Translation Resources (Jo Drugan and Bogdan Babych) • Integrating Machine Translation with Translation Memory: A Practical Approach (Panagiotis Kanavos and Dimitrios Kartsaklis) • Convergence of Translation Memory and Statistical Machine Translation (Philipp Koehn and Jean Senellart) • Estimating Machine Translation Post-Editing Effort with HTER (Lucia Specia and Atefeh Farzindar) • Source Text Characteristics and Technical and Temporal Post-Editing Effort: What is Their Relationship? (Midori Tatsumi and Johann Roturier) • Machine Translation of TV Subtitles for Large Scale Production (Martin Volk, Rico Sennrich, Christian Hardmeier and Frida Tidström) Program Committee: The submitted papers were reviewed by a mixed industry–academia committee. Industry members: Manuel Tomás Carrasco Benítez (DGT of the EC), Marc Dymetman (XRCE), Daniel Grasmick (Lucy Software), Fred Hollowood (Symantec), Johann Roturier (Symantec), Dag Schmidtke (Microsoft), Jean Senellart (Systran), Nicolas Stroppa (Google) Academic members: Julien Bourdaillet (University of Montreal), Michael Carl (CBS, Denmark), Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant), Josef van Genabith (CNGL, EM+), Eiichiro Sumita (NICT, Japan), Philipp Koehn (EM+), Harold Somers (CNGL), Ventsislav Zhechev (EM+, CNGL) The workshop program is available at http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010/Program.html Registration Deadline: 18 October 2010 (http://permatime.com/Pacific/Samoa/2010-10-18/16:59) URL: http://www.regonline.com/amta_2010 Please, direct all enquiries to Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev at emcnglworkshop@me.com For up-to-date information, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 For information about the First Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://www.euromatrixplus.eu/cngl2009 Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev EuroMatrix+ Centre for Next Generation Localisation School of Computing Dublin City University http://VentsislavZhechev.eu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:21:42 -0700 From: Willard McCarty Subject: 'World History and Digital Scholarship' Conference, University ofCambridge > Subject: FW: 'World History and Digital Scholarship' Conference, > University of Cambridge > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:01:26 +0100 > From: Bongiorno, Frank Dear all, Together with the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, I am organising a one-day conference on 'World History and Digital Scholarship'. The aim of the conference is to assess the role played by digital humanities in the history curriculum and in inter-disciplinary research projects with a particular focus on film studies. Please forward this to anyone you think appropriate. Apologies for any cross-posting. Thank you Annamaria Motrescu, PhD Research Associate Centre of South Asian Studies University of Cambridge Laundress Lane Cambridge, CB2 1SD Tel: +44 (0)1223 338094 amm230@cam.ac.uk www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1287073360_2010-10-14_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_1415.4.pdf http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1287073360_2010-10-14_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_1415.3.html http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1287073360_2010-10-14_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_1415.2.pdf --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:31:05 -0700 From: Willard McCarty Subject: CFP: Digital Poster Session (SHARP July 2011) > Subject: CFP: Digital Poster Session (SHARP July 2011) > Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:06:04 +0100 > From: Dr. Katherine D. Harris > Reply-To: The list of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and the Society for Textual Scholarship CALL FOR POSTERS *Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing International Conference* Washington DC July 14 - July 17, 2011 *The Book in Art & Science* http://www.sharpweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=360&Itemid=62&phpMyAdmin=1326493665cf5bcaf15cc4e30ad5ea2c&lang=en Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library and Institute, and the Corcoran College of Art + Design. This year’s conference theme, the Book in Art & Science, is an appropriate opportunity to highlight SHARP’s continuing commitment to digital humanities projects, tools or techniques or work in progress. This particular session encourages proposals from any college or university digital humanities program, center or group to present a poster that overviews their program. Posters may include a demonstration, traditional printed poster or a combination of both. A brief bio and short abstracts (250-300 words) should be submitted to Katherine D. Harris (katherine.harris@email.sjsu.edu ) by November 15, 2010. Please include any technical requirements (e.g., Internet access). This panel will undergo the normal review procedure by the SHARP conference committee. One participant for each proposal must be a member of SHARP prior to the conference. Founded in 1991, the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing is a global network of literary scholars, historians, librarians, booksellers, and publishing professionals. With more than 1,000 members in over 20 countries, SHARP works in concert with a number of affiliated scholarly organizations around the world to encourage the study of book history. Evoking Washington's status as an artistic and scientific center, "The Book in Art & Science" is a theme open to multiple interpretations. Besides prompting considerations of the book as a force in either art or science or the two fields working in tandem, it also encourages examinations of the scientific text; the book as a work of art; the art and science of manuscript, print, or digital textual production; the role of censorship and politics in the creation, production, distribution, or reception of particular scientific or artistic texts; the relationship between the verbal and the visual in works of art or science; art and science titles from the standpoint of publishing history or the histories of specific publishers; and much more. ************************** Dr. Katherine D. Harris 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 Editor, Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 15 16:38:32 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 03A0C95B1A; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:38:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0ECF095B07; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:38:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101015163828.0ECF095B07@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:38:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.408 ideal PhD programme X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 408. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:52:00 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: PhD Programs Dear Willard, At the University of Alberta we have been designing a PhD program. Here are some of the ideas we are considering. - We decided not to call the degree "Humanities Computing" as we wanted to include areas of specialization like game design that might not fit well under that rubric. As we are interdisciplinary unit in a Faculty of Arts (Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts) we are encouraged to reach across the Faculty (and beyond) and have therefore tentatively thought of calling the programme a PhD in Interactive Arts. - We are trying to keep the interdisicplinary connections that characterize our MA in Humanities Computing. The idea is that for each area of specialization that we advertise there would be a partner department or two. Thus for game design we would partner with Computing Science where there are a number of colleagues that work in that area and those colleagues would be adjuncts able to supervise PhDs. It is common in Canada for PhD's to identify areas of strength - you would not expect to do any type of history at a particular history department, for example. - We are trying to imagine a PhD which is not designed solely for the purpose of training future professors. That would be the disciple model of academic reproduction. We believe that in this area there is the opportunity to design a programme that can lead to other careers in addition to academic. - We would like the program to be run in a way that would allow part-time students, mature working students, and distant students to participate. We don't have that part worked out, but we are looking at issues around timing of courses. Could more courses be in the evening to accomodate working students (of which we already have many in the MA)? Could we have courses offered in a hybrid model where there is a two week residency with meetings every day and then a semester of online discussion and assignments? - For our MA we have started designing "intensity" experiences to modulate the pace of the school year; we hope to extend this idea. The idea is that there we might have moments of the year where there are differently paced activities. Currently our incoming MA students (and those upper level students who want to) are organized in to teams at the start of classes and given a design challenge to complete within a week. This year they had to design a serious game for health learning and, if they had the time, implement it. - We had a number of discussions about the comprehensives in our PhD program and decided that the heart of the program is the ability to imagine, theorize, design, manage, document and complete arts and humanities projects with significant computing. For that reason we have replaced the comps with 2 projects that PhD students will have to contribute to and defend. The expectation is that one of them might then morph into the ground work for their thesis. The comprehensive exam will thus be replaced by a project report, presentation and oral defense/discussion. We felt that would be a better way of assessing a student's competencies in the digital. - As for courses we have kept the year of courses and we had the usual discussions about technical courses. One model we are seriously considering is having a number of 1 unit technical courses and expect students to complete 6 units worth of them. Students could challenge a short technical course and get the credit if they could show that they had the required level of competency. In theory these short courses could be shared with other programmes like Library and Information Studies so that there would a wide pool available. 1 unit courses can also be offered in other ways (online, over a weekend or self-study.) The down-side is that some skills like programming can't be taught in a 1 unit class. This model encourages breadth not depth. We will, of course, still have required and elective seminars that meet regularly and so on. 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 Fri Oct 15 17:14:44 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 94DAE924CD; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:14:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 77698924C3; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:14:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101015171441.77698924C3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:14:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.409 coal-fired computers & ethics X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 409. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:09:31 -0700 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Coal Fired Computers UK media artists Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji, together known as YoHa,have recently created an installation "exploring the ecologies that have created and maintained power, and the subsequent health residues and crisis of fuelling that power". It consists of "a coal-fired boiler [that] powers a network of computers" that challenges us to consider "the relationships between power, art and media". See http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/10/events/coal-fired-computers. There are a number of ways to be challenged. One is certainly not to be stopped by a Luddite view on the juxtaposition that YoHa point to. We are unlikely to react in such a way, I would think. More important for us is to worry the ethical question yet again. Once upon a time (correct me if I am historically wrong) an artist who worked in bronze, even if he did not produce ornate swords and spears, might have worried the ethics of his situation. Now our bronze is the computer. So what do we *do* in response? Those who have read Paul N. Edwards' The Closed World are well aware of how the computer bronze-like is steeped in gory intentions and deeds. And now it, and therefore we, are complicit. Should ethics become an explicit part of what do and teach? Doing so would help to make what we do appear, as it is, serious. My thanks to Assoc Professor Brett Neilson for pointing to Coal Fired Computers in the latest issue of GrapE-Vine, Issue 46 – 15 October 2010, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 15 17:16:15 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 E9AD392542; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:16:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BBD9092537; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:16:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101015171611.BBD9092537@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:16:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.410 digital libraries & open access? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 410. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:30:31 +0200 From: Marco Büchler Subject: [Cocoon+OAI] Hi, I'm currently preparing a proposal in the context of digital libraries and open access. In this context: Is someone on the list aware of an OAI implementation for the XML based web publishing framework COCOON? Thanks, Marco -- Marco Büchler Natural Language Processing Group Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Johannisgasse 26 04109 Leipzig, Germany Room : 5-43 Phone : 0341 / 97-32257 eMail : mbuechler@eaqua.net Web : http://www.eaqua.net lt _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 16 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 7DEB650B4A; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:08:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D624A50B38; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:08:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101016150846.D624A50B38@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:08:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.411 digital libraries & open access X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 411. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:06:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Ernesto Priego Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.410 digital libraries & open access? In-Reply-To: <20101015171611.BBD9092537@woodward.joyent.us> > Is someone on the list aware of an OAI implementation for the XML based web publishing framework COCOON? Marco, I'm sure you must already know of the University of Virginia Central Digital Repository; I may be wrong, but I believe the interface was built using Cocoon, JavaScript, XHTML and CSS. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/finding_digital.html I hope this helps. This is my first reply to the Humanist list so I hope I'm not doing something wrong... hello everyone! :) Ernesto Priego http://butterflyhunt.tumblr.com/ http://twitter.com/#!/ernestopriego _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 16 15:09:32 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 E113950B9A; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:09:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1898B50B7D; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:09:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101016150928.1898B50B7D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:09:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.412 new book: textual continuities in contamination X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 412. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 08:05:49 -0700 From: Willard McCarty Subject: textual continuities Indiana University Press is pleased to announce the recent publication of: The Pleasures of Contamination Evidence, Text, and Voice in Textual Studies David Greetham Through the concept of contamination, David Greetham highlights various ways that one text may invade another, carrying with it a residue of potential meaning. While the focus of this study is on written works, the scope ranges widely over music, politics, art, science, philosophy, religion, and social studies. Greetham argues that this sort of contamination is not only ubiquitous in contemporary culture, but may also be a necessary and beneficial circumstance. Tracing contamination from the Middle Ages onward, he takes up issues such as the placement of quote marks in Keats's "Ode to a Grecian Urn," the controversy over the use of evidence for "yellowcake" uranium in Niger, and the reconstitution of reality on YouTube, to illustrate that the basic questions of evidence, fact, and voice have always been slippery concepts. Textual Cultures: Theory and Praxis 402 pp., 40 b&w illus. cloth 978-0-253-35506-5 $75.00 paper 978-0-253-22216-9 $27.95 For more information, visit: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?isbn=978-0-253-22216-9 -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 16 15:10:36 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 9A3EC50C13; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:10:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6259250C03; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:10:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101016151027.6259250C03@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:10:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.413 events: beyond facsimile 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. 24, No. 413. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:25:33 -0700 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Beyond the Facsimile: Rich Models of Late Medieval and Early Modern Texts 'Beyond the Facsimile: Rich Models of Late Medieval and Early Modern Texts' A Digital Humanities Day on Monday 13 December 2010 at Sheffield Hallam University From: Gabriel Egan > On 13 December 2010 Sheffield Hallam University, in association with the University of Victoria, will host a one-day symposium entitled "Beyond the Facsimile: Rich Models of Late Medieval and Early Modern Texts". It's concerned with doing more, and doing things better, with our digital surrogates of books and pictures from the 15th to the 17th centuries. We've gotten very good at taking pictures of impressed papers, inscribed parchments, and painted canvases, but computer models do not have to be merely pictures. The symposium will present eight talks from international scholars working in this area, each offering their own perspectives on the future of computerized representations of important documents. Speakers and their titles can be found at http://gabrielegan.com/BTF. The meeting is open to anyone who wants to hear the papers and coffee and a free lunch will be provided to all who email the organizer, Gabriel Egan , by 13 November. (It is quite acceptable to simply turn up on the day without giving advance notice, but then you can't have the free lunch.) Exact details of the venue, with maps and transportation advice, will appear on the symposium web-page at the above address. 'Beyond the Facsimile: Rich Models of Late Medieval and Early Modern Texts' A Digital Humanities Day on Monday 13 December 2010 at Sheffield Hallam University This one-day event is open to all interested parties and there is no conference fee, but it would be much appreciated if anyone intending to come would let Gabriel Egan > know in advance for catering and room booking purposes. Lunch and coffee will be provided free for all speakers and all non-speaking attendees who contact Gabriel Egan in advance. Programme (Speakers please note that paper slots are 30 minutes, including questions) 9.30-10am Coffee on arrival 10-10.15am Gabriel Egan (Loughborough University) "Welcome and Aims of the Meeting" 10.15-10.45am Takako Kato (Leicester University) "The Virtues and Challenges of XML: Making a Digital Edition of Malory's Morte Darthur" 10.45-11.15am Paul Vetch (King's College London) "A Map for All Seasons: Experimenting with the Gough Map" 11.15-11.30am Coffee 11.30am-12noon James Cummings (University of Oxford) "Interrogating and Accessing Digital Scholarly Editions"- 12noon-12.30pm John Bradley and Stephen Pigney (King's College London) "Images and Text: Towards an Understanding of the Early Modern Illustrated Book" 12.30-1.15pm Lunch 1.15-1.45pm Ari Friedlander (University of Michigan) "Are We Being Digital Yet?" 1.45-2.15pm Shawn Martin (University of Pennsylvania) "Images, Texts, and Records: Tools for Teaching in a Confusing Landscape" 2.15-2.30pm Coffee 2.30-3pm Eugene Giddens (Anglia Ruskin University) "The Death of Digital Editions" 3-3.20pm Ray Siemens (University of Victoria) "Beyond the Facsimile" 3.30-4pm Round Table involving all speakers ________________________________ Description of Topic For many late medieval and early modern texts researchers have access to rudimentary digital representations. Virtually all books printed in Britain before 1800 are available as digital facsimiles via the databases Early English Books Online (EEBO) and ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online). The former also provides searchable electronic transcriptions for about a quarter of the corpus--via the Text Creation Partnership (TCP)--and the latter is completely searchable, albeit via unreliable 'dirty' electronic texts produced by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). For virtually all texts that may be considered literary we also have relatively reliable searchable electronic texts made by double-keyboarding for the Literature Online (LION) project. For a small number of texts of special interest there are digital editions of much higher quality. The Scholarly Digital Editions of Chaucer's poetry combine high-resolution colour facsimiles of multiple manuscripts with accurate scholarly searchable transcriptions of them, and the Shakespeare Quartos Archive project aims to do the same for early printed editions of his plays and poems that reside in major research libraries. However, with even the best of these enhanced resources, there remain important scholarly questions that cannot be answered without going back to the original documents, which is not an option for most researchers. Facsimiles are good for seeing the surface image of ink inscribed or impressed onto paper or parchment, but not for taking accurate measurements of the size of the writing nor for examing the deformation of the surface caused by the impressure of the ink. (The only reliable way to tell which side of a sheet was printed first is to look for the bumps made by the type pressing into it.) Electronic transcriptions can accurately reflect the writing's letters and punctuation marks but not the competing hypotheses about the creation of a document that scholars may want to test using the transcription. For example, a print edition may have been typeset by two compositors, each expressing spelling preferences from which we may distinguish their work-stints. Where two scholars disagree about the division of these stints, an electronic transcription that encodes each hypothesis would allow questions of the kind "if Scholar X is right about the division of the stints, what is Compositor A's preference in the spelling of the word Lady/Ladie? And what if Scholar Y is right about the stints?". There remains a lot to be done in digitizing texts for the purposes of scholarly research on them. This Digital Humanities Day at Sheffield Hallam University is an opportunity for those concerned with the use of advanced digital surrogates (whether as creators or as readers) to discuss the following: * The state of the art in the creation of electronic versions of texts used by scholars in the humanities * The advantages and disadvantages of particular technologies for going beyond the facsimile, for example 3D modelling of paper/parchment versus advanced textual encoding * The kinds of questions that cannot currently be answered by the digital surrogates we have, and how best to produce surrogates that suit our needs * Case studies of particular projects, their achievements and the lessons learnt Those interested in attending or speaking should contact Gabriel Egan >. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 17 17:23:12 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 D298D63CDC; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:23:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 252A363CCA; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:23:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101017172309.252A363CCA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:23:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.414 Mandelbrot lectures on roughness X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 414. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:27:41 -0700 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Mandelbrot Many here will, I expect, enjoy watching and listening to an introductory lecture by Benoit Mandelbrot, "Fractals and the art of roughness", in the TED series, at http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/benoit_mandelbrot_fractals_the_art_of_roughness.html. My thanks to Don Reid for pointing me to this lecture. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 19 16:19:37 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 930118D582; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:19:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 77B698D574; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:19:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101019161936.77B698D574@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:19:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.415 events: evaluating 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. 24, No. 415. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:47:49 -0400 From: Andrew Stauffer Subject: NEH Summer Institute: Evaluating Digital Scholarship Call for Proposals & Participants NINES / NEH Summer Institute: Evaluating Digital Scholarship May 30 – June 3, 2011 University of Virginia Hosted by NINES (http://nines.org) How does the profession of literary studies evaluate and grant credit for born-digital scholarship? What are the intellectual stakes of such work, and how might we better understand the changing nature of scholarly inquiry and communication in a digital age? NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship) will be hosting two NEH Summer Institutes (in 2011 and 2012) focused on these issues, gathering together digital practitioners in the field and administrative/institutional leaders to advance the conversation. We aim to address the range of literary fields and periods, with an eye towards producing collaborative working papers that might influence the larger cultures of peer-review and promotion/tenure in the profession. The 2011 Institute will be focused on five broad categories or aspects of humanities scholarship, with attention to the specifics of literary studies: 1. conceptualization 2. evidence and discovery 3. remediation 4. interpretation 5. communication Accordingly, we hope to receive applications from two types of applicant: first, literary scholars involved with sophisticated digital projects; and second, administrative or institutional leaders engaged with policies related to peer-review and promotion/tenure. Individuals from this latter group need not have previous experience in evaluating digital scholarship. The NINES / NEH Institute will begin on the afternoon of Monday, May 30 (Memorial Day) and continue through the evening of June 3, 2011 Participants will reimbursed for their travel expenses and given a $500 stipend to offset housing in Charlottesville. Applications should consist of a c.v. and a brief narrative (not to exceed 800 words) describing your background/perspective, your reasons for wanting to be part of the Institute, and your thoughts on peer-review and promotion/tenure in reference to the changing nature of scholarship in a digital frame of reference. Please send applications BY DECEMBER 1, 2010 to institutes@nines.org. Direct questions to the organizers: Andrew Stauffer (ams4k@virginia.edu), Laura Mandell (laura.mandell@gmail.com), or Susan Schreibman (Susan.Schreibman@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 Oct 19 16:20:14 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 AAB2D8D5F7; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:20:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E54018D5DC; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:20:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101019162010.E54018D5DC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:20:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.416 DH2011 proposal deadline 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. 24, No. 416. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:49:27 -0500 From: Katherine L Walter Subject: DH 2011 November 1st deadline and ConfTool tips Reminder: There are only 14 days remaining until the Nov 1st deadline for submitting abstracts for the Digital Humanities 2011 conference to be held at Stanford University in California. The Nov 1st deadline, which is firm this year, is for posters, short papers, long papers, and panels. In addition, proposals for pre-conference workshops and tutorials are also due. At http://dh2011@stanford.edu, you will find a link to ConfTool, the conference management software used for managing your user accounts, submitting papers, and registering for the conference. If you have registered for past conferences or given papers, you will have an account on the system already. If you have forgotten your user name, contact us at dh2011@digitalhumanities.org and we'll help find it for you. If you have forgotten your password, you can request a new one through ConfTool. Best wishes, Katherine Walter, Chair on behalf of the 2011 Program Committee ********************* Katherine L. Walter Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Professor and Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special Collections University of Nebraska-Lincoln 319 Love Library Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 kwalter1@unl.edu (402) 472-3939 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 16:31:04 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 19759984F6; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:31:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AAF90984E5; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:31:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101020163101.AAF90984E5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:31:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.417 job at Twente X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 417. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:23:28 -0700 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Position Full Professor and Chair of Human Media Interaction The Computer Science department, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, The Netherlands has a vacancy for Full Professor and Chair of Human Media Interaction http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/vacancies/fullprofessor The Human Media Interaction (HMI) group at the University of Twente performs research in the areas of natural interaction and intelligent environments: Natural interaction research includes human-computer interaction, multimedia processing, dialogue modeling, multimodal interaction, and brain-computer interfacing. Intelligent environment research includes multi-party interaction, embodied conversational agents (virtual humans), and virtual and augmented reality. The group has four part-time professors in the areas of speech and language technology, affective computing, information retrieval and image processing. The group also has two full-time associate professors five assistant professors, about 20 PhD students, about 5 postdoctoral scientists and some administrative, technical and managerial support. The chair will be responsible for curriculum and strategic developments for the master Human Media Interaction and is programme leader of the Twente Graduate School programme on Human-Centered Interaction Technologies. The HMI group is an important contributor to the bachelor curriculum Creative Technology. Moreover the research group participates in development and teaching in the area of Human Media Interaction in the bachelor and master curricula of Informatics and Business Information Technology. The successful candidate will head the HMI group. He/she will further develop the research agenda of the group, extend and maintain collaboration at departmental, national and international level, and be engaged in the group's teaching activities. Candidates must have an outstanding publication record, excellent leadership and management qualities, a strong vision on future development of the field and very good teaching skills. Applicants must have a PhD in a relevant area. The University offers a full time tenured position as Professor with a competitive salary (maximum 8.622,- euro gross per month) and benefits commensurate with your position, experience and qualifications. For more detailed information see the full advertisement or contact Professor Roel Wieringa (roelw@cs.utwente.nl). Interested candidates are invited to apply before 15th November 2010. NB: application must be done through our on-line system, accessible by the link at the very end of the web page http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/vacancies/fullprofessor. Prof. Dr. R.J. Wieringa http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~roelw http://www.cs.utwente.nl/%7Eroelw _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 16:31:27 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 6F3259858D; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:31:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C59209851D; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:31:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101020163125.C59209851D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:31:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.418 online sharing of learning 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 418. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:10:27 +0200 From: Seth van Hooland Subject: sharing learning resources Dear all, I am in the midst of preparing a course on information modeling/ structuring ("Modélisation numérique" is the title of the course in French), which I am teaching in the context of a two-year master in Information Science ("Master en Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication") at the ULB in Brussels. I have been trying to find a suitable project that would allow my students to have some hands-on experience with XML (which would ideally take them two times three hours, and some extra preparation at home). As a first small exercise I was thinking to use this tutorial on the manual creation of RSS feeds (http://www.xul.fr/en-xml-rss.html). Then there is the book "Using XML" (2004) by Bor Ng and the website http://infomotions.com/musings/xml-in-libraries/, which propose small projects and exercises on the conversion of MARC files to XML for example, but I was wondering whether some of you could point out to other resources for this type of hands-on projects for students in Information Science, which in the case of my department almost exclusively have a bachelor (and interests) in the humanities. This issue leads me to a more general question/concern: are there any websites which gather learning plans, hands-on projects and educational scenarios specifically for the domain of Information Science and Digital Humanities, which would allow us to share and re- use these very time-intensive resources to create? In December-January I will prepare a learning scenario for the development of a prototype in the context of my course on document and metadata management ("Automatique documentaire"), based on the open-source collection management system CollectiveAccess (www.collectiveaccess.org) which will mainly focus on the design and the implementation of a metadata schema and the creation of a thesaurus, and I would be more then happy to share this work with other people, in order to get feedback and additional input. The necessity (but also the pleasure) of combining theory and practice within our teaching activities in Information Science and Digital Humanities, coupled with the ever-evolving nature of technologies and the financial restraints (and thus increasing workload) we are currently facing, makes a strong case to look for synergies and collaboration. Towards the end of this academic year, I would like to organize a seminar/workshop (in the context of an existing conference) on the sharing of educational resources in our domain. Don't hesitate to contact me off-list if you would be interested in collaborating on this. Kind regards, Seth van HoolandDigital Information Chair - ULB Département de l'Information et de la Communication | Université Libre de Bruxelles Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123 | 1050 Bruxelles http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/ +32-2-6504765 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 16:32:25 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 DA8409895B; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:32:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B604498954; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:32:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101020163224.B604498954@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:32:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.419 new on WWW: autobiography of Mark Twain 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. 24, No. 419. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:06:04 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: "Sharon K. Goetz" Subject: introducing Web _Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1_ Following upon the print edition of Mark Twain Project's _Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1_--published by the University of California Press and released for retail sale last week[1]--the book's Web edition has been released at Mark Twain Project Online (MTPO): http://bit.ly/automt1 As noted on MTPO's Recent Changes page,[2] only the TEI-encoded Web version contains the volume's substantial textual apparatus. All print content is included in the Web version. MTPO, launched in 2007, is produced by the Mark Twain Papers and Project of The Bancroft Library in collaboration with the University of California Press; the site is hosted by UC Berkeley's Library Systems Office and powered by the California Digital Library's eXtensible Text Framework.[3] During 2005=E2=80=938 the CDL collaborated in MTPO's creation and initial development. Please direct general inquiries about the _Autobiography_ to Benjamin Griffin (bgriffin@library.berkeley.edu) and technical inquiries to Sharon Goetz (mtpo@library.berkeley.edu). [1] http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=3D9780520267190 [2] http://www.marktwainproject.org/about_recent.shtml [3] http://xtf.cdlib.org/ -- Digital Publications Manager, Mark Twain Papers & Project http://www.marktwainproject.org/ http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/MTP/ http://twitter.com/mtpo _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 16:32:46 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 1280F98987; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:32:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 00C7F9897F; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:32:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101020163245.00C7F9897F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:32:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.420 events: humans and computer X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 420. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:21:50 -0700 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Second CfP: Thirteenth Int Conf on Humans and Computer Call for Papers Thirteenth Int. Conf. on Humans and Computer (HC-2010) Aizu-Wakamatsu & Hamamatsu, Japan; Düsseldorf, Germany, Dec. 8-10, 2010 http://sparth.u-aizu.ac.jp/hc2010/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues and Scholars: HC-2010, the Thirteenth International Conference on Humans and Computer, will be held Dec. 8-10, 2010. Main sessions will be at the U. of Aizu, with satellite sessions at Shizuoka Dai (Hamamatsu) and Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. This year, for the first time in HC's history, we have secured ACM "In Cooperation" status. ACM is the world's largest professional computer society, and such status means that accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Selected papers will also be invited to be optionally extended and published in 3DForum- the Journal of Three Dimensional Images or JVRB- the Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting. HC welcomes submissions regarding all aspects of computer-human interaction, including but not limited to the following topics: 3D Computer GraphicsAI-based Techniques in HC Artificial Life Computer-Aided Visualization Cognitive Engineering Computer Science in Engineering, Medicine, Health Care, Cultural Heritage, Environment, & Sports Humans and Education, E-learning Multi-Agent Systems and Social Simulation New Trends in HC (mobile, ubiquitous, & tangible computing) Public Health Informatics Verbal / Nonverbal Interfaces Robotics Virtual Environments and Mixed Reality Web-Based Human Computer Interaction HC especially welcomes young researchers, and special student sessions will be organized. Important Dates (note extended deadline): Oct. 28: deadline for uploading submission, as full paper or extended abstract (Note: HC-2010 will use the ACM LaTeX2e compact format, as described by http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates#aL2. Submissions are managed via the EasyChair conference management system, https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?iid=28763). Nov. 4: notification Nov. 18: deadline for uploading camera-ready manuscripts of accepted papers Dec. 8-10: conference (in Aizu-Wakamatsu & Hamamatsu, Japan and Düsseldorf, Germany) Please share this announcement with your laboratory and colleagues, and consider submitting to this conference. Michael CohenHC-2010 Organizing 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 Thu Oct 21 16:25:46 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 522D39C58C; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:25:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AE0E19C57C; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:25:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101021162544.AE0E19C57C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:25:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.421 online sharing of learning 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. 24, No. 421. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:40:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Carlos Monroy Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.418 online sharing of learning resources? In-Reply-To: <20101020163125.C59209851D@woodward.joyent.us> [The following is in response to Humanist 24.418, which in quotation was so badly messed up that I have deleted it. --WM] Dear Seth, I would suggest Connexions, a project at Rice University http://cnx.org/ On top of existing tutorials on XML, you and your students can create a collection (sort of a book, course, report, etc.), which is made out of small XML-chunks called "modules." The good thing about this approach, is that you reuse existing modules in connexions. Similarly, you make your modules available for reuse to anyone in connexions. Since your students are in Information Science/Digital Humanities, maybe they can create a collection on a particular topic in any of these domains, each student or group can be in charge of one module. Keeping the modules consistent and integrating them at the end will allow your students to work collaboratively in an Open Educational Resource (OER's) model. You may find more information here: http://cnx.org/help/faq Also, browse the site to have a better idea what materials have been published (arts, humanities, mathematics and statistics, science and technology, and social sciences), and the variety of languages available. -Carlos ****************************** Carlos Monroy, Ph.D. Game Research and Development Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning Rice University Houston, TX voice: 713.348.5481 fax: 713.348.5699 carlos.monroy@rice.edu http://cttl.rice.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 Oct 21 16:41:26 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 5BCD09C7B3; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:41:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E3B249C7A3; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:41:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101021164124.E3B249C7A3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:41:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.422 industrialisation of 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 422. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:20:12 -0700 From: Willard McCarty Subject: industrialisation In 1988 the British artist and theorist Roy Ascott, in "Art and Education in the Telematic Culture" (Leonardo 21), wrote to his fellow artists on the creative possibilities brought about by "the convergence computers and telecommunications systems". (Those interested in his work will be glad to know about the collection of his essays in Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness, ed. with a long introduction by Edward Shanken, 2007.) He concluded his essay by declaring that, "our cultural participation in intelligent telematic networks has long-term implications that we can scarcely imagine. The symbiosis of computers and human beings and the integration of natural and artificial intelligence will be realised in forms and behaviours the understanding of which is beyond our present conceptual horizon." Ironically *his* conceptual horizon, even in 1988, seems to have extended well beyond that of many of us today. He called then, 22 years ago, "for artists, designers, architects, museum directors, educators, philosophers, scientists, technologists and politicians throughout the world to work together to create cybernetic systems that will support new forms of art practice, new means of public access, and the involvement of a wider range of participants." What concerns me particularly is not so much the degree to which we have failed to met his call for such wide-scale collaboration as the warning with which he prefixed his visionary conclusion. Contrasting the ways of thinking and acting conventionally named after Socrates and Cato, he declared that, "The principles of Socrates --critical reflection, personal development, sustained enquiry -- must not be undermined in this new technological environment by the principles of Cato, which estimate everything by what it produces." This sentence expresses perhaps my greatest fear for our little and fragile field: its tendency to industrialization. I fear that the digital humanities is becoming dominated by purely technical concerns of implementation, I suspect in no small measure under pressure to assist the other disciplines survive their crises of confidence and funding -- as well as to avoid the severe challenges computing presents to all disciplines. One sign of this industrialization is the spread of technological orthodoxy under the banner of technical standards. In principle agreement on how to do things is good -- how else can collaboration, communication or anything which requires concerted effort happen? But as playing the role of co-worker dedicated to a common good shifts toward playing the enforcer of rules, community becomes tyranny. Variant opinions become deviant opinions. New ideas are shouted down. Those who dare to voice them are ostracised. Chaplin's Modern Times becomes our story. (If you think this is fantasy, look around.) So, back to the question of the ideal department of digital humanities. Of course it must have a group of technically competent people who help design, manage and work on collaborative projects. But if there's anything it must do that few others or none will do, I think, it is to foster as well as practice intelligent heterodoxy, i.e. relentless questioning of every technological move for its human consequences and implications. It must have not only the professor of public engagement, as Julianne Nyhan wisely suggested, but also the Socratic professor who whose annoyances keep our eyelids open. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 22 13:47:31 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 113BD63981; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:47:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B12236396C; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:47:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101022134728.B12236396C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:47:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.423 industrialisation of 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. 24, No. 423. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Neven Jovanovic (25) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.422 industrialisation of the digital humanities? [2] From: "Joe Raben" (7) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.422 industrialisation of the digital humanities? [3] From: Alan Liu (113) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.422 industrialisation of the digital humanities? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:46:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.422 industrialisation of the digital humanities? In-Reply-To: <20101021164124.E3B249C7A3@woodward.joyent.us> Hi, regarding Willard's fear, as stated here: > This sentence expresses perhaps my greatest fear for our little and > fragile field: its tendency to industrialization. I fear that the > digital humanities is becoming dominated by purely technical concerns of > implementation, (...) But if there's > anything it must do that few others or none will do, I think, it is to > foster as well as practice intelligent heterodoxy, i.e. relentless > questioning of every technological move for its human consequences and > implications. recently I came across a passage which can be read as going a little way beyond the obvious dig, expressing the same fear, or dilemma: "But, for academics, the best moment occurs when a resident reads out a newspaper report about new ways of speeding up the writing and reading of poetry through technological means: "The ultimate objective is to eliminate the human altogether, thereby freeing people in the universities and other cultural milieux from what has hitherto been a shockingly time-consuming chore. The potential in terms of poetry turnover can hardly be overstated"." ("Surreal sanctuary", John Stokes on N. F. Simpson's play "If so, then yes", Times Literary Supplement, Oct 1, 2010: http://bit.ly/aV9cPy ) Yours, Neven Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Hrvatska / Croatia --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:30:35 -0400 From: "Joe Raben" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.422 industrialisation of the digital humanities? In-Reply-To: <20101021164124.E3B249C7A3@woodward.joyent.us> In agreeing with you, Willard, may I point out how few of the suggestions regarding the ideal digital humanities curriculum appear to even mention humanities. Joe raben --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:45:48 -0700 From: Alan Liu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.422 industrialisation of the digital humanities? In-Reply-To: <20101021164124.E3B249C7A3@woodward.joyent.us> > > This sentence expresses perhaps my greatest fear for our little and > fragile field: its tendency to industrialization. I fear that the > digital humanities is becoming dominated by purely technical concerns of > implementation, I suspect in no small measure under pressure to assist > the other disciplines survive their crises of confidence and funding -- > as well as to avoid the severe challenges computing presents to all > disciplines. > To engage only this strand of Willard's statement (leaving aside the fork of the "standards" issue), I post below an excerpt from an unfinished essay I am currently writing. The excerpt concerns the postindustrialization (more accurate than "industrialization") of the digital humanities. Fair? --Alan [Fragment from essay in progress entitled "The State of the Digital Humanities: A Report and a Critique" (notes omitted)]: . . . In actuality, the perception of the digital humanities as what William Pannapacker recently called the "next big thing" may be less a matter of empirical phenomena than what marketers call mind share. Separate approaches and fields have converged to give the humanities a new "brand." The marketing metaphor is not extravagant when we consider that the rebranding effort is aimed first of all at the institution of higher education itself rather than directly at education's "customers" (students or the public). In his The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism, Thomas Franks discovered that some of the most successful advertising campaigns of the 1960's (e.g., for the Volkswagen Beetle) began through what amounts to the marketing of countercultural "cool" inside advertising firms themselves, which began to foster a new ideal of "hip" rather than buttoned-down Madison Avenue "mad men." By analogy, as I have argued in my The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information, today's post-mainframe information technologies born in the same countercultural (or "cyberlibertarian") moment are cool in the same way. Information tech in the era of the personal computer and network is today's equivalent of a Love Bug that not only works but creates a new image of work that allows corporate and other organizational cultures to imagine a cool new vision of themselves. Information technology, in other words, is an institutional desiring engine. Whether in general society or in higher education, one of its functions is to serve as an "allegory" of the social, economic, political, and cultural self-image of institutions (and, of course, also individuals). Even in the best of times, therefore, the iPads and other digital devices that some universities have been handing out to students would be fantasy machines before they can be proven to be learning machines. They channel the institution's (and, hopefully, also the student's) fantasy that knowledge can be cool. But in the worst of times, when economic crisis tempts some campuses to plug immense holes in their funding with equally vast vaporware plans for money-making "digital delivery," information technology becomes an allegory of need beyond desire. Witness, for instance, the controversial call in 2009 by the dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley, for the University of California system to address its epic budget crisis by creating an all-virtual "eleventh campus" or "cyber-campus" based on the slimmest evidence of how a totally online educational system in the so-called "quality" higher-education sector might work. In such cases, need forces higher education to adjust its image in the mirror of information technology to resemble that of consumer businesses perceived to be both cool and profitable (able to exert "market appeal," as the dean, Christopher Edley Jr., puts it). In general, calls for the corporatization or privatization of higher education that make information technology their allegory for how to imitate the combined efficiency, flexibility, and marketing power of today's premier businesses subscribe to the postindustrial paradigm of knowledge work. Partly real and partly ideology, knowledge work is now the dominant mode of production in states that take industrial extraction or manufacturing work for granted (or outsource it to developing nations), emphasize the service sectors instead, and–gravitating toward the premium "knowledge" services–dedicate their best brains and venture capital to the "New Economy," according to whose laws (a kind of economic version of Moore's Law doubling the number of transistors packed into an integrated chip every two years) ceaseless cuts in labor and fixed capital can be compensated for through "smart" digital technologies that perpetually inflate intellectual capital. If the digital humanities are currently in a state of expansion, it follows that in some manner, for better or worse, they serve the postindustrial state. A purely economic rationale for the digital humanities might thus be that they reengineer higher education for knowledge work by providing ever smarter tools for working with increasingly global-scale knowledge resources, all the while trimming the need to invest proportionally in the traditional facilities, support staff, and perhaps permanent faculty of what Bill Gates–in widely reported comments of 2010–calls obsolete "place-based" campuses. In this essay, I offer a report on the current state of the digital humanities. But, in order to see the field as the "next big thing" it appears to be to the humanities at large, I will define it with unusual breadth. "Digital humanities" will here have a supervening sense that combines the "humanities-computing" or "text-based" digital humanities (as I will sometimes call them for distinction) and new media studies (normally excluded from discussions of the digital humanities except for a few overlaps). This is the synthetic sense, we note, in which Pannapacker actually uses the term in his comments http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-MLAthe-Digital/19468/ about the 2009 MLA (cited in my epigraph), since the conference sessions he refers to (not to mention the "700 digital-media programs in the United States" he cites for context) included both those in the digital humanities narrowly defined and in new media studies. Only such a synthetic sense makes possible a new kind of question about the digital humanities now that they are "the next big thing." Are they ready to live up to their responsibility in representing the humanities and higher education in their effort to negotiate a new relation to postindustrial society? My report will end in a critique. Currently, I fear, the digital humanities are not ready to take up their full responsibility because the field does not yet possess an adequate critical awareness of the larger social, economic, and cultural issues at stake. The side of the digital humanities that descends from humanities computing lacks almost all cultural-critical awareness, and the side that descends from new media studies is indiscriminately critical of society and global informational "empire" without sufficient focus on the specifically institutional–in this case, higher education–issues at stake. The whole amounts to the lack of a mental and policy firewall against postindustrial takeovers of the digital idea along the lines of fantasized "eleventh campuses" that merge educational, social, and for-profit motives without weighing the need for the evolution of differences, and not just similarities, between higher education and other stakeholder institutions in today's knowledge economy. Even if the digital humanities serve the postindustrial state "in some manner," as I equivocated above, it matters what that manner is.... _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 15:25:09 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 9C5C79ED22; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:25:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0FF0B9ED1A; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:25:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101023152508.0FF0B9ED1A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:25:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.424 on 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 424. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Oya Yildirim Rieger (12) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.423 framing digital humanities [2] From: "Norrish, Jamieson" (6) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.423 industrialisation of the digital humanities [3] From: Willard McCarty (53) Subject: post+industrialisation of the digital humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:50:11 -0400 From: Oya Yildirim Rieger Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.423 framing digital humanities I have been following the discussion on perception of digital humanities with great interest and thought that some of you may be interested in the article I wrote in an effort to broaden the interpretation of what digital humanities entail: First Monday, October 2010 http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3198 Best regards, Oya Oya Y. Rieger Associate University Librarian Digital Scholarship Services Cornell University Library --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:02:24 +0100 From: "Norrish, Jamieson" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.423 industrialisation of the digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20101022134728.B12236396C@woodward.joyent.us> Joe Raben writes: > In agreeing with you, Willard, may I point out how few of the suggestions > regarding the ideal digital humanities curriculum appear to even mention > humanities. How odd! In the thread I read about the ideal digital humanities department, there was much talk of ratios of one or two computer scientists/programmers for every half dozen humanists (who I hope are to do their own programming!). So if we're omitting the humanities, and we're omitting the digital, what exactly are we talking about? Jamie --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 08:22:02 -0700 From: Willard McCarty Subject: post+industrialisation of the digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20101022134728.B12236396C@woodward.joyent.us> My thanks to Alan Liu for his foretaste of a critique to come, for which I wait eagerly. But I think that speaking of post-industrialisation offers something else than improved accuracy of what I meant by industrialisation: it extends or enlarges the field of concern by paying attention to matters on a different level -- or better, of a different kind. Industrialisation isn't replaced by the post-industrial; what once happened in the world called "industry" has become a remarkably persistent way of thinking about and structuring our mental and social lives. What I find upsetting from the perspective of the individual humanist is not merely the prospect (for others the reality) of being told from on high that everyone must now work under managerial direction for a "deliverable" determined by someone else -- hence the "industrialisation" of work, harkening back to Chaplin's Modern Times. What seems to me dangerous as well as upsetting is, rather, the way we ourselves adopt the tyranny from without and so create a dictatorship of the proletariat that does the job far better than others could. In effect it suppresses critical reasoning and experiment by canonising practices, then shouts down those who deviate, making them socially deviant. If I were to think hierarchically I'd be tempted to say Alan's concerns are on a lower or subordinate level because in speaking of "the next new thing" it seems that the nature of this thing isn't being examined. It's as if we're still thinking of the machine as merely a faster and more capacious way of doing what we've always done. (This was Louis Milic's complaint back in 1966, you will recall.) We then proceed to place the black box called the digital humanities somewhere in the playing field of socio-academic power and worry about its fitness. Furthermore we ignore cognitive changes afoot and the challenge which follows from them to invent a new kind of department, with dedicated academic staff of its own. We assume that some other department (usually English, occasionally History) will have academics who are digital humanists and that in many if not most cases what needs to be done in order to realise those academics' projects is done by a non-/quasi-/semi-academic staff. Sometimes it seems to me that very little has changed since the mid 1980s. But, I realise, it's mistaken to say that the concerns that Alan perceptively raises are subordinate to our attempt to realise the cognitive changes implicit within computing and surfacing inspite of our blackboxing. Rather we need to speak of one big change happening simultaneously across a number of different interpenetrating fields of concern. The main thing, I think, is that we struggle to wake up from the sleep that blankets us all, esp that we refuse the fashionable narcotics now on offer. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 23 15:25:52 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 16C1D9ED5B; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:25:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4E9029ED54; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:25:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101023152551.4E9029ED54@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:25:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.425 survey on infrastructure X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 425. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:09:47 -0400 From: Gregory Crane Subject: CLIR/Tufts Survey of Digital Classics available for comment Infrastructure for Humanities Scholarship http://www.clir.org/activities/details/infrastructure.html CLIR and Tufts University are engaging scholars and academic librarians in examining the services and digital objects classicists have developed, the future needs of the discipline, and the roles of libraries and other curatorial institutions in fostering the infrastructure on which the core intellectual activities of classics and many other disciplines depend. We envision a set of shared services layered over a distributed storage architecture that is seamless to end users, allows multiple contributors, and leverages institutional resources and facilities. Much of this architecture exists at individual projects and institutions; the challenge is to identify the suite of shared services to be developed. Prior research supported by public and private agencies has created digital resources in classics, which are arguably the most developed and interconnected set of collections and associated services in any discipline outside of the sciences. Questions now posed test the limits of project-based services. The findings of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), and two symposia hosted by CLIR (the second with co-sponsorship by NEH) demonstrate that managing digital information requires libraries to play an active role in the research process to ensure appropriate curation and preservation of digital resources. This project will help library professionals understand the challenges of supporting new kinds of publications (e.g., treebanks, or syntactic databases for texts) and services (e.g., named entity identification services optimized for domains such as classical studies) and engage them in designing solutions. The project will also be relevant to areas such as medieval studies, archaeology, and ancient and near eastern languages. CLIR is seeking public comment on a literature review that identifies existing services, resources, and needs in the field of classics. The report, /*Rome Wasn't Digitized in a Day: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists*/ http://www.clir.org/pubs/archives/Babeu2010.pdf , was produced by Alison Babeu of the Perseus Project at Tufts University. It is intended to inform planning for the next phase of work: description of an infrastructure to support digital classics and related fields of research. (The report is a 1.8 MB .pdf file, please allow time for it to download). Comments on the draft report should be submitted to *Kathlin Smith* (ksmith*at*clir*dot*org) by December 1, 2010. We especially encourage the identification of topics or projects that are missing in the report, or that might be represented more fully. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 15:26:30 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 69A659EDAE; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:26:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 181F99EDA4; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:26:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101023152629.181F99EDA4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:26:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.426 events at HATII X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 426. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:58:18 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Events The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) of the University of Glasgow is very honoured to be hosting on 28-29 October 2010 a visit by Professor Shunya Yoshimi of the University of Tokyo, who has been one of the leading figures in the development of both Cultural Studies and Information Studies in Japan. Professor Yoshimi is a former Dean of the remarkable Inter-Faculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. There are two events planned in connection with Professor Yoshimi's visit to which I would like to invite you: - On Thursday 28 October from 2pm to 4.45pm in Room 915, Adam Smith Building, 40 Bute Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8RT, there will be a workshop on the theme of 'Cultural Typhoons: Information and Identities in a Google-ized World'. The metaphor of a typhoon to describe the way in which modern communication technologies are reshaping identities is inspired by the series of conferences called 'Cultural Typhoon' with which Professor Yoshimi has been connected. The workshop will be introduced by Profesor Yoshimi who will speak on the theme 'Can Computers Write Intellectual History'? This will be followed by short presentations by Sarah Oates (Social and Political Sciences), Karen Lury (Culture and Creative Arts), James Currall (HATII) and Michael Moss (HATII). - On Friday 29 October at 5.15pm in the Main Lecture Theatre, Sir Alexander Stone Building (former Modern Languages Building), 16 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QL, Professor Yoshimi will give a public lecture on 'Mapping Urban Visualities in Postwar Japan: The Socio-Spatial Formation of Movie Theatres and Street Corner TV in Tokyo, 1945-1965'. These events are free and no prior registration, and you are warmly invited to attend either or both events. Further details (with information about some interesting relevant publications by Professor Yoshimi) at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_177715_en.pdf Andrew Prescott -- Professor Andrew Prescott Director of Research Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute Sgoil nan Daonnachdan / School of Humanities University of Glasgow 12 University Gardens Glasgow G12 8QQ Tel. 0141 330 3635 Mobile 0774 389 5209 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 24 00:42:27 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 AB11097FDF; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:42:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EDE9697FCE; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:42:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101024004225.EDE9697FCE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:42:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.427 digital humanities and the cuts X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 427. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:32:12 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Digital Humanities and the Cuts Dear Willard, I am surprised that we have not so far had any discussion on Humanist of the devastating effect that the current financial crisis will have on the study of the arts and humanities internationally. Of course, here in Britain over the past two weeks our attention has been totally focussed on the report of the review on the future of higher education funding and student finance led by Lord Browne (former Chief Executive of BP, which may give American readers an uneasy feeling) and the outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review which allocates budgets for individual government departments (in Britain since 2009, higher and further education has been the responsibility not of the Department of Education but of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, which gives some idea of the priorities of successive British governments). Although the details are not yet finalised, it seems pretty clear that the upshot of these recent events is that in England all state funding for the teaching of arts, humanities and social sciences will be withdrawn with effect from the academic year 2011-12. The loss of state funding will in principle be compensated for by allowing tuition fees charged to students to be at least doubled. However, it is unlikely that many students will be willing to pay fees of £8,000 plus a year unless they are attending one of the most prestigious universities. It seems probable that over the next year many departments teaching arts, humanities and social scientists in England will close and hundreds of first-rate academics working in these fields will lose their jobs. The situation in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is more complex since higher education is devolved to the governments of those nations and in Scotland at least tuition fees are not charged. However, it seems unlikely that the devolved nations will be able to resist the English lead, especially given that the budgets of the devolved countries have also been slashed. The naivety, not to say philistinism, of a political outlook which declares that only science, technology, engineering and medicine are worthy of government support hardly needs elaborating here. At the time of writing, there is every sign that the situation in British universities may become even worse than we first feared - the government is indicating that it is reluctant to allow a free market in tuition fees, which means that the financial constraints will be even tighter. The Head of Universities UK, the consortium of University Vice-Chancelors has spoken of a 'valley of death'. There are some silver linings - funding for scientific research has been protected, and it is possible that this may mean that the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the establishment of which was one of the great achievements of the past ten years, will survive. If so, there is every indication that the AHRC will be keen to prioritise the digital humanities. It may be felt that the digital humanities will offer a means whereby arts and humanities academics build closer links with scientific colleagues and enable the arts and humanities to access the scientific funding streams. But what will be the value of this if the wider study of arts and humanities has been devastated? Most of the digital humanities centres in the UK are part of universities which are members of the 'elite' Russell group, so again it may be felt that they can potentially survive the eradication of the arts and humanities in the wider UK university system, but at what terrible cost for the study of arts and humanities more widely. Digital humanities cannot thrive if the study of the humanities more widely is under attack, and in Britain there is certainly a terrible ferocious attack on any study which does not have a hard measurable economic value. It is not simply in the universities that the study of the subjects that interest us is under attack. One of the first actions of the new government was to announce the abolition of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council which has done a great deal to promote the use of new technologies in museums and libraries. The national museums and libraries have declared themselves relieved that their budgets will be cut by 'only' 15%, which will indicate how dire the earlier forecasts were. Regional museums and libraries, funded by local councils, are under enormous threat. Suffolk County Council have announced that it intends outsourcing all its functions - including record office, libraries and museums - to private firms. Other councils are likely to follow suit. What likelihood would there be under such an arrangement of developing innovative digital humanities projects with such service providers? In urging that, as digital humanists, the impact of these cuts should be at the centre of our thinking at the moment, I can do no better than refer back to Melissa Terras's remarkable plenary address at Digital Humanities 2010, one of the most compelling and visionary statements on the digital humanities I have ever heard. Refering to the impending cuts, she wrote: "The Humanities are one of the easiest targets, given scholars' reluctance or inability to make the case for themselves. I’m reminded of a phrase from Orwell’s 1984, and what happened to society when under the horrific pressure and surveillance within. Allow me to paraphrase: if we are not prepared, and if we are not careful, these cuts will be “a boot stamping on the face of the humanities, forever”. I remember very strongly that at the end of an upbeat DH2009 Neil Fraistat stood up and said “The Digital Humanities have arrived!”. But in 2010, the place we have arrived to is a changed landscape, and not nearly as optimistic. We are not in Kansas now, Toto". I fear that, in Britain, Melissa's most pessimistic vision has come to fruition in a couple of months. What depresses me most about it is the impact on younger scholars - I am on the tail-end of the baby boom and probably would not be too devastated to be packed off early into the sunset, but I bitterly resent seeing the younger generation of scholars deprived of the opportunities I have had. This would all be bad enough if it only affected Britain, but of course this is an international crisis. The British commentators who fondly imagine that, by increasing tuition fees, British universities can emulate American institutions would be well advised to look at recent events at SUNY, where state budget cuts have led to the closure of the Italian, French, Russian, Classics and Theatre Programmes. In Texas A&M University, a profit and loss account is now kept for each Faculty member: http://bit.ly/ctZn7W The natural reaction is to try and demonstrate that the humanities can make money, but Stanley Fish has argued in two recent articles for the NY Times that this may be a badly-advised tactic - kissing the boot which is stamping on our face rather than resisting it. Fish urges that we 'drop the deferential pose' - stand up to the bully: "Make a virtue of the fact that many programs of humanities research (and not only humanities research) have no discernible product, bring no measurable benefits, are not time-sensitive, may never reach fruition and (in some cases) are only understood by 500 people in the entire world. Explain what a university is and how its conventions of inquiry are not answerable to the demands we rightly make of industry. Turn an accusation — you guys don’t deliver anything we can recognize — into a banner and hold it aloft. (At least you’ll surprise them.)" He continues: "And as you do this, drop the deferential pose, leave off being a petitioner and ask some pointed questions: Do you know what a university is, and if you don’t, don’t you think you should, since you’re making its funding decisions? Do you want a university — an institution that takes its place in a tradition dating back centuries — or do you want something else, a trade school perhaps? (Nothing wrong with that.) And if you do want a university, are you willing to pay for it, which means not confusing it with a profit center? And if you don’t want a university, will you fess up and tell the citizens of the state that you’re abandoning the academic enterprise, or will you keep on mouthing the pieties while withholding the funds?" "That’s not the way senior academic administrators usually talk to their political masters, but try it; you might just like it. And it might even work. God knows that the defensive please-sir-could-we-have-more posture doesn’t." Fish's articles are worth taking a look at: http://nyti.ms/9NSK4j http://nyti.ms/dAZggX Is Fish right? And what should we be doing about it as digital humanists? We have been very preoccupied with business planning and demonstrating the value of investment in the digital humanities projects over the years, but should we not be adopting the approach Fish suggests - that spending money on these types of projects is simply the sort of thing that a university should do. I was listening to Kathryn Sutherland on Today this morning describing the Jane Austen Fiction Manuscripts project and the way in which it has helped improve our understanding of Austen's writing. Isn't that a good thing to spend money on? Shouldn't we be arguing for the importance of this? A number of recent tweets have repeated a story about Winston Churchill: "When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he simply replied 'then what are we fighting for?'". I have not been able to find a contemporary source for this, but it's a wonderful story nonetheless. If humanists respond to Fish's rallying call urging us to aggressively explain, aren't digital humanists in a perfect position to facilitate such a campaign? So far, the campaign to promote the cause of the arts and humanities seems to have been very desultory - a number of op-ed pieces in the papers, som tweeting, a few nascent Facebook pages. Of all the humanities communities, we as a group should know more than many about comunication and providing platforms for campaigns. We are at a moment of supreme crisis for all our disciplines. Could we not as digital humanists come together jointly to create a new means of getting our message across, and resisting that boot which is currently stamping in our faces? A platform which enabled all humanists to express their views on this assault on their intellectual world and enabled them aggressively to explain why universities worth the name must have flourishing humanities (and social science and science) faculties. Any comments? Andrew -- Professor Andrew Prescott Director of Research Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute Sgoil nan Daonnachdan / School of Humanities University of Glasgow 12 University Gardens Glasgow G12 8QQ Tel. 0141 330 3635 Mobile 0774 389 5209 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 05:05:31 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 10C855FF86; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:05:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 739775FF7B; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:05:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101025050529.739775FF7B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:05:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.428 digital humanities and the cuts X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 428. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" (1) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.427 digital humanities and the cuts [2] From: Alan Liu (55) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.427 digital humanities and the cuts [3] From: D.Allington (14) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.427 digital humanities and the cuts [4] From: maurizio lana (59) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.427 digital humanities and the cuts [5] From: Patrick Durusau (61) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.427 digital humanities and the cuts [6] From: Willard McCarty (92) Subject: more than crying wolf --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 07:52:51 +0100 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.427 digital humanities and the cuts In-Reply-To: <20101024004225.EDE9697FCE@woodward.joyent.us> I'm entirely in accord with Andrew Prescott's eloquent argument, but would just like to add that the removal of the EMA will affect HE too, not so much for the number of applications, but the social mix and the role of HE in social aspiration and social mobility. That point is off-topic, but still, IMHO, worth consideration. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:59:56 -0700 From: Alan Liu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.427 digital humanities and the cuts In-Reply-To: <20101024004225.EDE9697FCE@woodward.joyent.us> > I was listening to Kathryn Sutherland > on Today this morning describing the Jane Austen Fiction Manuscripts > project and the way in which it has helped improve our understanding of > Austen's writing. Isn't that a good thing to spend money on? Shouldn't > we be arguing for the importance of this? A number of recent tweets have > repeated a story about Winston Churchill: "When Winston Churchill was > asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he simply replied > 'then what are we fighting for?'". I have not been able to find a > contemporary source for this, but it's a wonderful story nonetheless. > > If humanists respond to Fish's rallying call urging us to aggressively > explain, aren't digital humanists in a perfect position to facilitate > such a campaign? So far, the campaign to promote the cause of the arts > and humanities seems to have been very desultory. . . . I was moved by Andrew Prescott's powerful, well-informed, and timely message. It speaks precisely to the need for a larger social and cultural awareness in the digital humanities that I mentioned in my previous post. After months, if not years, of lurking on this list, I hope that I can be forgiven adding another posting that speaks to the above excerpt from Andrew's message. I spent quite a deal of time last year serving on one of the "working groups" (in my case, the working group on Research Strategies) of the University of California Commission on the Future, which was created on an emergency basis to set forth a vision of the future of the UC system in an age when the public will no longer pay for it at previous levels. One of the great lessons I took away from collaborating with STEM scientists on my working group is that the scientists have their own existential funding insecurities--especially in regard to "basic research"--but that they are well ahead of the humanities and other non-STEM fields in preparing statements, stocked with examples, about the public value of STEM. Taking a leaf from the STEM page, I systematically canvassed the humanities and social-science scholars in the University of California system, challenging them to give me equivalent, publicly understandable examples of research. After the results came in, I mocked up a document with a representative selection of the results (http://liu.english.ucsb.edu/wp-includes/docs/UC-research-examples.pdf). Note the high proportion of examples that draw on digital technologies, tools, or media. There were many examples that I had to throw out because they seemed to miss the point of the exercise (e.g., books of theory or specialist-oriented "critique"). But there were just as many that I couldn't include simply because my document was intended to be a mock-up of something fairly short that our system's administrators and Regents (standing in for the public in the near term) might actually peruse. One night near dawn as I worked on this to beat a deadline, I found myself actually moved to tears by the sense of the cumulative, and individual, achievements of the humanities--a sense of the good the humanities can do that I think the digital humanities now have a special responsibility to represent. --Best, Alan --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:30:06 +0100 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.427 digital humanities and the cuts In-Reply-To: <20101024004225.EDE9697FCE@woodward.joyent.us> Dear all, Andrew Prescott has it absolutely right. The trouble is, how can we take a stand on the intrinsic value of scholarship when we have progressively abandoned any practical commitment to that value over the course of the last two decades? It would be truly wonderful to see scholars '[t]urn[ing] an accusation — you guys don’t deliver anything we [politicians] can recognize — into a banner and hold[ing] it aloft', as Fish puts it, but in British universities (and, I suspect, in American ones too) there is de facto acceptance of the idea that scholarly worth is to be measured in economic terms. Yes, we stood up and made a fuss over the proposal that our research be assessed on its economic benefit to wider society. But of those of us who have sat on shortlisting committees and interview panels, how many have refused to judge job applicants primarily on the economic benefit they will bring to the department? (I mean to say: on past grant income and on presumed contribution to the forthcoming REF submission.) I'm sure there are some. But academia as a whole is pretty thoroughly sold out to the bean counters. Yours ruefully, Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University +44 (0) 1908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:50:07 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.427 digital humanities and the cuts In-Reply-To: <20101024004225.EDE9697FCE@woodward.joyent.us> Il 24/10/2010 02:42, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: I am surprised that we have not so far had any discussion on Humanist of the devastating effect that the current financial crisis will have on the study of the arts and humanities internationally. [...] great words andrew, i subscribe wholeheartedly. here in italy it is not different, only the details are different. the main matters are: * brutal cuts to the financing from the state to the universities, vs. huge deplorable spendings in other fields: here in italy we have the "ponte sullo stretto" (bridge to connect calabria and sicily), we are buying 141 F35 fighter-bombers for 15 billions euros... * growing prestige of the myth about the virtues of private initiative in the field of public services (from transports, to instruction, to the water, and so on), notwithstanding its various and daily failures * humanities under attack because unproductive (!?) one can't avoid to think of the respublica studiorum -- sometimes mentioned in happier and more fruitful situations, but it exists now too, when the times are sad. we are all in the same situation, what andrew says about UK (and also US) is very similar to what many of us feel about the italian situation. allow me to cite some verses from Leopardi, "La ginestra" (111; 130-144) (http:// it.wikisource.org/wiki/Canti_(Leopardi)/La_ginestra,_o_il_fiore_del_deserto) Nobil natura è quella [che ...] Tutti fra sé confederati estima Gli uomini, e tutti abbraccia Con vero amor, porgendo Valida e pronta ed aspettando aita Negli alterni perigli e nelle angosce 135Della guerra comune. Ed alle offese Dell’uomo armar la destra, e laccio porre Al vicino ed inciampo, Stolto crede così qual fora in campo Cinto d’oste contraria, in sul più vivo 140Incalzar degli assalti, Gl’inimici obbliando, acerbe gare Imprender con gli amici, E sparger fuga e fulminar col brando Infra i propri guerrieri. i agree with the idea of "a platform which enabled all humanists" not only " to express their views on this assault on their intellectual world and enabled them aggressively to explain why universities worth the name must have flourishing humanities (and social science and science) faculties." but also to share detailed infos about the situation in own countries, ideas about strategies, international collaboration in order to grasp european fundings (which are no panacea but allow to stay alive), an so on. 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 --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:19:14 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.427 digital humanities and the cuts In-Reply-To: <20101024004225.EDE9697FCE@woodward.joyent.us> Andrew, On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 00:42 +0000, Andrew Prescott wrote: > > If humanists respond to Fish's rallying call urging us to aggressively > explain, aren't digital humanists in a perfect position to facilitate > such a campaign? So far, the campaign to promote the cause of the arts > and humanities seems to have been very desultory - a number of op-ed > pieces in the papers, som tweeting, a few nascent Facebook pages. Of all > the humanities communities, we as a group should know more than many > about comunication and providing platforms for campaigns. We are at a > moment of supreme crisis for all our disciplines. Could we not as > digital humanists come together jointly to create a new means of getting > our message across, and resisting that boot which is currently stamping > in our faces? A platform which enabled all humanists to express their > views on this assault on their intellectual world and enabled them > aggressively to explain why universities worth the name must have > flourishing humanities (and social science and science) faculties. > I think Fish is correct because otherwise we are allowing others to define the terms of the debate over the value of the humanities. Never a good thing. For example, I would not even reach the issue of whether there is a "product" from a humanities department. That is to debate on their terms. Consider an alternative (ignoring the obvious copyright issues): TV commercial: ***** Modern Science brought us: Mustard Gas - Death toll Zylon-B - Death toll Atomic Weapons - Death toll Weapons Production - Death toll (possibly with an image of an AK-47) Cut to 3 part screen, teaching of the Koran, the Torah, and the Bible, Teaching people not to kill - Priceless Support the humanities. ***** It has to be that stark. No more than 20 seconds, maybe 30. Bearing in mind that in battles over funding, the objective is to get funding. It is not to educate, edify or to prove your worthiness to be funded. If I had a production department I would do the "priceless" commercial and wait for the credit card people to come after me. That would be more PR than they could enjoy. Plus it would get the commercial lots of free airtime. It would be necessary to turn that into support for specific funding but that is why humanists need to enlist the support of marketing departments. Hope you are at the start of 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) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau Newcomb Number: 1 --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:52:52 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: more than crying wolf In-Reply-To: <20101024004225.EDE9697FCE@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks to Andrew Prescott for raising the cuts to UK higher education into view for us Humanists. I cannot say much more than he has said on this topic, and certainly not more persuasively -- except to connect all that he has said to the central concern of Humanist: the scholarly case for the digital humanities. (By "case" I mean here not a quasi-legal one, rather in the sense of a case-study exemplifying all scholarly undertakings in the humanities and interpretative social sciences, and I think also the research sciences.) Now that the funding crisis has hit us here in Europe and N America, now that answering the great So What question for the arts and humanities is no longer merely a pious duty to be working on, it's time to replace it with a version of the Churchillian question Andrew Prescott has recalled for us. I think we need to be asking publically, what else are universities for than to create the space and education within which a life worth living may be envisioned? And who else is going to be doing that? Who will be reminding our friends and neighbours of what human beings can accomplish, and instructing their children to lift their eyes from the dirt at their feet to the horizon? Ringing the alarm bells may be a necessary thing, but we must not stop with that. The alarm bells may wake us up for a moment, but that's all the good they do. Stanley Fish's aggressive stance (which I heartily endorse) may get the attention of our paymasters, or those among them who listen, for a moment, if spoken by our colleagues in high university places. But what then? What then for the digital humanities? Putting forth our track-record in fund-raising may keep their attention for a bit longer, but the funds we raise are minuscule in comparison to what the techno- and medico-sciences can summon. And getting too much preoccupied with our (minuscule) fund-raising power, configuring ourselves as a (smallish) cash-cow, is a dangerous distraction. Is that what we want to say we're all about? Anyhow -- picture yourself in a car or tent in a N American national park -- the bear, having eaten all our sweets and nibblies faster than we can produce them, will want more, and so come for us. Quickly, I suspect, our only defense and offense will be the appeal of the digital humanities to students, not as a way to a job, rather as a form of life. In the end all we actually have is (in the proper sense) our philosophy, what it is that we have to say, show and show them how to do. All too often in the past we've evaded our responsibilities here by pointing to those in other disciplines whose research problems our digital tools assist. We have leaned on the historians, the classicists, the literary folk et al. (bless them) to answer on our behalf by stating what we have done for them. This is certainly better than nothing, but answers of that sort are not our answers. What *is* our answer? Why should students come to study with us? What do the students reading this think? Why have they put their lives on the line, paid the fees and come to ask us about what I used to call the life of the mind? (If you're a student reading this, PLEASE RESPOND!) Andrew's right in remonstrating with us on our silence about the cuts. I expect, however, that most affected by them, or rather fearing wisely what the effects will be when they are made, have been too much in a state of shock. But I beg to differ with him, if differ I do, on the implication that Humanist is indifferent. Here the younger members of the collective will, I hope, forgive me for thumping a still thankfully metaphorical cane. When Humanist began, in 1987, the motivating force was precisely the scholarly case and the making of it. It's in fact always been our main purpose to come up with a strong one. In 1987, as had been in Berlin with its wall, we could not knock ours down; we had to wait, do what we do as well as we could, and wait. Read, take notes, write when possible, publish as we could, and wait. Now the wall is down, in some places we're in intra- and extramural positions of influence. The time has come to speak. Recently I've been going on about the industrialization of the digital humanities because, I think, it is a symptom of a turning away from the rigorous questioning our situation demands to safe if claustrophobic technical conformity. It's a symptom of fear when the greatest bravery is needed. It's very much on topic. But I question whether anything we can do now will make a modicum of difference, being schooled by experience as I am and thinking again about how I spend the time I have. Let us say it is too late to make a difference politically. Let us say, venturing nothing improbable, that there's no funding in prospect from any source, no jobs for new colleagues, no helping hands whatsoever. Still the question remains, what do we do? Still the scholarly opportunities are there. Isn't the work, whatever the specifics, that matters? For those in positions of power, such as it is, political action is possible. For the likes of me, and most of us, wouldn't it be foolish to think that our time is best spent on the picket lines? Hadn't we better get reading, writing and building? Let us not be preoccupied with crying WOLF! WOLF! now that the wolf is really here -- though crying wolf is better than complacency for the few that can afford it. It's too late for that now. We less powerful ones can help by working hard on the Churchillian question. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 25 05:06:22 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 A292E5FFE8; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:06:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A049A5FFD5; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:06:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101025050621.A049A5FFD5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:06:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.429 iPad and industrialisation 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. 24, No. 429. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:57:34 -0400 From: Francois Lachance Subject: the iPad and industrialisation of the digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20101022134728.B12236396C@woodward.joyent.us> Willard A passage in the New York Times of October 17, 2010, caught my attention because it resonates with two recent threads on Humanist [iPad deployment and idustrialisation of the discipline]. Many iPhone apps on the market are aimed directly at pre-schoolers, many of them labeled "educational," such as Toddler Teasers: Shapes, which asks the child to tap a circle or square or triangle; and Pocket Zoo, which streams live video of animals at zoos around the world. There are "flash cards" aimed at teaching children to read and spell, and a "Wheels on the Bus" app that sings the popular song in multiple languages. Then there's the new iGo Potty app (sponsored by Kimberly-Clark, maker of Huggies training pants), with automated phone calls reminding toddlers that it's time to "go." 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 Oct 25 05:07:38 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 BC1FB6004B; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:07:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C377660033; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:07:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101025050736.C377660033@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:07:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.430 events: archaeology; openness; archiving X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 430. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (70) Subject: Session at CAA2011, Beijing: Digging with words: e-text and e-archaeology [2] From: Willard McCarty (10) Subject: New deadline for IS&T Archiving 2010 [3] From: Willard McCarty (61) Subject: Announcing the first HASTAC Scholars forum of the year --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:58:31 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Session at CAA2011, Beijing: Digging with words: e-text and e-archaeology > Subject: Session at CAA2100, Beijing: Digging with words: e-text and e-archaeology > Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:36:20 +0100 > From: Stuart Dunn > To: ahessc@jiscmail.ac.uk Submissions are invited for the session, Digging with words: e-text and e-archaeology, at Computer Applications and Archaeology 2011, Beijing, April 12th-16th 2011. For further details, including author guidelines and submission information, please go to http://www.caa2011.org/#home|default http://www.caa2011.org/#home%7Cdefault . Deadline is *15th November 2011.* Digging with words: e-text and e-archaeology Keywords: text, digital libraries, text mining, grey literature Abstract: There are many complex ways in which archaeology is written about. Formal publications in journals, books, site reports, so-called 'grey literature', field notes, excavation daybooks, diaries and, latterly, websites and blogs, all contain a collective written discourse about the past, and how it is discovered. Added to this may be historical sources about sites and artefacts: if excavating a site of the Classical period in Greece for example, it is likely that the excavator will wish to consult Classical authors such as Strabo or Thucydides. Furthermore, evidence from text bearing objects such as inscriptions will heavily influence the interpretation of any site at which it is found. Hitherto, an excavator is likely to have accessed most secondary documentary evidence via institutional libraries and catalogues, or via booksellers or publishers. However, the relatively recent provision on a large scale of such documentary evidence digitally --- the Perseus library at Tufts, and online inscriptions corpora such as the Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica and Inscriptions of Aphrodisias are good examples --- combined with increasingly sophisticated techniques for interrogating that content, and extracting information automatically, prompts us to rethink the very nature of the evidence with which we can form interpretations about the past. Once distinctions between text and artefact, history (or philology) and archaeology were clear. Now however (for example) texts can be parsed for formal units of information and databases of entities built, which can then be used to underpin new knowledge or enhance resource discovery. On the other hand, the bases of comparanda for assessing archaeological data are becoming more widely available in digital form, along with digital representations of those artefacts, allowing deeper comparison and (textual) annotation. This prompts questions as to how the digital medium can be used in their interpretation. This session will seek to explore these distinctions by bringing together archaeologists with interests in textual evidence, textual scholars, historians and philologists. Themes will include, but are not limited to: * Theoretical considerations of the nature of textual and archaeological evidence * The use of standards and mark-up schemas in digitized archaeology texts * Text mining and parsing (especially including geoparsing), and automatic entity extraction * Linking textual evidence with archaeological evidence using linked data and semantic web technologies * Provision for non-Latin texts in digital libraries for archaeology, with an emphasis on Chinese and other Asian scripts particularly encouraged -- 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:59:23 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: New deadline for IS&T Archiving 2010 > Subject: New deadline for IS&T Archiving 2010 > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:38:03 -0500 > From: Maria Esteva The deadline for Archiving 2010 abstract submissions has been extended to November 21st. Call for Papers _http://www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/archiving/Archiving%202011%20Call%20for%20Papers.pdf_ Thank you, Wayne Metcalfe and Kate Zwaard General Chairs --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:00:34 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Announcing the first HASTAC Scholars forum of the year > Subject: [HASTAC Announcement] Announcing the first HASTAC Scholars forum of the year > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:46:30 -0400 /Ruby Sinreich has sent you a group e-mail from HASTAC./ Announcing the first HASTAC Scholars forum of the 2010-2011 academic year! *Openness in Academia* http://www.hastac.org/forums/hastac-scholars-discussions/openness-academia /Hosted by: Jenna McWilliams (Indiana), Jana Remy (UC Irvine) and Susannah McGowan (UCSB)/ While the spirit of openness has gained traction in academia, significant challenges exist. How can scholars balance a belief in openness and transparency with requirements to tenure and career advancement? In instruction, how open is too open? How can the university embrace openness and still remain necessary? Please join us for the first HASTAC Scholars Forum: Openness in Academia. In this forum, we’ll explore the benefits and challenges of embracing openness in research, teaching, and university policy, with a particular focus on the changing role of academia in an increasingly open culture. How do you approach openness in your work? The spirit of openness is gaining traction in academia, both with faculty who are coming to embrace openness in their teaching, research, and publications and with administrators who work to introduce openness in institutional policies. More than a dozen major universities now offer some of their course content to the general public through the use of OpenCourseWare or similar tools; hundreds of universities have committed to making research available through open access policies; and more than 5000 open-access journals are publishing scholarly work. Yet this progress can obscure or restrict important conversations about the significant challenges to embracing openness in academia. The forum will address the following questions: Openness in research and publishing: How can new academics gain prominence in their field while still embracing openness? How can academics and scholars who are committed to openness negotiate this in their interactions with institutions that rely on scarcity and closed access? Openness in professional and personal identities: To what extent is privacy at odds with openness? How can academics make decisions about how public to make their engagement with non-academic communities and networks? What is the value of or drawback to developing anonymous or pseudonymous identities, and do these conflict with the spirit of openness? Openness in teaching and learning: How can we engage openly and transparently with our colleagues about what happens in the classroom? How would this affect our students? Openness in policy: Is openness a threat to the university model? How can institutions embrace openness and still remain necessary? Invited Guests: * Edward Maloney (Georgetown) * Joshua Danish (Indiana University) * Clay Whipkey (OpenCourseWare) * Mark Sample (George Mason University) Please help us think through these issues by logging on now: http://www.hastac.org/forums/hastac-scholars-discussions/openness-academia . Everyone is welcome to join the conversation, so please pass this on! We look forward to hearing from you! Fiona Barnett Director, HASTAC Scholars Ph.D. candidate Literature Program and Women's Studies Duke University 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 Tue Oct 26 05:16:07 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 D2F649877D; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:16:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2DC1F9876D; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:16:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101026051605.2DC1F9876D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:16:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.431 digital humanities and the cuts X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 431. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alexander Hay (459) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.428 digital humanities and the cuts [2] From: Alan Liu (95) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.428 digital humanities and the cuts [3] From: Willard McCarty (24) Subject: the terms of engagement --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:12:21 +0100 From: Alexander Hay Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.428 digital humanities and the cuts In-Reply-To: <20101025050529.739775FF7B@woodward.joyent.us> I fear the worst case scenario will be the most likely one: Most people will go to university to do a vocational degree in the vain hope this is how they get a job, whilst the Humanities and Social Sciences wither on the vine until they become something only rich, privileged people do. Universities are now apparently engine rooms of the economy. Such a bonehead utilitarian argument does, of course, ignore one salient fact: Adam Smith was a philosopher. - Alexander --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:30:13 -0700 From: Alan Liu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.428 digital humanities and the cuts In-Reply-To: <20101025050529.739775FF7B@woodward.joyent.us> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: But I question whether anything we can do now will make a modicum of > difference, . . . > We need not be too quietist about this, lest we give up our undergirding faith that ideas, words, and information--and the new technologies and media that propagate them--have value, whether in the near or long term, whether for a smaller or larger social circle. I think here of such venerable organizations as the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) http://cpsr.org/, Association for Progressive Communications (APC) http://www.apc.org/, the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) http://www.igc.org/, and so on. Their model leads to the following line of thought: 1. If the humanities are in trouble, 2. If the digital humanities now have a special potential and responsibility to represent the humanities a. because the digital humanities are affecting an ever larger arc of the humanities, b. because the (modest) ability of the digital humanities to gain funding shows that they have the potential to seem relevant to administrators, government agencies, and possibly even legislators who otherwise have already dismissed the humanities as yesterday's news, c. because the digital humanities contribute to the advancement and deployment of technologies that link the humanities with other disciplines (including some STEM fields that need the participation of humanists to pursue interdisciplinary grants) [i.e., the digital humanities have true interdisciplinary potential], d. and because the digital humanities have the means to communicate quickly and directly to the public in ways that short-circuit the traditional, ponderous levers of university and governmental action, 3. Then the natural course of action for interested members of the Humanist list at this extraordinary time is to start a site that, without necessarily engaging in direct political advocacy, imitates the CPSR, APC, IGC, and so on to do the following: a. Advocates for the public value of humanities discoveries and projects (including a subset of digital humanities discoveries and projects). [We could very quickly generate a world-wide version of the kind of examples I circulated in my last message: http://liu.english.ucsb.edu/wp-includes/docs/UC-research-examples.pdf We could also likely recruit advocacy statements for the humanities, if not from Churchill, then from some leading scientists, businessmen, religious leaders, movie stars, etc.] b. Provides tools, templates, media expertise, social-network methods, examples, etc., for local or national networks of humanities educators to make their case before the public. (Just as MoveOn.org makes or sponsors commercials, we could actually make the "mustard gas" advertisement that Patrick Durusau suggests in his post to this thread.) Such a site is unlikely to have results in the immediate crisis, but we have to think long term about educating the public and its government legislators or ministers. Otherwise, we will have given up the ghost, and the business of education we are engaged in will be only the shadow of the business of "industrialization" (or post-industrialization) that is the topic of other, parallel thread on Humanist at this time. This is why I said earlier that higher education (and, more specifically, the humanities) must insist on the necessary, if evolving, *differences*--and not just similarities--between its institution and the institutions that dominate today's governmental-business master plan. We have to make the case for a rich *diversity *of socially, culturally, and economically important paradigms of "innovation" and "productivity." As I exhorted my University of California colleagues, numbering in the thousands, when I asked them for examples of publicly valuable humanities research: show me a citizen who finds the UC discovery of the "cyclotron" valuable, and I will show you another 100 who feel that their lives were changed by an author, artist, auteur, philosopher, theologian, etc. that the humanities have brought back to life, preserved, understood, taught, etc. Some questions that arise pursuant to the above line of thought: --Is there enough interest in my call to action? --If so, is there a way to stage this action (e.g., first a quick-and-dirtysite, then a grant that allows us to do a good job on the tech and necessary research)? [If there are any grant officers listening in on Humanist, please contact us, or me back-channel, if you are interested.] --Do we need an organization? --What is the most effective scope of the effort: the humanities, the humanities and arts, the humanities/arts/social sciences? (For instance, widening to the "humanities and arts" implies widening the digital side to "digital humanities and new media studies," which in turn means attempting to reach out from the Humanist list to the Nettime list. There are both advantages and disadvantages to such a widening.) I put in about 300 hours of work last year for similar advocacy purposes for the University of California Commission on the Future working group on "research strategies," which I mentioned in my last post, only to learn that UC administrators and the California Regents consistently put research at the bottom of their priorities, except for the bottom-line issue of "indirect cost recovery" (getting more tax for the university out of research grants). The powers that be are hypnotized by the immediate budget crisis and the potential anger of middle-class voters at rising tuition (up 32% in UC in a single year). That largely futile effort, to be frank, burned me out. But I could put in a few more hours if others were interested and there was the possibility of building something for the long term and for a global fight for the humanities (customizable, through the wonders of modern database technology, into local fights in particular nations and states). Alan --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:55:37 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the terms of engagement In-Reply-To: <20101025050529.739775FF7B@woodward.joyent.us> Consider the following aired on BC Radio 4, in the interview programme "The Material World" for 21 October 2010, concerning the results of the U.K. government's spending review for the sciences. (Colleagues here will know that funds for the sciences have been ring-fenced, whereas funds for the humanities have been eliminated.) Quentin Cooper, host of the programme: "Was the Government listening?" David Willitts, Science Minister: "Yes, I think we were listening, and the evidence has come out in the announcement we've made. What's been very striking in the last few years is that the scientific community has assembled very powerful evidence such as in that Royal Society report, The Scientific Century, about what the benefits are for scientific research. Now you can argue that it's all worthwhile in its own rights, but the fact that it clearly contributes to the performance of the economy and the well-being of citizens -- that's really strong evidence, and we deployed it." For the Royal Society report see http://royalsociety.org/the-scientific-century/. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 26 05:17:03 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 94C2298894; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:17:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9644998883; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:17:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101026051702.9644998883@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:17:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.432 a distance-BSc in computer 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. 24, No. 432. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:45:37 +0200 From: "Noiret, Serge" Subject: looking for a remote e-learning bachelor degree in computer sciences In-Reply-To: <20101023152508.0FF0B9ED1A@woodward.joyent.us> Dear all, an Italian student working here at the EUI in Florence in our web team in the field of web applications and computing needs to complete his knowledge with a bachelor degree in computer engineering and/or computer science and/or similar areas (not only disciplinary applied computing like DH). He asked me whether in UK universities and/or in other European countries, **but in English**, such a degree could be obtained following extreme distance learning procedures. He has to continue to work here in Italy at the same time. He's looking for a competitive degree on the market and he's ready to study a lot.... I would be grateful to the list to inform about such long distance e-learning university degree, if existing... (and eventually what about the USA, NZ, Australia...) thank you in advance Serge Noiret -------------------------------------------- History Information Specialist, (Ph.D.) The Library - European University Institute  Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccettini 9 50014 SAN DOMENICO (FI) - Italy Tel.: +39-0554685-348 ~ Fax +39-0554685-283 [serge.noiret@eui.eu] - Skype: sese57 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 27 05:53:19 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 3D9C99537D; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:53:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A95779536E; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:53:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101027055317.A95779536E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:53:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.433 distance-BSc in computer science 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. 24, No. 433. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:20:47 +0200 From: Jan Kroeze Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.432 a distance-BSc in computer science? In-Reply-To: <20101026051702.9644998883@woodward.joyent.us> The University of South Africa (UNISA) is a large open distance learning university (with more than 300 000 students worldwide) and offers a BSc in Computer Science or Information Systems - see http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=221 Jan Kroeze On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 432. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:45:37 +0200 > From: "Noiret, Serge" > Subject: looking for a remote e-learning bachelor degree in computer > sciences > > > Dear all, > > an Italian student working here at the EUI in Florence in our web team in > the field of web applications and computing needs to complete his knowledge > with a bachelor degree in computer engineering and/or computer science > and/or similar areas (not only disciplinary applied computing like DH). > > He asked me whether in UK universities and/or in other European countries, > **but in English**, such a degree could be obtained following extreme > distance learning procedures. He has to continue to work here in Italy at > the same time. > > He's looking for a competitive degree on the market and he's ready to study > a lot.... > > I would be grateful to the list to inform about such long distance > e-learning university degree, if existing... (and eventually what about the > USA, NZ, Australia...) > > thank you in advance > > Serge Noiret > -------------------------------------------- > History Information Specialist, (Ph.D.) > The Library - European University Institute > Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccettini 9 > 50014 SAN DOMENICO (FI) - Italy > Tel.: +39-0554685-348 ~ Fax +39-0554685-283 > [serge.noiret@eui.eu] - Skype: sese57 > > -- Groete / Sincerely Jan H. Kroeze _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 27 06:08:05 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 567F995BB4; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:08:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9870C95BAC; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:08:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101027060803.9870C95BAC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:08:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.434 job: Executive Director, Australian Council X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 434. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:50:29 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Executive Director, Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: FW: [ccr-team] FW: Executive Director, Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences > Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:27:11 +1100 > ------ Forwarded Message > From: Executive Director > Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:54:53 +1100 > To: Amanda Third > Subject: Executive Director, Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Member Announcement 26 October 2010 Executive Director, Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Dear Members As most of you would now be aware, at the beginning of October, the Executive Director of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Helen O'Neil, decided to move on from the Council. We are now in search of a suitably qualified and equally enthusiastic replacement for Helen and are recruiting for a new Executive Director. We would be delighted if you could bring this vacancy at the Council to the attention of your members. The Council is seeking an Executive Director with a strong policy background in any or all of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences sectors, and an ability to marshal Australia's considerable strengths in research, education and professional practice.The Executive Director will represent the Council with policy and opinion makers, implement the strategic plan, and communicate and advocate Council policies and positions on behalf of its member organisations. The Executive Director will also manage the statutory and reporting requirements of the Council.An attractive salary package will be offered commensurate with the responsibilities and experience of the successful applicant. For further information on the position, including the position description and selection criteria, please visit our website at http://www.chass.org.au. Please contact Ms Anna Reidy on (02) 6201 5437 or email programs@chass.org.au for further information about this employment opportunity. Kind regards Janet Millar Interim Executive Director Contact for information Ms Janet Millar Interim Executive Director Tel: +61 2 6201 2740 director@chass.org.au Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Room 11B7, Building 11 University of Canberra ACT 2617 Australia +61 2 6201 2740 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 27 06:08:21 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 8AE0895C12; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:08:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 12DEB95C01; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:08:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101027060820.12DEB95C01@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:08:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.435 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 435. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:03:21 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: recommendations for books I am helping an acquisitions librarian at the University of Western Sydney to build a collection of books and other materials in the digital humanities. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated, esp lists that you may have compiled for whatever purposes. Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 27 06:08:55 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 AB7E495CCA; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:08:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 10EA495C9C; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:08:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101027060855.10EA495C9C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:08:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.436 case for 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. 24, No. 436. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:54:38 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: British Academy Lecture by Martha Nussbaum: "Not for Profit: Why Democracy needs the Humanities" In-Reply-To: <1288102337l.991288l.0l@psu.edu> "Not for Profit: Why Democracy needs the Humanities" A Special Lecture given by Professor Martha Nussbaum, FBA, chaired and introduced by Dame Gillian Beer, DBE, FRSL, FBA 5.30pm – 6.45pm, followed by a drinks reception Thursday, 16 December 2010 Venue: Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 “Responsible citizenship requires... the ability to assess historical evidence, to use and think critically about economic principles, to compare differing views of social justice, to speak a foreign language, to appreciate the complexities of the major world religions. A catalogue of facts without the ability to assess them, or to understand how a narrative is assembled from evidence, is almost as bad as ignorance.” This extract from Martha Nussbaum’s powerful and provocative new book, Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, illustrates her indictment of the way in which the humanities and liberal arts are being increasingly undermined and undervalued in the face of “the unquenchable thirst for economic growth that drives education policy around the world.” She speculates on how John Stuart Mill “could have imagined that disciplines such as history, literature, classical studies and philosophy would be valued only to the extent that they can sell themselves as tools of a growing economy”, and criticises the UK’s proposed Research Excellence Framework (REF) as “the latest assault on humanistic values [and] an insidious threat to the rich idea of learning” that Mill advocated. In a rare UK appearance, supported by the S T Lee Fellowship Fund, Professor Nussbaum will develop these arguments and take questions from the audience. Martha Nussbaum, FBA, is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at The University of Chicago. She is an Associate in the Classics Department and the Political Science Department, a Member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and a Board Member of the Human Rights Program. She is the founder and Coordinator of the Center for Comparative Constitutionalism. Dame Gillian Beer, DBE, FRSL,  FBA, is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. Among her books are Virginia Woolf: the Common Ground (1996), Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1996) and Darwin’s Plots (1983, third edition 2009). Attendance is free, but registration is required. Please visit our website to register. The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH Tel: 020 7969 5200, Fax: 020 7969 5300, Web: www.britac.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 Oct 28 05:42:19 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 7F9DF9FE37; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:42:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2FA6D9FE23; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:42:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101028054217.2FA6D9FE23@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:42:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.437 books on 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 437. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:36:41 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.435 books? In-Reply-To: <20101027060820.12DEB95C01@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Willard, A very similar question was recently posted to @DHanswers - there are some good suggestions there: http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-the-essential-dh-books-on-your-class-reading-list Melissa On 27/10/2010 07:08, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 435. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:03:21 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: recommendations for books > > I am helping an acquisitions librarian at the University of Western > Sydney to build a collection of books and other materials in the digital > humanities. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated, esp lists > that you may have compiled for whatever purposes. > > Many thanks. > > Yours, > WM -- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA Reader in Electronic Communication Department of Information Studies Foster Court 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 Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 05:42:55 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 82F549F93E; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:42:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 871689F933; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:42:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101028054253.871689F933@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:42:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.438 distance-BSc in computer 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 438. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:57:00 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.433 distance-BSc in computer science In-Reply-To: <20101027055317.A95779536E@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Serge I imagine the Open University would be a good bet as they specialise in distance learning: http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/computing-and-ict/index.htm I can't give a specific recommendation about the course but they have a very good reputation. Best wishes Leif _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 05:43:59 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 F41EEA0DA7; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:43:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CFD64A0DB8; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:43:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101028054355.CFD64A0DB8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:43:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.439 researcher = programmer? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 439. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:15:21 +0200 From: Øyvind Eide Subject: Do you need to be a programmer to be a researcher? Dear all, On several occasions the question whether a researcher in the humanities, e.g., a historian, needs to be a programmer has been discussed. Does anyone know or have any idea when this first came up? I have a secondary reference to 1969 ("in 1969, the French historian Le Roy Ladurie said that the future historian had to be a programmer") but my source to this (Thorvaldsen, G.: Databehandling for historikere. Oslo, 1999) do not include the reference in its bibliography. So I have two questions: * Can anyone confirm that Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie wrote this, and give a full citation? * Do anyone know of any earlier discussions? Kind regards, Øyvind Eide Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Unit for Digital Documentation, University of 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 Oct 28 05:45:44 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 BF550A2057; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:45:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EE476A2048; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:45:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101028054542.EE476A2048@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:45:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.440 digital humanities and the cuts X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 440. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:36:31 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: digital humanities and the cuts Willard McCarty wrote: Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:52:52 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: more than crying wolf In-Reply-To: <20101024004225.EDE9697FCE@woodward.joyent.us> What do the students reading this think? Why have they put their lives on the line, paid the fees and come to ask us about what I used to call the life of the mind? (If you're a student reading this, PLEASE RESPOND!) Two responses to the cuts from students: Osbornes October 20th cuts: A Personal Assessment http://findsandfeatures.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/osbornes-october-20th-cuts-a-personal-assessment/ Is Life over as we know it? http://claireyross.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/is-life-over-as-we-know-it/ Having recently completed an MA in DH at Kings, and currently applying for Phd studentships, my feelings are a combination of despair and disgust. The government (and the previous one. and the one before that, ad infinitum) is not only making education instrumental in the most reductive sense, but also destroying any space for critical thought, and radically restricting the opportunities for the young - and not only the poorest - to go to university. The cuckoos in the nest have been the vice-chancellors, especially those of supposed 'superior' universities. Not only have they acquiesced in the governments agenda, not only have they forsaken education for property development and bilking foreign students, they are also guilty of incompetence. "The short-termism of Vice-Chancellors failed to understand that as soon as fees were introduced the university sector would not only lose its place in the queue for, but its claim entirely on, the public purse." Martin McQuillan, http://bit.ly/arygr3 I fear also that the humanities will not only be diminished quantitatively, but also qualitatively. The recent correspondence on the industrialization of the digital humanities touched upon this: narrow technical concerns dominating over questioning technology. Similarly for other fields: When only the rich can afford to study history, then history will become about the rich, a succession of kings and queens and 'great men.' And that's quite convenient for the education secretary's demand for a patriotic history telling 'our island story.' But if the universities abandon intelligence, intelligence will abandon them and move elsewhere. I love history, and I love hacking around with computers. I'm going to do these two things regardless. I'll find people with similar interests, and we'll do it together, outside - and perhaps even against - academia. And finally, although it comes from the US, an incident that embodies the pressures students feel. The Marxist Michael Hardt gave a talk on Foucault at Yale recently, the Yale Daily News ending its report of it thus: "Three of four graduate students declined to comment about the talk. Two said they could not comment because they did not want to harm their job prospects." http://bit.ly/9mwZP6 I'll be damned if I want to live in fear like that. (Bet this email doesn't do my Phd prospects any good.) John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 05:46:31 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 B04F4A24BD; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:46:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 62CD8A24B6; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:46:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101028054630.62CD8A24B6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:46:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.441 job at Ryerson (Toronto); fellowships for bibliography X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 441. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (27) Subject: Bibliographical Society of America 2011 Fellowship Program [2] From: Willard McCarty (47) Subject: Digi Hum Job Advert --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:38:23 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Bibliographical Society of America 2011 Fellowship Program > Subject: Bibliographical Society of America 2011 Fellowship Program > Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:55:07 +0100 > From: David Gants The Bibliographical Society of America 2011 Fellowship Program Announcement The BSA invites applications for its fourth annual Pantzer Senior Fellowship in Bibliography and the British Book Trades as well as its annual short-term fellowship program, all of which support bibliographical inquiry and research in the history of the book trades and in publishing history. Eligible topics may concentrate on books and documents in any field, but should focus on the book or manuscript (the physical object) as historical evidence. Such topics may include establishing a text or studying the history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Enumerative listings do not fall within the scope of this program. Senior fellows are provided a stipend of $6,000; short-term fellows receive a stipend of up to $2,000 per month (for up to two months) to support travel, living, and research expenses. The program is open to applicants of any nationality or affiliation. Individuals who have not held a BSA fellowship in the last five years will be given preference. Applications, including references, are due by midnight 1 December 2010. Application forms (in static PDF and Word formats) and submission instructions are available for download at www.bibsocamer.org, or they may be requested from the BSA Executive Secretary, P.O. Box 1537, Lenox Hill Station, New York, NY 10021, e-mail bsa(at)bibsocamer.org. Applications will be accepted through the post or by e-mail attachment, with a PDF via e-mail prefered. Any questions about the submission procedure can be directed to David Gants, Chair of the Fellowship Committee, dgants(at)fsu.edu. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:39:31 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Digi Hum Job Advert > Subject: Digi Hum Job Advert > Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:16:15 -0400 > From: Dennis Denisoff The Department of English (www.ryerson.ca/english) invites applications for an Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities effective August 1, 2011, subject to final budgetary approval. Required qualifications include an earned PhD and a record of excellent research and teaching. Candidates are expected to demonstrate a strong research record in digital humanities and literary studies, relevant teaching experience, and the potential to lead the Department in developing its digital projects. The successful candidate will conduct research and teach in programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. On our campus, located in downtown Toronto, we teach a diverse range of students in a dynamic environment that fosters interdisciplinary opportunities and creative pedagogies. The Department offers a BA in English (launching September 2011) and an MA in Literatures of Modernity. We also contribute to 3 inter-departmental programs: a humanities BA in Arts and Contemporary Studies, and graduate programs in Communication and Culture (MA/PhD) and Immigration and Settlement Studies (MA). The current teaching load is 2/3 with further release for graduate supervisions. Applicants should submit a letter describing their areas of research and teaching interests, a curriculum vitae, 3 confidential letters of reference, a sample of their research, and evidence of teaching effectiveness to: Dr. Dennis Denisoff, Chair, Department of English, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5B 2K3. Confidential inquiries can be directed to the Chair at denisoff@ryerson.ca. The review of applications will begin December 1, 2010 and will continue until the positions are filled. Please note that applications by fax or e-mail will not be accepted. This position falls under the Ryerson Faculty Association (www.ryerson.ca/~rfa) jurisdiction. For details on the Ryerson Faculty Association Collective Agreement and the University's RFA Benefits Summary, please visit www.ryerson.ca/teaching/employment_resources/rfa.html and www.ryerson.ca/hr/working/etoolkit/benefits/rfa/ respectively. Ryerson University has an employment equity program and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities and women. Members of designated groups are encouraged to self-identify. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. Dennis Denisoff Chair, Department of English Professor, Department of English and Graduate Programme in Communications and Culture 416-979-5000, ext. 6135 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 05:50:22 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 A9C6EA2D2B; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:50:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 22DBBA2D0F; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:50:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101028055006.22DBBA2D0F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:50:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.442 events: London Seminar 2010-11; DHSI 2011 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 442. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (52) Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2010-11 [2] From: Caroline Leitch (104) Subject: DHSI 2011 Registration and Scholarships --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:21:02 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2010-11 London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship Institute of English Studies, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London www.tinyurl.com/LondonSeminar/ 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. Programme for November 2010 - March 2011 11 November 2010 (Thursday) Venue: Room G27 (Senate House, Ground Floor) Time: 17:30 - 19:30 Brian Vickers (Institute of English Studies): 'Software programs, authorship attribution, and the nature of language' 09 December 2010 (Thursday) Venue: Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor) Time: 17:30 - 19:30 H. R. Woudhuysen (University College London): 'The Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700' 13 January 2011 (Thursday) Venue: Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor) Time: 17:30 - 19:30 Ernesto Priego: 'Comic Book Markup Language: Challenges and Opportunities' 10 February 2011 (Thursday) Venue: Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor) Time: 17:30 - 19:30 Philip Schofield and Valerie Wallace: 'Transcribe Bentham: Taking the Bentham Edition into the Digital Age' 10 March 2011 (Thursday) Venue: Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor) Time: 17:30 - 19:30 Gabriel Bodard and Charlotte Roueché (King's College London): 'Written in Stone? Encoding ancient documents' -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:17:50 -0700 From: Caroline Leitch Subject: DHSI 2011 Registration and Scholarships [Please redistribute / please excuse cross-posting] Tuition Scholarships and Registration for the 2011 Digital Humanities Summer Institute University of Victoria, June 6-10, 2011 http://www.dhsi.org We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2011 DHSI is now open. We are able to offer of a limited number of tuition scholarship spots for the 2011 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 courses will fill quickly. 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 2011 For more information about our courses and to register, please go to http://www.dhsi.org/courses. Introductory Courses: Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application: Julia Flanders (Brown U), Doug Knox (Newberry Library), and Melanie Chernyk (U Victoria) Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application: Robin Davies (VIU) and Michael Nixon (VIU) Tools & Methods (Courses in this section are aimed at students who have completed the relevant fundamentals course at the DHSI or otherwise have some experience with digital humanities tools and methods.) Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanists: Syd Bauman (Brown U) and Martin Holmes (U Victoria, HCMC) Multimedia: Design for Visual, Auditory, and Interactive Electronic Environments: Aimée Morrison (U Waterloo) SEASR in Action: Data Analytics for Humanities Scholars: Loretta Auvil (NCSA, UIUC) and Boris Capitanu (NCSA, UIUC) Geographical Information Systems in the Digital Humanities: Ian Gregory (Lancaster U) Data Discovery, Management, and Presentation: James Smith (Texas A&M U) Seminars & Consultations (Seminars and consultations are aimed at participants who are currently working on a project and would like to consult with an expert in their field.) Issues in Large Project Planning and Management: Lynne Siemens (U Victoria) Digital Editions: Meagan Timney (U Victoria, EMiC) Out-of-the-Box Text Analysis for the Digital Humanities: David Hoover (NYU) Registration Fees Early registration fees for the institute are $500 CDN for students and $950 CDN for non-students. After April 1, 2011, fees will be $600 CDN (student) and $1250 CDN (non-student). The tuition scholarship covers this fee minus a small administration fee ($125 for students / $225 for non-students). Host and Sponsors Now in its tenth 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. The DHSI is sponsored by the University of Victoria and its Library, University of British Columbia Library, College of Arts, University of Guelph, Texas A&M University, the Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) project, NINES, INKE, the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs, the for Computers and the Humanities, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, and others. Institute Lecture We are pleased to announce that this year's institute lecture will be given by Matthew Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Graduate Colloquium We will be holding our third annual Graduate Colloquium during the summer institute. Please see the call for papers at http://etcl.uvic.ca/2010/10/07/cfp-dhsi-2011-graduate-student-colloquium/. THATCamp Victoria Immediately following the DHSI will be THATCamp Victoria. Looks for more news about this soon! 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, 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 Oct 29 03:41:42 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 E6D38A60B4; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:41:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2A2E3A60A5; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:41:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101029034140.2A2E3A60A5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:41:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.443 researcher = programmer X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 443. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Manfred Thaller (59) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.439 researcher = programmer? [2] From: Toby Burrows (7) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.439 researcher = programmer? [3] From: Aurélien Berra (18) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.439 researcher = programmer? [4] From: Edward Vanhoutte (60) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.439 researcher = programmer? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:59:15 +0200 From: Manfred Thaller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.439 researcher = programmer? In-Reply-To: <20101028054355.CFD64A0DB8@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Øyvind, Dear Willard, "... dans ce demaine au moins, l'historien de demain sera programmeur ou il ne sera plus". Originally in Le Nouvel Observateur, 8 mai 1968; later reprinted in: E. LeRoy Ladurie, Le territoire de l'historien, Paris 1973, pp. 11-14. Here with the title: L'histoiren et l'ordinateur. Kind regards, Manfred Am 28.10.2010 07:43, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 439. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:15:21 +0200 > From: Øyvind Eide > Subject: Do you need to be a programmer to be a researcher? > > > Dear all, > > On several occasions the question whether a researcher in the > humanities, e.g., a historian, needs to be a programmer has been > discussed. Does anyone know or have any idea when this first came up? > I have a secondary reference to 1969 ("in 1969, the French historian > Le Roy Ladurie said that the future historian had to be a programmer") > but my source to this (Thorvaldsen, G.: Databehandling for > historikere. Oslo, 1999) do not include the reference in its > bibliography. > > So I have two questions: > > * Can anyone confirm that Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie wrote this, and give > a full citation? > > * Do anyone know of any earlier discussions? > > Kind regards, > > Øyvind Eide > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo -- Prof. Dr. Manfred Thaller Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung, Universität zu Köln Postadresse: Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D 50923 Köln Besuchsadresse: Kerpener Str. 30, Eingang Weyertal, II. Stock Tel. +49 - 221 - 470 3022, FAX +49 - 221 - 470 7737 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:28:23 +0800 From: Toby Burrows Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.439 researcher = programmer? In-Reply-To: <20101028054355.CFD64A0DB8@woodward.joyent.us> The exact quotation is: "l'historien de demain sera programmeur ou il ne sera plus" ("Tomorrow's historian will be a programmer or he will no longer exist"). Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Territoire de l'historien (Gallimard, 1973), vol. 1, p. 14. Originally published in Le Nouvel Observateur, 8 May 1968. Toby Burrows University of Western Australia -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Thursday, 28 October 2010 1:44 PM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:14:05 +0200 From: Aurélien Berra Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.439 researcher = programmer? In-Reply-To: <20101028054355.CFD64A0DB8@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Øyvind, In a discussion which was started in April 2010 on a French Digital Humanities list, the reference you are looking for was mentioned (https://listes.cru.fr/sympa/arc/dh/2010-04/msg00020.html). Its thought-provoking title is "La fin des érudits". I found that Le Roy Ladurie's opinion paper is now online. It is extremely interesting indeed, given the author's academic background and position. Here are the reference and the link. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, "La fin des érudits", Le Nouvel Observateur, semaine du 8 mai 1968 http://hebdo.nouvelobs.com/sommaire/arts-spectacles/077609/la-fin-des-erudits.html This is an important topic and I look forward to reading the other answers to your question. Best regards, Aurélien Berra Université Paris-Ouest & UMR Anthropologie et histoire des mondes antiques (Centre Louis-Gernet) http://u-paris10.academia.edu/berra http://philologia.hypotheses.org/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:20:20 +0200 From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.439 researcher = programmer? In-Reply-To: <20101028054355.CFD64A0DB8@woodward.joyent.us> I'm currently rereading papers by Vinton Dearing who in the lecture 'Methods of Textual Editing' (presented in 1962 and published in 1969*) suggested that 'The textual editor can sometimes obtain programs from others, sometimes prevail upon an expert to help him [...] or he can learn to write programs for himself. ' (p. 95) Further on in the paper, Dearing shows his preference for the latter in stating: 'I cannot leave the matter without pointing out that writing a program forces one to work out explicit step-by-step ways for putting his reasoning into practice, and so helps to clarify its logic' (p. 97) which looks to me like a defence of the use of modelling in the bibliographic (and thus historic) discipline. * Dearing, Vinton A. (1969 [1962]). 'Methods of Textual Editing.' In Brack, O.M. & Barnes, Warner (eds.), Bibliography and Textual Criticism. English and American Literature, 1700 to the Present. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, p. 73-101. Edward _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 03:44:36 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 B102CA61B0; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:44:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 31A93A61A9; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:44:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101029034435.31A93A61A9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:44:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.444 researcher & programmer X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 444. 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. 24, No. 443. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Manfred Thaller (59) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.439 researcher = programmer? [2] From: Toby Burrows (7) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.439 researcher = programmer? [3] From: Aurélien Berra (18) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.439 researcher = programmer? [4] From: Edward Vanhoutte (60) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.439 researcher = programmer? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:59:15 +0200 From: Manfred Thaller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.439 researcher = programmer? In-Reply-To: <20101028054355.CFD64A0DB8@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Øyvind, Dear Willard, "... dans ce demaine au moins, l'historien de demain sera programmeur ou il ne sera plus". Originally in Le Nouvel Observateur, 8 mai 1968; later reprinted in: E. LeRoy Ladurie, Le territoire de l'historien, Paris 1973, pp. 11-14. Here with the title: L'histoiren et l'ordinateur. Kind regards, Manfred Am 28.10.2010 07:43, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 439. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:15:21 +0200 > From: Øyvind Eide > Subject: Do you need to be a programmer to be a researcher? > > > Dear all, > > On several occasions the question whether a researcher in the > humanities, e.g., a historian, needs to be a programmer has been > discussed. Does anyone know or have any idea when this first came up? > I have a secondary reference to 1969 ("in 1969, the French historian > Le Roy Ladurie said that the future historian had to be a programmer") > but my source to this (Thorvaldsen, G.: Databehandling for > historikere. Oslo, 1999) do not include the reference in its > bibliography. > > So I have two questions: > > * Can anyone confirm that Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie wrote this, and give > a full citation? > > * Do anyone know of any earlier discussions? > > Kind regards, > > Øyvind Eide > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo -- Prof. Dr. Manfred Thaller Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung, Universität zu Köln Postadresse: Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D 50923 Köln Besuchsadresse: Kerpener Str. 30, Eingang Weyertal, II. Stock Tel. +49 - 221 - 470 3022, FAX +49 - 221 - 470 7737 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:28:23 +0800 From: Toby Burrows Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.439 researcher = programmer? In-Reply-To: <20101028054355.CFD64A0DB8@woodward.joyent.us> The exact quotation is: "l'historien de demain sera programmeur ou il ne sera plus" ("Tomorrow's historian will be a programmer or he will no longer exist"). Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Territoire de l'historien (Gallimard, 1973), vol. 1, p. 14. Originally published in Le Nouvel Observateur, 8 May 1968. Toby Burrows University of Western Australia --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:14:05 +0200 From: Aurélien Berra Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.439 researcher = programmer? In-Reply-To: <20101028054355.CFD64A0DB8@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Øyvind, In a discussion which was started in April 2010 on a French Digital Humanities list, the reference you are looking for was mentioned (https://listes.cru.fr/sympa/arc/dh/2010-04/msg00020.html). Its thought-provoking title is "La fin des érudits". I found that Le Roy Ladurie's opinion paper is now online. It is extremely interesting indeed, given the author's academic background and position. Here are the reference and the link. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, "La fin des érudits", Le Nouvel Observateur, semaine du 8 mai 1968 http://hebdo.nouvelobs.com/sommaire/arts-spectacles/077609/la-fin-des-erudits.html This is an important topic and I look forward to reading the other answers to your question. Best regards, Aurélien Berra Université Paris-Ouest & UMR Anthropologie et histoire des mondes antiques (Centre Louis-Gernet) http://u-paris10.academia.edu/berra http://philologia.hypotheses.org/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:20:20 +0200 From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.439 researcher = programmer? In-Reply-To: <20101028054355.CFD64A0DB8@woodward.joyent.us> I'm currently rereading papers by Vinton Dearing who in the lecture 'Methods of Textual Editing' (presented in 1962 and published in 1969*) suggested that 'The textual editor can sometimes obtain programs from others, sometimes prevail upon an expert to help him [...] or he can learn to write programs for himself. ' (p. 95) Further on in the paper, Dearing shows his preference for the latter in stating: 'I cannot leave the matter without pointing out that writing a program forces one to work out explicit step-by-step ways for putting his reasoning into practice, and so helps to clarify its logic' (p. 97) which looks to me like a defence of the use of modelling in the bibliographic (and thus historic) discipline. * Dearing, Vinton A. (1969 [1962]). 'Methods of Textual Editing.' In Brack, O.M. & Barnes, Warner (eds.), Bibliography and Textual Criticism. English and American Literature, 1700 to the Present. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, p. 73-101. Edward _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 03:54:30 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 5CCB0A6410; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:54:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7D342A63FE; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:54:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101029035428.7D342A63FE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:54:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.445 digital humanities and the cuts X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 445. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (43) Subject: preaching to the choir [2] From: D.Allington (38) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.440 digital humanities and the cuts [3] From: Giovanna Costantini (2) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.427 digital humanities and the cuts [4] From: Willard McCarty (43) Subject: British Academy on the public value of the humanities and social sciences [5] From: Alan Corre (2) Subject: digital humanities and the cuts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:27:48 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: preaching to the choir A good friend of mine in Toronto, a senior and very distinguished academic not born into privilege, remarked to me when I mentioned the Nussbaum lecture here in London, > I know of the book but haven't seen it. It will be a good lecture, > but no doubt preaching to the choir. Who will find the voice to > convince the majority? Or will progress revert to being a cause for > the elite? I fear the latter is the only possibility now. But we can try to find that voice. It won't be the voice of a John Stuart Mill, whose appeal was of his time. As John Hartley's Digital Literacies eloquently argues, the voice which would be heard cannot appeal to a privileged minority whom the majority respect, because that respect is gone. Now, on the other side of Raymond Williams' "Culture is ordinary", what he called the Cambridge tea-shop voice merely seems silly. The world depicted by Bertrand Russell in "Some Cambridge Dons of the Nineties" (Portraits from Memory, 1956) is no more. Lord Russell (who rebelled against his aristocratic origins) wrote, 66 years after the event, about some very odd people indeed, > The result was partly good, partly bad. Very good men flourished, and > so did some who were not so good. Incompetence, oddity and even > insanity were tolerated, but so was real merit. In spite of some > lunacy and some laziness, Cambridge was a good place, where > independence of mind could exist undeterred. Yes, by "men" he meant the male sex only -- a high price to pay, but not the only one. How we achieve independence of mind (and, as John Levin suggested in Humanist 24.440 as a real question) *where* we achieve it, is our concern. The reality of trying to do intellectual work outside the bounds of the university is, however, far harsher than the romantic fantasy of doing that. One needs time and quiet. Oxbridge will take care of itself (I hope). Shall we look to the universities that have deliberately addressed themselves to the market-forced underprivileged? Shall we take Williams seriously in the hope of capturing and nurturing his kind? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:58:02 +0100 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.440 digital humanities and the cuts In-Reply-To: <20101028054542.EE476A2048@woodward.joyent.us> Thank you to John Levin for his deeply moving email. The truth is that even before these recent developments, the employment prospects of freshly-qualified PhDs were already pretty bleak in the humanities. PhD students are the only people in academia who are expected to pursue knowledge for its own sake; the rest of us are expected to pursue knowledge for the sake of funding. Because early career researchers attract little funding, they are worth corresponding little to university administrators, whose agendas those of us with jobs have all too frequently bought into. What we now face in British universities is the prospect that established academics may find themselves in precisely the same position as their recently-graduated supervisees. Perhaps this is the moment when the university will find its soul again - if not, we may have to do what John suggests and pursue scholarship elsewhere, because the opportunity to do otherwise is no longer guaranteed. I hope that plenty of us will be able to make it to the Fund Our Future demonstration on 10 November. All best wishes Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University 01908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington John Levin wrote: Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:36:31 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: digital humanities and the cuts Having recently completed an MA in DH at Kings, and currently applying for Phd studentships, my feelings are a combination of despair and disgust. The government (and the previous one. and the one before that, ad infinitum) is not only making education instrumental in the most reductive sense, but also destroying any space for critical thought, and radically restricting the opportunities for the young - and not only the poorest - to go to university. The cuckoos in the nest have been the vice-chancellors, especially those of supposed 'superior' universities. Not only have they acquiesced in the governments agenda, not only have they forsaken education for property development and bilking foreign students, they are also guilty of incompetence. ... I fear also that the humanities will not only be diminished quantitatively, but also qualitatively. The recent correspondence on the industrialization of the digital humanities touched upon this: narrow technical concerns dominating over questioning technology. ... But if the universities abandon intelligence, intelligence will abandon them and move elsewhere. I love history, and I love hacking around with computers. I'm going to do these two things regardless. I'll find people with similar interests, and we'll do it together, outside - and perhaps even against - academia. -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:02:14 -0400 From: Giovanna Costantini Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.427 digital humanities and the cuts In-Reply-To: <20101028054542.EE476A2048@woodward.joyent.us> To Andrew Prescott's and Andrew Pink's excellent commentary I would add that in a secular, culturally diverse society in which science and religion have polarized to the point of adversarial confrontation and extremism, what mediates ethical behavior if not a plural humanistic education? Legislation (within the province of government) is insufficient in humanitarian formation. While it may honor chivalry and courage, it cannot inculcate compassion and caritas, nor transcend the limits of reason in pursuit of idealism and moral judgement. Giovanna Costantini --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:07:35 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: British Academy on the public value of the humanities and social sciences In-Reply-To: <20101028054542.EE476A2048@woodward.joyent.us> On 17 June of this year the British Academy published a booklet, Past, Present and Future: The Public Value of the Humanities & Social Sciences at a public event in the House of Commons. This complements other publications to which links are provided on the Academy page announcing the event (see www.britac.ac.uk/policy/pastpresentandfuture.cfm). I have not had time to read through all of what's available here, but a quick scan of the lot isn't encouraging. The links to the two publications on the social sciences, published by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), are both broken; a search of the ESRC site found neither of them. Two of the four publications on the humanities yield either no mention of the digital humanities at all (the Academy's "Past, Present and Future") or oddly incomplete and peripheral references (the Academy's "Punching our Weight"; the Arts and Humanities Research Council's "That full complement of riches" and "Leading the world"). The AHRC's "Leading the world", for example, mentions "incubator units" at several UK locations but neither Glasgow or London, thus missing the only academic departments; its emphasis is decidely on stimulating the economy. The only publication to come close is the AHRC's website, "Pathways to impact" (www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundedResearch/impact/Pages/default.aspx). It is piecemeal -- a set of links to individual project descriptions with no over-arching argument or even summary -- and again oddly incomplete. Work done in London isn't mentioned as far as I can see. Is this a defense of the humanities? I'd think that the now unfashionable concerns of these disciplines would be greatly strengthened and given a voice audible even to the Science Minister if their digital forms and expressions were given a critical look. But neither the Academy nor the AHRC (which has funded much of the work done in London) has done that. But perhaps this is being a bit unfair. What would the individuals concerned have read to become better informed? Is it that in a cash-driven rush to produce deliverables we have failed adequately to reflect and argue the case for the digital humanities? Or are we simply at too early a stage in the development of our field for the simple arguments to be possible? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:47:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Alan Corre Subject: digital humanities and the cuts In-Reply-To: <20101028054542.EE476A2048@woodward.joyent.us> And Intute is shutting up shop. Alan Corré _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 03:55:28 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 8019BA6452; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:55:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BAFEFA644B; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:55:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101029035526.BAFEFA644B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:55:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.446 books on 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. 24, No. 446. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alan Corre (10) Subject: New Book on Text Processing [2] From: John Simpson (76) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.437 books on DH --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:55:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Alan Corre Subject: New Book on Text Processing Goal-Directed Press is pleased to announce the publication of the 2nd edition of Alan Corré's Icon Programming for Humanists updated for modern platforms and with new chapters on markup languages and Unicode. You can enjoy the book free online at http://unicon.org/books/humanist.pdf The softbound print edition may be ordered at http://unicon.org/books/ Warm regards, Alan Corré Clinton Jeffery author publisher --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:27:26 -0600 From: John Simpson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.437 books on DH In-Reply-To: <20101028054217.2FA6D9FE23@woodward.joyent.us> In addition to the books listed at Melissa's suggestion I'd like to add THE NEW MEDIA READER, edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and nick Montfort, and published by MIT Press (2003). I use it in a third year philosophy class called "Computers and Culture Class" and really like the selection, descriptions, and resources that it includes (a CD with Spacewars! among other things). The fact that it attempts to be the embodiment of a print hypertext is also admirable. -John John Simpson Department of Philosophy 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 Oct 29 03:56:17 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 EB806A6590; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:56:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 72CF8A6580; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:56:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101029035615.72CF8A6580@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:56:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.447 events: DH2011; SHARP 2011 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 447. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dr. Katherine D. Harris" (51) Subject: CFP: Digital Poster Session (SHARP 2011) [2] From: Katherine L Walter (24) Subject: DH 2011 Last call for proposals --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:07:06 -0700 From: "Dr. Katherine D. Harris" Subject: CFP: Digital Poster Session (SHARP 2011) CALL FOR POSTERS Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing International Conference Washington DC July 14 - July 17, 2011 The Book in Art & Science Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library and Institute, and the Corcoran College of Art + Design. This year’s conference theme, the Book in Art & Science, is an appropriate opportunity to highlight SHARP’s continuing commitment to digital humanities projects, tools or techniques or work in progress. This particular session encourages proposals from any college or university digital humanities program, center or group to present a poster that overviews their program. Posters may include a demonstration, traditional printed poster or a combination of both. A brief bio and short abstracts (250-300 words) should be submitted to Katherine D. Harris (katherine.harris@email.sjsu.edu) by November 15, 2010. Please include any technical requirements (e.g., Internet access). This panel will undergo the normal review procedure by the SHARP conference committee. One participant for each proposal must be a member of SHARP prior to the conference. Founded in 1991, the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing is a global network of literary scholars, historians, librarians, booksellers, and publishing professionals. With more than 1,000 members in over 20 countries, SHARP works in concert with a number of affiliated scholarly organizations around the world to encourage the study of book history. Evoking Washington's status as an artistic and scientific center, "The Book in Art & Science" is a theme open to multiple interpretations. Besides prompting considerations of the book as a force in either art or science or the two fields working in tandem, it also encourages examinations of the scientific text; the book as a work of art; the art and science of manuscript, print, or digital textual production; the role of censorship and politics in the creation, production, distribution, or reception of particular scientific or artistic texts; the relationship between the verbal and the visual in works of art or science; art and science titles from the standpoint of publishing history or the histories of specific publishers; and much more. ************************** Dr. Katherine D. Harris 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 Editor, Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:47:27 -0500 From: Katherine L Walter Subject: DH 2011 Last call for proposals In-Reply-To: References: The international Program Committee for the Digital Humanities 2011 conference announces its last call for all proposals--proposals for posters, short papers, long papers, panels and pre-conference tutorials and workshops. The deadline is Monday, 1 Nov 2010, at 12 midnight GMT. Unlike calls in past years, this is a firm deadline. Submissions should be made through the DH 2011 web site, http:// dh2011.stanford.edu, using the conference installation of ConfTool. If you have previously used ConfTool to submit a paper, review papers, or register for Digital Humanities conference and cannot remember your user name, please contact us at dh2011@digitalhumanities.org. If you cannot remember your password, the system will generate a new password for you. Thanks to all of you who have already submitted! Members of the Program Committee are: Arianna Ciula, ALLC Jan Rybicki, ALLC John Nerbonne, ALLC Dan O'Donnell, SDI-SEMI Cara Leitch, SDI-SEMI Dominic Forest, SDI-SEMI Bethany Nowviskie, ACH Dot Porter, ACH John Walsh, ACH Katherine Walter (ACH: 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 Sun Oct 31 09:10:52 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 38650ABE2D; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:10:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6A7F1ABE1E; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:10:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101031091049.6A7F1ABE1E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:10:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.448 digital humanities and the cuts X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 448. 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] 24.445 digital humanities and the cuts [2] From: Louisa Connors (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.445 digital humanities and the cuts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:28:44 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.445 digital humanities and the cuts In-Reply-To: <20101029035428.7D342A63FE@woodward.joyent.us> I currently teach in a university in which 90% of its students are either Business or Criminal Justice majors. I don't need to say that the majority of the students coming in believe that their literature courses are useless and that faculty in the dominant schools only reinforce this opinion. Every day teaching is a hard sell of humanities study to a largely hostile audience -- not personally hostile to me, but generally hostile to having to be in a literature class, and God help us all if I'm teaching a poetry class, which is the most useless of all useless subjects. My response has been to ask students to explore their expectations for their education. As I'm sure you all know, most students tend to think of education in terms of vocational training: you are taught to do a job in school, and when you graduate, you go out and do that job. One response on my end is a "Consider the Cow" lecture. I ask my students to meditate on a cow: it gets up, surveys the field, decides the fence is a bit too far and the grass right where it is standing is just fine, then it eats, defecates, sleeps, and never goes beyond the boundaries set for it until it is slaughtered by its owners for profit. I ask my students to consider the possibility -- a very remote possibility, mind you -- that they are better than cows. That there is more to their lives than the jobs that they're going to do every morning, and that their education can also help them with the rest of their lives. Vocational training will not teach anyone how their spouse feels or what their children think and why. But humanities study just might. That is my defense of content. It worked well enough that students brought me photographs of cows the next semester to use in my repeat of the lecture. My next advocacy for the humanities is to lead my students to understand humanities study not just in terms of content, but also in terms of skills development. I tell my students that their most sophisticated reading will probably be in their literature classes (we don't offer much by way of philosophy). It will not be sophisticated because of its complexity of vocabulary, but because it communicates thought, action, and feeling at once. Because it is sometimes deliberately ambiguous, and sometimes the ambiguity is the point. And in being this way, it is the most like life: cryptic, ambiguous, and sometimes nonsensical. To learn how to read literature is to learn how to read life the people that you encounter along the way. Furthermore, it is simply to learn how to -read-, and by learning how to read, to learn how to -write-. I ask my students if they can recall hearing someone speak and thinking that they were stupid (yes, a very dangerous question to ask). Then I ask them if they themselves want to sound stupid in their speaking or in their writing. And then, yes, I intimate to them that sometimes, yes indeed, they too can sound rather stupid (I usually have a good relationship with my students and take as well as I give). I suggest to them that reading literature and writing about it develops reading and writing skills that they can carry into every job, as well as content knowledge that they can take with them into every human interaction. These are clearly not useless skills -- in fact, they are absolutely necessary -- but neither are they easily quantifiable in terms of product sales or visible output. At this point I ask my students to perform one more task: to consider the difference between an external product and a developed skill. The first is an investment in another person's resources. The latter is an investment in themselves. Why wouldn't they want to make it? Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:39:49 +1100 From: Louisa Connors Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.445 digital humanities and the cuts In-Reply-To: <20101029035428.7D342A63FE@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard Humanists might be interested in Bill Mitchell's analysis of funding cuts to the humanities. He discusses the flaws of the mainstream economic approach. He also proposes a different way of viewing economic choices governments face, which include adequate funding for our universities. When you understand his argument you are left with no doubt that the funding cuts are more ideological than a financial necessity or consequence of the financial system. http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=12121 Best wishes Louisa _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 31 09:12:09 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 F2EFBABEA7; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:12:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7725AABE98; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:12:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101031091206.7725AABE98@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:12:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.449 researcher & programmer X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 449. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:32:56 +0100 From: "Stephen Woodruff" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.444 researcher & programmer In-Reply-To: <20101029034435.31A93A61A9@woodward.joyent.us> > "... dans ce demaine au moins, l'historien de demain sera programmeur ou il ne sera plus". And when automobiles were invented no doubt people said he who would travel must be an engineer. Which was probably correct for the first 20 years of automobiles with their technical frailty and poor design. Temporal chauvinism... 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 Oct 31 09:13:26 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 9EAD6ABF0C; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:13:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ABA54ABEFB; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:13:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101031091324.ABA54ABEFB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:13:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.450 doctoral study in Germany X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 450. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:46:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Doctoral study opportunities abroad In-Reply-To: <20101029035615.72CF8A6580@woodward.joyent.us> ( Dear list-participants, I call attention to the following simply as a sort of 'community service'. ) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Here is an initiative which presumably deserves broad publicity in academic circles outside Germany, e.g. via this list -- though ( disclaimer ! : ) I am not myself connected with the matter in any way [ except coincidentally as, thanks to the DAAD, a former "Doktorandus" myself, long ago, in that country ] : I came today across this announcement which was just published yesterday, and is perhaps worth noting in connection with possibilities for advanced study also in our fields of interest : "Promotionsdatenbank -- Gewinnung von Doktoranden aus dem Ausland : Neues Web-Angebot des DAAD" http://www.daad-magazin.de/15486/index.html You may find this to be pertinent and potentially useful, among other things, when it comes to advising promising students who are thinking of pursuing the doctorate elsewhere than in their country of origin ( with the exception, of course, of those from Germany ). The site itself, "PhDGermany - Die Vermittlungsplattform zum Promovieren und Forschen in Deutschland" is at : http://www.daad.de/deutschland/forschung/german-research-careers/14304.de.html The offerings on this new site are at this point not terribly numerous, I see, but one would think that the number may increase substantially once it catches on. - Laval Hunsucker Knokke-Heist, België _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 31 09:14:45 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 619CAABF89; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:14:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 70F1AABF79; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:14:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101031091443.70F1AABF79@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:14:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.451 new journal: humanities & information systems 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. 24, No. 451. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:12:16 +0200 From: Jan Kroeze Subject: New: The Journal of Humanities and Information Systems Dear colleagues It is my pleasure to announce a new journal, published by IBIMA, that will cater for articles in the interdisciplinary field of Information Systems and the Humanities (JHIS). This is a call for submissions for the first edtion of JHIS. JOURNAL DESCRIPTION The Journal of Humanities and Information Systems (JHIS) is an international peer reviewed and applied research journal that publishes papers on the symbiotic relationship between the two disciplines of Information Systems and the Humanities. Its unique focus will be research on Humanities-enriched IS, but other Humanities-Computing papers and case studies will also be considered. All papers will be subjected to a multiple blind peer review process. Papers should contribute to the existing body of knowledge of the domain in terms of theory and/or practice. MISSION JHIS aims to create an international forum to discuss and evaluate studies that implement theoretical constructs borrowed from the Humanities in various aspects of Information Systems, as well as investigations regarding the application of information technology in the Humanities. The creation of publication opportunities for research with refreshing angles, some borrowed from other sciences, is a conscious effort to share interest and useful research and to counteract rigid procedures that are "stifling the intellectual advancement of our discipline" (Shoib and Nandhakumar, 2009). SCOPE Topics of interest for this journal include, but are not limited to, the following list: * Linguistics and Information Systems * History and Information Systems * Art and Information Systems * Philosophy and Information Systems * Law and Information Systems * Hermeneutics and Information Systems CALL FOR ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS TO JHIS Since there still are limited publication opportunities for Information System scientists (cf. Straub, 2009:v) in comparison with some other older, well-established disciplines, new opportunities should be embraced and used in order to build our discipline. Therefore, our colleagues are invited to submit some of their research outputs to this new outlet. ASSOCIATE EDITORS AND PEER REVIEWERS Please let me know if you would be interested to become an associate editor or peer reviewer of JHIS. The editors and reviewers of JHIS should be like diamond miners taking a positive view while looking for "exciting forays into new research domains" (Straub, 2009:vii). The general aim in the review processes of this new journal will be to be inclusive and developmental rather than to perform "a modern hygiene ritual", because we agree with Wastell and MacMaster (2008:64) that "a high rejection rate implies a collective failure of scholarship not the intellectual prosperity of a field". For more information about the journal and submissions, see http://www.ibimapublishing.com/journals/JHIS/jhis.html Jan H. Kroeze, School of Computing, University of South Africa (editor-in-chief) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 08:04:12 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 1C4D19BEA0; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:04:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 221CE9B842; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:04:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101101080410.221CE9B842@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:04:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.452 books on 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 452. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 14:42:44 +1000 From: Kerry Kilner Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.437 books on DH In-Reply-To: <20101028054217.2FA6D9FE23@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Willard, Off the top of my head, I would also add works such as those by: David Weinberger - "Everything Is Miscellaneous" and "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" Clay Shirkey "Here Comes Everyone" and "Cognitive Surplus" Gary Hall's "Digitize This Book" N Katherine Hayles "Writing Machines" and "Electronic Literature" plus, of course, "My Mother was a Computer" but that's already been recommended. Regards Kerry _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 08:04:49 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 6ED839BEE9; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:04:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5B9F49BED7; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:04:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101101080447.5B9F49BED7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:04:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.453 digital humanities and the cuts X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 453. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:44:46 +0000 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: Medical humanities James Rovira's post reminds me that medical students, as an integral part of the undergraduate part of their medical degrees, take compulsory modules in the humanities and philosophy. Who, according to Willetts and Cable, will teach these modules? Dave Postles _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 10:23:16 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 A1C2B98085; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:23:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4541A98010; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:23:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101102102314.4541A98010@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:23:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.454 researcher & programmer X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 454. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 09:48:54 +0100 From: Øyvind Eide Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.449 researcher & programmer In-Reply-To: <20101031091206.7725AABE98@woodward.joyent.us> Thank you, fellow Humanists, for the references to Ladurie and to Dearing! I would also like to comment the other side of the issue: > Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:32:56 +0100 > From: "Stephen Woodruff" > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.444 researcher & programmer > In-Reply-To: <20101029034435.31A93A61A9@woodward.joyent.us> > >> "... dans ce demaine au moins, l'historien de demain sera programmeur > ou il ne sera plus". > And when automobiles were invented no doubt people said he who would > travel must be an engineer. Which was probably correct for the first > 20 > years of automobiles with their technical frailty and poor design. > Temporal chauvinism... I am not so sure about this. Could it be that this would be a call for IT consultants, rather than programmers? As the engineer driving the car would mostly need his skill to repair the car, not modify or build it, right? Maybe a better image would be the carpenter. When I make bookshelves and other stuff for the house, I do it as people have done it for decades or even centuries, so I use a set of standard tools. But if I would build something very different from what people have ever made before, I would assume being a little bit of a blacksmith, being able to modify or build my own tools, would be helpful. Of course, in order to use the computer to write your articles, you do not need to be a programmer (although you may need to have or have access to certain maintenance and repair skills in order to keep the system running and make sure you do not loose files). But if you want the computer to do what no computer has done before? This leads to a rather dull conclusion, however; the middle one: _some_ humanities researchers should be programmer. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Unit for Digital Documentation, University of 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 Tue Nov 2 10:46:46 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 C291A9754E; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:46:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D433497544; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:46:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101102104645.D433497544@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:46:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.455 digital humanities and the cuts X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 455. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:47:44 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Work on a modest scale Given the dim prospects for funding and for new academic jobs in most (though not all) parts of the world reached by Humanist, it would seem to me practical to ask what can be done without institutional resources. Admittedly there is much that cannot. As in most (but not all) of the sciences, there are certain kinds of projects which simply require a collaborative team of people all of whose salaries need to be paid. Other projects are impossible without considerable stretches of uninterrupted, untroubled time. But devotion to the work finds a way, in bits and scraps of time as these become available, with kinds of research that can be done in them, by oneself, using all that free brain-power we let go unused. I think we should be asking, what problems have we been ignoring that we can now turn our attention to? What have we been *prevented* from doing by former luxuries? How could current technologies be better deployed to help? If choices have to be made, how can the least expensive kinds of work be supported? Years ago I found myself in a job that did not allow time for the research I had been trained to do. So I was forced to make use of every available moment, on public transport, in the doctor's waiting room and so forth, for reading, note-taking, writing, editing. You might say I discovered then what Pliny the Elder realized millennia ago, that if one wishes to accomplish great things in scholarship every available moment must be utilised. Mobile technologies have subsequently provided us with numerous options for work under less than ideal circumstances, but these technologies are driven by kinds of work very different from our own and in consequence are seldom a perfect fit. So, in addition to everything else we can observe what's happening e.g. as we take notes on the bus and feed experiences back to the developers of software. I suppose all this is really to ask, what matters to us most -- and what really matters to those for whose benefit we are working in the long-term? How under changed circumstances can we best continue? Comments? 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 Nov 2 10:47:34 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 345F597B1A; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:47:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A965997B08; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:47:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101102104732.A965997B08@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:47:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.456 Job at Ryerson X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 456. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 14:57:19 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: job at Ryerson Allow me to direct your attention once again to the advert for an academic position in digital humanities at Ryerson (http://www.ryerson.ca/english/employment/). In conversation with the Head of English there I've learned that the number of applications is surprisingly small. This should not be -- Ryerson is a very good place, Toronto a fine place to live. 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 Nov 2 10:48:17 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 A3B9098D16; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:48:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C6F8B98D02; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:48:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101102104815.C6F8B98D02@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:48:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.457 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 457. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:03:51 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Mother Pelican Mother Pelican is a journal on sustainable human development. It is named in honor of the Human Being that "Mother Pelican" represents. The November 2010 issue has been posted: What is the Root Cause of Unsustainable Development? http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n11page1.html Articles: 1. Editorial Opinion ~ The Root Cause of Unsustainable Development 2. The Economics of Natality, by Ina Praetorius 3. The Case for Working with our Cultural Values, by Tom Crompton 4. The First Woman Priest, by José Ignacio González Faus 5. Reducing Inequality: The Missing MDG, by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr 6. The Values of Everything, by George Monbiot 7. Reflections on Paying Living Wages, by Rita M. Rodriguez 8. Ecological Perspectives on Business Decision-Making, by Ilia Delio 9. Adam and Eve and the Gender Divide, by John R. Coates Supplements: 1. Advances in Sustainable Development 2. Directory of Sustainable Development Resources 3. Sustainable Development Simulation (SDSIM) Version 1.2 Please forward to friends and associates who might be interested. Submission of research papers at the intersection of sustainable development and gender equality is cordially invited. Sincerely, Luis Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D. The Pelican Web (http://www.pelicanweb.org) Editor, Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Development 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 Nov 3 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 3921498E19; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 08:47:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 933AB98E0F; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 08:47:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101103084736.933AB98E0F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 08:47:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.458 jobs: at Stanford, at Ryerson X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 458. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: jeremy hunsinger (33) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.456 Job at Ryerson [2] From: Ben Albritton (102) Subject: JOB OPENING: Web Developer at the Stanford University Libraries --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 07:38:59 -0400 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.456 Job at Ryerson In-Reply-To: <20101102104732.A965997B08@woodward.joyent.us> I like Ryerson and have many friends there, i even have an affiliation there with one of their labs working in Virtual Worlds. I think two phrases in the call are putting people off a bit and 'subject to budgetary approval' and 'literary studies' . I have a feel for what digital humanities is, but I don't actually know whether or not which works fit into literary studies, though I am almost certain that none of my published works would fit there, though many of my projects could. So when I read this call, I said, ok, they are going to hire a textualist from Vancouver or someone from the Nebraska workshops doing TEI, they want 'discipline:english' as does the chicago call, as did the columbia call. I think this is something that people need to pay attention in calls much more often, calls are frequently highly disciplined in ways that preclude good applicants from applying. There aren't that many people out there on the one hand, I think I could say around 2000-4000 that could go on the market for assistant jobs worldwide would be my guess, and there are a probably a few thousand that could apply for a job like this, but out of a few thousand, narrow the discipline to English and the number drops precipitously, then only those that imagine their work to be literary studies, well then what do you have maybe 50 that could legitimately fit of which maybe 1/2 will apply, combine that with the population that won't fit, but will apply to just about anything, which is a very large population, but is probably 100 more applications. Several people have sent me this app and said, you should apply anyway, and I say reading the advertisement... 'It doesn't look like a good fit.', and I think many possible applicants are in the same boat. Advertisements in digital humanities frequently read 'want someone in English' or 'want someone in history', and rarely do they read 'we want someone that can work in digital humanities across and through multiple disciplines. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Live without dead time. -graffitti Paris 1968 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 14:04:20 -0700 From: Ben Albritton Subject: JOB OPENING: Web Developer at the Stanford University Libraries In-Reply-To: <20101102104732.A965997B08@woodward.joyent.us> To view the position description and apply: 1. Go to http://jobs.stanford.edu/find_a_job.html 2. Keyword search for 40447 ----- Stanford University Libraries is seeking a talented web developer to support scholarship in the digital age by delivering on the promises of the digital library. This is a 21-month, grant-funded position. The Web Developer will primarily develop digital library software to enable online discovery, viewing and collaborative annotation of digital library materials. He or she will develop and deploy web services to enable interoperability between digital library repositories at different institutions, and will integrate image annotation and transcription tools into digital library applications. The Web Developer will be a member of a core team dedicated to the successful completion of a grant-funded project, and will work closely with the project manager, the information architect, digital library infrastructure developers, the user experience designer and other web developers involved in digital humanities initiatives. This particular project is highly collaborative, and will involve interactions with developers, scholars and staff from other institutions. Developing and implementing open standards and open source software is an explicit objective of the project. As a member of SULAIR’s web development team, the Web Developer will contribute to the overall development of the Stanford Library’s web and digital library infrastructure, and help plan, specify, and build the technologies needed to support the University’s goal of ubiquitous access to scholarly information. Primary Responsibilities: • Design and deploy RESTful web services for exposing and delivering metadata and images from digital library repositories at Stanford and elsewhere. Develop technical documentation describing the web services framework, and work with partners to deploy these web services at other institutions. • Analyze, enrich, and transform digitized content and associated metadata into defined formats, schema and systems. This will involve automated manipulation of XML-based metadata as well as bulk conversion and ingestion of digital image files into digital library repository systems (such as Fedora). • Develop and deploy an online discovery environment that allows visitors to search metadata and full-text indexes of digital library data, and provides users tools to interact with those data. These web-based tools will support text transcription (from scanned images), image annotation and online group collaboration. • Develop and deploy technologies to deliver to the web large digitized images. This includes implementation of a load balanced JPEG2000 image server, supporting web services for streaming images over http and implementation of an image viewing application. • Produce documentation and provide technical support within SULAIR and to partner institutions in deploying and implementing these technologies in different digital library environments. Required Knowledge and Skills • Participation in at least one web development project using Ruby on Rails, Java or PHP. Familiarity with a range of programming and scripting languages is essential; Ruby on Rails expertise is highly desirable. • Demonstrated ability to write solid, simple, elegant code both independently and in a team-programming environment and within schedule limitations. • In-depth knowledge of HTML and related website development technologies and software (especially Javascript, CSS and PHP). • Demonstrated expertise with XML and related tools and technologies (e.g., XML schema, schema management and databases, XSLT, X-forms). • Experience with relational database design and management. Experience implementing database applications for SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL. • Demonstrated ability to work independently on a project from specification to launch; communicate effectively, orally and in writing; and work with all levels of staff, vendors, and consultants. • Demonstrated proficiency working on a cross-functional web development team, including human-computer interaction specialists, system administrators, database programmers, librarians and end users. • Demonstrated proficiency applying best practices to technical projects, especially test-first development and automated testing. Also must make effective use of team collaboration tools, build management, and version control systems. • Demonstrated success participating in and contributing to open source software development projects. • Demonstrated experience with library applications and technology, including experience participating in relevant library open source efforts. • In-depth knowledge of library policies and practice, metadata standards and the scholarly communication framework • Quick and self-bootstrapping learner. Particularly adept at quickly learning new scripting and programming languages. • Expertise in networking and systems integration in a heterogeneous hardware and software environment. Desired Knowledge and Skills: • Familiarity with XML schemas used to describe digitized cultural heritage materials, such as TEI, MODS, METS, and EAD. • Prior experience working in digital humanities technology projects, particularly projects involving medieval manuscripts. • Familiarity with test driven development processes, or the desire and ability to learn them. Qualifications and requirements: • Education: Four-year college degree or equivalent required; advanced degree desired • Related Experience: Three to five years required; five to seven years desired. -- Stuart Snydman Manager, Digital Production / Web Application Development Stanford University Libraries snydman@stanford.edu 650-796-7340 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 3 08:49:54 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 E9AAB99826; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 08:49:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2AE429866B; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 08:49:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101103084952.2AE429866B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 08:49:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.459 events: visualization; evo-music & art; 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. 24, No. 459. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Juan Romero (184) Subject: CFP evomusart 2011. Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music,Sound, Art and Design [2] From: Willard McCarty (32) Subject: Technology Conference, Bilbao, Spain, 25-27 March 2011 - Call for Papers [3] From: Willard McCarty (49) Subject: Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation Conference [4] From: Willard McCarty (30) Subject: The Computational Gaze: Session Proposal for SPSP Third Biennial Conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 11:40:00 +0100 From: Juan Romero Subject: CFP evomusart 2011. Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music,Sound, Art and Design Please distribute (Apologies for multiple posting) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS evomusart 2011 9th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design Deadline 22 November 2010!! 27-29 April, 2011, Torino, Italy evomusart 2011: http://www.evostar.org/call-for-contributions/evoapplications/evomusart/ evo* 2011: http://www.evostar.org/ CFP in pdf: http://www.evostar.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/call_evomusart.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The use of biologically inspired techniques for the development of artistic systems is a recent, exciting and significant area of research. There is a growing interest in the application of these techniques in fields such as: visual art and music generation, analysis, and interpretation; sound synthesis; architecture; video; poetry; design; and other creative tasks. evomusart 2011 is the ninth european event on Evolutionary Music and Art. Following the success of previous events and the growth of interest in the field, the main goal of evomusart 2011 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 the area. The event will be held from 27-29 April, 2011 in Torino, Italy as part of the evostar event. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the event and included in the evoapplications proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The papers should concern the use of biologically inspired techniques - e.g. 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 - Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.; o Biologically Inspired Sound and Music - Systems that create musical pieces, sounds, instruments, voices, sound effects, sound analysis, 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 Surveys of the current state-of-the-art in the area; identification of weaknesses and strengths; comparative analysis and classification; o Validation methodologies; o Studies on the applicability of these techniques to related areas; o New models designed to promote the creative potential of biologically inspired computation; - Computer Aided Creativity o Systems in which biologically inspired computation is used to promote the creativity of a human user; o New ways of integrating the user in the evolutionary cycle; 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 automatic fitness assignment; o Systems in which an analysis or interpretation of the artworks is used in conjunction with biologically inspired techniques to produce novel objects; o Systems that resort to biologically inspired computation to perform the analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some other types of artistic object; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission: 22 November 2010 Notification: 7 January 2011 Camera ready: 1 February 2011 Workshop: 27-29 April 2011 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format (instructions downloadable from http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html) no later than November 22, 2010 to site http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps11 The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper. The papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by January 7, 2011. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts, along with text sources and pictures, by February 1, 2011. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, published in Springer LNCS Series, which will be available at the workshop. Further information, including the Online Submission Details, can be found on the following pages: evomusart2011: http://www.evostar.org/call-for-contributions/evoapplications/evomusart/ evostar 2011: http://www.evostar.org/ CFP in pdf: http://www.evostar.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/call_evomusart.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alain Lioret (Paris 8 University,France) Alan Dorin (Monash University,Australia) Alejandro Pazos (University of A Coruna,Spain) Amilcar Cardoso (University of Coimbra,Portugal) Amy K. Hoover (University of Central Florida,USA) Andrew Gildfind (Google, Inc.,Australia) Andrew Horner (University of Science & Technology,Hong Kong) Anna Ursyn (University of Northern Colorado,USA) Antonino Santos (University of A Coruna,Spain) Artemis Sanchez Moroni (Renato Archer Research Center,Brazil) Benjamin Schroeder (Ohio State University,USA) Bill Manaris (College of Charleston,USA) Brian Ross (Brock University,Canada) Carla Farsi (University of Colorado,USA) Carlos Grilo (Instituto Politécnico de Leiria,Portugal) Christian Jacob (University of Calgary,Canada) Colin Johnson (University of Kent,UK) Craig Kaplan (University of Waterloo,Canada) Dan Ashlock (University of Guelph,Canada) Eduardo Miranda (University of Plymouth,UK Eleonora Bilotta (University of Calabria,Italy) Erwin Driessens (Independent Artist, Netherlands) Gary Greenfield (University of Richmond,USA) Gary Nelson (Oberlin College,USA) Gerhard Widmer (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Hans Dehlinger(Independent Artist,Germany) James McDermott(University of Limerick,Ireland) John Collomosse(University of Surrey,UK) Jon Bird (University of Sussex,UK) Jon McCormack (Monash University,Australia) Jorge Tavares (University of Coimbra,Portugal) José Fornari (NICS/Unicamp,Brazil) Juan Romero (University of A Coruna,Spain) Kevin Burns (Mitre Corporation,USA) Luigi Pagliarini (Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting & University of Southern Denmark,Italy) Marcelo Freitas Caetano (IRCAM, France) Maria Verstappen (Independent Artist,Netherlands) Matthew Lewis (Ohio State University,USA) Mauro Annunziato (Plancton Art Studio,Italy) Nicolas Monmarché (University of Tours,France) Oliver Bown (Monash University,Australia) Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid,Spain) Palle Dahlstedt (Göteborg University,Sweden) Paul Brown (University of Sussex,UK) Paulo Urbano (Universidade de Lisboa ,Portugal) Penousal Machado (University of Coimbra,Portugal) Peter Bentley (University College London ,UK) Philip Galanter (Texas A&M College of Architecture,USA) Rafael Ramirez (Pompeu Fabra University,Spain) Rodney Waschka II (North Carolina State University,USA) Ruli Manurung (University of Indonesia,Indonesia) Scott Draves (Independent Artist,USA) Simon Colton (Imperial College,UK) Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk (University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia) Stefano Cagnoni (University of Parma,Italy) Stephen Todd (IBM,UK) Tim Blackwell (Goldsmiths College, University of London,UK) Vic Ciesielski (RMIT,Australia) William Latham (Goldsmiths College, University of London,UK) Yang Li (University of Science and Technology Beijing,China) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Juan Romero University of A Coruna, Spain jj AT udc DOT es Gary Greenfield University of Richmond, USA ggreenfi AT richmond DOT edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 08:26:37 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Technology Conference, Bilbao, Spain, 25-27 March 2011 - Call for Papers > From: Karim Gherab Martin > Date: 3 November 2010 07:36:48 GMT > Subject: Technology Conference, Bilbao, Spain, 25-27 March 2011 - Call for Papers > > Dear Colleague, > > On behalf of the international Advisory Board, I would like to inform you of the: > SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY > University of Basque Country, Spain > 25-27 March 2011 > http://www.Technology-Conference.com > > We are pleased to host the Technology Conference in 2011 at the University of Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain. One of Spain's most important economic centers, Bilbao has several key industrial sectors including aeronautics, electronics and information technology. Bilbao has also recently undergone an urban resurgence; the most noticeable on its skyline is the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum. > > This conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that address the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge and society. The conference is cross-disciplinary in scope, meeting points for technologists with a concern for the social and social scientists with a concern for the technological. The focus is primarily, but not exclusively, on information and communications technologies. > > Scheduled activities include plenary presentations by accomplished researchers, scholars and practitioners, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal. > > Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this conference, we also encourage you to present on the Conference YouTube Channel. Please select the Online Sessions link on the conference website for further details. We also invite you to join us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Technology-Knowledge-Society/119564541396695 and Twitter http://twitter.com/techandsoc. > > The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 9 November 2010. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the conference website - http://www.Technology-Conference.com > > We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Bilbao in March 2011. > > Yours Sincerely, > > Karim Gherab Martin > Visiting Research Scholar > University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA > Bibliotecas Digitales, Madrid, Spain > > For the Advisory Board, International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society and The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 08:33:08 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation Conference > From: Annamaria Carusi > Date: 2 November 2010 18:19:35 GMT > To: "willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk" > Subject: [SPSP] Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation Conference > Reply-To: Annamaria Carusi > > The following conference may be of interest to some on the list (apologies for cross-posting) > > Call for proposals deadline: 1 December 2010 > > Conference: 25-26 March 2011, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford > > The Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) is organising a two-day conference on 25-26 March 2011 at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, with support from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the Oxford e-Social Science project. > > Speakers include: > Peter Galison, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University > Michael Lynch, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University > Barbara Maria Stafford, Distinguished University Professor, Georgia Tech > Steve Woolgar, InSIS, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford > Summarising discussants: > Anne Beaulieu, Virtual Knowledge Studio (TBC) > Paolo Quattrone, IE Business School and Fulbright New Century Scholar > > Topic: > Visualisations abound in all forms and phases of research and knowledge production and communication. From the graphical user interface of our computers, to equipment and instrument displays, to the screens of our smart phones, knowledge communication of all kinds is increasingly visual. In design, engineering, science, education, medicine, the humanities and social sciences, the increasing pervasiveness of visual images is due largely to computational techniques. To be sure, computers have been in common use in science and related domains since the advent of the desktop computer. Over the past decade, however, plain text commands, programming languages and numerical engagement have given way to the visual form, from the reproduction, modification and synthesis of images to the visual representation of that which formerly could not be seen. > > There has been an unprecedented rate of innovation in computational imaging and visualising techniques to render physical and non-physical data in visual form, including techniques for multi-dimensionality, the development of algorithmic techniques for image processing, the production of hybrid visual objects and an apparent photo-realism for non-existent entities and objects. The emergence of the Internet-as-database, with complex and massive quantities of data mined from online social and spatial processes given visual form, has gone hand-in-hand with these advances in making new phenomena and data visible. > > > Call for papers: > We welcome abstracts of 500-1000 words for papers on these topics. We also invite proposals for less conventional forums, such as conversations, performance pieces or installation works. > > Submission Deadline: > 1 December 2010 to visualisation@sbs.ox.ac.uk > > http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/insis/news/Pages/visualisation.aspx > > > Dr Annamaria Carusi > Senior Research Associate > Oxford e-Research Centre > University of Oxford > > Address: > 7 Keble Road > Oxford OX1 3QG > > annamaria.carusi@oerc.ox.ac.uk > www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/annamaria-carusi --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 08:42:57 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: The Computational Gaze: Session Proposal for SPSP Third Biennial Conference From: Annamaria Carusi > Date: 2 November 2010 18:15:11 GMT > To: "willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk" > Subject: [SPSP] The Computational Gaze: Session Proposal for SPSP Third Biennial Conference > Reply-To: Annamaria Carusi > > Dear all, > > I am interested in putting together a thematic session on Imaging and Visualisation in Science for the Third Biennial SPSP Conference to be held in Exeter, 2011. http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/egenis/events/conferences/title,23552,en.html > > The focus of the session will be on understanding the epistemological aspects of new computational resources for imaging and data visualisation, from new image processing techniques to visualisation for modelling and simulation, and for data intensive science across the disciplines. > > If you would be interested in participating in such a session, or are possibly planning something along similar lines, please could you email me at annamaria.carusi@oerc.ox.ac.uk. > > Thanks and best wishes > > Annamaria > > > Dr Annamaria Carusi > Senior Research Associate > Oxford e-Research Centre > University of Oxford > > Address: > 7 Keble Road > Oxford OX1 3QG > > annamaria.carusi@oerc.ox.ac.uk > www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/annamaria-Caruso _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 07:05:11 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 5903299911; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 07:05:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E923699909; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 07:05:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101104070509.E923699909@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 07:05:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.460 job at Ryerson X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 460. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 14:57:32 -0400 From: Vivian Tsang Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.458 jobs: at Stanford, at Ryerson In-Reply-To: <20101103084736.933AB98E0F@woodward.joyent.us> My reaction was exactly the same when I looked at the posting. My graduate training is entirely about processing text corpora and my current work is to develop technology to facilitate the process of reading and writing. But English? How many people have this kind of profile? Vivian Tsang Post-doc fellow Bloorview Research Institute vtsang@hollandbloorview.ca --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 07:38:59 -0400 > From: jeremy hunsinger > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.456 Job at Ryerson > In-Reply-To: <20101102104732.A965997B08@woodward.joyent.us> > > I like Ryerson and have many friends there, i even have an affiliation > there with one of their labs working in Virtual Worlds. I think two phrases > in the call are putting people off a bit and 'subject to budgetary > approval' and 'literary studies' . I have a feel for what digital > humanities is, but I don't actually know whether or not which works fit into > literary studies, though I am almost certain that none of my published works > would fit there, though many of my projects could. So when I read this > call, I said, ok, they are going to hire a textualist from Vancouver or > someone from the Nebraska workshops doing TEI, they want > 'discipline:english' as does the chicago call, as did the columbia call. I > think this is something that people need to pay attention in calls much more > often, calls are frequently highly disciplined in ways that preclude good > applicants from applying. There aren't that many people out there on the > one hand, I think I could say around 2000-4000 that could go on the market > for assistant jobs worldwide would be my guess, and there are a probably a > few thousand that could apply for a job like this, but out of a few > thousand, narrow the discipline to English and the number drops > precipitously, then only those that imagine their work to be literary > studies, well then what do you have maybe 50 that could legitimately fit of > which maybe 1/2 will apply, combine that with the population that won't fit, > but will apply to just about anything, which is a very large population, but > is probably 100 more applications. Several people have sent me this app and > said, you should apply anyway, and I say reading the advertisement... 'It > doesn't look like a good fit.', and I think many possible applicants are in > the same boat. Advertisements in digital humanities frequently read 'want > someone in English' or 'want someone in history', and rarely do they read > 'we want someone that can work in digital humanities across and through > multiple disciplines. > > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 07:05:37 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 D28839A173; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 07:05:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BEB0C9A161; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 07:05:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101104070536.BEB0C9A161@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 07:05:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.461 PhD recommendations? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 461. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:03:18 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Ph.D. Program Recommendations? > Subject: Ph.D. Program Recommendations > Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:26:17 +0000 > From: Drew Longacre Dear Textual Scholars, I hope this is an appropriate use of the e-mail distribution list, but I was wondering if I could get your professional opinions on graduate programs. I am researching Ph.D. programs for the fall of 2011, and I want to specialize in textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Any recommendations for programs and/or professors to study under would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Drew Longacre drewlongacre@yahoo.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 4 07:06:05 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 0ED3F9A694; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 07:06:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 602309A616; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 07:06:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101104070603.602309A616@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 07:06:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.462 DH & CS at Tufts X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 462. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:59:25 -0400 From: Gregory Crane Subject: Digital Humanities and Computer Science at Tufts *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1288807172_2010-11-03_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_5538.2.doc Digital Humanities in the Computer Science Department at Tufts University PLEASE CIRCULATE Computer Science has played a critical role in many areas of inquiry, but nowhere are the potential implications greater than in the Humanities. We are transforming the ways in which we can relate to the past and understand the relationship of that past to the world in which we live. We need a new generation of researchers who can develop new methods from the computational sciences to advance the intellectual life of humanity. The presence of the Perseus Project (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu) at Tufts since 1992 has allowed Tufts play a significant role in the emerging field of Digital Humanities. The Tufts Department of Computer Science (http://www.cs.tufts.edu/) now provides unique opportunities for emerging researchers with an interest in the Digital Humanities to develop those interests within the department of Computer Science, combining rigorous course work with opportunities to develop projects relevant to various areas within the humanities. Tufts can support a wide range of backgrounds and career goals. Undergraduates at Tufts and elsewhere with an interest in Digital Humanities are encouraged to combine either a major or a minor in Computer Science with another area of the Humanities. Such a combination will provide a foundation for undergraduate research projects of tangible value. Students who have a strong humanities background and wish to develop a rigorous foundation in Computer Science for subsequent Digital Humanities work are encouraged to consider the Post-Baccalaureate Minor Program in Computer Science (http://www.cs.tufts.edu/academics/cs_minor_grad). The Post-Bac CS Minor will enable students either to pursue subsequent graduate work in Computer Science or lay the foundations for Digital Humanities research within a graduate program in the humanities. More advanced students may consider the Master's Program in Computer Science. This can either lead to a Phd program in Computer Science or an area within the Humanities but it can also prepare students for work developing the digital infrastructures within libraries, cultural institutions, and major media. The Tufts Phd Program in Computer Science provides a framework in which students with a strong background in some area of the Humanities can develop research and teaching agendas that bridge the gap between Computer Science and areas within the Humanities. A Phd in Computer Science at Tufts can give you a unique position in revolutionizing the intellectual life of humanity. More information will become available with an update on http://www.cs.tufts.edu.For more information, students can contact digitalhumanities@cs.tufts.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 4 07:07:12 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 A785F9A4EB; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 07:07:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B74F9962BC; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 07:07:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101104070710.B74F9962BC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 07:07:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.463 events: THATCamp; ancient 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. 24, No. 463. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Litch, Mary" (25) Subject: THATCamp SoCal, January 11-12, 2011 [2] From: Aurélien Berra (46) Subject: Le séminaire « Textes anciens et humanités numériques », EHESS 2010-2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 11:39:54 -0700 From: "Litch, Mary" Subject: THATCamp SoCal, January 11-12, 2011 Dear colleagues, DHSoCal is co-sponsoring THATCamp SoCal immediately following the 2011 MLA Convention in Los Angeles. Dates for THATCamp (The Humanities And Technology Camp) in Southern California are January 11-12, 2011. The event will be hosted at Chapman University in Orange, California. Because this regional THATCamp is scheduled in conjunction with the 2011 MLA Convention, we especially encourage literary-minded humanists to attend and will offer workshop sessions of particular interest to those who work with literature. We welcome applications both from Southern California residents and from those coming to the area to attend the MLA Convention. The application period is currently open. More information is available at http://socal2011.thatcamp.org/. WHAT IS THATCAMP AND HOW DOES IT DIFFER FROM A TRADITIONAL CONFERENCE? While THATCamp consists of concurrent sessions as at a traditional conference, each session is run in a more informal fashion. There are no lengthy presentations; rather, each session has a leader or leaders to "get the ball rolling," with the remainder of the session given over to discussion or productive, collegial work. The expectation is that everyone who attends a session participates in some way. The conference schedule is developed at the opening session based on clusters of interest. A typical THATCamp schedule can be viewed at http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/schedule/. In addition to THATCamp sessions, THATCamp SoCal will include several BootCamp workshops covering technologies of interest to digital humanists. WHO SHOULD APPLY? Anyone -- scholars, students, librarians, museum professionals, technologists -- with an interest in humanities and technology and a willingness to share their knowledge in a collaborative environment may apply. While most THATCamp attendees have an affiliation with an academic institution, this is not required. HOW DO I APPLY? The application period is currently open. Rolling acceptances will continue until conference capacity is reached. Applicants are expected to offer one or two session proposals. While not all session proposals will make it onto the final schedule, proposing a session does imply that the applicant is willing and able to serve as session (co-)leader for that topic. The actual application is done online at http://socal2011.thatcamp.org/. HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO ATTEND? IS THERE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE? It costs nothing to attend THATCamp; however, the organizers may "pass the hat" during the event and ask for donations to cover refreshments. Fellowships are available for attendees who need assistance covering travel or accommodation expenses. Mary Litch Director, Academic Technology and Digital Media Chapman University Orange, CA 92866 litch@chapman.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 06:58:53 +0000 From: Aurélien Berra Subject: Le séminaire « Textes anciens et humanités numériques », EHESS 2010-2011 > Subject: Séminaire « Textes anciens et humanités numériques », EHESS, 2010-2011 > Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 18:57:30 +0000 > From: Aurélien Berra Dear textual scholars, Please find below and in the attached file the programme of a seminar starting soon in Paris. Do feel free to forward this announcement to anyone who could be interested. Best regards, Aurélien Berra --- Le séminaire « Textes anciens et humanités numériques » a pour objet le renouvellement que suscitent les technologies informatiques dans l'étude des textes anciens, en particulier grecs et latins, qui occupent une place spéciale dans la construction des /digital humanities/. En indiquant les étapes d'une histoire riche de plus d'un demi-siècle d'expérimentations et en dressant un tableau sélectif des instruments et des projets actuels, il s'agit d'inviter à une réflexion sur les enjeux de la philologie numérique et sur l'avenir de l'édition critique. Ce cycle de conférences complémentaires de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales comporte six séances. Elles auront lieu de décembre 2010 à mai 2011, le mercredi de 14 h à 16 h, à l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art, 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris, salle Fabri de Peiresc (séances 1 et 3-6) et salle Mariette (séance 2). La première séance est une introduction générale. Chacune des quatre suivantes explore un aspect du domaine, puis propose le commentaire de projets remarquables. La séance de conclusion examine les problèmes et les promesses du texte numérique à travers l'exemple d'un projet en cours d'élaboration. 08.12.20101. Le sens de l'oxymore 12.01.20112. Qu'est-ce qu'un texte ? Projets du vingtième siècle, 1 02.02.20113. Quand lire, c'est faire. Projets du vingtième siècle, 2 02.03.20114. Philologie à venir. Projets du vingt et unième siècle, 1 06.04.20115. Quelle(s) communauté(s) ? Projets du vingt et unième siècle, 2 04.05.20116. Le projet « Athénée numérique » Toutes les personnes intéressées sont bienvenues, quels que soient leur spécialité, leur statut et leur pratique de ces technologies toujours nouvelles. Ce séminaire de recherche est conçu comme un lieu de partage non seulement des connaissances, mais aussi des expériences et des questions. Le carnet de recherche en ligne /Philologie à venir/ (http://philologia.hypotheses.org http://philologia.hypotheses.org/ ) accompagne ces conférences. Aurélien BERRA Université Paris-Ouest, équipe « Textes, histoire et monuments, de l'Antiquité au Moyen Âge » (Themam, UMR ArScAn) UMR « Anthropologie et histoire des mondes antiques » (Anhima) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 5 06:12:53 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 6A39DA3C1D; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 06:12:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C2476A3C06; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 06:12:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101105061251.C2476A3C06@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 06:12:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.464 digital humanities and the cuts; PhD recommendations X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 464. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (15) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.461 PhD recommendations? [2] From: liz (79) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.455 digital humanities and the cuts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 10:44:02 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.461 PhD recommendations? In-Reply-To: <20101104070536.BEB0C9A161@woodward.joyent.us> You might want to check Drew University's graduate programs in religion. I know that students in this program, depending upon their concentration, have to specialize in Hebrew or Greek. Jim R >> From: Drew Longacre > > Dear Textual Scholars, > > I hope this is an appropriate use of the e-mail distribution list, but I > was wondering if I could get your professional opinions on graduate > programs. I am researching Ph.D. programs for the fall of 2011, and I > want to specialize in textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible/Old > Testament. Any recommendations for programs and/or professors to study > under would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time and > consideration. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 14:13:13 -0700 From: liz Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.455 digital humanities and the cuts In-Reply-To: <20101102104645.D433497544@woodward.joyent.us> Need Funding? Posted to the WWW Nov. 3,2010 Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities; RECEIPT DEADLINE: February 17, 2010 (for projects beginning July 2010) These NEH grants support national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these programs, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities. The projects may be a single opportunity or offered multiple times to different audiences. Institutes may be as short as a few days and held at multiple locations or as long as six weeks at a single site. The duration of a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic. Today, complex data-its form, manipulation, and interpretation-are as important to humanities study as more traditional research materials. Datasets, for example, may represent digitized historical records, high-quality image data, or even multimedia collections, all of which are increasing in number due to the availability and affordability of mass data storage devices and international initiatives to create digital content. Moreover, extensive networking capabilities, sophisticated middleware applications, and new collaboration platforms are simultaneously providing and improving interactive access to and analysis of these data as well as a multitude of other resources. The Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program seeks to enable humanities scholars in the United States to incorporate advances like these into their scholarship and teaching. The goals of the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program are to bring together humanities scholars and digital technology specialists from different disciplines to share ideas and methods that advance humanities research and teaching through the use of digital technologies; to reflect on, interpret, and analyze new digital media, multimedia, and text-based computing technologies and integrate these into humanities scholarship and teaching; to teach current and future generations of humanities scholars to design, develop, and use cyber-based tools and environments for scholarship; and to devise new and creative uses for technology that offer valuable models that can be applied specifically to research in the humanities. NEH strongly encourages applicants to develop proposals for multidisciplinary teams of collaborators that will offer the necessary range of intellectual, technical, and practical expertise. This program is designed to bring together humanities scholars, advanced graduate students, computer scientists, and others to learn new tools, approaches, and technologies and to foster relationships for future collaborations in the humanities. Partners and collaborators may be drawn from the private and public sectors and may include appropriate specialists from within and outside the United States. NEH particularly encourages projects that seek to introduce digital humanities topics to scholars who lack digital expertise. Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities may be hosted by colleges, universities, learned societies, centers for advanced study, libraries or other repositories, and cultural or professional organizations. The host site(s) must be appropriate for the project, providing facilities for scholarship and collegial interaction. Projects that will be held more than once and at different locations are permissible. Possible topics and areas to be addressed might include, but are not limited to Text Encoding Initiative, electronic editing, and publishing; e-literature; textual analysis and text mining; immersive and virtual environments in multimedia research; 3-D imaging technology, including laser scanning; creativity, culture, and computing; digital image design; information aesthetics; computer gaming and the humanities; high performance or supercomputing and the humanities; and advanced Geographic Information Systems applications. Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grants may not be used for digitization of collections; support for workshops on routine computer applications (e.g., training in HTML mark-up) from which little new knowledge about techniques or approaches in the digital humanities will emerge; the development and presentation of courses or programs that focus on the skills and knowledge required to preserve, digitize, or catalog humanities collections, such as training in digital scanning; graduate programs in the digital humanities; or programs that are not regional (multistate) or national in scope. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 5 06:19:11 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 629B6A3DDB; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 06:19:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E22E6A3DCC; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 06:19:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101105061909.E22E6A3DCC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 06:19:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.465 jobs: at Ryerson; PhD studentship in New Zealand X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 465. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Peter Stokes (84) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.460 job at Ryerson [2] From: "O'Donnell, Dan" (128) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.460 job at Ryerson [3] From: Sydney Shep (15) Subject: New Zealand PhD Scholarship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 11:12:45 +0000 From: Peter Stokes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.460 job at Ryerson In-Reply-To: <20101104070509.E923699909@woodward.joyent.us> A few thoughts regarding the profile at Ryerson. First, the discussion seems to me to highlight one thing I recall Melissa Terras warning against in her DH plenary. I know there are people who started off in English Literature but have since gone down the DH route and stopped publishing in their 'core' discipline, so now they can barely make any claim to work in literary studies. As I believe Melissa reminded us, though, this is very dangerous: we must keep in touch with our 'core' disciplines, not least because we become increasingly marginalised without them. Perhaps this is changing, but as far as I know there are still very few departments or even posts in 'pure' DH (if there is such a thing): instead the best we can usually hope for is a post in English, History, Linguistics or whatever which allows DH work. Again I may be wrong, but my understanding is that the basic role of junior faculty is to teach core modules. This may be a problem with the system, but personally I find it hard to blame the Dept. of English for requiring the ability to teach English lit. We might argue that these disciplinary boundaries are no longer valid, but at the end of the day somebody needs to teach the courses in Rhetoric or whatever, and for a junior faculty appointment I suspect anything beyond that is a bonus. It has also struck me repeatedly that the skills and experience that come with DH (including interdisciplinarity) are ideal for fixed-term research projects and post-doc positions, but are often precisely the opposite of what junior faculty positions require: not least a 'safe' person firmly based in a traditional discipline who can be relied on to cover teaching with minimal supervision. I have no experience on faculty panels, but as someone who went from the 'safety' of English Literature to the double-marginalisation of DH and palaeography it is something I am quite sensitive to. I have made a point of publishing very 'traditional' articles as well as DH ones, but appointment panels still keep telling me that my cv doesn't 'fit' the standard profile of English (or indeed History), and that they want people who have proven experience in delivering basic core teaching: as one interviewer put it, they want a 'safe pair of hands'. Again I find it hard to blame them for this. It may be true that very few people in DH fit such a profile, but I wonder if that is in part because we are not doing enough to stay in touch with the 'traditional' humanities ourselves. Peter -- Dr Peter Stokes Centre for Computing in Humanities King's College London Room 210, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:57:20 -0600 From: "O'Donnell, Dan" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.460 job at Ryerson In-Reply-To: <20101104070509.E923699909@woodward.joyent.us> I'm really not following this. First of all, aren't English people a dime a dozen in the DH? I know tons of DHers who are literary people, often in English. So I don't find the idea that the job would be in English to be odd. Of course there are people who aren't in English or literary studies who do DH. Just like there are people who aren't in linguistics or history or who don't define themselves as "pure" DHers. But this job is looking for the ones who are in English and who do do literary studies and not those who aren't. A good chunk of the teaching at most universities involves fairly general service courses: I spend about half my time teaching intro English and lower level courses in things that aren't my research speciality; and most of the rest of the time teaching things that are "broadly" in my research specialties (meaning "Medieval" and "Language", rather than "remediation and digital textual editing"). And I have it pretty good compared to others. Departments tend not to start with the courses in your research specialisation and then wonder if you have any time left over to teach the general courses; they start with the general and then see if you can squeeze in your specialisation. So if the job had read that they wanted somebody who did DH across multiple fields, that would be a different job. It might exclude somebody, for example, who did literary or textual studies in English only. But is also unlikely that that job would have come from an English department: it is Ryerson's English Department that apparently got the line, not the information school or department of Digital Humanities, and they've defined the job for what they need rather than what we may want. As an Anglo-Saxonist and textual scholar, I often wished that universities had advertised their positions for Modernists and theorists (or even "Medievalist: especially Chaucer") as "Somebody with interest in textual transmission and Old English"; but I figured they were doing the hiring and so would match the ads to what they needed. Finally, nobody should be put off by the warning about subject to budgetary approval. My experience is that such warnings are more common than not, but also more often than not they are pro forma. Some universities require the warning to be inserted into all ads so they can cut the position if a financial emergency arises before it is filled. Even if they don't require it, the timelines for vacancies are such that academic approval to advertise is very often given long before final budgetary approval is given to hire; in fact the two approvals often come from different places: a faculty or department might decide they are going to use a tenure vacancy for a DH position in English long before the university-wide finance committee has actually finalised financial approval of the requested positions. I think Ryerson should be commended for advertising the position. I happen to know it is a direction they want to go in, and, from experience, I know it can be ridiculously hard to convince people to head off in new directions. