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 w