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell 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-confidential) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:53:46 +1300 From: Sydney Shep Subject: New Zealand PhD Scholarship In-Reply-To: <20101104070509.E923699909@woodward.joyent.us> Greetings: Want to come to New Zealand? Like to be part of a new, dynamic eResearch team? Victoria University of Wellington is looking for a PhD candidate interested and/or experienced in data visualisation, social network applications, and/or GIS to work on a three-year Marsden Fund / Royal Society of New Zealand project on printing / typographical journals and the nineteenth-century press. Full tuition and a stipend are covered. For more details see http://www.fis.org.nz/BreakOut/vuw/schols.phtml?detail+500377 and contact Sydney.Shep@vuw.ac.nz. Applications are being accepted now. Cheers 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 http://www.sharpweb.org/ Associate Editor, Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism http://www.dncj.ugent.be/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 5 06:20:25 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 BD7EBA3EFE; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 06:20:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 46202A3EEF; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 06:20:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101105062024.46202A3EEF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 06:20:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.466 new on WWW: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews blog; higher education X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 466. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Phillip Barron (15) Subject: digital humanities in Inside Higher Ed [2] From: Willard McCarty (13) Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews blog --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 08:20:20 -0700 From: Phillip Barron Subject: digital humanities in Inside Higher Ed Hey folks, I have a brief reflection on the digital humanities and a recent THAT Camp appearing in today's Inside Higher Ed, in which I mention this very list: "Putting the 'Humanities' in 'Digital Humanities'" http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2010/11/04/barron It may seem that flashy graphs and other data projects shun qualitative work -- but isn't 'code' just another language? Phillip Barron asks. phillip-- Phillip Barron Digital History Developer The History Project University of California, Davis 530-752-0725 ptbarron@ucdavis.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:22:28 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews blog Dear colleagues, I am happy to announce the launch of my first (yes, first) blog, as Editor of the British journal Interdisciplinary Science Reviews: http://isr-journal.blogspot.com/. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 5 06:20:52 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 E8E2EA3F4D; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 06:20:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 59AC2A3F3E; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 06:20:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101105062050.59AC2A3F3E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 06:20:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.467 events: mss 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. 24, No. 467. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 06:11:10 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age 2011 Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age 2011 Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 11:42:09 +0000 From: Peter Stokes With apologies for cross-posting, please see below for the 'Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age' course which is open to UK-based PhD students. Peter Stokes - Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA): 2-6 May 2011 The Institute of English Studies (London) is pleased to announce the third year of this AHRC-funded course in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, the Warburg Institute, and King's College London. The course is open to arts and humanities doctoral students registered at UK institutions. It involves five days of intensive training on the analysis, description and editing of medieval manuscripts in the digital age to be held jointly in Cambridge and London. Participants will receive a solid theoretical foundation and hands-on experience in cataloguing and editing manuscripts for both print and digital formats. The first part of the course involves morning classes and then visits to libraries in Cambridge and London in the afternoons. Participants will view original manuscripts and gain practical experience in applying the morning's themes to concrete examples. In the second part we will address the cataloguing and description of manuscripts in a digital format with particular emphasis on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). These sessions will also combine theoretical principles and practical experience and include supervised work on computers. The course is aimed principally at those writing dissertations which relate to medieval manuscripts, especially those on literature, art and history. There are no fees, but priority will be given to PhD students funded by the AHRC. Class sizes are limited to twenty and places are 'first-come-first-served' so early registration is strongly recommended. For further details see http://ies.sas.ac.uk/study/mmsda/ or contact Dr Peter Stokes at mmsda@sas.ac.uk. -- Dr Peter Stokes Centre for Computing in Humanities King's College London Room 210, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 6 07:43:03 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 8CEB4A6FBA; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 07:43:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 252D4A6EFC; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 07:43:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101106074301.252D4A6EFC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 07:43:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.468 job at Ryerson: jobs and disciplines X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 468. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 07:41:44 -0400 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: jobs and disciplines In-Reply-To: <20101105061909.E22E6A3DCC@woodward.joyent.us> I don't think it is necessarily a problem that most jobs are disciplinary, but what I was pointing out is that one shouldn't expect many applicants if one narrows digital humanities to that applicable in one discipline, or to people who can teach in one discipline or subdiscipline. I also think that it is going to be extremely difficult for a DH person to advance in a department that is primarily disciplinary oriented, because the DH person does not necessarily place DH papers usually in the journals that are rated highly in disciplines, they might, but I think we can all see that it is perhaps less likely. I also wonder about a strongly DH person working as Department Head, especially if they start outside the discipline. There will be, I think a strong insider/outsider structure for them to fight through. So even if they get a t-t, I suspect they will be even less likely to get tenure(if it still exists) and if they do get tenure, it will be even harder for them to get promotion. From my point of view and I'm interdisciplinary in humanities and social sciences, I'm not sure the humanities can afford to push and promote disciplinarity, disciplines do not seem to relate as strongly to the legitimation to funding bodies external to the university anymore, except in a few circumstances. I think the justification for a plurality of disciplinary departments in the humanities on the university is also losing ground. Universities have significant reasons to dissolve disciplinary departments to save money as bureaucratic overhead is expensive. This also does a fair amount to scare some faculty into leaving to places they find more amenable or retiring, as the humanities faculties were in a report a few years ago, the oldest populations on campuses. DH is another one of the anti-disciplinary trends pushing against traditional disciplines, as it requires knowledge of at least another discipline to be successful, and the set of skills embodied provided might be a source of legitimation for the DH in the university, more than in the discipline or her own department. So, most of the jobs advertised in DH are disciplinary history and english. Those disciplines are the two that overproduce the most ph.d.'s currently, no?.... I wonder... Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech http://www.tmttlt.com Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. -George Iles _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 6 07:43:53 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 4620EA29B8; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 07:43:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 76457A29AA; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 07:43:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101106074352.76457A29AA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 07:43:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.469 digital humanities and the cuts: NEH funding 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. 24, No. 469. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 05:59:46 -0700 From: liz Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.464 digital humanities and the cuts;PhD recommendations In-Reply-To: The information I copied came from the announcement. http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/IATDH.html What was picked up is not what it says... The dates posted are: Feb 16, 2011 (for projects beginning October 2011) But the cut and past shows different dates. My apologies for not proofing it well. >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Mark LeBlanc [mailto:mleblanc@wheatoncollege.edu] >>Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 5:44 AM >>To: eawalter1@hotmail.com >>Subject: Fwd: [Humanist] 24.464 digital humanities and the >>cuts; PhD recommendations >> >>liz: >> >>were the NEH call dates all really >>2011 (not 2010) ? >> >>thanks >>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 Sat Nov 6 07:44:13 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 8D43CA304F; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 07:44:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EB866A301B; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 07:44:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101106074410.EB866A301B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 07:44:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.470 new publications X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 470. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 07:40:59 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publications New items that have come across my desk: David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan and Trevor M. Harris, eds., The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. Sanjay Chandrasekharan, Alexandra Mazalek, Michael Nitsche, Yanfeng Chen and Apara Ranjan, "Ideomotor design: Using common coding theory to derive novel video game interactions", Pargmatics and Cognition 18.2 (2010): 313-39. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 6 07:45:20 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 40E11A3215; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 07:45:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 74319A3206; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 07:45:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101106074518.74319A3206@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 07:45:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.471 events: authorship attribution; literacy X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 471. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (69) Subject: London Seminar for November [2] From: Willard McCarty (26) Subject: "Texts and Literacy in the Digital Age" Conference, The Hague, 16-17December 2010 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:42:01 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar for November London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 11 November 2010, 17.30-19.30, G27 Senate House, Ground Floor, Malet Street tinyurl.com/LondonSeminar/ Professor Sir Brian Vickers (Institute of English Studies): 'Software programs, authorship attribution, and the nature of language' All welcome. Refreshments provided. ----- Abstract. The goal of attribution studies is to identify, and distinguish between, authors on the basis of their styles, in prose or verse compositions. Style is a complex of many factors, subject to changing historical definitions and involving current conceptions of effective and expressive communication, as taught by rhetoric, and clarity of argument, the province of logic. In individual genres, such as tragedy, comedy, epic, satire, pastoral, style is affected by changing concepts of the linguistic utterance appropriate to a character's social status, age, and gender. Underlying all these considerations is the nature of language itself, a rule-based system in which lexicon, morphology, grammar, and syntax all interact and offer speakers and writers an infinite range of choices, some of which will reveal individuality. The primary characteristic of natural languages is that any individual utterance, like discourse as a whole, is made up of all classes of words, woven together according to their role in creating meaningful communication. All of the sentences making up this abstract use nouns, verbs, modifiers (adjectives, adverbs), prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, and so forth. The metaphor of weaving is at least as old as Plato, who used it in two dialogues: the Statesman (277d-278h), where he speaks of the interweaving ( sumploke ) of letters into syllables; and the Sophist (261e-262d), where on the phonological level of language he uses the weaving metaphor to describe the workings of syntax. The currently most popular methods of partially automated attribution study are working with a very limited model of language, below the level of meaning, hence unable to analyse the many variations of linguistic choice that characterise individual utterances, and on the creation of which writers devote so much care. This is not to suggest that we should abandon quantitative analysis of writing styles; merely to point out that current methods, despite their immensely fast and accurate text processing and highly sophisticated statistical methodology, are approximative at best, breaking up language into (some of) its constituent elements, and thus missing out on fundamental aspects of linguistic communication. Nor does my critique rule out the possibility that future developments may vastly improve our performance. After the pars destruens , as Renaissance writers would call it, my pars construens will suggest a new alliance between authorship attribution and a quantitative method of analysing language, namely corpus linguistics, and will describe a method that, in its own modest way, has already overcome some of the limitations in our current semi-automated methods, with their fissiparous treatment of language. ----- Bio. Sir Brian Vickers is Emeritus Professor of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, a Fellow of the British Academy, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the School of Advanced Study, University of London. He is Director of The Oxford Francis Bacon and General Editor of The Complete Works of John Ford. He has written and edited about forty books. Recently he has been focussing on authorship attributions connected with the Shakespeare canon, and has published Shakespeare, Co-Author. A Historical Study of Five Co-Authored Plays (Oxford, 2002); 'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare. Evidence, Authorship, and John Ford's Funerall Elegie (Cambridge, 2002); and Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint, and John Davies of Hereford (Cambridge, 2007). -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 07:35:44 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: "Texts and Literacy in the Digital Age" Conference, The Hague, 16-17December 2010 > Subject: "Texts and Literacy in the Digital Age" Conference, The Hague, > 16-17 December 2010 > Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 13:03:13 +0100 > From: Carmen Morlon Dear colleagues *Registration for Texts and Literacy in the Digital Age conference is now open* The "Texts and Literacy in the Digital Age" Conference (http://www.libereurope.eu/node/550), jointly organised by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands), Leiden University (Book and Digital Media Studies), LIBER and Dr. P.A. Tiele-Stichting will be held at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague on 16 and 17 December 2010. In this two-day conference, prominent and inspiring speakers will address the way scholarly communication in the humanities and social sciences is changing and, more importantly, what that means to authors, intermediaries and users. Registration is now open. Please note that the number of delegates is limited to 150. Further details on accommodation and travel arrangements, the registration form and the online programme can be found at http://www.libereurope.eu/node/550. We look forward to welcoming you in The Hague. With best wishes Carmen Morlon On behalf of the Organising 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 Sun Nov 7 10:51:27 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 DE95C995F4; Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:51:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 35CA2995E0; Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:51:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101107105125.35CA2995E0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:51:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.472 job at Ryerson: jobs and disciplines X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 472. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 06:41:10 -0600 From: "O'Donnell, Dan" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.468 job at Ryerson: jobs and disciplines In-Reply-To: <20101106074301.252D4A6EFC@woodward.joyent.us> You are arguing a different point then, Jeremy: the problem in your view is with disciplinarity, not the Ryerson job. To help separate them, I'd argue that the purpose of a job ad is not to maximise the number of candidates in an abstract sense but to get a suitable pool of the right people for the job you have. Ryerson needs English professors and wants to move into DH. They quite correctly are worried about finding that combination rather than scoring the even bigger pool they might have got by advertising something more general. In fact, when hiring committees focus on the size of the pool rather than its relevance, they tend to waste everybody's time: this is in my experience the problem with ads that imply the discipline is open. It never is /actually/ open. A committee that claims to be open is either misrepresenting the situation in the department or hasn't quite made up its mind between two or three areas. But they never mean "anything." What they do often want in these cases is a really large pool: the idea is that maybe somebody will show up in it that will get them excited. But they do end up wasting the time of most of the applicant who aren't in their secretly preferred disciplines. On the other question, I think if I were building disciplines from the ground up, I might not have an "English Department" as distinct from "French" and "Film" and "New Media." But I think there is enough of a distinction to have some kind of culture department that would operate alongside History, say. In purely practical terms, we see this distinction as we are setting about trying to establish a graduate school where once we had an apprenticeship model. In some areas--Sociology, Anthropology, some aspects of Women and Religious Studies--the departments have been able to combine to offer a single theory and methodology course; but history, philosophy, and English haven't really been able to work with that model (New Media and Film Studies are in a different faculty at Lethbridge and the administrative headaches of looking for commonalities there are beyond the powers even of Tylenol 3). I'm less worried that many of my colleagues seem to be about the survival of the Humanities and Social Sciences in the modern University, f for no other reason than that eliminating them would prevent most students from going to University and gaining access to middle class jobs. Things can certainly get a lot worse in the sense that governments and administrators can decide to starve them of research funding and make our lives miserable by giving us ever bigger classes. But in fact, even from a purely practical perspective, the H and SS can't be actually eliminated without causing riots. The real danger for us is that governments and administrators starve us /almost/ to the point of being able to drown us in the bath-tub. The worse our situation gets, the poorer educational experience students have; the more cynical our alumni are, the less willing they will be to pay the taxes that by-and-large support us. The less respect there is for our studies, the more impoverished we become. We need several things, I think, to reverse this--some of which are very difficult for humanists to do. Above all, we need more and better PR. The idea that HSS work is useless is belied every day in the newspaper--take a look one day how many professors from the HSS (well, mostly SS) are quoted on a given day in newspaper articles. The Digital Humanities should be an important part of this PR. As I've written for the popular press myself, DH is the killer humanities app, especially when it is grounded in a discipline: it is what takes breadth of knowledge and makes it actionable in the current economy; a student with a degree in philosophy and a background in informatics is going to have a pretty powerful mix of skills. One of my colleagues in Management Information Studies researches employer attitudes towards student programmes. His claim to me was that in fact the employers he interviewed were less interested in MIS students (or computer science or other pure skills) than they were in people who combined ICT skills with some other domain knowledge. The one time I was able to teach a course on informatics to English majors here, the students were getting hired straight out of the class: suddenly it was like nursing. On 10-11-06 01:43 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 468. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 07:41:44 -0400 > From: jeremy hunsinger > Subject: jobs and disciplines > In-Reply-To:<20101105061909.E22E6A3DCC@woodward.joyent.us> > > I don't think it is necessarily a problem that most jobs are disciplinary, but what I was pointing out is that one shouldn't expect many applicants if one narrows digital humanities to that applicable in one discipline, or to people who can teach in one discipline or subdiscipline. I also think that it is going to be extremely difficult for a DH person to advance in a department that is primarily disciplinary oriented, because the DH person does not necessarily place DH papers usually in the journals that are rated highly in disciplines, they might, but I think we can all see that it is perhaps less likely. I also wonder about a strongly DH person working as Department Head, especially if they start outside the discipline. There will be, I think a strong insider/outsider structure for them to fight through. So even if they get a t-t, I suspect they will be even less likely to get tenure(if it still exists) and if they do get tenure, it will be even harder for them to get > promotion. From my point of view and I'm interdisciplinary in humanities and social sciences, I'm not sure the humanities can afford to push and promote disciplinarity, disciplines do not seem to relate as strongly to the legitimation to funding bodies external to the university anymore, except in a few circumstances. I think the justification for a plurality of disciplinary departments in the humanities on the university is also losing ground. Universities have significant reasons to dissolve disciplinary departments to save money as bureaucratic overhead is expensive. This also does a fair amount to scare some faculty into leaving to places they find more amenable or retiring, as the humanities faculties were in a report a few years ago, the oldest populations on campuses. DH is another one of the anti-disciplinary trends pushing against traditional disciplines, as it requires knowledge of at least another discipline to be successful, and the set of skills embodied > provided might be a source of legitimation for the DH in the university, more than in the discipline or her own department. > > So, most of the jobs advertised in DH are disciplinary history and english. Those disciplines are the two that overproduce the most ph.d.'s currently, no?.... I wonder... > > Jeremy Hunsinger > Center for Digital Discourse and Culture > Virginia Tech > > http://www.tmttlt.com > > Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. > -George Iles -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell 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-confidential) 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 Sun Nov 7 10:51:46 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 1D17A9973D; Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:51:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B1D199731; Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:51:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101107105145.1B1D199731@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:51:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.473 events: ancient mss X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 473. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 22:33:18 +0100 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Conference From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era 2011 Dear all, An interdisciplinary teams of researchers organizes in Lausanne (CH) an international meeting "From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era. Readings and Literacies", 23rd-25th August 2011. Website: www.unil.ch/digitalera2011 Deadline for the call for papers: 30th April 2011 The conference seeks to demonstrate that the Western world is going from a specific "Christian Era" to a Common Western and non Western "Digital Era". The present evolution of the Ancient manuscript allows one to detect this turning-point, for example by observing the digital editions of Homer and the New Testament. The notions of authorship and critical edition are questioned, as well as the status of the "religions of the Book" in a post-book Age. A public evening will conclude the conference on the 25th August, with editors booths, artistic and digital animations, a demonstration of scholarly application, and a round table: "What will come after the book?". Three previous meetings "Digital Humanities@Unil" will happen during the spring semester 2011, with a debate on the 4th April about the opportunity to create a "digital humanities department" between Humanities and New Technologies in Lausanne. Claire Clivaz (New Testament and Early Christianity), Jérôme Meizoz (French Literature), François Vallotton (Modern History), with Frederic Kaplan (New Technologies) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 8 07:47:24 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 E0B2596A8D; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 07:47:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BC8C696A82; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 07:47:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101108074722.BC8C696A82@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 07:47:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.474 job at Ryerson: jobs and disciplines X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 474. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 08:34:52 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.472 job at Ryerson: jobs and disciplines In-Reply-To: <20101107105125.35CA2995E0@woodward.joyent.us> I very much enjoyed the post quoted from below for a number of reasons. However, I'd like to respond to this paragraph in particular: > In fact, when hiring committees focus on the size of the pool rather > than its relevance, they tend to waste everybody's time: this is in my > experience the problem with ads that imply the discipline is open. It > never is /actually/ open. A committee that claims to be open is either > misrepresenting the situation in the department or hasn't quite made up > its mind between two or three areas. But they never mean "anything." > What they do often want in these cases is a really large pool: the idea > is that maybe somebody will show up in it that will get them excited. > But they do end up wasting the time of most of the applicant who aren't > in their secretly preferred disciplines. Just to add detail. While I cannot, of course, speak to Ryerson's situation in particular, I would say that you are generally right that schools have some idea of what they want when they advertise for "open" speciality. However, in smaller schools, this "what they want" involves a number of possible combinations. Maybe they can only hire one position, but need someone with a background in creative writing (say, fiction), and a couple of different fields in American lit., and would like someone with some background in minority lit too. Maybe these represent their first preferences, but maybe they have other needs too -- most of which are determined by what existing faculty are able and willing to cover. An open call allows the search committee to see what possibilities are out there and what range of departmental needs can be met by faculty currently on the market, which would also determine, in part, what existing faculty would have to cover. So, to give one concrete example, I know of one job at a small honors college that specifically advertised for a rhet/comp person and wound up hiring an MFA. This candidate deliberate ignored the ad and applied anyhow -- she probably had some experience with rhet/comp, but who doesn't? This candidate apparently offered better possibilities than even the department had considered when defining their search. My current institution will probably start a search for a rhet/comp position -- we know that we need a rhet/comp person, and will not consider anyone without a Ph.D. in this discipline. The entire dept. is already lit people who have learned about rhet/comp along the way and has taught a lot of it. But, we also need experience in either developmental writing, business/technical writing, or writing center administration. Our ideal candidate will have a combination of these. We don't expect anyone to have all three, though. 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 Mon Nov 8 07:48:46 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 CBA0996B31; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 07:48:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9F64196B20; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 07:48:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101108074845.9F64196B20@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 07:48:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.475 new publication: on 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. 24, No. 475. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 07:45:49 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: complexity Another new publication: Melanie Mitchell, Complexity: A Guided Tour (Oxford 2009). Excellent, I think, in level of difficulty and clarity of exposition, broad enough in scope to give the beginner to the subject an idea of the subject areas on which the sciences of complexity impinge. (Mitchell insists that we speak of the sciences, plural, and that even so qualified the scientific nature of the study of complexity is a matter for debate.) The chapter likely to be closest to people here, on computation, is excellent in kind. A good review, in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 13.4, October 2010, by John Bragin, may be found at http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/13/2/reviews/3.html. Did I find out about this book on Humanist? If so, many, many thanks to whomever recommended it. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 Nov 9 06:30:35 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 11B7A9EEA2; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:30:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 26F109EE3A; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:30:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101109063033.26F109EE3A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:30:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.476 job at Ryerson: jobs and disciplines X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 476. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:15:15 -0400 From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.474 job at Ryerson: jobs and disciplines In-Reply-To: <20101108074722.BC8C696A82@woodward.joyent.us> Since I do not work with faculty (of any sort), I've been kind of quiet on the issue, but now that I've read this I feel bold enough to add my 2 cents. > Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 08:34:52 -0500 > From: James Rovira > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.472 job at Ryerson: jobs and disciplines > In-Reply-To: <20101107105125.35CA2995E0@woodward.joyent.us> > > So, to give one concrete example, I know of one job at a small honors > college that specifically advertised for a rhet/comp person and wound up > hiring an MFA. This candidate deliberate ignored the ad and applied anyhow > -- she probably had some experience with rhet/comp, but who doesn't? This > candidate apparently offered better possibilities than even the department > had considered when defining their search. > My inclination, when I heard the complaint over posting was to say 'just apply anyway.' Back in my early 'Humanist' days I did a relational content analysis of job postings and learned (subjectively, not fool-proof empirically) that 'experience' really means 'can you tell me a good story about. . .' and disciplinarity, when you scrape away all the self-interest, is really just 'a bunch of people connected through knowledge.' That knowledge appears in artifacts, of course (books journals etc) - but the way those artifacts have been organized for years and years are the fault of stodgey old librarians (like me) who generally have had to make decisions about who among the faculty will most be interested in said artifacts. Many of the standards to make these decisions (like most standards) come out of exceedingly long bouts of people arguing and compromising until you have weird anomalies like a book of rules called the 'Anglo American Cataloguing Rules' using the English spelling for 'catalogue' even though the standard itself recommends using the American spelling. In short, all disciplinarians are pawns in an elaborate game us librarians (lead by Alfred Hitchcock) have been playing for years. :) I am sure there is a lecture awaiting me about the 'harsh reality' of faculty interests, labor markets and the job hunt. I would suggest this is rather a 'harsh facade' - especially in an age where much of the knowledge of our society has become more accessible than it ever has. Society's knowledge is not only more accessible, but the context of that knowledge is dynamic. With the rise of databases and personal/collaborative taxonomies, we can in fact create our own 'disciplines' in the blink of an eye. Digital Humanities is not just humanities and computers, but also Geography (geolocation), physics (what if the power goes out?), Management, Design, Psychology, Sociology, Public Administration (the researcher with no understanding of the bureaucracy is the researcher with $0 in funding) and so on. The only link that I can think of that turns a tag/'discipline' into an actual discipline is the community of people willing to join in on the genre of study. I am reading Plutarch (though I am not a classist). In the chapter on Dion http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/plutarch/lives/chapter62.html in *The Age of Alexander *i found it quite interesting and logical how much philosophers wanted people outside their field to practice their discipline. Granted, some of those philosophic outsiders (Nero, Dionysius etc.) ended up being tyrants - but the broader point here is that the separation of people through the division of labor / knowledge / skill does not seem to work well (from my perspective) in humanistic study. Division of labor works great for widgets and software development but literature is something to be shared and enjoyed if it is to mean anything to society. Saying "Joyce's Ulysses" to someone who has studied English literature is akin to an early Christian doing the sign of the cross. I have yet to meet the prof who does not want to see the CV of someone who has the desire/interest/aptitude to join in - whatever their main discipline. This is a positive thing. All this rambling to say this: I think Ryerson is a great school and I hope they get a whole whack of CVs from people from whatever disciplines brave enough to introduce new ideas into the old practices. I also hope the brightest, bravest and best of the digital humanities are among them. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 06:31:08 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 8D4139EF05; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:31:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9D6EE9EEDC; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:31:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101109063106.9D6EE9EEDC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:31:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.477 new MA/MSc 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. 24, No. 477. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 06:26:25 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Introducing the new UCL MA/MSc in Digital Humanities > Subject: Introducing the new UCL MA/MSc in Digital Humanities > Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:09:33 +0000 > From: Rossella Lo Conte Dear Willard McCarty, Melissa Terras thought that you may interested in our new Masters degree in Digital Humanities at UCL, which draws together teaching from a wide range of disciplines, to investigate the application of computational technologies to the arts, humanities, and cultural heritage sectors" The Masters degree in Digital Humanities at UCL draws together teaching from a wide range of disciplines, to investigate the application of computational technologies to the arts, humanities, and cultural heritage sectors. Attached are a poster and a brochure highlighting the features of the degree and the range of disciplines included in the programme; we would appreciate if you could please post and circulate these as appropriate. The strength of our programme is that it will allow students who have a background in the humanities to acquire necessary skills in digital technologies, and will also make it possible for those with a technical background to become informed about scholarly methods in the humanities. In addition to their studies, the students will undertake a work placement, which will provide them with knowledge and hands-on experience in the field of Digital Humanities, and a skill set relevant to the cultural and heritage industry, publishing, and beyond. This programme is by definition and purpose multi-disciplinary and aims to build and enhance on existing UCL resources. The students will have the opportunity to access not only UCL departments, library services, museums and collections, but also the numerous museums, galleries, libraries and archives based in close proximity to UCL in London. Having drawn your attention to the programme, we would kindly ask you to share this news with anyone you think may be interested, such as potential students, librarians, and those interested in digital technologies. Applications are now open for our new MA/MSc in Digital Humanities for September 2011 entry. Further information about the programme can be found at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/courses/mamsc. Kind regards, The UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Team For any further information or if you wish me to send you any poster or brochure in the post, please do not hesitate to contact me. -- Rossella Lo Conte Coordinator UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Department of Information Studies University College London Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT T: 020 3108 4093 [Room G32] E: r.loconte@ucl.ac.uk W: www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/rossella-lo-conte *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1289284051_2010-11-09_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_26175.3.pdf http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1289284051_2010-11-09_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_26175.2.pdf _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 06:34:33 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 B71249F152; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:34:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7C0429F14B; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:34:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101109063432.7C0429F14B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:34:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.478 events: immersive worlds 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="===============1681496502==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============1681496502== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 478. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:17:18 -0400 From: Kevin Kee Subject: CFP: Interacting with Immersive Worlds Conference, June 13-14 2011 CALL FOR PAPERS Interacting with Immersive Worlds: Third Brock University Conference on the Interactive Arts & Sciences BROCK UNIVERSITY, ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO JUNE 13th - 14th, 2011 http://brocku.ca/conferences/immersive-worlds Deadline for submissions - February 18th 2011 This biennial conference explores the growing cultural importance of interactive media. Confirmed keynote speakers for the conference so far include Professor David Benyon, Director of the Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University, U.K. and Jon-Paul Dyson, Director of the International Center for the History of Electronic Games at the Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, NY. The first Interacting with Immersive Worlds conference in 2007 drew presenters and attendees from a multiplicity of disciplines who heard keynote presentations by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Claremont Graduate University), James Gee (Arizona State University), and Chris Csikszentmihalyi (MIT Media Laboratory). The second conference in 2009 was just as successful and provocative, with keynote speakers such as Janet Murray (Georgia Institute of Technology), Espen Aarseth (IT University of Denmark), Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta) and Deborah Todd (Game Designer, Writer and Producer). All scholarship on, and creation of digital interactive media (including but not limited to computer games and interactive fiction) will be considered in one of four broad conference streams: The Innovations in Immersive Worlds stream features creative exploration and innovation in immersive media including ubiquitous computing, telepresence, interactive art and fiction, and alternative reality. The Critical Approaches to Immersion stream looks at analyses of the cultural and/or psychological impact of immersive worlds, as well as theories of interactivity. The Immersive Worlds in Education stream examines educational applications of immersive technologies. The Immersive Worlds in Entertainment stream examines entertainment applications of immersive technologies, such as computer games. We welcome the submission of abstracts for a 20-minute presentation plus a 10- minute discussion. Send a 500-word abstract plus a brief biographical statement. Please include a separate cover page with the following: -- Author’s name and affiliation -- Email -- Mailing address -- Title of presentation Since all abstracts will be anonymously reviewed, include the title of the paper on the abstract but not the author’s name, affiliation, email or mailing address. Please email your abstract to mdanahay@brocku.ca Acceptance of your paper for presentation implies a commitment on your part to register and attend the conference. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by February 25th, 2011. For further information on the conference please contact: Professor Martin Danahay Director, Centre for Digital Humanities Brock University St. Catharines ON L2S3A1 Canada 905 688 5550 --===============1681496502== 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 --===============1681496502==-- From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 11 06:33:59 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 4BB03A5BC3; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:33:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7AE0FA5BBB; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:33:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101111063357.7AE0FA5BBB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:33:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.479 humanities: what for? where? 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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: D.Allington (28) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.476 job at Ryerson: jobs and disciplines [2] From: Gregory Crane (123) Subject: Responding to "the cuts,' Rethinking the Humanities and advancing civilization in a violent world [3] From: renata lemos (28) Subject: Saving the humanities? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 13:55:04 +0000 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.476 job at Ryerson: jobs and disciplines In-Reply-To: <20101109063033.26F109EE3A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:15:15 -0400 From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.474 job at Ryerson: jobs and disciplines In-Reply-To: <20101108074722.BC8C696A82@woodward.joyent.us> Since I do not work with faculty (of any sort), I've been kind of quiet on the issue, but now that I've read this I feel bold enough to add my 2 cents. ... I am sure there is a lecture awaiting me about the 'harsh reality' of faculty interests, labor markets and the job hunt. I would suggest this is rather a 'harsh facade' - especially in an age where much of the knowledge of our society has become more accessible than it ever has. Society's knowledge is not only more accessible, but the context of that knowledge is dynamic. With the rise of databases and personal/collaborative taxonomies, we can in fact create our own 'disciplines' in the blink of an eye I don't want to give lectures, but what may have been lost in the above are the distinctions between disciplines and departments and between knowledge and academia. One may be able to create a discipline in the blink of an eye (though that depends on what is meant by a 'discipline'), but where I work, even creating a new module takes several years (much of which will be spent wrangling with committees). And even if knowledge is more accessible than ever, academic appointments for newly qualified PhDs are certainly harder to come by now than they used to be, even just a few years ago. So without wishing to appear too cynical, my experience of joining faculty has taught me that behind the harsh facade, there's a far harsher reality. None of this, though, is to deny the incredible dynamism of knowledge in our connected world, which Ryan is right to enthuse about. Perhaps it is simply that the pursuit of knowledge has become increasingly alien to the business of higher education - even though many of the individuals employed in (and most of those trying to enter) the latter business are still committed to the former pursuit. All best wishes Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University 01908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:25:23 -0500 From: Gregory Crane Subject: Responding to "the cuts,' Rethinking the Humanities and advancing civilization in a violent world In-Reply-To: <20101109063033.26F109EE3A@woodward.joyent.us> The original has been published at http://www.stoa.org/archives/1299 but might not hurt to post this to Humanist as it addresses the discussion about the proposed UK cuts. As we consider whether or not the Humanities serve a public good and warrant public support, we cannot emphasize enough that ideas are a matter of life and death. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Kabul and Kandahar were almost as remote from New York as the Moon is today. But in the first year of the twenty-first century, we saw that the most remote and geo-politically weak space on earth could strike the centers of global power. Pressing issues such as the anxiety over oil and Israel may be in the foreground, but these are largely accelerants to a deeper intellectual encounter, a war of ideas that have evolved over thousands of years, across thousands of miles, and within thousands of languages. We need better ways to understand the cultures that drive economic and political systems upon which our biological lives depend. First, we need to understand the connections, often surprising, that bind superficially distinct cultures. Kandahar was in fact founded by Alexander the Great – one Alexandria among several in his empire. The great translation movement centered in Baghdad from c. 800 to 1000 CE made more Greek Science, Medicine, and Philosophy available in Arabic than has been translated into any modern language since. A second translation movement, with strong centers in Spain and Sicily, amade Arabic scholarship available in Latin – Aristotle re-emerged in the West because Muslim scholars had not only translated his work but had gone far beyond the Greek starting points and provided foundations on which Christian thinkers could build. Western Europe built upon a foundation forged in Greek and Arabic. As Dimitri Gutas, an expert on Greek and Arabic points out, the dense cultural network of which the Europe is a part extends – and has extended for thousands of years — at least until India. Ideas as well as material objects traveled back and forth from the Pacific to Atlantic, and as we contemplate complementary systems, such as the spread of Greek culture and the development of Ancient China, we can compare Plato and Confucius or Thucydides and Sun Tzu and open up questions of parallel development and shared human values.. When we examine American individualism, with its connections to pre-Christian, brutally competitive ideas in Greco-Roman culture, we can also ask how this might compare to cultural patterns that emphasize social cohesion and harmony in Asian societies with roots in Confucian thought. This is merely an example of a kind of analysis that raises questions of practical importance, especially as the United States and Europe become ever more closely linked to an ever more powerful China. The act of posing these questions – about fundamental ideas that have shaped civilizations around the world – is arguably more important than the answers that we fashion. We need the intellectual tools to think about the problems and achievements of our own cultures and a respectful curiosity about other cultures that does not shy away from questions. When American journalist Robin Wright first met Iranian President Khatami in 1998, he quoted Plato and asked “what is justice?” to a bemused group of reporters, who had “all come to talk about issues a bit more pressing than ancient Greek philosophy.” But Khatami’s ideas struck a chord when he suggested that we need a Dialogue, rather than a Clash, of Civilizations. The year 2001 was designated by the United Nations as the year for the dialogue of civilizations. Tragically, as we all know, that year instead was marked by a new exchange of violence rather than ideas. What then can we do to grapple with the ideas that threaten our stability and security? From my standpoint, as a college professor who thinks about equipping the next generation with the kind of education that will sustain them in this new century, it is the Humanities that provide – or can provide – the space in which a real dialogue can take place. The disciplines of the humanities – philosophy, literature, history, classics, to mention several – are essential to the pursuit of genuine understanding across diverse cultures and intellectual frameworks. That said, those of us with the privilege to dedicate our lives to advancing our understanding of human record have a great deal of work to do In most areas of the humanities, academic culture, rooted in traditions of print publication, has produced a highly erudite and very narrow channel of communication, with publications that few could see, much less understand, and a hierarchical culture to which only those with advanced degrees and who wrote in a handful of European languages could contribute. Our students have been subjects in a kingdom of learning, measured by how far short they fell of the yardsticks that others had established for them. Today, those yardsticks seem out of date and frequently irrelevant to the dialogues taking place around the world with the help of new communication technologies. These same technologies – that have accelerated the circulation of both hateful speech and new ideas across the globe — allow us to transform our intellectual lives as well. Each of us can explore a wider intellectual space than we could a generation ago. Professional researchers can explore broader questions in greater depth than was feasible before the digital age. Our students can become our collaborators – indeed, we need them for the shift to a digital space has made publicly available far more content than a handful of professional scholars can ever interpret. We are poised to create a new humanities education that integrates the most advanced analytical methods with our most ancient goals and that produces a generation better able to think about where they have come from and where they are going. And we have now the tools to expand our collaborations across languages and cultures, to develop intellectual and personal relationships with our colleagues from whom we had been cut off. Few Classicists, for example, realize that the University of Cairo supports one of the most active programs in Greek and Latin in the world because they publish largely in Arabic and because print culture, with its massive libraries, favored a handful of universities in the first world. Vast digital collections and increasingly sophisticated technologies transform what is possible and challenges us to rethink how we can, in this emerging space, more fully realize those goals towards which our predecessors have labored, whether they were in India or the Near East, Europe or China. We now have an opportunity to build a republic of letters that spans languages and cultures, that advances the intellectual life of humanity and that contributes ever more, tangibly and intangibly to growing communities around the globe. There are no quick solutions to the problems that we face. We can pull our sons and daughters from the mountains of Afghanistan or we can continue the work at hand, but the larger issues at play, in Afghanistan and elsewhere, often do not revolve around science and medicine but around history and ideas. The popular American cable channel of the same name aptly states “History – made every day,” but that history reaches back thousands of years and across thousands of languages. These are not small topics. We need both an educated populace and experts who are dedicated not only to their personal research, but also to serving the good of their societies and of humanity as a whole. If we in the Humanities can articulate, and then grow more fully into, those goals, then we not only serve ourselves and our students but contribute tangibly to a better world. Gregory Crane Professor and Chair, Department of Classics Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship Adjunct Professor, Computer Science Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Project Tufts University November 9, 2010 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:39:45 +0100 From: renata lemos Subject: Saving the humanities? In-Reply-To: <20101109063033.26F109EE3A@woodward.joyent.us> Saving the humanities? For a whole variety of reasons, subjects in the humanities are coming under severe pressure in higher education around the world. In the United States, students are increasingly choosing to study other subjects that they think are more visibly career-oriented, while in England the proposed new funding model may remove state support for humanities subjects altogether, so that students will have to pay fees amounting to the full cost. Furthermore university research in science, engineering and technology is getting the lion’s share of funding. But what can be done? We cannot force students to choose courses they don’t want to study, and research funding models are unlikely to change dramatically. But there are things we can do. We can point to the significant social (and even economic) need for expertise http://www.hea.ie/files/files/file/HEA%20FAHSS%20Report.pdf in humanities subjects. We can point to the convergence of new media content with new technology, and the significance of the humanities in this process. We can aim to re-invent some of the humanities to make them more attractive to students who no longer instinctively understand or have a feeling for traditional disciplines. When money becomes available, we can ensure that higher education infrastructure is not consistently at its worst in the humanities. A university system without the humanities, or one in which the humanities are studied by wealthy students only, is not a proper university system. We must be careful to ensure that this is not where we are going. http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/saving-the-humanities/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 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 BA981A5C3F; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:34:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 96CA8A5C2F; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:34:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101111063440.96CA8A5C2F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:34:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.480 job at UVa X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 480. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 12:19:32 -0500 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: job at UVa Scholars' Lab In-Reply-To: <20101031091206.7725AABE98@woodward.joyent.us> The Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library seeks an experienced, creative Senior Developer who can build, test, and debug digital humanities projects and who loves to get ‘under the hood’ to figure out how things work. As a senior web and software developer reporting to the Head of R&D for the Scholars’ Lab, you will be responsible for enhancing, maintaining, and optimizing projects related to digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Not only should you enjoy writing well organized, highly tested code, but you should enjoy working in close collegial partnership with teammates and scholarly stake holders to solve problems in software engineering and the digital humanities. You will need to fit into a fast-paced, interdisciplinary environment where technology enables creative vision — and where you can take good advantage of the “20% time” that all Scholars’ Lab and Department of Digital Research & Scholarship faculty and staff are granted to pursue professional development and their own (often collaborative) R&D projects. This is a full-time, permanent position with potential for advancement. The Scholars' Lab partners on projects with University of Virginia faculty and Library faculty and staff, hosts visiting scholars and a vibrant program for Graduate Fellows in Digital Humanities, and offer an exciting annual program of workshops, luncheons, institutes, and lectures. More information about the Scholars' Lab is available online: http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ http://scholarslab.org/ Senior Developer Responsibilities: Write scalable, well-factored, well-tested application code Lead development projects Work with support teams to find and fix application bugs Work with cross-functional teams to develop design solutions Specialized Knowledge and Skills: In-depth knowledge of multiple programming languages including PHP, Perl, Ruby, and Java Full-time experience with PHP and Ruby frameworks (e.g. Zend and Rails) Proven ability to quickly learn new systems and environments Experience working on open source projects Efficient problem solving techniques Excellent verbal and written communication skills Knowledge of multiple RDBMSes (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL) Javascript skills (AJAX, DHTML, jQuery and similar JS frameworks) Familiarity with version control systems (Subversion and Git) Experience Test-Driven development (PHPUnit, SimpleTest, RSpec, Shoulda, etc.) Linux experience a plus (RHEL, Fedora Core) If this sounds like you, we invite you to apply! http://jobs.virginia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=62652 Salary is commensurate with experience, with UVa market range for this position defined between $58,000 and $106,000 per annum. Virginia offers a competitive benefits package with generous funding at the Library and University level for travel and professional development. Consideration of applications begins immediately, and we hope to fill this position quickly, so please don’t delay in registering your interest! Dr. Bethany Nowviskie Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVa Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute VP, Association for Computers & the Humanities bethany@virginia.edu | http://nowviskie.org/ | @nowviskie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 06:35:58 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 B71E8A5CE9; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:35:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2957FA5CD5; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:35:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101111063556.2957FA5CD5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:35:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.481 impacts of humanities 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. 24, No. 481. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:26:28 -0500 From: Susan Brown Subject: Sustaining DH for Sustainable Culture Dear Colleagues, Sustaining Digital Scholarship for Sustainable Culture project is a Knowledge Synthesis on the Digital Economy project funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The aim of this short-term project is to identify strategies for maintaining the vitality of humanities scholarship and the cultural sector by means of electronic scholarly activity. Drawing on previous work, including national and international research and white papers, we are considering what existing and emergent strategies, initiatives, funding structures, policies, and partnerships are most suitable for sustaining digital scholarship and cultural heritage materials. We are assessing the role that humanities scholarship has played in fostering digital content creation in and beyond Canada, the strengths and weaknesses of the various models used to date, and the potential of current and emergent models for fostering diversity of digital content. It's a huge topic, of course, and we're on a very tight timeline: the project was funded in late summer and we will be submitting a white paper to SSHRC by Dec. 1 of this year. I'm writing to ask for the assistance of the DH community. We have largely completed our literature review, which has been necessarily selective, and are working towards the white paper. We would welcome any input on sources we have overlooked that are relevant to our topic. I want to ask for help in one area in particular, though. We have found very little literature on the spin-off impacts of humanities research and its role in promoting the arts. Studies of the economic impacts for the arts of humanities scholarship, traditional and digital, seem very hard to come by. Stan Ruecker, a member of our team, raised early on the project blog the problematic nature of measuring or defining value solely in these terms, so we're keen to identify other ways that the value of scholarship to the arts has been defined and articulated, and there are some good articulations of this. However, since this program arises from SSHRC's engagement with the current debate in Canada regarding the knowledge economy, we are also interested to know of any studies that take an economic perspective. We have a public Zotero group for gathering and annotating relevant resources at http://www.zotero.org/groups/sustaining_scholarship_and_culture We also have a project blog at http://sustainableknowledgeproject.blogspot.com/ (though we are not very accomplished bloggers, I'm sorry to say). We would welcome contributions to either of these, to this list (if appropriate), or by way of email. If you want to offer suggestions off-list, please email me at sbrown@uoguelph.ca. Thanks in advance for any help you can give, particularly on the link between humanities/DH and the arts. Susan Brown, for the Sustaining Digital Scholarship for Sustainable Culture group sbrown@uoguelph.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 Thu Nov 11 06:37:39 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 18DDFA5D6B; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:37:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 97B16A5D5B; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:37:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101111063737.97B16A5D5B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:37:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.482 accouncements: 18thConnect & Gale; Sakai 3 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 482. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Mandell, Laura C. Dr." (8) Subject: 18thConnect and Gale-Cengage Learning [2] From: Jennifer Vinopal (6) Subject: NYU launches pre-release pilot of Sakai 3 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 08:09:56 -0500 From: "Mandell, Laura C. Dr." Subject: 18thConnect and Gale-Cengage Learning [For the attachment mentioned below, see http://www.18thconnect.org/news/.] Dear Humanist List: Attached is an announcement about 18thConnect.org: we have received NEH-funded supercomputer time, and the Mellon foundation has given a small grant to Miami University for developing crowd-sourced correction tools. Both of these things will help 18thConnect improve the searchable text running behind 182,000 texts of page images available in Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, owned by Gale-Cengage Learning. Gale and the Text Creation Partnership at the University of Michigan have been supporting our attempt to develop an 18th-century-specific OCR program by training Gamera to read Baskerville and Caslon fonts. Our goal is twofold: to improve the archive for the future (independently of who owns what, this needs to happen); and to get access for scholars whose institutions cannot afford to subscribe to ECCO. The boon is that 18thConnect can give texts to scholars who correct them, whether or not their institutions subscribe to ECCO. We can give them plain text as well as text encoded in TEI-A, which will give them a leg-up in creating digital editions. We have heard of groups in Germany working on similar initiatives, of course with different challenges: we hope to contact them, benefit from their expertise, and share the tools that we develop; everything we develop is open-source. (The 182,000 texts of page images themselves are of course owned by Gale and something that 18thConnect cannot distribute.) Please help us make contact if you can. Attached is a press release from Gale about the initiative. It seems to me a breakthrough in establishing relationships between portals that are proprietary (Gale) and freely available (18thConnect, TCP). Sincerely, Laura Mandell --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:24:02 -0500 From: Jennifer Vinopal Subject: NYU launches pre-release pilot of Sakai 3 NYU LAUNCHES PRE-RELEASE PILOT OF SAKAI OAE/SAKAI 3 New York University is pleased to announce the launch on November 54, 2010 of the first pre-release pilot of the revolutionary Sakai Open Academic Environment (OAE) – a revolutionary platform for academic networking and collaboration in teaching, learning, and scholarship. The NYU instance of Sakai OAE will be known as the ATLAS Network (Advanced Teaching, Learning, And Scholarship Network). TheBeginning in Spring 2011, this pilot will grow to include 5000 students and faculty from six different NYU schools. See a screencast demonstration of the ATLAS Network here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQm03ZfTzCE The NYU pilot focuses on two important areas of need.groups of user needs: those associated withIt providesing a single NYU network for many diverse university communities to use. with school-based customizations Aand those associated withit provides aing flexible set of options for implementing portfolios options. Features include searchable (within the NYU community) pProfiles,; gGroup sSpaces and uploaded content; and two versions of pe-Portfolio implementationss, one of which will be a private archive and the other of which will be a public-within-NYU display page customized by individual schools.. The pilot is being overseen by the Sakai/ATLAS Working Group (SAWG), a cross-school, academic-led committee charged with oversight of the development and implementation of the Sakai OAE environment at NYU. Initial development on this project was begun withfunding for Sakai at NYU was provided by a 2008 National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Start-Up grant. For more information about the ATLAS Networkthis project, contact Lucy Appert (lucy.appert@nyu.edu) or James Bullen (jb@nyu.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 Nov 12 10:01:54 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 CC6A7A618E; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:01:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CE853A6184; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:01:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101112100152.CE853A6184@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:01:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.483 humanities: what for? where? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 483. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:21:10 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.479 humanities: what for? where? In-Reply-To: <20101111063357.7AE0FA5BBB@woodward.joyent.us> Professors Allington, Crane, and Lemos are of course telling us what most of know and agree with already. Fine and dandy. I should like to add an observation that I think is useful, unless I missed it in my quick reading on the monitor. Communication and Knowledge, two terms used, do not of themselves suggest what is so troubling to professors of the Humanities. [Speaking of whom, reminds me of a cartoon I saw in 1954, English, showing the usual nondescripts at a cocktail party. One man asks another, *Read any good books lately?* The other replies, *Wrote one.* Further to that, when in the summer of 1947 my 10 year-old kid brother paid me a visit at a resort hotel where I was a waiter that summer, I asked him what he had been reading. *The Iliad, *he replied. And recited some passages. *Good for you!* I explained. The honest child, abashed, giggled and responded, *Well, no. CLASSIC COMICS. *Which brings me to my observation withal.] Almost universally, people are excited and entranced and delirious with instant communication and what they think is knowledge enhanced. I constantly have to remind students that what the WWW provides mainly is INFORMATION. Well and good. I am myself wonderfully grateful for the vast resources. However, I read books in the many years of my formation and education. When I am at work, I need only a keyword to summon up information I cannot remember fully, exactly, clearly and usefully. Marvelous. But, the college students I meet at UCLA in my classes have not the foggiest, bright as they are, willing and eager as they are. I believe they mostly, like my grandchildren, have not read and digested books slowly, or even stories or poems or history. Not in the least. They seem to have been formed on the fly, informed, I should say. The current world they live in affords downloads of a million "songs." At 81, I am still finding that the music, say Schubert songs, I have heard since my teens, has ever new things I had never noticed. Let alone a Shakespeare sonnet! I find in my seminar, WHAT A POEM SAYS, that these 18-20 year olds cannot HEAR or grasp a simple word, let alone phrase. They think the sound and spelling is the word. They do not know what speech itself is. They know what they hear, tv talk, even the pronouncements of clerics and statesman, but they cannot comprehend, or do not, what they apprehend. Personally, I am daily astonished at the simplest phrases, say of poem gone over the other day word by word, what they import, what they contain of the writer's experience and the world in which it was uttered, and the history of that language's aura, so to say. It is no wonder priests and ministers weekly expound a sentence or phrase that is ancient and familiar, and remains perfectly mysterious and a well of feelings and thoughts and facts of life. That is what the "Humanities" mean. A college major in Humanities is scarcely the first step into fullness of the recognition of one's own being, or having been, in life itself. I have taken to reminding the kids that we do in fact see darkly, as in a mirror, and that mirror is what Arnold once said was the best thought and said...and written by larger lives and souls than youth can recognize. History may be full of tales and narratives [written by victors and their historians] but the records of thoughts in the areas of the Humanities, and their absorption into the very marrow of daily existence, for those in law, in government, in the military, whatever, if not necessarily in behavioral psychology, or the incredible worlds of neuroscience and electronics...engineerings, in short, not SCIENCE, are also labile and friable, and passing, as scientific research demands daily, as soon as discovered, and either applied and integrated into the physical realms we live in or not. It is so difficult to convey what it is really about au fond. The kids seem to think, for instance, or thought last week, they understood what was being said in the first line of Dickinson that says, *Hope is a thing with feathers.*... Just getting at what hope itself is or says, not means, in living, took an hour or so, As for the poem itself, it is simply a huge thing, not easily comprehended, at least not as a few lines of speech. Let alone understood internally and intrinsically, let alone absorbed, almost a whole, as it were, anti-Gospel. And that is just a start for them or anyone. Another example: a friend is a top-rated neurobiologist at UCLA, with big labs and great funding. A straightforward simple and even shy man in his 60s, from the Midwest. He goes very often to important conferences internationally. Lately he has taken to asking us what to do and see in all the great cultural capitals he has a fortnight's paneleering in, and lots of time. He is honest and modest, and is enthralled by making a first acquaintance with arts and architecture everywhere. In short, he has not the Humanities, and finds himself suddenly old enough to try to see and hear and "experience" what the old Yeats termed "monuments of unaging intellect." Which is what we wish to preserve and maintain and profess. Digitizations are not experiential events in our very being. Though experienced virtually, so to say. Another cartoon, which in 1954, illustrated what some think is our profession, if not calling. A figure, young, picks up, at the left, a suitcase labled, say, HUMANITIES. He carries it ten years; looks older; another 10,, etc. At last on the right side, he is bent, bearded, geezer, and he sets the suitcase down...unopened all his life. Caption says: *Professors are intellectual porters: they pick up the whole case and carry it lifelong and set it down*, unopened. Sardonic and cynical, to be sure. Most of the other disciplines today, larded with pelf and power, not to speak of carrying on their backs entire suites of administrative officers like The Old Man of the Sea, tend to regard our HUMANITIES as something in that suitcase, not worth the carrying even! Let alone unpacking daily and sorting and demonstrating its samples of life lived for millenia to wide-eyed youth. They would prefer the kids to try to think of one or two out of the million downloaded tunes —How many are music? and be deafened by their ear buds, than be able to THIMK! as that ancient IBM office poster had it. To be drowned out by noise seems to be preferable to those who havent the foggiest notion of anything, let alone the bottom line in their own budgetings. I suppose it comes down to this: There is a basic confusion growing, which confuses the HUMANITIES, whatever they may be, were, or could be, with vocational training for making a living, essential though that is for us all. Yet neither are they a mere luxury to be discarded or trimmed down to nothing because they cost bucks. What 98% of engineering students are not told is that after 10 years in their speciality, they are obsoleted; the cure for some is being kicked upstairs to managerial tasks. Necessary, but not what they put their best years into. And even managers are soon enough discarded, obsoleted. And become like the broken ones that Mr. O'Brien in 1984 sent down to a cafe to play chess and drink Victory gin, waiting for the hour when a bullet is put into their heads just behind one ear. Jascha Kessler On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 479. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: D.Allington > (28) > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.476 job at Ryerson: jobs and disciplines > > [2] From: Gregory Crane > (123) > Subject: Responding to "the cuts,' Rethinking the Humanities and > advancing civilization in a violent world > > [3] From: renata lemos > (28) > Subject: Saving the humanities? > > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 13:55:04 +0000 > From: D.Allington > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.476 job at Ryerson: jobs and disciplines > In-Reply-To: <20101109063033.26F109EE3A@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:15:15 -0400 > From: Ryan Deschamps > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.474 job at Ryerson: jobs and disciplines > In-Reply-To: <20101108074722.BC8C696A82@woodward.joyent.us> > > Since I do not work with faculty (of any sort), I've been kind of quiet > on the issue, but now that I've read this I feel bold enough to add my 2 > cents. > ... > I am sure there is a lecture awaiting me about the 'harsh reality' of > faculty interests, labor markets and the job hunt. I would suggest > this is rather a 'harsh facade' - especially in an age where much of the > knowledge of our society has become more accessible than it ever has. > Society's knowledge is not only more accessible, but the context of that > knowledge is dynamic. With the rise of databases and > personal/collaborative taxonomies, we can in fact create our own > 'disciplines' in the blink of an eye > > I don't want to give lectures, but what may have been lost in the above are > the distinctions between disciplines and departments and between knowledge > and academia. One may be able to create a discipline in the blink of an eye > (though that depends on what is meant by a 'discipline'), but where I work, > even creating a new module takes several years (much of which will be spent > wrangling with committees). And even if knowledge is more accessible than > ever, academic appointments for newly qualified PhDs are certainly harder to > come by now than they used to be, even just a few years ago. So without > wishing to appear too cynical, my experience of joining faculty has taught > me that behind the harsh facade, there's a far harsher reality. > > None of this, though, is to deny the incredible dynamism of knowledge in > our connected world, which Ryan is right to enthuse about. Perhaps it is > simply that the pursuit of knowledge has become increasingly alien to the > business of higher education - even though many of the individuals employed > in (and most of those trying to enter) the latter business are still > committed to the former pursuit. > > All best wishes > > Daniel > > Dr Daniel Allington > Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics > Centre for Language and Communication > The Open University > 01908 332 914 > http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington > > -- > The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt > charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). > > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:25:23 -0500 > From: Gregory Crane > Subject: Responding to "the cuts,' Rethinking the Humanities and > advancing civilization in a violent world > In-Reply-To: <20101109063033.26F109EE3A@woodward.joyent.us> > > > The original has been published at http://www.stoa.org/archives/1299 but > might not hurt to post this to Humanist as it addresses the discussion > about the proposed UK cuts. > > As we consider whether or not the Humanities serve a public good and > warrant public support, we cannot emphasize enough that ideas are a > matter of life and death. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Kabul > and Kandahar were almost as remote from New York as the Moon is today. > But in the first year of the twenty-first century, we saw that the most > remote and geo-politically weak space on earth could strike the centers > of global power. Pressing issues such as the anxiety over oil and Israel > may be in the foreground, but these are largely accelerants to a deeper > intellectual encounter, a war of ideas that have evolved over thousands > of years, across thousands of miles, and within thousands of languages. > > We need better ways to understand the cultures that drive economic and > political systems upon which our biological lives depend. First, we need > to understand the connections, often surprising, that bind superficially > distinct cultures. Kandahar was in fact founded by Alexander the Great – > one Alexandria among several in his empire. The great translation > movement centered in Baghdad from c. 800 to 1000 CE made more Greek > Science, Medicine, and Philosophy available in Arabic than has been > translated into any modern language since. A second translation > movement, with strong centers in Spain and Sicily, amade Arabic > scholarship available in Latin – Aristotle re-emerged in the West > because Muslim scholars had not only translated his work but had gone > far beyond the Greek starting points and provided foundations on which > Christian thinkers could build. Western Europe built upon a foundation > forged in Greek and Arabic. As Dimitri Gutas, an expert on Greek and > Arabic points out, the dense cultural network of which the Europe is a > part extends – and has extended for thousands of years — at least until > India. > > Ideas as well as material objects traveled back and forth from the > Pacific to Atlantic, and as we contemplate complementary systems, such > as the spread of Greek culture and the development of Ancient China, we > can compare Plato and Confucius or Thucydides and Sun Tzu and open up > questions of parallel development and shared human values.. When we > examine American individualism, with its connections to pre-Christian, > brutally competitive ideas in Greco-Roman culture, we can also ask how > this might compare to cultural patterns that emphasize social cohesion > and harmony in Asian societies with roots in Confucian thought. This is > merely an example of a kind of analysis that raises questions of > practical importance, especially as the United States and Europe become > ever more closely linked to an ever more powerful China. > > The act of posing these questions – about fundamental ideas that have > shaped civilizations around the world – is arguably more important than > the answers that we fashion. We need the intellectual tools to think > about the problems and achievements of our own cultures and a respectful > curiosity about other cultures that does not shy away from questions. > When American journalist Robin Wright first met Iranian President > Khatami in 1998, he quoted Plato and asked “what is justice?” to a > bemused group of reporters, who had “all come to talk about issues a bit > more pressing than ancient Greek philosophy.” But Khatami’s ideas struck > a chord when he suggested that we need a Dialogue, rather than a Clash, > of Civilizations. The year 2001 was designated by the United Nations as > the year for the dialogue of civilizations. Tragically, as we all know, > that year instead was marked by a new exchange of violence rather than > ideas. > > What then can we do to grapple with the ideas that threaten our > stability and security? From my standpoint, as a college professor who > thinks about equipping the next generation with the kind of education > that will sustain them in this new century, it is the Humanities that > provide – or can provide – the space in which a real dialogue can take > place. The disciplines of the humanities – philosophy, literature, > history, classics, to mention several – are essential to the pursuit of > genuine understanding across diverse cultures and intellectual > frameworks. That said, those of us with the privilege to dedicate our > lives to advancing our understanding of human record have a great deal > of work to do In most areas of the humanities, academic culture, rooted > in traditions of print publication, has produced a highly erudite and > very narrow channel of communication, with publications that few could > see, much less understand, and a hierarchical culture to which only > those with advanced degrees and who wrote in a handful of European > languages could contribute. Our students have been subjects in a kingdom > of learning, measured by how far short they fell of the yardsticks that > others had established for them. Today, those yardsticks seem out of > date and frequently irrelevant to the dialogues taking place around the > world with the help of new communication technologies. > > These same technologies – that have accelerated the circulation of both > hateful speech and new ideas across the globe — allow us to transform > our intellectual lives as well. Each of us can explore a wider > intellectual space than we could a generation ago. Professional > researchers can explore broader questions in greater depth than was > feasible before the digital age. Our students can become our > collaborators – indeed, we need them for the shift to a digital space > has made publicly available far more content than a handful of > professional scholars can ever interpret. We are poised to create a new > humanities education that integrates the most advanced analytical > methods with our most ancient goals and that produces a generation > better able to think about where they have come from and where they are > going. And we have now the tools to expand our collaborations across > languages and cultures, to develop intellectual and personal > relationships with our colleagues from whom we had been cut off. Few > Classicists, for example, realize that the University of Cairo supports > one of the most active programs in Greek and Latin in the world because > they publish largely in Arabic and because print culture, with its > massive libraries, favored a handful of universities in the first world. > > Vast digital collections and increasingly sophisticated technologies > transform what is possible and challenges us to rethink how we can, in > this emerging space, more fully realize those goals towards which our > predecessors have labored, whether they were in India or the Near East, > Europe or China. We now have an opportunity to build a republic of > letters that spans languages and cultures, that advances the > intellectual life of humanity and that contributes ever more, tangibly > and intangibly to growing communities around the globe. > > There are no quick solutions to the problems that we face. We can pull > our sons and daughters from the mountains of Afghanistan or we can > continue the work at hand, but the larger issues at play, in Afghanistan > and elsewhere, often do not revolve around science and medicine but > around history and ideas. The popular American cable channel of the same > name aptly states “History – made every day,” but that history reaches > back thousands of years and across thousands of languages. These are not > small topics. We need both an educated populace and experts who are > dedicated not only to their personal research, but also to serving the > good of their societies and of humanity as a whole. If we in the > Humanities can articulate, and then grow more fully into, those goals, > then we not only serve ourselves and our students but contribute > tangibly to a better world. > > Gregory Crane > > Professor and Chair, Department of Classics > Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship > Adjunct Professor, Computer Science > Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Project > Tufts University > November 9, 2010 > > > > > --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:39:45 +0100 > From: renata lemos > Subject: Saving the humanities? > In-Reply-To: <20101109063033.26F109EE3A@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Saving the humanities? < > http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/saving-the-humanities/> > > For a whole variety of reasons, subjects in the humanities are coming under > severe pressure in higher education around the world. In the United States, > students are increasingly choosing < > http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/11/08/college_leaders_work_to_increase_interest_in_humanities/ > > > to study other subjects that they think are more visibly career-oriented, > while > in England the proposed new funding model may remove state support for > humanities subjects altogether, so that students will have to pay fees > amounting to the full cost. Furthermore university research in science, > engineering and technology is getting the lion’s share of funding. > > But what can be done? We cannot force students to choose courses they don’t > want to study, and research funding models are unlikely to change > dramatically. But there are things we can do. We can point to the > significant social (and even economic) need for > expertise http://www.hea.ie/files/files/file/HEA%20FAHSS%20Report.pdf > in humanities subjects. We can point to the convergence of new media > content > with new technology, and the significance of the humanities in this > process. > We can aim to re-invent some of the humanities to make them more attractive > to students who no longer instinctively understand or have a feeling for > traditional disciplines. When money becomes available, we can ensure that > higher education infrastructure is not consistently at its worst in the > humanities. > > A university system without the humanities, or one in which the humanities > are studied by wealthy students only, is not a proper university system. We > must be careful to ensure that this is not where we are going. > > http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/saving-the-humanities/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: > http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php -- 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 Fri Nov 12 10:03:29 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 E6B6CA6303; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:03:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7F04FA62FC; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:03:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101112100327.7F04FA62FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:03:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.484 events: authorship, reading, publishing; robotics X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 484. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (57) Subject: Reminder CFP: Digital Poster Session (SHARP July 2011) [2] From: Willard McCarty (41) Subject: International Robotics Workshop --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:52:38 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Reminder CFP: Digital Poster Session (SHARP July 2011) > Subject: Reminder CFP: Digital Poster Session (SHARP July 2011) > Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:40:03 +0000 > From: Dr. Katherine D. Harris CALL FOR POSTERS *Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing International Conference* Washington DC July 14 - July 17, 2011 *The Book in Art & Science* http://www.sharpweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=360&Itemid=62&phpMyAdmin=1326493665cf5bcaf15cc4e30ad5ea2c&lang=en Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library and Institute, and the Corcoran College of Art + Design. This year's conference theme, the Book in Art & Science, is an appropriate opportunity to highlight SHARP's continuing commitment to digital humanities projects, tools or techniques or work in progress. This particular session encourages proposals from any college or university digital humanities program, center or group to present a poster that overviews their program. Posters may include a demonstration, traditional printed poster or a combination of both. A brief bio and short abstracts (250-300 words) should be submitted to Katherine D. Harris (katherine.harris@email.sjsu.edu ) by November 15, 2010. Please include any technical requirements (e.g., Internet access). This panel will undergo the normal review procedure by the SHARP conference committee. One participant for each proposal must be a member of SHARP prior to the conference. Founded in 1991, the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing is a global network of literary scholars, historians, librarians, booksellers, and publishing professionals. With more than 1,000 members in over 20 countries, SHARP works in concert with a number of affiliated scholarly organizations around the world to encourage the study of book history. Evoking Washington's status as an artistic and scientific center, "The Book in Art & Science" is a theme open to multiple interpretations. Besides prompting considerations of the book as a force in either art or science or the two fields working in tandem, it also encourages examinations of the scientific text; the book as a work of art; the art and science of manuscript, print, or digital textual production; the role of censorship and politics in the creation, production, distribution, or reception of particular scientific or artistic texts; the relationship between the verbal and the visual in works of art or science; art and science titles from the standpoint of publishing history or the histories of specific publishers; and much more. ************************** Dr. Katherine D. Harris 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 Editor, Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:59:23 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: International Robotics Workshop > Subject: International Robotics Workshop > Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:35:58 +0100 > From: Arun Tripathi Future of Robotics in Germany and Japan: Intercultural Perspectives and technical Opportunities 11-12 November 2010 Technische Universität Dresden Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Friedrich-List-Platz 1, D-01069 Dresden, Germany Room Nr. Z 107 Issue: Today intercultural perspectives and exchange is taken place in many disciplines of research. But do we recognize a robotic embedding of our environment? How does robots influence, support and distract our daily lives? Are we able to trust in new technology in order of organizing a nation’s perspective? Japan is known as a nation of technological inventions and wonders. How do they try to understand robotics? Known as an industrial nation of Western Europe within an enormous potential of economic power Germany has developed its production and environment built of robotic systems. Which perspectives are given to reconsider not just consequences of human’s life, but developing a cultural view of a whole mankind influencing technology, while we can effort advantages or deal with its worse consequences? This workshop has invited Asian and European scientists, engineers and philosophers working on adequate perspectives to these questions. Contact: Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernhard Irrgang Professor für Technikphilosophie Telephone: +49 (0)351 463 36001 Postal address: TU Dresden Institut für Philosophie Prof. Bernhard Irrgang D-01062 Dresden, Germany Mail: Bernhard.Irrgang@tu-dresden.de Michael.Funk@tu-dresden.de Web: http://tudresden. de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/philosophische_fakultaet/iph/tph/robotik_tagung_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 Nov 13 09:57:49 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 6DBD7A00D3; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:57:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C081FA00CA; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:57:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101113095747.C081FA00CA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:57:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.485 humanities: what for? where? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 485. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:42:39 -0600 (CST) From: Alan Corre Subject: [Humanist] 24.479 humanities: what for? where? In-Reply-To: <211393265.217589.1289565075082.JavaMail.root@mail03.pantherlink.uwm.edu> Jascha Kessler recalls a cartoon, if I mistake not, from the sadly defunct English weekly "Punch": ...a cartoon I saw in 1954, English, showing the usual nondescripts at a cocktail party. One man asks another, *Read any good books lately?*  The other replies, *Wrote one.* I remember it differently and less politically correct, since the point seems to be an observation of the difference between the sexes: A young man and a young woman are chatting desultorily at a cocktail party: He: I just wrote a book. She: What a coincidence! I just read one. Or were there two cartoons? Maybe the all-knowing WWW can enlighten us. Alan D. 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 Sat Nov 13 09:58:39 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 05221A0205; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:58:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6D0B2A01EF; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:58:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101113095837.6D0B2A01EF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:58:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.486 events: 18C 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 486. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:10:18 +0100 From: Anne Bandry Subject: Digital Enlightenment CALL FOR PAPERS '*Digital Enlignement*' at 13^th International Congress for Eighteenth Century Studies Graz (Austria), 25. - 29. July 2011 This section aims at sharing experience over methodologies of research using digital tools to study different aspects of the eighteenth century. Participants are invited to present the setting up and the use of databases, corpora or other formats for the recording, monitoring and/or analysis of various materials: correspondences, essays, journalism, fiction, dictionaries and encyclopaedias, travel accounts, maps, collections of images or objects, etc. One possible area of interest is their evolution over time, as evidenced by changes in the representation of cultural, social, literary, scientific phenomena or patterns, and the perception of such changes by the producers of the material under study or by the twenty-first century researcher. Another focus can be the contacts between several geographical zones, for example Central, Eastern and Western Europe, or Europe and other continents, in particular the means of tracing the dissemination of specific ideas, texts, objects over Europe and beyond, through series of editions, subscription lists, reproductions, imitations, mentions in various media, etc. The portability of databases and corpora, and ways in which the material can be enriched as the project develops and transferred to other software or media as a protection against obsolescence will be of particular interest. Any subject of 18th century research is also welcome, provided it makes use of digital tools. _Languages_: English and French, _Moderator _bandry@unistra.fr Please contact *bandry@unistra.fr* and/or register directly at http://www.18thcenturycongress-graz2011.at/congressprogramme.html Code of session: CS055 *Deadline for submission of abstract (at least 2500 characters) to ISECS: January 31st, 2011* *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1289578229_2010-11-12_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_3168.1.2.gif -- Anne BANDRY Scubbi Professeur des universités Fax : +33 (0)3 68 85 65 73 bandry@unistra.fr Université de Strasbourg http://www.unistra.fr Bureau 4220 Département d'études anglaises et nord-américaines 22 rue Descartes F - 67084 Strasbourg http://www.departement-anglais.unistra.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 Sun Nov 14 09:17:18 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 7F7BBA5938; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:17:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D2218A592F; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:17:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101114091716.D2218A592F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:17:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.487 bookish humour X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 487. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Laval Hunsucker (41) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.485 humanities: what for? where? [2] From: Jascha Kessler (48) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.485 humanities: what for? where? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 04:08:42 -0800 (PST) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.485 humanities: what for? where? In-Reply-To: <20101113095747.C081FA00CA@woodward.joyent.us> Just two short reactions, in the same spirit.   Alan D. Corre related :  > A young man and a young woman are chatting desultorily > at a cocktail party: He: I just wrote a book. She: What a > coincidence! I just read one.   And then of course there's this, from _The New Yorker_ ( http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/06/02/080602ta_talk_marx -- though I believe the joke is considerably older than this ) :    <>     Alan D. Corre related, as well :  > One man asks another, *Read any good books lately?*  The > other replies, *Wrote one.*   Sounds something like the popular perception of the just- deceased Harry Mulisch, the last of the so-called greatest three post-World-War-II Dutch writers, and author of the monumental novel _De ontdekking van de hemel_. Just after his death, there appeared a cartoon on the front page of one of the national dailies here. There he is, standing on a cloud in his typical stylish tailored suit, his hands in his pockets, next to God, and suryeying his new surroundings. His assessment ?  ( I translate the text-balloon : )  "In my opinion, the book is better."     - Laval Hunsucker   Den Haag ( Holland ), Nederland       ----- Original Message ---- From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sent: Sat, November 13, 2010 10:57:47 AM --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:30:20 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.485 humanities: what for? where? In-Reply-To: <20101113095747.C081FA00CA@woodward.joyent.us> I believe there will have been two different cartoons. I am as positive as I can be that I recall those images of two guys facing, holding what may be martini glasses, those inverted pyramidal shapes. The writer was very seedy, writerly-looking indeed. I dont recall the guy and gal one at all. The former I had cut out and put on the pseudo-pantry/kitchen wall of that little apartment cut from a Whitestone town house on 85th Street, between CPW and Amsterdam Avenue. I had an intuition then at 25 of my future authorial miseries. To this hour persistent, of course. JK On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 485. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:42:39 -0600 (CST) > From: Alan Corre > Subject: [Humanist] 24.479 humanities: what for? where? > In-Reply-To: < > 211393265.217589.1289565075082.JavaMail.root@mail03.pantherlink.uwm.edu> > > > Jascha Kessler recalls a cartoon, if I mistake not, from the sadly defunct > English weekly "Punch": ...a cartoon I saw in 1954, English, showing the > usual nondescripts at a cocktail party. One man asks another, *Read any good > books lately?* The other replies, *Wrote one.* > > I remember it differently and less politically correct, since the point > seems to be an observation of the difference between the sexes: > > A young man and a young woman are chatting desultorily at a cocktail party: > He: I just wrote a book. > She: What a coincidence! I just read one. > > Or were there two cartoons? Maybe the all-knowing WWW can enlighten us. > > Alan D. Corre > -- 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 Sun Nov 14 09:18:03 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 0E101A599D; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:18:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 47FDBA598E; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:18:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101114091801.47FDBA598E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:18:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.488 Kessler, "Humanities, Anyone?" X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 488. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:14:39 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: humanities, anyone? [Posted on behalf of Jascha Kessler. --WM] HUMANITIES, ANYONE? JASCHA KESSLER Communication and Knowledge, two terms commonly attributed to the finest of benefits bestowed by the World Wide Web, do not of themselves suggest what today troubles professors of the Humanities. Speaking of whom, reminds me of a cartoon I saw in 1954, , showing the usual nondescripts at a cocktail party. One brisk, bow-tied fellow asks another, *Read any good books lately?” The shabby, grizzled tieless and round-shouldered other replies, *Wrote one.” Further to that, when in the summer of 1947 my 10 year-old kid brother paid me a visit at a resort hotel where I was a waiter that summer, I asked him what he had been reading. “The Iliad,“ he answered. And recited a passage. “Good for you!” I exclaimed. That honest child, abashed, giggled, *Well, no. CLASSIC COMICS, actually.”] Which digression at the outset leads me to the following observations. It’s loudly lamented our colleges are losing faith in, and (funding) support for, the Humanities. At the same time, people seem universally excited and entranced, deliriously engrossed by instant electronic communication and what they think is knowledge enhanced and ubiquitously available on their portable screens. The scene today is almost like Caliban’s speech in Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST, wherein he wonderingly tells of music and voices unseen around him everywhere on that desert isle — Ariel‘s and kindred angelic benevolent beings. I remind college students that what the WWW provides is mainly INFORMATION. Well and good. I am immensely grateful for the resources that can be called down with a click or two. When I am at work writing or studying, I need but a ”keyword” to summon information I don’t clearly or exactly recall. Marvelous! Wonderful! However, I read books in the several decades that formed my education. The students I greet in my UCLA classes, bright, willing, and eager though they are, haven’t the foggiest. I find they mostly, like my grandchildren, have not read and digested too many books, or even stories or poems or history’s tales. To say the least. They seem to have been informed on the fly. The world they live in affords downloads of a million or more "songs." It seems difficult to tell them one from another, as any shopper in a drugstore or supermarket knows. Whereas at 81, I find that the music, for instance of a Schubert song I’ve heard now and then since my teens, offers notes and phrases I’d not heard before. Let alone the newfound sense of a line or two in a sonnet of Shakespeare! I see for instance in my seminar titled, WHAT A POEM SAYS, that our 18-20 year olds cannot hear or grasp a simple word, let alone a phrase, though they try to guess. They suppose the sound and spelling constitutes the word. They speak, sweetly and modestly themselves, yet seem not to know what the speech of poetry is. They understand what they hear as familiar merely as TV chatter; they can apprehend the announcements of politicians and statesmen; yet au fond they do not,or cannot comprehend them as anything more or less than communication or information. Personally, I am perpetually astonished by the simplest phrase, say in a poem such as I have gone over with them word by word: what it imports, what it contains of the writer's experience of the world in which it was uttered, and the history of that language's aura, so to say. It is no wonder clerics sermonize weekly, expounding a sentence or phrase ancient and familiar, yet essentially mysterious though it contains a well of feelings and thoughts and facts of life. That is what teaching in the "Humanities" means. True, a college major in Humanities is but the first step into the possible and potential recognition of one's own being — or of one’s having been — in life itself. I remind students that we do in fact see darkly, as in a mirror. That mirror is what Matthew Arnold once held up to show us what was the best thought and said ... and written by larger lives and souls than youth recognizes. Or age, for that matter. History may be tales of sound and fury, narratives written by victors and their historians, as the cynic says. Nevertheless the records of thoughts in the subjects labeled Humanities are not labile or friable, or passing; whereas the discoveries of scientific research are, necessarily, always altering, superseding, or abandoning what has been thought to be the case yesterday. It is so difficult to convey what a sentence of poetry says. The kids seemed to think the other week, for instance, that they understood what Emily Dickinson said in the first lines of her poem, which run “Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul .... “ Just to get at what hope may be, what the word as spoken says, not “means,” took an hour. As for the poem’s 12-lines, they gradually constitute themselves as an extraordinary artefact, uttered as it were sotto voce if uttered at all, not immediately to be comprehended; indeed in reflection it suggests itself as almost anti-Gospel. At the other end of life: I have a acquaintance who travels frequently to international conferences, is a molecular biologist at UCLA commanding a top-flight lab maintained by today’s rich funding for a redhot field. A modest man in his 60s, he has taken to asking what there is to do in those exotic venues where he does the panelists’ tango, having days of free time before, during and after sessions of science congress. Lately he has become curious to learn something of the arts and architecture of those cultural capitals. In short, he has not a clue regarding the Humanities. Surprised, he finds himself suddenly old enough — and eager — to begin to see and hear, perhaps to "experience" what the old poet Yeats called "monuments of unageing intellect." Better late than never? Late, or too late! to paraphrase an apothegm of William Blake’s. Those “things” are what we profess who have been students of the Humanities wish to maintain. Digitization of texts and images notwithstanding, though stored [safely?] and downloaded on request from the Great Cloud to be “experienced” virtually, are not events that will be melded into in our very marrow so to say. Education requires their absorption over time. For example, another cartoon recalled from 1954 may illustrate what is supposed our profession. A young fellow picks up a heavy valise labeled, say, HUMANITIES. He carries it ten years; is drawn looking older in the next frame; in another 10 years older still, etc. At last he is seen bearded, bent, a broken-winded geezer sitting on that luggage ... unopened lifelong. Caption: “The Professor as intellectual porter. Sardonic? Yes. Nevertheless it also describes the vast repository now filling with the 0s and 1s that represent whatever that remains of the past, nowadays called Knowledge, though more accurately termed Information. Most of our university and college disciplines, larded with pelf and power, carry on their backs what might be called The Old Man of the Sea — whole buildings stuffed with suites of administrative officials. They with their hugely-funded professional schools, Engineering, Medicine, Law, and Social Sciences like Psychology, tend to regard HUMANITIES as the leaden burden of a portmanteau not worth the effort to schlep along or trouble unpacking, sorting, and demonstrating its content of millennia-old lives to ignorant youth. They would prefer our wide-eyed, wondering kids deafened by ear-buds to try to hum one or two of the millions of downloadable “songs” — how many of those tunes are electronically potted? than to try to THIMK! as that IBM office poster once had it. To welter drowned in noise seems preferable to those who haven’t the wispiest notion of what any one “thing” might be, let alone the cost of learning what it is. I suppose it comes down to this: There is a growing consensus by our budgeteers that confuses the HUMANITIES, whatever they may be, were, or could be, with vocational training, necessary though that is to earning a living. Professional schools are essentially vocational. The proper term for them is Technology. the origins of which begin with the first flaked knife or arrowhead, the spark that was struck from a flint to make the fire that cooked our raw foods. Like Science, like Theology, the Humanities are no mere luxury to be discarded or trimmed away to nothing because they cost a few bucks. As for Technology, what engineering students are not taught is that after 10 years’ work at their speciality, they are usually obsoleted, the grant funds and investors’ cash having been directed elsewhere. For some the reward is being kicked upstairs to a manager’s. Necessary, but not what they put their best years into. And even manager’s slot and desk, itself soon obsoleted. Discarded, they come to resemble the broken ones whom Mr. O'Brien in 1984 sent off to a dingy cafe to play chess and drink Victory gin while awaiting the hour when a bullet would be blasted into their head from behind one ear. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 Nov 16 06:42:35 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 54DC0A8529; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:42:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D83B5A8510; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:42:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101116064233.D83B5A8510@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:42:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.489 on collaboration X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 489. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:37:52 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: on collaboration By virtue of editing my journal, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, I have received a copy of John N. Parker, Niki Vermeulen and Bart Penders, eds., Collaboration in the New Life Sciences (Ashgate 2010). For our purposes here I note in particular the concluding essay by Wesley Shrum, "Collaborationism" (pp. 247-58). "Collaboration", he writes, "if we can agree on nothing else, is a kind of cooperation or working together towards some end.... Nearly always imbued with a positive connotation in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, it has momentarily lost meaning as a descriptive term." He praises the contributions to the volume because "they typically do *not* treat collaboration as a 'scientific good' but offer a healthy, analytical buffer to such views.... The evaluative connotations are important to bear in mind, since the labelling process is crucial and to call something 'collaborative' is typically to call it good." Hence, as he says, less than half-jokingly he invokes the older sense of the word, "to return collaboration to its World War II roots as a traitorous relationship with an enemy". Bringing back that meaning helps him, and would help us, to dispense with the lineaments of a transcendental virtue and so to think critically about what is going on in the digital humanities. Shrum distinguishes three reasons for collaboration: (1) the need for resources, exemplified by most parts of physics; (2) as part of a broader strategy for asserting the status of a discipline, by associating with more established, higher-status fields; (3) the need for information supplied by other fields, essentially because of the complexity of the problems involved. Does this taxonomy of collaboration suit us? What seems to be missing here is (4) the need of a purely methodological discipline for problems to which its methods can be applied. But, then, does the digital humanities exist only in collaboration? Is it a condition sine qua non? If it is, then how possibly can we be critical of it? Are we in the position of those during WWII who had to collaborate in order to eat? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 Nov 16 06:43:38 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 07D82A8587; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:43:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AEA14A8576; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:43:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101116064336.AEA14A8576@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:43:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.490 new on WWW: Save the Words; Institutional Repository bib, ver 3 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 490. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (12) Subject: Save the Words [2] From: Willard McCarty (51) Subject: Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 3 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:08:29 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Save the Words I'm grateful to Geoffrey Rockwell for alerting me to the Oxford Save the Words project, http://www.savethewords.org/. It's a fine idea, a brilliant interface. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:38:54 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 3 > Subject: Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 3 > Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:00:57 +0000 > From: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. An institutional repository is a digital repository specific to a single institution that contains diverse types of digital works that deal with the disciplines associated with that institution. Version three of the Institutional Repository Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. It primarily includes published articles, books, and technical reports. A limited number of conference papers and unpublished e-prints are also included. All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html The bibliography has the following sections (all sections have been updated): 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 12 Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Institutional Repositories Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author The following recent Digital Scholarship publication may also be of interest: Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography (a paperback, a PDF file, and an XHTML website) http://digital-scholarship.org/tsp/transforming.htm For reviews of Digital Scholarship publications, see: http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/reviews.htm Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen) this message: http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/irb_en_3.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://digital-scholarship.org/ Digital Scholarship Chronology http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dschronology.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 Nov 16 06:46:56 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 C6BDBA877F; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:46:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 028C5A8765; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:46:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101116064655.028C5A8765@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:46:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.492 call for ACH numinations X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 492. 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. 24, No. 491. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:13:31 -0500 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: call for ACH Executive Council nominations The Association for Computers and the Humanities invites nominations for this year's elections. We are electing three (3) Executive Council members, and seek candidates who want to advance the field of digital humanities by helping to run the ACH. Together with other officers, these are the people who form the ACH's policies, decide how the ACH will spend its funds, and oversee its activities. They meet for an annual council meeting at the Digital Humanities conference every year, and hold discussions during the rest of the year by email and occasional phone conferences. Candidates must be members of the ACH and must commit to attending the council meetings at the Digital Humanities conference. Council members serve four-year terms. Candidates are expected to be active members of the digital humanities world. But these are not roles reserved to those in very senior positions: graduate students have often served on the council, and commitment to the organization and to the field have usually counted for more with the membership than job titles. Nominations should be sent to this year's chair of the nominations committee: Matthew Kirschenbaum (mgk@umd.edu) by December 1. They should include an email address for the nominee and a brief biographical statement for the ballot. You are warmly encouraged to nominate yourself if you are interested. The nominations sub-committee shall determine a final slate of six (6) candidates to stand for election to the three available positions. For more information on the responsibilities and obligations of ACHofficers, see: http://www.ach.org/documents/ACH_Constitution_Bylaws.html Current officers of the ACH are listed at: http://www.ach.org/ACH_Officers/index.html [Please forward as appropriate.] --Matthew KirschenbaumAssociate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC, a Living/Learning Program in the Honors College) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net and @mkirschenbaum on Twitter _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 16 06:47:33 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 929FDA88A0; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:47:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E2237A8888; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:47:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101116064731.E2237A8888@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:47:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.493 events: Faraday, Newton, Galileo, Darwin X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 493. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:34:04 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Very Short Introductions to Faraday, Newton, Galileo, Darwin Science that changed the world Royal Institution of Great Britain Professors Frank James, David Wootton, Rob Iliffe and Chris Bishop Wednesday 24 November 2010 6:00–6:45 pm Sunley Room The Royal Institution of Great Britain 21 Albemarle Street London W1S 4BS To celebrate the release of A Very Short Introduction to Michael Faraday by the RI’s own Frank James, this event will look at the key figures in the history of science and eminent historians will speculate on what today’s world would be like without the contributions of Faraday, Newton, Galileo and Darwin. Alongside Prof James, Rob Iliffe, editorial director for the Newton Project, and author of A Very Short Introduction to Newton will talk about the great Cambridge mathematician. David Wootton, author of Galileo: Watcher of the Skies will present on the pioneering Renaissance thinker. To complete the line-up, Jim Secord, Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, will talk about the impact of Darwin's theory of natural selection. The event will be chaired by the 2008 Christmas lecturer, Chris Bishop. For information on tickets to this event, see https://www.rigb.org/eventControl?action=book&id=1027. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 Nov 16 06:59:50 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 8544FA8C58; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:59:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F3D88A8C45; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:59:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101116065947.F3D88A8C45@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:59:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.494 numination of the ACH X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 494. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:57:43 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: numination of the ACH According to the OED the word "numination" -- my typo for the intended "nomination" of candidates for positions on the ACH Executive Council in Humanist 24.492 -- does not exist, though it is attested 777 times in Google's version of the Internet as of this moment. If it did exist with the OED's blessing it would have to mean, "the creation of a divine being" (as in "numinous", fr. L. numen, -is, for which see R. Otto, Das Heilige). I hope you will join me in wishing that no one makes the attempt, and especially that none succeeds! Apologies. Once made in a subject-line to Humanist such errors apparently cannot be corrected. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 17 06:48:28 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 E715A9D5B0; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:48:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8F7E09D59F; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:48:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101117064825.8F7E09D59F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:48:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.495 calls for submissions: social software; the literary X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 495. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Lisa Swanstrom (23) Subject: CFP: Special Issue of /Digital Humanities Quarterly/: "The Literary" [2] From: Dr Tatjana Takseva (121) Subject: Call for Chapter Proposals--Social Software and the Evolution of User Expertise --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:38:09 +0100 From: Lisa Swanstrom Subject: CFP: Special Issue of /Digital Humanities Quarterly/: "The Literary" Dear All, Please circulate this CFP to anyone who might find it of interest. Kind regards, Lisa Swanstrom **************************************************** Call for Essays for a Special Issue of* Digital Humanities Quarterly : "The Literary" * This special issue of *DHQ* http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ invites essays that consider the study of literature and the category of the literary to be an essential part of the digital humanities. We welcome essays that consider how digital technologies affect our understanding of the literary— its aesthetics, its history, its production and dissemination processes, and also the traditional practices we use to critically analyze it. We also seek critical reflections on the relationships between traditional literary hermeneutics and larger-scale humanities computing projects. What is the relationship between literary study and the digital humanities, and what should it be? We welcome essays that approach this topic from a wide range of critical perspectives and that focus on diverse objects of study from antiquity to the present as well as born-digital forms. Please submit an abstract of no more than 1,000 words and a short CV to Jessica Pressman and Lisa Swanstrom at DHQliterary@gmail.com by *Feb. 1, 2011*. We will reply by March 1, 2011 and request that full-length papers of no more than 9,000 words be submitted by **June 15, 2011**. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:16:08 -0400 (AST) From: Dr Tatjana Takseva Subject: Call for Chapter Proposals--Social Software and the Evolution of User Expertise CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline December 31, 2010 Social Software and the Evolution of User Expertise: FutureTrends in Knowledge Creation and Dissemination A book edited by Dr. Tatjana Takseva Saint Mary's University, Canada To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com Introduction The term Web 2.0 technologies, also known as `social software' or `open source software' was introduced in 2004 to refer to a second generation of Internet technologies and a new generation of Web applications providing an infrastructure for more dynamic user participation, social interaction and collaboration. Among their applications are Wikis, blogs, MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Odeo, Google Video, Google Docs, You Tube, and other communication tools such as social bookmarking, peer-to-peer social networking, instant messaging, podcasting, etc. Thanks to the applications of this software, a variety of facts and content previously in the possession of experts traditionally seen as the only legitimate sources of knowledge, can be created, accessed and shared almost instantly by any user with an Internet connection. The new forms of collective intelligence powered by the digital media invite redefinition of expertise traditionally defined as mastery of facts and content of a certain subject. They encourage collaboration, ongoing revision, interdisciplinarity and a new understanding of knowledge as a process of inquiry, rather than simply its product. What definitions of expertise are becoming obsolete, how is expertise defined in this new environment, and what new forms of expertise are emerging shaped by digital media are the guiding inquiries of this collection. This will be the first scholarly volume to systematically examine the impact of social software and its applications on long-standing cultural notions of and attitudes toward knowledge, experts and expertise. Objectives of the Book This book will aim to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area. It will examine the ways in which social software applications are changing the nature of expertise and knowledge creation and dissemination in various social and cultural contexts, and it will propose a redefinition of expertise and knowledge consonant with recent technological developments. The collection will serve as a reference tool and a resource for researchers, educators, students, academic administrators and other professionals whose work is influenced by social software applications. Target Audience Because of its nature and subject matter the audience for this collection is wide. It will be composed of professionals/experts in most areas, as the phenomena it deals with have impact on expertise in general. More specifically, its audience will be professionals and researchers concerned with the impact of the digital media on the public sector, economics, social work, secondary and higher education, science, humanities, social sciences, scholarship in academic institutions. Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following: * Experts/expertise and the `mass amateurization' of knowledge--conceptual framework * Social software applications and knowledge creation/dissemination-- conceptual framework * Social software applications and the redefinition of expertise in any of the following areas: -humanities -social sciences -science -social work -medicine -higher education -teaching -scholarship -business -library and information science -politics -policy making -newspaper publishing Submission Procedure Proposals for chapters (250 -300 words) are being accepted by December 31, 2010. The proposals should clearly explain the objectives of the chapter and the approach used. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by January 15, 2011, and sent chapter guidelines. The deadline for full chapter submission is June 30th, 2011. All chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be asked to serve as reviewers for this project. Editorial Advisory Board Members (in alphabetic order): William Badke, Trinity Western University, CA Dr. Tatyana Dumova, Point Park University, USA Dr. John Girard, Minot State University, USA Dr. Stylianos Hatzipanagos, King's College London, UK Dr. Niki Lambropoulos, South Bank University, UK Dr. Kirk St. Amant, East Carolina University, USA Dr. Karl Stolley, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA 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" and "IGI Publishing" Imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2012. Important Dates: December 31, 2010 Proposal Submission Deadline January, 15, 2011 Notification of Acceptance June 30, 2011 Full Chapter Submission Deadline August 30, 2011 Review Results Returned November 1, 2011 Revised Chapter Submission December 31, 2011 Final Deadline Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded to: Dr. Tatjana Takseva, Tatjana.Takseva_at_SMU_dot_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 Wed Nov 17 06:49:04 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 854C79D5FF; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:49:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4532C9D5E4; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:49:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101117064902.4532C9D5E4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:49:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.496 new on WWW: D-Lib for Nov/Dec X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 496. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:42:16 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: The November/December 2010 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available > Subject: [Dlib-subscribers] The November/December 2010 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available > Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:59:21 +0000 > From: Bonnie Wilson Greetings: The November/December 2010 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, an opinion piece and a conference report. Also in this issue you can find 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 WebExhibits courtesy of Michael Douma, WebExhibits Editor. The articles include: Taming the Metadata Beast: ILOX Article by David Massart and Elena Shulman, European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium; Nick Nicholas, Australian National Data Service (ANDS), Australia; Nigel Ward, eResearch Lab, the University of Queensland, Australia; Frédéric Bergeron, TELUQ, Canada PDF/A: A Viable Addition to the Preservation Toolkit Article by Daniel W. Noonan, The Ohio State University Archives; Amy McCrory and Elizabeth L. Black, Ohio State University Libraries Trends in Large-Scale Subject Repositories Article by Jessica Adamick and Rebecca Reznik-Zellen, University of Massachusetts Amherst Federated Content Rights Management for Research and Academic Publications Using the Handle System Article by Guo Xiaofeng and Li Ying, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, and Sam X. Sun, Corporation for National Research Initiatives The Opinion piece is The Strongest Link: Libraries and Linked Data Opinion by Gillian Byrne and Lisa Goddard, Memorial University Libraries, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador The conference report is: Preliminary Report on the 2010-2011 DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle Conference Report by Kaitlin Light Costello and Michael E. Brown, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Library and Information Science 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 November/December 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 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 Nov 18 06:20:30 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 86ED8AA5D9; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:20:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AA444AA5C3; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:20:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101118062028.AA444AA5C3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:20:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.497 on collaboration X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 497. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:28:33 +0100 From: Øyvind Eide Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.489 on collaboration In-Reply-To: <20101116064233.D83B5A8510@woodward.joyent.us> > Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:37:52 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: on collaboration > > Does this taxonomy of collaboration suit us? What seems to be missing > here is (4) the need of a purely methodological discipline for > problems > to which its methods can be applied. But, then, does the digital > humanities exist only in collaboration? Is it a condition sine qua > non? > If it is, then how possibly can we be critical of it? Are we in the > position > of those during WWII who had to collaborate in order to eat? To answer but one of your questions: it is possible to work in the digital humanities and take part in no more collaboration than a traditional humanities scholar does? I currently work in the digital humanities as a more or less lone scholar. It demands, however, that the lone scholar is both digital and human, so to say. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Unit for Digital Documentation, University of 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 Nov 18 06:20:54 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 0866FAA66E; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:20:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4284DAA658; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:20:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101118062052.4284DAA658@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:20:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.498 PhD dissertations on French subjects? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 498. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:19:01 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: PhD dissertations on French subjects? For local purposes I am looking for doctoral research projects that undertake or have undertaken the study of French literary, historical or cultural subjects with the use of digital tools and methods. Best would be brief descriptions of the research (in French or English). Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 18 06:31:58 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 D603AAA832; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:31:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7273FAA818; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:31:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101118063157.7273FAA818@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:31:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.499 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 499. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:28:17 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: biology? I am looking for recommendations of the best essay on biology you have ever encountered -- as we say in this country, a desert-island discs sort. It would be helpful, but is not essential, if this essay took in the role of computing in biology, but most important of all is its capture of the essence of the discipline in your estimation. Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 19 06:26:46 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 0BC30A9A6F; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:26:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1624AA9A54; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:26:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101119062645.1624AA9A54@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:26:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.500 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 500. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Timothy Hill (39) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.499 biology? [2] From: Diane Harley (72) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.499 biology? [3] From: "Dino Buzzetti" (20) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.499 biology? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:20:46 +0000 From: Timothy Hill Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.499 biology? In-Reply-To: <20101118063157.7273FAA818@woodward.joyent.us> Not an essay, and not about computing - but I have found Walter K. Dodds' Laws, Theories, and Patterns in Ecology (2009) immensely instructive. Its attempt to formalise the epistemology of a field - and to discuss the limits of formalisation - that has often resisted ready definition and/or reduction along the lines of other sciences should be of interest to anyone reflecting upon the nature and value of the humanities. And of course the ecology is interesting and valuable in its own right. Timothy Hill Centre for Computing in the Humanities Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 499. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:28:17 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: biology? > > I am looking for recommendations of the best essay on biology you have > ever encountered -- as we say in this country, a desert-island discs > sort. It would be helpful, but is not essential, if this essay took in > the role of computing in biology, but most important of all is its > capture of the essence of the discipline in your estimation. > > Many thanks. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, > www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:17:55 -0800 From: Diane Harley Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.499 biology? In-Reply-To: <20101118063157.7273FAA818@woodward.joyent.us> Have a look at the Biology Case Study in: Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines (linked below). http://escholarship.org/uc/cshe_fsc Each discipline has a similar introductory overview. ======================================== 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_ * * *Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines* Since 2005, the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) http://cshe.berkeley.edu/ , with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation http://mellon.org/ , 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 complete results of our work can be found at the Future of Scholarly Communication's project website http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/scholarlycommunication/index.htm . This report brings together the responses of 160 interviewees across 45, mostly elite, research institutions to closely examine scholarly needs and values in seven selected academic fields: archaeology, astrophysics, biology, economics, history, music, and political science. The report is divided into eight chapters and can be read in its entirety online (733 pages) or can be downloaded in a PDF file, as can any individual chapter. Executive Summary http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0kr8s78v Chapter 1: Overview, Findings, and Conclusions http://escholarship.org/uc/item/15x7385g#page-9 Chapter 2: Archaeology Case Study http://escholarship.org/uc/item/15x7385g#page-37 Chapter 3: Astrophysics Case Study http://escholarship.org/uc/item/15x7385g#page-145 Chapter 4: Biology Case Study http://escholarship.org/uc/item/15x7385g#page-215 Chapter 5: Economics Case Study http://escholarship.org/uc/item/15x7385g#page-323 Chapter 6: History Case Study http://escholarship.org/uc/item/15x7385g#page-399 Chapter 7: Music Case Study http://escholarship.org/uc/item/15x7385g#page-513 Chapter 8: Political Science Case Study http://escholarship.org/uc/item/15x7385g#page-635 Relevant Literature http://escholarship.org/uc/item/15x7385g#page-721 Full Report http://escholarship.org/uc/item/15x7385g --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:04:04 -0100 From: "Dino Buzzetti" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.499 biology? In-Reply-To: <20101118063157.7273FAA818@woodward.joyent.us> Francisco J. Varela, Principles of Biological Autonomy, New York, North Holland, 1979. -dino buzzetti -- Dino Buzzetti formerly 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 19 06:27:50 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 AA1D1A9ACF; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:27:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BB0A6A9AC7; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:27:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101119062749.BB0A6A9AC7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:27:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.501 methods for PhD? tools for theatre? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 501. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ravit David (4) Subject: DH projects and Tools in Theatre--reference list [2] From: Craig Bellamy (21) Subject: DH PhD Methods --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:54:21 -0800 (PST) From: Ravit David Subject: DH projects and Tools in Theatre--reference list Hello All, I need to create a list of projects and tools that might be useful to a new theater school. Is there a place on the web that link to most of them? I would be grateful for any lead/contribution to such a reference list. With best wishes, Ravit David --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:15:42 +1100 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: DH PhD Methods Dear Humanist, I was wondering if anyone knows of any course-work subjects within a humanities PhD programme that teach digital humanities methods? I am particularity interested in pointers to curricula or approaches to teaching DH methods within an inter-disciplinary, 1st PhD year methods course. Kind regards, Craig -- __________________________________ Dr Craig Bellamy eResearch Analyst, Digital Humanities VeRSI, PO Box 4200 University of Melbourne, Parkville 3052 Phone: (03) 90354290 0413 496 231 http://www.craigbellamy.net.au http://www.2cultures.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 Fri Nov 19 06:34:07 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 B61D3A9CC8; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:34:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 44B13A9CBE; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:34:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101119063406.44B13A9CBE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:34:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.502 events: publication cultures; English literary mss X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 502. 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: ESF SCH Humanities Spring 2011: Call for applications [2] From: Willard McCarty (33) Subject: London Seminar for 2/12 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:23:12 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: ESF SCH Humanities Spring 2011: Call for applications > Subject: ESF SCH Humanities Spring 2011: Call for applications > Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:35:11 +0000 > From: HumSpring Dear colleagues, The European Science Foundation (ESF) is committed to creating Fora for early career scholars to develop their visions for the European Research Area. We have developed in particular the format of the “Humanities Spring” workshops, aimed at producing short policy documents authored by the best early career scholars after 2-day debates on identified issues. This year the selected theme is: *Humanities Spring 2011: **“**Publication Cultures in the Humanities”*** *Deadline for submission of applications:**17 January 2011, 12:00 (noon) CET* ** You can access the Call text and on-line submission form via the following webpage: www.esf.org/humanitiesspring http://www.esf.org/humanitiesspring We are writing with a *request to publish / circulate widely* the linked Call for the ESF-sponsored event, which invites for a Europe-wide selection of young scholars in the Humanities. Please do not hesitate to get back to us directly via HumSpring@esf.org with any questions you may have. Thanking you very much in advance for your collaboration, Best regards, Dr Eva Hoogland Ms Irma Vogel Humanities Spring Team European Science Foundation Humanities and Social Sciences 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: HumSpring@esf.org Web: www.esf.org/humanitiesspring http://www.esf.org/humanitiesspring --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:31:43 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar for 2/12 London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2 December 2010; room G35, Senate House, Malet Street, London 17.30-19.30 www.tunyurl.com/LondonSeminar/ *****NB: THIS MEETING HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FROM 9 DECEMBER***** H. R. Woudhuysen: 'The Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700' Abstract . The Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700 (CELM) is an expanded digital version of Peter Beal's Index of English Literary Manuscripts , published in four volumes between 1980 and 1993. Funded by the AHRC and based at the Institute of English Studies at Senate House, University of London, the CELM project seeks to catalogue and describe the manuscripts, documents, letters and related material of some 200 authors working during what might be thought of as the nation's richest literary period. In this talk I shall describe the process of transferring the paper contents of the original Index to a database and then - from a non-technical point of view - talk about some of the problems involved in building the website for the project which will be launched during the summer of 2011. The talk will be illustrated by material taken from the database. Bio. H. R. Woudhuysen is a professor of English at University College London where he is currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. He has written Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558-1640 (1996), edited Love's Labour's Lost (1998) and Shakespeare's Poems with Katherine Duncan-Jones (2007) for The Arden Shakespeare, third series. He is the co-general editor with Michael F. Suarez, S.J., of The Oxford Companion to the Book (2010). -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 20 08:03:06 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 C8DB743FB3; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:03:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D379143FA1; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:03:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101120080304.D379143FA1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:03:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.503 biology 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. 24, No. 503. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:24:11 -0600 From: sramsay.unl@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.499 biology? Hi Willard, On 18 November 2010 at 6:31, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > I am looking for recommendations of the best essay on biology you have > ever encountered -- as we say in this country, a desert-island discs > sort. "What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain," by Lettvin, Maturana, McCulloch, and Pitts would be up there. It's not explicitly about computation, but is frequently cited in the AI literature. It's in *Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers* 47, 1952. Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Associate 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 Sat Nov 20 08:05:37 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 08CF1AB2F8; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:05:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D53C2AB2F0; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:05:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101120080535.D53C2AB2F0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:05:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.504 resilience or indifference X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 504. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:36:32 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.469 resilience or indifference? In-Reply-To: <20101106074352.76457A29AA@woodward.joyent.us> These days i find myself wondering where is gone the debate about digital) humanities and the cuts, why there aren't replies to the message of willard of November 1st, where he asked: "I suppose all this is really to ask, what matters to us most -- and what really matters to those for whose benefit we are working in the long-term? How under changed circumstances can we best continue?" much has been said in the meantime, but if i'm not wrong, no tentatives to answer his question. is this resilience (nevertheless we are doing our studies, the minimum work set is made by a book, a pencil, and some sheets of paper; but this way we are pushed back some centuries) or indifference in front of something we can't (we don't know how to) contrast? 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) ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica sul canale youtube dell'UPO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- 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 Sat Nov 20 08:12:52 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 77723AB3F0; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:12:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0FF89AB3E2; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:12:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101120081251.0FF89AB3E2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:12:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.505 announcements: 4Humanities; EU Holocaust 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. 24, No. 505. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alan Liu (84) Subject: Launch of 4Humanities initiative (advocating the humanities, poweredby digital humanists) [2] From: "Ashton, Anna" (23) Subject: Major EU Holocaust Research project --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:16:16 -0800 From: Alan Liu Subject: Launch of 4Humanities initiative (advocating the humanities, poweredby digital humanists) As a response to the threads on Humanist in October on "industrialisation of the digital humanities" (http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/pipermail/humanist/2010-October/001644.html) and "digital humanities and the cuts" (http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/pipermail/humanist/2010-October/001649.html), an international collective of digital humanists that I am coordinating has started an initiative and Web site called "4Humanities: Advocating for the Humanities" (http://humanistica.ualberta.ca/). The premise is explained in our mission statement (appended below). The gist is that the humanities now need public advocacy, and the digital humanities have special resources and expertise to assist such advocacy in the age of networked communication. We are calling for participants and assistance from the digital humanities community. Some of the help we need most immediately is as follows: (1) Before we become more pubic (i.e., recruiting talent and time from the general humanities community, itself a prelude to recruiting advocacy from people in the sciences, business, government, film industry, etc.), we need to build up more resources under the "Digital Resources for Advocacy" part of the site, (Lisa Spiro, for instance, will be helping by harvesting from her DIRT wiki: https://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/w/page/17801672/FrontPage) (2) We are especially keen to begin collecting posts, images, podcasts, etc., in the currently empty category of "Students for the Humanities"--i.e., student voices. (3) We'd really like to recruit some creative multimedia people to begin producing a video "advertisement for the humanities"--so that we don't stay only in the realm of essay-like advocacy statements. Please write to me if you would be interested in helping. Please also help put out the word about 4Humanities. --Yours, Alan Liu, on behalf of the 4Humanities founding collective (members so far in the U.S., Canada, and U.K.): Edward Ayers, Cathy N. Davidson, Patrick Durusau, David Theo Goldberg, Tim Hitchcock, Lorna Hughes, Alan Liu, Andrew Prescott, Stephen Ramsay, Geoffrey Rockwell, Lisa Spiro, Melissa Terras, and William G. Thomas, III. (Note: Currently, 4Humanities lists among its affiliate organizations and initiatives HASTAC http://www.hastac.org/ . We hope to grow our affiliate network.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [4Humanities Mission Statement (http://humanistica.ualberta.ca/mission/)]: 4Humanities is a site created by the international community of digital humanities scholars and educators to assist in advocacy for the humanities. Government and private support for the humanities for research, teaching, preservation, and creative renewal in such fields as literature, history, languages, philosophy, classics, art history, cultural studies, libraries, and so on are in decline. In some nations, especially since the economic recession that started in 2007, the decline has resulted in major cuts in government and university funding. Leaders of society and business stake all the future on innovative and entrepreneurial discoveries in science, engineering, biomedicine, green technology, and so on. But the humanities contribute the needed perspective, training in complex human phenomena, and communication skills need to spark, understand, and make human the new discoveries. In the process, they themselves discover new, and also very old, ways to be human. They do so through their unique contribution of the wisdom of the past, awareness of other cultures in the present, and imagination of innovative and fair futures. Many people care about the humanities, not just in the educational and cultural institutions directly affected by the recent cutbacks, but also in business, government, science, media, politics, the professions, and the general public. They believe that society will be poorer, not richer, without the humanities to help us grasp, and evolve, what it means to be human and humane in today’s complex world. 4Humanities is both a platform and a resource for humanities advocacy. As a platform, 4Humanities stages the efforts of humanities advocates to reach out to the public. We are a combination newspaper, magazine, channel, blog, wiki, and social network. We solicit well-reasoned or creative demonstrations, examples, testimonials, arguments, opinion pieces, open letters, press releases, print posters, video advertisements, write-in campaigns, social-media campaigns, short films, and other innovative forms of humanities advocacy, along with accessibly-written scholarly works grounding the whole in research or reflection about the state of the humanities. As a resource, 4Humanities provides humanities advocates with a stockpile of digital tools, collaboration methods, royalty-free designs and images, best practices, new-media expertise, and customizable newsfeeds of issues and events relevant to the state of the humanities in any local or national context. Whether humanities advocates choose to conduct their publicity on 4Humanities itself or instead through their own newsletter, Web site, blog, and so on, we want to help with the best that digital-humanities experts have to offer. 4Humanities began because the digital humanities community which specializes in making creative use of digital technology to advance humanities research and teaching as well as to think about the basic nature of the new media and technologies woke up to its special potential and responsibility to assist humanities advocacy. The digital humanities are increasingly integrated in the humanities at large. They catch the eye of administrators and funding agencies who otherwise dismiss the humanities as yesterday’s news. They connect across disciplines with science and engineering fields. They have the potential to use new technologies to help the humanities communicate with, and adapt to, contemporary society. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:21:19 +0000 From: "Ashton, Anna" Subject: Major EU Holocaust Research project Apologies for cross-posting ***** Major EU Holocaust Research Project The Centre for e-Research (CeRch) at King’s College London will play a key role in the design and implementation of a major European research infrastructure that will bring together Holocaust archives from around Europe and elsewhere. The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) project, launched on 16 November in Brussels, is a €7m EU-funded project that aims to provide open access to Holocaust material such as documents, objects, photos, film and art. It involves 20 partner organisations in 13 countries, making it the most important European research project about the Holocaust to date. EHRI will be an example and forerunner for digital research in a wide range of new disciplines in historical research and archival practices. Working together with its partners from the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH), CeRch will lead on the overall development of EHRI's digital research infrastructure, and on the strategic work packages on researcher requirements and the technical development of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE), which will offer online access to the archives. The aim is to create a cohesive body of integrated research materials that will be made available online to the public. The project is coordinated by NIOD, the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide studies in Amsterdam. EHRI: www.ehri-project.eu King’s College London news: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2010/nov/majoreuholocaustresearchproject.aspx EC Cordis news: http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=32768 Centre for e-Research: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch DARIAH: http://www.dariah.eu ___ Anna Ashton Communications & Administrative Officer Centre for e-Research King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: 020 7848 2689 Fax: 020 7848 1989 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch Follow us on Twitter @CeRch_KCL _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 08:07:07 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 5E9F8ACF71; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:07:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C00AEACF5B; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:07:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101121080705.C00AEACF5B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:07:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.506 dissertations on French subjects X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 506. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:57:17 +1030 From: suzi hall Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.498 PhD dissertations on French subjects? In-Reply-To: <20101118062052.4284DAA658@woodward.joyent.us> On 18/11/2010, at 4:50 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: PhD dissertations on French subjects? > > For local purposes I am looking for doctoral research projects that > undertake or have undertaken the study of French literary, > historical or > cultural subjects with the use of digital tools and methods. Best > would > be brief descriptions of the research (in French or English). Hi Willard, My proposed doctoral research project entails the digitisation of French texts by Egyptian-French Jewish writer Edmond Jabès (1912-1991), positioning him as potentially prefiguring later forms of hypertext/digital fiction and poetry due to the non-linear nature of his work. It's provisionally titled 'Edmond Jabès's "Exploded", "Infinite" Book: Prefiguring Cyberculture?', and also deals with Jabès's highly contemporary concept of 'the book' in relation to both digital poetry and the changing forms of publishing today (incl. the future of the book). I'll be starting this project next year at Flinders University, South Australia. What are the 'local purposes' you mention? Regards, Suzi Hall _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 08:07:58 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 ED76FACFCA; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:07:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A0A5CACFBF; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:07:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101121080756.A0A5CACFBF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:07:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.507 NYT on how technology enhances understanding X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 507. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:44:06 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: how technology enhances understanding Colleagues -- this article from the NY Times on Digital Humanities may be of interest susan Digital Keys for Unlocking the Humanities’ Riches Digitally savvy scholars are exploring how technology can enhance understanding of the liberal arts. http://nyti.ms/cubQ9o _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 06:37:52 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 99FB3AE208; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:37:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A5AA4AE0E2; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:37:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101122063750.A5AA4AE0E2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:37:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.508 dissertations on French subjects X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 508. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:12:29 +0100 From: Christof Schöch Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.506 dissertations on French subjects In-Reply-To: <20101121080705.C00AEACF5B@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Although not directly a PhD project, maybe an electronic scholarly edition project I am currently working on is of interest to you. It sparked off directly from my dissertation project on descriptive writing in the French eighteenth century novel. While working on it, I came across an interesting but somewhat forgotten French text on storytelling, Bérardier de Bataut's Essai sur le récit, first published in 1776. I decided to do an edition of this text. The text of the book was encoded according to the TEI encoding scheme (TEI Lite, P5). Also, a light-weight, open-source, easy-to-use publishing framework was developed. I am heading the project, but there are some more people involved, especially programmers. The project is ongoing, but most of the text is online at www.berardier.org. A short technical report on the project is available here: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:de:hebis:34-2010111534956 Please feel free to contact me for more information. Best regards, Christof Schöch (Kassel University, Germany) ---- :: www.christof-schoech.de/en :: :: www.berardier.org :: :: www.romanistik.de/aktuelles :: _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 06:38:30 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 23A24AEBE2; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:38:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B3F6AAEBD3; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:38:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101122063828.B3F6AAEBD3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:38:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.509 digital humanities in the NYT X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 509. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:59:27 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Digital Humanities in the NYT Digital Humanities in the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/arts/17digital.html?_r=1 I wish journalists would recognize that some of these tasks have been performed for quite some time in literary analysis. Technology helps us perform them better and faster. I do like that the article mentioned that data always needs to be interpreted... 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 Mon Nov 22 06:40:39 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 6F017AECB3; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:40:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 194C9AECAA; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:40:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101122064038.194C9AECAA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:40:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.510 events: graphic 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. 24, No. 510. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:50:54 +0000 From: Ángeles Hernández-Barahona Subject: 3rd INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON GRAPHIC ARCHAEOLOGY AND INFORMATICS, CULTURAL HERITAGE AND INNOVATION 3rd International Meeting on Graphic Archaeology and Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0 23th – 25th June 2011 Seville On behalf of the Organisation Comittee of the 3rd 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 23th to 25th June, 2011. This will be the third International meeting held in Spain, where researchers from Archaeology and Graphics fields will work together on Virtual Archaeology, concerning all its posibilities. We count on the participation of well-known researchers on this field and we hope to share a memorable meeting with all attendants. The modern Cultural Center of Villa de La Rinconada and its Conference Hall has been chosen again to host archaeologists, historians, researchers, 3D developers, graphics programmers and students. Besides, we are glad to invite research groups, companies and institutions working on archaeology field, applied infography and valorization of cultural heritage by means of digital graphic tools. This event is being organised by the Spanish Society of Virtual Archaeology. S.E.A.V., in cooperation with twenty research groups of Spanish universities as well as fifteen companies from this field. 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 Participation 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 augmented reality applied to Archaeology - 3D digitalization of archaeological heritage - CAD tools on virtual Archaeology. Render techniques - Archaeological prospection and 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 2011. secretaria@arqueologivirtual.com Acceptance of communication abstracts and posters will be notified to the authors by 1st march. Complete papers must be submitted by 1st april. Complete posters must be submitted by 1st may. After given deadlines, non submitted papers or posters will be removed from meeting sessions. PROPOSAL DEADLINES: Communication abstracts Deadline 1st February 2011 Poster abstracts Deadline 1st February 2011 FINAL/COMPLETE PROPOSAL: Communication papers Deadline 1st april 2011 Posters Deadline 1st may 2011 Contact ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0 3rd International Meeting on Graphic Archaeology and Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation Secretaría SEAV INNOVA CENTER. European Center for Innovation in Virtual Archaeology Complejo Educativo Blanco White. Centro de Iniciativas Empresariales CEI. Pabellón 1 Bellavista - Seville - Spain. Secretaría ARQUEOLOGICA 2.0 C/ Vereda de Chapatales s/n Centro Cultural de la Villa. San José de La Rinconada 41300 - La Rinconada – Seville - Spain. Information, applications and participation E-mail: secretaria@arqueologiavirtual.com Web: www.arqueologiavirtual.com Phone: +34 660 076 053 [cid:image003.jpg@01CB8374.F1725CC0] 3rd International Meeting on Graphic Archaeology and Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0 Alfredo Grande Director _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 06:41:27 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 A2F72AE855; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:41:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 41BB0AE845; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:41:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101123064125.41BB0AE845@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:41:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.511 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 511. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (32) Subject: appeal of the humanities [2] From: Romuald I Lakowski (11) Subject: Humanities cuts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:26:50 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: appeal of the humanities Some here will know Studs Terkel's book of oral history, Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1972) -- a collection of over 100 interviews with ordinary people. I find these quite moving. They attest, I think, to a common humanity to which the humanities might, and perhaps sometimes do, appeal. The appeal is a hard-sell, true enough -- these people are a long way from the crowd we usually address. But at the barest minimum their stories serve as a reminder to us (do they not?) of a ground back to which our specialised interests must connect, and be seen to connect. Computing in/of/as the humanities included. As a counterweight to our own thoughts about how important we are as Keepers of the Flame, we might also come up with (let us say) a single sentence that says what we have to give. Medicine offers better health and so longer life. The techno-sciences offer better material affordances. The social sciences offer a better, more just society. The humanities? Yes, these *grossly* oversimplify and ameliorate, but each describes a trajectory of desire and intention that (I suspect, I hope) got us through the door. Am I hopelessly naive in believing (it is belief) that truth and beauty aren't delusional, just *very* hard to reach? And, again, how about the humanities? It has been demonstrated in the laboratory as well as in argument that the great principle of reciprocity (I give that you may give) is the best way to play the game. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:14:04 -0800 (PST) From: Romuald I Lakowski Subject: Humanities cuts While this has nothing to do with digital humanities as such, in view of the recent discussion of university cuts, I thought this article (sent to me courtesy of Andrew Gow at U of Alberta) might be of interest to readers of HUMANIST: http://genomebiology.com/2010/11/10/138 While it deals specifically with the cuts at SUNY Albany , it is one of the best defenses of the humanities (written ironically by a scientist) that I have come across. Romuald Lakowski lakowskir@yahoo.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 Nov 23 06:42:23 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 76508AE8DB; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:42:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 74008AE8D0; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:42:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101123064222.74008AE8D0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:42:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.512 excitement X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 512. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:19:47 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the vocabulary of acceleration? Articles that look like they might be interesting to me end up on my machine's desktop and eventually get a closer look. One such article, as I began to read it a few moments ago, seemed to cause in me an almost physiological reaction -- a breathlessness, a raised pulse, a strong but unfocused anxiety. This made me curious. I calmed down, then using a digital highlighter marked the vocabulary of excitement -- or of acceleration, as I am tempted to call it -- in the first paragraph. Here is what I found: > ...grow more and more encompassing in scale and the repercussions... > ever more accentuated... transformations... already profoundly > motified... significant influence... transforming... modifying... The > time is not far off... everywhere... embedded within the bodies of > each one of us... keep control over every aspect of our lives... > efficiently and effectively carry out multiple tasks... > transformed... winds of change... giving birth to a new culture... > major challenge... even more tiny... faster... more refined... > radical changes... this revolution... provoke... I am not saying or implying that the author is wrong, nor that getting excited about the changes afoot is mistaken, nor that the breathless style (practiced so effectively by Clifford Geertz) falsifies that which it expresses. Rather I am suggesting that there's more to this excitement than meets the eye. It's not hype, any more than the writings of experimental artists in the 1960s was hype. I think back, for example, to the breathlessness with which the world-changing, mind-changing, scholarship-changing potential of hypertext was announced. I think back to early days of Humanist when cries of those professing to sink beneath the waves of infoglut were loud and frequent. I think about what Vannevar Bush, for example, said about the overwhelming volume of scientific publication in his article on the Memex in July 1945. Or, to go further back than my own life reaches, I recall Leibniz's dire prediction in 1686 that "this horrid mass of books that goes on constantly increasing is creating a confusion that is almost impossible to overcome" and will lead to disorder, a distaste for the sciences, hence mortal despair and barbarism. These moments of dissolution and re-formation are, at least to me, very interesting indeed. What is going on? We are (to join the game myself) in the midst of one now. Perhaps we should get excited about that -- rather than, thanks to the Semantic Web or whatever, about no longer having to wonder whether granny has taken her pills, or forgetting to pick up Fido at the vet's? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 Nov 23 06:43:32 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 17D82AE959; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:43:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D1301AE94B; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:43:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101123064329.D1301AE94B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:43:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.513 dissertations on French subjects X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 513. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:43:46 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: dissertations on French subjects Thanks to everyone who has e-mailed me so far in response to my query about dissertations on French subjects. I am enquiring on behalf of a colleague in a Department of French who has never seen such a thing and wants to encourage students with interests in digital tools and methods to apply to his programme. So my interest in this sort of research is narrow: only dissertations in progress or completed. The more the merrier. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 Nov 23 06:44:22 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 6A112AE98D; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:44:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B1B8DAE986; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:44:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101123064420.B1B8DAE986@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:44:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.514 biology 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. 24, No. 514. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:19:27 +0000 From: Annamaria Carusi Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.503 biology In-Reply-To: <20101120080304.D379143FA1@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Willard, Not an article, but a book: Evelyn Fox Keller: A Feeling for the Organism. The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock. Annamaria On 20 Nov 2010, at 08:03, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 503. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:24:11 -0600 > From: sramsay.unl@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.499 biology? > > > Hi Willard, > > On 18 November 2010 at 6:31, Humanist Discussion Group >wrote: >> I am looking for recommendations of the best essay on biology you >> have >> ever encountered -- as we say in this country, a desert-island discs >> sort. > > "What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain," by Lettvin, Maturana, > McCulloch, and Pitts would be up there. It's not explicitly about > computation, but is frequently cited in the AI literature. > > It's in *Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers* 47, 1952. > > Steve > > -- > Stephen Ramsay > Associate Professor > Department of English > Center for Digital Research in the Humanities > University of Nebraska-Lincoln > PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 > http://lenz.unl.edu/ Dr Annamaria Carusi Senior Research Associate Oxford e-Research Centre University of Oxford Address: 7 Keble Road Oxford OX1 3QG annamaria.carusi@oerc.ox.ac.uk www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/annamaria-carusi upcoming conference: http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/insis/news/Pages/visualisation.aspx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 24 06:56:56 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 AA97BB04F1; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:56:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D646CB04DF; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:56:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101124065654.D646CB04DF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:56:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.515 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 515. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Gerda Elata-Alster (17) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.511 the humanities [2] From: Jascha Kessler (98) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.511 the humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:53:29 +0200 From: Gerda Elata-Alster Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.511 the humanities The humanities teach what is best expressed as empathy.,- knowledge of the other, who is like us, yet not quite, teaching us to relate, accept, and love that 'not quite like us.' In Oedipus, we do not only take intellectual cognition of our own blindness; the tragic (poetic) form, arousing the emotions of fear and pity and our Purification of them reaches and changes us in a way, that no pure intellectual cognition can give. Poetry from the Greek poiein - to make, not only refers to the poem as 'made', it also makes something happen in the reader:: activating our ethical capacity opening our eyes to the 'Other' and his or her needs.- no science can do that! Poetry can make us recognize the other as 'like me'' but not quite. We leave the theater - unschathed, but 'not quite,' recognizing that 'not quite ' in us as that which calls on us to take care of the 'not quite' of the 'Other'. (E. Levinas, TOTALITY AND INFINITY). Gerda Elata-Alster --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:10:59 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.511 the humanities Teaching in Emeritude, 1 Quarter per year [one could easily do more, as it is requested, but only 1 is paid for, and I never worked for free, not even as a 14 year old caddy summers at a resort], I do for a Frosh group a seminar that pleases me, in a novel program at UCLA, called FIAT LUX. Any prof can do it, and do whatever suits the fancy, for 1 unit, pass/fail, merely attendance required. I do THREE FUNDAMENTAL MODES OF POETRY, or, WHAT A POEM SAYS. I forbid meaning to enter the discussions; I select at random 100pp of poems in the modes of basic human speech, Elegiac, Satirical, Invocational. I point out that writing [pace digitization] is a representation of speech itself, and poems a formal kind of speech, the outpouring or expression of 3 modes of emotion. NOT ratiocination, but emotional expression. The difficulties expressed along this thread about the Humanities, meaning academic formal disciplines, research and teaching, might be illuminated with an anecdote. Decades ago, my late friend Saul Bellow arrived in S Cal to do a lecture in Pasadena at California Institute of Technology. You can all surmise all those types! Leaving after his fine lecture about what is done in literature, by the novelist and poet and dramatist, I was pondering, on the way to his apartment for drinks, one remark he made, as it were casually: What does the novelist try to do? The novelist seeks to tell us HOW IT IS WITH US. Tout court, it is the core what Humanities is about. And then I was passed by two tall women, obviously to me, Cal Tech Science types, handsome, mature, looking very much in command of LIFE itself... given the terrific institution they worked at, and one said to the other, "It's all very well, but I cant see anything in his Nobel Award. There's simply no way to prove or demonstrate what he means by HOW IT IS WITH US! I may not desist with this thread, but I certainly locked my lips then as they passed me uttering polite further sneers. As Prince Hal remarked to himself aloud about those rioters and wastrels he had been hanging out with for too long, I KNOW YOU ALL. Jascha Kessler --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 Wed Nov 24 06:58:04 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 8734FB054F; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:58:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 531F4B0547; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:58:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101124065803.531F4B0547@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:58:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.516 dissertations on French subjects X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 516. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:36:33 -0500 From: "Drouin, Jeffrey" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.513 dissertations on French subjects In-Reply-To: <20101123064329.D1301AE94B@woodward.joyent.us> Hello Willard, Though not a dissertation, I am currently completing a post-doc in digital humanities for a project on Proust and ecclesiastical architecture that began as a side project while in graduate school. The Ecclesiastical Proust Archive (http://proustarchive.org) combines a close reading of the church motif in À la recherche du temps perdu with the architecture of a multimedia search engine. For Proust’s narrator, churches constitute an archival site where the strands of local and national memory converge with personal memory, embodying the novel’s central theme of Lost Time. The purpose of my archive has been to examine the church motif for a comprehensive view of the internal relationships of Proust's narrative and the meta-critical operations in the interpretation of text and image (each passage is illustrated). In collaboration with several units at the University of Illinois, I am starting to expand the project to turn the entire, original French text and its English translations into a testbed for text mining, visualization, and network analysis. In that way, my particular activities for a study of the church motif, which will eventually form a monograph, will constitute one particular application within an electronic research environment containing other scholars’ efforts. My hope is that the project will open a window onto theories of digital textuality, print-to-digital editing, the archive, modernism, and the novel. Thanks, and I hope this helps. Jeff Drouin Post-Doctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities and Visiting Assistant Professor of French University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 24 06:58:36 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 C9138B05AF; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:58:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1819AB05A0; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:58:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101124065835.1819AB05A0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:58:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.517 job at UVa X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 517. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:38:35 -0500 From: Joseph Gilbert Subject: Job at UVA Scholars' Lab The Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library (http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab) seeks a Humanities Design Architect who can create and guide exciting, professional user experiences, who possesses broad, synthetic knowledge of humanities and social science scholarship, who is passionate about the quality of his or her code and who wants to be part of a team that does great work in the rapidly-expanding digital humanities. As Humanities Design Architect in the Scholars' Lab, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of effective and inspiring digital resources for teaching and scholarship. We are looking for someone who is highly technically skilled and a talented designer, and who has a deep background in humanities or social science scholarship. This position is for a true "hybrid" or "alternative academic" someone who can communicate effectively with faculty and graduate students. Not only should you enjoy designing functional interpretive scholarly interfaces, but you should enjoy working in close collegial partnership with teammates and scholarly stake holders to solve problems in software engineering and the digital humanities. You will need to fit into a fast-paced, interdisciplinary environment where technology enables creative vision and where you can take good advantage of the time that all Scholars' Lab and Department of Digital Research & Scholarship faculty and staff are granted to pursue professional development and their own (often collaborative) R&D projects. The Scholars' Lab has been awarded major funding for a two-year project related to work on geospatial and archival information. There is a possibility that this position will be funded beyond the initial 2 year period. Primary Responsibilities: - Conduct UX/UI research for user models - Drive the functional requirements - Create wireframes and prototypes - Conduct informal usability tests - Work closely with R&D Team Specialized Knowledge and Skills: - Experience with interaction across a variety of media (web, mobile) with a strong desire for innovation - Experience as a project manager or technical team leader on scholarly projects - Experience with user-centered design patterns and methodologies - Experience running user testing and conducting accessibility testing - Comfort with complexity and ambiguity, and the challenges of the humanities and social sciences - Advanced understanding of UI client technologies such as Javascript, AJAX, HTML, CSS, etc. - Creation of standard UX deliverables: Site maps, Process flows, Personas, Use Cases, Concept Models - Strong presentation and communication skills - Expertise in current design tools - A research agenda related to the user experience of digital humanities and social science projects. Education: Masters Degree in Humanities or Social Sciences Experience: 3 years experience. Salary and Benefits: Salary is commensurate with experience and competitive depending on qualifications. This position has general faculty status with excellent benefits, including 22 days of vacation; TIAA/CREF and other retirement plans. To Apply: Please visit http://jobs.virginia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=62775 Consideration of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Applicants must apply through the University of Virginia's Jobs@UVA online employment website at https://jobs.virginia.edu/ Search by posting number 0606774, complete application, and attach cover letter and resume, with contact information for three current, professional references. For assistance with this process contact Al Sapienza, Director Library Human Resources at (434) 243-8636. The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer strongly committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity.  The University actively encourages applications and nominations from members of underrepresented groups. As a reminder, the Scholars' Lab also is accepting applications for our Senior Developer position: http://jobs.virginia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=62652 http://www.scholarslab.org/announcements/senior-developer-position/ Joseph Gilbert Head, Scholars' Lab Digital Research & Scholarship University of Virginia Library 434.243.2324  |  joe.gilbert@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 Wed Nov 24 07:02:30 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 5082CB066D; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:02:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D9283B065D; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:02:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101124070227.D9283B065D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:02:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.518 new/newly provided: JEP; Stimulus Respond: Binary; Litteraria Pragensia 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. 24, No. 518. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shana M Kimball (60) Subject: November 2010 Issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing Now Available - Reimagining the University Press [2] From: Stimulus Respond (21) Subject: New Issue - Binary [3] From: Louis Armand (14) Subject: some online books of possible interest to Humanist lestserv members --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:59:07 +0000 From: Shana M Kimball Subject: November 2010 Issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing Now Available - Reimagining the University Press Greetings! The November 2010 issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing (Volume 13, Issue 2) is now available at http://journalofelectronicpublishing.org. The issue is organized around the theme “Reimagining the University Press” and guest edited by Phil Pochoda, Director of the University of Michigan Press. “In the broadest sense, these essays can be read as attempts to discover how or even whether the presses will continue to play a valued leadership role in scholarly publishing, or if the most powerful publishing wave since Gutenberg will leave the presses stranded on an abandoned shore,” Pochoda writes in the Editor’s Note. The articles include: Reimagining the University Press: A Checklist for Scholarly Publishers Peter Dougherty – Director, Princeton University Press http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.202 Reimagining the University Press Kate Wittenberg – Project Director, Client and Partnership Development in Ithaka S+R http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.203 Stage Five Book Publishing Joseph J. Esposito – CEO GiantChair http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.204 Next-Generation University Publishing: A Perspective from California Daniel Greenstein – Vice Provost for Academic Planning and Programs at the University of California’s Office of the President http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.205 What Might Be in Store for Universities’ Presses Paul N. Courant – University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, University of Michigan http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.206 Imagining a University Press System to Support Scholarship in the Digital Age Clifford Lynch – Director, Coalition of Networked Information http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.207 Scaling Vectors: Thoughts on the Future of Scholarly Communication Tara McPherson – Associate Professor of Critical and Gender Studies, USC. Founding editor Vectors http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.208 University Presses in the Ecosystem of 2020 Michael Jon Jensen – Director of Strategic Web Communications for the Office of Communications of the National Academies and National Academies Press http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.209 Terroir—The Hypervisor Press Peter Brantley – Director of the BookServer Project at the Internet Archive http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.210 Enjoy! Shana Kimball Co-Editor, Journal of Electronic Publishing Head, Publishing Services & Outreach MPublishing, University of Michigan Library Connect with JEP: @JEPub | jep-info@umich.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:03:15 +0000 From: Stimulus Respond Subject: New Issue - Binary The new issue of Stimulus Respond, called Binary, is now available at www.stimulusrespond.com http://www.stimulusrespond.com/ . Contents of the issue include: Literature Mirror, Mirror, Through the Wall… / Basia Sliwinska Pretty / Dana Coester The Evolution of Luxury: Massclusivity and Uber-Luxe / Veronica Manlow Nostalgia / Kristen Kreider and James O’Leary Fashion HASKY / Christos Kyriakides and Stelios Kallinikou Post-Structure / Edith Bergfors and Matthew Holroyd Hit Me Baby One More Time /Christos Kyriakides and Maria Kamitsi Art Just ‘cos she dances go-go, It don’t make her a ho, no / Christopher Thomas Amir Chasson Scent of Scagliola / Peter Suchin and Michael Hampton Music Timo Maas Plus much more. Thanks for reading, and I hope you like the issue! Jack www.stimulusrespond.com http://www.stimulusrespond.com/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:40:41 +0100 From: Louis Armand Subject: some online books of possible interest to Humanist lestserv members Dear Willard, There are some almost 20 titles from Litteraria Pragensia and affiliated small presses now publicly available as read-only PDFs at www.issuu.com/litteraria -- including a number that may be of specific interest to members of the Humanist listserv, such as: Technicity (2006); Literate Technologies (2006); Joycemedia (2004); Mind Factory (2005); Dynamic Structure (2007); Language Systems (2007)... All best, Louis -- Louis Armand Director, Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory, UALK, Philosophy Faculty, Charles University, Nam. J. Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1, CZECH REPUBLIC www.louis-armand.com www.litterariapragensia.com www.vlakmagazine.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 Nov 24 07:03:19 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 2E49FB06C2; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:03:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 152C5B06BA; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:03:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101124070318.152C5B06BA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:03:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.519 new on WWW: Ubiquity X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 519. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:40:11 +0000 From: ubiquity Subject: NEW ON ACM UBIQUITY: The Evolution of Computation, Symbol Manipulation, and An Interview with Andreas Zeller on Debugging NEW ON ACM UBIQUITY: The Evolution of Computation, Symbol Manipulation, and An Interview with Andreas Zeller on Debugging November 23, 2010 The Evolution of Computation In its first symposium, Ubiquity has asked some of the top leaders in the computing world to discuss this one big question: “What is computation?” http://ubiquity.acm.org/symposia.cfm Peter Wegner, Emeritus Professor at Brown University, has written an exclusive article on the evolution of computation over the last seven decades, providing rich context for other articles in the symposium. In his assessment, Wegner writes: “Computing has evolved from Turing machines through object-oriented programming and the Internet to interactive and biological models. But the evolution of scientific disciplines does not determine their complete specification, which changes as new research proposals establish new modes of thought.” [continue reading] Symbol Manipulation Another contributor to the symposium, John S. Conery of University of Oregon, faces the question head-on and provides a clear answer: computation is the manipulation of symbols. “[A] computation is a discrete process, a sequence of states that are defined by symbols. The transition from one state to another is the result of some process or collection of processes, where a process could be an algorithm being executed on a single computer, a human interacting with an application running on a computer, another computer at a remote site on the Internet, or physical or biological systems that have states that can be represented symbolically.” [continue reading] Other contributors to the series, which are published weekly in Ubiquity through January, include Lance Fortnow, Northwestern University, on the enduring legacy of the Turing machine, and Melanie Mitchell, Portland State University, on biological computation. See a table of contents in the editor’s introduction http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1870596 for the complete list of authors and tentative titles of their contributions. Mining Your Way to Software Reliability: An Interview with Prof. Andreas Zeller Ubiquity Associate Editor Walter Tichy spoke with Prof. Andreas Zeller, a leading authority on analyzing software repositories and on testing and debugging http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1883621 , about the wisdom he has unearthed through his work and analysis. In this excerpt from the interview, Zeller fields a question about how software bugs tend to “cluster” in specific, known areas: “It is like fishing: Just like fish will appear at the same spot again and again, bugs also tend to cluster in certain spots. For fish, though, we have a theory on how they reproduce. The weird thing about bugs is that the more you fix, the more you will still find. Bugs adhere to the Pareto principle: 80 percent of all defects will be found in 20 percent of the locations. As soon as you identify these ‘usual suspects,’ you can focus your efforts towards them and thus increase effectiveness..” [continue reading] http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1883621 For more information on Ubiquity and its editors, content and features, visit http://ubiquity.acm.org. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of computing and the people creating it. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted (c)2010 by the ACM and the individual authors. See the submissions guidelines at http://ubiquity.acm.org/submissions.cfm To send feedback about Ubiquity, email editors@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 Wed Nov 24 07:04:01 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 5C00CB070F; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:04:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B31B6B0700; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:03:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101124070359.B31B6B0700@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:03:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.520 cfp: Digital Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 520. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:48:01 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Intersections of Heritage & Development: Digital Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa Call for Submissions Special Issue/Edited Volume Intersections of Heritage, Development & Digital Technologies in Sub-­-Saharan Africa Editors: Angel David Nieves, Ph.D. & Marla L. Jaksch, Ph.D. Abstract Deadline: January 15, 2011 The editors seek abstracts (1,000-­-1,500 words) including critical engagements with film, video, performance, art, music, museums, archives, websites for inclusion in an edited volume on the complex intersections of heritage, development and digital technologies in Sub-­- Saharan Africa. Recent scholarship in development studies has highlighted the importance of new digital technologies as tools for furthering social justice, and has revealed continued economic and educational inequalities. How are information communication technologies (ITCs) being used, challenged, implemented, incorporated in grassroots and institutional heritage development in Sub-­-Saharan Africa? Submissions should explore the implications for and impact of any form of digital media on teaching, policy, development and scholarship, including but not restricted to – digital/digitized materials, specific software, social media, virtual environments, audio or visual media, and the internet – on heritage, historic and cultural conservation, and development. Essayists are encouraged to address these among other questions through inter-­-, multi-­-, trans-­-disciplinary approaches in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Possible topics for (but not limited to) essays include: • Teaching digital and virtual heritage as a subject • Distance learning • Digital texts and editions • Mapping software/Spatial Humanities • Collaboration (Community, across disciplines, etc) • Virtual worlds • Digital storytelling • Unintended consequences of using digital media • Authorial/Ownership issue • Creative commons • Ethics and digital media • Access issues / digital divides • Social media/social networking • Technologies of colonialism • Email and the historical record • Mobile technologies (cell phones, PDAs) • Cyberculture(s) and Race • Politics of knowledge; new knowledges • Globalization and digital media • Portability of learning materials • Class/race/gender/nation and digital media • Digital media and the arts • Personal vulnerability in the digital world • Creating digital media • Immediacy/Ubiquity of information • Discipline(ary) shifts Send submissions or inquiries as attachments in MS Word (.doc & .docx) or Rich Text (RTF) to both: Marla L. Jaksch, Ph.D. (jakschm@tcnj.edu) & Angel David Nieves, Ph.D. (anieves@hamilton.edu), Editors. Authors will be notified by February 15, 2011. Final essays of 7,500-­- 12,000 words will be required by May 15, 2011 -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 26 09:42:59 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 1B37FB18F2; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:42:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 967BAB18E2; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:42:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101126094257.967BAB18E2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:42:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.521 further on Oedipus X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 521. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:24:21 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: I hope our Humanists digitized or not will pardon me for a second comment ..but particularly to be pardoned for this correction of the remark re OEDIPUS TYRANNUS that was posted above my own comment on Saul Bellow's lecture at Cal Tech. G. Elata-Alster offered: "In Oedipus, we do not only take intellectual cognition of our own blindness ..." I have at present waiting for editorial acceptance a longish essay that discusses the history of opacity/blindness/obfuscation since the day Aristotle lighted upon the work to discuss his theory of catharsis, as we have it in THE POETICS. He himself never alludes to, let alone mentions! the reason why "The Gods" ordained his fate. Since then people have been told it was his "blindness," or "hubris," or whatever. Nonsense piled upon nescience. It is mildly amusing to think this insult to the hero, who was neither hubristic nor blind, has blinded so many, if not all, for c.2300 years. Things are not so simple, Levinas and ethics notwithstanding. If my essay is not published, we will have to wait. I wrote it after 2 years' translating effort of the great play, commissioned for the Complete Greek Drama series from U of Pennsylvania Press, that was completed for the Millennium. For those years I grew increasingly uneasy having been taught he was what has been said derogatorily of him and by teachers as lesson to us all. Word by word, it just ain't so. In the end he was the patsy, the sacrificial victim, and his fate and doom will be familiar to anyone who knows something of the Old Testament position on punishment for malefactors or evil-doers. Patience, all. Jascha Kessler -- 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 Fri Nov 26 09:45:19 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 E757BB19D7; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:45:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 741B3B19C0; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:45:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101126094517.741B3B19C0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:45:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.522 job at McGill; scholarships in 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 522. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bertram Fronhöfer Subject: Master Course Computational Logic [2] From: Willard McCarty (46) Subject: Digital Humanities CRC Search --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 21:01:12 +0000 From: Bertram Fronhöfer Subject: Master Course Computational Logic Dear recipient of this mail, I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that fresh Erasmus Mundus scholarships are available for Non-European AND European students who intend to enroll in our European Master's Program in Computational Logic in the fall of 2011. The deadline for application is 31 January, 2011. More details are given below. In particular, I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that we are able to provide grants to EU-students for doing their project at the National ICT of Australia (NICTA). Please spread this information as wide as possible among friends and colleagues, at your old universities and the places, where you currently live and work. Many thanks -- Bertram Fronhöfer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The European Master's Program in Computational Logic We are glad to announce to you the possibility to join our European Master's Program of Computational Logic. This program is offered jointly at the Free-University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy, the Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal and the Technische Universität Wien in Austria. Within this program you have the choice to study at two /three of the four European universities. In addition you can do your project work at the National ICT of Australia (NICTA). You will graduate with a MSc in Computer Science and obtain a double/multiple degree. Information on the universities and the program including the application form are provided here: http://www.emcl-study.eu/home.html Language of instruction is English. Tuition fees are 3.000 EUR (for non-European students) and 1.000 (for European students) per year. In addition, we would like to draw your attention to the ERASMUS-MUNDUS scholarship program. The ERASMUS-MUNDUS consortium offers 2-year scholarships up to 48.000 EUR for non-EU students and up to 23.000 EUR for EU students of our European Master's Program in Computational Logic. More information on the application procedure is available from: http://www.emcl-study.eu/application.html Do not hesitate to contact us again if you have any further questions. Kind regards -- Steffen Hölldobler Prof. Dr. Steffen Hoelldobler International Center for Computational Logic Technische Universität Dresden 01062 Dresden, Germany phone: [+49](351)46 33 83 40 fax: [+49](351)46 33 83 42 email: sh@iccl.tu-dresden.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:40:09 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Digital Humanities CRC Search > Subject: Digital Humanities CRC Search > Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:38:52 +0000 > From: Jennifer Viens Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Digital Humanities The Faculty of Arts at McGill University invites applications for a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Digital Humanities. The successful candidate will have the academic credentials necessary for a tenure-track appointment as an advanced Assistant or Associate Professor in an appropriate disciplinary department. Funded by the Government of Canada, Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs allow Canadian universities to attract and retain exceptional emerging researchers. Chairholders are also eligible for infrastructure support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to help acquire state-of-the-art equipment essential to their work. For further information on the CRC program, please see http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/. We seek a scholar with a proven record of securing external funding to support digital humanities initiatives and the ability to build institutional capability in this area at McGill. The successful candidate will have a broad understanding of the history, significance, and application of digital technologies in one or more substantive areas of the humanities, including a demonstrated interest in the development of new digital tools and innovative methodologies. Along with critically exploring how digital technology can augment the practice of humanities scholarship, the CRC in Digital Humanities will advance the role humanities scholarship plays in developing our understanding of digital media in one or more of the domains of culture: art, literature, film, theatre, sound, architecture, and/or other media or forms of expression. Applications should include a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, writing samples, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and three letters of reference. The position start date is August 1, 2011. Review of applications will begin on February 11, 2011, and will continue until the position is filled. PLEASE FORWARD SUPPORTING MATERIALS TO: Professor Juliet Johnson Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T6 All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. McGill University is committed to equity in employment and diversity. It welcomes applications from indigenous peoples, visible minorities, ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, women, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities and others who may contribute to further diversification. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 26 09:46:37 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 DF351B1B13; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:46:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3A4B2B1AF7; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:46:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101126094636.3A4B2B1AF7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:46:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.523 a step change? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 523. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:11:03 -0000 From: "Stephen Woodruff" Subject: step change? In-Reply-To: <20101122063828.B3F6AAEBD3@woodward.joyent.us> Has any other teacher of "digital humanities" noticed a step-change in their students' facility with machines? We have been glibly referring to digital natives for years, and its true that now students have grown up alongside the digital world. Maybe they haven't, until now, been IN it? As in past several years the second year undergrads had a class exercise: sketch a simple expert system which directs the user how to get from here to a place in Edinburgh then implement it as a set of web pages. Start with "do you have a car?" and if the answer is no ask "do you prefer bus or train?" and take it from there. They've been taught to write HTML in Notepad, and for the last 5 years they've each dutifully produced web pages each with a question and a pair of yes and no links to the appropriate pages. Now. After 10 minutes a few had pencil and paper but one was using Google Docs diagram editor, one another few drawanywhere.com to make their sketches. I asked why. -no pen, they said. Arts & Social Sciences students. No pen... But no problem, to them. One was using Dreamweaver, which they hadn't been shown. I asked if she knew the program. - no, but it seemed a good place to start learning. Another was linking Google Maps to pages and copying its walking times for the 'how to get to the bus stop' section. A row of students discussed who would go out and photograph the bus stop "with Hatii in the background". This is a change. Is it just this cohort? My excellent teaching? Any experience of this elsewhere in digital humanities or other fields? 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 Sat Nov 27 08:54:11 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 A45C8B1373; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:54:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 02A50B136B; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:54:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101127085410.02A50B136B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:54:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.524 further on Oedipus X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 524. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Gerda Elata-Alster (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.521 further on Oedipus [2] From: "Helena Barbas" (26) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.521 further on Oedipus --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:20:12 +0200 From: Gerda Elata-Alster Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.521 further on Oedipus Dear Jascha Kessler, re: further on Oedipus I must have missed (by mistake erased) your earlier comment. If it's not too much trouble, could you please resend it. We then could perhaps engage in a conversation on the topic of the 'use' of humanities for humankind. Gerda Elata-Alster, Ben Gurion University of the Negev --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:53:05 -0000 From: "Helena Barbas" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.521 further on Oedipus In-Reply-To: <20101126094257.967BAB18E2@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Jascha Kessler I've not translated Oedipus, but have been giving it in my classes for the last 20 years (together with Aristotle), and each time find something new (in both). The thing that has struck me this year is that Oedipus is himself the victim of his father's hubris; Laius is the first not to believe in Apollo's oracle; he is the first to shed the family blood when piercing Oedipus feet. Laius had other sins upon himself - against hospitality and marriage (the abduction and raping of Chrysippus i.e.). You don't need to invoke the Old Testament, the Greek working up of the Erinyes upon family blood shedding would be enough - it started to make me much more sense from this perspective. Best of lucks to your book Helena Barbas Helena Barbas (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas Departamento de Estudos Portugueses  (Bloco 1 - Gab.b) Av. de Berna 26-C, 1069-061 Lisboa – Portugal URL: http://www.helenabarbas.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 Nov 27 08:55:05 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 592B8B1454; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:55:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DFD99B144D; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:55:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101127085503.DFD99B144D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:55:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.526 job at Alberta 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. 24, No. 526. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 06:50:15 -0500 From: Susan Brown Subject: Project Manager position at University of Alberta Dear colleagues, The Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC) seeks a project manager to play a vital role in developing online infrastructure for humanities scholars. CWRC will produce a virtual research environment for the study of writing in Canada, in partnership with other open- source software initiatives and with literary researchers. It will build a repository, a layer of services for the production, use, and analysis of repository and federated materials, and an interface. More information about the project is available at: http://cwrc.cs.ualberta.ca/index.php/General:CWRC. Reporting to the Project Leader, the project manager will be a full participant in project development. We require a dedicated team member, with depth of knowledge in literary studies and familiarity with the digital humanities, to play a key role in planning infrastructure development, coordinating user needs analysis, assisting in developing specifications for contract work and partnership agreements, evaluating work in progress and completed, and managing one or more subprojects in the software development process. The project manager will help represent the project to the University, project partners, and external communities. We need someone with strong prioritizing, organizational and problem-solving skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, the confidence to work independently, and the ability to establish and maintain quality relationships with CWRC researchers, partners, employees, and contractors. The position is a full-time Trust/Research academic staff position, with benefits, at the University of Alberta for a minimum of three years. The deadline for application in the form of a c.v. and a letter of interest is Dec. 10. Full details can be viewed at http://www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/A110413063/ Susan Brown CWRC Project Leader sbrown@ualberta.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 Nov 27 08:56:07 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 BC80EB149C; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:56:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6F034B1485; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:56:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101127085605.6F034B1485@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:56:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.527 petition against the cuts 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. 24, No. 527. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:11:35 +0000 From: Annamaria Carusi Subject: Humanities and Social Sciences Matter / Valuing the Humanities Dear all, If you have not already done so, please sign the petition opposing the cuts on the Humanities and Social Sciences Tuition and Research budgets. Apparently the petition for the 'Science is Vital' did play a role in getting the STEM subjects budget ringfenced, so this is definitely worth a try. Please pass it on to as many others as you can. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/humanitiesmatter/ There's also a Valuing the Humanities Panel being held on the 17th December: > The British Philosophical Association and the Forum for European > Philosophy present: > > VALUING THE HUMANITIES: A panel discussion > > Friday 17 December, 2.30-5.00pm > Hong Kong Lecture Theatre, Clement House, London School of > Economics, Aldwych > Followed by a reception in the Senior Common Room. > > With: > James Ladyman > Professor of Philosophy, University of Bristol; co-editor, British > Journal of the Philosophy of Science > > Martha Nussbaum > Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, > University of Chicago > > Lord Rees of Ludlow > President of the Royal Society, Astronomer Royal, Master of Trinity > College Cambridge > > Richard Smith > Former editor, British Medical Journal; Director, Ovations Institute > No registration; just turn up. Dr Annamaria Carusi Senior Research Associate Oxford e-Research Centre University of Oxford Address: 7 Keble Road Oxford OX1 3QG annamaria.carusi@oerc.ox.ac.uk www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/annamaria-carusi upcoming conference: http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/insis/news/Pages/visualisation.aspx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 09:09:04 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 58F6FB02BC; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 09:09:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D161DB02A9; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 09:09:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101128090902.D161DB02A9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 09:09:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.528 even further on Oedipus X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 528. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jascha Kessler (146) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.524 further on Oedipus [2] From: Jascha Kessler (92) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.524 further on Oedipus [3] From: Jascha Kessler (168) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.524 further on Oedipus --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:17:07 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.524 further on Oedipus In-Reply-To: <20101127085410.02A50B136B@woodward.joyent.us> More to Barbas' exposition. Laius was condemned by the three great female deities for having "introduced pederasty to Greece." Trace the problem back to Chrysippus' mother, who was "married" to her father, who was himself condemned for that crime by the same Triad [excluding Zeus of the Apollonians]. He promised to relinquish her to the first man who could defeat him in a chariot race. Theseus, I think it was, the 12th or 13th [this is ritual calendricals] to venture, bribed the grooms the night before to loosen the bindings of the chariot wheel of her incestuous father the King, who crashed and was dispatched by Theseus. Cunning Greek, what? [Which may go far back to the annual vegetation sacrifice of the king in the woods of Frazer] but has its analogues, today among certain African tribes, or one in particular, who place adolescent boy and girl in trench, copulating face to face, and let a prepared tree fall to crush them to death.] The Sophoclean tale was surely not unknown to his audience. If it is the subtext, it suggests of course that Oedipus is the fall guy, the patsy, not, as he says, put upon after having saved Thebes from the Sphinx. As to that monster...it may be the case the Velikovsky ruminated over but did not dare to suggest. How it got past Akhenaton and down a millennium and more is the mystery or puzzle or question. What follows from all that mythic mess of a family line of incestous insults to the Great Three is a skeptical view of the misprision perpetrated by contemporary Feminists who take up the heroic piety of Antigone in defending her brother's corpse. From the perspective suggested above, her brothers were in the wrong to attempt the Ruler's overthrow, that of Jocasta's brother, called Creon [or Boss, let us say]. The whole subject may be a capsule presentation of the long and continuing struggle of patriarchal males against their Mothers, the goddesses who make us all safe for our first 9 months' refuge from this Real World. Akenaton, so much the subject of praise for his solar god and especially by Art Historians and curators for the strange distortions of his image, so different from realistic portraiture, as though they were precursors of Picasso, which they were, but were not, seems to have been the Oedipus whose form was distorted by Morphan's Syndrome. His father Amenhotep III, a great hunter of lions from the chariot, many dozens he boasted, took to wearing female dress in his later years. Precursor of Laius? And his powerful, long-lived wife Tiy took over, having sent the infant away to 20 years' exile with the Mitanni, took over from his mother and her ancient priest advisor [Tiresias?] and moved the whole shebang, taxes and temples and all, away from the ancientest city of kings and priests. [Ancient Tieresis himself, fleeing from the attackers of Thebes later led by Oedipus' sons, died of a drink of freezingly cold water from a famous fountain. Fountains are not administered by Apollonians, but nymphs under divine tutelage. What does that legend really say? And why does Tiresias refuse to divulge the truth when called back to Thebes? He knows what went on decades earlier of course when that killing of Theseus's wife's father was made, rather ritualistically, as was mentioned above. At any rate, Oedipus is a good serious fellow. And further to Laius, Apollo's oracle is the Delfic priestess, the Pythonesse. The Apollonians took that affair over, and that was a long struggle before then. No wonder Laius is killed on the way back to hear a new fate: the goddesses dont forgive or forget. They bring the blight of infertility that is announced completely in Scene I, when the priest, surrounded by children, the last generation of Thebes, makes his plea to Oedipus for help. That Laius was a sinner against them is obvious: no children born after to him after he has his wife dispose of Oedipus...he dare not kill him...and yet from that mature woman Oedipus has delivered to him four children. It is matriarchal, Thebes. Oedipus, going away blinded, requests of Creon that he nurture his girls; as for the boys, he says they can take care of themselves. True to form, they later assault Thebes...Apollonians all. Interesting, what? Jescha Kessler On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 524. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Gerda Elata-Alster > (10) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.521 further on Oedipus > > [2] From: "Helena Barbas" > (26) > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.521 further on Oedipus > > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:20:12 +0200 > From: Gerda Elata-Alster > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.521 further on Oedipus > > Dear Jascha Kessler, > > re: further on Oedipus > > I must have missed (by mistake erased) your earlier comment. > > If it's not too much trouble, could you please resend it. > > We then could perhaps engage in a conversation on the topic of the 'use' > of > humanities for humankind. > > Gerda Elata-Alster, Ben Gurion University of the Negev > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:53:05 -0000 > From: "Helena Barbas" > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.521 further on Oedipus > In-Reply-To: <20101126094257.967BAB18E2@woodward.joyent.us> > > Dear Jascha Kessler > > I've not translated Oedipus, but have been giving it in my classes for the > last 20 years (together with Aristotle), and each time find something new > (in both). The thing that has struck me this year is that Oedipus is > himself > the victim of his father's hubris; Laius is the first not to believe in > Apollo's oracle; he is the first to shed the family blood when piercing > Oedipus feet. Laius had other sins upon himself - against hospitality and > marriage (the abduction and raping of Chrysippus i.e.). You don't need to > invoke the Old Testament, the Greek working up of the Erinyes upon family > blood shedding would be enough - it started to make me much more sense from > this perspective. > > Best of lucks to your book > Helena Barbas > > Helena Barbas (PhD) > Universidade Nova de Lisboa > Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas > Departamento de Estudos Portugueses > (Bloco 1 - Gab.b) > Av. de Berna 26-C, 1069-061 > Lisboa – Portugal > URL: http://www.helenabarbas.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 -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:21:45 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.524 further on Oedipus In-Reply-To: <20101127085410.02A50B136B@woodward.joyent.us> A PS, if I may. I did not intend to invoke the OT, by the way. To this day, however, there is complete uncertainty about the strange sacrifice of Jephtha's daughter, which occurred almost at the same time, or century or era as the sacrifice of his daughter by Agamemnon, for a fair wind to Troy, where those Greek men were in pursuit of a famous woman [or statue? or icon?] The parallel is suggestive. Especially if one considers the lineage of Jephtha. Another subject, but also about matriarchy perhaps. Jascha Kessler On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 524. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Gerda Elata-Alster > (10) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.521 further on Oedipus > > [2] From: "Helena Barbas" > (26) > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.521 further on Oedipus > > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:20:12 +0200 > From: Gerda Elata-Alster > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.521 further on Oedipus > > Dear Jascha Kessler, > > re: further on Oedipus > > I must have missed (by mistake erased) your earlier comment. > > If it's not too much trouble, could you please resend it. > > We then could perhaps engage in a conversation on the topic of the 'use' > of > humanities for humankind. > > Gerda Elata-Alster, Ben Gurion University of the Negev > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:53:05 -0000 > From: "Helena Barbas" > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.521 further on Oedipus > In-Reply-To: <20101126094257.967BAB18E2@woodward.joyent.us> > > Dear Jascha Kessler > > I've not translated Oedipus, but have been giving it in my classes for the > last 20 years (together with Aristotle), and each time find something new > (in both). The thing that has struck me this year is that Oedipus is > himself > the victim of his father's hubris; Laius is the first not to believe in > Apollo's oracle; he is the first to shed the family blood when piercing > Oedipus feet. Laius had other sins upon himself - against hospitality and > marriage (the abduction and raping of Chrysippus i.e.). You don't need to > invoke the Old Testament, the Greek working up of the Erinyes upon family > blood shedding would be enough - it started to make me much more sense from > this perspective. > > Best of lucks to your book > Helena Barbas > > Helena Barbas (PhD) > Universidade Nova de Lisboa > Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas > Departamento de Estudos Portugueses > (Bloco 1 - Gab.b) > Av. de Berna 26-C, 1069-061 > Lisboa – Portugal > URL: http://www.helenabarbas.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 -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:24:04 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.524 further on Oedipus In-Reply-To: PPS: Oh dear, I had meant to say, my mention of the OT was simply to suggest that there as well, from earliest times, the sins of the father are visited upon the sons unto the third generation at least. It needs not Erinnyes of later Greek lore, who are themselves female, perhaps Bacchantes, and certainly servants of the Goddess[es]. On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Jascha Kessler wrote: > More to Barbas' exposition. Laius was condemned by the three great female > deities for having "introduced pederasty to Greece." Trace the problem back > to Chrysippus' mother, who was "married" to her father, who was himself > condemned for that crime by the same Triad [excluding Zeus of the > Apollonians]. He promised to relinquish her to the first man who could > defeat him in a chariot race. Theseus, I think it was, the 12th or 13th > [this is ritual calendricals] to venture, bribed the grooms the night before > to loosen the bindings of the chariot wheel of her incestuous father the > King, who crashed and was dispatched by Theseus. Cunning Greek, what? > [Which may go far back to the annual vegetation sacrifice of the king in > the woods of Frazer] but has its analogues, today among certain African > tribes, or one in particular, who place adolescent boy and girl in trench, > copulating face to face, and let a prepared tree fall to crush them to > death.] The Sophoclean tale was surely not unknown to his audience. If it > is the subtext, it suggests of course that Oedipus is the fall guy, the > patsy, not, as he says, put upon after having saved Thebes from the Sphinx. > As to that monster...it may be the case the Velikovsky ruminated over but > did not dare to suggest. How it got past Akhenaton and down a millennium > and more is the mystery or puzzle or question. > What follows from all that mythic mess of a family line of incestous > insults to the Great Three is a skeptical view of the misprision perpetrated > by contemporary Feminists who take up the heroic piety of Antigone in > defending her brother's corpse. From the perspective suggested above, her > brothers were in the wrong to attempt the Ruler's overthrow, that of > Jocasta's brother, called Creon [or Boss, let us say]. The whole subject > may be a capsule presentation of the long and continuing struggle of > patriarchal males against their Mothers, the goddesses who make us all safe > for our first 9 months' refuge from this Real World. Akenaton, so much the > subject of praise for his solar god and especially by Art Historians and > curators for the strange distortions of his image, so different from > realistic portraiture, as though they were precursors of Picasso, which they > were, but were not, seems to have been the Oedipus whose form was distorted > by Morphan's Syndrome. His father Amenhotep III, a great hunter of lions > from the chariot, many dozens he boasted, took to wearing female dress in > his later years. Precursor of Laius? And his powerful, long-lived wife Tiy > took over, having sent the infant away to 20 years' exile with the Mitanni, > took over from his mother and her ancient priest advisor [Tiresias?] and > moved the whole shebang, taxes and temples and all, away from the ancientest > city of kings and priests. [Ancient Tieresis himself, fleeing from the > attackers of Thebes later led by Oedipus' sons, died of a drink of > freezingly cold water from a famous fountain. Fountains are not > administered by Apollonians, but nymphs under divine tutelage. What does > that legend really say? And why does Tiresias refuse to divulge the truth > when called back to Thebes? He knows what went on decades earlier of course > when that killing of Theseus's wife's father was made, rather > ritualistically, as was mentioned above. > At any rate, Oedipus is a good serious fellow. > And further to Laius, Apollo's oracle is the Delfic priestess, the > Pythonesse. The Apollonians took that affair over, and that was a long > struggle before then. No wonder Laius is killed on the way back to hear a > new fate: the goddesses dont forgive or forget. They bring the blight of > infertility that is announced completely in Scene I, when the priest, > surrounded by children, the last generation of Thebes, makes his plea to > Oedipus for help. That Laius was a sinner against them is obvious: no > children born after to him after he has his wife dispose of Oedipus...he > dare not kill him...and yet from that mature woman Oedipus has delivered to > him four children. It is matriarchal, Thebes. Oedipus, going away blinded, > requests of Creon that he nurture his girls; as for the boys, he says they > can take care of themselves. True to form, they later assault > Thebes...Apollonians all. > Interesting, what? > Jescha Kessler > > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < > willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > >> >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 524. >> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> [1] From: Gerda Elata-Alster >> (10) >> Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.521 further on Oedipus >> >> [2] From: "Helena Barbas" >> (26) >> Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.521 further on Oedipus >> >> >> >> --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:20:12 +0200 >> From: Gerda Elata-Alster >> Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.521 further on Oedipus >> >> Dear Jascha Kessler, >> >> re: further on Oedipus >> >> I must have missed (by mistake erased) your earlier comment. >> >> If it's not too much trouble, could you please resend it. >> >> We then could perhaps engage in a conversation on the topic of the 'use' >> of >> humanities for humankind. >> >> Gerda Elata-Alster, Ben Gurion University of the Negev >> >> >> >> --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:53:05 -0000 >> From: "Helena Barbas" >> Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.521 further on Oedipus >> In-Reply-To: <20101126094257.967BAB18E2@woodward.joyent.us> >> >> Dear Jascha Kessler >> >> I've not translated Oedipus, but have been giving it in my classes for the >> last 20 years (together with Aristotle), and each time find something new >> (in both). The thing that has struck me this year is that Oedipus is >> himself >> the victim of his father's hubris; Laius is the first not to believe in >> Apollo's oracle; he is the first to shed the family blood when piercing >> Oedipus feet. Laius had other sins upon himself - against hospitality and >> marriage (the abduction and raping of Chrysippus i.e.). You don't need to >> invoke the Old Testament, the Greek working up of the Erinyes upon family >> blood shedding would be enough - it started to make me much more sense >> from >> this perspective. >> >> Best of lucks to your book >> Helena Barbas >> >> Helena Barbas (PhD) >> Universidade Nova de Lisboa >> Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas >> Departamento de Estudos Portugueses >> (Bloco 1 - Gab.b) >> Av. de Berna 26-C, 1069-061 >> Lisboa – Portugal >> URL: http://www.helenabarbas.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 > > > > > -- > Jascha Kessler > Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA > Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 > www.jfkessler.com > www.xlibris.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 Sun Nov 28 09:09:54 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 DEAB3B02FD; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 09:09:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8E415B02EB; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 09:09:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101128090953.8E415B02EB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 09:09:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.529 job: Canada Research Chair at Carleton X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 529. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:44:46 -0500 From: Brian Greenspan Subject: Research Chair at Carleton English – Canada Research Chair (Tier II) (closing date: January 14, 2011) http://www2.carleton.ca/facultyrecruitment/news/english-canada-research-chair-tier-ii-closing-date-january-14-2011/ Carleton University’s Department of English, in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, invites applications for nomination for a Tier II Canada Research Chair (http://www.chairs.gc.ca/). We seek an outstanding candidate whose research strengths intersect with the theoretical area which constitutes the central focus of our doctoral program, The Production of Literature: questions about what people understand by the idea of literature in different times and places, and why it matters; about who should have access to literature, either as readers or writers; about the power of literature to forge communities, and in doing so, to be a force for change; and about how these issues are mediated by the shaping influence of broader legal, technological, political, and social contexts. All historical and geographical areas are eligible. Candidates whose work frames these issues in terms of either New Digital Media or issues related to globalization are especially welcome. More information about our doctoral program can be found at:http://www.carleton.ca/ENGLISH/gradstudies/phd_program.html This position is dependent upon final approval by the Canada Research Chair (CRC) program. The successful candidate will work with the University to submit a nomination for a Tier II Canada Research Chair in the spring 2011 competition. Tier II chairs are intended for recently established scholars (within 10 years of Ph.D.). The successful candidate must be eligible for SSHRC funding. Appointment is anticipated for January 1 or July 1, 2012 subject to approval of the nomination by the CRC program. Applications, including a curriculum vitae and statements of teaching and research interests, should be emailed to paul_keen@carleton.ca. Applicants should also arrange for three letters of reference to be sent by email. Applications will not be considered complete until the letters are received. Initial screening of complete applications will begin on January 14, 2011 and continue until the applicant is chosen and has agreed to let his/her name stand. Located in the nation’s capital, Carleton University is a dynamic research and teaching institution with a tradition of leading change. Its internationally recognized faculty, staff and researchers provide more than 24,000 full- and part-time students from every province and more than 100 countries around the world with academic opportunities in more than 65 programs of study, including public affairs, journalism, film studies, engineering, high technology, and international studies. Carleton’s creative, interdisciplinary and international approach to research has led to many significant discoveries and creative works in science and technology, business, governance, public policy and the arts. As an innovative institution Carleton is uniquely committed to developing solutions to real-world problems by pushing the boundaries of knowledge and understanding daily. 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. Persons from these groups are especially encouraged to apply. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. Applications from Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. All positions are subject to budgetary approval. --Boundary_(ID_d17Tx4N+tY62SFgsYNDL7g) Content-type: text/html; charsetwindows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable English – Canada Research Chair (Tier II) (closing date: January 14, 2011)



Carleton University’s Department of English, in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, invites applications for nomination for a Tier II Canada Research Chair (http://www.chairs.gc.ca/).

We seek an outstanding candidate whose research strengths intersect with the theoretical area which constitutes the central focus of our doctoral program, The Production of Literature: questions about what people understand by the idea of literature in different times and places, and why it matters; about who should have access to literature, either as readers or writers; about the power of literature to forge communities, and in doing so, to be a force for change; and about how these issues are mediated by the shaping influence of broader legal, technological, political, and social contexts. All historical and geographical areas are eligible. Candidates whose work frames these issues in terms of either New Digital Media or issues related to globalization are especially welcome. More information about our doctoral program can be found at:http://www.carleton.ca/ENGLISH/gradstudies/phd_program.html

This position is dependent upon final approval by the Canada Research Chair (CRC) program. The successful candidate will work with the University to submit a nomination for a Tier II Canada Research Chair in the spring 2011 competition. Tier II chairs are intended for recently established scholars (within 10 years of Ph.D.). The successful candidate must be eligible for SSHRC funding. Appointment is anticipated for January 1 or July 1, 2012 subject to approval of the nomination by the CRC program.

Applications, including a curriculum vitae and statements of teaching and research interests, should be emailed to paul_keen@carleton.ca. Applicants should also arrange for three letters of reference to be sent by email. Applications will not be considered complete until the letters are received. Initial screening of complete applications will begin on January 14, 2011 and continue until the applicant is chosen and has agreed to let his/her name stand.

Located in the nation’s capital, Carleton University is a dynamic research and teaching institution with a tradition of leading change. Its internationally recognized faculty, staff and researchers provide more than 24,000 full- and part-time students from every province and more than 100 countries around the world with academic opportunities in more than 65 programs of study, including public affairs, journalism, film studies, engineering, high technology, and international studies. Carleton’s creative, interdisciplinary and international approach to research has led to many significant discoveries and creative works in science and technology, business, governance, public policy and the arts. As an innovative institution Carleton is uniquely committed to developing solutions to real-world problems by pushing the boundaries of knowledge and understanding daily.

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. Persons from these groups are especially encouraged to apply.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. Applications from Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. All positions are subject to budgetary approval.
--Boundary_(ID_d17Tx4N+tY62SFgsYNDL7g)-- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 09:50:25 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 F4103B128B; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:50:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2EA6BB1278; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:50:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101129095023.2EA6BB1278@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:50:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.530 job at Iowa X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 530. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:58:45 +0000 From: Charlotte Roueche Subject: Job at Iowa [Forwarded from the Digital Classicist List . Note especially the lurking to which my colleague Charlotte Roueché refers. As an old friend of mine is fond of saying, I don't know whether this (not being out in the open) is a good thing or a bad thing, but it is certainly a thing. --WM] The Department of Classics and the Department of Religious Studies at The University of Iowa invite applications for a joint-appointment, tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in any aspect of Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean (1st century c.e. to 9th c. c.e.) with a demonstrated interest in Digital Humanities, to begin in August 2011. Salary is dependent on candidate's experience and credentials. Details at http://jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view/58610 Interesting to see that Digital Humanities may lurk beneath a job title that doesn't necessarily suggest them! Also interesting to note the time-span to be covered. C ---------------------------- 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 Nov 29 10:12:41 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 8C402B167F; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:12:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DCC58B1671; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:12:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101129101239.DCC58B1671@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:12:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.531 Happy birthday BMCR! X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 531. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:44:51 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: BMCR's 20th Anniversary [Happy Birthday, though somewhat delayed, to BMCR, now into its 21st year! The Editor, Jim O'Donnell, informs me that the way the date of original sending was confirmed was by going into the Humanist logs and finding the copy of the original notice that he posted there, as given in the following. It seemed to me at the time that Jim and colleagues had seen right away how the genius of the Web could be deployed to augment scholarly communication by improving upon a mechanism -- publication of book reviews -- that had for decades been poorly served by print. As he says in the announcement, they saw that the lasting opportunity at hand comes from settling relations between the two media rather than attempting to replace one by the other. A model for us all. Congratulations to BMCR. WM] > From: *Bryn Mawr Classical Review* > Date: Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 9:26 AM > Subject: BMCR 2010.11.51: BMCR's 20th Anniversary Bryn Mawr Classical Review http://brynmawr.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c302ee634698194cc76ef8a8b&id=7fca8533d9&e=f07166362c Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.11.51 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /BMCR's 20th Anniversary/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Editor James J. O'Donnell* The first issue of /Bryn Mawr Classical Review/ was released for internet distribution twenty years ago today. We thank our many colleagues who have joined in the editorial process, our very many colleagues who have reviewed for us, and our many, many readers and friends over the years. There were only a handful of "e-journals" back then, and the only journal in the humanities that is senior to us by a few weeks is /Postmodern Culture/. We are one of the oldest (if not indeed the very oldest) e-journals to offer complete "open access" (in the jargon that has evolved since), that is, we have made every word of our publication freely available over the net from the first day. We are particularly grateful to another (overlapping!) set of colleagues and friends who have helped produce and make use of our textbook series, Bryn Mawr Commentaries, on whose revenues BMCR depends for its free distribution. (When you assign a Bryn Mawr Commentary http://brynmawr.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c302ee634698194cc76ef8a8b&id=e4ea7f946f&e=f07166362c , in other words, you support BMCR.) If you lift a glass in our honor on this anniversary, savor as you do the irony that this grave and senior pioneer of electronic publishing is devoted to chronicling and assessing the publication of the printed book. We do not prophesy the future, when e-books and p-books settle their relations with one another. But we persist. James J. O'Donnell Richard Hamilton Camilla MacKay Rolando Ferri > Date: 28 Nov 90 21:54:35 EST > From: James O'Donnell [JODONNEL@PENNSAS] > Subject: new classics review (e-)journal Bryn Mawr Classical Review A new review journal has begun publication. Hard copy subscriptions are available, but this notice announces that subscriptions to e-mail distribution is also invited. Details of access at the end of this message. *Bryn Mawr Classical Review* will survey new books in `classics' (Greek and Latin literature, Greek and Roman history, broadly construed), offering concise and informative reviews within 6-12 months of publication. Our editorial policy is to have as little editorial policy as possible. Boundaries are kept loose (though on the whole, strictly archaeological publications are excluded). Over the course of the first year, we expect to assemble a board of regular contributors representing as many competences and approaches as possible: their jobs will be to review regularly and to scout new titles wherever they can be found. The founding editors are Richard Hamilton of Bryn Mawr College and James J. O'Donnell of the University of Pennsylvania. A particular effort will be made to report on new books published in languages other than English. In addition to the concise reviews that are our mainstay, there will be other features: *Seen Elsewhere* (newsworthy items related to the profession), *Definite Articles* (notices of recent scholarly articles that one or another of the members of the board thinks deserve special attention: again, emphasis where possible on European publications), multiple reviews of a single title (to show different points of view), occasional reviews of older books revisited in a fresh context, even occasional essay reviews. Letters to the editor are gladly welcomed and will be published, as well as interesting and timely opinion columns. The only material excluded *a priori* will be items that could be characterized as `notes' or `articles': our view is that there are sufficient outlets for that kind of publication, but that the need we hope to fill (if not actually create) is for timely discussion of new publications and for discussion generally. The Review will appear five times a year. The hard copy subscription rate will be kept as low as possible; the mechanics of publication are identical to those of Bryn Mawr Commentaries (which will subsidize the first year's publication) and the pricing policy there may be taken as a reasonable guide to our capacity for maintaining reasonable prices here. For the first year, one copy is being sent free to every North American Classics department known to us (others will be added to the list if they so request). Review copies may be sent to our editorial address and are gladly received. We also welcome notice of forthcoming publications and advice generally. Materials should be sent in the most computer- ready form possible. Our first preference is to receive reviews and correspondence by bitnet at BMCR@BRYNMAWR or (from internet) BMCR@CC.BRYNMAWR.EDU; second preference is to receive Macintosh disks prepared in Microsoft Word (SMK Greekkeys is the default method of receiving and printing Greek); IBM disks may also be sent, and traditional hard copy will also be accepted. Hard copy subscriptions are available for $10 per year: write to Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Thomas Library, Bryn Mawr College, 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 Mon Nov 29 11:19:59 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 1ED1CB2868; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:19:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A5462B285E; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:19:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101129111957.A5462B285E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:19:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.532 PhD studentships 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. 24, No. 532. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:15:21 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: PhD studentships at King's College London This is to announce PhD studentships in all areas of linguistics supervised at King's College London -- including those involving digital humanities, through collaboration between the Centre for Language Discourse & Communication (LDC) and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH). Please note that CCH has strong collaborative arrangements for doctoral supervision with all departments of Arts & Humanities at King's. Hence applications for linguistics-related work in any of the subject areas of these departments are welcome. More about LDC and CCH is given at the end of this message. Deadline for application: 1 February 2011. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/pg/funding/sources/gradsch.aspx. Applicants should have very good qualifications and a clear research idea. (Potential applicants outside the U.K. should note that the PhD in this country is a research-only degree, though doctoral training courses are offered.) To apply follow these steps: 1) Identify a potential supervisor, referring to our webpages at www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc. 2) Email the person you have identified, providing information about your background, qualifications and a draft research proposal (if you are unsure of who to contact, please send the material to ldc@kcl.ac.uk or ben.rampton@kcl.ac.uk (inserting ‘Studentships’ in the Subject)). 3) If your potential supervisor encourages you, choose which studentship(s) you want to apply for, consulting the information at www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/funding/database/ and checking your eligibility very carefully. The possibilities include: * Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Studentship (deadline: 1 February 2011) - http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/pg/funding/sources/ahrc.aspx. This covers research on linguistic structure, history, theory and description, including stylistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, corpus studies, translation, and some areas of applied linguistics. * Graduate School Studentships (deadline: 1 February 2011) http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/pg/funding/sources/gradsch.aspx. These covers all areas of linguistics supervised at King’s. 4) Start working on the studentship application forms well before the deadline. Your potential supervisor can discuss your proposal with you, but she/he will need the time to do so. You will also need to contact your referees to ensure that you have their references in time. If you need further assistance, contact ldc@kcl.ac.uk or Professor Ben Rampton (ben.rampton@kcl.ac.uk), inserting ‘Studentships’ in the message Subject. ----- The Centre for Language Discourse & Communication (www.kcl.ac.uk/projects/ldc/) is recognised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK) for its research training. LDC works across departments, offering supervision in text, discourse & narrative analysis, social pragmatics, linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, applied, educational, historical, cognitive and corpus linguistics. The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/cch) is an international leader in the application of technology in research in the arts and humanities, and in the social sciences. It is in the School of Arts and Humanities, and operates on a collaborative basis across disciplinary, institutional and national boundaries. It has collaborative relationships across King’s College and with a large number of institutions and bodies in the UK and internationally. CCH is involved in more than 30 major research projects, with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Leverhulme Trust and the Andrew W Mellon Foundation. Its PhD programme was inaugurated in 2005 and now has 10 students working in areas of history (19-20C British; early modern Portuguese, Byzantine), translation studies, geography, classics (with computational linguistics; textual editing), authorship attribution and musicology. --- Professor Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London (staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk) / Centre for Cultural Research / University of Western Sydney (tinyurl.com/wm-ccr). Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org) / Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 08:33:48 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 459B1B5721; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:33:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A9FF7B56CD; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:33:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101202083346.A9FF7B56CD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:33:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.533 PhD thesis ideas X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 533. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:28:35 -0500 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: A Request for PhD Thesis Ideas Willard, A request for PhD thesis ideas involving Lucene/Solr which could result in the better digital tools that are oft discussed in this forum: http://blog.sematext.com/2010/11/29/lucene-solr-for-academia-phd-thesis-ideas/ Software developers aren't going to stumble over our needs so we best take opportunities that present themselves to articulate them. Hope you are at the start of 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) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau Newcomb Number: 1 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 08:48:29 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 8CA20B62C9; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:48:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E30F7B62B9; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:48:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101202084827.E30F7B62B9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:48:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.534 trading off? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 534. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:02:31 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: trading off In our embracements of the new & digital ways of doing things do we ever systematically consider the tradeoffs we are making? Has anyone written well on the subject? Consider, for example, P. R. Wilkinson's Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors (London: Routledge, 1993; 2nd edn. 2002). Here's the Table of Contents: > A TINKER 1 > B TAILOR 26 > C SOLDIER 70 > D SAILOR 130 > E RICHMAN 180 > F POORMAN 324 > G BEGGARMAN 383 > H THIEF 505 > I AT HOME 534 > J AT SCHOOL 786 > K AT PLAY 887 > Bibliography 990 > Index of themes 995 > Index of keywords 1033 Here, under A Tinker, A.1a Wood, is a typical entry: > brown as mahogany black as ebony seasoned [1643] Well-tried, > experienced—soldier etc. (from the seasoning of timber that makes it > fit for service). > sap (v) [1755] Drain or gradually dry out vital > element—as ‘sapped his energies’ etc. > dry straight Turn out all right > in the end; survive a testing time. > hazled [dried out—midEng EAn] > Crabby, surly, sour. warp [1700] Corrupt, cause to grow twisted, > perverted, of someone’s mind etc. (from the bending of badly seasoned > timber). > warped up like a plancheon [=planch= plank, floorboard—Suf > Som Dor Gmg Dev Cor] > splinter group A minority that secedes from the > main body because of disagreements or a shift in policy (as a wooden > splinter splits away from the main timber). splinter (v) Form such a > group. > spelk (n) [splinter, such as runs under the skin; spill for > lighting fires or candles—Ayr Nhb eDur] Meagre, frail man; slip of a > girl or boy. The index looks like this: > A > accordions K.8c > accounts E.2c > aches and pains I.35a > across country G.10a > adders G.44b > adrift (ships) D.17b > aground (ships) D.17c > ailments I.35c > air G.14a > travel E.5d > warfare C.10h and the index of keywords: > A > A from a…, not know/tell J.20c > Aaron’s serpent J.34c > aback > o’ behind E.17b > o’ behint F.10g > take a. D.3c > abb or warp B.2d > abbey to a grange J.54 > abbot, swear like J.48 > ABC, plain as J.20c > abed, may lie I.79i > a-begging, go G.1 > a-benting, pigeon go K.52 As can be verified from the keyword entry for "stupid", in comparison with a character-string search of a digital version of this book, > stupid > as a coot G.50b > cuddy E.23d > owls G.48 > pot mule K.15c > wax widow K.65 > he can’t chew gum and… I.31e the index misses *many* occurrences of "stupid" in the book, such as the very first entry, > wooden Expressionless, dull, stupid. So what's the tradeoff in going digital? One still has the indices. I once knew a scholar of classical Chinese at Toronto (Wayne Schlepp, himself not Chinese), who for years had been using a very well known Chinese encyclopedia, which had never had an index in all the centuries of its existence, he told me. One day, he said, he saw an advert for an index that someone had cleverly devised -- quite a difficult task given the way Chinese works as a written language. He was about to order it when he stopped, arrested by the realisation that in all the years he had used this encyclopedia he had typically found far more interesting items in his long search for whatever he began looking for than the originating subject itself. One could generalise by saying that what we're trading off is an altogether different mode of thinking. My old friend Schlepp, one of the earliest to take an interest in computing at Toronto, wouldn't on this occasion make that tradeoff. How often are we less attentive to what's rapidly moving out of reach? Our digital cultural hero Vannevar Bush, in that much celebrated Atlantic Monthly article, wrote about the augmentation of associative thinking that his Memex would help bring about. The Memex was a recording device, hence "MEMory EXtension", perhaps. It did not interfere with the wandering path of natural reading, as I recall, but it did mess with our forgetting. Has anyone examined the usefulness of forgetting? Do we know what forgetting does for us? There's Borges' "Funes the Memorious" to suggest the problem we'd have without the ability to forget. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 2 08:52:40 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 AD77EB636D; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:52:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 88FFCB6365; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:52:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101202085239.88FFCB6365@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:52:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.535 call for chapters: social 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. 24, No. 535. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:28:04 -0400 (AST) From: Dr Tatjana Takseva Subject: Call for Chapter Proposals--Social Software and the Evolution of User Expertise CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline December 31, 2010 Social Software and the Evolution of User Expertise: FutureTrends in Knowledge Creation and Dissemination A book edited by Dr. Tatjana Takseva Saint Mary's University, Canada To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com Introduction The term Web 2.0 technologies, also known as `social software' or `open source software' was introduced in 2004 to refer to a second generation of Internet technologies and a new generation of Web applications providing an infrastructure for more dynamic user participation, social interaction and collaboration. Among their applications are Wikis, blogs, MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Odeo, Google Video, Google Docs, You Tube, and other communication tools such as social bookmarking, peer-to-peer social networking, instant messaging, podcasting, etc. Thanks to the applications of this software, a variety of facts and content previously in the possession of experts traditionally seen as the only legitimate sources of knowledge, can be created, accessed and shared almost instantly by any user with an Internet connection. The new forms of collective intelligence powered by the digital media invite redefinition of expertise traditionally defined as mastery of facts and content of a certain subject. They encourage collaboration, ongoing revision, interdisciplinarity and a new understanding of knowledge as a process of inquiry, rather than simply its product. What definitions of expertise are becoming obsolete, how is expertise defined in this new environment, and what new forms of expertise are emerging shaped by digital media are the guiding inquiries of this collection. This will be the first scholarly volume to systematically examine the impact of social software and its applications on long-standing cultural notions of and attitudes toward knowledge, experts and expertise. Objectives of the Book This book will aim to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest interdisciplinary research findings in the area. It will examine the ways in which social software applications are changing the nature of expertise and knowledge creation and dissemination in various social and cultural contexts, and it will propose a redefinition of expertise and knowledge consonant with recent technological developments. The collection will serve as a reference tool and a resource for researchers, educators, students, academic administrators and other professionals whose work is influenced by social software applications. Target Audience Because of its nature and subject matter the audience for this collection is wide. It will be composed of professionals/experts in most areas, as the phenomena it deals with have impact on expertise in general. More specifically, its audience will be professionals and researchers concerned with the impact of the digital media on the public sector, economics, social work, secondary and higher education, science, humanities, social sciences, scholarship in academic institutions. Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following:* Experts/expertise and the `mass amateurization' of knowledge--conceptual framework * Social software applications and knowledge creation/dissemination-- conceptual framework * Social software applications and the redefinition of expertise in any of the following areas: -humanities -social sciences -science -social work -medicine -higher education -teaching -scholarship -business -library and information science -politics -policy making -newspaper publishing Submission Procedure Proposals for chapters (250 -300 words) are being accepted by December 31, 2010. The proposals should clearly explain the objectives of the chapter and the approach used. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by January 15, 2011, and sent chapter guidelines. The deadline for full chapter submission is June 30th, 2011. All chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be asked to serve as reviewers for this project. Editorial Advisory Board Members (in alphabetic order):William Badke, Trinity Western University, CA Dr. Tatyana Dumova, Point Park University, USA Dr. John Girard, Minot State University, USA Dr. Stylianos Hatzipanagos, King's College London, UK Dr. Niki Lambropoulos, South Bank University, UK Dr. Kirk St. Amant, East Carolina University, USA Dr. Karl Stolley, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA 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" and "IGI Publishing" Imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2012. Important Dates: December 31, 2010 Proposal Submission Deadline January, 15, 2011 Notification of Acceptance June 30, 2011 Full Chapter Submission Deadline August 30, 2011 Review Results Returned November 1, 2011 Revised Chapter Submission December 31, 2011 Final Deadline Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded to: Tatjana.Takseva@SMU.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 Thu Dec 2 08:55:36 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 4E343B63FE; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:55:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DFC63B63EF; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:55:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101202085534.DFC63B63EF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:55:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.536 new: Scottish corpus; 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. 24, No. 536. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "David Beavan" (30) Subject: Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (CMSW) launch [2] From: "Knight, Gareth" (10) Subject: New this month at www.arts-humanities.net --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:57:02 -0000 From: "David Beavan" Subject: Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (CMSW) launch Dear Willard, Dear all, I hope this new resource is of interest: Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (CMSW) launch St Andrew's Day marks the public launch of the University of Glasgow's latest Digital Humanities project, the Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing. For the first time the resource makes freely available a wide range of documents in Scots and Scottish English from 1700-1945, ranging from a rare first edition of Robert Burns' poems to letters from the explorer David Livingstone to murder trial transcripts dating back to the 1750s. The free online resource contains texts, digital images and searchable transcriptions, and can be found at: http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/cmsw/ The Corpus also features James Hogg's first ever book - a treatise on diseases of sheep; personal accounts of the 1715 uprising; letters to Scotland from the French-Indian war and from emigrants to Australia in the 19th century. City Council minutes are also present along with a work on spiritualism by Arthur Conan Doyle, novels and student disciplinary trials of the 18th century and a selection of personal letters and diaries that give an invaluable insight into Scottish life in days gone by. The CMSW project has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and run by the University's Department of English Language, now part of the School of Critical Studies. -- David Beavan English Language Computing Manager University of Glasgow +44 (0)141 330 2382 http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/ The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:33:21 +0000 From: "Knight, Gareth" Subject: New this month at www.arts-humanities.net www.arts-humanities.net aims to support and advance the use and understanding of digital tools and methods for research and teaching in the arts and humanities. It provides access to a wide range of relevant resources, including: a catalogue of digital A&H projects, a calendar of upcoming relevant events, a directory of centres, a job portal and a comprehensive bibliography of A&H research. This month we open up the Tools section for wider use, enabling registered members to record details of software tools that they have developed or use within their research projects. The web site currently holds descriptions of 90 software tools in use within the arts & humanities. Please visit http://www.arts-humanities.net/tools for further information. www.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. It has received funding from JISC, AHRC and the Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). -- Gareth Knight Digital Curation Specialist Centre for e-Research, King's College London email: gareth.knight@kcl.ac.uk phone: 0207 848 1979 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 08:56:35 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 01ABCB645D; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:56:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2C693B644E; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:56:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101202085633.2C693B644E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:56:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.537 events: NZ Reading Experience Database 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. 24, No. 537. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:59:30 +1300 From: Sydney Shep Subject: eResearch in the Humanities / Reading in WWI Greetings: You are cordially invited to attend some or all of a two-day workshop 2-3 December 2010 (NZ time). Our broad theme is eResearch in the Humanities, but our focus will be on Reading in WWI and the launch of the NZ-RED - the NZ Reading Experience Database - in collaboration with our UK partners. Sponsors include KAREN, REAANZ, and Victoria University of Wellington. For those who cannot attend in person, we are running a virtual conference option through the KAREN network bridge and recording the keynote addresses. Please check our website to find out more about the NZ-RED project http://www.victoria.ac.nz/wtapress/nz-red/default.aspx and details about the workshop, including provisional programme and how to connect to our KAREN-enabled web-conferencing: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/wtapress/nz-red/workshop.aspx Dr. Bethany Nowviskie, Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and Associate Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute is joining us to open and close the event. In between we'll have talks from the UK-RED team who will be on site, from various VUW scholars and post-graduate students researching topics in WWI, and roundtable opportunities to discuss issues in eResearch, particularly community and schools involvement. Professor Jonathan Vance, Canada Research Chair in Conflict and Culture will be joining us via video-link from Canada. Humboldt Fellow, Associate Professor Robert L. Nelson from the University of Windsor will deliver a keynote address on German Soldier Newspapers in WWI. Through the KAREN network bridge we hope to have a number of scholars tuning in and participating from all around the world. Please consider joining us. Cheers for now 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 http://www.sharpweb.org/ Associate Editor, Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism http://www.dncj.ugent.be/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 3 09:51:46 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 BDB54B7533; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:51:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 15552B7523; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:51:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101203095145.15552B7523@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:51:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.538 trading off X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 538. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 11:45:03 -0500 From: Alan Galey Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.534 trading off? In-Reply-To: <20101202084827.E30F7B62B9@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard and all, The literature on forgetting is pretty huge (from what I remember of it...), and early modernists in particular have been intently focused on this topic in recent years. One of my favorite statements on the value of forgetting -- and of a specifically material kind of forgetting -- comes from Vives, writing around 1531: “if everything written by those old philosophers, historians, orators, poets, physicians, theologians, had reached this age, then we could put nothing but books in our houses; we should have to sit on books; we should have to walk on the top of books; our eyes would have to glance over nothing but books” Juan Luis Vives, On Education, trans. Foster Watson (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1971), p. 45. Some other sources worth reading include: Eco, Umberto. “An Ars Oblivionalis? Forget It!” PMLA 103.3 (1988): 254-61. Sullivan, Garrett A., Jr. Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster. (Cambridge, 2005). [esp. his chapter "Embodying Oblivion"] Forgetting in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Lethe’s Legacies. Ed. Christopher Ivic and Grant Williams. London: Routledge, 2004. These are just the tip of a pretty big iceberg. Also, I don't think I'd be out on a limb in saying that anything written on premodern memory and forgetting owes a huge debt to Mary Carruthers. This afternoon I'm lecturing partly on Bush's Memex, so that's much on the brain, too. To respond to your question with another, Willard, I wonder if Bush's status as a "digital cultural hero," as you put it, is enabled by the tendency (not universal, but widespread) to forget the rest of his career, and to invoke him exclusively as the inventor of the Memex. Even on that point alone, some might point to the tendency to forget that the Memex was an idea Bush refined and popularized, rather than originated. To be clear, I'm not attributing this tendency to your comments, Willard -- you know this history better than most of us -- but rather to the present trend in digital humanities to tell "heroes' histories" which depend upon strategic forgetting as part of their memorializing. Maybe that's how all origin myths have to work, but I'm still not comfortable with the word "hero" (unless it's Stephen Colbert saying it). One last book suggestion: on the Memex and its contexts, I recommend Terry Harpold's wonderful book Ex-Foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path (Minnesota, 2009). All best, Alan -- Alan Galey Assistant Professor University of Toronto individual.utoronto.ca/alangaley/ On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 534. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:02:31 +0000 >        From: Willard McCarty >        Subject: trading off > > > In our embracements of the new & digital ways of doing things do we ever > systematically consider the tradeoffs we are making? Has anyone written > well on the subject? > > Consider, for example, P. R. Wilkinson's Thesaurus of Traditional > English Metaphors (London: Routledge, 1993; 2nd edn. 2002). Here's the > Table of Contents: > >> A TINKER 1 >> B TAILOR 26 >> C SOLDIER 70 >> D SAILOR 130 >> E RICHMAN 180 >> F POORMAN 324 >> G BEGGARMAN 383 >> H THIEF 505 >> I AT HOME 534 >> J AT SCHOOL 786 >> K AT PLAY 887 >> Bibliography 990 >> Index of themes 995 >> Index of keywords 1033 > > Here, under A Tinker, A.1a Wood, is a typical entry: > >> brown as mahogany black as ebony seasoned [1643] Well-tried, >> experienced—soldier etc. (from the seasoning of timber that makes it >> fit for service). >  > sap (v) [1755] Drain or gradually dry out vital >> element—as ‘sapped his energies’ etc. >  > dry straight Turn out all right >> in the end; survive a testing time. >  > hazled [dried out—midEng EAn] >> Crabby, surly, sour. warp [1700] Corrupt, cause to grow twisted, >> perverted, of someone’s mind etc. (from the bending of badly seasoned >> timber). >  > warped up like a plancheon [=planch= plank, floorboard—Suf >> Som Dor Gmg Dev Cor] >  > splinter group A minority that secedes from the >> main body because of disagreements or a shift in policy (as a wooden >> splinter splits away from the main timber). splinter (v) Form such a >> group. >  > spelk (n) [splinter, such as runs under the skin; spill for >> lighting fires or candles—Ayr Nhb eDur] Meagre, frail man; slip of a >> girl or boy. > > The index looks like this: > >> A >> accordions K.8c >> accounts E.2c >> aches and pains I.35a >> across country G.10a >> adders G.44b >> adrift (ships) D.17b >> aground (ships) D.17c >> ailments I.35c >> air G.14a >> travel E.5d >> warfare C.10h > > and the index of keywords: > >> A >> A from a…, not know/tell J.20c >> Aaron’s serpent J.34c >> aback >> o’ behind E.17b >> o’ behint F.10g >> take a. D.3c >> abb or warp B.2d >> abbey to a grange J.54 >> abbot, swear like J.48 >> ABC, plain as J.20c >> abed, may lie I.79i >> a-begging, go G.1 >> a-benting, pigeon go K.52 > > As can be verified from the keyword entry for "stupid", in comparison > with a character-string search of a digital version of this book, > >> stupid >>   as a coot G.50b >>   cuddy E.23d >>   owls G.48 >>   pot mule K.15c >>   wax widow K.65 >>   he can’t chew gum and… I.31e > > the index misses *many* occurrences of "stupid" in the book, such as the > very first entry, > >> wooden Expressionless, dull, stupid. > > So what's the tradeoff in going digital? One still has the indices. > > I once knew a scholar of classical Chinese at Toronto (Wayne Schlepp, > himself not Chinese), who for years had been using a very well known > Chinese encyclopedia, which had never had an index in all the centuries > of its existence, he told me. One day, he said, he saw an advert for an > index that someone had cleverly devised -- quite a difficult task given > the way Chinese works as a written language. He was about to order it > when he stopped, arrested by the realisation that in all the years he > had used this encyclopedia he had typically found far more interesting > items in his long search for whatever he began looking for than the > originating subject itself. > > One could generalise by saying that what we're trading off is an > altogether different mode of thinking. My old friend Schlepp, one of the > earliest to take an interest in computing at Toronto, wouldn't on this > occasion make that tradeoff. How often are we less attentive to what's > rapidly moving out of reach? > > Our digital cultural hero Vannevar Bush, in that much celebrated > Atlantic Monthly article, wrote about the augmentation of associative > thinking that his Memex would help bring about. The Memex > was a recording device, hence "MEMory EXtension", perhaps. It > did not interfere with the wandering path of natural reading, as I > recall, but it did mess with our forgetting. Has anyone examined the > usefulness of forgetting? Do we know what forgetting does for us? > There's Borges' "Funes the Memorious" to suggest the problem we'd > have without the ability to forget. > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, > www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Editor, 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 3 09:52:35 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 2DADDB7574; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:52:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 27EA2B7564; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:52:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101203095234.27EA2B7564@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:52:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.539 terminological confusion: open-source vs social 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. 24, No. 539. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:10:09 +0000 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.535 call for chapters: social software In-Reply-To: <20101202085239.88FFCB6365@woodward.joyent.us> At Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:52:39 +0000 (GMT), Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS > Proposal Submission Deadline December 31, 2010 > > The term Web 2.0 technologies, also known as `social software' or > `open source software' No it's not. The term "Open source software" originates from around 1998, proposed by Christine Peterson and popularised by Eric S. Raymond. It was used by Raymond to attempt to break away from the stuffy elitism of the Free Software Foundation and their (arguably ambiguous) "free software" label. http://www.opensource.org/history There's no necessary relation between social software and open source software. It's perfectly possible to implement a blogging system, for example, using closed source software. I often hear a similar confusion of the terms "open source" and "open access". The main reason why I try to avoid this confusion is because of an important difference between open source software development and other open practices: open source software development is a collaborative activity in which a code-base is developed and changed by a group of programmers, often working over the internet, in a continuous and potentially indefinite process. Open access publishing, on the other hand, is more about making available, at no charge, the results of work done effectively in private; the content published is not open for further development and alteration by the online community. Social software seems to fall somewhere between the two, but I think is closer to open access than it is to open source. Users may contribute comments, but they are not expected (often not permitted) to contribute to the development of the work itself. Best, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.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 Dec 3 09:53:39 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 0AB0BB75C7; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:53:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 251CFB75BB; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:53:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101203095337.251CFB75BB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:53:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.540 postdoc at Michigan X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 540. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 17:32:43 -0500 From: "Friedlander, Ari" Subject: CLIR Postdoc at the University of Michigan This announcement should be of interest to the members of Humanist. Please feel free to distribute widely. For more information, contact Shana Kimball (kimballs@umich.edu) --- MPublishing at the University of Michigan Library seeks applications from postdoctoral candidates in the humanities for a two-year position that focuses on digital scholarship and publishing. The MPublishing CLIR Fellowship will provide an opportunity for an ambitious and curious Ph.D. recipient in the humanities to develop skills and experience as a publishing professional in an innovative library-based scholarly communication environment. Reporting to the Head of Publishing Services Outreach, the Fellow will assist with articulating, developing, and promoting publishing needs and publishing models. Specific activities may include: Researching publishing needs for the digital humanities and humanities publishing through surveys, listening sessions, and other research methods; implementing new products and/or services based on research Facilitating the promotion and outreach of MPublishing to campus and beyond through a variety of media and audiences Working with faculty and MPublishing staff to produce online scholarly journals and book series While the CLIR fellow will work on a range of publishing initiatives, this fellowship will be of particular interest to those who are interested in alternative academic career paths in higher education; emerging models and modes of scholarly communication and publishing; and dynamic new roles for libraries and university presses. This position will be a good match for Fellows with abilities and interests in digital technology and media. The Fellow will participate in national meetings with other CLIR fellows. About MPublishing: http://lib.umich.edu/mpub. MPublishing is the hub of scholarly publishing and copyright expertise at the University of Michigan, a part of the U-M's dynamic and innovative University Library. MPublishing brings together the expertise of librarians, publishers, and technologists to support scholarly communication. Amongst its ongoing projects are digitalculturebooks, partnership with The Open Humanities Press, and the publication of The Journal of Electronic Publishing. Salary and benefits package comparable to an appointment at the level of Assistant Librarian. Link to the announcement: http://clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/um11.html Link to the CLIR fellowship program: http://clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/postdoc.html --- Ari Friedlander Outreach Coordinator, Text Creation Partnership at MPublishing PhD Candidate, Department of English Language and Literature University of Michigan, Ann Arbor _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 3 09:54:28 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 905F1B7631; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:54:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F1C6EB7620; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:54:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101203095426.F1C6EB7620@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:54:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.541 drastic cutting: an appeal for support X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 541. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:45:14 +0000 From: Yordan Lyutskanov Subject: Re: events calendar In-Reply-To: <38C7E6498E60A149ABBB1C9947191BFC01E3BA44@MAIL.universe.lon.ac.uk> Dear all, sorry for posting (in fact forwarding) a message not directly related to scholarly issues. It violates the comfort of our autonomous field to remind that some of us and some like us are subject to unprecedented assault against autonomy of research; an assault which, I think, is symptomatic of recent postcommunist misreadings of neoliberal agenda on science and society and which would not end with "reforms" in the South-East corner of Europe. Please, follow the link for more context. Yordan Lyutskanov, Sofia Dear Colleague, The government of Bulgaria has declared war on the main research centre of the country, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and has announced its intention to, de facto, liquidate it, an unprecedented arbitrary act in its 141-year history. Research funding of the leading university of the country, Sofia University, has been also drastically cut. In this critical moment, the Bulgarian scholarly community needs your support! To support us, please sign and circulate the letter at http://www.science.nauka2010.com/ Thank you! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 3 09:55:28 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 60EE3B7692; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:55:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 86549B7683; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:55:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101203095526.86549B7683@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:55:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.542 career in 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 542. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 02:25:12 +0000 From: "Sibongile B.N. Lynch" Subject: Career Possibilities Greetings All I have recently been introduced to the field of textual scholarship and would very much like to know more about the possibilities. I am currently in a Master's program for Literary Studies at Georgia State in Atlanta, and I am interested in textual scholarship as a career focus, but also with regard to the study of African American text. Any advice or information you can offer would be much appreciated. Sincerely, Sibongile B. N. Lynch _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 3 09:57:46 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 8FB62B771F; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:57:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9FCC6B7710; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:57:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101203095745.9FCC6B7710@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:57:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.543 publications: Ubiquity on computation & semantic web; Glottometrics X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 543. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: RAM-Verlag (19) Subject: Glottometrics 20, 2010 [2] From: ubiquity (13) Subject: NEW ON ACM's UBIQUITY: Is 'computation' the same as 'process'? How might we reach a state where the semantic web is truly possible? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 16:42:04 +0000 From: RAM-Verlag Subject: Glottometrics 20, 2010 if you are interested in Glottometrics 20, 2010, please click here: http://www.ram-verlag.de/ . If you can´t link directly from here see attachement please. Glottometrics 20, 2010 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. Jutta Richter For: RAM-Verlag 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:40:54 +0000 From: ubiquity Subject: NEW ON ACM's UBIQUITY: Is 'computation' the same as 'process'? How might we reach a state where the semantic web is truly possible? New on ACM’s Ubiquity: Debate on the Meaning of Computation Continues: Computation is Process; Reflections on the Path to the Semantic Web November 30, 2010 Computation is Process In its first symposium, Ubiquity has asked top leaders in the computing world to discuss this one big question: “What is computation?” This week, Dennis J. Frailey of Southern Methodist University and the IEEE Computer Society, weighs in to say that the essence of computation can be found in any form of process. Frailey, who is also a recently retired Principal Fellow at Raytheon Company and a past vice president of ACM, writes: “I recall a conversation in the early 1970s with several graduate students over the question of whether a computer program might be designed to run forever and, if so, how that would fit the prevailing notion that a computable function had to terminate. It was food for thought, leading to the notion that a process could run forever but such a process would be deemed non-computable. That aligned with the theory, but was it the right idea?” [continue reading] http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1891341 Other contributors who have attempted to answer the question, “What is computation?” include Peter Wegner, Emeritus Professor at Brown University, whose essay discusses the evolution of computation , and John S. Conery of University of Oregon, who believes computation is the manipulation of symbols . For the complete list of articles and authors who will be contributing to this weekly series, please see the table of contents on Ubiquity.acm.org http://ubiquity.acm.org/symposia.cfm . Edging Toward the Semantic Web In another new article on Ubiquity, Espen Andersen proposes a path from the present to a future where the semantic web is possible. “The evolution from an interactive Internet toward a more intelligent, semantic web will not happen as a result of dramatic new inventions or jointly agreed standards,” Andersen writes. It will happen “through a gradual evolution and recombination of existing technologies.” Andersen, an editor and frequent contributing writer to Ubiquity, gives some insight to his plan in this excerpt: “As computers have become more powerful and communications faster, more and more information—be it data values or web pages—are dynamically computed rather than statically retrieved. A processing-poor system will need intermediate, pre-computed data, such as an estimated stock level or a pre-rendered graphic. A more powerful system will count the number of items that are or will be available for sale, and call that the stock level, possibly rendering the result in a graphical format directly. Add increases in storage capability, and the system can remember your display preferences and dynamically adapt to them, too.” [continue reading] For more information on Ubiquity and its editors, content and features, visit http://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 Dec 3 09:58:47 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 327B6B7781; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:58:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9FA5CB7773; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:58:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101203095845.9FA5CB7773@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:58:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.544 events: London Digital Humanities Group X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 544. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 08:56:25 +0000 From: Simon Dixon Subject: London Digital Humanities Group: Religious History and the Digita lHumanities - 7 December In-Reply-To: The next meeting of the London Digital Humanities Group will take place at Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0AR on Tuesday 7 December at 5pm. The meeting will showcase two innovative projects that are making use of digital humanities methodologies to make significant advances in the field of religious history. The speakers, all from Queen Mary, University of London, will be Caroline Bowden, Katharine Keats-Rohan, and James Kelly (Who Were the Nuns?), and Rosemary Dixon and Kyle Roberts (Dissenting Academies Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860). Religious History and the Digital Humanities: Innovative Approaches Developing identities: new ways of using databases for studying early modern women religious Caroline Bowden, Katherine Keats-Rohan, and James Kelly >From a starting point of listing the members of the English convents in exile 1600-1800 (in itself a challenging task for some communities) we have come a long way in attempting to answer the question ‘Who were the Nuns’? Underpinning the project analysis is a quantitative database keeping track of membership details and family and other related material. We are combining this with qualitative data analysis software in order to draw on the riches of surviving sources in order to develop our knowledge of the qualities of these English nuns. Other elements of the project involve the use of software building family trees which demonstrate the interconnected nature of family alliances supporting the convents. The software has been chosen or developed to make best use of the sources and resources while presenting results in a straightforward and accessible way to answer the question: who were the nuns? The dissenting academy libraries and their readers project: new technology and old books Rosemary Dixon and Kyle Roberts The Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers project is reconstructing the libraries of the principal Baptist, Congregational, and Presbyterian dissenting academies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and examining the way that their collections were used by students. A key outcome of the project will be the online publication of the Virtual Dissenting Academy Libraries System. This innovative database uses the functionality of professional library software to reconstruct the holdings and borrowing patterns of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century libraries. Users will be able to search for particular authors or titles, examine the borrowing profiles of individual students, and virtually browse the shelves of the libraries as they existed at particular historical moments. The database will allow us to construct a more accurate picture of the education of students at dissenting academies, as well as being a crucial research tool for scholars concerned with the history of libraries and collecting, the role of books in religious culture and education, and the history of reading and reception. In this paper Rosemary Dixon and Kyle Roberts will discuss the creation of this exciting new digital resource, focusing on the ways they have used the techniques of modern library and information science to present data about historic libraries and their collections. They will describe the source material, explain the rationale and architecture of the Virtual Libraries System, and outline some of the research questions it will enable us to answer. Dr Williams's Library is located in Gordon Square a short walk from UCL and the British Library. For directions see http://www.dwlib.co.uk/dwlib/visiting.html. All are welcome to attend. To confirm attendance or for further information please contact s.dixon@qmul.ac.uk The London Digital Humanities Group is supported by Queen Mary, University of London. -- 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 08:31:01 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 8767625B10; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:31:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D31A325B00; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:30:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101204083059.D31A325B00@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:30:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.545 open source vs social 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. 24, No. 545. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:18:57 -0400 (AST) From: Dr Tatjana Takseva Subject: Fwd: re. terminological confusion: open-source vs social software Dear Richard, Thank you for trying to establish the fine distinction between the two phrases. Indeed, as in any other field, terminology and geenric designations remains slippery and certainly always invite redefinitions. Best, Dr. Tatjana Takseva Associate Professor Editor, Social Software and the Evolution of User Expertise Saint Mary's University Canada Tatjana.Takseva@SMU.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 Dec 4 08:35:40 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 9105625BAC; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:35:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6319125BA5; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:35:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101204083539.6319125BA5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:35:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.546 trading off: forgetting X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 546. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 14:01:29 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.538 trading off In-Reply-To: <20101203095145.15552B7523@woodward.joyent.us> I had thought to offer an observation on remembering [and Web,Internet, and the imminent Cloud, when today's comments on nor forgetting arrived for me here in Santa Monica, when this recollection/forgetting matter appeared today. To wit: Yesterday the Los Angeles Times published the obituary of Samuel Cohen, who with his father's graduation gift of an old slide-rule, invented the theory, and application of the neutron bomb. That weapon, of which apparently 700 were stockpiled, as a deterrent against the threat and great probability of thousands of Soviet tanks forcing a way through the Fulda Gap into Europe was much larger than a man's hand over the eastern horizon in Europe. Cohen believed it would be ameliorate blast and fire holocaust in case of WW III, and John Paul I even gave him a medal for that humanitarian project. Post-Reagan interlude eventually saw to their being taken out of service...or so it was said. Then came 9/11 and our invasion of Iraq. After Baghdad had been taken, there was an Academic outcry of dismay and horror re the supposed looting of the great museum of ancient ME treasures. I wrote an essay about that, "A Modest Proposal," reviewing the protest and information about it [mostly bogus, as one might have suspected, though I expected it, since the Academic world was then and still is bent on suicidal righteousness, and it was "all Bush's and America's fault," his bad ways. I disagreed with, and still deplore, as is plain to see, that failure of nerve that has possessed the comfortable West since the 1950s. In that essay I proposed a solution, or expediency re the preservation of antiquities in tomorrow's was, which is again an imminent possibility ... cf Pyongyang, Pakistan, and Tehran in today's terrors, 3 large hands well up over the horizon. And that was the use of neutron bomb artillery, etc., as had been proposed by the clever Samuel Cohen, who died at 87 in his home, a ten minutes' brisk walk from where I sit and type this out. Eventually, the essay was published in a new literary magazine online, www.foggedclarity.com. [ “A Modest Proposal Regarding the Protection of Antiquities from Wanton Destruction in Future War.” FOGGED CLARITY, June 2009.] It needed 7 years to be accepted, needless to say our PC media, papers and magazines rejecting out of hand all that time. At least it is there, and germane to this thread. How so? If the world's archives are eventually completely digitized, Humanities, Sciences, Theologies and all! the next, and coming disaster, will obliterate all those 0's and 1's; and if they are preserved in the Cloud of memory and records, then that cloud will rise and dissipate as did the clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Forgetting will have been easily achieved, and recovery will be for the DNA-ruined seeds and eggs of coming generations ... if possible. Whereas, if the armamentarium is well-stocked with the neutron weapons that simply take care of fleshly creatures, we can rest more easily... in the hope that the pursuit of universal digitization for the living tomorrow to Google and goggle at, the hopes of our cultural custodians and curators will have some solid ground to stand on. And..their keyboards will not have been melted down, so to say. Jascha Kessler --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 Sat Dec 4 08:37:41 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 E4F5E25C40; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:37:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5924025C2D; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:37:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101204083740.5924025C2D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:37:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.547 career in 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 547. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Matthew Kirschenbaum (44) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.542 career in textual scholarship? [2] From: Wesley Raabe (12) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.542 career in textual scholarship? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 08:07:09 -0500 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.542 career in textual scholarship? In-Reply-To: <20101203095526.86549B7683@woodward.joyent.us> Sibongile, You might consider making your way to the Society for Textual Scholarship conference at Penn State in March. More details here: http://www.textualsociety.org For two and a half days, that will be the center of the textual scholarship world. Best, Matt -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC, a Living/Learning Program in the Honors College) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net and @mkirschenbaum on Twitter --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 17:57:24 -0800 (PST) From: Wesley Raabe Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.542 career in textual scholarship? In-Reply-To: <20101203095526.86549B7683@woodward.joyent.us> I consider myself to be in early stage of a career in textual scholarship, so I suppose I can offer some suggestions for your question. As a primary emphasis, university faculty position which call for a specialist in textual scholarship are quite rare. In general, at least in the US in field of American literature, textual scholarship is more likely to be considered a secondary emphasis, one that complements the primary field. Because textual scholarship is slow work, which demands locating and comparing multiple versions of texts, editorial labor is usually reserved for works or authors who have previously reached canonical status. Works and figures who have joined the literary and cultural studies canon during the past 20 or 30 years---like many African American authors---are excellent candidates for more detailed study of multiple publication forms, manuscript variants, periodical publications, etc. The drawback of textual scholarship is that it can be viewed within broader disciplines of literary studies as a narrow discipline. Its value is more broadly recognized in some fields---Renaissance literature, Medieval literature, 18th-Century literature---but less well recognized in others, like 19th and 20th century literature. Because of copyright restrictions, it can also be more difficult for more recent authors. Such generalizations may be incorrect in particular instances. Textual editing in field of English is loosely affiliated with types of editing performed by historians and scholars of classic or biblical literature. Related fields include bibliography (study of printed documents), print history (study of cultural history of books and printing), and digital humanities, the latter because works are increasingly being edited for electronic publication (one reason that I follow the Humanist list). Organizations affiliated with the practice of textual editing include the Society for Textual Scholarship (literary editing) and the Association for Documentary Editing (historical editing). A handful of graduate programs offer emphasis (certificate or like) in textual scholarship, but to extent that a graduate program in humanities can ever be considered a wise move---and please recognize that it is probably NOT a wise career move---also consider any program with at least two (but preferably all three) of the following: two potential mentors in textual scholarship, a strong program in area chosen as primary field, convenient access to strong holdings in author (or authors) that have your potential interest for dissertation project. Others on the list could probably address the situation in Europe and Canada more thoughtfully. But I would happily respond to more narrowly focused inquiries off-list. Wesley Raabe wraabe@kent.edu Assistant Professor Textual Editing and American Literature Kent 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 Sat Dec 4 08:39:22 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 369A825CE8; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:39:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 08D1425CC2; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:39:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101204083920.08D1425CC2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:39:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.548 Lexicons of Early Modern English X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 548. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:14:40 +0000 From: UTP Journals Subject: Lexicons of Early Modern English Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) - http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/ “Firstly, I want to say what an extraordinary and wonderful resource the LEME is. It is invaluable to the academic community who work on these periods and the ways in which you have developed in from the EMDD are formidable. Thank you!” (Charlotte Scott, researcher and LEME user) Locating historical references and accessing manuscripts can be difficult with countless hours spent searching for a single text for the sparsest of contributions to your research. Lexicons of Early Modern English is a growing historical database offering scholars unprecedented access to early books and manuscripts documenting the growth and development of the English language. With more than 576,000 word-entries from 167 monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and linguistic treatises, encyclopedic and other lexical works from the beginning of printing in England in 1702, as well as tools updated annually, LEME http://www.utpjournals.com/leme/leme.html sets the standard for modern linguistic research on the English language. Use Modern Techniques to Research Early Modern English! • 167 Searchable lexicons • 113 Fully analyzed lexicons • 576 332 Total word entries • 355 983 Fully analyzed word entries • 60 891 Total English modern headwords Recently added to LEME http://www.utpjournals.com/leme/leme.html John Ray's A Collection of English Words not Generally Used (London, 1674), a group of specialized glossaries with 2,128 word-entries. They explain dialectal words, southern and northern, words for fishes and birds, and terms of art in mining. Coming soon to LEME http://www.utpjournals.com/leme/leme.html Peter Levins' Manipulus Vocabulorum (London, 1570), a dictionary of 8,940 English-Latin word-entries, organized by English rhyme-endings (with accentuation). This analyzed text owes much to Huloet (added in 2009) and replaces the simple transcription now in the LEME database. John Rider's Bibliotheca Scholastica, an English-Latin dictionary first published by the University of Oxford in 1589. Coming Spring 2011 to LEME Catholicon Anglicum (ca. 1475), an English-Latin dictionary from Lord Monson's manuscript, reconstructed from a 19th-century Early English Text Society edition. The earliest such lexicon surviving in the language holding some 7,180 word-entries, distinguishes itself by the extensive use of Latin synonyms in explanations. There are two versions of LEME, a public one and a licensed one. The public version of LEME allows anyone, anywhere, to do simple searches on the multilingual lexical database. The licensed version of LEME is designed as a full-featured scholarly resource for original research into the entire lexical content of Early Modern English. LEME http://www.utpjournals.com/leme/leme.html is designed as a full-featured scholarly resource that allows you to search the entire lexical content of Early Modern English. It provides exciting research opportunities for linguistic historians through the following powerful features: • Searchable word-entries (simple, wildcard, Boolean, and proximity) • Documentary period database of more than 10,000 works from the Early Modern era • Large primary bibliography of more than 1,000 early works known to include lexical information • Browseable page-by-page transcriptions of lexical works • A selection list of editorially lemmatized headwords unique to each lexical text • Continually updated new dictionaries, glossaries, and tools each year For more information, please contact 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/leme http://leme.library.utoronto.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 Dec 4 08:41:45 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 7E4C425D82; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:41:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3649125D72; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:41:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101204084143.3649125D72@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:41:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.549 events: HASTAC 2011 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 549. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 11:16:43 -0500 From: hastac-web@duke.edu Subject: HASTAC 2011 Conference Rescheduled *The HASTAC 2011 International Conference has been rescheduled. It will now be held December 2-3, 2011. * Our HASTAC network at the University of Michigan, led by our Steering Committee member Daniel Herwitz, and with regional assistance from SC member Julie Klein (Wayne State), has been meeting to plan for next year's HASTAC International Conference. It's still a year away but they have confirmed a date so you can mark your calendars: December 2-3, 2011. This conference promises to be bold, wide-ranging, and urgent. You won't want to miss it!   The event will be held in the North Quadrangle at University of Michigan, a new center of digitally and technologically-driven units at UM, from Screen Arts and Cultures to the School of Information, including living-learning dorms, classrooms, interactive meeting areas, and other innovative spaces. The theme, Digital Scholarly Communication, will unfold in its most expansive version, as a collaboration of various departments, the Sweetland Writing Center, the Library, and the newly inaugurated digital press (hosted at the Library), including DigitalCulture Books (and the HASTAC first-publication prize too). The conference will feature many north-south international projects (such as the Law and Slavery project), with a focus on issues of changes in language and thinking in the internet-bred generation, issues around innovation in the Ph.D. and graduate education more generally, issues of equality, inequality, access (globally and nationally), circulation, and representation, all of the broadest and most incisive issues of scholarly communication (moral, social, legal, conceptual, and international in scope).  NEH Chariman Jim Leach will speak on Dec. 2nd. In the coming months, we will be hearing much more about this conference, but we wanted to share this breaking news with you now. Enormous thanks to all of those at the University of Michigan who are already thinking ahead to make this our best HASTAC conference ever. We'll all be hearing  more over the months ahead. 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[1] https://www.hastac.org/user/2882/edit [2] http://www.hastac.org/user/password [3] mailto:nancy.kimberly@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 Sat Dec 4 09:16:47 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 B02A826341; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 09:16:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0B19026335; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 09:16:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101204091646.0B19026335@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 09:16:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.550 a digital stylistics? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 550. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:08:04 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital stylistics The other evening I found myself at a seminar at which a very impressive textual resource was presented. This resource was originally put together for print by a scholar trained long before the popularity of the digital medium would have brought alternatives forcibly to his attention. Apart from being deeply impressed by the scholarship it represents and makes available, I was struck by its oldfashioned qualities, and I made some rather silly remark along those lines. But looking further at a typical paragraph of its output, I realised that to make it newfashioned would require a complete revision, root and branch, which in turn would almost certainly mean that a properly born-digital version would never see the light of day. So the choice was clear. But thinking about it now, what strikes me is the more general phenomenon of change in the stylistics of reference in scholarship. If I had written a commentary, say in the 1950s, and had to refer to a published work, I might well have written something like this: > ... for the inflection of the Latin verbs of motion see Angela Dixon, > "Irregular patterns in Latin verbs of motion", Journal of Latin > Studies 23.4 (Winter 1944), pp.5-8... What would I write now? I'd be thinking about someone who would want to find all works written by Dixon and similar sorts of questions, and would have to hand mechanisms for linking to a standard bibliographic reference, and so would do something very different. More subtle are the effects of wide-ranging digital bibliographic resources, bringing to light connections between an argument and others in several other disciplines. I find myself always tempted as a result, to write in a highly referential style, citing, because I had the references to hand, numerous other authors and places where one could find parallel or more developed arguments. On the one hand this is good, I suppose. My readers can rejoice (I have told myself) in the treasure-trove of references, speeding from my argument into the network of scholarship I have uncovered. On the other hand they leave my argument quickly behind. Indeed, I am implicitly urging them to do so. Let's say I had something important to argue and did it well; indeed, let's say I had something unique to contribute. Would my highly referential style be the best way to write? Or let us say that I am replying in a more conversational mode, as on Humanist, to someone else's questions. How easily I might fall into an even unintended dismissal of my interlocutor's argument by piling on the references, so easily dredged up, saying in effect, "you silly, this topic has been addressed numerous times, e.g. in X, Y, Z, W....". Let's say that my interlocutor's intention had been to reconsider that topic. All my helpful references would do the opposite of what I had intended. Or let us say that I was annoyed by the question he or she had raised. It would be far easier than it ever has been to bury that question in a welter of distractions. My point? It is that the stylistics of digital scholarship is a new ball-game, demanding attention to how we write. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 5 11:06:10 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 E88BFB0BD8; Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:06:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 96F51B0BC4; Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:06:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101205110608.96F51B0BC4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:06:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.551 open source vs social 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. 24, No. 551. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 17:42:38 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.545 open source vs social software In-Reply-To: <20101204083059.D31A325B00@woodward.joyent.us> Huh? Err... no. There's absolutely nothing slippery here, and there's imho no reason for redefinition. Richard Lewis is quite right. You can not equate the terms "Web 2.0 technologies", "social software", and "open source software", as any somewhat informed 'digital humanist' and certainly any developer would be able to point out. Web 2.0 technologies is basically AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) which allows part of XHTML page to be updated rather than full page round tripping. This gave us very nice possibilities to create highly usable web applications rather than web pages. Social software may be loosely defined as web applications that allow people to network, share and publish their own information. Open Source is any software the code of which under specific licensing may be freely read and in many cases reused by other developers. The three can live very well next to each other, not even touching, as it were. They also can build upon each other, sure. But they are quite clearly defined and very much separate distinctions. And honestly, I feel that any redefinition would not be really up to the realm of digital humanities. All the best -- Joris On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 545. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:18:57 -0400 (AST) > From: Dr Tatjana Takseva > Subject: Fwd: re. terminological confusion: open-source vs social > software > > > Dear Richard, > > Thank you for trying to establish the fine distinction between the two > phrases. > > Indeed, as in any other field, terminology and geenric designations remains > slippery and certainly always invite redefinitions. > > Best, > Dr. Tatjana Takseva > Associate Professor > Editor, Social Software and the Evolution of User Expertise > Saint Mary's University > Canada > Tatjana.Takseva@SMU.ca > -- 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 Sun Dec 5 11:06:34 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 7B531B0C09; Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:06:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 678F0B0BF5; Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:06:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101205110632.678F0B0BF5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:06:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.552 difficult 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 552. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 10:08:32 +0000 From: Simon Mahony Subject: Difficult images needed All, One of our affiliated research students here at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, shared with the Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, needs some images to test his processing methods. I copy his request below. If you have any such material it would be greatly appreciated. Please contact me off-list and I'll put you in touch: s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk Regards Simon "My project involves applying image processing methods to multi-spectral images in order to enhance or reveal difficult-to-read text. The type of images that I need are the full-spectrum of unmodified, multi-spectral images of manuscripts or documents. The methods that I use will try to enhance text from this manuscripts. Ideally the images should be from palimpsestic text, where at least one of the text is very difficult to see or image with visible light captures." Alejandro Giacometti alejandro.giacometti.09@ucl.ac.uk Dept. of Medical Physics & Bioengineering Dept. of Information Studies -- Simon Mahony Teaching Fellow UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Department of Information Studies University College London Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 5 11:07:36 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 8197CB0CA2; Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:07:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E2A48B0C93; Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:07:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101205110734.E2A48B0C93@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:07:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.553 hardware? privacy? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 553. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (39) Subject: togetherness and privacy [2] From: Willard McCarty (45) Subject: importance or irrelevance of hardware --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:47:21 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: togetherness and privacy In "Is there love in the telematic embrace" (Art Journal 49.3, Autumn 1990), Roy Ascott wrote that, "The individual user of networks is always potentially involved in a global net, and the world is always potentially in a state of interaction with the individual." He was writing before mobile/cell phones, of course, and so didn't foresee the half of what was about to happen. But no matter for the question I want to ask: what can we say is the effect of this potential always so near at hand? One could say that we're pushed into renegotiating the balance of public-connected and private-disconnected. The push toward collaboration in research is part of the change, however much one discounts bandwagon-effects, so also the "lone scholar" caricature, the prevalence of team-think and so on and so forth. But renegotiation, with its trendy political / diplomatic / unionist associations, covers up more serious matters. The question isn't only a matter of what we might be losing in the loss of private-time. It's also a question of how we are reacting to the threat of that loss. One very interesting phenomenon in this regard is the deliberate avoidance by terrorists of high-tech communication networks, all too easily penetrated. This makes me wonder, among scholars nowadays is there any tendency for people deliberately to avoid being connected? I do know that academics who become famous often tend these days either to claim not to have an e-mail address or to employ someone to run interference for them. Anthropologists and others who do fieldwork are sometimes out of touch for long periods; I wonder, do they enjoy the isolation? But I am really asking about the less well-known stay- at-homes, those (if there are any) who unplug to avoid the distraction, or who avoid checking their e-mail (attesting to a level of self-control I admire but cannot manage). Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:42:13 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: importance or irrelevance of hardware Some years ago Brian Cantwell Smith, speaking somewhere on the notion of the digital, argued that it was unimportant -- that, as with digitised music, what counts is the music. Roy Ascott, in "Is there love in the telematic embrace?" (Art Journal 49.3, Autumn 1990), discussing the role of the computer in that which he called "telematic art", writes: > It is the computer that is at the heart of this circulation system, > and, like the heart, it works best when least noticed -- that is to > say, when it becomes invisible. At present, the computer as a > physical, material presence is too much with us; it dominates our > inventory of tools, instruments, appliances, and apparatus as the > ultimate machine. In our artistic and educational environments it is > all too solidly there, a computational block to poetry and > imagination. It is not transparent, nor is it yet fully understood as > pure system, a universal transformative matrix. The computer is not > primarily a thing, an object, but a set of behaviours, a system, > actually a system of systems. Data constitute its lingua franca. It > is the agent of the datafield, the constructor of dataspace. Where it > is seen simply as a screen presenting the pages of an illuminated > book, it as an internally lit painting, it is of no artistic value. > Where its considerable speed of processing is used simply to simulate > filmic or photographic representations, it becomes an agent of > passive voyeurism. Where access to its transformative power is > constrained by a typewriter keyboard, the user is forced into the > posture of a clerk. The electronic palette, the light pen, and even > the mouse bind us to past practices. The power of the computer's > presence, particularly the power of the interface to shape language > and thought, cannot be overestimated. It may not be an exaggeration > to say that the "content" of telematic art will depend in large > measure on the nature of the interface; that is, the kind of > configurations and assemblies of image, sound, and text, the kind of > restructuring and articulation of environment that telematic > interactivity might yield, will be determined by the freedoms and > fluidity available at the interface. Yes -- and no? Can one see beyond the machine while not losing sight of it as a shaper of what is seen? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 6 06:43:18 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 0DEDCB668D; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:43:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D9C34B6676; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:43:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101206064315.D9C34B6676@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:43:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.554 digital stylistics X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 554. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Rachel Lee (133) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.550 a digital stylistics? [2] From: maurizio lana (44) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.550 a digital stylistics? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 09:47:33 -0500 From: Rachel Lee Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.550 a digital stylistics? In-Reply-To: <20101204091646.0B19026335@woodward.joyent.us> And I thought it was only graduate students who struggled to keep their arguments in view amidst the weighty scholarly network of citations! On a more serious note, though, I'm also interested in the implications of a highly referential/networked style of writing. In the perhaps more informal context of blogging, the stylistics of hyperlinking seems to have been worked out (for the most part): we like links that clarify, point to sources, and lead us to further information. (As Scott Rosenberg observes here: http://www.wordyard.com/2010/09/02/in-defense-of-links-part-three-in-links-we-trust/) In the shifting boundaries of academic writing, though, the relationship between ourselves and our sources seems less clearly defined. I've noticed in academic blogging, for example, that some authors still use endnote-style citations on the bottom of their posts -- and these are just citations, not links. Although technically listed, these referential links to other scholarship just don't seem useful in the context of reading online; they don't facilitate my seeking out other scholarship and I question the writer's decision to *not* use conventional hyperlinks. One more quick example: I recently published my first article in an online journal. My co-author and I drafted in MS word; we used MLA-style citations, but also occasionally embedded hyperlinks in our text (where it made sense to do so, as in discussion of relevant websites and online archives). We're both graduate students, and this being our first foray into academic publication, we found the whole process strange and exciting. But aside from our own inexperience, it seems that academic communication is figuring itself out through these strange hybrids: academic blogs with conventional footnotes and no hyperlinks, and peer-reviewed online articles with both. As I write my dissertation, I continually struggle with how explicit my linking should be; my pages are weighed down with footnotes, information waiting to be linked meaningfully to (and within?) my text, but for the moment relegated to the bottom margin. My two cents, Rachel Lee PhD Candidate Department of English University of Rochester rachel.lee@rochester.edu Blake Archive Project Assistant The William Blake Archive http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/ http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/ http://blakearchive.wordpress.com/ On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 550. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:08:04 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: digital stylistics > > The other evening I found myself at a seminar at which a very impressive > textual resource was presented. This resource was originally put > together for print by a scholar trained long before the popularity of > the digital medium would have brought alternatives forcibly to his > attention. Apart from being deeply impressed by the scholarship it > represents and makes available, I was struck by its oldfashioned > qualities, and I made some rather silly remark along those lines. But > looking further at a typical paragraph of its output, I realised that to > make it newfashioned would require a complete revision, root and branch, > which in turn would almost certainly mean that a properly born-digital > version would never see the light of day. So the choice was clear. > > But thinking about it now, what strikes me is the more general > phenomenon of change in the stylistics of reference in scholarship. If I > had written a commentary, say in the 1950s, and had to refer to a > published work, I might well have written something like this: > > > ... for the inflection of the Latin verbs of motion see Angela Dixon, > > "Irregular patterns in Latin verbs of motion", Journal of Latin > > Studies 23.4 (Winter 1944), pp.5-8... > > What would I write now? I'd be thinking about someone who would want to > find all works written by Dixon and similar sorts of questions, and > would have to hand mechanisms for linking to a standard bibliographic > reference, and so would do something very different. > > More subtle are the effects of wide-ranging digital bibliographic > resources, bringing to light connections between an argument and others > in several other disciplines. I find myself always tempted as a result, > to write in a highly referential style, citing, because I had the > references to hand, numerous other authors and places > where one could find parallel or more developed arguments. > > On the one hand this is good, I suppose. My readers can > rejoice (I have told myself) in the treasure-trove of references, > speeding from my argument into the network of scholarship I have > uncovered. On the other hand they leave my argument quickly behind. > Indeed, I am implicitly urging them to do so. Let's say I had > something important to argue and did it well; indeed, let's say I > had something unique to contribute. Would my highly referential style be > the best way to write? > > Or let us say that I am replying in a more conversational mode, as on > Humanist, to someone else's questions. How easily I might fall into an > even unintended dismissal of my interlocutor's argument by piling on the > references, so easily dredged up, saying in effect, "you silly, this > topic has been addressed numerous times, e.g. in X, Y, Z, W....". Let's > say that my interlocutor's intention had been to reconsider that topic. > All my helpful references would do the opposite of > what I had intended. Or let us say that I was annoyed by the > question he or she had raised. It would be far easier than it ever > has been to bury that question in a welter of distractions. > > My point? It is that the stylistics of digital scholarship is a new > ball-game, demanding attention to how we write. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, > www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:08:33 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.550 a digital stylistics? In-Reply-To: <20101204091646.0B19026335@woodward.joyent.us> my point of view (particularly recalling as i felt after graduating, when i read scientific contributions to the matters i was studying) is that it has always been as you, willard, are describing: only, when we were all 'paper bound', it required much more time and much more (preliminar) labour (labour to slowly construct a rich bibliographical archive. 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) ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, 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 Mon Dec 6 06:44:16 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 A3DDDB66DF; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:44:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5D90FB66C6; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:44:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101206064415.5D90FB66C6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:44:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.555 open source vs social 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. 24, No. 555. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ryan Deschamps (21) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.551 open source vs social software [2] From: Elijah Meeks (12) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.551 open source vs social software --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 12:13:32 -0400 From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.551 open source vs social software In-Reply-To: <20101205110608.96F51B0BC4@woodward.joyent.us> > > Social software may be loosely defined as web applications that allow > people > to network, share and publish their own information. > > Open Source is any software the code of which under specific licensing may > be freely read and in many cases reused by other developers. > > The three can live very well next to each other, not even touching, as it > were. They also can build upon each other, sure. But they are quite clearly > defined and very much separate distinctions. And honestly, I feel that any > redefinition would not be really up to the realm of digital humanities. > The degree of confusion over the term(s) seem rife for some research on its own. To start, the terms 'crowd source' and 'open source' use different contexts for the word 'source' (the former to mean 'origin of' and the latter to mean 'source code') but are both related because wikis often use open source software, similar-to-open-source licensing for content (ie. Creative Commons) and are created through 'crowd-sourcing' itself. Ryan Deschamps. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 09:41:50 -0800 (PST) From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.551 open source vs social software In-Reply-To: <20101205110608.96F51B0BC4@woodward.joyent.us> Joris, I think you'd do well to read Yochai Benkler's "Coase's Penguin" and "The Wealth of Networks" where you'll find a very compelling definition of commons-based peer collaboration that includes open source projects and Web 2.0 projects. Also, I think that the ability of users to easily contribute to web content through the lowering of barriers to entry is a much more suitable definition of Web 2.0 than AJAX. Elijah Meeks http://dhs.stanford.edu Digital Humanities Specialist Academic Computing Services Stanford University emeeks@stanford.edu (650)387-6170 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 6 06:45:50 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 87F9FB6786; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:45:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 72E5AB677F; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:45:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101206064549.72E5AB677F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:45:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.556 hardware; privacy X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 556. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patrick Durusau (62) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.553 hardware? privacy? [2] From: maurizio lana (27) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.553 hardware? privacy? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 06:51:20 -0500 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.553 hardware? privacy? In-Reply-To: <20101205110734.E2A48B0C93@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, > One very interesting phenomenon in this regard is the deliberate > avoidance by terrorists of high-tech communication networks, all too > easily penetrated. This makes me wonder, among scholars nowadays is > there any tendency for people deliberately to avoid being connected? > I do know that academics who become famous often tend these days > either to claim not to have an e-mail address or to employ someone to > run interference for them. Anthropologists and others who do fieldwork > are sometimes out of touch for long periods; I wonder, do they enjoy > the isolation? But I am really asking about the less well-known stay- > at-homes, those (if there are any) who unplug to avoid the distraction, > or who avoid checking their e-mail (attesting to a level of self-control > I admire but cannot manage). > Perhaps the best known case of someone forsaking email is Donald Knuth (The Art of Computer Programming, TeX and several other major contributions), who said: > I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer > had an email address. I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to > me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime. > > Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on > top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of > things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible > concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science > exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is > accessible to people who don't have time for such study. ... > `I don't even have an e-mail address. I have reached an age > where my main purpose is not to receive messages.' --- Umberto > Eco, quoted in the New Yorker > > Sometimes I do send email, through my secretary, with respect to the > project I'm currently working on, when I believe that the recipient > won't be bothered by my request. But I hope you can understand why I > am almost always unhappy to receive unsolicited email myself. Thank > you for your patience and cooperation as I try to finish The Art of > Computer Programming (TAOCP), a work that I began in 1962 and that I > will need many years to complete. In return, I promise not to send > unwelcome email requests to you. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html Which raises the question: Does lack of email = existing in isolation? Have they stopped publishing journals, books, conference proceeding? Are there no articles or books to be writing? Hope you are at the start of a great week! Patrick PS: My primary use of email, other than as a standards editor, is to become aware of new publications (electronic and otherwise), projects, etc. -- 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) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau Newcomb Number: 1 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:47:57 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.553 hardware? privacy? In-Reply-To: <20101205110734.E2A48B0C93@woodward.joyent.us> Il 05/12/2010 12:07, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: Can one see beyond the machine while not losing sight of it as a shaper of what is seen? i would like to reformulate the question asked by willard, using my own words and my own point of view: if i study a famous literary work using text analysis computer tools, what is more important: the tools and their use or the novelty and depth of the interpretation i propose? if i really propose a novel and deep interpretation is it important to state that (and how) i did employ text analysis computer tools? or it is more important to show the textual evidences supporting my interpretation, however i did collect them? 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) ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, 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 Mon Dec 6 06:47:00 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 533B8B67E6; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:47:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 13036B67D6; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:46:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101206064659.13036B67D6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:46:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.557 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 557. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 09:24:01 +1100 From: "Susan Robbins" Subject: Data curation in the humanities All, Bethany Nowviskie, on behalf of the ACH (Association for Computers in the Humanities) is seeking ideas for an open letter they are drafting to the funders of digital humanities projects, advocating for the establishment of data curation or management plans and open source / open access guidelines. You can add your comments/thoughts to this Google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uEr1ckPpI3EQuYtocpp9ug7QnH_0TU7uICaj obSHj9I/edit?hl=en or you can contribute to the discussion on DHAnswers: http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/experience-to-share-on-dh-dat a-curation-fossoa-advocacy or indeed you could chat to Bethany in person next week: http://dhcanberra.org/2010/11/bethany-nowviskie-in-canberra/ https://www.versi.edu.au/event/seminar/monopolies-invention Cheers, Tim -- Tim Sherratt (tim@discontents.com.au) National Museum of Australia Adjunct Associate-Professor, Digital Design + Media Arts Research Cluster, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra Words - http://www.discontents.com.au Experiments - http://wraggelabs.com & http://labs.nma.gov.au @wragge on Twitter _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 6 06:47:53 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 CFD45B683A; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:47:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B47A2B6827; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:47:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101206064752.B47A2B6827@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:47:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.558 events: evolutionary & biologically inspired X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 558. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 21:50:06 +0100 From: Juan Romero Subject: Evomusart 2011: Final Deadline Extension December 13 Please distribute (Apologies for multiple posting) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Evomusart 2011 9th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design an EvoApplications (European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation) event incorporated in Evo* 2011 (http://www.evostar.org) Torino, Italy, 27-29 April 2011 ********************************************************************* ***************** PLEASE READ THIS FIRST!!! ******************* ********************************************************************* ********* Due to several requests, the FINAL deadline for ********* ********* submissions has been extended to DECEMBER 13. ********* ********* If you wish to submit a paper by the new deadline ********* ********* please CONTACT the event chairs ********* ********* (jj@udc.es and garyemail) (ggreenfi@richmond.edu) ********* ********* including a title and an abstract of your paper ********* ********* as soon as possible to speed up assignment of ********* ********* papers to reviewers. THANK YOU ********* ********************************************************************* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The use of biologically inspired techniques for the development of artistic systems is a recent, exciting and significant area of research. There is a growing interest in the application of these techniques in fields such as: visual art and music generation, analysis, and interpretation; sound synthesis; architecture; video; poetry; design; and other creative tasks. evomusart 2011 is the ninth european event on Evolutionary Music and Art. Following the success of previous events and the growth of interest in the field, the main goal of evomusart 2011 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 the area. The event will be held from 27-29 April, 2011 in Torino, Italy as part of the evostar event. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the event and included in the evoapplications proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The papers should concern the use of biologically inspired techniques - e.g. 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 - Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.; o Biologically Inspired Sound and Music - Systems that create musical pieces, sounds, instruments, voices, sound effects, sound analysis, 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 Surveys of the current state-of-the-art in the area; identification of weaknesses and strengths; comparative analysis and classification; o Validation methodologies; o Studies on the applicability of these techniques to related areas; o New models designed to promote the creative potential of biologically inspired computation; - Computer Aided Creativity o Systems in which biologically inspired computation is used to promote the creativity of a human user; o New ways of integrating the user in the evolutionary cycle; 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 automatic fitness assignment; o Systems in which an analysis or interpretation of the artworks is used in conjunction with biologically inspired techniques to produce novel objects; o Systems that resort to biologically inspired computation to perform the analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some other types of artistic object; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission: 13 December 2010 Notification: 7 January 2011 Camera ready: 1 February 2011 Workshop: 27-29 April 2011 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format (instructions downloadable from http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html) no later than December 13, 2010 to site http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps11 The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper. The papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by January 7, 2011. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts, along with text sources and pictures, by February 1, 2011. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, published in Springer LNCS Series, which will be available at the workshop. Further information, including the Online Submission Details, can be found on the following pages: evomusart2011: http://www.evostar.org/call-for-contributions/evoapplications/evomusart/ evostar 2011: http://www.evostar.org/ CFP in pdf: http://www.evostar.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/call_evomusart.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alain Lioret (Paris 8 University,France) Alan Dorin (Monash University,Australia) Alejandro Pazos (University of A Coruna,Spain) Amilcar Cardoso (University of Coimbra,Portugal) Amy K. Hoover (University of Central Florida,USA) Andrew Gildfind (Google, Inc.,Australia) Andrew Horner (University of Science & Technology,Hong Kong) Anna Ursyn (University of Northern Colorado,USA) Antonino Santos (University of A Coruna,Spain) Artemis Sanchez Moroni (Renato Archer Research Center,Brazil) Benjamin Schroeder (Ohio State University,USA) Bill Manaris (College of Charleston,USA) Brian Ross (Brock University,Canada) Carla Farsi (University of Colorado,USA) Carlos Grilo (Instituto Politécnico de Leiria,Portugal) Christian Jacob (University of Calgary,Canada) Colin Johnson (University of Kent,UK) Craig Kaplan (University of Waterloo,Canada) Dan Ashlock (University of Guelph,Canada) Eduardo Miranda (University of Plymouth,UK Eleonora Bilotta (University of Calabria,Italy) Erwin Driessens (Independent Artist, Netherlands) Gary Greenfield (University of Richmond,USA) Gary Nelson (Oberlin College,USA) Gerhard Widmer (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Hans Dehlinger(Independent Artist,Germany) James McDermott(University of Limerick,Ireland) John Collomosse(University of Surrey,UK) Jon Bird (University of Sussex,UK) Jon McCormack (Monash University,Australia) Jorge Tavares (University of Coimbra,Portugal) José Fornari (NICS/Unicamp,Brazil) Juan Romero (University of A Coruna,Spain) Kevin Burns (Mitre Corporation,USA) Luigi Pagliarini (Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting & University of Southern Denmark,Italy) Marcelo Freitas Caetano (IRCAM, France) Maria Verstappen (Independent Artist,Netherlands) Matthew Lewis (Ohio State University,USA) Mauro Annunziato (Plancton Art Studio,Italy) Nicolas Monmarché (University of Tours,France) Oliver Bown (Monash University,Australia) Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid,Spain) Palle Dahlstedt (Göteborg University,Sweden) Paul Brown (University of Sussex,UK) Paulo Urbano (Universidade de Lisboa ,Portugal) Penousal Machado (University of Coimbra,Portugal) Peter Bentley (University College London ,UK) Philip Galanter (Texas A&M College of Architecture,USA) Rafael Ramirez (Pompeu Fabra University,Spain) Rodney Waschka II (North Carolina State University,USA) Ruli Manurung (University of Indonesia,Indonesia) Scott Draves (Independent Artist,USA) Simon Colton (Imperial College,UK) Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk (University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia) Stefano Cagnoni (University of Parma,Italy) Stephen Todd (IBM,UK) Tim Blackwell (Goldsmiths College, University of London,UK) Vic Ciesielski (RMIT,Australia) William Latham (Goldsmiths College, University of London,UK) Yang Li (University of Science and Technology Beijing,China) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Juan Romero University of A Coruna, Spain jj AT udc DOT es Gary Greenfield University of Richmond, USA ggreenfi AT richmond DOT 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 Dec 7 08:37:19 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 A92BAB6779; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:37:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C4131B6770; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:37:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101207083718.C4131B6770@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:37:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.559 open source vs social 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 559. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Marc_Wilhelm_Küster (25) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.555 open source vs social software [2] From: jeremy hunsinger (5) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.555 open source vs social software --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 08:42:13 +0100 From: Marc_Wilhelm_Küster Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.555 open source vs social software In-Reply-To: <20101206064415.5D90FB66C6@woodward.joyent.us> > I think you'd do well to read Yochai Benkler's "Coase's Penguin" and "The Wealth of Networks" where you'll find a very compelling definition of > commons-based peer collaboration that includes open source projects and Web 2.0 projects. Also, I think that the ability of users to easily > contribute to web content through the lowering of barriers to entry is a much more suitable definition of Web 2.0 than AJAX. Open Source is not necessarily linked to concepts such as peer production and decentralization. While many Open Source projects in fact thrive on decentralized peer production, just as many, if not more, other Open Source projects are consciously or de facto driven by individuals, individual companies or closely knit consortia and are as centrally organized as any commercial software development. The key criterion is that, given sufficient interest, somebody else *could* take the lead and continue to drive the development under another umbrella if the original driving force falls short in his view. And, to state the obvious, the universally accepted definition of Open Source is the one provided by the Open Source initiative (http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd). For very good reasons this definition does not state anything about the authoring process of open source software, only about rules for its reuse. 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:12:07 -0600 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.555 open source vs social software In-Reply-To: <20101206064415.5D90FB66C6@woodward.joyent.us> ok... so let's be clear: social software is https://www.socialtext.net/ssa/index.cgi?social_software_alliance around 2001 it became a business strategy. I have the first use of the term in 80's in hci literature, but that isn't really the same thing. open source is http://opensource.org/ around 1998 it became a business strategy, and the term arose against freesoftware around then. In short, they are profoundly different concepts and shouldn't be confused, or bundled as one. Similarly, crowdsourcing has a different ontogeny. social software is historically concurrent with some of open source-d software, and sometimes they are the same, and most times not. as for a publication strategy... IGI global has its own; it is on my boycott list because it overproduces zombie/junk publications and under-edits them. See Ian Bogost for a nice writeup here: http://www.bogost.com/blog/writeonly_publication.shtml _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 7 08:38:06 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 CF537B67BA; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:38:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A888AB67B0; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:38:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101207083805.A888AB67B0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:38:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.560 hardware X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 560. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:52:56 -0600 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.553 hardware? privacy? On 2010-12-05, at 05:07 , Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Yes -- and no? Can one see beyond the machine while not losing sight of > it as a shaper of what is seen? As someone who spends long hours “in the field” studying individuals who, quite literally, shape machines that in turn shape the landscape -- I am speaking here of various kinds of agricultural and aquacultural equipment fabricated for local use in Louisiana -- I think there is no tool, no artifact that is either purely spectacular nor purely instrumental. There are certainly objects that approach either end of the continuum across which all artifacts range, and it is certainly the case that some objects have held their place along the continuum for a variety of reasons. Time and place are marvelous modifiers of such things: cathedrals are not art pieces. Cars continue to cling mysteriously to the center of the continuum, refusing to be either merely an instrument nor merely a spectacle for a wide range of viewers/users, especially in American cultures. I can certainly assure my fellow digital humanists that even the lowly plow is appraised not only on its own form but the way it forms the landscape to which it is applied -- thus aesthetics for farmers is itself a continuum of artifacts/environments/constructs which are always in motion. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 7 08:38:50 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 1E499B682C; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:38:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A053EB680C; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:38:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101207083848.A053EB680C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:38:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.561 postdoc at Emory X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 561. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 12:49:36 -0500 From: Brian Croxall Subject: Postdoc in Digital Archives at Emory As Michigan recently did, I wanted to share information about a new CLIR postdoc at the Emory Libraries with the readers of Humanist. Please distribute widely and for more information contact Erika Farr ( elfarr@emory.edu) or Brian Croxall (brian.croxall@emory.edu). The Emory University Libraries offers a two-year CLIR postdoctoral fellowship for a scholar in the humanities or social sciences*. *Fellowship work supports the digital archives program in Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). The Fellow will acquire skills in acquiring and processing born-digital collections and contribute to the development of policies and procedures around managing born-digital collections of personal papers. This fellowship will also engage in efforts to gather and analyze feedback from archivists and researchers in MARBL's ongoing effort to create innovative and effective tools for both communities of users. The Fellow is based in the Digital Archives program in MARBL and collaborates with digital librarians, digital program services, colleagues across the library system, content creators, archivists, and faculty. Aspects of the fellowship include: - Develop an understanding of the current state of digital archives at Emory and gain insight into future needs and objectives for the digital archives program; - Acquire skills to capture, reposit, and review born-digital materials using best practices and standards; - Contribute to the acquisition and processing of born-digital materials; - Work with the coordinator for digital archives to assess the usability of tools and practices used by archivists to review and process born-digital materials; - Work with the Library's Digital Scholarship Commons on developing innovative connections between digital scholarship and twenty-first century research and archival methodologies; - Work with MARBL staff to assess the usability of tools and access points used by researchers working with born-digital archival material; - Work with technologists to develop functional requirements for new or enhanced tools for archivists and/or researchers; - Engage in research and present at professional conferences and other venues; and - Share doctoral research interests with the Emory community. Fellowship work will provide the Fellow the opportunity to bring his/her research and teaching background and experience with technology and archives to bear on key digital archive initiatives. Link to the announcement: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/emory11.html http://clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/um11.html Link to the CLIR fellowship program: http://clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/postdoc.html Best, Brian Croxall -- Brian Croxall, Ph.D. | Emory University | CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow Emerging Technologies Librarian | www.briancroxall.net | @briancroxall _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 7 08:40:36 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 1FE78B68CE; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:40:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D39C9B68C6; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:40:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101207084034.D39C9B68C6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:40:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.562 new publication: "History and human nature" (ISR 35.3-4) 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. 24, No. 562. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 06:59:16 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 35.3-4 Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 35.3-4, "History and human nature", ed. Brad Inwood and Willard McCarty (www.isr-journal.org/) The editors of this issue of ISR are proud to announce the publication of "History and human nature", comprising an essay by G.E.R. Lloyd with invited responses from 17 eminent scholars. The table of contents follows. 1. History and Human Nature (editorial) Inwood, Brad; McCarty, Willard pp. 199-200(2) 2. History and Human Nature: Cross-cultural Universals and Cultural Relativities Lloyd, G.E.R. pp. 201-214(14) 3. Human Nature is a Garden Daston, Lorraine pp. 215-230(16) 4. Lloyd, Daston, Nurture, and 'Style' Hacking, Ian pp. 231-240(10) 5. Evolution and Human Cognitive Diversity: What Should We Expect? Foley, Robert A. pp. 241-252(12) 6. Beyond Binarism in Babylon Rochberg, Francesca pp. 253-265(13) 7. Darkness and Din Ginzburg, Carlo pp. 266-276(11) 8. Opposition is True Friendship Schaffer, Simon pp. 277-290(14) 9. Writing in Kind Strathern, Marilyn pp. 291-301(11) 10. Artefacts of Encounter Salmond, Amiria; Salmond, Anne pp. 302-317(16) 11. In Some Sense de Castro, Eduardo Viveiros pp. 318-333(16) 12. Cognition, Perception and Worlding Descola, Philippe pp. 334-340(7) 13. The Complexity of Difference: Individual, Cultural, and Cross-Cultural Zhang Longxi, pp. 341-352(12) 14. The Man in the Machine and the Self-Builder Ingold, Tim pp. 353-364(12) 15. The Shortcomings of Dichotomies in the Study of Human Cognition Bateson, Patrick pp. 365-375(11) 16. Why Evolved Cognition Matters to Understanding Cultural Cognitive Variations Boyer, Pascal pp. 376-386(11) 17. When Systemizers Meet Empathizers: Universalism and the Prosthetic Imagination Blackwell, Alan F. pp. 387-403(17) 18. Further Thoughts Lloyd, G.E.R. pp. 404-405(2) -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 7 08:41:14 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 B29E1B692D; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:41:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 49058B6925; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:41:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101207084113.49058B6925@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:41:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.563 DRAPler database expansion X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 563. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 17:34:30 +0000 From: Katie McCadden Subject: DHO Announces DRAPIer Database Expansion The DHO is proud to announce the expansion of the DRAPIer database. Building on the success of DRAPIer as a resource for Digital Humanities scholars in Irish Higher Education, DRAPIer will now facilitate the inclusion of digital collections from Irish Cultural Heritage Institutions. Moreover, institutions outside of the island of Ireland who host digital collections in the area of Irish studies may also have their collections listed in the database. This expanded mandate will better reflect, highlight and promote the wide interest in Irish cultural heritage at a global level. Inclusion in DRAPIer offers the opportunity to present and promote projects to an international audience. DRAPIer now welcomes projects that: * are affiliated with a higher education or cultural institution on the island of Ireland, or a higher education or cultural institution outside of Ireland that has created digital resources focusing on Ireland or Irish studies; * involve digital arts, humanities or humanities/science interdisciplinary research and; * produce, or have produced, substantially extant digital content or deliverables. We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to be part of this showcase of Irish Digital Humanities research. An FAQ with more information about submitting and maintaining projects in DRAPIer is available at http://dho.ie/node/633. Any further questions can be submitted using the contact form: http://dho.ie/drapier/contact -- Katie McCadden Programme Manager Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: +353(0)1-2342442 Fax:+353(0)1-2342400 E-mail: k.mccadden@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 ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 7 08:41:50 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 F2D15B698F; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:41:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B5E35B697B; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:41:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101207084147.B5E35B697B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:41:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.564 events: written & spoken language skills 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. 24, No. 564. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 12:00:17 -0500 From: "John Ford" Subject: IAN Presentation: Automated Assessment of Written and Spoken LanguageSkills You are invited to a special meeting of the Interagency Assessment Network (IAN). On Tuesday, December 14th from 10 AM to 12 noon Dr. Peter Foltz will deliver a presentation on Automated Assessment of Written and Spoken Language Skills. The meeting will take place in the Great Hall of the Charles Sumner School and Museum at 1201 17th St., NW. The Sumner School is adjacent to the headquarters of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. (See location information attached at the end of this email.) This meeting is also open to interested parties who are not members of the IAN. If you plan to attend, please RSVP to John Ford (john.ford@mspb.gov john.ford@mspb.gov, 202-653-6772 x1104) by CoB on Monday, December 13th. There is no charge to attend this meeting. All are welcome. Abstract Open-ended questions permit assessment of complex cognitive and language skills in tasks that are more realistic to actual job contexts. As such, they can provide effective approaches to assessing performance for employment testing and selection. However, scoring of open-ended responses can be time consuming, subjective, and inconsistent. New technologies for automated assessment of written and spoken language are becoming more widely used and provide the promise of more efficient testing while maintaining high levels of accuracy. This talk will discuss technology for analyzing written and spoken language in order to measure the quality of oral and written expression as well as the degree of domain knowledge and performance skills. The talk will cover how the technology works, how it is applied to assessing skills such as business communication, writing, foreign language, translations, and team performance and some of the implications for talent assessment and large scale testing. Speaker Bio Dr. Peter Foltz is Vice President for Product Development at Pearson's Knowledge Technology group. He is a founder of Knowledge Analysis Technologies, which was acquired by Pearson in 2004. His work has focused on research and development of technologies for automated assessment including artificial intelligence, knowledge assessment, and natural language processing. He holds a patent for technology for automated assessment of written language which has resulted in software that has scored millions of essays for people ranging from military officers in scenario-based assessment training systems to third graders learning to write. Dr Foltz has worked previously for Bell Communications Research, has held a tenured Professor of Psychology position at New Mexico State University and currently holds a Senior Research Associate Position at the University of Colorado Institute for Cognitive Science. He can be reached at pfoltz@pearson.com pfoltz@pearson.com. Location The Sumner School is located at 17th and M St, NW, directly across from the National Geographic Society. The entrance is on 17th Street. This is about 10 minutes walking distance from two Metro stops: Farragut North (Red line) and Farragut West (Blue/Orange lines). The map below is from http://www.mapquest.com/ http://www.mapquest.com/ cid:image002.jpg@01CB9219.B1CB75D0 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 8 06:40:34 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 5DD6FB9ADC; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 06:40:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E3EE4B9AC9; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 06:40:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101208064031.E3EE4B9AC9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 06:40:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.565 postdoc in palaeography at King's X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 565. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 12:59:50 +0000 From: Peter Stokes Subject: Postdoc on 'Digital Resource for Palaeography' project at KCL Dear all, See below for a new vacancy that has just come up. Some promotional material about the project is also available at Peter Stokes ----- The Centre for Computing in Humanities (CCH) at King's College London seeks a suitably experienced Research Associate for a new four-year project developing a digital resource for palaeography applied particularly to eleventh-century vernacular script from England. The post holder will be based at CCH, an academic department in the School of Arts and Humanities at King's College London focusing on research into the possibilities of computing for arts and humanities scholarship. The project, 'Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic' is funded by the European Research Commission (FP7). Its primary aim is to create an online resource for palaeographical study, discovery and citation, emphasizing the vernacular scripts of eleventh-century England. The post holder will work closely with the Principal Investigator and others in the project team to work with original manuscripts to compile palaeographical and codicological data, to prepare this data and the associated images for online delivery, to contribute to innovative ideas about the display and interrogation of palaeographical data on line, and to help disseminate the project's findings through conferences and colloquia. A PhD or equivalent on a relevant medieval topic involving the study of manuscripts is essential, as is an appreciation of the potentials and limits of humanities computing. A high level of skill in palaeography and codicology is required, as is working knowledge of Old English and Latin. Some experience working with XML, databases and/or digital images is desirable. The appointment will be made, dependent on relevant qualifications and experience, within the Grade 6 scale, £33,070 inclusive of £2,323 London Allowance, per annum. Benefits include an annual season ticket loan scheme and a final salary superannuation scheme. This post is fixed term until 30 September 2014. For informal discussion of the post please contact Dr Peter Stokes on +44 (0)20 7848 2813, or via email at peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk. Further details and application packs are available on the College's website at www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs, alternatively, please email cass-recruitment@kcl.ac.uk. All correspondence should clearly state the job title and reference number G6/AAV/629/10-HK The closing date for receipt of applications is 5 January 2011. -- Dr Peter Stokes Research Fellow Centre for Computing in Humanities King's College London Room 210, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 8 06:42:01 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 CF31FB9B3C; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 06:42:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CBDF4B9B2D; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 06:42:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101208064200.CBDF4B9B2D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 06:42:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.566 dating modern mss? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 566. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:58:19 +0000 From: Joao Miguel Quaresma Mendes Dionisio Subject: Dating undated modern manuscripts Dear all, Mário Costa, a PhD student at the Faculty of Letters, U. Lisbon, is starting his research on the critical datation of undated writings by Pessoa. He would like to be acquainted with similar research projects focused on other authors and reference works on the subject. Thanks in advance. Best, João Dionísio Programme in Textual Criticism Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon [Please copy any replies to the sender as well as to Humanist. --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 Wed Dec 8 06:51:19 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 024E9B9CC6; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 06:51:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 98F46B9CB5; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 06:51:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101208065116.98F46B9CB5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 06:51:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.567 events: cultural instability; mapping; grad students; grids & clouds X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 567. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (32) Subject: Graduate student conference at Alberta [2] From: "Hedges, Mark" (72) Subject: ISGC 2011/OGF 31, Taiwan, call for papers [3] From: Willard McCarty (64) Subject: Mapping Ecologies of Place [4] From: "Brett Neilson" (71) Subject: MiT7 unstable platforms: the promise and peril of transition --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 15:18:44 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Graduate student conference at Alberta Dear Humanists, An announcement on behalf the Humanities Computing Graduate Student Association of the University of Alberta. Yours, Geoffrey R. ===================================== The University of Alberta Humanities Computing Graduate Student Association is pleased to announce a call for abstracts for its annual conference: "HuCon 2011: Current Graduate Research in Humanities Computing" Date: Friday, March 11, 2011 Time: TBA Location: University of Alberta, Edmonton AB Website: TBA Abstract Submission Deadline: January 12th, 2011 This year’s annual graduate conference seeks to explore and share current research taking place across various academic disciplines relating to computing. Any student who is interested in the use of digital processes to enhance any discipline, as well as those who are interested in digital culture itself, is encouraged to submit an abstract. Example topics may include, but are not restricted to: e-readers, digitization, gesture technologies, the influence of the ipad, etc. Abstracts may be submitted for presentations in the form of a traditional 10-minute presentation; or as a digital demonstration of some topic. Please submit 200-400 word abstracts indicating your intent to present or participate in the poster session at the conference by January 12, 2011 to: hucostudentgroup@gmail.com The conference organizers will notify presenters of their acceptance as soon as possible following the January 12th, 2011 deadline for abstracts. Last year's conference featured keynote speakers Prof. Yin Liu and Prof. John Bath from the University of Saskatchewan. This year's keynote speakers will include Dr. Ray Siemens of the University of Victoria, who is also the director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) held in Victoria annually. Our second keynote speaker is Dr. Pierre Boulanger of the Computer Science Department at the University of Alberta, who is an iCore Industrial Chair and Director of the Advanced Man-Machine Interface Laboratory. There are no registration fees for this conference. If you have any questions regarding the application process or conference details, please contact the organizing committee at: hucostudentgroup@gmail.com _ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 03:18:51 +0000 From: "Hedges, Mark" Subject: ISGC 2011/OGF 31, Taiwan, call for papers ** Apologies for cross posting ** Subscribers to the Humanist may be interested in this conference, specifically the Humanities & Social Sciences strand. ------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPER ISGC 2011 & OGF 31 http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2011/index.html Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Important Dates Submission Deadline: 22 December, 2010 Acceptance Announcement: 12 January, 2011 Invitation to Participate It is our great pleasure to announce that the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds (ISGC 2011) in conjunction with the Open Grid Forum (OGF 31) will be held at Academia Sinica in Taipei from 21 to 25 March 2011, with co-locate events (19-21 March) as IGTF All-Hands Meeting, IDGF Tutorial, Asia@home Hackfest, iRODS Workshop. The conference is hosted by the Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre (ASGC). Over the past decade, with the continuous support from local and overseas delegates, ISGC has become the primary international grid forum in Asia Pacific. It aims to promote the awareness of grid computing activities and advance e-Science application in Asia-Pacific. We believe the extraordinary contributions and enthusiastic participation from all ISGC 2011 delegates will stimulate the dialogue and provide the grid community valuable insights for future development and international collaboration. ISGC has successfully identified the most current and important issues in the grid computing field and demonstrated the joint effort from industry and academic sector. The discussions at the ISGC have identified important trends in research as well as applications of grid technology. We sincerely invite and encourage anyone that is interested in grid to submit abstracts on the topics mentioned below. Submission Online Submission at: http://indico2.twgrid.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=6 Abstract Word Limit: 500 words Topics of Interest 1. HEP Applications Submissions should report on experience with High Energy Physics (HEP) applications that already exploit grid and cloud computing services, applications that are planned or under development, or application tools and methodologies. Topics of interest include: * end-user data analysis * management of distributed data * applications level monitoring * performance analysis and system tuning * workload scheduling * management of a HEP collaboration as a virtual organization * comparison between grid and other distributed computing paradigms as enablers of physics data handling and analysis 2. Biomedicine & Life Sciences Applications Submissions should concentrate on practical applications in the fields of Biomedicine and Life Sciences, for example: * medical imaging * drug discovery * high throughput biological data processing/analysis * integration of semantically diverse data sets and applications * combining grid with distributed data and services * data management issues * applications for non-technical end users 3. Earth Sciences Applications Earth science explores dynamic processes among the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, natural hazards, ecological systems, and human habitation. Many of these applications involve international as well as national collaborations of scientists and technologists. Submissions to this session cover results, technologies, methods and systems for distribution collaboration and computing in support of the Earth Science application area. Earth science has increasing needs for vast amounts of data with which to model, analyze and measure the history and evolution of the earth. This session should in particular address how these challenges are being addressed. 4. Humanities & Social Sciences Applications Researchers working in the social sciences and the humanities have started to explore the use of advanced computing infrastructures such as grids to address the grand challenges of their disciplines. For example, social scientists working on issues such as globalization, international migration, uneven development and deprivation are interested in linking complementary datasets and models at local, national, regional and global scales. Similarly, in the humanities, researchers from a wide range of disciplines are interested in managing, linking and analyzing distributed datasets and corpora. There has been a significant increase in the digital material available to researchers, through digitization programmes but also because more and more data is now “born digital”. As more and more applications demonstrate the successful application of e-Research approaches and technologies in the humanities and social sciences, questions arise as to whether common models of usage exist that could be underpinned by a generic e-Infrastructure. The session will focus on experiences made in developing e-Research approaches and tools that go beyond single application demonstrators. Their wider applicability may be based on a set of common concerns, common approaches or reusable tools and services. 5. Environmental Monitoring & Disaster Mitigation Environmental Monitoring and Disaster Mitigation is a globally important application area. Collaborative scientific research makes use of distributed systems of several types. The submissions for this session should describe results, technologies and methods applied to geological hazards and disaster mitigation distributed system software. Relevant areas of research include earthquake, volcano, landslide, tsunami, flood, subsidence, etc as well as environmental monitoring using data from a range of sensors (including satellites, urban environmental monitoring stations and oceanic or coastal buoys). Research developments, description of working systems, and novel ideas for future developments are appropriate for submission to this session. 6. Operation & Management This session will cover the current state of the art and recent advances in managing the operation of large scale grid infrastructures. The scope of the session will include advances in monitoring tools and metrics, service management, the implementation and management of Service Level Agreements, improving service and site reliability, interoperability between grids, user and operational support procedures, and other topics relevant to general grid and cloud operations. 7. Middleware & Interoperability The track will highlight the major grid middleware developments intended for deployment on production infrastructures supporting research and business applications. The interoperability of these infrastructures and the middleware stacks to enable applications to migrate between and/or aggregate the combined resources of these infrastructures is of particular importance to facilitate a grid with global reach. The relevance of current and emerging standards for such interoperability will also be addressed. 8. Security & Networking Security and networking are at the forefront of the challenges in Grids and Clouds. Research communities require access to petascale networking infrastructures and federated identity services. The distributed computing sites need to be operationally secure and performant. Opportunities for innovation exist in the areas of operational security, incident response, identity management, connecting grid services over untrusted networks, network monitoring, and coping with IPv4 address shortages by use of gateways, NAT, or IPv6. Submissions should address solutions to these and related security and networking issues. 9. Data Infrastructure Data infrastructure supports the management, distribution, organization, access, and use of digital assets. Examples range from databases to data grids to digital libraries to preservation environments. Papers are sought that illustrate the development of data infrastructure that supports the multiple phases of the scientific data life cycle, from creation to re-use. 10. Grids & Clouds This track will highlight the use of cloud computing virtualization technologies and how they can be used in the large-scale distributed computing environments in science and technology computing. Cloud computing dynamically instantiates virtual machine environments to support computation on demand. Grid computing shares dedicated resources using standard protocols. Papers on integration of the two approaches are desired. Also of interest are papers on integration of Cloud storage with data grids to support caching of data near cloud compute resources. Applications that use both approaches are sought. 11. Desktop Distributed System This track will highlight the latest research achievements and experiences related to Desktop Grids. The topics will cover new technologies of Desktop Grid frameworks, recent application developments, as well as infrastructure operation and user support techniques. Special focus will be on the following areas: * interoperability with other e-infrastructures; * virtualization techniques; * quality of service; * applications for virtual research communities; * energy efficiency; * best practices and impact of Desktop Grids. Remarks All abstracts will be reviewed by ISGC program committee and track conveners. Notification of acceptance will be sent by the Secretariat by 12 January, 2011. The symposium proceedings will be published afterwards. Information about the preparation of a final proceedings version will be announced on the symposium website. For more information, please visit event website at http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2011/index.html, or contact: Ms. Angelina Shen. Tel: +886-2-2789-8371 Fax: +886-2-2783-5434 Address: Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Rm P7E, No.128, Sec2, Academia Rd, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan Sincerely, ISGC 2011 & OGF31 Secretariat Team --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:07:55 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Mapping Ecologies of Place Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney Mapping Ecologies of Place: Local, Virtual, Digital Parramatta campus, June 16/17, 2011 Initial Call for Papers and Maps: Participants are invited from a variety of fields where mapping is taking place, including computing science, geography, mathematics, urban design and planning, social and political economy, media and design, visual cultures, and writing. This 2-day interdisciplinary workshop aims to explore mapping as a specific research field for interrogating the role of cultural research within a rapidly technologising, urban ecology. The aim of the workshop is to generate proceedings as a series of working papers, and to initiate a range of ongoing interdisciplinary dialogues about practices of mapping and future research projects. To this end, the workshop seeks to bring together a variety of perspectives about both conceptual, and applied approaches to mapping as forms of, and processes within, cultural research. Central to this process is to specifically interrogate the agency of cultural research – both methodologically and specifically (the agency of the Researcher) as embedded within the map. The strategic significance of mapping to engage with, and discover, new knowledge about the dynamic interplays in configurations of culture / nature needs critical consideration. Central to this, is to explore the forms of agency which determine our ideas about relationships between place and space, and their affective and imaginative boundaries, tensions and ambiguities. Papers might respond to (but are not limited by) the following questions: Mapping Types and Processes: --Is there a typology of participatory maps? If not, should we develop one? (e.g. local maps of valued places, environmental planning maps, emotional maps, insurgent maps, narrative maps etc) --What kinds of ‘knowledge interrogation’ can occur to produce new insights about connections between material environments, communities, individuals, and institutions? --What prior ontological frameworks are put in place by the Researcher to begin a mapping process? Who are the agents or agencies that make the decisions about what is selected and analyzed for mapping processes? Digital Issues: --What are emerging mapping practices that incorporate the digital in new ways? How do insurgent digital mapping processes operate and in what contexts? --How can we conceive of information technologies, GIS softwares and social networking beyond mechanisms of statistical knowledge collations? --What other mapping technologies are available? What is their role? Power Relationships in Mapping Practices: --How are practices of mapping impacting on environmental planning, urban design and policy contexts? --How can terms like �eculture�f and �enature�f be defined or represented through hybrid data assemblages? --What are the ethical dimensions of this post--�]human, material agency in a de-territorialised data stream? Please email an abstract of 250 words plus a short 50 word bio with contact details to Kaye Shumack at k.shumack@uws.edu.au by March 1, 2011 CCR Workshop Committee: Helen Armstrong / Juan Francisco Salazar / Kaye Shumack -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 08:13:23 +1100 From: "Brett Neilson" Subject: MiT7 unstable platforms: the promise and peril of transition MiT7 unstable platforms: the promise and peril of transition CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 4, 2011. Conference dates: May 13-15, 2011 at MIT Conference website: web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit7/ http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit7/ Has the digital age confirmed and exponentially increased the cultural instability and creative destruction that are often said to define advanced capitalism? Does living in a digital age mean we may live and die in what the novelist Thomas Pynchon has called "a ceaseless spectacle of transition"? The nearly limitless range of design options and communication choices available now and in the future is both exhilarating and challenging, inciting innovation and creativity but also false starts, incompatible systems, planned obsolescence. For this seventh Media in Transition conference we want to focus directly on our core topic - the experience of transition. Our first conference in 1999 considered this subject, of course. But that was before Facebook, iPhones, BitTorrent, IPTV and many other changes. How are we coping with the instability of platforms? How are the classroom, the newsroom, the corporate office exploiting digital systems and responding to the imperative for constant upgrades. Our libraries and archives? Our public entertainments? Are new technologies changing the experience of reading? The experience of watching movies or television programs? How stable, how durable are current or emerging systems? How relevant are earlier periods of media change to our current experience of ongoing instability and transformation? We welcome submissions from scholars and teachers in all fields as well as media-makers, producers, designers and industry professionals. Possible topics include: * Technologies of reading* The future and fate of media studies * Narrative across media * Analog media in the connected era * Emerging forms of journalism and community engagement * New questions, new paradigms for media history * Reappraising divides, digital, generational, and gendered * Television: a medium of constant change? * Rethinking access and restriction in the digital age * The migration of print culture to digital form: promises and problems * Oral cultures and digital cultures * The advent of the book * Corporate strategies for the digital age Short abstracts of about 250 words for papers or panels can be sent via email to mit7@mit.edu no later than Friday, March 4, 2011. While emailed submissions are preferred, abstracts can be snail-mailed to: Brad Seawell MIT 14N-430 77 Mass. Ave. Cambridge , MA 02139 Please include a short (75 words or less) biographical statement. We invite submissions of full papers and proposals of full panels. Panel proposals should include a panel title and one-sentence description of the panel as well as separate abstracts and bios for each panel speaker. Anyone submitting panel proposals should take it on themselves to identify and recruit a moderator. Our expectation is that speakers will submit full versions of their presentations before the conference begins so that all conferees will have a chance to preview the materials. We will be evaluating submissions on a rolling basis. The final deadline for submission will be Friday, March 4, 2011. Media in Transition conferences are free and open to the public. A registration link will be added to the conference site. ============================== Brad Seawell, Program Coordinator MIT Communications Forum MIT 14N-430 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 voice 617-253-3521 fax 617-253-6105 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 06:10:39 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 53D8763681; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:10:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B67D86366C; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:10:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101209061037.B67D86366C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:10:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.568 rhetoric of 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. 24, No. 568. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:57:25 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new (or not so new) rhetoric of digital humanities For years in teaching digital humanities to undergraduates and MA students I argued that the most effective rhetorical structure to use in written work was not the one traditional in the humanities but something that combined lab-report and essay -- hence the "essay-report". My reasoning was that since work in digital humanities is experimental in a quasi-scientific sense, written work should describe what happened, what was ventured, what resulted. I advised students to keep a lab notebook to record results as they happened so that a reasonable account could easily be reconstructed. It seems that these were not new thoughts. In his extraordinary book, Laws of Form (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1969), G. Spencer Brown writes: > Medawar observes* that the standard form of presentation required of > an ordinary scientific paper represents the very reverse of what the > investigator was in fact doing. In reality, says Medawar, the > hypothesis is first posited, and becomes the medium through which > certain otherwise obscure facts, later to be collected in support of > it, are first clearly seen. But the account in the paper is expected > to give the impression that such facts first suggested the > hypothesis, irrespective of whether this impression is truly > representative. > > In mathematics we see this process in reverse. The mathematician, > more frequently than he is generally allowed to admit, proceeds by > experiment, inventing and trying out hypotheses to see if they fit > the facts of reasoning and computation with which he is presented. > When he has found a hypothesis which fits, he is expected to publish > an account of the work in the reverse order, so as to deduce the > facts from the hypothesis. I would not recommend that we should do > otherwise, in either field. By all accounts, to tell the story > backwards is convenient and saves time. But to pretend that the story > was actually lived backwards can be extremely mystifying. > > In view of this apparent reversal, Laing suggests** that what in > empirical science are called data, being in a real sense arbitrarily > chosen by the nature of the hypothesis already formed, could more > honestly be called capta. By reverse analogy, the facts of > mathematical science, appearing at first to be arbitrarily chosen, > and thus capta, are not really arbitrary at all, but absolutely > determined by the nature and coherence of our being. In this view we > might consider the facts of mathematics to be the real data of > experience, for only these appear to be, in the final analysis, > inescapable. > > --- *P B Medawar, Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud, The Listener, > 12th September 1963, pp 377-8. **R D Laing, The politics of > experience and the bird of paradise, London, 1967, pp 52 sq. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 9 06:11:27 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 3A113636E2; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:11:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 41F2B636D2; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:11:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101209061126.41F2B636D2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:11:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.569 new publications: Kafka's Metamorphosis; sustainability X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 569. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Brown (10) Subject: sustainability report [2] From: "Rauterberg, G.W.M." (29) Subject: Metamorphosis - WINNER BEST SHORT FILM in Hollywood --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 04:21:32 -0500 From: Susan Brown Subject: sustainability report Dear colleagues, As a follow-up to my recent note about our project for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada on sustaining digital scholarship and its relationship to sustaining culture, the group's report, Lasting Change: Sustaining Digital Scholarship and Culture in Canada, is available here for anyone who is interested: http://www.cwrc.ca/news/lasting-change-sustaining-digital-scholarship-and-culture-in-canada/ I'd like to thank everyone whose work informed this review of literature and policy, either directly or indirectly, and especially those members of Humanist who responded to my request for help. For anyone interested in our sources, beyond those we were able to cite in the report itself, our public Zotero group remains at: http://www.zotero.org/groups/sustaining_scholarship_and_culture Thanks to those who have added material to it. For anyone wishing to discuss the contents of the report, our blog remains at the following address for anyone interested in offering comments or wishing to discuss the report: http://sustainableknowledgeproject.blogspot.com/ All the best, Susan ____________________________________________________________________________ sbrown@uoguelph.ca susan.brown@ualberta.ca http://orlando.cambridge.org http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO http://www.cwrc.ca --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 22:52:38 +0000 From: "Rauterberg, G.W.M." Subject: Metamorphosis - WINNER BEST SHORT FILM in Hollywood Dear colleague, This is about a film we produced with a 360 spherical camera and a new of immersive media one can do over the network as I often talk about. This is covered in some of the papers (ICEC proceedings Springer and EntComp Journal Elsevier) so I thought I forward it to you. Sincerely, Barnabas Takacs +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ METAMORPHOSIS - A 360° Immersive Film Wins Hollywood Award. Los Angeles, Dec 6, 2010. Digital Elite Inc. in partnership with researchers at the Technical University of Budapest in Hungary have developed a fully interactive Panoramic Broadcasting technology, called PanoCAST, for producing 360° Immersive Films for parallel cinematic and on-line experiences. Using this technology they have produced an experimental short film, an authentic adaptation of THE METAMORPHOSIS, a film that has now won the Best Short Film Award at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival . "You have not ever seen a movie like this before. A retelling of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, where director Sandor Kardos has succeed more then one could ever expect in faithfully giving us the world from Gregor's new perspective. Using innovative interactive panoramic technology that employs telepresence and virtual reality, shot with multiple cameras to give the viewer the experience of being in the head of the character. Add to that the psychedelic elements of seeing the world through the eyes of a giant insect, and you have a truly unique film experience," says the review on the festival's website. The film tells the entire story using a subjective camera, experiencing what happens from Gregor's perspective, as Kafka himself wanted it to be according to his own diary. It was shot with a 360 degree spherical remote controlled robotic camera that was directed and programmed to interact with the actors and to create an extremely low- angle view of the set as envisioned from the insect's 1st person perspective. "Beyond the cinematic release the film's on-line 360° interactive version offers viewers complete control of the virtual camera and the ability to look around almost as if they were actually there. They can watch the story their own way, explore the set and even click on the actors to learn more about their character, mood or just simply to access behind-the-scenes-photos on how the film was produced," said Barnabas Takacs, the lead scientist behind the project, head of the team. "With the help of this technology production expenses were kept at a fraction of what such a film would otherwise have cost, which makes independent film making possible. We are so excited about these possibilities that now we are producing stunning dance shots for a documentary film entitled Devoted to Dance , using the same technology ..." adds Dorottya Mathe, the film's New York-based producer. Using such 360 degrees spherical vision cameras offer as many possibilities as challenges, the creators of the film acknowledge, but we firmly believe that panoramic broadcasting when combined with artistic vision and technical skill, will find its way to offer viewers, cinema lovers and entertainment companies a uniquely new perspective. Links: On-Line 360° Interactive Immersive Film http://www.digitalelite.net/Metamorphosis2010_Fullversion.html Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival http://www.hollywoodreelindependentfilmfestival.com/2010/ProgramSchedule.html#Dec16 Devoted To Dance on KickStarter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/37503939/join-us-in-completing-devoted-to-dance?ref=email Contact Los Angeles: Katharine W. Cook+1 310 399-3942 Email: kc@generateentertainment.com and Contact New York: Dorottya Mathe Email: mdorottya@mac.com Tel: +1 (646) 715-6303. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 06:12:15 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 3CBA2637EB; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:12:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 72FCD637DA; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:12:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101209061212.72FCD637DA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:12:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.570 TAPoR moved; exploration invited X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 570. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:35:12 -0700 From: "Kirsten C. Uszkalo" Subject: TAPoR Portal Move Completed and Request for Feedback on Portal Redesign Dear All, I am writing to let you know that we have successfully moved the TAPoR portal from McMaster University to the University of Alberta. You can find it now at http://portal.tapor.ca/ Although the move was a very smooth one, we would encourage you to have a look around in the portal, try the tools out, and double check your data. Please do let us know if you have any problems and we will work swiftly to rectify them. While you are looking at the portal and trying things out, why not let us know what you like? We are in the process of some updating and redesign, and would very much like some feedback on what tools you use, the ease of their use, and what you’ve always wished was there. Please feel free to contact myself or Kamal Ranaweera (kamal.ranaweera@ualberta.ca) about any problems or suggestions you may have. Cheers, Kirsten ---- Kirsten C. Uszkalo - Project Lead | Witches in Early Modern England Project | http://witching.org - Editor | Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies in the Preternatural | http://preternature.org - E-Lab Scholar | Athabasca University | https://elab.athabascau.ca/ - Project Lead: Usability | TAPoR Project | http://portal.tapor.ca/portal/portal - Adjunct Assistant Professor | Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia "Sure this woman is no witch, for she speaks many good words, which the witches could not" _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 06:12:52 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 C43BE6382B; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:12:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3CB9463814; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:12:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101209061251.3CB9463814@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:12:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.571 events: digital ecosystems X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 571. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 20:33:16 +0000 From: Mark Hedges Subject: Digital Ecosystems and Technologies ** Apologies for cross posting ** Subscribers to the Humanist may be interested in this conference, specifically in the workshop and track indicated below. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers – IEEE DEST: Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 31st May – 3rd June 2011, Daejeon, Korea. http://dest2011.debii.curtin.edu.au/ Digital ecosystems may be defined as open, loosely coupled, demand-driven, self-organising collaborative environments where diverse agents (both human and computer-based) form temporary (or longer term) coalitions for specific purposes or goals. The essence of digital ecosystems is the creation of value by making connections through collective intelligence, promoting collaboration instead of unbridled competition and using ICT as a catalyst for producing networked-enriched communities. We encourage papers from the digital humanities community in particular for the following parts of the conference: - Workshop on e-Research- Track on Domain-Specific Digital Ecosystems (including humanities) Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Virtual research environments - Architectures and infrastructures for e-research ecosystems - Human interaction with complex environments: perceptions, expectations and engagement - Interaction between human researchers, computer agents and digital information - Cultural and political issues around the adoption of, and adaptation to, computer-mediated communication and information sharing - Collective intelligence - Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems - Distributed models for digital repositories and data management - Reliability and SLAs in distributed environments - Online collaboration: technological and human issues *Important Dates* * Submission of full papers:* * 31st January 2011* * Notification of Acceptance:* * 25th February 2011* * Submission of Camera ready papers:* * 20th March 2011* * Conference:* * 31st May - 3rd June 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 Fri Dec 10 08:12:21 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 3C6FEBA50E; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:12:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A6359BA503; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:12:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101210081219.A6359BA503@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:12:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.572 rhetoric of 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. 24, No. 572. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:18:33 +0100 From: Aurélien Berra Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.568 rhetoric of digital humanities? In-Reply-To: <20101209061037.B67D86366C@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Humanists, What first attracted my attention in the passage quoted by Willard McCarty is R. D. Laing's remark on "data" versus "capta". The effects it should have on teaching and writing are a thought-provoking subject, but the distinction itself seems important. Does anyone know of reflections along the same line? It reminded me of a somewhat similar proposal by Bruno Latour, who suggested "obtenues" (obtained) as an alternative to the potentially misleading "données" (data): > En localisant trop vite les activités mentales dans la tête, on va se > mettre à douter de l'importance décisive des moyens les plus humbles. > [...] Tel est le danger de l'idéalisme en matière de savoir, > idéalisme qui passe pourtant souvent pour l'expression de la plus > haute vertu. > La tentation de l'idéalisme vient peut-être du mot même de > "données" qui décrit aussi mal que possible ce sur quoi s'appliquent > les capacités cognitives ordinaires des érudits, des savants et des > intellectuels. Il faudrait remplacer ce terme par celui, beaucoup > plus réaliste, d'"obtenues" et parler par conséquent de "bases > d'obtenues", de "sublata" plutôt que de "data" pour parler à la fois > en latin et en anglais. > > -- Bruno Latour in "Lieux de savoir", vol. I (Paris, Albin Michel, > 2007), p. 609, introducing a chapter on "Bibliothèques et banque de > données". (The author then refers to his "Pandora's Hope. Essays on > the Reality of Science Studies", Harvard University Press, 1999.) Incidentally, the "Lieux de savoir" project (dir. Christian Jacob) may be of interest to some of you. In a comparativist approach to the history of knowledge practices, it explores several aspects of digital technologies. I think of the following papers: In "Lieux de savoir. I. Espaces et communautés" (2007): > La bibliothèque multimédia contemporaine (Michel Melot) > Les collections dans "l'âge de l'accès": le consortium Couperin et > la documentation électronique (François Cavalier) > Collectionner ou expérimenter ? Les bases de données > bio-informatiques dans les sciences du vivant (Bruno J. Strasser) > Structures et pratiques du savoir à distance : le cas de > l'exploration robotique de Mars (Emmanuel Benazera & Nicolas Meuleau) > Géographie de l'Internet (Éric Guichard) > De la plume d'oie à la souris : la recherche en réseaux (Véréna Paravel) In "Lieux de savoir. II. Les mains de l'intellect" (to be published in January 2011): > Tables de travail informatiques : de l'écran graphique au papier > interactif (Michel Beaudouin-Lafon) > Les carnets de recherche en ligne, espace d'une conversation > scientifique décentrée (Marin Dacos & Pierre Mounier) > La structuration des documents électroniques (Hervé Déjean) > Manier le thésaurus grec (Aurélien Berra) The full tables of contents and some reviews may be found on a blog recently created by the project coordinator: http://lieuxdesavoir.blogspot.com. Regards, Aurélien Berra _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 10 08:13:12 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 0A4A9BA555; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:13:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C2DBCBA545; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:13:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101210081310.C2DBCBA545@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:13:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.573 jobs at UVic X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 573. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:41:38 -0800 From: Cara Leitch Subject: Upcoming opportunities at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab [With apologies for cross-posting. Please distribute to anyone you think might be interested.] The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria is about to grow again! In the coming months, we will be actively seeking talented and energetic digital humanists as postdoctoral fellows and research associates/assistants, and to fill alternative academic roles. These opportunities are associated with professional reading and online library research, electronic scholarly editing, textual corpus management and analysis, prototype development, project administration and coordination. We are looking for engaged researchers interested in working on the lab’s ongoing and new work, including the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (http://dhsi.org/) and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project (http://bit.ly/idaqrJ). Please let people know, and do check our website at http://etcl.uvic.ca/ for details and position descriptions as they arise. If you’d like to talk before then, please send [1] a copy of your CV and [2] a cover letter indicating your interest in working with the other digital humanists in the ETCL in the areas we’ve outlined, to Ray Siemens (siemens@uvic.ca). Members of ETCL will be at a number of gatherings over the next 6 weeks, including the MLA in Los Angeles, and we’d be really happy to talk with you. Feel free also to check in with us on Twitter, at #etcl. All best, Ray Siemens, Melanie Chernyk, Cara Leitch, Julie Meloni, Jenn Ross, Meagan Timney, and others at the ETCL. -- 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 Dec 10 08:14:10 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 A0238BA5A5; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:14:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7F50BBA59D; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:14:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101210081409.7F50BBA59D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:14:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.574 design of TAPoR? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 574. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:35:12 -0700 From: "Kirsten C. Uszkalo" Subject: TAPoR Portal Move Completed and Request for Feedback on Portal Redesign Dear All, I am writing to let you know that we have successfully moved the TAPoR portal from McMaster University to the University of Alberta. You can find it now at http://portal.tapor.ca/ Although the move was a very smooth one, we would encourage you to have a look around in the portal, try the tools out, and double check your data. Please do let us know if you have any problems and we will work swiftly to rectify them. While you are looking at the portal and trying things out, why not let us know what you like? We are in the process of some updating and redesign, and would very much like some feedback on what tools you use, the ease of their use, and what you’ve always wished was there. Please feel free to contact myself or Kamal Ranaweera (kamal.ranaweera@ualberta.ca) about any problems or suggestions you may have. Cheers, Kirsten ---- Kirsten C. Uszkalo - Project Lead | Witches in Early Modern England Project | http://witching.org - Editor | Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies in the Preternatural | http://preternature.org - E-Lab Scholar | Athabasca University | https://elab.athabascau.ca/ - Project Lead: Usability | TAPoR Project | http://portal.tapor.ca/portal/portal - Adjunct Assistant Professor | Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia "Sure this woman is no witch, for she speaks many good words, which the witches could not" _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 10 08:14:33 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 BA639BA5EC; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:14:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D0DCBBA5DF; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:14:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101210081432.D0DCBBA5DF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:14:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.575 how to measure The Fall X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 575. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:40:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: how to measure The Fall Strictly speaking a countable number of times precede the one I am now about to celebrate, but I'd have to remember them all to count them, and that from the vantage-point of retirement's misty pasture is not possible. (The steam arising from the.... you get the point.) I could calculate the probability applying in this case if I knew how, but I do not. I'm not to old to learn, just willful and a bit lazy. So let me just say that I am grateful once again to my colleague John Lavagnino for brightning my day with scholarship both amusing and improving. The scholarship to which he pointed me from half-way around the world is sketched in Martin Tompa's brilliant article, "Figures of merit", SIGACT News 20.1 (January 1989), and its sequel, "Figures of merit: the sequel", SIGACT News 21.4 (November 1990). I urge you to find and download these, from the ACM Digital Library, as Tompa's dry wit should be savoured along with its mathematical precision. Tompa begins, > In Theoretical Computer Science it is customary to alphabetize the > names of coauthors on the title page of collaborative publications. > For those of us whose name will never appear before the phrase et > al., this can be cause for concern. Finding several examples of colleagues whose collaborators seem with uncanny regularity to have surnames that put these collaborators further down the alphabet, hence said colleagues out in front, Tompa defines "the spotlight factor" thus: > Definition : In a collaboration of Xo < X1 < ... < Xk, the spotlight > factor of Xo is *(Xo) = (1 — .Xo)**k > > In words, the spotlight factor is the probability that k coauthors > chosen independently at random will all have surnames later in the > alphabet than Xo ; the lower the spotlight factor, the more > impressive the achievement of the first author. Thus he calculates for a selection of articles, > 0.1889 Ogden, Riddle, & Rounds [19] > 0.1719 Vishkin & Wigderson [35 ] > 0.1640 Paul, Seiferas, & Simon [23 ] > 0.12685 Wong & Yo [36] > 0.12680 Wood & Yap [37 ] > 0.1214 Karmarkar, Karp, Lipton, Lovasz, & Luby [13] > 0.0919 Ruzzo, Simon, & Tompa [27 ] > 0.0851 Schwartz, Sharir, & Siegel [29] > 0.0664 Paul, Pippenger, Szemercdi, & Trotter [20 ] > 0.0255 Santoro, Sidney J., Sidney S., & Urrutia [28] And he notes, > There is one known instance in which a resourceful Ph.D. student > named Yehuda a outspotlighted his advisor Shirnon Even. When it came > time to publish the results of their collaboration, Even announced > his inevitable intention of being first author. Yehuda responded by > legally changing his name to Bar-Yehuda [3]. But examples of a reprehensible form of the spotlight factor came to light, forcing Tompa to make a new definition: > Definition: In a collaboration of Xo < X1 <...< Xk, the coefficient > of obliviousness of Xi is > L(Xi)=(.Xi— - .Xo)**i > for 1<=i<=k. > In words, the coefficient of obliviousness is the probability that i > coauthors chosen independently at random will all have surnames that > precede Xi as narrowly as does X0; the lower the coefficient, the > more oblivious Xi is to fame. Those with a mathematical background will please forgive the lack of proper symbols. Worst is the "L" in the above, which should be an upsidedown questionmark. And so on and so forth. Tompa wryly concludes his first article, > I can only wish that my serious research would stimulate half as much > enthusiasm in the community. Yours in the middle, and sharing Tompa's wish, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 10 08:15:15 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 6F377BA669; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:15:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 27A6EBA662; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:15:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101210081514.27A6EBA662@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:15:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.576 events: Worldwide Online 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. 24, No. 576. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:16:48 -0500 (EST) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Call: TCC 2011 (Apr 12-14): Call for Papers & Presentations -------------------- TCC 2011 Call for Proposals -------------------- [Our apologies to those receiving multiple copies of this message.] Sixteenth Annual TCC WORLDWIDE ONLINE CONFERENCE April 12-14, 2011 Pre-conference: April 5, 2011 EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: MAKING IT WORK Submission deadline: January 28, 2011 Homepage: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu CALL FOR PROPOSALS TCC 2011 invites faculty, support staff, librarians, counselors, student affairs professionals, students, administrators, and educational consultants to submit proposals for papers and general sessions. THEME The emergence of Web 2.0 created a global platform for communication, collaboration, and sharing. People, technologies, and perspectives have converged on the Internet that has spawned global communities and platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. The Internet has changed education. Many issues and concerns, however, have yet to be answered fully: How do faculty, staff, students and the communities served collaborate and innovate to produce positive learning outcomes? How can students learn through virtual worlds, educational games, augmented realities, or the use of smart, mobile devices? What best practices or choices have emerged in online learning? How do we keep up? How can we support each other? TOPICS TCC invites papers and general sessions related to technology integrated learning, open educational resources, distance learning, virtual communities, and best choices in educational technologies. The coordinators are looking for a broad range of submissions including, but are not limited to: - Perspectives and personal experiences with emerging learning technologies - Case studies and progress in applying ICT and Web 2.0 tools for learning - Technologies that enable communication, collaboration, creativity, and sharing - Building and sustaining communities of learners - Instructional applications in virtual worlds - Distance learning including mobile learning - Open educational resources (OER) - E-portfolios and assessment tools - Student orientation and preparation - Ubiquitous and lifelong learning - Online student services and advising - Managing information technology and change - Global access and intercultural communication - Educational technology in developing countries - Educational game design, rubrics, and assessment - Student success and assessment strategies online - Professional development for faculty and staff - Projects for seniors and persons with disabilities - Online learning resources (library, learning centers, etc.) - Social networking games and MMORPGs in education - Augmented reality - blending virtual content in real environments - Online, hybrid, or blended modes of technology enhanced learning - Institutional planning and pedagogy facilitated by emerging technologies - Gender equity, digital divide, intercultural understanding, and open access PROPOSALS This conference accepts proposals in two formats: papers and general sessions. For submission details, see: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/2011/tcc/pres-info.html To submit a proposal, go to: http://bit.ly/tcc2011proposal Papers are submitted in full and will be subjected to a blind peer review. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. General sessions may be conducted in many ways including a forum, discussion, round table, panel, or pre-conference activity. These proposals will also be subject to a blind peer review. Acceptances will be conveyed to the primary author or presenter by email. The coordinators are especially interested in proposals that involve student presenters. Fees for student presenters will be waived. Student presentations will be scheduled later in the day. The submission deadline is January 28, 2011. PRESENTER RESPONSIBILITIES Presenters are expected to: - Participate in a pre-conference orientation session. - Conduct a 20-minute informal, interactive online session about your paper or general session. - Use a headset with a microphone during the presentation. - Upload a photo, a brief professional bio, and related informational materials to the conference web site. - Respond to questions and comments from conference participants during the entire conference. - Maintain communications, as appropriate, with the conference staff. REGISTRATION All presenters are required to register online and pay the conference fee ($99 USD; $179 USD after March 31). Group and site registration rates for faculty and students are available. Contact Sharon Fowler for details . VENUE This conference is held entirely online using a web browser to access live sessions and related content. A computer equipped with headphones and microphone as well as broadband Internet access is highly recommended. SPONSORS & VENDORS Organizations or companies interested in sponsoring this event may contact John Walber of LearningTimes ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For additional information, see http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu . For further inquiry, contact Bert Kimura or Curtis Ho . This event is a partnership between TCCHawaii.org and LearningTimes.org. Additional support provided by faculty and staff at the University of Hawaii. # # # # # _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 09:28:23 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 1A19FBB822; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:28:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 06C27BB7EC; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:28:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101211092820.06C27BB7EC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:28:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.577 hardware of the imagination? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 577. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:18:36 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: imaginative hardware? In the 1990s programmable devices known as "Field Programmable Gate Arrays" (FPGAs) -- allowing the functionality and structure of electronic devices to be altered in real time, in the field -- made possible the development of circuits with some of the versatility of biological entities "and sparked a renaissance in the field of bio-inspired electronics with the birth of what is generally known as evolvable hardware". There followed, in 1996, the conference known as the International Conference of Evolvable Systems (ICES), which has met continuously since then, and a series under the Springer rubric of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (from the 2010 volume of which I have been paraphrasing and quoting). Since then there's also been a fair amount of work integrating craft materials and computational objects, at least some of which tends to be reported at the Creativity and Cognition symposium, meeting since 1993 (dilab.gatech.edu/ccc/index.html). Whether the person who used the word "renaissance" actually intended to allege a REbirth I cannot say, but the emergence of interest in the early to mid 1990s certainly was that. Ernest Edmonds, in his introduction to the concerns of Creativity and Cognition, points to some of the earlier developments and stirrings, which go back, as he says, more than 20 years before C&C began. One such that concerns me is the work done by Gordon Pask (1928-1996), the "mechanic philosopher" (as he called himself) who built "maverick machines". He collaborated, for example, with the systems scientist and operations researcher Stafford Beer, cyberneticist Heinz von Foerster and the computational linguist Robin McKinnon-Wood, colleague of Margaret Masterman (Cambridge Language Unit). Quite apart from Pask's zany charm what interests me in particular is his thinking about the design of organic machines built from materials that develop their functions over time rather than being specified by design. He had in mind systems "with incomplete knowledge about the characteristics of individual [human] operators and how they learn" that would take the cybernetic approach of treating these operators as black boxes. Through interaction with the operator, the system and the operator would eventually establish a stable relation -- a companionship, as it were. The central scientific question Pask et al. were asking was, what if construction of a computational object proceeds not by a full specification of it but by the design of some broad constraints on processes that lead to increased organization, the result of which -- with some good probability -- is the desired artefact? Traditional engineering, they argued, allows us only to learn how well we understand how to build something, i.e. how to *model* it. That, as we all know, is very useful and goes after the epistemological question, of how we know what we know. But what about drawing forth, even creating new scientific problems? Or, to put the matter closer to our usual concerns, what about going after the work of art (verbal, visual, plastic, musical) that we collaborate to bring into existence when we read or look at or feel or listen to that which an artist has made? (For more on Pask see, for example, Jon Bird and Ezequiel Di Paolo, "Gordon Pask and his Maverick Machines", in The Mechanical Mind in History, ed. Philip Husbands, Owen Holland and Michael Wheeler (MIT Press 2008): 185-211, from which I have been quoting and paraphrasing.) I have, as you can see, an exploding research topic on my hands. Any help increasing the reach or thoroughness of the explosion by pointers to good work on the topic(s) would be most appreciated. Sometimes an explosion is just what is needed to get out of a rut. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 11 09:29:45 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 D2A72BB88B; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:29:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4DBB7BB883; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:29:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101211092943.4DBB7BB883@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:29:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.578 a blog carnival X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 578. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:05:11 -0800 From: Phillip Barron Subject: new digital humanities blog carnival In January, I'm starting a new blog carnival dedicated to bringing attention to the digital humanities. See the full post here for more information - http://bit.ly/hbw2yT If anyone is interested in hosting, please get in touch with me. The earliest availability is currently June 2011. As you may know, serving as a blog carnival host simply means that you are willing to accept submissions (which will be handled through the Blog Carnival website (http://blogcarnival.com/bc/cprof_12128.html) and arrive to you via email), and compile together on your blog the links to the posts you choose to include. You are also welcome to comment on any, all, or none of the submitted posts. For a recent example of a blog carnival, you can look at the The Chronicle's blog ProfHacker hosting the Teaching Carnival - http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/teaching-carnival-4-3/28298 The Carnivals will be hosted on Mondays, roughly in the middle of the month. If you are a blogger, and you would like to submit something for inclusion in the January episode, visit http://blogcarnival.com/bc/cprof_12128.html For ideas, consider submitting a blog post in one of the following four categories. projects: highlight, critique, or announce news about a new orongoing digital humanities project criticism: critical pieces about or general reflections on the digital humanities generally calls for support: invite others to help with a new or ongoing project funding opportunities: announce or share news about funding opportunities for digital humanities projects or if you have something to say about the digital humanities that does not fall into any of these categories, feel free to create your own. I am offering to host the first two at my website -- in January and February 2011 -- to get the Carnival started. The Center for Digital Humanities (USC, Columbia), Digital Media Center (Rice), and HASTAC have each agreed to host subsequent episodes. I can continue to host the carnival if necessary, but my hope is that many of the other wonderful bloggers out there with interest in the digital humanities will step up and offer to host at least one. I see no reason why the Digital Humanities Carnival can not be hosted by a different blog each month, once we are up and running. Again, see the full post here - http://bit.ly/hbw2yT - and email me if you are interested in hosting or have any other questions. Thanks, phillip-- Phillip Barron Digital History Developer The History Project University of California, Davis 530-752-0725 ptbarron@ucdavis.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 Dec 12 10:40:07 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 64B60BA4AE; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:40:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 33633BA49B; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:40:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101212104003.33633BA49B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:40:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.579 measuring the Fall X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 579. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:17:37 -0600 From: Alan Corre Subject: How to measure the Fall I am grateful to Willard for introducing us to the neologism "to outspotlight" which my word processor angrily underlines in red. It was just what we needed, we who labour in the fields of humanistic research, rarely achieving any kind of spotlight. The silly scholarship which he introduced us to in this context to was indeed amusing. The late US Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin used to bestow a monthly "Golden Fleece Award" on researchers who had acquired funding for what he deemed to be wasteful projects. I was an admirer of Bill, but disagreed with him on this. Old George Boole spent a lot of time meditating on expressing logical propositions as algebraic equations, an effort that seemed quite pointless at the time. In 1937 along came Claude Shannon who realized the relevance of all this for electrical circuits and the incipient digital computer world, and the rest is history. So pointless musings sometimes have incalculable effects. Outspotlighting occurs in less rarefied contexts than scholarly articles on Computer Science or Medical Research which are frequently co-authored. I turned immediately to the Milwaukee Business White Pages of the telephone directory, and saw on the very first page a dentist whose name is "A A A A Toothache Dr". The name is rather onomatopoeic, but a modest amount of research convinced me (are you listening WikiLeaks?) that this masks the identity of Dr Edward W Hoffman, of Brookfield, Wis, who apparently wished to spare potential patients the pain of going to H---. In the holiday spirit, (and talking about falls) I should like to share my researches on a more serious silly subject, namely the date of Adam's barmitzvah. By Adam, I do not mean Adam Mendelsohn, the genial moderator of the H-Judaic Studies list, but rather our first parent, who was the first, but not the last, to be ribbed by his wife. This research has been made possible by a calendar I designed for the Univac 1100 computer in the 1970s which will calculate any year of the Jewish calendar and display the corresponding dates in the Gregorian. When the Web came along, I modified it for that platform, and since it is now housed on a superfast computer at my university it will give you dates ten thousand years hence in a blink of the eye. I should mention that the outstanding polymath Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484-1558) opined that the Jewish calendar is the most perfect ever invented, since it succeeds in combining the solar and lunar years on the basis of the researches of the fourth century BCE astronomer Meton, in particular his discovery of the 19-year cycle in which the solar and lunar years can (almost) come into synch. Meton's calculations were astoundingly accurate, considering the methods he had at his disposal. His slight error, however, means that the Jewish calendar is going off very, very slowly, and Passover is inexorably moving from spring to summer. You might question whether the institution of the barmitzvah existed in Adam's day, or where he might find a rabbi to officiate. And how could he read from a Torah which had not yet been given? However, the Talmudic rabbis assure us that the Patriarchs observed fully the Torah in advance. For example, Jacob stayed (garti in Hebrew) with Laban. Garti has a numerical value of 613, which is the number of commandments in the Torah. This implies that despite his stay with the deceitful Laban, he observed all the Torah. And Adam would seem to qualify. He was assuredly a monotheist. The great medieval Jewish thinker Moses Maimonides explains to us that man originally worshipped one God. In the days of Enoch wicked men persuaded others to worship the sun, the moon, and the stars, since God has so distinguished them, and ultimately this gave rise to idol worship which continued until Abraham rediscovered monotheism through the power of his own reasoning. (Forgive me, Stephen Hawking.) Adam talked with God just as Moses did, so why would he not have obeyed the law to have a barmitzvah? This being so, when would it have happened? My calendar determines that the first day year 1 of the Jewish calendar was September 7, 3761 BCE on the Gregorian calendar. But this is not the date of creation according to tradition. This is the period of tohu-wabohu "waste and void" mentioned in Genesis, when the calendrical clock had started ticking, but there was nothing around. Creation occurred in the *last week* of year 1. It seems to me that this conclusion is forced by the fact that the first week of year 1 does not end on the Sabbath, whereas the last week does. So the first full year of the world is actually year 2. From this we gather that the date of Adam's birth was Friday, August 27, 3760 BCE. This would make him eligible for his barmitzvah on Sunday, September 3, 3747 BCE, 13 Jewish years having elapsed. Interesting. The following Sabbath, September 9 is the Sabbath between the New Year and the Day of Atonement, designated the Sabbath of Repentance in the Jewish calendar. And that is surely appropriate, considering all the trouble that Adam got us into, with his fall and all. But we can assume he repented, and we can enjoy all the beautiful things in the world in despite of its defects. The creation date is at odds with the calculation of the learned Primate of All Ireland, Archbishop James Ussher (1581-1658), who sets the date of creation in October, 4004 BC. (I'll leave off the E out of respect.) But as recent events suggest, Irishmen are not always great at arithmetic. This date is still widely accepted by fundamentalist Protestants. By the way, I assume that the year before 1 CE is 1 BCE. So if you accept the preference of the mathematicians to designate that year 0, you must adjust my numbers by one, but not my argumentation. As a humanist, I do not like to think of our ancestors walking around in a year designated zero, it seems a bit inhumane. And another thing, if you want to check my calendar and look for errors in my argument, you can go to my website https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/corre/www and surf to the calendar. The Safari browser does not like it, probably because in those far off days I used a now archaic tag , and Safari turns its nose up at old stuff. I haven't changed it, because it works still well on Firefox or Explorer, and the rule is, if it works, don't fix it. Alan D. Corre, Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 12 10:40:51 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 E8044BA514; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:40:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ECED3BA4F9; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:40:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101212104046.ECED3BA4F9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:40:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.580 on our present and 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. 24, No. 580. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:36:51 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: The Present and Future of Humanist Inquiry in the Digital Field Those here will want to know about Harpold, Klastrup and Tosca, eds., "The Present and Future of Humanist Inquiry in the Digital Field", Proceedings of the Digital Aers and Culture Conference 2009, at http://escholarship.org/uc/ace_dac09_humanist/: > What contributions may literary, poetic, and aesthetic idioms of > humanist inquiry -- traditionally associated with problems of lyrical > expression, narrativity, linguistic subjectivity, and authorial and > readerly agencies -- continue to offer to the analysis of medial > practices and systems in the era of mobile, distributed, and social > media? The crux of this question, we propose, lies in the > specifically historical purchase of humanist method: its ability to > (re)situate new symbolic practices in complex and nuanced relation to > prior traditions and atavisms of expressive language and action -- in > contrast to the reductively progressivist, de-historicizing impulses > of much of contemporary digitalism. Note, once again, the historical turn of the field. I *would* say this, you may think, but: this turn of attention seems to me the most hopeful sign I have observed for the digital humanities for a very long time. It is not for nothing that the humanities have been called the historical disciplines. Without history only dogma? (I escape dogma by use of the question-mark, which provokes an historical enquiry, does it not?) Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 13 06:26:56 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 CCFAFBBACE; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:26:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 99F22BBABD; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:26:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101213062654.99F22BBABD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:26:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.581 linear problems in AI? 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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: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:18:29 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: linear problems and their solutions Hiroaki Kitano, in "Challenges of evolvable systems: Analysis and future directions", LNCS 1259, p. 126, refers to "class-I" and "class-II" problems in computer science as having the following characteristics: > *Discreteness*: Objects and features in the domain have a high degree > of discreteness, allowing the domain to be mapped into a [sic] symbolic > representations. > *Explicitness*: Rules governing the domain exist in an > explicit form. > *Completeness*: A complete set of rules can be > obtained. Is this a standard characterisation of such problems? Kitano notes that in AI these problems can be solved by linear decomposition or linear approximation, i.e. that they are essentially linear problems. He notes, > The basic assumptions of this approach are: experts knew [sic] necessary > and sufficient knowledge for the task, and this expert knowledge can > be expressed in symbolic form. It also assumes that the knowledge > acquired is complete, correct, and consistent. Provided these > assumptions hold, traditional AI techniques are a powerful means of > problem solving. Who has written best about problems in these terms and what their solutions require? Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 13 06:28:19 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 7AE83BBB48; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:28:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5FC83BBB35; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:28:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101213062817.5FC83BBB35@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:28:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.582 measuring the Fall X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 582. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:27:58 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.579 measuring the Fall In-Reply-To: <20101212104003.33633BA49B@woodward.joyent.us> Disarmed and charmed too by Prof Corre's analysis of the maths, historical and contemporary, determining the measurement of time and times that were and to come, since Adam awoke from his first deep sleep, I forwarded the essay to friends and scholars. However charming, and disarming, on second thought it occurred to me that the thing was a spoof, all dependent upon reasoning that is and was post hoc, and hence, or ergo propter hoc. Adam was no Jew. The old rebs may wish to appropriate him as my and Mao's Big Daddy-O, our Pater Familias from the getgo. But his line vanishes just before Noah drifted off with his entire crew, family, flocks, schools and tribes and all. Either that, and most folks are seriously misled to think all of us have Adam's DNA, and the other chromosome that somehow Eve took to from that rib. Apart from the biology, just fooling, every Bar Mitzvah boy knows that the first Jew of us all, Bar or Bat Mitsvahed or not, was Abram, aka Abraham. My father protested when I named our first son Adam. So the fault is not in our genes or stars, but in that post hoc assumption. Am I seconded? Jascha Kessler Emeritus Professor of Modern English and American Literature, UCLA -- 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 Dec 14 08:37:14 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 B813FBD4DF; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:37:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 69581BD4D6; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:37:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101214083712.69581BD4D6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:37:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.583 measuring the... Fall X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 583. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:55:31 -0600 (CST) From: Alan Corre Subject: That fall In-Reply-To: <1384958930.679782.1292280881499.JavaMail.root@mail03.pantherlink.uwm.edu> I surrender. It occurs to me that Adam was not circumcised. I checked on "Yahoo answers" and found this: The 'official' answer is no, God didn't require circumcision until his covenant with Abraham. But a more interesting question is: Did Adam have a tallywhacker to begin with? God forced Adam to work for a living and Eve to have children only as punishment for eating the fruit. So he designed them originally not to have to reproduce, and to live forever. There were theologians in the Middle Ages who didn't think they had private parts at all. At least I learned a new word. Alan D. 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 Tue Dec 14 08:42:28 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 7FECDBD5DB; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:42:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DD134BD5D1; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:42:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101214084225.DD134BD5D1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:42:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.584 jobs at Loyola (US) & Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 584. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Steve Jones (57) Subject: Job at Loyola U. Chicago [2] From: Annika Rockenberger (119) Subject: Job: 1 EU-Projektkoordinator/in "Europeana 1914-1918" (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:10:11 -0600 From: Steve Jones Subject: Job at Loyola U. Chicago [With apologies for cross posting. Please distribute] The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at Loyola University Chicago invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure-track faculty position (with a three-year renewable contract) in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, to begin academic year 2011-2012. This position is subject to final budget approval. The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities is the home of a variety of funded and internal digital humanities project (See http://www.ctsdh.luc.edu/) and a new M.A. program in Digital Humanities, just getting underway in fall 2011. The person hired to fill this position will be responsible for contributing to ongoing research projects in the Center and for teaching in that program--including new courses such as Introduction to Digital Humanities Research, Instructional Design and e-Learning, and the Directed Thesis or Digital Humanities research project. Teaching in the MA program and mentoring MA students will account for 50% of the position; the other 50% will be devoted to participating in ongoing interdisciplinary research projects supported by the Center. Candidates for the position must clearly demonstrate potential for excellence in teaching and research in the interdisciplinary area of Digital Humanities--with a possible foundation in Textual Studies, Book History, Information and Library Science, or another relevant discipline or set of practices--and must have a record of (or clear potential for) distinguished scholarly activity in the area of Digital Humanities, with clear potential for being able successfully to promote and contribute to the Center’s grant-funded research projects. The successful applicant will have a PhD in an appropriate discipline--preferably either in Computer Science or in English or another humanities discipline--and a strong commitment to excellence in teaching at all levels. Demonstrated technical skills and experience are expected--in programming, markup languages, interface design, etc.--as appropriate for teaching and supporting advanced Digital Humanities work. Applicants should submit a current Curriculum Vitae, a statement of teaching and research capabilities and interests, to http://www.careers.luc.edu. Applicants should arrange for three letters of recommendation to be submitted directly online at that address, or emailed to jobs@ctsdh.luc.edu, or mailed to the address below. Applicants should forward additional materials related to teaching excellence and samples of technical work and or writing to: Steven E. Jones, Ph.D., and George K. Thiruvathukal, Ph.D., Co-Directors Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Loyola University Chicago Cudahy Library 201 Lake Shore Campus 1032 West Sheridan Rd. Chicago, Illinois 60660 Review of applications will begin immediately upon receipt and will continue until the position is filled. Loyola University Chicago, Chicago's Jesuit Catholic University, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer with a strong commitment to diversifying its faculty. Applications from women and minority candidates are especially encouraged. All best, Steve Jones -- Steven Jones http://stevenejones.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:29:28 +0100 From: Annika Rockenberger Subject: Job: 1 EU-Projektkoordinator/in "Europeana 1914-1918" (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) To whom it may concern... regards, AR Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > Von: "HSK (Claudia Prinz)" > Datum: 13. Dezember 2010 19:32:00 MEZ > An: Annika Rockenberger > Betreff: Job: 1 EU-Projektkoordinator/in "Europeana 1914-1918" (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) > Antwort an: hsk.redaktion@geschichte.hu-berlin.de > > From: Constanze Pohl > Date: 13.12.2010 > Subject: Job: 1 EU-Projektkoordinator/in "Europeana 1914-1918" > (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, 01.05.2011-30.04.2014 > Bewerbungsschluss: 14.01.2011 > > Bei der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, > Generaldirektion, ist zum 1. Mai 2011 die Stelle einer/eines > > EU-Projektkoordinatorin/EU-Projektkoordinators > der Entgeltgruppe E 14 TVöD > Kennziffer: SBB 48-2010 (GD) > > mit der vollen regelmäßigen wöchentlichen Arbeitszeit befristet bis zum > 30.04.2014 zu besetzen. Die Eingruppierung erfolgt vorbehaltlich der > Regelungen der noch ausstehenden Entgeltordnung zum TVöD. > > Die Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin leitet als institutionelle Koordinatorin > das EU-Projekt "Europeana 1914-1918". Im Rahmen des Projektes werden > zehn Nationalbibliotheken aus acht Ländern mit Unterstützung von zwei > weiteren Partnern über 400.000 Objekte zum 1. Weltkrieg digitalisieren > und über Europeana, die europäische Internetplattform für europäische > Bibliotheken, Archive und Museen, zur Verfügung stellen. > > Aufgabengebiet: Gesucht wird ein/e Projektkoordinator/in, der/die für > die Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin verantwortlich alle Organisations- und > Koordinationsaufgaben zwischen den beteiligten Projektpartnern und der > europäischen Kommission übernimmt. > Dies umfasst: > - die Budgetkontrolle in enger Abstimmung mit der Hauptverwaltung der > Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Gesamtbudget: 5,4 Mio. Euro) > - die Berichterstattung gegenüber und die Abstimmung mit den zuständigen > EU-Stellen > - die Leitung des Workpackages 1 (coordination and management of the > project, assessment and monitoring) einschließlich des > Risikomanagements > - die enge Abstimmung mit den anderen Workpackage-Leadern im Executive > Board sowie die Organisation und Leitung der jährlichen Meetings sowie > der Sitzungen des Projects Management Boards > > Anforderungen: > - abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium vorzugsweise einer kultur-, geistes- > oder informationswissenschaftlichen Fachrichtung oder Master of Arts - > Library and Information Science > - nachweisbare mehrjährige Erfahrung im Management von Projekten mit > internationaler Ausrichtung, vorzugsweise in den Bereichen Digitale > Bibliotheken oder Archive > - hervorragende Kenntnisse des EU-Rechts und der > EU-Verwaltungsvorschriften, insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit > Förderprojekten > - Erfahrung mit informationstechnischen Hintergründen und Konzepten im > Bereich Digitale Bibliotheken (Daten- und Metadatenstandards, Formate, > Schnittstellen etc.) und Retrodigitalisierung bzw. die Fähigkeit, sich > in entsprechende Fragestellungen rasch selbständig einzuarbeiten > - hohes Maß an Selbständigkeit, Eigeninitiative und > Verantwortungsbereitschaft, überdurchschnittliches Organisations- und > Kommunikationstalent > - ausgezeichnete Englischkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift > > Erwünscht: > - Abgeschlossene Ausbildung für den höheren sprach- und > kulturwissenschaftlichen Dienst oder gleichwertige Fähigkeiten und > Erfahrungen > - Spezialkenntnisse im Bereich der Budgetverwaltung und der > haushaltsrechtlichen Verwaltungsabläufe der EU und der einzelnen am > Projekt beteiligten europäischen Verwaltungen (Belgien, Dänemark, > Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Italien, Österreich, Serbien) > - Sehr gute Kenntnisse weiterer europäischer Fremdsprachen (insbes. > Französisch, Italienisch) > > Die Bereitschaft zu Dienstreisen ins europäische Ausland und ein hohes > Maß an Belastbarkeit werden vorausgesetzt. > > Die Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz gewährleistet die Gleichstellung > von Frauen und Männern nach Maßgabe des Bundesgleichstellungsgesetzes. > Die Bewerbung von Frauen ist erwünscht. Schwerbehinderte Menschen werden > bei gleicher Eignung besonders berücksichtigt. > > Bewerbungen mit einem Lebenslauf, beruflichem Werdegang und > Zeugnissen/Beurteilungen (ein Hinweis auf die Personalakte genügt nicht) > werden unter Angabe der Kennziffer SBB 48-2010 (GD) bis zum 14. Januar > 2011 erbeten an: > > Generaldirektorin der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer > Kulturbesitz, Personalstelle (Z 1.3), 10772 Berlin. > > Von Bewerbungen in elektronischer Form bitten wir abzusehen. Bewerbungen > können grundsätzlich nur zurückgesandt werden, wenn ihnen ein > frankierter Rückumschlag beiliegt. > > Nähere Auskünfte erteilt Ihnen Frau Dr. Mareike Rake unter der Rufnummer > 030/266 43 3135. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dr. Mareike Rake > > Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Personalstelle (Z > 1.3), 10772 Berlin > 030/266 43 3135 > mareike.rake@sbb.spk-berlin.de > > Homepage > > > URL zur Zitation dieses Beitrages > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 14 08:44:56 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 57708BD66D; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:44:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0082CBD664; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:44:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101214084453.0082CBD664@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:44:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.585 new publications on scholarly publishing X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 585. 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: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Version 79 [2] From: UTP Journals (73) Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42, 2January 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:23:22 +0000 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Version 79 Version 79 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. This selective bibliography includes over 3,880 articles, books, technical reports, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html The next version of the bibliography is scheduled for June 2011. Changes in This Version Two new sections have been added in this version: (1) 2.4 Electronic Books and Texts: Research and (2) 4.1 General Works: Research (Multiple-Types of Electronic Works). The bibliography has the following sections (new/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* 2.4 Research* 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* 4.1 Research (Multiple-Types of Electronic Works)* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Digital Copyright* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Digital Libraries* 6.2 Digital Preservation* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Metadata and Linking* 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 5 http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm 2. Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 3 http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html 3. Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography (a paperback, a PDF file, and an XHTML website) http://digital-scholarship.org/tsp/w/tsp.html See also: Reviews of Digital Scholarship Publications: http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/reviews.htm Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen) this message: http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/sepb_en_79.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://digital-scholarship.org/ Digital Scholarship Chronology http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dschronology.htm --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:24:07 +0000 From: UTP Journals Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42, 2January 2011 Now available at Journal of Scholarly Publishing Online Journal of Scholarly Publishing Volume 42, Number 2 January 2011 is now available at http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/j31504k02347/. This issue contains: Protocols and Challenges to the Creation of a Cross-Disciplinary Journal Thomas H.P. Gould Abstract: In 2006, the Online Journal of Rural Research and Policy (OJRRP) was launched. The publication is an example of the ability of academia to create narrowly defined scholarly journals aimed at a small, targeted readership while relying on a meagre budget. This article discusses the factors that fostered the creation of hundreds of online-only journals, as well as providing a case study of the creation of OJRRP and the long-term implications of online cross-disciplinary publications. Areas covered include sponsorship, editorial board, editorial staff, software, link rot, code, promotional activities, tracking and supporting usage, and, perhaps most importantly, long-term sustainability. The OJRRP experience is presented along with lessons learned in each area. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/w7m47764007l50x2/?p=90e784e1f14d46719b15455a47442d87&pi=0 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.2.105 Becoming an Ethical Scholarly Writer Tim Hatcher Abstract: A new perspective of the ethics of scholarly writing is described that may overcome some of the problems associated with more familiar approaches to solving the ethical dilemmas that writers face. Instead of relying on an external standard, such as a code of ethics, authors are encouraged to internalize the ethics of scholarly writing as a part of developing their own moral identity. Socialization into a profession is discussed as an incubator of moral identity. Several assumptions are put forward in support of these perspectives. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/en52270x0206xk53/?p=90e784e1f14d46719b15455a47442d87&pi=1 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.2.142 Taking Clio's Pulse … Anne L. Buchanan, Jean-Pierre V.M. Hérubel Abstract: Examining trends in research publications can yield an appreciation of where a discipline is moving and of its core intellectual orientations, specific and general subject interests, and disciplinary contours. This discussion considers the major contours of academic history publication as reviewed by the flagship generalist journal American Historical Review (AHR). The AHR's topical indexes for the years 2000–2009 were used to gather essential data from which salient disciplinary features could be examined in order to situate academic history's scholarly preoccupations. Various constellations of specialization, focused emphases, and general contours of intellectual activity emerged. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/xj14444j34711x53/?p=90e784e1f14d46719b15455a47442d87&pi=2 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.2.160 Flogging a Dead Book? Stephen James Abstract: This article explores an issue that has been neglected in Australia, the intertwined fates of the scholarly book and the university press. These institutions face two significant threats: the commercialization of the university, which has left academics with less time for the patient research and writing needed to produce a monograph, and the ‘tyranny of the journal article’ (in contrast to that of the monograph, which has been noted in American debates), which has devalued the monograph and thus reduced some of the incentive for academics to write one. After examining the decline of university presses in Australia, the article concludes that they, and the monographs they publish, will best flourish with increased philanthropic, governmental, and university funding; careful list diversification; creative commissioning; cross-subsidization; and the savvy use of electronic and traditional forms of publishing and dissemination. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/f110g01854w53w03/?p=90e784e1f14d46719b15455a47442d87&pi=3 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.2.182 Truth or Hope? http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/y5326h1m32656w2g/ David Henige Abstract: Like it or not, errors occur throughout scholarly publishing. Some creep in, while others leap in. Some are utterly inconsequential, whereas others are foundational. Some result from the Rush to Pronounce, while others betray insufficient searches for, or misuse of, evidence. It falls to the academy to correct as many of these as possible, but there is a palpable reluctance to be bothered, as though correcting error were a second-rate activity. As a result, errors either go uncorrected or are corrected in conditions of lower visibility. In this article, the author discusses a few such examples and brings to bear some quantitative data to support the conclusion that, once insinuated into the public domain, errors continue to live on far more frequently than is desirable. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/y5326h1m32656w2g/?p=90e784e1f14d46719b15455a47442d87&pi=4 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.2.205 A Value-Added Role for Reviewers in Enhancing the Quality of Published Research http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/864u396067220h88/ Charles C. Fischer Abstract: This article focuses on manuscript reviews as a means to enhance the quality of published research and provide fair and constructive feedback to authors. After many years of experience as editor-in-chief of an academic management journal, it became apparent to me that the best published research involves reviewers going beyond the common practice of mere ‘gatekeeping’ to performing a value-added role in promising research. Strategies for achieving this goal, including ethical considerations and practical applications, are set forth. This article should be of value to reviewers and editors who desire to be proactive in enhancing the quality of published research. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/864u396067220h88/?p=90e784e1f14d46719b15455a47442d87&pi=5 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.2.226 Extending ArXiv.org to Achieve Open Peer Review and Publishing Axel Boldt Abstract: Today's peer-review process for scientific articles is unnecessarily opaque and offers few incentives to referees. Likewise, the publishing process is unnecessarily inefficient, and its results are only rarely made freely available to the public. This article outlines a comparatively simple extension of arXiv.org, an online preprint archive widely used in the mathematical and physical sciences, that addresses both of these problems. Under the proposal, editors invite referees to write public and signed reviews to be attached to the posted preprints, and then elevate selected articles to ‘published’ status. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/q45748828110n467/?p=90e784e1f14d46719b15455a47442d87&pi=6 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.2.238 The Peer-Review Process for Articles in Iran's Scientific Journals Mohammad Abooyee Ardakan, Seyyed Ayatollah Mirzaie, Fatemeh Sheikhshoaei Abstract: The purpose of this research was to study the peer-review process for articles in Iran's accredited scientific journals. The study considered the types of refereeing currently practised, the decision-making methods and criteria for acceptance of articles, the major decision makers, and the current norms in the peer-review process. The method used was a survey, and the data-collecting tool was a questionnaire. The statistical population of this research included 245 scientific journals. The results of the study show that, currently, the predominant type of refereeing for articles submitted to these journals is ‘double blind’ and the prevailing method of informing authors about the results of manuscript evaluation is ‘commenting on the manuscript after refereeing it and after consideration in an editorial board meeting.’ The findings also indicate that two criteria—‘Originality and creativity of the research’ and ‘Being within the journal's scope’—play the most important role in article acceptance. Of the five main parties cooperating in the peer-review process for these journals, the editorial board plays the most fundamental role. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/9517x027x5540x58/?p=90e784e1f14d46719b15455a47442d87&pi=7 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.2.243 Ten Rules of Academic Writing Stephen K. Donovan Abstract: Creative writers are well served with ‘how to’ guides, but just how much do they help? And how might they be relevant to academic authors? A recent survey of writing tips by twenty-eight creative authors has been condensed to the ten most relevant to the academic, supported by some comments on methodology and applicability. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/r3227753m7026442/?p=90e784e1f14d46719b15455a47442d87&pi=8 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.2.262 Review http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/a425526076414n48/ Willis G. Regier http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/a425526076414n48/?p=90e784e1f14d46719b15455a47442d87&pi=9 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.2.268 Journal of Scholarly Publishing A must for anyone who crosses the scholarly publishing path – authors, editors, marketers and publishers of books and journals. For more than 40 years, the Journal of Scholarly Publishing has been the authoritative voice of academic publishing. 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Become a fan and receive free access to articles weekly through UTPJournals focus. 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 Tue Dec 14 08:46:54 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 D01BBBD6D8; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:46:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DD212BD6D1; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:46:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101214084651.DD212BD6D1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:46:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.586 events: Digitization Day; Research Databases X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 586. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (16) Subject: Digitization Day [2] From: James Wilson (19) Subject: Research databases, Oxford, 21 January --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:25:46 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Digitization Day The CIRCA Histories and Archives lab is organizing a Digitization Day at the University of Alberta. This one-day event is a chance for research projects that are digitizing evidence to meet up with each other and with units on campus that provide relevant research services. Projects that are creating digital archives of different sorts will give short presentations as will units on campus that support research. Why should you come? • In one day you can learn a lot about different digital projects • Figure out who is doing what on campus • Get ideas for your own project • Learn what resources are available • There will be a "Lightning Round" at the end when you can talk about challenges you have in your project When and Where? Location: Telus 134. Date: December 16th, 2010 Time: 9:00am to 5:00pm with free lunch and coffee breaks. Coffee at 8:30am and we start at 9:00am. The final session will finish at 5:00pm. For more information contact Dorota Tecza or Geoffrey Rockwell To learn more about the Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts or the Digitization Day see: http://ra.tapor.ualberta.ca/~circa/?page_id=176 Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:17:35 +0000 From: James Wilson Subject: Research databases, Oxford, 21 January We would like to invite you to the 'Research databases in the humanities - where next?' workshop, which will take place in Oxford on the afternoon of Friday, 21st January 2011. What are the issues that researchers in the Humanities face when compiling data, and how can technology help or hinder? This workshop will look at the ways in which humanities researchers build, maintain, and preserve databases, along with the processes currently in place to support such activities. It will consider what tools could be developed to support the creation and use of research data, how data from different sources might be linked, and, where relevant, the role that public or private cloud services might play. The workshop will be primarily concerned with the processes of creating databases for humanities research. As such it will be of interest to humanities researchers who are working with or considering developing research databases and who wish to stay abreast of the latest developments and opportunities. It is also likely to appeal to technologists involved in the provision of research services. We hope to provide a forum in which ideas can be exchanged and new approaches to humanities data illustrated. The workshop is being organised as part of the Sudamih Project (Supporting Data Management Infrastructure in the Humanities), funded by the JISC. Workshop website: http://sudamih.oucs.ox.ac.uk/databases_workshop.xml Please register via the website or by emailing sudamih@oucs.ox.ac.uk Date: Friday 21st January, 2011. Location: Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA. A buffet lunch will be provided from 12 noon, with the workshop itself commencing at 1pm and concluding by 4:45pm. There is no charge for attending the workshop. " Many thanks, James --- Dr. James A. J. Wilson, Project Manager, EIDCSR/Sudamih Projects OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford. OX2 6NN Tel. 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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, 14 Dec 2010 20:45:46 -0500 From: Balisage Conference Information Subject: Call for Participation: Balisage 2011 Balisage 2011 Pre-conference workshop: 1 August 2011 Conference: 2-5 August 2011 Hotel Europa, Montreal, Canada Papers proposals due 8 April 2011 Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Paper proposals and nominations for peer reviewers are solicited for Balisage 2011, to be held 2-5 August 2011 in Montreal. 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See you in Montréal! -- ====================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011 mailto:info@balisage.net August 2-5, 2011 http://www.balisage.net Symposium: August 1, 2011 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 Wed Dec 15 06:20:58 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 4BB4DBDABA; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:20:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1E7E7BDAAA; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:20:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101215062054.1E7E7BDAAA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:20:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.588 newly online: contemporary poetics & the arts X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 588. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:30:21 +0100 From: Louis Armand Subject: VLAK: Contemporary Poetics & the Arts now online The inaugural issue of VLAK Magazine: Contemporary Poetics & the Arts (already out of print) is now available to read or download free at www.issuu.com/litteraria Inside VLAK 1 (September 2010): Marjorie Perloff on Ian Hamilton Finlay Keith Jones on Punk in Africa Matt Hall on J.H. Prynne Robert Sheppard on Radio Interference Poetics Louis Armand on Veronique Vassiliou Stephan Delbos on Charles Olson’s Gloucester Darren Tofts on Ian Haig Henry Hills interviewed Stephanie Barber & Jen Hofer in dialogue Visual work by Veronika Drahotova, Alexander Jorgensen, Vadim Erent, Holli Schorno, Steve McCaffery, Amande In, Richard Tipping, Tim Haze, Bill Mousoulis... New writing by Abigail Child, Rachel Blau Du Plessis, Holly Tavel, Joshua Cohen, Eileen Myles, John Wilkinson, Stephanie Strickland, Allen Fisher, Marjorie Welish, Catherine Hales, Mez, Karen Mac Cormack, Ali Alizadeh, Ron Padget, Brandon Downing, Pam Brown, Thor Garcia, John Coletti, Jessica Fiorini, Bruce Andrews, Vincent Farnsworth, Mark Terrill, Elizabeth Gross, Douglas Piccinnini, Arlo Quint, Vincent Katz, Veronique Vassiliou, Pierre Joris, Habib Tengour, Aaron Lowinger, John Kinsella, Stacey Szymaszek, Mike Farrell, Andrea Brady, Edwin Torres, Alli Warren, Jess Mynes, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, Ales Steger, Betsy Fagin, Jena Osman, Octavio Armand, John Godfrey, Allyssa Wolf… http://issuu.com/litteraria/docs/vlak1_september_2010/1 VLAK 2 is scheduled to depart May 2010 www.vlakmagazine.com VLAK Magazine is published by Litteraria Pragensia Books www.litterariapragensia.com -- Louis Armand Director, Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory, UALK, Philosophy Faculty, Charles University, Nam. J. Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1, CZECH REPUBLIC www.louis-armand.com www.litterariapragensia.com www.vlakmagazine.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 Dec 15 06:21:58 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 459DABDB1D; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:21:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B8937BDB0B; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:21:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101215062153.B8937BDB0B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:21:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.589 Stormont Papers? imagery of 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. 24, No. 589. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Knight, Gareth" (15) Subject: Help us improve the Stormont Parliamentary Papers digital resource [2] From: Willard McCarty (22) Subject: an arresting sentence --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:37:50 +0000 From: "Knight, Gareth" Subject: Help us improve the Stormont Parliamentary Papers digital resource ** Apologies for cross-posting ** The JISC funded SPHERE project is collecting information on the use of the Stormont Parliamentary Papers digital resource - an archive of the House of Commons debates from the Stormont Government, 1921-72. A short web survey on use of the resource is available at the following web link http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KQFWR9N The information collected by the project will be used to understand the needs of the research and teaching community and establish priorities for the digitisation of new content and redevelopment of the user interface. Your contribution to the survey will establish current use of the Stormont Parlimentary Papers resource and help to shape its future development. For further information on the SPHERE Project please visit: http://sphere.cerch.kcl.ac.uk/ For further information on the Stormont Parliamentary Papers please visit: http://stormontpapers.ahds.ac.uk/stormontpapers/index.html Lorna Hughes Deputy Director Centre for e-Research King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:37:17 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an arresting sentence Jonathan Benthall, concluding his discussion of the computer in art, in his book Science and Technology in Art Today (London: Thames & Hudson, 1972), remarks thus on the difficulties artists of the time faced: > It is as if the computer were some creature of great sexual > attractiveness whose actual anatomy remains elusive, frigid and > unexplored. (p. 84) Most computers in the early 1970s were kept behind closed doors, accessible at best across an input/output desk. They were hulking big things, noisy, tended by a priesthood (the term was common at the time) of white-labcoated technicians. So, yes, elusive, and literally frigid from the forced-air, under-floor refrigeration. Unexplored, too, because you couldn't get at them. But the intimacy of that respectful description tells another tale. What do you suppose it is? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 15 06:22:56 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 53742BDB89; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:22:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D2D35BDB73; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:22:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101215062253.D2D35BDB73@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:22:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.590 job at Illinois 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. 24, No. 590. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:00:06 -0600 From: "Green, Harriett E" Subject: Digital Humanities Specialist position at University of Illinois Digital Humanities Specialist 100% Academic Professional Position University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Library Duties and Responsibilities: The University of Illinois Library conducts a variety of activities in support of digital humanities scholarship, including creation, delivery, curation and preservation of a wide variety of types of digital assets and tools. Reporting to the Technical Architect for Repositories and Scholarly Communication, the Digital Humanities Specialist will assist with the planning, implementation and ongoing production of these digital collections and scholarly initiatives, with particular emphasis on project design, digitization workflows, and content and delivery systems. 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This position is expected to evolve in tandem with the Library's strategic goals and to experiment with new ways of supporting and enhancing the teaching, research and service missions of the University. The scope and responsibilities will shift in accordance with priorities established by the AUL for Information Technology Planning and Policy in consultation with IT staff and digital humanities stakeholders. As an Academic Professional employee, the Digital Humanities Specialist is expected to use "investigation time" to pursue areas of his or her interest, not directly in support of an immediate program need, in accordance with the University Library's policy on Investigation Time for Academic Professional Employees. Some investigations that originate in this manner may evolve into regular work assignments or production activities. 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Gregory Dr., Suite 127 Urbana, IL 61801 (217) 333-8169 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 15 06:37:41 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 9DF28BDDC4; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:37:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E51D0BDDBA; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:37:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101215063737.E51D0BDDBA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:37:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.591 measuring the Fall X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 591. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (40) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.583 measuring the... Fall [2] From: "Holly C. Shulman" (64) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.582 measuring the Fall [3] From: Jascha Kessler (68) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.583 measuring the... Fall [4] From: Jascha Kessler (60) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.583 measuring the... Fall ----- [Forgive this editorial intervention, which I trust does not offend, but I do think that this radical take-off from a posting that raised the subject of academic metrics via Martin Tompa's humorous article, "Figures of merit", suggesting that calculations of impact manifest a state of mental corruption (in biblical language a.k.a. The Fall), has gone on long enough past the outer limits of the digital humanities. Is it not a better use of our common purpose here to discuss that corruption -- to examine critically what *actually* tends to happen in collaborative research publications? We do tend to think in a highly romanticised way about collaboration, and so help to build yet another wing of the Devil's Workshop, nicht wahr? -- WM] --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:06:21 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.583 measuring the... Fall In-Reply-To: <20101214083712.69581BD4D6@woodward.joyent.us> Part of Adam and Eve's original mandate in the Garden was work -- to tend the Garden and keep it. They were originally commanded, before the Fall, to multiply and fill the earth, and Genesis 2:1 states that Adam and Eve were "created male and female," as were all the beasts. So of course the text expects its readers to believe that work, sex, and reproduction were original parts of creation. The curses represent the introduction of increased hardship to work and childbearing, not the introduction of work and childbearing. The curse upon Eve is particularly interesting: "I will greatly increase your pain in childbearing..." So there was pain in childbirth all along, but it is now greatly increased as a result of the Fall. All of these details are obvious from even a quick reading of Genesis 1-3, but they tend to be obscured by either over familiarity with the narrative or an unwillingness to take the time to look at it. Some medieval theologians may have been approaching the Genesis text from the point of view of a neoPlatonic distrust of the body and of sexuality, which was only acceptable as a means of propagating the human race. Jerome's commentary on Genesis is particularly interesting. Snake? Fruit? Come on, this is all about sexual awakening, about sex. He was Freudian almost 1500 years before Freud. Most scholars working in Biblical studies that I've read tend to view the Genesis account as the the product of a specific community, however, that was edited over time and combined with other texts. So perhaps the best way to read Genesis is as an attempt to answer very basic questions: Why is work so hard on us? Why do women suffer when giving birth? These questions reveal an expectation that things shouldn't be this way. Jim R On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > But a more interesting question is: Did Adam have a tallywhacker to begin > with? God forced Adam to work for a living and Eve to have children only as > punishment for eating the fruit. So he designed them originally not to have > to reproduce, and to live forever. There were theologians in the Middle Ages > who didn't think they had private parts at all. > > > At least I learned a new word. > > Alan D. Corre > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:33:03 -0500 From: "Holly C. Shulman" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.582 measuring the Fall In-Reply-To: <20101213062817.5FC83BBB35@woodward.joyent.us> Of course you are correct. As you say, every benei mitzvot child knows that. And beyond Abraham, as a people we are created through exile in Egypt and our escape, so as a people our origins go to Moses. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 582. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:27:58 -0800 > From: Jascha Kessler > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.579 measuring the Fall > In-Reply-To: <20101212104003.33633BA49B@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Disarmed and charmed too by Prof Corre's analysis of the maths, > historical and contemporary, determining the measurement of time and > times that were and to come, since Adam awoke from his first deep > sleep, I forwarded the essay to friends and scholars. > However charming, and disarming, on second thought it occurred to me > that the thing was a spoof, all dependent upon reasoning that is and > was post hoc, and hence, or ergo propter hoc. > Adam was no Jew. The old rebs may wish to appropriate him as my and > Mao's Big Daddy-O, our Pater Familias from the getgo. But his line > vanishes just before Noah drifted off with his entire crew, family, > flocks, schools and tribes and all. Either that, and most folks are > seriously misled to think all of us have Adam's DNA, and the other > chromosome that somehow Eve took to from that rib. Apart from the > biology, just fooling, every Bar Mitzvah boy knows that the first Jew > of us all, Bar or Bat Mitsvahed or not, was Abram, aka Abraham. > My father protested when I named our first son Adam. So the fault is > not in our genes or stars, but in that post hoc assumption. > Am I seconded? > Jascha Kessler > Emeritus Professor of Modern English and American Literature, UCLA > > -- > 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 > -- 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:21:14 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.583 measuring the... Fall In-Reply-To: <20101214083712.69581BD4D6@woodward.joyent.us> Graciously, Professor Corre, that always does it! I wonder however on what basis and which Medieval theologians designed the Primal Male and Female without reproductive organs? After all, The Great One had had them driven them from out their immortal garden spot Eden into our pre-diluvian world, where all is or was mortal, and the climate kept on changing from freezing to boiling. What could they have been thinking those degendering castrators ...? Rabelais, our Renaissance satirist, may or may not have had those fellows in mind, when he caused Gargantua to be delivered from out of his mother Gargamelle's left ear; but that was because she had stuffed herself, nine months along, with a surfeit of tripes....and the midwife decided a constipatory potion was needed to stop her defecating, so huge was that coming baby .... Could it have been the case that the numerological rabbincal geniuses doing their Kabbalah mojo calculations were reacting against those Theologians, and assigning a Bar Mitzvah year to our First Father? There, that'll put those anti-Semites in their place! Jascha Kessler On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 583. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:55:31 -0600 (CST) > From: Alan Corre > Subject: That fall > In-Reply-To: < > 1384958930.679782.1292280881499.JavaMail.root@mail03.pantherlink.uwm.edu> > > I surrender. > > It occurs to me that Adam was not circumcised. > > I checked on "Yahoo answers" and found this: > > The 'official' answer is no, God didn't require circumcision until his > covenant with Abraham. > > But a more interesting question is: Did Adam have a tallywhacker to begin > with? God forced Adam to work for a living and Eve to have children only as > punishment for eating the fruit. So he designed them originally not to have > to reproduce, and to live forever. There were theologians in the Middle Ages > who didn't think they had private parts at all. > > > At least I learned a new word. > > Alan D. 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 > -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:31:57 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.583 measuring the... Fall In-Reply-To: <20101214083712.69581BD4D6@woodward.joyent.us> Further to Professor Corre, et alia, on a thread that might or should be cut now? an afterthought. Was Abram circumcised? If so, at what age? If not, was that covenant not made much earlier with Noah? But I also recall, its signature was the Rainbow, something the Greeks attached to Iris, the messenger goddess. These confusions may have been engendered in the learned rabbis by their increasing abstraction, or abstractedness, like that of Swift's Laputans, who had the great power of mathematikers, and little concern with the peasants below .... Jascha Kessler On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 583. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:55:31 -0600 (CST) > From: Alan Corre > Subject: That fall > In-Reply-To: < > 1384958930.679782.1292280881499.JavaMail.root@mail03.pantherlink.uwm.edu> > > I surrender. > > It occurs to me that Adam was not circumcised. > > I checked on "Yahoo answers" and found this: > > The 'official' answer is no, God didn't require circumcision until his > covenant with Abraham. > > But a more interesting question is: Did Adam have a tallywhacker to begin > with? God forced Adam to work for a living and Eve to have children only as > punishment for eating the fruit. So he designed them originally not to have > to reproduce, and to live forever. There were theologians in the Middle Ages > who didn't think they had private parts at all. > > > At least I learned a new word. > > Alan D. 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 > -- 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 Wed Dec 15 06:40:47 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 EEB8BBDE5D; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:40:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 25544BDE50; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:40:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101215064043.25544BDE50@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:40:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.592 what is computation? (continued) X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 592. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:00:16 +0000 From: ubiquity Subject: New on ACM's Ubiquity: Debate Over What is Computation Continues;An Interview with Erol Gelenbe New on ACM’s Ubiquity: Debate Over What is Computation Continues An Interview with Erol Gelenbe December 14, 2010 Debate Over ‘What is Computation’ Continues In its first symposium, Ubiquity has asked top leaders in the computing world to discuss this one big question: “What is computation?” Two new positions about the question have been posted: First, Paul S. Rosenbloom, a professor of computer science at the University of Southern California and a project leader at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies, contends that computing is the fourth great scientific domain, on par with the physical, life, and social sciences. Writes Rosenbloom: “Exploring the consequences of this way of thinking about scientific domains, in conjunction with the conclusion that computing is the fourth such domain, has led in a variety of directions, many with implications for computing and the other scientific domains. This article explores three implications of particular relevance to computing and computation: 1) building on the notion that great scientific domains are about structures and processes to define computation in terms of information transformation; 2) leveraging the combination of understanding and shaping at the heart of great scientific domains to see computing's inherent intertwining of science and engineering as a strength rather than a weakness, and as a model for the future of the other domains; and 3) subsuming mathematics within computing.” [continue reading] Second, Ruzena Bajcsy of the director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, and professor in the EECS department at University of California-Berkeley, shares her thoughts about computation and information http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1899473 : “Computation is a transformation/function applied to information. In order to answer the question, ‘What is computation?’, I will rephrase it to ‘What is information?’ Information is not only a reflection of reality, such as physical measurements and/or observations, but it can also be synthetic concepts invented by humans as they occur for example, in mathematics.” [continue reading] Other contributors who have attempted to answer the question, “What is computation?” include Peter Wegner, Emeritus Professor at Brown University, whose essay discusses the evolution of computation, and John S. Conery of University of Oregon, who believes computation is the manipulation of symbols. For the complete list of articles and authors who will be contributing to this weekly series, please see the table of contents on Ubiquity.acm.org http://ubiquity.acm.org/symposia.cfm . Interview with Erol Gelenbe In another new article on Ubiquity, Erol Gelenbe is interviewed by Cristian Calude http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1899474 about a wide range of topics close to his hear, from his research on optimum checkpointing in databases, to random neural networks, to the sometimes painful experiences of teaching in foreign countries. Gelenbe, who holds the Dennis Gabor Chair Professorship in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at Imperial College London, says: “[B]eing a foreigner almost everywhere, I can group countries and institutions into two broad categories: those that are open to ‘allogens’ and are willing to be inclusive, and those which have (sometimes in subtle ways) set up significant barriers to ‘foreign’ penetration. It is quite different if you are a visiting professor: You are there temporarily and do not constitute a threat to established ways. If you arrive as a potential permanent addition, matters are different, more challenging and more interesting. I have held chairs in Belgium, France, the U.S. and U.K. In some countries foreigners are discriminated against illegally, including in matters of promotions, awards, etc., and have to bear with derogatory comments. ... One hears about illegal immigrants, but seldom does one talk about illegal barriers imposed on lawful immigrants.” [continue reading] For more information on Ubiquity and its editors, content and features, visit http://ubiquity.acm.org. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of computing and the people creating it. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted (c)2010 by the ACM and the individual authors. See the submissions guidelines at http://ubiquity.acm.org/submissions.cfm To send feedback about Ubiquity, email editors@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 Dec 16 07:24:35 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 306D7BEB1A; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:24:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 13F4FBEB07; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:24:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101216072433.13F4FBEB07@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:24:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.593 imagery of computing biologically analogized X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 593. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:30:57 -0000 From: "Stephen Woodruff" Subject: RE: imagery of computing? In-Reply-To: <20101215062153.B8937BDB0B@woodward.joyent.us> The abstract of "Orchid Sexual Deceit Provokes Ejaculation", Gaskett et al in the American Naturalist June 2008 says it all: "Sexually deceptive orchids lure pollinators by mimicking female insects. Male insects fooled into gripping or copulating with orchids unwittingly transfer the pollinia. The effect of deception on pollinators has been considered negligible, but we show that pollinators may suffer considerable costs. Insects pollinating Australian tongue orchids (Cryptostylis species) frequently ejaculate and waste copious sperm. The costs of sperm wastage could select for pollinator avoidance of orchids, thereby driving and maintaining sexual deception via antagonistic coevolution or an arms race between pollinator learning and escalating orchid mimicry. However, we also show that orchid species provoking such extreme pollinator behavior have the highest pollination success. How can deception persist, given the costs to pollinators? Sexually‐deceptive‐orchid pollinators are almost exclusively solitary and haplodiploid species. Therefore, female insects deprived of matings by orchid deception could still produce male offspring, which may even enhance orchid pollination." Substitute PC for orchid, the digital humanist for "Sexually‐deceptive‐orchid pollinators" (who are "are almost exclusively solitary..") and note the female insects (traditional researchers?) continue to get on with the job. And notice too the arms race between pollinator learning and escalating orchid mimicry. Did YOU buy an iPad? Stephen Woodruff Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland/UK -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: 15 December 2010 06:22 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 Dec 16 07:28:59 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 8138EBEBDF; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:28:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 837CFBEBC3; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:28:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101216072855.837CFBEBC3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:28:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.594 Falling into collaboration X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 594. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:42:21 -0600 (CST) From: Alan Corre Subject: Falling into collaborative research publication In-Reply-To: <1124260021.783390.1292448202975.JavaMail.root@mail03.pantherlink.uwm.edu> Willard's justified editorial intervention, followed by his Pharaonic injunction (Exodus, 5.4) "Get to your labors!", gives me an opportunity to outline my own fall into collaborative research publication. I call it that because it was totally accidental, some might say serendipitous. About twenty years ago, I delivered a paper at a scholarly meeting on my finding individual words from Lingua Franca in a Judeo-Arabic text published in Oran. Lingua Franca is a kind of commercial Esperanto or Swahili, spoken around the Mediterranean for hundreds of years by individuals who lacked a common "normal" language. It died out around 1900 under pressure from French; in any case, it was always held in low esteem, but was nevertheless very useful. When the French took over Algeria, they even published a little dictionary and phrase book of LF so that their soldiers could communicate with the locals. At the time I delivered my paper, the World Wide Web had just begun, and instead of looking round for a publisher of my findings, I decided to throw them on my website. I realized that the lack of monitoring was a problem, but I already had tenure, and my reputation was already made, for better or worse, so I went ahead. I made one concession to monitoring. It was customary in rabbinic literature to seek an approbation from a recognized authority before printing a work. This haskama, as it is called in Hebrew, differs a little from the Catholic nihil obstat and imprimatur, which latter limits itself to the doctrinal correctness of the opus. So I asked Dr Cyrus Gordon, appropriately a professor of Mediterannean Studies, to write me one such, which he graciously did. There was no word or browser "Google" in those early days, but people using then current resources found my article. What eventuated surprised me. I started getting contributions from other scholars, often much more significant than my own. And with their permission, I added them to my website. For example, Lingua Franca was found to occur quite frequently in early modern literature, often in very interesting ways. This did not involve much work on my part. I just needed to know a few simple HTML tags and I was in business. I did some formatting of the contributions I received, corrected typos and spelling errors, but otherwise published them unchanged, without any censorship. The site has pretty much stabilized now. One of the most recent contributions I published came from Saba. I confess I had to look that one up on Wikipedia to know where it was. Early this year, out of a clear blue sky, I received an email from the Library of Congress. I was informed that the Lingua Franca section of my site had been designated an historic website, worthy of permanent preservation. With my permission, they would archive the site at their facility in Washington, to be seen on the premises or via the World Wide Web. If there are new additions, LOC automatically adds them. The thing I enjoyed about this activity was the total lack of acrimony that accompanied it. There was no outspotlighting, no harsh rejoinders. I set up a section entitled Conversazioni where people could engage in discussions. It must surely be one of the earliest examples of collaborative scholarship on the Web, and perhaps the first example of a virtual haskama, but I am not looking for entry into the Guinness book. Alan D. Corre Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/corre/www > A Glossary of Lingua Franca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 16 07:29:24 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 A1BBEBEC1C; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:29:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8F4DFBEC09; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:29:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101216072922.8F4DFBEC09@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:29:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.595 new publication: LLC 25.4 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. 24, No. 595. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:11:37 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: LLC 25.4 (December) Literary & Linguistic Computing 25.4 (December) Special Issue: Papers from Digital Humanities 2009, University of Maryland, USA http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol25/issue4/index.dtl?etoc Introduction Claire Warwick and Katherine Singer Henriette Roued-Cunliffe Towards a decision support system for reading ancient documents Aja Teehan and John G. Keating Appropriate Use Case modeling for humanities documents Dana Wheeles Testing NINES Alan Galey and Stan Ruecker How a prototype argues Melissa Terras Digital curiosities: resource creation via amateur digitization William A. Kretzschmar, Jr and William Gray Potter Library collaboration with large digital humanities projects Mark Davies The Corpus of Contemporary American English as the first reliable monitor corpus of English -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 16 07:32:14 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 E1B30BED52; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:32:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 818D3BED4A; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:32:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101216073210.818D3BED4A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:32:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.596 events: world-wide online; curation of personal archives X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 596. 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 (101) Subject: Call for Papers - Hawaii Conference [2] From: Helen Tibbo (45) Subject: Curate Me: Stewardship of Personal Digital Archives --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:43:00 -0500 (EST) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Call for Papers - Hawaii Conference In-Reply-To: <20101215064043.25544BDE50@woodward.joyent.us> Sixteenth Annual TCC WORLDWIDE ONLINE CONFERENCE April 12-14, 2011 Pre-conference: April 5, 2011 EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: MAKING IT WORK Submission deadline: January 28, 2011 Homepage: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu CALL FOR PROPOSALS TCC 2011 invites faculty, support staff, librarians, counselors, student affairs professionals, students, administrators, and educational consultants to submit proposals for papers and general sessions. THEME The emergence of Web 2.0 created a global platform for communication, collaboration, and sharing. People, technologies, and perspectives have converged on the Internet that has spawned global communities and platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. The Internet has changed education. Many issues and concerns, however, have yet to be answered fully: How do faculty, staff, students and the communities served collaborate and innovate to produce positive learning outcomes? How can students learn through virtual worlds, educational games, augmented realities, or the use of smart, mobile devices? What best practices or choices have emerged in online learning? How do we keep up? How can we support each other? TOPICS TCC invites papers and general sessions related to technology integrated learning, open educational resources, distance learning, virtual communities, and best choices in educational technologies. The coordinators are looking for a broad range of submissions including, but are not limited to: - Perspectives and personal experiences with emerging learning technologies - Case studies and progress in applying ICT and Web 2.0 tools for learning - Technologies that enable communication, collaboration, creativity, and sharing - Building and sustaining communities of learners - Instructional applications in virtual worlds - Distance learning including mobile learning - Open educational resources (OER) - E-portfolios and assessment tools - Student orientation and preparation - Ubiquitous and lifelong learning - Online student services and advising - Managing information technology and change - Global access and intercultural communication - Educational technology in developing countries - Educational game design, rubrics, and assessment - Student success and assessment strategies online - Professional development for faculty and staff - Projects for seniors and persons with disabilities - Online learning resources (library, learning centers, etc.) - Social networking games and MMORPGs in education - Augmented reality - blending virtual content in real environments - Online, hybrid, or blended modes of technology enhanced learning - Institutional planning and pedagogy facilitated by emerging technologies - Gender equity, digital divide, intercultural understanding, and open access PROPOSALS This conference accepts proposals in two formats: papers and general sessions. For submission details, see: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/2011/tcc/pres-info.html To submit a proposal, go to: http://bit.ly/tcc2011proposal Papers are submitted in full and will be subjected to a blind peer review. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. General sessions may be conducted in many ways including a forum, discussion, round table, panel, or pre-conference activity. These proposals will also be subject to a blind peer review. Acceptances will be conveyed to the primary author or presenter by email. The coordinators are especially interested in proposals that involve student presenters. Fees for student presenters will be waived. Student presentations will be scheduled later in the day. The submission deadline is January 28, 2011. PRESENTER RESPONSIBILITIES Presenters are expected to: - Participate in a pre-conference orientation session. - Conduct a 20-minute informal, interactive online session about your paper or general session. - Use a headset with a microphone during the presentation. - Upload a photo, a brief professional bio, and related informational materials to the conference web site. - Respond to questions and comments from conference participants during the entire conference. - Maintain communications, as appropriate, with the conference staff. REGISTRATION All presenters are required to register online and pay the conference fee ($99 USD; $179 USD after March 31). Group and site registration rates for faculty and students are available. Contact Sharon Fowler for details . VENUE This conference is held entirely online using a web browser to access live sessions and related content. A computer equipped with headphones and microphone as well as broadband Internet access is highly recommended. SPONSORS & VENDORS Organizations or companies interested in sponsoring this event may contact John Walber of LearningTimes ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For additional information, see http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu . For further inquiry, contact Bert Kimura or Curtis Ho . This event is a partnership between TCCHawaii.org and LearningTimes.org. Additional support provided by faculty and staff at the University of Hawaii. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:13:41 +0000 From: Helen Tibbo Subject: Curate Me: Stewardship of Personal Digital Archives In-Reply-To: <20101215064043.25544BDE50@woodward.joyent.us> The 2011 DigCCurr Public Symposium - Curate Me: Stewardship of Personal Digital Archives is now open for registration. Panel list updated. Date: January 7, 2011 Time: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Location: Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library, UNC-CH Price: $45, includes coffee breaks and boxed lunch Register: http://cfx.research.unc.edu/res_classreg/browse_single.cfm?New=1&event=513A1 2E904EF9455E079DCE306859A3DDC0EE38E About the Symposium * Explore strategies for: * Integrating personal digital information into a curation workflow * Guiding individuals to manage their own collections of digital content * Engaging audiences with collections of personal digital information * Meet other professionals working with digital collections and personal information * Participate in collaborative group discussions with attendees and panel speakers This one-day event will include panel discussions with experts and interactive group sessions. Panelists include: * Deborah Barreau, Cal Lee and Helen Tibbo, professors at the School of Information and Library Science UNC-Chapel Hill * Cathy Marshall, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research's Silicon Valley Lab * Nancy McGovern, the Digital Preservation Officer for the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research * Naomi Nelson, Director of the Rare Books, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University * Jeff Ubios, The Bassetti Foundation *Kaitlin Costello and Michael Nutt, SILS graduate students For more information and to register for this event, visit http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/symposium2011.html http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/symposium2011.html . Partially supported by the Institute for Museum and Library Services, grant # RE-05-08-0060-08. Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor President & Fellow, Society of American Archivists School of Information and Library Science 201 Manning Hall CB#3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Phone: (919) 962-8063 Fax: (919) 962-8071 tibbo@email.unc.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 17 10:34:09 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 7BB4CBF87F; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:34:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6317CBF866; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:34:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101217103405.6317CBF866@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:34:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.597 a positive rhetoric of failure? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 597. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:29:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a positive rhetoric of failure? Certain standard topics in computer science and the digital humanities appear to me actually to hide a compromise that has been made, once to much noise that has now died down. Or perhaps I am not listening in the right places. Or perhaps I am simply not understanding how words are used in technical discourse. This is to enquire what is the case. One of these is "interoperability", which is used quite casually as if it were unproblematic, which it certainly isn't: to make two independently designed digital objects communicate with each other in a non-trivial way seems to me to be an enormous challenge not yet met. Is that true? Another is "semantic web", sometimes annoying referred to as "The Semantic Web", as if it were a reality, which it isn't. I suppose we do want the Web to be "semantic", i.e. to deliver to us what we want rather than what we can specify with current mechanisms. But I find it curious that when the dream of a semantic web is spelled out it proves to be more or less the same as similar dreams were in the mid 1960s, i.e. an environment that reminds granny to take her pills and you to pick up the kids because it's your turn that day. This would suggest an imaginative failure. Two others, though in different ways, are (a) "digital library" and (b) "digital edition". These, it seems to me, are terms the meaning of which we are trying to discover while at the same time they are being used unhelpfully to denote (a) any collection of digital materials meant to be read, listened to or looked at, and (b) any version of a textual, musical or visual work that has in any sense been edited, respectively. I am reminded of something that G. Spencer Brown says at the end of his astonishing mathematico-logical treatise, Laws of Form (1969). Writing as a philosophical mathematician (and a man of a rather different age, when one could unselfconsciously write to other academics about divine states, plain truth and mortal sins), he observed, > Discoveries of any great moment in mathematics and other > disciplines, once they are discovered, are seen to be extremely > simple and obvious, and make everybody, including their discoverer, > appear foolish for not having discovered them before. It is all too > often forgotten that the ancient symbol for the prenascence of the > world is a fool, and that foolishness, being a divine state, is not a > condition to be either proud or ashamed of. > > Unfortunately we find systems of education today which have departed > so far from the plain truth, that they now teach us to be proud of > what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. It is > corrupt not only because pride is itself a mortal sin, but also > because to teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective > barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it > makes one ashamed to look beyond the bonds imposed by one's > ignorance. (pp. 109-10) Perhaps, even in or especially in technical discourse, we should more often explicitly recognise and quietly celebrate, though not take pride in, our ignorance? I say "quietly" because without boasting of achievements, however qualified, who in a position to reward academic work will do so? Hence the rhetorical challenge, esp for those who work in a technologically orientated area: to invent a positive discourse of failure. Comments? Suggestions? Objections? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 17 10:36:11 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 58657BF955; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:36:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B24D9BF941; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:36:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101217103608.B24D9BF941@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:36:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.598 events: digital libraries, theory & practice X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 598. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:56:37 +0100 From: "Marlies Olensky" Subject: TPDL 2011 (formerly known as ECDL) Conference Announcement: TPDL 2011 - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (formerly known as ECDL) Main conference: September 26-28, 2011 Tutorials, Workshops: September 25, 29, 2011 Venue: Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum Adlershof, Berlin, Germany Conference Website: www.tpdl2011.org Twitter: www.twitter.com/TPDL2011 Facebook: www.facebook.com/TPDL2011 Linkedin: http://events.linkedin.com/TPDL-2011-International-Conference/pub/504696 Xing: http://www.xing.com/events/international-conference-theory-practice-digital-libraries-2011-633977 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are pleased to announce the “International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries” conference. 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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, 17 Dec 2010 11:36:37 +0100 From: Annika Rockenberger Subject: Promotionsstipendien (Universität Paderborn) To whom it may concern: an interesting PhD-scholarship offer at Paderborn University (Germany): cultural studies / information science / computer science Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > From: Sylvia Kesper-Biermann > Subject: STIP: 8 Promotionsstipendien (Universität Paderborn) 1.12.2010) > Date: Thursday, December 16, 2010 22:02 PM Graduiertenkolleg „Automatismen“ - Strukturentstehung außerhalb geplanter Prozesse in Informationstechnik, Medien und Kultur - Das von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderte Graduiertenkolleg „Automatismen“ an der Universität Paderborn vergibt ab dem 1. 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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: Martin Holmes (122) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.597 a positive rhetoric of failure? [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (24) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.597 a positive rhetoric of failure? [3] From: Jascha Kessler (145) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.597 a positive rhetoric of failure? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:22:38 -0800 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.597 a positive rhetoric of failure? In-Reply-To: <20101217103405.6317CBF866@woodward.joyent.us> Just on this one point: > One of these is "interoperability", which is used quite casually as if > it were unproblematic, which it certainly isn't: to make two > independently designed digital objects communicate with each other in > a non-trivial way seems to me to be an enormous challenge not yet > met. Is that true? Yes and no. On the one hand, we have a flourishing ecosystem of widely-supported standards -- think of the HTML and CSS family, which now work mostly identically in half a dozen or more browser engines; other successes are SVG, the Open Document format, and the XML gang (XML, XQuery, XSLT, XPath, XLink, etc. etc.), all of which are usable across a range of different applications and software platforms. Java also comes to mind; I can now write a Java application which will run happily on any OS for which there's a current JVM. All of these have assisted in the growth of Digital Humanities as a discipline (and of course DH has contributed significantly to this standardization movement). On the other hand, there are some areas in which interoperability is an ideal to be aimed at rather than a realistic goal. The TEI is one, I think. Different TEI projects will naturally use different customizations of the schema designed to suit their particular documents, and the guidelines actively encourage such customizations (both those resulting in documents which will validate against a default "tei_all" schema, and those which add novel elements and attributes or change the normal behaviour of existing ones). We cannot expect any one software package or system to (for instance) render any TEI document into a perfect web page, or reliably parse out all the metadata in any TEI header, given the (intentional) rich diversity in alternative ways of doing the same thing, or the infinite range of new things that may be done within the basic TEI structure. What we do instead is to document our customizations in a formal and predictable way; that's a practical alternative to "pure" interoperability. My sense is that over the last couple of years in particular, we're finally getting the interoperability we need and deserve. We're a long way past the days when web pages needed to be coded entirely differently for IE and Netscape, or when everyone needed a copy of Word or they couldn't read anyone else's documents. But it's also clear that we're rather thoughtlessly encouraging trends which work against interoperability -- buying iPads and iPhones which depend on an app store run essentially as a proprietary dictatorship, for instance. We need to restrain ourselves a little there. Cheers, Martin On 10-12-17 02:34 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 597. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:29:07 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: a positive rhetoric of failure? > > Certain standard topics in computer science and the digital humanities > appear to me actually to hide a compromise that has been made, once to > much noise that has now died down. Or perhaps I am not listening in the > right places. Or perhaps I am simply not understanding how words are > used in technical discourse. This is to enquire what is the case. > > One of these is "interoperability", which is used quite casually as if > it were unproblematic, which it certainly isn't: to make two > independently designed digital objects communicate with each other in a > non-trivial way seems to me to be an enormous challenge not yet met. Is > that true? > > Another is "semantic web", sometimes annoying referred to as "The > Semantic Web", as if it were a reality, which it isn't. I suppose we do > want the Web to be "semantic", i.e. to deliver to us what we want rather > than what we can specify with current mechanisms. But I find it curious > that when the dream of a semantic web is spelled out it proves to be > more or less the same as similar dreams were in the mid 1960s, i.e. an > environment that reminds granny to take her pills and you to pick up the > kids because it's your turn that day. This would suggest an imaginative > failure. > > Two others, though in different ways, are (a) "digital library" and (b) > "digital edition". These, it seems to me, are terms the meaning of which > we are trying to discover while at the same time they are being used > unhelpfully to denote (a) any collection of digital materials meant to > be read, listened to or looked at, and (b) any version of a textual, > musical or visual work that has in any sense been edited, respectively. > > I am reminded of something that G. Spencer Brown says at the end of his > astonishing mathematico-logical treatise, Laws of Form (1969). Writing > as a philosophical mathematician (and a man of a rather different age, > when one could unselfconsciously write to other academics about divine > states, plain truth and mortal sins), he observed, > >> Discoveries of any great moment in mathematics and other >> disciplines, once they are discovered, are seen to be extremely >> simple and obvious, and make everybody, including their discoverer, >> appear foolish for not having discovered them before. It is all too >> often forgotten that the ancient symbol for the prenascence of the >> world is a fool, and that foolishness, being a divine state, is not a >> condition to be either proud or ashamed of. >> >> Unfortunately we find systems of education today which have departed >> so far from the plain truth, that they now teach us to be proud of >> what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. It is >> corrupt not only because pride is itself a mortal sin, but also >> because to teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective >> barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it >> makes one ashamed to look beyond the bonds imposed by one's >> ignorance. (pp. 109-10) > > Perhaps, even in or especially in technical discourse, we should more > often explicitly recognise and quietly celebrate, though not take pride > in, our ignorance? I say "quietly" because without boasting of > achievements, however qualified, who in a position to reward academic > work will do so? Hence the rhetorical challenge, esp for those who work > in a technologically orientated area: to invent a positive discourse of > failure. > > Comments? Suggestions? Objections? > > Yours, > WM -- Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (mholmes@uvic.ca) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 04:51:00 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.597 a positive rhetoric of failure? In-Reply-To: <20101217103405.6317CBF866@woodward.joyent.us> >One of these is "interoperability", which is used quite casually as if >it were unproblematic, which it certainly isn't: to make two >independently designed digital objects communicate with each other in a >non-trivial way seems to me to be an enormous challenge not yet met. Is >that true? >Two others, though in different ways, are (a) "digital library" and (b) >"digital edition". These, it seems to me, are terms the meaning of which >we are trying to discover while at the same time they are being used >unhelpfully to denote (a) any collection of digital materials meant to >be read, listened to or looked at, and (b) any version of a textual, >musical or visual work that has in any sense been edited, respectively. I think the biggest failure is the failure to recognise the problems you describe so vividly. Perhaps "interoperability" is achieved - momentarily - by many digital editions and digital libraries. On the other hand, failure to recognise that technology and the methods it uses are ephemeral leads us to mingle technology with text in ways that make it very difficult to interchange or repurpose - the exact opposite of what attempts to "standardise" formats aim to achieve. We ought to admit that mingling technology and text leaves behind the trace of how the program works, and what is worse, a trace inevitably customised for different applications. The only way to separate text from technology is literally to have the two separate. That is I think the problem the status quo have yet to admit is the primary difficulty with the digital objects you describe. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:18:10 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.597 a positive rhetoric of failure? In-Reply-To: <20101217103405.6317CBF866@woodward.joyent.us> Quite a set of interesting questions and observations about the past/present...future? Willard's concluding remark rings a bell for me: i.e., his "I say "quietly" because without boasting of achievements, however qualified, who in a position to reward academic work will do so?' At least 30 or 40 years ago I read a little book by an Emeritus biologist from Columbia University, who was reviewing his lifelong affair with what then already Big Science. He taught us that Academia had already been corrupted with a sort of *propter hoc ergo post hoc *structure. That is, in applying for research grants, say 2-5 years, the scientists he knew of, and knew widely and well, had per force fallen into that trap: In writing out a proposals, and reviews each year of work accomplished, the technique was to describe the purpose of proposed research clearly, but that proposed work had already been done, and its results known to the wouldbe grantee. In that way a clear record of successes would assure and ensure the next applied-for grant. What, after all, those in a position to award and reward would have something to go on for the next merit increase or promotion or prizes. In short, it is a gaming of a system, which seems not to accept that most research projects...90%? fail. Failure *ought* to be built in. Scientific research is not a business,and most startup businesses fail. I was also reminded of this when my son, a computer engineer, worked only a few years ago on a project sponsored by SONY. The group was supported well for two years to invent a kind of page on which letters would be formed, like a book's page, and be made of a flat sort of paperlike or plastic screen. It proved rather difficult, for materials and inlaid conductive stuff to be programmed. When the project was halted, my son remarked that SONY had of course been funding several similar groups and projects. Well we have ebooks only 5 years later and kindle and other devices started up and selling world wide. But if you are running a startup lap in, say biology, at UCLA, and are brought in from, say Harvard or MIT, that lab needs an appropriation of 4-5 millions to be bought completely equipped. If you are the principal investigator and walking into that new space and hiring TA's and lab assistants and grad students, you sure wont write a grant for a project that may fail 9 out of 10 times. Pari passu, this applies perhaps as well to Guggenheim grants, and so forth, in the US. Scientists of the "purer" bent might well be better off in Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Steel. I suppose the "institutes" in Nazi and Communist Germany and Russia didnt bother about such matters. Their "Academicians" were in for life...and had of course other things to worry about every midnight, when the knocking at the door commenced up...? [Sure as hell no messengers bringing Nobel certificates or Xmas wreaths?] Jascha Kessler -- 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 Sat Dec 18 10:43:59 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 82771BF53E; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:43:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 43EEEBF537; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:43:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101218104357.43EEEBF537@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:43:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.601 new on WWW: Social Networks & Archival Context X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 601. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:54:45 +0000 From: Daniel Pitti Subject: Public release of IATH's Social Networks and Archival Context Project I hope some of you will be interested in the early research and development results of the Social Networks and Archival Context project. See announcement below for relevant links. To get a very good sense of the direction and potential, I recommend that you try the following searches: Whitman, Walt Oppenheimer, J. Robert Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974. Bernstein, Leonard. And just feel free to play around! Regards, Daniel ------- Announcement: The Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Project is pleased to announce the initial public release of the DRAFT prototype historical resource and access system based on EAC-CPF. While SNAC research and development will continue until May 2012, we would like to make our early results available to the cultural heritage professional communities in order to solicit feedback on both the design of the public interface and the processing of the data. SNAC is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Direct access to the prototype system and a detailed description of project work to date may be found at http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/prototype.html Additional information about the SNAC Project may be found at http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ Please feel free to share this information with colleagues who may be interested. Daniel Pitti SNAC Project Director Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities 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 Sat Dec 18 10:45:51 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 87A86BF5C4; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:45:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BA107BF5B9; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:45:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101218104547.BA107BF5B9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:45:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.602 events: logics of computational 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 602. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:43:22 +0000 From: Sylvain Pogodalla Subject: LACL 2011 - 2nd Call for Paper LACL 2011 Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics June 29th, 30th and July 1st LIRMM, Montpellier, France http://lacl.gforge.inria.fr PRESENTATION LACL'2011 is the 6th edition of a series of international conferences on logical and formal methods in computational linguistics. It addresses in particular the use of type theoretic, proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the implementation of natural language processing software relying on such models. It will be held at the LIRMM, Montpellier, France. It will be co-located with TALN, the conference of the French association for NLP (ATALA). Topics: Computer scientists, linguists, mathematicians and philosophers are invited to present their work on the use of logical methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing, in natural language analysis, generation or acquisition. * logical foundation of syntactic formalisms o categorial grammars o minimalist grammars o dependency grammars o tree adjoining grammars o model theoretic syntax o formal language theory for natural language processing o data-driven approaches * logic for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and dialog o discourse theories o Montague semantics o compositionality o dynamic logics o game semantics o situation semantics o generative lexicon o categorical semantics * applications of these models to natural language processing o software for natural language analysis o software for acquiring linguistic resources o software for natural language generation o software for information extraction o inference tasks o evaluation o scalability [...] CONTACTS sylvain.pogodalla@inria.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 Sun Dec 19 09:26:56 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 875D7C19A8; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:26:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 37E01C197A; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:26:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101219092650.37E01C197A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:26:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.603 culturonomics and corpus 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 603. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Finlay McCourt (10) Subject: Google Labs - n-gram viewer [2] From: Mark Davies (14) Subject: Culturomics / new Google Books interface / COHA --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:25:44 +0000 From: Finlay McCourt Subject: Google Labs - n-gram viewer I thought that this recently released tool for use with the Google books database would be of interest to the mailing list, and hopefully be a useful tool for some. As they put it: "When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years." More information can be found here: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/info The tool itself is located here: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com -FMcC --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 07:18:05 -0700 From: Mark Davies Subject: Culturomics / new Google Books interface / COHA Many of you have probably heard by now about "Culturomics" (http://www.culturomics.org) and the new Google Books interface (http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/), which allow you to search 500 billion words of text to see changes in the frequency of words and phrases (and thus, changes in American society and culture). It's been widely featured in newspapers and magazines for the last day or two (see http://www.culturomics.org/cultural-observatory-at-harvard/papers). I've created a page (http://corpus.byu.edu/coha/compare-culturomics.asp) that compares Google Books / Culturomics to the new 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English [COHA] (http://corpus.byu.edu/coha/). It discusses how Google Books is nice for exact words and phrases; but of the two, COHA is the only tool that really allows you to look at a wide range of changes -- lexical, morphological, syntactic, and semantic. Anyway, for those who might be interested... 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 Dec 21 10:18:05 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 A6132C19A3; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:18:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B1BFC1989; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:18:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101221101802.1B1BFC1989@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:18:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.604 Solstitial greetings and reflections X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 604. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:55:09 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Solstitial look into a frosty mirror On each winter solstitial morning I have for some years felt compelled to reflect on the year that has passed and post the results -- compelled by a self-made habit to look back at the very recent past forming itself into a story. I want to see what I can see that will be of some use to us and to celebrate the activity that, I fancy, helps in some minor way to form a group of practitioners into an intellectual community. "Community" is a heavily over- and mis-used word, I know. I am often not at all certain what it is supposed to indicate -- an unfocused and unexamined desire to be part of something bigger than oneself? But like many abused words we nevertheless continue to need it. I want to think that Humanist's job is for this particular group to give tongue to that unexamined and inarticulate desire, to make the word work for us, by reflecting on what Humanist does and has done this last year. That's one way of putting it. Perhaps you have a better one. Humanist's community is special in part because all of its existence lies within living memory and was largely formed under the influence of nearly instantaneous world-spanning communication networks. Now I am not for a minute going to assert that these networks have transcended time and space. That they haven't becomes very clear once one lives and works in widely separated places (and takes those places seriously). But e-mail, the Web and all that have followed have certainly altered both time and space. These altered parameters are part of our problem and what we do to solve it. For one thing entities such as Humanist float free of particular departments, universities and countries. Commitment and loyality can only be to the discipline, cannot be to any particular institution or any particular model of how the discipline is instantiated. Quite subversive (which was, of course, an originating intention). At the same time institutional instantiation is fundamental. Without the social mandate to do what one does (or wishes to do), it has been my experience that thinking clearly and acting effectively are profoundly impeded. That mandate is life-giving. One can go on without it -- I certainly did for many years, as did many others here, I expect -- but not easily. So if being free of instutional bonds is part of Humanist's genius, part of its reason for being is to help form those bonds. Since so little has been forgotten or otherwise lost since the last time I composed one of these messages, this account has to be highly personal, diary-like (if a likeness is needed). The diary-like character adds to that which made Humanist, as one here said a while back, something like a blog before blogging began, though keeping a ship's log of the journey never was the ambition. When Humanist began, with Listserv in 1987, the thing was called a "list" and the person who managed it the "moderator". This didn't seem to me to fit at all. The aim was not to have a list of names and addresses, rather to make an intellectual community, hence (as we said at the time) an "electronic seminar". The job-title "moderator" didn't seem right either. The originating ambition was never "to make less violent, severe, intense, or burdensome; to make moderate" (OED), though breaking up fights and flame-wars was not an unknown part of the job. Rather the opposite: in particular ways, rather it was to enflame. "Agent provocateur" was and remains my ambition, despite the fact that far more time is spent reformatting than provoking. My imagination in these matters was not even late 20th-century, and certainly not the sort exhibited by www.agentprovocateur.com. Rather it formed from watching cartoons as a child of 1950s America, specifically of the devilish little man with his plunger and explosive, at a time when in then recent memory blowing things up was thought to be heroic rather than evil. This particular solstitial morning, here in East London, it's very cold, or so we're told, and (for London) rather snowy. Stories about how difficult life is for predatory birds, farm-animals, commuters and travellers abound. Images of people sleeping in airports and queued up for hours abound. Weather becomes a subject for calculations and, if you're in charge of Heathrow, severe recriminations. (One traveller asked, "How can three inches of snow stop one of the world's major airports?" No answer was forthcoming.) But if you can get anywhere you need to go by walking and can afford to heat your house, the weather is perfect for a northern hemespheric Christmas. Epping Forest yesterday was all white at midday, with spots of warm brown from the underside of tree-branches glowing in the declining sun, the snow powdery underfoot. The year past from this snowed-in perspective? Despite the economic disaster that has affected so much of the world, jobs in our field have been popping up here and there at what seems an increasing rate. (Indeed the problem, in some instances quite acute, is to find qualified people.) The PhD programme at King's has this year been joined by one at UCL, and perhaps by others? (News of them most welcome.) Humanist has been growing at its slow, steady pace, which given the proliferating means of communication online is a very encouraging sign of health. Within the year digital humanities has been called "the next new thing", or something like, which I'd dismiss as trivial but for my memory of a time when known association with computing meant relegation to academic obscurity. Bigger challenges than any so far lie ahead. Of course they do. If they didn't then all this wouldn't be worth the candle. It's worth wondering what is the hardest problem? Is it how to make a digital instrument as resonant for what it has to help us to do as a violin is for playing music? Or is it to keep our collective eye on the intellectual ball and mind on the game, and not become distracted with the club's account books, its logo, internal organisation and the cheerleaders? Or something else? What would you say? Time enough for resolution and resolutions in the New Year of 2011, however. Now is time to shut down, water the Christmas pudding with something tingly, make mince pies and so on and so forth, if that's in your calendar. If not, do those things that are. At least we all share atronomical regularities, though of opposite effect for those of us Downunder, perhaps accompanied by shrimp and champaigne on the beach in the heat of Christmas, or torrential warm rains on tin roofs for days at a time. Speaking of which, news has just come in of "Language Individuation: A Symposium in Honour of John Burrows", to be held in the Australian winter, 4-8 July 2011, at the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing, University of Newcastle NSW (www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/groups/cllc/2011-symposium.html). Almost a decade ago the organizer of the coming event, Professor Hugh Craig, put on in Newcastle the best conference I have ever attended -- best because the capable people there, speakers and audience, were given the time in which to consider what each speaker said (for one hour per speaker) and to discuss it at length (two hours following each paper). So, in 2011, something eagerly to look forward to, in addition to DH2011 at Stanford in June (dh2011.stanford.edu/). Now over to you. What, I wonder, are your professional reflections on the year? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 21 10:19:58 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 4517CC1A2C; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:19:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1FCF8C1A25; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:19:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101221101956.1FCF8C1A25@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:19:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.605 job at Indiana X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 605. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:48:59 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: Job posting at IUB: Associate Director for Digital Library Software Development In-Reply-To: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1407 Associate Director for Digital Library Software Development Job #: 2642 Position #: 00035708 Rank: PAE-4IT The Associate Director for Digital Library Software Development in the Library Technologies and Digital Libraries division of the IU Libraries is responsible for managing the staff and projects of the IU Digital Library Program’s (DLP) systems development group. The DLP is a joint venture of the IU Libraries and University Information Technology Services (UITS) and is comprised of employees from both departments. The person in this position will manage a team of seven programmer/analysts, database, and system administrators across multiple projects. Responsibilities will include working with other DLP and Library Technologies managers to define new projects and set priorities, managing and scheduling software development projects and team members' assignments, coordinating deployment and management of production systems with other groups in the Libraries and in UITS, estimating time and resources required for software development activities, defining processes for quality assurance, defining programming standards, mentoring and assisting in the professional development of team members, and directing and participating in requirements analysis, architecture, design, coding, testing, deployment, and support of software systems for digital libraries and library technologies at IU. Software development work carried out by this group includes ongoing development and support of digital repository systems to store, preserve, and provide access to digital information from IU libraries, archives, museums, academic departments, and administrative units, integration of digital repository services with other UITS systems and services, and end-user digital library access services supporting teaching, learning, and research activities at IU. This position is a member of the Library Technologies and Digital Libraries management group and the Digital Library Program planning team and is a participant in organization and unit-wide planning initiatives and the development of overall strategic plans and architectures for digital library systems. This position will act for the Director of Library Technologies and Digital Libraries as required. Qualifications Bachelor's degree in computer science, informatics, information science or related field. Master's degree preferred. Five years progressive work experience in the design and development of complex software applications, from analysis and programming to people and project management. Demonstrated work experience and ability in Java web application development, database design, XML, requirements analysis, and software project management required. Experience in leading software development projects using both traditional and agile methodolodgies (e.g. Scrum). Experience in database administration, system administration, digital media, and digital library systems preferred. Experience with Fedora and/or DSpace repository systems and/or any Kuali Foundation software preferred. Must be able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing; interact with staff, faculty, and vendors; handle the stress of performing multiple concurrent tasks with constant interruptions. Requires creativity in identifying complex problems and finding solutions quickly and accurately; attention to detail in communicating technical issues and implementing solutions; ability to change priorities as projects expand or project needs change. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian 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 Dec 21 10:20:43 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 CAF0DC1AE1; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:20:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 56D12C1ABE; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:20:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101221102040.56D12C1ABE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:20:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.606 new publication: software engineering applications X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 606. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:10:26 +0000 From: J.of Software Eng.&Applications Subject: Journal of Software Engineering and Applications Nov 2010 Issue JSEA is an OPEN ACCESS journal dedicated to the latest advancement of software engineering and application. Topics: * Applications and Case Studies * Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Software Engineering * Automated Software Design and Synthesis * Automated Software Specification * Component-Based Software Engineering * Computer-Supported Cooperative Work * Reliability and Fault Tolerance * Requirements Engineering * Reverse Engineering * Security and Privacy * Software Architecture * Software Domain Modeling and Meta-Modeling * Software Quality * Software Reuse * Software Testing * System Applications and Experience * Software Design Methods * Formal Methods * Human-Computer Interaction * Internet and Information Systems Development * Knowledge Acquisition * Multimedia and Hypermedia in Software Engineering * Object-Oriented Technology * Patterns and Frameworks * Process and Workflow Management * Programming Languages and Software Engineering * Program Understanding Issues * Reflection and Metadata Approaches * Software Engineering Decision Support * Software Engineering Education * Software Maintenance and Evolution * Software Process Modeling SUBMIT your manuscript now! Related Conference: CiSE (Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering) The 3rd CiSE, will be held in Wuhan of China from December 9th to 11th , 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 Tue Dec 21 10:21:07 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 0DBD1C1B26; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:21:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8EE54C1B0D; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:21:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101221102104.8EE54C1B0D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:21:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.607 Great War Archive X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 607. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:03:08 +0000 From: Alun Edwards Subject: The Great War Archive Dear Willard, The RunCoCo team are pleased to announce that the University of Oxford just signed a formal agreement with the Europeana Foundation to extend The Great War Archive collection into Europe. Initially this will involve working with our partners in Europeana and The German National Library to run the project in Germany. We hope to extend into other countries on the continent 2011-2014. There is a blog post about this work here: http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/2010/12/20/dnb-europeana-gwa/ Best wishes, Ally Alun Edwards Manager of RunCoCo, University of Oxford E: runcoco@oucs.ox.ac.uk W: http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ RunCoCo: how to run a community collection online RunCoCo | LTG (Learning Technologies Group, engagement and discovery section) | OUCS (Oxford University Computing Services) | 13 Banbury Road | 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 Dec 21 10:26:48 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 2A6B0C1C30; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:26:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 32C25C1C1D; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:26:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101221102645.32C25C1C1D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:26:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.608 new on WWW: JEP 13.3 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 608. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:20:30 +0000 From: Rebecca Welzenbach Subject: JEP 13.3 now available! Greetings! The December 2010 issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing (Volume 13, Issue 3) is now available at http://journalofelectronicpublishing.org. The issue is the last to be produced under the leadership of Judith Axler Turner, who has edited the journal since its third issue appeared in 1997. As Maria Bonn writes in a farewell to Judith, "Throughout the journal's now fifteen-year lifetime, Judith has been its guiding hand, attentive to every detail, generous with her advice and her editorial correction, committed to ensuring the journal's relevance to both practitioners and scholars." JEP thanks Judith for her dedication to this publication, and wishes her all the best. The articles in this issue include: JEP Bids Farewell to Long-Time Editor Maria Bonn--Associate University Librarian for Publishing, University of Michigan Library http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.301 Hypernews, Hyperreaders and Beyond Alexander Hay--Lecturer, Birkbeck College, University of London http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.302 Traversing The Book of Mpub: an Agile, Web-first Publishing Model John W. Maxwell--Assistant Professor in the Master of Publishing Program at Simon Fraser University Kathleen Fraser--Master of Publishing student at Simon Fraser University http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.303 OA Repositories: the Researchers' Point of View Roxana Theodorou--Guest Lecturer, Ionian University http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.205 Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar's Resilience Against it Joeran Beel--Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, and PhD student in computer science at OvGU Magdeburg (Germany) Bela Gipp--Visiting Researcher, University of California, Berkeley http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.305 Online Communities' Impact on the Profession of Newspaper Design Steve Urbanski--Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Studies at West Virginia University's Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism Amanda Miller--Research Assistant, Washington State University http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.306 Judith's own reflection on her tenure at JEP appears in her regular Editor's Note, at http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.307 Happy holidays, Rebecca Welzenbach Managing Editor, Journal of Electronic Publishing MPublishing, University of Michigan 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 Tue Dec 21 10:33:41 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 98C21C1DD5; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:33:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CDB9EC1DCE; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:33:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101221103338.CDB9EC1DCE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:33:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.609 events: culture; editing; annotation; libraries; brain & body X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 609. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (85) Subject: Culture and Computing [2] From: Georg Vogeler (17) Subject: Spring school "Digital scholarly editing" Vienna, 14- 18.3.2011 [3] From: "Marlies Olensky" (40) Subject: TPDL 2011 - Call for Proposals for Workshops, Tutorials, and Panels [4] From: Neil Fraistat (41) Subject: Open Annotation Collaboration [5] From: Lennart Nacke (74) Subject: 2nd CfP: Brain and Body Interfaces: Designing for Meaningful Interaction --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:26:41 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Culture and Computing Call for Papers The Second International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture and Computing 2011) Date: October 20-22, 2011 Venue: The Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University, Japan http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/culture2011/ International communities have a myriad of problems around topics such as: population demographic shifts, energy use and creation, the environment, and food supply. It is necessary to build a global consensus for resolving problems within these topic areas. Unfortunately, there are difficulties in communication among different cultures. Information and communication technologies are required in order to overcome such difficulties. There are various research directions in the relations between culture and computing: to archive cultural heritages via ICT (cf. digital archives), to empower humanities researches via ICT (cf. digital humanities), to create art and expressions via ICT (cf. media art), to realize a culturally situated agent (cf. cultural agent), to support multi-language, multi-cultural societies via ICT (cf. intercultural collaboration), and to understand new cultures born in the Internet and Web (cf. net culture). The International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture & Computing) will be held in Kyoto, the cultural heart of Japan, to provide an opportunity to share research issues and discuss the future of culture and computing. To understand the proceedings at the previous conference, please visit http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/culture2010/index.html. The second conference (Culture & Computing 2011) will be organized with an exhibition on the integration of state of the art cultural computing technologies and Japanese traditional culture, along with a number of co-located events. Papers are solicited on any aspect on the intersection of culture and computing, but all papers are expected to be suitable for a multidisciplinary audience. We have a single session Main Track and a few parallel session Special Tracks. The Main Track will present a collection of scientific or engineering research results. Examples of suitable paper topics for the Main Track include: -- Archiving cultural heritages -- Information environments for humanity studies -- Art and design by information technologies -- Digital storytelling -- Intercultural communication and collaboration -- Culturally situated agents and simulations -- Game and culture -- Analysis of new culture in the Internet and Web -- Culture and brain science The Special Tracks are collections of short papers, and are organized in coordination with the Main Track for the purpose of encouraging discussions in hot areas. We have Special Tracks for "Digital Humanities," "Asian Culture based Media Art" and "Computing and Music" at this conference. Paper Submitted papers must report original work that has not been previously published. A full paper with a limit of six (6) pages and a special trackpaper with a limit of two (2) pages, should be submitted by the paper submission deadline. Papers should follow the formatting instructions for publishing with IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services. Main Track papers (full papers) should be submitted electronically with an abstract (150 words) via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dculture2011. Submissions (PDF) must be written in English and must not exceed 6 pages in IEEE Standard template. Special Track papers (short papers) should be submitted electronically with an abstract (150 words) via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dculture2011sp. Submissions (PDF) must be written in English and must not exceed 2 pages in IEEE Standard template. All submitted papers will be reviewed by three distinguished researchers in the area of culture and computing. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society and be included in the IEEE Computer Society Digital Libraries (CSDL). Important Dates Main Track: Deadline for titles and abstracts: April 20th, 2011 Deadline for papers for review: May 1st, 2011 Author notification: June 20th, 2011 Deadline for camera ready papers: July 20th, 2011 Special Track: Deadline for titles and abstracts: May 20th, 2011 Deadline for papers for review: June 1st, 2011 Author notification: June 20th, 2011 Deadline for camera ready papers: July 20th, 2011 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:30:45 +0100 From: Georg Vogeler Subject: Spring school "Digital scholarly editing" Vienna, 14-18.3.2011 Dear colleagues, the Institute for Documentology and Editorial Sciences http://www.i-d-e.de wants to invite you to its fourth school on digital scholarly editing. The “Spring School: Digital Edition of Archival Documents and Manuscripts” will take place in Vienna, 14.-18.3.2011 and is organized in cooperation with the International Center for Archival Research and the Austrian National Library http://www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/hschrift.htm . The course is held in German. It is open to everybody working on a scholarly edition who wants to integrate modern information technologies into his/her project. The website of the school http://www.i-d-e.de/spring-school-2011 gives you further information on the scope and the preliminary program. Please send your application including a short description of your critical edition project to SpringSchool2011@icar-us.eu. Best Georg Vogeler --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:32:09 +0100 From: "Marlies Olensky" Subject: TPDL 2011 - Call for Proposals for Workshops, Tutorials, and Panels CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TPDL 2011 - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (formerly known as ECDL) Main conference: September 26-28, 2011 Tutorials, Workshops: September 25, 29, 2011 Venue: Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum Adlershof, Berlin, Germany Conference Website: http://www.tpdl2011.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TPDL2011 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TPDL2011 Linkedin: http://events.linkedin.com/TPDL-2011-International-Conference/pub/504696 Xing: http://www.xing.com/events/international-conference-theory-practice-digital-libraries-2011-633977 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The call for proposals for workshops, tutorials and panels is now online on our website: http://www.tpdl2011.org Important deadlines: Workshop proposal submission: February 14, 2011 Tutorial proposal submission: February 14, 2011 Panel proposal submission: February 14, 2011 Notification of acceptance (workshop, tutorial, panel): March 14, 2011 Tentative deadlines: Research paper submission: March 28, 2011 Poster and demo submission: March 28, 2011 Doctoral consortium submission: March 28, 2011 Notification of acceptance (research paper, poster, demo, doctoral consortium): May 23, 2011 Submission of final version (research paper, poster, demo, panel, tutorial, doctoral consortium abstract): June 6, 2011 The official call for papers will follow in the first week of January. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Local Organising Chair Marlies Olensky, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Programme Chairs Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Italy Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:09:07 -0500 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: Open Annotation Collaboration All, The Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) project is pleased to announce an open call for statements of interest in participating in the Using the OAC Model for Annotation Interoperability Workshop. The workshop will be held 24-25 March 20011 in Chicago, IL and will provide an in- depth introduction to the OAC data model and ontology for describing scholarly annotations of Web-accessible information resources. Use cases involving a range of scholarly annotation classes and target media types will be presented. Participants will be asked to examine, comment on, and provide feedback on how well the OAC data model and framework intersects (or fails to intersect) with domain-specific needs for scholarly annotation services and with existing discipline or repository-specific annotation tools and services. By the end of the day and a half workshop, attendees will be better prepared to propose and undertake implementations of annotation tools and services exploiting the OAC data model and ontology. The workshop is planned for 9 AM March 24 through 1 PM March 25, 2011, in Chicago, Illinois. Limited support is available to reimburse invited participants for reasonable travel costs. Preliminary statements of interest & use case briefs are due by January 24, 2011. In the event of oversubscription, these briefs will be used to select invitees; invitations will be issued by February 7. Please see http://www.openannotation.org/documents/CallForWorkshopParticipation.pdf for additional details and context; contact Tim Cole (t- cole3@illinois.edu) or Jacob Jett (jjett2@illinois.edu) for further information. The Open Annotation Collaboration is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. OAC members include the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Maryland, the University of Queensland (Australia), and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. 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://twitter.com/ http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103625845082&s=12322&e=001yfPenvYFXAImE2O-MiN05n3DJT14laE37Cg4Ha7Xy9zssjCXh6AF0eXsRKh40bUYLTp_dEaPDws2-JefDzbhaCRRRb7eBkinaw-CsPlptdXNb3npVZxpV0tUsnFIJbTB fraistat --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:05:54 +0000 From: Lennart Nacke Subject: 2nd CfP: Brain and Body Interfaces: Designing for Meaningful Interaction We explicitly seek game and entertainment-related contributions for this workshop. Please cross-post and disseminate widely. Deadline is only 1 month away (Jan 14). Workshop is on May 8. We look forward to your participation. ********************************************************************* CHI 2011 WORKSHOP - BRAIN AND BODY INTERFACES: DESIGNING FOR MEANINGFUL INTERACTION ********************************************************************* WEBSITE: http://brainandbody.physiologicalcomputing.net CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************************************************************* The brain and body provide a wealth of information about the physiological, cognitive and emotional state of the user. There is an increasing opportunity to use physiological data as a form of input control for computerised systems. As entry level sensors become more cheaper and widespread, physiological interfaces are liable to become more pervasive in our society (e.g., through mobile phones and similar devices). While these signals offer new and exciting mechanisms for the control of interactive systems, the issue of whether these physiological interfaces are appropriate for application and offer the user a meaningful level interaction has been relatively unexplored. The goal of this one-day workshop is to bring together researchers working on brain and body interactive systems in order to (1) provide a platform for understanding physiological interaction in different research strands, (2) establish a forum for the discussion of technologies, techniques and measures, and (3) build and extend the physiological computing community. WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS ********************************************************************* We are inviting technical contributions on the following three topics: 1. An Application Approach to Sensor Design ################################################# The design of a sensor at the hardware and software level defines the type of application for which the device is suitable. In medical and psychophysiological research, high-resolution data capture under laboratory conditions is standard. However not every type of physiological computer requires high-fidelity equipment and many of these systems must work in the field. Perhaps the physiological variable that drives the application must be captured with a degree of sensitivity and robustness. The application domain defines the requirements of the sensor and the type of hardware/software support required. In submitting under this topic, we ask researchers to consider how the type of application influences the specification of measures and the required specification for sensor design. For example, a heart rate sensor combined with an accelerometer allows physical effort to be removed from changes in heart rate, allowing cognitive and emotional effects to be processed. 2. Meaningful Interactions with Physiology ################################################# A physiological computing system can define the relationship between the changes in a physiological signal and a system command in any number of ways. However, certain relations between the physical and virtual will be more intuitive if they can be made meaningful from the perspective of the user (i.e., a natural interaction). For example, increases and decreases in psychophysiological activation should lead to changes that are both appropriate and intuitive at the interface. In submitting under this topic, we ask researchers to consider what defines a meaningful physiological interaction and what types of meaningful interaction may exist across different categories of physiological computing system (e.g. BCI, telemedicine, affective computing). We also welcome contributions with regard to methods that evaluate meaningful interaction within this context. 3. Ethics and Privacy ################################################# Physiological data of users are a highly personalised and private source of information. The storage and/or manipulation of these data can pose certain ethical concerns. For example, the uploading of physiological statistics to an online forum outside a medical context may lead to unsubstantiated self-diagnosis. In submitting under this topic, we ask researchers to consider the ethics and privacy issues involved in the storage and/or manipulation of a users physiology (e.g., in biocybernetic adaptive systems) and to what extent should we allow the user’s state to be manipulated? 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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: Richard Lewis (52) Subject: InterFace 2011: 3rd International Symposium for Humanities andTechnology [2] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (103) Subject: Call for Papers - Hawaii Conference [3] From: Shuly Wintner (10) Subject: Call for Participation: Workshop on Machine Translation and Morphologically-rich Languages --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:10:00 +0000 From: Richard Lewis Subject: InterFace 2011: 3rd International Symposium for Humanities andTechnology SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT With apologies for cross posting. InterFace 2011 -- 27-29 July 2011, University College London InterFace is a symposium for humanities and technology. In 2011 it is being jointly hosted by colleges across London and will be an invaluable opportunity for participants to visit this active hub of digital scholarship and practice. The symposium aims to foster collaboration and shared understanding between scholars in the humanities and in computer science, especially where their efforts converge on exchange of subject matter and method. With a focus on the interests and concerns of Ph.D students and early career researchers, the programme will include networking activities, opportunities for research exposition, and various training and workshop activities. The details of the workshops and training sessions are still in preparation but they are expected to include hands-on work with: * bibliographic software; * sound analysis for speech and music; * data visualisation; * user studies and social research; * discourse analysis in the sciences, technology and the humanities; * applying for research funding; * getting work published; * computer modelling. A core component of the programme will be a lightening talks session in which each participant will make a two-minute presentation on their research. The session will be lively and dynamic. Each presentation must be exactly two minutes long, making use of necessary, interesting, appropriate, or entertaining visual or sound aids, and condensing a whole Ph.D's worth of ideas and work into this short slot. Finally, the symposium will conclude with an unconference; a participatory, collaborative, and informal event in which the form and content is decided on by participants as it unfolds and in which discussion and production is emphasised over presentation and analysis. Participants may wish to share their own skills, learn a new skill, establish and develop a collaborative project, or hold a focused discussion. In January we will be seeking applications for participation in this symposium. An announcement and call for papers will be issued in the New Year. For any general enquiries related to the symposium please email: enquiries@interface2011.org.uk or see the website: http://www.interface2011.org.uk/ -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:44:12 -0500 (EST) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Call for Papers - Hawaii Conference -------------------- TCC 2011 Call for Proposals -------------------- [Our apologies to those receiving multiple copies of this message.] Sixteenth Annual TCC WORLDWIDE ONLINE CONFERENCE April 12-14, 2011 Pre-conference: April 5, 2011 EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: MAKING IT WORK Submission deadline: January 28, 2011 Homepage: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu CALL FOR PROPOSALS TCC 2011 invites faculty, support staff, librarians, counselors, student affairs professionals, students, administrators, and educational consultants to submit proposals for papers and general sessions. THEME The emergence of Web 2.0 created a global platform for communication, collaboration, and sharing. People, technologies, and perspectives have converged on the Internet that has spawned global communities and platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. The Internet has changed education. Many issues and concerns, however, have yet to be answered fully: How do faculty, staff, students and the communities served collaborate and innovate to produce positive learning outcomes? How can students learn through virtual worlds, educational games, augmented realities, or the use of smart, mobile devices? What best practices or choices have emerged in online learning? How do we keep up? How can we support each other? TOPICS TCC invites papers and general sessions related to technology integrated learning, open educational resources, distance learning, virtual communities, and best choices in educational technologies. The coordinators are looking for a broad range of submissions including, but are not limited to: - Perspectives and personal experiences with emerging learning technologies - Case studies and progress in applying ICT and Web 2.0 tools for learning - Technologies that enable communication, collaboration, creativity, and sharing - Building and sustaining communities of learners - Instructional applications in virtual worlds - Distance learning including mobile learning - Open educational resources (OER) - E-portfolios and assessment tools - Student orientation and preparation - Ubiquitous and lifelong learning - Online student services and advising - Managing information technology and change - Global access and intercultural communication - Educational technology in developing countries - Educational game design, rubrics, and assessment - Student success and assessment strategies online - Professional development for faculty and staff - Projects for seniors and persons with disabilities - Online learning resources (library, learning centers, etc.) - Social networking games and MMORPGs in education - Augmented reality - blending virtual content in real environments - Online, hybrid, or blended modes of technology enhanced learning - Institutional planning and pedagogy facilitated by emerging technologies - Gender equity, digital divide, intercultural understanding, and open access PROPOSALS This conference accepts proposals in two formats: papers and general sessions. For submission details, see: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/2011/tcc/pres-info.html To submit a proposal, go to: http://bit.ly/tcc2011proposal Papers are submitted in full and will be subjected to a blind peer review. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. General sessions may be conducted in many ways including a forum, discussion, round table, panel, or pre-conference activity. These proposals will also be subject to a blind peer review. Acceptances will be conveyed to the primary author or presenter by email. The coordinators are especially interested in proposals that involve student presenters. Fees for student presenters will be waived. Student presentations will be scheduled later in the day. The submission deadline is January 28, 2011. PRESENTER RESPONSIBILITIES Presenters are expected to: - Participate in a pre-conference orientation session. - Conduct a 20-minute informal, interactive online session about your paper or general session. - Use a headset with a microphone during the presentation. - Upload a photo, a brief professional bio, and related informational materials to the conference web site. - Respond to questions and comments from conference participants during the entire conference. - Maintain communications, as appropriate, with the conference staff. REGISTRATION All presenters are required to register online and pay the conference fee ($99 USD; $179 USD after March 31). Group and site registration rates for faculty and students are available. Contact Sharon Fowler for details . VENUE This conference is held entirely online using a web browser to access live sessions and related content. A computer equipped with headphones and microphone as well as broadband Internet access is highly recommended. SPONSORS & VENDORS Organizations or companies interested in sponsoring this event may contact John Walber of LearningTimes ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For additional information, see http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu . For further inquiry, contact Bert Kimura or Curtis Ho . This event is a partnership between TCCHawaii.org and LearningTimes.org. Additional support provided by faculty and staff at the University of Hawaii. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:57:33 +0000 From: Shuly Wintner Subject: Call for Participation: Workshop on Machine Translation and Morphologically-rich Languages Machine Translation and Morphologically-rich Languages Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation University of Haifa, Israel, 23-27 January, 2011 http://cl.haifa.ac.il/MT/ Preliminary program and schedule are now available on the web site. Registration deadline: December 31, 2010 Please register here: http://mt.cs.haifa.ac.il/mtml/ Looking forward to seeing you in Haifa next month! Shuly Wintner _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 06:24:52 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 32707C234D; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:24:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6FBAFC2330; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:24:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101222062448.6FBAFC2330@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:24:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.611 job at Georgia (US) X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 611. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:19:02 -0500 From: Phoebe Acheson Subject: TT job posting for digital humanist/ancient art historian, University of Georgia (US) http://art.uga.edu/index.php?pt=1&id=657 *Tenure Track Faculty Hire in Art History and Classics Ancient Visual Culture Digital Humanities Initiative University of Georgia * The Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Department of Classics at the University of Georgia invite applications for a tenure­‐track, joint appointment of an assistant professor specializing in ancient visual culture and the reception of the classical tradition and skilled at integrating imaging technologies within his/her scholarship and teaching. Candidates should hold the Ph.D. in art history and present evidence of successful research and teaching in digital humanities. This appointment is part of an ongoing effort by the University of Georgia to build a significant digital humanities infrastructure involving faculty and facilities housed in various departments and collaborating with the Willson Center for the Humanities. The successful candidate will be asked to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in ancient visual culture that are interdisciplinary in approach and that incorporate digital technology, allowing students to visualize the natural and built landscapes of the ancient past and study how that physical context impacted art, literature, philosophy, and other cultural endeavors. These courses will be cross-‐listed in both departments. The candidate must be committed to scholarship and demonstrate potential achievement in the discipline commensurate with the university's research mission. S/He must have excellent communication skills and participate in committee work and other service to the undergraduate and graduate programs. The Lamar Dodd School of Art, housed in a new, state­‐of­‐the­‐art building, has 55 full-‐time faculty members, including 8 art historians, and enjoys a close working relationship with the nearby Georgia Museum of Art. The classics faculty numbers 13, with specialties in Greek, Latin, classical archaeology, ancient history, late antiquity, linguistics, and the classical tradition. Both units are part of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. This position will be available August 2011. The final application deadline for full consideration is January 31, 2011. Applicants should submit a detailed letter summarizing their qualifications, curriculum vitae, names and contact information for three references, an example of scholarship, and other supporting materials to Chair, Art History and Classics Search Committee Lamar Dodd School of Art, The University of Georgia 270 River Road Athens GA 30602‐7676 www.art.uga.edu and www.classics.uga.edu 706-542-1511 The Franklin College of Arts & Sciences, its many units, and the University of Georgia are committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty and students, and sustaining a work and learning environment that is inclusive. Women, minorities and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. The University of Georgia is an EEO/Afirmative Action Institution. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 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 AA550C42BE; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:46:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4FFF0C42AB; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:46:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20101223064643.4FFF0C42AB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:46:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.612 another job at Georgia 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. 24, No. 612. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:22:45 -0500 From: Bill Kretzschmar Subject: another Georgia position Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities English Department and Department of Theatre and Film Studies University of Georgia The English Department and the Department of Theater and Film Studies at the University of Georgia invite applications for a joint appointment as an assistant professor in Digital Humanities specializing in programming and multimedia. A terminal degree is required by the time the appointment begins on August 15, 2011, preferably a PhD in drama, film, or performance studies. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate classes to introduce digital humanities and programming with interactive media. Other courses may include topics in the candidate's scholarly area and new interdisciplinary courses. The academic year teaching load is 2/2, incorporating a mix of classes in both departments. This appointment will be part of an ongoing effort by the University to build a significant digital humanities infrastructure involving faculty and facilities housed in several departments across the institution, including the Classics Department, the School of Art, the Willson Center for the Humanities, and ICE (Ideas for Creative Exploration). Applicants should present a research portfolio that demonstrates significant achievement developing innovative approaches to visualizing humanities research as an alternative form of scholarly publication and/or pedagogy. Candidates should send a letter of interest including a link to their portfolio accessible online, a cv, and three letters of reference, all in PDF, to Steven Carroll, scar1106@uga.edu. Applications received by January 31, 2011 will receive full consideration. The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, its many units, and the University of Georgia are committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty and students, and sustaining a work and learning environment that is inclusive. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. The University if an EEO/AA institution. -- Bill Kretzschmar Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities Dept. of English, Park Hall 317 University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 706-542-2246 / Fax 706-583-0027 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 06:48:09 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 CA871C4319; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:48:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2C2AEC4309; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:48:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101223064808.2C2AEC4309@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:48:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.613 our dreams fulfilled? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 613. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:20:37 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: perfect virtue achieved? [There are some technological visions that one could amost say in total confidence will *never* be realised in anything like the form in which they are imagined. But there are others, at one time depicted in fiction or which might have been, the realisation of which now one can say are only a matter of time. "Beaming" as in Star Trek is I'd suppose an example of the former. The following seems to be an example of the latter in the process of becoming fact. I quote the newspaper article in question, then attach a commentary. --WM] Robot waiters in China never lose patience By KEN TEH The Associated Press Wednesday, December 22, 2010; 7:49 AM Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com JINAN, China -- Service with a smile also comes with an electronic voice at the Dalu Robot restaurant, where the hotpot meals are not as famous yet as the staff who never lose their patience and never take tips. The restaurant, which opened this month in Jinan in northern Shandong province, is touted as China's first robot hotpot eatery where robots resembling Star Wars droids circle the room carrying trays of food in a conveyor belt-like system. More than a dozen robots operate in the restaurant as entertainers, servers, greeters and receptionists. Each robot has a motion sensor that tells it to stop when someone is in its path so customers can reach for dishes they want. The service industry in China has not always kept up with the country's rapid economic growth, and can be quite basic in some restaurants, leading customers in the Dalu restaurant to praise the robots. "They have a better service attitude than humans," said Li Xiaomei, 35, who was visiting the restaurant for the first time. "Humans can be temperamental or impatient, but they don't feel tired, they just keep working and moving round and round the restaurant all night," Li said. Inspired by space exploration, robot technology and global innovation, the restaurant's owner, Zhang Yongpei, said he hopes his restaurant will show the world China is a serious competitor in developing technology. "I hope this new concept shows that China is forward-thinking and innovative," Zhang said. As customers enter the dimly lit restaurant lined with blinking neon lights to simulate a futuristic environment, a female robot decorated with batting eyelashes greets people with an electronic "welcome." During the meal, crowds of up to 100 customers, are entertained by a dancing and talking robot that looks more like a mannequin with a dress, flapping its arms around in a stiff motion. Zhang said he hopes to roll out 30 robots - which cost $6,000 each - in the coming months and eventually develop robots with human-like qualities that serve customers at their table and can walk up and down the stairs. [There is much meat here for prognosticians and cultural theorists to dine on for quite a long time. I forward this because from the beginning of computing, across all occupations, and especially in the early years, dreams of what we humans would no longer have to do were rife. If you're interested, "drudgery" is a keyword that will summon most of these dreams, and which could be defined as "that which computers are capable of doing". But there is much to unpick here, much that I'll hazard to say is worth our best efforts to examine. Also from the beginning the wise among us (I am thinking of Fr Busa in particular) were saying that computing was not about saving labour but about doing better with the limited labour we have to deploy. And multiple examples of the scholarship we most admire point us to a return to the individual manuscripts, historical editions, occurrences in context, sites or whatever, to do the homework that gives genuine authority to our interpretations. Labour is not saved. Rather the right kind is the whole point. Clearly we can do what is now being done in that restaurant in Jinan, northern Shandong. Clearly being a waiter or waitress isn't a job one hopes for, and being faultlessly waited on is a pleasant experience. This is in a manner of speaking exactly what so many early promoters of what we do said was possible and presented as desirable. Changing what needs to be changed, is it what we desire? Comments? WM] -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 23 06:49:08 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 8DFA7C4394; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:49:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 73BDEC4381; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:49:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101223064905.73BDEC4381@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:49:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.614 events: metadata X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 614. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:37:15 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: call for applications: From Metadata to Linked Data Summer School Please Forgive Cross Posting >From Metadata to Linked Data Summer School Dublin, 4-8 July 2011 Closing date for applications 24 January 2011 The Digital Humanities Observatory and Trinity College Dublin are delighted to announce a five day summer school, 'From Metadata to Linked Data', a joint Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) COST (Interedition) training school. Through the generosity of the IRCHSS and COST, there is no registration fee. The organisers encourage applications from a variety of subject areas: especially the various disciplines of the humanities, computer science, and the digital humanities. The Summer School and will feature seminars in the morning and hands-on workshops in the afternoon by scholars in the field including Tobias Blanke (Kings College London), Owen Conlan (Trinity College Dublin), Shawn Day (Digital Humanities Observatory), Jennifer Edmond (Trinity College Dublin), Séamus Lawless (Trinity College Dublin), Geoffrey Rockwell (U of Alberta), Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory), and Joris van Zundert (Huygens Instituut). The week will be dedicated to exploring the theories, methods, and tools to create a technology-enabled, distant approach to reading. Distant reading, a term coined by the Stanford-based literary critic, Franco Moretti, relies on computational methods to generate abstract models to 'read' large textual corpora. In his 2006 article entitled 'What do you do with a Million Books', Greg Crane gave the digital humanities community a shorthand for reading in the modern age. His article points toward a number of exciting possibilities for a paradigm shift in humanities scholarship but realising this ambition has proven more difficult than theorising it. This summer school will bring together a group of interdisciplinary experts to explore solutions to distant reading. The methods to be explored offer the potential to interconnect the knowledge embedded in cultural heritage materials by relating people, places and events across documents and collections so researchers can interrogate them. This technology offers unprecedented power to investigate textual material to begin to realise the vision of distant reading. Attendees must bring a laptop for afternoon exercises. Applications are now being accepted. Applicants may also apply for one of the bursaries being generously funded by the COST Action Interedition and the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences. Up to 20 bursaries for Early Stage Researchers in Europe will be awarded. To apply for bursaries, 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'. ??* affiliated to an institution in a country in which ESF has a ?member organisation ??? There is no registration fee for the summer school. Bursaries will be awarded in two categories: EUR300 for Irish delegates and up to EUR600 for delegates outside Ireland. Expenses will be reimbursed after the event. If you would like to be considered for a place at the summer school, please follow the link below and complete the application. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/frommetadatatolinkeddataAPPLICATIONFORM For more information on the curriculum please see http://dho.ie/summerschool2011 This summer school is being offered in conjunction with the DARIAH network -- 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 2588 Email: susan.schreibman@gmail.com 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 Fri Dec 24 09:49:12 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 4C23DC3E82; Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:49:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 76825C3E73; Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:49:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101224094909.76825C3E73@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:49:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.615 dreams fulfilled & stories told X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 615. 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 (38) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.613 our dreams fulfilled? [2] From: Jascha Kessler (146) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.613 our dreams fulfilled? [3] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (14) Subject: Re: happy Christmas! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:40:16 -0600 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.613 our dreams fulfilled? In-Reply-To: <20101223064808.2C2AEC4309@woodward.joyent.us> I could state the Jay Leno sarcastic joke that "this is exactly what China needs... a way to employ fewer people" There are two global trends that are leading us into the future... Globalization and Technology. Globalization moves jobs to where labor is least expensive. Technology eliminates the need for human labor. Combined together they highlight that we had better solve the problems of the cost and sustainability of energy supplies and food availability else people will become a liability rather than an asset. A few breakthroughs could do it. What breakthroughts?... Energy costs so low that they aren't worth billing for, for one. This sounds impossible to imagine, but I would point out that this is exactly what happened to computation with the creation of personal computers. In the beginning computation cost money per CPU cycle. Computers were big boxes run by big organizations that charged money to pay for access. Somewhere along the way it was discovered that the very means of generating computation could be made so cheaply that one didn't need to build up computation centers the way we built up power stations. If the microprocessor and fiber optics and a few other technologies hadn't been discovered we'd all be accessing computational power over telephone lines connected through our TV sets and paying for it by the computational cycle and byte delivered (Hummm. Sounds like cable-TV today) Today we generate electricity at big facilities that charge for its access and delivery. If we discovered how to generate sufficient power in small devices at home, we could dismantle the whole electrical grid. Your energy costs would be based on buying your own generating equipment and paying for whatever it needed as inputs--and if those inputs were sustinable natural sources--then energy itself would be free. "Sufficient power" is the key. If you can't increase the energy produced, reduce the energy consumed. E.g., enter the solar-powered hand-held calculator. Anyway. It sounds like a suitably happy future to contemplate at this time of the year, and frankly the only one that seems to break us out of the globalization and technology trends continuously reported in the news that seem to be driving us toward a much less desirable destination. Happy holidays. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:55:22 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.613 our dreams fulfilled? In-Reply-To: <20101223064808.2C2AEC4309@woodward.joyent.us> Willard McCarthy is far too full of the milk of human kindness, goodwill for this Season and genial optimism. I wish him and all of us well. Still ... or nevertheless ... An unpleasant or perhaps pleasant thought for tomorrow, depending on one's moral, and/or Existential perspective/imperative? A hotpot waiter is one thing. Benign, if not too conversable, like many wouldbe filmstars waiting on table in LA are rather a bore and pain Another thing that stands in the wings, however, is ... THE GOLEM. [Movies are boring full of them crashing and smashing. It wont be kiddy fun for all those many today who relay on bodyguards. Take Mexico as a fine example of need. And then Mexico features 14 year old assassins, as our friends from Monterrey recently told us on their flight out to Hong Kong...their upscale streets are not please in the morning, since bodies lie bleeding everywhere, and at night, those laddies with Kalashnikovs stroll about spraying at lighted windows in large homes. Jascha K -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:57:26 -0500 (EST) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: happy Christmas! In-Reply-To: <4D10BF98.4040102@mccarty.org.uk> Willard, All the best to you for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. And here's a little gem should you be looking for some authority on narrative drive (to bolster an argument that Humanist and its ilk are sites for the exchange of stories)... There is an Hassidic parable which tells us that God created man so that man might tell stories. This telling of stories is, according to Lévi-Strauss, the very condition of our being. The alternative would be total inertia or the eclipse of reason. This is from the Massey Lectures delivered by George Steiner under the title _Nostalgia for the Absolute_. I like it all the more because Steiner situates Marx, Freud and Lévi-Strauss in a narrative of his own. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 24 09:51:28 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 12D8AC3F57; Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:51:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0801EC3F47; Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:51:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101224095124.0801EC3F47@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:51:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.616 the best things in life are free; or, publications and corrections X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 616. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jan Kroeze (8) Subject: Papers on computational linguistics of Biblical Hebrew, etc. [2] From: Gerry Coulter (4) Subject: Baudrillard Studies [3] From: "Felix Lohmeier" (25) Subject: TextGrid Newsletter: Version 1.0 in summer 2011 [4] From: Rebecca Welzenbach (14) Subject: JEP 13.3: correction --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:57:50 +0200 From: Jan Kroeze Subject: Papers on computational linguistics of Biblical Hebrew, etc. Dear colleagues, all my papers on computational linguistics of Biblical Hebrew and other Humanities Computing issues, are available on Google Sites at http://sites.google.com/site/jankroezeresearch/ Would you please be so kind to let me know if you find any of these useful? -- Groete / Sincerely Jan H. Kroeze, University of South Africa --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:58:42 -0500 From: Gerry Coulter Subject: Baudrillard Studies In-Reply-To: <20101223064905.73BDEC4381@woodward.joyent.us> The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (Online) www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies Has posted Volume 8, Number 1 (January 2011). The issue includes a selection from each of Baudrillard’s final two books (in English translation); six new peer review articles; obituaries for Louise Bourgeois, J. D. Salinger, and Jeanne-Claude Denat deGuillebon. Links to three special issues of other journals devoted to Baudrillard are included as is a new thesis concerning his work. There is also an update of Baudrillardian materials available on the web; four new book reviews, and an interview with IJBS founder Gerry Coulter. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:58:29 +0100 From: "Felix Lohmeier" Subject: TextGrid Newsletter: Version 1.0 in summer 2011 In-Reply-To: <20101223064905.73BDEC4381@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Colleagues, today, we are pleased to present you the nineth TextGrid Newsletter: http://www.textgrid.de/en/newsletter.html In June 2011 TextGrid is going to present a stable Version 1.0 which is intended to be productively used in research projects. In this context we will organize the TextGrid-Tage 2011 (TextGrid Days) at Göttingen on 12/13 July, where lectures, tutorials and workshops will take place. The newsletter addresses the following topics: * Roadmap for Version 1.0 * TextGrid-Tage on 12/13 July, 2011 * Press Kit with Interviews The joint project TextGrid aims to support access to and exchange of data in the arts and humanities by means of modern information technology (the grid). In 2006 development began on a web-based platform, one which will provide services and tools for researchers for analysis of text data in various digital archives - independently of data format, location and software. TextGrid serves as a virtual research environment for philologists, linguists, musicologists and art historians. This 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). Yours Sincerely, The TextGrid Team --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:47:29 +0000 From: Rebecca Welzenbach Subject: JEP 13.3: correction In-Reply-To: <20101223064905.73BDEC4381@woodward.joyent.us> Holiday greetings to all, Please note the following correction to Monday's announcement about the release of JEP 13.3: The correct link to Roxana Theodorou's article, "OA Repositories: the Researchers' Point of View," is http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.304. The earlier message pointed instead to an article from a previous issue of JEP. I apologize for the confusion this may have caused, and encourage you to check out this article, as well as the rest of the new issue, which you'll find at http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/. Regards, Rebecca Welzenbach Managing Editor, JEP --- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 26 13:17:16 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 856C8C5733; Sun, 26 Dec 2010 13:17:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 562D4C5719; Sun, 26 Dec 2010 13:17:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101226131713.562D4C5719@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 13:17:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.617 a better question than Turing asked? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 617. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:51:35 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a better question than Turing asked In the coda of his article, "The further exploits of AARON, painter", for the Stanford Humanities Review 4.2 (1995), the artist Harold Cohen confronts a question that arises from considering what his program actually does: "as a series of events that can be shown to have occurred and what needed to be done to enable them to occur". He argues that "without such an account being given, one is reduced to talking in abstractions", here specifically about artificial intelligence. "[I]f the events are not available", he says, "the discourse becomes meaningless." After describing in considerable detail how he was able to make AARON "able to isolate and deal separately with an arbitrary number of patches [in the image of a potted plant]... [and] able to cope with the filling of arbitrarily complex shapes", he asks, "Does that capability constitute intelligence?" and immediately answers, "It does not constitute HUMAN intelligence." Contemplating what AARON does, for example, it is trivially easy to assert that machines think or to deny that they do. He imagines the argument that Dreyfuss would have constructed twenty years prior, that AARON could do what, in 1995, it demonstrably does -- an argument based on an excluding definition of art as something which humans do. But, he notes, this "sidesteps a question that cannot be answered with a simple binary: it is art or it is not." Clearly AARON's output can hold its own in any assembly of similar but human-produced objects. He concludes: > I do not believe that AARON constitutes an existence proof of the > power of machines to think, or to be creative, or to be self-aware: > or to display any of those attributes coined specifically to explain > something about ourselves. It constitutes an existence proof of the > power of machines to do some of the things we had assumed required > thought, and which we still suppose would require thought -- and > creativity, and self-awareness -- of a human being. > > If what AARON is making is not art, what is it exactly, and in what > ways, other than its origin, does it differ from the "real thing"? If > it is not thinking, what exactly is it doing? This, I think, is a genuine and very important question. It points to the practice of software (and, in Cohen's case, also hardware) engineering as a means of probing human as well as artistic self-understanding. Cohen, after all, began AARON in an effort to find out how he drew, which (he says somewhere) he could not discover simply by doing it. Here the end of his investigations is the fundamental question I suspect simulation of human cultural artefacts always arrives at. It avoids the argument of Turing -- that if we cannot tell the difference the machine must be intelligent -- to pose something that seems to me far more important and disturbing: if we cannot tell the difference, then what is it? And what are we? Literary computing arrived at a similar question in the late 1970s, though by a social and negative route: since (as Rosanne Potter said) text-analysis has not been rejected but neglected, we must ask (as Susan Wittig said) what is text? And (as Warren McCulloch might have said) what are we that we can read it? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 26 15:53:46 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 5EE5AC6A1D; Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:53:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 192CAC6A0E; Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:53:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101226155342.192CAC6A0E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:53:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.618 What's going on in Italian 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 618. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:26:43 +0100 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: What's going in Italian universities? Dear Willard, My reflections for the past year concern the situation in Italian universities. Although it is clear that much the same problems are affecting many educational, research and cultural institutions across Europe. You may have gathered from the news that something is happening in Italian universties. Students have filled the streets of our cities protesting against a new reform bill (the third in ten years!) that undermines the existence of one of the largest public higher educational and research systems of the western world. But the riots of Dec. 14th are not just the result of the students' opposition to the reform and the associated cuts. The anger arises from the sense of insecurity of an entire generation that rejects the social and political decisions of the establishment. The most often heard slogan these past months has been: "Noi la crisi non la paghiamo", "We are not going to pay for this crisis". Students and protesters have been accused by the media of being violent, and led by the famous "black blocks". I was in the streets of Rome on Dec. 14th, and there were more than 100,000 students and researchers, not a single one from the so-called black block. They were instigated by the massive deployment of anti-riot squads who prevented them from reaching the square in front of the Italian Parliament. Italian universities have many problems, but this new bill does not tackle them. Simply put, it is a mix of devastating financial cuts and more than 500 new rules (more bureaucracy), many of which give absolute power to the already powerful caste of full professors -- the very people who created the problems in the first place. Moreover the bill turns the University system over to the Confederation of Italian Industry. It imposes enterprise-style governing bodies composed of 11 members (before, there were about 20), 3 of whom will come form the private sector, in particular from the ranks of the industrialists -- who thus get a seat *for free* on the board and can decide on the creation (and the elimination) of entire degree courses. Without donating a cent, as do the corporate members who sit on the Board of Trustees in other countries. God knows if all this will improve the quality of our research and teaching, as the Government argues. What is certain is that it will reduce democracy and freedom in our faculties. Even the Italian Rectors (who have been mostly silent and frightened) have said that if the situation does not change in 2012 they will unable to pay our stipends. In fact, more than 90% of present public funding goes to salaries. I guess all this resembles what is happening in the UK and in other European countries. Below you'll find the English translation of a document written by a newly born Italian Association of Associate University Professors (http://www.professoriassociati.it/). As most Italian media have ignored or deliberately manipulated the arguments against the reform, the associate professors decided to collect money and buy an entire page of a national newspaper (Corriere della Sera or Repubblica). The appeal summarizes the arguments of the opponents of this counter-reform. We will be very grateful if you will respond to their call for solidarity. Unfortunately, after a stormy debate in Parliament, the bill was approved last night. But the last word has not been spoken. There are still a number of institutional steps, including the signature by the President of the Republic, who received a group of students on the 22nd and who subsequently leaked to the press his doubts (of a purely 'technical' and formal nature, but doubts nonetheless) about the bill. Thus we are thinking of writing an appeal to the President, urging him not to sign the bill. We will be very grateful if you could circulate among your colleagues all this information. If we decide further actions, we will ask for the support of the international community of scholars. For it is clear that these funding cuts, using the crisis as an excuse, are the result of the same kind of political choices made in all of our countries. This is a global cultural crisis, and we need to build a common space of reflection and resistance. Perhaps our Associations could do something together on this. What about, for instance, organizing something like an "cultural emergency panel" for the next DH conference? Politicians and companies have their own world forums where they make their decisions against us; we have nothing similar to oppose their plans. We could benefit from a meeting place where we could come up with an alternative vision and interprepation of the world. As individual academics, many of us may think that we run no risks in the immediate future. After all, no one and nothing is going to stop us from doing our teaching and research as we see fit, right? But we might be wrong. I think we risk being surprised at how quickly our lives can change... unless we become proactive and begin planning counter initiatives now. Merry Crisis and Happy New Fear! Domenico ------------------------------------------ The original document can be downloaded from here: http://www.professoriassociati.it/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ISO-8859-15101224-Universit%C3%A0-0408-CS-24-12-1.pdf IN DEFENCE OF THE ITALIAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY The government says that Italian Universities are not competitive internationally. Thus it has proposed a “reform” and further cuts in funding. WE KNOW, however, that the average of the scientific “production” of Italian universities is superior to that of French, German or American universities (1). WE KNOW furthermore that Italy is seventh (tied with France) in the number of universities rated among the top 500 worldwide (2). WE KNOW, finally, that young Italian researchers are eagerly recruited by universities everywhere... except in Italy, where funds to support university research have been drastically cut. The government says its “reform” (the Gelmini bill) will reduce the unchecked power of the caste of full professors (“baroni”). WE OBSERVE, however, that the Gelmini bill actually gives this caste exclusive control, as in the old feudal university system (3.). The government says that this law will increase opportunities for higher education for all. We note, however, that the law ruthlessly cuts funding for scholarships and student aid; what funds remain are allocated without taking into consideration the financial hardship of the applicants. The government says that it has listened to all stakeholders. WE ASK: exactly when and where were our alternative proposals discussed? The government says that the law must be passed immediately, with no further discussion, to “hush up” possible social unrest. WE CONTINUE to think that elected leaders should, instead, listen to that unrest and take the time to reflect on the solution. WE WHO TEACH AND CONDUCT RESEARCH in the Italian university system; we who must get by with much fewer resources than our colleagues elsewhere in the world, although we are just as qualified as they; we who have sought to modernize the Italian university system from within, though free, open, transparent, non-sectarian initiatives like CoNPAss (the national association of associate professors, www.professoriassociati.it) and the network of university researchers (www.rete29aprile.it); we who want to be able to offer a future to our students; we who have constantly opposed the university caste system; we at last who have constantly (and peacefully) denounced the false Mrs Gelmini “reform,” which only pretends to modernize the university system; WE CALL for your solidarity. ------------------------------------------------- 1. Based on the total number of researchers and the total number of papers published, in SCImago Journal & Country Rank, 2009; OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook, OECD, 2006. 2. Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) , 2010, http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2010.jsp. 3. Combined effect of zero turnover and accelerated retirements which puts the governance of the university system in the hands of a small number of influential full professors: other staff such as associate professors and researchers will have no say in the tenure Commissions; indeed, researchers (who also shoulder much of the teaching) will no longer have a stable position in the university system as at present. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 08:06:39 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 48E16C673A; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:06:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7D9ABC6732; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:06:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101228080637.7D9ABC6732@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:06:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.619 more than the cuts X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 619. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:47:53 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: more dangerous than the cuts Those here who have been following the outcries against the cuts to higher education in the U.K. will want to read Simon Head's article in the latest issue of the New York Review of Books, "The Grim Threat to British Universities", www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jan/13/grim-threat-british-universities/. Places in the world that are more favourable to research will benefit from the inevitable migration of talent. But let me ask again: would it not be wise to consider ways of working and problems on which to work that do not depend on large-scale institutional support? We do not any longer need computer centres, at least for raw computing power. Communication networks may be assumed. Storage is cheap. There are exceptions, of course, but starting to make such a list leads me to think that resources aren't really the problem. I am led to think that imagination, or the lack of it, is -- that what matters is what we know to desire. Good resources help, of course. But what good are they if we're thinking that a job at the end of education is the target? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 28 08:07:21 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 1D6D9C67A1; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:07:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C4901C679A; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:07:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101228080719.C4901C679A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:07:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.620 importance of trivial changes X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 620. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:06:16 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the importance of theoretically trivial changes In our nervous if not neurotic search for "evidence of value" we tend unsurprisingly to look for theoretically sophisticated changes that digital tools and methods have made. We tend to miss the simplest things, such as the simple fact of online access and publication -- individually a small change in one's life but persistent over a long time, like the drops of very soft water than wear away the hard stone. The fact that changes like this come digitally does not seem to bolster any arguments for digital scholarship, or about it, but they do, or could. My favourite argument for the profound importance of these simple changes focuses on JSTOR and its kind, specifically on the effects access to scholarship across many disciplines has on disciplinary focus. But another just popped into The New Republic, and seems worth a look: Noam Scheiber's "Game Changer: Why Wikileaks will be the death of big business and big government", www.tnr.com/print/article/politics/80481/game-changer/. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 28 08:07:55 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 D0AC8C6832; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:07:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 96FC5C681D; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:07:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101228080752.96FC5C681D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:07:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.621 events: digital at the MLA X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 621. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:50:22 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Digital sessions at the 2011 MLA Colleagues -- as in previous years, the ACH has complied a list of digital sessions at the MLA. The full listing can be found here: http://www.ach.org/mla/mla11/index.html The ACH's own session, 'New (and Renewed) Work in Digital Literary Studies: An Electronic Roundtable' will take place on Friday 7 January at 8.30 am. Additionally, there are 45 more sessions on topics as varied as 'Labor in the Digital Humanities' (session 12); 'Hacking the Profession' (45); 'Planet Wiki' (185); 'Close Reading the Digital' (521). Susan -- 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 2588 Email: susan.schreibman@gmail.com 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 Fri Dec 31 06:10:54 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 E645BC85D9; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:10:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5AB2BC85C8; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:10:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101231061049.5AB2BC85C8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:10:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.622 more than the cuts X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 622. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:15:26 +0100 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.619 more than the cuts In-Reply-To: <20101228080637.7D9ABC6732@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I agree with you that the main challenge is probably our lack of imagination. How can we reshape our institutional habits and academic modes of production and evaluation? We have probably in front of us an amount of new possibilities - even in financial terms. But it takes always time and efforts to change the habits. Let's think for example to the usual modes of scholarly publication: as academic author, I have never received any money for my monographs or collected essays. It seems normal. But this situation could change, if we begin to produce scholarly applications, for example. We need only a collaboration between an engineer and an academic author to produce it; the resulting benefits could then be shared 50-50%. The Universities could in fact be the new publishers, with international editorial boards for each thematic serie, and some editorial «logos» such as “@Princeton”, “@King'sCollege”, etc. The series could be called: “FrenchLiterature@Princeton”, “Archeology@Cambridge”, etc. To be honest, the future role of our usual editors is not really clear for me: this impression is also linked to the fact that they are, in Humanities, quite slow to react to the electronic new market. They principally serve to give a «certification» to the best academic productions, but such processes can probably be recomposed around the academic institutions. Just think what it would mean if the 50% of the benefits created by the scholarly publications could be returned to the Universities, and be used for further researches... Happy New Year to all! Claire Clivaz (Lausanne, CH) Le 28 déc. 2010 à 09:06, Humanist Discussion Group a écrit : > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 619. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:47:53 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: more dangerous than the cuts > > > Those here who have been following the outcries against the cuts to > higher education in the U.K. will want to read Simon Head's article in > the latest issue of the New York Review of Books, "The Grim Threat to > British Universities", > www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jan/13/grim-threat-british-universities/. > > Places in the world that are more favourable to research will benefit from the > inevitable migration of talent. But let me ask again: would it not be wise to > consider ways of working and problems on which to work that do not depend > on large-scale institutional support? We do not any longer need computer > centres, at least for raw computing power. Communication networks may be > assumed. Storage is cheap. There are exceptions, of course, but starting to > make such a list leads me to think that resources aren't really the problem. > I am led to think that imagination, or the lack of it, is -- that what matters is > what we know to desire. Good resources help, of course. But what good are > they if we're thinking that a job at the end of education is the target? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, > www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Editor, 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 31 06:11:24 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 B72E9C85FE; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:11:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 00624C85EC; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:11:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101231061119.00624C85EC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:11:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.623 on digital reading X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 623. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 07:07:24 -0800 (PST) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Digital reading In-Reply-To: <20101228080752.96FC5C681D@woodward.joyent.us> This article by Roman Bucheli ( really ) in today's [29 Dec.] NZZ Online may well be of interest to some persons here : http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/aktuell/schneller_lesen_1.8925672.html - Laval Hunsucker Antwerpen, België _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 31 06:12:10 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 F11DDC8676; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:12:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AC182C865E; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:12:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101231061205.AC182C865E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:12:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.624 EndNote vs Zotero X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 624. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:06:54 +0100 From: Daniel Riaño Subject: EndNote vs. Zotero This is not a technical note on the relative merits of each reference-management software. For those of you who didn't know already, Thomson-Reuters, the proprietors of EndNote have filed a lawsuit against George Mason University, the developers of Zotero. A full article with links here http://madisonian.net/2008/09/28/endnote-v-zotero/ . From the article: "The complaint alleges that GMU’s EndNote site license prohibits reverse engineering the software, and that Zotero was developed in part by reverse engineering EndNote to determine how Zotero could convert EndNote’s output styles into Zotero’s output styles." (...) "Not only does the complaint seek an injunction against further distribution of Zotero, but it also asks for an injunction that “terminate[s] the ability of each Zotero user to use and/or further distribute any .csl style files that were converted from the EndNote Software’s proprietary .ens style files using Zotero.” " Sad, very sad. Daniel Riaño, CSIC, Madrid _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 31 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 52EE2C86DE; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:12:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D9F4CC86C4; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:12:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20101231061255.D9F4CC86C4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:12:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.625 events: natural language processing X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 625. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:35:09 +0200 From: "Kiril Simov" Subject: RANLP 2011 - Call for Workshop Proposals In-Reply-To: <20081231070005.7A0182A57C@woodward.joyent.us> Call for Workshop Proposals ================================================ RANLP-2011: 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011 Main conference: 12-14 September 2011 Workshops: 15-16 September 2011 (Thursday-Friday) Augusta SPA hotel, Hissar, Bulgaria ================================================ Further to the workshops held in conjunction to the International Conferences "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" RANLP-2005, RANLP-2007 and RANLP-2009, we are pleased to announce a call for workshop proposals for RANLP-2011. RANLP-2011 invites the submission of workshop proposals on any topic of interest to the NLP community, ranging from fundamental research issues to more applied industrial or commercial aspects. The format of the workshop will be determined by the organisers. Workshops can vary in length from a half day to full 1-2 days and can also feature demo sessions. Accepted workshops will receive one free registration to RANLP-2011 (full registration incl. tutorials, workshop, conference, reception, conference dinner). VENUE The workshops will take place at AUGUSTA SPA Hotel, Hissar, the main RANLP-2011 conference venue. If more than 10 workshops are selected, the RANLP-2011 organisers will provide space at some of the neighbouring hotels in Hissar. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals due: 28 February 2011 Workshop selection: 14 March 2011 Workshop website due: 28 March 2011 Workshop papers submission deadline (tentative): 17 June 2011 (2 days after the notification for the main conference) Workshop paper acceptance notification (tentative): 25 July 2011 Call for workshop participation: 1 August 2011 Camera-ready versions of the workshop papers: 22 August 2011 Workshops: 15-16 September 2011 REQUIREMENTS Proposals should be no longer than 5 pages and should contain: 1. Title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the goals and the technical issues that it will focus on; 2. Brief description of target audience, including estimates of the numbers of submissions and attendees (a tentative list of potential contributors would be useful); 3. List of related workshops/events held in the last 3 years or to be held in 2011; 4. Tentative workshop program committee; 5. Names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed Organising Committee; 6. Description of the experience of the proposed organisers in the workshop topics and in organising events. The workshop Organising Committee is responsible for: . Workshop website; . Call for papers/participation; . Paper submission (using the conference submission software), review process, authors notification, audio/visual requirements; . Verifying the camera ready copies and providing title page for the workshop proceedings. Workshop invited speakers: If the workshop organisers intend to host an invited talk, it is recommended that they invite somebody from the main conference keynote speakers or participants. If the workshop organisers decide to invite another speaker, it is very likely that the workshop organisers will have to secure financial support for the invited speaker. The RANLP-2011 Organising Committee is responsible for: . Link to a workshop's web page; . Publishing the workshop proceedings; . Providing the workshop venue; . Registration, audio/visual support, coffee breaks, registration facilities, Internet access. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION Workshop proposals in PDF format should e-mailed to Kiril Simov and cc'ed to EVALUATION Submitted proposals will be reviewed with respect to: * Relevance, importance, and timeliness of the topics; * Completeness, clarity, and quality of the workshop proposal; * Experience of the organisers in the proposed topics; * Viability of the workshop. THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-2011 Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair) Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK (PC Chair) Preslav Nakov, National University of Singapore, Singapore Nicolas Nicolov, Microsoft, USA Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshop coordinator) Irina Temnikova, University of Wolverhampton, 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 2 09:02:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C6D4C9F3E; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:02:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F39E5C9F33; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:02:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110102090204.F39E5C9F33@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:02:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.626 EndNote vs Zotero X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 626. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ernesto Priego (19) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.624 EndNote vs Zotero [2] From: Doug Reside (47) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.624 EndNote vs Zotero --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 04:17:47 -0800 (PST) From: Ernesto Priego Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.624 EndNote vs Zotero In-Reply-To: <20101231061205.AC182C865E@woodward.joyent.us> >         Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:06:54 > +0100 >         From: Daniel Riaño >         Subject: EndNote vs. Zotero > > For those of you who didn't > know > already, Thomson-Reuters, the proprietors of EndNote have > filed a > lawsuit against George Mason University, the developers of > Zotero. A > full article with links here > http://madisonian.net/2008/09/28/endnote-v-zotero/ . The article you cite is from September 2008. As far as I know the lawsuit was dismissed in June 2009. http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/06/thomson-reuters-suit-against-zotero-software-dismissed.ars "Zotero Everywhere" was publicly announced by Dan Cohen in September 2010. http://www.dancohen.org/2010/09/22/zotero-everywhere/ Ernesto --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 12:51:44 -0500 From: Doug Reside Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.624 EndNote vs Zotero In-Reply-To: <20101231061205.AC182C865E@woodward.joyent.us> Fortunately this was settled happily a year or two ago, I believe. (Although Thomson-Reuters has earned a reputation that, to my mind, puts them just above Blackwater and Haliburton as the most despicable companies in recent history) Doug -- Doug Reside, Associate Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland b0131 McKeldin Library College Park, MD 20742 (301) 405-5897 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 09:37:20 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F2FACA3D6; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:37:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D42AECA3CF; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:37:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110102093717.D42AECA3CF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:37:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.627 on digital reading X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 627. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Martin Mueller" (72) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.623 on digital reading [2] From: Willard McCarty (36) Subject: the Devil has a use --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:07:50 -0600 (CST) From: "Martin Mueller" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.623 on digital reading In-Reply-To: <20101231061119.00624C85EC@woodward.joyent.us> Roman Bucheli's article about "faster reading" in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung is a very thoughtful Jeremiad about the discontents of the humanities in a digital age, but is nonetheless a Jeremiad and can be countered from within its own argument. Bucheli begins with Umberto Eco who in "Lector in fabula" distinguishes between "reading" and "using" a text.The closer you look at this distinction the more questionable it becomes. But if you accept it for a moment, the former seeks an engagement with the text in terms of its own intentionality, while the latter extracts evidence from a text for this or that purpose. The former is a finer thing than the latter. In Bucheli's view, computers tempt us to do more of the latter and forget the former. Google's Ngramviewer is the latest and greatest manifestation of this temptation. There is something here, as I can testify from repeated and frustrating encounters with eager text miners who remind me of the doctors in Moliere's Imaginary Invalid: without taking a look at the patient, they perform the diagnosis and prescribe the cure, which involves bleeding and purging the patient. Poor patients! Poor texts! On the other hand, if the mechanical application of text mining reminds me of Moliere, it appears that the practice that I find distasteful is pretty old and has little to do with computers per se, although it may be encouraged by them in ways that need watching. Bucheli quotes from an article by Moritz Bassler and Rainer Karczewski at the University of Muenster who wrote two years ago that "the most important research tool would be a a system for managing queries and result lists" (my translation). They also coined the slogan "search first, read later." For Bucheli, this is the devil speaking, but while I have not read the entire essay, I can offer a more benign interpretation of what Bassler and Kaczewski offer. Current search tools in the humanities are on the whole pretty wretched. Their equivalent in the business world would be a sales rep who answers a question about sales by giving his manager a random list of invoices. So a tool for managing queries and result lists can be seen positively as a tool for a more intelligent and nuanced interpretation of results. Something along the lines of John Tukey's advocacy of "exploratory data analysis." Or think of Ellen Ullman's "Closer to the machine" with its almost lyrical celebration of the spreadsheet as a tool for thinking. As for "search first, read later," that surely has been the procedure of scholars for generations -- witness the search tools of an earlier age, whether concordances, thesauri, special dictionaries, or book wheels. Bucheli is right to point to the "chimaeara of a ubiquitous disposability, of total accessibility" and an "unimpeded filtering" that supports a "citation fetishism." So is the Germanist Peter Utz when he argues that you must put yourself "under the yoke of interpretation." But neither the dangers nor the advice are new. Goethe's Faust speaks with disgust of his "famulus" Wagner, a kind of 18th century postdoc "who is always digging for treasures and happy when he finds earth worms." German also has the word "Verzettelung" for getting lost in your index cards. Computers have created wonderful new tools for yielding to the old temptation of trying to solve a question by throwing more data at it rather than thinking hard about it. From that perspective, older lessons have a special timeliness. On the other hand, computers are also powerful tools for analyzing data that it previously was not possible to gather or analyze. That is as true of the traditional humanities as of the natural and life sciences. Computers are a double-edged sword. In thinking of them we might think of this paragraph from Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry: Doe wee not see the skill of Phisick, (the best rampire to our often-assaulted bodies,) beeing abused, teach poyson the most violent destroyer? Dooth not knowledge of Law, whose end is, to euen and right all things being abused, grow the crooked fosterer of horrible iniuries? Doth not (to goe to the highest) Gods word abused, breed heresie? and his Name abused, become blasphemie? Truely, a needle cannot doe much hurt, and as truely, (with leaue of Ladies be it spoken) it cannot doe much good. VVith a sword, thou maist kill thy Father, & with a sword thou maist defende thy Prince and Country. So that, as in their calling Poets the Fathers of lyes, they say nothing: so in this theyr argument of abuse, they prooue the commendation. Did I read this passage? Or did I just use it? --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 09:32:44 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the Devil has a use In-Reply-To: <20101231061119.00624C85EC@woodward.joyent.us> If (as I believe) a novel is created anew when it is read, by a complex process to which we have so far little access, then processing that text algorithmically, mechano-devilishly if you will, gives us another view of it, which (I agree) is a demonic parody if taken as wholly satisfactory substitute for the reading. But if it is taken simply as a model of reading, then it can do us good service, as we all know, or should know. We can then hypothesise that a given algorithmic process -- say, one which implements a statistical test -- models part of what happens when we read. Then the results allow us provisional access to what which we cannot otherwise know. By continuing to work in this way, eventually we have a model of reading. Of course this model is only as good as the texts on which it is based. Would a model built on the 18C novel hold up when fed Joyce's Ulysses? Not the Devil's work in the outcome, I think. Temptation still lurks (the Devil never sleeps) in a tendency to dismiss whatever is not modelled, such as the quality of light and the sounds of the house settling at night while one reads. And then there's a problem so huge and so well rationalised that we cannot begin to see around it: that which is breezily called "context". The greatest temptation of all, however, is I think to attempt to shut down our human desire to learn and know by denouncing a powerful means of doing both as being the Devil's work. The Devil is clever enough to denounce him- (or, to be fair, her-) self. Its close companion is, again, the substitution of one way of knowing for another, as if there were only one. How difficult it is to take in that which is new! Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 2 09:39:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E8BCA43B; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:39:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 52579CA42B; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:39:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110102093903.52579CA42B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:39:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.628 more than the cuts X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 628. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 17:42:55 +0000 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.619 more than the cuts In-Reply-To: <20101228080637.7D9ABC6732@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:47:53 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: more dangerous than the cuts ...But let me ask again: would it not be wise to consider ways of working and problems on which to work that do not depend on large-scale institutional support? ... I absolutely agree - it WOULD be wise. Most of the research I personally want to do is very cheap and could probably be done even more cheaply; all I really need from my institution is time (and a fast internet connection). But then comes the snag. Increasingly, our employers are taking the position that if we want time to research, then we must bring in external funding. And by external funding, they don't mean a few thousand pounds here and there, they mean big bucks. In order to get that sort of money, one needs to dream up something to spend it on. I had been expecting UK research council budgets to be wiped out, so that government-provided teaching income would become proportionately more important to our employers, perhaps bringing this particular insanity to an end (whilst creating a host of other problems - but that's another story). In fact, the opposite has happened: research council budgets have been cut, but by nothing like as much as the teaching grant. Moreover, at least one research council has announced that it will be doubling the minimum threshold for research grants. The pressure, in other words, is not towards the wise option, but towards more and more expensive research. This is not to say that I don't think it's worth discussing how to do research more cheaply. Just that I think that we have to recognise that no-one's going to thank us for it! Happy New Year, Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University +44 (0) 1908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 3 07:36:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E660C9B12; Mon, 3 Jan 2011 07:36:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C57D6C9B09; Mon, 3 Jan 2011 07:36:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110103073604.C57D6C9B09@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 07:36:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.629 on digital reading X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 629. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (50) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.627 on digital reading [2] From: Jascha Kessler (234) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.627 on digital reading --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 11:04:57 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.627 on digital reading In-Reply-To: <20110102093717.D42AECA3CF@woodward.joyent.us> The existence of Tristram Shandy suggests that computational models for novel analysis based on 18thC novels would probably still work well for Joyce's Ulysses. But, more importantly, just what exactly is supposed to be new about this kind of analysis? Textual scholars have been counting word frequency in texts for quite some time, long before the advent of computers, starting with the analysis of Biblical texts. Biblical scholarship, in fact, tends to be well ahead of literary scholarship in the use of quantitative analysis. You might want to check out the tclist on yahoogroups for discussions of computer models/algorithms in textual analysis. Some of it is quite fascinating. Anyway, I would ask you to briefly and clearly describe what new kind of knowledge is possible here. What I think that we can do is process the same kind of information more quickly, but not generate new kinds of information, unless we develop new informational models independently of computer analysis. Don't misunderstand me, though -- I'm all for processing this information more quickly. That by itself is a significant advancement that can allow us to more quickly move forward in our development of concepts. The real questions, I think, revolve around the validity and interpretation of the data. Quantitative analysis of Biblical texts -- especially the OT -- are handling languages with smaller vocabularies, a smaller corpus, and shorter active histories as living languages. Many words in English can have a history of active use in print over 1000 years old across hundreds of thousands of texts, if not millions if you count personal correspondence and the internet. How does a word count take into account these varying contexts and their resultant nuances of meaning, and sometimes completely differing meanings? We'd need to use markup to associate individual instances of a word with different nuances of meaning, but then the data has already been pre-interpreted in a sense. What happens if a different reader sees different nuances of meaning in the same text? We could associate short word clusters with different connotations of a word, but we still would not be able to take into account the context of the entire written work, much less relevant literary and historical contexts. A computer that could do that would be... the human brain. We're not there yet. Jim R The greatest temptation of all, however, is I think to attempt to shut > down our human desire to learn and know by denouncing a powerful means > of doing both as being the Devil's work. The Devil is clever enough to > denounce him- (or, to be fair, her-) self. Its close companion is, > again, the substitution of one way of knowing for another, as if there > were only one. How difficult it is to take in that which is new! > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 11:46:29 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.627 on digital reading In-Reply-To: <20110102093717.D42AECA3CF@woodward.joyent.us> If the list wont mind this observation, my eye was caught by "citation fetishism." One bizarre, but also most useful function is to be found in the use of citations counts to award merit and aggregate value — essential to the advancement of career and promotion and thereby prizes and bonuses and higher pay levels [ for which many individuals and their families are most grateful]. In Science and Medicine and egregiously in Social Science and Political Science offices, the top researchers and perhaps lowly first-rung scholars, simply have the secretary, now greatly, fabulously! assisted by the computer, paste into their articles all the OTHER articles mentioning or citing the author(s). The list, unread, to be sure, but counted up, to be certain! grow ever longer. And the top 10 or 100 such researchers in any field, are given prizes and awards and posts and offices ...although those committees in charge surely seldom if ever have the least command over the other articles in the Notes, if they bother to READ those folks. Not that some of the most famous with the most published papers, each of which may have up to a hundred and more citations listing their names elsewhere as having been consulted for information, knowledge, whatever whathaveyou, may not be topflight scholars and researchers. It is not devilkins thrashing about in that vast welter of citations — it is Lucifer Himself, seated at the very bottom of the pit of the many-ringed "malbolges," of the INFERNO, where beneath his anus is Zero ° where matter ceases to move, and comfortably puffing away at the vast balloon of citations, inflating a bubble that is just a bit smaller than the sphere, expanding before it, which we term THE UNIVERSE.... Jascha Kessler -- 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 Jan 4 05:54:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D39CFCA038; Tue, 4 Jan 2011 05:54:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 162CDCA023; Tue, 4 Jan 2011 05:54:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110104055443.162CDCA023@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 05:54:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.630 on digital reading 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. 24, No. 630. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:55:29 -0500 From: Francois Lachance Subject: Meditations on the Book In-Reply-To: <20110103073604.C57D6C9B09@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I know you have been suggesting that a way forward for humanists is to entertain a research program, to find an appropriate set of questions. Might I suggest that the way forward might be through a focus on an object: the book. I offer some meditations: The poet Robin Blaser concludes a poem collected in _Pell Mell_ with the following line: our battle with the book is our Buddhist battle. Gregory Ulmer in _Applied Grammatology_ offers a view of a struggle with the book as a process of mourning: The book is perhaps the most charged cathected object in Western civilization, representing, according to Freud's analysis of his own dream of the botanical monograph, the Mother. Derrida's frequent allusions to the need for mourning (a process associated with the child's defenses for dealing with the loss of or separation from the mother, an essential element of the entry into language), signaled by funeral knell in _Glas_, suggests that gramatological writing exemplifies the struggle to break the investiture of the book. >From this century: Margaret Wente in _The Globe and Mail_ concludes a piece about the rise of e-books with a litany of facts: As George Will points out in Newsweek, three years ago, Facebook had 50 million users, mostly under 24. Today, it has half a billion users, almost half of whom are over 35. It took 2 1/2 years to sell three million iPods, two years to sell three million Kindles, and 80 days to sell three million iPads. It takes 30 seconds to downlodad _Moby Dick_, and it costs $2.49. And from the New York Times, the words of a poet and musician, Patti Smith, upon receiving a National Book Award for nonfiction: Ms. Smith, who worked as a clerk in Scribner's bookstore in Manhattan before finding success as a singer and songwriter of jagged, beat-influenced punk rock music, told the audience at the awards ceremony, "Please, no matter how we adavance technologically, please don't abandon the book -- there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." I find it easy to love "a" book just as I find it difficult to imagine "the" book. Could it be that the humanities computing project that will animate the future is to spring from an intimate encouter with the particular materialities of the artefacts we have chosen to cherish? 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 Wed Jan 5 08:22:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E272CBF1E; Wed, 5 Jan 2011 08:22:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 96507CBF13; Wed, 5 Jan 2011 08:22:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110105082212.96507CBF13@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 08:22:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.631 RSS feeds? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 631. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:42:09 +1100 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: Digital Humanities RSS Feeds In-Reply-To: <20110104055443.162CDCA023@woodward.joyent.us> Hi all, Could anyone suggest important Digital Humanities feeds that I could feed through http://www.2cultures.net? Send them off-list and I will add them. Kind regards, Craig -- __________________________________ Dr Craig Bellamy eResearch Analyst, Digital Humanities VeRSI, PO Box 4200 University of Melbourne, Parkville 3052 Phone: (03) 90354290 0413 496 231 http://www.craigbellamy.net.au http://www.2cultures.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 Thu Jan 6 08:19:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65D4ACB2E9; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 08:19:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0E7B9CB2D5; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 08:19:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110106081929.0E7B9CB2D5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 08:19:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.632 more than the cuts X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 632. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ray Siemens (32) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.619 more than the cuts [2] From: Willard McCarty (57) Subject: biology & apparent lunacy --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 18:04:27 -0800 From: Ray Siemens Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.619 more than the cuts In-Reply-To: <20101228080637.7D9ABC6732@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Willard, and all, I've been thinking about your post since I scanned it in-between bits of family time over the holidays. It is your comment about lack of imagination being a key problem, rather than budget cuts and funding levels, that has stuck with me. My thinking has, rather unimaginatively, come down to a question I'd like to ask readers of HUMANIST: On this list and others we note large scale success of the kinds you note, but where in DH do we acknowledge great accomplishment that does not rely on significant resource support? Perhaps we need some visible exemplars to celebrate, as a first step toward considering how we might emulate them. All best, Ray -- Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 619. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:47:53 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: more dangerous than the cuts Those here who have been following the outcries against the cuts to higher education in the U.K. will want to read Simon Head's article in the latest issue of the New York Review of Books, "The Grim Threat to British Universities", www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jan/13/grim-threat-british-universities/. Places in the world that are more favourable to research will benefit from the inevitable migration of talent. But let me ask again: would it not be wise to consider ways of working and problems on which to work that do not depend on large-scale institutional support? We do not any longer need computer centres, at least for raw computing power. Communication networks may be assumed. Storage is cheap. There are exceptions, of course, but starting to make such a list leads me to think that resources aren't really the problem. I am led to think that imagination, or the lack of it, is -- that what matters is what we know to desire. Good resources help, of course. But what good are they if we're thinking that a job at the end of education is the target? Yours, WM --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:14:31 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: biology & apparent lunacy In-Reply-To: <20101228080637.7D9ABC6732@woodward.joyent.us> In "What is Science?", chapter 2 of This is Biology: The Science of the Living World (Harvard, 1997), Ernst Mayr describes the dominance of physics from the time of the Scientific Revolution, then considers why it is that biology was such a late starter, and why it is that biology has had so little presence in philosophy of science (i.e. disciplined reflections on the nature of scientific thought): > A revolution in thought through the Scientific Revolution... > nevertheless did not include a revolt against allegiance to the > Christian religion, and this ideological bias had adverse > consequences for biology. The answer to the most basic problems in > the study of living organisms depends on whether or not one invokes > the hand of God. This is particularly true for all questions of > origin (the subject matter of interest to creationists) and design > (the subject matter of interest to natural theologians). The > acceptance of a universe containing nothing but God, human souls, > matter, and motion worked fine for the physical sciences of the day, > but it worked against the advance of biology. > > As a result, biology was basically dormant until the nineteenth and > twentieth centuries.... He considers the work that was going on in collection of factual knowledge under the rubric of natural history and medicine but concludes, > In retrospect, it is evident that some of this early natural history > was very good science; but not being recognized as such at that time, > it did not contribute to the philosophy of science. (pp. 29-30) There is much to talk about here, but allow me to narrow the beam to one point: the potential of a discipline -- or the potential of a potential discipline -- versus the conditions under which it might flourish. Or, to put the matter the other way around, the conditions that favour particular disciplines, or particular ways of doing this and that discipline. It seems clear historically that by the time awareness of computing spread across the humanities, in the mid to late 1960s, already for the humanities these "conditions" I am speaking of were in process of becoming unfavourable to the kinds of work that computers could then do, i.e. process words. New Criticism was on its way out; very different ideas of literature were on their way in. Hence our kind of thing became simply invisible to the mainstream. The point to which I arrive with this brief and potted history is, if you will, a sobering realisation that what we can do intellectually is limited by forces way beyond our control, and then a question: assuming that current conditions can be assessed, what can we do that we're neglecting? For it seems to me that (let us call it) progress in a field of knowledge wouldn't happen unless someone is attempting work on the (apparently, to others, the lunatic) fringe. And if this is so, then perhaps our sense of acccomplishment, for recognized and funded work, should be somewhat qualified. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 6 10:59:31 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0905BCCA4A; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:59:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 772D6CCA28; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:59:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110106105928.772D6CCA28@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:59:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.633 PhD studentship at the Huygens Instituut X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 633. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:56:24 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: PhD studentship at the Huygens Instituut (Den Haag) With effect from April 1, there is a vacancy for a PhD Position (Promovendus) in Medieval Studies for 38 hours a week (1,0 fte) The PhD position will be in the VIDI research programme Marginal Scholarship. The Practice of Learning in the Early Middle Ages (c. 800-c. 1000). The programme is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and led by Dr. M.J. Teeuwen. It runs from May 2011 to May 2015. Research programme and projects The VIDI programme studies the phenomenon of glossed manuscripts in the Carolingian period. It sees marginalia as important witnesses of scholarly and scientific developments, essential for our understanding of intellectual life in early medieval Europe. It proposes three interrelated projects to explore the topic from three complementary angles, dealing with 1. scholarly genres and their interdependence; 2. leading centres of intellectual production and transmission; 3. the organisation of learning in a specific collection of manuscripts: the collection of Leiden University. The first of these projects will be carried out by the PhD researcher, the second by a postdoc researcher, the third by the project leader herself. The project will entail collecting and describing relevant research materials in the larger collections of early medieval manuscripts (the libraries of Munich, Paris, the Vatican, etcetera), but also mapping the observations onto their intellectual, cultural, and scholarly contexts. Tasks The PhD student is expected to: -- carry out the proposed research project -- take part in the activities of the research team -- present papers at international meetings, submit articles to peer-reviewed articles or collective volumes -- write a dissertation in English -- co-organise a symposium, and contribute to the publication of its proceedings Requirements The candidates must have: -- a Master’s degree in Medieval Studies, Classical Languages or an equivalent degree relevant to the project; -- excellent knowledge of Latin, thorough knowledge of disciplines relevant to manuscript research (paleography, codicology, good manuscript reading skills), proficiency in English, a working knowledge of German and French; -- the ability to conduct independent scholarly research within a team setting under supervision; -- good ICT skills and the willingness to experiment with newly developed tools for digital analysis; -- good communication skills. Appointment The appointment will be available initially for 12 months. Upon positive evaluation, it will be extended with another 36 months (full-time). An appointment of 0,8 fte with according extension is negotiable. The preferred starting date for the project is 1 May 2011. The appointment must result in a dissertation at the end of the appointment. Salary The salary starts at € 2,042.- in the first year and increases to € 2,612.- in the fourth year, based on a full-time appointment (scale P, Collective Agreement for Dutch universities), excluding 8% holiday pay and a 8,3% year-end bonus. We offer an extensive package of fringe benefits. Information Further information can be obtained from Dr. M.J. Teeuwen, Huygens ING (email mariken.teeuwen@huygensinstituut.knaw.nl; phone +31 70 331 5807). Please visit the website of the programme at http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/marginal-scholarship. Application Applications for this position (preferably in pdf format) should be sent before February 10th to: Bedrijfsbureau Huygens-ING attn: Personnel Department P.O. Box 95366 2509 CJ The Hague E-mail address: sollicitaties@huygensinstituut.knaw.nl. Applications should consist of 1. a curriculum vitae; 2. a letter of recommendation; 3. a list of courses followed and a copy of the MA diploma (please provide translations of these documents in English or Dutch where appropriate); 4. a copy of the MA thesis or a writing sample of it; 6. an extended letter of motivation explaining why the candidates consider themselves qualified for conducting this research (max. 1,000 words). --- The Huygens ING is an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). It conducts research and makes accessible texts in literature & history of science, and conducts research into the history of the Netherlands. The Institute has about 100 employees and is located in close proximity to the Central Station of The Hague. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 7 06:08:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 981ACCDC79; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:08:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 675E5CDC6A; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:08:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110107060855.675E5CDC6A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:08:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.634 more than the cuts X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 634. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 16:15:43 -0500 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 24.632 more than the cuts In-Reply-To: <20110106081929.0E7B9CB2D5@woodward.joyent.us> well, it depends what/how you mean re "accomplishment"... for example, i founded clcweb: comparative literature and culture at the u of alberta in 1998 and received no support whatsoever there; why, even the SSHRC rejected my application for funding because, at the time, the rule was to have a subscription count without which no funding was even considered (re this, see, "History of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/clcwebhistory ); and as most journals in the humanities -- apart from purdue UP legally publishing the journal since 2000 -- there is no labour or any other type of financial support available: and clcweb remains one of the very few online journals in the field that is in open access and in full text and indexed in thomson reuters' AHCI; see also this recent article: Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. "The 'Impact Factor' and Selected Issues of Content and Technology in Humanities Scholarship Published Online." Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42.1 (2010): 70-78. best and a happy new year, 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 Jan 6, 2011, at 3:19 am, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 632. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Ray Siemens (32) > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.619 more than the cuts > > [2] From: Willard McCarty (57) > Subject: biology & apparent lunacy > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 18:04:27 -0800 > From: Ray Siemens > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.619 more than the cuts > In-Reply-To: <20101228080637.7D9ABC6732@woodward.joyent.us> > > Hi Willard, and all, > > I've been thinking about your post since I scanned it in-between bits of family time over the holidays. It is your comment about lack of imagination being a key problem, rather than budget cuts and funding levels, that has stuck with me. > > My thinking has, rather unimaginatively, come down to a question I'd like to ask readers of HUMANIST: > > On this list and others we note large scale success of the kinds you note, but where in DH do we acknowledge great accomplishment that does not rely on significant resource support? > > Perhaps we need some visible exemplars to celebrate, as a first step toward considering how we might emulate them. > > All best, > > Ray > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 7 06:13:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB2FBCDE20; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:13:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF872CDE19; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:13:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110107061337.CF872CDE19@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:13:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.635 job at McGill; grants for NEH programmes X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 635. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Education (17) Subject: Grant Opportunity: Direct an NEH Summer Program in 2012 [2] From: Eberle Sinatra Michael (11) Subject: Job position @ McGill --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:50:49 +0000 From: Education Subject: Grant Opportunity: Direct an NEH Summer Program in 2012 Since 1967, the National Endowment for the Humanities has funded residential summer programs for college and university faculty and, since 1982, K-12 teachers. These include two- to five-week Summer Seminars and Institutes and one-week Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops. 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We encourage you to discuss your proposal with NEH staff, who are available to answer questions and critique drafts. Call (202) 606-8500 or send e-mail to sem-inst@neh.gov or landmarks@neh.gov. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 18:04:28 +0000 From: Eberle Sinatra Michael Subject: Job position @ McGill Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Digital Humanities The Faculty of Arts at McGill University invites applications for a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Digital Humanities. The successful candidate will have the academic credentials necessary for a tenure-track appointment as an advanced Assistant or Associate Professor in an appropriate disciplinary department. Funded by the Government of Canada, Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs allow Canadian universities to attract and retain exceptional emerging researchers. Chairholders are also eligible for infrastructure support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to help acquire state-of-the-art equipment essential to their work. For further information on the CRC program, please see http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/. We seek a scholar with a proven record of securing external funding to support digital humanities initiatives and the ability to build institutional capability in this area at McGill. The successful candidate will have a broad understanding of the history, significance, and application of digital technologies in one or more substantive areas of the humanities, including a demonstrated interest in the development of new digital tools and innovative methodologies. Along with critically exploring how digital technology can augment the practice of humanities scholarship, the CRC in Digital Humanities will advance the role humanities scholarship plays in developing our understanding of digital media in one or more of the domains of culture: art, literature, film, theatre, sound, architecture, and/or other media or forms of expression. Applications should include a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, writing samples, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and three letters of reference. The position start date is August 1, 2011. Review of applications will begin on February 11, 2011, and will continue until the position is filled. PLEASE FORWARD SUPPORTING MATERIALS TO: Professor Juliet Johnson Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T6 All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. 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It welcomes applications from indigenous peoples, visible minorities, ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, women, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities and others who may contribute to further diversification. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 7 06:18:53 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29525CDF78; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:18:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A1A15CDF69; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:18:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110107061849.A1A15CDF69@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:18:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.636 events: book design; text mining X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 636. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dominic Forest (79) Subject: Appel à participation DEFT2011 [2] From: Wim Van-Mierlo (19) Subject: Call for Papers: Book Design from the Middle Ages to the Future --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:39:14 -0500 From: Dominic Forest Subject: Appel à participation DEFT2011 ******************************************************** DEFT2011 - Appel à participation Le défi DEFT est un atelier d'évaluation francophone en fouille de textes. L'édition 2011 portera, d'une part sur la variation diachronique en corpus de presse francophone et d'autre part sur l'appariement d'un article scientifique avec son résumé. Site web : http://deft2011.limsi.fr/ Comité d'organisation : - présidents : Cyril Grouin (LIMSI-CNRS) et Dominic Forest (EBSI, Université de Montréal) - contact : deft2011@limsi.fr ******************************************************** Dates importantes : - Inscription : à partir du 25 janvier 2011 - Diffusion des corpus d'apprentissage : 1er mars 2011 - Test : 3 jours pris entre le 1er et le 7 mai 2011 - Atelier : le 1er juillet 2011 lors de la conférence TALN ******************************************************** DEFT2011 constitue la septième édition de la campagne d'évaluation en fouille de textes DEFT. L'atelier de clôture se tiendra à Montpellier dans le cadre de la conférence TALN. Pour cette nouvelle édition, nous proposons deux pistes distinctes : - la variation diachronique en corpus de presse ; - l'appariement d'articles scientifiques et de résumés. *** Piste 1. Dans la continuité de l'édition 2010 du défi, nous offrons de nouveau l'opportunité de travailler sur l'étude de la variation diachronique en corpus de presse. Cette piste sera ainsi l'occasion de mesurer les évolutions des systèmes depuis la précédente édition du défi. Le corpus se compose d'archives journalistiques parmi plusieurs titres français (dont "Le Journal des Débats", "Le Journal de l'Empire", "Le Journal des Débats politiques et littéraires", "Le Figaro", et "La Croix" ; des titres supplémentaires seront éventuellement ajoutés selon disponibilité) sur une période comprise entre 1800 et 1944. Les documents de travail sont le résultat d'une OCRisation Deux sous-pistes sont envisagées : - la première concerne des extraits de 300 mots semblables à ceux fournis dans les corpus de l'année passée. - la seconde se rapporte à des extraits plus larges intégrant 500 mots. Les participants devront identifier l'année de parution de l'extrait étudié (et non plus la décennie comme en 2010). Les résultats seront évalués au moyen d'une distance entre l'année fournie et l'année attendue (fenêtre d'évaluation autour de l'année de référence). Pour cette piste, les participants auront la possibilité d'utiliser des ressources externes (linguistiques, historiques, etc.) qu'ils devront obligatoirement déclarer lors de la soumission des résultats. Les ressources provenant de Gallica ne seront pas autorisées ! *** Piste 2. Nous proposons également une piste axée autour du résumé d'article scientifique. Plutôt que de se placer dans la perspective d'une génération automatique de résumé à partir d'un article (approche intéressante mais délicate à évaluer de manière automatique), nous adoptons l'approche inverse qui consiste à identifier à quel article scientifique correspond un résumé. Les méthodes qui seront utilisées pour effectuer ces appariements devraient permettre de mettre en évidence les éléments saillants qui doivent se retrouver dans le résumé et les techniques langagières utilisées pour produire de tels résumés. Cette seconde piste se composera de deux corpus d'articles scientifiques, le premier en français dans le domaine des sciences humaines et sociales, le second en anglais dans le domaine de la santé. Plusieurs sous-pistes ont été définies sur cette tâche : - identifier les couples résumé/article scientifique complet ; - identifier les couples résumé/article scientifique auquel on a enlevé l'introduction et la conclusion. ******************************************************** Les équipes participant à DEFT2011 devront s'inscrire à l'aide du formulaire en ligne, et signer les accords de restriction d'usage des corpus. Des corpus d'apprentissage seront fournis aux participants inscrits, à partir du 1er mars 2011. 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 la première semaine de mai. A 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 en oeuvre sur les corpus d'apprentissage. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 12:04:50 +0000 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: Call for Papers: Book Design from the Middle Ages to the Future Book Design from the Middle Ages to the Future Traditions and Evolutions Date: 29 & 30 September 2011 Venue: University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2011 The objective of this international congress is to explore traditions and innovations in book design and typography from the manuscript era to the age of the electronic book. The following questions will be addressed: How did the design of books evolve during the Middle Ages, the early modern period and beyond? Which traditions survived the successive transitions from manuscripts to hand press books in the early modern period, at the end of the eighteenth century (the period of mechanization and automatisation), and at the end of the twentieth century from the paper book to the electronic book? How did the changing conditions of production and use affect the appearance and content of books? Which elements endured and which ones were altered or disappeared? How is the design of books embedded in culture and how do the arts interact where the presentation of texts is concerned? Twenty-minute papers are invited addressing different aspects of book design, typography and book layout from a comparative or long-term perspective. They may deal with single aspects, such as title pages, type and illustrations, or with strategies for the articulation of texts, such as rubrication, colour, typographical white, ornaments and initials. Contributions should focus on traditions and the long-term evolution of book design, or explore the interaction of different cultures that have influenced the typography of books in neighbouring regions. Keynote speaker: Prof David McKitterick (Cambridge University) Confirmed speakers include Dr Erik Kwakkel (Leiden University) & Prof Gerard Unger (Leiden University) The congress will be preceded by a Miræus Lecture in the Nottebohm Hall of the Antwerp Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, and will be followed by a guided tour of the Museum Plantin Moretus in Antwerp on Saturday 1 October. For further information & questions, please contact Dr Goran Proot, University of Antwerp, Grote Kauwenberg 18, room d218, b-2000 Antwerp, Belgium. Please send twenty-line abstracts by 28 February 2011 to goran.proot@gmail.com. ***************** dr. Goran Proot Universiteit Antwerpen Grote Kauwenberg 18 kamer D218 2000 Antwerpen 03-265.42.88 goran.proot@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 Jan 7 06:57:05 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B16A9CC495; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:57:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 36B43CC487; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:57:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110107065702.36B43CC487@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:57:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.637 paradigm shifting? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 637. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 06:54:49 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: paradigm shifting? One of the frequent expressions we use to denote the sort of radical change we think computing has made, a "paradigm shift", comes from Thomas Kuhn's enormously influential book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). This is without doubt the most influential book ever published in the history and philosophy of science. Riding on the prestige of physics at the time, it was hugely influential throughout all the disciplines and beyond. I'd suppose the phrase still commonly to be found in the popular media. But does it tie us users of it covertly, to a far greater extent than we realise, to the idea that "science" -- i.e. the reductive notion that we have of the sciences -- is made in the image of physics, hence that truly reliable knowledge is obtained by adopting the epistemology and the epistemological rhythm of physics as Kuhn described them? One of the benefits of reading Ernst Mayr's accounts of how biology works is the realisation of the extent to which one's ideas of "science" shift if one takes biology as the model. Mayr argues (in This is Biology and in "Do Thomas Kuhn's Scientific Revolutions Take Place", What Makes Biology Unique?, pp. 159-69) that the Kuhnian epistemological rhythm, of normal science radically changed by revolutionary shift from old to new paradigm, simply doesn't work for biology. There are no such revolutions in biology in Kuhn's sense, he says: from one way of thinking suddenly to another that is incommensurable with that which it replaces. The more I look at the early history of computing in the humanities, the more it seems to me that computing, as it forms within the humanities, answers to something else and resonates with other developments, e.g. in critical theorizing. In other words, that we're not witnessing a sudden-break revolution in the humanities but something far more gradual and far more indebted to other developments. Change, yes, but what kind, related to what other changes? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 10 08:55:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 275F1D0E17; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:55:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 574ACD0E06; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:55:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110110085515.574ACD0E06@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:55:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.638 paradigm shifting X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 638. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Charles Ess (153) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.637 paradigm shifting? [2] From: Jascha Kessler (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.637 paradigm shifting? [3] From: Jascha Kessler (69) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.637 paradigm shifting? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 09:14:33 +0100 From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.637 paradigm shifting? In-Reply-To: <20110107065702.36B43CC487@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks for this, Willard. Offhand, I find this persuasive and salutary - not simply based on what I know about history and philosophy of science, the dominance of physics as a paradigm for what counts as "science" (i.e., real knowledge), etc., but also as it resonates more broadly with a now long-term discomfort with the trope of "revolution" as applied to computing in general and specific forms of computer-mediated communication (e.g., "the blog revolution," etcetera ad nauseam). It may be helpful here to remember that the term itself fundamentally changed its meaning in early modernity - i.e., "revolution" in Copernicus' time referred primarily to the revolution of the planets, a circling about in the same place, _not_ some sort of radical shift towards a New requiring the liquidation of the Old, as became the commonplace meaning at least by the time of the political revolutions of the 1700s onward. With more focus on computation: the longer I stare at it, however remarkable the technological advances we can document since Norbert Wiener and the first electronic computers in the 1940s - the more it seems to me that continuity prevails over "revolutionary" change. To borrow from Luciano Floridi: it depends in good measure on what level of abstraction we take up. At a very deep level, for example, as Katherine Hayles made clear (1999), Wiener's cybernetics draws on dualistic assumptions at least as old as Descartes; indeed, in the foundational novel _Neuromancer_, William Gibson speaks in language directly echoing St. Augustine's doctrine of original sin and what Nietzsche identified as _contemptus mundi_ - a contempt for the body as "Meat" (echoed by John Perry Barlow in the 1990s in his contempt for "Meatspace" vs. cyberspace, for example). Similarly, as few people seem to recognize (which thereby feeds the trope of revolution), the very term "cybernetics" derives from _cybernetes_ - a Greek word for pilot or steersman that serves in Plato (e.g., the Republic) as a primary exemplar of _phronesis_ or ethical judgment that is distinctive in part for its capacity for _ethical_ self-correction, not simply informational self-correction as cybernetics in the 20th ct. rather emphasized. Read against these humanistic backgrounds, then, much of the prevailing conceptual frameworks and underlying assumptions (presumptions) guiding our thought and discourse regarding a putative computationally-based revolution seem rather to rest on and thereby demonstrate strong continuity with some ancient foundations indeed. The same point might be made from a different direction - i.e., going back to what philosopher-mathematicians such as Leibniz and early computer pioneers envisioned as the primary usages of mechanized and then electronic calculation. At least for Leibniz, the goal was to eliminate as much as possible of the time and labor of calculation itself, for the sake of moving towards "the Big Picture" (my term), i.e., a mathematical account and understanding of the universe as such. And this, not for the sake of a Cartesian "mastery and possession of nature" (a modernist and indeed genuinely revolutionary theme), but for the sake of a philosophical, if not frankly religious understanding of the universe that would bring the mind of the thereby enlightened human being closer to the mind of the Creator. I think of this direction of computing when I open up "Observatory" on my iPad to see the current time - in the context of the whole complex of the solar system; or using "Kstars," a very nice Open Source program that provides precisely the sort of account of the celestial universe that Plato and Pythagoras could only long for - and that Kepler, perhaps, literally killed for (i.e., as a suspect in what may have been the murder of Tyco Brahe). What would they - and their philosophical/religious adherents - have given for such knowledge and computational power? On the other hand: it seems to go unnoticed these days, but anyone who is carrying around a smartphone holds in his or her hand the equivalent of a 1970s' supercomputer - again, the sort of time/labor-saving device/miracle-worker that Leibniz could only dream of and that only a few corporations and well-funded science agencies could afford in the 1970s. And what do we do with these marvelous instruments? Without intending to sound curmudgeonly or elitist: we check the weather and maybe some email, play games, and communicate in various ways. Without checking, I suspect that while the number of people who use the very cool iPhone/iPad app "Starwalk" are significant - their numbers are vastly outweighed by the consumption of other apps, whether geared towards productivity, entertainment, communication, etc. This is not meant to sound like a condemnation. Rather, it suggests that putting an instrument that fulfills the computational dreams of ancient and modern philosophers into the hands of contemporary consumers does not seem to transform us, at least not in very great numbers, into philosophers and mystics who seek first and foremost to contemplate the mathematical elegance of our universe and our humble place therein. What this suggests more fundamentally, I think: however "revolutionary" contemporary computational devices may be - with a few exceptions, their overwhelmingly prevailing use seems to be in service of the concerns, interests, and desires (including the perfectly legitimate desire to just play) that appear to have dominated most human beings for most of our history. From both sides then - i.e., in terms of the conceptual backgrounds and assumptions that shape much of our thinking and discourse about computation, and in terms of how most of us actually use these devices much of the time - it seems to me that there is far more continuity with earlier generations to be discerned than something like "revolution." That said, and before any readers who have gotten this far start to fire up angry replies - to be sure, revolution in a strong sense may also be discerned, though I'm not always confident it's salutary. But I'll save those glimmers of thought for another day. The point of this little missive was rather to highlight continuity amidst any such revolution(s). thanks and all best wishes for the new year - charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Professor, Philosophy and Religion Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 On 1/7/11 7:57 AM, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 637. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 06:54:49 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: paradigm shifting? > > One of the frequent expressions we use to denote the sort of radical > change we think computing has made, a "paradigm shift", comes from > Thomas Kuhn's enormously influential book, The Structure of Scientific > Revolutions (1962). This is without doubt the most influential book ever > published in the history and philosophy of science. Riding on the > prestige of physics at the time, it was hugely influential throughout > all the disciplines and beyond. I'd suppose the phrase still commonly to > be found in the popular media. But does it tie us users of it covertly, > to a far greater extent than we realise, to the idea that "science" -- > i.e. the reductive notion that we have of the sciences -- is made in the > image of physics, hence that truly reliable knowledge is obtained by > adopting the epistemology and the epistemological rhythm of physics as > Kuhn described them? > > One of the benefits of reading Ernst Mayr's accounts of how biology > works is the realisation of the extent to which one's ideas of "science" > shift if one takes biology as the model. Mayr argues (in This is Biology > and in "Do Thomas Kuhn's Scientific Revolutions Take Place", What Makes > Biology Unique?, pp. 159-69) that the Kuhnian epistemological rhythm, of > normal science radically changed by revolutionary shift from old to new > paradigm, simply doesn't work for biology. There are no such revolutions > in biology in Kuhn's sense, he says: from one way of thinking suddenly > to another that is incommensurable with that which it replaces. > > The more I look at the early history of computing in the humanities, the > more it seems to me that computing, as it forms within the humanities, > answers to something else and resonates with other developments, e.g. in > critical theorizing. In other words, that we're not witnessing a > sudden-break revolution in the humanities but something far more gradual > and far more indebted to other developments. > > Change, yes, but what kind, related to what other changes? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 12:17:20 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.637 paradigm shifting? In-Reply-To: <20110107065702.36B43CC487@woodward.joyent.us> Perhaps, for a sense of the kind of hyperbolic, even maniacally fugal, sort of talk commencing with the Cloud Crowd, one might check a big announcement or ad in today's Wall Street Journal, written up by Deloitte, in Silicon Valley. Listing the utter transformations ahead, after announcing that: "All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born." as in the Easter 1916 poem by W.B.Yeats, who repeated: "Transformed utterly: A terrible beauty is born." the big announcement commences with a world all occupied by gaming, powerful as never before imagined, before all other uses! One's prompt thought, in my case, was to recall Thoreau, whose father invented the means of putting graphite into a wooden tube to create the pencil! and who wrote in WALDEN that one ought to Simplify! and keep one's accounts written on one's thumbnail. [That is a sardonic, or satirical, poetical way of saying something.] And then one thought of TS Eliot's line in 1922, "Distracted from distraction by distraction." Gaming! Tweeting! Granted that the Cloud [an ominous name!] will make advances in massive computing research probably sooner than imagined, what will it do for the Humanities, about which most folks think believe the bringing of instant information to writing is the same as knowledge and thinking per se. It is really a vast strange dervish dance in a maelstrom that we may be approaching, apart from matters of vulnerability and security for the 0s and the 1s. Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 12:26:29 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.637 paradigm shifting? In-Reply-To: <20110107065702.36B43CC487@woodward.joyent.us> I cant locate online today's big adannouncement, but here is yesterday's biz take: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704405704576064032782707862.html?KEYWORDS=Cloud+computing I will go back and look at the paper itself... JK -- 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 Mon Jan 10 08:56:33 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D688ED0E82; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:56:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DC42ED0E6E; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:56:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110110085630.DC42ED0E6E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:56:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.639 job at McMaster X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 639. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 09:13:48 -0500 From: Stéfan Sinclair Subject: tenure-track position at McMaster in interactive digital media Dear colleagues, Please help circulate this job ad to potential candidates: http://www.mcmaster.ca/vpacademic/CSMM2.html Academic Posting in the Faculty of Humanities Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia Tenure-Track Position, Assistant Professor Level The Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia at McMaster University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in the Multimedia Program at the rank of Assistant Professor to commence on July 1, 2011. Applicants should have demonstrated strengths in the area of Interactive Digital Media, including aspects of creation, production and critical theory. Candidates are expected to have expertise in one or more of the following areas: digital games, design and visualization, physical computing, new media installation, spatial practice and locative media, net art and interface design. Preference will be given to applicants able to contribute to teaching production courses in one or more of these additional areas of the Multimedia Program: graphic design, web design, video, digital image-making, animation, and programming, as well as more theoretically-based courses in new media art and digital culture at the undergraduate and graduate level. The current minimum salary at the rank of Assistant Professor is $60,997 per annum. McMaster University is a research-intensive university and the department of Communication Studies and Multimedia engages in professional and academic teaching, scholarly research and new media arts production. McMaster University is committed to building a vibrant interdisciplinary research and teaching community around interactive digital media. Current projects and facilities include the McMaster Centre for Digital Scholarship,the Gaming Scalability Lab (G-ScalE),the Cybernetic Orchestra, the Communication Metrics Laboratory, the Lyons New Media Centre and the Eight Institute (which includes: The Hamilton Institute for Interactive Digital Media, a collaborative research initiative involving McMaster University, Silicon Knights, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, IBM, and Mohawk College). The Eight Institute supports innovations in interactive digital media across numerous disciplines, including cognitive science, visual and media arts, linguistics, and engineering. The appointee will be expected to contribute to the Eight Institute. The successful candidate will have a PhD in a relevant field. However, candidates with an MFA or an MDes will be considered if their reputation and body of artistic work has garnered national and international recognition. Additionally, the successful candidate will have demonstrated excellence in teaching and research, with a clearly defined research program and a promising record of publication. The successful candidate will teach at the undergraduate level in multimedia, in the MA Program in Communication and New Media; and will participate in the development of a PhD Program. Applicants should submit a letter of application, three letters of reference, curriculum vitae, representative publications, teaching philosophy, sample course outlines, teaching evaluations, portfolio of relevant work, and an additional writing sample (e.g., artist statement). All documentation submitted in support of your application becomes the property of the University and is not returnable. Please submit applications to: Dr. Graham Knight Chair, Department of Communication Studies & Multimedia McMaster University 1280 Main St. West, TSH 330 Hamilton, ON L8S 4M2 Canada Applications received by February 15, 2011 will be assured of full consideration. Applicants should arrange for three letters of reference to reach the Department by the same date. -- Dr. Stéfan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: (905) 570-1167 Address: TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia 1280 Main St. W., McMaster University 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 Mon Jan 10 08:57:41 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C51D0EC8; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:57:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5DB19D0EC1; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:57:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110110085739.5DB19D0EC1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:57:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.640 announcement: Migrazione di alfabeti 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. 24, No. 640. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 14:11:37 -0800 (PST) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: The "Migrazione di alfabeti" project In-Reply-To: <20110107065702.36B43CC487@woodward.joyent.us> Looking ahead to tomorrow, 10 January : this item would seem to be worth at least a mention on this list : http://www.cnr.it/cnr/news/CnrNews.html?IDn=2172 - 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 Mon Jan 10 08:59:22 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13AC3D0F4B; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:59:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 77660D0F3C; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:59:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110110085918.77660D0F3C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:59:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.641 events: interoperability of 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 641. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:30:39 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Bootcamp 6: Call for Participation (28 February - 4 March 28 2011, TU Darmstadt, Germany) In-Reply-To: **CALL FOR PARTICIPATION** Interedition 6th Bootcamp: 28 February - 4 March 2011 ----------------------------------------------------- ABOUT INTEREDITION Interedition (http://www.interedition.eu) is a COST (http://www.cost.eu) funded Action whose objective is to further the interoperability of tools in digital scholarship. Interedition is raising the awareness of the importance of interoperability as a major driver for sustainability for tools and data in the field of digital scholarship. This activity takes two forms: firstly, meetings in which researchers in digital scholarship can network their knowledge of tools and the possibilities for their interoperability; secondly, the development of proof-of-concept implementations of interoperable tools. These proof-of-concept tools are the focus of Interedition's periodic bootcamps, which offer the open source development community in the humanities opportunities to meet, network, and exchange knowledge. THE BOOTCAMP Interedition is inviting all interested to participate in the upcoming Development Bootcamp, which will take place from 28 February to 4 March 2011 at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. The bootcamp is being organized by a joint group from TU Darmstadt and the Universität Trier: - Andrea Rapp (Darmstadt) - Thomas Burch (Trier) - Vera Hildenbrandt (Trier) - Julianne Nyhan (Trier) - Oliver Schmid (Trier) The primary objective of the bootcamp is the development of prototypes for interoperable 'microservice' tools for text scholarship and digital editions. Much of the work will focus on the first Interedition prototype tool, CollateX, described in more detail below; development on other related tools will also be welcomed. Another important objective is to give developers and early stage researchers an opportunity to meet and share their own projects and experiences with tool interoperability in textual scholarship. Some examples of projects to be undertaken at the bootcamp include: For CollateX: - Further development work on the core - Creation of a test harness and robust test suite For related work: - Use of the collation service to analyze topic maps, and compare the semantics of text - Development of shared back-end protocols that would allow for interoperability of text transcription tools - Proof-of-concept creation of a full microservice-based toolchain for the production and initial publication of digitally edited text BURSARIES COST Action IS0704 'Interedition' is offering bursaries to early stage researchers (< Ph.D. + 10 years) and developers that want to join the bootcamp. The bursaries will consist of an 100 Euro per diem allowance and will cover travel expenses fully (limitations apply). HOW TO APPLY If you are interested in participating in the bootcamp, please send an email to joris.van.zundert-AT-huygensinstituut.knaw.nlby **24 January 2011**. You don't need an intricate motivation, but please state your affiliation, and add a very short (certainly not more than 200 words) description of your current or related development work in digital humanities. Please note that if you do join the bootcamp, some formal paperwork will be necessary to get you the bursary - but until now all participants passed that test with flying colors. PROGRAM Monday 28 February - Introduction of participants and projects - Introduction to CollateX and the principles of microservices - Division of Tasks/Labor Tuesday 1 March - Hacking Wednesday 2 March - Hacking Thursday 3 March - Unconference on participants' projects - Hacking Friday 4 March - Hacking - Documentation - Ungathering on - Interoperability of tools [and data?] for digital humanities - Supporting the Open Source Development Community in Digital Humanities - Round up, reporting COLLATEX PROTOTYPE The Interedition team has recently (July 2010) released version 0.9 of CollateX, a webservice-enabled text collation engine that will be of use to a wide range of digital humanities projects. This release is the result of the work done during the fourth Interedition Bootcamp in April 2010 in Firenze, Italy and is the first official release of CollateX. It features baseless multiple witness alignment, parallel segmentation and handling of transpositions. It can export an alignment table as a critical apparatus in TEI format. CollateX is available as a Java application and has Python bindings available, but it is primarily designed to be run as a REST webservice using the Tomcat or Jetty webserver. More information can be found on http://collatex.sourceforge.net. -- 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 Tue Jan 11 06:51:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E20E1D01F6; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:51:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 85F26D01EE; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:51:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110111065106.85F26D01EE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:51:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.642 call for proposals, network access (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. 24, No. 642. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:06:26 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: CANARIE INVITES PROPOSALS / CANARIE SOLLICITE DES PROPOSITIONS [For non-Canadians FYI only, I would suppose. --WM] CANARIE INVITES PROPOSALS TO LEVERAGE NETWORK ACCESS AND ADVANCE CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH CANARIE access links researchers to a global community of peers, high-volume data sets, and sophisticated technologies [Ottawa, Ontario December 15 2010] Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network, (CANARIE), invites proposals from public and private sector research, education and cultural institutions to link to CANARIE’s high-speed network through the Infrastructure Extension Program. The Infrastructure Extension Program connects researchers and scientists at institutions across the country to the CANARIE Network, enabling them to advance knowledge and apply it to real-world problems. For example, Environment Canada uses the CANARIE Network to transfer multi-gigabyte datasets of numerical weather model output, supporting research and helping to increase the accuracy of operational weather forecasts. Scientists also use CANARIE's high speed network to access Natural Resources Canada's enormous database of earth observation data, dating back to the 1970s, and the ongoing stream of data from satellites and sensors. This knowledge helps scientists monitor changes to Canada’s vast natural resources and ensures wise stewardship of our forests, oceans, croplands, and Arctic ecosystems. “CANARIE provides a vital link between the brightest research minds across Canada and to innovators around the world” said Jim Roche, President and CEO of CANARIE. “The expansion of the network leverages the capabilities of Canada’s research and innovation community and sets the stage for the unexpected to happen – and that’s when breakthrough discoveries occur.” Federal or provincial government departments, agencies and labs, private sector research labs, health, arts and cultural institutions are eligible to submit a proposal. Applications to the program are due to CANARIE on January 21, 2011. The Infrastructure Extension Program has been a critical driving force increasing access to CANARIE among the research, innovation and education communities in Canada and further cements the reputation of Canada as a nation supportive of leading-edge, world-class research and discovery. A third call for proposals under the Infrastructure Extension Program announced in August 2010 resulted in five organizations being selected to connect with the network, and these organizations will be announced in 2011. More information on CANARIE’s Infrastructure Extension Program, including the application process and the application form may be found at http://www.canarie.ca/en/extension-program/callforproposal. -30- For more information, please contact: Kathryn Anthonisen Director of Communications CANARIE (613) 943-5374 Kathryn.anthonisen@canarie.ca About CANARIE: CANARIE Inc. is Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network. Established in 1993, CANARIE manages an ultra high-speed network which facilitates leading-edge research and big science across Canada and around the world. More than 40,000 researchers at over 225 Canadian universities and colleges use the CANARIE Network, as well as researchers at institutes, hospitals, and government laboratories throughout the country. Together with 12 provincial and territorial advanced network partners, CANARIE enables researchers to share and analyze massive amounts of data, like climate models, satellite images, and DNA sequences that can lead to groundbreaking scientific discoveries. CANARIE is a non-profit corporation supported by membership fees, with the major investment in its programs and activities provided by the Government of Canada. CANARIE keeps Canada at the forefront of digital research and innovation, fundamental to a vibrant digital economy. For additional information, please visit: www.canarie.ca. Find us on Facebook and LinkedIn by searching for CANARIE Inc. On Twitter, search for CANARIE_Inc. ________________________________ CANARIE SOLLICITE DES PROPOSITIONS POUR ACCÉDER À SON RÉSEAU ET FAIRE PROGRESSER LA RECHERCHE DE POINTE En accédant au réseau CANARIE, les chercheurs se rapprochent de leurs homologues internationaux, échangent massivement des données et exploitent des technologies complexes Ottawa (Ontario), le 15 décembre 2010 Le réseau canadien pour l’avancement de la recherche et l’innovation (CANARIE) invite les institutions scientifiques, éducationnelles et culturelles des secteurs public et privé à lui soumettre des propositions en vue de se raccorder à son réseau à ultra haute vitesse dans le cadre de son Programme d’extension des infrastructures. Ce programme connecte les chercheurs et les scientifiques des institutions du pays entier au réseau CANARIE, les aidant ainsi à faire progresser le savoir et son application à la résolution des problèmes planétaires. Environnement Canada, par exemple, recourt au réseau CANARIE pour transférer des jeux de données de plusieurs gigaoctets sur des modèles numériques du climat et appuyer la recherche tout en rehaussant la précision des bulletins météorologiques opérationnels. Des scientifiques font également appel au réseau à ultra haute vitesse de CANARIE pour accéder à la formidable base de données de Ressources naturelles Canada sur les observations de la Terre, qui remontent aux années 1970, ainsi qu’aux données que diffusent en permanence les satellites et les capteurs. Grâce à de telles connaissances, les scientifiques sont en mesure de suivre l’évolution des vastes ressources naturelles du Canada et de veiller à une intendance prudente de nos écosystèmes forestier, océanique, agricole et arctique. « CANARIE forme un trait d’union vital entre les plus brillants esprits du Canada et les innovateurs du monde entier », affirme Jim Roche, président et chef de direction de CANARIE. « Par son expansion, le réseau permet d’exploiter au maximum les capacités du milieu canadien de la recherche et de l’innovation, et met les conditions en place pour que survienne l’imprévisible, c’est-à-dire pour qu’éclatent des découvertes révolutionnaires. » Les ministères, les agences et les laboratoires fédéraux et provinciaux, les laboratoires de recherche du secteur privé, les institutions médicales, artistiques et culturelles peuvent tous soumettre une proposition dans le cadre de ce programme. CANARIE acceptera ces dernières jusqu’au 21 janvier 2011. Le Programme d’extension des infrastructures s’est avéré une force déterminante en aidant les secteurs canadiens de la recherche, de l’innovation et de l’éducation à accéder plus aisément au réseau CANARIE et confirme la réputation du Canada en tant que pays soutenant une recherche pointue, de calibre mondial, et la découverte. Le troisième appel de propositions du Programme d’extension des infrastructures, annoncé en août 2010, à débouché sur la sélection de cinq organisations qui seront désormais raccordées au réseau. Le nom de ces organisations sera dévoilé en 2011. On trouvera plus de renseignements sur le Programme d’extension des infrastructures, notamment la description du processus de demande et le formulaire électronique à http://www.canarie.ca/fr/programme-extension/demandedeproposition. -30- Renseignements Kathryn Anthonisen Directrice des communications CANARIE (613) 943-5374 Kathryn.anthonisen@canarie.ca À propos de CANARIE CANARIE inc. est le réseau évolué de la recherche et de l’innovation du Canada. Créé en 1993, CANARIE exploite un réseau ultra rapide pour faciliter la recherche de pointe et les grands projets scientifiques entrepris partout au Canada et ailleurs dans le monde. Au-delà de 40 000 chercheurs dans plus de 225 universités et collèges canadiens utilisent son réseau. S’y ajoutent les chercheurs d’instituts, d’hôpitaux et de laboratoires gouvernementaux disséminés ici et là au pays. Avec le concours des 12 réseaux évolués provinciaux et territoriaux qui sont ses partenaires, CANARIE permet aux chercheurs de partager et d’analyser une quantité colossale de données, comme les modèles climatiques, les images transmises par satellite et les séquences d’ADN, ce qui pourrait déboucher sur des découvertes révolutionnaires. CANARIE est une société sans but lucratif financée par les cotisations de ses membres. Ses programmes et activités bénéficient d’une importante aide financière du gouvernement du Canada. CANARIE maintient le Canada à la fine pointe de la recherche et de l’innovation dans le numérique, pavant la voie à une économie numérique vigoureuse. Pour en savoir plus, on visitera le site www.canarie.ca. Suivez-nous sur Facebook et Linkedin en cherchant CANARIE inc. Sur Twttter, chercher CANARIE_Inc. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 06:52:24 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 781CDD024D; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:52:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AAB49D0246; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:52:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110111065221.AAB49D0246@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:52:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.643 events: libraries; books; 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. 24, No. 643. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Marlies Olensky (212) Subject: Call for Research Papers and Demos - International Conference onTheory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011 (TPDL 2011) [2] From: i-Society 2010 (143) Subject: Call for Papers: i-Society 2011! [3] From: Wim Van-Mierlo (25) Subject: The London Rare Book School - courses for 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:59:05 +0100 From: Marlies Olensky Subject: Call for Research Papers and Demos - International Conference onTheory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011 (TPDL 2011) Please excuse cross-posting --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 1st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE/OBJECTIVES -------------------------------- Over the last years, Digital Libraries have taken over a central role in our society. The process of acquiring, creating, processing, retrieving, disseminating, and using knowledge, information, data and metadata has undergone and still continues to undergo significant changes. This includes an ever increasing public access to on-line resources, an evolution in the amount and diversity of resources that are available through this channel, a social shift in the paradigm of how to experience information towards interactive, globally collaborative and personalized approaches, and many more. In this spirit, TPDL 2011 aims at providing a forum for researchers, developers, content providers and practitioners for presenting and discussing novel results from innovative research and systems development on Digital Libraries. TOPICS OF INTEREST ---------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit research papers describing original, unpublished research that is not (and will not be) simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere. TPDL 2011 solicits the submission of full (12 pages max.) and short (8 pages max.) research papers. General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics, organized in four areas: Foundations: Technology and Methodologies - Digital libraries: architectures and infrastructures - Metadata standards and protocols in digital library systems - Interoperability in digital libraries, data and information integration - Distributed and collaborative information spaces - Systems, algorithms, and models for digital preservation - Personalization in digital libraries - Information access: retrieval and browsing - Information organization - Information visualization - Multimedia information management and retrieval - Multilinguality in digital libraries - Knowledge organization and ontologies in digital libraries Digital Humanities - Digital libraries in cultural heritage - Computational linguistics: text mining and retrieval - Organizational aspects of digital preservation - Information policy and legal aspects (e.g., copyright laws) - Social networks and networked information - Human factors in networked information - Scholarly primitives Research Data - Architectures for large-scale data management (e.g., Grids, Clouds) - Cyberinfrastructures: architectures, operation and evolution - Collaborative information environments - Data mining and extraction of structure from networked information - Scientific data curation - Metadata for scientific data, data provenance - Services and workflows for scientific data - Data and knowledge management in virtual organizations Applications and User Experience - Multi-national digital library federations (e.g., Europeana) - Digital Libraries in eGovernment, elearning, eHealth, eScience, ePublishing - Semantic Web and Linked Data - User studies for and evaluation of digital library systems and applications - Personal information management and personal digital libraries - Enterprise-scale knowledge and information management - User behaviour and modelling - User mobility and context awareness in information access - User interfaces for digital libraries PAPER SUBMISSION -------------------------------- All research papers must be written in English and follow the formatting guidelines of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Research papers must be up to 12 pages of length for long papers, up to 8 pages for short papers, and must be submitted via the conference submission system. All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the programme committee. Paper acceptance can be as long paper, short paper or poster. The size of the poster should not exceed ISO A0 (portrait) size -- maximum height of 1189mm (46.81 inches) and maximum width of 841mm (33.11 inches). The proceedings will be published as a volume of Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series. All papers need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpdl2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR DEMOS 1st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Demos provide researchers with an opportunity to present their work in an informal and interactive manner, and obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience. Demos showcase innovative digital libraries technology and applications, ranging from research prototypes to operational systems, allowing you to share your work directly with your colleagues in a high-visibility setting. We invite the submission of posters and demos on all topics mentioned in the Call for Research Papers. - Demo submissions consist of a 4-page paper, which must be formatted according to Springer's LNCS guidelines, and submitted via the conference submission system. - Accepted demos will be allocated up to 4 pages for the written paper in the TPDL 2011 proceedings. The proceedings will be published as a volume of Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series. - Accepted demos will be presented at a plenary poster and demo session during the TPDL 2011 conference. - For demos, authors will be required to bring laptop computers or other appropriate equipment, as no equipment will be provided. All abstracts for posters and demos need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpdl2011 ---------------------------------------- DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM ---------------------------------------- Continuing a tradition, the TPDL 2011 Doctoral Consortium (DC) serves as a forum for PhD students to share ideas about the development and use of Digital Libraries, compare approaches, discuss future research problems and receive feedback from the international Digital Library community. The Doctoral Consortium aims to: - provide PhD students with a friendly and lively atmosphere for presenting their research ideas, exchange experiences with peers, and receive constructive feedback on their work from the international research community; - help students and doctoral candidates formulate research questions and organise their research; - help forge new relationships and collaborations within the International Digital Library community, promoting collaborative research; and - support a new generation of researchers with information and advice on academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths. The TPDL 2011 DC invites PhD students whose doctoral research is related to digital libraries and at a stage of progress where feedback from the international community might be of value, to submit extended abstracts of up to 10 pages describing their work. It is expected that students who submit extended abstracts, will have finished the first part of their research (one-two years of their studies) and be still in the middle of their research work. A panel of prominent researchers participating in the TPDL Programme Committee will conduct the workshop. They will review all the submissions and comment on the content of the work as well as on the presentation. Students will have 20 minutes to present their research, focusing on the main theme of their thesis, what they have achieved so far and how they plan to continue their work. Another 20 minutes are reserved for discussion and feedback from the panel of reviewers. The Doctoral Consortium will take place on a single full day. Up to 12 students will have the opportunity to participate. Submissions should be related to one or more of the conference themes as stated in the Call for Papers. Moreover, they should be presented in a way that demonstrates the link to the chosen conferences theme(s), and they should contain: - a clear formulation of the research topic and research hypotheses; - an outline of the significant problems in the field and their current solutions; - a description of the proposed approach and its expected contributions; - a discussion of preliminary results; and - an evaluation (-plan) of the research. All papers must be written in English and follow Springer's LNCS guidelines. Please send your submission directly by email to the doctoral consortium chair Milena Dobreva (milena.dobreva@strath.ac.uk). Abstracts of the papers will be published in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------ Abstract submission deadline (full and short papers): March 21, 2011 Research paper submission: March 28, 2011 (midnight HAST, GMT -10hrs) Demo submission: March 28, 2011 Doctoral consortium submission: March 28, 2011 Notification of acceptance (research paper, poster, demo, doctoral consortium): May 23, 2011 Workshop proposal submission: February 14, 2011 Tutorial proposal submission: February 14, 2011 Panel proposal submission: February 14, 2011 Notification of acceptance (workshop, tutorial, panel): March 14, 2011 Submission of final version (research paper, abstract for poster, demo, workshop, tutorial, panel and doctoral consortium): June 6, 2011 All information can be found on our website: http://www.tpdl2011.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Officers General Chair: Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Programme Co-Chairs: Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Italy Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland Programme Committee tba -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TPDL 2011 - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (formerly known as ECDL) Main conference: September 26-28, 2011 Tutorials, Workshops: September 25, 29, 2011 Venue: Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum Adlershof, Berlin, Germany Conference Website: http://www.tpdl2011.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TPDL2011 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TPDL2011 Linkedin: http://events.linkedin.com/TPDL-2011-International-Conference/pub/504696 Xing: http://www.xing.com/events/international-conference-theory-practice-digital-libraries-2011-633977 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Marlies Olensky Research assistant Local organising chair TPDL 2011 Berlin School of Library and Information Science Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Dorotheenstrasse 26, D-10117 Berlin Tel.: +49-30-2093-4253 marlies.olensky@ibi.hu-berlin.de http://www.ibi.hu-berlin.de http://www.tpdl2011.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:20:44 +0000 (GMT) From: i-Society 2010 Subject: Call for Papers: i-Society 2011! Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************* International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011), Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter 27-29 June, 2011, London, UK www.i-society.eu ******************************************************************* The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011) 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 2011 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 2011 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: March 31, 2011 Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress): March 20, 2011 Notification of Paper Acceptance /Rejection: April 15, 2011 Notification of Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress) Acceptance /Rejection: April 10, 2011 Camera Ready Paper and Short Paper Due: April 30, 2011   Participant(s) Registration (Open):  January 1, 2011 Early Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): February 1 to April 30, 2011 Late Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): May 1 to June 1, 2011 Conference Dates: June 27-29, 2011   For more details, please visit www.i-society.eu   --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:25:24 +0000 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: The London Rare Book School - courses for 2011 The London Rare Books School 2011 Institute of English Studies, University of London The London Rare Books School (LRBS) is a series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects to be taught in and around Senate House, University of London. The courses will be taught by internationally renowned scholars associated with the Institute's Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, using the unrivalled library and museum resources of London, including the British Library, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the University of London Research Library Services, and many more. All courses will stress the materiality of the book so you can expect to have close encounters with remarkable books and other artefacts from some of the world's greatest collections. Each class will be restricted to a maximum of twelve students in order to ensure that everyone has plenty of opportunity to talk to the teachers and to get very close to the books. In 2011, the LRBS will run for two weeks: 27 June to 1 July and 4 July to 8 July. The courses planned are: Week One: 27 June - 1 July 1. The Book in the Ancient World 2. Children's Books, 1470-1980 3. European Bookbinding, 1450-1820 4. A History of Maps and Mapping 5. An Introduction to Bibliography 6. The Medieval Book 7. The Printed Book in Europe 1450-2000 Week Two: 4 July - 8 July 1. The Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian Book, c.600-1050 2. An Introduction to Illustration and its Technologies 3. Modern First Editions: Dealing, Collecting and the Market 4. Modern Literary Manuscripts 5. Reading, Writing, and Sending Texts 1400-1919 Each course will consist of thirteen seminars amounting in all to twenty hours of teaching time spread between Monday afternoon and Friday afternoon. There will be timetabled 'library time' that will allow students to explore the rich resources of the University's Senate House Library, one of the UK's major research libraries. The evening programme will include an opening reception and talk, a book history lecture, and receptions hosted by major London antiquarian booksellers. Postgraduate credit is available for these courses at the Institute, which is one of the ten member-Institutes of the University of London's School of Advanced Study. In order to achieve the award of credit a student will have to complete and pass a 5,000 word essay within two months of the course (an extra fee to cover marking and other costs will be charged). The fee will be £550 which will include the provision of lunch, and coffee and tea throughout the week. A small number of bursaries are available. A range of different sorts of accommodation will be available including cheap student housing (on a bed and breakfast basis) close by Senate House; Senate House is next to the British Museum in the heart of Bloomsbury. Further details and application forms can be found at: http://ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/events/courses/LRBS/index.htm Simon Eliot _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 13 06:50:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83EC6D372D; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:50:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 25F62D3717; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:50:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110113065038.25F62D3717@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:50:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.644 who is using WordPress? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 644. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:27:17 -0600 From: John Laudun Subject: Who is using WordPress? Dear All: I have been given the amazing opportunity to offer a seminar surveying the digital humanities from my small corner of the scholarly universe. I am happy to share the syllabus, still in development, with anyone interested, but for now I will just note that one of the “infrastructural” dimensions of the course is that everyone will be keeping their notes and thoughts on a wordpress.com blog. I went with this particular set up because our own university infrastructure is, well, under-developed, and the only CMS software to which everyone has access is Moodle. I want seminar participants to be able to take whatever platform on which we operate beyond the confines of the course. I have chosen Wordpress for now, because it is readily available; it is open source; and I use it on my own self-hosted website. As I introduce this platform to them, I want to be able to point to other uses of it within the realm of the digital humanities. I know that CUNY’s Academic Commons is built on top of WordPress, for example, but who else is using WordPress and who else has extended it? I know there is a lot more open source software out there, both being used, adapted, and developed by many of you. Is there a list of it maintained somewhere? Is that something worth doing? (I am thinking it might be a course project that could be assigned.) Before I switch to listening mode, let me thank Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth for the “Companion to Digital Humanities.” It has some really nice pieces in it that are going to make the course much richer. best, 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 Thu Jan 13 06:54:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 996DAD37A1; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:54:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 53683D3792; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:54:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110113065428.53683D3792@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:54:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.645 events: archaeology; publication cultures X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 645. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Gabriel Bodard (28) Subject: CASPAR - IoA seminar series poster [2] From: HumSpring (25) Subject: ESF SCH Humanities Spring 2011: Call for applications --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:00:51 +0000 From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: CASPAR - IoA seminar series poster Forwarded for Daniel Pett: -------- Original Message ------- > Subject: [Antiquist] CASPAR - IoA seminar series poster > Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:37:31 +0000 > From: Daniel Pett The following seminar series will be held on behalf of the Centre for Audio-Visual Studies and Practice in Archaeology at UCL Institute of Archaeology. All welcome to attend, and drinks follow each seminar. We look forward to seeing you there. Mondays 4-6pm, IOA 31-34 Gordon Square, London Room 612 10 Jan Broadcast archaeology Michael Wood (Story of England, BBC) & Ray Sutcliffe (Chronicle) 17 Jan Producing archaeology on TV Charles Furneaux (Kaboom Film and Television) 24 Jan Archaeology and radio Ben Roberts (The British Museum) 31 Jan Using digital technology to visualise the past Tom Goskar (Wessex Archaeology) and Stuart Eve (UCL) 7 Feb The Google ancient places prokect Leif Isaksen (University of Southampton) 21 Feb Archaeology, television and the public Tim Schadla-Hall & Chiara Bonacchi (UCL) 28 Feb Developing digital communities Andy Bevan and Lorna Richardson (UCL) 7 Mar The Portable Antiquities Scheme Dan Pett (The British Museum) 14 Mar Archaeology, videogames and the public Andrew Gardner (UCL) 21 Mar Where do we go from here Don Henson (Honorary Director of CASPAR) Enquiries to: Tim Schadla-Hall t.schadla-hall@ucl.ac.uk or Chiara Bonacchi chiara.bonacchi@gmail.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:05:52 +0000 From: HumSpring Subject: ESF SCH Humanities Spring 2011: Call for applications Call closing in a few days! For publication on your web site and/or wide dissemination among early career researchers Dear colleagues, The European Science Foundation (ESF) is committed to creating Fora for early career scholars to develop their visions for the European Research Area. We have developed in particular the format of the “Humanities Spring” workshops, aimed at producing short policy documents authored by the best early career scholars after 2-day debates on identified issues. This year the selected theme is: Humanities Spring 2011: “Publication Cultures in the Humanities” Deadline for submission of applications: 17 January 2011, 12:00 (noon) CET You can access the Call text and on-line submission form via the following webpage: www.esf.org/humanitiesspring We are writing with a request to publish / circulate widely the attached Call for the ESF-sponsored event, which invites for a Europe-wide selection of young scholars in the Humanities. Please do not hesitate to get back to us directly via HumSpring@esf.org with any questions you may have. Thanking you very much in advance for your collaboration, Best regards, Dr Eva Hoogland Ms Irma Vogel Humanities Spring Team European Science Foundation Humanities and Social Sciences 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: HumSpring@esf.org Web: www.esf.org/humanitiesspring http://www.esf.org/humanitiesspring _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 14 10:01:26 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34240D1245; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:01:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3836DD1235; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:01:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110114100120.3836DD1235@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:01:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.646 using WordPress X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 646. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Тома Тасовац (51) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.644 who is using WordPress? [2] From: Thomas Crombez (75) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.644 who is using WordPress? [3] From: Aurélien_Berra (50) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.644 who is using WordPress? [4] From: John Levin (19) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.644 who is using WordPress? [5] From: Julia Flanders (48) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.644 who is using WordPress? [6] From: Joseph Vaughan (51) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.644 who is using WordPress? [7] From: Cathy Moran Hajo (15) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.644 who is using WordPress? [8] From: "Bleck, Bradley" (9) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.644 who is using WordPress? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:56:47 +0100 From: Тома Тасовац Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.644 who is using WordPress? In-Reply-To: <20110113065038.25F62D3717@woodward.joyent.us> Dear John, Wordpress is a good choice, not only because of what it does on its own, but because there are thousands of plug-ins that can extend it -- and a very large developer community that can help you code things yourself. I want to give you one example. At the Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities, we started a small project last year called Reklakaza.la (Serbian for "hearsay") which we described as an experiment in "joyful lexicography at the intersection of historical linguistics and gossip." We set up a Wordpress blog on which we publish selected (unusual, archaic, "weird", funny etc) entries from a classic 19th-century Serbian dictionary by Vuk Stefanovic. The entries from the blog are also automatically distributed via Twitter (http://twitter.com/Vuk_Karadzic) and Facebook (http://facebook.com/reklakaza.la). The result? More than 24,000 fans on Facebook: a wild success considering the obscurity of the topic. Now, the interesting thing is that our readers comment almost exclusively on Facebook and not on the blog, which, I believe, says enough about the centrifugal power of social media. But the Wordpress blog was essential for us in that it gave us a very simple, highly usable editorial interface for this project. I hope this helps. Good luck with your seminar! All best, Toma Toma Tasovac Center for Digital Humanities (Belgrade, Serbia) http://humanistika.org http://transpoetika.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:32:09 +0100 From: Thomas Crombez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.644 who is using WordPress? In-Reply-To: <20110113065038.25F62D3717@woodward.joyent.us> I find the CommentPress theme and plugin for WordPress still very useful for offering students a number of text fragments and images & let them start a discussion about it. CommentPress allows users to insert comments on every single paragraph or image of a page. (Here's an example from my course on philosophy of art, mainly in Dutch: http://webhost.ua.ac.be/theso/commentpress/?page_id=3D9) We are also looking into using the multisite version of WordPress as a portfolio website for students of the Academy of Fine Arts, but that's still work in progress. If anyone out there has attempted this before, I'd be glad to hear of your experiences. Best, Thomas Crombez University of Antwerp // Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:45:16 +0100 From: Aurélien_Berra Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.644 who is using WordPress? In-Reply-To: <20110113065038.25F62D3717@woodward.joyent.us> Dear John, It might be of interest to you and others to know that Hypotheses.org is using WordPress (http://hypotheses.org). This is a large, diverse and rapidly growing platform for scholarly blogs in the humanities and social sciences. To date it comprises 155 blogs. Some of them are associated with ongoing seminars or collaborative research projects and the digital humanities are a recurrent topic (for a list and typology of the "carnets de recherche", please see http://www.revues.org/?page=catalogue&pubtype=carnet). Though mostly peopled by French academics and graduate students, the platform started hosting blogs in other languages (English and Spanish so far). As a recent member of the scientific council, I can say that this international development is one of its goals for the years to come. Hypotheses.org is an initiative of the Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte (Cléo, http://cleo.cnrs.fr), which also maintains Revues.org, the oldest French platform for scholarly journals (http://www.revues.org). The Cléo organised THATCamp Paris in May 2010. During this event a "Manifesto for the Digital Humanities" was drafted, whose English version is online (http://tcp.hypotheses.org/411). I am myself building up a blog on Hypotheses.org, which will reflect the contents of a seminar on ancient texts and digital humanities (Philologie à venir, http://philologia.hypotheses.org). This work started with a short survey of the field. For the moment, I have been sharing online my references. Needless to say, I am very interested in your syllabus and similar enterprises. Regards, Aurélien -- Aurélien Berra Université Paris-Ouest & UMR ANHIMA --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:06:13 +0000 From: John Levin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.644 who is using WordPress? In-Reply-To: <20110113065038.25F62D3717@woodward.joyent.us> On 13/01/2011 06:50, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:27:17 -0600 > From: John Laudun > Subject: Who is using WordPress? > > I know there is a lot more open source software out there, both being used, adapted, and developed by many of you. Is there a list of it maintained somewhere? Is that something worth doing? (I am thinking it might be a course project that could be assigned.) > There is Dirt, Digital Research Tools https://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/w/page/17801672/FrontPage that lists many handy apps for DH projects, both free (in both meanings) and proprietary. But as far as I know, there isn't a specific resource for open source software useful for the digital humanities, nor one for floss apps produced by the DH community. John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com johnlevin@joindiaspora.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:24:12 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.644 who is using WordPress? In-Reply-To: <20110113065038.25F62D3717@woodward.joyent.us> John Melson and I will be using WordPress in a very similar way in a course we're teaching this semester on digital scholarship and public humanities. We're going to ask students to post almost all of their assignments to the WordPress blog (as well as whatever other informal postings they want to make), and to comment on each other's assignments, with the goal of helping them to think of their professional writing as something that can comfortably be done in a collegial environment and for an audience from the start. We are also planning ask the students to tag their postings with various keywords the class agrees upon, and to use WP plugins to generate some visual representations of things like the topic domains represented in our class "corpus", or the range of geographical reference, or the range of genres under discussion, that kind of thing. We're hoping that this may also encourage students to tag thoroughly/consistently (as well as illustrating the dynamics of crowd-sourced tagging) and that it may provide a more vivid sense of the blog as a single discursive space with many intellectual dimensions, rather than just as a repository where individuals drop things in. We'll see how it goes! best, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Library --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:38:17 -0800 From: Joseph Vaughan Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.644 who is using WordPress? In-Reply-To: <20110113065038.25F62D3717@woodward.joyent.us> The comment press plugin for word press is a great way to have a group comment on a text, paragraph by paragraph. http://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/ Joseph Vaughan CIO/Vice-President for Computing and Information Services Harvey Mudd College vaughan@hmc.edu 909 621 8613 free/busy info at http://tinyurl.com/vaughanfreebusy --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:11:46 -0500 From: Cathy Moran Hajo Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.644 who is using WordPress? In-Reply-To: <20110113065038.25F62D3717@woodward.joyent.us> Last semester I taught a course for NYU's Archives and Public History graduate program called Creating Digital History. Students located and digitized historical objects using Omeka as their content management system, created an Omeka exhibit, as well as projects building maps and timelines. This semester the course focused on the history of Greenwich Village. I used Wordpress for a blog on Researching Greenwich Village history. Students contributed a post a week on a number of categories--ranging from Interesting Facts, Interesting Web Resources, etc. and comment on each other's posting. The students liked using Wordpress, though they thought once a week postings was too many, and I was generally pleased with the results. https://greenwichvillagehistory.wordpress.com/ Cathy Moran Hajo, Ph.D. Associate Editor/Assistant Director The Margaret Sanger Papers Project Department of History, New York University 53 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 (212) 998-8666 (212) 995-4017 (fax) cathy.hajo@nyu.edu Visit our website at: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger --[8]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:26:47 -0800 From: "Bleck, Bradley" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.644 who is using WordPress? In-Reply-To: <20110113065038.25F62D3717@woodward.joyent.us> John, I'm not a wordpress person (drupal for me) but you may want to talk to Keith Dorwick on your campus (and if your department!) if you haven't done so already. I don't know that he's a wordpress person, but I think he'd be a great resource to you. Bradley Bleck Department of English Spokane Falls Community College bleckblog.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 14 10:02:29 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7E9D12BC; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:02:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 92410D12AA; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:02:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110114100224.92410D12AA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:02:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.647 on interdisciplinary work X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 647. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:52:01 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: interdisciplinary work Many here will (or should :-) be interested in two very recent reports on work across disciplines: Myra H. Strober, "Communicating across the academic divide", Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 January, http://chronicle.com/article/Communicating-Across-the/125769/; European Science Foundation, "Mapping interfaces: The future of knowledge", http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities/strategic-activities/the-future-of-knowledge.html. The former accords with all that I have observed and seems good evidence for the approach I've taken with "Exploring disciplines", http://www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/school/training/exploringdisciplines.html. The second seems to me quite disappointing, but in the way that most of the writings on "interdisciplinarity" (note the flight into abstraction) are. Your mileage may differ, as we say, but if so, I'd suggest a comparison of vehicles would yield valuable results. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 14 10:04:33 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D29D1393; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:04:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1FA6ED1381; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:04:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110114100428.1FA6ED1381@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:04:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.648 events: curation of social media X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 648. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:37:05 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: Fwd: The Curation of Social Media as a Public Asset - Register TODAY!! In-Reply-To: This may be of interest to Humanists. Dot ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Helen Tibbo > Date: Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:00 PM > Subject: [sils-alumni] The Curation of Social Media as a Public Asset - Register TODAY!! > To: SILS Alumni List Please excuse duplicate postings. The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and School of Government (SOG) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) will hold a day-long seminar entitled "The Curation of Social Media as a Public Asset" on January 21, 2011 from 9:00-4:30 in the Pleasant's Family Room of Wilson Library on the UNC-CH campus.  Continental breakfast will be served from 8 am until 9 am in the seminar room and a boxed lunch will be included as well.  The seminar will include talks by esteemed professionals in public records management as well as an interactive session related to strategies for engaging in the curation of social media as a public asset. Online registration for the symposium is available at http://cfx.research.unc.edu/res_classreg/browse_single.cfm?New=1&event=FBCE3 1598EA8ADF72D49249E6C65842EDDE4A60D. Speakers will contribute insights based on extensive experience in a variety of professional contexts.  They include: *       Martha Anderson, Director of Program Management, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), Library of Congress *       Ken Thibodeau, Director of the Center for Advanced Systems and Technologies, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) *       LeeAnn Potter, Director of Education and Volunteer Programs, Center for the National Archives Experience, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) *       Arian D. Ravanbakhsh, Electronic Records Policy Analyst, Office of Modern Records Programs, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) *       Kelly Eubank, Electronic Records Archivist, Department of Cultural Resources, North Carolina State Archives *       William Polk, Deputy General Counsel, Office of the Governor, State of North Carolina *       Anne Klinefelter, Associate Professor and Director of the Law Library, School of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *       Christopher (Cal) Lee, Assistant Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *       Javier Velasco-Martin, Doctoral Student and expert on Self Disclosure Over Social Media, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Topics for the day will include The Library of Congress' Twitter Acquisition, NARA's and the State of North Carolina's social media policies, legal issues related to curating social media as a public asset, and topics surrounding self-disclosure and strategic policy for public records social media.  A session will occur to allow seminar registrants to discuss their questions, concerns, and ideas regarding the curation of social media as a public asset with the speakers. Archivists, records managers, librarians and other information professionals are often directly charged with ensuring that public information is accessible and meaningful over time.  More and more frequently, however, they do so in environments in which public and private information are mutually entangled in the bounds of distributed, online social networks. Public officials and public servants also must increasingly make and enact decisions related to sharing public information via these networked forums; they must be able to develop strategies and policies that ensure that public records are properly maintained while simultaneously managing the risks associated with the intermingling of public and private information that often occurs on social networks.  To do this, these information professionals must be equipped to engage in curatorial policy and processes and to understand the history, principles, processes and methods of public administration and archives and records management alike. Questions regarding the event can be sent to Lorraine Richards at lorraine.richards@unc.edu. Regarding ESOPI-21: The seminar is part of Educating Stewards of Public Information in the 21st Century (ESOPI-21), which is a three-year collaboration between SILS and the SOG at UNC-CH, sponsored by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS).  ESOPI-21 is based on the belief that the stewardship of public information is a fundamental responsibility of a democratic society.  Public information (e.g. agency records, government publications, datasets) serves as evidence of governmental activities, decisions, and responsibilities at the local, county, state, and federal levels.  Providing appropriate access to public information promotes accountability, rights of citizens, effective administration of policy, and social memory. ESOPI-21 is developing educational and professional engagement opportunities to prepare for the stewardship of public information and the integration of policy with information technology solutions and workflows.  It is funding graduate-level Fellows, who pursuing dual degrees at SILS and the SOG, and providing internships for the Fellows at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Archives and Records Section (NC-ARS), UNC-CH's University Archives, and UNC-CH's Environmental Finance Center.  The project builds on the work and accomplishments of the DigCCurr I & II (Digital Curation Curriculum) projects, which were also funded by the IMLS.  ESOPI-21 is also benefiting from the extensive knowledge of experts who compose its Advisory Board. Further information can be found at http://ils.unc.edu/esopi21/index.html. Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor President & Fellow, Society of American Archivists School of Information and Library Science 201 Manning Hall  CB#3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Phone: (919) 962-8063 Fax: (919) 962-8071 tibbo@email.unc.edu -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian 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 Sat Jan 15 08:54:24 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C0C1BA9A2; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:54:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BB7EBBA99A; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:54:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110115085420.BB7EBBA99A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:54:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.649 using WordPress X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 649. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Schlitz, Stephanie" (6) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.646 using WordPress [2] From: "Kirsten C. Uszkalo" (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.646 using WordPress --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:57:16 -0500 From: "Schlitz, Stephanie" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.646 using WordPress In-Reply-To: <20110114100120.3836DD1235@woodward.joyent.us> Dear John, I used WordPress last semester for an introductory undergraduate DH course; the course site was password protected for most of the semester, but by the end of the term the students agreed to open it: http://stephanieschlitz.com/dh/ You may be interested to learn that my students were inspired by work being disseminated on 4Humanities (http://humanistica.ualberta.ca/) and by the 4Humanities Student Voices section in particular, and they submitted their own collaborative post to the site, which you can find here: http://humanistica.ualberta.ca/for-the-public/student-voices/undergraduates-write-manifesto-on-digital-humanities/ Though there are several critical details of the course environment and course design that I would change (e.g. agreeing to a restricted tag vocabulary and asking students to tag their posts accordingly is something I would do next time), I nonetheless found WordPress a worthwhile instructional medium. Best wishes for a successful venture - stephanie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:52:40 -0700 From: "Kirsten C. Uszkalo" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.646 using WordPress In-Reply-To: <20110114100120.3836DD1235@woodward.joyent.us> Dear John and John, I am happy to tell you that Athabasca University's E-Lab is constructing a Tool Cupboard of open source and open access tools for teaching and researching using DH, including tools, online lectures, and open access journals (I am helping them do this right now :). We hope to have a preliminary passthrough done by the beginning of February. May I please ask list members to send me links to their own open source and open access tools and resources and suggestions about the ones which they would like included in the E-Lab Tool Cupboard? I would be happy to include them, where appropriate. cheers, Kirsten ---- Kirsten C. Uszkalo - Project Lead | Witches in Early Modern England Project | http://witching.org - Editor | Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies in the Preternatural | http://preternature.org - E-Lab Scholar | Athabasca University | https://elab.athabascau.ca/ - Project Lead: Usability | TAPoR Project | http://portal.tapor.ca/portal/portal - Adjunct Assistant Professor | Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia "Sure this woman is no witch, for she speaks many good words, which the witches could not" _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 15 08:55:03 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A30BA9E1; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:55:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1E8B0BA9D0; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:55:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110115085500.1E8B0BA9D0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:55:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.650 internship: automatic annotation X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 650. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:19:22 +0100 From: Marin Dacos Subject: Automatic Annotation of Bibliographical References in DH Books,Articles and Blogs Dear colleagues, the Center for Open Electronic Publishing is the recipient of the Google Grant for Digital Humanities for this project : "Robust and Language Independent Machine Learning Approaches for Automatic Annotation of Bibliographical References in DH Books, Articles and Blogs". We offer a six-month internship in Marseilles for this project. Nous proposons un stage de six mois à Marseille pour le suivi documentaire de ce projet. Best regards, Marin Dacos Director Center for Open Electronic Publishing Stage en information scientifique et technique: identification et reconnaissance de références bibliographiques 13 janvier 2011 Par Emma Bester http://leo.hypotheses.org/author/bester/ | http://leo.hypotheses.org/5867 http://leo.hypotheses.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=5867&action=edit *Mission* Le stagiaire sera chargé du suivi documentaire du projet de recherche « Robust and Language Independent Machine Learning Approaches for Automatic Annotation of Bibliographical References in DH Books, Articles and Blogs », assuré conjointement par le Centre pour l’édition électronique ouverte (Cléo http://cleo.cnrs.fr/ ) et le Laboratoire d’Informatique Avignon (LIA ) dans le cadre du programme Google Grant for Digital Humanities Le projet a pour objectif final le développement d’outils de reconnaissance automatique de références bibliographiques, quelque en soient les occurrences (normalisées ou non) dans la documentation scientifique numérique. Le stagiaire participera à toutes les étapes préalables à la phase de développement technique : de la réflexion sur les méthodes à déployer (typologie des usages et des formes bibliographiques existantes, identification de cas problématiques, exploitation de référentiels) à la rédaction d’un cahier des charges technique. Il procèdera ensuite à l’évaluation des résultats (échantillonnage, tests). Il s’appuiera sur le triple corpus du Centre pour l’édition électronique ouverte : articles de revues, livres et compte-rendus de lectures sur Revues.org ; annonces d’évènements scientifiques sur Calenda ; billets de blogs ou carnets de recherche sur Hypotheses.org. Le stagiaire travaillera au sein du Pôle Information Scientifique du Cléo, et en lien étroit avec le laboratoire d’informatique d’Avignon (LIA). Au carrefour de l’Apprentissage automatique (Machine Learning, TAL) et de l’Edition électronique, le projet demande un intérêt fort pour les Digital Humanities et une bonne connaissance du milieu et des pratiques de la recherche en Sciences humaines et sociales. Des compétences en développement et en mathématiques ne sont pas requises. *Durée du stage*: de 3 à 6 mois. *Indemnité :* Indemnité de stage prévue, en conformité avec la réglementation en vigueur. *Lieu : *Le stage aura lieu à Marseille (13003) *Candidater : *Envoyer CV et lettre de motivation à l’adresse contact@revues.org. *L’employeur* Le Cléo http://cleo.cnrs.fr/ est un laboratoire associant le CNRS http://www.cnrs.fr/ , l’EHESS http://www.ehess.fr/fr/ , l’Université d’Avignon http://www.univ-avignon.fr/ et l’Université de Provence http://www.univ-provence.fr/ . Il fait activement partie du réseau constitué par le Très grand équipement-Adonis http://www.tge-adonis.fr/ . Il est installé à l’Université de Provence (site Saint-Charles) et mène des missions de service public : mise à disposition d’une plateforme complète comprenant un portail (Revues.org http://www.revues.org/ ) de revues scientifiques en libre accès, une plateforme de carnets de recherche en sciences humaines (*Hypothèses http://hypotheses.org/ *), développement de fonctionnalités, mise en place d’accords d’interopérabilité. Il met en ligne plus de 50 000 documents structurés en XML, via des sites web éditorialement gérés par plus de deux cents chercheurs, enseignants, documentalistes et éditeurs en sciences humaines. Le nombre de projets éditoriaux, de visiteurs et de fonctionnalités est en forte croissance et en phase d’internationalisation. *Cléo Revues.org* CNRS/EHESS/UP/UAPV 3, place Victor Hugo, Case n°86, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3 FRANCE Tél. +33 4 13 55 03 55 Fax +33 4 13 55 03 41 http://cleo.cnrs.fr -- Marin Dacos Directeur - Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing CNRS - EHESS - Université de Provence - Université d'Avignon 3, place Victor Hugo, Case n°86, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3 Tél : 04 13 55 03 40 Tél. direct : 04 13 55 03 39 Fax : 04 13 55 03 41 Skype : marin.dacos - Gmail video chat : marin.dacos@gmail.com Twitter : @marind marin.dacos@revues.org http://www.revues.org - http://cleo.cnrs.fr http://leo.hypotheses.org - http://cleoradar.hypotheses.org http://blog.homo-numericus.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 Sun Jan 16 09:22:28 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 925BDC8952; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:22:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5E5FBC8947; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:22:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110116092224.5E5FBC8947@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:22:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.651 an opportunity X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 651. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:18:02 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: interdisciplinary puzzle In Myra H. Strober's recent book, Interdisciplinary Conversations: Challenging Habits of Thought (Stanford, 2011), the word "digital" does not appear in the index, nor as far as I can tell is there any mention of the digital humanities. It is a welcome study: Strober, an emeritus professor of education at Stanford, does not get caught up in seemingly endless consideration of what the abstract ontological category "interdisciplinarity" might denote, how it is to be distinguished from "transdisciplinarity", "multidisciplinarity" and so forth and so on ad nauseam. Rather she looks at what's happening by way of six seminars funded to enact interdisciplinary discussions among academic staff at six American universities. Hers is a social scientific study of these long conversations among academics from a wide variety of disciplines. To her great credit she does not thunder on about breaking down divisions between disciplines or eliminating them altogether. She focuses on what happens when academics try to communicate beyond their own. Mostly what we witness are the difficulties of the attempt. I mention the absence of the digital humanities not as her failing -- our field, after all, has few or no dedicated academic departments in the U.S., including Stanford -- rather as an opportunity for us. The push is on nearly everywhere for academics to attempt interdisciplinary research. What *we* do is by its nature interdisciplinary. Wouldn't you think that we would be the ones to report on how it is actually done? Are not our collaborative projects enactments of interdisciplinary research, at least to some degree? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 16 09:27:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6847C8A7C; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:27:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A817AC8A69; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:27:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110116092708.A817AC8A69@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:27:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.652 events: Osaka 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 652. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:51:23 +0000 From: Sara Schmidt Subject: Osaka Symposium on Digital Humanities 2011 Call for Papers Osaka Symposium on Digital Humanities 2011 The Inaugural Symposium of Japanese Association for Digital Humanities 28–9 March 2011 http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~osdh2011/ Hosted by the Graduate School of Language and Culture, University of Osaka Co-Sponsored by: Japanese Association for Digital Humanities International Institute for Digital Humanities Center for Evolving Humanities, University of Tokyo Center for Informatics in East Asian Studies, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing British Academy/Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences Submission deadline: 7 February 2010 (Midnight JST). Presentations include: Papers (abstract max of 300 words) or Multiple paper sessions, including panels (overview max of 300 words) Call for Papers Announcement I. General Information The OSDH2011 Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of no less than 300 words on any aspect of digital humanities, from information technology to problems in humanities research and teaching. We welcome submissions particularly relating to interdisciplinary work and on new developments in the field. The symposium web site is in development at http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~osdh2011/. The Programme Committee aims for a varied programme. Proposals might, for example, relate to the following aspects of digital humanities: · research issues, including data mining, information design and modelling, software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital medium; · computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship. Some examples might be text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning; · the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, and related areas; · the creation and curation of humanities digital resources; · the role of digital humanities in academic curricula; Abstracts should be sent to osdh2011@lang.osaka-u.ac.jp. The deadline for submitting abstracts to the Programme Committee is 7 February 2011. Presenters will be notified of acceptance on 14 February 2011. II. Types of Proposals Proposals to the Programme Committee may be either: (1) paper presentations or (2) multi-paper sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). Papers/sessions should be given in English. 1) Paper presentations: Individual papers will be allocated twenty (20) minutes for presentation and ten (10) minutes for questions. 2) Multiple Paper Sessions (90 minutes): The session/panel organizer should submit an abstract of 300 words describing the session/panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. III. Programme Committee Hiroyuki Akama (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Gerhard Brey (CCH, King’s College London) Maki Miyake (GSLC, Osaka) A. Charles Muller (Tokyo) Kiyonori Nagasaki (Institute for Digital Humanities) Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen (Oulu, Finland) Espen S. Ore (Oslo, Norway) Masahiro Shimoda (Tokyo) Tomoji Tabata (GSLC, Osaka) 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 Tue Jan 18 06:54:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 131D5D4E83; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:54:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EFE4ED4E6A; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:54:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110118065403.EFE4ED4E6A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:54:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.653 new publication: Curation & Preservation Bibliography 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. 24, No. 653. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:13:02 +0000 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography, Version 2 Version 2 of the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. This selective bibliography includes over 500 articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcpb.htm Table of Contents http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/toc.htm 1 General Works about Digital Curation and Preservation 2 Digital Preservation Copyright Issues 3 Digital Preservation of Formats and Materials 3.1 General Works 3.2 Digital Data 3.3 Digital Media 3.4 E-journals 3.5 Other Digital Formats and Materials 3.6 World-Wide Web 4 Digital Preservation Metadata 5 Digital Preservation Models and Policies 6 Digital Preservation National and International Efforts 7 Digital Preservation Projects and Institutional Implementations 8 Digital Preservation Research 9 Digital Preservation Services 9.1 JSTOR 9.2 LOCKSS 9.3 Portico 10 Digital Preservation Strategies 11 Digital Repository Digital Preservation Issues Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author The following recent Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: 1. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Version 79 http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html 2. Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 5 http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm 3. Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 3 http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html 4. Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography (a paperback, a PDF file, and an XHTML website) http://digital-scholarship.org/tsp/w/tsp.html See also: Reviews of Digital Scholarship Publications: http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/reviews.htm Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen): http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/dcpb_en_2.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://digital-scholarship.org/ Digital Scholarship Chronology http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dschronology.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 Jan 18 06:54:56 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F41D4ED9; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:54:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0C932D4EC8; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:54:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110118065455.0C932D4EC8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:54:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.654 new on WWW: Blog Carnival 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. 24, No. 654. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:52:31 -0800 From: Phillip Barron Subject: Digital Humanities Blog Carnival Highlighting 18 blog posts from the last month, the inaugural edition of the Digital Humanities Blog Carnival is up at http://nicomachus.net/2011/01/digital-humanities-blog-carnival-vol-1-issue=-1/ Already, submissions for next month are open. See http://bit.ly/fPYGN6 Thanks, phillip -- Phillip Barron http://about.me/pbarron _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 07:30:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB05DD7429; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:30:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5D0B9D7419; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:30:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110120073054.5D0B9D7419@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:30:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.655 role of GIS in 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. 24, No. 655. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:32:04 -0600 From: "Cogdill, Sharon E." Subject: role of GIS Colleagues - At my university, a vice president has been arguing that there is no place for a GIS (geographic information systems) curriculum because now everybody can get that kind of data and everyone can make maps. To me, the fact that people who take photos with their digital cameras or mobile phones also can see and make use of the coordinates means that we really must teach about that: not only are there really bad maps out there, but people need to be able to interpret that kind of data. A job posting for GIS appeared on this list not long ago, and it seems to me that a number of TEI projects that I'm aware of are building capabilities based on GIS (or at least GPS) information. When the discipline of history gets more digital, I've been assuming it'll be in the direction of the encoding and curating of historical documents — and historical GIS. We haven't reduced the amount of writing we teach because of word processors. Now that "everybody" can use presentation software, it seems to me, we've actually increased the instruction devoted to it. Now that that same everybody can make videos, our instruction in video and film production is growing in depth (in programs devoted to film and video studies and production) as well as breadth (first-year composition teachers assigning at least one video essay in their classes). What is your sense of it? Is GIS really dead as a discipline? (And have I thus completely missed what's going on?) What arguments would you put forward? What are the arguments stronger than the ones I have suggested above? TIA for your suggestions, Best, sharon Sharon Cogdill Professor, Department of English Victorian Studies and Digital Humanities St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 07:31:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62A96D7453; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:31:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3FFE1D7449; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:31:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110120073129.3FFE1D7449@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:31:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.656 update: Debates in 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 656. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:57:39 -0500 From: "Matthew K. Gold" Subject: Debates in the Digital Humanities - Update Dear Colleagues, With the January 20 deadline for abstracts only a few days away, I'm writing with a few updates on the Debates in the Digital Humanities Collection. The volume has been gaining a great deal of momentum, with an impressive roster of DH scholars and pioneers (dare I say "stars," given post-#MLA11 discussions?) signing on as contributors. Though I'm particularly happy that the collection will include work from academics with long and distinguished relationships to the field, I'm also I'm excited that the collection will include essays from a range of DHers: senior scholars, mid-career academics, junior faculty, #alt-ac'ers, and advanced graduate students. I will release the full slate of contributors and the table of contents in February after I have sorted through the abstracts, but you can rest assured that any contribution you make to the collection will find itself in very good company. I had a chance to meet with my editorial collaborators at the University of Minnesota Press at the MLA Convention. We're all excited about the volume, and the Press remains committed both to making it open access and to getting it into print by next January, in time for MLA 2012. A few things came up during that meeting that I'd like to pass on to you: * Because of the overwhelmingly positive response to my initial call for contributions, it may not be possible to include all submitted essays in the printed edition of the book. All accepted essays, however, will appear in the online, open-access version of the text. In order to ensure that your essay will receive full consideration for the print edition, please submit your work by the deadlines laid out in my initial email. * In order to include as many essays as possible in the print edition, we would like to encourage shorter essays for the collection than we had initially proposed. To that end, we will consider essays between 3750-9000 words (~15-35pp) as opposed to the 5k-10k words (~20-40pp) suggested in my first call. * The Press and I would like to engage in two levels of peer review for this volume. After initial essay drafts are delivered in mid-March, I will ask all contributors to complete a double-blind review of one or two other essays in the book. After contributors revise their essays and send them back to me in May, I will deliver the full manuscript to the Press, which will then engage outside readers for the entire volume. Thanks to everyone who has already sent in an abstract and CV. I'm very much looking forward to receiving more exciting work in the coming days. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best, Matt --------------------------------------------------------- Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D. Project Director, CUNY Academic Commons (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu) Assistant Professor of English, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Interactive Technology & Pedagogy Certificate Program, CUNY Graduate Center 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201 mattgold@gmail.com http://mkgold.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 Thu Jan 20 07:32:37 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE934D74E5; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:32:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 55D9FD74D4; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:32:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110120073234.55D9FD74D4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:32:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.657 new publications: D-Lib for Jan/Feb; Chronicle on unsettling robotics X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 657. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: The Chronicle Review (8) Subject: This Week: The Unsettling Future of Robotics [2] From: Bonnie Wilson (67) Subject: The January/February 2011 issue of D-LibMagazine is now available --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:37:00 -0500 (EST) From: The Chronicle Review Subject: This Week: The Unsettling Future of Robotics Chronicle Review Tuesday January 18, 2011 This Week's Highlights Programmed for Love: The Unsettling Future of Robotics http://chronicle.com/article/Programmed-for-Love-The/125922/?sid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en By Jeffrey R. Young The MIT ethnographer Sherry Turkle warns of surprising challenges ahead in the relationship of humans to their technological creations. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:34:26 +0000 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The January/February 2011 issue of D-LibMagazine is now available Greetings: The January/February 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue is a special issue that focuses on the reliable identification and citation of scientific data sets. Jan Brase and Adam Farquhar served as Guest Editors of this special issue, which contains ten articles. Also in this issue you can find 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 web site Digital Dialects, courtesy of Craig Gibson, the site's creator. The articles include: Access to Research Data Introduction by guest editors Jan Brase, German National Library of Science and Technology and Adam Farquhar, British Library The Dataverse Network: An Open-Source Application for Sharing, Discovering and Preserving Data Article by Merce Crosas, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Harvard DataONE: Data Observation Network for Earth - Preserving Data and Enabling Innovation in the Biological and Environmental Sciences Article by William Michener, University Libraries, University of New Mexico; Dave Vieglais, Biodiversity Research Institute, University of Kansas; Todd Vision, University of North Carolina; John Kunze and Patricia Cruse, University of California Curation Center; and Greg Janee, University of California Curation Center and University of California at Santa Barbara Quality of Research Data, an Operational Approach Article by Leo Waaijers; Maurits van der Graaf, Pleiade Management and Consultancy Acquiring High Quality Research Data Article by Andreas Hense and Florian Quadt, Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University Criteria for the Trustworthiness of Data Centres Article by Jens Klump, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam German Research Centre for Geosciences Abelard and Heloise: Why Data and Publications Belong Together Article by Eefke Smit, International Association of STM Publishers Supporting Science through the Interoperability of Data and Articles Article by IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg and Ove Kahler, Elsevier, S&T Journals, Content Innovation, The Netherlands isCitedBy: A Metadata Scheme for DataCite Article by Joan Starr, California Digital Library; Angela Gastl, ETH Zurich Library "Earth System Science Data" (ESSD) - A Peer Reviewed Journal for Publication of Data Article by Hans Pfeiffenberger, Alfred Wegener Institut; David Carlson, UNAVCO, USA 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 2011 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 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 Jan 20 07:35:27 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9380CD7583; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:35:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6CD20D7575; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:35:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110120073525.6CD20D7575@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:35:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.658 announcements: networked learning; multimedia MA X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 658. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Master in Ambienti Multimediali e Beni Culturali (64) Subject: MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENT FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE [2] From: "Fowler, John" (74) Subject: Announcing the COIL Institute for Globally Networked Learning in the Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:51:24 +0100 From: Master in Ambienti Multimediali e Beni Culturali Subject: MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENT FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE The Faculty of Humanities of the University "Federico II" of Naples has published the notice of admission to the Master's Degree in "Multimedia Environments for Cultural Heritage" that offers a curriculum based on knowledge and experience of cultural and skills relating to specific multimedia applications of cultural sector. The target is to create new interdisciplinary skills required by National and International Cultural Heritage Job scenario: experts in multimedia technologies and methodologies for cultural heritage. The Master is open to graduates of liberal arts education, science and technology that are interested in increasing skills as new technologies, cataloging, management, analysis and communication of cultural heritage. Libraries, Superintendents, Government, private companies operating in the application of new technologies to cultural heritage, are interested in the wide range of themes raised by the course: digital classification, dissemination of culture through multimedia, cultural heritage data management, digital libraries and publishing, and so on. The course duration is one year (1500 hours, for a total of 60 university credits). Lessons will take place in the classroom on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 14 to 18, at the premises of Porta di Massa and Monte Sant'Angelo. The duration of the stage is 120 hours at public or private institutions operating in the sector. The cost of tuition fee is € 3,000 payable in two semi-annual installments. It's possible to access scholarship Total (Inpdap, Ministry of Education, Region Campania) or partial (issued by the University) after the interview. The application for admission must be submitted by 12 noon on 18/01/2011 Office Specialist Schools and Master Mezzocannone street, 16 80134 - Naples. For more information see: www.archeo.unina.it / master or call at 081.679944. *** * * La Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’università “Federico II” di Napoli ha pubblicato il bando di ammissione per il Master di I livello in “Ambienti multimediali per i Beni Culturali”, che propone un percorso formativo incentrato sulla conoscenza ed esperienza dei beni culturali e sulle competenze informatiche relative alle applicazioni multimediali specifiche nel settore. L’obiettivo è formare* *nuove professionalità interdisciplinari molto richieste attualmente nel panorama nazionale ed internazionale, che si configurano come esperti in metodologie e tecnologie multimediali con una preparazione approfondita specificatamente per il patrimonio culturale. Il Master si rivolge a laureati di formazione umanistica, scientifica e tecnologica con interesse a maturare competenze nell’ambito delle nuove tecnologie di catalogazione, gestione, analisi e comunicazione dei Beni Culturali. Biblioteche, Soprintendenze, Enti pubblici, aziende private operanti nelle applicazione di nuove tecnologie al settore culturale manifestano sempre più la tendenza alla catalogazione digitale, divulgazione della cultura attraverso strumenti multimediali. La durata del corso è annuale (1500 ore, per un totale di 60 crediti formativi universitari). Gli incontri in aula avverranno nei giorni lunedì, martedì e giovedì dalle 14 alle 18, presso le sedi di Porta di Massa e Monte Sant’Angelo. La durata dello stage è di 120 ore presso strutture pubbliche o private operanti nel settore. Il costo di iscrizione al Master è di 3.000 euro da versare in due rate semestrali. E’ possibile accedere a borse di studio totali (Inpdap, Miur, Regione Campania) o parziali (rilasciate dall’Università), previo colloquio. La domanda di ammissione al concorso deve essere consegnata entro le ore *12 * del 1*8/01/2011 **all'Ufficio Scuole di Specializzazione e Master Via Mezzocannone, 16 80134 – Napoli*. Per ulteriori informazioni consultare il sito: *www.archeo.unina.it/master *o chiamare allo* 081.679944.* --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:24:10 -0500 From: "Fowler, John" Subject: Announcing the COIL Institute for Globally Networked Learning in the Humanities The SUNY Center for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is pleased to announce a Call for Participation in the COIL Institute for Globally Networked Learning in the Humanities funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Globally networked learning is not a technology, but is a new approach to teaching and learning which provides faculty and students the ability to communicate and collaborate directly and immediately with peers internationally through the use of online communication tools. Our Institute is open to scholars with no experience teaching online, but it would not be appropriate for the truly technophobic. The COIL approach to globally networked learning is to link a class at an American university with one at a university abroad. The classes may be totally online or offered in a blended format with face-to-face sessions taking place at both schools, while collaborative work between the groups takes place online. The courses are team-taught, with faculty members working with peers at their partner institutions. Our method promotes interactive shared coursework, emphasizing experiential learning. We give collaborating students a chance to get to know each other and help them develop meaningful projects together. This broadens their view and understanding of the course content and builds their cross-cultural communicative capacity by engaging the perspectives of their global peers. The COIL Center developed this two-year Institute to foster globally networked learning environments within the Humanities. We are seeking applications from institutional teams from across the U.S. that include: * At least one faculty member teaching courses within the following disciplinary groups: o Freshman Foundations: introductory courses in all humanities disciplines designed to internationalize the curriculum o Human Societies: Social Sciences and related disciplines o Media Arts & Cultures: Film and New Media Studies; Musicology; Cultural Studies; and related disciplines o Language & Literature: Writing Studies; Rhetoric; Language Instruction; Literature; and related disciplines o International Studies: History; Political Science; International and Area Studies; and related disciplines * An Instructional Designer or Technologist; and/or * An International Programs Professional Members of the teams accepted to the Institute will be appointed as COIL Institute Fellows and will: * Be provided ongoing training and support to create globally networked learning environments * Attend one of five discipline-focused three-day workshops at the SUNY Global Center in NYC in September or October, 2011 * Participate in an online course as well as an ongoing community of practice * Co-teach or actively support a globally networked course with an international partner in 2012 * Be invited to report on their experiences at a "lessons-learned" capstone conference in NYC Fellows residing outside of the New York City area will have their workshop and capstone conference travel and accommodation provided by the Institute. For More Information: * Visit the COIL website at http://www.suny.edu/global/coil for the full Call for Participation and the Application Guidelines * Attend the 3rd COIL Conference on March 31 - April 1, 2011 - which will be attended by all Institute staff and workshop leaders and will include an information session on the Institute. * Contact the Institute's Coordinator at: CoilInstituteInfo@suny.edu Application Deadline: April 29, 2011 John E. Fowler Assistant Director Center for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) The State University of New York (SUNY) Global Center 116 E. 55th St. New York, NY 10022 E-mail: john.fowler@suny.edu Office: 212-317-3587 Fax: 212-521-5287 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 07:36:41 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C735FD75EC; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:36:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B129FD75D6; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:36:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110120073638.B129FD75D6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:36:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.659 events: epigraphy & archaeology; XML interchange; Black Mountain College X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 659. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Monica Berti (24) Subject: 2011 Latium Vetus Program - Epigraphy and Archaeology Program in Italy [2] From: BTU (32) Subject: International Symposium on XML Document Interchange: Call for Participation [3] From: Flatbed Splendor (20) Subject: 2011 NEH Landmarks Workshop - Black Mountain College --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:15:14 +0100 From: Monica Berti Subject: 2011 Latium Vetus Program - Epigraphy and Archaeology Program in Italy Hi All, We are very pleased to announce The Stones of Ancient Latium - 2011 Latium Vetus Program: Epigraphy and Archaeology Program in Italy (May 25 - July 1, 2011) The 2011 Latium Vetus Program, as part of a collaborative project between Tufts University and Roma Tor Vergata, will allow students to learn the techniques of modern epigraphic study, including digital transcription and documentation of inscriptions, and they will have the unique opportunity to work on unpublished texts from the huge corpus of inscriptions of Ancient Latium and to contribute to the ongoing project of digitizing and publishing these inscriptions. As an intensive course of first-hand epigraphic and archaeological site and museum study based at the campus of Tor Vergata University and led by Monica Berti of Roma Tor Vergata and J. Matthew Harrington of Tufts University, this program will combine close study of epigraphic remains with exploration of the archaeological contexts and analysis of relevant Latin sources from the sites of Latium and Campania: Rome, Ostia, Pompeii, Tivoli, Praeneste, Veii, Lanuvium, Albano Laziale, Cerveteri, Herculaneum, Nemi, Anzio, Tusculum, Falerii Novi, Sutri, Tarquinia, Napoli, Paestum, Lucus Feroniae, Boscoreale, Oplontis, and more. Join us for this exciting summer program! Application deadline: March 1, 2011 For more information, please visit http://sites.tufts.edu/latiumvetus/ Monica Berti & J. Matthew Harrington --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:07:55 -0500 From: BTU Subject: International Symposium on XML Document Interchange: Call for Participation CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International Symposium on XML Document Interchange: Fact or Fiction or "That XML file you sent me: what do you expect me to do with it?" Since the dawn of markup languages, XML and its precursors have been sold as enabling document interchange. Does it work? Do we have document interchange? We send each other "documents" and pull documents out of the Cloud all the time. A lot of those documents are HTML and PDF, some are XML. Does XML really support document interchange? Questions that motivate the symposium include: What are minimum requirements for interchange, and what must sender and recipient do to foster success? Are there levels of interchange? Can interchange be done "blind" without negotiation on both ends? How can quality of service be defined and measured, and what methods aid in graceful degradation of service? How does interchange differ from long-term sustainability of documents and document collections? How do we balance semantic interchange with fidelity to an original? What challenges are users having interchanging XML documents, and how are they overcoming them? This one-day symposium will bring together researchers, government analysts, documentation specialists, consumers of documents, and XML practitioners to discuss the problems and challenges of document interchange. What is being done now and what more we can do? How: Submit full papers in XML to info@balisage.net Guidelines, DTDs, schemas, and details at http://www.balisage.net/submissions.html More Information: Read about the symposium: http://www.balisage.net/interchange/ 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: 11 March 2011 - Peer review applications due 8 April 2011 - Paper submissions due 8 April 2011 - Applications due for student support awards 20 May 2011 - Speakers notified 8 July 2011 - Final papers due 1 August 2011 - Symposium on XML Document Interchange 2-5 August 2011 - Balisage: The Markup Conference Chair: James D. Mason, Y-12 National Security Complex ========================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011 mailto:info@balisage.net August 2-5, 2011 http://www.balisage.net Pre-conference Symposium: August 1, 2011 Montreal, Canada ========================================================== --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:39:30 +0000 From: Flatbed Splendor Subject: 2011 NEH Landmarks Workshop - Black Mountain College *** Attachments: mhstore: missing argument to -part Dear Mr. McCarty, Greetings. I am writing on behalf of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC). Located in downtown Asheville, NC, BMCM+AC preserves and continues the unique legacy of educational and artistic innovation of Black Mountain College for public study and enjoyment. We achieve our mission through collection, conservation, and educational activities including exhibitions, publications and public programs. This summer, we are excited to offer two NEH Landmarks Workshops for Community College Faculty. The workshops, entitled Black Mountain College: An Artistic and Educational Legacy, will take place on July 10-16 and July 17-23, 2011, and will address the fascinating history of Black Mountain College through presentations by experts in the field as well as experiential workshops and field trips all designed to deepen and enrich the study of this innovative educational model. Attached to this message, please find a one-page PDF flyer for the workshop. We would be most grateful if if you could share this opportunity with the HUMANIST listserv, as well as any students, colleagues or institutions to whom you think it might be of interest. Comprehensive program and application information can be found on our website at http://blackmountaincollege.org/content/blogcategory/80/92/. The deadline for application is March 1, 2011. Please feel free to contact us with any questions that you may have about this opportunity. All the best, Bridget Elmer Program Assistant Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 56 Broadway, Asheville, NC 28801 828-350-8484 http://blackmountaincollege.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 Fri Jan 21 10:59:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A65B2D8538; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:59:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A8D41D8520; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:59:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110121105930.A8D41D8520@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:59:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.660 GIS in 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. 24, No. 660. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Øyvind_Eide (38) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.655 role of GIS in scholarship? [2] From: Moacir (69) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.655 role of GIS in scholarship? [3] From: Bill Kretzschmar (10) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.655 role of GIS in scholarship? [4] From: "H. Lewis Ulman" (41) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.655 role of GIS in scholarship? [5] From: rasmith@tamu.edu (4) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.655 role of GIS in scholarship? [6] From: Elijah Meeks (15) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.655 role of GIS in scholarship? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:14:26 +0100 From: Øyvind_Eide Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.655 role of GIS in scholarship? In-Reply-To: <20110120073054.5D0B9D7419@woodward.joyent.us> Den 20. jan.. 2011 kl. 08.30 skrev Humanist Discussion Group: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 655. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:32:04 -0600 > From: "Cogdill, Sharon E." > Subject: role of GIS > > > Colleagues - > > At my university, a vice president has been arguing that there is no > place for a GIS (geographic information systems) curriculum because > now everybody can get that kind of data and everyone can make maps. > To me, the fact that people who take photos with their digital > cameras or mobile phones also can see and make use of the > coordinates means that we really must teach about that: not only are > there really bad maps out there, but people need to be able to > interpret that kind of data. It is just rubbish. I will mention but two reasons: 1. Access to map data, especially vector data which is needed for many types of analysis, is very difficult for many areas, where the only sources for data of respectable quality are the national mapping agencies. Google maps for rural areas? Forget it. 2. GIS is way more than making maps. Analysis in archaeology is but one example. For one set of examples among many, look through any proceedings from the CAA (Computer Applications in Archaeology) conferences. I think you will find it easy to collect enough evidence to close this case. If evidence has any effect in cases like this one. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:35:59 +0100 From: Moacir Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.655 role of GIS in scholarship? In-Reply-To: <20110120073054.5D0B9D7419@woodward.joyent.us> Thinking that GIS has no place in a curriculum anymore because of the proliferation of GPS devices and (let's say) Google Maps strikes me as a rather ill-informed position to take, considering practitioners of GIS have not even figured out what it is (or what the "S" in it stands for). How can a moment be over before it is even a moment? During the past two decades, geography journals have repeatedly flared up with arguments over whether GIS is a tool or a science (thereby becoming a (sub-)discipline), whether use of GIS automatically aligns the practitioner with the military/corporatist history of GIS, and whether such a thing as a qualitative GIS can possibly exist, thereby "freeing" GIS from its allegedly quantitative and positivist roots. Recent articles by Marianna Pavlovskaya give general histories (and useful bibliographies) of the debates, from John Pickles's broadsides in the late 90s to Mei-Po Kwan's feminist rehabilitation of GIS in the last decade. Furthermore, collected volumes published in the past few years, like Hillier and Knowles's "Placing History," published by ESRI (the publishers of the ArcGIS software package), and Cope and Elwood's "Qualitative GIS," published by Sage, give accounts of several GIS projects that could simply not be accomplished without GIS (as well as geography!) training that goes beyond hours of asking the internet for driving directions or geotagging photos. What the vice-president seems to have in mind is what many have called "Neogeography," the sort of DIY punk geography that could be the equivalent of the cheap handheld movie camera or portable four-track recorder. But film schools did not close because of the cheap handheld (this seems a useful comparison to me), nor did, and this is vitally important, film studies departments or the companies that make large, pro cameras. That is, neogeography is a new approach to the creation/collection of geographical data, but the old forms (census tract tables, for example) have not lost their importance at all--nor have they become, I suspect, more intuitive. Similarly, assuming that GIS is "only" making maps on Google Earth would probably be considered an insult by even the people whose chapters were rejected in the volumes mentioned above. Additionally, for historians, the ease of creating maps of today's world means virtually nothing when what one cares about is the world from over a century ago--a massively labor-intensive project documented, for example, by Anne Kelly Knowles in her effort to imagine, using GIS software, what General Lee was able to see from his post at Gettysburg. The data she used was not available to "everybody." She had to create the data by hand from historical topographical maps. That also means she had to know--have been trained--how to create that data. Finally, I can give my own personal experience, which was that of a year-long course in GIS, for which a course in statistics (not ownership of a Tomtom) was a prerequisite. Outside of a short unit on using GPS devices to make a small map of campus, nothing we did in those 30 weeks fits the description of Neogeography given on Wikipedia (or is recognizable in the VP's concern). An iPhone won't teach spatial analysis, how to measure clustering, what a nearest neighbor is (and why that is or is not important), how to correlate income data from the federal census with crime or transportation data provided by the city, or even a basic personal (non-academic) question, like, "where should I live if I want to live within 200m of the subway, within 20km of work, in a neighborhood with an average per capita income of at least $20k, and with < 20 property crimes in the past month?" Hopefully this email has given some arguments (and suggestions for further reading) about how GIS (or geography) can't be simply brushed off because of the ease with which one can make "mashups" on the internet. --m -- Moacir P. de Sá Pereira PhD Candidate, Dept. of English Language and Literature University of Chicago http://moac.ir/ | moacir@uchicago.edu --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:36:37 +0000 From: Bill Kretzschmar Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.655 role of GIS in scholarship? In-Reply-To: <20110120073054.5D0B9D7419@woodward.joyent.us> The key function of GIS is not cartography, the fact of a map, but instead the way that researchers can associate information selectively with maps. GIS makes displays with layers, each one with characteristics of different kinds, that can be overlaid to form a composite digital picture. The underlying value, however, is the use of geography as an organizing device for information, in our case all kinds of cultural information. Cultural geographers have been telling us for a long time that "place" is really a proxy for the human behavior of all kinds that takes place in different locations. GIS is an essential tool to help us unpack the complexity of places. Yes, anybody can now make a simple map, although most people just stick with the road maps or satellite images that Google, Microsoft, and others make readily available. A GIS curriculum for humanists should, besides introducing technical tools, discuss how different aspects of culture might usefully be associated with places. The forthcoming MLA volume on Digital Humanities will have a chapter (by yours truly) that illustrates basic GIS concepts for language and literature, which will be immediately transferable to history and other aspects of the humanities. Bill __________________________________________________ Bill Kretzschmar Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities Dept of English, Park 317, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 Tel: 706-542-2246; Fax: 706-583-0027; www.lap.uga.edu --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:04:05 -0500 From: "H. Lewis Ulman" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.655 role of GIS in scholarship? In-Reply-To: <20110120073054.5D0B9D7419@woodward.joyent.us> Hi, all. On 1/20/11 2:30 AM Sharon Cogdill (Hi, Sharon!) wrote: > At my university, a vice president has been arguing that there is no place for > a GIS (geographic information systems) curriculum because now everybody can > get that kind of data and everyone can make maps. There are many factors to consider in curricular decisions, but it just doesn't make sense to argue that a university doesn't need a GIS curriculum because GIS data and tools are readily available. You've already stated the most obvious counter-arguments: universities need to teach subjects precisely because our students encounter those subjects in their daily, civic lives or because those subjects are critical to some area of human endeavor. We have heard a similar argument about teaching digital media: over 95% of our students own a networked computer and they all have access to digital media production tools, so we soon won't need to teach digital media production or analysis. The opposite seems to be true. As access to and use of digital tools increases, there's a greater need to teach students how to use those tools well and responsibly in academic, civic, and professional contexts, where habits transferred from pop culture forums may work against them. Complicating your question is the fact that GIS is an inherently interdisciplinary field with many curricular approaches. At Ohio State, we have a GIS and Spatial Analysis focus in our Geography Department (http://www.geography.osu.edu/gis-and-spatial-analysis) and a Mapping and GIS Laboratory in the College of Engineering (http://shoreline.eng.ohio-state.edu/), and researchers in History, Dance, Art, English, and who knows where else actively incorporate GIS into their research and teaching. I employ GIS in textual editing, working with students to encode geographic data into TEI documents and display it for readers use networked GIS applications. Cheers, Louie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ H. Lewis Ulman, Associate Professor Director, Digital Media Studies Department of English The Ohio State University 353 Denney Hall 164 West 17th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: (614) 292-2275 <> E-mail: ulman.1@osu.edu WWW: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/ulman1/ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:30:08 -0600 (CST) From: rasmith@tamu.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.655 role of GIS in scholarship? In-Reply-To: <20110120073054.5D0B9D7419@woodward.joyent.us> > At my university, a vice president has been arguing that there is no place for a GIS (geographic information systems) curriculum because now everybody can get that kind of data and everyone can make maps. To me, the fact that people who take photos with their digital cameras or mobile phones also can see and make use of the coordinates means that we really must teach about that: not only are there really bad maps out there, but people need to be able to interpret that kind of data. That argument sounds to me a bit like this: "Everybody has access to a calculator now, so we should stop teaching mathematics." Robin Smith --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:20:00 -0800 (PST) From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.655 role of GIS in scholarship? In-Reply-To: <20110120073054.5D0B9D7419@woodward.joyent.us> Sharon, Historical GIS is one of the most mature digital humanities disciplines, and your university vice president is conflating the availability of convenient spatially aware media with the rigorous understanding of spatio-temporal phenomenon. As you stated, the situation is in fact the exact opposite to what he describes: That maps and spatial media are easy to make increases the importance of curriculum and scholarship directed toward spatial media. Stepping away from the historical sub-field, GIS is incredibly high-visibility across disciplines and professions and so even from a practical or professional point of view the inclusion of spatial analysis and spatial statistics using typical GIS packages and methodologies would just seem to be good business sense for higher education. The high-availability and low-cost-to-entry tools that he's referring to are extremely unsophisticated and their representations of reality and the implicit arguments of those representations should be drawn out and examined through scholarship. So, whether it's the use of such methods for the advancement of research in history or other humanities disciplines, or whether it's the examination of "truth" and "reality" as represented by these ever-more common geographically aware tools, we need to advance scholarship through understanding and investigation of what is commonly known as GIS. Best, Elijah Elijah Meeks http://dhs.stanford.edu Digital Humanities Specialist Academic Computing Services Stanford University emeeks@stanford.edu (650)387-6170 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 11:05:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D90BD862B; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:05:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 62A54D8610; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:05:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110121110524.62A54D8610@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:05:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.661 stipends X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 661. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dean Irvine (71) Subject: EMiC MA and PhD Stipends 2011-12 [2] From: Alan Liu (36) Subject: 4Humanities Stipends for International Correspondents --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:31:28 -0400 From: Dean Irvine Subject: EMiC MA and PhD Stipends 2011-12 --[2]--------------------------------------------[Please redistribute as appropriate to department chairs, graduate chairs, students, and colleagues.] 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 master's and doctoral stipends. Current graduate fellows are working on projects such as the print and digital editions in the Collected Works of P.K. Page, the Sheila Watson and Wilfred Watson digital archives, the selected letters of New Brunswick modernists, a critically edited anthology of Canadian political and literary manifestoes, and the EMiC digital repository. In addition, EMiC graduate fellows are involved in the production of print and digital editions of works by Ted Allan, Sol Allen, Carroll Aikins, Marius Barbeau, Ernest Buckler, Fred Cogswell, Sui Sin Far/Edith Eaton, Hugh Garner, Dorothy Livesay, Malcolm Lowry, Hugh MacLennan, Martha Ostenso, F.R. Scott, Elizabeth Smart, Miriam Waddington, Anne Wilkinson, and the collaboratively written play Eight Men Speak. EMiC offers one-year stipends of CDN $12,000 (MA) or $15,000 (PhD) to graduate students who are registered in, or entering, an MA or PhD program at one of the EMiC partner universities and who are engaged in research relevant to the project's mandate: to produce critically edited texts by modernist Canadian authors. Successful applicants are strongly encouraged to seek matching funds from their universities and external funding from granting agencies. In offering these stipends, EMiC interprets its mandate in the broadest possible terms: that is, the stipends are not limited to masters and doctoral students involved in work on an EMiC print or electronic edition; on the contrary, they are open to any student engaged in masters or doctoral research relevant to one or more of the three components of this project: literary modernism, scholarly editing, and the digital humanities. While EMiC interprets its mandate in the broadest possible terms, preference will be given to research projects most directly relevant to the task of producing critically edited texts by modernist Canadian authors. Applicants proposing print or electronic editions of modernist texts should indicate whether they have obtained written permission from the estate. EMiC will require proof of that permission before it can release funds to successful applicants. Although the stipends are for a single year, doctoral students can reapply for a second award. Such re-applications by doctoral students are not automatic renewals; requests for renewals will be adjudicated in the same manner as, and in competition with, new applications. EMiC will neither entertain applications for a third doctoral stipend nor award funding to students beyond the fifth year of their program. EMiC will provide an allocation of $12,000 (MA) or $15,000 (PhD) to the partner universities at which successful applicants are registered. EMiC co-applicants and collaborators will be responsible for ensuring that those funds are administered in keeping with the guidelines established by their respective universities. MA and PhD students must be supervised by an EMiC co-applicant or collaborator and enrolled at or applying to an EMiC partner institution. Before submitting an application for funding, incoming students must secure commitments in principle from prospective supervisors and students already enrolled in a graduate program at an EMiC partner institution must obtain a supervisor. EMiC cannot fund students supervised by faculty members who are not themselves project participants. Applications should be submitted via the online form available the project website: http://editingmodernism.ca/funding/ma-and-phd-stipends/ Application deadline: 30 March 2011 Dean Irvine Associate Professor Director, Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) Collection Director, Canadian Literature Collection/Collection de litterature 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 ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:17:04 -0800 From: Alan Liu Subject: 4Humanities Stipends for International Correspondents *4Humanities Stipends for International Correspondents:* 4Humanities is seeking up to three bilingual or multilingual graduate students (or early-career researchers) from outside Australia, Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. who would each receive an honorarium of 450 Canadian dollars for contributing at least one online post per month for a term of one year to the 4Humanities site (http://humanistica.ualberta.ca/). The posts will report on events, policies, statements, and issues relating to the state of the humanities or advocacy for the humanities in the student's or researcher's country. Correspondents must be able to write their posts bilingually, in the language of their country and also with an English version. The 4Humanities initiative was started in November 2010 by the international community of digital humanities scholars and educators to assist in advocacy for the humanities. See our mission statement: http://humanistica.ualberta.ca/mission/ Our Web site posts news about the crisis of the humanities in society, advocacy statements for the humanities, "student voices" in support of the humanities, and digital and other resources to assist in advocating for the humanities. While the initiative began with contributors from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, it seeks to extend its scope and audience to other nations. Sponsorship for these international correspondent positions is from the Association for Computing in the Humanities (ACH), the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), and the Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts (CIRCA). Honoraria will be disbursed through the University of Alberta. Please apply for the international correspondent positions by writing an email describing yourself and your interests, and including a curriculum vitae or short professional biography. Applications should be addressed to Prof. Alan Liu, Dept. of English, University of California, Santa Barbara ( ayliu@english.ucsb.edu), one of the coordinators of 4Humanities. The deadline for applications is February 28, 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 Fri Jan 21 11:08:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27FD0D87B1; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:08:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3CEABD879A; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:07:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110121110753.3CEABD879A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:07:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.663 events: narrative & hypertext X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 663. 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. 24, No. 662. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:27:00 +0000 From: Charlie Hargood Subject: Call for Papers Narrative and Hypertext Workshop at ACM Hypertext 2011 ====================================== Call for Papers ====================================== Narrative and Hypertext 2011 Workshop on Narrative Systems http://nht11.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ To be held in conjunction with Hypertext 2011, Eindhoven ====================================== This workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum to bring together individuals from the humanities and science communities to share research and discuss state-of-the-art research on narrative from both a technical and aesthetic perspective. Narrative could be considered as the presentation of an ordered series of human experiences. Understanding of narrative includes a wide range of elements including plot, theme, authorial voice, style and genre. The systems that work at constructing, presenting, or analysing these might be called narrative systems. As hypertext systems link and structure information into experiences for their users many hypertext systems could in turn be considered narrative systems. Narratives are complex creations prevalent in our entertainment, communication, and understanding of the world and its events. By building better models of narrative along with methods for generation, adaption, and presentation we enable narrative systems to become more effective but also improve our understanding of narrative structures. Narrative might also be used as a discursive representation of knowledge allowing for the capture of expert understanding. The potential for grander narratives to be formed from collections of information or discourse on the web (for example from social media) means that knowledge or identity might emerge from otherwise seemingly disparate sources. This workshop offers a focus for this interdisciplinary community to share research, offer solutions and contributions to the challenges faced in the study of narrative and the development of narrative systems, and offers a platform of discussion for potential collaboration for members of the hypertext community working with narrative. Topics include: - Models of Narrative - Systems for the Presentation of Narratives - Adaptive and Personalised Narratives - Narrative Analysis - Narrative Generation - Narrative as a method of Knowledge Capture - Social Media as Narrative - Narrative as a lens on identity - Argumentation and Rhetoric - Interactive Fiction - Cinematic Hypertext - Authorial support systems - Novel applications of narrative systems - e-Literature - Literary Criticism Participants The audience for this workshop will be a mixed group of participants from arts, science, and humanities. This will include young researchers and PhD students from these areas using the workshop as a platform to present initial work, members of academia and industry contributing to the wider discussion, technical developers working on relevant systems, and authors with an interest in related research. Participants are asked to submit a short (between 2 and 5 pages ACM format) paper on their current work. Authors of papers selected for presentation will be informed 2 weeks after the submission deadline. Activities The workshop will be split into planned and serendipitous sessions. The planned sessions will comprise of presentations of work from those with selected submitted papers with time for questions and discussion after each. The serendipitous sessions will depend on the interests of the attendees of the workshop and will function in the style of an unconference. The preceding coffee break to each serendipitous session will allow participants to put forward suggestions for discussion topics, short presentations, or demos. The organisers will then select the most popular activities suggested as the focus for that session. Submission Details Papers should be in ACM format, be between 2 and 5 pages long, and submitted as a PDF. The papers should be emailed no later than midday GMT 12th April 2011 to Charlie Hargood atcah07r@ecs.soton.ac.uk. Submitted papers will be refereed and notification of acceptance sent out 2 weeks later. Important Dates - Papers Due 12/04/2011 - Notification of acceptance 26/04/2011 - Workshop 06/06/2011 Contact Should you have any questions please feel free to contact the organisers: Charlie Hargood: cah07r@ecs.soton.ac.uk David Millard: dem@ecs.soton.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 Jan 22 09:28:27 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C95B4D8A35; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:28:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B6C98D8A22; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:28:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110122092824.B6C98D8A22@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:28:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.664 more than the cuts: the value of academic 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. 24, No. 664. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:21:25 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: The value of academic humanities Dear Willard and HUMANIST, Please consider giving some time to read (and possibly critique) Simon Head's article, "The Grim Threat to British Universities", in the January 13 New York Review of Books: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jan/13/grim-threat-british-universities/ I found this treatment very useful and illuminating because, writing from a distance, the author is able to convey some sense both of the problem's dimensions and pervasiveness, and of its roots. Additionally, it was very helpful for an American reader to consider Head's discussion of how the crisis in the UK relates to our rather different version of it here in the US (which is not less dangerous for its being less acute), and perhaps by implication elsewhere. Moreover, it seems to me that Head gestures towards (although he is not able to explicate fully) a deeper analysis. It seems to me that in its dogmatic reliance on external and "objective" assessments of value, through means such as the "Key Performance Indicators" (KPIs) presented to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE; and the fact that these are represented by acronyms seems significant to me), the British government has fallen into the same trap as the banking and financial system. To represent value is one thing, but to substitute the token or promise of a putative value for an actual value is another. The one thing, representation, may (if we remain mindful that is a representation and not the thing itself) aid in comprehension and intelligibility, even "accountability". The other -- for me to go on the market and sell you an "asset" as if it were valuable, when it really isn't -- is just a con game, resulting in the transfer of value from you to me, without actually creating any wealth. Supposedly, trade should help both of us by giving each of us something more valuable to us than the thing we give up. But in this case, you give something to me, but all you get in return is the temporary thrill of thinking you are rich, and (maybe!) the equally temporary opportunity of doing the same thing to someone else. In just this way, KPIs supposedly create transparency and accountability, but to the extent that they are fake (and how can they not be?), they actually only obfuscate and confuse, insulating bureaucrats and governments from accountability while distorting and destroying the capabilities of the system on which they sit to create actual value. By buying a set of KPIs instead of educations for its citizens, a government can pretend to itself and to us that it is acquiring value for our tax dollars, even while the actual assets are crumbling in their hands. (I should note, as an American, that I fully understand there is a question of whether a government should be paying for educations at all. But I persist in thinking that your education is a common good in which we all have an interest.) The whole thing makes me think that although this virus nearly killed the patient, back in 2008, the plague still runs rampant. At its basis, I think the reason we get trapped in these cycles of confidence game and ruin is that we simply lack faith in ourselves and each other. We find ourselves unable to calculate the benefits of (say) a liberal education in terms that can be sold to a cynical constituency (of, for example, business leaders who live by counting widgetry and the abstractions by which it is managed, or politicians who live by similarly counting campaign contributions and the votes they leverage). So instead we try to sell them something we think they understand, at a destructive rate of exchange. But they are masters at that game, and we are not -- while they are actually in no position to tell us how to value our work (and indeed the wiser ones know this). Maybe we should be putting the question to them of what kind of world they want their children and ours to live in. Yes, I know that's too vague. But the point is, we cannot know, or say, what is truly valuable in ourselves and in the culture we create until we share it. "The definition of spiritual should be, that which is its own evidence." (Emerson) Best regards, 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 Jan 22 09:30:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B1ED8AE1; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:30:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E2D33D8AD0; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:30:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110122093051.E2D33D8AD0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:30:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.665 "The Literary" (DHQ): deadline extended X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 665. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:08:01 -0500 From: Jessica Pressman Subject: Deadline extended for DHQ Special Issue, "The Literary" * please distribute* */Digital Humanities Quarterly /Special Issue: The Literary * This special issue of /DHQ/ invites essays that consider the study of literature and the category of the literary to be an essential part of the digital humanities. We welcome essays that consider how digital technologies affect our understanding of the literary--- its aesthetics, its history, its production and dissemination processes, and also the traditional practices we use to critically analyze it. We also seek critical reflections on the relationships between traditional literary hermeneutics and larger-scale humanities computing projects. What is the relationship between literary study and the digital humanities, and what should it be? We welcome essays that approach this topic from a wide range of critical perspectives and that focus on diverse objects of study from antiquity to the present as well as born-digital forms. Please submit an abstract of no more than 1,000 words and a short CV to Jessica Pressman and Lisa Swanstrom at > by *Feb. 15, 2011*. We will reply by March 15, 2011 and request that full-length papers of no more than 9,000 words be submitted by *July 15, 2011*. -- Jessica Pressman Assistant Professor Department of English Yale University http://jessicapressman.commons.yale.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 Jan 22 09:34:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC8ACD8B55; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:34:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F1E70D8B4E; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:34:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110122093432.F1E70D8B4E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:34:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.666 events: pedagogy (MLA 2012) X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 666. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:25:31 -0800 From: "Dr. Katherine D. Harris" Subject: CFP (MLA 12): Digital Pedagogy Electronic Roundtable *Electronic Roundtable Demonstrating Digital Pedagogy* *MLA 2012* *Seattle, Washington* *January 5-8, 2012* Discussions about digital projects and digital tools often focus on research goals. For this electronic roundtable, we will instead demonstrate how these digital resources, tools, and projects have been integrated into undergraduate and graduate curriculum in alignment with the MLA 2012 Presidential Theme: Language, Literature, Learning. Proposals may include demonstrations of: - successful collaboration with undergraduates on your digital scholarly project; - specific assignments, including student learning goals, teaching strategies, successes/failures, grading rubrics; - integrating digital assignments with general education requirements; - assessment of student digital projects; - constructing syllabi with digital-focused assignments; - portals for collecting digital-focused syllabi and assignments. This Roundtable session will contain up to eight presenters. Presenters will engage in informal discussion or offer interactive electronic demonstrations. Electronic roundtables allow attendees to circulate among eight stations that will be set up around the meeting room with appropriate audiovisual equipment. Presenters are welcome from a broad range of institutions with a range of contexts and budget demands. Selection of participants will be based on a cross-spectrum of styles, classrooms, student experience, successes, and failures. If possible, we will try to submit two electronic roundtables; however, this is a Special Session not yet accepted by the MLA. 300-word proposals by March 1 to Katherine D. Harris ( katherine.harris@sjsu.edu). Please email with questions. ************************** Dr. Katherine D. Harris 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 Editor, Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 24 09:06:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 217CADAE61; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:06:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A354DDAE51; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:06:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110124090643.A354DDAE51@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:06:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.667 publications: cfp for anomalous ethnographies X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 667. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:42:37 -0700 From: "Kirsten C. Uszkalo" Subject: Preternature CFP: Anomalous Ethnographies: Wild Wonders and ReticentRaces Dear Humanists, Please find CFP attached for Preternature. Although the journal is a print journal, we very much welcome approaches and methods which come from and intersect with Digital Humanities research as well. *** Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural invites articles for a special issue called Anomalous Ethnographies: Wild Wonders and Reticent Races, scheduled for publication in fall 2012. We are seeking academic articles from any discipline and period. Topics might include (but are not limited to) Abatwa, Bloody Mary, Boogieman, djinn, elves, elementals, fairies, fauns, goblins, gremlins, hauntings, Homo Floresiensis, incubi/succubi, mermaids, mummies, Plinian races, reptilians, Sasquatch, selkie, the undead, werewolves, wild men and wild women, Yaksa, and all other alternate forms of humanity, as represented in anthropologies, fiction, folk-lore, medias, mythologies, sermons, travel literatures, and urban legends. Contributions should highlight their construction, cultural role, or historical significance in popular narrative or academic discourse. For more on the journal, please consult . Abstracts of 500 words are due on April 1, 2011. Final contributions should be roughly 8,000 - 12,000 words (with the possibility of longer submissions in exceptional cases), including all documentation and critical apparatus. If accepted for publication, manuscripts will be required to adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (style 1, employing footnotes). Preternature also welcomes original editions or translations of texts related to the topic that have not otherwise been made available in recent editions or in English. Queries about submissions, queries concerning books to be reviewed, or requests to review individual titles may be made to the Editors: Peter Dendle Department of English The Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto, USA pjd11@psu.edu Kirsten C. Uszkalo CIRCA Scholar University of Alberta, Canada circe@ufies.org Richard Raiswell Department of History University of Prince Edward Island, Canada rraiswell@upei.ca ---- Kirsten C. Uszkalo - Project Lead | Witches in Early Modern England Project | http://witching.org - Editor | Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies in the Preternatural | http://preternature.org - E-Lab Scholar | Athabasca University | https://elab.athabascau.ca/ - Project Lead: Usability | TAPoR Project | http://portal.tapor.ca/portal/portal - Adjunct Assistant Professor | Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia "Sure this woman is no witch, for she speaks many good words, which the witches could not" _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 06:13:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C793FDBB82; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:13:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1E11DDBB74; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:13:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110125061304.1E11DDBB74@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:13:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.668 cfp: brief chapters on interactive system 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. 24, No. 668. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:00:31 +0000 From: Willard Mccarty Subject: Blue Herons Editions :: Last Call for Short Chapters In-Reply-To: <20110123205228.28621.qmail@webmaildh5.aruba.it> -------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Blue Herons Editions :: Last Call for Short Chapters :: -------------------------------------------------------------------- On an Edited Handbook to be Published by Blue Herons Editions (HCI collection) in 2011 Title: "Advances in Dynamic and Static Media for Interactive Systems: Communicability, Computer Science and Design" http://www.blueherons.net/home_en_8.html Very Important: Please, consider the dates and deadlines that appear in the current link, since it is the last call we are making before the final closure deadline (thanks). All contributions should be of high originality, quality, clarity, significance, impact and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period. Main areas are solicited on, but not limited to: :: 2D and 3D Computer Graphics :: Advances in Programming Languages and Techniques :: Applied Linguistics :: Augmented Reality :: Artificial Intelligence :: Biometrics Techniques :: Cartography Digital :: Cinema 3D :: Color Mapping, Imaging, Illumination and Texture Mapping in Computer Graphics :: Communicability :: Computer Aided Design :: Computer Animation :: Computer Art :: Cultural and Natural Heritage :: Data Mining and Machine Learning :: Digital Sound :: Distribuited Systems :: Dynamic Graphics and Static Graphics: 2D and 3D :: E-book :: E-commerce :: E-entertainment :: E-government :: E-health :: E-inclusion :: E-job :: E-journal :: E-learning :: E-radio :: E-security :: E-tourism :: Emerging Audio-Visual Layout and Content :: Ergonomics :: Geographical Information Systems :: Geometric and Volume Modelling in Computer Graphics :: Human Factors and Computer Science :: Human-Computer Interaction :: Hypertext, Multimedia and Hypermedia :: Interactive Design :: Legislation for New Technologies :: Local and Global Design for International Users :: Methods and Techniques for Requirements Analysis, Design and Assessment of Interactive Systems :: Mixed Reality :: Mobile Multimedia :: Models of Design for Interactive Systems of Communication :: Multimedia Publishing and Communication :: New Media and Veracity of the Contents :: New Technologies for Advertising :: Photography and Illustration Digital :: Quality of Service (QoS) :: Qualtiy Metrics for Interactive Systems :: Robotics :: Semiotics :: Software Quality :: Software Testing: Strategies and Techniques :: Telecommunications :: TV Interactive :: Usability Engineering :: User-Centered Design :: Video Games :: Virtual Campus :: Virtual Reality :: Visual Effects and Computer-Generated Imagery :: Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 Editor: Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, PhD Co-editors: Prof. Andreas Kratky (Los Angeles, USA) Dr. Carlos de Castro-Lozano (Córdoba, Spain) and Dr. Mauricio Pérez-Jiménez (La Laguna, Spain) Editorial Assistant: Prof. Emma Nicol (Glasgow, UK) Important NEW Dates (last call for SHORT chapters): Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: January 31, 2010 Proposal Acceptance Due Date: February 4, 2010 Full Chapter Submission Deadline: February 24, 2011 Planned Publishing Date: February 2011 P.S. 1) In case you are not interested for this handbook, we would be grateful if you can pass on this information/email to another interested person you see fit. If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please send an email to info[at]blueherons.net with REMOVE in the subject line. Thanks. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 06:13:52 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF9B8DBBF8; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:13:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 23D02DBBE6; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:13:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110125061349.23D02DBBE6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:13:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.669 events: Digital Classicist summer seminars X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 669. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:58:11 +0000 From: Timothy Hill Subject: Digital Classicist Digital Classicist's annual Summer Seminars are coming up. Please find the Call For Papers below: ===== Digital Classicist Seminars (London, 2011) (Apologies for cross-posting. Please circulate widely--we welcome proposals from students as well as established researchers.) Call for Presentations The Digital Classicist will once more be running a series of seminars in Summer 2011, on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component. Themes could include, but are by no means limited to, visualization, information and data linking, digital textual and linguistic studies, and geographic information and network analysis; so long as the content is likely to be of interest both to classicists/ancient historians/archaeologists and information scientists/digital humanists, and would be considered serious research in at least one of those fields. The seminars run on Friday afternoons (16:30 - 19:00) from June to mid-August in Senate House, London, and are hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies (University of London). In previous years collected papers from the DC WiP seminars have been published in an online special issue of Digital Medievalist, a printed volume from Ashgate Press, a BICS supplement (in production), and the last three years have been released as audio podcasts. We have had expressions of interest in further print volumes from more than one publisher. We have a budget to assist with travel to London (usually from within the UK, but we have occasionally been able to assist international presenters to attend, so please enquire). Please send a 300-500 word abstract to gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk by April 15th, 2011. We shall announce the full program at the end of April. http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/index.html (Coörganised by Will Wootton, Charlotte Tupman, Matteo Romanello, Simon Mahony, Timothy Hill, Alejandro Giacometti, Juan Garcés, Stuart Dunn & Gabriel Bodard.) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 26 06:33:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF8B3DA315; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:33:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CDC8EDA301; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:33:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110126063354.CDC8EDA301@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:33:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.670 PhD studentship in digital palaeography X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 670. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:28:46 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: PhD studentship in digital palaeography PhD Studentship: Digital Resource of Palaeography The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, is pleased to announce a PhD studentship in digital palaeography funded by a European Research Council project, Digital Resource of Palaeography. The studentship is to be held in the CCH as part of a PhD in Digital Humanities. Context The aim of Digital Resource of Palaeography is to bringing the methods and resources of digital humanities to bear on palaeographical exploration, citation and teaching. It involves a web resource which will allow scholars to rapidly retrieve digital images, verbal descriptions, and detailed characterisations of the writing, as well as the text in which it is found and the content and structure of the manuscript or charter. It will incorporate different ways of searching, using images, maps, timelines and image-processing as well as conventional text-based browsing and searching. It will therefore allow scholars to test and apply new developments in palaeographical method which have been discussed in theory but which have hitherto proven difficult or impossible to implement in practice. The project will focus on the corpus of English vernacular script of the eleventh century, but the method and techniques should be applicable to palaeography in general. Some further details of the project are available on the King's news pages. The studentship Applicants should propose a research project which can benefit from and contribute to the Digital Resource in Palaeography project but which remains distinct from it. Possibilities may include the detailed study of a particular manuscript or small group of manuscripts from the corpus of eleventh-century vernacular English script. A comparative study could apply the research methodologies of the ERC project to a different corpus, perhaps focusing on the products of a single scriptorium or scribe, looking at variance and variation in script; or focusing on a corpus that has proven difficult to manage with conventional approaches, such as manuscript fragments. Another possibility may be more methodological, focusing on the possibilities and limits of Digital Humanities in palaeographical scholarship. The student will be based at King’s College London, in the Centre for Computing in Humanities and will benefit from the CCH PhD Seminar. A second supervisor will be assigned according to the requirements of the projec., It is also expected that the student will maintain contact with other departments in King’s, such as History or English. The student will also have access to resources and seminars across the University of London more widely, including Senate House Library and its Palaeography Room, the Institute of Historical Research’s seminars and library, and seminars and expertise at the Institute of English Studies. Value For the three years of the studentship (starting no later than October 2011) the grant is c.£14,000 per annum. Students liable to pay fees at the overseas rate are welcome to apply, but should make sure that they can cover the difference between the award and the full overseas fee. The studentship must be held full-time. Eligibility, Timetable & Application Process Applicants for these awards are expected to begin PhD study on 1 October 2011. Applicants should hold (or have nearly completed) a Master’s degree or equivalent in Old English, Anglo-Saxon/early Anglo-Norman history, or another relevant area of medieval studies. A good knowledge of the language(s) of the manuscripts under study is required (Old/Middle English and/or Latin), and a background or demonstrable interest in manuscript studies is highly desirable. Applicants must submit the following documentation by the deadline of 1 March 2011: 1.An Admissions Application form & all supporting documents - submitted to the Centre for Arts & Sciences Admissions (CASA) via the online admissions portal at: www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/apply/. 2.A one page statement of interest including a description of the proposed research, submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk 3.A one-page statement of your research training, background and suitability to the project, submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk 4.A sample of written work (3000–5000 words), submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk An interview will be arranged with shortlisted applicants, either face to face or by teleconference, after the closing date. Enquiries Please email Dr Peter Stokes or telephone him on +44 (0)20 7848 2813 in the first instance with any queries about this studentship. -- Dr Peter Stokes Research Fellow Centre for Computing in Humanities King's College London Room 210, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 26 06:36:21 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D846FDA39B; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:36:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 87589DA393; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:36:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110126063618.87589DA393@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:36:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.671 events: gravesites; cognition; diplomatics X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 671. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Oliver Streiter (86) Subject: Call for papers: First Workshop on Documenting and Researching Gravesites in Taiwan [2] From: Nathaniel Bobbitt (94) Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: INTEGRATING COMPUTATION & COGNITION ON BIOLOGICALGROUNDS [3] From: Susan Schreibman (33) Subject: CfP: Digital Diplomatics 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:58:19 +0800 From: Oliver Streiter Subject: Call for papers: First Workshop on Documenting and Researching Gravesites in Taiwan Please share, translate, publish. Conference Title: ================= DRGT2011 First Workshop on Documenting and Researching Gravesites in Taiwan: "Gravesites in Taiwan, Keys to the Past, Endangered in the Future" Conference Date: ================ 2011-05-21 Conference Site: ================ Taipei Medical University (臺北醫學大學 醫學人文研究所) Conference URL: =============== http://thakbong.dyndns.tv/drgt2011.html Organizers: =========== Conference, organized jointly by Taipei Medical University (臺北醫學大學 醫學人文研究所) and National University of Kaohsiung (國立高雄大學西洋語文系) Program Committee; Linda GAIL ARRIGO (Taipei Medical University, Taiwan), Yoann GOUDIN (INALCO, Paris, France), Jimmy HUANG (National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Ann Meifang LIN (Philipps University of Marburg, Germany), Oliver STREITER (National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan) Conference Description: ======================= For thousands of years, gravesites, tombs and tombstones stand at the center of human communities, e.g. as a source for the formation of social identities, social hierarchies and myths of origin, or as a place to connect to the ancestors, the otherworld and the cosmos. In Taiwan, tombs stand also as a witness for the turbulent history and the reflection the history had on the social practices, changing identities and social, political and economic developments. Ironically, some of the latter developments have led to the removal of gravesites in Taiwan. Historical gravesites are transformed, frequently without obvious necessity, into managed graveyards or public parks, forcing people to relocate the remains of their ancestors into modern bone-ash-towers. Urban development projects, transportation construction projects and water management construction projects join speculations on ground price and the yield of bone-ash-towers into the mantra of graveyard-clearance. In face of the upheaval and the threat to lose a substantial part of Taiwan's cultural heritage, a workshop is organized with the aims to know about and understand better * the persons, organizations and institutions working in different frameworks on the topic of gravesites, tombs and tombstones in Taiwan, * the potentials of collaborations on the documentation of or research on Taiwan's gravesites, * the degree to which Taiwan's gravesites are endangered and the forces behind this development, * the relevance to maintain gravesites or at least to document them for social or scientific purposes, * research on gravesites that has been done in the past in various branches of social sciences, * potential collaboration between academia and local administration, * how other countries or regions which face similar developments try to cope with them, * technical equipments for and/or scientific approaches to the documentation of gravesites, * ways to exchange data on gravesites with their technical, legal and scientific implications. We invite abstracts of about 500 words to be submitted before February 15th 2011 to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=drgt2011. Important Dates: ================ * Abstract Submission: 2011-02-28 (Poster, Short Project Presentation, Full Paper Presentation) * Notification of Acceptance: 2011-03-6 * Submission of Full Paper: 2011-04-25 * Notification of Acceptance of Full Paper: 2011-04-30 * Conference Date: 2011-05-21 --------- Oliver Streiter National University of Kaohsiung No. 700, Kaohsiung University Road Nan-Tzu District 811 Kaohsiung, Taiwan Tel: ++ 886 06 2137050 Fax: ++ 886 07 5919254 http://nuk.academia.edu/OliverStreiter http://thakbong.dyndns.tv --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:50:29 -0800 From: Nathaniel Bobbitt Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: INTEGRATING COMPUTATION & COGNITION ON BIOLOGICALGROUNDS Please distribute this Call For Papers to people you might be interested. EXCUSE---CROSS---POSTING We invite submissions to the Springer journal Cognitive Computation for a special issue on Pointing at Boundaries: Integrating Computation and Cognition on Biological Grounds. The submission deadline is March 31, 2011. ===================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ===================== The prospect of direct biological computing accelerated with Gibson et al.'s (2010) synthetic incubation of a bacterial genome. Cognitive computation practices may supply synthetic biology with a biological symbolic system, that is, facilitate the advent of biological machines: direct computing. The editors of the Cognitive Computation Journal have acknowledged the timeliness to promote interdisciplinary research within the purview of living organisms and cognitive computation. Due to the underlying spatial and self-modulating aspects of biological substrates it makes sense to consider the computational/cognitive capacity of living organisms. From the manipulation of biological substrates emerges the prospect to identify recipes for combinatorial, multidimensional, and topological organizations with a dynamics that escape conventional spatial or time-spatial representation. The integration of computation and cognition on biological grounds has the prospect of pointing at a boundary system that is excitable, configurable, and manipulated within the framework of living organisms and their biological substrates. The next step in the development of direct computing hinges upon the development of biological substrates as a computational diaphragm. To meet this next step in computing specialized biological research will revisit the pioneering olfactory receptor research pioneered by Linda Buck and Richard Axel (Nobel Prize) and the bio-luminescent in quorum sensing by Bonnie Blassler (Princeton and Howard Hughes Institute). The use of chemical signals or bioluminescent substrates bring further expertise to foster synthetic biology developed at JC Venter Institute. Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research. Relevant areas of investigation and expertise include, but are not limited to: • synthetic biology • membrane, natural, or evolutionary computing • unconventional and quantum computing • computational intelligence • bio-optics: quorum sensing, bio-markers • gene regulation in sensory pathways • protein folding/misfolding (in vivo, Alzheimer's) • multi-sensory processing (visuo-tactile, motor-sensory, feedback systems) • pharmaceutical and biomedical cellular delivery systems • chemical ecology, chemosensory experimentation • membrane channels, action potentials, voltage clamps, or neurotransmitters • aliphatic odors, combinatorial encoding, or predictive chemosensory models • dynamic olfactory architectures (metabolism and olfaction in neurobiology) • neuroanatomy or neurophysiology (glia, glomeruli, photoreceptors, olfactory receptors, neural firing) • theory of mind, simulation theory experimentation, or synaptic signaling • theory of intelligence, consciousness • hierarchical temporal memory, heterogenous logic • combinatorial or multidimensional applications in granular/dynamic systems • competitive games or visual experimentation on cognition, learning, or memory • “games with purpose” or collaborative task experimentation • mirror neurons, body maps, or brain plasticity • frmi experiments (dyslexia, autism, aphasia, Alzheimer's Disease) • vertebrate/invertebrate sensory behavior and communication • evolutionary primatology color vision and olfaction (comparative genomics or pseudogenes) • amphibian embryology transgenics and microsurgery • cladistics, phylogenetics, ontogeny, or sociobehavior across species • facet analysis or pixelization paradigm methods This call for papers will identify researchers from systematic biology, neuroscience, symbolic systems, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, topology, and related fields as they contribute to computer science and the development of biological machines. Accepted research falls into one of two categories: biological-computing or cognitive computation. Pointing at boundaries in vivo extends in vitro research. Thus biological substrates points us toward far-reaching social, medical, and communication frameworks. This special issue is expected to appear in MAR/JUN 2012. Post submissions at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/cogn/ Nathaniel Bobbitt Guest Editor bobbittn@cwu.edu Important Dates --------------------- Submission of full paper (to be received by): MAR 31, 2011 First notification of acceptance: JUL 15, 2011 Submission of revised papers: SEP 15, 2011 Final notification to the authors: DEC 15, 2011 Submission of final/camera-ready papers: JAN 15, 2012 http://www.springer.com/journal/12559 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:16:11 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: CfP: Digital Diplomatics 2011 The study of medieval legal documents (charters, deeds, instruments ...) makes increasingly use of digital tools. The massive growth of documents online - as images, as calendars, as texts - and the attempts made to analyze and discuss diplomatics in the web has motivated us to organize a second international conference on "Digital Diplomatics". It will take place in Naples 29.9.-1.10.2011 and we are looking for proposals. You can find the full presentation of the conference at http://www.cei.lmu.de/digdipl11/ We would like to encourage in particular young scholars and graduate students to present their ideas and projects on using the new technologies for studying old documents. Travel grants will be provided. We are looking forward to hear from you for the organization comitee Georg Vogeler -- 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 2588 Email: susan.schreibman@gmail.com 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 Thu Jan 27 07:20:24 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 167DCDC1AB; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:20:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2E6FADC191; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:20:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110127072019.2E6FADC191@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:20:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.672 a palaeotypographical/palaeographical question X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 672. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:15:20 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: palaeotypography and palaeography A question for the few here in the know about the study of old letterforms. An old friend is studying the relationship between the x-height of typographic letterforms and reading. In his pursuit of the question he's become interested in the x-height of handwritten forms, and so would like to know if anyone has done work in this area of palaeography. I imagine that as part of attempting to identify hands automatically, or to correlate mss images with transcriptions, data of the sort he could use might have been collected? Or is this just wishful thinking? Thanks for any suggestions. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 27 07:22:01 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5486DC25D; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:22:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F1FDCDC247; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:21:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110127072156.F1FDCDC247@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:21:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.673 2011 Antonio Zampolli 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 673. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:15:58 -0800 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Chad Gaffield to Receive the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize, ADHO Chad Gaffield to Receive the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations is pleased to announce that its inaugural award of the Antonio Zampolli Prize will be made to Dr Chad Gaffield at its Digital Humanities 2011 conference in July 2011 at Stanford University (https://dh2011.stanford.edu/). Gaffield is Professor of History at the University of Ottawa and currently on leave while he serves as President of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Founding Director of the Institute of Canadian Studies, Gaffield has been since the 1970s at the forefront of computer-based analyses of long-term social change. He has played a leading role in, and produced award-winning publications from, database projects such as the Canadian Social History Project, the Vancouver Island Project, the Lower Manhattan Project, and the Canadian Families Project; as President of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, he also championed the Data Liberation Initiative. Among his many notable accomplishments, the prize is awarded to Gaffield for his role as Principal Investigator for the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure project (CCRI; www.ccri.uottawa.ca). CCRI has created a foundation for the study of social, economic, cultural, and political change at a national level, beginning with digital reconstruction of censuses that sit at the core of a pan-national research database consisting of pertinent contextual data drawn from newspapers, parliamentary proceedings, legislative records and beyond. About the Antonio Zampolli Prize The Antonio Zampolli Prize is an award of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO). It 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 award 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 is 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 award is made every three years, alternating with other ADHO triennial awards, such as the Busa award. For the Zampolli award the output recognized in the award will normally have been published or otherwise made publicly available in the 7 years preceding the year of the award. About the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO) The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (digitalhumanities.org) is an umbrella organisation whose goals are to promote and support digitally-based research and teaching across the arts and humanities disciplines. It embraces and coordinates activity across three 'constituent organisations': the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC; founded in 1978), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH http://www.ach.org/ ; founded in 1973) and the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH-SEMI http://www.sdh-semi.org/ ; founded in 1986 as the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines). ADHO Awards Committee (2009-2010): Jean Anderson (ALLC), Charles Bush (ACH, Chair), Matt Jockers (ACH), Ray Siemens (SDH/SEMI), Øyvind Eide (ALLC), and associates: Marilyn Deegan, Julia Flanders, John Nerbonne, Harold Short, Christian Vandendorpe, and John Walsh. ____________ 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 Thu Jan 27 07:23:37 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDAA9DC2B1; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:23:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2FB22DC2A2; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:23:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110127072335.2FB22DC2A2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:23:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.674 events: society; libraries X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 674. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Marlies Olensky (105) Subject: Call for Sponsors - TPDL 2011 [2] From: Mark Newman (143) Subject: Call for Papers: i-Society 2011! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:28:51 +0100 From: Marlies Olensky Subject: Call for Sponsors - TPDL 2011 Please excuse cross-posting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR SPONSORS International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011 September 25-29, 2011 | Berlin, Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 14 years. 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For details please refer to http://www.tpdl2011.org or contact Marlies Olensky (marlies.olensky@ibi.hu-berlin.de). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Programme Co-Chairs Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Italy Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland Local Organising Chair Marlies Olensky, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TPDL 2011 - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (formerly known as ECDL) Main conference: September 26-28, 2011 Tutorials, Workshops: September 25, 29, 2011 Venue: Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum Adlershof, Berlin, Germany Conference Website: http://www.tpdl2011.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TPDL2011 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TPDL2011 Linkedin: http://events.linkedin.com/TPDL-2011-International-Conference/pub/504696 Xing: http://www.xing.com/events/international-conference-theory-practice-digital-libraries-2011-633977 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:35:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Newman Subject: Call for Papers: i-Society 2011! Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************* International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011), Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter 27-29 June, 2011, London, UK www.i-society.eu ******************************************************************* The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011) 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 2011 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 2011 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: March 31, 2011 Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress): March 20, 2011 Notification of Paper Acceptance /Rejection: April 15, 2011 Notification of Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress) Acceptance /Rejection: April 10, 2011 Camera Ready Paper and Short Paper Due: April 30, 2011   Participant(s) Registration (Open):  January 1, 2011 Early Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): February 1 to April 30, 2011 Late Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): May 1 to June 1, 2011 Conference Dates: June 27-29, 2011   For more details, please visit www.i-society.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 Mon Jan 31 05:29:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B24E1FAB; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:29:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D9D16E1F9C; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:29:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110131052905.D9D16E1F9C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:29:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.675 palaeotypography & palaeography X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 675. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Claire Clivaz (47) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.672 a palaeotypographical/palaeographical question [2] From: Peter Stokes (62) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.672 a palaeotypographical/palaeographical question --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:12:35 +0100 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.672 a palaeotypographical/palaeographical question In-Reply-To: <20110127072019.2E6FADC191@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, As specialist of ancient NT Greek manuscripts, at a first glance, it seems really strange/odd to me to imagine to identify hands automatically... A numerous of studies have recently demonstrated how the manuals of ancient paleography are influenced by assumptions of scholars: what is a «nice» or «scholarly» hand, for example, depends often on cultural points of view. Recent studies have for example demonstrated that scribes were able to change their writings in function of the demand of the clients. But, as for any topic in the DH, I am sure that some colleagues could imagine this automatic comparison! I will consulte my colleague in Geneva, the famous papyrologist Paul Schubert on the question. Best wishes, Claire Clivaz (Lausanne, CH) Le 27 janv. 2011 à 08:20, Humanist Discussion Group a écrit : > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 672. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:15:20 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: palaeotypography and palaeography > > A question for the few here in the know about the study of old letterforms. > > An old friend is studying the relationship between the x-height of > typographic letterforms and reading. In his pursuit of the question he's > become interested in the x-height of handwritten forms, and so would > like to know if anyone has done work in this area of palaeography. I > imagine that as part of attempting to identify hands automatically, or > to correlate mss images with transcriptions, data of the sort he could > use might have been collected? Or is this just wishful thinking? > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, > www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:46:19 +0000 From: Peter Stokes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.672 a palaeotypographical/palaeographical question In-Reply-To: <20110127072019.2E6FADC191@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, The question of proportions of x-height relative to other parts of the letter has been studied a fair bit on and off, particularly since Gilissen's controversial work in the '70s, but to my knowledge this is mostly regarding different styles of script and to some extent for distinguishing scribal hands. I have looked a little at proportions of x-height vs ascenders and descenders in the context of reading, partly because I have noticed that smaller writing from late Anglo-Saxon England tends to have significantly extended ascenders and descenders relative to x-height, and I have wondered if that may have been to enhance legibility (see 'Shoots and Vines', listed below). I am not aware of much work on absolute measurements of x-height but I think it deserves more attention, particularly now that digitised manuscripts give little sense of scale. I have been thinking quite a bit about how scale affects automatic hand identification and also how one might scale images of handwriting so that different images taken with different resolutions, etc., can be displayed on the screen correctly in proportion to each other. Part of the problem is that accurately measuring such small distances in a library with a manuscript is quite difficult, very time-consuming, and potentially damaging to the manuscript unless done very carefully. Measuring from digital images is very much easier but requires very precise scale of the image relative to the original, something that is rarely possible in practice. It also assumes no distortion in the image, e.g. due to foreshortening as a result of the page not forming a perfectly flat plane parallel to the camera, not to mention the natural shrinkage and warping of parchment in different atmospheric conditions. (I wrote most of an article on this topic but never completed it; if there is interest then I would be happy to revive it.) A small sample of references: - P.A. Stokes, 'Shoots and Vines: Some Models for the Ascenders and Descenders of English Vernacular Minuscule', Quaestio 5 (2005), 98–109 - Léon Gilissen, L’expertise desécritures médiévales: recherche d’une méthode avec application à un manuscrit du XIème siècle: le dictionnaire de Lobbes (Codex Bruxellensis 18018) (Gand, 1973). - M. Aussems, 'Christine de Pizan and the Scribal Fingerprint: A Quantitative Approach to Manuscript Studies' (MA Dissertation, 2006). Available at - A brief but useful discussion is also in A. Derolez, The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books (Cambridge, 2003), pp. 6-9. - I also have a few thousand such proportional measurements myself, categorised by types of script, which I've used for my own research and which I hope to make available as part of my current project. Best, Peter -- Dr Peter Stokes Research Fellow Centre for Computing in Humanities King's College London Room 210, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 31 05:30:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C51CE0029; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:30:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 60988E0008; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:30:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110131053006.60988E0008@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:30:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.676 events: WWW; social media X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 676. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrew Prescott (55) Subject: New Methodologies for Web Research in the Social Sciences [2] From: jeremy hunsinger (74) Subject: Information Science and Social Media conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:40:04 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: New Methodologies for Web Research in the Social Sciences Dear colleagues, Please find enclosed some information about a forthcoming panel we are convening at the European Consortium for Political Research conference on New Methodologies for Web Research in the Social Sciences. The conference is in Reykjavik on 25-27 August 2011. We hope that some of you will consider submitting paper proposals to participate in this session in relation to recent work you've been doing in this area. The deadline for the submission of paper proposals is 1 February 2011. You will find the instructions on how to submit a paper proposal here: http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/Reykjavik/ New Methodologies for Web Research in the Social Sciences This panel seeks to bring together papers that confront core methodological issues faced by researchers analyzing political actors use of web 2.0 technologies. In particular, we focus on papers that outline and/or apply new web-based methodologies that enable the systematic collection and analysis of data from social networking sites, blogs, Twitter, and YouTube, and the search engine API’s such as that of Google and Yahoo. The needs of web researchers are advancing rapidly as new types of social media proliferate. As ever methodologies for data capture and analysis run some way behind although new tools are emerging to provide a means for researchers to more accurately mine and map individual and organisational uses of the Web (e.g. Tubemogul, the Blog Analysis Toolkit (BAT), Issuecrawler.net). This panel will seek to highlight the range of new methods that are emerging to collect and analyse the quantitative and qualitative data web 2.0 or social media and assess their strengths and weaknesses and utility for social science researchers. In particular papers are encouraged that seek to provide a ‘state of the art’ review of the current methods available for data extraction and analysis from API’s such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as those that have applied these new cutting methods to substantive research questions and have empirical results to report. Papers using approaches that promote cross-national research in the field and can be deployed in a range of polities are particularly welcome. *********************************************************************************** Professor Rachel Gibson Institute for Social Change University of Manchester Humanities Bridgeford Street 2.13 Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom Ph: +44 (0)161 306 6933 -- Professor Andrew Prescott Director of Research Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute Sgoil nan Daonnachdan / School of Humanities University of Glasgow George Service House 11 University Gardens Glasgow G12 8QQ Tel: +44 (0)141 330 3635 Mobile: +44 (0)774 389 5209 Fax: +44 (0)141 330 1675 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:06:27 -0500 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: Information Science and Social Media conference Distributing around the world, please distribute as appropriate -jh Dear Colleagues, The aim of the first ISSOME conference is to address new modes of information behaviour in different contexts focusing the effects of social media and technologies in the interactive web. The change process is not always straight forward and we need to underline what is really changing and what is only a trend. The conference will discuss skills needed to manage the new information platform and how to develop needed competencies in the information society. The conference is open to researchers, academics and practitioners in the fields of library and information science and social media, as well as businesses and organizations developing social media strategies. The conference will host invited and contributed papers sessions. In conjunction with the conference will also be organized a Doctoral Forum. This offers a possibility for doctoral students to share their ongoing research projects with their peers and well-established senior researchers. The conference is organized by the Department of Information Studies at Åbo Akademi University. It is well established and internationally recognized for excellence in research and education. The department conducts a wide array of research including research about social media, Library 2.0, knowledge management, health information behavior, and scientometrics. The department is part of the School of Business and Economics and it has strong connections and collaborative multidisciplinary projects with other departments in the school. Please visit http://issome2011.library2pointoh.fi/ for more information. Call for Papers Call for Papers for the international conference in Information Science and Social Media ? ISSOME in 24.-26.8.2011 is open. We invite researchers worldwide to submit original research within the topics of the conference that are listed below. Submissions should be extended abstracts of no longer than 1500 words. All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded. Submission guidelines are available at http://issome2011.library2pointoh.fi/. Conference themes Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Social media in information science - Information aspects of social media - Library 2.0 and Librarian 2.0 - Social networking sites - Information Management - Knowledge Management - Knowledge Organization - Reputation Management - Information Behaviour and Information Use - Information dissemination in social media Structure of the extended abstract - Title - Abstract text - References Abstract text should clearly describe the aims, novelty/originality and principal findings/contribution of the presentation. In the case of empirical studies, also the method and material should be described briefly. Observe that no information about the authors should be included in the abstract document. Deadline Deadline for submissions is February 28, 2011. With kindest regards, -- Kim Holmberg Researcher, lecturer (e) kim.holmberg@abo.fi (t) +358 (0)2 215 4862 (m) +358 (0)45 675 4444 (w3) http://kimholmberg.fi Department of Information Studies School of Business and Economics Åbo Akademi University Fänriksgatan 3 B 20500 ÅBO, Finland ---------------------------------------------- "Oh what a tangled web we weave…” - Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832 ---------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 31 05:31:31 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9ADEE00BA; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:31:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C202AE00AA; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:31:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110131053125.C202AE00AA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:31:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.677 cfp: social & behavioural implications of location services X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 677. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:44:28 +1100 From: Katina Michael Subject: Call for Papers on the Theme of the Social and Behavioural Implications of Location Services Call for Papers on the Theme of the “Social and Behavioural Implications of Location Services.” This special issue in the Journal of Location Based Services is guest edited by Katina Michael from the University of Wollongong and MG Michael, Australia. Broadly the issue looks for original empirical work in the following subject areas: Mobility, Monitoring, Tracking, Surveillance, Sousveillance, Uberveillance, Ubiquity, Public Space vs. Private Space, Human Activity Reporting, GPS Navigation, Location Data Loggers, RFID, RFID Implants, Obtrusive Technology, Unobtrusive Technology, GIS, 3G Smart Phones, Applications, Service Quality, Reliability, Accuracy, Location Based Social Networking, Travel Mates, Tourism, Pervasive Health Monitoring, Alzheimer’s Disease- Wander Alerts, ANPR, Social Implications, Privacy, Information Privacy, Locational Privacy, Trust, Security, Intellectual Property, Data Collection, Disclosure, Behaviour al Implications, Human Factors, Relationships, Friends, Act of ‘unfriending’, Family, Strangers, Social Networks, Mental Health Issues, Virtual vs Physical World, Ethical Issues, Consent, Opt-in, Warrants, Attitudes, Perceptions, Scenarios, eObservation, Geotagging, Insurance, Law Enforcement, National Security, Emergencies. The Author guidelines can be found here: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17489725. Submissions: 30th March 2011 Reviewer Decision: 1 June 2011 Final CRC: 15 July 2011 Publication: Year end 2011 Please submit your complete manuscript for consideration to katina@uow.edu.au. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 06:35:23 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFA48E0A72; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 06:35:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2AF08E0A50; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 06:35:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110201063521.2AF08E0A50@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 06:35:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.678 new publication: American 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 678. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:36:00 -0500 (EST) From: University of Michigan Press Subject: UM Press: "The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age" "The American Literature Scholar in a Digital Age" By Amy E. Earheart and Andrew Jewell Essays reflecting on the development of the first wave of digital American literature scholarship "By casting the collection explicitly as an outreach to the larger community of Americanists---not primarily those who self-identify as 'digital scholars'---Earhart and Jewell have made an important choice, and one that will likely make this a landmark publication." ---Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age , which features a wide range of practitioner-scholars, is the first of its kind: a gathering of people who are expert in American literary studies and in digital technologies, scholars uniquely able to draw from experience with building digital resources and to provide theoretical commentary on how the transformation to new technologies alters the way we think about and articulate scholarship in American literature. The volume collects articles from those who are involved in tool development, usability testing, editing and textual scholarship, digital librarianship, and issues of race and ethnicity in digital humanities, while also situating digital humanities work within the larger literary discipline. In addition, the volume examines the traditional structures of the fields, including tenure and promotion criteria, modes of scholarly production, the skill sets required for scholarship, and the training of new scholars. The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age will attract practitioners of digital humanities in multiple fields, Americanists who utilize digital materials, and those who are intellectually curious about the new movement and materials. Amy E. Earhart is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Texas A&M University. Andrew Jewell is Associate Professor of Digital Projects, University Libraries, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. University of Michigan Press | 839 Greene Street | Ann Arbor | MI | 48104 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 06:38:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D03AE0B15; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 06:38:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E01EDE0B03; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 06:38:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110201063814.E01EDE0B03@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 06:38:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.679 cfp: SDH-SEMI CFP Annual Conference 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. 24, No. 679. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:49:07 -0400 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: SDH-SEMI CFP for Annual Conference 2011 Dear Humanists, Please see the attached pdf [below] on which is the Call for Papers, in English and French, for the Society for Digital Humanities / Societe pour l'etudes des medias interactif 2011 Annual Conference. The Call is also available on our Society website, at www.sdh-semi.org On behalf of the Executive of SDH-SEMI, and this year's program committee, I hope you will consider joining us in Fredericton at the very end of May. Please also encourage to submit and attend any graduate students who might be looking for a friendly and supportive venue in which to discuss their work. Some financial support for graduate students is available. Cheers, Richard Secretary, SDH-SEMI *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1296496159_2011-01-31_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_5620.2.pdf _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 08:58:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 358CCDF946; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 08:58:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 968E1DF937; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 08:58:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110202085850.968E1DF937@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 08:58:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.680 content management systems? 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. 24, No. 680. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:14:42 -0600 From: Samuel Huskey Subject: CMS vs. Contribute I'm interested in learning what members of this list have to say about the use of Content Management Systems (ExpressionEngine, Drupal, Joomla!, etc.) as opposed to Adobe Contribute CS5 to manage content provided by multiple contributors to a project. I can see advantages to both for digital humanities collaborations. My particular interest is in continuity and support. Is one more "future-proof" than the other? Sincerely, Samuel J. Huskey Chair, Department of Classics & Letters University of Oklahoma 650 Parrington Oval, CARN 100 Norman, OK 73019 (405)325-0490 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 09:01:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC47DFA6E; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:01:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 04ECADFA59; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:01:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110202090132.04ECADFA59@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:01:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.681 new book series: Scholarship in the Digital Age X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 681. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:25:48 +1100 From: Dr Paul Arthur Subject: Anthem Scholarship in the Digital Age New Book Series in Digital Scholarship Anthem Scholarship in the Digital Age , a new book series launched by innovative independent academic publisher Anthem Press (London and New York), will examine the global impact of new media and technology on knowledge and society. Tracing transformations in communication, education and research, and the interplay between theory and practice, titles in this series will demonstrate the far-reaching effects of the digital revolution across disciplines, cultures and languages. The global focus is represented by series editors in USA, UK, Europe and Australia: Paul Arthur (Australian National University), Tara Brabazon (University of Brighton, UK), Willard McCarty (Kings College London, UK), Tara McPherson (University of Southern California, USA) and Patrik Svensson (Umeå University, Sweden). Editorial board members include: Edward Ayers (University of Richmond, USA), Katherine Hayles (Duke University, USA), Marsha Kinder (University of Southern California, USA), Mark Kornbluh (University of Kentucky, USA), Lewis Lancaster (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Janet Murray (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan, Canada), Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada), Marie-Laure Ryan (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) and Paul Turnbull (University of Queensland, Australia). Further information on this series is available online, and guidelines for prospective authors can be found here http://www.anthempress.com/index.php/authors.html#a-3 . We welcome submissions of proposals for challenging and original works that meet the criteria of this series. Please contact us at: proposal@wpcpress.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 2 09:03:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA46DFAE6; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:03:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CBEC5DFAD3; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:03:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110202090300.CBEC5DFAD3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:03:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.682 events: Asian technoscience; computational 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. 24, No. 682. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (135) Subject: ReWired: Asian/TechnoScience/Area Studies [2] From: Sylvain Pogodalla (88) Subject: LACL 2011 - Last CFP --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:50:23 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: ReWired: Asian/TechnoScience/Area Studies THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE presents in conjunction with the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa SEMINAR IN EXPERIMENTAL CRITICAL THEORY (SECT VII) ReWired: Asian/TechnoScience/Area Studies http://www.uchri.org/sect.php August 1-10, 2011 at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa The Seminar will address how technoscientific knowledge-systems are re-ordered when geo-political formations shift. You "don't invent the future," John Seely Brown famously noted - "you unleash it by leveraging the global community mind." Today the fastest expansion of technoscientific knowledge production and urban development is occurring across multiple Asian sites in the throes of techno-economic boom. Seely Brown's observation, made in conversation with Paul Duguid, was meant to characterize late 20th century knowledge institutions and sites of technological production in the US. It nevertheless uncannily predicts the radical de-centering of global technological futures in the 21st century, not least in the Asian context. The 2011 Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory (SECT VII) seeks to elucidate these rapidly transforming landscapes of knowledge production, the shaping of contemporary knowledge institutions, their impact on social life in intense urban contexts, and this century's techno-scientific horizons of possibility. Comprehending these movements, forces, and structures requires integrating deep understandings of history and politics represented by Asian and critical Area Studies with emergent work on the transnational dynamics of science and technology as well as on market economies and their modes of governance. The social life of information emerges in particular kinds of institutional structures and historical conditions. It refracts, reflects and embeds larger social forces and modes of production, extending some ideas and undercutting others. What are the impacts and influences of varying social arrangements and socio-technical assumptions on each other, and on learning practices and institutions? What sorts of networks are conducive to knowledge making now? How do the shapes and impacts of open source knowledge arrangements, for example, compare with proprietary ones? What do these recent formations and experiences tell us about the knowledge institutions and production arrangements to come? Envisioning the technological future has too often seemed the province of western technologists. Recent media and economic analyses accurately identify the importance of new technological practices in contemporary Asia. Nevertheless, they often reduce complex historical processes to simplistic narratives: about the invisible hand of technoscience, or about the formerly ignorant attaining progress and becoming newly-empowered individuals and societies. The dominant questions that follow are equally misleading: Does information technology liberate developing countries from their legacy of poverty? Is Asian science as good as western science? Are women empowered by the digital revolution? This way of viewing things presumes Asian modernities to be marked by lack and belatedness. It views technology as the sole or dominant driver of social, economic, political and cultural change. It sees scientific ability as inherent to certain kinds of peoples. And it highlights the Asian "tiger "and "dragon" as representative of particular techno-political threats to US dominance. Sect VII--ReWired: Asian/TechnoScience/Area Studies--will seek a more nuanced understanding of these processes by engaging a diverse set of critical accounts of science and technology as they apply to the historical conditions of these developments in Asia. Computing practices, unlike older forms of technoscience from physics and mathematics to botany and forestry, are increasingly recognized as emerging via networks shaped by, in, and across the formerly "underdeveloped" world, including India, China, South Korea and Taiwan. The Seminar will experiment with juxtaposing histories of "older" sciences with the contemporary practices of "digital natives;" integrating critical knowledge of states, science, and social movements from the histories and social sciences of Asia; engaging studies of cultural production in Asian contexts; and broadening studies of peer-to-peer creative and community-based practices generated by the transnational digital sphere. Asia has long been part of global flows of knowledge, commodities, and culture, all too readily overlooked in conventional accounts of its "emerging" development. Accordingly, SECT VII will avoid euphoric claims of radical novelty, as well as assumptions of simple continuity with colonial pasts. We approach Asia's disparate hybrid modernities without postulating a unifying Asian modernity, seeking to understand their various, often contradictory but productive discourses of science, technology, digital revolution, political economy, community, nation, and identity. In this experimental critical space, SECT VII will seek to nurture, across disciplinary and regional borders, discussions of the kind that have not flourished within the more established Area Studies or disciplinary paradigms. The seminar space will be one of practical invention and intellectual innovation. We find continuities with other ongoing projects: most notably, the Digital Media Learning initiative of the UCHRI, and the HASTAC program, that aim to create "a generation of scholars equally at ease with current (which is also to say historical) knowledge in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, on the one hand, and with the technological, scientific, and engineering knowledge on the other, with a view to facilitating development of new discoveries and new relations between currently available knowledge sources, in order to digitally prompt new bodies of important knowledge." SECT VII similarly builds on the Poor Theory Manifesto developed out of UC Irvine's Critical Theory Institute that sees the past, present, and future as mutually constitutive and "heterotemporal", attending to the "unsystematic" and undisciplined "practices of the everyday." SECT VII: ReWired is thus concerned with the large questions of infrastructure and information, social technology and technoscience, institutions of knowledge making and learning. It will be of particular interest to those concerned with Science and Technology Studies, Asian Studies, Global Studies, Digital Media, and their interface. And it will appeal to those drawn to theoretical modesty, tinkering and improvisation, appropriation and recombinatorial experimentation, to relationalities and rearticulations. Dates: August 1-10, 2011 Location: University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Instructional faculty: Itty Abraham, University of Texas Ivan da Costa Marques, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Wendy Chun, Brown University Joe Dumit, UC Davis Roger Hart, University of Texas Cori Hayden, UC Berkeley Tim Lenoir, Duke University Kavita Philip, UC Irvine Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia Foundation Sha Xin Wei, Concordia University, Montreal Nishant Shah, Center for Internet and Society Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia Kath Weston, University of Virginia Application Fee: $20 Registration Fee: $1250 Registration fee includes shared housing, instruction, and some meals. Applicants are urged to seek funding from their home institutions. A very limited number of scholarships may be available to full time registered students. --- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 08:47:15 +0000 From: Sylvain Pogodalla Subject: LACL 2011 - Last CFP This message was originally submitted by Sylvain.Pogodalla@INRIA.FR 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 (104 lines) ------------------ LACL 2011 Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics June 29th, 30th and July 1st LIRMM, Montpellier, France http://lacl.gforge.inria.fr PRESENTATION LACL'2011 is the 6th edition of a series of international conferences on logical and formal methods in computational linguistics. It addresses in particular the use of type theoretic, proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the implementation of natural language processing software relying on such models. It will be held at the LIRMM, Montpellier, France. It will be co-located with TALN, the conference of the French association for NLP (ATALA). Topics: Computer scientists, linguists, mathematicians and philosophers are invited to present their work on the use of logical methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing, in natural language analysis, generation or acquisition. * logical foundation of syntactic formalisms o categorial grammars o minimalist grammars o dependency grammars o tree adjoining grammars o model theoretic syntax o formal language theory for natural language processing o data-driven approaches * logic for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and dialog o discourse theories o Montague semantics o compositionality o dynamic logics o game semantics o situation semantics o generative lexicon o categorical semantics * applications of these models to natural language processing o software for natural language analysis o software for acquiring linguistic resources o software for natural language generation o software for information extraction o inference tasks o evaluation o scalability SUBMISSIONS and PROCEEDINGS Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS/LNAI by Springer (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and should not exceed 16 pages (including figures, bibliography, possible apendices). It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacl2011 PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume of the FoLLI LNAI subline of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer (http://www.springer.com/lncs). INVITED SPEAKERS To be announced. PREVIOUS EDITIONS A selection of the 1995 articles appeared in a special issue of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information (7:4, 1998). The proceedings of the international conferences LACL'96 ,LACL'97, LACL'98, LACL'2001 and LACL'2005 appeared in the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (volumes 1328, 1582, 2014, 2099, 3492) published by Springer. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: February 6th 2011 Notification of acceptance: March 25th 2011 Camera-ready papers due: April 10th 2011 LACL conference: June 29th, 30th and July 1st 2011 CONTACTS sylvain.pogodalla@inria.fr ______________________________________________________________________ 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 Feb 3 05:45:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D78E1B74; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 05:45:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 65ECBE1B65; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 05:44:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110203054459.65ECBE1B65@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 05:44:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.683 content management systems X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 683. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 21:09:38 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.680 content management systems? In-Reply-To: <20110202085850.968E1DF937@woodward.joyent.us> I'll have a go at this, as I have used Joomla! quite a lot. Others will doubtless have other areas of expertise. Joomla! has a great range of templates - it's easy to create different look and feels that may suit your needs. It's the most widely used open source CMS (so they say). They have just released version 1.6 though I haven't had a chance to assess it yet. It can be extended easily with its components, plugins and modules. On the negative side it's not particularly well written from a code point of view, it was (in version 1.5) weak on blogging, its security is reportedly not up to scratch, though that may have been addressed in 1.6. It's also difficult to "get under the hood" if what it, and numerous add-ons for it, don't do what you want. On Drupal all I can say is that it is supposed to be much better written than Joomla!, but to have a less compelling set of templates and extensions. Others can no doubt say much more. On Adobe Contribute CS5 it doesn't seem to have a facility for extension, focussing instead on ease of use. That may be what you want, but remember it is a commercial product. You pay and then accept the changes they make to the product, including dropping it later on. It's your call. Personally I would prefer an open-source solution even if it is a little less well finished because it is more stable. But if you are looking for a "future-proof" CMS I'm afraid there isn't one. ________________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 6:58 PM 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 Feb 3 05:46:20 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B49A6E1BFD; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 05:46:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2347FE1BF0; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 05:46:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110203054618.2347FE1BF0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 05:46:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.684 the Cuban Theater Digital Archive X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 684. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 10:57:00 -0500 From: "K. Rimkus" Subject: Mellon Foundation grant will help Cuban Theater Digital Archive improve technical infrastructure Coral Gables, FL. - The University of Miami Libraries and the College of Arts and Sciences have received a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to rebuild the technical and organizational infrastructure for the Cuban Theater Digital Archive (CTDA) http://scholar.library.miami.edu/archivoteatral/ , a unique digital collection of Cuban theater resources. "The CTDA is a fantastic example of how the University of Miami Libraries support interdisciplinary scholarship using innovative new media,” said Dean and University Librarian William Walker. “We are grateful for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s recognition of our commitment to this unique scholarly resource. We hope that our partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences will serve as a model for other creative digital humanities initiatives at the University and beyond." Leonidas Bachas, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said the CTDA provides an innovative approach to research, teaching, and learning in the humanities and the arts and "explores new methods of scholarly publishing in a networked environment. The partnership between the Center for Latin American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and the UM Libraries is ideal, given the center’s renewed focus on the Caribbean as well as the Libraries’ extensive collections in this area." The CTDA was established by Lillian Manzor, associate professor of modern languages and literatures and Latin American studies, and the UM Libraries as the result of a 2005 Digital Library Fellowship. The initiative’s purpose is threefold: It is a resource for teaching, learning, and research in Cuban theater and performance as well as in related fields; a community repository for important Cuban theatrical materials; and a forum to foster scholarly communication in this field. As such, the CTDA participates in a virtual culture that allows for communication and exchange to take place between communities that are socially and geographically separated. The Digital Archive includes materials digitized and filmed in Cuba as well as resources and information related to Cuban theater in the Diaspora, with a special focus on theater produced by the Cuban community in the United States. The $172,000 grant comes on the heels of the completion of a six-month research and planning initiative, also funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which determined the importance of the CTDA to the broader academic and cultural communities, as well as the need to rebuild its technical and organizational back-end. The new grant will support an overhaul of the CTDA’s technical infrastructure to better support the long-term contribution of new content from geographically dispersed partners. This work, led by the University of Miami Richter Library, will be complemented by an organizational restructuring led by the Center for Latin American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. With the aid of the Mellon Foundation, the yearlong project of establishing a sustainable infrastructure for the CTDA will bring CTDA staff and international partners closer to their goal of creating the world’s most comprehensive scholarly record of Cuban theater. It will also allow the CTDA to realize its mission of engaging educational, scholarly, artistic, and cultural communities across national boundaries in a collaborative virtual environment. The grant will be led by principal investigators Manzor, of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Kyle Rimkus, of the Richter Library. To view the official press release, please visit: http://everitas.univmiami.net/2011/01/21/mellon-foundation-grant-will-help-cuban-theater-digital-archive-improve-technical-infrastructure/ --- Kyle Rimkus Head of Digital Scholarship and Programs University of Miami 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 Thu Feb 3 05:47:46 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5423E1C6F; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 05:47:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EF16DE1C5D; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 05:47:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110203054743.EF16DE1C5D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 05:47:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.685 events: ancient mss X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 685. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:41:35 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: From Ancient manuscripts to the digital era « Des manuscrits antiques à l’ère digitale. Lectures et littératies » (23-25 août 2011) From Ancient manuscripts to the digital era. Readings and Literacies, 23-25 August 2011 With the support of : • Institut Romand des Sciences Bibliques (IRSB, FTSR, Unil) • Fonds National Suisse (FNS) • Anthropos (Unil) • Formation doctorale interdisciplinaire (FDi, Unil) • CUSO Théologie • CUSO EDOCSA • Association pour l’histoire du livre et de la lecture en Suisse Romande Organisation Claire Clivaz (IRSB, FTSR), Jérôme Meizoz (FDi, Arts and Humanities) François Vallotton (SHC, Arts and Humanities) This conference in Arts and Humanities seeks to demonstrate the major impact of the Digital Era on knowledge, by studying the history of cultural technologies. The present evolution of the ancient manuscript allows one to detect this turning-point, notably with the digital editions of Homer and the New Testament. The notions of authorship and critical edition are questionned : modern history and contemporary analysis have to be enrooted in ancient memory to reflect upon the digital turn. Details on : www.unil.ch/digitalera2011 Conferences : Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard, USA), David Bouvier (Unil , CH), François Bovon (Harvard, USA), Claire Clivaz (Unil , CH), Michel Fuchs (Unil , CH), Christian Grosse (Unil , CH), Kim Haines-Eitzen (Cornell, USA), Philippe Kaennel (Unil , CH), Frédéric Kaplan (EPFL, CH), Thomas Kraus (independant researcher), Rudolf Mahrer (Unil , CH), Leonard Muellner (Brandeis University, USA), David Parker (Birmingham, UK), Holt Parker (Cincinnati, USA), Lukas Rosenthaler (Basel, CH), Ulrich Schmid (Münster, DE), Paul Schubert (Unige, CH), François Vallotton (Unil , CH), Christian Vandendorpe (Ottawa, CA), Joseph Verheyden (Leuven, BE). Call for papers for scholars and PhD students in Sciences of Antiquity, New Testament and Early Christianity, Biblical Sciences, Modern History, French and English Literature. Deadline : 30th April 2011. The colloquium will be concluded by a public evening, on august 25th with posters, editors’ booth, artistic animations and a round table discussion, bringing together publishers and scholars and led by a journalist from Radio-télévision Suisse : “What Will Come After the Book ?” -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 4 06:25:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8105FE4BBE; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 06:25:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 31EC3E4BAF; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 06:25:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110204062515.31EC3E4BAF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 06:25:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.686 content management systems X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 686. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 10:21:23 +1100 From: Akesha Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.680 content management systems? In-Reply-To: <20110202085850.968E1DF937@woodward.joyent.us> While I think Contribute is a great product, if having to choose, one at this moment I would pick a CMS over Contribute. The main advantage of a CMS over Contribute (in my opinion) is that Contribute is not web based, whereas a CMS is. This means a licensed version of Contribute will have to be installed on each computer that is being used for site updates, and all of the workstations that are being used for web maintenance must be physically accessed when a group or department decides they want to update their Contribute software. A server-side CMS requires one update to the software running on the server. Additionally, because Contribute is not open source, there are limits to what you can do with Contribute. There are a lot more open-source plugins that an open source CMS will offer more simply than Contribute cannot. I have found the online discussion board support for open source products such as Joomla and Drupal very strong and capable. However, I have (thus far), never had an extremely specialized dilemma with one of these packages that hadn't already been addressed in a forum. Hope this helps. I have also worked with http://www.allinta.com/ (which is not open source) without any problems. I hope this helps. Kindest Regards, Akesha Horton Visiting Scholar, University of Technology, Sydney Doctoral Candidate Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy Michigan State University ----------------------------------------------------------- "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has..." - Margaret Mead follow me at http://twitter.com/akesha _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 06:26:22 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 014C5E4C14; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 06:26:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 51BE0E4C05; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 06:26:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110204062619.51BE0E4C05@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 06:26:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.687 events: slavery; imaging; publishing X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 687. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Lauren Klein (14) Subject: CFP for MLA 2012: "Digital Humanities and the Record of Slavery" [2] From: I-CHASS (35) Subject: Cross-Disciplinary Investigations in Imaging and Image Analyses [3] From: Rubina Vock (44) Subject: International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:24:10 -0500 From: Lauren Klein Subject: CFP for MLA 2012: "Digital Humanities and the Record of Slavery" Call for Papers - Special Session MLA 2012, Seattle, January 5-8, 2012 How can the theories, tools, and techniques of digital humanities scholarship illuminate the literary and/or archival record of Atlantic-world slavery? We seek presentations that address issues of authorship and authenticity, narrative structure and style, geospatial and geographical concerns, relations among texts and across archives, oral and visual archival forms, and more. 250-word abstract and short CV by March 1, 2011 to: Lauren Klein Department of English The Graduate Center, CUNY lklein@post.harvard.edu All panel participants must be members of the MLA by April 1, 2011. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 16:59:44 +0000 From: I-CHASS Subject: Cross-Disciplinary Investigations in Imaging and Image Analyses [http://hosting.bronto.com/9193/public/i-chass-logo.png] You are invited to attend Cross-Disciplinary Investigations in Imaging and Image Analyses Workshop: An NSF-Sponsored Workshop in Information Integration and Informatics. The Workshop will bring together multi-disciplinary stakeholders in the burgeoning field of imaging and image analysis to offer a unique opportunity for cross-collaboration and information-exchange by using computational inquiries to bridge humanities, arts, and social science research. Held at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana, Illinois on April 1 and 2, the workshop is hosted by the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the University of Illinois, and the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of South Carolina. It is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, NSF award number IIS-1043036. Confirmed speakers include: * Peter Bajcsy, National Center for Supercomputing Applications * Karen Cariani, WBGH Television * David Eger, Google Books * Chatham Ewing, University of Illinois * Kim Fisher, Wildlife Conservation Society * David Forsyth, University of Illinois * Kevin Hamilton, University of Illinois * Anne D. Hedeman, University of Illinois * Chris Johanson, University of California, Los Angeles * Eamonn Keogh, University of California, Riverside * M. Simon Levin, the Surrey Art Gallery’s Tech Lab California * Kalev Leetaru, University of Illinois * Joy Malinar, University of Illinois * Robert Markley, University of Illinois * Michael Meredith, University of Sheffield * Wayne Pitard, University of Illinois * David Rumsey, President of Cartography Associates * Lisa Snyder, University of California, Los Angeles Cross-Disciplinary Investigations in Imaging and Image Analyses Workshop is free and open to the public. Registration for the Workshop entitles attendees to join conference organizers and speakers at a hosted lunch each day in addition to all conference materials. For further information, including the full agenda and to register, please visit http://www.ichass.illinois.edu/imaging/. * * * 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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For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:10:32 +0100 From: Rubina Vock Subject: International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference The Public Knowledge Project International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/pkp2011 – First confirmed speakers We are pleased to announce the first confirmed speakers for the Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference - “Building and Sustaining Alternative Scholarly Publishing Projects Around the World”, which will be held from September 26 - 28, 2011 at Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany. Confirmed speakers so far include Anurag Acharya (Google Scholar), Eelco Ferwerda (Amsterdam University Press), Gustavo E. Fischman (Arizona State University), Melissa Hagemann (Open Society Foundations), Sigi Jottkandt (Open Humanities Press), Ray Siemens (University of Victoria), and John Willinsky (Stanford University and PKP). We cordially invite you to also consider attending this event, or submitting a presentation proposal. We would also ask you to share this message with any colleagues that you think might be interested in participating. Proposals (500 word maximum) should be submitted by March 15, 2011, using the http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fpkp.sfu.ca%2Focs%2Fpkp%2Findex.php%2Fpkp2011%2Fpkp2011%2Fabout%2Fsubmissions&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNH-W2tlQtHShN1VB_I-w4FD1iJ6iA submission guidelines and form http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/pkp2011/about/submissions available on our web site. All proposals will be subject to peer-review and you will be informed of a decision by June 1, 2011. We would also like to note that there is an “early bird” conference feeavailable until May 26, 2011. More information, including the Call for Participation and Registration form, is available on the conference website: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/ We very much hope to see you in Berlin in 2011! Yours truly, PKP 2011 Conference Organizing Team The Public Knowledge Project is a research and development initiative directed toward improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online publishing and knowledge-sharing environments.Located at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and Stanford University, PKP has developed free, open source software for the management, publishing, and indexing of journals and conferences.Software such as Open Journal Systems, Open Conference Systems and Open Monograph Press increase access to knowledge, improve management, and reduce publishing costs.Over 8000 online journals worldwide are currently using the OJS software. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 5 09:01:22 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE387E3966; Sat, 5 Feb 2011 09:01:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D0AB5E3933; Sat, 5 Feb 2011 09:01:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110205090116.D0AB5E3933@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 09:01:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.688 publications: sustainability; 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. 24, No. 688. 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" (48) Subject: GLIMPSE Issue #7, TEXT, now available [2] From: Luis Gutierrez (32) Subject: Mother Pelican ~ February 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:29:50 -0700 From: "GLIMPSE | the art + science of seeing" Subject: GLIMPSE Issue #7, TEXT, now available [Please forward as desired. Apologies for cross-postings.] TEXT GLIMPSE | the art + science of seeing, issue #7, winter 2011 now available http://www.glimpsejournal.com CONTENTS READING EUROPE’S PALEOLITHIC WRITING: Gönnersdorf Platte 87 Donald Thomas Burgy, artist AESTHETIC INNOVATION IN INDIGENOUS TYPEFACES: Designing a Lushootseed font Juliet Shen, typographer DYSLEXIA: A mind for typography Dr. Matthew H. Schneps, Director, Lab for Visual Learning, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ANATOMY OF TEXTURE Dr. Matthew Reed, imaging scientist and Visiting Professor, University of Ulster ACTIVATING PRAYERS: Textual landscapes of the Tibetan Buddhist diaspora Dr. Christine McCarthy Madsen with photographs by Robert Correia, Jr. NEGATED NEWS: HISTORIES’ RANSOM NOTES An interview with visual artist Megan Michalak Carolyn Arcabascio and Megan Hurst MAPPING TEXT Dr. André Skupin, Associate Professor of Geography, San Diego State University RETROSPECT ca. 1865 Text as Image: A Portrait of Abraham Lincoln Georgia B. Barnhill, Director, Center for Historic American Visual Culture, American Antiquarian Society (Re)VIEWS: Prospero's Books Ivy Moylan, GLIMPSE Film Reviewer THE SYMBOLIC WARNING Ryan Sullivan, illustrator WATCH As One, street artist, graphic designer, illustrator ____________________________ [2] SUBSCRIBE to GLIMPSE Invest in (in)sight. Subscribe and see! http://www.glimpsejournal.com/subscribe.html ____________________________ [3] ADVERTISE in GLIMPSE http://www.glimpsejournal.com/advertise.html ____________________________ GLIMPSE | the art + science of seeing http://www.glimpsejournal.com An interdisciplinary journal examining visual perception and its implications for being, knowing, and constructing our world(s) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:58:19 -0500 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Mother Pelican ~ February 2011 For your consideration: Mother Pelican - A Journal of Sustainable Human Development Volume 7, Number 2, February 2011 Technological Innovation for Human Development http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv07n02page1.html Articles Page 1. Technological Innovation for Human Development Page 2. 2011: The year we’ll hit 7 billion, by Lisa Hyman Page 3. A Conversation on Happiness, by Derek Ross Page 4. Human Dignity and Diversity Training, by Susan Clark Page 5. Globalization and Collective Violence, by Thomas Scheff Page 5. Impact of Increased Global Food Prices, by Sara Gustafson Page 6. The Biology of Globalization, by Elisabet Sahtouris Page 7. Technology Breakthrough with a Fatal Flaw, by Promode Kant Page 7. Ethical Analysis-Cancun Climate Negotiations, by Donald Brown Page 8. Sex and Nonviolence, by Symon Hill Page 9. A Synopsis of Socioeconomic Democracy, by Robley George Supplements Supp1. Advances in Sustainable Development Supp2. Directory of Sustainable Development Resources Supp3. Sustainable Development Simulation (SDSIM) Version 1.4 Supp4. Budapest Call for Climate Justice (World Council of Churches) Please forward this notice to friends and associates. Submission of research papers on solidarity, sustainability, and sustainable human development is cordially invited. Sincerely, Luis Luis T. Gutiérrez, PhD, PE The Pelican Web of Solidarity and Sustainability Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development A monthly, CC license, free subscription, open access e-journal http://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 Sat Feb 5 09:02:28 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14ED7E39D2; Sat, 5 Feb 2011 09:02:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3483BE39CA; Sat, 5 Feb 2011 09:02:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110205090223.3483BE39CA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 09:02:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.689 new on WWW: interview with David Gelernter X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 689. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 11:54:01 +0100 From: Thomas Kollatz Subject: interview with David Gelernter Dear Humanists, the following link to a transcript of a remarkable interview with David Gelernter may be of interest to Humanists. It was conducted during the DLD conference in Munich (January 2011) and is published online in text and as an mp3: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/im-wortlaut-david-gelernter-im-gespraech-1.1054120 Very inspiring for digital humanists is e.g. Gelernter's statement: "We could achieve more if we were less easily satisfied, we are too easily satisfied". Best regards THOMAS KOLLATZ drs Thomas Kollatz - wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter / research assistant * Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut fuer deutsch-juedische Geschichte D-47057 Duisburg Geibelstr. 41 T 0203-370071 F 0203-373380 * CV * Epigraphische Datenbank http://www.steinheim-institut.de/cgi-bin/epidat * TextGrid http://www.textgrid.de/ * Rosetta Code http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:TUSCRIPT _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 5 09:03:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ABC0E3A44; Sat, 5 Feb 2011 09:03:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5316FE3A31; Sat, 5 Feb 2011 09:03:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110205090300.5316FE3A31@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 09:03:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.690 events: THATCamp Florence 2011 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. 24, No. 690. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 11:18:05 +0100 From: "Noiret, Serge" Subject: THATCamp Florence 2011, Badia Fiesolana, 23-25 March 2011 That Camp Florence >From March 23rd to 26th 2011 the Department of History and Civilisation of the European University Institute in Florence hosts THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp, an important event in the field of Digital, Humanities, Social Sciences and History. (Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccettini 9, San Domenico di Fiesole FI) THATCamp Florence is organized in collaboration with the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale and with several European scholarly institutions. THATcamp is a so-called "un-conference" promoted by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in Virginia, which is partner in organising this event for the first time in Italy. THATCamp Florence will be preceded by a BootCamp, consisting of introductory courses in the Digital Humanities & Social Sciences and provided by one or more teachers. Registered participants for THATCamp Florence will meet in several small and non hierarchic brainstorming sessions, each of which are co-ordinated by a tutor. THATCamp ateliers will be informal: the focus is on the exchange of ideas, solutions, tools, software, websites and digital practices in the humanities and social sciences, based on concrete needs. Participation is open to scholars from Italy and beyond and not limited to EUI members. All participants will meet at the beginning of the Camp on Wednesday March 23rd to create the programme. [For further information see / Se non leggi correttamente questo messaggio, clicca qui ] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 6 08:34:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463B7E6C72; Sun, 6 Feb 2011 08:34:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 44A66E6C6A; Sun, 6 Feb 2011 08:34:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110206083401.44A66E6C6A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 08:34:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.691 published definitions? 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. 24, No. 691. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 13:12:26 -0800 (PST) From: Elijah Richard Meeks Subject: Bibliography of Digital Humanities Definitions Greetings everyone, I was reading John Unsworth's recent examination of the Downfall meme and its relationship to the Digital Humanities community and it got me thinking of an interesting little project. I'm hunting for full-text versions of the various Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing essays or long postings that attempt to define the Digital Humanities or Humanities Computing or treat with the community/field as a whole. Willard, if you're willing to send me a plain-text version of the intro to your book, I'll include that as well. I already have quite a few, but I'm sure there are sources I haven't considered or simply overlooked. The texts themselves will not be released, in case there's any concern about copyright or licensing, though the results will, of course, be made public. Thanks, 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 Sun Feb 6 08:35:20 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F11AAE6CCB; Sun, 6 Feb 2011 08:35:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5B91AE6CBC; Sun, 6 Feb 2011 08:35:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110206083516.5B91AE6CBC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 08:35:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.692 new on WWW: reading and grasping X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 692. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 07:17:03 -0800 (PST) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Reading and grasping, digitally and non- In-Reply-To: <20110205090300.5316FE3A31@woodward.joyent.us> Some persons here may enjoy looking at the relevant piece published day-before-yesterday ( Thursday the 3rd, and now also accompanied by a few online comments ) on NZZ Online under the title "Die Mitarbeit des Schriftbildes am Sinn: Das Buch und seine Typografie in Zeiten der Hypnose", by Roland Reuss ( Professor für neuere deutsche Literatur- wissenschaft an der Universität Heidelberg und Herausgeber der Werke Kafkas und Kleists ), to be found at : http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/literatur/die_mitarbeit_des_schriftbildes_am_sinn_1.9331415.html - 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 Sun Feb 6 08:36:56 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DF0AE6D15; Sun, 6 Feb 2011 08:36:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 08611E6D06; Sun, 6 Feb 2011 08:36:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110206083653.08611E6D06@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 08:36:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.693 events: theorizing the web X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 693. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 15:53:27 -0500 From: PJ Rey Subject: Deadline Extended: "Theorizing the Web" Conference @ University of Maryland - April, 9th 2011 Final deadline for abstracts is February 20th, 2011. Please circulate widely. Date: April 9th, 2011 Keynote Speaker: danah boyd (Microsft Research New England) Participants Include: George Ritzer (U. of MD), Jessie Daniels (Hunter College, NYC), Zeynep Tufekci (U. of MD Baltimore County), Jenny Davis (Texas A&M), Katie King (U. of MD), Bonnie Stewart, (U. of Prince Edward Island), Stephanie Vineyard (Georgetown U.), Jes Koepler (U. of MD), Mark Matienzo (Yale). Call for Papers: The goal of the conference is to expand the range and depth of theory used to help us make sense of how the Internet, digitality, and technology have changed the ways humans live. We hope to bring together researchers (particularly graduate students and junior faculty) from a range of disciplines, including sociology, communications, philosophy, economics, English, history, political science, information science, the performing arts and many more. In addition, we invite session and other proposals by tech-industry professionals, journalists, and other figures outside of academia. Topics will include: • Identity and self-presentation: concerns of privacy and publicity on the Web • Surveillance, voyeurism, exhibitionism, and secrecy online • The blurring of online and offline, real and virtual, cyborgism and augmented reality • The Internet and the changing nature of capitalism • How power and inequality (e.g., the Digital Divide) manifest on the Web • Political activism/slacktivism online • Bodies and sexuality in the Digital Age • “Relationship Status” and Online dating • “Prosumption” (i.e., the convergence of production and consumption online) • Global implications of the Internet (or of the multiple Internets) • McDonaldization, rationalization and the Web • Intersections of gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation, and disability with respect to any of the above topics. Submit abstracts and/or register online at: http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/ For further inquiries, email: ttw2011@gmail.com. Hope to see you there! PJ Rey Conference Co-Chair Department of Sociology University of Maryland www.pjrey.net 2112 Art-Sociology Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 7 06:12:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E33F9E6BB5; Mon, 7 Feb 2011 06:12:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 62441E6BA4; Mon, 7 Feb 2011 06:12:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110207061240.62441E6BA4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 06:12:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.694 published definitions 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. 24, No. 694. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 13:01:05 -0800 (PST) From: { brad brace } Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.691 published definitions? In-Reply-To: <20110206083401.44A66E6C6A@woodward.joyent.us> http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/art-tech-course.html ART IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL DISSEMINATION CLASS ESSAYS (unix-compressed-file of collected essays)from a Fine Arts Course taught at the University of Victoria, B.C., Canada by Brad Brace, 1993. Currently being taught online through Athena University. /:b _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 7 06:13:31 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29CD0E6BFB; Mon, 7 Feb 2011 06:13:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2A195E6BEB; Mon, 7 Feb 2011 06:13:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110207061328.2A195E6BEB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 06:13:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.695 estimating a national corpus? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 695. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 11:13:05 -0500 From: Susan Brown Subject: estimating a national corpus Dear colleagues, Can anyone point me to any accounts of methods used for estimating the extent of a national corpus of published cultural and scientific literature, and for estimating how much of it it has been digitized? Many thanks for any help you're able to offer, 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 Feb 7 06:14:26 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9567E6C45; Mon, 7 Feb 2011 06:14:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E7D0AE6C3D; Mon, 7 Feb 2011 06:14:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110207061423.E7D0AE6C3D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 06:14:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.696 ancient geodata interlinked X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 696. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 07:20:21 -0800 (PST) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Linked ancient geodata In-Reply-To: <20110206083516.5B91AE6CBC@woodward.joyent.us> This press release which I just ran across from the University of Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Science, issued two days ago, Friday 4 February, and located at http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/about/news/3628 may be of interest to some of you here on this list, I'd think : * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Pelagios: Mapping the culture of Antiquity online A project which will make it easier to discover and map online information about ancient places begins this month. Leif Isaksen, a member of the ECS Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia research group, who is about to commence a Research Fellowship with the Archaeological Computing Research Group, University of Southampton, is leading a global consortium, together with Elton Barker of The Open University, to develop a method of integrating data from existing ancient world resources. He is Co-Investigator on the JISC-funded Pelagios (PELAGIOS: Enable Linked Ancient Geodata In Open Systems) Project which aims to create a common format for referencing ancient locations in online resources over the next nine months. "The inspiration for this project came largely from our on-going Google Ancient Places (GAP) project which aims to identify classical locations in Google Books and other digital libraries," said Mr Isaksen. "Pelagios will take this a step further by creating a generalised and machine-readable format for referring to ancient places in any Web document whether it’s a text, map or even database." The project partners are using the Pleiades online gazetteer of over 30,000 ancient locations and will use Linked Open Data principles to connect textual, visual and tabular documents that reference the Ancient World. They will also develop mapping and discovery tools to make it easy for researchers, developers and the general public to make use of the data. "Although we are developing this standardized method for Antiquity, once it exists, it can also be used just as easily for references to modern place names as well," said Mr. Isaksen. David Flanders, programme manager at JISC, said: "The Pelagios Project offers the exciting potential to make historical texts more real to students and researchers than ever before: imagine being able generate maps of the stories by Herodotus or even know if the journeys spoken about by Euripides and Sophocles were similar in nature. By adding geospatial data to these classical texts new insights will be added, making data otherwise hidden in the texts explicit and real at a new level of understanding." The consortium is keen to involve digital librarians and other online resource curators involved in Ancient World research and will host a workshop in March to brief them further. The project will also host an ongoing blog at: http://pelagios-project.blogspot.com/ Consortium project partners are: Archaeological Computing Research Group (ACRG), University of Southampton Faculty of Arts & LUCERO, The Open University Pleiades, New York University Perseus, Tufts University Arachne, University of Cologne Supporting Productive Queries for Research (SPQR), King’s College, London Digital Memory Engineering (DME), Austrian Institute of Technology Image: The Madaba Map (6th C. D) gives an indication of the importance of placenames in ancient cartography. (image source: Wikipedia. (c) Jean Housen). Posted by Joyce Lewis on 04 Feb 2011. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - 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 Tue Feb 8 08:12:25 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1386DE80A7; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 08:12:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9E79CE809F; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 08:12:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110208081221.9E79CE809F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 08:12:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.697 published definitions X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 697. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 18:19:46 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.691 published definitions? In-Reply-To: <20110206083401.44A66E6C6A@woodward.joyent.us> Elijah Meeks asks for attempts to define the digital humanities. One source of definition might be the Day of Digital Humanities events that produced data of our collective reflections. For more on the last version of the project see: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2010 There is an RSS feed of all the interventions and links to other materials. One thing we did was ask people to define the Digital Humanities - you can see the definitions here: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/How_do_you_define_Humanities_Computing_/_Digital_Humanities%3F For all of you interested in this project, we are planning to do it again on March 18th. We are putting the online application forms together so stay tuned. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell On Feb 6, 2011, at 1:34 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > 'm hunting for full-text versions of the various Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing essays or long postings that attempt to define the Digital Humanities or Humanities Computing or treat with the community/field as a whole. Willard, if you're willing to send me a plain-text version of the intro to your book, I'll include that as well. I already have quite a few, but I'm sure there are sources I haven't considered or simply overlooked. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 8 08:15:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69DD2E81FA; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 08:15:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 85573E81EB; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 08:15:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110208081555.85573E81EB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 08:15:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.698 the more things change? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 698. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:09:08 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the more things change Recently I received a copy of the April 1985 issue of Byte Magazine, the "Artificial Intelligence" issue. I bought it for the article by John K Stevens, "Reverse Engineering the Brain", accompanied by Judy Trogadis' brilliant microphotograph of human neuronal circuits growing on the surface of a Motorola 68000 chip.* Leafing through this issue provides many occasions for encounter with the technological marvels of the time -- 1200-baud modems, 10 MB hard discs, fast dot-matrix printers etc etc. But otherwise what strikes me is how little has changed in the style of thinking & writing about the technology. How contemporary the latest-and-greatest of 1985 seems. The imagined future, I am thinking, changes far more slowly than we imagine. This leads me to wonder whether our forgetting, which is especially acute in the technologically centred fields, has more than a little to do with the perceived and much touted rapidity of change. Certainly a 10MB hard disc, costing ca $1000 Canadian at the time -- I recall paying this amount -- dazzling in comparison to a double-sided double-density floppy disc, is now a drop in the terabyte ocean. But otherwise what has changed? I am trying, you see, to pull out of this old Byte a serious historiographical point, or rather, question: how far into the past do we have to go before styles of thinking begin to become strange to us, or should become historically different? More immediately, on behalf of the humanities affected by our works, how much of a problem is it that we forget so easily, are so careless with our ageing artefacts? > Even now, at the turn of the 21st century, no comprehensive archives > of television or radio programs exist. But without cultural > artifacts, civilization has no memory and no mechanism to learn from > its successes and failures. And paradoxically, with the explosion of > the Internet, we live in what Danny Hillis has referred to as our > "digital dark age." (www.archive.org/about/about.php#why) An illustration by anecdote. Yesterday I went looking for a Final Report on a funded project that came to a slow and typically ragged end in 2008, approximately. This Report is supposedly linked from an online site I found, but the link leads to a blank page. (The Internet Archive Wayback Machine, as far as I can tell, failed to capture it.) The person who wrote the Report, fortunately still very much alive, is now looking on an old computer for a copy of it. I await the results of her search, and while I do, the best advice anyone has given me concerning the practicalities of research comes to mind. This was circa 1975, while studying for my MA degree. When you have a book in your hands, my professor said, copy down everything you conceivably will ever need from it -- you may never see this book again. How much more true now, among our kind. Ironically the Report which I hope to get from her concerns in part a series of seminars centred on a question that would have been *far* more effectively addressed if the convenors had been aware of the history of the question -- which, it seems, they were not. And we hope to be taken seriously within the humanities by those we most admire? Comments? Yours, WM *(The Nanobio Convergence Laboratory, Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, Belgium, www.imec.be, has developed a chip on which neuronal circuits can grow in vivo and interconnect with microelectronics; they advertise their research with a photograph having remarkable resemblance to Trogadis'. See Science Daily for 26 November 2009, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091111111301.htm). -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 8 08:17:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3AEFE825F; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 08:17:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F08D6E8256; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 08:17:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110208081754.F08D6E8256@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 08:17:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.699 events: digital libraries; information 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. 24, No. 699. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Marlies Olensky" (48) Subject: TPDL 2011 - Reminder: Call for Proposals for Workshops, Tutorials, and Panels [2] From: David Brown (143) Subject: Call for Papers: i-Society 2011! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 12:57:25 +0100 From: "Marlies Olensky" Subject: TPDL 2011 - Reminder: Call for Proposals for Workshops, Tutorials, and Panels REMINDER: CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS, PANELS NO DEDICATED POSTER CALL International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011 September 25-29, 2011 | Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 14 years. For the 15th year the conference was renamed into: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- REMINDER: CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS, PANELS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop proposal submission: February 14, 2011 Tutorial proposal submission: February 14, 2011 Panel proposal submission: February 14, 2011 Notification of acceptance (workshop, tutorial, panel): March 14, 2011 All details can be found on our website: http://www.tpdl2011.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NO DEDICATED POSTER CALL -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that this year no dedicated call for posters will be announced. Researchers are invited to submit short research papers instead. Acceptance of research papers (long and short) can be as research paper or as poster. Please note that accepted research papers can additionally be presented as poster during the poster and demo session. Further information will follow with the notification of acceptance. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Programme Co-Chairs Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Italy Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland Local Organising Chair Marlies Olensky, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TPDL 2011 - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (formerly ECDL) Main conference: September 26-28, 2011 Tutorials, Workshops: September 25, 29, 2011 Venue: Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum Adlershof, Berlin, Germany Conference Website: http://www.tpdl2011.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TPDL2011 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TPDL2011 Linkedin: http://events.linkedin.com/TPDL-2011-International-Conference/pub/504696 Xing: http://www.xing.com/events/international-conference-theory-practice-digital-libraries-2011-633977 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 22:35:21 +0000 (GMT) From: David Brown Subject: Call for Papers: i-Society 2011! Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************* International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011), Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter 27-29 June, 2011, London, UK www.i-society.eu ******************************************************************* The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011) 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 2011 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 2011 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: March 31, 2011 Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress): March 20, 2011 Notification of Paper Acceptance /Rejection: April 15, 2011 Notification of Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress) Acceptance /Rejection: April 10, 2011 Camera Ready Paper and Short Paper Due: April 30, 2011   Participant(s) Registration (Open):  January 1, 2011 Early Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): February 1 to April 30, 2011 Late Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): May 1 to June 1, 2011 Conference Dates: June 27-29, 2011   For more details, please visit www.i-society.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 Wed Feb 9 08:35:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B183E8997; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 08:35:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A95E2E8982; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 08:35:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110209083505.A95E2E8982@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 08:35:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.700 published definitions X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 700. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 09:53:52 +0100 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.697 published definitions In-Reply-To: <20110208081221.9E79CE809F@woodward.joyent.us> Thank you to Geoffrey for this link! As a team of five scholars (Modern History, New Testament, French Literature and New Technologies) in Switzerland, we have tried to define the DH in an “Edito” on this link: http://www3.unil.ch/wpmu/digitalera2011/humanites-digitalesunil-meetings/?lang=en Three main points: 1) We think that the “digital Age” is not only a new period, but also a new Era, the next one. 2) We have chosen to speak in French about “Humanités digitales”, and not “Humanités numériques”, to get the same vocabulary of reference than in English, and to keep the idea of the “fingers” (“digitales”) rather than of the numbers (“numériques”). The DH are at the same time a practice and a problematic. 3) The choir of our definition is the following one (with my apologizes for any English mistake): “The digital era is being born from the change of the support itself in the Human Sciences thought, with the transformation of our relationship to textuality. This digital turn happens in the context of a crisis in the Human sciences, first a financial crises, but also an institutional and politic one, even if it is softer in Switzerland. In this context, the “Humanités digitales” -- a label diversely interpreted -- offer the opportunity to think again our ways of building and transmitting knowledge. The DH are at the same time a practice and a problematic. They include not only the sum total of the digital technologies applied to the Human sciences, but eminently the questioning on the modifications provoked by these technologies, from the point of view of the training et of the knowledge transmission in the Human sciences”. “L’ère digitale naît de la remise en question du support même de la pensée des sciences humaines, via la transformation de nos rapports à la textualité. Ce virage numérique se prend sur fond de crise des sciences humaines, une crise financière d’abord, mais de politique institutionnelle aussi, quand bien même la Suisse la perçoit de manière plus feutrée. Dans ce contexte, les humanités digitales, un label revendiqué de diverses manières, offrent l’occation de repenser nos manières de constituer les connaissances et de les transmettre. Elles se présentent à la fois comme pratique et comme problématique. Elles recouvrent non seulement l’ensemble des techniques numériques appliquées aux sciences humaines, mais surtout le questionnement sur les modifications que ces techniques génèrent du point de vue de la formation et de la transmission de la connaissance en sciences humaines”. We will have a debate at our University -EPFL in Lausanne (CH) on the 4th April on the topic (same web link). Yours, Claire Clivaz with Christian Grosse, Frédéric Kaplan, Jérôme Meizoz, François Vallotton _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 08:42:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58F7AE8B2A; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 08:42:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1CEB4E8B20; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 08:42:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110209084254.1CEB4E8B20@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 08:42:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.701 new publications & book series X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 701. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (15) Subject: "Multimodal Digital Semiotics [2] From: RAM-Verlag (24) Subject: Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 9: " Data Processing andManagement for Quantitative Linguistics with Foxpro" [3] From: Dr Paul Arthur (33) Subject: new book series --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:10:43 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: "Multimodal Digital Semiotics > Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 10:00:23 -0500 (EST) > From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Willard You and the subscribers of Humanist may be interested in an article recently published in SemiotiX. "Multimodal Digital Semiotics" is a report on the Multimodal Analysis Lab, Interactive & Digital Media Institute (IDMI), National University of Singapore. Of particular interest is the use of state-transition diagrams to represent multimodal environments. URL : http://www.semioticon.com/semiotix/2011/02/multimodal-digital-semiotics/ Francois Lachance Scholar-at-Large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 12:48:57 +0000 From: RAM-Verlag Subject: Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 9: " Data Processing and Management for Quantitative Linguistics with Foxpro" Just published ( 2011 ) Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 9: "Data processing and Management for Quantitative Linguistics with Foxpro" 223 pages ISBN 978-3-942303-03-3 Published by: RAM-Verlag (www.ram-verlag.de) Author: Fan Fengxiang The book is available as Printed edition: EUR 45.00 plus PP CD edition: EUR 20.00 plus PP Internet (download PDF-file): 15.00 EUR. If you have any questions,do not hesitate to contact me. Jutta Richter For: RAM-Verlag 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 08:39:27 +1100 From: Dr Paul Arthur Subject: new book series *New Book Series in Digital Scholarship* Anthem Scholarship in the Digital Age, a new book series launched by independent academic publisher Anthem Press (London and New York), will examine the global impact of new media and technology on knowledge and society. Tracing transformations in communication, education and research, and the interplay between theory and practice, titles in this series will demonstrate the far-reaching effects of the digital revolution across disciplines, cultures and languages. The global focus is represented by series editors in USA, UK, Europe and Australia: Paul Arthur (Australian National University), Tara Brabazon (University of Brighton, UK), Willard McCarty (King's College London, UK), Tara McPherson (University of Southern California, USA) and Patrik Svensson (Umeå University, Sweden). Editorial board members include: Edward Ayers (University of Richmond, USA), Katherine Hayles (Duke University, USA), Marsha Kinder (University of Southern California, USA), Mark Kornbluh (University of Kentucky, USA), Lewis Lancaster (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Janet Murray (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan, Canada), Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada), Marie-Laure Ryan (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) and Paul Turnbull (University of Queensland, Australia). Further information on this series is available online , and guidelines for prospective authors can be found here . We welcome submissions of proposals for challenging and original works that meet the criteria of this series. Please contact us at: proposal@wpcpress.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 Feb 10 06:28:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F981E84A6; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:28:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E81C0E8496; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:28:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110210062832.E81C0E8496@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:28:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.702 events: Berlin Colloquium; InterFace 2011 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 702. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Markus Schnoepf (40) Subject: Invitation to the First Berlin Colloquium on Digital Humanities [2] From: Richard Lewis (68) Subject: InterFace 2011: 3rd International Symposium for Humanities and Technology --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 16:02:05 +0100 From: Markus Schnoepf Subject: Invitation to the First Berlin Colloquium on Digital Humanities Research in the humanities is being shaped more and more by digital technology. This has led to new results, methods and forms of publication, with many of the teaching and research facilities in the Berlin area playing a leading role in these developments. Researchers from both the humanities and the computer sciences are now working together in interdisciplinary teams. Yet it still remains uncertain how digital research and the related digital forms of publication and technological developments will be positioned within the framework of academic research, and how these contributions can be adequately recognized. In most of the disciplines in the humanities, the problems relating to digital data processing are similar and an exchange regarding methods and technologies is beginning to emerge. To enable systematic reflection on these developments and to establish a framework for their elaboration, a colloquium will take place in Berlin and Brandenburg once per month during the academic year. This colloquium aims to inform researchers from the various disciplines of the humanities and computer sciences about the progress and goals of the implementation of digital technology for research. The first meeting will take place on: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 18:30h at the: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Boltzmannstraße 44 14195 Berlin Jürgen Renn (Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) "Digital Publication and Open Access" Gerd Grasshoff (Professor for the History of Science (Antiquity) at the Humboldt University in Berlin "Digital Data in a Scholarly World" Registration is not required. Discussions will take place in English or German For further information, see the following website (currently under construction) digitalhumanites.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de supported by digital-humanities-berlin.de Please send your questions and/or suggestions to: digitalhumanities@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de Markus Schnoepf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 16:21:09 +0000 From: Richard Lewis Subject: InterFace 2011: 3rd International Symposium for Humanities andTechnology SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT With apologies for cross posting. InterFace 2011 -- 27-29 July 2011, University College London InterFace is a symposium for humanities and technology. In 2011 it is being jointly hosted by colleges across London and will be an invaluable opportunity for participants to visit this active hub of digital scholarship and practice. The symposium aims to foster collaboration and shared understanding between scholars in the humanities and in computer science, especially where their efforts converge on exchange of subject matter and method. With a focus on the interests and concerns of Ph.D students and early career researchers, the programme will include networking activities, opportunities for research exposition, and various training and workshop activities. A core component of the programme will be a lightning talks session in which each participant will make a two-minute presentation on their research. The session will be lively and dynamic. Each presentation must be exactly two minutes long, making use of necessary, interesting, appropriate, or entertaining visual or sound aids, and condensing a whole Ph.D's worth of ideas and work into this short slot. Participants will be able to join workshops in: * social network analysis; * bibliographic software; * data visualisation; * linked data. There will be talks on: * user studies and social research; * discourse analysis in science and technology; * how to get your work published; * how to apply for research funding. There will also be two keynote talks given by speakers whose work marks the leading edge of technology in scholarship and practice. The speakers will be: * Steven Scrivener (University of Arts London) Design research and creative production * Melissa Terras (UCL) Digitisation of cultural heritage and image processing Finally, the symposium will conclude with an unconference; a participatory, collaborative, and informal event in which the form and content is decided on by participants as it unfolds and in which discussion and production is emphasised over presentation and analysis. Participants may wish to share their own skills, learn a new skill, establish and develop a collaborative project, or hold a focused discussion. We are now seeking applications for participation in InterFace. Applications are encouraged from Ph.D students and early career researchers in all humanities and computing disciplines. The key component of your application will be a 150-word abstract for your proposed lightning talk. You can submit your application here: http://www.interface2011.org.uk/submit The deadline for applications is Friday 25 February 2011. The committee will select participants from among the applications received and successful applicants will be informed on Monday 4 April 2011. If your application is accepted, you will then be invited to register. A participation fee will be charged to cover costs of lunches, refreshments, venue, and speakers. This fee will be £35. Key Dates: * Friday 25 February Deadline for applications * Friday 1 April Notification of successful applications * Monday 18 April Deadline for registration for successful applicants * Monday 27 July InterFace 2011 begins We look forward to receiving your application. The InterFace 2011 Committee -- http://www.interface2011.org.uk/ enquiries@interface2011.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 Fri Feb 11 10:08:45 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B568EA3D1; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:08:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 44178EA3AB; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:08:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110211100842.44178EA3AB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:08:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.703 jobs: at Georgia and at Tulsa X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 703. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bill Kretzschmar (18) Subject: job in DH at the University of Georgia [2] From: "Latham, Sean" (19) Subject: Tenure Track Asst Prof of Digital Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:43:46 +0000 From: Bill Kretzschmar Subject: job in DH at the University of Georgia In-Reply-To: Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities English Department and Department of Theatre and Film Studies University of Georgia [NB: Applicants will get full consideration if they apply before end of February. This is an extended deadline. The original job advert follows.] The English Department and the Department of Theater and Film Studies at the University of Georgia invite applications for a joint appointment as an assistant professor in Digital Humanities specializing in programming and multimedia. A terminal degree is required by the time the appointment begins on August 15, 2011, preferably a PhD in drama, film, or performance studies. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate classes to introduce digital humanities and programming with interactive media. Other courses may include topics in the candidate's scholarly area and new interdisciplinary courses. The academic year teaching load is 2/2, incorporating a mix of classes in both departments. This appointment will be part of an ongoing effort by the University to build a significant digital humanities infrastructure involving faculty and facilities housed in several departments across the institution, including the Classics Department, the School of Art, the Willson Center for the Humanities, and ICE (Ideas for Creative Exploration). Applicants should present a research portfolio that demonstrates significant achievement developing innovative approaches to visualizing humanities research as an alternative form of scholarly publication and/or pedagogy. Candidates should send a letter of interest including a link to their portfolio accessible online, a cv, and three letters of reference, all in PDF, to Steven Carroll, scar1106@uga.edu. Applications received by January 31, 2011 will receive full consideration. The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, its many units, and the University of Georgia are committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty and students, and sustaining a work and learning environment that is inclusive. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. The University if an EEO/AA institution. -- Bill Kretzschmar Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities Dept. of English, Park Hall 317 University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 706-542-2246 / Fax 706-583-0027 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:11:32 -0600 From: "Latham, Sean" Subject: Tenure Track Asst Prof of Digital Humanities In-Reply-To: Position Summary The University of Tulsa seeks a tenure-track, entry-level or advanced, Assistant Professor of English commencing August 2011, with research interests in digital humanities and 20th/21st century literature and culture. Tulsa is a home to the Modernist Journals Project (www.modjourn.org), an important digital humanities initiative. The McFarlin Library's Special Collections have significant 20th century archival holdings. We see English as a broad field with fluid boundaries, encompassing interests in film, creative writing, art, media studies, history of the book, women's and gender studies, periodical studies and other interdisciplinary areas. Teaching will include departmental courses and graduate seminars, participation in a humanities-based general curriculum and honors program, and service on dissertation committees. Application Information Please send letter of application, vita, and dossier to: Professor Lars Engle, Chair Faculty of English The University of Tulsa 800 S Tucker Drive Tulsa, OK 74104 Digital applications will be accepted and can be emailed to: dig-hum-search@utulsa.edu Review of applications will begin February 25, 2011 and will continue until the position is filled. Sean Latham Pauline Walter Professor of English and Comparative Literature Director, Modernist Journals Project Editor, James Joyce Quarterly University of Tulsa Twitter: @seanplatham Web: http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~sean-latham/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 10:12:22 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17592EA4B7; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:12:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B7AD4EA49B; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:12:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110211101217.B7AD4EA49B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:12:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.704 events: book-history; web legitimacy; PHP X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 704. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Faith Lawrence (27) Subject: DHO Workshop: A Brief Introduction to PHP for Digital Humanists [2] From: Susan Schreibman (15) Subject: Digital Humanities talk at TCD [3] From: "Deegan, Marilyn" (7) Subject: History of the Book lecture by Paul Eggert at Oxford --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:40:39 +0000 From: Faith Lawrence Subject: DHO Workshop: A Brief Introduction to PHP for Digital Humanists The DHO is pleased to announce a short workshop designed to introduce humanities researchers to the scripting language PHP. This two-hour event will take place on February 21st at 2pm. During this session, Dr Lawrence will provide hands-on experience and lead attendees in creating their own programs to perform simple functions including text manipulation, reading and writing. Attendees will gain a rapid familiarity with the fundamental structures of the language and where they can seek more information to expand their knowledge further. Information on registration is available on the event webpage: http://dho.ie/node/9577 Attendance is open to all and there is no cost for this workshop. However, spaces are limited and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. No prior experience of programming is required although a laptop with a recent version of PHP installed will be required by all attendees. -- 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: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:18:45 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Digital Humanities talk at TCD 'Honest to Blog. A Symposium on Web Legitimacy' 4 March 2011 10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre Trinity Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin All Welcome ______________ Dr Jason McElligott Trinity Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin 2 Ireland Ph: 00353 1 8963890 http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/the-institute/people/McElligott.php --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:15:32 +0000 From: "Deegan, Marilyn" Subject: History of the Book lecture by Paul Eggert at Oxford > From: Kathryn Sutherland Date: 10 February 2011 17:12:46 CET Paul Eggert, ‘Brought to Book: Book History and the Idea of Literature’ 17th Annual D. F. McKenzie Lecture Wednesday 2 March at 5.15pm, Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty, St Cross Building, Oxford University Followed by a wine reception. All welcome _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 12 10:14:23 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17845E9C63; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:14:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C36DCE9C51; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:14:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110212101420.C36DCE9C51@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:14:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.705 job: project developer, 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 705. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:07:25 +0000 From: James Cummings Subject: Job: InfoDev Project Developer (1yr, Maternity Cover) Some of you may know people interested in this, please pass it on to them. (Apologies for cross posting) === Project Developer (Maternity Cover) – InfoDev Grade: Grade 7 Salary: £29,099 - £35,788 - Full-time, 1 year fixed term This is a 1 year fixed term maternity cover post. The post is within the Information and Support Group's Development Team (InfoDev; http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/infodev/) of the Computing Services. InfoDev is responsible for providing data solutions, undertaking web projects, and delivering research support to the department and the University. Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS; http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/) offers facilities, training, and advice to members of the University in all aspects of academic computing. Do you have: * A strong IT background with experience of providing client-facing services? * Experience of web design and development technologies (e.g. HTML, XML, XSLT, CSS, Javascript, jQuery)? * A good knowledge of at least one common programming language (e.g Perl, Python, PHP, Java)? * Some experience with content management systems (e.g. Drupal)? * A proven track record of both individual and collaborative development work to a specification and deadline? * An interest in providing intuitive and easy to use web front ends? * A good understanding of software development technologies and practices? If so, this may be your opportunity to join a friendly team working on a wide range of data development and web projects. You will be working with other members of the InfoDev team to provide maintenance, troubleshooting and administration for ongoing services as well as developing new bespoke websites and applications to clients' specifications. Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on 14 March 2011. Interviews will be held on Thursday 24 March 2011. For more information please see: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jobs/infodev.xml -James -- Dr James Cummings, InfoDev OUCS, University of Oxford _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 12 10:14:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A89E9C9D; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:14:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4D0D4E9C75; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:14:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110212101444.4D0D4E9C75@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:14:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.706 just toys 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. 24, No. 706. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:52:03 -0500 From: Francois Lachance Subject: Ken Olsen Willard, Readers of Humanist will have seen the obituaries for Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corp. Most of the tributes replay Mr. Olsen's remarks about personal computers -- they're being toys used for playing video games. Gives one pause. 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 Feb 12 10:15:31 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 040CBE9CF8; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:15:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A2B45E9CEE; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:15:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110212101528.A2B45E9CEE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:15:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.707 events: XSLT 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. 24, No. 707. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:56:17 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: XSLT workshop, March 30-April 1, 2011 Space is still available in the Women Writers Project's upcoming workshop on XSLT: Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanities March 30-April 1, 2011 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Instructors: Syd Bauman, Brown University David Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh Cost: $300 ($200 for TEI members and students) Registration deadline: March 15, 2011 This three-day intensive workshop will introduce participants to the fundamental concepts of XSLT, the power tool of the XML world, focusing on the needs and data of digital humanists. Participants will develop stylesheets that explore the basic capacities of XSLT, and will learn how to read and reverse engineer other people's stylesheets to develop their skills. Familiarity with the TEI and XML is assumed. For more information, or to register for the workshop: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/ Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers 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 Sun Feb 13 08:59:11 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 653B0ECE75; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:59:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2F387ECE6C; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:59:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110213085908.2F387ECE6C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:59:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.708 thoughts on the digital humanities 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. 24, No. 708. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:50:47 +0000 From: David Berry Subject: Thoughts on the Digital Humanities In-Reply-To: <20110211101217.B7AD4EA49B@woodward.joyent.us> Hi all, I have been reading this list for a while and have very much enjoyed thediscussions taking place. I thought, therefore, that I would share a recent post I made on the subject that I thought might be of interest to the list: Digital Humanities: First, Second and Third Wave http://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2011/01/digital-humanities-first-second-and.html Best David --- Dr. David M. Berry Department of Political and Cultural Studies Room JC015 James Callaghan Building Swansea University Singleton Campus Swansea SA2 8PP Tel: 01792 602633 http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/ArtsHumanities/berryd/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 13 09:44:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95FF9EC9AA; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:44:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C4896EC992; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:44:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110213094433.C4896EC992@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:44:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.709 making impact interesting X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 709. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:40:17 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: making impact interesting In "The Impact of Research on the Development of Middleware Technology", ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 17.4 (2008), Wolfgang Emmerich, Mikio Aoyama and Joe Sventek, as part of their ACM SIGSOFT Impact Project, undertake a study of how research influenced products and industrial best practices. Using citations, standard implementations, borrowed concepts, movement of people and inclusion of source code, they develop "impact traces" from individuals and research groups to others to show the research origins of these products and practices. Plotting traces with respect to time on directed graphs, they produce their "impact graphs". Looking at them one can see the astonishing complexity in the coming together and divergence of ideas through time. According to Thomas Haigh, editor of a forthcoming volume of historian Michael S. Mahoney's papers, Histories of Computing (Harvard, 2011), Mahoney served as consultant to the Impact Project. "He convinced project members that historical influence was a complex process in which seminal work had its impact indirectly and in combination with other streams. In turn he benefited from refinements and formalisation of this graphical technique" ("Unexpected Connections, Powerful Precedents, and Big Questions: The Work of Michael Sean Mahoney on the History of Computing", in this volume). Mahoney used the same technique, for example, in "Software as Science -- Science as Software", in History of Computing: Software Issues, ed. Hashagen, Keil-Slawik and Norberg (Springer, 2002) to work out the interrelations of agendas in research on automata and formal languages, semantics -- and von Neumann's various interests. Behind all this, as Haigh explains using the persistent metaphor of geomorphological drainage systems -- streams of development combining and parting -- is an idea of historical interrelation I find enormously compelling. Among other things it turns the simple-minded, billiard-ball view of history usually implicit in talk of reserch impact into a powerful historiography I think any researcher in the humanities or elsewhere could stand by. An impact graph does not, of course, account for why research turns in a particular direction, but it does map the places where it has been. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 14 09:33:56 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE965EC711; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:33:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3AA93EC6FC; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:33:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110214093353.3AA93EC6FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:33:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.710 two sets of questions X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 710. 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: loss of fire [2] From: Willard McCarty (21) Subject: a heads-up to the present or to the past? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:35:47 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: loss of fire In what I take to be one of the founding documents of cultural studies in N America, Henry Giroux, David Shumway, Paul Smith and James Sosnoski, "The Need for Cultural Studies: Resisting Intellectuals and Oppositional Public Spheres", Dalhousie Review 64 (1984): 472-86, the authors address the reasons for the failures of interdisciplinary movements as follows: > Interdisciplinary movements ... have often developed out of the sense > that the most important issues were being lost in the cracks between > the rigid boundaries of the disciplines.... The problem is that no > solid alternatives to disciplinary structure have evolved within the > academy and, as a result, movements [to establish interdisciplines] > paradoxically must strive to become disciplines. Thus, while these > movements often begin with a critical perspective, they retreat from > radical critique as they become more successful. To the extent that > such movements resist disciplines, their seriousness is questioned. > Practitioners are regarded as dilettantes rather than real scholars, > and their enterprises are written off as mere fads.... > > It would be a mistake to regard the failure of interdisciplinary > movements to remain critical enterprises as the result of the > suppression of political ideas. Because an intellectual's political > views are posited as irrelevant to the work of disciplines > themselves, speaking and thinking about political and social > questions are construed as merely eccentric to the [discipline]. This > failure to engage historical contexts and social particularities can > be seen most clearly in the type of pedagogy that traditional > disciplines institute. In other words, beause a form of life defined in terms of disciplines excludes questioning their contingent boundaries, any movement that sets out to challenge these boundaries is doomed either to perish or to become part of the problem. Is this so? Is it so for us? If it seems like it might be, how is it to be avoided? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:27:18 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a heads-up to the present or to the past? "When a new freedom comes into being, the kind of thing it leads to depends largely on the characters of the people who first enjoy it. And, character being a less rigid thing than an already fixed and limiting set of traditions, the element of chance in the determining of events becomes unusually large.... Thus it follows that any fitting account, or, to put it more solemnly, any adequate history [of how this new freedom was used] must deal largely with persons and their characters. It cannot avoid regulations and other academic events but it would be superficial and misleading if it confined itself to them. It must have as its topic certain people: by what accidents they became involved... what ideas they had, and how they translated them into action." E. M. W. Tillyard, The Muse Unchained: An intimate account of the revolution in English studies at Cambridge (London: Bowes & Bowes, 1958), pp. 11-12. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 14 09:35:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF4B9EC782; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:35:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B573AEC76D; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:35:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110214093549.B573AEC76D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:35:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.711 events: 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. 24, No. 711. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:43:54 +0100 From: Bernie Frischer Subject: Digital Archaeology Workshop in Rome, July 16-31, 2011 *American Institute for Roman Culture * *Digital Archaeology Workshop with Bernard Frischer* Come to Rome this summer for a two-week intensive course on the new field of Digital Archaeology! *When: * July 16 through July 31, 201 *With: * Professor Bernard Frischer, Director, Virtual World Heritage Laboratory *Assisted by:* Matt Brennan, Virtual World Heritage Laboratory *Study digital archaeology amidst the ruins of Rome. * *Workshop Description: *Digital archaeologists play important roles in all phases of a typical archaeological project including information collection and processing during fieldwork, analysis during the study season, and interpretation and publication in print or online when the research is ready to be communicated to the scholarly or general public. *The following topics will be highlighted:* →Digital photography (including panoramic photography)for site documentation →Georeferencing digital photographs for web publication →On-site survey of elevations using a laser distometer →CAD for documentation of archaeological remains →3D modeling for restoration and reconstruction of archaeological remains →3D data capture ("scanning") for documentation of archaeological data using image-based modeling. Introductory lessons will be given in the use of the following software: 1. Adobe Photoshop 2. Autodesk AutoCad 3. AutoDesk 3D Studio Max 4. Flickr 5. Google Sketchup 6. 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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 Tue Feb 15 06:37:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3CC9EC8DD; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:37:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1C496EC8CF; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:37:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110215063708.1C496EC8CF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:37:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.712 freedom X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 712. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:19:20 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.710 two sets of questions In-Reply-To: <20110214093353.3AA93EC6FC@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, To entertain you, I would reply that the use of the term "intellectual" in the first quotation is anachronistic. The French may like to call essayists outside the formal Academy as "public intellectuals," when they are, when one reads them, philosophizing flaneurs and boulevardiers. Saul Bellow, originally a Canadian, as you know, wrote an amusing story collected in a volume titled HIM WITH HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH, called "The Last Intellectual." It was about Harold Rosenberg, who may indeed have been the last of that breed of characters. The term is a reification of the Russian term for a class of free-floating educated persons called "intelligentsia," outside the 3 Estates and the Peasantry and the nascent proletariat of the 19th Century. Academics with tenure may pursue studies that are scientific and cultural, perhaps even somewhat intellectual in character — but the latter only when there no "boundaries" imposed on their inquiries by the tenuring powers. Which answers perhaps to the second quotation about the "inter" vs the "intra" in departments, set up for administrative purposes by the institution and its supporters, private or public. As you know, Spinoza philosophized and for his trouble was excommunicated by the Netherland rabbinate. Galileo speculated from what he saw or thought he saw in his speculum in the tube, and was awarded permanent house arrest. The question is dicey, but it ought to result, with perseverance and luck, in some sort of freedom to think at all. Einstein did his work from a corner of the patent office in Zurich, was it? Curie in, according to a movie I glimpsed the other night, a leaky storage shed outside the Halls of Academe. Veblen from a corner crib office in the basement at King's College. Emerson left the Unitarian Church as too restrictive! Thoreau experiments for some years in a jerrybuilt shack of planks purchased from an Irish railway worker. Etc. Jascha Kessler On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 710. > 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: loss of fire > > [2] From: Willard McCarty > (21) > Subject: a heads-up to the present or to the past? > > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:35:47 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: loss of fire > > > In what I take to be one of the founding documents of cultural studies > in N America, Henry Giroux, David Shumway, Paul Smith and James > Sosnoski, "The Need for Cultural Studies: Resisting Intellectuals and > Oppositional Public Spheres", Dalhousie Review 64 (1984): 472-86, the > authors address the reasons for the failures of interdisciplinary > movements as follows: > > > Interdisciplinary movements ... have often developed out of the sense > > that the most important issues were being lost in the cracks between > > the rigid boundaries of the disciplines.... The problem is that no > > solid alternatives to disciplinary structure have evolved within the > > academy and, as a result, movements [to establish interdisciplines] > > paradoxically must strive to become disciplines. Thus, while these > > movements often begin with a critical perspective, they retreat from > > radical critique as they become more successful. To the extent that > > such movements resist disciplines, their seriousness is questioned. > > Practitioners are regarded as dilettantes rather than real scholars, > > and their enterprises are written off as mere fads.... > > > > It would be a mistake to regard the failure of interdisciplinary > > movements to remain critical enterprises as the result of the > > suppression of political ideas. Because an intellectual's political > > views are posited as irrelevant to the work of disciplines > > themselves, speaking and thinking about political and social > > questions are construed as merely eccentric to the [discipline]. This > > failure to engage historical contexts and social particularities can > > be seen most clearly in the type of pedagogy that traditional > > disciplines institute. > > In other words, beause a form of life defined in terms of disciplines > excludes questioning their contingent boundaries, any movement that sets > out to challenge these boundaries is doomed either to perish or to > become part of the problem. > > Is this so? Is it so for us? If it seems like it might be, how is it to be > avoided? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; > Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, > www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. > > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:27:18 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: a heads-up to the present or to the past? > > "When a new freedom comes into being, the kind of thing it leads to > depends largely on the characters of the people who first enjoy it. And, > character being a less rigid thing than an already fixed and limiting > set of traditions, the element of chance in the determining of events > becomes unusually large.... Thus it follows that any fitting account, > or, to put it more solemnly, any adequate history [of how this new > freedom was used] must deal largely with persons and their characters. > It cannot avoid regulations and other academic events but it would be > superficial and misleading if it confined itself to them. It must have > as its topic certain people: by what accidents they became involved... > what ideas they had, and how they translated them into action." > > E. M. W. Tillyard, The Muse Unchained: An intimate account of the > revolution in English studies at Cambridge (London: Bowes & Bowes, > 1958), pp. 11-12. > > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; > Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, > www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Editor, 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 > -- 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 Feb 15 06:37:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB31EC92F; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:37:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6CBF6EC900; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:37:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110215063738.6CBF6EC900@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:37:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.713 job at Brown X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 713. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:21:49 -0500 From: "Mylonas, Elli" Subject: Brown University Digital Humanities Librarian The Brown University Library is looking for a Digital Humanities Librarian. As the Library's primary liaison to academic departments in the humanities, the Digital Humanities Librarian plays a central role in the integration of digital resources and methodologies with traditional resources and approaches into the research, teaching, and learning missions at Brown University. Together with other Scholarly Resources Librarians, the Center for Digital Scholarship and relevant library and campus partners, s/he will work to increase the understanding and application of digital scholarship among the institution's faculty and students. S/he is expected to introduce and keep abreast of digital methodologies and to use such tools and skills in the solution of humanities research problems. The successful candidate will contribute to the work of the Brown Digital Repository by helping to articulate the relationship between new technologies and humanities scholarship to the community of humanists; by advising teaching faculty on the creation of digital objects and providing technical support for use of analytical tools; and in serving as an agent between content providers and the Library's repository. S/he will maintain a strong level of competence in scholarly communications issues such as new forms of publication, copyright, open access, repositories, data curation, and licensing of online resources. S/he will also use his/her knowledge of available print and electronic resources to build appropriate collections in general collections and related Special Collections and to advocate for the fields to which he/she is assigned. Job Qualifications -Master in Library Science and/ or an Advanced degree in a Humanities discipline/PhD preferred. -2-3 year's related professional experience required -Deep understanding of the research process and knowledge of the ways that new technologies are affecting the production of scholarship in the humanities -Demonstrated facility with current technologies commonly used in digital humanities projects (such as database design and programming, web services, XML technologies, corpus linguistics etc.) and software (Zotero, Omeka, etc.) -Knowledge of and ability to teach scholarly communications issues (for example copyright, author's rights, open access, repositories) -Broad knowledge of available print and online resources in one or more humanities disciplines -Demonstrated ability in instruction and making presentations. -Demonstrated ability in one or more foreign languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, or Classical languages) -Prefer knowledge of and experience with digital curation For more information on this position, please see http://careers.brown.edu, and look for position B01284. --elli [Elli Mylonas  Center for Digital Scholarship  University Library  Brown University  library.brown.edu/cds] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 15 06:38:11 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C510EC975; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:38:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E055AEC961; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:38:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110215063808.E055AEC961@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:38:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.714 a survey of research practices X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 714. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:43:37 -0500 From: Meg Meiman Subject: survey about humanities scholars' research practices What research practices do you engage in as a humanities scholar? How do you conceptualize your research? What sources do you use when beginning a research project, and how do you organize them? This survey is designed to gauge, on a preliminary basis, the research practices and habits of humanities scholars, and will only take 10 minutes of your time. Information from this survey will be used as part of a conference presentation on research practices of humanities scholars. All responses to this survey will remain anonymous and confidential. If you have any questions regarding this survey, please contact Meg Meiman at (302) 831-8744, or meg.meiman@gmail.com. Here is the link to the survey. All responses will be very much appreciated: https://delaware.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6XxOvqjetMQgtCI Meg MeimanUniversity of Delaware (302) 831-8744 meiman@udel.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 Feb 15 06:41:03 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9985CECA15; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:41:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9444EECA05; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:41:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110215064100.9444EECA05@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:41:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.715 events: duration (before and) after media X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 715. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:56:17 -0800 (PST) From: David Cecchetto Subject: CFP: Duration (Before and) After Media In-Reply-To: <20110213094433.C4896EC992@woodward.joyent.us> Many of you will be interested in the following: CFP: Duration (Before and) After Media In the context of ubiquitous technology, the question of duration has emerged as a powerful interdisciplinary tool for investigating the interstices that both separate and sustain medial, technological, cultural, and artistic practices. Indeed, as claims to a post-media characterization of our digital landscape collide with deeply disciplined artistic and intellectual practices, questions of the body, the human, the flesh, the social, and even time become increasingly difficult to pose (let alone answer). Thus, duration—a concept with variegated genealogies in Bergson, Deleuze, Whitehead, and others, as well as in most artistic disciplines—suggests a point of intervention that avows the multiplicity of the problem: what happens to duration after media? How might duration fold together pre- and post-digital practices in ways that differ from disciplinary histories? How do locative, mobile, and ubiquitous media practices (artistic or otherwise) mobilize duration, and what might we learn from these? We invite paper presentations on these and other questions relating to duration for a small conference taking place from 10-12 August, 2011 at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. Theoretical interventions as well as practical or case-study models will all be considered. Fewer than 30 presentations will be accepted for this gathering, so emphasis will be placed on establishing conversations towards the development of an innovative edited collection on the same topic. Please email a 250 word abstract and 75 word bio to David Cecchetto at dcecchetto@faculty.ocad.ca before Friday 22 April. Participants will be notified of acceptance in early May. *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1297709791_2011-02-14_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_8828.2.pdf _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 17 05:44:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32929F0CA5; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:44:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B04F7F0C9C; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:44:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110217054406.B04F7F0C9C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:44:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.716 new tools: text-image linking; geospatial & temporal visualisation X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 716. 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)" (12) Subject: press release: "Omeka + Neatline" funded [2] From: James Neal (19) Subject: MITH - Introducing TILE 0.9 - redesigned website | public release --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:25:42 -0500 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: press release: "Omeka + Neatline" funded [Willard, will you please share our good news with Humanist readers? Thanks! -- Bethany] Scholars' Lab and CHNM Partner on "Omeka + Neatline" The Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library and the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University are pleased to announce a collaborative "Omeka + Neatline" initiative, supported by $665,248 in funding from the Library of Congress. The Omeka + Neatline project's goal is to enable scholars, students, and library and museum professionals to create geospatial and temporal visualizations of archival collections using a Neatline toolset within CHNM's popular, open source Omeka exhibition platform. Neatline, a "contribution to interpretive humanities scholarship in the visual vernacular," is a project of the UVa Library Scholars' Lab, originally bolstered by a Start-Up Grant from the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Omeka is an award-winning web-publishing platform for the display of cultural heritage and scholarly collections and exhibits, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Samuel H. Kress Foundation. This two-year initiative will allow CHNM and the Scholars' Lab to expand and regularize a partnership that developed informally between the two centers over the course of the past year. Collaboration has already resulted in improvements to the core functionality of Omeka by CHNM and has led the Scholars' Lab to produce a number of prototype plugins making Omeka a more attractive and viable option for scholarly partnerships with larger libraries and cultural heritage institutions. These include: improved data import (including EAD, a common archival standard); Solr-powered searching and browsing; and Fedora-based repository services. Further development will improve existing plugins, add preservation workflows, and refine the Neatline toolset for integration and sophisticated editing and scholarly annotation of historical maps, GIS layers, and timelines. Enhancements to Omeka's core APIs, improved documentation, regular "point" releases, and a new Exhibit Builder will strengthen Omeka's already large and robust user and developer communities. Omeka + Neatline is one of six contract awards made by the Library of Congress in a program that aims both to improve the Library's own content management and content delivery infrastructure and to contribute to collaborative knowledge sharing among broader communities concerned with the sustainability and accessibility of digital content. In July of 2010, the Library of Congress targeted approximately $3,000,000 toward Broad Agency Announcements covering three areas of research interest related to these goals. Technical proposals were openly solicited from expert, multi-disciplinary communities in both academic and commercial settings in three areas: Ingest for Digital Content, Data Modeling of Legislative Information, and Open Source Software for Digital Content Delivery. In addition to guiding software development work at the Scholars' Lab and CHNM, project directors Tom Scheinfeldt and Bethany Nowviskie will use the Omeka + Neatline project as an opportunity to document and disseminate a model for open source, developer-level collaborations among library labs and digital humanities centers. Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed., Ph.D. Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVa Library Assoc. Director, Scholarly Communication Institute VP, Association for Computers & the Humanities http://nowviskie.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:24:04 -0500 From: James Neal Subject: MITH - Introducing TILE 0.9 - redesigned website | public release MITH (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) is excited to announce the redesigned website for and public release of The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) http://mith.umd.edu/tile/, a web-based tool for creating and editing image-based electronic editions and digital archives of humanities texts. This initial release of TILE 0.9 features tools for importing and exporting transcript lines and images of text, an image markup tool, a semi-automated line recognizer that tags regions of text within an image, and plugin architecture to extend the functionality of the software. There are a number of ways to try TILE 0.9 and learn more. You can visit the MITH-hosted sandbox version that allows you to use the tool online, or download a customizable version of the software. If you’d like to learn more, we’ve made end-user and developer documentation http://mith.umd.edu/tile/documentation/ http://mith.umd.edu/tile/documentation/ available, and we’re ready to answer your questions on our forums http://mith.umd.edu/tile/forums/ < > http://mith.umd.edu/tile/forums/. > Supported by an NEH Preservation and Access Grant, TILE is a collaboration between the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (Doug Reside, Dave Lester) and Indiana University (Dot Porter, 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 Thu Feb 17 05:49:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67172F0E22; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:49:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A06D5F0E0B; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:49:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110217054940.A06D5F0E0B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:49:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.717 events: THATCamp Texas; Textual Scholarship Bern X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 717. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Carlos Monroy (64) Subject: The Humanities and Technology Camp - THATCamp Texas 4/15-16 [2] From: Wim Van-Mierlo (12) Subject: ESTS 2012 in Bern - deadline for paper proposals --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:05:26 -0600 From: Carlos Monroy Subject: The Humanities and Technology Camp - THATCamp Texas 4/15-16 Announcing THATCamp Texas, April 15-16 at Rice University THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) Texas (http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/) is a free “unconference” that focuses on the intersection of the humanities and information technology. It will be held at Rice University in Houston, Texas on April 15-16. Please consider applying to participate in what promises to be a lively, interactive exploration of technology’s role in humanities teaching and research, featuring discussions, demonstrations and hands-on training workshops. What’s a THATCamp? At unconferences such as THATCamp, participants set the agenda. Prior to arriving at THATCamp, participants write brief blog posts describing topics they would be interested in discussing. At the start of the event on April 16, we’ll identify common themes and collectively determine the schedule for the rest of the day. Past THATCamps (in places such as Virginia, Paris, Australia, the Bay Area, and New Mexico) have included topics such as pedagogy, GIS mapping, electronic literature, digitization, text mining, social media, information visualization, and crowdsourcing— but what we explore at THATCamp is up to its participants. Think of a typical THATCamp session as a conversation or as a series of hands-on experiments rather than as a formal presentation; no one stands up at the front of the room and reads a paper, and everyone is invited to participate. On April 15, THATCamp Texas will sponsor a free BootCamp, which will feature hands-on workshops on topics such as visualizing data, creating interactive, data-driven maps using GIS technologies, developing digital exhibits using Omeka, and setting up your own blog or web site using WordPress. If you’d like to propose your own BootCamp session, just let us know at thatcamptexas@gmail.com For more information about the THATCamp concept, see http://thatcamp.org/For more about THATCamp Texas, visit http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/ Who Should Attend? Typically THATCamps attract students, faculty, librarians, technologists, museum professionals, public historians, curators, designers, archivists, and other folks working in the digital humanities and allied fields, but anyone with an interest in the digital humanities is welcome. THATCamp is deliberately “non-hierarchical and non-disciplinary.” You can be an expert or a newcomer—the only requirements are curiosity and a collaborative spirit. How Do I Apply? To apply, point your browser to http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/how-doi- sign-up/and fill out the brief application form. Applications are due by March 11, and we’ll notify folks by March 18 if they’ve been accepted. (We’d like to accept everyone, but we only have space for about 80.) What Does It Cost? Nada. But if you were willing to kick in $20 to help cover the costs of food (free breakfast and lunch), we’d appreciate it. We’re grateful to Fondren Library at Rice University for sponsoring THATCamp Texas. What If I Have Questions? You can contact the organizers of THATCamp Texas (Lisa Spiro of Rice University, Andrew Torget of the University of North Texas, and Anita Riley of the University of Houston) by emailing thatcamptexas@gmail.com or by calling Lisa at 713-348-2594 or Andrew at 434-996-5741 ****************************** Carlos Monroy, Ph.D. Gaming Research and Development Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning Rice University Houston, TX voice: 713.348.5481 fax: 713.348.5699 carlos.monroy@rice.edu http://cttl.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=116 ****************************** --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:29:55 +0000 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: ESTS 2012 in Bern - deadline for paper proposals Reminder: The deadline for submission of abstracts to the 8th Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship in Bern is 1 March. The topic of the conference—Inter National and Inter Disciplinary Aspects of Scholarly Editing— is based on the notion that international cooperation in scholarly editing often has to cope with the fact that the participants are affected by scholarly traditions, theoretical and practical issues that have been developed in the intellectual and institutional environment of their original countries. Proposal should be sent to Prof. Dr. Michael Stolz, Institut für Germanistik, Länggass-Str. 49, CH-3000 Bern 9, Switzerland or, preferably, via e-mail-attachment to robert.schoeller@germ.unibe.ch. For further information and detailed cfp, please visit http://www.textualscholarship.eu/conference-2011_12.html. 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 Thu Feb 17 06:23:13 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD231EF48D; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:23:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E77A0EF47C; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:23:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110217062309.E77A0EF47C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:23:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.718 images of 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. 24, No. 718. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:16:28 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: images of computing? Sometime in 1948 or the few years following, Shell Oil Company (which supplied the libricants for IBM machines) took out an advert in the Saturday Evening Post, an American popular magazine, entitled "Oracle on 57th Street". The address referred to the IBM World Headquarters, then at the corner of 57th Street and Madison Avenue, which from 1948 to sometime between 1952-53 exhibited the IBM Selective Sequence Automatic Calculator (SSEC) in its front window. Passers-by nicknamed the machine "Poppa". The advert shows an enormous Sibylline figure sitting atop the building, holding a long scroll of computer printout. We have abundant evidence to support the notion that this Sibyl accurately represents computing in the popular imagination of the time. Eventually I will track down the issue of the Post in the British Library and obtain a better image of it than the one I managed to find online. But meanwhile I would like to know of any other images from the time when people allowed themselves so spectacularly to dream of what computing had come into the world to do. I think I have all of the Time Magazine cover-images. Any others anyone here knows about, please tell me. Such images are fascinating in their own right. Their significance for us comes from the fact that since they were published in mass-circulation venues they were undoubtedly in the homes and hands of (at least American) academics at the time, being looked at by the children and spouses of scholars as well as by scholars themselves (in their off moments, naturally). When you put the professional writings of these scholars up against the public dreaming, some interesting questions fall out, don't you think? And when you find some of these scholars accusing others of a lack of imagination in their uses of computing, these questions gain some force. One finds such sober figures as Herbert Simon and Allen Newell publishing some highly imaginative claims (packaged as firm predictions) a few years later, but in general we were quite an unimaginative lot then. Different now, of course. Images and clues to more, please. Comments on all this as well, if you are so inclined. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 18 06:18:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F81CEFC85; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:18:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 39125EFC5A; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:18:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110218061839.39125EFC5A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:18:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.719 images of 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. 24, No. 719. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:48:48 -0800 From: Russell Horton Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.718 images of computing? In-Reply-To: <20110217062309.E77A0EF47C@woodward.joyent.us> [from a private note --WM] Your query regarding computer-related imagery reminded me of a presentation I saw recently at THATCamp San Francisco. Megan Prelinger gave a slide show of 50s and 60s advertisements from chemical and aerospace companies. Computers and robots figured in some of these images as well. Evidently the fashion was to hire modern artists to create all sorts of publicity, from magazine covers to humble help wanted ads. The work is really quite amazing. So although it's not exactly what you are after, I think it might interest you. They certainly have that wondering, imaginative quality you describe. http://www.blastbooks.com/another_science_fiction.htm Thanks again for the list, and have a great winter. Russell Horton -- Graduate Student, Linguistics, The University of California San Diego Computational Linguist, Wordnik.com Programmer, The ARTFL Project, The University of Chicago On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 718. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:16:28 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: images of computing? > > Sometime in 1948 or the few years following, Shell Oil Company (which > supplied the libricants for IBM machines) took out an advert in the Saturday > Evening Post, an American popular magazine, entitled "Oracle on 57th > Street". The address referred to the IBM World Headquarters, then at the > corner of 57th Street and Madison Avenue, which from 1948 to sometime > between 1952-53 exhibited the IBM Selective Sequence Automatic Calculator > (SSEC) in its front window. Passers-by nicknamed the machine "Poppa". The > advert shows an enormous Sibylline figure sitting atop the building, holding > a long scroll of computer printout. We have abundant evidence to support the > notion that this Sibyl accurately represents computing in the popular > imagination of the time. > > Eventually I will track down the issue of the Post in the British Library > and obtain a better image of it than the one I managed to find online. But > meanwhile I would like to know of any other images from the time when people > allowed themselves so spectacularly to dream of what computing had come into > the world to do. I think I have all of the Time Magazine cover-images. Any > others anyone here knows about, please tell me. > > Such images are fascinating in their own right. Their significance for us > comes from the fact that since they were published in mass-circulation > venues they were undoubtedly in the homes and hands of (at least American) > academics at the time, being looked at by the children and spouses of > scholars as well as by scholars themselves (in their off moments, > naturally). When you put the professional writings of these scholars up > against the public dreaming, some interesting questions fall out, don't you > think? And when you find some of these scholars accusing others of a lack of > imagination in their uses of computing, these questions gain some force. One > finds such sober figures as Herbert Simon and Allen Newell publishing some > highly imaginative claims (packaged as firm predictions) a few years later, > but in general we were quite an unimaginative lot then. Different now, of > course. > > Images and clues to more, please. Comments on all this as well, if you are > so inclined. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; > Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, > www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Editor, 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 18 06:19:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8915EFCE1; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:19:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C62D9EFCD1; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:19:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110218061931.C62D9EFCD1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:19:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.720 ACH election results & an invitation X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 720. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:10:43 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: ACH Election Results, and an invitation to join The Association for Computers and the Humanities (http://www.ach.org/) is pleased to announce the result of our recent election. Our new Executive Council members, to serve 2011-2014, are: Susan Brown Kathleen Fitzpatrick Lisa Spiro Congratulations to Susan, Kathleen and Lisa! And many thanks to all who were on the ballot. Thanks as well to outgoing EC members Natasha Smith, John Walsh, and Susan Schreibman. for their years of service to the ACH. We'd like to take this opportunity to invite you to join the Association for Computers and the Humanities. ACH, founded in 1978, is the major professional society for anyone working in digital research, software development, and encoding and analysis for fields like literature and language studies, history, philosophy, and other humanities disciplines. ACH contributes to the digital humanities by sponsoring mentoring programs, bursaries for young scholars at conferences and training events, awards, the popular "Digital Humanities Questions and Answers" board (http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/), 4Humanities (http://humanistica.ualberta.ca/), and other initiatives. We are also active advocates for the issues that concern our members, who include faculty, students, staff, administrators, cultural heritage workers, and independent scholars and developers. We depend on our membership to inform us of specific issues we should advocate for, and initiatives we can undertake that will best serve their concerns. Of course members also elect the ACH officers and Executive Council. As part of ADHO (the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/), ACH supports the journals LLC (http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/) and DHQ (http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/), the annual Digital Humanities conference (for which members receive reduced registration, for the 2011 conference see https://dh2011.stanford.edu/), and the Humanist email discussion list (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/). Membership in the ACH (and the other constituant organizations of ADHO) is through subscription to Literary and Linguistic Computing. To join and subscribe, follow this link and scroll down to the "Members" selections: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/litlin/access_purchase/price_list.html. Many thanks, The Executive Council of the ACH -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian 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 Feb 18 06:20:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85FFFEFD51; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:20:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 57691EFD41; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:20:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110218062032.57691EFD41@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:20:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.721 events: THATCamp LAC; game/world culture X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 721. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ryan Cordell (9) Subject: THATCamp LAC (Liberal Arts Colleges) [2] From: jeremy hunsinger (19) Subject: cfp: Workshop on Cultures in Game/worlds --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:57:43 -0600 From: Ryan Cordell Subject: THATCamp LAC (Liberal Arts Colleges) Following yesterday's announcement, I wanted to let folks know about THATCamp LAC, an unconference focused on digital humanities research and pedagogy at liberal arts colleges. We're looking for applications from LAC faculty, librarians, technical specialists, undergraduates, and more. In fact, we hope to include folks from many kinds of schools that face similar challenges to those faced by DHers at LACs. If you're the lone DHer on your campus, for example—whatever that campus is—you'll find a conversation of interest at THATCamp LAC. To the details: • Where: St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. • When: June 4-5, 2011 • Who: 75 professors, librarians, technical specialists, and undergraduates interested in the intersection of technology and the liberal arts • Info: Our website (http://lac2011.thatcamp.org) or our Twitter stream @thatcamplac We've already decided on one of our bootcamps. Kathryn Tomasek (Wheaton College, MA) and Rebecca Frost Davis (NITLE) will teach us how to "Integrate Digital Humanities Projects into the Undergraduate Curriculum." We expect this session will be of interest to a wide range of participants. Applications are due by April 18, 2011. The application form is available on our website at http://lac2011.thatcamp.org/application/ For more information, contact the organizer of THATCamp LAC, Ryan Cordell, at ryan.cordell@snc.edu or 920-278-7227. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:24:44 +0000 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: cfp: Workshop on Cultures in Game/worlds CFP: Workshop on Cultures in Game/worlds Call for Participation at the Cultural Studies Association Conference in Chicago, Illinois Location: Building S, Room 1306 RSVP March 5, 2011 We call the virtual environments that constitute the topic of this workshop "game/worlds." Game/worlds are 3d virtual environments developed for play and other entertainment, social interaction, cultural exploration, and virtual design/exchange. These worlds have captured the attention of researchers from around the world from a variety of disciplines. This workshop aims to improve the understanding of game/worlds as environments for cultural studies and cultural analyses. It will bring researchers together to collaborate and discuss diverse topics related to the unique problems of researching in game/worlds. We will pursue a schedule integrating workshop participants where they will discuss their work and interests related to four different topics: research methods for game/worlds, histories of game/worlds, cultures of game/worlds, and ethics of research in game/worlds. Some questions for consideration include: How can we better enable cultural studies in this sphere? How can we better enable research? How do we engage these arenas as ethical researchers? We will encourage researchers to submit papers in progress or related research, and short biographies to jeremy@tmttlt.com, which will be selected and distributed amongst participants before the workshop. First invitations will be offered to those who provide full papers for consideration. These papers have two purposes: first, to provide a common platform for understanding our research; second, submitted papers may be considered for publication in an edited volume being produced in relation to the workshop or possibly in a peer reviewed publication derived from the workshop (these are currently under discussion). Subsequent invitation will be made based upon research and biography. If you are interested in participating, please send an email containing your information to jeremy@tmttlt.com This workshop is organized by Jeremy Hunsinger, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture - Virginia Tech and Adrienne Massanari, School of Communication - Loyola University Chicago, with the help of Mark Chen, Institute for Science and Math Education - University of Washington (not attending). jeremy hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail / - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 19 09:04:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DD4BF2E24; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:04:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3E599F2E1B; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:04:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110219090433.3E599F2E1B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:04:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.722 images of computing 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. 24, No. 722. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:51:15 +1300 From: Richard MAHONEY Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.718 images of computing? Dear Willard, On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 06:23:09AM +0000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:16:28 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: images of computing? ... > Eventually I will track down the issue of the Post in the British Library > and obtain a better image of it than the one I managed to find online. But > meanwhile I would like to know of any other images from the time when people > allowed themselves so spectacularly to dream of what computing had come into > the world to do. I think I have all of the Time Magazine cover-images. Any > others anyone here knows about, please tell me. ... For a recent photographic essay on computers you may be curious to see: Simon Norfolk :: Et in Arcadia ego http://simonnorfolk.com/ esp.: Technologies :: The Supercomputers: `I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that' Kind regards, Richard -- Richard MAHONEY - Indica et Buddhica Littledene, Bay Road, OXFORD 7430, NZ PO Box 25, OXFORD 7443 +64 3 312 1699 r.mahoney@indica-et-buddhica.org http://indica-et-buddhica.org http://camera-antipodea.indica-et-buddhica.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 Feb 19 09:05:19 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA19AF2E96; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:05:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 454ADF2E88; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:05:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110219090517.454ADF2E88@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:05:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.723 digital humanities as topic model X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 723. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:04:37 -0800 (PST) From: Elijah Meeks Subject: The Digital Humanities as Topic Model In-Reply-To: <1632564316.353249.1297987277216.JavaMail.root@zm07.stanford.edu> Earlier I asked for a sample of papers dealing with the definition of the Digital Humanities and/or Humanities Computing. With the help of MALLET and Gephi, I walked through the process of creating topic networks and dealt a bit with their possible uses. I've also posted all the data I used if one wants to load up the resulting graphs or dig into the raw MALLET output, along with a few visualizations. The purpose of this exercise was to examine and illustrate the process and output of topic modeling, which is new to me, and so I'm sure the more veteran among you will think my setup rather unsophisticated. Though I deal a little bit with network analytical concepts like centrality, I really am not making any claims about particular papers or blog posts to be central to the Digital Humanities, and I studiously avoided that form of analysis, which I think would be unwise given the rough nature of the thing. Still, I found the results very interesting and would love to hear any comments they might elicit. https://dhs.stanford.edu/comprehending-the-digital-humanities/ All the best and thanks to everyone who sent me suggestions for papers, Elijah Elijah Meeks http://dhs.stanford.edu Digital Humanities Specialist Academic Computing Services Stanford University emeeks@stanford.edu (650)387-6170 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 19 09:06:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC833F2F25; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:06:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0BADCF2F13; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:06:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110219090632.0BADCF2F13@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:06:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.724 jobs at CCH 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 724. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:28:45 +0000 From: "Spence, Paul" Subject: Job posting: three new research posts at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Job posting: three new research posts at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London [With apologies for cross-posting] 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Project Research Officer (XML Developer) (Full-time, fixed term 2 years - Grade 6) The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London is looking for a highly motivated and technically sophisticated individual to work on its text-based research projects. The position will involve using computer tools and methods to facilitate digital scholarship. The successful candidate to this position would have widespread experience in modelling textual materials and developing tools to search, query, retrieve and display them using XML-related technologies; in designing, writing and modifying programs which facilitate content creation ; and collaborating in the development of integrated HTML-based interfaces for web publication. Experience in creating and manipulating XML documents in a range of XML-related standards and technologies (DTDs/Schema, XPath, XSLT) is highly desirable, in particular textual materials encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative's guidelines. Familiarity with structured data/MySQL, Java programming, text processing techniques and standards-compliant XHTML and CSS is also desirable. In addition you will need to have a good understanding of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences and you will be expected to make a contribution to the departmental research profile. You will need to be able to work effectively as part of a team, as well as independently. The successful candidate should have good communication skills and the ability to document their work in clear written English. This appointment is on the Grade 6 scale, currently ranging from £33,070 - £39,038 inclusive of £2,323 London Allowance per annum. This is a full-time, two-year contract. Closing date for receipt of applications is 9 March 2011. For more information, and details on how to apply, please visit the following url: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACG766/project-research-officer-developer/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Project Officer (Web Frontend Design/Development) (Full-time, fixed term 2 years - Grade 6) The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) wishes to recruit a Lead Web Frontend Designer / Developer to work with and support the CCH development team and subject discipline specialists in the design and development of visually attractive and functionally effective web interfaces. As part of its very active research programme, the Centre (a department within the School of Arts and Humanities) is involved in a large number of externally funded collaborative research projects, almost all of which are published as freely available websites. The department has built and hosts some 140 websites, of which around 35 are in active development at any one time. The successful candidate will be involved in supporting work on existing and new projects, collaborating on the design, customisation and maintenance of their web interfaces (both public facing and administrative), ensuring consistently high standards of usability and performance across the department's websites, and advising internally on standards and best practices. This is an exciting and varied position, which will involve taking the lead in aesthetic and functional design, and frontend development, across a diverse selection of different websites and applications which range from bespoke web application frameworks designed to display large amounts of complex or unusual data, to customising off-the-shelf blogging and CMS software. Applicants must have a keen eye for effective visual design and layout, outstanding attention to detail, and a passion for creating attractive and robust interfaces. Experience with Adobe Photoshop (or similar) together with developer level expertise in XHTML, CSS and JavaScript (including experience with AJAX development), are essential for this role. Applicants must have experience building interfaces and developing client-side functionality in the context of current programming or templating languages (e.g. Django, PHP, JSTL, XSLT etc). An awareness of interface development frameworks both for XHTML/CSS (such as Blueprint, YUI etc) and for JavaScript (preferably JQuery) would be highly desirable. A working knowledge of user-centred design methodology (including development of wireframe diagrams, sitemaps, functional specifications) is important, and experience with user engagement processes such as the development of use cases or running focus groups would be a distinct advantage. A comprehensive knowledge of new and current standards and best practices for usable and accessible web interface design, together with the ability to systematically and quickly test for, identify, and resolve browser-related problems, is also expected. Candidates must be able to demonstrate applicable experience in a web design/development role elsewhere and will be asked to supply examples of projects or websites they have worked on in the recent past which demonstrate both visual design and development competence. background or interest in the cultural heritage sector and/or the fields of the Humanities or Social Sciences would be an advantage. The successful candidate will need to be able to work effectively as part of a collaborative team (including working with external designers, project partners, and stakeholders) as well as being able to work independently. Candidates should have good communication skills and possess the ability to document the work in clear written English. The appointment will be made, dependent on relevant qualifications and experience, within the Grade 6 scale, currently £33,070 - £39,038, per annum, inclusive of £2,323 London Allowance, per annum. Benefits include an annual season ticket loan scheme and a final salary superannuation scheme. The closing date for receipt of applications is 11 March 2011 For more information, and details on how to apply, please visit the following url: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACG818/technical-project-officer-web-frontend-design-development/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Project Officer (GIS / Web Mapping Developer) (Full-time, fixed term 2 years - Grade 6) The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) wishes to recruit a developer specialising in GIS & web-based mapping to work with and support the CCH development team and subject discipline specialists across a range of research projects, many of which will involve spatial data and map-based visualisation. As part of its very active research programme, the Centre (a department within the School of Arts and Humanities) is involved in a large number of externally funded collaborative research projects, almost all of which are published as freely available websites. The department has built and hosts some 140 such websites, of which around 35 are in active development at any one time. The successful candidate will be involved in supporting web application development on existing and new projects, focussing primarily on those involving underlying spatial data, and the visualisation of data on both static and interactive web-based maps. Applicants should have extensive experience with GIS, and will have worked with ESRI ArcGIS and / or Open Source GIS editors; applicants must also have development experience with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL and will be comfortable working in SQL. Applicants will require a thorough working knowledge of the standards and protocols associated with the storage and interchange of spatial data (i.e. WMS, JSON, GeoRSS, KML, XML), together with a strength in at least one web programming language (preferably J2EE/JSP, Django, or PHP) and the willingness and capability to learn other languages as required. The ability to program in JavaScript ('pure', or using a framework) and experience with AJAX development, are essential for this role as is competence with XHTML and CSS. Familiarity with Open Source mapping servers such as GeoServer and MapServer would be highly desirable. Candidates must be able to demonstrate experience in a GIS analyst or web development role elsewhere. A background or interest in the cultural heritage sector and/or the fields of the Humanities or Social Sciences would be an advantage. The successful candidate will need to be able to work effectively as part of a collaborative team as well as being able to work independently. They should have good communication skills and possess the ability to document work in clear written English. The appointment will be made, dependent on relevant qualifications and experience, within the Grade 6 scale, currently £33,070 - £39,038, per annum, inclusive of £2,323 London Allowance, per annum. Benefits include an annual season ticket loan scheme and a final salary superannuation scheme. The closing date for receipt of applications is 11 March 2011 For more information, and details on how to apply, please visit the following url: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACG814/technical-project-officer-gis-web-mapping-developer/ ---------------------------------------- Paul Spence Acting Head of Department 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/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 19 09:11:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15954F2FF7; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:11:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 325E8F2FE4; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:11:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110219091155.325E8F2FE4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:11:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.725 events: theorizing the Web; learning X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 725. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: PJ Rey (46) Subject: Final Call for Submissions - "Theorizing the Web 2011" [2] From: UC Humanities Research Institute (40) Subject: DML2011 Conference to be held March 3-5 in Long Beach, CA --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:06:38 -0500 From: PJ Rey Subject: Final Call for Submissions - "Theorizing the Web 2011" Theorizing the Web The deadline for abstract submissions is only 3 days away (February 20th, 2011). Join us at: http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/cfp.html Date: April 9th, 2011 Location: University of Maryland Keynote Speaker: danah boyd (Microsft Research New England) Participants Include: George Ritzer (U. of MD), Jessie Daniels (Hunter College, NYC), Zeynep Tufekci (U. of MD Baltimore County), Katie King (U. of MD). Call for Papers: The goal of the conference is to expand the range and depth of theory used to help us make sense of how the Internet, digitality, and technology have changed the ways humans live. We hope to bring together researchers (particularly graduate students and junior faculty) from a range of disciplines, including sociology, communications, philosophy, economics, English, history, political science, information science, the performing arts and many more. In addition, we invite session and other proposals by tech-industry professionals, journalists, and other figures outside of academia. Topics will include: • Identity and self-presentation: concerns of privacy and publicity on the Web • Surveillance, voyeurism, exhibitionism, and secrecy online • The blurring of online and offline, real and virtual, cyborgism and augmented reality • The Internet and the changing nature of capitalism • How power and inequality (e.g., the Digital Divide) manifest on the Web • Political activism/slacktivism online • Bodies and sexuality in the Digital Age • “Relationship Status” and Online dating • “Prosumption” (i.e., the convergence of production and consumption online) • Global implications of the Internet (or of the multiple Internets) • McDonaldization, rationalization and the Web • Intersections of gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation, and disability with respect to any of the above topics. Submit abstracts and/or register online at: http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/ For further inquiries, email: ttw2011@gmail.com. Hope to see you there! PJ Rey Conference Co-Chair Department of Sociology University of Maryland www.pjrey.net 2112 Art-Sociology Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:39:35 +0000 From: UC Humanities Research Institute Subject: DML2011 Conference to be held March 3-5 in Long Beach, CA Learning in the Digital Age Designing Future of Learning Conference Draws 500 Thought Leaders, Innovators, Designers, Educators, Activists to Long Beach, CA (IRVINE, CA) - How technology, the Internet, and digital media are affecting youth and education will be the topic of an international conference at the Hilton Long Beach Conference and Meeting Center in Long Beach, Calif., Mar. 3-5. Many of the questions to be tackled at the conference, featuring scholars, researchers and students representing every continent, are in the center of heated national debates about education, culture and technology: · What are the social implications of anonymity on the Internet for the future of ethics, civility and identity? · What are the key new literacies required by the accelerated, networked world? How do we make sure all children have an opportunity to develop them? · What does it mean, and what is required, to be an active, engaged citizen in today's world? · What roles can parents play in their children's education in the digital age? · How can we train teachers to thrive in the fast changing media ecology? · How must physical learning spaces like libraries, museums, schools, and after-school programs evolve? The conference will spotlight scores of in-depth presentations of original research from nearly 500 researchers and practitioners from across the globe, including: · The impact in Gaza and the West Bank of the One Laptop Per Child program. · A large-scale survey of 3,400 girls, aged 8-12, that examined how multitasking impacts social well-being and friendship. · How youth around the world are using digital media to effect social change with under-represented populations like incarcerated youth, foster children, undocumented immigrants, and adolescent victims of sex trafficking. · A mobile learning application that is creating a generation of young citizen scientists. · The accelerated learning that took place on a private social networking experiment that linked youth from five countries. · The dark side of deviant, niche online communities and what measures can be taken to guard against negative effects. Hands-on Demonstrations of Emerging Learning Platforms The Digital Media and Learning Conference on "Designing Learning Futures" for the 21st century also will include on-site demonstrations of a new generation of learning games that were awarded significant development funds in a national design competition. Projects that were funded up to $200,000 included: a science-based social network for girls to work together to solve mysteries in biomedical science; a web-casting, video blogging, and customized social networking site to connect youth from Chicago and from Fiji to collaborate around issues of environmental conservation; and new mobile phone apps for youth to tackle issues they have identified as pressing needs in their communities such as food equity, youth-police relations, and citizen journalism. "The DML Conference provides an open platform for the critical discussion of how digital media are transforming learning possibilities," said David Theo Goldberg, director of the system-wide University of California's Humanities Research Institute and co-director of the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, which designed and organized the conference. "The Conference provides a site where DML Competition winners will demonstrate how their applications contribute to learning practices in innovative and productive ways. Learning platform designers can converse directly with teachers, researchers with practitioners, thought leaders with policy makers, activists with students." Designing Learning and Teaching Environments for the 21st Century Details for the conference can be found at www.dmlcentral.net/conference2011. It begins Thursday, Mar. 3 and runs through Saturday, Mar. 5 and will be held at Hilton Long Beach Conference and Meeting Center in Long Beach, Calif. It will be chaired by game designer and professor of design and technology Katie Salen. A learning innovator, Salen is director of the Center for Transformative Media at Parsons the New School for Design, and is also the executive director of a non-profit called the Institute of Play, which is focused on games and learning. Salen also is the founder and executive director of design of Quest to Learn, a new 6-12th grade public school in New York City that uses a game-based learning model. The school has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Economist, and NPR. "This is a critical moment in which both the opportunities and risks afforded by digital media must be carefully considered," said Salen. "Designing learning futures requires consideration of multiple, even competing viewpoints-this conference provides a space for just such a conversation." The conference committee includes scholars in a variety of areas of expertise including youth, social media, mobile communication, digital humanities, innovation and social change: Kimberly Austin, danah boyd, Sheryl Grant, Heather A. Horst, Trebor Scholz, Mark Surman, and S. Craig Watkins. "For youth culture, digital media is of central importance, but very few of these platforms were designed for the kind of learning that takes place on these sites. There are countless opportunities for researchers and system designers to learn from each other to shape the future of emerging platforms," said danah boyd, senior researcher for Microsoft Research, scholar in social media and youth culture, and chair of the Emerging Platforms and Policies track at the conference. Alice Taylor, who has been working with Internet-delivered content for entertainment and education since 1995, will give the opening keynote address entitled, "10 lessons from 10 games: stories from making playful education for teens." Outgoing commissioning editor for education at Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, Alice spent the last three years commissioning award-winning digital products targeting teens and 'tweens. She is principle in a start-up called Makieworld, an entertainment company that will produce socially-aware, networked, and customizable dolls, games, and play. Saturday's closing keynote, "Designing Empowerment," will be presented by Muki Hansteen Izora. A senior design researcher and strategist with the product research and incubation division of Intel's digital health group, Izora's research ranges from investigating the ways in which emerging economies might harness digital tools to improve health and well being in their citizens, and to support cognition and healing in elderly populations. The Digital Media and Learning Initiative The second annual Digital Media and Learning Conference is designed and produced by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub. Located at the University of California, Irvine, the DML Research Hub is an international center to explore how young people are taking up digital media and communications, and to analyze digital media's potential for transforming education, learning, and participatory politics. With a physical office at UC Irvine and a website highlighting thought leadership and best practices - www.dmlcentral.net- the Research Hub hosts international gatherings, facilitates workshops and working groups, and brings together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and industry leaders. Funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Research Hub is expected to help schools, libraries, museums and other entities and individuals engaged in teaching and learning better prepare youth for 21st century learning, working, and living. The MacArthur Foundation is also the primary sponsor of the conference. The Pearson Foundation is sponsoring the showcase of award-winning digital media learning products. The Mozilla Foundation and Microsoft Research also contributed to the conference. The MacArthur Foundation launched its digital media and learning initiative in 2006 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 on the digital media and learning initiative is available at www.macfound.org/education. 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. More information is available at www.macfound.org. Contact: Jeff Brazil Digital Media and Learning Research Hub University of California Humanities Research Institute e :jbrazil@hri.uci.edu p : 949.824.9956 c : 949.322.0221 University of California Humanities Research Institute | 4000 Humanities Gateway | Irvine | CA | 92697-3350 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 09:51:53 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142DBF1E8B; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:51:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 654E5F1E78; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:51:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110220095149.654E5F1E78@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:51:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.726 theorizing the Web? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 726. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:31:12 +0000 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: theorizing the Web; learning This is some sort of joke, no? From the company whose CEO at the time professed that the web would amount to nothing, then leveraged out the better browser, and is a paradigm of proprietary apps., it all sounds rather awkward. Perhaps someone from Apple would have advanced the thesis even further. --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:06:38 -0500 From: PJ Rey Subject: Final Call for Submissions - "Theorizing the Web 2011" Theorizing the Web The deadline for abstract submissions is only 3 days away (February 20th, 2011). Join us at: http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/cfp.html Date: April 9th, 2011 Location: University of Maryland Keynote Speaker: danah boyd (Microsft Research New England) Topics will include: • Identity and self-presentation: concerns of privacy and publicity on the Web • Surveillance, voyeurism, exhibitionism, and secrecy online • The blurring of online and offline, real and virtual, cyborgism and augmented reality • The Internet and the changing nature of capitalism • How power and inequality (e.g., the Digital Divide) manifest on the Web • Political activism/slacktivism online • Bodies and sexuality in the Digital Age • “Relationship Status” and Online dating • “Prosumption” (i.e., the convergence of production and consumption online) • Global implications of the Internet (or of the multiple Internets) • McDonaldization, rationalization and the Web • Intersections of gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation, and disability with respect to any of the above topics. Submit abstracts and/or register online at: http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/ For further inquiries, email: ttw2011@gmail.com. Hope to see you there! PJ Rey Conference Co-Chair Department of Sociology University of Maryland www.pjrey.net 2112 Art-Sociology Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 - _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 09:52:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D06F1F0E; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:52:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5DE3FF1F04; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:52:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110220095254.5DE3FF1F04@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:52:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.727 a digital humanities archive? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 727. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:51:28 -0500 From: Robert Kraft Subject: Re: [Humanist] DH Archive Query? In-Reply-To: <20110218061931.C62D9EFCD1@woodward.joyent.us> I'm reminded by the ACH posting to ask this question: Retirement brings with it downsizing, disposal, and the like. I've been instructed to clear the office in which much of the materials gathered over the years by the Center for Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT) at the University of Pennsylvania is located, and I wondered whether there is an Archive for such items -- including old manuals, boxes and software, especially related to "biblical research" and similar areas? I'm expecting that the University can archive files relating directly to funded projects such as "Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Studies" (CATSS), but the periferal and digital items that we have collected have no such suitable home. Advice and/or enlightenment is most welcome! Bob Kraft, Emeritus Professor, UPenn Faculty director of CCAT and co-director of CATSS _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 07:41:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2DEBEF140; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:41:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 33470EF120; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:41:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110221074133.33470EF120@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:41:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.728 theorizing the Web X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 728. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Richard Frank" (23) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.726 theorizing the Web? [2] From: James Rovira (4) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.726 theorizing the Web? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:31:56 -0500 From: "Richard Frank" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.726 theorizing the Web? In-Reply-To: <20110220095149.654E5F1E78@woodward.joyent.us> Dr Postles, I presume the joke you refer to is dana boyd as keynote speaker while working for Microsoft. While I don't know her personally, I do know of her by reputation and have read a number of her articles. She has a lengthy history in the field of online personas and I think quite appropriate for such a conference. I was not aware that she currently worked for Microsoft but I know plenty of people working for corporations I don't really like. We all have to eat, pay bills, etc. And, while I'm not an apologist for Microsoft, I think can safely assume that they long ago recanted positions like the web is useless & 64K memory is enough for anyone :-) These days Google's apparent abandonment of doing no evil bothers me more than Microsoft's anticompetitive behaviour in the early days of desktop computing. I'm not fond of the practices of Oracle or Apple either. I don't think it's an accident that the "nice" guys don't become the dominant industry players but rather it is the ruthless ones that do. But back to the conference, I think it sounds rather interesting and was thinking of attending. Cheers --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:19:43 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.726 theorizing the Web? In-Reply-To: <20110220095149.654E5F1E78@woodward.joyent.us> Microsoft needs to get ideas from somewhere. The conference is a rather clever way to do it. Jim R > This is some sort of joke, no?  From the company whose CEO at the time professed that the web would amount to nothing, then leveraged out the better browser, and is a paradigm of proprietary apps., it all sounds rather awkward.  Perhaps someone from Apple would have advanced the thesis even further. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 07:42:23 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53BA8EF19E; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:42:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0729EEF197; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:42:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110221074221.0729EEF197@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:42:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.729 new on WWW: Blog Carnival 2 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. 24, No. 729. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:28:56 +0000 From: Phillip Barron Subject: Digital Humanities Blog Carnival Issue 2 online now The second edition (Presidents Day edition) of the Digital Humanities Blog Carnival is now online. You can find it here http://nicomachus.net/2011/02/digital-humanities-blog-carnival-presidents-day-edition/ -- Phillip Barron http://about.me/pbarron _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 06:28:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5B4F1B89; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:28:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9587AF1B7F; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:28:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110222062836.9587AF1B7F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:28:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.730 theorizing the Web X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 730. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" (1) Subject: theorizing the Web [2] From: Amanda French (24) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.726 theorizing the Web? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:24:19 +0000 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: theorizing the Web Since Richard Frank mentions Oracle, perhaps it's apposite to draw attention to the final rc of LibreOffice 3.3, which seems to me a terrific development by the Document Foundation. One of the great advantages is that, compared to previous versions of OpenOffice, the boot time is much faster, and, for example, Calc now supports an expanded number of records. Since Oracle has branded OpenOffice, LibreOffice is a real alternative for those who consider that OpenSource is a moral cause. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:04:15 -0500 From: Amanda French Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.726 theorizing the Web? In-Reply-To: Are you joking, those of you who are surprised to find danah boyd as the keynote speaker at Theorizing the Web? She's one of the best-known ethnographers of the web, and her academic credentials are impeccable. I heard her keynote at SXSW 2010, as well, and can also attest that she's a very good speaker indeed. Anyone less likely to argue that the web amounts to nothing or to stump for proprietary apps I can't imagine. I do remember being a little surprised when she went to Microsoft, since she seemed marked for a brilliant career in academia, say at Harvard, where she remains a Berkman Center fellow. She first earned her considerable fame as a graduate student working on her Ph.D. at Berkeley, studying teen use of social networks such as Facebook, and she earned her doctorate maybe a year ago. But choosing private industry over academia is hardly a stupid decision these days, and I have little doubt that Microsoft gives her at least as much research freedom as academia would. She's a notorious industry gadfly, calling Facebook to task on its hideous privacy practices and so forth, and I'm certain she'll continue to be. Amanda French amanda@amandafrench.net 720-530-7515 http://amandafrench.net http://twitter.com/amandafrench Skype: amandafrenchphd AIM: habitrailgirl _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 06:29:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27355F1BFA; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:29:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6DA57F1BE6; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:29:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110222062951.6DA57F1BE6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:29:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.731 jobs at ETCL (Victoria), MITH (Maryland) X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 731. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Caroline Leitch (39) Subject: Positions Available at the ETCL [2] From: Neil Fraistat (63) Subject: Hiring at MITH --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:17:33 -0800 From: Caroline Leitch Subject: Positions Available at the ETCL [with apologies for cross-posting; please distribute] The ETCL (http://etcl.uvic.ca/) and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project at the University of Victoria have a number of exciting opportunities for candidates with a background in literary and textual studies, expertise in computing, and an understanding of the digital humanities. ETCL team members are self-starters and self-managers who work well both individually and collaboratively and pride themselves on a passionate interest in the humanities and their computational engagement. Prospective ETCL team members should share similar passions and interests and bring new skills, new ideas, and complementary perspectives on existing digital humanities issues. Being organised is essential; interest and aptitude in research planning and management are assets; and the ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. Most positions can be taken up as postdoctoral fellow, alternative-academic, or developer. Salary for these positions is competitive in the Canadian academic context, and is governed in part by source-funder regulations; in some cases, a salary supplement for additional teaching duties may be available. 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. Please indicate in the email subject line the position to which you are applying. Applications will be received and reviewed until the positions are filled. Positions Available: Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Specialist Digital Humanities Programmer Analyst / Developer (possibility of 2 positions) Digital Humanities Specialist, Information Management Digital Humanities Specialist, User Studies and Reading Behaviour Please see for more information. -- Cara Leitch Assistant Director, Digital Humanities Summer Institute PhD Candidate, Department of English University of Victoria Victoria BC  Canada cmleitch@uvic.ca --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:34:26 -0500 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: Hiring at MITH Dear all, The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland in College Park is seeking a full time Community Lead for at least 12 months to represent MITH projects using social media (including our blog, Twitter feeds, and Website), and to communicate the importance of the work to a range of different constituencies, including scholars, librarians, and university administrators. The Community Lead will organize and execute a strategic plan for engagement and outreach, and represent several of the largest projects in which MITH participates, including Preserving Virtual Worlds, the Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE), and especially Project Bamboo. Made possible by a major Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is a collaboration among the University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities, Libraries, and Office of Information Technology. Since its founding in 1999, MITH has become internationally recognized as one of the leading centers of its kind, achieving a track record of prominent and successful grant funded projects from NEH, the IMLS, the Mellon Foundation, and the NSF, among other agencies and funders. Its collaborators include the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Kennedy Center, and the Smithsonian, among many others. MITH’s strength is its collegial spirit, born of the value it places on its staff and their experiences, and the ideas they bring to the team. Project Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary partnership that brings together humanities scholars, librarians, and information technologists to tackle the question of how we can advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services. The Preserving Virtual Worlds project, whose partners include the University of Illinois, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and Stanford University, aims to improve the capacity of libraries, museums, and archives to preserve computer games, virtual worlds, and interactive fiction. A collaborative project between MITH and Indiana University, the Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a web-based tool for creating and editing image-based electronic editions and digital archives of humanities texts. * * *Minimum Qualifications:* BA/BS degree required; proficient written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrable experience in writing for online environments; experience using social media (Twitter, Blogs, Wikis); basic understanding of HTML; experience using content management systems (WordPress, MediaWiki) * * *Preferences:* Demonstrable engagement with the digital humanities community; web design experience; strong public speaking skills. * * *Additional Information:* Salary range: $40,000-$50,000 commensurate with experience. The University of Maryland also offers a competitive benefits package. Apply online a j obs.umd.edu http://jobs.umd.edu/ , click on “faculty” postings. Position #02181041. For best consideration, apply by March 4, 2011. The University of Maryland, College Park, 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. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. -- 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/ Twitter: @fraistat _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 06:30:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9CDF1C74; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:30:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C95D5F1C66; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:30:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110222063046.C95D5F1C66@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:30:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.732 publications: on concordances &collaboration, on quantitative formalism X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 732. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (16) Subject: the Stanford Literary Lab; Quantitative Formalism [2] From: Willard McCarty (14) Subject: concordance production and collaboration --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:09:03 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the Stanford Literary Lab; Quantitative Formalism Many here, I suspect, will be interested in the new Stanford Literary Lab, litlab.stanford.edu/, which "discusses, designs, and pursues literary research of a digital and quantitative nature", and its first publication, "Quantitative Formalism: an Experiment", by Sarah Allison, Ryan Heuser, Matthew Jockers, Franco Moretti and Michael Whitmore (under Pamphlets). I expect we'll be hearing from them at the next Digital Humanities conference. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:34:19 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: concordance production and collaboration For those here interested in the history of concordances and/or in medieval collaboration, I can recommend the following: Lesley Smith, "Hugh of St Cher and Medieval Collaboration", chapter 11 in Transforming Relations: Essays on Jews and Christians throughout History in Honor of Michael A. Signer, ed. Franklin T Harkins (Univ of Notre Dame Press, pp. 241-64. WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 22 06:31:52 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66C82F1CDF; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:31:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ED1C1F1CD1; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:31:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110222063149.ED1C1F1CD1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:31:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.733 events: pedagogy at the MLA X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 733. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:06:02 -0800 From: "Dr. Katherine D. Harris" Subject: Reminder: MLA CFP for Electronic Roundtable on Digital Pedagogy Hi -- Can you send this out again? The deadline is quickly approaching! All best, Kathy *Electronic Roundtable Demonstrating Digital Pedagogy* *MLA 2012* *Seattle, Washington* *January 5-8, 2012* Discussions about digital projects and digital tools often focus on research goals. For this electronic roundtable, we will instead demonstrate how these digital resources, tools, and projects have been integrated into undergraduate and graduate curriculum in alignment with the MLA 2012 Presidential Theme: Language, Literature, Learning. Proposals may include demonstrations of: - successful collaboration with undergraduates on your digital scholarly project; - specific assignments, including student learning goals, teaching strategies, successes/failures, grading rubrics; - integrating digital assignments with general education requirements; - assessment of student digital projects; - constructing syllabi with digital-focused assignments; - portals for collecting digital-focused syllabi and assignments. This Roundtable session will contain up to eight presenters. Presenters will engage in informal discussion or offer interactive electronic demonstrations. Electronic roundtables allow attendees to circulate among eight stations that will be set up around the meeting room with appropriate audiovisual equipment. Presenters are welcome from a broad range of institutions with a range of contexts and budget demands. Selection of participants will be based on a cross-spectrum of styles, classrooms, student experience, successes, and failures. If possible, we will try to submit two electronic roundtables; however, this is a Special Session not yet accepted by the MLA. 300-word proposals by March 1 to Katherine D. Harris ( katherine.harris@sjsu.edu). Please email with questions. ************************** Dr. Katherine D. Harris 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 Editor, Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 06:33:17 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60CA3F1D66; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:33:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 749CEF1D53; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:33:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110223063314.749CEF1D53@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:33:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.734 theorizing the Web X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 734. 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: not stupid these days [2] From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" (1) Subject: 24.730 theorizing the Web --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:55:03 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: not stupid these days In her defense of Danah Boyd's decision to seek employment at Microsoft, Amanda French commented that, > ... choosing private industry over academia is hardly a stupid > decision these days, and I have little doubt that Microsoft gives her > at least as much research freedom as academia would. There are more than a few occasions these days on which I am glad to be on the far side of a professional career in the academy. I'm not Spenglerian (Der Untergang des Abendlandes) in temperament, not at all, rather the opposite. But it does seem to me as if the academy's directors have rather lost the plot. Nevertheless, a reality-check: is this a hell-in-a-handbasket vision of someone keenly aware that he is inevitably going there in one? And is it utterly naive to think that someone might take shelter in a corner of the Evil Empire in order better to pursue scholarly interests? Of course the majuscules are a marker of irony. We do indeed live in a glass house, Spenglerian or otherwise. And, for the record, please note that Microsoft has in the opinion of some been displaced in the blacklist by Google. For the curious: google (of course) for "google evil empire". Comments? Any extra-mural reports? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:26:37 +0000 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: 24.730 theorizing the Web Facebook: it's more invidious that Goldman Sachs has invested $550m in it. M$ attempted to cull users' information too. IMHO, it's about time worldwide HE started to develop a moral conscience and sponsor OpenSource. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 06:34:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7E4F1DB8; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:34:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7E2FFF1DA2; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:34:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110223063454.7E2FFF1DA2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:34:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.735 labour not saved X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 735. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:26:40 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: labour not saved Many here will, I expect, be compelled by their experiences with our various automated systems to agree with labour historian David R Roediger, in "The Failed Promise of Electronic Applications", The Chronicle of Higher Education for Tuesday 22 February. Forgive the frustratingly, unnecessarily complex URL: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Failed-Promise-of/126452/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en. Clarity at a glance, yes? > I should have been the last person to be fooled by the labor-saving > promises of new electronic systems to handle applications for faculty > jobs and for graduate admissions. I am, after all, a labor historian, > and one deeply influenced by the convincingly skeptical writings on > academic work and on the social history of technology by the late > David F. Noble. he writes. But of course he was fooled, as all of us, at least officially, seem to have been. "Shut up and learn the system" is more or less what we've been told. > That those problems are so little remarked upon, or, to my knowledge, > systematically investigated, testifies to the power of a priori > assumptions. Such assumptions hold that new technologies are > obviously labor-saving ones and that outsourcing is automatically > cost-saving. As such, e-applications can be assumed to be efficient > and economical even if they take the form of successions of > unsatisfactory profit-chasing ventures, create much duplication of > effort, and save precious little, indeed no, time or work for faculty > or staff members. Yesterday, for the 1000th time, I caught myself muttering as I walked away from my machine, "I hate computers!!!" But, I must admit, they do give us much to investigate. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 23 06:35:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E1CF1E10; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:35:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0A755F1DF2; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:35:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110223063534.0A755F1DF2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:35:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.736 biographical memoirs X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 736. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:54:21 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: biographical memoirs of U.S. scientists Forgive me if I've previously mentioned "Biographical Memoirs", an online series published by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences since 1877 -- but now available as pdfs, all 1400 of them. These are "brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members, written by those who knew them or their work. These biographies provide a personal and scholarly view of the lives and work of America's most distinguished scientists and a biographical history of science in the United States." See http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=MEMOIRS_W. Note, for example, the biography of Margaret Mead by Clifford Geertz. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 23 06:46:21 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43061F1F81; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:46:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 08F89F1F7A; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:46:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110223064619.08F89F1F7A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:46:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.737 events: graduate research; old book, new environment X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 737. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Matteo Romanello (79) Subject: International seminar: "The message of the Old Book in the new Environment" (Paris 18-19 March 2011) [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (22) Subject: HuCon 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:37:02 +0000 From: Matteo Romanello Subject: International seminar: "The message of the Old Book in the new Environment" (Paris 18-19 March 2011) The message of the Old Book in the new Environment The International Relations Group of The Finnish Research Library Association is organizing an international seminar "The message of the Old Book in the new Environment" at the at the Finnish Institute in Paris, 18-19 March 2011. The seminar is held in the context of the Paris Book Fair96 Le Salon du Livre de Paris . For registration (open until 4 March 2011), further details and any queries, please go to: http://www.stks.fi/tyoryhmat/kansainvalisetasiat/old-books-seminar . Date: 18-19 March 2011 Location: Programme (as of 17 February 2011): Friday 18th March 2011 9:45 Guided tour to the National Library of France 13:00 Cultural Contexts and Visual Contents of the Book The book as a visual object / Marja Sakari, Director, L'Instititut Finlandais en France The Library of Monrepos Manor - cultural contexts / Sirkka Havu, Research Librarian, National Library of Finland Discussion 15:00 Dimensions of Semiosphere Modelling unique and rare documents - using FRBRoo/CIDOC CRM / Patrick Le Boeuf, Conservateur, Bibliothèque Nationale de France Contextualizing the extraction of meaning from an Old Book in distributed digitisation production processes / Tiina Ison, Senior Analyst, Centre for Preservation and Digitisation, National Library of Finland. The Acerbi project- mapping meanings into the late 18th century travels in Sweden and Finland / Eeva Murtomaa, Librarian, National Library of Finland, and Päivi Pekkarinen, Librarian, Helsinki University Library, Terkko The Digital Critcal Edition of Zacharias Topelius Works / Jens Grandell, Editor, Zacharias Topelius Skrifter, The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland Towards a Classics Domain Ontology / Matteo Romanello, PhD Candidate in Digital Humanities, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London Discussion Saturday 19th March 2011 10:00 Ontologies of Culture and TEI (Text Encoding Initiative): applications and innovation Cultural heritage ontologies: Exchange of information / Oivind Eide, Senior analyst, the Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo The creation of digital editions of 15th century English culinary recipies / Ville Marttila, Researcher, Department of the English Philology, University of Helsinki The statues of Gudeaa in the Louvre - the contextual knowledge of artefacts and texts / Mika Nyman, Director, Synapse Computing Ltd Discussion 13:30 The Past Meets the Future The Dynamic Variorum Editions project / Brian Fuchs, Co-ordinator, Social Computing Group, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London The Europeana Regia project / Elizabeth MacDonald, Département des mansuscrits, Bibliothèque Nationale de France Inventing Europe / Brian Fuchs, Co-ordinator, Social Computing Group, Department of Computing, Imperial College The future of the Finnish book in France / Iris Schwanck, FILI - Finnish Literature Exchange During the Seminar a visit to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France - the National Library of France - will be arranged. Also, after the Seminar there will be chance to visit Le Salon du Livre de Paris - The Paris Book Fair, which will focus on the literature of the Nordic countries. ______________ Matteo Romanello PhD candidate Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) King's College, London http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/User:MatteoRomanello http://kcl.academia.edu/MatteoRomanello http://www.linkedin.com/in/matteoromanello --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:34:57 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: HuCon 2011 The Humanities Computing Graduate Student's Association invite you to attend HuCon 2011: Current Graduate Research in Humanities Computing. The annual conference is being held on Friday, March 11, 2011 this year, in the Prairie Room at the Lister Conference Centre on the University of Alberta Campus. In addition to a reminder of this invitation, we would also like to provide you with a link to our website, only recently completed: http://huco.ualberta.ca/Events/HuCon2011/ Dr. Ray Siemens of the University of Victoria is visiting as one of our keynote speakers this year, and will be speaking on the interdisciplinary project, INKE. Dr. Milena Radzikowska is honouring us as our second keynote this year, and she will be presenting a paper entitled, "A Structure for Every Surface: Designing a JiTR Mash-Up," a paper on a series of interface design concepts made from content provided by JiTR. As well, graduate students are showcasing their research on topics including current technologies such as the tablet, digital libraries, the robot in proto-science fiction, and issues around gaming and pop-culture. This is a great opportunity for students to gain feedback from experienced professionals about their research, so please consider attending. It promises to be an interesting day, with a diversity of topics for discussion. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 24 06:38:31 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5DEAF6E0E; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:38:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 90DE3F6E00; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:38:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110224063828.90DE3F6E00@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:38:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.738 theorizing the Web X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 738. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" (5) Subject: theorizing the Web [2] From: Peter Batke (30) Subject: theorizing the web --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:34:53 +0000 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: theorizing the Web '..And, for the record, please note that Microsoft has in the opinion of some been displaced in the blacklist by Google. For the curious: google (of course) for "google evil empire". Or, in the opinion of others, Apple: Google Wintek and toxic cleaner - add that to Foxconn. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:07:44 +0000 From: Peter Batke Subject: theorizing the web > Yesterday, for the 1000th time, I caught myself muttering as I walked > away from my machine, "I hate computers!!!" But, I must admit, they do > give us much to investigate. I am shocked to hear that Willard routinely mutters: "I hate computers." Perhaps it is time to take away his computers, his internet access, his e-book reader and anything else that may be construed as an electronic device. His files and printouts shall be given to someone else, and he can keep anything handwritten or anything actually typed on a typewriter. He should be allowed to have a "pensioner's phone" with extra large keys but no smart functions. I am sure Willard has enough accumulated humanistic savvy that he could continue to teach "digital humanities" without specific reference to computers till he comes to the end of "the far side of his career." I think that would be appropriate penance for having bitten - at least 1000 times - the hand that has fed him, by his own admission. I can only marvel at the patience of that nurturing hand. Et tu Willard ?? My own take, having passed through the "far side of my career" some time ago is that computers will nourish me well into my dotage. I hope to stave off dementia by playing Civilization III. That strategy is supported by the latest research. I am equally shocked how easily some humanists postings are finding evil empires. I agree that Gates et al were caught in a paradigm shift that engulfed them and forced them into predatory practices and left us with a series of flawed products. On occasion, I still light a candle for the victims at shrines for the Blessed Virgin Mary around Salzburg and Bavaria. Yet I am amazed how quickly Google is painted with the same brush. It seems colleagues are still engulfed in shifts without knowing it. I would suggest we might consider a brave thought of Siva Vaidhyanathan, UVA, of whose work I know only a few snippets: "Google," Vaidhyanathan observes, "is an example of a stunningly successful firm behaving as much like a university as it can afford to." I hope to read more when I return to my office. I am tempted to embroider on this idea. Google may well afford to be a quite spectacular university - not like the robber barons of the past who made billions with coal and oil or dry goods and endowed universities to salve their conscience - but rather by making the very essence of humanistic and scientific work their stock in trade. Google may be our best hope of the long awaited mathematization of text research. Finally we have a corporation that probably knows more about the work of Bayes and Markov than the people at UMASS and CMU. I would remind everyone that at some time in our not so recent past (14-15 c.), monasteries far outstripped universities in many areas of science, cartography being just one example. I will let the experts complete the analogy. Buck up Professor Willard. All in good fun... cheers, from the beaches of North Carolina, 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 Feb 24 06:47:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8098F6F8D; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:47:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6EAC7F6F74; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:47:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: 24.739 jobs at Virginia, Zürich From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110224064715.6EAC7F6F74@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:47:15 +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. 24, No. 739. 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: Open Positions at the Scholars' Lab [2] From: Annika Rockenberger (49) Subject: Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in im Meyer-Projekt Universität Zürich --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:30:22 -0500 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: Open Positions at the Scholars' Lab We're pleased to announce three open positions at the University of Virginia Library's center for digital humanities and social science research: the Scholars' Lab. The Scholars' Lab seeks a Web Applications Specialist, a Humanities Design Architect, and (newly posted) a Head of Outreach and Consulting. http://scholarslab.org/announcements/web-applications-specialist/ http://scholarslab.org/announcements/humanities-design-ux-architect/ http://scholarslab.org/announcements/head-of-outreach-consulting/ The Scholars' Lab engages in intellectual programming and innovative R&D, sponsors a vibrant program for Graduate Fellows in Digital Humanities, administers beautiful public spaces for collaborative scholarship, partners with faculty and librarians on new interfaces to digital collections, and offers classes and builds community in the following areas: geospatial research, textual scholarship, statistical analysis, and Web and software development for the digital humanities. We pride ourselves on fostering meaningful, collaborative partnerships with UVa scholars. In addition, all of our faculty and staff are granted 20% of their time to pursue professional development or self-initiated R&D projects. Learn more about us here: http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ http://scholarslab.org/ Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute Vice President, Association for Computers & the Humanities http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ ● http://uvasci.org/ ● http://ach.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:28:45 +0100 From: Annika Rockenberger Subject: Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in im Meyer-Projekt Universität Zürich In-Reply-To: A job offer from Zurich/Switzerland. Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > From: Wolfgang Lukas > Subject: JOB: Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in im C.F.Meyer-Projekt, = Universität Zürich (25.03.2011) > Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 13:57 PM > > > Das NF-Projekt "C. F. MEYERS BRIEFWECHSEL. HISTORISCH-KRITISCHE = AUSGABE" sucht zum 1.5.2011 > > 1 Mitarbeiter/in (40%) > > für die computerphilologische Betreuung der Edition des = Verlagsbriefwechsels (ca. 2500 Briefe und Dokumente von ca. 18601900). = Die Datenerfassung und Weiterverarbeitung erfolgt XML-gestützt. Die = computerphilologischen Aufgaben umfassen Erstellen und Anpassen von = XML-Schemata und von XSL-Transformationen für die Satzvorbereitung und = die Darstellung der Briefe im Browser. > > Voraussetzung: abgeschlossenes Studium in Informatik bzw. Digital = Humanities und in einem geisteswissenschaftlichen Fach. Fundierte = Kenntnisse in XML und XSLT sowie die Bereitschaft, an der Entwicklung = eines TEI-konformen Modells zur textgenetischen Auszeichnung = mitzuwirken. Erfahrungen im Bereich digitaler Editions- und = Publikationsverfahren sowie Programmierkenntnisse in Java Script sind = erwünscht. Erfahrungen im Umgang mit dem Tübinger System von = Textverarbeitungsprogrammen (TUSTEP) können von Vorteil sein. > > Wir erwarten von Ihnen, sowohl selbständig als auch in einem Team = konstruktiv mitzuarbeiten. Die Stelle ist vom Schweizer Nationalfonds = finanziert und unterliegt entsprechenden Anstellungsbedingungen. = Arbeitsbeginn: möglichst 1.5.2011 oder früher. > > Für weitere Informationen: www.cfmeyer.ch und = wlukas@uni-wuppertal.de > Senden Sie bitte Ihre elektronische Bewerbung (incl. CV und evtl. = Schriftenverzeichnis) bis zum 25.3.2011 an: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lukas = (wlukas@uni-wuppertal.de). > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > H-GERMANISTIK > Netzwerk für literaturwissenschaftlichen Wissenstransfer > Humanities-Network for German Literature and Philology > > mail: redaktion@h-germanistik.de > www: http://www.h-germanistik.de > Beiträge / contributions: www.germanistik-im-netz.de/h-germanistik > ___________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 24 06:48:11 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8010F6FEB; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:48:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 178F0F6FD9; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:48:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110224064807.178F0F6FD9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:48:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.740 open on WWW: Women Writers 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. 24, No. 740. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:43:40 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Women Writers Online: Open to the public for Women's History Month In celebration of Women's History Month, the Women Writers Online collection will be free and open to the public for the month of March 2011. Please come visit us at: http://www.wwp.brown.edu Search, browse, and enjoy -- you never know what you may find! Julia Flanders Women Writers Project Center for Digital Scholarship 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 Thu Feb 24 06:56:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46751F517B; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:56:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3E350F5169; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:56:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110224065646.3E350F5169@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:56:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.741 events: THATCamp Victoria X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 741. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:16:37 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: THATCamp Victoria (10-11 June 2011, part of DHSI) Still room left at #THATCamp Victoria (June 10-11, University of Victoria): http://bit.ly/eS5CWA. It's part of #DHSI2011: http://dhsi.org/. [Historical note: this, I think, is the first tweet sent by Humanist, but I think not intended for Humanist. What it gains in brevity, if I may say so, it loses in Pauline persuasiveness. Let us hear more in delightful language! --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 Fri Feb 25 08:20:33 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F4AF6E1B; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:20:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5A06FF6E05; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:20:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110225082028.5A06FF6E05@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:20:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.742 studentship (scholarship) in digital palaeography X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 742. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:58:47 +0000 From: Peter Stokes Subject: PhD Studentship **PhD studentship (scholarship) in digital palaeography** The Department of Digital Humanities (formerly, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities), King’s College London, is pleased to announce a PhD studentship (scholarship) in digital methods for palaeography funded by a European Research Council project, the ‘Digital Resource of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic’. The studentship is to be held in DDH/CCH as part of a PhD in Digital Humanities. [Please note: the deadline for application is rapidly approaching. As many here will not need to be told (but others might), this is a rare opportunity to bring methods and techniques in the digital humanities together with the study of medieval manuscript hands -- and to be paid for doing so, with a doctorate at the end of it all, from one of the very few institutions in the world granting a PhD in Digital Humanities. --WM] The studentship Applicants should propose a research project which can benefit from and contribute to the Digital Resource in Palaeography project but which remains distinct from it in focus and specific area of study. Possibilities may include the detailed study of a particular manuscript or small group of manuscripts. A comparative study could apply the research methodologies of the ERC project to a different corpus, perhaps focusing on the products of a single scriptorium or scribe, looking at variance and variation in script; applying the same methods to other types of script (e.g. Greek); or focusing on a corpus (such as manuscript fragments) that has proven difficult to manage with conventional approaches. Another possibility may be more methodological, focusing on the possibilities and limits of Digital Humanities in palaeographical scholarship. The student will be based at King’s College London, in the Department of Digital Humanities / Centre for Computing in Humanities and will benefit from the DDH/CCH PhD Seminar. A second supervisor will be assigned according to the requirements of the project. It is also expected that the student will maintain contact with other departments in King’s, such as History, English or Classics. The student will also have access to resources and seminars across the University of London more widely, including Senate House Library and its Palaeography Room, the Institute of Historical Research’s seminars and library, and seminars and expertise at the Institute of English Studies. Context: the ERC project The aim of the Digital Resource of Palaeography project is to bringing the methods and resources of digital humanities to bear on palaeographical exploration, citation and teaching. It involves a web resource which will allow scholars to rapidly retrieve digital images, verbal descriptions, and detailed characterisations of the writing, as well as the text in which it is found and the content and structure of the manuscript or charter. It will incorporate different ways of searching, using images, maps, timelines and image-processing as well as conventional text-based browsing and searching. The palaeographical content will focus on vernacular English script from the eleventh century, but the project will allow scholars to test and apply new general developments in palaeographical method which have been discussed in theory but which have hitherto proven difficult or impossible to implement in practice. Some further details of the project are available on the KCL news pages. Value For the three years of the studentship (starting no later than October 2011) the grant is c. £14,000 per annum. Students liable to pay fees at the overseas rate are welcome to apply, but should make sure that they can cover the difference between the award and the full overseas fee. The studentship must be held full-time. Eligibility, Timetable & Application Process Applicants for these awards are expected to begin PhD study on 1 October 2011. Applicants should hold (or have nearly completed) a Master’s degree or equivalent in a relevant area of medieval studies. A good knowledge of the language(s) of the manuscripts under study is required, and a background or demonstrable interest in manuscript studies is highly desirable. Applicants must submit the following documentation by the deadline of 1 March 2011: 1. An Admissions Application form & all supporting documents – submitted to the Centre for Arts & Sciences Admissions (CASA) via the online admissions portal at www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/apply/ 2. A one page statement of interest including a description of the proposed research, submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk 3. A one-page statement of your research training, background and suitability to the project, submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk 4. A sample of written work (3000-5000 words), submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk An interview will be arranged with shortlisted applicants, either face to face or by teleconference, after the closing date. Enquiries Please email Dr Peter Stokes at peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk or telephone him on +44 (0)20 7848 2813 in the first instance with any queries about this studentship. -- Dr Peter Stokes Research Fellow Department of Digital Humanities King's College London Room 210, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 08:21:23 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F1EF6E93; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:21:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 99D67F6E7D; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:21:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110225082120.99D67F6E7D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:21:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.743 thank you, participants X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 743. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:28:21 -0500 From: Meg Meiman Subject: thank you re: survey of humanities scholars' research practices Thank you to everyone who participated in my recent survey about humanities scholars' research practices. Two weeks ago I had 34 responses, and I now have over 300. This is undoubtedly due to your participation. Many thanks for your participation and helpful suggestions (and thanks to Willard McCarty for agreeing to distribute the survey). If you haven't taken the survey and would still like to participate, please feel free to email me off list (meg.meiman@gmail.com). And I'll be happy to send a preliminary summary of my results to anyone who expresses interest. Many, many thanks, Meg Meiman University of Delaware _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 08:23:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8FE9F6F0A; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:23:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E2B1EF6EF2; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:23:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110225082309.E2B1EF6EF2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:23:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.744 events: visualisation; literature; 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. 24, No. 744. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Tanya Clement (3) Subject: CFP MLA 2012: Reconfiguring the Literary: Narratives, Methods,Theories [2] From: Annamaria Carusi (24) Subject: Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation [3] From: Leif Isaksen (46) Subject: InterFace 2011 Speakers and Workshop Leaders Confirmed --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:24:26 -0500 From: Tanya Clement Subject: CFP MLA 2012: Reconfiguring the Literary: Narratives, Methods, Theories CFP MLA 2012: Reconfiguring the Literary: Narratives, Methods, Theories (Association for Computers and the Humanities) This roundtable will include projects that show how notions of the literary (narrative, method, and theory) can be fundamentally reconfigured by digital [con]texts. Please send 300-word abstracts. by 15 March 2011; Tanya E. Clement (tclement@umd.edu). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:04:13 +0000 From: Annamaria Carusi Subject: Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation Visualisation in the age of computerisation 25-26 March 2011 Saïd Business School, University of Oxford The Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) is organising a two-day conference on 25-26 March 2011 at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, with support from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the Oxford e-Social Science project, Digital Social Reserach, eResearch South and C4D. The theme of the conference is the permeation of science and research with computational seeing. How does computer mediated vision as a mode of engagement with information as well as with one another effect what we see (or think we see), and what we take ourselves to know? Keynote speakers are: Steve Woolgar, Professor of Marketing and Head of the the Science and Technology Studies research group with the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at Saïd Business School Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor and Director of Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University Michael Lynch, Professor, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University Registration is now open. The programme and other details are available at www.sbs.oxford.edu/visualisation Dr Annamaria Carusi Senior Research Associate Oxford e-Research Centre University of Oxford Adjunct Professor Philosophy / Art and Media Studies Norwegian University of Science and Technology Address: 7 Keble Road Oxford OX1 3QG --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:55:07 +0000 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: InterFace 2011 Speakers and Workshop Leaders Confirmed In-Reply-To: <87d3mhxxwp.wl%richard.lewis@gold.ac.uk> The committee for the 3rd International Symposium for Humanities and Technology, InterFace 2011, is pleased to announce that all the speakers and workshop leaders have now been confirmed. The keynote speakers are: * *Melissa Terras* (UCL) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/melissa-terras/ _Digitsation of Cultural Heritage and Image Processing_ * *Stephen Scrivener* (University of the Arts, London) http://www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/17858.htm _Design Research and Creative Production_ The workshops are: * _Data Visualisation_ lead by *Andy Hudson Smith* (UCL, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/people/person.asp?id=7 * _Network Analysis_ lead by *Tom Brughmans* and *Marco Buechler* * _Semantic Web_ lead by *Joe Padfield* (National Gallery) http://cima.ng-london.org.uk/scientific/index.php * _Bibliographic Software_ lead by *Ian Mulvany* (VP New Product Development, Mendeley) http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/ian-mulvany/ The How To talks are: * _User Studies_ given by *Claire Warwick* (UCL, Centre for Digital Humanities) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/claire-warwick/ * _How to Get Published_ given by *Sarah-Louise Quinnell* (http://www.phd2published.com/ and KCL, Georgraphy) and representatives from Ashgate Publishing. * _How to Get Funding in the EU and UK_ given by *Henreitte Brun* (UCL, Laws Faculty) The application process is still open. If you'd like to apply to participate in InterFace, please submit your lightning talk proposal at: http://www.interface2011.org.uk/submit Key Dates: * Friday 25 February Deadline for applications * Friday 1 April Notification of successful applications * Monday 18 April Deadline for registration for successful applicants * Wednesday 27 July InterFace 2011 begins We look forward to receiving your application. The InterFace 2011 Committee -- http://www.interface2011.org.uk/ enquiries@interface2011.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 Fri Feb 25 12:58:25 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D84ACF7D09; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:58:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E4D6FF7D00; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:58:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110225125822.E4D6FF7D00@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:58:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.745 funding for MA in Digital Culture and 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. 24, No. 745. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:54:31 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: scholarship, MA Digital Culture and Society Arts & Humanities Innovation Scholarship 2011-12 King's College London The School of Arts and Humanities is committed to supporting innovation and rewarding excellence. To celebrate the creation of a series of unique interdisciplinary programmes which combine cutting-edge expertise with fresh intellectual perspectives, the School has created a scholarship for each of its new programmes launched for 2011-12. As a result, we are pleased to offer 1 scholarship to the value of £6,000 to a student studying on the MA Digital Culture and Technology (to be renamed the MA Digital Culture and Society as of September 2011) in 2011-12. The award is tenable for one year only and cannot be deferred. The award is open to students of any nationality. All admissions applications supported by 2 academic references and undergraduate transcript via https://myapplication.kcl.ac.uk/ submitted before 17:00GMT on 15 June 2011 will automatically be considered for this scholarship. Am I eligible? You are eligible for the award if: • you have submitted an admissions application supported by 2 academic references and undergraduate transcript via https://myapplication.kcl.ac.uk/ before 17:00GMT on 15 June 2011 to MA Digital Culture and Technology (to be renamed the MA Digital Culture and Society as of September 2011) • you are planning to commence the postgraduate taught masters degree in Digital Culture and Society at King’s College London for the 2011/12 academic session; • you are expected to meet the College’s usual requirements regarding language proficiency and the quality of the first degree (namely a minimum of a 2:1 – upper second class – degree) • you will not be in receipt of an AHRC scholarship concurrently How do I apply? • Submit an admissions application supported by 2 academic references and undergraduate transcript via https://myapplication.kcl.ac.uk/ before 17:00GMT on 15 June 2011 to MA Digital Culture and Technology (to be renamed the MA Digital Culture and Society as of September 2011) Enquiries Admissions Tutor: Frederik.lesage@kcl.ac.uk Education Projects Officer: Sarah Hayward (sarah.hayward@kcl.ac.uk) -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 Feb 26 07:48:17 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE319EBE2C; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:48:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3551CEBE25; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:48:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110226074815.3551CEBE25@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:48:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.746 grant opportunity: preservation & access 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. 24, No. 746. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:02:54 -0500 From: "Sternfeld, Joshua" Subject: NEH Grant Opportunity - Preservation and Access Research and Development - May 19 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 newly revised 2011 guidelines, which include sample proposal narratives, can be found at: http://neh.gov/grants/guidelines/PARD.html. Please note the new (earlier) deadline for submission: May 19, 2011. 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 May 19, 2011 for projects beginning January 2012. 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 Please note that the Division is also accepting applications for two other grant categories: "Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions" (May 3, 2011 deadline) and "Humanities Collections and Reference Resources" (July 20, 2011 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 To receive further grant program updates and other Preservation and Access-related news, please follow us on Twitter: @NEH_PresAccess. ______________________________________________________________ The National Endowment for the Humanities is a grant-making agency of the United States (U.S.) federal government that supports projects in the humanities. U.S. nonprofit associations, institutions, and organizations are eligible applicants. NEH's Division of Preservation and Access supports projects that will create, preserve, and make available cultural resources of importance for research, education, and lifelong learning. To learn more about NEH, please visit www.neh.gov _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 26 07:49:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D998DEBEA1; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:49:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D47FDEBE99; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:49:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110226074942.D47FDEBE99@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:49:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.747 events: THATCamps; InterFace X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 747. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Richard Lewis (83) Subject: InterFace 2011 Call for Talks Deadline Extension [2] From: (48) Subject: Upcoming THATCamps --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:47:33 +0000 From: Richard Lewis Subject: InterFace 2011 Call for Talks Deadline Extension With apologies for cross posting. The committee for the 3rd International Symposium for Humanities and Technology, InterFace 2011, has agreed to extend the deadline for applications for participation in the symposium to *Friday 11 March 2011* Applications are encouraged from Ph.D students and early career researchers in all humanities and computing disciplines. The key component of your application will be a 150-word abstract for your proposed lightning talk. You can submit your application here: http://www.interface2011.org.uk/submit The committee will select participants from among the applications received and successful applicants will be informed on Monday 4 April 2011. If your application is accepted, you will then be invited to register. A participation fee will be charged to cover costs of lunches, refreshments, venue, and speakers. This fee will be £35. Key Dates: * Friday 11 March Extended Deadline for applications * Monday 4 April Notification of successful applications * Monday 18 April Deadline for registration for successful applicants * Wednesday 27 July InterFace 2011 begins What is InterFace? ================== InterFace is a symposium for humanities and technology. In 2011 it is being jointly hosted by colleges across London and will be an invaluable opportunity for participants to visit this active hub of digital scholarship and practice. The symposium aims to foster collaboration and shared understanding between scholars in the humanities and in computer science, especially where their efforts converge on exchange of subject matter and method. With a focus on the interests and concerns of Ph.D students and early career researchers, the programme will include networking activities, opportunities for research exposition, and various training and workshop activities. A core component of the programme will be a lightning talks session in which each participant will make a two-minute presentation on their research. The session will be lively and dynamic. Each presentation must be exactly two minutes long, making use of necessary, interesting, appropriate, or entertaining visual or sound aids, and condensing a whole Ph.D's worth of ideas and work into this short slot. Participants will be able to join workshops in: * _Data Visualisation_ lead by *Andy Hudson Smith* (UCL, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/people/person.asp?id=7 * _Network Analysis_ lead by *Tom Brughmans* (Southampton) and *Marco Buechler* * _Semantic Web_ lead by *Joe Padfield* (National Gallery) http://cima.ng-london.org.uk/scientific/index.php * _Bibliographic Software_ lead by *Ian Mulvany* (VP New Product Development, Mendeley) http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/ian-mulvany/ There will be talks on: * _User Studies_ given by *Claire Warwick* (UCL, Information Studies) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/claire-warwick/ * _How to Get Published_ given by *Sarah-Louise Quinnell* (http://www.phd2published.com/) and representatives from Ashgate Publishing. * _How to Get Funding in the EU and UK_ given by *Henreitte Brun* (UCL, Laws Faculty) There will also be two keynote talks given by speakers whose work marks the leading edge of technology in scholarship and practice. The speakers will be: * *Melissa Terras* (UCL) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/melissa-terras/ _Digitsation of Cultural Heritage and Image Processing_ * *Stephen Scrivener* (University of the Arts, London) http://www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/17858.htm _Design Research and Creative Production_ Finally, the symposium will conclude with an unconference; a participatory, collaborative, and informal event in which the form and content is decided on by participants as it unfolds and in which discussion and production is emphasised over presentation and analysis. Participants may wish to share their own skills, learn a new skill, establish and develop a collaborative project, or hold a focused discussion. We look forward to receiving your application. The InterFace 2011 Committee -- http://www.interface2011.org.uk/ enquiries@interface2011.org.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:15:44 -0700 From: Subject: Upcoming THATCamps Hi all, Wanted to send HUMANIST a summary of upcoming THATCamps and THATCamp deadlines. THATCamp, as you may know, stands for The Technology And Humanities Camp, and there's plenty of information at http://thatcamp.org. If you'd let people in your discipline, organization, or geographic area know about particular THATCamps and fellowships, it'd be a kindness to us and (we think) to them. * Remember that we offer BootCamp fellowships in the amount of $500 for most THATCamps on an ongoing basis: http://thatcamp.org/fellowships * Applications for THATCamp Melbourne will be accepted through March 10: http://thatcampmelbourne.org * Registrations for THATCamp Florence are being accepted through March 15: http://thatcampflorence.org * THATCamp Jersey Shore is happening in lovely Atlantic City at the Carnegie Library Center April 4-5, and will accept registrations till then, space permitting: http://jerseyshore2011.thatcamp.org * The National Council on Public History is having a THATCamp on Wednesday, April 6, just before its annual meeting in Pensacola, FL. Registration is open through March 15, and others besides public historians are very welcome: http://ncph2011.thatcamp.org/ * THATCamp Texas at Rice University in Houston, TX is accepting applications through March 11 and will take place April 15-16: http://texas2011.thatcamp.org * Great Lakes THATCamp at East Lansing MI is also accepting applications through March 11 and will take place April 30-May 1: http://greatlakesthatcamp.org * Registrations will open soon (by March 1) for THATCamp "Prime" at the Center for History and New Media, June 3-5. Registration will be open this year instead of by application, and participation will be increased to 125 people. The first day, Friday June 3, will be an exciting set of BootCamp workshops -- stay tuned. * THATCamp Liberal Arts Colleges at St. Norbert in De Pere, WI is happening the same weekend as THATCamp "Prime" -- by design! The two THATCamps will have a shared virtual session. THATCamp LAC is accepting applications through April 18, 2011. * THATCamp Victoria is happening June 10-11 in conjunction with the world-renowned Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria. Registrations are open till April 1 or till 75 people have registered, whichever comes first: http://victoria2011.thatcamp.org/ Sign up for THATCamp News at http://bit.ly/thatcamp-news. -- Amanda French amanda@amandafrench.net 720-530-7515 http://amandafrench.net http://twitter.com/amandafrench Skype: amandafrenchphd AIM: habitrailgirl _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 27 07:57:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3AE0F8235; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:57:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 32B93F8226; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:57:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110227075707.32B93F8226@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:57:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.748 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. 24, No. 748. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:07:24 -0800 From: Jon Christensen Subject: Stanford University Postdoctoral Fellowship: Digital and Spatial Scholarship in the American West Call for Applicants for Stanford University Postdoctoral Fellowship: Digital and Spatial Scholarship in the American West The Bill Lane Center for the American West and the Spatial History Project's Wallenberg Media Places initiative at Stanford University seek applicants for a postdoctoral fellowship focusing on scholarship in the American West using new tools, techniques, and methods of digital and spatial research. The American West is understood as the United States west of the Mississippi, western Canada, all of Mexico, and their interfaces with the Pacific region. Applicants' own research should involve the sophisticated use of one or more of the following: text markup, mining, and analysis; network analysis and visualization; mapping and spatial analysis; spatial and temporal visualizations; data visualization; interactive multimedia in scholarly communications and pedagogy. Applicants must be comfortable working in a collaborative research setting and have experience successfully participating in project management, programming, coding, or tool building teams. We welcome applicants from anthropology, geography, history, literary and cultural studies, political science, economics, sociology and urban studies, as well as candidates from the natural sciences with a strong interest and experience in multidisciplinary methods and the humanities. This postdoctoral fellow's time will be split between pursuing an original project (a research, tool-building, or scholarly communications project), and collaborating with and mentoring other researchers, including faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates in the Bill Lane Center for the American West and the Spatial History Project. The postdoctoral fellow will also teach one course each year in the fields of digital and spatial scholarship. 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. For further information please contact Zephyr Frank , Associate Professor of History, Director of the Spatial History Project, or Jon Christensen , Executive Director, Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University. http://west.stanford.edu/fellowships/postdoc.html Applicants should submit the following materials by April 1, 2011: Cover letter, CV, 1000-word project proposal, dissertation abstract, 25-page writing sample, three letters of recommendation. Send application materials to: Jon Christensen, Executive Director, Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University The Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building, 473 Via Ortega, Room 339, Stanford, CA 94305-4225. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 27 07:59:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E16CF8290; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:59:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1ACA0F8289; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:59:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110227075906.1ACA0F8289@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:59:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.749 events: invitation to MLA 2012 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 749. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:35:49 -0500 From: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Subject: Invitation to participate in MLA 2012, Seattle Dear Colleague, I write to invite you to join me at the 2012 MLA Annual Convention, which will take place in Seattle, 5–8 January. I also invite you to consider participating, by presenting a paper, joining a roundtable discussion, or organizing a session. The MLA Program Committee especially welcomes session proposals in formats that highlight teaching experience, creative work, and civic engagement and encourages you to view an invitation from the committee at www.mla.org/proposal_invite. To be included in the convention program, search (www.mla.org/cfp_search) or browse (www.mla.org/cfp_browse) the calls for papers already posted on the MLA Web site. Through 1 March 2011, you may also submit your own call for papers at www.mla.org/cfp_main. As the session organizer, you are responsible for acknowledging all submissions and inquiries regarding your call for papers. We recommend posting a submission deadline of not later than 15 March. Please keep in mind that a call for papers is not a session proposal but a way to solicit paper submissions for creating a session proposal. Proposal forms for the 2012 convention will be available at www.mla.org/ssp_main in early March. Completed proposal forms must be submitted by 1 April 2011. The MLA Program Committee will determine which session proposals are accepted. All participants in convention sessions must be MLA members by 7 April 2011, and members should review other guidelines for the MLA convention (www.mla.org/ conv_procedures) before responding to or submitting calls for papers. The MLA Annual Convention is an exciting intellectual and professional event. I hope you will consider participating, and I look forward to seeing you in Seattle. Cordially, Russell A. Berman MLA President Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Stanford 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 Feb 28 13:15:19 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64113F9713; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:15:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B98E9F970B; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:15:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110228131516.B98E9F970B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:15:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.750 postdoc in DH 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 750. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:08:40 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: postdoc in DH at Oxford UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD HUMANITIES DIVISION MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES Salary: £29,099 - £30,870 (As at 1 October 2011) A two-year research and teaching appointment in Digital Humanities from October 2011 for an outstanding academic at an early stage of his or her career. These fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a wider Oxford University initiative which is designed: to provide an intensive and supported career development opportunity for outstanding academics at an early stage of their career; and to promote equality of opportunity by helping to create a more diverse pool of potential candidates for future academic posts at Oxford. Applicants must have obtained his or her doctorate by 1 October 2011, and should not normally have completed it earlier than 1 October 2007. We welcome applications from all whose research is in the digital humanities, involving the innovative and productive application of digital tools or resources to research questions in any subject under the Humanities Division (see http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/). The Fellow will be employed by the Faculty closest to his/her academic interests. A college association will be arranged for this post, and he/she will also become a Research Associate at the OeRC (http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/). For further details, information about how to apply and an application form, please visit: www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/research/index/230311/arrs7423j/ Applications must be received by midday on Wednesday 23 March 2011. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 Mar 1 06:57:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8634F6B77; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 06:57:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5C32DF6B70; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 06:57:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110301065752.5C32DF6B70@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 06:57:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.751 cfp: Scholarly and Research 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. 24, No. 751. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:11:39 -0800 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Call for articles for the Journal of Scholarly and Research Communication Hi all, The Journal of Scholarly and Research Communication is calling for submissions for its fourth issue (Vol 2, No 2): Scholarly and Research Communication is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, Open Access, online journal that publishes original contributions to the understanding of production, dissemination, and usage of knowledge. It emphasizes the dynamics of representation and changing organizational elements, including technologically mediated workflows, ownership, and legal structures. Contributions are welcomed in all media and span formal research and analysis; technical reports and demonstrations; commentary, and review. Please feel free to contact Veronica Bonifacio (veronica_bonifacio@sfu.ca) or Rowland Lorimer (lorimer@sfu.ca) if you would like further guidelines in relation to the required content or style of any of the sections detailed below. Sections for which we are seeking submissions Articles SRC seeks well-researched articles which provide original insight and which promote discussion in relation to the understanding of production, dissemination, and usage of knowledge. Technical Reports SRC looks for technical reports that have a wide implication for scholarly communication, outlining a technical approach conceptually to a workable technical solution related to online journal publication. The article should provide the foundations, limitations, and recommendations of research, with a call for public comment and scrutiny. Commentary Commentaries are informed analyses of critical issues, encompassing a broad set of initiatives in scholarly and research communication. Book and Media Reviews SRC is interested in book and media reviews from a wide variety of scholars and students. Field Notes SRC is interested in publishing practical accounts of challenges faced by individuals performing the work of scholarly publishing to facilitate their sharing of experience and knowledge that they think would be helpful to others. While it is not our intent to set definitive boundaries, Field Notes could encompass the following: accounts of journal foundings financial management encouraging timely peer reviews strategic planning with relationship to secondary aggregators legal issues the development of performance measures adapting to multiple formats relationships with commercial publishers. Articles may be 1,000 to 5,000 words. -- 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 Mar 1 06:58:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68406F6BC5; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 06:58:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1E2C5F6BB3; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 06:58:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110301065838.1E2C5F6BB3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 06:58:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.752 events: Day of Digital Humanities 2011! X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 752. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:47:56 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Day of Digital Humanities 2011 Digital humanists are invited to participate in the third annual Day of Digital Humanities, a project tracking 24 hours in the field of digital humanities. On March 18th, 2011 individuals in the field or related professions will document the events of their day with photos and discussion. This project is an online collaborative publication, with each participant co-authoring and decisions made communally. However, participating in the Day of DH shouldn't require a large time commitment. Most of the work will be in uploading short entries and photographs during the documentation day. The degree of involvement beyond that will be up to you. To find out about this interaction and the previous two iterations of the Day of Digital Humanities see: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2011 This project is intended to bring members of all types and from around the field together to post about what they do and reflect on what others are doing. We particularly encourage graduate students, developers and international colleagues to participate. You don't have to be "important"; you don't have to write in English; and you don't have to have a lot of experience in the field. Your opinions count! To participate please fill out the application form by March 15th, 2011. Apply now at http://bit.ly/DoDH11-apply And mark the 18th of March down for the next Day of Digital Humanities. 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 Wed Mar 2 07:48:01 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FFFDF5E0A; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:48:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DD312F5DF8; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:47:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110302074757.DD312F5DF8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:47:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.753 postdoc in 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 753. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 18:51:05 -0400 From: Dean Irvine Subject: EMiC Postdoctoral Fellowship (deadline 15 April 2011) The Editing Modernism in Canada 2011 competition for a postdoctoral fellowship 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 2011 competition for a postdoctoral fellowship. Our first 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 the developers of the Text-Image Linking Environment and the Canadian Writing Research Repository, on digital tools for the production of EMiC's digital editions. Our second postdoctoral fellow, Matt Huculak, is working under the supervision of Dean Irvine at Dalhousie University, and in collaboration with the developers of the Islandora project at the University of Prince Edward Island, on EMiC's digital repository. 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 proposing print or electronic editions of modernist texts should indicate whether they have obtained written permission from the estate. EMiC will require proof of that permission before it can release funds to successful applicants. 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/funding/postdoctoral-fellows/ Application deadline: 15 April 2011 Dean Irvine Associate Professor Director, Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) Collection Director, Canadian Literature Collection/Collection de littE9rature 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 Wed Mar 2 07:49:00 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E263F5E6B; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:49:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B029F5E55; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:48:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110302074857.1B029F5E55@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:48:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.754 cfp: Journal of Scholarly Publishing 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. 24, No. 754. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 15:38:12 +0000 From: UTP Journals Subject: Journal of Scholarly Publishing - Call for Papers Journal of Scholarly Publishing Call for Papers Journal of Scholarly Publishing targets the unique issues facing the scholarly publishing industry today. It is the indispensable resource for academics and publishers that addresses the new challenges resulting from changes in technology, funding and innovations in publishing. In serving the wide-ranging interests of the international academic publishing community, JSP provides a balanced look at the issues and concerns, from solutions to everyday publishing problems to commentary on the philosophical questions at large. JSP welcomes cutting-edge articles and essays for consideration which address issues surrounding the publishing world in a time of great change. Materials for publication may be from either an academic or a practitioner perspective but should contribute to the current publishing debate. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis. Please send submissions as a Word document to: Tom Radko, Editor tradko@ala-choice.org For submission guidelines, visit: www.utpjournals.com/jsp 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 www.facebook.com/utpjournals www.twitter.com/utpjournals http://www.twitter.com/utpjournals 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 Wed Mar 2 07:50:41 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D6BF5F09; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:50:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 76AA8F5EF5; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:50:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110302075034.76AA8F5EF5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:50:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.755 MA in Humanities Computing, Alberta 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. 24, No. 755. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 07:13:48 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: University of Alberta The MA in Humanities Computing Programme at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is currently accepting applications from qualified applicants for the Fall 2011 cohort. We are looking for students from any academic background with a good grade point average and an interest in undertaking graduate-level training in the digital humanities. Most of our students receive funding either through entrance scholarships or graduate research assistantships. Current graduate students are working on research projects such as: Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Mapping Information Science 1994-present Viral Analytics Speculative Timelines Text Mining and Visualization for Literary Historical Analysis Just What Do They Do? - Studying how people use text analysis tools GRAND - Augmented Reality Games More information about the programme, including application instructions, is available here: www.huco.ualberta.ca or by writing to Geoffrey Rockwell at grockwel@ualberta.ca 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 Wed Mar 2 07:56:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE517FA04D; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:56:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5ABAAFA036; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:56:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110302075605.5ABAAFA036@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:56:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.756 events: digital libraries; social media, museums X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 756. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Secretariat@isast.org" (48) Subject: 3rd-round submissions DLMC2011 Digital Library Conference and QQML2011 International Conference [2] From: jeremy hunsinger (86) Subject: Information Science and Social Media conference [3] From: "J. Trant" (57) Subject: MW2011 Plenary Speaker from Pew Internet & American Life Project --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:23:53 +0200 From: "Secretariat@isast.org" Subject: 3rd-round submissions DLMC2011 Digital Library Conference and QQML2011 International Conference Dear Colleagues, Don't miss the 3rd-round submissions to the 3rd QQML2011 International Conference and the DLMC2011 Digital Library Conference that starts now until 15 March 2011. Please think of abstract or paper submission and disseminate this Call for Papers to your colleagues. [Those of you who have already email your abstract(s) or paper(s) during the last call, please ignore this announcement] The Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2011, http://www.isast.org/qqml2011.html ) and the Digital Library International Conference (DLMC2011, http://www.isast.org/dlmcconference.html ) aim to bring together researchers and scientists from academia, libraries, archives, museums, from governmental and non government organizations to present new results and identify future research interests. All papers will be published in the QQML2011 and the DLMC2011 proceedings and/or in scientific journals. The proceedings of the 2009 QQML International conference are published by World Scientific and the 2010 QQML proceedings will be published soon by the same publisher. To fulfill QQML and DLMC goals and success we are inviting proposals for: * Conference Presentations: 20- 25 minute presentations. * Conference Workshops: 4 - 5 hour workshops. * New researchers' research results. We would like to remind you the sub-themes that are listed at: www.isast.org http://www.isast.org/ . Perhaps you have another topic relevant to the library theory and practice. We would like to tell us about! The deadline for proposals is 15th March 2011. If you have any questions concerning the Call for Proposals, please contact: Anthi Katsirikou, anthi@asmda.com and secretariat@isast.org Looking forward to meeting you in Athens, Kind regards, Dr. Anthi Katsirikou Conference co-chair Deputy Director, University of Piraeus Library European Documentation Center Adjunct Lecturer at TEI of Athens Member of the Board of the Association of Greek Librarians and Information Professionals --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 19:05:00 +0000 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: Information Science and Social Media conference Distribute as appropriate -jh > > Dear Colleagues, > > Due to many requests we are extending the abstract submission deadline > for ISSOME2011 conference until the 31st March 2011. > > The aim of the first ISSOME conference is to address new modes of > information behaviour in different contexts focusing the effects of > social media and technologies in the interactive web. The change process > is not always straight forward and we need to underline what is really > changing and what is only a trend. The conference will discuss skills > needed to manage the new information platform and how to develop needed > competencies in the information society. > > The conference is open to researchers, academics and practitioners in > the fields of library and information science and social media, as well > as businesses and organizations developing social media strategies. The > conference will host invited and contributed papers sessions. > > In conjunction with the conference will also be organized a Doctoral > Forum. This offers a possibility for doctoral students to share their > ongoing research projects with their peers and well-established senior > researchers. > > The conference is organized by the Department of Information Studies at > Åbo Akademi University. It is well established and internationally > recognized for excellence in research and education. The department > conducts a wide array of research including research about social media, > Library 2.0, knowledge management, health information behavior, and > scientometrics. The department is part of the School of Business and > Economics and it has strong connections and collaborative > multidisciplinary projects with other departments in the school. > > Please visit http://issome2011.library2pointoh.fi/ for more information. > > Call for Papers > > Call for Papers for the international conference in Information Science > and Social Media - ISSOME in 24.-26.8.2011 is open. > > We invite researchers worldwide to submit original research within the > topics of the conference that are listed below. Submissions should be > extended abstracts of no longer than 1500 words. All submissions will be > peer-reviewed double blinded. Submission guidelines are available at > http://issome2011.library2pointoh.fi/. > > Conference themes > > Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: > > - Social media in information science > - Information aspects of social media > - Library 2.0 and Librarian 2.0 > - Social networking sites > - Information Management > - Knowledge Management > - Knowledge Organization > - Reputation Management > - Information Behaviour and Information Use > - Information dissemination in social media > > Structure of the extended abstract > > - Title > - Abstract text > - References > > Abstract text should clearly describe the aims, novelty/originality and > principal findings/contribution of the presentation. In the case of > empirical studies, also the method and material should be described briefly. > > Observe that no information about the authors should be included in the > abstract document. > > Deadline > > Deadline for submissions is March 31, 2011. jeremy hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail / - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 18:49:43 +0000 From: "J. Trant" Subject: MW2011 Plenary Speaker from Pew Internet & American Life Project Museums and the Web 2011 (MW2011) the international conference for culture and heritage online April 6-9, 2011 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011 MW2011 Opening Plenary Announced <== -------------------------------- We're delighted that Kristen Purcell, of the Pew Internet & American Life Project will be giving the Opening Plenary at Museums and the Web 2011. The Internet & American Life Project provides research that can help us identify the trends shaping how content-oriented organizations like museums interact with their audiences now -- and how they will need to interact with them in the future. See the full description of her presentation at http://ow.ly/45KU3 Full Program Online <== ------------------- The full program for MW2011 is online. Abstracts and biographies are available now. Full papers will be online before the meeting, to ensure that the discussion moves beyond show-and-tell. See http://ow.ly/45Ly0 The Informal Program <== ------------------- As well as formal presentations, MW2011 features many opportunities for interaction. Unconference sessions on Thursday will highlight breaking issues. Crit Rooms, including one focused on mobile, will explore sites in depth. Your contributions are essential to both! See http://ow.ly/45KXC Register Online <== --------------- Remember, pre-conference tours and workshops have limited enrollment, and are first-come first-served. Some pre-conference workshops are already full. Register right away to ensure your choice. See the online registration form at http://ow.ly/45KYc Scholarships <== ------------ Several different scholarships are available to assist professionals from smaller institutions with attending Museums and the Web. Apply now! See http://ow.ly/45KZ5 Need To Know More? <== ----------------- Full details about MW2011 are on the conference Web site at http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011 You can also follow @museweb on Twitter and connect with MW on various social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. See http://ow.ly/45L0P for details. Email mw2011@archimuse.com with any questions. We hope to see you in Philadelphia! jennifer and David - - - - - - - - - - - Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2011 MW2011 | April 6-9, 2011 | Philadelphia, PA | http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011 | twitter: @museweb produced by Archives & Museum Informatics | 158 Lee Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada email: mw2011@archimuse.com | phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 | http://www.archimuse.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 2 07:56:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE1C1FA0CA; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:56:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6FCAFFA0BE; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:56:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110302075647.6FCAFFA0BE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:56:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.757 PhD course on multimodal interactions 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. 24, No. 757. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 20:38:55 +0000 From: Stefania Serafin Subject: Multimodal interaction in virtual environments - PhDcourse Multimodal interaction in virtual environments This 4-ECTS course provides an overview of multimodal interaction techniques for virtual environments. We start with an overview of multimodal perception to explain how humans behave in virtual environments where incomplete and impoverished sensory cues are reproduced. We then present an overview of technologies for visual-haptic-audio feedback in virtual environments, together with sensing technologies based on capacitive sensing and optical motion capture. We discuss issues of integration of technologies, and we describe algorithms for recognizing input data as well as simulating feedback based on physics modelling. We then introduce evaluation techniques for multimodal environments. The course extends for 4 ECTS, divided into 2 ECTS of lectures and 2 ECTS of mini-project. Content: Introduction to multimodal interaction in virtual environments: perceptual illusions, sensory substitution, and multimodal enhancement. -Visual feedback: screen, projectors, head-mounted display -Auditory feedback: surround sound, headphones -Technologies for haptic feedback -Physics based algorithms for audio-haptic feedback -Sensing and tracking technologies (capacitive sensors, optical motion capture) -Integration of technologies -Evaluation of multimodal interfaces The course is FREE but students will have to pay for their own accommodation and travel expenses. If you wish to attend, please register BEFORE 15 NOVEMBER on the following page: http://phdcourse.aau.dk/index.php?list=29578 choosing the registration form for the course: MULTIMODAL INTERACTION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS For more information please contact Associate professor Stefania Serafin Aalborg University Copenhagen sts@media.aau.dk sts@media.aau.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 Fri Mar 4 08:13:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89FE5101563; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:13:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 016BA101553; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:13:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110304081313.016BA101553@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:13:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.758 nominations for a prize in demography X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 758. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 12:07:01 +0100 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: European Latsis Prize 2011: Demography - nominations open ***European Latsis Prize 2011*** -- Invitation to Nominate Candidates -- The European Science Foundation (ESF) invites nominations for the European Latsis Prize 2011. The Prize, of a value of 100 000 Swiss Francs, is presented each year by the Latsis Foundation at the ESF Annual Assembly to a scientist or research group in recognition of outstanding and innovative contributions in a selected field of research. The research field for the 2011 Prize is: "Demography" The European Latsis Prize 2011 seeks nominations for outstanding contributions to research in demography. The scientific study of human populations - their growth, size, distribution and structure - has become a fundamental component of the social sciences and of many other disciplines in other domains. The traditional topics of demography, such as the observation and modeling of rates of births, marriages and deaths, have been supplemented by the study of migration, social movements, distribution of health and wealth, and have been expanded by the study of long-term changes in the geographic distribution and human condition of the human species since its earliest origins. Cross-sectional studies of populations, such as those derived from census data, have been complemented by longitudinal analyses based on the study of cohorts over many decades. Demographic, economic and medical longitudinal databases are increasingly linked to explore the determinants of health and welfare. Demographers reach back into the past, exploiting archival sources to explore such questions as the existence of nuclear or extended families; they also reach into the future, predicting trends in longevity which are currently having a major impact on ages of retirement, pension provision and the demand for medical and other care. Demography is by its nature inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary, and candidates for the European Latsis Prize may come from any of the relevant disciplines. The criteria used in the selection procedure will be scientific excellence, the enhancement of knowledge, societal impact and contribution to the understanding and solution of European problems. Nominations may be received for individual scholars or for research groups, but no self nominations will be accepted. All nomination forms should include the detailed nomination statement (maximum 2 pages) setting out clear reasons for the submission, Curriculum Vitae and full list of publications of the nominee. Please also ensure all contact details are complete (names and full addresses of nominator and nominee, as well as telephone numbers and email addresses). The nominations will be evaluated by a high-level committee of experts in the field. The European Latsis Prize 2011 will be awarded on the occasion of the Annual Assembly of the European Science Foundation on Wednesday 23 November 2011, in Strasbourg, France. For more details on the online submission procedures see www.esf.org/latsis == Dr. Arianna Ciula Science Officer for the Humanities European Science Foundation 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 Fri Mar 4 08:17:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20381101604; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:17:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D62231015F6; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:17:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110304081714.D62231015F6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:17:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.759 reading, core competencies, work? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 759. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: S.A.Rae (21) Subject: Desired Core Competencies [2] From: Carlos Monroy (56) Subject: Fostering reading in a virtual world [3] From: Willard McCarty (42) Subject: where's the work? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 11:54:27 +0000 From: S.A.Rae Subject: Desired Core Competencies Dear all, A few weeks ago I was involved with presenting a paper at an HEA ICS (the UK Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences) Conference on Enhancing Employability of Computing Students (http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/events/displayevent.php?id=250). One of the themes that the paper dealt with was our use of the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) framework (http://www.sfia.org.uk/) in planning courses and programmes of study for Computing Sciences students. Working with SFIA I was struck by similarities that some of their skills & competencies possessed with respect to things that I know people do in their work in what could be termed the humanities job sector - museum & gallery work, theatre work, creative industries etc. For example, in the Strategy & Architecture category (specifically Information strategy) SFIA talks of the Skill of Information Management and describes it in general as: 'The overall management of the control and exploitation of all kinds of information, structured and unstructured, to meet the needs of an organisation. Control encompasses development and promotion of the strategy and policies covering the design of information structures and taxonomies, the setting of policies for the sourcing and maintenance of the data content, the management and storage of information in all its forms and the analysis of information structure (including logical analysis of taxonomies, data and metadata). Includes the overall responsibility for compliance with regulations, standards and codes of good practice relating to information and documentation, records management, information assurance and data protection. Exploitation encompasses the use of information, whether produced internally or externally, to support decision-making and business processes. It includes management and decision making structures to ensure consistency throughout the organisation, information retrieval, combination, analysis, pattern recognition and interpretation.' Just yesterday I received in the post a set of reports from the HEA Physical Sciences Centre giving the results of work they have done identifying which areas of the curriculum and which generic skills are of particular value to new graduates and how well they were developed within their degrees (available at: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/home/projects/graduateskills). Maybe it's the way I'm reading the reports, but it seems that the skills that respondents to the survey on which the reports are based wished had been developed more on their courses were skills like 'Computing skills', 'Problem-solving skills', 'Team-working skills' and 'Time management and organisational skills'. Please excuse the naivety of my request ... but for those of you who employ humanities graduates - what core skills and competencies do you require and are they formalised like the SFIA ones, and for those of you who design or deliver humanities courses and programmes of study - what core skills and competencies do you look to develop in your students? Comments? Simon Simon Rae Lecturer in Professional Development Centre for Professional Learning and Development (CPLD) The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA phone: +44 (0)1908 332926 fax: +44 (0)1908 332681 email: s.a.rae@open.ac.uk web: http://www.open.ac.uk/cpd -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:27:59 -0600 From: Carlos Monroy Subject: Fostering reading in a virtual world Hi Willard, I would like to share the following story (with the permission of Jim Bower, whyville's founder) about the use of a virtual world for fostering reading among young audiences. This is a partnership between whyville.net and the Great Books Foundation (http://www.greatbooks.org). Our group at Rice (http://cttl.rice.edu) has collaborated with wyville in embedding and conducting an exploratory study of a science game in a virtual world. Given my work with digital humanities, digital libraries, and gaming I see the potential of using this environment for dissemination of scholarly collections to non-expert audiences and stimulating their interest in literature, humanities, and classics along with science. Due to the emphasis in STEM education (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) given by the United States government as strategic component in the 21st century, I strongly believe that incorporating and combining humanities can be mutually enriching. Just a thought! -Carlos ****************************** Carlos Monroy, Ph.D. Gaming Research and Development Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning Rice University Houston, TX voice: 713.348.5481 fax: 713.348.5699 carlos.monroy@rice.edu http://cttl.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id3D116 ****************************** Late last year we announced a partnership with The Great Books Foundation (www.greatbooks.org) to bring great literature and Shared Inquiry99 to Whyville. We are very pleased to announce that this last weekend we officially opened the "Great Books Roundhouse" in Whyville. The Roundhouse includes discussion space, a teachers lounge, support for teachers using great literature as a base for inquiry, and rooms specifically devoted to different great books. The first such room is now open and built around "Beauty and the Beast" by Madame de Villeneuve, originally published in 1740. While over 250 years old, we think that this story is a particularly appropriate way to start our collaboration with the Great Books Foundation because of the relevance of the issue of external to internal beauty within avatar-based virtual worlds. So far, our users seem to be making that connection. An abridged version of the original story is available for free download at the Round House. Soon we will announce our first Great Book themed party, where party goers will receive prizes for dressing up (in clothes they themselves design) and role playing characters in Beauty and the Beast. While many in the media have raised concerns about the effect of the Internet on children reading, initial reaction to the Great Book Roundhouse from our users suggests that the very new learning technology of Whyville can also engage young learners in the world's great literature and reading both in and out of the classroom and on and off Whyville. Beauty and the Beast makes clear that the human experience captured in great books can be made equally relevant to the real and virtual worlds of our children. We look forward to introducing a steady stream of great literature in Whyville. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:01:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: where's the work? Looking over the last few decades of computing in the humanities, one can see various types of problems and different fields of enquiry becoming objects of our attention as the technology develops. An obvious example is improvements in displays and graphics hardware, which made higher definition colour display commonplace, which in turn stimulated the development of image archives. No doubt historical details tell a somewhat different story (perhaps about how a financially rewarding demand for better displays drove the development of hardware), but my question is rather different. I'm wondering how our attention is directed by what hardware can do, and how work that is technically more difficult is thus frustrated. The problem here is more subtle than might seem. What happens psychologically in technologically assisted research when the technology favours one way of working and makes another very difficult? What happens when the technologically assisted researcher tries to make sense of what he or she is finding with the kit of the day and so theorizes the situation? When it is ever so psychologically rewarding to theorize in a direction that justifies use of the technology for, say, the study of text, and quite inconvenient to theorize otherwise? The history of text-analysis suggests that two things happen: (1) those who are committed to use of the technology come up with or accommodate themselves to a theory of text that licenses their work; (2) everyone else runs for the hills, theorizing otherwise and so rapidly becoming unable to see anything interesting in the technology. But let us grant that all that was once upon a time. Where now, in what disciplines, are the problems that our technologies of computing cannot handle? What are these problems? How could we use them to stimulate inventive thought and research into computing? A useful mental exercise, I hope. But let's think further, strategically. From time to time we're called upon to reach out to colleagues whose research offers real potential for the betterment of both our and their work. In one case I know of a group of researchers who want to go digital see a bog-standard technology that suits (i.e. does not challenge) they way they think. This technology has the Good Academic Housekeeping Seal of Approval because a prominent academic has adopted it. There's no question that this technology can be of use. But it does not stretch the mind. So my question is this: how do we go about making sure that mind-stretching has a place in the institutions for digital humanities that we build? 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 Fri Mar 4 08:21:26 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9AF7101681; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:21:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 08AF3101671; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:21:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110304082124.08AF3101671@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:21:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.761 events: literary illustration; mss 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 761. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:27:03 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: New Directions in the Digital Humanities Dear Willard, Here are details of two events next week in Glasgow which may be of interest to digital humanists: Arts Lab & HATII Seminar Series: New Directions in Digital Humanities Literary Illustration & Computing Science Professor Omer Rana (Computer Science, Cardiff University) Professor David Skilton (English Literature, Cardiff University) Dr Julia Thomas (English Literature, Cardiff University) 8 March 2011 5.15pm Sir Alexander Stone Building, Room 204 There is an awakening of interest in literary illustration in the academic world, and many illustrated works and collections of illustrations are being brought to public and scholarly notice for almost the first time. Yet libraries and museums are unable to provide the kind of access researchers are beginning to need, are rarely aware of new modes of academic research and, with many other calls on funds, are unable to give the conservation of illustration a high priority. Academics are developing a new agenda of research of which conservators are as yet largely unaware, and which requires access to large numbers of images in the study not of individual illustrations, but of illustration as a well- established cultural practice. Aiding conservation and access by digitisation is one technique which may both protect collections and encourage their use. Digitisation needs expertise from several fields, including computer science, to be successful. ______________________________ KEEPING IN TOUCH: ACCESSING AND UNDERSTANDING MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS A colloquium with Professor Elaine Treharne, Florida State University, Professor Tony Edwards, De Montfort University, and Professor Julia Boffey, Queen Mary, University of London THURSDAY 10 MARCH 2011 12 noon –4.00 pm Turnbull Hall, University of Glasgow Catholic Chaplaincy13-15 Southpark Terrace, Glasgow G12 8LG Digital facsimiles of medieval manuscripts have made it easier for scholars and the wider public to explore manuscripts as evidence for all aspects of the literature, history, art and culture of the middle ages. Yet this improved access to the medieval heritage has created some hitherto unrecognised problems. The availability of digital surrogates means that libraries and archives are making it more difficult for scholars to consult original manuscripts. The reliance on images also means that scholars are becoming less aware of the way in which the manuscript was designed as an artefact intended to appeal to all the senses. We are in danger of seeing the medieval manuscript as a disembodied image, disconnected from its characteristics as a highly crafted artefact. In this colloquium, some leading manuscript scholars will explore this theme from both a practical and theoretical point of view. PROGRAMME: 12 noon: Elaine M. Treharne, Florida State University, ‘You Kant touch this! The transcendent manuscript in the digital age’ 1pm: Lunch 1.40pm: Anthony Edwards, De Montfort University, ‘The Machine Stops’ 2.30pm: Julia Boffey, Queen Mary, University of London, ‘On Screen or Hands On? Some Recent Experiences’ 3.00pm: Discussion led by Graham Caie, Elizabeth Robertson and Andrew Prescott, University of Glasgow This meeting has been made possible by the support of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. -- Professor Andrew Prescott Director of Research Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute Sgoil nan Daonnachdan / School of Humanities University of Glasgow George Service House 11 University Gardens Glasgow G12 8QQ Tel: +44 (0)141 330 3635 Mobile: +44 (0)774 389 5209 Fax: +44 (0)141 330 1675 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 6 07:40:56 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0207B102B4E; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 07:40:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E6D0C102B3C; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 07:40:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110306074051.E6D0C102B3C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 07:40:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.762 precious worrying X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 762. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:20:19 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: what we are worrying about when we worry about the Internet Many here will be interested in Kent Anderson's "The Battle for Control — What People Who Worry About the Internet Are Really Worried About", at (forgive the insensitive designer responsible for this mess of a URL) scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/03/02/the-battle-for-control-what-people-who-worry-about-the-internet-are-really-worried-about/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScholarlyKitchen+%28The+Scholarly+Kitchen%29. Once it was the fear of infoglut, now, as Jeff Jarvis calls it, "the distraction trope". I for one think that fears are precious clues to what's going on. This article does a good job getting at some answers: > There is a trade-off, an elusive balance, a mix of benefits and > traits. 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 Sun Mar 6 07:49:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD859102C5B; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 07:49:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D097C102C45; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 07:49:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110306074905.D097C102C45@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 07:49:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.763 early-career fellowship in DH (urgent) & tech position 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 763. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (30) Subject: Newton International Fellowship [2] From: "Hedges, Mark" (49) Subject: Vacancy at Ligatus, University of the Arts, London --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 07:35:48 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Newton International Fellowship The following concerns a highly competitive, prestigious fellowship scheme for early-career postdoctoral researchers. The scheme requires a U.K. institutional sponsor and involves a joint application. If you are such a person who would like to do research at the Department of Digital Humanities (formerly Centre for Computing in the Humanities), King's College London, please get in touch with us by e-mail at CCH@KCL.AC.UK (subject: "Newton International Fellowship"). Send a statement of intent by 15 March, and by 22 March a covering letter, a 1-2 page description of the research you wish to do and a curriculum vitae. The closing date for joint applications is 4th April 2011. We apologise for the last-minute announcement, but we were alerted to the Fellowship ourselves only late last week. WM ----- The Newton International Fellowship scheme selects the very best early stage post-doctoral researchers from all over the world, offering support for two years at UK research institutions. The long-term aim of the scheme is to build a global pool of research leaders and encourage long-term international collaboration with the UK. The Newton International Fellowships scheme is run by The British Academy and the Royal Society. The Fellowships cover the broad range of physical, natural and social sciences and the humanities. They provide grants of £24,000 per annum to cover subsistence and up to £8,000 per annum to cover research expenses, plus a one-off relocation allowance of up to £2,000. In addition, Newton Fellows may be eligible for follow-up funding of up to £6,000 per annum for up to 10 years following the completion of the Fellowship. For more detailed information on the Newton International Fellowships please see www.newtonfellowships.org/. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 04:41:37 +0000 From: "Hedges, Mark" Subject: Vacancy at Ligatus, University of the Arts, London Apologies for cross-posting Vacancy at Ligatus, University of the Arts, London Title: Research Technician, part time - Ligatus Reference: 300081 Occupation: Technical College: University of the Arts London Position Type: Temporary - Part time Sector: Ligatus Research Unit Salary: £26,017 pro rata Closing Date: 11/03/2011 Job Overview one year fixed term contract, 20 hours per week University of the Arts London is a vibrant world centre for innovation, drawing together six Colleges with international reputations in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts and a long involvement in the book arts and book conservation. Ligatus is one of the University's research centres that could transform the role of object documentation in digital humanities. It is set to combine traditional bookbinding and archiving knowledge with the latest web technologies in a whole new way, making this role unique in its field. At the moment, there is no system in place to manage the considerable volume of data Ligatus is accumulating. As part of the team, you will help to design a new system to organise, publish and optimise Ligatus digital collections. You will then manage and maintain the system, administering the digitised data. Highly IT literate, you can use XML technologies and administer XML data, XML native databases, relational databases and simple type data. You can also deal with image quality issues and design, code, test and correct batch data processing scripts and macro-commands for both text and images. Articulate, organised and team-focused, you have worked on digital humanities projects before and handled text encoding. Perhaps most importantly, you have an interest in the history of material culture, plus the ideas and enthusiasm needed to get a new research centre off the ground. This is one of the two positions currently offered by Ligatus, with the second one being a part time Research Assistant. In return, University of the Arts London offers generous leave, a final salary pension and a commitment to your continuing personal development and training in an environment that encourages excellence, creativity and diversity. Please download an application pack and then upload your completed application form by clicking on apply below. If you have any queries about this role that are not covered in the documentation available below please contact Ewelina Warner, Ligatus Administrator. Telephone: 020 7514 6432. Email: e.warner@camberwell.arts.ac.uk University of the Arts London aims to be an equal opportunities employer embracing diversity in all areas of activity. http://jobs.arts.ac.uk/ViewJob.aspx?id=7afc7837-db9e-4c61-a037-442564fe42d5 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 6 07:49:52 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE88102CA8; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 07:49:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BD18D102C97; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 07:49:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110306074949.BD18D102C97@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 07:49:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.764 transdisciplinary research bibliography X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 764. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:37:34 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: transdisciplinary research Some here will welcome news of td-net, the Network for Transdisciplinary Research, and specifically the Bibliography [of] Transdisciplinarity, at www.transdisciplinarity.ch/e/Bibliography/. 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 Sun Mar 6 07:51:01 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CAD4102D0C; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 07:51:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2D6C0102D02; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 07:50:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110306075058.2D6C0102D02@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 07:50:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.765 events: BALISAGE 2011, student awards X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 765. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 20:27:20 -0500 From: Syd Bauman Subject: student awards for markup conference 2011 Please pass the word along ... ========= BALISAGE 2011 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 full conference registration (including breakfast and lunch), plus other benefits (including reimbursements towards travel and/or accommodations) to the extent we are able to provide it. 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 Sun Mar 6 10:22:56 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B250F99B3; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 10:22:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 850F0F9997; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 10:22:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110306102252.850F0F9997@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 10:22:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.766 the potent structure of the online environment X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 766. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:17:38 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the potent structure of the online environment In his book, The Uses of Digital Literacy, John Hartley (Queensland University of Technology) threads his way through the minefields of argument surrounding the notion of popular culture, from Richard Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy (1957) -- a foundational text for cultural studies -- to the present day. The clarity of Hartley's writing would alone recommend the book to our attention, but for current purposes I'd like to draw your attention to a particular observation he makes about our beloved medium: > It is no longer an option (if it ever was) to criticise popular > culture from the outside, because the boundaries between that domain > and the domain of formal, intellectual, critical, scientific, > journalistic and imaginative knowledge are dissolving. You can > *navigate* the online environment to choose social networks or > entertainment over science or Project Gutenberg, but these choices > are not *structured* by the system, which increasingly allows > ordinary people to partake of both popular entertainment and > purposeful growth of knowledge simultaneously. (p. 12) The knee-jerk response of many is openly expressed by unease (to put the matter mildly) at the 'anything goes' self-indulgence licensed as well as provided by the Web, Certainly, as Hartley goes on to say, > Not enough 'critical' attention has been paid to what ordinary people > need to learn in order to attain a level of digital literacy > appropriate for *producing* as well as *consuming* digital content, > thence to participate in the mediated public sphere, to pursue their > own private imaginative desires, to contribute to the growth of > knowledge, or to develop enterprises and create value (cultural and > economic) in commercial and community contexts.... Indeed, not enough critical attention has been paid to what our academic colleagues need to learn in order to attain such a level of digital literacy in order to become producers, not merely consumers of deliverables. But, back to the structure that undams the flood, the structure (implemented by Google, proposed by the Canadian telephone engineer Gordon Thompson in 1979) that enstructures what people actually choose to do. Isn't the lesson here not to fight it (in a fruitless rearguard action) but to join it, understand and work with it? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, www.mccarty.org.uk; Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 8 06:18:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93981FA4F7; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 06:18:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7677EFA4E9; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 06:18:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110308061842.7677EFA4E9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 06:18:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.767 new publications: peer-review; e-publishing X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 767. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Diane Harley (63) Subject: New publication: CSHE/Mellon Peer Review in Academic Promotion andPublishing [2] From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010/Digital Curationand Preservation Bibliography 2010 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:20:42 -0800 From: Diane Harley Subject: New publication: CSHE/Mellon Peer Review in Academic Promotion and Publishing *We are delighted to announce the publication of:* * Peer Review in Academic Promotion and Publishing: Its Meaning, Locus, and Future http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xv148c8# * */A Project Report and Associated Recommendations, Proceedings from a Meeting, and Background Papers/* http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xv148c8# * Authors: Diane Harley and Sophia Krzys Acord* */The publication can be viewed online and downloaded at: /*/*http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xv148c8#*/ **Since 2005, and with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation http://www.mellon.org/ , the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) http://cshe.berkeley.edu/ has been conducting research to explore how academic values --- including those related to peer review, publishing, sharing, and collaboration ---influence scholarly communication practices and engagement with new technological affordances, open access publishing, and the public good. This report includes (1) an overview of the state of peer review in the Academy at large, (2) a set of recommendations for moving forward, (3) a proposed research agenda to examine in depth the effects of academic status-seeking on the entire academic enterprise, (4) proceedings from the workshop on the four topics noted above, and (5) four substantial and broadly conceived background papers on the workshop topics, with associated literature reviews. The document explores, in particular, the tightly intertwined phenomena of peer review in publication and academic promotion, the values and associated costs to the Academy of the current system, experimental forms of peer review in various disciplinary areas, the effects of scholarly practices on the publishing system, and the possibilities and real costs of creating alternative loci for peer review and publishing that link scholarly societies, libraries, institutional repositories, and university presses. We also explore the motivations and ingredients of successful open access resolutions that are directed at peer-reviewed article-length material. In doing so, this report suggests that creating a wider array of institutionally acceptable and cost-effective alternatives to peer reviewing and publishing scholarly work could maintain the quality of academic peer review, support greater research productivity, reduce the explosive growth of low-quality publications, increase the purchasing power of cash-strapped libraries, better support the free flow and preservation of ideas, and relieve the burden on overtaxed faculty of conducting too much peer review. This latest report on the state and future of peer review is a natural extension of our findings in/*Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines (2010)* http://escholarship.org/uc/cshe_fsc /, which stressed the need for a more nuanced academic reward system that is less dependent on citation metrics, the slavish adherence to marquee journals and university presses, and the growing tendency of institutions to outsource assessment of scholarship to such proxies as default promotion criteria. Links to the complete results of our ongoing work can be found at* http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/scholarlycommunication/index.htm **The **Future of Scholarly Communication Project website* http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/scholarlycommunication/index.htm . ======================================== 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 email: dianeh /at/ berkeley /dot/ edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:07:19 +0000 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010/Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 Digital Scholarship has released the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010. This 466-page book presents over 3,800 selected English-language articles, books, and other textual sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. It covers digital copyright, digital libraries, digital preservation, digital rights management, digital repositories, economic issues, electronic books and texts, electronic serials, license agreements, metadata, publisher issues, open access, and other related topics. Most sources have been published from 1990 through 2010. Many references have links to freely available copies of included works. The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010 is available as an open access PDF file and a low-cost paperback. All versions of the bibliography are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2010.htm Digital Scholarship has also released the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010. This 80-page book presents over 500 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. This selective bibliography covers digital curation and preservation copyright issues, digital formats (e.g., data, media, and e-journals), metadata, models and policies, national and international efforts, projects and institutional implementations, research studies, services, strategies, and digital repository concerns. Most sources have been published from 2000 through 2010; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included. Many references have links to freely available copies of included works. The Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 is available as an open access PDF file and as a low-cost paperback. All versions of the bibliography are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcpb2010.htm For further information about Digital Scholarship publications, see the "Digital Scholarship Publications Overview" and "Reviews of Digital Scholarship Publications." http://digital-scholarship.org/about/overview.htm http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/reviews.htm Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen): http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/dcpb2010_en.htm http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/sepb2010_en.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship 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 Tue Mar 8 06:19:37 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41011FA55B; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 06:19:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 747CFFA549; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 06:19:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110308061933.747CFFA549@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 06:19:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.768 events: philology (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. 24, No. 768. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:05:10 +0100 From: Malte Rehbein Subject: cfp: Philology in the Digital Age (TEI) Call for papers and proposals Philology in the Digital Age 2011 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium University of Würzburg, Germany http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/tei_mm_2011/ * Deadline for submissions: May 1st, 2011 * Meeting dates: Wed 12 October to Sat 15 October, 2011 * Workshop dates: Mon 10 October to Wed 12 October, 2011 (see separate call) The Program Committee of the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI - www.tei-c.org) Consortium invites individual paper proposals, panel sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but not exclusively, on digital texts, scholarly editing or any topic that applies TEI to its research. Submission Topics Topics might include but are not restricted to: • TEI and scholarly editing • TEI and textual criticism • TEI and the evolution of digital philology • TEI and text corpora • The relation between representation (encoded text) and presentation (visualisation, user-interface) • TEI encoded data in the context of quantitative text analysis • Integrating the TEI with other technologies and standards • TEI as metadata standard • TEI as interchange format: sharing, mapping, and migrating data (in particular in relation to other formats or software environments) In addition, we are seeking proposals for 5 minute micropaper presentations focused on experiences with the TEI guidelines gained from running projects and discussing one specific feature. Submission Types Individual paper presentations will be allocated 30 minutes: 20 minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions& answers. Submission should be made in the form of an abstract of 750-1500 words (plus bibliography). 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: 5-8 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 presenter is expected to participate in a slam immediately preceding the poster session. Micropapers will be allocated 5 minutes. Submission Procedure All proposals should be submitted athttp://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ by May 1st, 2011 (please check on the conference website for the availability of conftool). 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 proposals (including tool demonstrations): Supporting materials (including graphics, multimedia, etc., or even a copy of the complete paper) may be uploaded after the initial abstract is submitted. * Micropaper: The procedure is the same as for an individual paper, however the abstract should be no more than 500 words. Please be sure the abstract mentions the feature to be presented! * Panel sessions (three paper panels): The panel organizer submits a proposal for the entire session, containing a 500-word introduction explaining the overarching theme and rationale for the inclusion of the papers, together with a 750-1500 words section for each panel member. * Panel sessions (round table discussion): The panel organizer submits a proposal of 750-1500 words describing the rationale for the discussion and includes the list of panelists. Panelists need to be contacted by the panel organizer and have expressed their willingness in participation before submission. 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, edited as a special issue of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. Further details on the submission process will be forthcoming. For the international programm comittee, Laurent Romary (programm committee chair) -- Dr. Malte Rehbein Universität Würzburg Zentrum für digitale Edition / Lehrstuhl für Computerphilologie und Neuere Deutsche Literaturgeschichte Philosophiegebäude 8/E/14 Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg fon +49.(0)931.31.88773 email malte.rehbein@uni-wuerzburg.de web http://www.denkstaette.de IDE: http://www.i-d-e.de Digital Medievalist: http://www.digitalmedievalist.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 10 06:35:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 346AD104EFA; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:35:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6DDFC104EEA; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:35:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110310063539.6DDFC104EEA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:35:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.769 new publication: Visualizing the Archive X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 769. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 16:32:40 -0500 From: "Mandell, Laura C. Dr." Subject: Visualizing the Archive The Poetess Archive Journal (PAJ, http://paj.muohio.edu/paj/index.php/paj/index) is proud to announce a new special issue, “Visualizing the Archive,” edited by Laura Mandell: Articles Graphesis http://paj.muohio.edu/paj/index.php/paj/article/view/4 Johanna Drucker Vector Futures: New Paradigms for Imag(in)ing the Humanities Matthew Kirschenbaum Digital Representation and the Hyper Real Susan Schreibman NewRadial: Revisualizing the Blake Archive Jon Saklofske What is Visualization? Lev Manovich "Inventing the Map" in the Digital Humanities: a Young Lady's Primer Bethany Nowviskie Ubiquitous Text Analysis Geoffrey Rockwell, Stéfan G. Sinclair, Stan Ruecker, Peter Organisciak Virtual Delville as Archival Research: Rendering Women's Garden History Visible http://paj.muohio.edu/paj/index.php/paj/article/view/6 Lisa L. Moore Audio-visual Rhetoric and its Methods of Visualization Gesche Joost, Sandra Buchmueller, Tom Bieling GIS, Texts, and Images: New Approaches Ian Gregory Snapshots of a Discipline in Transition Todd Presner For those of you who viewed the issue when it first came out in draft, available for comments, new features have been added to the final publication: • a podcast-interview with Todd Presner, discussing the issue as well as the changes currently underway in the conduct of literary disciplines; · a zoomify set of figures for Bethany Nowviskie’s article on cognitive-spatio-temporal reality; · an html version of the article by Rockwell, Sinclair, Ruecker, and Organisciak that contains Voyeur frames and live information feeds; · movies showing the 3D garden simulation of Mary Delany’s eighteenth-century gardens. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 10 06:37:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4920104F72; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:37:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 538B3104F61; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:37:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110310063732.538B3104F61@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:37:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.770 events: Renaissance studies; i-society; linked geodata X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 770. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: David Brown (143) Subject: Call for Papers: i-Society 2011! [2] From: Leif Isaksen (54) Subject: Pelagios Linked GeoData workshop, KCL, March 24 2011 [3] From: Ray Siemens (44) Subject: New Technologies and Renaissance Studies, Session at the RSA 2001(Montreal, 24-25 March) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 09:42:15 +0000 (GMT) From: David Brown Subject: Call for Papers: i-Society 2011! Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************* International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011), Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter 27-29 June, 2011, London, UK www.i-society.eu ******************************************************************* The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011) 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 2011 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 2011 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: March 31, 2011 Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress): March 20, 2011 Notification of Paper Acceptance /Rejection: April 15, 2011 Notification of Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress) Acceptance /Rejection: April 10, 2011 Camera Ready Paper and Short Paper Due: April 30, 2011   Participant(s) Registration (Open):  January 1, 2011 Early Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): February 1 to April 30, 2011 Late Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): May 1 to June 1, 2011 Conference Dates: June 27-29, 2011   For more details, please visit www.i-society.eu   --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 13:23:12 +0000 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Pelagios Linked GeoData workshop, KCL, March 24 2011 Dear all Apologies for X-posting but many of you may be interested in a forthcoming workshop the Pelagios project (http://pelagios-project.blogspot.com) are hosting at KCL on Linking GeoData in the Humanities on March 24th. The event is free but if you'd like to attend please sign up at: http://pelagios.eventbrite.com. We'd also be glad if you could circulate this to any other parties or mailing list that may have an interest. Hope to see you there! Best wishes Leif (on behalf of the Pelagios project team) Linking Open Data: the Pelagios ontology workshop Thursday, March 24, 2011 from 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM (GMT) London, United Kingdom The Pelagios workshop is an open forum for discussing the issues associated with and the infrastructure required for developing methods of linking open data (LOD), specifically geodata. There will be a specific emphasis on places in the ancient world, but the practices discussed should be equally applicable to contemporary named locations. The Pelagios project will also make available a proposal for a lightweight methodology prior to the event in order to focus discussion and elicit critique. The one-day event will have 3 sessions dedicated to: 1) Issues of referencing ancient and contemporary places online 2) Lightweight ontology approaches 3) Methods for generating, publishing and consuming compliant data Each session will consist of several short (15 min) papers followed by half an hour of open discussion. The event is FREE to all but places are LIMITED so participants are advised to register early. This is likely to be of interest to anyone working with digital humanities resources with a geospatial component. Preliminary Timetable 10:30-1:00 Session 1: Issues 2:00-3:30 Session 2: Ontology 4:00-5:30 Session 3: Methods Confirmed Speakers (including affiliation and relevant project): Johan Alhlfeldt (University of Lund) Regnum Francorum online Ceri Binding (University of Glamorgan) Semantic Technologies Enhancing Links and Linked data for Archaeological Resources Gianluca Correndo (University of Southampton) EnAKTing Claire Grover (University of Edinburgh) Edinburgh Geoparser Adam Rabinowitz (University of Texas at Austin) GeoDia Sebastian Rahtz (University of Oxford) CLAROS Sven Schade (European Commission) Humphrey Southall (University of Portsmouth) Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System Confirmed Participants (Pelagios Partners): Mathieu d’Aquin (KMi, The Open University) LUCERO Greg Crane (Tufts University) Perseus Reinhard Foertsch (University of Cologne) Arachne Sean Gillies (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU) Pleiades Mark Hedges (KCL) SPQR Rainer Simon (DME, Austrian Institute of Technology) EuropeanaConnect --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 11:58:10 -0800 From: Ray Siemens Subject: New Technologies and Renaissance Studies, Session at the RSA 2001(Montreal, 24-25 March) New Technologies and Renaissance Studies Sessions at RSA 2011, Montreal. March 24-25. Hilton Montreal Bonaventure, Room Fontaine C . New Technologies and Renaissance Studies I: The Archivable Renaissance, A Keynote Address Thu, Mar 24 - 8:45am - 10:15am o Chair: William Bowen (University of Toronto Scarborough) o The Archivable Renaissance: Computing's Pasts and Futures. Alan Galey (University of Toronto) . New Technologies and Renaissance Studies II: Editions and Social Networks Thu, Mar 24 - 10:30am - 12:00pm o Chair: William Bowen (University of Toronto Scarborough) o Envisioning the Devonshire MS (BL Add 17492) as Social Edition. Meagan Timney (University of Victoria), Raymond Siemens (University of Victoria), Cara Leitch (University of Victoria) o Using a Social Network to Teach Early Modern Drama. Jessica Murphy (University of Texas, Dallas), Kris McAbee (University of Arkansas, Little Rock) o Developing the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online. Elena Pierazzo (King's College London), Paul Vetch (King's College London) . New Technologies and Renaissance Studies III: Material Curiosities and Post-Humanistic Renaissance Discourse Thu, Mar 24 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm o Chair: Jacqueline Wernimont (Brown University) o Milton and the Posthuman Voice. Angelica Duran (Purdue University) o Investigative Tagging: Exploring the Early Modern Cabinet of Curiosities. Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) . New Technologies and Renaissance Studies IV: Disruptive Technologies and Open Access Thu, Mar 24 - 3:45pm - 5:15pm o Chair: Jessica Murphy (University of Texas, Dallas) o Renaissance Online in the Open-Access Journal Kunsttexte. Angela Dressen (Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) . New Technologies and Renaissance Studies V: Encoding and Visualization Fri, Mar 25 - 8:45am - 10:15am o Chair: Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) o The Chymistry of Isaac Newton: Visualizing a Thirty-Year Enterprise through Computational Topic Analysis and Network Analysis. Wallace Hooper (Indiana University), William Newman (Indiana University) o Encoding Women: Are Digital Archives Feminist? Jacqueline Wernimont (Brown University) . New Technologies and Renaissance Studies VI: Roundtable on Moving Textual Studies Online, via Implementing New Knowledge Environments Fri, Mar 25 - 10:30am - 12:00pm o Chair: Alan Galey (University of Toronto) o Richard Cunningham (Acadia University) , Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan), Jon Bath (University of Toronto) . New Technologies and Renaissance Studies VII: Emblematica and Iter Fri, Mar 25 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm o Chair: Paul Vetch (King's College London) o Facilitating and Supporting a Community's Research Engagement, Redux: Web 2.0 and a Revisitation of Next Steps for Iter. William Bowen (University of Toronto Scarborough), Sian Miekle (University of Toronto), Raymond Siemens (University of Victoria) o Emblematica Online Project : A Joint Digitization Project of The Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Paul Ernest Meyer (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) o Presentation of the graduate student bursaries . New Technologies and Renaissance Studies VIII: Geography, Philology, and Remediation Fri, Mar 25 - 3:45pm - 5:15pm o Chair: Kris McAbee (University of Arkansas, Little Rock) o Re-Featuring Knowledge: The Korean Historical Sources in the Age of Digital Humanities. Seokyung Han (State University of New York, Binghamton) o ePhilology: Computing Methodologies and the Study of the Chinese Past. Yongguang Hu (State University of New York, Binghamton) ____________ 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 Thu Mar 10 07:10:17 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F179100551; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:10:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 36B4F10052D; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:10:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110310071013.36B4F10052D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:10:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.771 language X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 771. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:02:14 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: language Something just read to share. Lynsey Hanley (a name to follow), in her introduction to the Penguin edition of Richard Hoggart's great book, The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life (2009/1957), writes thus about Hoggart's use of language: > ... the easy command of language, built by curiosity and education, > seems to bleed out sentimentality from all experience. If you can > make language dance to your tune, rather than having to dance, or > jump up, to it, you are on the way to being free. You no longer > expect to be at the mercy of events because, if you can't in some way > shape their course, then you can manage their effects. You haven't > only got 'them' to contend with, you've got 'us', your own people, > keeping you in line. Not keeping you down exactly, but keeping you > chopped and shaped like a tin of York ham. Square pegs needn't get > their corners shaved off if they can learn to incorporate both halves > of their experience into an integral whole. (p. xxiii) Although what needs bleeding out in our case is not sentimentality, and what our lot needs freedom from is different that of those whom Hoggart had and Hanley has in mind, these words apply with force to one of Humanist's founding missions, perhaps its central one. If care with the language and, yes, even the formatting of announcements of events, publications and all the rest can be achieved, then we too are on that way. Or so this editor of messages would like to think. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 Mar 11 06:49:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A9C1139A3; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:49:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0176211398C; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:49:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110311064947.0176211398C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:49:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.772 on Hanley and Hoggart X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 772. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:56:45 +0000 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.771 language In-Reply-To: <20110310071013.36B4F10052D@woodward.joyent.us> Yes, she's well worth following, in her articles in The Guardian and also in her first book, _Estates_ - off topic, but confirmatory. Her life-story is an encouragement to us all and especially to those concerned about the transformation that HE can stimulate. How appropriate that she should re-present Hoggart to us. Dave Postles ________________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Sent: 10 March 2011 07:10 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 Fri Mar 11 07:01:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1B56113C8C; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:01:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BFCB7113C78; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:01:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110311070122.BFCB7113C78@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:01:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.773 a review and a hello X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 773. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Peter Batke (34) Subject: Review of "The Googlization of Everything" [2] From: { brad brace } (473) Subject: Hello from Hateruma Island (Japan); eighth excerpt --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:35:30 +0000 From: Peter Batke Subject: Review of "The Googlization of Everything" I invite everyone to look at my take of the "The Googlization of Everything" by Siva Vaidhyanathan. I should warn the admirers that I did not the like the book. Yet if someone should be interested in a counter to the media darling's quest for the "50 year grand global project ... funded by concerned governments" follow this link: http://www.humancomp.org/batke/ I have tried to take care of my language and formatting. I would have spent more time on the task had I not been trying to parse a Willard sentence since yesterday: > Although what needs bleeding out in our case is not sentimentality, and > what our lot needs freedom from is different that of those whom Hoggart > had and Hanley has in mind, these words apply with force to one of > Humanist's founding missions, perhaps its central one. Can we have a clue, please? Will a strategically place "than that" save the day? I don't want to be annoying but the implication could be that the "central one" could possibly refer to formatting announcements with care. I shall return to parsing Bacon in the original English; there the ambiguity is incomparable. Perhaps I have missed a post or two. cheers, Peter [Quite right, Peter! Too early in the morning for such constructions? Did a wiser self interfere to lend irony to the message? Perhaps better is, more simply, > What needs bleeding out in our case is not sentimentality. > What our lot needs freedom from is not the same as for those whom Hoggart > had and Hanley has in mind. But these words apply with force to one of > Humanist's founding missions, perhaps its central one. Or perhaps it's still too early for me? --W] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:21:27 -0800 (PST) From: { brad brace } Subject: Hello from Hateruma Island (Japan); eighth excerpt very spicy pot this morning: chilis, rice, miso, leafy greens, dashi, dried-shrimp, seaweed, sesame seeds, rice-wine, soya sauce; scattered showers... (e-go hon: english books?)... PMT... did an abbreviated loop around the SMP as it was very humid: returned to deliver the rent, then noticed that she had written 3/23 as a date when I'm not leaving the island until much later.. gobbled-down a big bowl of okinawan noodles with sardines and went back and I think she said 3/23 was today's date, which it's not, unless there's a different calendar or creative accounting in play; at any rate she seemed to understand that I'm leaving for Ishigaki on the 28th... offshore/online... down to post-office to mail 2 cards and Nishi where you can see the weather's surely about to change: bought 1.5 litre bottle of curious, but refreshing Calpis water: (Y310: lactic white, and vaguely citrus (www.calpis.com.jp): seems to be an alcoholic version as well and aids digestion(?); toasted fried egg(s) sandwich... editing [81251]... very windy last night and still a little this morning: chair blown over outside but the pinhole is still in place... seems as if ethanol is also made from the sugarcane; more (worrisome for the island,) news of trade imbalance between US and Japan... Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, together accounting for ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area. Japan has the world's tenth-largest population, with over 127 million people. The Greater Tokyo Area, is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents... A major economic power, Japan has the world's third-largest economy by nominal GDP and by purchasing power parity. It is also the world's fourth largest exporter and fifth largest importer. Although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains an extensive modern military force in self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan has the second lowest homicide (including attempted homicide) rate in the world. According to UN and WHO estimates, it has the highest life expectancy of any country and the third lowest infant mortality rate... Japan suffers from a high suicide rate. In 2009, the number of suicides exceeded 30,000 for the twelfth straight year. Suicide is the leading cause of death for people under 30... editing [81252: mostly sanshin from neighbour], [81253]... PMT... email from Ika: << Hello brace! Nice to hear from you and thank you a lot for the pictures! Aren't we all cute? I went into deadline psychosis as soon as I got home, and only surfaced this morning, as most of the two first volumes were posted at 09:37 this morning. Still one lap or leg to go, but at least I have time to come up for breath. My two months on the island already seem, as you say, like dream, and certainly a good one. And there you are, still, and with one month to go. I hope the island is treating you well and keeping you supplied with vegetables. Fishing on the breakwater sounds great. Hope you caught some edible fish. Here [Norway] we still have lots of snow, it has been minus 10 until a couple of days ago, now it has started to creep up towards zero. But the great tits have started their springtime singing, the late winter harbinger of hope. All the best to you, and say hello to the family from me. Best, Ika >> ... down to the beach and port and grocery store on the way back: much cooler now, I imagine this is more typical seasonal weather: another, the last in the store, loaf of 'special bread' (Y294), different kind of sardines (Y140) to go with another package of okinawan noodles (Y140), 8 unrefrigerated white eggs (Y208), plastic bag (Y3)... saw several clusters of youngsters with what looked like windspeed vanes mounted on tripods, other gadgetry and clipboards on their way towards the shore... here's a posting I just put on the Kindle discussion forums: << I've been 'publishing' a continuous sequence of greyscale photo-art images (the 12hr-isbn-jpeg project,) online for over 17 years! and would like to start to have them (perhaps freely at first,) delivered to Kindle readers. A new image is released every 12 hours. How would I best do this? (http://bbrace.net/12hr.html) /:b >> I'm intrigued by the social-reading aspect of the Kindle where you can view others' clippings... reading Zola on the PC: << It measured about sixteen feet by ten, and was entirely painted over, though little of the work had gone beyond the roughing-out. This roughing-out, hastily dashed off, was superb in its violence and ardent vitality of colour. A flood of sunlight streamed into a forest clearing, with thick walls of verdure; to the left, stretched a dark glade with a small luminous speck in the far distance. On the grass, amidst all the summer vegetation, lay a nude woman with one arm supporting her head, and though her eyes were closed she smiled amidst the golden shower that fell around her. In the background, two other women, one fair, and the other dark, wrestled playfully, setting light flesh tints amidst all the green leaves. And, as the painter had wanted something dark by way of contrast in the foreground, he had contented himself with seating there a gentleman, dressed in a black velveteen jacket. This gentleman had his back turned and the only part of his flesh that one saw was his left hand, with which he was supporting himself on the grass. >> ... the morning pot takes the better part of an hour to prepare: rice, dashi, seaweed, dried minnows (put these in first this time), and shrimp, chilis, a little potato, daikon, carrot; sesame seeds, miso, a lot of leafy greens, rice wine, soya sauce, and another hour to eat it... _for every star driven enterprise there are corollary benefits for those who support it and keep their mouths shut... PMT... two-fried eggs, with fish flakes on toast... old newspapers (fu-ru-i shim-bun); collecting stylized vertical headlines for possible ebook... fellow from the tour bus told me that Nami guesthouse (the father and son go out fishing,) has free sashimi and tofu for their guests!... trying to cutback on expenses but perhaps I'll swing by there at sashimi time today... (I need to edit my rss.txt files and make a new one for GIP = sell to Amazon)... another short loop around the island: breezy, barely visible Iriomote island contour: Vitamin C.C. Lemon (Y350: 210 lemons worth of vitamin C in every bottle: suntory.jp/cclemon)... started down to see the sunset but turned back once beyond the shelter of the town as it was a little cool/breezy so instead, having resisted the bottle of fattening peanuts and beer, for about the same price bought sashimi (Y300; no ma-gu-ro today [tuna]) and tofu (Y160; with some fish flakes and leek it's actually quite good: very creamy and still warm)... shower this morning: a lot of hair in the drain: no stars visible for the pinhole: sink-laundry underway... *cool* I'm on the Puddle-town Art Museum's blacklist! < (reason: 551 Sender is on domain's blacklist (Mode: normal))>> a greater honour can hardly be imagined! but it's long past time to shut these bogus, corrupt institutions down! ... want to try some kite-aerial digital-films but need to find a location where I can retrieve the kite/camera if it takes a dive: going to have a look at Pemichi? beach this morning but if the wind's blowing inland strongly the kite will land in dense, impenetrable jungle-like vegetation that lines the perimeter of the beach: the port's another possibility nothing but water (waterproof housing on the miniature camera) and asphalt/cement (power lines are underground there))... PMT (on Teppan, the discouraged runner/athlete seems to be leaving the house despite/becaus-of his feelings for the girl is her name 'Ana?' -- forgot about the pinhole until I looked outside to check the weather supposed to be isolated showers today only 64F, so it's had about an hour and half more exposure than any other frame)... a bowl of instant coffee with Hateruma black-sugar lump while I wait for a slightly warmer morning... for fiscal year 2012, the actual U.S. military budget is something like $1.2 trillion dollars. Trillion with a T. Just to put that in perspective, a million seconds is 12 days. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.... I have more trouble with batteries! none of the 6 disposable AAAs seem to have enough juice to keep the camera-on for more than a couple of seconds, so I'm charging the rechargeable batteries this is the little camera (along with an undercover-cop in the pool,) that caused 8 black-clad Puddle-town armed-goons/cops to suddenly surround, harass and subsequently defame me and wrongfully-cease the camera at a public swimming pool, where I was testing it last year along with new snorkelling gear -- with permission... anyway, today I'll just bring the kite along... oh, wait, I just found a good pair of AAAs in my shaving kit!... off I go!... but first put the laundry out to dry [dark blue mesh tanktop, black shorts, black T, zebra-mesh swimsuit] -> ok, still too cold out there and it'll be worse on the beach, so another bowl of coffee... more interminable TV footage of smug Japanese gov't ministers (often seen nodding-off) in parliament... well, Pemichi beach had only the occasional gust of wind so I thought I'd try the observation tower (!) which was quite windy (the adjacent reservoir had a good chop, and the railings were rattling again maybe it _would make a good recording if I can find a sheltered spot), but perhaps too gusty, as the little pocket parafoil kite I had it on a very short line -- would eventually get knocked-over [think I bought it in Long Beach WA: bbrace.net/long_beach.html] -... so, around and down past a cattle-yard (the radio, which gets much better reception than mine, seems to be left-on for the grazing faculty), and down to the port's breakwater which was even windier there was a broadcast announcement earlier which I guessed was about the ferries not running, but they were! -- almost lost my 12hr cap, and then almost everything else in quick succession as the wind had its way; much too windy for the kite headed home, buying two bigger tins of mackerel (Y150 each; to go with the okinawan noodles: more bang for the yen: www.food.maruha-nichiro.co.jp) and a tiny tin of wasabi powder (Y180: hoping its real wasabi and that it dissolves in soya sauce for sashimi days: www.housefoods.co.jp)... Russian VoA SW radio slaboda 15250... isj@lists.upei.ca. ... sanshin festival on TV... some sun forecast for today and only a 10-15 mph wind (30-35 on Monday,) so perhaps the recording of the reservoir railings should wait: remembered that I brought along a contact mic, which I've yet to use, that might be ideal... in the pot: rice, seaweed, rice-wine, chilis, soya sauce, dried-shrimp, miso, dashi, remaining millet, potato, carrot from another pot; sesame seeds, huge stack of chopped lettuce... PMT... short loop walk South then back for some sun... tempted by a bottle of Suntory whiskey that comes with a free little can of club soda (Y1405); but I need to economize... it's quite rare to have such convenient (wifi) means to spontaneously relate the island experience and it's a shame that the Island Studies list and others reject my postings not so surprising I suppose as most mailing-lists have by-now devolved into an institutional/collegial pronouncement/validation mechanism no real interest in communicating or exchanging/developing ideas... not to be melodramatic but I'm _so tired of being routinely excluded, cheated and persecuted (no other word)... so lately and especially this island-journal has been about a mutual indifference (and perhaps not unlike the mainland/mainstream malaise that islands must face)... no status-quo sashimi today, so two-fried eggs on toast instead... my mp3 player's messed-up (will only play one song then locks-up: actually I think I caused it when I restarted the unit thinking it was hung-up searching the external SD; if COWON D2+ is recognized as a removable disk, please paste D2N_P.bin, D2N _P_RS.bin, and D2N_P_FT.bin files to the root folder (top folder in COWON D2+) in COWON D2+.: an excellent player, that sadly has been discontinued), and unfortunately I didn't bring the upload cable to reinstall the software... a walk to Nishi... we were cheated-out of a good sunset by a low-lying bank of institutional cloud-cover... oh, did I mention that I had the mackerel with noodles today too?... an orange-grower with samples of course, on the TV this morning: should be some more sun: green tea... skype call with D... pinhole in; no Teppan today :( ... squatting old lady with typical sunvisor-bonnet, armed as they all seem to be, with the rusty sugarcane sickle, intent on trimming the foliage outside my unit: walked out to the SMP, past the airport, turbines, (Iriomote was shades of misty blue with brighter short yellow blazes of beach; and I could see another smaller island to the East: Hatoma?), around and up the hill home stopping at the main grocery store: pokka cold tea (Y310: might be jasmine, 2l: okinawa.pokka.co.jp); a different kind of seaweed (Y160; didn't think I could use an entire big bag of the sort I just finished before I leave); Pinky peach & mint sugarless tablets (Y120; very nice); two tiny free, leftover sandwiches (!)... while most of the other are, I don't think my cottage is prefab seems more like cinderblock and plaster, although the interior seems prefabricated somehow... big marathon in Japan on the TV... not sunny enough to sit in the sun but pleasant enough for a short walk through town where there was a funeral (everyone in black(?)); several young boys with a red kite... gosh, I'm going to need to buy more rice! either that or switch to noodles... started down to Nishi for the sunset but it's rapidly clouding over with a little rain in the air... very still outside this morning despite the 35mph wind forecast: the usual big rice 'n' vegetable pot... 6 a.m. the driving-rain and wind have arrived!... the island's roads, a few paved, most not, are sort of concentric loops, being 'tighter' towards the centre of town and looser more irregular toward shore: if you venture too far toward the shore, down the wrong road, you'll need to backtrack, as I had to today, in order to approach the reservoir with the rattling railings -- behind the observation tower -- through the back fence that has a scalable opening: anyway, once there, using the contact mic like a stethoscope, I initially despaired of finding a decent sound and I was thinking the contact mic, which is advertised as a hear through walls device, might also pick-up some of the sound of the water being blown around in the reservoir but I probably ended-up with 90 monaural minutes of something pretty interesting: the very long, hollow aluminum railings would rattle, drum, hum, warble and produce choral overtones as the wind gusted over the water (~ a polite/restrained refrain of Japanese noise-art)... finally (my fingertips were numb), headed home even though I had first intended to fill the 160 minute disc: stopped at the main grocery store to buy the 5kg bag of cheap rice (Y1860?), but as I'd feared, they were all gone, as usual; so I bought a different variety in a 3 kg bag (Y1240) which actually should work out pretty well for the 10 remaining meals (eating every other day): at first I had selected an expensive variety (Y1750 for 3 kg), despite being in a plain paper bag: not sure I'd taste the difference but maybe ten kinds to choose from... home for okinawan noodles with tinned mackerel and coffee... this being Monday, I'm hoping for some free vegetables soon... still very windy so don't think it's worth checking on the sashimi as there won't be many boats out in this... editing another wordpress news collage that features nations I've visited or planning to visit for my Global Islands Project [bradbrace.net/id.html]: probably the biggest one yet mainly as I delayed assembling the 'cuttings' and denied access to search engines because I recently read stories about evil lawyers deliberately buying 'copyrights' of news-items so they could sue bloggers... it's still interesting to forge new readings of widely concurrent events [bradbrace.net/wordpress & bbrace.net/wordpress]... Mae-san has put new signs, with pictures(!), above the five recycling bins... young fellow next door from Tokyo: he thinks it's very cold here ;) the wind is still blowing: went for a short walk and made a couple of film clips of the rippling sugarcane fields it must be terrifying seeing a typhoon approach ... a bedtime snack of tofu with fish flakes... I need to find an affordable, non-caffeinated, no-sugar beverage... I shudder to think what a litre of orange juice costs... more TV pavement chalk markings and the weather snowmen are frowning, so perhaps warmer weather on the mainland today... PMT, but forgot to change the gain-setting back from yesterday... still quite chilly outside so another bowl of instant coffee while I continue to edit the big WP news-collage... derailed TV train... and ukuleles seem popular: Hawaiian connection -- there was one being played as the sun went down on Nishi the other night... did the "paved loop" walk as I've nearly worn through the new running shoes I brought; picked-up more old Yaeyama Mainichi newspapers for the vertical headline collection... more groceries: another C.C. lemon drink (Y350), pale yellow miso (Y260), more chilis (Y130; whole, dried), more roasted black sesame seeds (Y120), plastic-bag (Y3)... sunny now but still cool out: looking for go-game diagrams for my GIP book and learning the basics of the game.. quite a few visitors on the island today -- I assume it's the Okinawans who travel with their sanshins... . and then there's the Sanba (?) which I've only seen on TV so far: a percussion musical instrument from the Ryukyu Islands. The name itself means "three slabs" or "three boards/planks," and it consists of three shards ebony or other woods that are bound together by twine. It produces a variety of clicking sounds similar to that of castanets. It is played by placing the shards between the fingers of one hand, while using the other hand to flick the pieces of wood together. It can be played in slow or fast rhythms, depending on the musical genre. It is often heard in folk music native to the Ryukyu Islands... I read two walking-tour books by Alan Booth before I traveled here: The Roads to Sata, and Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan, which I recommend, although they refer to a quite different mainland Japan... PMT... giant celery stalks featured on TV talk-show... two fried eggs on toast then a near-circular paved-walk all around the island -- something very satisfying about circumambulating an island; will try and work this into my daily routine although it's about a three-hour walk... well I've had lots of time to finally reestablish the link between twitter and the blogs... and I see that corrupt-crony-curator Martha Hanna has again blocked the email address to which the 12hr-jpegs are sent, so had to unsubscribe her: imagine how a Canadian photography museum would fail to be even remotely interested in a 40+ year-old Canadian photo-art career?... which reminds me that I've seen two weasels (tiny, reddish fur) lately, hopping along the road and by my unit... I thought Mae-san (who was pushing a cart loaded with a flat of beer and luggage of two new young couples in unit 'B',) asked me if I'd like more vegetables (ya-sai), which I thought was odd as he just left me some on Monday, but seeing as how there are no more here, perhaps he was asking if I got the ones he left, or wanted to be thanked again... I was so sure there'd be sashimi today as it was calm and I spotted several boats when out on my walk, but my presence at Nami seemed only to please the little dog: I had been listening to GIP mp3s on my older player and started to think this island was rather staid in comparison especially to Lamu (Island 3.0) where there was a public speakers' square and everything seemed so lively, happening all at once. On islands I tend to seek out "sonic centers": where several sound sources merge, but it's usually very quiet and there's really, with the exception of The Day of the Dead festivities, no social gathering centers here (despite the several community buildings, which D&D says are the outcome of a corrupt national construction mega-industry), and the two cafes/bars that were operated by younger people are closed -- but perhaps they only attracted tourists anyway.... the grimacing sisha (made a few drawings in the moleskin), on the roofs suggest another aspect I've yet to see (unless the shisha ensure the sedateness;), but I dunno, outside of the sugar harvest and the rare golf/croquet match, it sometimes seems to be mostly just a lot of tombs -- ancient presence/power -- and elderly ladies plopped down in their gardens... (the sanshin that is often heard, usually seems like more of an individual's lament), so I brought the discrete recording rig I used in Africa along to the sashimi shop hoping to eat there and maybe capture some local exchanges (some of the guesthouses sound lively on occasion) -- but when that didn't pan-out, I thought I'd found, coming back from Nishi, a good location in the concrete cattle, goat, duck enclosure that had a radio-playing.. I should have realized why all the animals were so excited to see me: it was feeding time, and the owner arrived shortly and he was _not happy to see me there... so perhaps I'll try another day/time... finished-off the remaining tofu with fish-flakes as a snack when what I really wanted was another bottle of those tasty peanuts and a Southern Star... very fat female Japanese wrestlers on TV weight-loss program... J emailed me a question about sake and I replied: < I've read that the more the rice is 'polished' (refined to remove impurities: shown as a percentage of original size), the better the flavour/product. The best, at 50% is apparently termed "dai-ginjo." I don't know the brand names. >... pinhole out: waxing crescent moon... earthquakes/tsunami-warnings in eastern Japan (Honshu) and PNG (New Britain)... Bingata (Okinawan: , literally "red style") is an Okinawan traditional resist dyed cloth, made using stencils and other methods. It is generally bright-colored and features various patterns, usually depicting natural subjects such as fish, water, and flowers... Kumi odori (?), meaning "combination dance" or "ensemble dance" in both the Okinawan and Japanese languages, is a form of narrative traditional Ryukyuan dance; perhaps like the opening Teppan dance?... 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Vientos del pueblo me llevan Vientos del pueblo me arrastran Me eparcen mi corazon Ye me aventan la garganta http://www.bbrace.net/id.html http://bradbrace.net/id.html bbs: brad brace sound http://69.64.229.114:8000 http://www.bbrace.net/undisclosed.html Waters Colours: http://bradbrace.net/webgallerywc/wc.html Eroticized Japanese/Malaysian Snack Foods: http://bradbrace.net/greenscreen.html Additional GIP texts/blog: http://bbrace.net/wordpress/ http://bradbrace.net/wordpress/ 12 mailing list: You cannot politically defy the institutions when all you really wanted was to be clasped to their bosoms and hope in time to be cherished under the very framework of oppressive values you are thinking of overcoming. That would be co-optation, revolution only in the sense of a circulation of elites rather than the extirpation of the very impulses of elitism. To subscribe to 12-list, simply send a message with the word "subscribe" in the Subject: field to 12-list-request@eskimo.com /:b _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 07:04:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26F67113D37; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:04:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1596D113D27; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:04:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110311070433.1596D113D27@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:04:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.774 new publication: Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 774. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 21:47:52 +0000 From: UTP Journals Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42, 3 April2011 Now available at Journal of Scholarly Publishing Online Journal of Scholarly Publishing Volume 42, Number 3, April 2011 is now available at http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/j28207183933/. This issue contains: Freedom to Read vs. Obligation to Protect Irving Louis Horowitz The explosion of new information technologies and their varied capacity to display and disseminate news, rumours, data, reports, confidential memoranda, and so on have raised anew the issue of freedom to read. This essay is an attempt to compare and contrast the period following World War II with a present-day environment of skirmishes, insurgencies, and small wars—and how a democratic society must cope with conflicting aims: protecting the social order and permitting the dangerous message. The essay reviews a variety of national interests, global constraints, and personal values in order to take account of a new situation that requires urgent attention. It concludes by noting that, on overview, the tensions between personal freedom and political order are of long standing. The capacity of the new information technologies to deliver messages in an accelerated time span is distinctive. The stress between freedom and order is greatest in the absence of a social consensus; it is sharply reduced when such a broad national consensus exists. Since the long span from 1950 to 2010 is marked by the breakdown of a cultural consensus, it is plain that the struggle of competing aims of freedom to read and retention of systemic cohesion is on the global agenda. Does (or Should) the First Amendment Trump Copyright? Sanford G. Thatcher The Ontology of the Scholarly Journal and the Place of Peer Review Bonnie Wheeler Reflections on variations found in scholarly journals and scholarly editing, leading to an argument that the common bond of scholarly journals is a shared commitment to peer review, a widely varying protocol in need of greater transparency. Journal ‘Ranking’ Issues and the State of the Journal in the Humanities Bonnie Wheeler The Sign of Four Stephen K. Donovan Academics can design their research programs, mastermind field exercises in exotic locations, arrange their teaching schedules, and organize conferences, but may stumble when faced with the task of writing up their data and ideas for publication. In truth, academic authorship is just another exercise that needs to be planned. Here is a simple plan that might work for you. Reviews Letter to the 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 Sun Mar 13 07:06:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3CC5116BB2; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:06:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0106B116B95; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:06:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110313070601.0106B116B95@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:06:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.775 on grammarotology (Hogart & Hanley) X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 775. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:50:25 +0000 From: Peter Batke Subject: Hoggart and Hanley, a grammarotological (not grammatological) visit Dear Willard, (I understand if you delete after the first paragraph, or earlier) cheers, Peter This part is optional: > What needs bleeding out in our case is not sentimentality. > What our lot needs freedom from is not the same as for those whom Hoggart > had and Hanley has in mind. But these words apply with force to one of > Humanist's founding missions, perhaps its central one. The difficulty in the sentence arises form the attempt to differentiate the past Hoggart from the present Hanley. The distinction is quite superfluous. For those who know H&H, "...Hoggart and Handley had in mind" is quite sufficient. For those who don't know H&H, such as I, a clear sentence is more important than overly accurate information that is hard to parse. I realize the time difference and the difference in stature makes it awkward to link the two with an and. An "in their respective time" might have been a solution. It will be assumed that at some point in the past, last year, Hanley had something in mind, which she may have in mind still, but who cares, the cat is out of the bag, so the imperfect is fine. Hoggart, I presume, is writing in 1957 and obviously "had" something in mind at some time in the past, and if he still has it, who cares, the cat has been out of the bag even longer, so the imperfect is fine. A past perfect constructions is not really required; it might have helped the initial sentence since it would have alerted the reader in a way than the use of "had" and "has" did not, at least not for me. Of course you could be suggesting that Hoggart no longer has that something in mind, a dicey call, better not to bring up. Of course, "...Hoggart and Hanley have in mind" could also be an elegant solution, if we are talking about the working class in the 50's. Clearly this is not something to consider in the morning with only London coffee to sustain one. So I would suggest: In our case, sentimentality does not need to be bled out. Our need for freedom is different than the need for freedom of those Hoggart and Hanley had in mind; yet, those words apply with force to one of Humanist's founding missions, perhaps its central one: to provide a forum for discussion of intellectual, scholarly, pedagogical, and social issues and for exchange of information among participants in nicely formatted electronic postings that do not have to be mucked about with by the editor, me, early in the morning, when I really have better things to do than to serve as formatting wet-nurse to a lot of thoughtless, heedless, careless left-thumbed ninnies who think they can write any old thing on their smartphone in the tube, or stuck in traffic on the freeway, slap it in Humanist and expect me to fix it all up for them, nice and pretty, you lazy inconsiderate lot of indolent sluggards. The part in italics merely extends the thought in one possible direction. I am still jetlagged west to east and the nights are still long. cheers, 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 Sun Mar 13 07:06:56 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BDA8116C24; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:06:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 722D4116C09; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:06:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110313070653.722D4116C09@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:06:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.776 impediments to authorship attribution? 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. 24, No. 776. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:49:24 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Salyers Subject: Question for Humanist [A question about a complex authorship problem] I'm in the middle of my PhD thesis, which involves using stylometry for authorship attribution in collaboratively-written Elizabethan plays or (plays reworked by subsequent playwrights). I'm working on a chapter right now that revolves around how hard it is to distinguish one author's style from another when the original manuscripts are unavailable. Since the texts from the period have been through the hands of editors, compositors, etc., over the last four hundred years, trying to determine an author's individual style when all traces of the original spelling, punctuation, lineation, and so on have been lost is difficult at best and near-impossible at worst. I'm trying to find sources that discuss this sort of problem. I'm looking in the usual places like JSTOR and the MLA Bibliography, and I've got one researcher's work I'm going to chase down (Joseph Rudman), but I was wondering if anyone had any other good leads on this sort of thing. Thanks in advance for any and all pointers. -- Tom Salyers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 13 07:13:52 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72287116DD7; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:13:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 922CE116DC4; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:13:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110313071347.922CE116DC4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:13:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.777 on "The Googlization of Everything" X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 777. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:35:30 +0000 From: Peter Batke Subject: Review of "The Googlization of Everything" I invite everyone to look at my take of the "The Googlization of Everything" by Siva Vaidhyanathan. I should warn the admirers that I did not the like the book. Yet if someone should be interested in a counter to the media darling's quest for the "50 year grand global project ... funded by concerned governments" follow this link: http://www.humancomp.org/batke/ I have tried to take care of my language and formatting. I would have spent more time on the task had I not been trying to parse a Willard sentence since yesterday: [For more recent thoughts on the subject from Peter see Humanist 24.775, sent out earlier this morning. ---WM] > Although what needs bleeding out in our case is not sentimentality, and > what our lot needs freedom from is different that of those whom Hoggart > had and Hanley has in mind, these words apply with force to one of > Humanist's founding missions, perhaps its central one. Can we have a clue, please? Will a strategically place "than that" save the day? I don't want to be annoying but the implication could be that the "central one" could possibly refer to formatting announcements with care. I shall return to parsing Bacon in the original English; there the ambiguity is incomparable. Perhaps I have missed a post or two. cheers, 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 Sun Mar 13 07:15:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7387116E6C; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:15:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EBD4F116E59; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:15:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110313071504.EBD4F116E59@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:15:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.778 update: student awards at Balisage 2011 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 778. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:40:56 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.765 events: BALISAGE 2011, student awards In-Reply-To: <20110306075058.2D6C0102D02@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard and HUMANIST, A kind reader alerted us to the fact that in our announcement for the student support awards for the Balisage conference this year, we neglected to update the deadline from last year's date. Students seeking support this year have until April 8, 2011 (the same day papers are due) to submit applications. They are not already almost a year late. With apologies, Wendell On 3/6/2011 2:50 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 20:27:20 -0500 > From: Syd Bauman > Subject: student awards for markup conference 2011 > > Please pass the word along ... > > ========= BALISAGE 2011 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 full conference > registration (including breakfast and lunch), plus other benefits > (including reimbursements towards travel and/or accommodations) to the > extent we are able to provide it. > > 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" -- ========================================================== 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 Mon Mar 14 06:54:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE8F31168E5; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:54:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E5B651168D2; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:54:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110314065428.E5B651168D2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:54:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.779 impediments to authorship attribution X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 779. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Brett D. Hirsch" (33) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.776 impediments to authorship attribution? [2] From: James Rovira (12) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.776 impediments to authorship attribution? [3] From: "David L. Hoover" (67) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.776 impediments to authorship attribution? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:22:38 +0800 From: "Brett D. Hirsch" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.776 impediments to authorship attribution? In-Reply-To: <20110313070653.722D4116C09@woodward.joyent.us> > I'm trying to find sources that discuss this sort of problem. I'm looking in > the usual places like JSTOR and the MLA Bibliography, and I've got one > researcher's work I'm going to chase down (Joseph Rudman), but I was  wondering > if anyone had any other good leads on this sort of thing.  Thanks in advance for > any and all pointers. There are a number of researchers active in authorship attribution studies of early modern drama: Hugh Craig, Mac Jackson, John Burrows, Thomas Merriam, Lene Petersen, Brian Vickers and Marcus Dahl, Jonathan Hope and Michael Witmore, Maura Giles-Watson, Ward Elliott and Robert Valenza, and others. You might start with Hugh Craig's recent article in EMLS: http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/15-1/craistyl.htm . You might also get in touch with the London Forum for Authorship Studies, which has sponsored meetings with many of the aforementioned scholars to discuss new methods and findings: http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/LFAS/index.htm . Also keep an eye out for relevant chapters on authorship and collaboration in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook to Middleton (2010), the Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare (2011), the Oxford Complete Works of John Ford (2011-13), and the Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopedia (2012). Best wishes, Brett -- Dr. Brett D. Hirsch University Postdoctoral Research Fellow Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (M208) University of Western Australia http://www.notwithoutmustard.net/ Coordinating Editor, Digital Renaissance Editions http://digitalrenaissance.arts.uwa.edu.au/ Co-Editor, Shakespeare http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/shakespeare --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:17:58 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.776 impediments to authorship attribution? In-Reply-To: <20110313070653.722D4116C09@woodward.joyent.us> This type of work has been a part of biblical exegesis for quite some time. Check out the tclist at yahoo.com -- there are program developers on that list, or there were. Jim R --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:15:41 -0400 From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.776 impediments to authorship attribution? In-Reply-To: <20110313070653.722D4116C09@woodward.joyent.us> It is important to remember that spelling, punctuation, and lineation are simply a few of the features in which authorship can be located. Word frequency, ngrams, collocations, syntactic patterns, and so forth are somewhat more resistant to the intervention of editors, compositors, etc., and there is a tremendous amount of literature on authorship attribution that suggests that the author's individuality can be discerned even through those confounding factors. Three exemplary book-length studies that discuss some of the problems of Elizabethan plays and collaboration are the following: Harold Love, /Attributing Authorship/ (Cambridge UP, 2002) Hugh Craig and Arthur Kinney, /Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship/ (Cambridge UP, 2009) Sir Brian Vickers/, /Shakespeare, Co-Author. A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays// (OUP 2002)/ / David Hoover / / On 3/13/2011 3:06 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 776. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:49:24 -0800 (PST) > From: Tom Salyers > Subject: Question for Humanist > > > [A question about a complex authorship problem] > > I'm in the middle of my PhD thesis, which involves using stylometry for > authorship attribution in collaboratively-written Elizabethan plays or (plays > reworked by subsequent playwrights). I'm working on a chapter right now that > revolves around how hard it is to distinguish one author's style from another > when the original manuscripts are unavailable. Since the texts from the period > have been through the hands of editors, compositors, etc., over the last four > hundred years, trying to determine an author's individual style when all traces > of the original spelling, punctuation, lineation, and so on have been lost is > difficult at best and near-impossible at worst. > > I'm trying to find sources that discuss this sort of problem. I'm looking in > the usual places like JSTOR and the MLA Bibliography, and I've got one > researcher's work I'm going to chase down (Joseph Rudman), but I was wondering > if anyone had any other good leads on this sort of thing. Thanks in advance for > any and all pointers. > > -- > Tom Salyers > -- David L. Hoover, Professor of English, NYU 212-998-8832 https://files.nyu.edu/dh3/public/ 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 Mon Mar 14 06:56:11 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 424AD116966; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:56:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 19D35116954; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:56:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110314065608.19D35116954@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:56:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.780 a new book on the spatial turn X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 780. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:29:57 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: space Quite unprovoked, as far as I can tell, the following book arrived a while ago. It seems well worth note here. The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship, ed. David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan and Trevor M. Harris (Indiana University Press, 2010). It is the first offering in a new series from Indiana UP, Spatial Humanities, which announces "the spatial turn" in the humanities. Will interesting (? new) twists and turns in the humanities never cease? The spatial metaphor suggests physical distance, among other things. As distance increases the individuality of things becomes increasingly difficult to see. One sees masses and patterns en masse that are not visible closer up. But, you might argue, these patters are quite close up, not just in a statistically processed display on screen but also in the mind, e.g. of the reader who has just finished reading a massive novel. Different things, as Jason Ensor has remarked, get closer up. The world is seen statistically? Is the spatial turn part of what the Stanford LitLab is responding to? See www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=287756 for details. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 Mar 14 06:56:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 604D51169DB; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:56:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6877A1169C3; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:56:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110314065654.6877A1169C3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:56:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.781 a reminder about Answers X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 781. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:15:38 -0400 From: "Jason B. Jones" Subject: Checking in with DH Answers Dear everyone, This is just a quick note to remind folks about Digital Humanities Questions & Answers (DH Answers), the community-driven place to . . . well, to pose questions to, and get friendly, helpful answers from, the community of scholar-builders working in the field. The url is: http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ Now in its fifth month, DH Answers is a collaboration between the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Chronicle of Higher Education's ProfHacker blog. Conceived as a place where people could ask focused questions that might take longer than 140 characters to answer, the DH Answers site features such topics as Applications, Tools, Formats DH in the Classroom; Project Management; Markup & Metadata, and much else. It's easy to keep with new questions: DH Answers is on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dhanswers, and there's a handy RSS feed: http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/rss/topics/ DH Answers has become a resource for many kinds of digital humanities workers--faculty, students, and academic staff alike. The site's easy to use, but first-time users might visit this page for some ground rules about the site: http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/so-what-is-this-qa-forum-and-what-can-i-do-here Why not drop by and either pose a question or suggest an answer? Best, Jason http://www.profhacker.com http://about.me/jbj _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 14 07:00:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 673C0116B30; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:00:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 81C79116B16; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:00:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110314070049.81C79116B16@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:00:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.782 job and PhD studentship at Copenhagen X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 782. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Georgios N. Yannakakis" (52) Subject: 1-year Research Position, Serious Games Technology,Center for Computer Games Research, ITU [2] From: "Georgios N. Yannakakis" (29) Subject: PhD position, Center for Computer Games Research, ITU, Copenhagen --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:12:13 +0000 From: "Georgios N. Yannakakis" Subject: 1-year Research Position, Serious Games Technology, Center for Computer Games Research, ITU ** Research Position in Serious Game Technology - Center for Computer games Research, ITU ** A one-year research position (Post-doctoral Fellow or Research Associate) within serious game technology (particularly user modeling and game adaptation) for mental health is available at the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University of Copenhagen (http://game.itu.dk/). The Games for Health project will attempt to combine technologies and concepts from computer games and e-learning processes for health purposes. The project focuses on the development of a serious game that will automatically profile the player's behavior relying on the player's actions, preferences and physiological responses. This knowledge of user behavior will be used to improve and personalize the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) via games. The research activities of the candidate will focus on the player modelling and the adaptive mechanisms embedded in the game. Moreover, the candidate will assist in the serious game design efforts and be responsible for integrating the above-mentioned technology in the final game. The methodology will focus on biofeeback game design and analysis, serious game design for healthcare, cognitive (and affective) modelling, and procedural content generation in games. We are looking for candidates with a background in computer science or engineering but also at least one of the following areas: cognitive science or experimental psychology. Experience in inter-disciplinary work among the above areas is highly valued. In particular, we are seeking candidates with experience in game development, game design, cognitive and affective modelling, artificial intelligence, experimental set up, and quantitative data analysis. Candidates applying at the research associate level must hold a master's degree in one of the above disciplines, while candidates applying at the post-doc level must hold a PhD in one of the above disciplines. Strong programming abilities are a necessity. The successful candidate will contribute to managing the work done by the IT University in the Games for Health project but also expected to contribute to other serious game technology projects currently running at the Center for Computer Games Research. The candidate (Post-doc level) is expected to contribute in grant proposal preparations and be involved in PhD supervision. The position may also involve teaching obligations. Work on the project is expected to start in September 2011. Interested candidates are requested to submit their letter of application (max 1 page), a copy of their curriculum vitae, and the names and contact details of two referees to Georgios N. Yannakakis (yannakakis@itu.dk). Applications should be received by *March 31, 2011*. -- 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:12:11 +0000 From: "Georgios N. Yannakakis" Subject: PhD position, Center for Computer Games Research, ITU, Copenhagen A 3-year PhD position under the EU-funded SIREN project (http://www.sirenproject.eu/ ) is available at the Center for Computer Games Research ( http://game.itu.dk ), ITU. The objective of the SIREN project is to create uniquely persuasive learning experiences to help children in thinking about and handling conflict in a constructive manner. The software developed by the project will be able to automatically generate conflict scenarios that fit the learning needs of particular groups of children with varying cultural background, maturity, and technical expertise. The research activities of the PhD student will focus on both the design and the implementation phases of the SIREN game. We are looking for candidates with the following backgrounds: learning and/or persuasive game design, cross-cultural psychology, artificial and computational intelligence, interactive narrative, user modelling. Programming skills are necessary; a basic programming background is a requirement for the position. Interested candidates should follow the official ITU guidelines for submitting their application (via the PhD Spring call): http://itu.dk/en/Om-IT-Universitetet/stillinger https://delta.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?ProjectId=83262&DepartmentId=5236&MediaId=1282 Application deadline: April 7 --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 Mon Mar 14 07:04:14 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DCE6116BC7; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:04:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 608BB116BAC; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:04:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110314070410.608BB116BAC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:04:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.783 events: PhD Seminar: Worlds, Stories and Games 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="===============1744628153==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============1744628153== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 783. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:07:19 +0000 From: Yuna Subject: 2nd CfP for PhD seminar "Worlds, Stories, and Games", May 18-20, 2011 at IT University of Copenhagen **2nd CFP for PhD seminar - "Worlds, Stories, and Games" *** May 18-20, 2011 at IT University of Copenhagen Speakers from the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University of Copenhagen: Espen Aarseth (Ludo-Narratology) Yun-Gyung Cheong (Story generation) Mark Nelson (Drama management) Julian Togelius (Procedural content generation) Georgios N. Yannakakis (User/Player modeling) Deadline for abstract submission: *March 22, 2011* Seminar participants will obtain 5 ECTS ***ABSTRACT*** This seminar invites PhD students to investigate theoretical and practical problems of interactive storytelling and interactive storytelling techniques in computer games or related media from the perspectives of computer sciences (part I) as well as humanities based research (part II) and tries to find interconnections between the two perspectives. Part I: Computational Models of Storytelling and Interactive Storytelling Narrative generation by computers has been actively researched for the last two decades. In particular, various artificial intelligence techniques have been used to model story creation and comprehension processes. However, generating interactive stories is still challenging due to the dynamics of user interaction. The user in story-centered games is like an actor who plays a role in a story without the script. Therefore, creating a seamless story that continuously interacts with the player requires numerous storylines and tremendous authoring efforts. In narrative analysis theory, story consists of two layers: story world and discourse. The story world includes all the events in the story including the events hidden from the reader while the discourse contains only the selected events to be presented to the story consumer. The author constructs the discourse carefully for particular impacts and emotional experiences for the reader. In games, the story consumer takes a part in creating the story world, and thus story events that are not worth to tell can be conveyed to her. The user’s dual roles as story producer and consumer in the game environment have complicated the direct application of narrative theories into interactive story generation. This seminar is looking for approaches to problems like: How can we efficiently use the interaction of a user into storytelling? Is the interactive storytelling more like a story or a game? Should the story components be present in the story world that the user navigates through or be present in a retrospective way when she recalls the game play? How much does narratology come into play in interactive storytelling? Part II: Ludo-Narratology and Beyond If games and game technology can be used for storytelling, what is storytelling, really? How much can the standard theories and models of narratology help us understand game-story hybrids and new kinds of ludo-mimetic entertainment, and how great is the need for new theories and models? A critical understanding of "story-games" is useful both for the development of experimental systems such as FAÇADE (2005), as well as for the study of commercial productions such as FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS (2010), DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS (2010), or HEAVY RAIN (2010). For years, game studies have tried to come up with an answer to the question: Are these "things" games or stories, or both? Unfortunately, the discussion got side-tracked on a meta-level, misleadingly termed "ludology vs. narratology," and became an unproductive no-man's land. It is high time to reboot the empirical study of story-game hybrids and move the field forward. The seminar will explore the ludological limits of narratology and present some new models from recent game research, and examine the utility of classical narratology. Through lectures, close-playing analysis and discussions, the goal is to attain a better grasp of the aesthetic challenges and solutions involved in game-story production and analysis, through new models and concepts developed specifically for these new forms. The seminar will furthermore give introductory talks on the state of the art in interactive storytelling techniques such as story generation, procedural content generation, and automated camera control. The seminar also includes an interactive session to demonstrate the use of interactive story authoring tools. ***REQUIREMENTS*** PhD students from the fields of game studies, narratology, interactive storytelling techniques, computational story generation and related fields are invited to submit papers which offer new insights or solutions for the presented problems. For participation please send an abstract of your paper (300-500 words) to smam(at)itu[dot]dk. In order to get 5 ECTS you only have to submit a paper and present a position, a problem, a solution etc. from the given fields. As an orientation: - a humanities based paper should have about 10 pages in Times New Roman 12pt, double line spacing or 4000-6000 words, - a computer science based paper: about 4000 words or max 6 pages following IEEE double-column formatting style (e.g. http://bit.ly/i2KdHK). Knowledge in either computational interactive storytelling techniques or narrative and computer game theory or both is preferable but not obligatory. A refreshment of knowledge will be made possible with a compendium of theoretical texts provided prior to the course. Furthermore, it is advised to play at least three of the example games (HEAVY RAIN (2010), FAÇADE (2005), FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS (2010), DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS (2010), THE MARRIAGE (2006)) prior to the course in order to have a comparable frame of reference in terms of examples. The seminar is free of charge; travel expenses and accommodation have to be comprised by the participants. ***TIMETABLE*** Deadline for abstract submission: March 22, 2011 Notification of acceptance: March 29, 2011 Submission of paper: April 29, 2011 Further information will be available at the “Events” page of http://game.itu.dk. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Sebastian Möring, smam(at)itu(dot)dk, or Yun-Gyung Cheong, yugc(at)itu(dot)dk. -- Yun-Gyung Cheong Post-doc IT University of Copenhagen Tel. +45 7218 5001 Email: yugc@itu.dk Addr. 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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: "Marlies Olensky" (202) Subject: TPDL 2011 - 2nd Call for Research Papers, Demos, Doctoral Consortium [2] From: Helen Tibbo (61) Subject: ICE Forum & 5th Bloomsbury Conference [3] From: Willard McCarty (43) Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 24/3 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:30:56 +0100 From: "Marlies Olensky" Subject: TPDL 2011 - 2nd Call for Research Papers, Demos, Doctoral Consortium 2nd CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS 2nd CALL FOR DEMOS DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011 September 25-29, 2011 | Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 14 years. For the 15th year the conference was renamed into: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DEADLINES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission deadline (full and short papers): March 21, 2011 Research paper submission: March 28, 2011 (midnight HAST, GMT -10hrs) Demo submission: March 28, 2011 Doctoral consortium submission: March 28, 2011 Notification of acceptance: May 23, 2011 Submission of final version: June 6, 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE/OBJECTIVES ----------------------- Over the last years, Digital Libraries have taken over a central role in our society. The process of acquiring, creating, processing, retrieving, disseminating, and using knowledge, information, data and metadata has undergone and still continues to undergo significant changes. This includes an ever increasing public access to on-line resources, an evolution in the amount and diversity of resources that are available through this channel, a social shift in the paradigm of how to experience information towards interactive, globally collaborative and personalized approaches, and many more. In this spirit, TPDL 2011 aims at providing a forum for researchers, developers, content providers and practitioners for presenting and discussing novel results from innovative research and systems development on Digital Libraries. TOPICS OF INTEREST ----------------------- Authors are invited to submit research papers describing original, unpublished research that is not (and will not be) simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere. TPDL 2011 solicits the submission of full (12 pages max.) and short (8 pages max.) research papers. General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics, organized in four areas: Foundations: Technology and Methodologies - Digital libraries: architectures and infrastructures - Metadata standards and protocols in digital library systems - Interoperability in digital libraries, data and information integration - Distributed and collaborative information spaces - Systems, algorithms, and models for digital preservation - Personalization in digital libraries - Information access: retrieval and browsing - Information organization - Information visualization - Multimedia information management and retrieval - Multilinguality in digital libraries - Knowledge organization and ontologies in digital libraries Digital Humanities - Digital libraries in cultural heritage - Computational linguistics: text mining and retrieval - Organizational aspects of digital preservation - Information policy and legal aspects (e.g., copyright laws) - Social networks and networked information - Human factors in networked information - Scholarly primitives Research Data - Architectures for large-scale data management (e.g., Grids, Clouds) - Cyberinfrastructures: architectures, operation and evolution - Collaborative information environments - Data mining and extraction of structure from networked information - Scientific data curation - Metadata for scientific data, data provenance - Services and workflows for scientific data - Data and knowledge management in virtual organizations Applications and User Experience - Multi-national digital library federations (e.g., Europeana) - Digital Libraries in eGovernment, elearning, eHealth, eScience, ePublishing - Semantic Web and Linked Data - User studies for and evaluation of digital library systems and applications - Personal information management and personal digital libraries - Enterprise-scale knowledge and information management - User behaviour and modelling - User mobility and context awareness in information access - User interfaces for digital libraries PAPER SUBMISSION ----------------------- All research papers must be written in English and follow the formatting guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Research papers must be up to 12 pages of length for long papers, up to 8 pages for short papers, and must be submitted via the conference submission system. All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the programme committee. Paper acceptance can be as long paper, short paper or poster. The size of the poster should not exceed ISO A0 (portrait) size – maximum height of 1189mm (46.81 inches) and maximum width of 841mm (33.11 inches). The proceedings will be published as a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series. All papers need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpdl2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd CALL FOR DEMOS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Demos provide researchers with an opportunity to present their work in an informal and interactive manner, and obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience. Demos showcase innovative digital libraries technology and applications, ranging from research prototypes to operational systems, allowing you to share your work directly with your colleagues in a high-visibility setting. We invite the submission of demos on all topics mentioned in the Call for Research Papers. - Demo submissions consist of a 4-page paper, which must be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS guidelines, and submitted via the conference submission system. - Accepted demos will be allocated up to 4 pages for the written paper in the TPDL 2011 proceedings. The proceedings will be published as a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series. - Accepted demos will be presented at a plenary poster and demo session during the TPDL 2011 conference. - For demos, authors will be required to bring laptop computers or other appropriate equipment, as no equipment will be provided. All abstracts for demos need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpdl2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Continuing a tradition, the TPDL 2011 Doctoral Consortium (DC) serves as a forum for PhD students to share ideas about the development and use of Digital Libraries, compare approaches, discuss future research problems and receive feedback from the international Digital Library community. The Doctoral Consortium aims to: - provide PhD students with a friendly and lively atmosphere for presenting their research ideas, exchange experiences with peers, and receive constructive feedback on their work from the international research community; - help students and doctoral candidates formulate research questions and organise their research; - help forge new relationships and collaborations within the International Digital Library community, promoting collaborative research; and - support a new generation of researchers with information and advice on academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths. The TPDL 2011 DC invites PhD students whose doctoral research is related to digital libraries and at a stage of progress where feedback from the international community might be of value, to submit extended abstracts of up to 10 pages describing their work. It is expected that students who submit extended abstracts, will have finished the first part of their research (one-two years of their studies) and be still in the middle of their research work. A panel of prominent researchers participating in the TPDL Programme Committee will conduct the workshop. They will review all the submissions and comment on the content of the work as well as on the presentation. Students will have 20 minutes to present their research, focusing on the main theme of their thesis, what they have achieved so far and how they plan to continue their work. Another 20 minutes are reserved for discussion and feedback from the panel of reviewers. The Doctoral Consortium will take place on a single full day. Up to 12 students will have the opportunity to participate. Submissions should be related to one or more of the conference themes as stated in the Call for Papers. Moreover, they should be presented in a way that demonstrates the link to the chosen conferences theme(s), and they should contain: - a clear formulation of the research topic and research hypotheses; - an outline of the significant problems in the field and their current solutions; - a description of the proposed approach and its expected contributions; - a discussion of preliminary results; and - an evaluation (-plan) of the research. All papers must be written in English and follow Springer's LNCS guidelines. Please send your submission directly by email to the doctoral consortium chair Milena Dobreva (milena.dobreva@strath.ac.uk). Abstracts of the papers will be published in the conference proceedings. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- All information can also be found on our website: http://www.tpdl2011.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Programme Co-Chairs Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Italy Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland Local Organising Chair Marlies Olensky, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TPDL 2011 - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (formerly ECDL) Main conference: September 26-28, 2011 Tutorials, Workshops: September 25, 29, 2011 Venue: Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum Adlershof, Berlin, Germany Conference Website: http://www.tpdl2011.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TPDL2011 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TPDL2011 Linkedin: http://events.linkedin.com/TPDL-2011-International-Conference/pub/504696 Xing: http://www.xing.com/events/international-conference-theory-practice-digital-libraries-2011-633977 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:14:46 +0000 From: Helen Tibbo Subject: ICE Forum & 5th Bloomsbury Conference ICE Forum (London 2011) International Curation Education Forum Date: Wednesday 29 June, 2011 Location: University College London, The Roberts Building, Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7JE **Please reserve the date in your calendar … registration will be available next week** The aim of this event will be to provide an international meeting place for educators, trainers, students and practitioners of digital curation to: discuss, evaluate, swap knowledge, and potentially improve practice around: a) effective curricula and course design b) production of advice and guidance materials (beginner, intermediate and expert) c) creation and use of textbooks and scholarly material The principal focus of the day will be on enabling all participants to learn as much as possible about the latest developments in digital curation teaching and training. Presentations will be combined with structured networking, lightning talks and feedback sessions to maximise opportunities for examining a wide range of approaches. The event is being subsidised and led by JISC in association with: the Digital Curation Centre (DCC); the Institute of Library and Museum Services; the School of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and the Department of Information Studies, University College London. The Forum will be an ideal opportunity for a number of different groups to congregate including: academics; curation training professionals; digital curators; repository managers; archivists; records managers; data managers; data librarians; publishers; commercial service providers; and students. It should be of interest to anyone who attended the DigCCurr conferences at UNC Chapel Hill (2007 & 2009) and will also build on the discussions of the IDEA (International Digital Curation Education Action) Group. The programme is being put together by an international advisory group and will be announced shortly. The venue for the forum will be the UCL Roberts Building, a recent addition to the UCL Bloomsbury campus and home to the University’s engineering faculty (http://bit.ly/fEXyJV). The venue is in the heart of the Bloomsbury university precinct and is convenient for all the cultural and social delights that Central London has to offer. A registration process is being setup and will be announced as soon as possible along with the draft programme. A small fee will be payable for attendance at the event in order to offset some of the costs. Student - £25 University/ public sector staff - £45 Commercial delegates - £65 (sponsorship queries most welcome) ** Please reserve the date in your calendar and look out for more information soon ** The ICE Forum precedes the fifth annual Bloomsbury Conference on E-Publishing and E-Publications, also to be held at University College London and co-sponsored by IMLS and the UCL Department of Information Studies. The theme of this year's Bloomsbury Conference is Social Media and the Academy: Enhancing and Enabling Scholarly Communication, and the dates are June 30-July 1. For more information see the conference website at at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/e-publishing/. Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor President & Fellow, Society of American Archivists School of Information and Library Science 201 Manning Hall CB#3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Phone: (919) 962-8063 Fax: (919) 962-8071 tibbo@email.unc.edu --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 06:27:29 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 24/3 "Fishing the Ocean : Lessons from Large-Scale Experiments in Styometry" Professor Patrick Juola (Duquesne University) Thursday, 24 March 2011, 17.30-19.30 Room 274 (Stewart House) Institute of English Studies Institute of Advanced Study University of London www.tinyurl.com/LondonSeminar/ All welcome. Abstract: Since its resurgence, the field of stylometry has been something of a professional adhocracy; there is little understanding of what the key elements of writing style actually are, or what they mean. While it is fairly easy to identify a new method for determining the author of a text, and such a method is likely to perform substantially better than mere chance, there has been relatively little work on analyzing the fundamentals of why the method might work. For example, there are many different ways to assess differences in word usage, but little analysis on determining what the underlying differences mean in terms of psychology or personality. We will show some psycholinguistically motivated methods of authorship attribution, but also show that they do not work particularly well. We will also show our current candidates for "best practices" and try -- and probably fail -- to interpret them in interesting ways. In the absence of a convincing argument for any specific "best" practice, can we make do with lots of different "so-so" practices? The sheer volume of potential methods (our software at this point supports more than 500,000 techniques) raises the possibility of using a classic mixture of experts approach. analyzing the same data set repeatedly with multiple methods, relying on the law of large numbers to give us consensus opinions with high accuracy. We illustrate this with a new analysis of some disputed plays (recently attributed to Thomas Kyd) in Martin Mueller's early modern drama data set. We further discuss issues of implementation and interpretation, including questions of whether stylometrics is even a sensible approach to the question of authorship in Elizabethan drama. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 16 06:20:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E776117890; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:20:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 005E0117879; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:20:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110316062005.005E0117879@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:20:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.785 anticipation 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. 24, No. 785. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:45:09 -0400 From: Francois Lachance Subject: The Art of Anticipation In-Reply-To: <20110310063539.6DDFC104EEA@woodward.joyent.us> Willard Since you often post on the thems of craftsmanship, discipline and technology, I think the following from William Gibson might be of interest. In this passage from _All Tomorrow's Parties_ he invites us to ponder the nature of design: That which is overdesigned, too highly specific, anticipates outcome, the anticipation of outcome guarantees, if not failure, the absence of grace. It is a well crafted sentence that defies anticipation. 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 Wed Mar 16 06:20:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63BBA1178EA; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:20:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2A9141178E0; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:20:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110316062051.2A9141178E0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:20:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.786 GIS projects? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 786. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:00:19 +0000 From: John Levin Subject: Digital Humanities GIS projects Hi, I'm hoping the list can help me with a little project that seems obvious and useful, but that doesn't seem to exist, namely a list of digital humanities projects that use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or similar cartographical technologies. I'm currently going through my voluminous bookmarks, and have found a few, but know that I haven't recorded every one I've seen or heard about. Is there already such a list in existence? What DH GIS projects do the list know of? TIA John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com johnlevin@joindiaspora.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 16 06:22:45 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 897F7117977; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:22:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AB5F111796D; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:22:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110316062242.AB5F111796D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:22:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.787 events: Day of Digital Humanities 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. 24, No. 787. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:54:34 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Day of Digital Humanities Dear Humanists, A reminder that Friday March 18th will be the third Day of Digital Humanities. Over 200 digital humanists from around the world will be blogging what they do and what they think that day. If you want to learn more visit: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2011 If you want to join us please register at: http://bit.ly/DoDH11-apply We will be creating another round of blogs in the next couple of days so register as soon as you can. We will try to accommodate folk that register at the last moment, but this is a volunteer project and we may not have the time if you leave it till Thursday. 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 Thu Mar 17 07:39:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E23711A55B; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:39:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 314AD11A552; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:39:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110317073940.314AD11A552@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:39:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.788 GIS projects X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 788. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Leif Isaksen (81) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.786 GIS projects? [2] From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" (55) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.786 GIS projects? [3] From: Sara Schmidt (59) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.786 GIS projects? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:00:27 +0000 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.786 GIS projects? In-Reply-To: <20110316062051.2A9141178E0@woodward.joyent.us> Dear John I think this may very much depend on your views as to the scope of Digital Humanities. Within Archaeology GIS is now so prevalent that it has to some degree become the norm rather than the exception for excavations. It is slightly less ubiquitous within research projects due to the technical skills required, but conferences like Computer Applications in Archaeology are probably about 50% geospatial in content. On the other hand I'm aware that the 'Digital Humanities' and 'Digital Archaeology' communities don't overlap perhaps as much as they should (perhaps not?) and GIS isn't so common in the more text-oriented disciplines. As an extension to this thought I'd suggest that GIS, while certainly here to stay, is being superceded to some extent by so-called 'NeoGeography' (i.e. Webmapping) within the Digital Humanities. There seem to be two reasons for this - the first is that it's generally easier to pick up than full-blown GIS skills and often provides a sufficient level of functionality for a DH project. It often also provides better means of representing (and interacting with) time. Secondly (and perhaps even more importantly) it is easier to disseminate, or better put, webmapping is the very act of dissemination. It has certainly been our experience on the HESTIA project that content that was immediately available online picked up more interest than work we did using a GIS, for which we would need to send, e.g. shapefiles around (or serve them over WMS/WFS, which takes us back to webmapping). I'd certainly be interested to know who else is working at the text-space-place interface though, so if you're setting up a wiki page (which I'd wholeheartedly support) you might want to kick off with: HESTIA (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/hestia/) Google Ancient Places (GAP) (http://googleancientplaces.wordpress.com/) Pelagios (http://pelagios-project.blogspot.com/) For a digital take on the very first Geographic Information System (Ptolemy's Geographia), you might also enjoy a paper I've just written for the forthcoming ICA Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage workshop: http://leifuss.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ica-dachisaksen.pdf Best wishes Leif On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 786. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:00:19 +0000 >        From: John Levin >        Subject: Digital Humanities GIS projects > > Hi, > > I'm hoping the list can help me with a little project that seems obvious > and useful, but that doesn't seem to exist, namely a list of digital > humanities projects that use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or > similar cartographical technologies. > > I'm currently going through my voluminous bookmarks, and have found a > few, but know that I haven't recorded every one I've seen or heard about. > > Is there already such a list in existence? What DH GIS projects do the > list know of? > > TIA > > John > -- > John Levin > http://www.anterotesis.com > johnlevin@joindiaspora.com > http://twitter.com/anterotesis --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:56:49 -0400 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.786 GIS projects? In-Reply-To: <20110316062051.2A9141178E0@woodward.joyent.us> Dear John (and all), This is as good a time as any to share the news that, within a few weeks, the Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library will make public a community-driven "Spatial Humanities" website through which we hope to crowd-source listings and recommendations about exemplary digital humanities projects using GIS and spatial technology. The website is one outcome of an NEH-funded "Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship" held last year at the Scholars' Lab: http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/geospatial/ The Spatial Humanities site will feature project lists and a growing research bibliography to which end users can contribute, using Zotero. (The initial listings have been created by fellows of our NEH Institute, and draw heavily on research on the "spatial turn" by Dr. Jo Guldi of the Harvard Society of Fellows.) The site will also aggregate Twitter feeds and social bookmarks related to the #geoinst hashtag, and GIS-related threads from Digital Humanities Questions and Answers (DH Answers) and the GIS Stack Exchange. Finally, it will include an edited publication called "Step By Step," in which scholars and GIS professionals share easy-to-follow tutorials and guides to getting things done in spatial teaching and research. I'll post again to Humanist when we unveil the project in a few weeks! In the meantime, a quick peek at Q&A threads tagged "GIS" in DH Answers reveals some recommended projects and even more readings on spatial humanities, which themselves contain project references: http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/tags/gis DH Answers itself would be another great place to ask this question! I'm looking forward to the responses you get here and perhaps there, and to our opportunity to add them to the forthcoming "Spatial Humanities" clearinghouse. Best, Bethany Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed., Ph.D. Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVa Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute VP, Association for Computers & the Humanities bethany@virginia.edu | http://nowviskie.org/ | @nowviskie --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:12:43 -0500 From: Sara Schmidt Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.786 GIS projects? In-Reply-To: <20110316062051.2A9141178E0@woodward.joyent.us> Ian Gregory's Historical GIS site ( http://www.hgis.org.uk ) has a list of online historical gis projects: http://www.hgis.org.uk/resources.htm#online_hgis Mapping the Lakes: a literary gis http://www.lancs.ac.uk/mappingthelakes/ The Map of Early Modern London http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/ Digital Literary Atlas of Ireland, 1922-1949 http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/digital-atlas/ Stanford U. Library's Humanities GIS page has a list of projects http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/gis/humanitiesgis.html the Association of American Geographers' Historical GIS Clearinghouse and Forum has a list of HGIS projects: http://www.aag.org/cs/projects_and_programs/historical_gis_clearinghouse/hgis_projects_programs _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 17 07:43:14 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A3F11A5DD; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:43:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 789F111A5CE; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:43:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110317074310.789F111A5CE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:43:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.789 jobs at UVic, Athabasca (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. 24, No. 789. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Darren James Harkness (29) Subject: Web Developer Positions at Athabasca University (Edmonton, Alberta) [2] From: Caroline Leitch (34) Subject: Job opportunities at the ETCL --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:46:12 -0600 From: Darren James Harkness Subject: Web Developer Positions at Athabasca University (Edmonton, Alberta) The e-lab at Athabasca University is looking to hire two web developers for a 9 month term for work on the Canada Film Online project, sponsored by a Heritage Canada grant. These positions will build, implement, document, and test a suite of web-based applications to support the creation of a virtual media lab within Athabasca University that will be used by students and faculty. The incumbent will aid in development of an interactive tool for researching Canadian film as well as provide maintenance for the university's e-lab project. 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 will work with other projects in the university. The positions will be based at our downtown Edmonton campus. Interested candidates can apply at: https://athabascau.hua.hrsmart.com/ats/js_job_details.php?reqid3D959 or https://athabascau.hua.hrsmart.com/ats/js_job_details.php?reqid3D960 Any questions about the positions can be directed to Darren James Harkness For more information about the e-lab at Athabasca University, please visit http://elab.athabascau.ca -- Darren James Harkness webmaster@staticred.net "Ever Tried? Ever Failed? No Matter. Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better." Samuel Beckett. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:35:25 +0000 From: Caroline Leitch Subject: Job opportunities at the ETCL The ETCL (http://etcl.uvic.ca/) and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project at the University of Victoria have a number of exciting opportunities for candidates with a background in literary and textual studies, expertise in computing, and an understanding of the digital humanities. ETCL team members are self-starters and self-managers who work well both individually and collaboratively and pride themselves on a passionate interest in the humanities and their computational engagement. Prospective ETCL team members should share similar passions and interests and bring new skills, new ideas, and complementary perspectives on existing digital humanities issues. Being organised is essential; interest and aptitude in research planning and management are assets; and the ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. Most positions can be taken up as postdoctoral fellow, alternative-academic, or developer. Salary for these positions is competitive in the Canadian academic context, and is governed in part by source-funder regulations; in some cases, a salary supplement for additional teaching duties may be available. 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. Please indicate in the email subject line the position to which you are applying. Applications will be received and reviewed until the positions are filled. For a list of jobs available, and further information about expectations, please visit: http://etcl.uvic.ca/2011/02/02/positions-available-in-the-etcl/#more-542. -- 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 Thu Mar 17 07:44:29 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F096F11A60C; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:44:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4A3EA11A604; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:44:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110317074425.4A3EA11A604@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:44:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.790 new on WWW: Dlib March/April 2011 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 790. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:55:17 +0000 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The March/April 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Greetings: The March/April 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains five articles and two conference reports. Also in this issue you can find 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 Galaxy of Images collection courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The articles include: Discovering the Information Needs of Humanists When Planning an Institutional Repository Article by David Seaman, Dartmouth College Library Resource Sharing in Australia: Find and Get in Trove – Making "Getting" Better Article by Rose Holley, National Library of Australia The Conference on World Affairs Archive Online: Digitization and Metadata for a Digital Audio Pilot Article by Michael Dulock and Holley Long, University of Colorado at Boulder Teaching Use of Digital Primary Sources for K-12 Settings Article by Anne R. Diekema, Heather Leary, Sheri Haderlie, and Cheryl D. Walters, Utah State University Towards Transparent and Scalable OpenURL Quality Metrics Article by Adam Chandler, Glen Wiley and Jim LeBlanc, Cornell University Library The conference reports are: Open Access, Open Data: Paradigm Shifts in the Changing Scholarly Communication Scenario Conference Report by Elena Giglia, University of Turin Next Steps in Research, Education and Practice in Digital Curation and Publishing: A Workshop Report from the Fourth Bloomsbury Conference on E-Publishing and E-Publication Conference Report by Carolyn Hank, McGill University; Joyce Ray, Institute of Museum and Library Services; and Anthony Watkinson, University College London D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ 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 2011 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 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 Mar 17 07:45:03 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4174D11A652; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:45:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ABDF511A641; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:44:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110317074459.ABDF511A641@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:44:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.791 Digging into Data Challenge 2011 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 791. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:19:11 -0400 From: "Serventi, Jennifer" Subject: 2011 Digging into Data Challenge Eight international research funders jointly announce their participation in round two of the Digging into Data Challenge, a grant competition designed to spur cutting edge research in the humanities and social sciences. The Digging into Data Challenge asks researchers these provocative questions: How can we use advanced computation to change the nature of our research methods? That is, now that the objects of study for researchers in the humanities and social sciences, including books, survey data, economic data, newspapers, music, and other scholarly and scientific resources are being digitized at a huge scale, how does this change the very nature of our research? How might advanced computation and data analysis techniques help researchers use these materials to ask new questions about and gain new insights into our world? Due to the overwhelming popularity of round one, the Digging into Data Challenge is pleased to announce that four additional funders have joined for round two, enabling this competition to have a world-wide reach into many different scholarly and scientific domains. The eight sponsoring funding bodies include the Arts & Humanities Research Council (United Kingdom), the Economic & Social Research Council (United Kingdom), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (United States), the Joint Information Systems Committee (United Kingdom), the National Endowment for the Humanities (United States), the National Science Foundation (United States), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (Netherlands), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada). Final applications will be due June 16, 2011. Further information about the competition and the application process can be found at www.diggingintodata.org. Jennifer Serventi, Office of Digital Humanities National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov/odh Twitter: @NEH_ODH _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 17 08:36:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FD3911AD5C; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:36:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B7EA711AD4B; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:36:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110317083605.B7EA711AD4B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:36:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.792 events: Digital humanities at Lausanne X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 792. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:01:50 +0100 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Digital Humanities are beginning in Lausanne (CH) Dear List, Today is a great day at the University of Lausanne (CH), because it is the beginning of our activities in the Digital Humanities. You will get English news and photos on my blog in the framework of the DH Day tomorrow. Here you have the program of our first meeting: a lot of things are of course already done. It is nevertheless a new step to have consciousness that we are working as «digital humanists». Thank you so much to all for the imputs and the ideas transmitted by the Humanist Discussion Group. Kind greetings, Claire Clivaz ----- Jeudi 17 mars de 17h15 à 19h45: Qu’est-ce qui bout dans la marmite digitale de l’Unil ? Des chercheurs de l’Unil montrent leurs travaux en lien au numérique : 17h15-18h40: Philippe Kaenel (Lettres, histoire de l’art, SHC) et François Vallotton (Lettres, histoire, SHC) : « La numérisation des sources en histoire et en histoire de l'art: le projet Hans Steiner et les revues d'architecture ». Patrick Bapst (Lettres, latin) et Marie Minger (Lettres, latin) : « Le latin louche sur la technologie. Mais la mayonnaise prend-elle ? » David Bouvier (Archéologie et sciences de l’Antiquité, DIHSR, Lettres) : «Lire Homère avec un ordinateur : comment vérifier une intuition de Ferdinand de Saussure » Daniela Vaj (Lettres, centre des sciences historiques et de la culture) : « La base de connaissances VIATIMAGES : une bibliothèque digitale d’images et textes de voyages » 18h40-19h: pause apéritive 19h-19h45 Sandrine Baume (Institut d’études politiques et internationales) : « La transparence. Les envers et revers d’une vertu publique » Olivier Glassey (Sciences sociales et politiques, observatoire science, politique et société) François Bavaud et Aris Xanthos (Lettres, Informatique et méthodes mathématiques) L’équipe d’organisation : Claire Clivaz (FTSR/IRSB), Christian Grosse (FTSR/IRCM), Frédéric Kaplan (EPFL/CRAFT), Jérôme Meizoz (Lettres/FDI), François Vallotton (Lettres/SHC), avec Elsa Neeman (Lettres) Avec le soutien de la FTSR et de l'Interface Sciences-Société Prochaines rencontres : 4 et 19 avril à 17h15 www.unil.ch/digitalera2011 Appel à contributions jusqu’au 30 avril pour le colloque des 23-25 août 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 Fri Mar 18 06:26:53 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B75F11A1E8; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:26:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6846811A1D1; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:26:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110318062649.6846811A1D1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:26:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.793 GIS projects X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 793. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" (2) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.788 GIS projects [2] From: Karl Grossner (243) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.788 GIS projects --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:59:44 +0000 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.788 GIS projects In-Reply-To: <20110317073940.314AD11A552@woodward.joyent.us> Just a note that there are OpenSource GIS apps so that you do not have to shell out a fortune: GRASS (more complex) or QGIS (Quantum GIS) less complex. For a brief introduction to QGIS (cross-platform app): http://www.historicalresources.myzen.co.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:58:15 -0700 From: Karl Grossner Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.788 GIS projects In-Reply-To: <20110317073940.314AD11A552@woodward.joyent.us> Greetings -- I've been a regular reader of this list for a few years, and this question has prompted me to finally wade in. My recently completed dissertation research (hmm...completed?) concerned semantic and temporal extensions to typical GIS data models for representing historical knowledge in the emerging genre of digital historical atlases. I'll add this link to a recently completed 2-day conference here at UC Santa Barbara, "Mapping Place: GIS and the Spatial Humanities" http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/mappingplace/. It was co-hosted by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the group I'm in, the Center for Spatial Studies -- which is the most recent incarnation of a GIScience research center here, following NCGIA and CSISS. A number of interesting projects were presented, some on the lists provided by others. I'll also add the point that what (lower case) geographic information systems are is fluid. Many in the GIScience community are seeking to extend functionality and in turn the range of disciplines they may be of use to. Those who find that sort of software intriguing but weak in some aspects can weigh in. Certainly, GIS is more than mapping technology, although they 'do' maps. Needs vary -- thumbtacks and a time slider can very effectively represent an argument; maps of spatial analytic results are another matter. For what its worth, analytic results can be displayed in web maps readily and dynamically, without the exchange of shapefiles! I look forward to the Virginia Spatial Humanities site as a forum where these ideas can continue to be be explored! -Karl ___________________ Karl Grossner, PhD karlg@geog.ucsb.edu Center for Spatial Studies Department of Geography UC Santa Barbara http://geog.ucsb.edu/~grossner -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 18 06:29:14 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 504D211A294; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:29:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 219E811A284; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:29:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110318062911.219E811A284@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:29:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.794 course: XML in Action X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 794. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:08:10 +0000 From: "Nelsen, Amanda (an2b)" Subject: Rare Book School course Rare Book School is currently accepting applications for XML in Action: Creating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Texts, taught by David Seaman. The course is a practical exploration of the creation, preservation, and use of electronic texts and their associated images in the humanities, with a special focus on Special Collections materials. This course is aimed primarily (although not exclusively) at librarians, publishers, and scholars keen to develop, use, publish, and control electronic texts for library, research, scholarly communication, or teaching purposes. The week will center around the creation of a set of archival-quality etexts and digital images (texts such as 18th and 19th century letters, which are short enough to allow each participant to take an entire document through all its creation stages during the course). Topics include: XML tagging and conversion; using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines; Unicode; metadata issues (including a discussion of METS and Open Archives Initiative harvesting), project planning and funding; and the manipulation of XML texts using stylesheets for re-publishing HTML, in ebook formats, and in PDF. Applicants need to have some experience with the tagging of HTML documents. In their personal statement, they should assess the extent of their present knowledge of the electronic environment, and outline a project to which they hope to apply the skills learned in this course. The course takes place 4-8 July in Charlottesville, VA. Applications are available online at http://www.rarebookschool.org/applications/ [This course is a revised version of "Introduction to Electronic Texts and Images", which ran from 1995-2009.] _______________________________________________ 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 Fri Mar 18 06:30:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 019E811A314; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:30:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 761E111A2FF; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:30:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110318063033.761E111A2FF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:30:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.795 PhD studentship in curating X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 795. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:15:07 +0000 From: Beryl Graham Subject: Funded PhD studentship in Curating A rare opportunity for a funded PhD studentship with CRUMB. Previous applicants are very welcome to apply. Full details, see: http://nuweb.northumbria.ac.uk/nebgp/curating.html -- AHRC Postgraduate Studentship Opportunities Northumbria and Sunderland Universities operate a collaborative AHRC Block Grant Partnership to support quality research and professional training in the Arts & Humanities. Studentships are available for uptake from September/October 2011 including: Doctoral Studentship, D4 Fine Art(Curating New Media Art) Applications Applications are invited electronically on the relevant form by no later than 12.00 noon on Monday 18 April 2011. Applications received after this date and time will be kept on file as reserves. Awards cover stipend and fees subject to eligibility criteria including UK residency, see the AHRC Guide to Student Funding http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Documents/ GuidetoStudentFunding.pdf Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is the UK funding body for the arts and humanities. Each year the AHRC provides funding from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities. Only applications of the highest quality and excellence are funded. Research supported by this investment provides social and cultural benefits and also contributes to the economic success of the UK. For further information on the AHRC, please see http://www.ahrc.ac.uk. The AHRC Block Grant Partnership scheme provides funding at Master's and doctoral level to Research Organisations that have shown strong evidence of excellent strategic planning for, and delivery of, high quality postgraduate research and training in the arts and humanities. It enables long-term planning for the support of high quality postgraduate research and training by allocating awards to five annual cohorts of postgraduate students. Please see http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News/Latest/Pages/pgpostsconfirmed.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art Research Student Manager, Art and Design MA Curating Course Leader 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 CRUMB's new books: Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media from MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12071 A Brief History of Curating New Media Art, and A Brief History of Working with New Media Art from The Green Box http://www.thegreenbox.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 Fri Mar 18 06:32:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B160311A391; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:32:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DC12011A377; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:32:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110318063211.DC12011A377@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:32:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.796 events: text-mining X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 796. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:56:57 +0000 From: Gabriel Lopes Subject: Call for papers: "Text Mining and Applications", ThematicTrack of EPIA 2011 *********** CALL FOR PAPERS *********** Text Mining and Applications (TeMA 2011) Thematic Track of EPIA 2011 TeMA 2011 will be held at the 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2011), in Lisbon, Portugal, 10-13 October 2011. This Track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). EPIA 2011 URL: (epia2011.appia.pt) This announcement contains: [1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7] Program Committee and [8] Contacts. [1] Track Description Human languages are complex by nature and efforts in pure symbolic approaches alone have been unable to provide fully satisfying results. Text Mining and Machine Learning techniques applied to texts, raw or annotated, brought up new insights and completely shifted the approaches to Human Language Technologies. Both approaches, symbolic and statistically based, when duly integrated, have shown capabilities to bridge the gap between language theories and effective use of languages, and can enable important applications in real-world heterogeneous environment such as the Web. The 4th Track on Text Mining and Applications (TeMA 2011) is a forum for researchers working in Human Language Technologies i.e. Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM) and related areas. Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified below. Papers will be blindly reviewed by three members of the Programme Committee. Best papers will be published at Springer, in LNCS series. If there are additional papers whose quality is sufficiently high for deserving to be presented at TeMA 2011, those other accepted papers will be published in a conference proceedings book. Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. [2] Topics of Interest Topics include but are not limited to: Text Mining - Language Models - Multi-word Units - Lexical Knowledge Acquisition - Word and Multi-word Sense Disambiguation. - Semantic Restrictions Extraction and Semantic Role Labeling - Sentiment Analysis - Acquisition and Usage of Ontologies - Pattern Extraction Methodologies - Topic Segmentation - Extraction of Translation Equivalents - Word and Multi-word Translation Extraction - Text Entailment - Document Clustering and Classification - Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining - Information Extraction Applications: - Natural Language Processing - Machine Translation - Automatic Summarization - Intelligent Information Retrieval - Multilingual access to multilingual information - Question-Answering Systems - E-training and E-learning - Semantic Search - Web Mining [3] Important dates May 10, 2011: Paper submission deadline June 10, 2011: Notification of paper acceptance July 1, 2011: Deadline for final versions October 10-13, 2011: Conference dates [4] Paper submission Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will not be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a review. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. More information about the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) are available on the Springer LNCS Web site: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Authors should omit their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care to avoid indirectly disclosing their identity. All papers should be submitted in PDF format. Instructions available in website conference (epia2011.appia.pt). [5] Track Fees: Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2011 conference. No extra fee shall be paid for attending this Track. [6] Organizing Committee: Joaquim F. Ferreira da Silva. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Vitor R. Rocio. Universidade Aberta, Portugal. Gaël Dias. Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal. José G. Pereira Lopes. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. [7] Program Committee: Adeline Nazarenko (University of Paris 13, France) Aline Villavicencio (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Antoine Doucet (University of Caen, France) António Branco (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Antonio Sanfilippo (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) Belinda Maia (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Brigitte Grau (LIMSI, France) Bruno Cremilleux (University of Caen, France) Christel Vrain (Université d'Orléans, France) Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada) Eric de La Clergerie (INRIA, France) Frédérique Segond (Xerox, France) Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Gaël Dias (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal) Gregory Grefenstette (CEA, France) Helena Ahonen-Myka (University of Helsinki, Finland) Irene Rodrigues. Universidade de Évora, Portugal) Isabelle Tellier (University of Orléans, France) Joaquim Ferreira da Silva (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) João Balsa (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) João Graça (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Luisa Coheur (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal) Manuel Vilares Ferro (University of Vigo, Spain) Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante, Spain) Marcelo Finger (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) Mark Lee (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) Nuno Mamede (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal) Nuno Marques (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Nadine Lucas (University of Caen, France) Pablo Gamallo (Faculdade de Filologia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain) Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora, Portugal) Pavel Brazdil (University of Porto, Portugal) Pierre Zweigenbaum (CNRS-LIMSI, France) Renata Vieira (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia) Veska Noncheva (University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria) Vitor Jorge Rocio (Universidade Aberta, Portugal) Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium) [8] Contacts Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 294 8536 ext. 10732 Fax; +351 21 294 8541; e-mail: jfs [at] _di [dot] fct [dot] unl [dot] pt Vitor Jorge Ramos Rocio, Universidade Aberta. Palácio Ceia, Rua da Escola Politécnica, nº141-147
,1269-001 Lisboa, Portugal. Tel.: +351 213 916 300; Fax: +351 213 916 517; e-mail: vjr [at] univ-ab [dot] pt _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 18 07:09:52 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70EBC11A8E0; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:09:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5BCCF11A8D0; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:09:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110318070948.5BCCF11A8D0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:09:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.797 our basic furniture? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 797. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:05:14 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: basic furniture of scholarship Let us say that you are preparing to make a Great Leap (forward or backward, as the case may be) from one kind of computing system to another, such as from PC to Mac. What would be on your list for basic functions at the level of ordinary scholarly work that you would want to find software to perform on the new system? In particular if you made a list of types or functions of software (i.e. wordprocessing, not Microsoft Word) that have become simply part of the furniture of your daily life, what would be on that list? What could you not do without, that is, without changing your work to the point that it would be different work? I expect that the list would be rather short. My underlying question is this: in the development of computing systems, what functions have become so completely successful that we use them without thought, like household appliances? Has the list of functions become stable? Is it finite? If so, does this mean that change will only be to the efficiencies with which these functions are performed? If not, then what do we expect to be the next new function to become an effectively invisible appliance? What does that process look like? What important functions do we *not* want to become thus invisible? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 19 07:30:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D3311A456; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:30:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0B84611A442; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:30:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110319073031.0B84611A442@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:30:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.798 our basic furniture X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 798. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" (8) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.797 our basic furniture? [2] From: Richard Lewis (74) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.797 our basic furniture? [3] From: Martin Holmes (61) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.797 our basic furniture? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:44:51 +0000 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.797 our basic furniture? In-Reply-To: <20110318070948.5BCCF11A8D0@woodward.joyent.us> LibreOffice gretl LyX QGIS vlc --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:42:30 +0000 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.797 our basic furniture? In-Reply-To: <20110318070948.5BCCF11A8D0@woodward.joyent.us> At Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:05:14 +0000 (GMT), Willard McCarty wrote: > > What would be on your list for basic functions at the level of > ordinary scholarly work that you would want to find software to > perform on the new system? In particular if you made a list of types > or functions of software (i.e. wordprocessing, not Microsoft Word) > that have become simply part of the furniture of your daily life, > what would be on that list? * Email client; with threaded view, integrated contacts management, and mechanism to store links to messages. I'm sure most scholarly communication, which may be the primary enabler of scholarly activity, is carried out by email. * Text editor; almost everything I deal with on a daily basis is some class of text editing. * Task list manager; I'm a stickler for TODO lists. In fact, I'm writing this reply in fulfilment of a TODO note. * Text searching; (such as grep) * Web browser; all my research which isn't empirical is either carried out using, or at least initiated by information found on the Web; preferably it should have a reasonable JavaScript debugger. * IRC client (or maybe this is too specific?); although we have a nice shared office space, my research group is very much cohered by its IRC channel. * PDF viewer (again, maybe too specific?). Despite the wonders of hypertext (which seem now to have been largely abused as a mechanism for enabling meta-publishing and which never seemed to take hold in scholarly publishing with a few notable exceptions), most scholarly publication is either print or print-a-like. * Typesetter; for the same reasons as above, we need to publish stuff that looks good (or at least conventional) on an A4 page. * A scripting language (such as Emacs Lisp, JavaScript, or Python); it's often preferable to spend three hours scripting a method to prepare data for analysis than it is to spend three hours carrying out a repetitive task to the same end. > My underlying question is this: in the development of computing systems, > what functions have become so completely successful that we use them > without thought, like household appliances? Has the list of functions > become stable? Is it finite? So one application class I didn't include is a (multi)media viewer (unless you count a Web browser as such). This has certainly become a new class of application in the last 20(?) years implying that maybe the list is subject to change. Have file management (by which I mean the things that computing systems call files) utilities taken on this status? How many users feel that they make efficient and invisible use of their computer's file management capabilities? Or are we still learning? Or do we hope that this will be replaced by some other metaphor? > If so, does this mean that change will only be to the efficiencies > with which these functions are performed? Possibly my suggestion of a scripting language is only now becoming more widely accepted. Of course, we have had scripting languages in our computing systems since the earliest days, but I think scripting using content from the Web and using the browser as UI is rapidly becoming the domain of more and more practitioners. However, this probably is, as Willard describes, merely an increase in efficiency and not a new paradigm of computing. > If not, then what do we expect to be the next new function to become > an effectively invisible appliance? Possibly whatever replaces the desktop UI model. Best, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Sent from my [insert device/mail client here] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:11:25 -0700 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.797 our basic furniture? In-Reply-To: <20110318070948.5BCCF11A8D0@woodward.joyent.us> Here's my list: rsync (can't live without it) XML editor (oXygen) Java JRE browsers with developer plugins (Firefox, Chrome) email client (Thunderbird -- it's cross-platform) svn client IDEs for all the programming languages I'm using (Qt Creator, Geany, NetBeans) Decent text editor Hex editor Vector graphics app (Inkscape) Raster graphics app (GIMP) Office suite (LibreOffice) Desktop publishing tool (Scribus) Password manager (LastPass) Media player (VLC) Audio editor (Audacity) Video munging tools (ffmpeg, HandBrake) Cheers, 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 Sat Mar 19 07:31:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F3611A4B0; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:31:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7A8D511A4A2; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:31:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110319073157.7A8D511A4A2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:31:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.799 job at MITH (Maryland) X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 799. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:33:12 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: New Job: Associate Director of MITH and Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Resarch, Libraries Position Announcement MITH and the University of Maryland Libraries Position: Associate Director, MITH; Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research, Libraries Category: Faculty, Full-time (12-month Appointment) Salary: $80,000 - $110,000, commensurate with experience. Benefits: 22 Days Annual Leave, 15 Days Sick Leave, 3 Days Personal Leave, 15 Paid Holidays DESCRIPTION: The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and the University Libraries at the University of Maryland are seeking an experienced, dynamic, and highly talented individual to fill a joint position as an Associate Director of MITH and Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research in the Libraries. The successful candidate will have primary responsibility for developing joint projects between MITH and the University Libraries, coordinating activities and initiatives between the two units, and developing a digital scholarship strategy for the Libraries and its digital humanities collections. Made possible by a major Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is a collaboration among the University of Maryland's College of Arts and Humanities, Libraries, and Office of Information Technology. Since its founding in 1999, MITH has become internationally recognized as one of the leading centers of its kind, distinguished by the cultural diversity so central to its identity. In recent years, MITH has achieved a track record of prominent and successful grant funded projects from NEH, the IMLS, the Mellon Foundation, and the NSF, among other agencies and funders. Its collaborators include the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Kennedy Center, and the Smithsonian, among many others. MITH’s strength is its collegial spirit, born of the value it places on its staff and their experiences, and the ideas they bring to the team. The University of Maryland Libraries is the largest university library system in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area, serving 37,000 students and faculty of the flagship College Park campus. The Libraries are new members of the HathiTrust digital library and are in a position to build upon that membership, existing library digital programs, a new strategic plan, and planned growth. The position therefore offers the right scholar-professional unique possibilities to establish a new and vibrant cooperative model between a digital humanities center and university research library. Situated just miles outside of Washington DC, the University of Maryland’s College Park campus also offers all of the opportunities that come from the libraries, museums, and cultural institutions of the area. The successful candidate will occupy a position of influence that will serve as a platform for a complete digital humanities research agenda spanning both a leading digital humanities center and a major university research library. We have a particular interest in individuals with expertise in humanities data curation and sustaining digital scholarship. Qualifications include: * Experience in developing strategic vision and plans for digital humanities scholarship * Experience in developing digital humanities projects and seeing them to successful conclusion * Demonstrated record of success in developing partnerships within and between institutions * Demonstrated record of success in writing grants *Strong grasp of the latest developments in online humanities scholarship, including social media *Strong record of publication and professional participation in digital humanities *Ability to analyze and advise on structure and organization of digital programs and cyberinfrastructure *Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and to communicate well and work with people from a variety of disciplines and a number of different career paths Position is appointed to Librarian Faculty Ranks as established by the University System of Maryland Board of Regents. Rank at appointment is based on the successful applicant’s experience and relevant credentials. For additional information, consult the following website: http://www.lib.umd.edu/groups/la/APPSC/index.html. APPLICATIONS: Electronic applications required. Please apply online at https://jobs.umd.edu, click faculty. The University of Maryland Libraries will not sponsor individuals for employment. You must be legally able to work in the United States. An application consists of a cover letter which includes the source of advertisement, a Curriculum Vitae, and names/e-mail addresses of three references. Applications will be reviewed as they are received and accepted until April 15, 2011. The University of Maryland is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and Minorities are encouraged to apply. -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC, a Living/Learning Program in the Honors College) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net and @mkirschenbaum on Twitter _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 19 07:34:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B5E11A561; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:34:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0604211A550; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:34:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110319073408.0604211A550@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:34:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.800 GIS projects & workshop X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 800. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Arno Bosse (30) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.793 GIS projects [2] From: Leif Isaksen (53) Subject: Pelagios Linked Ancient Geodata workshop --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:52:26 +0100 From: Arno Bosse Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.793 GIS projects In-Reply-To: <20110318062649.6846811A1D1@woodward.joyent.us> Hi John, Diana Sinton provides a good, current discussion of many projects presented at the recent "Mapping Place: GIS and the Spatial Humanities" http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/mappingplace/ at UCSB on her blog Diana Maps: http://dianamaps.com/2011/02/27/gis-the-humanities-at-ucsb-day-1/ http://dianamaps.com/2011/02/28/gis-the-humanities-at-ucsb-day-2/ There are various older briefing papers etc. on the topic. Stuart Dunn's summary on arts-humanities.net is a good example (http://bit.ly/g8rApV). You will also want to look over the 2009 SCI Report, in particular the list of references in the resources/readings section: http://www.uvasci.org/archive/spatial-technologies-and-methodologies-2009/ Following links tracked by blogs such as http://geospatial.posterous.com/ or http://electricarchaeologist.wordpress.com/ is also a good way to find out about the field. I second Leif's remark about Neogeography. Two active people in this area are Denis Wood and John Krygier. Their blog http://makingmaps.net/about/ offers, as it says, "resources and ideas for making maps". Lots of good ideas, current book reviews, examples and so on. cheers, Arno Bosse Research and Development Department Goettingen State and University Library Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen 37073 Goettingen Germany Phone: +49 551 39 12121 http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ twitter: kintopp skype: kintopp --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:20:52 +0000 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Pelagios Linked Ancient Geodata workshop In-Reply-To: <20110318062649.6846811A1D1@woodward.joyent.us> Hi all Apologies for X-posting. Just a quick reminder of the Pelagios Linked Ancient Geodata workshop at KCL next week. It's a great line-up of speakers and free to attend so if you're interested please register at: http://pelagios.eventbrite.com Hope to see you there. Leif Linking Open Data: the Pelagios Ontology Workshop The Pelagios workshop is an open forum for discussing the issues associated with and the infrastructure required for developing methods of linking open data (LOD), specifically geodata. There will be a specific emphasis on places in the ancient world, but the practices discussed should be equally applicable to contemporary named locations. The Pelagios project will also make available a proposal for a lightweight methodology prior to the event in order to focus discussion and elicit critique. The one-day event will have 3 sessions dedicated to: 1) Issues of referencing ancient and contemporary places online 2) Lightweight ontology approaches 3) Methods for generating, publishing and consuming compliant data Each session will consist of several short (15 min) papers followed by half an hour of open discussion. The event is FREE to all but places are LIMITED so participants are advised to register early. This is likely to be of interest to anyone working with digital humanities resources with a geospatial component. Preliminary Timetable 10:30-1:00 Session 1: Issues 2:00-3:30 Session 2: Ontology 4:00-5:30 Session 3: Methods Confirmed Speakers: Johan Alhlfeldt (University of Lund) Regnum Francorum online Ceri Binding (University of Glamorgan) Semantic Technologies Enhancing Links and Linked data for Archaeological Resources Gianluca Correndo (University of Southampton) EnAKTing Claire Grover (University of Edinburgh) Edinburgh Geoparser Eetu Mäkelä (University of Aalto) CultureSampo Adam Rabinowitz (University of Texas at Austin) GeoDia Sebastian Rahtz (University of Oxford) CLAROS Sven Schade (European Commission) Monika Solanki (University of Leicester) Tracing Networks Humphrey Southall (University of Portsmouth) Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System Jeni Tennision (Data.gov.uk) Pelagios Partners also attending are: Mathieu d’Aquin (KMi, The Open University) LUCERO Greg Crane (Tufts University) Perseus Reinhard Foertsch (University of Cologne) Arachne Sean Gillies (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU) Pleiades Mark Hedges, Gabriel Bodard (KCL) SPQR Rainer Simon (DME, Austrian Institute of Technology) EuropeanaConnect Elton Barker (The Open University) Google Ancient Places Leif Isaksen (The University of Southampton) Google Ancient Places _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 19 07:35:26 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4056811A5EE; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:35:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5693711A5E4; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:35:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110319073521.5693711A5E4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:35:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.801 events: Museums, Theory, Practice X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 801. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:06:27 +0100 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF conference - Re-Visiting the Contact Zone: Museums, Theory,Practice ***Re-Visiting the Contact Zone: Museums, Theory, Practice*** We invite young and established researchers in museum studies, anthropology, art history, sociology, architecture, design, archaeology, and all related fields including practitioners in museums, galleries, and archives to apply for the "Re-Visiting the Contact Zone: Museums, Theory, Practice Conference." This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with the Linköping University (LiU). The conference will take place on 17-21 July 2011 at Scandic Linköping Vast, Linköping, Sweden. Submission Deadline: 17 April 2011 Grants for Young and Early Stage Researchers available. Further information can be found below and at http://www.esf.org/conferences/11365 We would very much appreciate if you could circulate this announcement among your colleagues and your contacts. © courtesy of the Manchester Museum Re-Visiting the Contact Zone: Museums, Theory, Practice 17-21 July 2011 Chaired by: Sharon MacDonald - University of Manchester,UK Cilly Kugelmann - Jewish Museum Berlin, DE -- Programme -- Museums form an important part of the cultural heritage of all European countries. As institutions museums have tended to remain focused on the nation state for historical, political and financial reasons, but many of the issues museums aim to respond to today transcend national boundaries. This international European Science Foundation funded conference seeks to provide a platform for exchange, reflecting on the new EU-wide interest in museums as spaces of cultural encounter that occupy a unique position at the junction between 'the local', 'the national' and 'the global'. [...] Invited speakers will include Tony Bennett - University of Western Sydney, AU Mary Bouquet - University College Utrecht, NL Hans Hollein - Atelier Hollein, AT Marta Lourenço - University of Lisbon, PT Eithne Nightingale - Victoria and Albert Museum, UK Anthony Shelton - University of British Columbia, US Pamela H. Smith - Columbia University, US -- How to Participate -- Attendance is possible only after successful application. Full conference programme and application form accessible from http://www.esf.org/conferences/11365 A certain number of grants are available for students and early stage researchers to cover the conference fee and possibly part of the travel costs. Closing date for applications: 17 April 2011 == Dr. Arianna Ciula Science Officer for the Humanities European Science Foundation 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 Sun Mar 20 07:22:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0EE311BF64; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:22:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 92DB211BF55; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:22:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110320072208.92DB211BF55@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:22:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.802 our basic furniture 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. 24, No. 802. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:57:13 -0400 From: Haines Brown Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.798 our basic furniture In-Reply-To: <20110319073031.0B84611A442@woodward.joyent.us> Although the initial question and the replies to it may be worthwhile, there was an absense of the parameters needed to make it meaningful. For example, the replies to the question wander between listing specific applications and the functions they support and between applications specific to humanistic study and those probably useful to everyone. The main parameter, however, was probably the purpose of the question. For example, a way the question could have been put is: what are the basic computer functions needed by someone entering the profession? Once that is defined, it is easier to debate which operating system is more accommodating and which applications best fulfill those functions on those various platforms. However, my experience is that such debates are often not very productive, and a survey of actual usage is probably more efficient and useful. A functional approach might be, just by way of illustration, that we in the humanities are fixated on the extraction and production of information, usually in the form of text: a) operations on "primary" text such as digitalizing, translating, statistical analysis, and storing, b) storing and access to "secondary" text material, such as an organized database that supports searching and automated citing and some means for on-line information retrieval, c) text manipulation for its production in various media such as print, projection, and Internet, with an ability to manipulate and include auxiliary media. The relative weight of the first and second functions seem to vary greatly, although the third would seem to be common to everyone. Haines Brown _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 06:49:46 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15ACE11CA4F; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:49:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 318B511CA44; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:49:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110321064943.318B511CA44@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:49:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.803 our basic furniture X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 803. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" (3) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.802 our basic furniture [2] From: Willard McCarty (40) Subject: my furniture --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:40:00 +0000 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.802 our basic furniture In-Reply-To: <20110320072208.92DB211BF55@woodward.joyent.us> Parameters, then: concordance analysis: http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_16.html I couldn't perform my work without this cli (command-line itnerface). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:45:11 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: my furniture In-Reply-To: <20110320072208.92DB211BF55@woodward.joyent.us> When I asked the question about basic functions of software I was in part wondering what the question should be. This question began with the problem of figuring out what a person who shifted operating systems would need to look for in the new one -- in a few cases, say, the Mac version of X, but in many, what the best software would be for doing Y. Thinking further about the matter, it's the functions that matter. But of course new systems (hardware and/or software) sometimes modify or create functions. The Day of Digital Humanities comes to the question from another angle but with some of the same results. It asks, what do you do all day? For me the interesting answer arising out of my own attempt to make a list (with which I will not bore you) concerns note-taking. This function seems unsatisfied by any one application or set of applications, and it is occasionally upset and reconfigured by the introduction of new hardware, such as the iPad and its kind. I would hazard a guess that not only do we not yet have it right (though John Bradley's Pliny is a very fine piece of work) but also that by nature (at least my nature) this function changes form depending on the project -- its size, kind, phase, subject, materials. My guess is that we haven't even begun to understand what is involved here, that note-taking is so close to the processes of reading, encoding in memory, assimilating, remembering, reasoning and composing that our processes of design don't come anywhere close to being right for the job. Clearly, as the iPad has shown me, sitting at a computer, at a desk, is fatal to some kinds of note-taking. Even laptops are too demanding of special circumstances to work for all. Even iPads. Sometimes the only thing that will do is a piece of paper tucked into a book. Yes, paper and book. (Let's not be technologically dogmatic!) So, a fascinating set of problems, no doubt requiring several disciplinary points of view, including the cognitive sciences. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 Mar 21 06:50:19 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB3411CAC6; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:50:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3ADD411CA93; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:50:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110321065015.3ADD411CA93@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:50:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.804 GIS projects X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 804. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:51:58 +0000 From: John Levin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.788 GIS projects In-Reply-To: <20110317073940.314AD11A552@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks to all who responded to my query, onlist and off. I have compiled a list of DH (meaning academic in this context) GIS (meaning anything with maps) projects at: http://anterotesis.com/wordpress/?page_id=349 (far from complete - I will be adding to it when I can) and blogged about my reasons here: http://anterotesis.com/wordpress/?p=354 Leif Isaksen is quite right to point out the differences between GIS and Neogeography; I'm guilty of sloppy terminology, and was using GIS as a catch-all category. I'm personally more interested in webmapping than desktop applications, due to the possibilities of sharing data, techniques and results through the internet. The fundamental necessity of place to archaeology is also a very important point; that isn't the situation with history or literary analysis (my areas of interest), regardless of the potential of spatial investigation for those disciplines. Hestia is a very fine project, and one that shows the importance of crossing the disciplines - there's very few projects that map a single text, or read a text through a map; many literary cartographies use metadata rather than the contents. I'm looking forward to the new Spatial Humanities site, and hope it can use my compilation for its own list of projects (which will also absolve me of the duty of keeping it updated!). John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com johnlevin@joindiaspora.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 06:51:25 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B3511CB96; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:51:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EF4A311CB78; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:51:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110321065121.EF4A311CB78@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:51:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.805 studentships at Strathclyde and Glasgow X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 805. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:37:22 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: ESRC Studentships in Information Science ESRC Studentships in Information Science 2011 The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow The Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS), University of Strathclyde Deadline for applications: 15 April 2011 Eligibility: UK and EU nationals Further Information The Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow are pleased to announce the availability of ESRC-funded PhD studentships in Information Science beginning in September 2011. These studentships are offered as part of the new ESRC recognised Scottish Doctoral Training Centre (DTC). The Scottish DTC Pathway in Information Science will be governed by representatives from the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. Although awards will be shared among the two universities, interested applicants should apply directly to the university where they believe their research interests are best represented in staff research activity. For information on information science research activity at Strathclyde see: http://www.ilab.cis.strath.ac.uk/themes.html For information on information science research activity at HATII see http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/hatii/research/ Awards will be determined by the governance committee representing the pathway. Candidates may apply for a PhD studentship ( +3 awards). Students demonstrating sufficient training in research methods will be funded for three years of research on a topic matching research interests in HATII or CIS. Preliminary inquiries about the award scheme in should contact: Ann Gow, University of Glasgow (Ann.Gow@glasgow.ac.uk) Forbes Gibb. University of Strathclyde (Forbes.Gbb@cis.strath.ac.uk) No separate application is required to be considered for this award. However, students may be asked to submit an expanded research statement to be considered for ESRC funding within this pathway. -- Professor Andrew Prescott Director of Research Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute Sgoil nan Daonnachdan / School of Humanities University of Glasgow George Service House 11 University Gardens Glasgow G12 8QQ Tel: +44 (0)141 330 3635 Mobile: +44 (0)774 389 5209 Fax: +44 (0)141 330 1675 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 06:52:20 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAEF911CC61; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:52:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2412911CC3A; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:52:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110321065217.2412911CC3A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:52:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.806 1984 at Louvain-la-Neuve? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 806. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:19:02 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: 1984 at Louvain-la-Neuve? A colleague would very much like to discover the list of attendees at the ALLC conference held in 1984 at Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium. Any leads would be much appreciated. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 Mar 21 06:53:14 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F3711CCE2; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:53:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7788411CCCD; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:53:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110321065312.7788411CCCD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:53:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.807 events: THATCamp at Fairfax, VA X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 807. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:57:35 -0400 From: Amanda French Subject: THATCamp, The Humanities And Technology Camp Although spots have been filling up fast, there are still a few spaces open for The Humanities And Technology Camp (THATCamp) at the Center for History and New Media in Fairfax, VA. THATCamp, a free unconference, will take place from June 3-5, 2011, with the first day being devoted to "BootCamp" workshops on such technologies as HTML5 and Omeka. Note that $500 fellowships are also available. See http://chnm2011.thatcamp.org for more information and to register. Registration is first come, first served up to 125 registrants. -- Amanda French amanda@amandafrench.net 720-530-7515 http://amandafrench.net http://twitter.com/amandafrench Skype: amandafrenchphd AIM: habitrailgirl _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 06:21:45 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E743711D391; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:21:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A20D711D37D; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:21:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110322062142.A20D711D37D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:21:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.808 jobs: RA for Wellcome Brain Exhibition 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="===============1159472295==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============1159472295== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 808. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:25:35 +0000 From: "Marius Kwint" Subject: Wellcome Brain Exhibition Research Assistantship Research Assistant for the Wellcome Brain Exhibition In spring 2012, the Wellcome Collection is planning to hold an important exhibition on brains at its headquarters in Euston Road, London. Formed from the bequest of the pharmaceutical entrepreneur Sir Henry Wellcome (1853­–1936), the Wellcome Collection and Trust comprise one of the principal research resources and funds for the medical humanities, art-science interactions, and biomedical sciences in the world. The exhibition aims to show the brain as material, structure, and object. It will offer a critically informed enquiry into different ways of understanding, representing and treating this fascinating and complex organ. A series of live events and discussions around mind-brain relationships will accompany the exhibition. Dr Marius Kwint, Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture in the School of Art, Design and Media, has been appointed as research consultant to the exhibition. Details Salary: £4,081 - £4,732 Job reference: 10001696 Closing date: 01.04.2011 Department/School: School of Art, Design and Media Length of contract: Fixed term contract for 12 months Type of contract: 0.2 fte ----- This exciting post has now been advertised on the University of Portsmouth website, and will appear soon on Jobs.ac.uk. Given the tight deadline of 1st April, please consider circulating, forwarding or inspecting the following link as soon as possible. http://www.port.ac.uk/vacancies/research/vacancytitle,128877,en.html Best wishes Marius Dr Marius Kwint Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture University of Portsmouth School of Art, Design and Media Eldon Building Winston Churchill Avenue Portsmouth PO1 2DJ, UK Tel. +44 (0)23 9284 5623 Fax. +44(0)23 9284 3808 marius.kwint@port.ac.uk http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/adm/staff/title,82848,en.html --===============1159472295== 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 --===============1159472295==-- From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 22 06:23:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF6C011D3E5; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:23:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7878411D3DE; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:23:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110322062345.7878411D3DE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:23:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.809 new on WWW: ALLC website X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 809. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:00:56 +0100 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: www.allc.org - ALLC website re-launch The re-designed and updated ALLC website has now been launched. The URL remains as before: http://www.allc.org Some of the nested pages still require updating, so please bear with us while we attend to this. For feedback and submission of any relevant announcements or other content, please contact Lena Schüch at webmaster@allc.org Thanks to everyone who has supported us in this effort, in particular to Alex & Leon and the team at Greenbox Designs, Cape Town, and to Lena! -- *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1300698084_2011-03-21_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_19851.1.2.jpeg _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 06:27:03 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF12011D459; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:27:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 198CB11D452; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:27:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110322062701.198CB11D452@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:27:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.810 events: XML; annotation X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 810. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Gibson, Matthew (msg2d)" (24) Subject: XML Workshop [2] From: Passarotti Marco Carlo (74) Subject: Call for Papers: Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research inthe Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:02:33 -0400 From: "Gibson, Matthew (msg2d)" Subject: XML Workshop XML Development: From Markup to Application April 25-28, 2011, Washington, DC Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is pleased to offer an in-depth workshop focused on Web development with XML. Taught by experienced XML instructors and developers Matthew Gibson, Director of Digital Programs at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities at the University of Virginia, and Patrick Yott, Director of Library Technology Services at Northeastern University, this four-day workshop will explore XML with a specific focus on fundamentals of design, markup, and use. Participants will use XML and related technologies in the creation of a prototype digital publication. Topics to be covered include: * XML: What is it? And why should we care about it? * Working with content models (primarily XML Schema and some Schematron) and methods of using them when constructing and validating XML * Implementing methods of content transformation and delivery (using XSLT and XPath) so the XML we build can be delivered, read, and used in a variety of formats * Utilizing Solr, a Lucene-based search server, and XSLT to deliver the final class project Participants should have a basic familiarity and some experience with markup (e.g., HTML, some XML, etc.). Event Details Dates: Monday, April 25 – Thursday, April 28, 2011 Time: 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Location: George Washington University Marvin Center, Washington, DC Fee: $1,500 Register: by March 25, 2011, at http://www.arl.org/stats/statsevents/index.shtml. Best, Matthew -- Matthew Gibson Director of Digital Programs Virginia Foundation for the Humanities p. 434.924.4531 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:01:08 +0100 From: Passarotti Marco Carlo Subject: Call for Papers: Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities CALL FOR PAPERS ---- Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities ---- The workshop on "Annotation of corpora for research in the Humanities" will be held on January 5, 2012 at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) (http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/ACRH10/). Submissions are invited for papers, posters and demonstrations presenting high quality, previously unpublished research on the topics described below. Contributions should focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Proceedings will be published as a special issue of the 'Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics' (JLCL: http://www.jlcl.org/). Publication will be online only. The workshop will be co-located with the Tenth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT10), which will be held on January 6-7, 2012 (http://tlt10.cl.uni-heidelberg.de). MOTIVATION AND AIMS The workshop aims at building a tighter collaboration between people working in various areas of the Humanities (such as literature, philology, history etc.) and the research community involved in developing, using and making accessible annotated corpora. Addressing topics related to annotated corpora for research in the Humanities is an interdisciplinary task, which involves corpus and computational linguists (mostly those working in literary computing), philologists, scholars in the Humanities and computer scientists. However, this interdisciplinarity is not fully realised yet. Indeed, philologists and scholars are not used to exploit NLP tools and language resources such as annotated corpora; in turn, computational linguists are more prone to develop language resources for NLP purposes only. For instance, although many corpora that play a relevant role for research in Humanities are today available in digital format (theatrical plays, contemporary novels, critical literature, literary reviews etc.), only a few of them are linguistically tagged, while most still lack linguistic tagging at all. Historical corpora are also a case of special interest, since their creation demands a strong interplay between computational linguistics and more traditional scholarship. Over the past few years a number of historical annotated corpora have been started, among which are treebanks for Middle, Early Modern and Old English, Early New High German, Medieval Portuguese, Ugaritic, Latin, Ancient Greek and several translations of the New Testament into Indo-European languages. The experience of these ever-growing group of projects can provide many suggestions on the methodology as well as on the practice of interaction between literary studies, philology and corpus linguistics. Moreover, we believe that a tighter collaboration between people working in the Humanities and the research community involved in developing annotated corpora is needed since, while annotating a corpus from scratch still remains a labor-intensive and time-consuming task, today this is simplified by intensively exploiting prior experience in the field. TOPICS To overcome the above mentioned issues, the workshop aims at covering a wide range of topics related to the annotation of corpora for research in the Humanities. The topics to be addressed in the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: - specific issues related to the annotation of corpora for research in the Humanities - annotated corpora as a basis for research in the Humanities - diachronic, historical and literary annotated corpora - use of annotated corpora for stylometrics and authorship attribution - philological issues, like different readings, textual variants, apparatus, non-standard orthography and spelling variation - annotation principles and schemes of corpora for research in the Humanities - adaptation of NLP tools for older language varieties. Specific features of tools for accessing and retrieving annotated corpora to address various research topics in the Humanities INVITED SPEAKER Gregory Crane (Tufts University, Boston, USA). IMPORTANT DATES Deadlines: always midnight, UTC ('Coordinated Universal Time'), ignoring DST ('Daylight Saving Time'): - Deadline for paper submission: September 22, 2011 - Notification of acceptance: October 28, 2011 - Final version of paper for workshop proceedings: November 18, 2011 - Workshop: January 5, 2012 INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION We invite the submission of full papers describing original, unpublished research related to the topics of the workshop. Papers should not exceed 12 pages. The language of the workshop is English, and all papers should also be submitted in well-checked English. Papers should be submitted in PDF format only. Submissions have to be made via the EasyChair page of the workshop at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acrh2012. Please first register at EasyChair if you do not have an EasyChair account. The style guidelines follow the specifications required by JLCL. They can be found here: http://www.jlcl.org/index.php?modus=style_sheets&language=en. Please note that as reviewing will be double-blind, the papers should not include the authors' names and affiliations or any references to web-sites, project names etc. revealing the authors' identity. Furthermore, any self-reference should be avoided. For instance, instead of "We previously showed (Brown, 2001)...", use citations such as "Brown previously showed (Brown, 2001)...". Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three members of the program committee. Submitted papers can be for oral or poster presentations. There is no difference between the different kinds of presentation both in terms of reviewing process and publication in the proceedings. ORAL PRESENTATION The oral presentations at the workshop will be 30 minutes long (25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussion). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRS - Francesco Mambrini (Tufts University, Boston; Univ. Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy) - Marco Passarotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy) - Caroline Sporleder (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBERS - Lars Borin, Sweden - Milena Dobreva, Scotland - Anette Frank, Germany - Jost Gippert, Germany - Erhard Hinrichs, Germany - Anke Luedeling, Germany - Willard McCarty, UK - Alexander Mehler, Germany - Adam Przepiórkowski, Poland - Paul Rayson, UK - Roman Schneider, Germany - Raymond Siemens, Canada - Manfred Stede, Germany - Angelika Storrer, Germany - Martin Volk, Switzerland LOCAL ORGANIZATION - Anette Frank - Markus Kirschner - Christoph Mayer - Madeline Remse - Corinna Schwarz - Anke Sopka All Heidelberg 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 Mar 23 06:20:00 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF0CC11EE80; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:19:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4FA0C11EE71; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:19:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110323061956.4FA0C11EE71@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:19:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.811 literature brought virtually to 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. 24, No. 811. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:02:20 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Giving Literature Virtual Life In-Reply-To: <201103220950.p2M9oSF5007935@mail.ucla.edu> [Note below the sentence, “The Internet is less foreign to me than a Shakespeare play written 500 years ago.” Does that not speak volumes and give us a cause for concern? --WM] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jack Kolb > Date: Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:50 AM > Subject: Giving Literature Virtual Life March 21, 2011 Giving Literature Virtual Life By PATRICIA COHEN BRYN MAWR, Pa. — Prof. Katherine Rowe’s blue-haired avatar was flying across a grassy landscape to a virtual three-dimensional re-creation of the Globe Theater, where some students from her introductory Shakespeare class at Bryn Mawr College had already gathered online. Their assignment was to create characters on the Web site theatron.org and use them to block scenes from the gory revenge tragedy “Titus Andronicus,” to see how setting can heighten the drama. “I’ve done this class before in a theater and a lecture hall, but it doesn’t work as well,” Ms. Rowe said, explaining that it was difficult for students to imagine what it would be like to put on a production in the 16th-century Globe, a circular open-air theater without electric lights, microphones and a curtain. Jennifer Cook, a senior, used her laptop to move a black-clad avatar center stage. She and the other half-dozen students agreed that in “Titus,” the rape, murders and final banquet — when the Queen unknowingly eats the remains of her two children — should all take place in the same spot. “Every time someone is in that space,” Ms. Cook said, “the audience is going to say, ‘Uh oh, you don’t want to be there.’ ” Students like Ms. Cook are among the first generation of undergraduates at dozens of colleges to take humanities courses — even Shakespeare — that are deeply influenced by a new array of powerful digital tools and vast online archives. At the University of Virginia, history undergraduates have produced a digital visualization of the college’s first library collection, allowing them to consider what the selection of books says about how knowledge was classified in the early 18th century. At Hamilton College, students can explore a virtual re-creation of the South African township of Soweto during the 1976 student uprisings, or sign up for “e-black studies” to examine how cyberspace reflects and shapes the portrayal of minorities. Ms. Rowe’s students, who have occasionally met with her on the virtual Globe stage while wearing pajamas in their dorm rooms, are enthusiastic about the technology. “Until you get Shakespeare on its feet, you’re doing it an injustice,” Ms. Cook said. “The plays are in 3-D, not 2-D.” Many teachers and administrators are only beginning to figure out the contours of this emerging field of digital humanities, and how it should be taught. In the classroom, however, digitally savvy undergraduates are not just ready to adapt to the tools but also to explore how new media may alter the very process of reading, interpretation and analysis. “There’s a very exciting generation gap in the classroom,” said Ms. Rowe, who developed the digital components of her Shakespeare course with a graduate student who now works at Google. “Students are fluent in new media, and the faculty bring sophisticated knowledge of a subject. It’s a gap that won’t last more than a decade. In 10 years these students will be my colleagues, but now it presents unusual learning opportunities.” As Ms. Cook said, “The Internet is less foreign to me than a Shakespeare play written 500 years ago.” Bryn Mawr’s unusually close partnership with Haverford College (essentially across the road) and Swarthmore College (a short drive away) has enabled the three institutions to pool their resources, students and faculty. In November students from all three participated in the first Digital Humanities Conference for Undergraduates. Hosted by Haverford, the student-run two-day symposium also attracted undergraduates from Middlebury, Brown, Cornell, Hamilton and the University of Pennsylvania, who shared their own projects and discussed other ways in which undergraduates could use new technology for research. Jen Rajchel, one of the conference organizers, is the first undergraduate at Bryn Mawr to have a digital senior thesis accepted by the English department: a Web site and archive on the American poet Marianne Moore, who attended the college nearly a century ago. Ms. Rajchel had experimented with building a digital archive at Haverford with Laura McGrane, an assistant professor there who helped create the three colleges’ digital humanities initiative last year. But Ms. Rajchel’s Bryn Mawr thesis adviser, Jane Hedley, had never worked with an undergraduate on this type of digital project before. “She wanted me to show her that this was necessary,” Ms. Rajchel said. Presenting a Moore poem on the Web site while simultaneously displaying commentary in different windows next to the text (as opposed to listing them in a paper) more accurately reflects the work’s multiple meanings, according to Ms. Rajchel. After all, she argued in the thesis, Moore was acutely aware of her audience and made subtle alterations in her poems for different publications — changes that are more easily illustrated by displaying the various versions. The Web presentation of Moore’s poetry also allows readers to add comments and talk to one another, which Ms. Rajchel believes matches the poet’s interest in opening a dialogue with her readers. She and her adviser both posted their evaluations of the thesis online after it was reviewed. Ms. Hedley said she liked how Ms. Rajchel underscored the link between a published poem and its readers, although she noted that a project like this was “apt to have less focus, fullness and heft than a conventional senior thesis,” which might run 35 pages. Particularly inspiring to Ms. Rajchel is that her work doesn’t disappear after being deposited in a professor’s in box. The site, which includes scans of original documents from Bryn Mawr’s library, was (and remains) viewable. “It really can go outside of the classroom,” she said, adding that an established Marianne Moore scholar at another university had left a comment. Doing research that lives outside the classroom is also what drew Anna Levine, a junior at Swarthmore, to digital humanities. Over the summer and after class, she and Richard Li, a senior at Swarthmore, worked with Rachel Buurma, an assistant professor of literature there, to develop the Early Novels Database for the University of Pennsylvania’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, which enables users to search more thoroughly through fiction published between 1660 and 1830. “I am the one doing all the grunt work,” Ms. Levine said of her tasks, which largely involve entering details about a novel into the database. “But one of the great things is as an undergraduate, it really enables me to participate in a scholarly community.” In a Swarthmore lounge where Ms. Buurma’s weekly research seminar on Victorian literature and culture meets, Ms. Levine and a handful of other students recently settled into a cozy circle on stuffed chairs and couches. As part of their class work, they have been helping to correct the transcribed online versions of Household Words and All the Year Round, two 19th-century periodicals in which Charles Dickens initially published some novels, including “Great Expectations,” in serial form. On a square coffee table sat a short stack of original issues of the magazine that a librarian had brought from the college’s collection to show the class. Students discussed how the experience of reading differs, depending on whether the text is presented in discrete segments, surrounded by advertisements or in a leather binding; whether you are working in an archive, editing online or reading for pleasure. “I was more immersed in the fictional world because I was concentrating so much,” Esther Lee, a junior, said, describing her experience of reviewing the online transcriptions for mistakes. “I was editing word by word by word and noticing more of the details.” Laura Backup, a senior, had the opposite reaction. “I couldn’t do both at once,” she said of reading and editing. “I was too focused on finding the errors.” For Charlie Huntington, a curly-haired junior, neither the pamphlet-sized journal nor the Web made the novel “feel nearly as important as it does here,” he said, tapping a paperback copy of “Great Expectations.” Those skeptical of the digital humanities worry that the emphasis on data analysis will distract students from delving deeply into the heart and soul of literary texts. But Ms. Buurma contends that these undergraduates are in fact reading quite closely. As for Ms. Levine, she said she was not bothered that large questions about the significance and direction of this growing field were still swirling. “We’re really participating in something that’s happening right now,” she said, “like being part of a political movement and not yet knowing where the next critical thing may come from.” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/books/digital-humanities-boots-up-on-some-campuses.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28 -- 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 Wed Mar 23 06:21:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C16EB11EEEF; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:21:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E7B4111EEE6; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:21:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110323062137.E7B4111EEE6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:21:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.812 events: digital workshop; information 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. 24, No. 812. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "G.Akmayeva" (141) Subject: Call for Papers: i-Society 2011! [2] From: Katherine L Walter (19) Subject: 6th Annual Nebraska Digital Workshop --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:29:57 +0000 (GMT) From: "G.Akmayeva" Subject: Call for Papers: i-Society 2011! CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************* International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011), Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter 27-29 June, 2011, London, UK www.i-society.eu ******************************************************************* The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011) 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 2011 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 2011 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: March 31, 2011 Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress): March 20, 2011 Notification of Paper Acceptance /Rejection: April 15, 2011 Notification of Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress) Acceptance /Rejection: April 10, 2011 Camera Ready Paper and Short Paper Due: April 30, 2011   Participant(s) Registration (Open):  January 1, 2011 Early Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): February 1 to April 30, 2011 Late Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): May 1 to June 1, 2011 Conference Dates: June 27-29, 2011   For more details, please visit www.i-society.eu   --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:13:52 -0500 From: Katherine L Walter Subject: 6th Annual Nebraska Digital Workshop The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) will host the sixth annual Nebraska Digital Workshop on October 14-15, 2011 and seeks proposals for digital presentations by pre-tenure faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students working in digital humanities. Applications will be vetted and the best work of early career scholars in the field of digital humanities will be selected and presented in a forum where it can be critically evaluated, improved and showcased. The Center will invite two nationally recognized senior scholars in digital humanities to UNL to participate with CDRH faculty and to work with the early career scholars. Selected scholars will receive full travel reimbursement and an honorarium for presenting their work at the Nebraska Digital Workshop. Selection criteria include: significance in primary disciplinary field, technical innovation, theoretical and methodological sophistication, and creativity of approach. Please send proposed workshop abstract, curriculum vitae, and a representative sample of digital work via URL or disk on or before April 22, 2011 to: Katherine L. Walter, Co-Director, UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, kwalter1@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 Mar 24 06:24:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 666EA11DB1A; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:24:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C913211DB07; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:24:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110324062449.C913211DB07@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:24:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.813 literature brought virtually to 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. 24, No. 813. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:23:43 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.811 literature brought virtually to life? In-Reply-To: <20110323061956.4FA0C11EE71@woodward.joyent.us> I read Shakespeare on my own over the summer in high school. Becoming familiar with Shakespeare is no great matter. One only needs to read. The real problem is a complete lack of imagination, literally. Because students have not been made to read they cannot form their own images, but must have them constructed for them. I will say, though, that digitally reconstructing the Globe and having students block the plays will require close reading of one type, though it can easily lead to a disregard of some of the intricacies of dialog. 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 Thu Mar 24 06:25:25 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A606811DB60; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:25:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2F8BD11DB50; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:25:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110324062523.2F8BD11DB50@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:25:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.814 Yahoo Pipes in education? 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. 24, No. 814. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:22:29 -0700 From: Lawrence Hanley Subject: Yahoo Pipes in education I'm teaching a grad course on digital humanities - - am wondering if anyone has created/discovered any really innovative, teaching-learning-scholarly Yahoo Pipes mashups that I can use as examples for my students. Thanks in advance. Larry Hanley Dept. of English San Francisco State University profhanley@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 Mar 24 06:25:53 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C72CC11DB91; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:25:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8BFEC11DB84; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:25:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110324062551.8BFEC11DB84@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:25:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.815 events: Language individuation X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 815. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:18:43 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Language individuation Language Individuation: A Symposium in Honour of John Burrows 4-8 July 2011 Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing The Humanities Research Institute University of Newcastle NSW Australia www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/groups/cllc/2011-symposium.html Evidence-based work on authorship over recent decades has shown that writers create an individual style with a precision of detail and a consistency which would hardly have been predicted by traditional stylistics, let alone by the more recent understanding of literary production that foregrounds collective forces, such as institutions, ideologies, genres and language itself. Meanwhile cognitive linguistics and neuroscience have been exploring the connections between the language of the individual and physical structures in the brain from the perspective of the mechanisms of language production. This work takes the question of language individuation beyond literary style to wider questions of how individuals create styles in language in general, in everyday writing and speech. If our picture is of language users who cannot help transforming the undifferentiated common resource of language into highly specific recognisable idiolects, how best can we study this phenomenon, and establish its nature and limits? The symposium honours John Burrows, the founder of computational stylistics. Burrows showed in his book Computation into Criticism: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels and an Experiment in Method (1987) that a quantitative study of function word use can reveal subtle and powerful patterns in Austen's language. The book also pioneered the application of Principal Component Analysis to language data. In subsequent work Burrows proposed a series of new techniques, Delta, Zeta, and Iota, all of which are now very widely used in computational stylistics. Burrows' work both before and after his retirement in 1989 has put authorship study on a rigorous basis and provided a model for an unusual and productive combination of statistical and literary analysis. For more information, contact Hugh Craig, Humanities Research Institute, University of Newcastle, Australia, at hugh.craig@newcastle.edu.au. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, www.mccarty.org.uk; Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Editor, 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 26 12:21:22 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 089A81216B5; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:21:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 35EA21216A6; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:21:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110326122119.35EA21216A6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:21:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.816 Yahoo pipes in education X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 816. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:07:39 +0100 From: Seth van Hooland Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.814 Yahoo Pipes in education? In-Reply-To: <20110324062523.2F8BD11DB50@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Larry, I've integrated a small exercice with Yahoo Pipes in my class on Information Architecture (organized in the context of a master in information science) a couple of weeks ago. The specific topic I tackled that day was the impact of structured and open data on the web, and I mainly focussed on XML. Most of my students don't really have a technical background so I can't grab their attention during more then two hours by explaining the benefits and the history of XML and XML schema purely by showing them some examples in my slides, and so I've asked them at the end of the class to play around with the Yahoo Pipes. It's a very light-weight and easy to understand application which illustrates the possibilities offered by RSS (concrete application of XML) and you can ask the students to integrate the pipe they've created within their own webpage. I've put the slides of that class (which gives a very basic overview of server- and client-side scripting, XML and the impact of these technologies on our use of data on the web, illustrated by the open data mouvement) on http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/structured_web.pdf If you're looking for a book on the topic of mashups you can use: Yee, R. (2008). Pro Web 2.0 mashups. Apress: New York. Kind regards, Seth van Hooland Digital Information Chair - ULB Master en sciences et technologies de l'information et de la communication | Université Libre de Bruxelles Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123 | 1050 Bruxelles DB 11.113 http://mastic.ulb.ac.be/ http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/ +32-2-6504765 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 26 12:25:05 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D80D312174C; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:25:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8FFE8121736; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:25:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110326122501.8FFE8121736@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:25:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.817 literature brought virtually to 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. 24, No. 817. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: maurizio lana (33) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.811 literature brought virtually to life? [2] From: "Bleck, Bradley" (8) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.813 literature brought virtually to life --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:01:12 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.811 literature brought virtually to life? In-Reply-To: <20110323061956.4FA0C11EE71@woodward.joyent.us> Il 23/03/2011 07:19, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: [Note below the sentence, "The Internet is less foreign to me than a Shakespeare play written 500 years ago.” Does that not speak volumes and give us a cause for concern? --WM] i interpret the phrase this way. those who are, and feel themselves, as part of respublica litterarum, feel close to shakespeare as much as to - let's say - derek walcott. but a young person feels today closer to a twitter friend in lybia than to shakespeare because they have much more in common. it's a long way the one which leds to have more in common (or as much as) with shakespeare than with your neighbour, and not all people are able / want / find interesting / ... to walk it. the big question is: after years of university studies will our students have walked that way, or not? if not, has the university missed its main target? when we speak today of multiculturalism we intend it in an horizontal way: cultures and people living today. but years of studies could (should) bring to intend it in a vertical way too: cultures and people who lived in the past (and who will live in the future too?). 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) ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:41:13 -0700 From: "Bleck, Bradley" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.813 literature brought virtually to life In-Reply-To: <20110324062449.C913211DB07@woodward.joyent.us> Back in the days when text-based virtual realities were all we had, my literature students use a MOO to (re)construct elements of the works we were reading. I still remember one of the students whose projects was based around Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." Because one can create containers in a MOO, one such container was the sister's coffin with the scraped up lid. It was pretty wild to be able to open the coffin and see what it revealed. Makes me wish graphical virtual realities such as 2nd life never came our way because they seem to have taken away that imaginative aspect that comes with reading in the text=-based VR. Bradley Bleck Department of English Spokane Falls Community College bleckblog.org -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:25 PM 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 Mar 26 12:26:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D7612179B; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:26:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 434D912178A; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:26:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110326122600.434D912178A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:26:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.818 job at King's X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 818. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:21:23 +0000 From: "Spence, Paul" Subject: Job posting: XML developer position at Department of DigitalHumanities, King's College London Job posting: XML developer position at Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London This position is being re-advertised [With apologies for cross-posting] The Department of Digital Humanities (previously the Centre for Computing in the Humanities), 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Project Research Officer (XML Developer) (Full-time, fixed term 2 years - Grade 6) The Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London is looking for a highly motivated and technically sophisticated individual to work on its text-based research projects. The position will involve using computer tools and methods to facilitate digital scholarship. The successful candidate to this position would have widespread experience in modelling textual materials and developing tools to search, query, retrieve and display them using XML-related technologies; in designing, writing and modifying programs which facilitate content creation ; and collaborating in the development of integrated HTML-based interfaces for web publication. Experience in creating and manipulating XML documents in a range of XML-related standards and technologies (DTDs/Schema, XPath, XSLT) is highly desirable, in particular textual materials encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative's guidelines. Familiarity with structured data/MySQL, Java programming, text processing techniques and standards-compliant XHTML and CSS is also desirable. In addition you will need to have a good understanding of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences and you will be expected to make a contribution to the departmental research profile. You will need to be able to work effectively as part of a team, as well as independently. The successful candidate should have good communication skills and the ability to document their work in clear written English. This appointment is on the Grade 6 scale, currently ranging from £33,070 - £39,038 inclusive of £2,323 London Allowance per annum. This is a full-time, two-year contract. Closing date for receipt of applications is 11 April 2011. For more information, and details on how to apply, please visit the following url: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACK577/project-research-officer-developer/ ---------------------------------------- Paul Spence Acting Head of Department Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL paul.spence@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 Mon Mar 28 05:16:41 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C13B512126F; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:16:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 40CC412125D; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:16:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110328051635.40CC412125D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:16:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.819 literature brought virtually to 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. 24, No. 819. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Tatjana Takseva (56) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.817 literature brought virtually to life [2] From: D.Allington (31) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.817 literature brought virtually to life --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:42:28 +0000 From: Tatjana Takseva Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.817 literature brought virtually to life I am wondering whether there may be value in trying to speak of change without assigning moral values to it-that is, "change is good," vs. "change is bad." There may be times, such as with the instance involving students/faculty relationship with Shakespeare and the Internet, that change means change. As with all change, something is lost and something gained. Dr. Tatjana Takseva Associate Professor Department of English Saint Mary's University Halifax, NS B3H 3C3 Canada Tatjana.Takseva@SMU.ca [Note below the sentence, "The Internet is less foreign to me than a Shakespeare play written 500 years ago.” Does that not speak volumes and give us a cause for concern? --WM] i interpret the phrase this way. those who are, and feel themselves, as part of respublica litterarum, feel close to shakespeare as much as to - let's say - derek walcott. but a young person feels today closer to a twitter friend in lybia than to shakespeare because they have much more in common. it's a long way the one which leds to have more in common (or as much as) with shakespeare than with your neighbour, and not all people are able / want / find interesting / ... to walk it. the big question is: after years of university studies will our students have walked that way, or not? if not, has the university missed its main target? when we speak today of multiculturalism we intend it in an horizontal way: cultures and people living today. but years of studies could (should) bring to intend it in a vertical way too: cultures and people who lived in the past (and who will live in the future too?). 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) ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:43:16 +0100 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.817 literature brought virtually to life In-Reply-To: <20110326122501.8FFE8121736@woodward.joyent.us> Having a research interest in what Bradley Bleck calls 'text-based virtual realities' (below), I was wondering whether anyone else on the list has tried using MOOs and related forms of programming (eg. Inform 7 or its multi-user offshoot, Guncho) for teaching in the humanities. Somehow I find the idea of students building a MOO to be rather more exciting than the idea of them staging plays in Second Life. But perhaps I'm just showing my age... All best Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University +44 (0) 1908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington > Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:41:13 -0700 > From: "Bleck, Bradley" > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.813 literature brought virtually to life > In-Reply-To: <20110324062449.C913211DB07@woodward.joyent.us> >Back in the days when text-based virtual realities were all we had, my literature students use a >MOO to (re)construct elements of the works we were reading. I still remember one of the >students whose projects was based around Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." Because one >can create containers in a MOO, one such container was the sister's coffin with the scraped up >lid. It was pretty wild to be able to open the coffin and see what it revealed. Makes me wish >graphical virtual realities such as 2nd life never came our way because they seem to have taken >away that imaginative aspect that comes with reading in the text=-based VR. >Bradley Bleck >Department of English >Spokane Falls Community College >bleckblog.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 28 05:18:26 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3AC21212D4; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:18:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9669C1212BF; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:18:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110328051823.9669C1212BF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:18:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.820 job 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 820. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:40:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Digital Humanities Developer Position - Stanford University I'm happy to announce the posting of a 1-year fixed term Digital Humanities Developer position in Academic Computing Services here at Stanford University. The job description is provided below. Interested candidates can apply for the position at jobs.stanford.edu searching for job ID 42067. All the best, Elijah Elijah Meeks http://dhs.stanford.edu Digital Humanities Specialist Academic Computing Services Stanford University emeeks@stanford.edu (650)387-6170 ******************************************************************************* Digital Humanities Developer, Academic Computing Services Job ID 42067 Job Location University Libraries Job Category Library Salary 4P3 Date Posted Mar 25, 2011 This is a Fixed-Term position for 12 months. Academic Computing Services (ACS), a division of Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR), provides technology expertise, resources, and services to students, faculty, and staff in support of the University’s academic mission. Due to the growing demand by Stanford faculty for software development and integration in humanities research, ACS seeks an experienced Digital Humanities Developer. The successful candidate must have experience working with humanities scholars and expertise in developing sophisticated representation of humanities datasets. S/he will work with ACS's Digital Humanities Specialist to support faculty projects by developing dynamic and interactive software as well as identifying and integrating a wide variety of techniques and tools for work in the humanities. The candidate should have a firm understanding of at least one of the major trends in the digital humanities, such as historical GIS, event modeling, text analysis or semantic networks. The digital humanities developer will work alongside collaborative groups across Stanford, providing solutions and support for a variety of projects. Development work will be oriented toward reuse by scholars across traditional humanities disciplines as well as providing resources for staff in SULAIR and similar organizations at Stanford. The position will report to the Digital Humanities Specialist. In addition to a resume, interested candidates should submit a cover letter/email describing how their qualifications are a fit for the position. Specific responsibilities include: • Alongside the Digital Humanities Specialist, consult with faculty to identify how their work can be better facilitated with custom software and off-the-shelf tools. • Evaluate existing humanities software tools suitable for a humanities-wide audience as well as those best oriented toward particular fields and methodologies. Design and implement plug-ins or scripts for such tools to better suit humanities datasets, when necessary. Maintain familiarity with tool functionality and the latest methodological theory on the use of such tools in humanities scholarship. • Build and/or identify lightweight, web-portable frameworks that allow scholars to present and easily work with standardized datasets. • Identify and convey the variety of methods of representing nuanced and sophisticated knowledge in digital format, specifically in regard to digital scholarly media. • Review professional literature; participate in newsgroups and other forums to stay abreast of new methodologies and practices relevant to Digital Humanities; and continually improve knowledge of academic technology and programming through participation in code reviews with other Academic Computing developers and attending appropriate classes and workshops. Qualifications • A degree in a humanities discipline and/or a degree in computer science (or related field). A Masters degree or greater in one of these areas is preferred. • A minimum of five years experience in using technology in Humanities scholarship, and a demonstrated keen understanding of current projects and trends in the digital humanities. • Demonstrated proficiency in one or more of the following areas: natural language processing, data-mining, machine learning, spatial analysis, data modeling, network analysis or information visualization. • A proven record of developing applications both independently and as part of a team, from conception through implementation, including the architectural planning, design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation phases of a software development project. • Experience with relational databases (Oracle, SQL) and scripting languages (PHP, Perl, Javascript, XML, XSLT, XHTML, CSS). • Experience developing dynamic and interactive media, preferably with experience developing applications for a touch-environment. • Experience developing and integrating tools in an open source environment. • Experience with the integration of digital media into web applications and/or collaboration systems (e.g., Sakai, Drupal, etc.) • Experience working with faculty in an academic setting. • Familiarity with human/computer interface principles, and experience applying those principles in programming. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 05:19:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A190F121314; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:19:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E7B8612130C; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:19:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110328051940.E7B8612130C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:19:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.821 cfp: literary theory and media change X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 821. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:46:45 +0100 From: Jannidis Fotis Subject: call for papers on literary theory and media change Call for Articles: Journal of Literary Theory, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2012) Submission Deadline: January 15th 2012 Literature is part of a media world that does not only change the physical aspects of reading by introducing e-books, audio books and other formats, but which links literature to the realms of movies, hypertexts, social media and other phenomena, where different hierarchies of aesthetic objects and their evaluation apply. How do these changes affect concepts and theories of literature? Papers are welcome that systematically analyze the changing attitudes, terms and concepts of literary theory provoked by recent (or not so recent) shifts in (digital) media environments. Possible topics could include, but are not limited to the discussion of changes in reading habits, possibilities opened up to research by digital corpora, aspects of media competition, convergence, and combination in relation to literature, aspects of the history of media or literature studies. Contributions should not exceed 50,000 characters in length and have to be submitted until January 15th, 2012. Please submit your contribution electronically via our website www.jltonline.de under 'Articles'. Articles are chosen for publication by an international advisory board in a double-blind review process. For further information about JLT and to view the submission guidelines, please visit http://www.jltonline.de or contact the editorial office at jlt@phil.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 Mar 29 06:20:21 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 279C611DA85; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:20:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9678C11DA63; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:20:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110329062016.9678C11DA63@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:20:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.822 AHRC: not compelled X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 822. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:30:45 -0500 From: ana boa-ventura Subject: AHRC refutes the Observer's 'Academic Fury over order to study the big society' Maybe of interest to some in this list. Maybe 'themed' grants are just more controversial in nature than small / research grants, as Beryl Graham has suggested in the CRUMBS list (new media curating). Ana Boa-Ventura HASTAC scholar *********************** Important Statement The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) unconditionally and absolutely refutes the allegations reported in the Observer ('Academic Fury over order to study the big society', 27 March). We did NOT receive our funding settlement on condition that we supported the 'Big Society', and we were NOT instructed, pressured or otherwise coerced by BIS or anyone else into support for this initiative. The AHRC has been working for over two years, since 2008, with four other research councils, on the Connected Communities Research Programme which has been developed through extensive - and continuing - consultation with researchers. At the core of this Programme is research to understand the changing nature of communities in their historical and cultural contexts, and the value of communities in sustaining and enhancing our quality of life. These issues are serious and of major concern. They also happen to be relevant to debates about the 'Big Society' which came two years later. To imply that these important areas for investigation constitute a government-directed research programme is false. There are further inaccuracies in the Observer article that rest on rumour and misrepresentation. First, specific research applications are funded on the basis of academic peer review, not government command. If academic peer reviewers do not feel the research is excellent, and of sufficient importance and value for money, it does not get funded. Second, the Observer article implies that 'significant' funding will be put exclusively into 'Big Society' projects. What the document quoted actually says is that 'significant' funding will be put into SIX (not one) 'strategic research areas'. These are language-based disciplines, the creative economy, interdisciplinary collaborations, and cultural heritage as well as issues related to communities and civic values. This will occur as part of an extensive portfolio of funding covering many different types of research which, once again, was developed through extensive consultation with researchers over a two year period. Third, it is reported that the AHRC 'was forced to accept the change by officials working for the minister for higher education, David Willetts.' There is a confusing subsidiary allegation that 'the word is that it has come down from the secretary of state, Vince Cable'. Neither is true. If there is evidence to demonstrate these allegations (as distinct from relying on phrases like 'the word is') then it should be revealed. But there is no such evidence because it did not happen. ********************* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 06:21:39 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D7311DAFD; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:21:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 00C6511DAEA; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:21:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110329062136.00C6511DAEA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:21:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.823 the Collective Access system? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 823. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:48:14 +0000 From: Alberto Santiago Martinez Subject: Collective Access Developers (2nd try) Is there anyone on this list that has experience creating sites with the collective access system? It's really robust, but has a high learning curve. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 06:23:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7998711DB6E; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:23:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9694B11DB5E; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:22:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110329062259.9694B11DB5E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:22:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.824 cfp: resources for palaeography X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 824. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:34:34 +0100 From: "Brookes, Stewart" Subject: Call for Papers: 'Digital Resources for Palaeography' Symposium... Dear all, Call for Papers: 'Digital Resources for Palaeography' One-Day Symposium 5th September 2011, King’s College London The 'Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic' (DigiPal) at the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London is pleased to announce a one-day symposium on digital resources for palaeography. In recent years, scholars have begun to develop and employ new technologies and computer-based methods for palaeographic research. The aim of the symposium is to present developments in the field, explore the limits of digital and computational-based approaches, and share methodologies across projects which overlap or complement each other. Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any relevant aspect of digital methods and resources for palaeography and manuscript studies. Possible topics could include: * Project reports and/or demonstrations * Palaeographical method; 'Digital' and 'Analogue' palaeography * Quantitative and qualitative approaches * 'Scientific' methods, 'objectivity' and the role of evidence in manuscript studies * Visualisation of manuscript evidence and data * Interface design and querying of palaeographical material To propose a paper, please send a brief abstract (250 words max) to digipal@kcl.ac.uk. The deadline for receipt of submissions is 8th May 2011. Notice of acceptance will be sent by 20th May 2011. -- Dr Stewart J Brookes Research Associate Digital Resource for Palaeography Department of Digital Humanities King's College London Room 210, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 07:21:11 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDA33121378; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:21:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0BDB3121369; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:21:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110329072108.0BDB3121369@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:21:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.825 refiguring the human & 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. 24, No. 825. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:18:24 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: refiguring the human & literature? As far as I can tell Sigmund Freud was the first in recent history to make a list of those great ideas that have forced our kind to refigure who and what we are. In his "Eighteenth Lecture", published in A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (trans G. Stanley Hall, pub 1920), he refers to his own work in the context of Copernican cosmology and Darwinian evolution as the "most irritating insult... flung at the human mania of greatness” (246f). Today that list seems rather more crowded. We should certainly put Turing-machine computation on it -- which includes, or should include, everything we digital humanists do professionally, I should think. The biologist Jacques Monod deepens the question in Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology (trans Austryn Wainhouse, pub 1972). He likewise refers to "the anthropocentric illusion... that ancient mirage" (p. 47). Like Freud he lists heliocentric theory and evolution as helping to dispel that illusion -- but ignores psychoanalysis. He adds entropy and what he calls "the principle of objectivity", by which he means the postulate that true knowledge cannot be obtained in terms of a final cause. But such blows to our vanity, he says, were also not enough. His last straw is the idea that the universe is fundamentally statistical -- an idea, by the way, that gets Ian Hacking's vote as the most important discovery of 20th-century physics (in The Taming of Chance). So, along comes literary stylometry, which in the work of John Burrows and others has delivered to us the result that literature participates in this stochastic universe on the verbally microscopic scale. The million-book library, read only at a considerable distance (as Mark Olsen noted in the 1990s and Franco Moretti more recently), seems to show that telescopically the same is true of it. So all's hum and buzz very near and very far away. My question is this: what is the significance of these statistical behaviours for those of us in the middle ground, those of us who still think that literature is for reading, close up and slow? Can our beloved machine only serve the reader by serving up texts in whatever format and allowing him or her to search them? How do we bring statistical results *directly* to bear on read-ing (i.e. the process, not the conclusions drawn) and not simply have them as facts? Comments? Better questions? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.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 Mar 30 05:18:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3601B122A77; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:18:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 16A1A122A5F; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:18:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110330051854.16A1A122A5F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:18:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.826 Collective Access system X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 826. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:22:57 +0200 From: Seth van Hooland Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.823 the Collective Access system? In-Reply-To: <20110329062136.00C6511DAEA@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Alberto, This semester the students of my course on document management are doing projects in groups of two or three to build a prototype for the museum and archives of my university with the help of CollectiveAccess. Some of them run CA locally on their laptops (via XAMP) and others have put it on a webserver. In the context of the project, they really need to focus on the modeling of different metadata schemes for different types of objects (paintings, sculptures, etc) and create controlled vocabularies. It has took them a couple of weeks to get accustomed to the structure of the application (you have to model your world using objects, entities, places, etc which can be interconnected via relationships) but most of them are now quite enthousiastic about the project. I'll probably organise a hands-on workshop on CollectiveAccess in Brussels in collaboration with FARO (http://www.faronet.be/, who have offered free installs of CollectiveAccess on Amazon's cloud storage services for flemish cultural heritage organisations) somewhere around mid june. Let me know if some of you would be interested in assisting, but we'll try to keep the number of participants very limited. Colleagues of mine in Berlin, namely Alexander Zeisberg (http://www.arbeitsstelle-provenienzforschung.de/ ) and Jürgen Keiper (http://www.filmmuseum-berlin.de/) have also organised workshops in the past and are also good people to contact if you want any further information regarding the CA project. I have now 10-12 years of experience with both closed and open-source collection management software (TMS, Adlib, etc) and for the moment CollectiveAccess offers to me the best solution. But you have to be willing to put effort into experimenting and prototyping, or to pay a consultant to do the job for you. Kind regards, Seth van Hooland Digital Information Chair - ULB Master en sciences et technologies de l'information et de la communication | Université Libre de Bruxelles Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123 | 1050 Bruxelles DB 11.113 http://mastic.ulb.ac.be/ http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/ +32-2-6504765 On 29 Mar 2011, at 08:21, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 823. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:48:14 +0000 > From: Alberto Santiago Martinez > Subject: Collective Access Developers (2nd try) > > > Is there anyone on this list that has experience creating sites with > the collective access system? > It's really robust, but has a high learning curve. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 30 05:20:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7143122B00; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:20:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5523C122AEC; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:20:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110330052004.5523C122AEC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:20:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.827 refiguring the human & 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. 24, No. 827. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jascha Kessler (128) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.825 refiguring the human & literature? [2] From: Richard Lewis (40) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.825 refiguring the human & literature? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:45:57 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.825 refiguring the human & literature? In-Reply-To: <20110329072108.0BDB3121369@woodward.joyent.us> I wonder whatever can be meant by a material universe "being" "fundamentally statistical"? I have always assemed statistics means playing with numbers, and numbers are, I suppose, an epiphenomenon of language or thought. Example: My son calls the other day to talk about his 3rd child, Felix, now 22 months old. Felix, sitting on his lap an hour earlier, points to his little water bottle on the table and says, *My bottle. *Points to another standing beside it, and says, *My bottle. *Then, cheerfully adds, *1 bottle *[pointing] and *2 bottle. *... I have 2 bottles. My son, a computer engineer, is flabbergasted. That is his universe, and that statement is a statistic of a sort — his two bottles. But...the universe a statistic? When astronomers measure and describe, distances from our standpoint and objects, they are not measuring statistics. I will grant, in this matter, that we, for instance hare composed of quanta which themselves subsist based upon bosons and such particles that flash through quarks inside our atoms, and have but momentary "existence." That might be measured in terms of statistics, but they themselves as observed are not statistics. Or so this writer or poems assumes. Better, let me add a letter no newspaper, being run by maniac egoists, would publish, even for the humor of it. As follows, in once instance: September 2, 2010 Letters to the Editor THE FINANCIAL TIMES London Sir: Clear-headed and temperate John Kay believes “The essence of a right is that it overrides consideration of pros and cons … of benefits or … costs.” [“Not all rights should be defended to the death,” 1 September] Temperate, yes; clear-headed? That requires further thought. Yes, that right is inherent to the strong is an ancient adage: “Vae victis,” a phrase in Livy — Woe to the vanquished! — earlier expressed by Thucydides, who knew it from Homer or from Hesiod’s parable of the Hawk and the Nightingale. Nevertheless the problem is profoundly deeper when viewed through a scientific perspective. This year a startling DNA discovery was published. It seems the bugs that inhabit the globe — they also constitute 90% of our corporeal constitution — are not only “creatures,” but have the “ability to sense when they have sufficient numbers to attack.” According to microbial geneticist Bonnie Bassler, they are “stripped down versions of us.” In short, we are au fond complexly-swollen, aggregated versions of many kinds of bacteria who devour whatever when concentrated strongly, but also our t00-familiar, implacable enemy, E.coli. A mortally-infected person has no Right to Life. All "Rights" derive from Law, but Power makes Law. Not only is all fair in Love and War. In short, anything goes. Sincerely, Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Santa Monica, CA 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:56:10 +0100 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.825 refiguring the human & literature? In-Reply-To: <20110329072108.0BDB3121369@woodward.joyent.us> At Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:18:24 +0100 (GMT), Willard McCarty wrote: > > As far as I can tell Sigmund Freud was the first in recent history to > make a list of those great ideas that have forced our kind to refigure > who and what we are. In his "Eighteenth Lecture", published in A General > Introduction to Psychoanalysis (trans G. Stanley Hall, pub 1920), he > refers to his own work in the context of Copernican cosmology and > Darwinian evolution as the "most irritating insult... flung at the human > mania of greatness” (246f). Today that list seems rather more crowded. > We should certainly put Turing-machine computation on it -- which > includes, or should include, everything we digital humanists do > professionally, I should think. Not exactly an answer to your question, but you may be interested to know that Luciano Floridi uses Freud's revolutions to introduce his own "fourth revolution", that of information. He categorises both minds and machines as "information organisms" or "inforgs" and in doing so, he argues, removes yet another apparently exclusively human property. Much of Floridi's work deals with the ethics of information, asking what is right action for an inforg, a being which is in possession of information. (I heard Floridi speak on this topic at a lecture at Goldsmiths' in 2009, so I'm not sure what is the best citation to give. Google returns numerous references to a netcast lecture including some feedback and comments. It also seems that a book, The Fourth Revolution - The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Our Lives (Oxford University Press, under contract), is forthcoming.) Best, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.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 30 05:20:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CFEC122B52; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:20:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7B1EF122B49; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:20:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110330052039.7B1EF122B49@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:20:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.828 aesthetics of 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. 24, No. 828. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:12:24 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: aesthetics One development in the history of computing is the aesthetics of hardware. This is not new, of course: the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator, put in the front window of IBM's World Headquarters at Madison Avenue and 57th Street in 1948, had a jewel-like console. It was designed to be seen and admired as an object. (Google for images with "ibm ssec".) Some, but not many here, will remember the console of the CDC 6600, which was not beautiful, as was the SSEC, but which was the product of a visual designer's efforts, I imagine, and had a minimalist's sense of plain style about it. One could echo "form follows function", but then everything depends on what you think that function was -- not just the obvious one, but others, perhaps. The aesthetics of the computers that for many years reached our studies increasingly followed that plain style, with the exception of the Osborne and Apple 2, for example, which appealed to the geek in me more than did the IBM PC. For the last few years hardware manufacturers, esp Apple, have paid increasing attention to the aesthetics of their hardware. Consider especially the Macbook Air as a physical object, both before and after one turns it on (and perhaps turns oneself on thereby). We could say that this is a marketing ploy, which is undoubtedly true. But I think we have to ask, why does it work so well? What does it mean for our computers to become (again) beautiful objects? What are the implications of interfaces becoming also in a sense beautiful? What about the *feeling* of (shall we call it?) graceful presence, of clearly anticipated response to our every move? I think it's important here not to be dismissive, either of the cunning behind the aesthetics or of the actual, very real sense of beauty when it is achieved. Would we want to work in an ugly building if we had the choice? (I certainly do not.) Would we choose to work at an ugly, poorly designed table if a beautiful, well crafted one were available? Perhaps it would be more productive to consider the marketing as a means to the designer's end rather than the other way around. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.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 Mar 30 05:22:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2250122BE0; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:22:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 776AA122BC1; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:22:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110330052206.776AA122BC1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:22:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.829 new head of department at King's X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 829. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:03:27 +0100 From: "Spence, Paul" Subject: New Head of Department for Digital Humanities at King's College London NEW HEAD FOR WORLD'S OLDEST DEPARTMENT OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES AT KING'S COLLEGE LONDON A new Head has been announced for the world's largest department of Digital Humanities at King's College London. Professor Andrew Prescott, who will take up the appointment to the Chair of Digital Humanities in summer of 2011, is a former curator of manuscripts at the British Library. Andrew served as British Library contact for a number of pioneering digitisation projects, including the 'Electronic Beowulf'. He has also worked in the Humanities Research Institute at Sheffield University and is currently Director of Research at Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow. King's world-renowned 'Centre for Computing in the Humanities' has recently changed its name to the 'Department of Digital Humanities' (DDH). Digital Humanities has long been recognised by the College as an academic discipline in its own right, the first institution in the world to do so, and the new name reflects both this and King's continued support for its teaching and research activities. DDH is an international leader in the application of technology in the arts and humanities, and in the social sciences. The primary objective of DDH is to study the possibilities of computing for arts and humanities scholarship and, in collaboration with local, national and international research partners across the disciplines, to design and build applications which realise these possibilities, in particular those which produce online research publications. Andrew Prescott commented: 'I am very excited to be joining a department of the outstanding international stature of DDH. I congratulate King's College London on its vision and ambition in investing in the development of the digital humanities at this vital time in its development. I look forward to working with my new colleagues at King's'. The Department runs an ambitious and varied teaching programme, including MA programmes in Digital Humanities, Digital Culture and Society, and Digital Asset Management (in collaboration with the Centre for e-Research). The Department also hosts the long-standing PhD programme in the Digital Humanities, the first established in the world, which has recently been expanded to include collaborative supervisory arrangement with a dozen Departments and Centres within the School of Arts and Humanities. Notes for editors 1. The Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) is an academic department in the School of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. Formerly called the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, DDH is an international leader in the application of technology in the arts and humanities. The primary objective of DDH is to study the possibilities of computing for arts and humanities scholarship and, in collaboration with local, national and international research partners across its disciplines, to seek to realise those possibilities. 2. DDH is typically involved in in more than 30 major research projects at any one time, with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, Joint Information Systems Committee, the British Academy, the Andrew W Mellon Foundation and other major funders. DDH has generated more than £17 million in grants over the past seven years. 3. Further information about DDH is available on its website: www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh ---------------------------------------- Paul Spence Acting Head of Department Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL paul.spence@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 30 05:24:20 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E72E8122C3D; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:24:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 66B92122C2F; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:24:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110330052416.66B92122C2F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:24:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.830 events: DHSI 2011 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 830. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:45:11 +0100 From: "institut@uvic.ca" Subject: DHSI 2011 Courses and Registration Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2011 University of Victoria, Canada Hello, It is grey and damp in Victoria but the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, a sure sign that Spring is here. Another sure sign of Spring is that registration for DHSI is winding down with almost all of our courses completely full. It looks like we will be welcoming a record number of people to DHSI this year. That said, due to movement between courses there are a few spots still available: Digitisation Fundamentals -- 1 spot Issues in Large Project Planning and Management -- 1 spot SEASR in Action -- 2 spots The early registration period ends soon, and these spots won't last, so if you would like your summer plans to include a trip to "summer camp for humanists," please go to http://www.dhsi.org/courses to register as soon as possible. We have now distributed all of our scholarships for 2011. I am thrilled to say that thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, over half of our participants received a scholarship! Registered participants -- I will be sending you information about housing and events in the next week or so. Best wishes, 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 Wed Mar 30 06:01:39 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B52E123163; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:01:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1F92D123155; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:01:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110330060128.1F92D123155@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:01:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.831 PhD in Digital X X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 831. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:56:31 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the PhD in Digital Humanities PhD in Digital Humanities, Department of Digital Humanities, School of Arts and Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/study/pgr/ As of Spring 2011 the PhD in Digital Humanities programme at King's has been expanded to include collaboratively supervised degrees with a dozen other academic departments in the School. In addition to degree with focus on the digital humanities itself, doctoral studies can now explicitly be undertaken as PhDs in the following: Digital Classical Studies (with Classics) Digital Cultural Research (Culture, Media and Creative Industries) Digital English and American Studies (English) Digital Film Studies (Film) Digital French Studies (French) Digital Hellenic Studies (the Centre for Hellenic Studies) Digital Historical Studies (History) Digital Language, Discourse and Communication (the Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication) Digital Medieval Studies (Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies) Digital Musicology (Music) Digital Spanish, Portuguese or Latin American Studies (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies) Digital Theological and Religious Studies (Theology and Religious Studies) Applications are now welcome for work beginning in Autumn 2011 or later. Please note the procedure described at www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/study/pgr/, which specifies that prior to any formal application contact should be made with the Admissions Tutor, i.e. the undersigned. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.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 Thu Mar 31 06:32:23 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC0C11D806; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:32:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9E99B11D7F5; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:32:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110331063219.9E99B11D7F5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:32:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.833 aesthetics of 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. 24, No. 833. 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. 24, No. 832. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" (2) Subject: aesthetics of computing? [2] From: John Levin (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.828 aesthetics of computing? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:06:48 +0100 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: aesthetics of computing? Or, perhaps it could also be considered as commodity fetishism or Bourdieu's _Distinction_ in his social critique of the judgment of taste - as symbolic capital distancing an elite from others. Having said that, I am a sucker for the beautiful desktop, such as the Enlightenment E17 desktop in Linux, but I am equally attracted to the minimalist one like OpenBox or FluxBox (e.g. Crunchbang with its elegant minimalism). In the end, however, my criteria are inclusiveness, accessibility, communitarian reciprocity (OpenSource), proper value, and no harm to the people who assemble the product. Dave Postles --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:37:11 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.828 aesthetics of computing? In-Reply-To: <20110330052039.7B1EF122B49@woodward.joyent.us> By serendipity, I found the following article has great bearing on this question, and perhaps makes aesthetics central to the humanities. http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/21/engineering-vs-liberal-arts-who%E2%80%99s-right%E2%80%94bill-or-steve/ John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com johnlevin@joindiaspora.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 31 06:51:25 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B493A1253A0; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:51:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C54A4125391; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:51:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110331065122.C54A4125391@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:51:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.834 events: cataloguing; 16C studies; spatial & historical X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 834. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Arianna Ciula (69) Subject: ESF Comparative Oriental Manuscripts Studies: workshop in cataloguing and travel grants [2] From: "William R. Bowen" (39) Subject: CFP on new technologies for SCSC 2011 [3] From: Sara Schmidt (20) Subject: CFP: Spatial and Digital History sessions, ESSHC Glasgow 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:51:32 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF Comparative Oriental Manuscripts Studies: workshop in cataloguing and travel grants Forthcoming workshop - COMSt team "Cataloguing" - Frankfurt, 14 June 2011 The workshop, entitled "Towards an ideal chapter on Oriental manuscripts cataloguing", will be focusing on: (1) cataloguing traditions in various Oriental languages and (2) challenges of describing complex manuscripts The workshop venue is: Frankfurt University, Main University Building (Mertonstrasse 17-21) Alter Senatssaal Scientific organizers: Witold Witakowski (witold.witakowski [at] lingfil.uu.se; Paola Buzi (paola.buzi [at] unibo.it) Local organizer: Jost Gippert (gippert [at] em.uni-frankfurt.de) Tentative workshop programme: 9.15-9.30 Towards an ideal chapter on Oriental MSS cataloguing: opening address and purpose of the meeting Section I The cataloguing traditions of Oriental manuscripts: Historical overview and recent results 9.30-10.00 Delio Vania Proverbio, Cataloguing of the Turkish manuscripts 10.00-10.30 Irmeli Perho, Cataloguing of the Persian manuscripts 10.30-11.00 Coffee break 11.00-11.30 Andrea Barbara Schmidt, Cataloguing of the Armenian manuscripts 11.30-12.00 Jost Gippert - Bernard Outtier, Cataloguing of the Georgian manuscripts 12.00-12.30 David Sklare, Cataloguing of the Hebrew manuscripts 12.30-13.00 Discussion 13.00-14.30 Lunch Section II The codicological revolution? "Multi-structured descriptions" vs. "simple-structured descriptions": Examples and problems 14.30-15.00 Introduction to the table ronde. The new trends of cataloguing: the case of complex manuscripts and multi-structured descriptions. Experiences in comparison (Marilena Maniaci, Paul Canart, Peter Gumbert) 14.30-15.00 Patrick Andrist, Catalogues and multi-structured descriptions (provisional title) 15.00-16.00 The matter of complex manuscripts: examples, experiences in comparison, solutions.General discussion 16.00-16.30 Coffee break 16.30-17.30 Towards the chapter of Team 4: "Oriental manuscripts cataloguing": practical information and modus operandi 17.30-18.00 Next steps and conclusion 19.30 Conference dinner Please visit http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/meet4-2.html for eventual updates. As all COMSt initiatives, the meeting is open for everyone. Please contact the workshop organizers should you be willing to attend by ***30 April 2011***. Four travel grants are available for those willing to attend the workshop and unable to carry their expenses. Applications from young scholars whose research is relevant for the workshop will be preferred. The application deadline is ***24 April 2011***. More information on travel grants is available at http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/bandi.html. With all my best regards, Evgenia ****************************** Evgenia Sokolinskaia (Coordinator COMSt) Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies Universität Hamburg Alsterterrasse 1 20354 Hamburg Tel./Fax +49-40-42838-7777/-3330 http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/ http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/ethiostudies/ == Dr. Arianna Ciula Science Officer for the Humanities European Science Foundation 1 quai Lezay Marnésia BP 90015 F-67080 Strasbourg France Email: aciula@esf.org Tel: +33 (0) 388767104 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:16:34 -0400 From: "William R. Bowen" Subject: CFP on new technologies for SCSC 2011 Sixteenth Century Studies and New Technologies (SCSC Fort Worth Conference, 27-30 October 2011) Since 2001, William Bowen and Ray Siemens have organized conference sessions that document innovative ways in which computing technology is being incorporated into the scholarly activity of our community. They also co-edit a publication series entitled New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MRTS/Iter), which is about to launch its 3rd volume of essays. At the 2011 SCSC meeting (27-30 October), we propose 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. Through the support of Iter, we are pleased to be able to offer travel subventions on a competitive basis to graduate students who present on these panels. Those wishing to be considered for a subvention should indicate this in their abstract submission. For details of the SCSC conference see http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/conference.shtml. Please send proposals before April 20 to bowen_at_utsc.utoronto.ca. William R Bowen University of Toronto Scarborough Ray Siemens University of Victoria William R. Bowen, Chair Department of Humanities University of Toronto Scarborough 1265 Military Trail, H528 Scarborough, Ontario, M1C 1A4 tel: 416 287-7127 fax: 416 287-7116 humanities-chair@utsc.utoronto.ca --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:11:16 -0500 From: Sara Schmidt Subject: CFP: Spatial and Digital History sessions, ESSHC Glasgow 2012 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Gregory, Ian >Date: Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:54 AM >Subject: CFP: Spatial and Digital History sessions, ESSHC Glasgow 2012 Dear All, Following the success of the 2010 meeting in Ghent, the European Social Science History Conference has created a new "Spatial and Digital History" network. The aim of the network is to showcase and advance academic research that uses digital and spatial approaches to gain a better understanding of the past. These include fields such as: Digital History, History and Computing, Historical GIS, Spatial History and Historical Geography. The 2012 meeting will take place in Glasgow, Scotland from 11-14th April 2012. We welcome papers on any of the above topics. A full CFP is available from: http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/index.php. The deadline for the submission of papers and sessions is 1st May 2011. Enquiries can be made to Ian Gregory (I.Gregory@lancaster.ac.uk). Best wishes, Ian _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 06:38:22 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2352312682D; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 06:38:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6649F126810; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 06:38:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110401063817.6649F126810@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 06:38:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.835 literature brought virtually to 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. 24, No. 835. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:05:00 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.819 literature brought virtually to life In-Reply-To: <20110328051635.40CC412125D@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard and HUMANIST, On 3/28/2011 1:16 AM, Daniel Allington wrote: > Having a research interest in what Bradley Bleck calls 'text-based > virtual realities' (below), I was wondering whether anyone else on > the list has tried using MOOs and related forms of programming (eg. > Inform 7 or its multi-user offshoot, Guncho) for teaching in the > humanities. > > Somehow I find the idea of students building a MOO to be rather more > exciting than the idea of them staging plays in Second Life. But > perhaps I'm just showing my age... Showing your age? Back in 1994 I demonstrated MediaMOO to the CETH summer seminar, in a rather rushed presentation at the end of our two weeks of work surveying the state of the art in Humanities Computing. The pitch was that this could, at least, be a platform for a "virtual reference desk". (Maybe Willard remembers this.) If I recall correctly, it rather split the audience in half. One camp thought the technology had revolutionary potential. The other could see it was prone to devolve into a frivolous circus of self-involvement and pseudo-community. I think both were right. Facebook or Twitter, anyone? Isn't each in its way rather like semi-asynchronous MOO in slow motion, a way of hiding oneself even as one puts oneself on display? MOOs have certainly been used in and around Humanities instruction. There was (off the top of my head), early on, PMC MOO, an experimental affiliate of the journal of that name. There was LinguaMOO, for instruction in language and composition. There have also been more or less active MOOs, from time to time, at institutions such as UVA (IATH-MOO) and UMD (Romantic Circles). Additionally, initiatives such as Jay's House MOO or DhalgrenMOO were platforms where more serious or more entranced MOO-freelancers could work with more quota and bandwidth. In Dhalgren, I invented a "Thespian Player Class", with costume technology ... you could create costumes to disguise yourself, share them with other thespians, etc. Others in the room would see you participate in costume, not as yourself. My collaborators wondered what was the point, since everyone was already disguised with a pseudonym and more or less outlandish fantasy-description. Until Hallowe'en came along. Leaving aside the idea that Facebook, Twitter and so forth embody some important aspects of text-based VR (to say nothing of email lists), if the technology in its more immersive forms never caught on, I think this is related to James Rovira's point about the nature of the literate imagination and of imaginative literacy, and how not everyone is able and willing to develop it. Indeed. However, as we know from Plato and from contemporary authors such as ecocritic David Abram, there is a debate here with at least two sides (see, for example, http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/abram.htm). The challenge of the literary and the literate is always to find its ground in our ground -- the ground of politics, society, family, contributing and getting a living -- and not to spin off into its own bemusements, the inevitable and involving logic of its own ideologies. (Consider Twitter. Consider Homer's Odyssey.) This is probably true of media in general, and in spades. 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 Apr 1 06:59:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FFEB126B3A; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 06:59:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B8714126B2A; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 06:59:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110401065937.B8714126B2A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 06:59:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.836 attracting students? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 836. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:56:46 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: attracting students Reports from the field suggest to me that at least at some institutions denoted as carrying out higher education the appeal to students cannot be called anything other than crass. One such report, which I heard this morning, was of undergraduates awarding prizes to their lecturers for "best dressed", "sexiest" and so on, at a formal dance at which students get to see their lecturers dance, drink etc, while they themselves do the same. Ok, people having a bit of harmless fun? At the risk of being perceived as a cane-pounding old fogey, I do worry about the loss of dignity that such fun would seem to entail. What worries me is not dignity as a stroke to the ego. I worry, rather, about dignity as an attribute of a teacher that is conducive to learning. How are students attracted for the right reasons to the right sort of thing? The problem that makes this note appropriate to Humanist is related but different. This is the problem of representing our field in such a way that a potential student would want to devote him- or herself to it. We're now reaching the point at which we do have to ask ourselves who is going to be around to take over and do with the digital humanities what we've been unable to do? I think each one of us needs to ask, if I were thinking of devoting my life to some field or other, what would attract me to the digital humanities? So let me ask for our field: what would attract (have attracted) you? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.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 Fri Apr 1 07:01:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1E41126BA1; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 07:01:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 57270126B97; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 07:01:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110401070110.57270126B97@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 07:01:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.837 DHQ to automated peer-review X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 837. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:42:35 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: DHQ moves to all-automated peer review Digital Humanities Quarterly is pleased to announce a move to Peer Review with Advanced Technology (PRAT): a new computational peer review system based on text analysis. This new approach to peer review will enable DHQ to process vastly increased numbers of submissions, speeding up time to publication and ensuring consistency of review criteria, compared with results from human peer reviewers. This move comes at a time when peer review mechanisms are coming under close scrutiny, as journals and other online publications experiment with alternatives to traditional peer review. DHQ has considered a variety of models, including crowd-sourced peer review based on reader comments, but we have determined that these require too great an investment of time and create unacceptable delays in production. Our new text-analysis-based method will eliminate human reviewers altogether and assess submissions based on a set of measures that may include: 1. Stylistic similarity to articles in the highest tier of citation rankings in a selected set of major journals, using state-of-the art measures that focus on vocabulary choice and patterns of clause construction. 2. Average and maximum word length, sentence length, and clause length. Submissions will be scored in all three categories and the results will be compared with a proprietary DHQ readability index to determine the submission's suitability for publication. The highest-scoring articles will be published in a special "Expert" column. 3. Frequency of high-value technical terminology. Terms from specific domains will be weighted dynamically, based on current measures of usage of those terms in high-ranking peer journals, to ensure that DHQ's published articles keep pace with the changing patterns of technical jargon in the broader community. For special issues, terms from specific topic areas will be given extra weight to ensure that submissions are related to the issue's subject area. 4. Rate of citation of the most highly cited references in digital humanities. Submissions that cite the most highly cited references (or articles citing those) will be more highly ranked. Over time, we anticipate that this mechanism if properly used could result in the DHQ article corpus achieving complete self-referentiality. The new system goes into effect with the special issue "From Lemons to Lemonade: Learning from project failures in the Digital Humanities", to be published on April 1. Best wishes, Julia, Melissa, and Wendell Julia Flanders Melissa Terras Wendell Piez General Editors, DHQ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 07:02:23 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E941126C05; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 07:02:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6282E126BF2; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 07:02:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110401070218.6282E126BF2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 07:02:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.838 events: London 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. 24, No. 838. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:06:23 +0100 From: Simon Dixon Subject: London Digital Humanities meetings: May and June 2011 Dear colleagues, I am pleased to provide advanced notice of the following London Digital Humanities Group meetings in May and June 2011: 19 May 2011 *The Future of Academic Journals in the Digital World* Panel discussion featuring Ian Rowlands (Professor of Information Science, UCL), and Victoria Bates and Thomas Beaumont (Exeter, founders of Ex-Historica online journal). 2 June 2011* Following the Money: Funding Digital Humanities Projects in a Period of Austerity* Panel discussion featuring Alastair Dunning (JISC), Ann Hughes (Keele) and Stephen Taylor (Reading). Both meetings will take place at Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0AR, from 5-7pm. I hope that you will be able to join us for what promise to be two lively discussions. Full details of both events will follow shortly. Best wishes, Simon -- 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/sdixon.html http://qmul.academia.edu/SimonDixon _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 15:59:56 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FA29126965; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 15:59:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 66D66126951; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 15:59:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110401155953.66D66126951@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 15:59:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.839 DHQ: automate before the day is out! X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 839. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Adrian Miles (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.837 DHQ to automated peer-review [2] From: Laura Mandell (25) Subject: Article for DHQ. --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 19:48:07 +1100 From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.837 DHQ to automated peer-review In-Reply-To: <20110401070110.57270126B97@woodward.joyent.us> hi all surely this would be Peer Review with Advanced Technology Systems (PRATS)? On 1 April 2011 18:01, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Digital Humanities Quarterly is pleased to announce a move to Peer Review > with Advanced Technology (PRAT): a new computational peer review system > based on text analysis. > an appropriate closing Adrian Miles School of Media and Communication Program Director B.Comm Honours vogmae.net.au/research/contact-me/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:43:00 -0400 From: Laura Mandell Subject: Article for DHQ. In-Reply-To: <20110401070110.57270126B97@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Humanist List: I am crafting an article that will pass the new automated peer-review system to be undertaken by DHQ. I'm hoping that some of you would be willing to co-author? If so, please start adding sentences--I think I'm about two authors, 20 terms, 10 citations, and 4000 words short at this point. Really, anything you can think of that meets the criteria: simple sentence structure for ease of reading; use of cutting-edge jargon; footnotes to the most cited lit. Title: Getting articles accepted for publication is oh so hard to do. This robust essay is about good interdisciplinarity.[1] Failure is important.[2] But what is Text?[3] Let us talk about overlapping hierarchies. Stand-off markup can be used. #Alt-ac can help. GIS is good to curate corpora. Interface is part of cyberinfrastructure.[4] 1. Willard McCarty, *Humanities Computing* (NY: Palgrave, 2005). 2 John Unsworth, “The Importance of Failure”; s.a. *A Companion to Digital Humanities*, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004). 3 DeRose, S. J., Durand, D. G., Mylonas, E., and Renear A. H. (1990), 'What is Text, Really?', J*ournal of Computing in Higher Education*, 1.2: 3-26. 4 ACLS, *Our Cultural Commonwealth* (2006). -- Laura Mandell Professor, English / Digital Humanities Miami Univ. of Ohio _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 07:29:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32C97123631; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:29:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B3E1E12361E; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:29:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110402072904.B3E1E12361E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:29:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.840 literature brought virtually to 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. 24, No. 840. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:11:34 -0500 From: Peter Sands Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.835 literature brought virtually to life In-Reply-To: <20110401063817.6649F126810@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Daniel and all, In the misty long-ago, I met weekly on a MOO for the "Tuesday Cafe," ran my own MOO out of my office computer, and participated on LinguaMOO and MediaMOO. I also published an article or two on "MOOTopia," discussing my text-based MOO and its use in my course on utopias and utopianism. I taught very little programming, focusing instead on imaginal space, digital presence/space, and the like. My experience was always that students had some difficulty seeing the MOO as a "space" because of its textuality, for the reasons Wendell outlined in his reply. Imagining your way into the MOOspace requires accepting its conventions and metaphors and at least temporarily suspending your ordinary beliefs. > On 3/28/2011 1:16 AM, Daniel Allington wrote: >> Having a research interest in what Bradley Bleck calls 'text-based >> virtual realities' (below), I was wondering whether anyone else on >> the list has tried using MOOs and related forms of programming (eg. >> Inform 7 or its multi-user offshoot, Guncho) for teaching in the >> humanities. >> >> Somehow I find the idea of students building a MOO to be rather more >> exciting than the idea of them staging plays in Second Life. But >> perhaps I'm just showing my age... > -- __________ Peter Sands Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies UW-Milwaukee English Department http://www.uwm.edu/~sands || http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/English 414.229.5912 || 414.229.2643 (fax) Editor, H-UTOPIA || http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~utopia/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 07:30:24 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEBF81236AA; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:30:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EDEA7123688; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:30:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110402073012.EDEA7123688@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:30:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.841 literature brought virtually to life (continued) 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. 24, No. 841. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:02:12 +0000 From: Jon Saklofske Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.819 literature brought virtually to life Dear all, On 3/28/2011 1:16 AM, Daniel Allington wrote: > Having a research interest in what Bradley Bleck calls 'text-based > virtual realities' (below), I was wondering whether anyone else on the > list has tried using MOOs and related forms of programming (eg. > Inform 7 or its multi-user offshoot, Guncho) for teaching in the > humanities. Thanks to a bit of internal funding, I've used a heavily modified version of the enCore Xpress MOO for 5 years now in my upper level undergraduate Romantic Period literature course . Students are given the chance to be players and builders and I use the platform to expose them to ideas related to rhetorical composition, argumentation and performance. I now have two versions up and running, and use both in my teaching every year. The first installation (based on a v4 enCore install) includes a hard-coded interactive game based on Mary Robinson's late 18th-c. novel "The Natural Daughter." The second installation (which I'm most excited about), based on an enCore v5 install, has been modified (by myself and student assistants) to allow anyone the opportunity to build and edit interactive fiction experiences like "The Natural Daughter" without programming knowledge (it includes a GUI-based interface.) Although there are still a few bugs to iron out, my literature students collaboratively build rhetorical gamespaces (i.e. creating a game that functions like a persuasive essay) in the second term of the course-and things have been going great! Most importantly, we've replaced a reliance on the default chatterbot NPC's in favour of a conversation-tree based bot. You can access the earlier version (with the hardcoded natural daughter game) at: http://playground.acadiau.ca:7000 (make sure to register for my English 2386 class during the user registration process to access the game, and just make up a false Acadia email account.) (Also, after you play the game once, you need to type "@reset" (without quotes)to play again because the game's characters remember you!) Here's a related link to an animated tutorial that my programmer and I made to introduce students to the first version of Golgonooza: http://playground.acadiau.ca/~moo/encore/images/moo-tutorial.html The newer version (with the story builder toolkit) is here: http://playground.acadiau.ca:7001 Register as a new user and when logging in, select a location to log in to (other than The Learning Commons) from the drop down menu to see my in-progress Frankenstein world and collaborative student projects from the last two years. Just recently, students finished building interactive worlds related to some of Keats' 1819 Odes. The purpose of the assignment is not to translate the poem or narrative into an interactive digital fiction, but to use the virtual world to stage a rhetorical argument about the poem. In other words, I want the students to create a persuasive game. Their levels of success vary-sometimes because of collaborative differences, procrastination and/or conceptual limits. However, the ones that come together are quite interesting. The students, collectively and individually, also contribute written documents that allow them to self-reflexively and metacritically discuss the project. I've written about this in the following book chapter: "Plays well with Others: The Value of developing Multiplayer Digital Gamespaces for Literary Education" In Literary Education and Digital Learning: Methods and Technologies for Humanities Studies (Willie van Peer, Sonia Zyngier and Vander Viana, eds.) IGI Global, 2010. 130-156. I've also been collaborating with a colleague in the School of Education here at Acadia University to try to assess the learning impact of using this in the classroom. Our research is still in the preliminary stage, but here's a link to the blurb of an article we've published: http://ijq.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.186/prod.70 I've been fairly immersed in the development of this stuff over the last 5 years... I'm currently trying to figure out a way to package up my modded enCore database (with the Storybuilder tools) into distributable form... Feel free to get in touch with me with any questions. I can also provide further information and documentation, or give interested colleagues "storybuilder" access to the second MOO. Best, Jon Dr. Jon Saklofske Department of English and Theatre Acadia University Wolfville, Nova Scotia Canada B4P 2R6 Phone: (902) 585-1442 Fax: (902) 585-1070 Email: jon.saklofske@acadiau.ca Homepage: http://socrates.acadiau.ca/courses/engl/saklofske _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 07:36:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 584F01237D0; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:36:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 650961237BB; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:36:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110402073607.650961237BB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:36:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.842 jobs: postdoc at INKE X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 842. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 20:09:28 +0100 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: Post-doc opportunity Postdoctoral Fellow in the History and Future of the Book (2011-12, 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. 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’s work will bridge between digital humanities and the history of books and reading, collaborating with INKE’s Textual Studies team, 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. The successful candidate should also have first-hand experience with , XML/HTML (and related technologies), PHP, and MySQL. Familiarity with TEI P5 and JavaScript would also be considered assets. Our current team members pride themselves on a passionate interest in both the history and future of books and reading. 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 2011; 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, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Fredericton), and other venues at which INKE team members are present. Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled. www.inke.ca ischool.utoronto.ca bookhistory.ischool.utoronto.ca The ad sits at this address: http://www.ischool.utoronto.ca/alumni-careers/work-at-the-ischool Thanks for your help, Richard Cunningham, on behalf of the INKE - Textual Studies 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 2 07:39:29 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFD00123863; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:39:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3B9C5123851; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:39:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110402073927.3B9C5123851@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:39:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.843 DHQ: 1 April deadline extended X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 843. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Holly C. Shulman" (118) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.839 DHQ: automate before the day is out! [2] From: "Schlitz, Stephanie" (5) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.837 DHQ to automated peer-review [3] From: David Golumbia (105) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.839 DHQ: automate before the day is out! [4] From: Alan Galey (66) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.837 DHQ to automated peer-review --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 12:31:48 -0400 From: "Holly C. Shulman" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.839 DHQ: automate before the day is out! In-Reply-To: <20110401155953.66D66126951@woodward.joyent.us> I am writing in response to the move by the journal Digital Humanities Quarterly to PRAT (Peer Review with Advanced Technology). Before we all rush to accept – and copy – this innovation I would simply like to inject a few words of caution, especially as a historian. To begin with, scholarly approaches to analysis, research, and texts vary between disciplines, and within disciplines across sub-disciplinary requirements. These differences at least in part determine the choice of style and vocabulary employed by any given scholar. In fact, the very meaning of a word, especially a word used in a theoretical framework, may vary between specializations. Historians rarely deploy the same theoretical language as literary critics. These internal differences determine the style of any article. Thus the introduction of automated review here will “privilege” some fields, and some authors, over others, regardless of the merit of their contribution. This approach to peer review will predetermine scholarship, and its expression, in a way that will curtail innovation and diversity. Holly C. 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 12:30:29 -0400 From: "Schlitz, Stephanie" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.837 DHQ to automated peer-review In-Reply-To: <20110401070110.57270126B97@woodward.joyent.us> Peer Review with Advanced Technology (PRAT)... April Fools'? --- Stephanie --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 12:55:12 -0400 From: David Golumbia Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.839 DHQ: automate before the day is out! In-Reply-To: <20110401155953.66D66126951@woodward.joyent.us> #!/usr/bin/perl $hpost = " http://www.digitalhumanities.org/cgi-bin/humanist/archive/archive_msg.cgi?file=/Humanist.vol24.txt&msgnum=832&start=102048&end=102155 " $irony = EVAL_IN_HIST($hpost) while(date = "today") { $irony = false } else { $irony = true } -- David Golumbia dgolumbia@gmail.com --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 15:22:12 -0400 From: Alan Galey Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.837 DHQ to automated peer-review In-Reply-To: <20110401070110.57270126B97@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Julia, Melissa, and Wendell, This is very welcome news. DHQ's move to automated peer-review is a wonderful idea, and a natural progression of our field. I'm especially happy about your announcement because I've been working on a complementary system to automate the writing of articles, based on parameters nearly identical to your implementation of PRAT. The system is tentatively called the Phonetic Iterator and Integrator (or PhoneItIn), and should be able to produce 3-4 articles per week. It can already detect and avoid duplication of Minimum Publishable Units. I'm hoping to add an automated article submission and revision component, which would mean that automated writing and review systems would be interoperable, communicating asynchronously in a feedback loop with no human supervision. Unfortunately, every test-run of PhoneItIn so far only seems to generate Eagles lyrics. Not sure why. Once I fix this problem I'll post the project on SourceForge. Best of the season, Alan -- Alan Galey Assistant Professor University of Toronto individual.utoronto.ca/alangaley/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 07:42:23 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB34123911; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:42:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C1DB2123906; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:42:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110402074219.C1DB2123906@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:42:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.844 events: Digital Classicist (London); Irish Treasures (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. 24, No. 844. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Katie McCadden (20) Subject: Digitising Irish Treasures - Tuesday 5 April [2] From: Simon Mahony (39) Subject: cfp: Digital Classicist Seminars 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 12:11:41 +0100 From: Katie McCadden Subject: Digitising Irish Treasures - Tuesday 5 April Digitising Irish Treasures Susan Schreibman, Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities A Lecture at the National Gallery of Ireland Tuesday 5 April 10.30 a.m. This is a free event open to all Irish Cultural Heritage organisations are just beginning to make available their holdings in digital form. This is an exciting opportunity for institutions to reach beyond the spatial restrictions of their bricks and mortar facilities to new audiences. However, digital initiatives are expensive, there is a lack of individuals with the skill sets needed to establish and carry them out, and the technologies employed vary widely, sometimes becoming obsolete even within the life of the project. This talk will explore the challenges and opportunities for memory organisations embarking on (or thinking of embarking on) a digitisation programme. Susan Schreibman is the Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities. Previously she was the founding Director of the Digital Humanities Observatory, a national digital humanities centre developed under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy (2008-2011). She was previously Assistant Dean for Digital Collections and Research, University of Maryland Libraries (2005-2008). Dr Schreibman is the Founding Editor of The Thomas MacGreevy Archive and the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. She is on the executive of several European and international organisations, including The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, The Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and Intereditions. -- Katie McCadden Programme Manager Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: +353(0)1-2342442 Fax:+353(0)1-2342400 E-mail k.mccadden@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://dho.ie/ -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:32:48 +0100 From: Simon Mahony Subject: cfp: Digital Classicist Seminars 2011 Digital Classicist Seminars (London, 2011) *This is reminder call for presentations. Please note the fast approaching deadline: April 15th.* (Apologies for cross-posting. Please circulate widely--we welcome proposals from students as well as established researchers.) The Digital Classicist will once more be running a series of seminars in Summer 2011, on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component. Themes could include, but are by no means limited to, visualization, information and data linking, digital textual and linguistic studies, and geographic information and network analysis; so long as the content is likely to be of interest both to classicists/ancient historians/archaeologists and information scientists/digital humanists, and would be considered serious research in at least one of those fields. The seminars run on Friday afternoons (16:30 - 19:00) from June to mid-August in Senate House, London, and are hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies (University of London). In previous years collected papers from the DC WiP seminars have been published in an online special issue of Digital Medievalist, a printed volume from Ashgate Press, a BICS supplement (in production), and the last three years have been released as audio podcasts. We have had expressions of interest in further print volumes from more than one publisher. We have a budget to assist with travel to London (usually from within the UK, but we have occasionally been able to assist international presenters to attend, so please enquire). Please send a 300-500 word abstract togabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk by April 15th, 2011. We shall announce the full programme at the end of April. http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/index.html (Coörganised by Will Wootton, Charlotte Tupman, Matteo Romanello, Simon Mahony, Timothy Hill, Alejandro Giacometti, Juan Garcés, Stuart Dunn & Gabriel Bodard.) -- 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 3 07:37:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2417A127391; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 07:37:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8A807127381; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 07:37:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110403073733.8A807127381@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 07:37:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.845 attracting students X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 845. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 17:48:14 +0000 From: Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.836 attracting students? In-Reply-To: <20110401065937.B8714126B2A@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Willard, I was drawn to Humanities Computing by the name! I hoped that it offered a more expansive, less mechanistic view than computer science about the work of computing, the nature of software and the role that humans play in its creation. I don't believe that this is central to the field today, but I remain hopeful that at least a corner or elbow will exist in the future that addresses these concerns. I think that this is a fundamental contribution that humanities computing stands to make to computer science. 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 Sun Apr 3 07:39:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17279127407; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 07:39:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D62A11273F3; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 07:39:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110403073939.D62A11273F3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 07:39:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.846 events: biological 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 846. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 06:39:52 -0700 From: Nathaniel Bobbitt Subject: DEADLINE EXTENSION CALL FOR PAPERS: INTEGRATING COMPUTATION &COGNITION ON BIOLOGICAL GROUNDS EXCUSE---CROSS---POSTING We invite submissions to the Springer journal Cognitive Computation for a special issue on Pointing at Boundaries: Integrating Computation and Cognition on Biological Grounds. The submission deadline is May 16, 2011. ===================== SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ===================== Spurred by the advancement in synthetic biology (Gibson et al., 2010) at the J. Craig Venter Research Institute the editors of Cognitive Computation Journal (Springer Science) invite submissions to a special issue on biological substrates as a computational diaphragm. This topic leads to further research questions on computation and the bio-signals produced by living organisms. We anticipate submissions will contribute to the identification of a new breed of technologies: 1.) bio- computing applications (synthetic biology); 2.) chemical/microbial induced biological configurations; 3.) enhancing cognition and animal models; and 4.) neuroengineering sensory circuits and clinical/biomedical research. This special issue will provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussion that points towards the next step in cognition and computing through the excitability of biological substrates. The integration of computation and cognition on biological grounds has the prospect of pointing at a boundary system that is excitable, configurable, and manipulated within the framework of living organisms and their biological substrates. The next step in the development of natural computing hinges upon the development of biological substrates as a computational diaphragm. Authors are invited to submit unpublished research, original position papers, or literature reviews that address challenges unique to bio-inspired computation. Relevant areas of investigation and expertise include, but are not limited to: • synthetic biology, systematic biology, soft-computing• computation theory (membrane, natural, quantum, or evolutionary) • bio-nanotechnology, computational biology, computational linguistics • medical informatics (decision making, medical diagnostics, catastrophic disease research) • underlying spatial and self-modulating aspects of biological substrates (sRNA, siRNA, proteomics) • bio-optics: quorum sensing, bio-markers, molecular probes • neurobiology, gene regulation, neural circuits • pharmaceutical and biomedical cellular delivery systems • chemical ecology, interfacing with aliphatic odors (GPCR encoding) • neural signal transduction, neurotransmitters • neuroimaging, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology • mirror neurons, neuropsychology, theory of mind, simulation theory • swarm intelligence, theory of intelligence, consciousness • hierarchical temporal memory, heterogenous logic • neuroplasticity, learning, memory • “games with purpose” or collaborative task experimentation • bayesian biomedical techniques (clinical studies, morphological data, in vitro embryo selection) • translational cognition for decision support in critical care environments • soft-computing research and control of unknown diseases • “molecule to man” decision support in individualized e-health • biomedical informatics and pharmacogenomics • animal behavior, transgenics models • developmental biology, embryology • linguistic or philosophic barriers to bio-computing • cladistics, detecting and overcoming systematic errors in genome-scale phylogenies This special issue places into perspective computation and cognition from a post-genome viewpoint. Since the Human Genome Project recent discovieries suggest a bio-computation that specifies a more complex mechanisms along a multi-scale. Where a micro-meso-macro feedback occurs as a systemic self-organization with non-linear dynamics. Participation in this project proposes to advance the break with the "dogma" of one gene producing only one class of protein, assumed in the classic Monod-Changeux-Jacob model of the "Operon.the phenotype of living systems the incubation of bio-computing may gain strides through experimental literature on "small RNAs" (sRNA) interfering with gene expression and protein production. Through the manipulation of biological substrates emerges the prospect to identify recipes for combinatorial, multidimensional, and topological organizations with a dynamics that escape conventional spatial or temporal-spatial representation. A biological substrate represents a self-contained symbolic and logical neighborhood. This special issue is expected to appear in JUN 2012. Post submissions at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/cogn/Co-Editors Alfredo Pereira Jr., Eduardo Massad, Nathaniel Bobbitt bobbittn@cwu.edu Important Dates --------------------- Submission of full paper (to be received by): MAY 16, 2011 First notification of acceptance: AUG. 15, 2011 Submission of revised papers: OCT 15, 2011 Final notification to the authors: JAN 15, 2011 Submission of final/camera-ready papers: FEB 15, 2012 http://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/journal/12559?detailsPage=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 Mon Apr 4 08:47:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C429512368F; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 08:47:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 77DAE123684; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 08:47:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110404084700.77DAE123684@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 08:47:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.847 attracting students X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 847. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Francois Lachance (15) Subject: 8 1/2 Re: attracting students [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (11) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.845 attracting students [3] From: Willard McCarty (26) Subject: attracting students --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 11:08:52 -0400 From: Francois Lachance Subject: 8 1/2 Re: attracting students In-Reply-To: <20110403073733.8A807127381@woodward.joyent.us> A bit of forward looking on attracting students Something to consider in a Humanist context >From a news clipping: [Tilda] Swinton and her friend Mark Cousins, a film historian, are launching The 8 1/2 Foundation, an initiative funded by the Scottish government to introduce children to film classics they wouldn't get to see or rent in most venues. "We're making a website with clips of world cinema that Scottish children can click on, then they can write to us with the date of their 8 1/2 birthday, and we'll send them the film of their choice as a present, to inaugurate their film fandom," Swinton says For those curious ... http://eightandahalf.org/ Francois Lachance,Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 05:51:56 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.845 attracting students In-Reply-To: <20110403073733.8A807127381@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Tamara, Others have also seen a contribution that humanists have already made to the development of computer science and to the human-computer interface in particular. But the discipline you may be seeking is HCI or Human-Computer Interaction. Perhaps we should, as you say, be more concerned with that. I wouldn't pretend to define what Humanities Computing is. But in essence it seems to be about the representation and computation of humanistic (usually literary) texts. There are many books on HCI, perhaps the most often cited is that by Ben Shneiderman: 'Designing the User Interface'. Dr Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology (07)3138-9509 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:30:36 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: attracting students In-Reply-To: <20110403073733.8A807127381@woodward.joyent.us> Research and teaching go together because they are symbiotic. Teaching duties of course interfere with time for research, and so become annoyances, esp when the students are apparently neither intelligent nor engaged. But without teaching the possible reminder (or just minder) of the beginner's vision of a field and of the motivation which comes from that vision slips away. I am thinking once again of Sunryu Suzuki-roshi's "beginner's mind" of many possibilities and great, open-eyed curiosity. It seems to me that to attract students we must exhibit such a beginner's mind and space in which it can, for a time, explore and grow and expand. (And we must stop giving students the mentally crippling script we currently hand them.) Recently I was in a meeting of people who spoke of little more than infrastructure and support, very little about what the structure below supports. There were a number of occasions on which the few computer scientists in the room were referred to as "smart 'dumb computer scientists'". Then, some days later, I happened to watch a movie version of Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go". So I wonder now about the relationship between Ishiguro's alternate world and our own. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.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 Mon Apr 4 08:50:00 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 301E412371F; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 08:50:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 22B2812370C; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 08:49:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110404084957.22B2812370C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 08:49:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.848 events: networked culture 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="===============0967096343==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============0967096343== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 848. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 12:26:11 +0100 From: Adriana de Souza e Silva Subject: Symposium - Net Cultures: Mobility and Location inSocial Networks Please help me promote the first research symposium of the Center for Network Culture, which will take place on April 29 2001 at the IT University of Copenhagen... The symposium's main foci are the mobile and local aspects of today’s networked culture. Further information about the event and its speakers can be found at the CNC homepage: http://itu.dk/networkculture/ Speakers will address topics, such as: • Mobile communication and location awareness in everyday life practices; • New urban spatialities developed with mobile gaming and locative social media; • Privacy and surveillance issues as they relate to location-based social networks; • Identity and spatial construction through locative media art / performance design; • Civic engagement and political participation through mobile social media, new mapping practices and location-aware technologies. Invited Speakers: • Mimi Sheller (Drexel University, USA), KEYNOTE • Christian Licoppe (Telecom Paristech, France) • Ana Maria Nicolaci-da-Costa (Pontificial Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil) • Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University, Australia) IT University of Copenhage, Auditorium 1 Rued Langgaards Vej 7 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark The event is free. Registration required as seating is limited. RSVP to net-cultures@itu.dk with name and affiliation. ________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva, Ph.D Associate Professor IT University of Copenhagen, Digital Culture and Mobile Communication Group North Carolina State University, Department of Communication http://www.souzaesilva.com --===============0967096343== 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 --===============0967096343==-- From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Apr 5 07:36:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ECEF1277ED; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:36:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 598521277E0; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:36:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110405073646.598521277E0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:36:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.849 literature brought virtually to 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. 24, No. 849. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 08:15:18 -0700 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.840 literature brought virtually to life In-Reply-To: <20110402072904.B3E1E12361E@woodward.joyent.us> On 11-04-02 12:29 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> On 3/28/2011 1:16 AM, Daniel Allington wrote: >>> Having a research interest in what Bradley Bleck calls 'text-based >>> virtual realities' (below), I was wondering whether anyone else on >>> the list has tried using MOOs and related forms of programming (eg. >>> Inform 7 or its multi-user offshoot, Guncho) for teaching in the >>> humanities. >>> >>> Somehow I find the idea of students building a MOO to be rather more >>> exciting than the idea of them staging plays in Second Life. But >>> perhaps I'm just showing my age... I used to use MOOs and MUDs a lot for language teaching in the mid 90s. We would put the students in a lab, and log them all into the same MOO, then have them do communication games that were basically designed for conversation practice, but in the text-based environment. They were performing real-time interactions, so it was a little bit like speaking practice, but they were also able to monitor their outgoing "speech" and check it before sending it. To some extent it provided writing practice too. And the students all had motivation to read and understand each other's text. It was very successful in those days, but I don't know how much students today would take to something so graphically impoverished. Cheers, 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 Apr 5 07:48:05 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39E48127C67; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:48:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E64CD127C5A; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:48:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110405074802.E64CD127C5A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:48:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.850 creating a meme? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 850. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:57:35 -0500 From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: DEADLINE EXTENSION CALL FOR PAPERS: INTEGRATING COMPUTATION&COGNITION ON BIOLOGICAL GROUNDS In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 06:39:52 -0700 From: Nathaniel Bobbitt Subject: DEADLINE EXTENSION CALL FOR PAPERS: INTEGRATING COMPUTATION&COGNITION ON BIOLOGICAL GROUNDS EXCUSE---CROSS---POSTING We invite submissions to the Springer journal Cognitive Computation for a special issue on Pointing at Boundaries: Integrating Computation and Cognition on Biological Grounds. The submission deadline is May 16, 2011. How interesting that this post seems to be the sole source on the Web of the phrase "biological substrates as a computational diaphragm." Intertextuality not only rules, but can create a meme in one fell swoop...er, so to speak. Or maybe not so much, since the submission deadline has had to be extended? Pat Galloway 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 Tue Apr 5 07:49:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F8D127D32; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:49:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 33365127D0E; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:49:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110405074905.33365127D0E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:49:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.851 intensive users of cultural heritage projects? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 851. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:57:31 +0200 From: Katharina Mahler Subject: Study regarding digitalisation projects Dear Humanist readers, my name is Katharina Mahler, and I am a research assistant at the Institute for Humanities Computer Science at the University at Cologne. We are performing a study in which we intend to analyse the impact of digitalised historical and cultural material available online. We would therefore be very interested in comments from humanities researchers who consider themselves to be 'intensive users' of cultural heritage projects. We are trying to collect informal statements which give examples of which sites or features of sites are particularly useful for humanities researchers, as well as sites or features of sites which seem to qualify as 'worst practise'. We are implementing this study for the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschung Gesellschaft (DFG)), so comments about Germany-based offerings would be particularly welcome. Also, to create a sensible international context, comments on best and / or worst practise in digital activities worldwide would also be appreciated very much. If you would be willing and interested in discussing these questions personally, please let us know. E-mail adress: kmahler(at)uni-koeln.de. Thank you for your time and interest, Sincerely, Katharina Mahler, MA Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung UniversitE4t zu KF6ln 50923 KF6ln 0221-470-1751 E-Mail: kmahler(at)uni-koeln.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 Apr 5 07:49:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F579127D9F; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:49:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4FF36127D8C; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:49:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110405074940.4FF36127D8C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:49:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.852 new publication: ISR 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 852. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:46:25 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 36.1 (March 2011) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 36.1 (March 2011) 1. Enigma rebus: Prolegomena to an archaeology of algorithmic artefacts Link, David 3-23(21) 2. Schoenberg, serialism and cognition: Whose fault if No one listens? Ball, Philip 24-41(18) 3. Interdisciplinarity as critical Inquiry: Visualizing the Art/Bioscience interface Yang, Andrew S 42-54(13) 4. Socio-Cultural characteristics of usability of bioinformatics databases and tools Douglas, Conor; Goulding, Rebecca; Farris, Lily; Atkinson-Grosjean, Janet 55-71(17) 5. Placebo: no longer a phantom response Pasternak, Charles 72-82(11) 6. Essay review. Excavating the Future: Taking an Archaeological approach to technology Cronin, James G R 83-89(7) 7. Book Reviews. Steve Fuller, The Sociology of Intellectual Life: The Career of the Mind in and around the Academy (Thomas Basbøll); José van Dijck, Mediated Memories in the Digital Age (Melissa Terras) 90-96(7) 8. Project Review. Wellcome Trust, Evolving Words (Katy Price) 97-100(4) -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.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 Tue Apr 5 07:50:52 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A39D0127E48; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:50:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4698E127E2B; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:50:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110405075045.4698E127E2B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:50:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.853 new on WWW: DHO:Discovery X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 853. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:12:22 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Launch of DHO:Discovery - A New Gateway to Irish Cultural Artefacts DHO:Discovery - Launch of New Gateway to Irish Cultural Artefacts http://discovery.dho.ie Deputy Seán Sherlock, Minister of State for Research and Innovation, today launched discovery.dho.ie, a website to find and explore Irish cultural artefacts online. Speaking at the launch, Minister Sherlock said ‘The DHO:Discovery website is yet another innovative project developed by the Royal Irish Academy in cooperation with higher education and cultural institution partners as it seeks to promote excellence in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. The new website will give users access to over 6,000 digital artefacts from a range of world class collections held here on the island of Ireland. This project illustrates how we have combined innovation and technology to provide Ireland with a world class platform that provides outreach and education on our rich cultural heritage.’ DHO:Discovery currently draws together digital objects from collections at Chester Beatty Library, Irish Traditional Music Archive, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), Queen’s University Belfast (QUB),Royal Irish Academy (RIA), St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra (SPCD), Trinity College Dublin (TCD), andUniversity College Cork (UCC). DHO:Discovery | DHO:Fionnachtain allows users to discover images of art, music and voice recordings, letters, maps, drawings and more, from collections at higher education and cultural institutions. The website acts as a gateway to resources that were not previously linked by offering a single place from which disparate collections can be searched and browsed. In doing so, DHO:Discovery supports the sharing and creation of new knowledge. Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy said 'I am delighted to be a part of this initiative, both as President of the Royal Irish Academy and as National Coordinator for e-INIS. I cannot emphasise enough the importance of e-infrastructures for research in all areas. The convergence of Digital Humanities with Sciences make collaborative initiatives such as DHO:Discovery and looking to the future, the National Audio Visual Repository (NAVR), possible.' DHO:Discovery allows users to browse and search digital collections using descriptive text, or ‘keywords’, and discover related knowledge serendipitously; it has been designed with the user in mind, allowing for various ways to experience rich collections within a single portal, or ‘website’. Shawn Day, DHO Project Manager, added that ‘this is just the first step for DHO:Discovery. Users drive content and knowledge creation in the digital world. DHO:Discovery allows users to combine diverse Irish historical and cultural collections in ways never before imagined. Every user creates their own experience by combining records and information in unique ways and the DHO welcomes their input and feedback. This resource will be of great interest to those passionate about Ireland and it's rich heritage.’ DHO:Discovery launches following two years of development. The website is consistently developing, evolving, improving and taking user feedback into account. The DHO looks forward to welcoming the inclusion of new and exciting Irish digital collections as this new web venture expands and grows. This initiative was developed with the support of DHO partners, including those from the HSIS consortium, Irish cultural institutions and Ireland’s High Performance Computing Centre (iCHEC). For more information, or to enquire about making your Irish digital collections available, please contact us at: http://discovery.dho.ie/contact.php --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2 IRELAND --- 53.335373,-6.254219 --- http://about.me/shawnday/bio --- Tel: +353 1 2342441 --- s.day@dho.ie --- http://dho.ie -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 & 2003 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Acts 1998 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 5 07:51:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99437127E86; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:51:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AB14F127E7F; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:51:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110405075130.AB14F127E7F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:51:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.854 events: DH2011 childcare X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 854. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:28:56 -0700 From: Glen Worthey Subject: Childcare at DH2011 Coming "accompanied" to Stanford for DH2011? We're now investigating childcare options for DH2011 conference attendees, and for the purpose of soliciting babysitter bids we'll need to get a head count of our littlest DHers very soon. If you're considering bringing a child to DH2011, please contactme, one of your local hosts, at as soon as possible, to tell me the age(s) of your child(ren) who may require care, including any other pertinent details. Although we'll be as flexible as possible in offering childcare, it'll help greatly if you contact us before April 15 or thereabouts. Looking forward to seeing you all at Stanford in just a few months' time! Glen Worthey http://dh2011.stanford.edu/ -- Glen Worthey, Digital Humanities Librarian Humanities Digital Information Service Stanford University Libraries (ph) +1-650-213-6759; (f) +1-650-723-9383 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 6 07:11:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11441296DB; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 07:11:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 706891296C2; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 07:10:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110406071059.706891296C2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 07:10:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.855 attracting students and colleagues X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 855. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Carlos Monroy (101) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.845 attracting students [2] From: Willard McCarty (27) Subject: attracting computer scientists --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 17:04:41 -0500 From: Carlos Monroy Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.845 attracting students In-Reply-To: <20110405073646.598521277E0@woodward.joyent.us> Sorry for the lengthy reply, but the discussions "literature brought virtually to life" and "attracting students," truly inspired me, and--from my own experience--I believe they are connected. The former seems to explore new ways for presenting literature (e.g. using virtual worlds). The latter, addresses the challenges in making the humanities attractive to the students. As Willard commented in the original post, "This is the problem of representing our field in such a way that a potential student would want to devote him- or herself to it." Having worked in STEM-related educational games (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) for the last three years, and in digital humanities/digital libraries for over ten years, lack of interest in STEM fields/careers is also alarming (see NSF, National Academies, White House and similar reports). I argue that the lack of interest, or better put, lack of inspiration is not exclusive--although perhaps more dramatic--in the humanities. Last week, during a meeting in the preparation for a grant proposal aimed at inspiring middle and high school students' interest in Electrical Engineering (EE and Computer Science enrollments have dropped in recent years), the discussion centered on the questions, what can we do to inspire kids to this field? What should we do, to make them wonder about the beauty of electrical engineering? And eventually say, "I want to be an electrical engineer." After all, isn't that electronic gadgets surround us, and we used them for almost everything? Attendants to that meeting included EE professors, educators, museum experts, math teachers, and computer scientists, since we are looking at an innovative approach. I was deeply touched when one of the EE professors, an emeritus one, former dean of engineering, and an authority in the field said, "I remember that listening to an old radio my dad had, inspired me to electrical engineering. Since that time I always wondered how is it possible that sound generated miles away could be heard in this small box in front of me." My first thought was, aren't these the same questions about "inspiration" in the humanities? So to answer Willard's question, "So let me ask for our field: what would attract (have attracted) you?" With a background in computer science, I was initially attracted to digital humanities, by the beauty of the artifacts under study and the challenges their analysis posed to me from the computing stand point. I remember seeing digital copies of the original books of Don Quixote and the attempt to recreate the original manuscript written by Cervantes, followed by a large collection of artworks and an extensive biography of Picasso, the poetry of John Donne, and the sense of mystery associated to nautical archaeology and shipbuilding techniques since the 16th-century. A couple of weeks ago I shared with the Humanist the story of the partnership between whyville.net (a virtual world mostly for children with more than 6 million users) and the Great Books Foundation to foster reading (especially classic books). I shared it because an experiment we conducted in embedded a science game in that virtual world, produced interesting and positive results. In response to that post, I received an email from a very respected scholar, the editor of a well-established digital humanities project in the classics, who referring to our work in science games stated, "I have been thinking about what could be done in the same way in the Humanities." His statement confirmed some of my thoughts about using games for dissemination of scholarly collections, making them more attractive to a digital generation. Can we use games to make Cervantes, Donne, Picasso, Nautical Archaeology, History, Art, the Classics, Philosophy, Music, etc. more appealing and inspiring? I'm not advocating that games are the only solution, or that my intention is to replace the original artifacts and scholars, but rather, the urgent necessity for inspiration coupled with our empirical results in using games for fostering science careers, seem to support this claim. In a similar way, our approach to EE demonstrates that this is a multi-disciplinary effort. In a different domain, but sharing some similarities, during a recent presentation by Mauro Ferrari (a mechanical engineer and researcher at the Methodist Research Hospital Institute in Houston), talking about their innovative nanotechnology treatment to cancer, explained how their approach relies on NASA technology to accurately target cancer cells, a procedure that requires physicists and mathematicians. Wait a second; I always thought that cancer treatment involved only medical doctors. Not quite anymore. Maybe in the near future, the same could be said of literature, history, and other humanities disciplines. At present, some on-going DH initiatives already demonstrate similar degrees of innovation, and I look forward to the day the same can be said more generally about DH. In conclusion, I am convinced that this is a great time to be in this field (DH), the challenges are huge, but so are the ingenuity and innovation of so many scholars, researchers and practitioners. Referring to DH in the English Departments, Matt Kirschenbaum states: "the digital humanities today is about a scholarship (and a pedagogy) that is publicly visible in ways to which we are generally unaccustomed, a scholarship and pedagogy that are bound up with infrastructure in ways that are deeper and more explicit than we are generally accustomed to, a scholarship and pedagogy that are collaborative and depend on networks of people and that live an active 24/7 life online. Isn't that something you want in your English department?" To this I add, isn't presenting these fields in innovative ways to students that consider e-mail to be an outdated technology, worth the try? After all as Negroponte (co-founder of the MIT Media Lab) eloquently says "Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living." -Carlos ****************************** Carlos Monroy, Ph.D. Gaming Research and Development Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning Rice University Houston, TX voice: 713.348.5481 fax: 713.348.5699 carlos.monroy@rice.edu http://cttl.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id3D116 ****************************** --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:57:33 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: attracting computer scientists In-Reply-To: <20110405073646.598521277E0@woodward.joyent.us> I've asked recently what might attract students to the digital humanities. Let me add a somewhat different question to the mix: what attracts or might attract computer scientists? Interesting problems, of course -- but what kind? How do computer scientists see this field? What stands out as especially challenging? Note that I am *not* asking what a computer scientist would find engaging about problems in the traditional humanities. Rather I am asking what about the digital humanities attracts him or her? I'm relatively confident that calling a person a "smart 'dumb computer scientist'" is not a good opening move. Of course it's a joke, but one should always wonder why particular jokes are being told. I admit having to struggle to understand the stereotype being invoked when first I heard this expression. All I can imagine may be indicated is the stereotypical attitude those who think of themselves as thinking take toward those who make things (and by implication don't think). A long social history stands behind that stereotype, one we would do well to be rid of. I am supposing that to make good relations between the digital humanities and computer science requires that we understand how computer scientists see us, what they see in us that would draw them into collaborative relationships. So, what sort of creatures do we appear to be? Candor is welcome, really. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.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 Apr 6 07:12:05 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 156D8129725; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 07:12:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 71680129702; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 07:11:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110406071158.71680129702@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 07:11:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.856 literature brought virtually to 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. 24, No. 856. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 09:34:43 +0100 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.849 literature brought virtually to life In-Reply-To: <20110405073646.598521277E0@woodward.joyent.us> >>> Somehow I find the idea of students building a MOO to be rather more >>> exciting than the idea of them staging plays in Second Life. But >>> perhaps I'm just showing my age... >I used to use MOOs and MUDs a lot for language teaching in the mid 90s. >We would put the students in a lab, and log them all into the same MOO, >then have them do communication games that were basically designed for >conversation practice, but in the text-based environment. They were >performing real-time interactions, so it was a little bit like speaking >practice, but they were also able to monitor their outgoing "speech" and >check it before sending it. To some extent it provided writing practice >too. And the students all had motivation to read and understand each >other's text. It was very successful in those days, but I don't know how >much students today would take to something so graphically impoverished. >Cheers, >Martin Thanks very much for the info. That's what I meant about my age. I'm just old enough to have grown up using a CLI - added to which, the first browser I used was Mosaic. So to me (and I guess, a lot of people on this list) graphics in computing have always seemed like an optional extra. I do wonder what today's undergrads would make of this sort of stuff. All best Daniel -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 6 07:13:01 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4329512979B; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 07:13:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DF663129790; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 07:12:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110406071256.DF663129790@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 07:12:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.857 events: DH2011 registration and housing X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 857. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:32:22 -0700 From: Jockers Matthew Subject: DH 2011 Conference Registration and Housing The DH 2011 Conference Registration and Campus Housing web sites are now online. See http://dh2011.stanford.edu/?p=759 and http://dh2011.stanford.edu/?p=755 For more information. -- 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 Apr 7 06:27:01 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E249712B3C4; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:27:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BF78612B3BB; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:26:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110407062657.BF78612B3BB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:26:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.858 attracting students, colleagues, computer scientists X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 858. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Helena Barbas" (35) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.855 attracting students and colleagues [2] From: James Rovira (24) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.855 attracting students and colleagues [3] From: Patricia Galloway (21) Subject: Attracting computer scientists --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 12:54:21 +0100 From: "Helena Barbas" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.855 attracting students and colleagues In-Reply-To: <20110406071059.706891296C2@woodward.joyent.us> Hello all, hello Willard :) Coming from the other side of Humanities –Literature – I also feel inspired to contribute to this discussion. For more than 5 years now, I'’ve been teaching Literature and new media, and e-learning techniques at Master level to k-12 teachers with very little computing experience, or none at all. There are two things that have proven to be a success. One of them is using blogs; the teachers make a classroom blog where their students write reviews of the books they borrow from the school library; another is to let them put together a collective thematic blog regarding the authors they have to read. The other one – following the example of the Penguin Project «We tell Stories» http://wetellstories.co.uk/ - is to use Google Maps to recreate the itinerary of the characters in the book they have to study (this only works for ‘realistic’ novels). I have also used mashups to re-build historical itineraries in a cultural heritage perspective,– namely the circuit of the templar castles in Portugal. In another course – Portuguese Literature and the web.2 – the final assessment work has been the making of an interactive narrative using any software they feel at ease with – some used powerpoint with amazing results. I think that the main problem with these students is not to feel overwhelmed by the technical issues they do not understand very well. Best regards Helena Helena Barbas (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas Departamento de Estudos Portugueses (Gabinete B - bloco B) Av. de Berna, 26-C 1069-061 Lisboa - Portugal Url: http://www.helenabarbas.net --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 08:09:20 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.855 attracting students and colleagues In-Reply-To: <20110406071059.706891296C2@woodward.joyent.us> I may descend into stereotypes here, but they're partially based on experience: many computer science types have a great attraction to works of fantasy or imagination. They might take the form of Star Wars, Dungeons and Dragons, World of Warcraft, or whatever else happens to be current at the time, but they are not strangers to the appeals of the humanities. A significant and very profitable part of the computer industry is devoted just to gaming, most of which requires the integration of plot and character with an often very sophisticated visual aesthetic. What I think we might want to do is restate the question a bit -- how do we get computer scientists interested in digital humanities -beyond- sci-fi/fantasy and gaming? I think we might show them the appeal of this work in terms of their current interests. One popular new game, for example, is Dante's Inferno: http://www.dantesinferno.com/home.action -- a 700 year old text inspired the creation of an online video game today. Why can't it inspire digital projects that better help us study these the original texts? Jim R > I've asked recently what might attract students to the digital > humanities. Let me add a somewhat different question to the mix: what > attracts or might attract computer scientists? Interesting problems, of > course -- but what kind? How do computer scientists see this field? What > stands out as especially challenging? --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:17:53 -0500 From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Attracting computer scientists In-Reply-To: <20110406071059.706891296C2@woodward.joyent.us> Watch what you hope for, in case you may get it. Computer scientists who don't want to lose their disciplinary chops bring with them entirely different reward structures that are often not in agreement with those of the humanities. Humanities tools, for example, are made pretty much around an open-source model and supported by communities; computer scientists, whether they like it are not, are at least in the US on university radar screens for grabbing a share of any profit that faculty work may generate, and computer scientists move on from project to project because maintenance of a viable tool is less well-rewarded (or not rewarded at all) by grant money. (Grant money? we ask; what's that?) In the field of digital archiving, we are seeing this (for example) in the form of potentially usable tools, whose development was funded by NDIIPP money, that are no longer available and were never finished because the grant money dried up. Which is not to say that CS colleagues are not stimulating to work with, but like it or not, they live in a world that is much more constrained to specific funding behaviors when it comes to promotion and tenure than is the world of humanities specialists. At least at present. 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 Apr 7 06:30:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A983512B46A; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:30:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E3F5712B452; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:30:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110407063025.E3F5712B452@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:30:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.859 literature brought virtually to 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. 24, No. 859. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:51:21 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.856 literature brought virtually to life In-Reply-To: <20110406071158.71680129702@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard and HUMANIST, On 4/6/2011 3:11 AM, Daniel Allington wrote: > That's what I meant about my age. I'm just old enough to have grown > up using a CLI - added to which, the first browser I used was Mosaic. > So to me (and I guess, a lot of people on this list) graphics in > computing have always seemed like an optional extra. I do wonder what > today's undergrads would make of this sort of stuff. We can definitely date ourselves by what we consider optional extras. For me I guess it would be the CRT, which has finally (full circle) become obsolete. But I guess I'm pretty old for someone as young as I am. Yet this dating comes back to what Carlos Monroy just wrote about in 24.845 "attracting students", and how even science and engineering are finding it difficult to communicate their interest to the young. It comes back to the old radio the old dean of engineering grew up with, the one that seemed so magical and led him into a passion and a career. To him, maybe, the illuminated dial or the amplified signal seemed optional extras, nice-to-haves on top of the wonder of it. It seems that to cultivate this sort of interest in fundamentals, one needs not only curiosity -- that essential emotion of the young, so easily extinguished when not fed its proper food of insight and wonder -- but also a sense that curiosity about the causes of things, with its delicious sense of hazard, is itself proper and right (for the young and for the old who wish to stay young in spirit), partly because it defies time. Curiosity about a poem, how static forms of ink on a page can manage to communicate their ripples of energy, the rise of hairs on your neck, isn't really very different from curiosity about how a crystal can pick up vibrations out of space and translate them into vibrations in the air. It's the same stuff, and it always has been. So what do we do to encourage this, in ourselves and in those to whom we owe our own hopes for the future? Here, I think the demands of consumer culture for encapsulation and finish, despite the lure of their apparent achievement, work against us. As long as it's impossible to open one of these mobile devices -- or the source code of a downloaded app -- and see even how its parts fit together, much less their inner workings, our curiosity hits that wall of incomprehension, forcing us either to accept the subordinate role offered to us -- a "user" not a participant -- or to turn away entirely. (Being no longer so young, my choice is often the latter, and this makes me feel old.) One's role as a consumer is not to understand, lest one (with one's troublesome curiosity) become a point of instability, an anomaly to be contained. Fundamentally, I think this represents a crisis of relationship, not so much between people (who remain stubbornly curious about one another), or between people and the technologies with which we extend and express ourselves, but between people and the institutions that organize and seek to control all this activity, ostensibly for their and our own livelihoods and sustainability. A conflict of interest: the state does not need us to be curious and engaged, as long as we obey the law and pay our taxes. The corporation does not need us to be curious, but only to accept its services on its own terms, as repeat customers. It hardly needs to be added that these are ultimately self-defeating positions, as after all these institutions are no one but us, and like all living things, their choice and ours is only whether to renew ourselves or die. This makes me wonder if I haven't been wrong to suppose how important it is to finish. Maybe the best thing I can leave to those who come after me is the project left undone, the pieces scattered around where they can pick them up, putting two and two together for themselves. If this is the case, maybe a curriculum should not be a "program" so much as a venue and an opportunity for passage, not from potential to realization as much as from one potential to another, greater one. And what we should have in common with our students is our work in progress. Regards, 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 Apr 7 06:32:13 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F33BF12B4CA; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:32:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DD36112B4B5; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:32:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110407063208.DD36112B4B5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:32:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.860 cybersolutions for the education business X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 860. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:32:46 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cybersolutions for the education business See the following. How practical and, from our perspective, desirable are the envisioned "cybersolutions"? On the consequences of thinking that higher education is a business and an explanation for senior administrators thinking that it is, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8568093.stm. Comments? Yours, WM > Chronicle of Higher Education > April 5, 2011 > > Governing Boards Turn to Technology to Reinvent the University > By Jack Stripling > Los Angeles > > Gathered for a national conference on college trusteeship here on > Tuesday morning, board members from across the country said they are > looking for cybersolutions to solve some of the most vexing problems > their colleges face. > > If there was a recurring theme at the three-day conference of the > Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, it was > that a major rethinking of instruction through broader use of online > learning is the only real hope for reinventing the business of higher > education. > > Mark G. Yudof, who knows a thing or two about confronting diminished > resources, suggested on Monday that it's a mistake to believe that > small-scale changes in purchasing agreements or reduced course > offerings will rescue the University of California system, where Mr. > Yudof is president. Instead, colleges will need to aggressively alter > the way they deliver courses, relying more heavily on online > instruction, he said. It is a "myth" in higher education that "we can > cut our way into survival," Mr. Yudof said. > > Enter Carol A. Twigg, who offered an alternative here on Tuesday. As > president and chief executive of the National Center for Academic > Transformation, Ms. Twigg has argued for more than a decade that, > when used effectively, technology can both improve student > achievement and reduce costs. > > "This is not rocket science," she said during a presentation. > > The center has redesigned courses on more than 100 college campuses, > and Ms. Twigg points toward a body of evidence suggesting that course > sections can be scaled up to serve many more students without > sacrificing quality. While the course redesigns differ from campus to > campus, they often involve the use of low-stakes online quizzes to > promote student mastery of material. Such quizzes and other online > tasks can replace the need for class time and reduce the number of > professors required to teach a course, Ms. Twigg said. On average, > the course redesigns reduce costs by 37 percent, she said. > > Ms. Twigg's work is often praised by online-learning advocates, but > the model is hardly pervasive in higher education, and some are > concerned about whether large classes undermine an educational > experience. That said, Ms. Twigg tried to put to rest the notion that > faculty resistance to course transformations is what's holding > colleges back. Indeed, she not-too-subtly suggested that some of the > people in her audience might be to blame for colleges being rather > slow to embrace a technological revolution in the classroom. > > "In our view, the problem is lack of leadership at all levels," she > said. > > Several of the center's course transformations have led to a doubling > of class sizes, and some sections have more than 1,000 students. It's > a model that not only has appeal to trustees who want to cut costs, > but also to policy makers who are concerned about educational > attainment in the United States. > > Eduardo M. Ochoa, assistant secretary for postsecondary education at > the U.S. Department of Education, said at a panel session on Monday > that "less labor-intensive" instruction methods will be required to > increase the nation's number of college graduates. He conceded that > technology presents upfront costs for colleges. But, he said, > "eventually, the way things are done becomes qualitatively > different." -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.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 Thu Apr 7 06:34:37 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2285512B53D; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:34:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 330C512B52D; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:34:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110407063434.330C512B52D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:34:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.861 new on WWW: > 4,000 new EEBO-TCP 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. 24, No. 861. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:48:16 -0400 From: "Friedlander, Ari" Subject: RE: Text Creation Partnership Releases Over 4,000 New EEBO-TCP Texts The University of Michigan Library is pleased to announce the release of 4,180 texts from the second phase of its Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) project. The Text Creation Partnership produced these texts in collaboration with ProQuest, and they are available immediately to EEBO-TCP Phase II partners. The entire EEBO-TCP archive is now available at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebogroup/, where anyone may search, browse, and explore the corpus. Access to the full text of EEBO-TCP digital editions is restricted to partner institutions for a limited period - about 10 years from their initial release - as per TCP¹s agreement with ProQuest. However, all TCP-created titles will eventually enter the public domain, and will be freely available to scholars, researchers, and readers everywhere, in keeping with the University of Michigan Library¹s commitment to the creation of open access cultural heritage archives. The TCP is still accepting new library partners for EEBO-TCP Phase II. Partners jointly fund the creation of new texts, and so have a direct impact on the success of the project. The production of new texts is ongoing, and semi-annual updates will be made to the corpus over the course of the project. In its first phase, EEBO-TCP produced 25,355 texts, and its second phase aims to create transcriptions of each unique text remaining in ProQuest's EEBO database, adding 44,000 more books to the EEBO-TCP archive. The creation of accurately keyed, searchable, standards-compliant digital editions from scanned images of centuries-old books is a boon to students and scholars. These early printed books cannot be accurately captured by optical character recognition (OCR) software, and therefore require individual keying and encoding. Since 1999, the TCP, consisting of staff at the University of Michigan and the University of Oxford, has collaborated with scholars, commercial publishers, and university libraries to produce scholar-ready (that is, TEI-compliant, SGML/XML enhanced) text editions of works from digital image collections, including EEBO, Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) from Gale, and Evans Early American Imprint from Readex. More than 125 libraries participate in the TCP, as does the Joint Information Systems (JISC), which represents many British libraries and educational institutions. To learn more about the Text Creation Partnership, visit www.lib.umich.edu/tcp. Questions, comments, and inquiries may be directed to Ari Friedlander, Outreach Coordinator, at tcp-info@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 Thu Apr 7 06:43:41 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 476F712B636; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:43:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0E1BB12B622; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:43:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110407064337.0E1BB12B622@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:43:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.862 events: mss to digital; theorizing the web X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 862. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Claire Clivaz (35) Subject: August Digital Era meeting: Last call to papers [2] From: PJ Rey (23) Subject: Join us this Weekend! - Theorizing the Web 2011 Conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 12:46:34 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: August Digital Era meeting: Last call to papers Dear List, Here is the last call for papers to the Swiss meeting "From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era: Readings and Literacies". www.unil.ch/digitalera2011 We are waiting papers in Humanities and Computing, Classics, Antiquity, New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Modern History, English Literature, French Literature, Economy. In the various fields, papers dealing with the following are looked for: 1. History of reading, of ancient and modern literacies, with reference to written, oral and visual technologies in cultural communication. 2. The challenges and possibilities presented by the digitalisation of ancien manuscripts and modern texts. 3. Analysis of the transformations entailed by the digital culture in these fields of study. Specific call for papers : "What kind of digital edition of the New Testament do we need ?" Deadline : 30th April 2011 ; a summary of 250-300 words has to be submitted to Claire Clivaz (claire.clivaz@unil.ch). The call for papers is for researchers and PhD students. If a paper is not selected for a lecture, it could be presented as a poster. Publication of the papers has been agreed with Peeters, in English, German or French. This international conference is proposed to you by Claire Clivaz (IRSB, FTSR), Jérôme Meizoz (FDi, Lettres) and François Vallotton (SHC, Lettres). It seeks to demonstrate the major impact of the Digital Era on knowledge, by studying the history of cultural technologies. The present evolution of the Ancient manuscript allows one to detect this turning-point, notably with the digital editions of Homer and the New Testament. The notions of authorship and critical edition are questionned : modern history and contemporary analysis have to be enrooted in ancient memory to reflect upon the digital turn. A public evening will conclude the conference on the 25th August; it will be prepared by three meetings "Digital Humanities@Unil" during the spring semester 2011. Please click on this link to see the complete argument. Welcome in Lausanne! Claire Clivaz, Jérôme Meizoz and François Vallotton --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 18:28:02 -0400 From: PJ Rey Subject: Join us this Weekend! - Theorizing the Web 2011 Conference April 9th, 2011 @ The University of Maryland Keynote: danah boyd, "Privacy, Publicity Intertwined" Plenary: Saskia Sassen, "Digital Formations of the Powerful and the Powerless” Plenary: George Ritzer, “Why the Web Needs Post-Modern Theory” The program also features 14 panels, 2 workshops, 2 symposia (one on social media’s role in the Arab revolutions, the other, a conversation with Martin Irvine, director of the Irvine Contemporary Gallery, on social media and street art). Full program available: http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/TtW2011_print_program.pdf Promotional flyer: http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/ttw2011flyer.pdf Please register now and join us: http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/registration.html PJ Rey Conference Co-Chair --- PJ Rey Department of Sociology University of Maryland www.pjrey.net 2112 Art-Sociology Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 7 06:45:05 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA8312B6C2; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:45:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E9D0012B6B4; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:45:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110407064501.E9D0012B6B4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:45:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.863 cfp: bio-computing to self-organizing intelligent systems X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 863. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 11:53:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Barna Iantovics Subject: Call for papers - From Natural Computing to Self-organizing Intelligent Complex Systems Dear Colleague, You are kindly invited to contribute with a paper to the Special Issue “From Natural Computing to Self-organizing Intelligent Complex Systems” Please find also the call for contribution to the “International Workshop on Next Generation Intelligent Medical Decision Support Systems” (the webpage it is not completely finished sorry about it). http://ncscs.upm.ro/ Kind regards, Barna Iantovics ********************* CALL FOR PAPERS********************* SUBMISSION DUE DATE: May 19, 2011 SPECIAL ISSUE: From Natural Computing to Self-organizing Intelligent Complex Systems Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR) www.igi-global.com/jitr Guest Editors: Barna László Iantovics, Petru Maior University, Romania Marius Ştefan Măruşteri, Universityof Medicineand Pharmacy, Romania Constantin-Bălă Zamfirescu, Lucian Blaga University, Romania INTRODUCTION: Recently a large number of bio-inspired computational methods have been used (also called methods of Natural Computing) to solve computationally hard problems in many domains. These methods have proven to be successful for different types of problems with unknown and uncertain data where the traditional approaches are not so effective. It is estimated that the biological life that evolved during millions of years will be a fruitful source of inspiration for the development of new computational methods offer in the years to come and they will represent an important research direction in the Artificial Intelligence mainstream. OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE: From a practical perspective, an essential research direction is represented by the development of highly complex systems (usually agent-based) that intelligently solve problems of very high difficulty. We consider complex systems composed from a large number of components (agents) capable to make specialized computations in the problem space. Suchdevelopments are usually composed of a very large number of computational components, who interact many times nonlinearly, forming as a whole a complex problem solving system.A subclass of complex systems includes the hybrid systems composed from different type of artificial components capable to make computations, and human specialists that could interact in different points of decisions during the problems solving. Research related to complex systems address analysis of many aspects such as complexity, self-organization, emergence, intelligence, hybridization and so forth. Many computational complex systems developments require interdisciplinary approaches, which must include methods developed in different sciences, like sub-domains of the Artificial Intelligence like Natural Computing and Intelligent Agents. A particular subject by interest for this issue is represented by the self-organizing complex systems that use methods of natural computing in different tasks, like: problems solving, self-organization etc.This issue will centralize some state of the art results in the theme, which we estimate that will remain an important research direction in the near future. RECOMMENDED TOPICS: Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following: · artificial intelligence · large-scale and complex systems · hybrid complex systems · intelligent systems · natural computing · evolutionary systems · complex systems’modeling · agents and multi-agent systems · complex networks · difficult problem for a human specialist · difficult problem for a computational system · complex systems specialized in difficult problems solving · decision support systems · problem solving method used by a complex system · problems that could be solved by a complex system · large-scale cooperative agent-based systems · self-organizing system SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on From Natural Computing to Self-organizing Intelligent Complex Systems on or before March 19, 2011. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. Interested authors should consult the journal’s guidelines for manuscript submissions at http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APAstyle for reference citations. This journal is an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association www.igi-global.com/jitr Editor-in-Chief:Mehdi Khosrow-Pour Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) PUBLISHER: The Journal of Information Technology Research is 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. All submissions should be directed to the attention of: Barna László Iantovics, Marius Ştefan Măruşteri, Constantin-Bălă Zamfirescu Guest Editors E-mail: laszlo@science.upm.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 Apr 8 05:52:20 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD4012ACB4; Fri, 8 Apr 2011 05:52:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7BDBF12AC9E; Fri, 8 Apr 2011 05:52:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110408055217.7BDBF12AC9E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 05:52:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.864 literature brought virtually to 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. 24, No. 864. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 11:09:15 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: re Mr Piez... who wrote an interesting and cogent comment ... until near his close, when we read, "these institutions are no one but us, and like all living things, their choice and ours is only whether to renew ourselves or die." There is not "or" about any of this. We die in any case, in the longer or shorter run, to allude to Keynes' famous remark. The questions in this venue, it seems to me, are about digital humanities "machines" involved in reading. Most of the list here, I suppose, is composed of a very small minority of educated to read readers. But reading in the deepest way is an achievement of a very small number of people everywhere and anywhere. Education? I published online a review of a book out on 4th April. It may be found at: www.calitreview.com Title: IN THE BASEMENT OF THE IVORY TOWER, by Professor X. I make a few comments about reading en passant in that review. Piez mentions poems. In my dotage, I teach a Freshman Seminar at UCLA each Fall, titled FIAT LUX, part of an Honors offering that teachers from any part of the University can do for fun and relaxation, rather informally, since it wants to attract students from all disciplines to sort of bum around. 1 credit; pass/fail; requirement: only to show up for 10 hours in the Quarter. Universally, they and most people, upon reading a poem, to themselves, or viva voce, begin to talk "meaning." I forbid such talk. I ask merely for one written page that tells the group, What does the poem SAY? It is the voice. I narrow the field to 3 fundamental modes of human speech [in poetry, which is mainly expression, not "communication[s]"; Elegy, Satire, Invocation. One would be surprised to find how this elementary approach to the elementary proves very difficult for the most interested and eager. Of course, all these students read from a printed collection I made haphazardly, and they write and read more via their screens, of course. As for Piez remarks about his age and memories and the sources of inspiration and/or enterprise, let me recall Thoreau's acid remark in WALDEN, which is a sort of Memento Mori: "One generation abandons the enterprises of another like vessels stranded on the shore." Oddly, what we call Humanities is our study of all the lost, and fossilized enterprises that are recorded. And that is where digitization may be the means for past present and future. As for meanings, each of takes them away to the Aldila, and most are lost, as I notice, to most memories after the aging thing gets going in each, for each, and according to who knows what neural chemistry endowments. All one may hold to, is the memory of youth's courage even at "setting out." Yeats laments this in "Among School Children." -- Jascha Kessler Professor of Modern English & American 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 Fri Apr 8 05:54:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A13E12AD31; Fri, 8 Apr 2011 05:54:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A0C0A12AD22; Fri, 8 Apr 2011 05:54:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110408055411.A0C0A12AD22@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 05:54:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.865 DH2011: mentoring & jobs X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 865. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 20:57:58 -0400 From: Stéfan_Sinclair Subject: ACH Mentoring & Jobs Activities at DH2011 Dear all, The following message is about the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) mentoring and jobs activities at DH2011 at Stanford. The ACH is committed to promoting the growth and strength of the digital humanities community. We are especially keen to provide guidance and opportunities to newer members of the community. In particular, we have the following three initiatives during DH2011 that are open to all members of ADHO associations (ACH, ALLC, SDH/SEMI): 1) ACH MENTORING PROGRAMME (ongoing) 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, we hope you'll consider participating in one of our mentoring initiatives. Here are some of the objectives of the mentoring programme. * 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 If you'd like to participate in the mentoring programme as a potential mentor or mentee, please send the following information to the email address at the end of this message: - are you a potential mentor or mentee? - what are your areas of expertise and experience - if you're a mentee: - what would you value most from a mentor? - is there anyone specific you have in mind as a mentor? Please note that if you've volunteered in the past as a mentor you don't need to contact me again unless you wish to opt-out. 2) ACH MENTORING MIXER (time and location to be announced) This is a very casual outing where all mentors and mentees are invited to a local pub or bar to chat with one another. The first round of refreshments is offered by the ACH. We will provide more details on this event as we approach DH2011. 3) JOBS SLAM – at the ACH Annual General Meeting During the AGM we will have an opportunity for people currently or imminently on the job market to introduce themselves to digital humanities colleagues and potential employers. As well, there will be an opportunity for employers to present jobs that are currently advertised or about to be announced. Each spoken presentation is limited to 30 seconds. This year we're also encouraging advocates to speak (more flatteringly) on behalf of job seekers, if possible and when desired. If you're looking for a job or if you have a job to offer (staff or faculty), please send the following information to the email address at the end of this message: * your name, affiliation and basic contact information * your discipline or the discipline of your job * a link to other information, if available If you're interested in any or all of the above, please email me (sgs at the domain mcmaster.ca) or tweet me (@sgsinclair). We hope to hear from you! On behalf of the ACH Jobs & Mentoring Committee, Stéfan Sinclair & Matthew Jockers -- Dr. Stéfan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: (905) 570-1167 Address: TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia 1280 Main St. W., McMaster University 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 Fri Apr 8 05:54:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27CB812AD90; Fri, 8 Apr 2011 05:54:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5276112AD76; Fri, 8 Apr 2011 05:54:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110408055454.5276112AD76@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 05:54:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.866 events: Duration (Before and) after Media X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 866. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:14:06 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Duration (Before and) After Media CFP: Duration (Before and) After Media Distributed February 2011 www.davidcecchetto.net/duration.html In the context of ubiquitous technology, the question of duration has emerged as a powerful interdisciplinary tool for investigating the interstices that both separate and sustain medial, technological, cultural, and artistic activities. Indeed, as claims to a post-media characterization of our digital landscape collide with deeply disciplined artistic and intellectual practices, questions of the body, the human, the flesh, the social, and even time become increasingly difficult to pose (let alone answer). Thus, duration--a concept with variegated genealogies in Bergson, Deleuze, Whitehead, and others, as well as in most artistic disciplines--suggests a point of intervention that avows the multiplicity of the problem: what happens to duration after media? How might duration fold together pre- and post-digital practices in ways that differ from disciplinary histories? How do locative, mobile, and ubiquitous media practices (artistic or otherwise) mobilize duration, and what might we learn from these? We invite paper presentations on these and other questions relating to duration for a small conference taking place from 10-12 August, 2011 at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. Theoretical interventions as well as practical or case-study models will all be considered. Fewer than 30 presentations will be accepted for this gathering, so emphasis will be placed on establishing conversations towards the development of an innovative edited collection on the same topic. Please email a 250 word abstract and 75 word bio to David Cecchetto at dcecchetto@faculty.ocad.ca before Friday 22 April, 2011. Participants will be notified of acceptance in early May. ----- UPDATE: Keynote Speakers Announced Updated 21 March, 2011 We are thrilled to confirm two exciting and distinguished keynote speakers for our gathering, Dr. Charlie Gere (Lancaster University, UK) and Dr. Christine Ross(McGill University, Canada). Dr. Charlie Gere is reader in New Media Research in the Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University, United Kingdom. He is the author ofDigital Culture (Reaktion Books, 2002), Art, Time and Technology (Berg, 2006), and co-editor of White Heat Cold Technology (MIT Press, 2009), as well as many papers on questions of technology, media and art. In 2007 he co-curated Feedback, a major exhibition on art responsive to instructions, input, or its environment, in Gijon, Northern Spain. Dr. Christine Ross is Professor and James McGill Chair in Contemporary Art History in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. She is the author of The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) and co-editor of Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008). Her current book project examines the temporal turn in contemporary art. These speakers are made possible through the generous contribution of the Office of the President, OCAD University. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.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 Sat Apr 9 05:16:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D34E912C016; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 05:16:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4AB2012DFFA; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 05:16:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110409051631.4AB2012DFFA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 05:16:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.867 literature brought virtually to 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. 24, No. 867. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:00:16 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.864 literature brought virtually to life In-Reply-To: <20110408055217.7BDBF12AC9E@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard and HUMANIST, On 4/8/2011 1:52 AM, Jascha Kessler wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 864. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 11:09:15 -0700 > From: Jascha Kessler > Subject: re Mr Piez... > > who wrote an interesting and cogent comment ... until near his close, when > we read, "these institutions are no one but us, and like all living things, > their choice and ours is only whether to renew ourselves or die." > There is not "or" about any of this. We die in any case, in the longer or > shorter run, to allude to Keynes' famous remark. I know ... as I was writing, I was remembering W.H. Auden's recantation of his own great poem "September 1, 1939". Maybe I was echoing more than I knew from his words: There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die. Later (as least if my memory is not betraying me) the poet accused his earlier self of sentimentality, and changed his text. Of course we love one another *and* die. And yet I decided to go with the first version, arguing with myself that it could be true in a less literal sense, if we ask what is the failure to love, or the failure to renew ourselves. For the most part, what difference there is between merely persisting and dying is not a question the young have to ask: but that is exactly the point. As to the rest, I am happy to leave that to Dr Kessler, and to Auden, this time from his elegy on Yeats of the same year: Now he is scattered among a hundred cities And wholly given over to unfamiliar affections, To find his happiness in another kind of wood And be punished under a foreign code of conscience. The words of a dead man Are modified in the guts of the living. This does have to do with us, especially as the words of the dead are modified, not only in our own guts, but in the guts of our machines. To me, it seems always an open question whether such modification will be renewal, or only encapsulation and embalming; and this is the question I wished to pose about us and our students. Absolutely, as Kessler quotes Thoreau, "One generation abandons the enterprises of another like vessels stranded on the shore"; I don't feel it should be otherwise. It still matters what shore we have landed them on, whether the spit of an atoll, or a continent. Respectfully, 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 Apr 9 05:18:01 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B115F12C091; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 05:18:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A305112C079; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 05:17:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110409051758.A305112C079@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 05:17:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.868 cfp: Interactive Technology and Pedagogy X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 868. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 08:49:18 -0400 From: "matt.lists@gmail.com" Subject: CFP: The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (DEADLINEEXTENDED TO 5/31) Dear Colleagues, Please see the CFP below and forward to anyone you know who might be interested. Many thanks. Matt --------------------------------------------------------- Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, New York City College of Technology (English) and CUNY Graduate Center (Interactive Technology and Pedagogy) Project Director, CUNY Academic Commons http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/ 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201 http://mkgold.net mattgold@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 Apr 10 06:07:13 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 314A4123AA6; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:07:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 36AD5123A9B; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:07:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110410060710.36AD5123A9B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:07:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.869 literature brought virtually to 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. 24, No. 869. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 12:35:32 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: re Piez's comments to my remarks, which are fine enough, but stilland yet however... he says, "modified, not only in our own guts, but in the guts of our machines." This is metaphor, and as a longtime writer and publisher of poems [cf my COLLECTED POEMS, xlibris.com], I am chary of metaphor, which is our fundamental mode of speech, or one of them. Similes is what Google picks up as intruder on emails these days. My reply would offer, the "guts of our machines" do not exist. We manipulate the 00s and 1s, as the living who have guts. I know Auden chickened out in old age, of his former sentimentalities... as our digital memories will recall his having chickened out of London before the war really started, he and Isherwood, who had both traveled, rather junketed through China paid for by the DAILY WORKER. Whether they were doing what writers do, taking money for their purposes, one cannot say' but they failed to disclose their defections. Spender and Eliot both remained to stay up night sweeping up incendiary bombs and risking being blown up. Here is useful digital recordings for Humanists to exploit in future. As for the stranded vessels, looters and souvenir hunters wlll dismantle them for their own purposes, wot? And deepsea vessels hunt for gold and cannons, and of course precious artefacts to use in reconstructing say porcelain histories, usually so far erroneously...but that is for another time and book going into print somewhere... Modifications of information are already misinformations for the most part. I published a skeptical essay online two years ago about the historical norms of fact established by the great German who hoped to reveal by copying paper record, WIE ES EIGENTLICH GEWESEN IST. I can get a link if anyone is interested. However, Google doing records per se is a fine helpmeet, but dicey, as in Wikileakings.... The living have either strong digestions, or weak ones, but what they produce from the guts is also merdes and "merdiismes...." As for the young, well, it is seldom up to the old to see into their use of twitterings, wot? JK -- Jascha Kessler Professor of Modern English & American 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 Sun Apr 10 06:08:19 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57778123B12; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:08:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 53DB7123AF6; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:08:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110410060817.53DB7123AF6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:08:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.870 rfp: Open Annotation Collaboration X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 870. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 12:56:07 -0400 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: Open Annotation Collaboration RFP Dear all, The Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) project is pleased to announce a Request For Proposal to collaborate with OAC researchers for building implementations of the OAC data model and ontology. The OAC is seeking to collaborate with scholars and/or librarians currently using and/or curating established repositories of scholarly digital resources with well-defined audiences of scholars. The OAC intends to fund a set of four projects that are complementary in content media type and use cases that leverage the OAC Data Model to the fullest extent, and that leverage existing annotation tools or at least have articulated an interesting scholarly annotation use case. Two of the successful Respondents will collaborate with OAC researchers at the University of Maryland and the other two will collaborate with OAC research at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. (For these collaborations, Illinois and Maryland will provide guidance on the implementation of the OAC data model and ontology, help in defining extensions of the data model that might be necessary, advice on existing tools that might be adaptable for the demonstration experiment, feedback on correctness of mappings from/to native annotation formats and/or annotations created.) The full text of the RFP can be found at http://www.openannotation.org/documents/openAnnotationRFP.pdf The IP agreement attachment to this RFP is available at: http://www.openannotation.org/documents/openAnnotationIP_Agreement_forRFP.pdf A FAQ about this RFP is available at: http://www.openannotation.org/RFP_FAQs.html Please make all submissions regarding this RFP, including your letter of intent and proposal, to oac2rfp@support.lis.illinois.edu Questions: regarding any details of this RFP should also be emailed to oac2rfp@support.lis.illinois.edu; answers to substantive questions from individuals will be posted immediately on the RFP FAQ page mentioned above (so as to available to all proposers). The Open Annotation Collaboration is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. OAC members include the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Maryland, the University of Queensland (Australia), and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Cheers, 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/ Twitter: @fraistat _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 10 06:11:27 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3126123BFD; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:11:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A8181123BE0; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:11:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110410061116.A8181123BE0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:11:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.871 call for papers: Wikileaks X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 871. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 17:54:30 +0100 From: Jacob Johanssen Subject: [CFP] WIKILEAKS: JOURNALISM, POLITICS AND ETHICS Ever since the creation of Wikipedia, Wiki-based systems have helped articulate a huge range of collaborative public information platforms, and have sparked debates regarding the practical importance of social media and the cultural political influences of large online populations. Arguably, one particular website has since made an even stronger impact. In 2010, WikiLeaks released countless U.S. embassy diplomatic cables (creating what some already refer to as the 'Cablegate' affair), as well as classified reports and top secret footage extracted from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. These unprecedented developments ignited a lively international debate involving politicians, journalists and members of the public, raising questions and concerns about Wikileaks' short and long term political, legal, ethical and logistical effects. On the one hand, Wikileaks shocked the international diplomatic community and brought up issues of national security and censorship. Simultaneously, media experts started exploring what Wikileaks might mean for (the future of) journalism and how it might change the role of the Internet in news reporting. Wikileaks also brought to the table issues concerning the boundaries of digital journalism and raised questions about how news reporting is done in an age of digital communications, particularly in what the functions of 'whistleblowers' and online leaks are concerned. Journalists have therefore begun to reconsider their roles, professional standards and communicational practices. Conversely, legal actors and politicians pointed out the need for legal constrictions that would either silence or marginalise Wikileaks, as well as other similar online platforms in the future. This in turn raises questions regarding the freedom of speech, and accusations that these institutional claims for privacy, data protection and national security may compromise the free circulation of (online/offline) information. Cyborg Subjects (www.cyborgsubjects.org) takes great pleasure and active interest in placing these issues at the core of its next project. We invite all interested authors to send full-length articles (3000 words maximum), short commentaries (500-800 words), interviews or book reviews (1000-1500 words) to submissions@cyborgsubjects.org. Artworks, Videos, Performances, etc. related to the topic are also very welcome. Contributions may wish to report, comment on or review theoretical and empirical insights into topics such as the following (and beyond): *What is the relationship between the most recent Wikileaks and the recent uprisings in the Arab world? *Why has Wikileaks provoked such a huge amount of controversy and international reaction? * What are the main legal and ethical issues raised by Wikileaks? *Wikileaks: freedom of speech and the right to information. Where is the line drawn? Does this line even exist? * Wikileaks: privacy, online data protection and national security. * What are the implications of Wikileaks for the study and conceptualizing of new media journalism and political communication? * Is Wikileaks a journalistic organization? * Can Wikileaks be considered investigative journalism? * How does Wikileaks challenge traditional journalistic standards? * What type of media activism is served by Wikileaks? * What is the role of 'whistleblowers' in Wikileaks (e.g. the case of Bradley Manning)? *What are the policy implications of the extrajudicial tactics deployed to censor Wikileaks? * What does the collaboration between WikiLeaks and traditional newspapers have to say about the future of mass media technologies? * How is Wikileaks' editor in chief, Julian Assange, significant as a public figure? How, and by whom is he being 'sanctified' or 'demonized'? ** * What is significant (feminist, post-feminist and/or non-feminist discussions welcome) about Julian Assange's accusations of rape, in the midst of the WikiLeaks international scandal? * How can researchers (ethically) deal with data published by WikiLeaks? * How 'unexpected' were the insights revealed by Wikileaks? Do they defy, or merely confirm public expectations of what goes on behind political façades? * * We invite all those interested to send their full contribution (including a 150-200 word abstract) to submissions@cyborgsubjects.org, by June 6, 2011. Contributors are free to use any reference style systems (e.g., APA, Harvard etc), as long as they are consistent in how they cite their sources throughout the article, and use endnotes, rather than footnotes, for citations. Cyborg Subjects offers a radical and new review system. We believe that knowledge should be free and that the process of knowledge production should not be obfuscated by the less transparent, "knowledge is power" peer review system associated with traditional academic journals. Therefore, submitted articles will be published as they come in and reviews will be posted as comments. Authors are asked to engage in the ensuing discussion and to comment on the review, as well as on other individuals' (potential) reactions to the article. Feel free to visit www.cyborgsubjects.org to find out more! You can also find us on Facebook (http://fb.com/cyborgsubjects) and Twitter (http://twitter.com/cyborgsubjects). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 10 06:16:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5622123CE4; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:16:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A4C3C123CCD; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:16:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110410061637.A4C3C123CCD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:16:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.872 PhD in computational 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 872. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 15:20:15 +0100 From: Bertram Fronhöfer Subject: PhD Program: Call for applications ====================================================== European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL) ====================================================== http://www.epcl-study.eu/ CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL) is run jointly by four of the leading European universities in the field: - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), - Technische Universität Dresden (Germany), - Technische Universität Wien (Austria), and - Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal). Further international universities, research organizations and enterprises which contribute to Computational Logic or apply results from it are involved as associated partners: The Simon Fraser University (Canada), the Universidad de Chile, the National ICT Australia Limited (NICTA), and several companies. The program involves three years of PhD study in at least two of the European partner universities. It leads to a joint doctoral degree of the partner universities at which the studies have been physically performed. The language of the program is English. Financial support is available in the form of positions and scholarships. Necessary requirements for participation in EPCL are a Master's degree in Computer Science or Mathematics, or an equivalent degree; the proof of adequate knowledge of English; and substantial knowledge in the areas Foundations of Logics, Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and Declarative Programming. The program will start on 1 October 2011. Applications have to be electronically submitted on the Webpage http://www.epcl-study.eu/, before the ======================================= Application Deadline on 15 May 2011 ======================================= If you have enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact the coordinator of the program Prof. Steffen Hölldobler Technische Universität Dresden Fakultät Informatik International Center for Computational Logic Email: sh@iccl.tu-dresden.de Phone: +49 (351) 463 38340 EPCL is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) program International Doctorates in Germany (IPID). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 05:24:37 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D552A129AA3; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:24:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7BB22129A9A; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:24:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110411052434.7BB22129A9A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:24:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.873 call for submissions: Digital Philology X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 873. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:37:10 +0100 From: Albert Lloret Subject: Digital Philology - Call for Submissions Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures Call for Submissions Digital Philology is a new peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of medieval vernacular texts and cultures. Founded by Stephen G. Nichols and Nadia R. Altschul, the journal aims to foster scholarship that crosses disciplines upsetting traditional fields of study, national boundaries, and periodizations. Digital Philology also encourages both applied and theoretical research that engages with the digital humanities and shows why and how digital resources require new questions, new approaches, and yield radical results. Digital Philology will have two issues per year, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. One of the issues will be open to all submissions, while the other one will be guest-edited and revolve around a thematic axis. Contributions may take the form of a scholarly essay or focus on the study of a particular manuscript. Articles must be written in English, follow the 3rd edition (2008) of the MLA style manual, and be between 5,000 and 9,000 words in length, including footnotes and list of works cited. Quotations in the main text in languages other than English should appear along with their English translation. Digital Philology welcomes submissions for the 2012 and 2013 open issues. Inquiries and submissions (as a Word document attachment) should be sent to dph@jhu.edu, addressed to the Editor (Albert Lloret) and Managing Editor (Jeanette Patterson). Digital Philology will also publish reviews of books and digital projects. Correspondence regarding digital projects and publications for review may be addressed to Timothy Stinson at tlstinson@gmail.com. Editorial Board Tracy Adams (Auckland University) Benjamin Albritton (Stanford University) Nadia R. Altschul (Johns Hopkins University) R. Howard Bloch (Yale University) Kevin Brownlee (University of Pennsylvania) Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet (Université Paris Sorbonne - Paris IV) Suzanne Conklin Akbari (University of Toronto) Lucie Dolezalova (Charles University, Prague) Alexandra Gillespie (University of Toronto) Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University) Daniel Heller-Roazen (Princeton University) Sharon Kinoshita (University of California, Santa Cruz) Joachim Küpper (Freie University of Berlin) Deborah McGrady (University of Virginia) Christine McWebb (University of Waterloo) Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins University) Timothy Stinson (North Carolina State University) Lori Walters (Florida 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 Tue Apr 12 05:39:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3192F12D5E9; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:39:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DCD3E12D5CC; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:39:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110412053933.DCD3E12D5CC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:39:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.874 jobs in Berlin X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 874. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:55:25 +0200 From: Alexander Czmiel Subject: two open Digital Humanities positions at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Dear colleagues, (with apologies for cross-posting; please redistribute; German version below) the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities is seeking two Digital Humanities Specialists (or Software Developers with experience in the Digital Humanities) for 1. a full-time position at the Telota-Initiative as research assistant until 31 December 2012: http://www.bbaw.de/stellenangebote/2011/2011-04-06_Ausschr_wiMi_Telota.pdf 2. a half-time postion at DARIAH-DE as research assistant/software developer until 28 February 2014: http://www.bbaw.de/stellenangebote/2011/2011-04-06_Ausschreibung_Softwareentwickler.pdf Though the job postings are in German and knowledge of German is advantageous the project language is not necessarily German. Qualifications include: - knowledge in producing digital scholarly editions - knowledge of XML and related technologies - good knowledge of metadata systems (METS, MODS, TEI) - knowledge of a programming language, preferable Java Applications should be addressed to Dr. Ute Tintemann (tintemann@bbaw.de). Please don't hesitate to contact us (telota@bbaw.de) for further information. You can find more of our activities at http://www.telota.de -------------------- German version: die BERLIN-BRANDENBURGISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN sucht 1. für ihre Telota-Initiative zum frühestmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine/n wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in aus den Geisteswissenschaften mit Erfahrungen in den Digital Humanities befristet bis 31.12.2012 (eine Verlängerung um weitere 2 Jahre bzw. eine Teilung der Stelle ist möglich) http://www.bbaw.de/stellenangebote/2011/2011-04-06_Ausschr_wiMi_Telota.pdf 2. für das BMBF-Projekt "DARIAH-DE" zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine/n Softwareentwickler/in mit Erfahrungen in den Digital Humanities mit 20 Wochenstunden befristet bis 28.02.2014 http://www.bbaw.de/stellenangebote/2011/2011-04-06_Ausschreibung_Softwareentwickler.pdf Best regards, Alexander Czmiel -- Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities "Telota - The electronic life of the Academy" Jaegerstrasse 22/23 Tel: +49-(0)30-20370-276 10117 Berlin - http://www.bbaw.de - http://www.telota.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 12 05:40:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9295212D681; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:40:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A494012D66F; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:40:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110412054047.A494012D66F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:40:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.875 new on WWW: Iter Community X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 875. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:53:17 +0100 From: "Vetch, Paul" Subject: Announcing Iter Community, a new collaboration resource In-Reply-To: <4DA33F50.3000605@utoronto.ca> Announcing Iter Community, a new collaboration resource http://www.itergateway.org/ We are very pleased to be in touch with news of interest to Iter users, across the 400 or so institutions served by it, of Iter Community. Initially proposed via discussion with members of the several-hundred-strong community participating in the Iter-sponsored New Technology gatherings at the Renaissance Society of America, at its heart Iter Community offers to enhance our interactions by augmenting the Iter Bibliography and by providing new collaboration tools. Iter Community helps you to make better use of your Iter Bibliography, providing you with research options beyond those of standard bibliographic resources: - The Iter Bibliography contains 1.1 million records and provides a powerful search interface -- with faceted searching, relevance ranking, automatic spelling corrections, did-you-mean suggestions, and automatic combined searching of English/US spellings as well as singular/plural forms. - Additional features include: o Zotero support o RefWorks integration Zotero and RefWorks are two web-based reference management tools that enable you to build, organize, and share annotated bibliographies with fellow researchers. o Open-URL links to full text o RSS feeds for every search Iter Community supports online interaction and workspaces for academic organisations, collegial research area groups, and project specific teams, via access to the Drupal Commons: - Drupal Commons is social software that facilitates forming collaborative communities, through a combination of popular social web features. - Using Iter’s Drupal Commons facility, you can: o Create community groups that can engage in online discussions, sharing of documents, and much, much more o Set up personal or group blogs o Establish wikis for community writing and conveyance o Conduct online polls within the Iter Community o Share event announcements on the Iter Community calendar For more information, please • Visit http://community.itergateway.org/, learn more about the features available to those in the Iter Community, and join the group. A user name and password will be e-mailed to you shortly! • Follow us on Twitter, @iter_community You will also be pleased to hear that William Bowen and Ray Siemens are organizing additional conference sessions that document innovative ways in which computing technology is being incorporated into the scholarly activity of our community. Please look for announcements regarding the 2011 SCSC meeting (27-30 October) in Fort Worth, TX, and the 2012 RSA meeting (22-24 March) in Washington, DC. Also, take note that the 3rd volume of essays in the NTMRS series will soon be launched. The volume, Digitizing Material Culture, is edited by Brent Nelson and Melissa Terras. Looking forward to your thoughts on Iter Community! The Iter Team -- Iter University of Toronto Libraries Suite 7009 130 St. George St. Toronto, ON M5S 1A5 Canada (416) 978-7074 | http://www.itergateway.org | iter@utoronto.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 Wed Apr 13 04:54:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078C7128C61; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:54:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F1188128C4A; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:54:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110413045445.F1188128C4A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:54:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.876 PhD in HCI at Coventry X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 876. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:26:09 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Fully Funded PHD Studentship in Human Computer Interaction Apologies for cross-posting. From: The Serious Games Institute > Date: 12 April 2011 11:32 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 13 04:56:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 707F7128CCC; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:56:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 84AD1128CBF; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:56:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110413045630.84AD1128CBF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:56:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.877 events: e-editions; AI and much more X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 877. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dianne Nguyen (62) Subject: 2nd Call for Papers - Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference [2] From: Marin Dacos (46) Subject: Université d’été de l’édition électronique ouverte --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:37:08 +1000 From: Dianne Nguyen Subject: 2nd Call for Papers - Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this message. CALL FOR PAPERS Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference 2nd Call for Papers http://www.Solomonoff85thMemorial.monash.edu/ http://www.solomonoff85thmemorial.monash.edu/ Proceedings of this multi-disciplinary conference will be published by Springer in the prestigious LNAI (LNCS) series ********************************************************************************************** Dear Colleague You are cordially invited to submit a paper and participate at Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference which, will be held in Melbourne, Australia, between 30 November - 2 December 2011 with the possibility of a tutorial/workshop being organised on the 29th November 2011. This multi-disciplinary Conference will be run back to back with the AI 2011 Conference in Perth, Australia. This is a multi-disciplinary conference based on the wide range of applications of work related to or inspired by that of Ray Solomonoff. The contributions sought for this conference include, but are not restricted to, the following:- Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Statistics and Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics, Computer science, Data mining, Bioinformatics, Computational intelligence, Computational science, Life sciences, Physics, Knowledge discovery, Ethics, Computational biology, Computational linguistics, Collective intelligence, etc. General and Program Chair David Dowe, Monash University, Australia Program Committee Andrew Barron, Statistics, Yale University, USA Greg Chaitin, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Fouad Chedid, Notre Dame University, Lebanon Bertrand Clarke, Medical Statistics, University of Miami, USA A. Phil Dawid, Statistics, Cambridge University, UK Peter Gacs, Boston University, USA Alex Gammerman, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK John Goldsmith, Linguistics, University of Chicago, USA Marcus Hutter, Australian National University, Australia Leonid Levin, Boston University, USA Ming Li, Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada John McCarthy, Stanford University, USA (Turing Award winner) Marvin Minsky, MIT, USA (Turing Award winner) Kee Siong Ng, ANU & EMC Corp, Australia Juergen Schmidhuber, IDSIA, Switzerland Farshid Vahid, Econometrics, Monash University, Australia Paul Vitanyi, CWI, The Netherlands Vladimir Vovk, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Co-ordinator Dianne Nguyen, Monash University, Australia You will find more information about the Conference at the following Website: http://www.Solomonoff85thMemorial.monash.edu/ http://www.solomonoff85thmemorial.monash.edu/ For more details on how to submit a paper(s), please refer to the Submission Page at: http://www.Solomonoff85thMemorial.infotech.monash.edu/submission.html http://www.solomonoff85thmemorial.infotech.monash.edu/submission.html Important Dates Deadline of Paper Submission: 20 May 2011 Notification of Acceptance of Paper: 10 August 2011 Receipt of Camera-Ready Copy: 5 September 2011 Conference Dates: 30 Nov. - 2 Dec. 2011 I look forward to receiving your valuable paper contribution and attendance at the Conference. David Dowe General Chairman --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:28:55 +0200 From: Marin Dacos Subject: Université d’été de l’édition électronique ouverte Chers collègues, *Le Cléo organise la deuxième "Université d’été de l’édition électronique ouverte" du 12 au 16 septembre 2011* Comme pour la première édition, cette université d'été est un ensemble cohérent de conférences, de cours et d’ateliers pratiques qui seront proposés aux participants au cours d’une semaine complète de formation à Marseille sur le campus Saint-Charles de l’Université de Provence. Cette année, le thème retenu est le suivant : *Circulation des savoirs à l’ère numérique : Quelle alliance entre auteurs, éditeurs, bibliothèques et lecteurs autour du livre numérique ?* Le développement des supports mobiles de lecture, la recherche de nouveaux modèles économiques pour le libre accès, l’émergence de nouveaux métiers pour l’édition (community manager) et de nouveaux dispositifs de médiation en bibliothèque (learning centers) feront l’objet d’une attention particulière. L’Université d’été de l’édition électronique ouverte est un dispositif de formation destiné à tous les professionnels concernés par la problématique de la circulation des savoirs à l’ère numérique : éditeurs, bibliothécaires, documentalistes, chercheurs et enseignants-chercheurs, informaticiens, chargés de communication en particulier. Il leur permet, au cours d’une semaine en résidence, tout à la fois de réfléchir ensemble aux évolutions de leur métier à l’ère numérique, mais aussi de connaître l’état de l’art de l’édition électronique et d’acquérir les compétences pratiques dans l’utilisation des technologies du domaine. *Présentation* * **Circulation des savoirs à l’ère numérique : Quelle alliance entre auteurs, éditeurs, bibliothèques et lecteurs autour du livre numérique ?* Le passage de l’imprimé au numérique est souvent interprété, notamment dans le domaine de la circulation des savoirs, comme une remise en cause du rôle des médiateurs qui sélectionnent, transforment et diffusent ces savoirs. Pour ce qui est de la chaîne du livre, éditeurs et bibliothèques voient leur rôle brouillé, et parfois même oublié dans le nouveau paysage que redessinent les technologies numériques. Dans le même mouvement, auteurs et lecteurs voient leurs pratiques – d’écriture et de lecture – évoluer très vite pour le meilleur ou le pire selon les opinions. Il ne faut pourtant pas s’y tromper : si, à tous les niveaux de la chaîne acteurs et pratiques peuvent changer plus ou moins profondément, les fonctions, elles, demeurent, et doivent être assumées. *Informations complémentaires *Pré-programme : http://leo.hypotheses.org/6245 Pré-inscriptions : http://dr12.azur-colloque.cnrs.fr * * *Contact : *Stéphane Poplimont, stephane.poplimont@revues.org Bien cordialement, Marin Dacos _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 14 06:04:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E68130C1B; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:04:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3BB50130C06; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:04:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110414060437.3BB50130C06@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:04:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.878 Chuck Bush X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 878. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:23:17 -0500 From: John Unsworth Subject: Chuck Bush In-Reply-To: Dear colleagues and friends, My terrible duty this Spring morning is to pass on ACH President Julia Flanders' note of the death of Chuck Bush, whose smiling face (which you may see at http://www.ach.org/ACH_Officers/) greeted me at every one of our conferences from the time when I first attended. Never again. Remembrances of Chuck, from those who knew him, are welcome. I will gather any that arrive and publish them together here on Humanist's birthday, 7 May. Yours, WM ----- It is with great sadness that I share the news of Chuck Bush's death this morning, April 13th, from complications following a stroke. Those of us who have worked with him over the years through ACH will remember him as a truly kind and thoughtful man and a pillar of that organization. He served as ACH treasurer for more than twenty years, and always brought calm good sense to our discussions. He did the same in many program committees for the ACH-ALLC conferences: he was a good man. I would be very glad to receive remembrances of Chuck as a teacher, colleague, and friend, that we could share with the community and with his family, as a way of honoring him for his contributions to digital humanities. Julia Flanders ACH _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 14 06:06:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8B8C130C68; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:06:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 31DC2130C54; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:06:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110414060605.31DC2130C54@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:06:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.879 postgrad internship 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. 24, No. 879. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:19:40 +0100 From: "Franz Fischer" Subject: Postgraduate Internship at the RIA, Dublin Dear list, The Royal Irish Academy now invites applications for the following contract position with the Saint Patrick's Confessio Hypertext Stack Project, to begin work on Monday, 23rd May 2011. Please do not hesitate to contact me personally if you have any further questions (contact details below). Postgraduate Internship - (Fixed-Term Contract - 12 Weeks) 1. The Task: 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 Saint Patrick's Confessio, together with some basic encoding thereof. Furthermore, a series of final steps in creating the online presence of a large variety of documents and text layers of the Stack needs to be prepared, executed, and reviewed. Based in Academy House (19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2), the Postgraduate Intern will also be involved in assisting with the dissemination of information on the project and its promotion. 2. Qualifications and Experience: The successful candidate will have a meticulous eye for detail and be familiar with various text formats (word, PDF, XML, HTML). A basic understanding of TEI and some experience of digital text encoding will be required. Also indispensable will be general editorial skills and an understanding of Latin. Postgraduate Interns must be registered at a PRTLI-eligible third-level institution (i.e. most of the European third-level institution) at the time of taking up the internship. 3. Salary: A salary of € 19,677 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 and www.heanet.ie/community and the closing date for applications is Monday, 2nd May 2011 at 4pm. Applicants will be shortlisted on the basis of the information provided in their applications. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted in advance of interviews, which will be held on Thursday, 12th May 2011. The Royal Irish Academy is an equal opportunities employer -- Franz Fischer (Dr des.) Royal Irish Academy 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Ireland; email: f.fischer@ria.ie, tel.: +353 1 6090605 http://www.ria.ie , http://dho.ie/confessio , 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 Thu Apr 14 06:07:27 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9067C130CBF; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:07:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8AA67130CAE; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:07:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110414060723.8AA67130CAE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:07:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.880 new on WWW: UCD Scholarcast on DHO:Discovery X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 880. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:22:01 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: UCD Scholarcast Added to DHO:Discovery University College Dublin Scholarcast Podcasts added to DHO:Discovery http://discovery.dho.ie The DHO is pleased to announce that podcasts from UCD's Scholarcast initiative have been added to DHO:Discovery. The podcasts are studio-recorded to broadcast standard and are aimed at a wide academic audience of scholars, graduate students, undergraduates and interested others. Each scholarcast is accompanied by a downloadable PDF transcript to facilitate citation in written academic work. The addition of these resources to DHO:Discovery enhances the rich collection of research-oriented digital objects already accessible through DHO:Discovery. DHO:Discovery currently draws together digital objects from collections at Chester Beatty Library, Irish Traditional Music Archive, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University College Dublin (UCD) and University College Cork (UCC). DHO:Discovery | DHO:Fionnachtain, launched last week, allows users to discover images of art, music and voice recordings, letters, maps, drawings and more, from collections at higher education and cultural institutions. The website acts as a gateway to resources that were not previously linked by offering a single place from which disparate collections can be searched and browsed. In doing so, DHO:Discovery supports the sharing and creation of new knowledge. DHO:Discovery is consistently developing, evolving, improving and taking user feedback into account. The DHO looks forward to welcoming the inclusion of new and exciting Irish digital collections as this new web venture expands and grows. This initiative was developed with the support of DHO partners, including those from the HSIS consortium, Irish cultural institutions and Ireland’s High Performance Computing Centre (iCHEC). --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2 IRELAND --- Tel: +353 1 2342441 --- s.day@dho.ie --- http://dho.ie --- @dhoireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 & 2003 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Acts 1998 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 14 06:10:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A32FC130D54; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:10:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7CAE3130D3F; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:10:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110414061013.7CAE3130D3F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:10:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.881 cfp: Renaissance Studies & New Technologies 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. 24, No. 881. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:57:45 -0400 From: "William R. Bowen" Subject: CFP: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies, RSA 2012 Renaissance Studies and New Technologies (RSA 2012, 22-24 March; Washington, D.C.) For the past ten 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 2012 RSA meeting (Washington, D.C., 22-24 March 2012), 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. ** Through the support of Iter, we are pleased to be able to offer travel subventions on a competitive basis to graduate students who present on these panels. Those wishing to be considered for a subvention should indicate this in their abstract submission. ** For details of the RSA conference see http://www.rsa.org/?page3DWashington2012 Please send proposals before May 16 to bowen_at_utsc.utoronto.ca. William R. Bowen University of Toronto Scarborough Ray Siemens University of Victoria _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 15 08:10:23 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06CF51300E6; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:10:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A55241300CE; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:10:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110415081014.A55241300CE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:10:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.882 effects of assumptions about grant funding? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 882. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:48:47 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: effects of assumptions about grant funding In his recent article, "Interdisciplinarity as critical inquiry: Visualizing the art/bioscience interface", Andrew S. Yang (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) comments in a footnote on some effects of grant-funding: > At a recent symposium I was asked to make comments about the > art/science interaction and mentioned a few artists I thought made > work that could contribute to rethinking of questions and methods in > the sciences. A member of the audience interjected, saying the > particular artists I mentioned in fact had no influence on science > whatsoever. To the extent that I am a publishing scientist, I voiced > my disagreement with his claim only to then be immediately challenged > as to how much research funding I secure every year. My answer of > zero was met by a dismissive guffaw from the questioner - what right > then did I have to speak on behalf of science? That I was later to > discover that my inquisitor was an artist added a sad irony to the > very pointed point that key assumptions – in this case the status of > funding – now fundamentally define our basic notions of disciplinary > authenticity for the academic sciences. Might the same happen to the digital humanities? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.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 Fri Apr 15 08:13:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC1413016B; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:13:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 72547130164; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:13:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110415081347.72547130164@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:13:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.883 job at Sciences Po (Paris) X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 883. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:18:28 +0200 From: Paul Girard Subject: Bruno Latour recruits a project manager for an original research project In-Reply-To: Bruno Latour, professor at Sciences Po in Paris, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) grant for a project called AIME starting the 1er of September 2011 to the end of August 2014. This project (see  http://www.bruno-latour.fr/expositions/AIME-short_summary.pdf) connects philosophy, anthropology of modernism with digital methods in order to organize, on the one hand, an ''augmented publication'' using state of the art technology and, on the other, the collective negotiation of its content with interested parties selected and facilitated by a team of mediators. For this endeavor, he is looking for a project manager with financial skills (if possible a knowledge of European accounting processes) and with experience in managing complex projects involving artists, or/and scientists, or/and programmers. Carried most of the time in English, the project manager will have to work closely with the principal investigator, unsuring the smooth running of the financial aspects of the project, the overseeing of the small team of designers and mediators as well as the organization of the various phases of the negotiation to take place in the last phase of the project. The job is based in Paris, it is a full time job for the three years of the project. Please find enclosed the job description. For inquiry on the suitability of the application, inquire directly to myself or to Biljana Jankovic biljana.jankovic@sciences-po.fr. Tél: +33 (0)1 45 49 50 93. Application should be sent before the 15th of May 2011. The decision will be made June 30th at the latest. best regards, Paul Girard médialab | Sciences Po paul.girard@sciences-po.fr 01 45 49 63 58 13 rue de l'université 75007 PARIS _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 15 08:14:27 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65E981301CA; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:14:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 89BEA1301B6; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:14:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110415081425.89BEA1301B6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:14:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.884 new on WWW: Spatial 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. 24, No. 884. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:14:41 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: community-driven "Spatial Humanities" resource Over the past two years, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library has hosted an Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship. Today we're pleased to announce the launch of "Spatial Humanities," a community-driven resource for place-based digital scholarship: http://spatial.scholarslab.org/ This site responds to needs identified in conversation with our 21 Institute faculty members and 56 participants (humanities scholars, software developers, and map & GIS librarians). It includes: * an evolving, crowdsourced catalog of research resources, projects, and organizations; * a set of framing essays on the spatial turn across the disciplines by Dr. Jo Guldi of the Harvard Society of Fellows; * GIS-related feeds from Q&A sites and other forms of social media; * and a peer-reviewed, occasional publication for step-by-step tutorials in spatial tools and methods. Please help us keep this resource current by contributing to it! You can: * use Zotero to freely upload research citations, projects, and links to groups; * contribute your own tutorials and helpsheets in “Step By Step” format for peer review and formal publication; * adopt the #geoinst hashtag on Twitter and Delicious; * ask related questions and offer help on DH Answers or the GIS Stack Exchange; * and post your commentary on the essays we’ve shared. Learn more about our past NEH Institute: http://spatial.scholarslab.org/about/ and about how you can contribute to the "Spatial Humanities" site: http://spatial.scholarslab.org/contribute/ With thanks to the NEH, the staff of the Scholars’ Lab, our Institute advisory board and faculty, and the scores of Institute participants and fellows who helped to define the project, -- Bethany Nowviskie Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute Vice President, Association for Computers & the Humanities http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ ● http://uvasci.org/ ● http://ach.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 Apr 16 06:39:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6558F133CFA; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:39:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E3EEB133CE8; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:39:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110416063946.E3EEB133CE8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:39:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.885 internship in music (CMC, 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. 24, No. 885. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:12:17 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: CMC Internship opportunity [deadline 21 April 2011] The Contemporary Music Centre (www.cmc.ie), Dublin, invites applications for two research internships working on its music digitisation project. The Internships are made available with the help of St Patrick’s College Drumcondra (SPD) and Dundalk Institute of Technology (DKIT) and are aimed at supporting prospective doctoral proposals in the area of Irish composers’ music. The Interns will work alongside the Centre’s major digitisation programme, the Irish Composers Project (ICP). This project is a research collaboration between the music departments of SPD, DKIT, NUI Maynooth and CMC. The project involves the digitisation of CMC’s unique collection of Irish composers’ scores, recordings and related collections in ways that enable music research and online access to the materials. The project operates within the framework of An Foras Feasa (AFF), the Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions, and has also received funding from the the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon. The Internships are open to any music/music technology graduates intending to carry out PhD research into Irish composers’ music and is supported by a research award. The internships include the following areas of work related to the project: -- research and preparation of audio files for digitising -- assisting in the preparation of materials such as scores for digitisation -- assisting with inputting and cross-checking of metadata from digital files created through the project -- working alongside the project team and developers who will build a new database system for managing the digitised content and metadata -- undertaking research into original scores and materials (sketches, drafts etc.) by Irish composers with a view to future digitisation -- Each intern will be required to work for an average of 12 hours per week from May 2011 and will be based in CMC. Interested applicants with a relevant Masters degree, a high level of music literacy and experience in the field of digital humanities and/or contemporary music in Ireland should apply by email only to The Contemporary Music Centre (info@cmc.ie) with a CV and letter outlining the area of research they are interested in pursuing and its connection with the Irish Composers Project. Applications should be returned no later than 21 April 2011 Further details on the internships: http://cmcireland.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/icp-internship/ --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2 IRELAND --- 53.335373,-6.254219 --- http://about.me/shawnday/bio --- Tel: +353 1 2342441 --- s.day@dho.ie --- http://dho.ie -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 & 2003 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Acts 1998 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 16 06:40:46 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 714FE133D84; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:40:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4087D133D6B; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:40:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110416064043.4087D133D6B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:40:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.886 effects of assumptions about grant funding X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 886. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:22:06 +0100 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.882 effects of assumptions about grant funding? In-Reply-To: <20110415081014.A55241300CE@woodward.joyent.us> >In his recent article, "Interdisciplinarity as critical inquiry: >Visualizing the art/bioscience interface", Andrew S. Yang (School of the >Art Institute of Chicago) comments in a footnote on some effects of >grant-funding: > >> key assumptions – in this case the status of >>funding – now fundamentally define our basic notions of disciplinary >> authenticity for the academic sciences. > >Might the same happen to the digital humanities? > >Yours, >WM It would be remarkable if it didn't. Or rather, hadn't already. Yours Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University +44 (0) 1908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 17 06:26:13 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1841357BE; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 06:26:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BA5D51357AE; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 06:26:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110417062609.BA5D51357AE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 06:26:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.887 effects of assumptions about grant funding X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 887. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jascha Kessler (4) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.886 effects of assumptions about grant funding [2] From: Jascha Kessler (38) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.886 effects of assumptions about grant funding --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:54:19 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.886 effects of assumptions about grant funding In-Reply-To: <20110416064043.4087D133D6B@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, We have an ancient adage in the language, one likely in most other cultures too. Viz., THEM 'AS HAS, GETS. Jascha Kessler --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:12:15 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.886 effects of assumptions about grant funding In-Reply-To: <20110416064043.4087D133D6B@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Let me add to the comment just made. Decades ago, a savvy woman, wife of a Doctoral Candidate peer of mine in 1950-54, remarked re the Guggenheim grants, Dont bother to apply. Friends of friends get Guggies. I found a fine demonstration of that in the 70's when visiting a world-famous Social Sciences brother-in-law [who was asleep after a hospital stay for pancreatitis], and he a past president of the top international societies. A pile of 100 finalists in his disciplines on the sideboard, which I persuaded my sister-in-law to let me peruse, "but for a satisfaction of my thought." Every time I read one of the statements aloud and ridiculed the ungrammatical and often incomprehensible statements re research goals, she would say, *He'll get it; *or, *She'll get it. *I counted up about 50 semi-literate, and even patently stupid finalists that evening. She shrugged: *They'll get it. * What she meant was their supporters, and of course my benevolent bro-in-law, who made the careers of hundreds now prominent in the worlds of social and political "science," guaranteed grants, and by implication the future of so many in universities, institutes, think-tanks and all; so many who constitute our culture and government policies. Both of my relatives are decades gone from the world now. In any case, that is what funding is for, for better or worse. I have no objection to all that: the world is what it is, and has always been. Friends of friends, or them 'as has.... I think it a lesson some learn very early on in life: I can still recall a moment in a movie I must have seen in 1937-38? CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS, when, early on, the lad, played by Freddy Bartholemew, up on deck with the First Mate, is encouraged to spit his tuberculous phlegm out... but gets it right back in his face, to the amusement of his advisor [who may have been, I dont recall, and wont Google it] Spencer Tracy. Another adage, No use spittin' into the wind... Jascha Kessler -- 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 Sun Apr 17 06:27:19 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67194135803; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 06:27:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EFE251357F4; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 06:27:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110417062716.EFE251357F4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 06:27:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.888 events: information 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. 24, No. 888. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 02:36:13 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Newman Subject: i-Society 2011: Extended Paper Submission Deadline! CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************* International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011), Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter 27-29 June, 2011, London, UK www.i-society.eu ******************************************************************* The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011) 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 2011 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 2011 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: Extended April 25, 2011 Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress): Extended April 20, 2011 Notification of Paper Acceptance /Rejection: April 15-30, 2011 Notification of Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress) Acceptance /Rejection: April 10-25, 2011 Camera Ready Paper and Short Paper Due: May 31, 2011   Participant(s) Registration (Open):  March 1, 2011 Early Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): March 1 to May 13, 2011 Late Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): May 13 to June 15, 2011 Late Bird Registration for Participants only: June 27, 2011 Conference Dates June: 27-29, 2011   For more details, please visit www.i-society.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 Mon Apr 18 05:16:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FC2611F471; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:16:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 271D111F467; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:16:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110418051648.271D111F467@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:16:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.889 effects of assumptions about grant-funding X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 889. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 07:43:50 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: effects of assumptions I don't think it's fair to overlook all the honest effort that goes into evaluating grant proposals, devising competitions, managing the funds &c. Giving away allocated money and everything associated with it is not an easy job. There must be a fair amount of satisfaction in helping to create major research initiatives and to sponsor individual projects. Hardly a day goes by that I am not consciously grateful for JSTOR, others for Perseus and so forth. The point of my earlier note, however, wasn't the justice or, I suppose sometimes injustice, with which funds are dispersed. Rather it was how our own reliance on the awards of funding as a measure of academic worth is itself worth critical examination. As a starting point for discussion let us assume that ALL awards are well deserved and fairly given. My question, then: is this the way to encourage the kind of work we most admire, that has done us the most good overall? Do we get the best from requiring (a) a cogent case for a known result; and (b) deliverables within a fixed and relatively short time-span? Do we really want research that is not grant-funded, for whatever reason, to be thought second-rate? What *is* the proper role for grant-funding? What does it or could it signify? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.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 Mon Apr 18 05:18:39 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7842711F501; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:18:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5510211F4E6; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:18:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110418051836.5510211F4E6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:18:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.890 Web and mind X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 890. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:18:59 +0100 From: John Lavagnino Subject: Bloomsbury Project and the web I was at the launch on Friday of the Bloomsbury Project from University College London, a history and map of places and institutions in this London district that became prominent in the nineteenth century: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/ Ian McEwan in figuratively breaking the bottle of champagne over the web site's prow had some striking remarks about the mind and the web: > it's almost certainly the case that there is no better technological parallel > to the human mind than a web site---it's the nearest we're going to get, > it shows how far we have to go---but still a web site of this kind, which > parallels in itself, in its own links, all the extraordinary webs of linkages > and institutions and minds of the entire nineteenth century... John -- Dr John Lavagnino Department of Digital Humanities and Department of English King's College London _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 18 05:19:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4BB211F581; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:19:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1C88211F56A; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:19:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110418051940.1C88211F56A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:19:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.891 events: Culture & Computing 2011 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 891. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:25:18 +0100 From: "Rauterberg, G.W.M." Subject: Final call for Culture & Computing 2011 Here is the final call for Culture & Computing 2011, which will be organized with the following events. •Keynote: Shigeru Miyagawa (Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chair of MIT Open Course Ware Committee) will give a talk on "Open Culture on the Web: Benefits and Risks." •Invited Talk: Zhigeng Pan (Professor, Zhejiang University) will give a talk about animating Song Dynasty Scroll Painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" for Shanghai Expo Chinese Pavilion. •Exhibition: Art fair on the integration of cultural computing technologies and Japanese traditional culture. •Co-located Events: Number of workshops including intercultural communication, multilingual medical support, Kyoto Buddhist culture forum, tea ceremony, etc. Please circulate this CFP in your community. We also expect you to submit papers to the conference. We hope to see you in person in Kyoto in October 2011! Conference Co-Chairs, Kozaburo Hachimura, Toru Ishida and Naoko Tosa =============================================================== Final Call for Papers The Second International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture and Computing 2011) Date: October 19-22, 2011 Venue: The Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University, Japan http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/culture2011/ International communities have a myriad of problems around topics such as: population demographic shifts, energy use and creation, the environment, and food supply. It is necessary to build a global consensus for resolving problems within these topic areas. Unfortunately, there are difficulties in communication among different cultures. Information and communication technologies are required in order to overcome such difficulties. There are various research directions in the relations between culture and computing: to archive cultural heritages via ICT (cf. digital archives), to empower humanities researches via ICT (cf. digital humanities), to create art and expressions via ICT (cf. media art), to realize a culturally situated agent (cf. cultural agent), to support multi-language, multi-cultural societies via ICT (cf. intercultural collaboration), and to understand new cultures born in the Internet and Web (cf. net culture). The International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture & Computing) will be held in Kyoto, the cultural heart of Japan, to provide an opportunity to share research issues and discuss the future of culture and computing. To understand the proceedings at the previous conference, please visit below. http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/culture2010/index.html Papers are solicited on any aspect on the intersection of culture and computing, but all papers are expected to be suitable for a multidisciplinary audience. We have a single session Main Track and a few parallel session Special Tracks. The Main Track will present a collection of scientific or engineering research results. Examples of suitable paper topics for the Main Track include: •Archiving cultural heritages •Information environments for humanity studies •Art and design by information technologies •Digital storytelling •Intercultural communication and collaboration •Culturally situated agents and simulations •Game and culture •Analysis of new culture in the Internet and Web •Culture and brain science The Special Tracks are collections of short papers, and are organized in coordination with the Main Track for the purpose of encouraging discussions in hot areas. We have Special Tracks for "Digital Humanities," "Asian Culture based Media Art" and "Computing and Music" at this conference. [...] Toru Ishida Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan TEL 81 75 753 4821 FAX 81 75 753 4820 E-mail ishida@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Web http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ishida/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 19 05:22:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA4C11CC00; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:22:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6740A11CBE0; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:22:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110419052206.6740A11CBE0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:22:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.892 effects of assumptions about grant-funding X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 892. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:23:42 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.889 effects of assumptions about grant-funding In-Reply-To: <20110418051648.271D111F467@woodward.joyent.us> WM offers "As a starting point for discussion let us assume that ALL awards are well deserved and fairly given." It seems to me a peculiar assumption, unless it is meant as a bloody clout thrown down into the arena for the wild beasts to savage. About a half-century ago, a leading scientist, emeritus, Columbia University, published a monograph on "Big Science," and this matter was pretty well gone through. One observation in particular entertained me. He wrote that the usual academic vetting for worth consisted on comparing the brute number of citations of any one researcher to be found in the literature on a particular field of study. Well and good ...but for his objection that the secretaries usually lifted a whole body of notes and bibliography with that person's name and pasted it into the next article, and so forth, until worth had a numerical measure of times the name was used to support a particular study or whatever. Pure worth, untouched, so to say, by human hands, as the vending machines used to say: put in your coins and get purest uncontaminated [by critical manhandling] worth and thought. As far as funding goes, that can be uncertain to measure. Hiring a new micro- or molecular biologist, say, at UCLA, means funding that person, even before arrival and work commences, with a prebuilt lab that averages between 3 and 5 million $$$. The academic worth is already thereby established, in funds, and the hiring and lab is already used to secure the next 2-3 years of millions. That is all hopefulness, as all scientific research may be. There is a logorithmic incrementation of worth from the start. To be sure, that young person has had funding awards before being hired here. The sciences are riding very high; value and output...unknown mostly, or ambiguous. I spent a summer in the 60s on a panel at UCLA called Delta that reviewed 20 years of vast funding by the NSF, a new invention post-war in the US. The chairman, at the end of 10-weeks, reviewing all the summations of reports, himself a ranking physicist, opined that the many billions had been labored, belabored, and laboring like the mountain until was brought forth 1 great mouse, a true achievement: the polio vaccine. Did we get our money's worth, in short? How to answer that? In short, valuations are dicey per se, and discoveries are not uniformly distributed regularly, let us say, in any 2-5 year grant period, but seemingly random, often unrelated to general trends or pursuit, and most unpredictable. As for measures of academic worth, I think Hamlet made his point succinctly; viz., Use every man after his desert and who shall scape whipping? In other words, are there measures of worth other than cases one by one, and according to which values, and, ad hominem, which evaluators, honest or not, hardworking or not. Some famous Nobelists seem to have relied on the invisible grad students or unsung lab workers, not to put too fine a point on it.... Jascha K -- Jascha Kessler Professor of Modern English & American 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 Apr 19 05:28:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE77511CD6E; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:28:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 508D511CD5F; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:28:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110419052852.508D511CD5F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:28:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.893 events: books & mss; experimental critical 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 893. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michael Ullyot (41) Subject: Call for Papers: SHARP @ RSA 2012 [2] From: UC Humanities Research Institute (30) Subject: Science and Technology Studies seminar --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:29:20 -0600 From: Michael Ullyot Subject: Call for Papers: SHARP @ RSA 2012 NB: Topic #3, below, will be of interest to digital humanists.] The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) will sponsor four panels at the Renaissance Society of America's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., 22-24 March 2012. Organized by Steven W. May, Anne Lake Prescott and Michael Ullyot, SHARP @ RSA links the RSA with scholars studying the creation, dissemination, and reception of script and print. We invite submissions that consider English and Continental books and manuscripts from 1350 to 1700, within one or more of these four topics: 1. WHEN READERS WRITE: What led manuscript anthologists to copy the texts they did? An enormous volume of transcribed works in prose and verse circulated widely in early modern England and the Continent. What can we learn about contemporary interests and taste from the choices reflected in a given document or documents? 2. DRESSING GENDER IN PRINT: How did printers or editors exploit the gender of an author on their title pages or paratexts? Did they often (or ever) in fact treat male and female writers differently? 3. MANICULES AND THE 'DIGITAL' HUMANITIES: What are digital humanists doing now with early modern books and manuscripts? Ann M Blair recently argued that medieval and early modern systems of "managing textual information in an era of exploding publications" are precedents for modern information management systems. Do early reference books, annotations and compilations inform, anticipate, or otherwise influence our computer-assisted thinking? 4. THE INTERSECTION OF MANUSCRIPT AND PRINT: It has become increasingly clear that scribal and print culture were complexly intertwined during the Renaissance. What do we learn about the transmission of texts and contemporary regard for both media from works that appeared in both and authors who published in script and print? Please send paper titles and abstracts (150 words) and one-paragraph CVs to *each* of the three organizers: < ullyot@ucalgary.ca > and and < steven_may@georgetowncollege.edu > by *Friday, 6 May 2011* (this is earlier than RSA's own deadline). For more information on SHARP, see < http://www.sharpweb.org/ >. For more information on the Renaissance Society of America, see < http://rsa.org/ >. All participants must be members of the RSA by August 2012 or they cannot be included in the programme. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michael Ullyot, Assistant Professor Department of English, University of Calgary http://www.ucalgary.ca/~ullyot/ | @ullyot | 403.220.4656 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:08:15 +0100 From: UC Humanities Research Institute Subject: Science and Technology Studies seminar The University of California Humanities Research Institute presents in conjunction with the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa SEMINAR IN EXPERIMENTAL CRITICAL THEORY VII ReWired: Asian/TechnoScience/Area Studies August 1-10, 2011 at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa http://www.uchri.org/sect.php SECT VII: ReWired is concerned with the large questions of infrastructure and information, social technology and technoscience, institutions of knowledge making and learning. It will be of particular interest to those concerned with Science and Technology Studies, Asian Studies, Global Studies, Critical Theory, Digital Media, and their interface. And it will appeal to those drawn to theoretical modesty, tinkering and improvisation, appropriation and recombinatorial experimentation, to relationalities and rearticulations. APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 22, 2011 by 5:00 PM Dates: August 1-10, 2011 Location: University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Instructional faculty: Itty Abraham, Director of the South Asia Institute and Associate Professor of government and Asian studies, University of Texas Ivan da Costa Marques, Professor of the Mathematics Institute, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Wendy Chun, Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University Joe Dumit, Director of the program in Science and Technology Studies and Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Davis Roger Hart, Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of Texas Cori Hayden, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society, UC Berkeley Tim Lenoir, Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies and Society, Duke University Kavita Philip, Director of the Critical Theory Institute and Associate Professor of Women's Studies, UC Irvine Achal Prabhala, writer, researcher, and Advisory Board Member of the Wikimedia Foundation Sha Xin Wei, Canada Research Chair in New Media Arts and Associate Professor of Fine Arts and Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal Nishant Shah, Director of Research, Center for Internet and Society Lucy Suchman, Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Science Studies, Lancaster University Siva Vaidhyanathan, Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia Kath Weston, Professor & Director of Studies in Women and Gender, University of Virginia Application Fee: $20 Registration Fee: $1250 Registration fee includes shared housing, instruction, and some meals. Applicants are urged to seek funding from their home institutions. A limited number of scholarships may be available to full time registered students. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 05:19:27 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D28BEA23A; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:19:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 935B0EA229; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:19:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110420051923.935B0EA229@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:19:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.894 effects of assumptions about grant-funding X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 894. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:49:30 -0400 From: Allen Beye Riddell Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.892 effects of assumptions about grant-funding In-Reply-To: <20110419052206.6740A11CBE0@woodward.joyent.us> Hi, I found Michèle Lamont's _How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment_ (2009) helpful in thinking about some of these issues. Here's a review of the book by Scott Jaschik http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/04/peerreview Best, Allen Riddell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 05:20:22 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F5E5EA28E; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:20:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 69D7EEA281; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:20:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110420052017.69D7EEA281@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:20:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.895 jobs at Brown X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 895. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Mylonas, Elli" (63) Subject: Job at Brown University: Digital Repository Manager [2] From: "Mylonas, Elli" (40) Subject: Job at Brown: E-Science Librarian for Data Curation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:11:11 -0400 From: "Mylonas, Elli" Subject: Job at Brown University: Digital Repository Manager We’re hiring! Come join this amazing team as the Library’s Digital Repository Manager. Details: The Brown University Library in Providence, Rhode Island, seeks an energetic and innovative individual for the newly created position of Digital Repository Manager. The Digital Repository Manager will oversee the development of the Brown Digital Repository (BDR), a Fedora Commons-based initiative that is a locus for digital objects that support scholarly work at Brown. S/he will supervise the Digital Repository Programmer and will manage and contribute to collaborative development efforts to deliver critical repository services for the University. S/he will work with librarians in the Scholarly Resources group to establish data ingestion, curation, and publication practices in support of research across the disciplines, including new forms of user controlled information management. Along with colleagues in the Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship, the Digital Repository Manager will explore and implement new technologies that enable scholars to interact more effectively with digital materials. Additionally, the Digital Repository Manager will develop a comprehensive marketing strategy, and will enact plans for assessing and promoting the use of the repository. The Digital Repository Manager is expected to maintain a keen awareness of trends in institutional repositories, and will pursue opportunities for enhancing repository services through the adoption of new technologies, linked data practices, funded projects, and partnerships. The successful candidate will use his/her knowledge of project management methodologies to prioritize and address the many tasks associated with supporting digital library collections, scholarly projects, exhibits, faculty publications, student work, multimedia, and scientific data. As needed, the manager will participate in software development projects and will ensure that all code and API documentation is current and accurate. This position reports to the Director of Digital Technologies. Qualifications: – Bachelor’s Degree. Advanced degree in library/information science, data curation, computer science, or related fields preferred. – Minimum of 5 years increasingly responsible, substantive positions developing, planning, and successfully implementing technology services. – Academic library experience preferred. Supervisory experience is a plus. – Demonstrated understanding of digital library standards (METS, MODS, etc.), data standards (TEI, media formats, etc.) and Semantic Web technologies. – Experience with developing digital repository systems housing a variety of data types. – Experience with Python or Java. – Awareness of current issues in scholarly communications (e.g. Open Access, licensing, etc.). – Familiarity with best practices, standards, and trends in the application of technology in libraries. – Ability to thrive in an environment of change and to foster that capacity in others. – Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. – Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across the University. To apply for this position please visit Brown’s Online Employment website at http://careers.brown.edu and reference Job # B01293. Complete an application online, attach documents, and submit for immediate consideration. Documents should include cover letter, resume, and the names and e-mail addresses of three references. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled; applications received by April 30, 2011 will receive first consideration. Brown University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:14:45 -0400 From: "Mylonas, Elli" Subject: Job at Brown: E-Science Librarian for Data Curation In coordination with related faculty, other campus partners, and the Library's Digital Technology team, the E-Science Librarian will develop and implement strategies for life-cycle management of data, including the development of domain-appropriate data models and systems architectures that meet faculty needs, adhere to funding agency requirements, and enhance the overall research environment at Brown as well as that of the larger scientific research community. In addition to working with faculty to develop data management plans for grant applications and on-going projects, the E-Science Librarian will provide services to faculty and students related to the collection, preservation and use of data. The incumbent will also participate in pursuing grant funding possibilities for pilot projects and work with campus partners to build a broader infrastructure to support scientific data curation both at Brown and beyond. The position will also facilitate access to collections and services through direct contact with library patrons and through the development of collections, as assigned. Job Qualifications - Advanced Degree in physical or life sciences, data curation, or related disciplines - 3-5 years of experience working in the field. - An understanding of the research process as demonstrated by academic or work experience. - Demonstrated knowledge of issues and technical challenges related to data management/curation, including format migration, preservation, metadata, data retrieval and use issues. - Familiarity with one or more current scientific data and metadata conventions. - Experience with one of the commonly used repository platforms (Fedora used locally). - The ability to acquire new technological skills and resolve problems in a resourceful and timely manner. - Demonstrated capacity to work effectively and professionally with staff at all levels as well as with faculty and students. - Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing; strong analytical and organizational skills; ability to manage time and multiple projects in a complex, changing environment with a positive, flexible, creative and innovative attitude. - Grant writing experience and familiarity with federal funding requirements. For more information, see Job B01291 at http://careers.brown.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 Apr 20 05:22:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93036EA348; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:22:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 70EEAEA33E; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:22:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110420052206.70EEAEA33E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:22:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.896 new ways of organizing? 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. 24, No. 896. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:00:48 -0700 From: Lawrence Hanley Subject: Organization/Reorganization of Academic Technology Typically, "educational technology" in higher ed has been integrated into traditional bureaucratic, hierarchical administrative structures. E.g. centralized control, top-down management, casting of faculty into "users" and "clients," technology use reduced to hardware/software problems and solutions, etc. All of this despite the decentralizing, self-organizing, crowd-sourcing (etc.) dynamics central to the social web. (e.g. the last holdout against Wikinomics might be the university.) At the same time, most U.S. and U.K. public universities are facing enormous financial pressures. "Re-organization" has become the rallying cry of administrators and politicians. As my own university launches into a conflicted and turbulent period of task forces, reorganization, consolidation, etc., my question: are there alternatives to the "top-down," bureaucratic organization of academic technology in universities and colleges, e.g. is there a way to "reorganize" academic technology away from command-and-control forms and practices? Does anyone know of current plans, proposals, efforts to re-think the organization of academic technology in ways more attuned to the structures, relations etc. of the social web - - and so, theoretically, to preserve or even amplify the kinds of (faculty/student/etc.) creativity, autonomy, community fostered by the social web? Thanks in advance - - Larry Hanley Assoc. Prof. Department of English San Francisco State University profhanley@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 Apr 20 05:26:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52967EA431; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:26:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 911A6EA41D; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:26:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110420052648.911A6EA41D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:26:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.897 new publications: e-texts; cyberinfrastructure X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 897. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Suzana Sukovic (29) Subject: E-texts in research projects in the humanities [2] From: "Bobley, Brett" (9) Subject: Reports from NSF Cyberinfrastructure Advisory Group Task Forces Available --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:39:46 +1000 From: Suzana Sukovic Subject: E-texts in research projects in the humanities Dear all, Considering ongoing discussions about perceived value of digital tools and resources, I thought some of you may be interested in my study of academics' engagement with e-texts in traditional research projects. A big part of research results was published last month and is now available on open access: - Sukovic, Suzana. 2011. E-texts in research projects in the humanities. In *Advances in Librarianship*, Vol. 33, edited by A. Woodsworth, 131-202. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Available from http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7261. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0065-2830&volume=33 You may also like to see related papers: - 2009. References to e-texts in academic publications. *Journal of Documentation* 65 (6):997-1015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7262 - 2008. Information discovery in ambiguous zones of research. *Library Trends* 57 (1):72-87. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7263 - 2008. Convergent flows: humanities scholars and their interactions with electronic texts. *Library Quarterly* 78 (3):263–284.http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3570 Regards, Suzana Dr Suzana Sukovic Research Associate Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences The University of Sydney NSW 2006, Australia Contact Me academia.edu [image: LinkedIn] http://linkd.in/g2F4gu [image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/SuzanaSukovic#%21/ [image: Twitter] http://suzanasukovic --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:45:32 -0400 From: "Bobley, Brett" Subject: Reports from NSF Cyberinfrastructure Advisory Group Task Forces Available > From: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition > Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 5:35 PM The final versions of the six reports from the task forces established by the NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure are now available. I've shared earlier pointers to drafts of a couple of these, but this page points to the final, "official" versions. The reports are here: http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/taskforces/ From the introductory material on the page: In 2009 the NSF-wide Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastucture (ACCI) established six task forces to investigate long term cyberinfrastructure issues: * Campus Bridging * Cyberlearning and Workforce Development * Data and Visualization * Grand Challenges * High Performance Computing * Software for Science and Engineering These task forces were each led by ACCI members and their membership included a cross section of members from both academic and industrial communities. Over a two year period the task forces gathered broad community input via open workshops and meetings, solicitation of white papers, and other outreach efforts. Each task force subsequently discussed and generated a final report containing recommendations and ideas for advancing cyberinfrastructure in support of NSF research. The recommendations of each task force were discussed in depth during the December 2010 ACCI meeting, and the final reports were approved by the ACCI on April 1st 2011. Disclosure: I was a member of the Campus Bridging Task Force, and also contributed to the report on Data and Visualization. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 05:27:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE23AEA487; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:27:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E1457EA477; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:27:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110420052745.E1457EA477@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:27:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.898 MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture at Trinity 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. 24, No. 898. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:04:30 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: New MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture, Trinity College Dublin Applications are now being accepted for an MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland's oldest University. Digital Humanities is an emerging and dynamic field of study that seeks to apply innovative technologies and methods to the study of the age-old disciplines of the humanities. This Masters is for students from any area of the humanities (including languages, literature, history, art history, linguistics, drama, film, and music) who would like to learn how technology mediates our study of these fields, as well as how technology is changing the way we create new artistic and scholarly works. Students will be exposed to a wide variety of theories, tools, and methods, from digital scholarly editing to datamining, and from cyberculture to XML. Some modules will be theory-based (such as Theory and Practice of Digital Humanities' and 'History of the Book'), others will be hands-on and have, in addition to theory, a lab component (including Digital Scholarly Editing' and 'Web Technologies') The MPhil can be completed in one year full time or two years part time. Taught Modules include'Theory and Practice of Digital Humanities', 'Cyberculture', 'Digital Scholarly Editing', 'Web Technologies,' and 'From Metadata to Linked Data'. In the second semester students will have the opportunity to participate in a practical internship at a cultural institution, with an ongoing digital humanities project, or with a digital library project. This MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture is one of the newest postgraduate degrees at Trinity College Dublin. It builds on TCD's four-hundred-year-old tradition of scholarship as one of the great universities of the world. TCD provides a liberal environment where independence of thought is highly valued and where staff and students are nurtured as individuals and are encouraged to achieve their full potential. For full details on the course (including how to apply), please see http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digitalhumanities.php -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie phone: +353 1 896 3694 fax: +353 1 671 7114 check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 05:31:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CED8DEA540; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:31:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2A9B3EA537; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:31:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110420053112.2A9B3EA537@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:31:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.899 new on WWW: Iter Community; Irish Trad Music Archives X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 899. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (24) Subject: Irish Traditional Music Archives Launches New Website [2] From: Iter (36) Subject: Announcing Iter Community, a new collaboration resource --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:04:35 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Irish Traditional Music Archives Launches New Website Irish Traditional Music Archive launches a new and improved website The Irish Traditional Music Archive provides a national public reference archive and resource centre for the traditional song, instrumental music and dance of Ireland. A major revision and redesign of the ITMA website has been carried out over the last few months by staff working in conjunction with the Dublin web-design company Birdie. The new site has greatly enhanced access and search capabilities, and will be an important platform for an expansion of ITMA’s services in the coming years. The ITMA catalogues provide unrivaled in-house computerised catalogues and indexes and their digital library has a wide range of digitised sound recordings and visual and printed items from its collections. The ITMA is a participant in the DHO"s DHO:Discovery gateway project and their collections are accessible through http://discovery.dho.ie The ITMA site has now gone live and is available at http://www.itma.ie. With best wishes, The Staff of the Irish Traditional Music Archive / Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2 IRELAND --- 53.335373,-6.254219 --- http://about.me/shawnday/bio --- Tel: +353 1 2342441 --- s.day@dho.ie --- http://dho.ie -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 & 2003 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Acts 1998 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:36:21 +0100 From: Iter Subject: Announcing Iter Community, a new collaboration resource To: All participants in the RSA New Technology and Renaissance Studies sessions, and in the ITER/MRTS New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies book series Announcing Iter Community, a new collaboration resource We are very pleased to be in touch with news of interest to Iter users, across the 400 or so institutions served by it, of Iter Community. Initially proposed via discussion with members of the several-hundred-strong community participating in the Iter-sponsored New Technology gatherings at the Renaissance Society of America, at its heart Iter Community offers to enhance our interactions by augmenting the Iter Bibliography and by providing new collaboration tools. Iter Community helps you to make better use of your Iter Bibliography, providing you with research options beyond those of standard bibliographic resources: - The Iter Bibliography contains 1.1 million records and provides a powerful search interface -- with faceted searching, relevance ranking, automatic spelling corrections, did-you-mean suggestions, and automatic combined searching of English/US spellings as well as singular/plural forms. - Additional features include: o Zotero support o RefWorks integration Zotero and RefWorks are two web-based reference management tools that enable you to build, organize, and share annotated bibliographies with fellow researchers. o Open-URL links to full text o RSS feeds for every search Iter Community supports online interaction and workspaces for academic organisations, collegial research area groups, and project specific teams, via access to the Drupal Commons: - Drupal Commons is social software that facilitates forming collaborative communities, through a combination of popular social web features. - Using Iter’s Drupal Commons facility, you can: o Create community groups that can engage in online discussions, sharing of documents, and much, much more o Set up personal or group blogs o Establish wikis for community writing and conveyance o Conduct online polls within the Iter Community o Share event announcements on the Iter Community calendar For more information, please • Visit http://community.itergateway.org/, learn more about the features available to those in the Iter Community, and join the group. A user name and password will be e-mailed to you shortly! • Follow us on Twitter, @iter_community You will also be pleased to hear that William Bowen and Ray Siemens are organizing additional conference sessions that document innovative ways in which computing technology is being incorporated into the scholarly activity of our community. Please look for announcements regarding the 2011 SCSC meeting (27-30 October) in Fort Worth, TX, and the 2012 RSA meeting (22-24 March) in Washington, DC. Also, take note that the 3rd volume of essays in the NTMRS series will soon be launched. The volume, Digitizing Material Culture, is edited by Brent Nelson and Melissa Terras. Looking forward to your thoughts on Iter Community! The Iter Team -- Iter University of Toronto Libraries Suite 7009 130 St. George St. Toronto, ON M5S 1A5 Canada (416) 978-7074 | http://www.itergateway.org | iter@utoronto.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 Wed Apr 20 05:37:03 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B48EEA68B; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:37:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7A183EA67A; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:37:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110420053700.7A183EA67A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:37:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.900 events: 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. 24, No. 900. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:18:16 +0100 From: Alfredo Grande Subject: Graphic Archaeology and Informatics 3rd INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON GRAPHIC ARCHAEOLOGY AND INFORMATICS, CULTURAL HERITAGE AND INNOVATION. ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0 Cultural Center of Villa, La Rinconada 22-24 June 2011 Seville. Spain On behalf of the Organisation Comittee of the 3rd 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 22th to 124h June, 2011. This will be the third 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 and English. Scientific communications and lectures can be held in any of two languages. Simultaneous translation into Spanish and English will be provided at all sessions. CONTACTO ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0 3rd International Meeting on Graphic Archaeology and Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation Secretaría SEAV C/ Cantueso, 5 Dos Hermanas 41089 – Sevilla – Spain. Secretaría ARQUEOLOGICA 2.0 C/ Vereda de Chapatales s/n Centro Cultural de la Villa. San José de La Rinconada 41300 - La Rinconada – Sevilla - Spain. Information, applications and participation E-mail: secretaria@arqueologiavirtual.com Web: www.arqueologiavirtual.com Phone: +34 660 076 053 III International Meeting on Graphic Archaeology and Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0 Alfredo Grande Director _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 05:43:16 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7845FA211; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:43:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 69569FA1FB; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:43:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110421054310.69569FA1FB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:43:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.901 new book on principles of digital and analogue machines X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 901. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 06:41:20 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: recommendation I pass on the following recommendation sent to me by Fr Roberto Busa. The book is to be found on amazon, ISBN-10: 161668481X; ISBN-13: 978-1616684815. Yours, WM > Dear Prof. Willard McCarty, > > Digital humanists closely scrutinize the impact of digital > technologies, and the book "Logic of Analog and Digital Machines" by > Paolo Rocchi, recently published by Nova Science Publisher (NY) can > offer an aid for reflection and discussion. > The author presents an intriguing view upon the principles of > digitalsystem as Prof. Peter Denning says in the preface. > It is worth of mentioning that Rocchi attempts to bridge computing > withliterature, technical topics with concepts that are familiar > to men of letters. > > Best Regards > > Prof.Roberto Busa sj -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.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 Thu Apr 21 05:45:46 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36162FA348; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:45:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 826FFFA331; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:45:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110421054542.826FFFA331@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:45:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.902 events: interdisciplinary research on writing X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 902. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:42:10 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF SCH Conference: First-Person Writing, Four-Way Reading First-Person Writing, Four-Way Reading A three-day interdisciplinary research conference on literature, history, medical humanities & ethnography 1-3 December 2011 University of London, UK (venue TBC) ====== Scientific Background ====== This Research Conference is part of the 2011 programme of Strategic Activities of the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation. It is an exercise in interdisciplinarity in relation to four fields with a common interest in a certain kind of textual material. The term ‘writing’ is meant literally: the first-person material on which the project focuses is textual rather than oral, whether published or unpublished (this includes texting, blogging, twitter, novels in SMS, second life and interactive writing). The time-period covered is from the early modern period to the present day. Though the language of the conference will be English, material in any language may be referred to (using originals, translations and/or parallel texts). The term ‘reading’ is meant primarily in a metaphorical sense: how do scholars from these four fields investigate, interpret or, more broadly, ‘use’ first-person texts; what differences can be found in their methods and applications; and how can they debate these commonalities and differences in fruitful ways? It is hoped that, after the conference, further international and interdisciplinary research collaboration will be developed. For further details on the conference please visit http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities/strategic-activities/first-person-writing-four-way-reading.html ====== Call for Paper and Subsidies ====== In addition to invited speakers, a Call for Papers for the small group sessions is open. Applicants may alternatively be invited to bring posters. Deadline for application: ***4 June 2011***, 12 noon CET See the Call for Papers (PDF at http://www.esf.org/index.php?eID=tx_nawsecuredl&u=561&file=fileadmin/be_user/research_areas/HUM/Strategic_activities/First-Person_Writing/2011-04-18_CfP.pdf&t=1303382104&hash=66b31cb644dbb4802d2c3bd8443acfe5) and the relevant Application Form (http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities/strategic-activities/first-person-writing-four-way-reading/call-for-papers-form.html). A limited number of subsidies of a flat sum of €300 or £265 each, to be used for travel, accommodation and/or conference fee, will be offered to early-career researchers (research students or scholars within 10 years of completion of a PhD, whether currently in an academic post or not). To be considered for a subsidy you do not necessarily have to be giving a paper or poster. Subsidy applications must be submitted by ***31 July 2011***, 12:00 noon CET through the Application Form available at http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities/strategic-activities/first-person-writing-four-way-reading/subsidies-form.html ====== Contact ====== For further information about the conference, you may contact: Local Contact Professor Naomi Segal naomi.segal[at]sas.ac.uk ESF Contacts Dr Arianna Ciula Ms Claire Rustat-Flinton humanities[at]esf.org == Dr. Arianna Ciula Science Officer for the Humanities European Science Foundation 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 Thu Apr 21 05:48:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4E1FA3E2; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:48:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 39C47FA3DA; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:47:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110421054759.39C47FA3DA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:47:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.903 events: calls for conferences, workshops; cfp Renaissance 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 903. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Iter (35) Subject: Call for Papers: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies (RSA2012, 22-24 March; Washington, D.C.) [2] From: Arianna Ciula (16) Subject: ESF: 2011 Call for Exploratory Workshops OPEN [3] From: Arianna Ciula (16) Subject: ESF call for research conferences --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:06:11 +0100 From: Iter Subject: Call for Papers: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies (RSA2012, 22-24 March; Washington, D.C.) Renaissance Studies and New Technologies (RSA 2012, 22-24 March; Washington, D.C.) For the past ten 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 2012 RSA meeting (Washington, D.C., 22-24 March 2012), 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. ** Through the support of Iter, we are pleased to be able to offer travel subventions on a competitive basis to graduate students who present on these panels. Those wishing to be considered for a subvention should indicate this in their abstract submission.** For details of the RSA conference see http://www.rsa.org/?page=Washington2012 Please send proposals before May 16 to bowen_at_utsc.utoronto.ca. William R. Bowen University of Toronto Scarborough Ray Siemens University of Victoria -- Iter University of Toronto Libraries Suite 7009 130 St. George St. Toronto, ON M5S 1A5 Canada (416) 978-7074 | http://www.itergateway.org | iter@utoronto.ca --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:31:18 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF: 2011 Call for Exploratory Workshops OPEN ESF announces the launch of the 2011 Call for Exploratory Workshops. ----------------------- The Call is open to proposals across all scientific domains. The focus of the scheme is to foster meetings that aim to open up new directions in research or to explore emerging research fields with potential impact on new developments in science. Proposals should also demonstrate the potential for initiating follow-up actions. Proposals will be evaluated on the potential to create breakthroughs and form the basis for new areas of research and/or innovative applications, or the changing of paradigms. ESF Exploratory Workshops awards are intended for small, interactive and output-oriented discussion meetings of minimum 15, maximum 30 participants and up to a maximum value of 15000 EUR. Awards are for workshops to be held in the calendar year 2012 (1 February - 31 December). Deadline for receipt of proposals: 26 May 2011 (16:00 CET). Full details at http://www.esf.org/workshops ----------------------- == Dr. Arianna Ciula Science Officer for the Humanities European Science Foundation 1 quai Lezay Marnésia BP 90015 F-67080 Strasbourg France Email: aciula@esf.org Tel: +33 (0) 388767104 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:29:56 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF call for research conferences Call for Conference Proposals The European Science Foundation invites researchers to submit proposals for research conferences to take place in 2013. The call covers Molecular Biology, Physics/Biophysics, Environmental Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. Successful proposals will be organised within the framework of the ESF Research Conferences Scheme and will be awarded a conference grant of up to EUR 40.000. Submission Deadline: 15 September 2011. Further information can be found at: www.esf.org/conferences/call == Dr. Arianna Ciula Science Officer for the Humanities European Science Foundation 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 Fri Apr 22 05:02:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 706F813527D; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:02:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 47999135260; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:01:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110422050157.47999135260@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:01:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.904 events: electroacoustics; semantic archives X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 904. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Steffen Hennicke" (92) Subject: CfP Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives [2] From: David Ogborn (32) Subject: Call for papers,compositions and performances: Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:39:26 +0200 From: "Steffen Hennicke" Subject: CfP Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives ************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on "Semantic Digital Archives - sustainable long-term curation perspectives of Cultural Heritage" to be held as part of the 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL). 29.09.2011 in Berlin http://sda2011.dke-research.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES: The Semantic Digital Archives Workshop aims at promoting and discussing sophisticated knowledge representation and knowledge management solutions specifically designed for improving Archival Information Systems. Over the past couple of decades, digitally created content has come to permeate all aspects of our lives and the life cycle of these objects is increasingly exclusively digital. Therefore, sustainable long-term curation perspectives for our digital cultural heritage are essential. Digital content poses many socio-cultural and technological challenges which create obstacles to long-term or indefinite preservation. Changing technologies and shifting user communities as well as the increasing complexity of digital content being enriched with software and multimedia attachments are only a few examples. Dealing with these challenges is the central theme of the workshop. This full day workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the Digital Libraries, the Digital Archives and the Semantic Web community. It specifically encourages closer dialogue between the technical oriented communities and researchers from the (digital) humanities and social sciences as well as cultural heritage institutions. TOPICS OF INTEREST: We intend to have an open discussion on topics related to the general subject of Semantic Digital Archives. The workshop's focus is broad; we welcome contributions that focus on such topics as: * ontologies and linked data for digital archives and digital libraries, e.g. semantic extensions of common knowledge models of the digital archiving and digital libraries domain, e.g. METS, EAD, Premis, ... * ontologies and (semantic) web services implementing the OAIS standard * theoretical and practical archiving frameworks extending or replacing the OAIS standard * logical theories for digital archives * implementations and evaluations of digital archives * semantic or logical provenance models for digital archives or digital libraries * information integration/semantic ingest (e.g. from digital libraries) * trust for ingest and data security/integrity check for long-term storage of archival records * semantic search and semantic information retrieval in digital archives and digital libraries * visualization and exploration of digital content (stored or to be stored in a digital archive) * semantic extensions of emulation/virtualization methodologies tailored for digital archives * semantic long-term storage and hardware organization tailored for AIS * (empirical) studies evaluating end-user needs and its evolution as well as information seeking behaviour of end- user needs and its evolution * knowledge evolution SUBMISSION DETAILS: Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers related to the aforementioned topics. We invite: * regular papers (10 to 12 pages) * short papers (4 to 6 pages) All submissions are required to be in pdf format. All submissions should be anonymous (i.e., no author names/affiliations and obvious citations). Long and short paper submissions should be in the Springer's LNCS format. Submissions are to be made via the submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sda2011 Submissions will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. All papers accepted at the Semantic Digital Archives Workshop must be presented during the Workshop by a TPDL 2011 registered participant. Papers will be published in workshop proceedings, which will be available as a separate publication after the Workshop. IMPORTANT DATES: * Deadline for Submissions: 30 June 2011 * Acceptance Notification: 30. July 2011 * Camera-ready Papers: 20. August 2011 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE & PROGRAM COMMITTEE: The Organizing Committee members and a preliminary list of Program Committee members can be found at: http://sda2011.dke-research.de/index.php/committees FURTHER DETAILS: http://sda2011.dke-research.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:21:24 -0400 From: David Ogborn Subject: Call for papers,compositions and performances: Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2011 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2011 (TES), 10-13 August 2011 CALL FOR PAPERS AND COMPOSITIONS The Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) are pleased to announce the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2011. We are now inviting proposals for papers, compositions and performances (*** Deadline extended to Monday May 2). The 2011 symposium is not only the fifth annual iteration of this important opportunity for exchange between diverse EA communities — it also coincides with the 25th year of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and the 10th anniversary of New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). Given the anniversary nature of this year’s symposium, we are particularly interested in paper contributions that summarize, examine or reframe traditions and histories of electroacoustic practices, technology, education and pedagogy. Additionally, we are very interested in paper contributions that go beyond the local and contingent to give a sense of what the next 25 years of international electroacoustic activity might sound like (see submission details below)! The deadline for paper and performance submissions to the 2011 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium has been **extended to May 2**. For more info: http://cec.concordia.ca/events/TES/TES_call.html Articles from TES 2009: http://cec.sonus.ca/econtact/11_4 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. David Ogborn, Assistant Professor Communication Studies & Multimedia Director, Cybernetic Orchestra & ESP Studio McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada ogbornd --at-- mcmaster.ca http://davidogborn.net http://twitter.com/ogbornd http://esp.mcmaster.ca (Cybernetic Orchestra) 1-905-525-9140 ext 27603 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 05:23:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C69D2135E17; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 05:23:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BC4CF135E01; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 05:23:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110425052356.BC4CF135E01@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 05:23:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.905 in denial? X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 905. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:22:09 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: in denial I'd be interested to know if you have recently heard anyone assert that the computer is "just a tool" and what you think may have been meant by that phrase. Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.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 Tue Apr 26 05:07:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A51C0136415; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:07:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0DC0313640B; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:07:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110426050732.0DC0313640B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:07:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.906 new on WWW: 18C texts from ECCO 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. 24, No. 906. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:17:55 -0400 From: "Friedlander, Ari" Subject: Text Creation Partnership Makes 18th-Century Texts Freely Available to the Public Dear Colleagues, Please see the attached press release for an announcement from the University of Michigan Library. It is also pasted below, for your convenience. Thanks, Ari Friedlander Outreach Coordinator, Text Creation Partnership University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/index.html (734) 615-0038 Contact: Ari Friedlander (arifried@umich.edu) Kristina Massari (kristina.massari@cengage.com) Text Creation Partnership makes 18th century texts freely available to the public (Ann Arbor, MI-April 25, 2011) - The University of Michigan Library announced the opening to the public of 2,231 searchable keyed-text editions of books from Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). ECCO is an important research database that includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. ECCO contains more than 32 million pages of text and over 205,000 individual volumes, all fully searchable. ECCO is published by Gale, part of Cengage Learning. The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) produced the 2,231 keyed texts in collaboration with Gale, which provided page images for keying and is permitting the release of the keyed texts in support of the Library's commitment to the creation of open access cultural heritage archives. Gale has been a generous partner, according to Maria Bonn, Associate University Librarian for Publishing. "Gale's support for the TCP's ECCO project will enhance the research experience for 18th century scholars and students around the world." Laura Mandell, Professor of English and Digital Humanities at Miami University of Ohio, says, "The 2,231 ECCO texts that have been typed by the Text Creation Partnership, from Pope's Essay on Man to a 'Discourse addressed to an Infidel Mathematician,' are gems." Mandell, a key collaborator on 18thConnect, an online resource initiative in 18th century studies, says that the TCP is "a groundbreaking partnership that is creating the highest quality 18th century scholarship in digital form." This announcement marks another milestone in the work of the TCP, a partnership between the University of Michigan and Oxford University, which since 1999 has collaborated with scholars, commercial publishers, and university libraries to produce scholar-ready (that is, TEI-compliant, SGML/XML enhanced) text editions of works from digital image collections, including ECCO, Early English Books Online (EEBO) from ProQuest, and Evans Early American Imprint from Readex. The TCP has also just published 4,180 texts from the second phase of its EEBO project, having already converted 25,355 books in its first phase, leaving 39,000 yet to be keyed and encoded. According to Ari Friedlander, TCP Outreach Coordinator, the EEBO-TCP project is much larger than ECCO-TCP because pre-1700 works are more difficult to capture with optical character recognition (OCR) than ECCO's 18th-century texts, and therefore depend entirely on the TCP's manual conversion for the creation of fully searchable editions. Friedlander explains that, for a limited period, the EEBO-TCP digital editions are available only to subscribers-ten years from their initial release-as per TCP's agreement with the publisher. Eventually all TCP-created titles will be freely available to scholars, researchers, and readers everywhere under the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark (PDM). Paul Courant, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, says that large projects such as those undertaken by the TCP are only possible when the full range of library, scholarly, and publishing resources are brought together. "The TCP illustrates the dynamic role played by today's academic research library in encouraging library collaboration, forging public/private partnerships, and ensuring open access to our shared cultural and scholarly record." More than 125 libraries participate in the TCP, as does the Joint Information Systems (JISC), which represents many British libraries and educational institutions. To learn more about the Text Creation Partnership, visit www.lib.umich.edu/tcp http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp . To learn more about ECCO, visit http://gdc.gale.com/products/eighteenth-century-collections-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 Tue Apr 26 05:08:20 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F64913645D; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:08:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C5E3013644D; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:08:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110426050814.C5E3013644D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:08:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.907 events: scientific communication (UCLA) X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 907. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:54:07 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: John Wilbanks Speaking at the UCLA Library May 11 3-5 pm In-Reply-To: Thoughts on the Fragmentation and Reintegration of Scientific Communication John Wilbanks Vice President for Science Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org/science Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 3-5pm Young Research Library Conference Center: 11348 Co-sponsored by: Department of Information Studies UCLA Library Institute for Digital Research and Education Academic Technology Services School of Law The scientific paper has been the primary container and distribution vessel for scientific knowledge for centuries. It’s a creative work subject to the same sorts of legal and technical pressures as other creative works: it’s part of an industrial-creative complex built on artificial scarcity, distribution, and top-down decisions about what is going to be high impact. And it is subject to the same disruption by the internet as other industries with that attitude, like music. But unlike music, there was a set of intermediaries creating a lot of inertia that kept the network from being disruptive, including funding agencies, tenure and review systems, and general lack of incentives. But the revolution that broke apart the music industry is well under way in scholarly communication. The journal is fragmenting already into the article, but it's not going to stop there - the advent of assertion-enhanced publishing, nano-publication, data publication, and more are going to drive a rapid disintegration of traditional "container cultures" and business models for scholarly communication. This talk will examine the progress made to date by the internet in etching away at the traditional means of scientific knowledge transfer, the importance of the digital commons in a world where content is fragmented, and some future avenues for "re-integrating" fragmented scientific communication that build on open systems. Bio: As VP for Science, John Wilbanks directs science activities at Creative Commons. Previously he was a Fellow at the World Wide Web Consortium, a member of the project on mathematics and computation at MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, started and ran Incellico (an early-2000s biotech semantic database company). John was the first assistant director at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, and a legislative aide in the US House of Representatives. He holds a degree in philosophy from Tulane University and studied modern letters at the University of Paris-V. -- 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 Wed Apr 27 04:58:26 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22022119AE6; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:58:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 05359119ACA; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:58:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110427045821.05359119ACA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:58:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.908 MA programme at Loyola 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. 24, No. 908. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:17:46 -0500 From: Steve Jones Subject: MA program in DH at Loyola Chicago The early-admission deadline is approaching (May 1) for the new MA program in Digital Humanities at Loyola University Chicago, to begin fall 2011. http://www.ctsdh.luc.edu/?q=ma_digital_humanities Apply online by following a link at the foot of the page. -- Steven Jones http://stevenejones.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 Apr 27 05:01:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02163119B7C; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:01:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DD9A8119B6C; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:01:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110427050127.DD9A8119B6C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:01:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.909 events: knowledge representation; hosting DH2013 X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 909. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Unsworth, John M" (17) Subject: Call for proposals to host Digital Humanities 2013 [2] From: "Prof. Arienne Dwyer - KU Linguistic Anthropology" (33) Subject: CFP: Representing Knowledge in the Digital Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:56:14 -0500 From: "Unsworth, John M" Subject: Call for proposals to host Digital Humanities 2013 Call for proposals to host Digital Humanities 2013 (please share with those you think might be interested) 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 Stanford University, June 19-22, 2011 (https://dh2011.stanford.edu/); the conference in 2012 will be at Hamburg University in Germany, in mid-July 2012. 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 Europe in 2012, so we are particularly interested in proposals from outside Europe for 2011--but those proposals could be for hosting the conference in North America, but also from 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 DH2011 conference in Palo Alto, California, on June 17, and at the meetings of constituent organizations on June 18, 2011. Budgets and other information about past conferences can be made available on request, for planning purposes. For further information, 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: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:59:05 -0400 From: "Prof. Arienne Dwyer - KU Linguistic Anthropology" Subject: CFP: Representing Knowledge in the Digital Humanities Representing Knowledge in the Digital Humanities http://idrh.ku.edu/2011conference/ Keynote Speaker: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Knowledge representation --€“ the theory and methodology of modeling knowledge using computer technology --€“ is becoming a key dimension of Digital Humanities. Many scholars are adapting long-established conventions from the print realm for representing knowledge in digital contexts, to view, analyze, classify, and comment on sources of knowledge, and to illustrate the dynamics between these sources and their commentaries, both current and prior. Many disciplines are adapting long-established conventions from the print realm for representing knowledge in digital contexts, or they are developing new ones altogether; these involve visual and textual epistemological models, information design, bibliographic tools, and visual representations. Representing Knowledge in the Digital Humanities is a one-day conference, exploring the theory and practice of knowledge representation, broadly conceived, and to showcase their digital humanities projects and methodologies. Whether you are a new or old-hand digital humanist, we welcome your participation. The 24 September Knowledge Representation conference is preceded by a 22 September BootCamp (a hands-on digital tools workshop), and a THATCamp (a digital humanities unconference) on 23 September, all at the University of Kansas. Deadlines for BootCamp and THATCamp registrations are on 22 July 2011. Please see THATCamp Kansas website http://kansas2011.thatcamp.org for more information. Deadlines: 22 September 2011 BootCamp (registration deadline: 22 July 2011) 23 September 2011 THATCamp: (registration deadline: 23 July 2011) 24 September 2011 Knowledge Representation Conference: (registration deadline:  *31 May 2011*) Best wishes, Arienne Dwyer and Brian Rosenblum Co-Directors, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities idrh@ku.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 Apr 28 05:10:19 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A4861029; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:10:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AC67F61014; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:10:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110428051012.AC67F61014@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:10:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.910 in denial X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 910. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:52:45 +0100 From: "Stokes, Peter" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.905 in denial? In-Reply-To: <20110425052356.BC4CF135E01@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I regularly assert that the computer is 'just a tool'. This is what I mean by it: a. The computer is a means to an end, not an end in itself. The biggest, flashiest computer in the world is no use if it can't do the things that are required of it (leaving aside issues of personal status and showing off). b. Getting to that 'end' will always be limited by the computer. There are certain functions for which a computer is designed and suited, and others for which it is not. If one tries to use it for the latter then it will be a difficult job at best. Similarly, it is always limited by the (fallible) people who designed and built it. c. Getting to that end will always be limited by the user. A computer will not do anything on its own and requires some skill and understanding to use. If misused then will produce nothing at best, and can be very misleading at worst. (Of course it may run while unattended, but someone, somewhere must have set it up to do this.) I tend to assert this in a few different contexts, partly to be provocative, but also as a way of arguing against a few points that come up surprisingly often: 1. The computer is not 'magic', and does not give 'answers'. It can only give data that must be interpreted. That data may also be simply incorrect, if the person or people who programmed it made a mistake, or if misused, and so the data must always be questioned and not simply accepted. 2. The (use of a) computer is not objective. The computer itself is usually deterministic, but its results must always be interpreted by a human being, and this interpretation is, by definition, subjective. Similarly, its input data must be selected by a human being, as must the algorithms that are run on it. Once again, these are decisions and interpretations that must always be questioned and not simply accepted. 3. Points 1 and 2 imply in turn that *all* data should be made public: not only all the output but also all the input, the source code of all software used, and a full description of the process followed, so that they can be interrogated fully. 4. There is (I think) no point in producing hardware or software without properly considering the needs of its users. Best, Peter -- Dr Peter Stokes Research Fellow Department of Digital Humanities King's College London Room 210, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk On 25 Apr 2011, at 06:23, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 905. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:22:09 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: in denial > > I'd be interested to know if you have recently heard anyone assert > that the computer is "just a tool" and what you think may have > been meant by that phrase. > > Many thanks. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.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 Thu Apr 28 05:18:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C7C61242; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:18:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9364C61231; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:18:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110428051815.9364C61231@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:18:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.912 new Director for the Folger X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 912. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:15:27 +0100 From: Folger Shakespeare Libray Subject: Folger Names New Director Michael Witmore Named Folger Director Michael Witmore, a scholar of Shakespeare and early modern literature as well as a pioneer in the digital analysis of Shakespeare’s texts, has been named director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, the sixth in the library’s seventy-nine year history. He takes office on July 1, 2011. Witmore’s appointment was announced today by the Folger Board of Governors and the Trustees of Amherst College, who administer the Folger under the will of the library’s founder, Henry Clay Folger. He succeeds Gail Kern Paster who retires at the end of June after nine years at the Folger’s helm. Of the appointment, Paul Ruxin, Chair of the Folger Board of Governors, says, "We are very excited that Mike has accepted our offer to serve the Folger as its next director. I believe he is someone with the potential to be a truly “transformative” leader, who can take the Folger to new levels of excellence in all of the areas to which its mission statement dedicates it.” “One of the things that Shakespeare does best is to make life more vivid. The humanities also have a vivifying force, delivering the diversity and complexity of human experience to our collective powers of sympathy, critical thought, and imagination,” notes Witmore. “As humanists, scholars, actors and audiences, we will continue to find Shakespeare and the period in which he lived important: the Folger will be an exciting place to see that future unfold. It is an institution whose unique cultural and intellectual strengths I admire and whose impressive resources I look forward to stewarding in the years to come.” Witmore is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, where he has taught since 2008. Prior to that, he was an Associate Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University. In addition, Witmore directs the Working Group for Digital Inquiry, a group of humanists who use computers to assist in traditional humanities research; currently, they are mapping the prose genres of Early English Books Online using techniques from bioinformatics and corpus linguistics. He is co-winner of the Perkins Prize for the Study of Narrative as well as the recipient of numerous fellowships, including an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles, research and curatorial fellowships at the Folger, and a predoctoral fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin. He was awarded (but declined) an ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship for the academic year 2011–2012. Witmore earned an A.B. in English at Vassar College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book, Landscapes of the Passing Strange: Reflections from Shakespeare (2010), a collaboration with noted writer and photographer Rosamond Purcell, was inspired by a painting in the Folger reading room that Witmore saw while here on a research fellowship. It is also the subject of a Folger exhibition in the fall of 2012, tentatively entitled Very Like a Whale, which Witmore will co-curate. Witmore is also the author of Shakespearean Metaphysics (2008); Pretty Creatures: Children and Fiction in the English Renaissance (2007); Culture of Accidents: Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England (2001); and co-editor of Childhood and Children’s Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800 (2006), having produced numerous articles, book chapters, and website resources. He currently has several books in progress, including Shakespeare by the Numbers and Other Tales from the Digital Frontier, with Jonathan Hope, and Wisdom and the Book of Experience. He is also textual editor of The Comedy of Errors for The Norton Shakespeare. Of her successor, Paster says, “The appointment of Michael Witmore as the next director of the Folger is a brilliant one. He is a Shakespeare scholar with broad interdisciplinary interests, great creative energy, and an eloquent understanding of the critical role the humanities will play in our nation’s future. I know he is the right person to lead this great library into the heart of the twenty-first century." Address: Folger Shakespeare Library 201 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 05:22:45 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E1161358; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:22:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8F57A61340; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:22:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110428052242.8F57A61340@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:22:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.913 events: philosophy; demography X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 913. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Charles Ess (82) Subject: IACAP'11 - early-bird registration now available [2] From: Shawn Day (56) Subject: ICPSR's Summer 2011 Workshop Longitudinal Analysis of Historical Demographic Data --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:49:45 +0000 From: Charles Ess Subject: IACAP'11 - early-bird registration now available Dear Humanists, with apologies for cross-postings and duplications - still, will appreciate your passing on to potentially interested colleagues. - charles === Early-bird registration (available until 15. May) is now open for the 25th anniversary conference of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) - July 4-6, 2011, on the campus of Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. IACAP¹11 is the first international conference of IACAP ­ one celebrating 25 years of Computing and Philosophy (CAP) conferences around the globe that explore the extensive range of fruitful intersections between philosophy and computing.  IACAP¹11 continues this exploration with a program of ten tracks (see http://www.ia-cap.org/IACAP_2011_CFP.pdf for full track descriptions) as well as five plenary addresses:  Presidential address: Tony Beavers, "Is Ethics Computable, or What Other than Can Does Ought Imply?" Preston Covey Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy: Terrell (Terry) Ward Bynum, Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University; Director of the Research Center on Computing & Society.  Lecture title: "Information and Deep Metaphysics" Herbert Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy: John P. Sullins, Associate Professor, Sonoma State University, California.  Lecture title: "The Next Steps in RoboEthics" Brian Michael Goldberg Memorial Award (for Outstanding Graduate Research in Computing and Philosophy, sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University): Cameron Buckner (Indiana University), "Computational Methods for the 21st-Century Philosopher: Recent Advances and Challenges in Cognitive Science & Metaphilosophy" Surveillance and Security: "(In)secure identities: ICTs, trust and Œbio-political tattoos", Katja Franko Aas, Institute of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo. ACCOMMODATIONS.  Blocks of rooms have been reserved for IACAP participants in three Aarhus locales, including the University Guesthouse.  July is a busy conference and tourist month, however, and so participants are urged to book their rooms as early as possible. Please see http://www.iacap.org/conferences/iacap11/ for more details, including travel and registration information. HOSPITALITY Our host department ­ the Department of Information- and Media Studies, Aarhus University ­ will sponsor our opening reception on Monday evening, July 4, 2011, as well as provide logistical support throughout the conference.  Our conference dinner will be held on Tuesday evening, July 5, 2011, in Nordens Folkekøkken, one of the best restaurants in Aarhus, especially for introducing newcomers to the delights of "new Scandinavian" cuisine. (Attending the conference dinner requires an additional fee, as noted on the registration website.) AARHUS UNIVERSITY is ranked among the top 100 best universities in the world, and is noted for its fostering a wide range of interdisciplinary centres, institutes, and collaborative projects.  It is thus an especially fitting venue for the first international IACAP conference as we celebrate our silver anniversary of fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. Finally, Aarhus, the second-largest city in Denmark, enjoys the reputation of being the happiest city in the happiest country in the world.  And for good reasons.  Among them: there are many excellent opportunities for lovers of art (Aros Art Museum, "Sculptures by the Sea," etc.), Viking and Danish history (including  Den Gamle By (the old village) and Moesgaard Museum), open-air markets (Ingerslev), fine food and drink, and nature (including extensive woods, parks, and swimming in Aarhus harbor and neighboring beaches).  Additional tourist information can be found at . We look forward to welcoming you to Aarhus in July! - charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Professor, Philosophy and Religion Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:34:12 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: ICPSR's Summer 2011 Workshop Longitudinal Analysis of Historical Demographic Data *********DEADLINE MAY 2, 2011****************** ICPSR's Summer 2011 Workshop Longitudinal Analysis of Historical Demographic Data July 18-August 12, 2011 Ann Arbor, Michigan Historical demography is an interdisciplinary field with a long history of important contributions to population studies and to the understanding of the past. This research has revealed a great deal about fundamental demographic processes such as household and family dynamics, the transition to smaller family units, pre- and post-industrial population dynamics, the demographic transition, migration patterns, and demographic responses to economic stress. This 4-week course will emphasize the use of event history analysis and data management of historical databases drawn from European, North American, and Asian populations. Longitudinal data will be employed to construct time-varying covariates and contextual variables for individuals, families, and households. Methodological issues such as censoring and incomplete information will also be addressed. Read more information about the course at www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/historical-demography.jsp. Application deadline: May 2, 2011 Applications are competitive. Participants will be selected on the basis of their interest in the topical areas, prior methodological training, and potential for research contributions that promote longitudinal analysis. Participants should be familiar with quantitative methods, including regression analysis. Applications must include a vita, and cover letter summarizing research interest, course objectives, and experience. Students also need to include a letter of reference from their advisor and a transcript of grades. Those who need preparation in statistics are advised to attend quantitative courses during the June-July session of the ICPSR Summer Program. A limited number of travel grants (between $500 and $2,000 US) will be awarded. For those admitted to the workshop, no fee will be charged to attend the Longitudinal Analysis course. On-line applications at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/. Support provided by the National Institutes of Health and the ICPSR Summer Program. Instructors: George Alter, University of Michigan Glenn Deane, State University of New York at Albany Myron P. Gutmann, University of Michigan and National Science Foundation J. David Hacker, Binghamton University, SUNY Satomi Kurosu, Reitaku University Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, University of Michigan Katherine A. Lynch, Carnegie Mellon University Ken R. Smith, Huntsman Cancer Institute and University of Utah For a copy of our flyer: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/sumprog/historical-demography/LAHDD2011Flyer.pdf Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, PhD Assistant Research Scientist ICPSR University of Michigan P.O. Box 1248 Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248 Phone: 734-615-7848 Fax: 734-647-8700 email: hautanie@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 Apr 29 05:46:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF1309A97F; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:46:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 63BB89A969; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:46:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110429054649.63BB89A969@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:46:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.911 18C texts from ECCO: update X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 911. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:36:37 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: Update Re: [Humanist] 24.906 new on WWW: 18C texts from ECCO On 26/04/2011 06:07, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:17:55 -0400 > From: "Friedlander, Ari" > Subject: Text Creation Partnership Makes 18th-Century Texts Freely Available to the Public > > Text Creation Partnership makes 18th century texts freely available to the public > > (Ann Arbor, MI-April 25, 2011) - The University of Michigan Library announced the opening to the public of 2,231 searchable keyed-text editions of books from Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). ECCO is an important research database that includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. ECCO contains more than 32 million pages of text and over 205,000 individual volumes, all fully searchable. ECCO is published by Gale, part of Cengage Learning. > > These texts are not (yet) freely available online. This statement: http://textcreate.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/what-the-public-release-of-ecco-tcp-texts-means-for-you-now-and-in-the-future/ states: "For the moment, therefore, freely available to the public means we’ll send the texts to anyone who asks, as soon as we can, and they’re free to do what they like with them." and gives an email address to apply to. There are also some samples accessible through voyeurtools.org, via the links on this page: http://www.18thconnect.org/news/?p=49 I do find it odd that this project, which obviously has considerable resources, can't put up a torrent or suchlike. John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com johnlevin@joindiaspora.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 05:49:22 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F2229AA1C; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:49:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B75029AA07; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:49:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110429054919.B75029AA07@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:49:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.914 in denial X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 914. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Desmond Schmidt (9) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.910 in denial [2] From: James Rovira (7) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.910 in denial [3] From: Jascha Kessler (130) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.910 in denial [4] From: del thomas Ph D (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.910 in denial --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:55:55 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.910 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110428051012.AC67F61014@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Peter, I assumed that what Willard was referring to was the McLuhanesque principle that 'man shapes tool then tool shapes man'. Asserting that a computer simply automates a task that we would otherwise be forced to do manually, ignores the change in the task that the tool brings about. You can see this, for example, in the production of printed concordances. Once the previous manual task is automated it is suddenly not needed any more. Instead we can just search for words in a digital text and throw the printed concordance away. So in that sense the computer is much more than 'just a tool'. Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute University of Queensland Australia --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:58:57 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.910 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110428051012.AC67F61014@woodward.joyent.us> Willard consistently asks all of the best questions. When I think of a computer as "just a tool," I usually think of it as a conduit of some sort, almost in a very literal sense. It is the hammer between my hand and the nail; less metaphorically, it is in between me, the content that I use, and the content that I produce. It is not the content itself. If I were a programmer I would think very differently, of course. Jim R --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:06:25 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.910 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110428051012.AC67F61014@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I was entertained by Mr. Stokes' simple and clear view of the computer, its users and uses. Reading his paragraphs, I suddenly found myself in a messy bearskin cloak, the kind shamans wear in Siberia, but sent back in time, and sitting outside some French cave mouth. There I was fashioning tufts of hair onto small sticks; pounding some dry, colored chalks to powder and adding some rainwater, preparatory to lighting a cup of bear fat oil and descending to paint a wall with hunting scenes. We have been using instruments since we learned to flake flints to kill a bear, clear a cave of its family, and set up a repository of charms and records. *Plus ça change, nous sommes toujours les memes Homo saps...?* * * *Jascha Kessler* *UCLA * -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:48:16 -0400 From: del thomas Ph D Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.910 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110428051012.AC67F61014@woodward.joyent.us> Hi, It may often be the case that technology allows future users to "discover" needs that otherwise would not have surfaced. There is often an interaction between hardware soft ware wet ware and the users. I think of the lead pencil that years after its introduction proved to be invaluable in space. Needs that very likely could not have been anticipated even by Thoreau and his family. Del On 4/28/2011 1:10 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > 4. There is (I think) no point in producing hardware or software without properly considering the needs of its users. > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 05:50:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC2029AA71; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:50:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5475A9AA5E; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:50:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110429055005.5475A9AA5E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:50:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.915 jobs: lectureship 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 915. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:38:59 +0100 From: Claire Warwick Subject: Lectureship in Computing and Information Science UCL Department of Information Studies invites applications for our new Lectureship in Computing and Information Science. Details are at http://tinyurl.com/5rszpap and the closing date is 20 May. Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr Rob Miller (rsm@ucl.ac.uk) We'd love to have as strong a field as possible, so applications from the DH community are very much encouraged- as long as you have the appropriate skills and experience of course! Claire -- Claire Warwick MA, MPhil, PhD Acting Head: UCL Department of Information Studies Director: UCL Centre for Digital Humanities University College London _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 05:51:05 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 334CA9AAC9; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:51:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 06A889AAB0; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:51:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: 24.916 events: TEI at Würzburg From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110429055102.06A889AAB0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:51:02 +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. 24, No. 916. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:04:26 +0200 From: Malte Rehbein Subject: TEI conference: deadline fast approaching Dear all, This is a gentle reminder for everybody who has not yet submitted their proposal for the TEI conference in Würzburg in October: the deadlines for submissions are fast approaching! You find the call for papers, posters and panels (deadline 1 May 2011) here: http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/tei_mm_2011/cfp/call_for_papers_posters_and_panels/ and the call for workshops and tutorials (deadline 15 May 2011) here: http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/tei_mm_2011/cfp/call_for_workshops_and_tutorials/ We are looking forward to your proposals! In the meantime, we have updated the conference website. Please check especially for news about accommodation in Würzburg and the excursion to the German Archive of Literature in Marbach. Apart from the academic program, we also hope to organize some sightseeing in Würzburg and its historical sites as well as a visit to a local winery. Stay tuned for more information! Kind regards, Malte -- Dr. Malte Rehbein Universität Würzburg Zentrum für digitale Edition / Lehrstuhl für Computerphilologie und Neuere Deutsche Literaturgeschichte Philosophiegebäude 8/E/14 Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg fon +49.(0)931.31.88773 email malte.rehbein@uni-wuerzburg.de web http://www.denkstaette.de IDE: http://www.i-d-e.de Digital Medievalist: http://www.digitalmedievalist.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 Apr 30 06:35:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3272D139023; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:35:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 31E17139011; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:35:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110430063550.31E17139011@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:35:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.917 in denial X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 917. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Manfred Thaller (55) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.914 in denial [2] From: Ales Vaupotic (132) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.914 in denial [3] From: Patrick Durusau (33) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.914 in denial --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:40:22 +0200 From: Manfred Thaller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.914 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110429054919.B75029AA07@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, A humble question: May not be the fact that Humanists have to discuss, whether the computer is "just a tool" be the at the heart of the still strained relationship between the Humanities and Computer Science? Virtually nobody from the hard sciences - leave alone computer science - I meet in my muddled interdisciplinary waters, would understand, that there can be a question that the computer is just a tool, to be handled with confidence, as you are expected to learn how to wield it, because that is as the world is nowadays. Is the implicit need to discuss whether there might not be some magic lurking in the background, a reflexion of the strained relationship many Humanists still have to information technology? "You do not have to learn how to use a computer, you just have to be able to talk to the technicians."; "Should you really teach your students how to set up a server at an arts faculty? Is that not part of the Computing Centre?" More generally, in endless discussions about what should be taught in interdisciplinary curricula, I always have the feeling, that many participants are often more concerned - and certainly have stronger opinions about - how to define very precisely, what a "Digital Humanist" has not necessarily to know about computers, and still can consider him- (or her-) self as a "Digital Humanist", than what constitutes the technical skills which must be mastered. As a result, there is almost invariably the assumption, that somewhere between the Humanist and the machine a technician is required. On the surface, because it is beneath the dignity of a Humanist to know such technical trivia. In the nightmares, because there is the dark fear, that a Humanist might not be able to master those trivia. (At the very least, not without endangering his (or her) Humanist's soul.) So, just as in some religions you need a priest between you and god, in many brands of the Digital Humanities (and large parts of society, by the way) you need a technician between you and THE MACHINE. If there has to be a priest, must a god not be assumed? Hm. Could it possibly be, that the somewhat disturbing situation that the building of digital infrastructures for the Humanities seems to be shaping up somewhere separate from the Humanities, is connected to this? (At least within the funding institutions which I have occassionally the honor to advise, the most serious concern about Digital Humanities infrastructure projects is usually, that they are as admirable as underused.) If there has to be a priest, must a church not be created? (Well separated from the believers, as proper clergy should be, of course.) ------------------- Seriously, how can anybody doubt, that the computer is a tool? Albeit other tools - cars or nuclear reactors come to mind - have shown, that being a tool does not necessarily force one to consider it just a tool. Kind regards, Manfred -- Prof. Dr. Manfred Thaller Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung, Universität zu Köln Postadresse: Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D 50923 Köln Besuchsadresse: Kerpener Str. 30, Eingang Weyertal, II. Stock Tel. +49 - 221 - 470 3022, FAX +49 - 221 - 470 7737 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:03:45 +0200 From: Ales Vaupotic Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.914 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110429054919.B75029AA07@woodward.joyent.us> The issue whether the computer is a mere tool or something more was thoroughly examined by Vilém Flusser (in the time before the widespread use of computers). It is not a mere tool because it involves a split authorship of the so-called techno-image: the constructor of the apparatus and the operator (eg. in his text Umbruch der menschlichen Beziehungen? published in the book Kommunikologie). This split is evident in the multidisciplinary approaches in digital humanities. I agree with Flusser also regarding the fact that it is not clear, whether we are currently - 20 years after his death - able to decode the technical images (eg. computer generated output) adequately. Aleš Vaupotič REELC/ENCLS webmaster --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:43:19 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.914 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110429054919.B75029AA07@woodward.joyent.us> Desmond, On 4/29/2011 1:49 AM, Desmond Schmidt wrote: > I assumed that what Willard was referring to was the McLuhanesque principle that 'man shapes tool then tool shapes man'. Asserting that a computer simply automates a task that we would otherwise be forced to do manually, ignores the change in the task that the tool brings about. You can see this, for example, in the production of printed concordances. Once the previous manual task is automated it is suddenly not needed any more. Instead we can just search for words in a digital text and throw the printed concordance away. So in that sense the computer is much more than 'just a tool'. > But it is a mistake to consider the making of a concordance a "manual task." Consider for example "The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare" by Michael Spevack, which lists over 700 homographs in Appendix II. That isn't an automatic feature of searching a digital text. I think we are poorer for accepting the lower quality results of your "...search for words in a digital text...." Not to mention hypocritical since many would complain of students using Wikipedia or the WWW for "easy" research and at the same time consider full text searching of the literature to be "research." I suppose it is of a sort but it isn't the same thing as running down footnotes and bibliographic entries, whether they are online or no. In the sense that computers have lowered our expectations of each other and made us dumber, your point that: > the computer is much more than 'just a tool'. is well taken. Hope you are looking forward to a great weekend! 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) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 30 06:36:53 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCAFA139071; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:36:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6E958139058; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:36:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110430063651.6E958139058@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:36:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.918 cfp: TEI and 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. 24, No. 918. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:59:27 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: CFP: Issue 3 of the Journal of the TEI CFP: Issue 3 of the Journal of the TEI TEI and Linguistics While the TEI Guidelines are an obvious encoding standard in Digital-Humanities-based research, it is still not so obvious a choice for those working in linguistics. This is surprising, particularly in the field of computational linguistics, because the TEI Guidelines address many issues relevant for the fast growing amount of digital language data, e.g. corpora, speech data, dictionaries etc., and linguistic annotation. Moreover, with recent developments in data mining and text analysis in the larger digital humanities community, the needs of these researchers are becoming closely aligned with those in the the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The editors of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, the official journal of the TEI Consortium, are delighted to announce a call for papers for a special issue that focuses on TEI for linguistic purposes. For this issue, the guest editors (Piotr Bański, Eleonora Litta, and Andreas Witt) welcome articles dealing with: * linguistically annotated corpora * the relation of the TEI encoding scheme and the standards of ISO TC37/SC 4 * interoperability between the Humanities and NLP * interoperability between data formats used in the field of linguistics and TEI * reasons for not using the TEI in the field of linguistics * application of TEI modules for linguists, e.g. transcription of speech or feature structures * the potential for rich structuring of documents that the TEI offers vs. text mining / Information Extraction / text analysis -- is the TEI a potential player in this field? The Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative is a peer-reviewed open source publication hosted by revues.org. Closing date for submissions is 30 September with publication expected Spring 2012. -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie phone: +353 1 896 3694 fax: +353 1 671 7114 check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 30 06:39:25 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A1E91390D6; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:39:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 863B91390C7; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:39:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110430063922.863B91390C7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:39:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.919 events: representation & classification; semantic archives 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. 24, No. 919. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Steffen Hennicke" (89) Subject: CfP Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives [2] From: Megan Winget (67) Subject: ASIST SIG/CR Call for Panel Proposals for ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:19:23 +0200 From: "Steffen Hennicke" Subject: CfP Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives CALL FOR PAPERS ************************** International Workshop on "Semantic Digital Archives - sustainable long-term curation perspectives of Cultural Heritage" to be held as part of the 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL). 29.09.2011 in Berlin http://sda2011.dke-research.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES: The Semantic Digital Archives Workshop aims at promoting and discussing sophisticated knowledge representation and knowledge management solutions specifically designed for improving Archival Information Systems. Over the past couple of decades, digitally created content has come to permeate all aspects of our lives and the life cycle of these objects is increasingly exclusively digital. Therefore, sustainable long-term curation perspectives for our digital cultural heritage are essential. Digital content poses many socio-cultural and technological challenges which create obstacles to long-term or indefinite preservation. Changing technologies and shifting user communities as well as the increasing complexity of digital content being enriched with software and multimedia attachments are only a few examples. Dealing with these challenges is the central theme of the workshop. This full day workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the Digital Libraries, the Digital Archives and the Semantic Web community. It specifically encourages closer dialogue between the technical oriented communities and researchers from the (digital) humanities and social sciences as well as cultural heritage institutions. TOPICS OF INTEREST: We intend to have an open discussion on topics related to the general subject of Semantic Digital Archives. The workshop's focus is broad; we welcome contributions that focus on such topics as: * ontologies and linked data for digital archives and digital libraries, e.g. semantic extensions of common knowledge models of the digital archiving and digital libraries domain, e.g. METS, EAD, Premis, ... * ontologies and (semantic) web services implementing the OAIS standard * theoretical and practical archiving frameworks extending or replacing the OAIS standard * logical theories for digital archives * implementations and evaluations of digital archives * semantic or logical provenance models for digital archives or digital libraries * information integration/semantic ingest (e.g. from digital libraries) * trust for ingest and data security/integrity check for long-term storage of archival records * semantic search and semantic information retrieval in digital archives and digital libraries * visualization and exploration of digital content (stored or to be stored in a digital archive) * semantic extensions of emulation/virtualization methodologies tailored for digital archives * semantic long-term storage and hardware organization tailored for AIS * (empirical) studies evaluating end-user needs and its evolution as well as information seeking behaviour of end- user needs and its evolution * knowledge evolution SUBMISSION DETAILS: Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers related to the aforementioned topics. We invite: * regular papers (10 to 12 pages) * short papers (4 to 6 pages) All submissions are required to be in pdf format. All submissions should be anonymous (i.e., no author names/affiliations and obvious citations). Long and short paper submissions should be in the Springer's LNCS format. Submissions are to be made via the submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sda2011 Submissions will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. All papers accepted at the Semantic Digital Archives Workshop must be presented during the Workshop by a TPDL 2011 registered participant. Papers will be published in workshop proceedings, which will be available as a separate publication after the Workshop. IMPORTANT DATES: * Deadline for Submissions: 30 June 2011 * Acceptance Notification: 30. July 2011 * Camera-ready Papers: 20. August 2011 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE & PROGRAM COMMITTEE: The Organizing Committee members and a preliminary list of Program Committee members can be found at: http://sda2011.dke-research.de/index.php/committees FURTHER DETAILS: http://sda2011.dke-research.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:28:40 -0500 From: Megan Winget Subject: ASIST SIG/CR Call for Panel Proposals for ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2011 Hello All: The Classification Research Special Interest Group (SIG/CR) focuses on theoretical and practical issues surround the classification and representation of information for the purposes of organization, collection building, access, and preservation. We are inviting proposals for panels and contributions to panels for submission to the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). The theme of this year's conference is "Bridgng the Gulf: Communication and Information in Society, Technology and Work," and will be held October 9-13, 2011 in New Orleans. We are interested in panels that address representation and classification issues related to any kind of material: text or non- text, multimedia, games, scientific information, data, metadata, specific implementations of metadata schemas, visualizations, authority, trust, collection building...we also welcome philosophically inclined panels as well as those that are more practical in nature. Proposals should be formatted in accordance with the call for papers (which can be found at: http://www.asis.org/asist2011/am11cfp.html ) but sent to me (Megan Winget - megan@ischool.utexas.edu) as attachments. The deadline for panels to ASIST is May 31. 1) If you send me a fully formed panel proposal, I will submit to ASIST with support by SIG/CR. Please have these proposals to me by May 27. 2) If you send me a proposal for an individual panel contribution (but don't actually have a panel formed), I will attempt to facilitate collaboration between people with similar ideas to generate panel proposals. In order to do this and have enough time to then generate fully formed panel proposals, please have these individual paper proposals to me by May 16. To reiterate the deadlines: -If you have a panel idea, you've gotten your speakers lined up, and it's a done deal: May 27 -If you have an idea for a paper, but you don't have any other speakers in mind: May 16. We must have all panel proposals to ASIS&T by May 31. The ASIS&T call for panel proposals reads: Proposals for panels are invited on topics that include emerging cutting-edge research and design, analyses of hot or emerging trends, opinions on controversial issues, analyses of tools and techniques, and contrasting viewpoints from experts in complementary professional areas. Panels are not a substitute for a set of contributed papers, but must have a cohesive theme and promote lively interaction between panellists and audience members. Submit two to four pages that provide an overview of the issues to be discussed by the panel. Proposals should also list panellists who have agreed to participate and indicate the qualifications and contribution that each panellist will offer. Proposals for Pecha Kucha style presentations, are encouraged. If you have any questions whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact me (megan@ischool.utexas.edu) or Joe Tennis (jtennis@uw.edu) and we will be happy to help. I'm looking forward to reading some interesting proposals! Megan Winget Chair, SIG/CR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Megan A. Winget, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Information University of Texas at Austin 1616 Guadalupe, Ste. 5.202 Austin, TX 78701-1213 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Phone: 512.919.6100 Fax: 512.471.3971 web: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~megan/ email: megan@ischool.utexas.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 May 3 05:07:28 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606EC13AC21; Tue, 3 May 2011 05:07:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 006BE13AC06; Tue, 3 May 2011 05:07:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110503050723.006BE13AC06@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 05:07:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.920 in denial X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 920. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Mueller (200) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.917 in denial [2] From: James Rovira (21) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.917 in denial [3] From: Ernesto Priego (284) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.917 in denial --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:24:03 -0500 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.917 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110430063550.31E17139011@woodward.joyent.us> The problem with saying that "the computer is just a tool" does not lie in applying the phrase "just a tool" to a computer but applying it to any tool. Some tools are more important or consequential than others, but any tool that is worth its salt is more than "just a tool," whether it's a book or running water in your house, to mention "just" two deeply transformative technologies that in various ways have changed the way we live. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:57:44 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.917 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110430063550.31E17139011@woodward.joyent.us> I don't think that we need to assume digital humanists are motivated by either fear or condescension when they ask, "How much of the technology do we really need to know?" I think there are quite a few very practical concerns involved too, especially about how large curriculum requirements are, or how large they can be, in practical terms. Or about how much time they can reasonably spend given departmental demands on learning a second, almost completely alien field -- one that would require a return to calculus classes at some point. I think the ideal digital humanist would be a double major. Short of that ideal, since technology is being used in the service of humanities study, the digital humanist should be a humanist with substantially more knowledge of the available technology (and how it works) than his or her peers, but that may come short of having a second degree. In that case, a tech. person of some kind would always be required. I don't think a digital humanist needs to be a computer scientist, though, any more than a computer scientist needs to have a Ph.D. in English or Art to be able to contribute. I don't think that we should be asking, globally, if the computer is "just a tool," but asking that question specifically. A plain text document produced by a typewriter and one produced by a computer will be read the same way. Jim R --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:11:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Ernesto Priego Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.917 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110430063550.31E17139011@woodward.joyent.us> Dear all, ...but what do we *mean* when with the phrase "just a tool"? When is a tool really "just a tool"? Desmond Schmidt recalls McLuhan, but it's hard not to think of Martin Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art" (1977: 143-87). Heidegger's ideas on techné also informed Fredric Kittler's thought on technology (1994, 1999), and I would have thought it was an accepted notion that tools (and technologies, and techniques) are never neutral, i.e, they are never "just" anything, in the sense of "simple media" (a medium, a channel for spirits). Computers *do* stuff without direct human agency, or, if you will, betraying human agency. Computers are not only/always what *we* (whoever we may be) would like them to be. They mean different things in different contexts. Unplanned phenomena takes place when computers are at work, when they are designed, made, produced, sold, distributed, etc. The word "computer" itself is not neutral, not unbiased, not unloaded with discursive, political, ideological charges (cathexes?) If Willard's question was not rhetorical and there is indeed still the possibility there might be such a thing as "a mere tool" (i.e., a neutral instrument without agency or meaning of its own), how could this be justified? In my opinion, thinking avant la lettre of the computer (in general terms) as "just a tool" would be a sad symptom of depoliticisation. Best regards, Ernesto Priego _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 05:16:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1A613A7B8; Wed, 4 May 2011 05:16:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1244313A7A5; Wed, 4 May 2011 05:16:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110504051635.1244313A7A5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 05:16:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.921 in denial X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 921. 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" (164) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.920 in denial [2] From: Jascha Kessler (149) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.920 in denial [3] From: James Cronin (22) Subject: Technological prosthesis --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 23:59:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.920 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110503050723.006BE13AC06@woodward.joyent.us> The lever is just a tool. . . . Fire is just a tool. . . . The wheel is just a tool. . . . The pulley us just a tool. . . . Gears are just tools. . . . Windpower is just a tool. . . . Metals are just tools. . . . Chemicals are just tools. . . . Airplanes are just tools. . . . Trains are just tools. . . . Cars are just tools. . . . Trucks are just tools. . . . Steam engines are just tools. . . . Internal combustion is just a tool. . . . Nuclear power is just a tool. . . . Solar power is just a tool. . . . The space shuttle is just a tool. . . . Guns are just tools. . . . Media are just tools. . . . Language is just a tool. . . . Books are just tools. . . . Email is just a tool. . . . eBooks are just tools. . . . Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg, Inventor of eBooks Co-Founder The World eBook Fair FIVE MILLION FREE eBOOKS! July 4 through August 4 @ http://worldebookfair.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 11:46:59 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.920 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110503050723.006BE13AC06@woodward.joyent.us> One would not care for "depoliticization," because that is philosophically absurd, if not impossible. Tools, anyone? Well, imagine strolling up to the stone workbench at some slate or flint scree, say 200,000 years ago? The master blade-chipper has an array of sharp flints laid out, some are handtools for flensing game, some primitive spear points, the bow not yet having been invented...? You might wish, indeed need to have some of the hand cutter/scrapers too. The question is, those new TOOLS need to be assigned their tasks. I might want a couple for deer meat, extra sharp and large...but if I cannot corner my roebuck, I might want a couple of smaller ones, to carve up that lumbering fellow over the next ridge who scares my game off, and make a neat edible stack of his better parts, to roast on a carved stick, what say ? It all *depends* on the purpose and use of the same design of tool. I can arrange my debits and credits for the Tax Man, and I can send an encrypted order to some waiting terrorist on the other side of the world, and decent humanity. Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 20:56:11 +0100 From: James Cronin Subject: Technological prosthesis In-Reply-To: <20110503050723.006BE13AC06@woodward.joyent.us> International media are reporting that President Obama was watching on a TV screen as a commando gunned down Osama bin Laden. Via a video camera fixed to the helmet of a U.S. Navy Seal, White House chiefs of staff watched as bin Laden was shot in the left eye. This sequence of events has already been anticipated and rehearsed, as far back as 1984, in Paul Virilio’s prophetic vision of the prosthetics of technology whereby the eye itself, through technological mediation, becomes a weapon: 'The Eye-Tracked synchronization system fixes the pilot’s gaze, however sudden the movement of his eyes, so that firing can proceed as soon as binocular accommodation is achieved. Finally, there is the “homing image”, which joins together an infra-red ray and an explosive projectile fitted with a special device. This device acts in the manner of an eye, picking up the image of the infra-red-lit target. The projectile that makes its way towards the image – and thus towards the target for destruction – with all the ease of someone going home. The system, which is attached to the latest missiles, once again illustrates the fateful confusion of eye and weapon.' (Paul Virilio, 1989, p.110.). Reference Virilio, P. (1989). War and Cinema: The logistics of perception. Trans. Patrick Camiller. Verso: London. (Original work published 1984). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 05:18:16 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C67113A82E; Wed, 4 May 2011 05:18:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 283D713A81D; Wed, 4 May 2011 05:18:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110504051808.283D713A81D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 05:18:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.922 events: exilic return; AI et al. 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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: EMiC (174) Subject: CFP: Exile's Return / Appel : L'exil et le retour [2] From: Dianne Nguyen (74) Subject: 3rd Call for Papers Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 02:16:33 -0300 From: EMiC Subject: CFP: Exile's Return / Appel : L'exil et le retour (La version française suit) Call for Papers Exile's Return An EMiC Colloquium at the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris, France, June 28-30, 2012 Organized by Marta Dvorak (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Dean Irvine (Dalhousie), Kit Dobson (Mt. Royal University), and Matt Huculak (Dalhousie) Hosted by the Sorbonne Nouvelle and Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) Keynote speaker: Mavis Gallant When she moved to Paris in 1950, Mavis Gallant followed a route familiar to generations of modernist authors and artists from Canada and around the world. Many of these expatriates returned home and brought with them their impressions of the circles and salons, magazines and publishing houses, bookshops and galleries, stages and ateliers of Paris that facilitated the formation of modernism across the arts and around the globe. Conversely, they imported knowledge of cultural and aesthetic practices-whether from North and South America, the Caribbean, Africa, the South Pacific, or the Pacific Rim-that in turn revolutionized modernism across Europe. Among Canada's other modernists who gravitated to Paris in the first half of the twentieth century were writers such as Marius Barbeau, Morley Callaghan, Marcel Dugas, John Glassco, Alain Grandbois, Anne Hébert, Dorothy Livesay, Jean-Aubert Loranger, Gaston Miron, Thérèse Renaud, Mordecai Richler, and Sheila Watson and artists such as Paul-Émile Borduas, Emily Carr, A.Y. Jackson, Fernand Leduc, Alfred Pellan, and Jean-Paul Riopelle. These expatriates gathered with others from around the world in what David Burke has designated as the West's intellectual capital of the early twentieth century, a global community that contributed to modernism's articulation across an array of cultural and artistic movements: art nouveau, cubism, Dada, existentialism, Fauvism, magic realism, negritude, 'pataphysics, psychoanalysis, surrealism, theatres of the absurd and cruelty, and so on. A century after the earliest of their transatlantic crossings, we return to commemorate the local, national, international, transnational, and global histories of modernism. In recognition of Paris's modernist legacies and their links to modernists from North America and elsewhere, this colloquium seeks to bring together scholars whose work investigates and participates in intercultural and transcultural exchanges, interlingual and multilingual translations, intermedial and interdisciplinary cross-fertilizations, as well as international and transnational collaborations. We welcome scholarship that addresses any of the multiple and intersecting modes of modernist cultural production in literature, theatre, the visual arts, and the performance arts. Staged in one of the historic cities of modernism and in what geographer David Harvey calls one of the capitals of modernity, which facilitated the convergence of global communities, this colloquium also invites the participation of scholars whose work builds and circulates through global networks and digital technologies. We encourage presentations that address issues relevant to the global and digital turns of modernist studies in the twenty-first century, including the transformations of modernist media, the remediation of modernism in new media, the representation and interpretation of modernist aesthetics in innovative reading environments, and the implementation of web-based tools to represent the material conditions and geographic locations of modernism's production. Subjects, or points of entry, may include, but are not limited to, the following: -- modernisms in Paris, Parisian modernisms -- exile, expatriation, emigration, migrancy -- nationalism, internationalism, transnationalism -- globalism, globalization, planetarity -- transculturality and interculturality -- intermediality and interdisciplinarity -- languages, translation, multilingual cultures -- collaboration, communities, networks, commons -- digital humanities, new media, remediation, multimedia, social media -- digital editions, archives, libraries, repositories, collections, exhibitions We welcome proposals for panel presentations. Panels will feature the standard sequence of 3 or 4 speakers delivering 15-20 minute talks followed by a question period and discussion. We also welcome proposals of roundtable sessions, which may 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 organizers should ask participants to deliver short position statements in response to material distributed in advance by the session organizer, and they should 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. A limited number of subventions for EMiC participants (co-applicants, collaborators, postdocs, and graduate fellows) will be available to defray travel and accommodation expenses. See the colloquium page on the project website for more details: http://editingmodernism.ca/events/sorbonne-nouvelle/ Please submit 500-word proposal, 100-word abstract, and 50-word biographical statement via email to emic@dal.ca by 1 September 2011. 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. Appel / communications L'exil et le retour Colloque international de Editing Modernism in Canada/L'édition du modernisme au Canada (EMiC/EmaC) / la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris, France, 28-30 juin, 2012 Organisé par Marta Dvorak (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Dean Irvine (Dalhousie University, Canada), Kit Dobson (Mount Royal University, Canada) et Matt Huculak (Dalhousie University) Conférenciere invitée : Mavis Gallant Pendant la première moitié du 20e siècle des générations successives d'écrivains et d'artistes modernistes du Canada mais aussi du monde entier ont gravité vers Paris, reconnue comme la capitale intellectuelle de l'occident. Parmi ceux venus du Canada et du Québec se trouvaient des écrivains tels que Marius Barbeau, Morley Callaghan, Marcel Dugas, Mavis Gallant, Josh Glassco, Alain Grandbois, Anne Hébert, Dorothy Livesay, Jean-Aubert Loranger, Gaston Miron, Thérèse Renaud, Mordecai Richler, et Sheila Watson, ainsi que des artistes comme Paul-Émile Borduas, Emily Carr, A.Y. Jackson, Fernand Leduc, Alfred Pellan, et Jean-Paul Riopelle. Ils ont rejoint une communauté artistique qui déclinait le déferlement du modernisme dans un éventail de courants culturels, allant du cubisme et de la psychanalyse au surréalisme et / l'existentialisme. Un siècle après les tout premiers passages transatlantiques, nous célébrons les histoires locales, nationales, internationales, et interculturelles du modernisme. En hommage au patrimoine moderniste de Paris et avec le premier objectif d'éclairer et de commémorer ses liens aux modernismes de l'Amérique du Nord et d'ailleurs, ce colloque international rassemblera des universitaires et des acteurs du monde de l'édition qui s'intéressent aux problématiques des échanges interculturels, de la traduction inter-langues et multi-langues, des influences interdisciplinaires et intermédiales, et des collaborations trans-nationales et interculturelles. Les disciplines peuvent se conjuguer parmi les diverses modes de production culturelle qui s'entrecroisent, des arts de la page aux arts de la scène. Comme EMiC/EmaC a comme mandat de promouvoir la diffusion d'œuvres modernistes épuisées ou peu connues, nous appelons la participation de spécialistes de la production et de l'économie numérique globalisée et des technologies digitales, et nous accueillons des communications qui traitent les questions du 21e siècle concernant les transformations des médias et les environnements de lecture innovants, ainsi que la mise en place d'outils Internet susceptibles de représenter les conditions matérielles et les lieux géographiques de production moderniste. Les thèmes, ou points d'entrée, peuvent inclure les rubriques suivantes, non exhaustives : -- le modernisme / Paris, les modernismes parisiens -- l'exil, l'expatriation, l'émigration, la migration -- le nationalisme, l'internationalisme, le transnationalisme -- le mondialisme, la globalisation, la mondialité -- transculturalité et l'interculturalité -- intermédialité et interdisciplinarité -- les langues, la traduction, les cultures multilingues -- les humanités électroniques, les nouveaux médias, l'atténuation, le multimédia, les médias sociaux -- la collaboration, les communautés, les réseaux, les terrains communaux -- les éditions électroniques, les archives, les bibliothèques, les dépositoires, les collections, les expositions Nous accueillons des propositions d'atelier. Les ateliers comprenant 3 ou 4 interventions de 15-20 minutes suivies d'un débat. Nous accueillons également des propositions de rencontres-débat ou de table ronde pré-structuré, impliquant 5 ou 6 intervenants réunis pour susciter une discussion entre les participants et le public. Les participants auront / se positionner brièvement sur des questions posées préalablement par l'organisateur et auront / réagir aux questions et remarques du modérateur et du public. Une sélection des textes (en français ou en anglais) paraîtront dans un ouvrage collectif. Un nombre limité de subventions sera offerts aux participants de EMiC/EmaC (les collaborateurs, co-applicants, postdocs et doctorants) pour défrayer les frais de déplacement et d'hébergement. Visitez le site d'EMiC/EmaC pour tout complément d'informations / propos du colloque : http://editingmodernism.ca/events/sorbonne-nouvelle/ Merci de soumettre une vos propositions de 500 mots accompagnées d'un résumé de 100 mots, ainsi qu'une note bio-bibliographique de 50 mots par courrier électronique / emic@dal.ca avant le 1 septembre, 2011. Pour plus d'information vous pouvez visiter notre site / http://editingmodernism.ca ou soumettre vos questions / emic@dal.ca. EMiC/EmaC est financé par une subvention du Réseau stratégique de connaissances, provenant du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 16:09:50 +1000 From: Dianne Nguyen Subject: 3rd Call for Papers Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference *3rd Call for Papers* Apologies for cross posting Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference http://www.Solomonoff85thMemorial.monash.edu/ http://www.solomonoff85thmemorial.monash.edu/ Proceedings of this multi-disciplinary conference will be published by Springer in the prestigious LNAI (LNCS) series ******************************************************************************************** Dear Colleague You are cordially invited to submit a paper and participate at Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference which, will be held in Melbourne, Australia, between 30 November - 2 December 2011 with the possibility of a tutorial/workshop being organised on the 29th November 2011. This multi-disciplinary Conference will be run back to back with the AI 2011 Conference in Perth, Australia. This is a multi-disciplinary conference based on the wide range of applications of work related to or inspired by that of Ray Solomonoff. The contributions sought for this conference include, but are not restricted to, the following:- Statistical inference and prediction, Econometrics *(including time series and panel data)*, in Principle proofs of financial market inefficiency, Theories of (quantifying) intelligence and new forms of *(universal)*intelligence test *(for robotic, terrestrial and extra-terrestrial life)*, the Singularity*(or infinity point) * http://world.std.com/~rjs/timesc.pdf , Philosophy of science, the Problem of induction, Evolutionary (tree) models in biology and linguistics, Geography, Climate modelling and bush-fire detection, Environmental science, Image processing, Spectral analysis, Engineering, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Statistics and Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics, Computer science, Data mining, Bioinformatics, Computational intelligence, Computational science, Life sciences, Physics, Knowledge discovery, Ethics, Computational biology, Computational linguistics, Collective intelligence, structure and computing connectivity of random nets, effect of Heisenberg's principle on channel capacity, Arguments that entropy is not the arrow of time, and etc. See also Ray Solomonoff's Publications http://world.std.com/~rjs/pubs.html . *General and Program Chair* David Dowe, Monash University, Australia *Program Committee* Andrew Barron, Statistics, Yale University, USA Greg Chaitin, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Fouad Chedid, Notre Dame University, Lebanon Bertrand Clarke, Medical Statistics, University of Miami, USA A. Phil Dawid, Statistics, Cambridge University, UK Peter Gacs, Boston University, USA Alex Gammerman, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK John Goldsmith, Linguistics, University of Chicago, USA Marcus Hutter, Australian National University, Australia Leonid Levin, Boston University, USA Ming Li, Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada John McCarthy, Stanford University, USA *(Turing Award winner)* Marvin Minsky, MIT, USA *(Turing Award winner)* Kee Siong Ng, ANU & EMC Corp, Australia Juergen Schmidhuber, IDSIA, Switzerland Farshid Vahid, Econometrics, Monash University, Australia Paul Vitanyi, CWI, The Netherlands Vladimir Vovk, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *Co-ordinator* Dianne Nguyen, Monash University, Australia You will find more information about the Conference at the following Website: http://www.Solomonoff85thMemorial.monash.edu/ http://www.solomonoff85thmemorial.monash.edu/ For more details on how to submit a paper(s), please refer to the Submission Page at: http://www.Solomonoff85thMemorial.infotech.monash.edu/submission.html http://www.solomonoff85thmemorial.infotech.monash.edu/submission.html *Important Dates* Deadline of Paper Submission: *20 May 2011* Notification of Acceptance of Paper: *10 August 2011* Receipt of Camera-Ready Copy: *5 September 2011* Conference Dates: *30 Nov. - 2 Dec. 2011* I look forward to receiving your valuable paper contribution and attendance at the Conference. David Dowe General Chairman _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 5 05:38:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE7E13DF2A; Thu, 5 May 2011 05:38:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BF5BB13DF22; Thu, 5 May 2011 05:38:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110505053841.BF5BB13DF22@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 05:38:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.923 in denial X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 923. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 10:58:36 +0300 From: Gerda Elata-Alster Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.921 in denial The correct question then would be: what is a tool? Gerda Elata-Alster _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 5 05:39:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0579913DF86; Thu, 5 May 2011 05:39:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2D7A813DF75; Thu, 5 May 2011 05:39:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110505053930.2D7A813DF75@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 05:39:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.924 call for chapters: computational science & 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. 24, No. 924. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 07:57:14 +0000 From: Willard Mccarty Subject: Call for Chapters: Handbook :: Computational Science and Engineering collection In-Reply-To: <20110504075702.18116.qmail@webmaildh5.aruba.it> Due to multiple requests, we are extending the submission deadline for handbook until May 31 ------------------------------------------------------ :: Blue Herons Editions :: Call for Chapters :: ------------------------------------------------------ On an Edited Handbook to be Published by Blue Herons Editions (Computational Science and Engineering collection) in June 2011 Title: "Computational Informatics, Social Factors and New Information Technologies: Hypermedia Perspectives and Avant-Garde Experiencies in the Era of Communicability Expansion" http://www.blueherons.net/home_en_6.html All contributions should be of high originality, quality, clarity, significance, impact and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period. Main areas are solicited on, but not limited to: :: 2D and 3D Computer Graphics :: Advances in Programming Languages and Techniques :: Applications of New Technologies to Communicability Expansion :: Artificial Life :: Assessment of Interactive Systems :: Augmented Reality :: Automated Software Design and Synthesis :: Biological Security Technologies :: Biometrics Techniques :: Broadcasting Networking Architectures :: Cartography Digital :: Cinema 3D :: Cloud Assistance in Hypermedia Content Distribution :: Color Mapping, Imaging, Illumination and Texture Mapping in Computer Graphics :: Communicability :: Computational Linguistics :: Computer Aided Design :: Computer Animation :: Computer Science and Computer Engineering Curriculum :: Computing in Nanotechnology :: Cultural and Natural Heritage :: Cyber Security :: Data and Knowledge Processing :: Data Mining Tools and Software :: Development of E-business and Applications :: Digital Contents and Copyright Protection Techniques :: Digital Libraries and Digital Image Collections :: Digital Photography :: Digital Sound :: Distributed Systems :: Dynamic and Static Information for Scientific Visualization :: E-book :: E-commerce :: E-democracy :: E-entertainment :: E-health :: E-job :: E-journal :: Emerging Audio-Visual Layout and Content :: Empathy and Inference Theories for International Users :: Encryption Technologies :: Engines for Graphics and Virtual Reality :: E-publishing :: E-radio :: E-tourism :: Evaluation of New Generation of Computer Games :: Firewall Systems :: Fundamentals of Human Perception :: Geographical Information Systems :: Geometric and Volume Modelling in Computer Graphics :: Graph Theory in Image Processing and Vision :: Haptic Devices and Techniques :: Heuristic Evaluation Methods and Techniques :: Human and Social Factors in Computer Science :: Human-Computer Interaction :: Hyperbase and Compression Methods of the Information :: Hypermedia Documents and Authoring :: Hypermedia Sensory Interfaces and Smart Environments :: Hypertext, Multimedia and Hypermedia Evolution :: Illumination and Reflectance Modeling :: Image Formation Techniques :: Image-Based Modeling and Algorithms :: Innovation through Knowledge Transfer :: Integration of Virtual Reality and Hypermedia :: Intelligent Agents and Tutoring Systems :: Intelligent User Interface :: Interactive Design :: Languages and Programming Techniques for Artificial Intelligence :: Legislation for New Technologies :: Local and Global Design for International Users :: Management Systems and Software :: Massively Multiplayer Games :: Methodologies for Analysis, Design and Assessment of Interactive Systems :: Mixed Reality :: Mobile and Wireless Hypermedia Systems :: Models of Design for Multimedia Systems :: Motion/Posture Prediction, Capture and Motion/Posture Based Interaction :: Multimedia Immersive Networked Environments :: Multimedia Programming :: Multimodal Interfaces :: Music and Audio Processing for Hypermedia On-line and Off-line :: New Media and Veracity of the Contents :: New Technologies for Advertising :: Open-Source E-Learning Platforms :: Perceptual Quality in Image :: Perceptual Factors in Auditory Coding, Speech Synthesis and Recognition :: Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing :: Quality Metrics for Interactive Systems :: Quantum Computing :: Realtime Video Processing Applied to Games :: Rendering Methods :: Robotics :: Secure Databases and E-commerce Applications :: Security, Trust and Privacy in Commerce and Business On-Line :: Semiotics :: Social Factors in Videoconferencing Systems :: Social Impact of Art and Culture in Interactive Design :: Sociology :: Software Architectures for Scientific Computing :: Software Quality :: Software Tools for Computer Graphics :: Stereo Vision :: Strategies and Techniques for Software Testing :: Technologies and Applications Emerging for Microinformatics Systems :: Telecommunications :: Textual Information On-line and Discursive Analysis :: Three-dimensional Reconstruction for Cultural Heritage :: Training and Evaluation Methodologies :: TV Interactive :: Usability of New Technologies :: User-Centered Design :: Video Games :: Virtual Campus :: Virtual Reality :: Virtual World Creation for Real Simulation, Education and Entertainment :: Visual Effects and Computer-Generated Imagery :: Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 Editor: Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, PhD Co-editors: Prof. Andreas Kratky (Los Angeles, USA) Dr. Carlos de Castro-Lozano (Córdoba, Spain) Dr. Mauricio Pérez-Jiménez (La Laguna, Spain) and Dr. Miguel C. Ficarra (Italy and Spain). Editorial Assistants: Prof. Emma Nicol (Glasgow, UK) and Mary Brie (La Valletta, Malta) Chapter Proposal Submission “New Deadline”: Tuesday, 31 May 2011 Proposal Acceptance Due Date: Monday, 6 June 2011 Full Chapter Submission Deadline: Friday, 24 June 2011 Planned Publishing Date: June 2011 P.S. In case you are not interested for this handbook, we would be grateful if you can pass on this information/email to another interested person you see fit (thanks a lot). If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please send an email to info[at]blueherons.net with Remove in the subject line. Our apologies once again for the people with send us a email with remove and maybe had received this email. Sorry, we are working for a new mailing list. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 5 05:39:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3172D13DFDB; Thu, 5 May 2011 05:39:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D47BC13DFC4; Thu, 5 May 2011 05:39:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110505053954.D47BC13DFC4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 05:39:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.925 events: the unbound 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 925. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 15:04:16 +0200 From: "Morgan Currie" Subject: Unbound Book Conference, Amsterdam and Den Haag 19 - 21 May PRESS RELEASE (Nederlandse versie onderaan dit bericht) The Unbound Book A Conference on Reading and Publishing in the Digital Age Amsterdam and Den Haag, The Netherlands 19 - 21 May 2011 *For full program and tickets go to: www.e-boekenstad.nl/unbound/ * The conventional notion of the book, based on centuries of print, has grown outdated. The book is coming unbound, freed from the bindings of the printed volume and from the limitations of conventional text. How will today’s multimedia content and online modes of authorship offer entirely new vistas of book-like functions? How should we preserve vital features of conventional print? How will the chain from author to reader develop? Left without obvious contours, the entire concept of ‘bookness’ needs reinvention. Cultural forces must step in to design and develop future models for learning, publishing, and design. The Unbound Book Conference, the largest in scope in The Netherlands to date, brings together researchers, publishers, librarians and designers from around the world to take part in defining this rapidly changing landscape. Featuring: Arianne Baggerman (University of Amsterdam), James Bridle (booktwo.org, London), Florian Cramer (Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam), Gary Hall (Coventry University, UK), Suzanne Holtzer (De Bezige Bij publishers, NL), Liz McGettigan (Library Edinburgh Council), Miha Kovac (University of Ljubljana), Tomas Krag (Booksprint, Copenhagen), Veljko Kukulj (Geanium, Croatia), Alan Liu (UC Santa Barbara), Anne Mangen (Stravanger University, Norway), Bernhard Rieder (University of Amsterdam), Ray Siemens (University of Victoria, CA), Femke Snelting (Open Source Publishing, Brussels), Nicholas Spice (London Review of Books), Bob Stein (Institute for the Future of the Book, NY), Simon Worthington (Mute Magazine, London), Frank van Amerongen (ThiemeMeulenhoff publishers, NL), and more. Also featuring the book launches of the Institute of Network Culture's new publication Critical Point of View: a Wikipedia Reader (20 May, Koninklijke Bibliotheek) and the Graphic Design Museum's new publication I Read Where I Am (21 May, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam). Dates and Locations: 19 May Sessions: Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Rhijnspoorplein 1, Amsterdam: http://www.hva.nl/locaties/ 20 May Conference Day 1: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, Den Haag: www.kb.nl 21 May Conference Day 2: Openbare Bibliotheek, Oosterdokskade 143, Amsterdam: www.oba.nl Editorial team: Morgan Currie (Institute of Network Cultures), Joost Kircz (Hogeschool van Amsterdam), Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures), Bas Savenije (Dutch National Library), Adriaan van der Weel (University of Leiden) The Unbound Book is an Initiative of CREATE-IT Applied research centre at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, the Book and Digital Media Studies at the University of Leiden, and the Institute of Network Cultures. Buy tickets now at: www.e-boekenstad.nl/unbound/ For more information contact morgan@networkcultures.org **** PERSBERICHT The Unbound Book Conferentie over Lezen en Uitgeven in het Digitale Tijdperk 19 - 21 mei 2011, Amsterdam en Den Haag www.e-boekenstad.nl/unbound/ *Lees het volledige programma en koop direct toegangskaarten op: www.e-boekenstad.nl/unbound/ * Het algemene begrip van wat een boek is, baseert zich op een eeuwenlange ervaring met de drukpers. Dit begrip is hard aan herziening toe. Het boek wordt ongebonden in de dubbele betekenis van het woord: het bevrijdt zich van het traditionele bindwerk en het boek maakt zich los de beperkingen van de traditionele tekst. De hedendaagse multimediale inhoud en on-line vormen van auteurschap bieden totaal nieuwe vergezichten voor boekachtige functies en vormen. Niettemin moeten wij ook onderzoeken hoe de unieke vitale functies van gedrukt materiaal behouden kunnen worden. Met de rijkdom van spannende nieuwe technische mogelijkheden, staat het boek nu wat eenzaam en zonder heldere contouren te wachten op een herdefinitie. Kritisch gebruik van de nieuwe technieken zou moeten leiden tot nieuwe modellen voor zowel lezen, schrijven, als uitgeven. Het hele concept "Boek" moet opnieuw uitgevonden worden. Met paneldiscussies, lezingen, workshops en zelfs een traditionele boekpresentatie brengt de Conferentie The Unbound Book schrijvers, lezers, bibliothecarissen, uitgevers, mediaonderzoekers en ontwerpers bij elkaar om samen de nieuwe rollen binnen dit veranderende landschap te benoemen. Een keur van internationale sprekers gaat met elkaar de dialoog aan, waaronder: Arianne Baggerman (Hoogleraar Universiteit van Amsterdam), James Bridle (booktwo.org, Londen), Florian Cramer (Piet Zwart Instituut, Rotterdam), Gary Hall (Coventry University, UK), Suzanne Holtzer (Hoofdredacteur Nederlandse Literatuur uitgeverij De Bezige Bij), Liz McGettigan (Library Edinburgh Council) Miha Kovac (Hoogleraar University of Ljubljana), Tomas Krag (Booksprint, Copenhagen), Veljko Kukulj (Geanium, Croatia), Alan Liu (Hoogleraar UC Santa Barbara), Anne Mangen (Stravanger University, Norway), Bernhard Rieder (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Ray Siemens (University of Victoria, CA), Femke Snelting (Open Source Publishing, Brussel), Nicholas Spice (Uitgever van de London Review of Books), Bob Stein (Institute for the Future of the Book, NY), Simon Worthington (Mute Magazine, London), Frank van Amerongen (Uitgeefdirecteur ThiemeMeulenhoff), en meer. Tijdens de conferentie worden twee onlangs verschenen publicaties gelanceerd: Critical Point of View: a Wikipedia Reader, Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur Reader #7 (lancering op 20 mei in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek te Den Haag) en I Read Where I Am, Graphic Design Museum (lancering op 21 mei in de Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam). De voertaal tijdens de conferentie is Engels. Plaats & tijd: 19 mei 2011 Workshops: Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Rhijnspoorplein 1, Amsterdam 20 mei 2011 Conferentiedag 1: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, Den Haag 21 mei 2011 Conferentiedag 2: Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, Oosterdokskade 143, Amsterdam Redactie: Morgan Currie (Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur), Joost Kircz (Hogeschool van Amsterdam), Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures), Bas Savenije (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), Adriaan van der Weel (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden). The Unbound Book is een initiatief van CREATE-IT Applied Research Centre van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Stichting Innovatie Alliantie (SIA), Mondriaan Stichting, Book and Digital Media Studies aan de Universiteit Leiden, en het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur. Koop uw kaartjes en lees alles over dit evenement op: www.e-boekenstad.nl/unbound/ -- Morgan Currie The Unbound Book Conference Institute of Network Cultures t: +31 (0)20 595 1883 f: +31 (0)20 595 1840 At INC Monday through Thursday morgan@networkcultures.org www.networkcultures.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 6 04:53:00 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C15A13E590; Fri, 6 May 2011 04:53:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9E76313E587; Fri, 6 May 2011 04:52:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110506045258.9E76313E587@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 04:52:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.926 in denial X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 926. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Wendell Piez (39) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.923 in denial [2] From: Jascha Kessler (40) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.923 in denial --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 12:42:26 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.923 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110505053841.BF5BB13DF22@woodward.joyent.us> Willard and HUMANIST: Part of the problem I'm having in this discussion is that we haven't agreed (and probably can't) on the context of the claim "the computer is just a tool", whose import we are debating. Consider the following two statements: "I don't think social media are properly a subject of humanistic criticism. The computer is just a tool." "It is not the technology that troubles me, but the administration's new surveillance policies. The computer is just a tool." I suppose that most readers of this list will tend to disagree with the first statement, while they might sympathize with the second (or can imagine themselves to be sympathetic, were it not a hypothetical). What's the difference? The first reduction, the computer is "just" a tool, implies that it is therefore of less interest or importance, as if tools were not significant. It relies on a non sequitur: because the computer is a tool, what we do with it -- and what we can do only with it -- is outside the scope of humanistic inquiry. The second reduction differentiates between the (insignificant) tool and the (significant) intentions and actions it enables and embodies: the computer is a tool, and what we do with it *is* of interest. So we are split between saying that no, tools are significant in themselves, and saying that yes, part of their significance is in their relation to other things of significance. But isn't that true of anything we consider significant? "'Intimations of Immortality' is all about mortality, the loss of wonder and connection. The poem is just how he expresses it." Cheers, Wendell On 5/5/2011 1:38 AM, Gerda Elata-Alster wrote: > The correct question then would be: what is a tool? -- ==================================================== 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, 5 May 2011 12:14:28 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.923 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110505053841.BF5BB13DF22@woodward.joyent.us> Cant resist: in the Bronx decades ago you could call an incompetent, moronical kid a "tool." As for philosophy, it is I recall the opening discussion by Heidegger in his BEING AND TIME. Jascha Kessler -- 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 Fri May 6 04:54:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 578EE13E658; Fri, 6 May 2011 04:54:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2A13713E647; Fri, 6 May 2011 04:54:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110506045447.2A13713E647@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 04:54:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 24.927 events: ubiquity in digital culture X-BeenThere: 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. 24, No. 927. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 18:26:34 +0100 From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" Subject: CFP - CHArt conference 2011: The Challenge of Ubiquity in Digital Culture, 17-18 November In-Reply-To: <9A7864C5811D0D488AFEE5E7BE927B835092FB9D3B@SALCEYCMS1.open.ac.uk> The Challenge of Ubiquity in Digital Culture CHArt 27th Annual Conference, Thursday 17th and Friday 18th November 2011, London venue to be confirmed www.chart.ac.uk Utopian hopes for the ubiquity of digital and networked technologies leading to a more transparent and democratic society are being met by expressions of concern about their implications for art. Nicholas Bourriaud has observed that such technologies can bring about a 'collective desire to create new areas of conviviality and introduce new types of transaction with regard to the cultural object'. However, others perceive an imminent threat, characterised by such terms as a digital 'deluge' or 'oblivion’. CHArt is interested to examine critically both positive views and apocalyptic concerns about the implications of the widespread merger of telecommunications and computer technology in society for art, its history and practice. We are looking for papers that engage with issues including, but not limited to: * The implications of the ubiquity of digital and network technologies for evaluating what constitutes an original work of art and the originality of its creator(s). * What effects have these technologies had on valuing art in terms of its aesthetic quality? * What impact have real-time technologies had for the creation, ownership and distribution of culture? * What are the impacts of the widespread proliferation and use of such technologies on curatorial practice and the processes of selecting, preserving and enabling access to art? * How have they affected both the content and methods of teaching the history and practice of art? * Are other disciplines and areas of society affected by art mediated by real-time technologies? How? We are particularly interested in work that engages with such questions and extends beyond simply understanding digital and network technologies as transparent conduits of data and information. CHArt encourages proposals addressing complex artefacts that, in Friedrich Kittler's words, 'determine our situation'. Contributions are welcomed from all sections of the CHArt community on the intersection between art and art history and semantic web developments; cloud computing; data mining; screen scraping; crowd sourcing; mashups; and freely available sites that enable data and images to be stored and accessed. CHArt seeks papers from art historians, artists, architects and architectural theorists and historians, curators, conservators, computing scientists, scientists, cultural and media theorists, archivists, technologists, educationalists and philosophers. Postgraduate students are encouraged to submit a proposal. CHArt is able to offer assistance with the conference fees for up to three student delegates. Priority will be given to students whose papers are accepted for presentation. An application form and proof of university enrolment will be required. For further details about the Helene Roberts Bursary please email anna.bentkowska@kcl.ac.uk. Submissions should be in the form of a 300-400 word synopsis of the proposed paper with brief biographical information (no more than 200 words) of presenter/s, and should be emailed to chart@kcl.ac.uk by Friday June 17th 2011. Notification of paper acceptance: 1 September 2011 Submission of papers: 17 October 2011 ----- Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1421 anna.bentkowska@kcl.ac.uk http://bentkowska.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 May 6 05:29:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55D6413D0FC; Fri, 6 May 2011 05:29:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx230.postini.com [64.18.2.183]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A9C0B13D0E6 for ; Fri, 6 May 2011 05:29:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk ([81.187.30.51]) (using TLSv1) by exprod7mx230.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Fri, 06 May 2011 01:29:53 EDT Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=Willard-McCartys-MacBook-Air.local) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QIDbq-0002rM-Rj for humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 06:29:51 +0100 Message-ID: <4DC38749.8020601@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 06:29:45 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Organization: King's College London User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Online seminar for digital humanities References: <6E0EF7D8B5710244861741324022164705C3B5CA55@KCL-MAIL03.kclad.ds.kcl.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <6E0EF7D8B5710244861741324022164705C3B5CA55@KCL-MAIL03.kclad.ds.kcl.ac.uk> X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:41.09840/99.90000 CV:99.9000 FC:95.5390 LC:93.6803 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: 24.926 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 I asked about "just a tool" meaning Wendell's first, dismissive sense, illustrated by his first example, > "I don't think social media are properly a subject of humanistic > criticism. The computer is just a tool." implying, as he said, that > it is therefore of less interest or importance, as if > tools were not significant. It relies on a non sequitur: because the > computer is a tool, what we do with it -- and what we can do only with > it -- is outside the scope of humanistic inquiry. I asked because I wanted to get a sense of how widespread that particular form of the dismissive argument remains. It seems to me very old and tired, but then this may be in some measure because I am tired of hearing it and getting to the point at which I can claim to be old. Recently in dealing with an even older and most wearying argument over computational stylistics I've again become aware of how long-lasting scholarly nonsense can be, so I am wary of concluding that "just a tool" in Wendell's first sense is no more heard in this land. But if one does not think dismissively in that way, then what does the toolishness of computing mean for us positively, in terms of (a) what we think is happening in the digital humanities, and (b) what sorts of things we make? From where I sit, most of what we make still manifests "just a tool" -- the push-a-button-and-get-a-result sort of deliverable. Is this unfair? If so, what computational objects is it unfair to, and at what level of granularity, as seen by what sort of person? Let me put to you an historical thesis, and invite you to throw stuff at it. The thesis is that a long time ago, before some of those here were part of discussions like this, scholars encountered mainframe computing (slow, huge, expensive, noisy, inaccessible except through intermediaries etc), and when they met computing in this physical form they and what became the digital humanities were, as ethologists say, "imprinted". Perhaps one could claim that urban, middle-class culture as a whole was imprinted in this way, since for 20 years or more it was bombarded with the mainframe image of computing. Ever after that encounter, despite how much the hardware and software have changed, we have tended to think of computing as a one way trip from button-pushing to result-getting, as a problem-solving exercise. Now I don't mean that this is the *only* way we think, esp not consciously, rather that this discreditable idea of computing remains a significant impediment to what we do and how we think. I grossly oversimplify, as you can see. I say nothing about how the techno-scientific associations of computing, themselves associated with scientistic notions of science, lead us to think that problems are for solving, and that the computer is therefore meant to do just that, magically, as it were. Push a button and get an answer. Nor do I say anything now about how the culture of grant-funding, with its demand for deliverables, reinforces the notion of a one-way cognitive trip. So what do you think? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.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